Guest Rem1x Posted April 18, 2010 Report Share Posted April 18, 2010 Just a quick question...does de-odexing your files have any adverse effect on the phone (speed, installing apps, future rom updates etc)? I've used all the home replacements and the phone is always faster without them! I really like the espresso theme (with black status bar) so I want to give it a try. Any advice would be appreciated! Heh, having lived with a themed phone, I can say that yes your phone WILL be slower, due to the de-odexing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MistaJae Posted April 19, 2010 Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 Thanks Rem1x! Think I'll stay with the default theme for now. I love the Android OS and the Pulse has been a good intro for me. Might be time to get that Nexus One..... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest darkdevil1 Posted April 19, 2010 Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 (edited) Took me some time to figure out exactly where adb.exe was in the downloaded SDk etc, but eventually got it to work; thanks a lot ;) One question though; I did a clean wipe. Installed 1.7 vanilla and then followed your guide. For some reason, when installing apps, I get the following error: ''[Appnamehere] could not be installed on this phone''. When I try installing from the market I get ''Installation error'' without any further info. Any idea what could be causing this? Might be totally unrelated to your guide btw, not sure! Edit: Nevermind! Found the solution. Boot into recovery mode and repair the ext2 partition Edit2: May I ask how you got that ''Call'' icon to the left of your launcher and ''Contacts'' to the right? Mine doesn't seem to have that Edited April 19, 2010 by darkdevil1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Minus616 Posted April 19, 2010 Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 Took me some time to figure out exactly where adb.exe was in the downloaded SDk etc, but eventually got it to work; thanks a lot ;) One question though; I did a clean wipe. Installed 1.7 vanilla and then followed your guide. For some reason, when installing apps, I get the following error: ''[Appnamehere] could not be installed on this phone''. When I try installing from the market I get ''Installation error'' without any further info. Any idea what could be causing this? Might be totally unrelated to your guide btw, not sure! Edit: Nevermind! Found the solution. Boot into recovery mode and repair the ext2 partition Edit2: May I ask how you got that ''Call'' icon to the left of your launcher and ''Contacts'' to the right? Mine doesn't seem to have that They don't work ;) On a side note, I got a theme going which I like however there are two little problems I can't get rid of Sorry for the dimness, my screen decided to dim anytime I used shootme. Anyway, I want to get rid of the green highlights and change the drop down tray from gray to maybe to a dark transparent type? Thanks for any help ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest darkdevil1 Posted April 21, 2010 Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 (edited) Thanks for the reply. Have to say that I've noticed quite a big performance drop after de-odexing though (bigger then I expected), but it's still worth it ;) Edited April 21, 2010 by darkdevil1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Minus616 Posted April 21, 2010 Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 Thanks for the reply. Have to say that I've noticed quite a big performance drop after de-odexing though (bigger then I expected), but it's still worth it ;) Really? I never found any performance change! Do you use any performance enhancing programs? Say Autokiller or SetCPU? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest darkdevil1 Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 Really? I never found any performance change! Do you use any performance enhancing programs? Say Autokiller or SetCPU? Yep, I use SetCPU, Auto Memory Manager and Advanced Task Manager. It's not bad enough to warrant rolling back to vanilla firmware, but it's definitely more sluggish in the menus and such imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Daniel Williamson Posted April 24, 2010 Report Share Posted April 24, 2010 Hi changed a few things like the colours and what not, just wondering if you can change the colour of the search widget ? thanks Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Azurren Posted April 24, 2010 Report Share Posted April 24, 2010 Hi changed a few things like the colours and what not, just wondering if you can change the colour of the search widget ? thanks Dan Is that your own theme? Can't say I'm to keen on the colours but still good job :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Daniel Williamson Posted April 24, 2010 Report Share Posted April 24, 2010 Well started with the ultra espresso theme, changed the staus bar background and most of the icons aswell and then got the tray handles from the Gchrome theme and there you go :huh: im not to good at compiling themes so didnt want to start from scratch, i just like modding things i.e the colour, and its orange becasue its my favourite colour :P Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lord_Shaithis Posted April 26, 2010 Report Share Posted April 26, 2010 (edited) Any idea why something as basic as icons will not install? I downloaded the Hero green icon set and took a look at it, some PNG files.....how basic can you get? :huh: Whenever I choose one of them to load, it says installing but sits there and never completes.....all the other themed items I have tried so far have worked... This is on a Pulse with Vanilla 1.8 + Ultra Expresso theme. The THM file had the header Android 1.6......I tried it with 1.5 instead but I am at a loss as to how they could differ greatly (or even at all!) when it comes to attaching a PNG image to an application for its icon....especially when the THM file has so little information. Edited April 26, 2010 by Lord_Shaithis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Daniel Williamson Posted April 26, 2010 Report Share Posted April 26, 2010 Any idea why something as basic as icons will not install? I downloaded the Hero green icon set and took a look at it, some PNG files.....how basic can you get? :huh: Whenever I choose one of them to load, it says installing but sits there and never completes.....all the other themed items I have tried so far have worked... This is on a Pulse with Vanilla 1.8 + Ultra Expresso theme. The THM file had the header Android 1.6......I tried it with 1.5 instead but I am at a loss as to how they could differ greatly (or even at all!) when it comes to attaching a PNG image to an application for its icon....especially when the THM file has so little information. Hi ive actually tried myself to change the PNG icon image of many installed apps such as youtube and Messages, but with no luck. Recently after searching i have found that the android manifest needs to be changed in order for the new icon to be replaced. But as i am not very good with coding and such ive not been able to do it :/ Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Harash! Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 What the kluck happened to the tutorial in first post?! Whats broken? pulseblk.thm worked fine for me :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rem1x Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 What the kluck happened to the tutorial in first post?! Whats broken? pulseblk.thm worked fine for me :S Heh, I took it off for a bit. The files are not there any more, and Android 2.1 is coming out very soon :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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