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Root {Theme} Fascinating Sense (for Touchwiz)

nitsuj17

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Similar (but much more detailed) to my aosp theme, I've made a HTC Sense Theme for touchwiz. The theme is based off of the latest droid incredible OTA. In addition I probably made/themed several hundred images. Dark Revenge V3 theme is essentially an earlier version of this, as I've updated a lot since then.

Versions Available:
Currently just enhanced edition (my slight improvements to sense theme ie black menus, some different images/coloring)
Coming Soon:
mm versions of alternate batteries/status bar icons (remove stat location)
more apps (alternate deskclocks)
more extras (lpp/adw ex dock backgrounds)
stock sense theme
blackout sense
Long Term Plans:
red sense
blue sense

Theme includes, reboot options, 5 lock screen mod, acc battery, aosp answer, gv dialer, screen stay awake mod and is built off of superclean 2.9.1...results may be different on other roms.

Ok whats themed? (Initial 1.0 Release, see changelog for newer releases)
framework-res.apk: black menus, sense icons/images, progress_horizontal to exact sense progress green color, secondary text to white, changed epic lock around to mimic sense slider as closely as possible, etc
twframework-res.apk: remapped power controls (sbrissen), sense icons/images
mediaprovider.apk: status bar icon, pulldown text color (black), as much tw aqua blue color switched to white as I could get, tab buttons (apks call on) to sense colors
dialertabactivity.apk: system icon, white soft menu icons, completely redone images/backgrounds, tab buttons and icons, changed dialed text background from black (requires xml changes) text colors to white from aqua in *most* cases
phone.apk: unknown contact image, white soft menu icons (most edits dont take on phone for some reason)
googlequicksearchbox.apk: changed some colors/images, white soft menu icons
music.apk: widget to sense like widget, images, system icon, tab buttons, tab icons, white soft menu icons
service.jar: changed carrier name
contacts.apk: system icon, sense images
browser.apk: system icon, black header
geniewidget: white menu icons
deskclock.apk: system icon, added one of the larger sense clocks (will add alternate versions for download in the future)
twcalculator.apk: system icon, changed colors/background (will do more work on this going forward)
twcalendar.apk: system icon, tab buttons, colors
mms.apk: system icon
email.apk: system icon, remove as much of the aqua color as i could
settings.apk: system icon, sense images
voicerecorder.apk: system icon, changed colors/image colors
umm more Im sure that im currently forgetting

Changelog:
3.18 version 2.0 is out: *should* have fixed email.apk issue some were reporting (manifest), updated no gps icon version to 2.0 (never had 1.5 version), added new lockscreen option for espresso mod...see ss in post #2
3.17: version 1.5 is out. replaced manifest.xml is all apks that were logging with issues (still need logs from those it wouldnt boot for!)...update framework-jar from adrynalyne to remove the last instance of bing in it, few png changes here and there
3.16: added alternate flash to remove stat_location_icons (for those that prefer it) cwr flash...see post 3


Credit:
Huge credit to Sbrissen for reboot options, acc battery, lockscreen mods, helping me to resize the lockscreen for the sense slider, aosp answer, remapped pulldown menu, whatever mods im forgetting...and general awesomeness
adrynalyne for his the gv remapped dialer, screen awake, his roms, mods, and everything else he does for us
the other #fascinate-themers regulars for help/advice/critique :D

Screenshots in 2nd Post

Downloads in 3rd Post
 
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For those curious: I'm using ADW EX and Fancy Widget (old 1.3 version). The sense slider is using the epic lock under display settings.
I will post my custom dock and the others I made and found tomorrow. Fancy widget is considered warez, but its easy enough to find ;)

3.18.11 Espresso Slider added as option
when resting:
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when pressed:
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I love the look of this theme. I flashed it and got stuck in a boot loop 3 times. First two times flashed zip and restarted, no cache or davlik wipe. The only difference between 1 and 2 is I unfroze some apps that you may have themed, gmail, news and weather widget, etc. Third time wiped both cache and davlik and got the same result. I am certain it is something I am doing wrong or have something on my system that is disagreeing with the theme.

