Does anyone know how to refresh the thumbnail images used for favourite shortcuts on the internet tab?
I added one that took me to a login page, and I'd rather it showed the page I actually get now that I've logged in and got a cookie for auto-login. A bit pedantic, yeah, but I want it refreshed.
I've already tried 2 things, but neither of them works.
I located and deleted the thumbnail image (\Windows\Thumbnail), and now can't get it to create a new one.
I've removed the shortcut, and added it again as a new one, but it still remains "empty".
Any ideas anyone?
I'll answer my own question, in case anyone else ever wants to do this!
I think removing the shortcut and then adding it again may do the trick, but my deleting the thumbnail may have caused an additional problem, so that wouldn't work any more.
What I did to resolve the issue was to edit the favourite. It was a URL with a querystring on the end (it was www.blahblah.com?something=stuff&this=that etc..) I just added &bllx=1 (bollocks = 1 ) and it now sees it as a new URL.
If you're not particularly techie, that might sound like gibberish to you, so if anyone ever comes across this thread and wants advice, send me a private message, as I'll probably miss it if you ask on here.
I have been meaning to post this for a while and I am finally posting it today.
I tried the Gingerbread theme by wallla but wasn't really satisfied with it. One of the reasons is the lack of a themed dialer. Also, there were a few errors that I noticed, like the address bar in browser wasn't displayed correctly (in my phone at least).
So, I decided to create a better Gingerbread theme for my Milestone and here it is. It contains themed dialer and a few other stuff. Have also got the notification bar to look 99% like the SDK.
The theme contains the following modified files.
framework-res.apk - Contains most theme elements.
services.jar - Modified to change the clock color in notification bar to white.
Browser.apk - Contains only the new browser icon.
Contacts.apk - Themed dialer
Email.apk - New email notification icon.
Gmail.apk - New gmail notification icon.
Mms.apk - New sms, mms, etc. notification icons
MotoCarDock.apk - New car dock notification icon.
Phone.apk - Themed dialer. Used for emergency calls I think.
Settings.apk - A few new icons.
I have kept a few things the same. The pattern lock screen because the new one is very ugly in my opinion. The emergency call icon (old/new) cause the new one doesn't make any sense (to me ) and that icon (old/new) that is displayed along with app permissions in the Market.
Screenshots
I have created two versions of the theme. One contains green notification icons (like signal strength, 3g, wifi etc) as you can see from the above screenshots and the other one contains gray ones that are displayed by the Android emulator provided with the SDK. SDK contains both the green and the gray icons in SystemUI.apk but the gray ones are displayed by default in the emulator. Check screenshot of emulator below.
Download
View attachment gingerbread-theme-gray-update.zip
MD5: AD9CFE2D67D8129C0220165885963237
View attachment gingerbread-theme-green-update.zip
MD5: 3BA6A855B2F23F4CE9117EF125A33AE5
Installation
Create a nandroid backup first or manually backup the original files. Then, apply any one of the update.zip archives (green or gray notification icons) with latest OpenRecovery or extract and manually push the files in the system directory using adb.
Please note that the theme was created using files from the south east asia Milestone having firmware configuration version GAS_EMEA_USASHLS00RTINT_P016. If you have a different version, your Settings.apk may be different, in which case you should delete it from the zip archives or leave it out if you will be manually pushing the files using adb. You can pull the Settings.apk from your phone and check the MD5 hash to see if it is different or not. The MD5 hash for the original Settings.apk from the south east asia milestone is EE46C636EAC6E95044D7FA26B9291F4C.
Gingerbread docks and icons for LauncherPro can be found in the following archive.
View attachment 497035
No one posted.....?
great work man, i use android 2.2, and if i came back to 2.1 i will use your theme.
keep it up.. cheers.
Beackman said:
No one posted.....?
great work man, i use android 2.2, and if i came back to 2.1 i will use your theme.
keep it up.. cheers.
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Nobody posted due to the lack of class in the title.
It's not like.. the best them EVER111
You see, normally, people who put together a theme respect and give kudos to the work that it was based upon... not piss on it.
It's not based on wallla's theme. It's based on Android SDK. I made the theme from scratch and spent hours making it. Learnt how to make themes in the process.
And sorry I couldn't come up with a better title. Got the idea from better wordpress plugins with simiar names.
Don't judge a post by its title.
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It's not based on wallla's theme. It's based on Android SDK. I made the theme from scratch and spent hours making it. Learnt how to make themes in the process.
And sorry I couldn't come up with a better title. Got the idea from better wordpress plugins with simiar names.
Don't judge a post by its title.
