Text Color Change (Complete how to do)

[lmt1979]

MusicGoogle.apk

I am going to add my notes to this post in hope it will help someone. These are xml changes I made for froyo to get white text in the status bars and widgets.

> MusicGoogle.apk
[res\layout\statusbar.xml]
44 - Replace with 41
45 - Replace with 42

Was able to get partial white text in MusicGoogle.apk here:
http://dc192.***********/img/336360353/efdb32a4/CAP201007081208.jpg?rnd=0.085674038608755&sizeM=3

Any help in getting this straight would be fantastic, been trying a bit editing, but some of the changes have had undesirable effects. IF* there is a good resource there's a few other apps I'd like to fix this in as well.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/%3Ca%20href=http://www.***********/photo/jFaM1YyO/CAP201007081208.html%20target=_blank%3E[IMG]http://dc265.***********/img/336356925/26a5a18c/CAP201007081208.jpg?rnd=0.4970726012494887

 

[928Droid]

I am going to add my notes to this post in hope it will help someone. These are xml changes I made for froyo to get white text in the status bars and widgets.

> MusicGoogle.apk
[res\layout\statusbar.xml]
44 - Replace with 41
45 - Replace with 42

Was able to get partial white text in MusicGoogle.apk here:


Any help in getting this straight would be fantastic, been trying a bit editing, but some of the changes have had undesirable effects. IF* there is a good resource there's a few other apps I'd like to fix this in as well.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/%3Ca%20href=http://www.***********/photo/jFaM1YyO/CAP201007081208.html%20target=_blank%3E[IMG]http://dc265.***********/img/336356925/26a5a18c/CAP201007081208.jpg?rnd=0.4970726012494887

I have mine set to white for song name and light gray for album/artist title...

If you like that snag the statusbar.xml.zip below, remove the ".zip" and put it in the res/layout folder replacing the original.

 

[ACalcutt]

I am going to add my notes to this post in hope it will help someone. These are xml changes I made for froyo to get white text in the status bars and widgets.

> MusicGoogle.apk
[res\layout\statusbar.xml]
44 - Replace with 41
45 - Replace with 42

Was able to get partial white text in MusicGoogle.apk here:

Any help in getting this straight would be fantastic, been trying a bit editing, but some of the changes have had undesirable effects. IF* there is a good resource there's a few other apps I'd like to fix this in as well.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/%3Ca%20href=http://www.***********/photo/jFaM1YyO/CAP201007081208.html%20target=_blank%3E[IMG]http://dc265.***********/img/336356925/26a5a18c/CAP201007081208.jpg?rnd=0.4970726012494887

it looks like you didn't replace the 45 value in the hex editor

 

[thebowers]

OP now has the colorchangev3.jar.zip file attached. Just remove the .zip and enjoy

 

[lmt1979]

xml

I am going to add my notes to this post in hope it will help someone. These are xml changes I made for froyo to get white text in the status bars and widgets.

Was able to get partial white text in MusicGoogle.apk here:

Any help in getting this straight would be fantastic, been trying a bit editing, but some of the changes have had undesirable effects. IF* there is a good resource there's a few other apps I'd like to fix this in as well.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/%3Ca%20href=http://www.***********/photo/jFaM1YyO/CAP201007081208.html%20target=_blank%3E[IMG]http://dc265.***********/img/336356925/26a5a18c/CAP201007081208.jpg?rnd=0.4970726012494887

it looks like you didn't replace the 45 value in the hex editor

Let me make sure I understand you correctly:

I am basically copying and pasting line 42's contents into 45 and keeping line 42 as is?

 

[Jim 777]

You da bomb!
Don't know how you came across this but I love it!

More customizing to come!

 

[gflam]

Thank you

 

[thinkmega]

Can this method work with 2.2? I look into services.jar and find it basically empty.

When I compiled framework.zip, java complained unable to find \framework\services\classes.dex.

Did this happen to any of you?

Thanks,

 

[thebowers]

Is the rom you are on deodexed? If not this will not work.

 

[Jim 777]

Can this method work with 2.2? I look into services.jar and find it basically empty.

When I compiled framework.zip, java complained unable to find \framework\services\classes.dex.

Did this happen to any of you?

Thanks,

It worked great with me on BB v0.4 which is a 2.2 ROM

Is the rom you are on deodexed? If not this will not work.

Eh, so would that be me?

 

[thinkmega]

Is the rom you are on deodexed? If not this will not work.

I use P3D-FRF84B-release.zip. Is it compliant to this approach? How can I tell if it is on deodexed?

Thanks.

 

[Jim 777]

I want to throw out another

for the bowers. Still playing with the colors.

 

[thebowers]

What is the size of your services.jar file? Usually a non deodexed one is really small (a couple k). Most customs if not all are deodexed.

 

[Jim 777]

Is this a one time deal?

Can't get it to work anymore.
Weird.

 

[thinkmega]

I am a little confused by the methods shown in the original post: what if I want to assign different colors to different items, ie, clock=FF0000FF while date=FFFF0000, how should I change the xml files? In the original post, it suggests to change the byte after 08 00 00 1c to the color of our choice. How should we handle different color on different item?

Hope we will get some guidance here.

Thanks.