Is there any way to SSH or FTP into your phones to switch or edit system files like pngs?
I used to theme for iPhone so if there is a springboard type method (restarting the phone would be better than flashing a new rom) it would be appreciated if someone can point me in the right direction!
No one can help me
Root explorer can do it from the phone and most devs use adb to access the system files. Themes can be done with metamorph though if that is what you are looking to do. All these require root of course.
BTW (just saying) a lot of people aren't responding because of the time of day, work, but I am sure some of them aren't responding because theming is very well documented in these forums. The metamorph area have thorough tuts and guides.
Thank you very much!
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I'm wondering if someone can point me in the direction of some resource or brief explanation on Rom cooking. I'm looking at trying my hand at it and don't know where to start. I have a general idea that its simply an archive with installation instructions but don't know how to theme it, change icons, do optimization or sign it.
Really anywhere you can point me to would be much appreciated.
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Glad to see people trying to learn.
Here are some helpful threads that I keep as bookmarks for reference:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=551711
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=641223
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=661119
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5993370&postcount=1190
EDIT:
Get ahold of Avabox too, and thank Avalaunchmods for that!
Have fun learning!
Make sure you give credit when its due though!
ROMs basically consist of archives inside of archives. APKs are just archives and can be opened really nicely with 7zip. The best way to get started theming things is just to open up some apks, and find some stuff that looks familiar that you can change.
Tip: if you first unzip an apk, then pick through that folder to see what you want to change, then make your changes there. then when you're all done, take your modified files and drag them back into a 7zip window of that same archived 'opened' instead of unzipped. then they don't need resigned, (since you just modified files inside of the archive without unzipping it) and it makes changing things a lot quicker.
stray away from '.9.pngs' at first until you get the hang of the basics, then search for the guide on here for how to modify images ending in '.9.png'
then there are xml edits that i'm not too good at unless they're in plaintext. (and those inside of apks are not plaintext)
but you can really do a lot of very cool stuff while doing nothing other than editing images.
This is wonderful, thanks for some quick replies! I'm a pretty advanced computer user and avid Linux fan (run archlinux) so I think I can get this
Thanks again, off dinner then some learning. I hope to contribute soon.
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This is very easy now after having the permanent ROOT -- thanks to PAUL for wonderful Visionary+, Evostance for brilliant guide, and those geniuses who make this happened (you know who )
First you need to get permanent root. Here is the link to the guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=834427
(If you read till page 10, you will definitely know how to do it and what to expect).
Second, go buy ROOT EXPLORER from the market. (Best explorer for rooted phone period).
Go to /system/customize/resource
Make sure you enable the r/w (read write option), other wise you cant do modification.
You will see both the audio and bootanimation there.
If you hated that sound (just like me), just delete the audio.mp3. If you want to change the bootanimation, just copy your bootnimation.zip to overwrite the default one.
That's all....reboot the phone....and you will have your peace...and enjoy the new bootanimation.
kuailan said:
I am just wondering is the good old way of adb pushing the bootanimation.zip work for HD? I do noticed the stock animation are located in /customize/resource folder in the system ROM. Has anyone try changing the bootanimation? Just hated those sound in bootup (prefer no sound).
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firstly i'd like to state, this is development and not Q & A not being mean just stating.
secondly if you had read the ref guide which is pinned to the top you might have got your answer.
finally your answer...
NO
you can not write on the nand with the temp root. no can you adb push.
permanent root is on its way and i believe the nand will be unlocked on that so you may have write permissions. once this has been obtained then you can push a custom boot animation if required.
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firstly i'd like to state, this is development and not Q & A not being mean just stating.
secondly if you had read the ref guide which is pinned to the top you might have got your answer.
finally your answer...
NO
you can not write on the nand with the temp root. no can you adb push.
permanent root is on its way and i believe the nand will be unlocked on that so you may have write permissions. once this has been obtained then you can push a custom boot animation if required.
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First of all thank you for the answer (actually I also thought so, and your answer just confirmed that)
And as for posting in develeopment, I DO believe that changing bootanimation is part of Android development (anything that involved creating/modifying and changing of the default system files). Just like recovery or flashing tools, people also develop bootanimation changer application to make life easier for others.
Also I did some search, and this is the first post for any bootanimation for Desire HD. I hope once "root" has been accomplished. People can just use this thread to put the guide to changing those animation.
Therefore I do read and follow the guidelines.
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kuailan said:
First of all thank you for the answer (actually I also thought so, and your answer just confirmed that)
And as for posting in develeopment, I DO believe that changing bootanimation is part of Android development (anything that involved creating/modifying and changing of the default system files). Just like recovery or flashing tools, people also develop bootanimation changer application to make life easier for others.
Also I did some search, and this is the first post for any bootanimation for Desire HD. I hope once "root" has been accomplished. People can just use this thread to put the guide to changing those animation.
Therefore I do read and follow the guidelines.
