How to change notification text color

[thebowers]

I ran xUtlimate to change the time to orange and want to be able to change the notification text from white to orange as well. Just don't know where to start with this.

[FlipBack]

I'm interested in doing this as well.

[mjones1052]

In the framework-res.apk in /system/framework folder on phone, there is some xmls. They are in framework-res.apk/res/layout. They are called status_bar.xml and there is several variations of it. One for new events, one for open, closed, etc. You need to use a hex editor to change it. You can pull the .apk using adb with the command

adb pull /system/framework/framework-res.apk. c:\users\ yourname \ somefolder

Once you pull it you can make a copy and extract it. Then, using 7zip, right click on original and hit open archive. Now, get your hex editor and change the appropriate xml file in the copy you made that you extracted. Once finished, you can just drag them over to the correct spot in the opened archive window of the original. Copy the original to the tools folder in android-sdk-windows, and push it back to phone.

[berlyn]

i downloaded handsent sms (i think that's how it's spelled, idk i'm at work and am not allowed to have my phone on me) and it allowed me to change LOTS of things (including what color the LED light flashes, PER person too). it's super easy to use too and you can have it look like either iphone, droid, etc

[thebowers]

In the framework-res.apk in /system/framework folder on phone, there is some xmls. They are in framework-res.apk/res/layout. They are called status_bar.xml and there is several variations of it. One for new events, one for open, closed, etc. You need to use a hex editor to change it. You can pull the .apk using adb with the command

adb pull /system/framework/framework-res.apk. c:\users\ yourname \ somefolder

Once you pull it you can make a copy and extract it. Then, using 7zip, right click on original and hit open archive. Now, get your hex editor and change the appropriate xml file in the copy you made that you extracted. Once finished, you can just drag them over to the correct spot in the opened archive window of the original. Copy the original to the tools folder in android-sdk-windows, and push it back to phone.

What program do you use to edit the xml files? I am assuming when you say hex editor that it is for the color since the are in hexadecimal format. I quess I need to know how to open the xml files to edit them.

[kevdog]

HxD is my favorite hex editor. If you look over on alldroid under Xeudosus' section -- specifically the thread talking about xUltimate -- somewhere in that thread I actually posted a bunch of screen shots and listed the 3 files that need to be hex edited. I'd give you the exact link but face it -- I'm lazy.

[thebowers]

HxD is my favorite hex editor. If you look over on alldroid under Xeudosus' section -- specifically the thread talking about xUltimate -- somewhere in that thread I actually posted a bunch of screen shots and listed the 3 files that need to be hex edited. I'd give you the exact link but face it -- I'm lazy.

Thanks for the suggestion on HxD. Now I am a noob at xml and can't understand what I need to do. All I see is a bunch of numbers everywhere with writing to the side in a word wrap format. Any more help would be great. In the meantime I will head over to alldroid and check that thread out too.

[thebowers]

Kevdog I read your post on alldroid about getting this all to work by using colorchanger3.jar. I have downloaded that and removed the .zip to it but have no idea how to run this file. Do I have to run it through Java or what? Maybe you could give us a guide (for noobs who don't know xml) on how to do this.

[thebowers]

Ok I got into the colorChangev3.jar through CMD. To input the line of what to change I am having a problem. I type this "java -Xmx512M -jar colorChangev3.jar {then there needs to be a file here}" . What file or path do I need. I keep getting services.jar not found or an access denied message when pointing to framework-res or framework-res.zip? Anyone else know anything or what?

[thebowers]

After a whole day of struggle I finally got part of it through colorchange. I think a thread will come on how to use this.