[Theme] 928Droid Black Glass X for Droid X !!!

[technique]

The first post in this thread for the odexed theme says "Black Glass themed Gmail 2.2.1 app" but I assume it should read "Black Glass themed Gmail 2.3 app", correct?

 

[928Droid]

The first post in this thread for the odexed theme says "Black Glass themed Gmail 2.2.1 app" but I assume it should read "Black Glass themed Gmail 2.3 app", correct?

Correct, I missed that description.. 2.3 is definitely in the newest Odexed Theme.

 

[technique]

Dave, you ROCK!!!! I love this new theme. It is totally awesome!

Only thing I noticed is that the clock/date in the notification bar is black. I did follow your directions to the letter.

I am having the same issue. However, from reading the relevant posts in this thread, it seems as it this is NORMAL if using the odexed Black Glass theme?

I had a rooted, stock OTA 2.2 Droid X phone, never themed until now. The font in the notification bar (clock and notifications) is black, making it not visible. Is there a way to fix this with the odexed theme?

 

[jdk]

I saw in the Droid 2 thread there is a known issue with the contacts app crashing. I'm also having this issue on my Droid X, and I've tried clearing the cache for the contacts and contacts storage apps. Is this a known problem on the Droid X too?

 

[928Droid]

Dave, you ROCK!!!! I love this new theme. It is totally awesome!

Only thing I noticed is that the clock/date in the notification bar is black. I did follow your directions to the letter.

I am having the same issue. However, from reading the relevant posts in this thread, it seems as it this is NORMAL if using the odexed Black Glass theme?

I had a rooted, stock OTA 2.2 Droid X phone, never themed until now. The font in the notification bar (clock and notifications) is black, making it not visible. Is there a way to fix this with the odexed theme?

Screen Cap please... the descriptions of clock and notification text has been way to vague lately.

This is what a STOCK Odexed Official OTA 2.2 Droid X with my r2315 ODEXED Theme should look like in the notification pull down and status bar (see below). IF you have an Odexed Phone, and for sure applied the Odexed Theme , there may have been an unsuccessful attempt at Deodexing the Phone, the Deodexed Theme was mistaking flashed, or it didn't apply correctly.

These shots were taken just now on a new replacement Droid X that arrived earlier today, just a few hours ago was updated to 2.2 via the offical OTA and flashed with the Odexed Theme File downloaded from my website.

If your Clock, Status bar and/or Notification Text on your Odexed Official OTA 2.2 Droid X with my ODEXED Theme looks any different, something was done and/or went wrong with the process, or with some process(es) before flashing my Theme.

 

[technique]

Dave, you ROCK!!!! I love this new theme. It is totally awesome!

Only thing I noticed is that the clock/date in the notification bar is black. I did follow your directions to the letter.

I am having the same issue. However, from reading the relevant posts in this thread, it seems as it this is NORMAL if using the odexed Black Glass theme?

I had a rooted, stock OTA 2.2 Droid X phone, never themed until now. The font in the notification bar (clock and notifications) is black, making it not visible. Is there a way to fix this with the odexed theme?

Screen Cap please... the descriptions of clock and notification text has been way to vague lately.

This is what a STOCK Odexed Official OTA 2.2 Droid X with my r2315 ODEXED Theme should look like in the notification pull down and status bar (see below). IF you have an Odexed Phone, and for sure applied the Odexed Theme , there may have been an unsuccessful attempt at Deodexing the Phone, the Deodexed Theme was mistaking flashed, or it didn't apply correctly.

These shots were taken just now on a new replacement Droid X that arrived earlier today, just a few hours ago was updated to 2.2 via the offical OTA and flashed with the Odexed Theme File downloaded from my website.

If your Clock, Status bar and/or Notification Text on your Odexed Official OTA 2.2 Droid X with my ODEXED Theme looks any different, something was done and/or went wrong with the process, or with some process(es) before flashing my Theme.

OK, it looks like part of the problem I am having is normal for odexed then, because what I was referring to was in your second screenshot (the one directly above), you can only see "23, 2010" but "september" is in black font with a black background. So I guess that's normal.

However, when I upload using facebook, check this screenshot of ongoing notifications, it shows the facebook status of the upload in black font on a black background. Is this normal as well?

 

[928Droid]

I am having the same issue. However, from reading the relevant posts in this thread, it seems as it this is NORMAL if using the odexed Black Glass theme?

I had a rooted, stock OTA 2.2 Droid X phone, never themed until now. The font in the notification bar (clock and notifications) is black, making it not visible. Is there a way to fix this with the odexed theme?

Screen Cap please... the descriptions of clock and notification text has been way to vague lately.