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well glad you're a happy bunny
but several things,it isn't development as you were asking a question at time of writing.
secondly themes section deals with bootanimation and things like that. sound can be disabled by just renaming the file i.e. add a .bak after mp3 just for back up purpose or you can delete the file entirely up to the user.
with customs roms, they may be in a different location. i do believe that AOSP builds are located in media where as in sense builds /customize/resource
it can change depending on the developers choice really. thats why when a person releases a theme, it states what rom the user must be using to avoid problems.
anyways there's no need to carry on with that as you have got what you wanted, full root so you can do w.e. you like know
my personal favourite boot animation was the original hero one, but since that doesnt work anymore/havent found 1 that has been converted to work with the new roms, i like "making fro-yo" it just draws a pic of a frozen yoghert and colours it in.
I purchased Bootanimation changer by Andres Schomis a while back when I was still using the original Desire. There are quite a few nice and interesting ones there. My fav so far is the pissing droid (to piss off some of my iphone mate ) and the alienware. I am sure they are also available in this forum (just do a search). There is no option for desire HD yet, but seem like the one that work for Desire also work just fine in HD. To make the app work, you will need to set the custom path. I highly recommend that app for bootanimation.
Somehow I feel this thread should be in the Themes/Apps subforum instead Since it basically has to do with customization. Anyway, thanks a lot for the instructions.
phunkycow said:
Somehow I feel this thread should be in the Themes/Apps subforum instead Since it basically has to do with customization. Anyway, thanks a lot for the instructions.
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Agreed with you there mate
I do like the instructions, always helpful for those not browsing the development threads (which do take up a lot of reading time )
Ok can some one tell me what i'm i doing wrong?? it's been more then 6 hours since I started working on this.
Here is my anamtion
Download me please
I cant figure out whats wrong with it....
I even saved it as store with winrar even tried copying the files inside the HTC stock zip and still same problem
can someone help me please?
Bump any one can help?
Just delete the bootanimation.zip inside the /system/customize/resource
Then just copy your animation to the same path /system/customize/resource.
Make sure your animation is also named bootanimation.zip
For some reason I'm not able to enable the r/w function in the resource folder. The only place I can do it is in the root directory (with system, sdcard etc). Any idea of why this is happening? (my phone is perma-rooted and I have granted Super user permissions).
kuailan said:
Just delete the bootanimation.zip inside the /system/customize/resource
Then just copy your animation to the same path /system/customize/resource.
Make sure your animation is also named bootanimation.zip
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I did my animation that made with Photoshop dont work any idea why? any other animation works fine
Sylpher said:
For some reason I'm not able to enable the r/w function in the resource folder. The only place I can do it is in the root directory (with system, sdcard etc). Any idea of why this is happening? (my phone is perma-rooted and I have granted Super user permissions).
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This drove me mad for a while too.
I uninstalled root explorer then re-installed and I could the select r/w for all folders.
hi
do i need s-off for this or is just permanent root enough??
thnx
anyone got any good animation zips and sounds?
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anyone got any good animation zips and sounds?
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yeah, thats what i wanna know too
Does anyone know what would happen if you removed the boot animation entirely? Will the phone still boot ok?
I'm happy not to have one at all if it speeds things up
Guys
first I didn't find the bootanimation in system ressource i found it in data/local/
along with the android-audio.mp3
second I tried to change these file it worked but the animation doesn't show up and I have just a small android when I boot up
What can I do ?
PS : my file may be too big 27 megabite for the bootanimation.zip
I tried already, but why whenever I reboot, the bootanimation.zip would revert to the original one?
Hey all.
I've been searching all over, for a guide to make your own update script.
Did take a look at corky's thread, but that was not what I had planed for.
Since I play a lot around with ICS on my HD2, I kinda wanna do a simple update.zip script, so I can install all those programs that do not follow the aosp rom.
For instance:
Install those apk's you have on the side, and then flash it in cvm
Is it possible??
Hope I explained it good enough ;-)
Stenager129 said:
Hey all.
I've been searching all over, for a guide to make your own update script.
Did take a look at corky's thread, but that was not what I had planed for.
Since I play a lot around with ICS on my HD2, I kinda wanna do a simple update.zip script, so I can install all those programs that do not follow the aosp rom.
For instance:
Install those apk's you have on the side, and then flash it in cvm
Is it possible??
Hope I explained it good enough ;-)
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eyeyeyeyeyeyey... searching skills need improvement D
yes its, possible. in fact its very easy
here you go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=936175
one more hint. just take an existent rom.zip. delete what is inside and put your own files in there. and check the updater script, if it needs adjustments. use total commander to open the zips as normal folders. this way you wont mess up the compression or other settings. generally, total commander is best allround tool ))
Hello,
In settings I have Developer Options but it does not have things like "force GPU rendering" or Animations scale....where are they?
Running Acer_A041_A500_1.031.00_WW_GEN1
Are we the only ones with this problem?
masands said:
Hello,
In settings I have Developer Options but it does not have things like "force GPU rendering" or Animations scale....where are they?