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Actually, I judged the original post on its "mine is better" attitude, as did most of the approximately 400 people who have viewed the thread and not cared to comment.
It's great that you learned alot and put something together, but tearing apart somebody else's effort only makes people want to tear apart your effort.
Nobody likes a braggart.
btw, green highlights would be better.
But then again, that's just an opinion, isn't it?
work like charm!!!! nice work buddy both themes looks nice...
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Actually, I judged the original post on its "mine is better" attitude, as did most of the approximately 400 people who have viewed the thread and not cared to comment.
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I made this theme for myself cause I didn't like the one by wallla since it wasn't really as close to the SDK as possible. I later decided to share this theme with others who would also like to have their Milestones look as close to Gingerbread as possible. And if someone can make a Gingerbread theme that is even better than mine, like for example they manage to get that "Clear" text on the clear button on notification bar centered or get the "recent apps" to look same as Gingerbread, then I would start using that theme instead of the one I made.
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...tearing apart somebody else's effort only makes people want to tear apart your effort.
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By this logic, Google tore apart Apple's "effort" by creating a better mobile operating system. Which then begs the question, what are you doing here?
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Nobody likes a braggart.
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I tried my best not to sound like I was bragging. But I can't deny that I was very much tempted to brag about my theme. I am a human and not an alien from outer space. And like most humans, I too like to brag.
And as far as I know, many people "like" Apple and they are the king of "braggarts".
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btw, green highlights would be better.
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Tell that to the Google developers who made the default theme for Android 2.3. I however think that it was a good decision on their part to continue using orange highlights.
By the way, I hope I have fed you enough and that you are stuffed by now.
Hi,
Great theme! The best Gingerbread theme I saw!
Congrats for the excellent work!
I have darky's rom 8.0 in my SGS and the only thing I would like to change is the phone dialpad, is there a way I can apply yours and if there is, how can I do it?
regards,
Yes you can. What you need to do is extract the Phone.apk and Contacts.apk from my theme, get the new images from the "res/drawable-hdpi" and "res/drawable-finger-hdpi" and replace the ones in Phone.apk and Contacts.apk that you pull from your phone.
To replace the images in the apk files from your phone, rename them to zip files (Phone.zip, Contacts.zip) and then open them one by one with WinRAR. Then browse to either "drawable-hdpi" or "drawable-finger-hdpi" and drag and drop the new images there. As soon as you drag and drop you will see a dialog box where you need to select "Store" as the "Compression method". After you are done replacing the images with the new ones, you need to zipalign the modified apks. zipalign is included with the Android SDK and is located in the "tools" directory. Open command prompt and browse to the directory where you have the renamed apk files from your phone. Then use the command "PATH_TO_ANDROID_SDK\tools\zipalign -v 4 Phone.zip Phone.apk" and another one for the Contacts.zip file. Now you should have two new apk files which you can push to your phone using adb and that's it.
Let me know if you need more details.
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I made this theme for myself cause I didn't like the one by wallla since it wasn't really as close to the SDK as possible. I later decided to share this theme with others who would also like to have their Milestones look as close to Gingerbread as possible. And if someone can make a Gingerbread theme that is even better than mine, like for example they manage to get that "Clear" text on the clear button on notification bar centered or get the "recent apps" to look same as Gingerbread, then I would start using that theme instead of the one I made.
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I don't recall diminishing or slagging the quality of your work.
My only "point" was that people weren't really commenting on your work due to bad manners.
Edit: If anything, your work does indeed look very clean and polished.
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By this logic, Google tore apart Apple's "effort" by creating a better mobile operating system. Which then begs the question, what are you doing here?
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When I said "tear apart", it was in the context of picking apart somebody elses work and pointing out all that is wrong with it and basically calling it santa claus.
It was not in the context of disassembling and reengineering/improving.
You're a smart guy and you conveniently misinterpreted my meaning so that you can make it seem like I was trolling.
BTW, android is nothing like iOS so the above arguement is invalid anyway.
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I tried my best not to sound like I was bragging. But I can't deny that I was very much tempted to brag about my theme. I am a human and not an alien from outer space. And like most humans, I too like to brag.
And as far as I know, many people "like" Apple and they are the king of "braggarts".
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Nothing wrong with taking pride in one's work.
But pissing on somebody else's work doesn't do your work any favours.
Which is why alot of people, like ourselves, can't stand the "Apple Attitude."
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Tell that to the Google developers who made the default theme for Android 2.3. I however think that it was a good decision on their part to continue using orange highlights.
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About my green highlights remark, ya, so I trolled a little....
