Root (Mod) Change name in notification bar & Lockscreen

Friendly Llama said:

Oops, I guess I haven't searched thoroughly enough

I'm going to let a mod's best judgement be the deciding factor whether they want to keep this thread alive or not, then.

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Friendly Llama said:

It doesn't or does work for paranoid android?
I tested it myself and it works with stock firmware f so it should work with the previous ones (c, e, etc.)

If it does work with the Paranoid rom then chances are it will work with bobz' CM10 since Paranoid is a fork of it, I think - as it should also work with MIUI.
If it doesn't work with bobz then chances are it won't work with roms that use CM as a base.

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TheDemon said:

The eri.xml should work on our device all around. On any rom made for use.
On the paranoid port it pushes an eri.xml to data because I was too lazy to edit it in the framework-res.

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Friendly Llama said:

Hello everybody!

I was looking at my phone earlier, thinking about stuff that I wanted to change about it (I am like... hyper when it comes to always changing things about my phone). Looking around there has always been something that bothered me about it, and it's the text in the lock screen that says "MetroPCS" and also the text that's in the notification bar when you drop it down.

Now, the first thing I did was I looked around on this forum for this specific phone to see how this could be done, but I didn't find any guide (which is why this guide exists, I guess) but I did find other guides in other parts of this site as well as other sits that explain how to so I thought it'd be good to show some Motion users like myself that didn't know how to change it so they could learn.


So to change the notification bar and lock screen "MetroPCS" text you're gonna need 2 things:

• Root explorer
• A rooted phone (hopefully if you're in this subforum you got this, if you don't - go for it!)

Here's how you do it:

1. Download the eri.xml file from this post
2. Open the file in notepad or notepad++ or your favorite text editor of choice (gedit, etc.)
3. You should search for "Text Here" without quotes, and there should be 3 instances of that in the xml file - This is where you'll place the text that will go in the lockscreen and in the notification bar
4. After you change it, make sure to save it, and connect your phone to the computer and place the file somewhere you can find it easily (I used my downloads folder)
5. Go into root explorer and make sure you grant the application's request to use root priviliges because we're going to be changing files in the system partition
6. Go to your folder where you placed the eri.xml file and copy it
7. Now go to your system's root and open the folder 'data'
8. All you need to do now is simply paste the .xml file here in the /data/ folder and restart your phone and POW! you just changed your text in notification and lockscreen
9. ??????
10. get some beer? (profit?)

Now I am sorry if this kind of tweak has been posted in the past - I did look and didn't manage to find much in this subforum for this phone - but I do hope maybe I help some of you that wouldn't know or go to other forums to look for information.


Thank you all for your time, and for the user who I got the information from about how to do this... Mr. What's his face...
..
I actually don't know his name... sorry dude :c

And just in case something happens to the xml file along the way or dropbox is being stupid, here is what goes into the xml file:


eri.xml

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0utSid3r said:

Does this also work with cm or just stock?

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0utSid3r said:

Yhea I'm on bobz and wasn't sure on the outcome

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