Running Acer_A041_A500_1.031.00_WW_GEN1
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To get the extra developer options, you have to decompile settings.apk and look in the values xml folder I believe, then recompile it. These are not set by default in stock acer builds.
MD
Moscow Desire said:
To get the extra developer options, you have to decompile settings.apk and look in the values xml folder I believe, then recompile it. These are not set by default in stock acer builds.
MD
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Hi thanks for the reply, I am a complete noob and just received my first tablet (a100) few days ago, and I have no idea what that means lol. I have looked and searched around for like an hour with no luck. I have no idea where this settings.apk is and stuff. Can you help me get in the right direction? I would really appreciate it. I want to force gpu acceleration options, since things like even youtube videos are pretty stuttery.
auraofjason said:
Hi thanks for the reply, I am a complete noob and just received my first tablet (a100) few days ago, and I have no idea what that means lol. I have looked and searched around for like an hour with no luck. I have no idea where this settings.apk is and stuff. Can you help me get in the right direction? I would really appreciate it. I want to force gpu acceleration options, since things like even youtube videos are pretty stuttery.
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Well, first of all, you have to be rooted. And full system r/w access. Normally this shouldn't be an issue, as lots of guides in the Developer Forum.
Secondly, Once that is done, you can look through your system with a file manager, like root explorer, or es file explorer. You want to look in /system/app. This is where you find all the apks that came with your tablet. You'll see a group of them, with an odex file with the same name for a lot of them.
Usually, most people who want to do these things, install the Android SDK to their PC's. This makes it easier to work to push and pull files.
The first place, you probably want to read, is the site freeyourandroid.com
In there, you will find lots of guides to modifying things, from easy to advanced.
MD
Moscow Desire said:
Well, first of all, you have to be rooted. And full system r/w access. Normally this shouldn't be an issue, as lots of guides in the Developer Forum.
Secondly, Once that is done, you can look through your system with a file manager, like root explorer, or es file explorer. You want to look in /system/app. This is where you find all the apks that came with your tablet. You'll see a group of them, with an odex file with the same name for a lot of them.
Usually, most people who want to do these things, install the Android SDK to their PC's. This makes it easier to work to push and pull files.
The first place, you probably want to read, is the site freeyourandroid.com
In there, you will find lots of guides to modifying things, from easy to advanced.
MD
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Hey, thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction, I have learned how to do all of the above now . The only problem is now, I'm not sure which file to edit in values/xml to get these developer options. I'll search around for now, but if someone can tell me which it is it'd really help .
Moscow Desire said:
Well, first of all, you have to be rooted. And full system r/w access. Normally this shouldn't be an issue, as lots of guides in the Developer Forum.
Secondly, Once that is done, you can look through your system with a file manager, like root explorer, or es file explorer. You want to look in /system/app. This is where you find all the apks that came with your tablet. You'll see a group of them, with an odex file with the same name for a lot of them.
Usually, most people who want to do these things, install the Android SDK to their PC's. This makes it easier to work to push and pull files.
The first place, you probably want to read, is the site freeyourandroid.com
In there, you will find lots of guides to modifying things, from easy to advanced.
MD
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Is there anyway to just enable "Force GPU Rendering" without going through all that? I have rooted my tablet.
Hello all,
Apologies if this is not the correct way of posting this question , but it is my first post here.
I have been looking for a way to rename my android devices on my home Hub.
They all appear as android_[numbers] which i dont find very helpfull, on searching all day there are many sites and frums that have suggested amending the dhcpd.conf with a new hostname line, my issue here is that on my nexus10 and my HTC desire these files are both owned by root.
Both machines are rooted but when I open these files with a terminal emulator as root, they always open as read only.
Nowhere on any of these sites or forums does it say the files are read only.
What am I doing wrong?
desadajo said:
Hello all,
Apologies if this is not the correct way of posting this question , but it is my first post here.
I have been looking for a way to rename my android devices on my home Hub.
They all appear as android_[numbers] which i dont find very helpfull, on searching all day there are many sites and frums that have suggested amending the dhcpd.conf with a new hostname line, my issue here is that on my nexus10 and my HTC desire these files are both owned by root.
Both machines are rooted but when I open these files with a terminal emulator as root, they always open as read only.
Nowhere on any of these sites or forums does it say the files are read only.
What am I doing wrong?
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Open the folder in something like root explorer and click on the "R/W" button near the top of the screen. This will allow editing files in the folder. Then long press on the file and open it for editing.
desadajo said:
Hello all,
Apologies if this is not the correct way of posting this question , but it is my first post here.
I have been looking for a way to rename my android devices on my home Hub.
They all appear as android_[numbers] which i dont find very helpfull, on searching all day there are many sites and frums that have suggested amending the dhcpd.conf with a new hostname line, my issue here is that on my nexus10 and my HTC desire these files are both owned by root.
Both machines are rooted but when I open these files with a terminal emulator as root, they always open as read only.
Nowhere on any of these sites or forums does it say the files are read only.
What am I doing wrong?
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I think you can change your device hostname in developer settings, certainly a lot simpler than editing a root permission file.
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