This is what a STOCK Odexed Official OTA 2.2 Droid X with my r2315 ODEXED Theme should look like in the notification pull down and status bar (see below). IF you have an Odexed Phone, and for sure applied the Odexed Theme , there may have been an unsuccessful attempt at Deodexing the Phone, the Deodexed Theme was mistaking flashed, or it didn't apply correctly.

These shots were taken just now on a new replacement Droid X that arrived earlier today, just a few hours ago was updated to 2.2 via the offical OTA and flashed with the Odexed Theme File downloaded from my website.

If your Clock, Status bar and/or Notification Text on your Odexed Official OTA 2.2 Droid X with my ODEXED Theme looks any different, something was done and/or went wrong with the process, or with some process(es) before flashing my Theme.

OK, it looks like part of the problem I am having is normal for odexed then, because what I was referring to was in your second screenshot (the one directly above), you can only see "23, 2010" but "september" is in black font with a black background. So I guess that's normal.

However, when I upload using facebook, check this screenshot of ongoing notifications, it shows the facebook status of the upload in black font on a black background. Is this normal as well?

That day/date "oddity" is because the android system uses the status bar graphic again (but shifted to the far left) for when that day/date is displayed . Since I created that graphic to make us be able to read the clock in normal conditions...it doesn't work right during the times when it is used again when you pull down the notifications. Its a compromise thing, to me seeing the clock 95% of the time takes priority over seeing the day/date less than 5% of the time. Best solution I could come up with.....always open for better ideas, but have been doing Odexed Themes this way since the days of 2.01 on the Droid 1.

Concerning "Market apps" like Facebook displaying text in the notification bar, that is usually going to be hit or miss depending on how the App Developer coded the specific app to read from the framework settings for the notification screen (unfortunately a bad practice to not do this by most). All of the original system apps do this automatically with the exception of the stock Music and Market apps which I fix. I wasn't aware Facebook was doing this and since I include it in my Theme I will do my best to fix it.... but be aware this can happen with a lot or even most Market apps...you have to live with it... or contact the app Developer and ask them to please change the coding. Hopefully as Android matures this will become better practice to read from the framework coding for this.

If I even attempted to try and change just the top 10 most popular apps to fix this...it would be a never ending task as it would have to be done over and over each time they updated the app...that's a Pandora's box
even I will not open.

FYI, this "Market app notification text issue" will be the same, Odexed or DeOdexd. The Clock and day/date issue is NOT an issue with a DeOdexed ROM/Theme.

 

[technique]

That day/date "oddity" is because the android system uses the status bar graphic again (but shifted to the far left) for when that day/date is displayed . Since I created that graphic to make us be able to read the clock in normal conditions...it doesn't work right during the times when it is used again when you pull down the notifications. Its a compromise thing, to me seeing the clock 95% of the time takes priority over seeing the day/date less than 5% of the time. Best solution I could come up with.....always open for better ideas, but have been doing Odexed Themes this way since the days of 2.01 on the Droid 1.

Concerning "Market apps" like Facebook displaying text in the notification bar, that is usually going to be hit or miss depending on how the App Developer coded the specific app to read from the framework settings for the notification screen (unfortunately a bad practice to not do this by most). All of the original system apps do this automatically with the exception of the stock Music and Market apps which I fix. I wasn't aware Facebook was doing this and since I include it in my Theme I will do my best to fix it.... but be aware this can happen with a lot or even most Market apps...you have to live with it... or contact the app Developer and ask them to please change the coding. Hopefully as Android matures this will become better practice to read from the framework coding for this.

If I even attempted to try and change just the top 10 most popular apps to fix this...it would be a never ending task as it would have to be done over and over each time they updated the app...that's a Pandora's box
even I will not open.

FYI, this "Market app notification text issue" will be the same, Odexed or DeOdexd. The Clock and day/date issue is NOT an issue with a DeOdexed ROM/Theme.

Thanks for the excellent explanation. I agree not to even attempt keeping up with the "top 10 apps", definitely a can o' worms, but tweaking facebook would be nice since it's included with the theme.

One more question: Other than renaming the droid.ogg in the /system/media/audio/notifications folder with a .bak extension, how do we silence the "DROID" sound at bootup? (I assume it's part of the 928Droid Black Glass theme, maybe the build.prop?)

 

[928Droid]

That day/date "oddity" is because the android system uses the status bar graphic again (but shifted to the far left) for when that day/date is displayed . Since I created that graphic to make us be able to read the clock in normal conditions...it doesn't work right during the times when it is used again when you pull down the notifications. Its a compromise thing, to me seeing the clock 95% of the time takes priority over seeing the day/date less than 5% of the time. Best solution I could come up with.....always open for better ideas, but have been doing Odexed Themes this way since the days of 2.01 on the Droid 1.