I am running SC 2.9.1 with the calibration, stay awake mod and the packaged kernal.
 
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Try flashing another theme, reboot...see if it works, then flash this one.
I am at a loss for what is happening, I know this is not nitsuj17's fault there is something I have done or are doing that is dorking with it. Maybe it is just not meant to be. I am seriously bummed out I was looking forward to this working. This actually has my wife irritated with me because every time I run a restore it re-sends my last gtalk messages to her.

I tried to flash a theme I know worked on 2.9.1 this morning and that did not work either. So I wiped cache and davlik, flashed 2.9 rebooted, flashed 2.9.1 rebooted, flashed theme.

The flash took this time however other issues arose. When trying to re-setup ADW EX none of the changes I would make would take. When I closed the settings menu ADW would restart show the change log and be reset to stock. Also some of the items themed were not themed, the dialer buttons were not white, nor was the pull down notifications white.

FWIW before switching from 2.8 to 2.9.1 I pushed the recovery EB01 and pit from Adrynalyne's sorry I messed up your phone thread, wiped everything and started over.
 
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I am at a loss for what is happening, I know this is not nitsuj17's fault there is something I have done or are doing that is dorking with it. Maybe it is just not meant to be. I am seriously bummed out I was looking forward to this working. This actually has my wife irritated with me because every time I run a restore it re-sends my last gtalk messages to her.

I tried to flash a theme I know worked on 2.9.1 this morning and that did not work either. So I wiped cache and davlik, flashed 2.9 rebooted, flashed 2.9.1 rebooted, flashed theme.

The flash took this time however other issues arose. When trying to re-setup ADW EX none of the changes I would make would take. When I closed the settings menu ADW would restart show the change log and be reset to stock. Also some of the items themed were not themed, the dialer buttons were not white, nor was the pull down notifications white.

FWIW before switching from 2.8 to 2.9.1 I pushed the recovery EB01 and pit from Adrynalyne's sorry I messed up your phone thread, wiped everything and started over.

some people have had issues with my theme, others not...so ive updated to it version 1.5 on xda (i gotta update it here in a few) hopefully that helps
 
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Thanks for the hard work, but it still didn't work.

what rom are you on? what procedure did you use to try and flash it? can you send me a logcat of the phone bootlooping?

Both have worked for me. Awesome work as usual. I am loving this theme.

yeah from my best guess (based on downloads vs not working feedback) 3/4 could get v1 working regardless of setup, and more could get 1.5...glad you like
 
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what rom are you on? what procedure did you use to try and flash it? can you send me a logcat of the phone bootlooping?
I am on 2.9.1. As far as flashing the theme goes I have tried wiping cache before flash, and not wiping. I even tried reflashing the rom again last night and had the same issues with it resetting any changes and some of my apps were missing. I was able to get the theme to take when I reflashed SC but was missing some stuff like the email app. I think I will do a full wipe and clean install again sometime this weekend and make sure something I have downloaded, app, or wallpaper etc. is not corrupting things.

I will try and create a logcat for you tonight, I don't have adb at work, provided I can figure out how to make adb work!:rolleyes: I have only done basic stuff i.e. push, and reboot just to make it worked.
 
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Okay, (and BTW, thanks for all your hard work 2.9.1 is awesome) but upthread you say CWR Amend Installs, not compatible with CWR 3.0 . Like I said, I feel like total noob, but how do I install? Which version of CWR is recommended?

if you have voodoo recovery or green 2.5 ish recovery you can flash with that
 
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So I've been trying to copy your themed dialer (it looks great!) into my sc 2.9.1/superdark v3 setup with no success. Every way I try to copy DialerTabActivity.apk (root explorer, adb, cwr) results in a force close loop. Am I missing something? And if you'd prefer not to give advice on how to yank pieces out of your theme, fair enough...I'm not sure if this is "bad etiquette":eek:
 
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