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Here's your screenshots tiede... I noticed a cool kinda crt-tv ish animation when pressing the back arrow button when I'm on the web. It dosnt do it any other time though. Its actually when you leave the web back to the home screen. I don't know how your doing these little things but maybe you could implement that little animation into everything else??? Or would that be too tiede ious???
 
Thanks mikegLA for the screenshots!
I love how you elevated the theme with that wonderful background and that clock widget!
Thanks for checking it out, liberdravin

To whomever wants to know, a slight update has been made to Cophie, which should bring it more up to par with my other themes...
See my post above (#24) for an idea of what changed.
 
A few things I would like to know... how to change the color of the icons on the pull down curtain window thingy(wifi,bluetooth,gps, etc etc) and the little bar on the side of the screen when your scrolling up and down. What's the name of that... so I know what to change.

I thought you might like that wallpaper and clock widget. I got a glowing brownish dock for it too. I like to really bring out the full eye candy of a theme.
 
The icons in the pull down notification bar are in twframework-res.apk
The scroll bar is modifiable via the image "scrollbar_handle_vertical.9.png" in the drawable-mdpi folder in framework-res.apk. Google up "editing 9.png images" for help on modifying them.
There's just so much crap in there, it's very hard to remember them all!
Also, for the animations, those are made through xml files, so they are slightly harder to spot and modify
 
i made one quickly to see some of the options and i'm pretty impressed- i did not know it would be that easy, atleast this way of doing it is, I'll set aside a day and polish it up. I'll upload share it but install at your own risk lol, i like some pretty "out there" abstract mechanical things....
 
By this weekend hopefully I will be done with my star wars theme. I don't wanna rush it. Still lookin through some icons and getting familiar with photoshop.
 
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starwars theme...not done yet...but the most is done...enjoy...tell me what you think...and im open to suggestions on any other icons you might like to see switched up...and check out the light saber when you scoll up and down!!!

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The font hasnt been added yet either
 
It's looking good... Light saber is nice, but make handles longer, perhaps?
Also, when you first mentioned it, I was thinking it would be wicked to change the icons on the pull down bar (touchwiz) to star wars Iconic things, like a death star, Yoda, Darth vader...
I don't know, maybe I'm thinking too hard.
 
tiede said:
It's looking good... Light saber is nice, but make handles longer, perhaps?
Also, when you first mentioned it, I was thinking it would be wicked to change the icons on the pull down bar (touchwiz) to star wars Iconic things, like a death star, Yoda, Darth vader...
I don't know, maybe I'm thinking too hard.
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I want to swap the millenium falcon for airplane mode. I can't change the battery low icon though. The one that still shows up dosnt even exist. Maybe I photoshoped it wrong? I also would like to say thanx for all the little info on how to edit this stuff.
 
still needs work but thought id give it a shot.
 

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I've never seen anything about security tokens...
I'm not sure how to help you with that... :(
Sorry...
 
Fuzzy13 said:
Tried to upload but something about security tokens?
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I made a red theme a couple months ago and it told me the same thing... right at the end of the upload. But when I tried to upload my other theme I had no problem... weird.
 
Maybe try uploading offsite and link in through goo.gl URL shortener.
That's of course if the security tokens thing is when you're uploading to AndroidForums as an attachment.
 
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I call it superman just cause a lot of red and blue. Still needs quite a bit of work iknow
Not sure on to put my own icons in for the lockscreen and such.
Let me know what u think and what changes should be made to
Make it better. For the r910 on basics by the way.
 
Just recently I encountered a problem...I cooked up a theme in the kitchen...then I opened up the framework.apk via apk.manager threw some pics in there bla bla bla etc etc make a long story short when I flashed the theme all went well until I noticed that the framework wasn't sized right. Whick I didn't mind at all cuz it looked kinda cool. But everything would force close. I couldn't open up nothin. Had to resort to a nandroid. Any suggestion on why that happened?
 
I'm thinking you must have not had all the required files for the phone to load correctly in your framework-res.apk file.
If the phone cannot find the pictures or other files needed, depending on how dependant the system is on it, it may not boot up completely, or force close when it tries to open a non-existing file...
You don't need to do a nandroid backup for it to get better, just flash a working theme on top of it while in recovery and it should work again just fine!

As far as why you had an incomplete framework-res.apk file, there may be many reasons...
Are you using linux? If so, are you using the command line to rezip your framework-res.apk?
if so, it might just be that you've omitted the "r" in
Code: 
zip -0r framework-res.apk file1 file2 file3 folder1/ folder2/
without the "r", it won't store recursively, and folder1 and folder2 would end up empty... In other words, your framework-res.apk/res/ folder would be empty in your particular case. Is that maybe what happened?

EDIT: Actually, on re-reading your post, it appears you did it all through android. So maybe the app you're using has an issue, or it was a weird bug. If it happens consistently, I'd foresee an email to the app developper to let him know of the issue in your near future...
 
I forgot to mention one thing also...the reason I had to do the nandroid was because when I booted into recovery I got a purple clockwork instead of a green or orange. I noticed this before when I used the recovery option on the poweroff reboot recovery screen when you hold down the powerbutton. Usually I just goto rom manager and reboot into recovery from there. The purple clockwork has weird options where it dosnt seem to wanna let me install zips from the sd card. That's why I just went and restored the nandroid. I don't know why I get the purple clockwork? And I'm on windows....I was trying to mod the music play pause skip buttons to yellow. The uot kitchen won't even let me upload the files if their changed. Those are the only pics that seem to be givin me trouble. That's. Usually how I do it...I edit then upload to uot. Do you cook the theme then edit???
 
Yes. I cook then edit, to ensure stability and that everything is as I planned it.
To many SHTFs otherwise if I reupload to uot
 
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