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By the way, I hope I have fed you enough and that you are stuffed by now.
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...well, not really, since I immediately stated that it was only my opinion that green highlights would be better than orange.
But you conveniently disregarded that, so that you can call me a troll.
Very clever, but that just makes you a clown. (I couldn't find a big enough link)
But then again, I set you up and you took the bait, so maybe I'm a bit of a clown too
Aaaand you're back. For today's meal?
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My only "point" was that people weren't really commenting on your work due to bad manners.
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I see. And here I was thinking that it was because there weren't many xda members with Milestones who were still using Android 2.1 and the ones that are still using Android 2.1 (like me), found nothing wrong with the theme and understood the installation instructions and so didn't feel the need to "comment". But thanks for letting me know that it was because of my bad manners.
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When I said "tear apart", it was in the context of picking apart somebody elses work and pointing out all that is wrong with it and basically calling it ****.
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Hmmm. It seems I have amnesia since I don't recall doing that.
zeppelinrox said:
BTW, android is nothing like iOS
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Of course it isn't. It's better than iOS.
zeppelinrox said:
About my green highlights remark, ya, so I trolled a little....
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I knew I shouldn't have removed that extra space between those two lines. And, now it seems you are not just a troll but also an idiot. Oh wait, an idiot can't be a troll. No, it seems you trolled accidentally. And that means I don't have to worry about feeding you! Yay!
Oh wow.
I gave you too much credit.
You're not all that bright after all.
You don't have amnesia though, just a selective memory which allows you to take things out of context to such an extent that your responses don't even follow simple logic and are, in fact, just childish.
I did not troll accidentily.
As I said before, when I made that "green highlights are better" remark, I purposefully pointed out that it was just my opinion and therefore, was not trolling at all.
Now, before you decide to reply, try not to look like the rambling fool that made the prior post.
Peace, brothers.
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I did not troll accidentily.
As I said before, when I made that "green highlights are better" remark, I purposefully pointed out that it was just my opinion and therefore, was not trolling at all.
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Oh, wow. It seems you still have no idea what you are talking about. Your very first post can be considered as trolling, you dummy. How long have you been on the internets?
sileshn said:
Peace, brothers.
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He started it.
ashketchum said:
Oh, wow. It seems you still have no idea what you are talking about. Your very first post can be considered as trolling, you dummy. How long have you been on the internets?
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Uh.. sticks and stones...? geezus... what a child indeed....
I think 1996ish... about 15 years.
This probably explains a few things:
1. My low tolerance for braggarts
2. Why you didn't get me mad
3. Why I didn't stoop to your level
4. My ability to recognize your feeble attempts at twisting my words.
I can go on but I don't want to be a braggart.
And yes, I started it by calling a spade a spade. It wasn't trolling. Calling it trolling doesn't make it so.
Many times, the truth hurts. And then the offended party replies with some name calling such as "troll" without validity.
But that's just too bad. It doesn't change reality.
At least I was nice enough to throw in a couple of compliments.
Not that you would notice.
Anyway, I've bumped this thread too many times so I'll just bury the spade, hatchet, whatever.
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Yes you can. What you need to do is extract the Phone.apk and Contacts.apk from my theme, get the new images from the "res/drawable-hdpi" and "res/drawable-finger-hdpi" and replace the ones in Phone.apk and Contacts.apk that you pull from your phone.
To replace the images in the apk files from your phone, rename them to zip files (Phone.zip, Contacts.zip) and then open them one by one with WinRAR. Then browse to either "drawable-hdpi" or "drawable-finger-hdpi" and drag and drop the new images there. As soon as you drag and drop you will see a dialog box where you need to select "Store" as the "Compression method". After you are done replacing the images with the new ones, you need to zipalign the modified apks. zipalign is included with the Android SDK and is located in the "tools" directory. Open command prompt and browse to the directory where you have the renamed apk files from your phone. Then use the command "PATH_TO_ANDROID_SDK\tools\zipalign -v 4 Phone.zip Phone.apk" and another one for the Contacts.zip file. Now you should have two new apk files which you can push to your phone using adb and that's it.
Let me know if you need more details.
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Hi there,
Darkyy here, the dev of Darky's ROM.
I don't know how it is for your device, but changing the dialer on the Galaxy S i9000 needs a change of the DialerTabActivity.apk
Just wanted to inform you.
BTW: I just read this thread totally random and saw all these moaners about the OP. All I can say, make it better before you blame someone's hard work.