Concerning "Market apps" like Facebook displaying text in the notification bar, that is usually going to be hit or miss depending on how the App Developer coded the specific app to read from the framework settings for the notification screen (unfortunately a bad practice to not do this by most). All of the original system apps do this automatically with the exception of the stock Music and Market apps which I fix. I wasn't aware Facebook was doing this and since I include it in my Theme I will do my best to fix it.... but be aware this can happen with a lot or even most Market apps...you have to live with it... or contact the app Developer and ask them to please change the coding. Hopefully as Android matures this will become better practice to read from the framework coding for this.

If I even attempted to try and change just the top 10 most popular apps to fix this...it would be a never ending task as it would have to be done over and over each time they updated the app...that's a Pandora's box
even I will not open.

FYI, this "Market app notification text issue" will be the same, Odexed or DeOdexd. The Clock and day/date issue is NOT an issue with a DeOdexed ROM/Theme.

Thanks for the excellent explanation. I agree not to even attempt keeping up with the "top 10 apps", definitely a can o' worms, but tweaking facebook would be nice since it's included with the theme.

One more question: Other than renaming the droid.ogg in the /system/media/audio/notifications folder with a .bak extension, how do we silence the "DROID" sound at bootup? (I assume it's part of the 928Droid Black Glass theme, maybe the build.prop?)

Just go to that line in the build.prop and put a # in front of it. If you rename the droid.ogg you won't be able to use it for any other notifications if you happen to want to.

Thanks for reminding me, I need to change that to bootup.ogg on the next release.. That code slipped in from my phone I meant to just direct that to the notifications area in case anyone wanted to put a custom bootup.ogg in it.

The code is about half way down the BP in this section... you can use the # symbol to disable it, or change droid.ogg(highlighted in red below) to bootup.ogg in case you ever want to put some fun startup sound in there.

# BEGIN Motorola, a22976, 12-Mar-2010, IKSHADOW-1784, Power Up Tone
# Motorola, a22976, 12-Apr-2010, IKSHADOW-3298, Remove temporary power up tone
# BEGIN Motorola, wbdq68, 21-May-2010, IKSHADOW-3372, Turn ON Power Up Tone
# Motorola, a22976, 26-May-2010, IKSHADOW-6164, Remove power up tone to keep the same as Droid
persist.mot.powerup.tone=/system/media/audio/notifications/Droid.ogg
# END IKSHADOW-3372
# END IKSHADOW-1784

 

[928Droid]

However, when I upload using facebook, check this screenshot of ongoing notifications, it shows the facebook status of the upload in black font on a black background. Is this normal as well?

Is this what you wanted

Direct Download "update.zip" file: http://928Droid.com/ThemeFiles/DroidX/Extras/928DroidBlackGlassX-FaceBookNotifyWhiteText-Patch.zip

 

[technique]

Just go to that line in the build.prop and put a # in front of it. If you rename the droid.ogg you won't be able to use it for any other notifications if you happen to want to.

Thanks for reminding me, I need to change that to bootup.ogg on the next release.. That code slipped in from my phone I meant to just direct that to the notifications area in case anyone wanted to put a custom bootup.ogg in it.

The code is about half way down the BP in this section... you can use the # symbol to disable it, or change droid.ogg(highlighted in red below) to bootup.ogg in case you ever want to put some fun startup sound in there.

# BEGIN Motorola, a22976, 12-Mar-2010, IKSHADOW-1784, Power Up Tone
# Motorola, a22976, 12-Apr-2010, IKSHADOW-3298, Remove temporary power up tone
# BEGIN Motorola, wbdq68, 21-May-2010, IKSHADOW-3372, Turn ON Power Up Tone
# Motorola, a22976, 26-May-2010, IKSHADOW-6164, Remove power up tone to keep the same as Droid
persist.mot.powerup.tone=/system/media/audio/notifications/Droid.ogg
# END IKSHADOW-3372
# END IKSHADOW-1784

Done! Renamed to bootup.ogg for future use

However, when I upload using facebook, check this screenshot of ongoing notifications, it shows the facebook status of the upload in black font on a black background. Is this normal as well?

Is this what you wanted

Direct Download "update.zip" file: http://928Droid.com/ThemeFiles/DroidX/Extras/928DroidBlackGlassX-FaceBookNotifyWhiteText-Patch.zip

You da man! Installed, tested, and confirmed as working. Thanks for the great support and quick answers to my hopefully-not-too-noobish questions. Rock on...

