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Root [ROM][WIP] BACKside ROM (CM7) + Green Machine Theme

To disable rotation animations:
Settings>>Display settings>>Rotation animation (uncheck)

Not sure what "mirrored effect" you're seeing. Think you could get lucky enough with the timing of a screenshot to grab it?
-Long-press power, select screenshot
-Immediately short-press power to lock screen
-Press home key to wake screen
-<whatever you do to see this effect>
If you get the timing right, you can grab a screenshot of what you are seeing.
 
gcatsworth said:
How do I disable rotation animations? I'm not familiar with this. Also, there seems to be two docks with this build the default and I'm able to flip it away to reveal an additional dock that has a mirrored effect that I like quite a bit. Do you know how to permanently disable the initial dock?
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settings/display/animations
 
Before:
2012-04-02%2001.48.39.png

After:
2012-04-01%2023.39.32.png

This is how I want the dock to always be, I just haven't figured out how to set this as my default. I make the dock I want appear by kind of flicking the original one away, but I would like to disable the first one always or at least find out why it behaves this way.
 
Jerry,

I can't imagine any other rom running on my phone.. thank you for all of the hard work you and everyone else has put into BACKside!

I was wondering if I could make a request for the next build? Not sure if it's possible or not, but my idea was to have the Wallpaper menu more customizable. The way it is now, when you tap on Wallpaper from the "Select wallpaper from" menu there is a list of different options to use to load wallpapers on the phone. Id like to request that there be options to choose what options are showing up on that list. So it would look kind of like:

[ ] CyanogenMod Wallpapers
[ ] Live wallpapers
[ ] No Wallpaper
[X] QuickPic wallpaper
[ ] Wallpaper gallery
[X] Wallpaper Wizardrii

What that would do is show QuickPic Wallpaper and Wallpaper Wizardrii on the list and hide the others. Is this possible? If so, I think this would look much cleaner and be a great addition to BACKside.
 
NoNameFace said:
Jerry,

I can't imagine any other rom running on my phone.. thank you for all of the hard work you and everyone else has put into BACKside!

I was wondering if I could make a request for the next build? Not sure if it's possible or not, but my idea was to have the Wallpaper menu more customizable. The way it is now, when you tap on Wallpaper from the "Select wallpaper from" menu there is a list of different options to use to load wallpapers on the phone. Id like to request that there be options to choose what options are showing up on that list. So it would look kind of like:

[ ] CyanogenMod Wallpapers
[ ] Live wallpapers
[ ] No Wallpaper
[X] QuickPic wallpaper
[ ] Wallpaper gallery
[X] Wallpaper Wizardrii

What that would do is show QuickPic Wallpaper and Wallpaper Wizardrii on the list and hide the others. Is this possible? If so, I think this would look much cleaner and be a great addition to BACKside.
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The way those menus work is through intents, which is pretty much how everything on Android works. An app has the ability to do something, and registers and intent a receiver for it. So for example, any app that has the ability to change wallpapers has an intent and receiver listed in it's manifest.xml file. Once you attempt to change the wallpaper, those apps show up in the list.

Attempting to hack this functionality could have unintended results. Not sure if that's a can of worms worth opening. ;)
 
gcatsworth said:
Before:
2012-04-02%2001.48.39.png

After:
2012-04-01%2023.39.32.png

This is how I want the dock to always be, I just haven't figured out how to set this as my default. I make the dock I want appear by kind of flicking the original one away, but I would like to disable the first one always or at least find out why it behaves this way.
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Settings>>ADW Launcher settings>>UI settings>>Main Dock Style>>None (expanded desktop) ;)
 
I know I've seen it, I even bookmarked it at one time, but now I can't find it..


How in the world do you change the bootanimation to one of the included ones?

TIA...
 
I can't find any info on it in this thread either... the forum search feature didn't turn up anything useful. :(

Can anyone provide a step by step (maybe with images?) on how to change the boot animation? I'm currently using ES File Explorer and am looking for the ICS boot animation (dunno where to get one that would work with the OpV). Anyone have a link for download?

Many thanks in advance!
 
brotherswing said:
menu-settings-cyanogenmod settings-interface-bottom three options. I have a pretty big collection of boot animations, I know I have the ICS animation. I'll dig into it and see if I find it...


::Edit:: Found it!
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Thanks for the link!!

And, my humble apologies for not being clear in my OP. I did use those settings you mention above, but the animation did not change. This is what I did:

Downloaded a test animation and placed it in \sdcard\APK Files

Went in with ES File Explorer and changed the name of the zip file to bootanimation.zip (it was BootanimationSomethingOrOther.zip).

Went into the CyanogenMod settings you mentioned above and pointed it to \sdcard\APK Files\bootanimation.zip. I saw the message saying something about it being moved.

Tapped on Preview bootanimation and saw the default one Jerry has added.

What did I do wrong? :o
 
JerryScript said:
To disable rotation animations:
Settings>>Display settings>>Rotation animation (uncheck)

Not sure what "mirrored effect" you're seeing. Think you could get lucky enough with the timing of a screenshot to grab it?
-Long-press power, select screenshot
-Immediately short-press power to lock screen
-Press home key to wake screen
-<whatever you do to see this effect>
If you get the timing right, you can grab a screenshot of what you are seeing.
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The mirror reflection is part of ADW EX, sounds like he has both installed.
 
It's the AprilFools code change. Delete the /system/media/AprilFools.zip file, and your bootanimations will work again. ;)

I changed the code in bootanimation.cpp to check for the AprilFools.zip first, and play it if it exists. It then checks to see if you've copied a custom bootanimation, and then checks data/local, then system/media, and if it still hasn't found one it will play the masked android logo bootanimation.

Just delete the AprilFools.zip and all should be fine. ;)
 
BTW- I did add another feature to BACKside-IHO, double tap home key to launch an app/activity. I didn't put info about it in the changelog because it's doesn't work very well. I have to rapidly press my home key to get it to work, more than two times. Please let me know if it works for you, it could just be my home key is getting worn out. ;)

Settings>>CyanogenMod settings>>Input>>Double tap home behaviour
 
brotherswing said:
I change mine all the time, but I never rename them. Maybe that is nerfing the process?
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I changed it back to its original name and tried the process again. This time I looked to make sure it was being moved and I don't see it. Isn't it supposed to be moved to \system\media, or somewhere else?

Thanks heaps for your patience!
 
JerryScript said:
It's the AprilFools code change. Delete the /system/media/AprilFools.zip file, and your bootanimations will work again. ;)

I changed the code in bootanimation.cpp to check for the AprilFools.zip first, and play it if it exists. It then checks to see if you've copied a custom bootanimation, and then checks data/local, then system/media, and if it still hasn't found one it will play the masked android logo bootanimation.

Just delete the AprilFools.zip and all should be fine. ;)
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It won't let me delete it. :(
 
NoNameFace said:
I changed it back to its original name and tried the process again. This time I looked to make sure it was being moved and I don't see it. Isn't it supposed to be moved to \system\media, or somewhere else?

Thanks heaps for your patience!
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No, it gets stored in /data/data/com.cyanogenmod.cmbootanimation/files/

Sorry the April Fools extended to the 2nd. ;)
 
Ok, now it's working! :D

What I did wrong.. in ES File Explorer I do have Root Explorer checked, but forgot to check the box directly under it for Mount File System. Once I ticked that box I was able to delete the April Fools anim and move the ICS one.

Thanks guys!!!!!!
 
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