Darkyy - Joël
- Sent from my SGS with Darky's ROM v9.1
ashketchum said:
Yes you can. What you need to do is extract the Phone.apk and Contacts.apk from my theme, get the new images from the "res/drawable-hdpi" and "res/drawable-finger-hdpi" and replace the ones in Phone.apk and Contacts.apk that you pull from your phone.
To replace the images in the apk files from your phone, rename them to zip files (Phone.zip, Contacts.zip) and then open them one by one with WinRAR. Then browse to either "drawable-hdpi" or "drawable-finger-hdpi" and drag and drop the new images there. As soon as you drag and drop you will see a dialog box where you need to select "Store" as the "Compression method". After you are done replacing the images with the new ones, you need to zipalign the modified apks. zipalign is included with the Android SDK and is located in the "tools" directory. Open command prompt and browse to the directory where you have the renamed apk files from your phone. Then use the command "PATH_TO_ANDROID_SDK\tools\zipalign -v 4 Phone.zip Phone.apk" and another one for the Contacts.zip file. Now you should have two new apk files which you can push to your phone using adb and that's it.
Let me know if you need more details.
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Thank you very much for your quick support
Let me see if I understand,
1. I copy both files (phone.apk and contacts.apk) from my phone folder (system/apps), paste it in my computer and rename both to .zip file.
2. I extract the same two files from your theme and rename both to .zip.
3. Open the renamed file I copy from my phone (phone.zip) in a window, and open your phone.zip file in another window, and drag and drop from one window to another the drawable-hdpi folder or the drawable-finger, (couldn't find the: drawable-finger-hdpi, only drawable-hdpi-finger or drawable-hdpi).
3a. Question: Is it necessary to copy both folders or just one of the two?
4. When replacing the folders choose, "Compression method" "store" from winrar pop up window.
5. Zipalign the modified apks: Put both changed files, (phone.zip and contacts.zip) in the androidsdk/tools folder.
6. Open the command prompt to browse the directory where you pasted the saved files and write:
cd\
cd AndroidSDK\Tools\
(Now is pointing to the tools directory)
Then use the command "PATH_TO_ANDROID_SDK\tools\zipalign -v 4 Phone.zip Phone.apk"
...and the same but using the "contacts" instead of phone.
Then we should have two new apk files in androidsdk/tools folder.
6. Copy both and with root explorer paste it in the phone, system/apps folder replacing the ones that are there.
Did I made all the steps correctly?
If so, there's only one thing that is not working:
When I use the command: "PATH_TO_ANDROID_SDK\tools\zipalign -v 4 Phone.zip Phone.apk"
It gives me an error saying that the directory doesn't exist.
I supose it's because my folder is called androidsdk and not android_sdk.
But when I change to: "PATH_TO_ANDROIDSDK\tools\zipalign" it says the same thing.
And if I change to: "PATH TO ANDROIDSDK\tools\zipalign" it gives no error, but it doesn't do anything, and in the tools folder doesn't show the "phone.apk" or "contacts.apk" new files.
Am I doing anything wrong?
Just another question: Can I install all your theme with CWM in Android 2.2.1 or only works in 2.1?
Thanks again for all your excellent work and support!!
You have the best original Gingerbread theme, the design super!!!
Cheers mate!
Hi,
Thanks for the info and for your excellent rom Darky
What you are saying is that I also need to do the same thing in this file? Or just copy the apk to the apps folder?
Cheers,
Keep it on topic please..already had to edit some of the posts in this thread...any more and I'll get the boogie man onto you
... freaking hate them.
Just kidding, would be nice to have them. Unfortunately high-res icons are not provided very often, though, as you can see on the top left of the play store app, they technically exist. The devs are required to upload 512x512 icons to google, but not to include them in the .APKs.
Do you do anything about it? Has anyone found a convenient way to replace the icons throughout the system, e.g. not only on the homescreen but also in the app drawer? (Modifiying the APKs manually on the PC or with Ninjamorph is too much of a waste of time in my opinion.)
What I do about it:
Get the Icon: Advanced search for images (Google), filetype PNG. If there is no icon: Screenshot in the play store app, remove background, save as PNG. It should be downscaled to 144x144.
Store it on the device.
Replace icon on homescreen: Via longpress in Nova Launcher. Other method, works with every launcher: Create a "Desktop Visualizer" widget, and link it to the desired app. In case the icon looks blurry, check the Desktop Visualizer settings.
However, keep in mind that the app drawer icons remain as they are.
Please tell me if you know some launcher or a highly automated APK modification app that also replaces the drawer icons.
Cheers!
Thats actually quite interesting. I noticed the high-res icons in the Play Store. I don't have my Nexus 10 as of yet but I would hate to have low-res icons simply because the developer didn't take the 10 minutes to convert the icon and upload it with the .APK!