 

[ClownPrince79]

a step back please...

Can someone advise how they themed thier Droid X OTA 2.2 Rooted?

I tried loading the zip file as "update.zip" but I assume because I dont have sprecovery (which I dont know if it works on 2.2 OTA or not) it won't work..Please help!

 

[928Droid]

Can someone advise how they themed thier Droid X OTA 2.2 Rooted?

I tried loading the zip file as "update.zip" but I assume because I dont have sprecovery (which I dont know if it works on 2.2 OTA or not) it won't work..Please help!

3 words and 1 letter... "Droid X Recovery Bootstrap"...get it in the Android Market...without it ya can't have no fun on a Droid X!!!

That is the only current Custom Recovery app available for the Droid X. It loads/installs a limited special version of Clockwork recovery for the DX so you can install Themes, ROMs, do backups etc.

The stock DX recovery is just for official OTA updates and Data Resets.

 

[Ritzie]

That day/date "oddity" is because the android system uses the status bar graphic again (but shifted to the far left) for when that day/date is displayed . Since I created that graphic to make us be able to read the clock in normal conditions...it doesn't work right during the times when it is used again when you pull down the notifications. Its a compromise thing, to me seeing the clock 95% of the time takes priority over seeing the day/date less than 5% of the time. Best solution I could come up with.....always open for better ideas, but have been doing Odexed Themes this way since the days of 2.01 on the Droid 1.

Concerning "Market apps" like Facebook displaying text in the notification bar, that is usually going to be hit or miss depending on how the App Developer coded the specific app to read from the framework settings for the notification screen (unfortunately a bad practice to not do this by most). All of the original system apps do this automatically with the exception of the stock Music and Market apps which I fix. I wasn't aware Facebook was doing this and since I include it in my Theme I will do my best to fix it.... but be aware this can happen with a lot or even most Market apps...you have to live with it... or contact the app Developer and ask them to please change the coding. Hopefully as Android matures this will become better practice to read from the framework coding for this.

If I even attempted to try and change just the top 10 most popular apps to fix this...it would be a never ending task as it would have to be done over and over each time they updated the app...that's a Pandora's box
even I will not open.

FYI, this "Market app notification text issue" will be the same, Odexed or DeOdexd. The Clock and day/date issue is NOT an issue with a DeOdexed ROM/Theme.

Thanks for the excellent explanation. I agree not to even attempt keeping up with the "top 10 apps", definitely a can o' worms, but tweaking facebook would be nice since it's included with the theme.

One more question: Other than renaming the droid.ogg in the /system/media/audio/notifications folder with a .bak extension, how do we silence the "DROID" sound at bootup? (I assume it's part of the 928Droid Black Glass theme, maybe the build.prop?)

Just go to that line in the build.prop and put a # in front of it. If you rename the droid.ogg you won't be able to use it for any other notifications if you happen to want to.

Thanks for reminding me, I need to change that to bootup.ogg on the next release.. That code slipped in from my phone I meant to just direct that to the notifications area in case anyone wanted to put a custom bootup.ogg in it.

The code is about half way down the BP in this section... you can use the # symbol to disable it, or change droid.ogg(highlighted in red below) to bootup.ogg in case you ever want to put some fun startup sound in there.

# BEGIN Motorola, a22976, 12-Mar-2010, IKSHADOW-1784, Power Up Tone
# Motorola, a22976, 12-Apr-2010, IKSHADOW-3298, Remove temporary power up tone
# BEGIN Motorola, wbdq68, 21-May-2010, IKSHADOW-3372, Turn ON Power Up Tone
# Motorola, a22976, 26-May-2010, IKSHADOW-6164, Remove power up tone to keep the same as Droid
persist.mot.powerup.tone=/system/media/audio/notifications/Droid.ogg
# END IKSHADOW-3372
# END IKSHADOW-1784

Would this have to be done before using recovery (extract theme change, zip up) to update or can it be done by plugging the phone to the pc?

 

[928Droid]

You can do it on the phone if you like, it is just a text file.

Using Root Explorer, navigate to and open the system folder, if the upper black button says "RW" tap it so it changes to "RO"...then scroll all the way down until you see the build.prop file (should be next to last). Longpress it and the menu will pop up, scroll that menu upward so you see "Open In Text Editor", tap that and it will open in a text editor/ make your changes and save it. Tap the "RO" (FYI, it means change to "Read Only" vs RW, for changing to "Read/Write") button before exiting Root Explorer (not neccesary, but good habit to have)... reboot phone to see or experiance any changes made.

So easy even an iPhone user could do it...maybe