I would suggest we try to clip this problem at the source - TELL developers of this issue! Email them about it. Request it. Developers are in it for money, customers (and, being human, they obviously appreciate positive feedback). Tell them what we want, make it an issue, show them we care, and it will get fixed. Don't just rely on Google to push for a better ecosystem, tell them yourselves!
If someone posts their email to a developer about this issue here, I will take and alter that email to send to them in support, give a bit more force behind it. Sounds like the best option to me!
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Thats actually quite interesting. I noticed the high-res icons in the Play Store. I don't have my Nexus 10 as of yet but I would hate to have low-res icons simply because the developer didn't take the 10 minutes to convert the icon and upload it with the .APK!
I would suggest we try to clip this problem at the source - TELL developers of this issue! Email them about it. Request it. Developers are in it for money, customers (and, being human, they obviously appreciate positive feedback). Tell them what we want, make it an issue, show them we care, and it will get fixed. Don't just rely on Google to push for a better ecosystem, tell them yourselves!
If someone posts their email to a developer about this issue here, I will take and alter that email to send to them in support, give a bit more force behind it. Sounds like the best option to me!
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I agree. However, if you want to get it done quickly and properly, you will have to do it yourself. The problem is that I couldn't find a workaround, which is weird, because the idea exists. A long time ago, I had an iPod Touch, where you could install "Winterboard" - a Cydia app which redirected the read access to the icon file (which is stored within the app on iOS, too) to a folder where you could place custom icons.
If I were Google, I'd change the filetype of icons (or even more ui elements) to a vector format like .SVG. This way every device could calculate its own full resolution icons once and cache them for fast access. There wouldn't be the need for new icons everytime the displays are improved, which is happening all the time.
This is on a rooted Verizon S5 SM-G900V with Alliance ROM 4.4.2. Is there any way to invert the background and text without inverting images? Especially in Chrome, but it would be nice for the whole phone. White lettering on a black background is much easier to read.
I'm seeing screenshots online of Alliance that are nice and dark (I think it's called Black Glass?), including the phone dialer. How do I get the whole android theme dark.
Same thing with other apps. There's a few local TV news apps that have a bright white background that I wish I could customize to a dark theme. The Samsung Music Player is bright white as well. Anyway to make these dark in Alliance?
The problem I've noticed with third-party dialer apps is that they let you type the phone number, but when you hit the phone button to place the call, it opens up the Android dialer with the bright white background. Right back to square zero. Basically, I'm just trying to figure out how to get that nice black look like I'm seeing on some of the alliance ROM screenshots.
Thanks.
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The problem I've noticed with third-party dialer apps is that they let you type the phone number, but when you hit the phone button to place the call, it opens up the Android dialer with the bright white background. Right back to square zero. Basically, I'm just trying to figure out how to get that nice black look like I'm seeing on some of the alliance ROM screenshots.
Thanks.
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The app on 4.4 you needed to theme was called InCall.apk there is an app on 5.0 call LegacyInCallUI.apk so would amuse that its this one but if you are running a custom rom then it may have the original InCall app, if you look is System\app or System\Priv-app folder (most likely the priv-app folder teh one you need will be in there.
Problem at the moment is that apktool has a problem with Samsung apk's and compiling them, its not so much apk tool as more likely something Samsung have added in their security to prevent apktool working as it should, so you can decompile apps fine if the app does compile then you can use the .png files, xml files but the resources arsc most likely will cause the app to crash. Also they have use .pkm files which you can't see like you can with .png files so you need specific software to look at them, again Samsung trying to prevent theming of stock apps.
Hmmm. Well, that's all a bit over my head. So, is there not an easy way to install an app or change a setting somewhere? I'm not sure what to actually to click on with all those files you mentioned. I find searching for files in Android to be confusing and nothing like a Windows PC with the usual file directory locations. Like, WHERE is the C:\ drive on the phone?
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Hmmm. Well, that's all a bit over my head. So, is there not an easy way to install an app or change a setting somewhere? I'm not sure what to actually to click on with all those files you mentioned. I find searching for files in Android to be confusing and nothing like a Windows PC with the usual file directory locations. Like, WHERE is the C:\ drive on the phone?
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The apps are in the system folder called
system\app
system\priv-app
system\framework
But if you have never done theming before then don't even try you would need to start with simple things and learn what to do and what not to do.
Can't help with the app question as I have no idea, maybe there is something that someone else can answer that for you.
I am looking at theming these form myself but I don't have the time at the moment, I don't share them any more though as there are far too many ungrateful people around these days.