theme chooser in other rom beside cm7

[Guest tkelly0727]

Is there a way to get the theme chooser app from cm7 and get it working in a rom?

[Guest brookergray]

If the rom in question is compiled from source, than yes. Otherwise hell no, it's too much work to add it to a pre-made rom.

[Guest furrabbit.nh]

If the rom in question is compiled from source, than yes. Otherwise hell no, it's too much work to add it to a pre-made rom.

Not to be rude, but your wrong. Search for a rom called froyo.bread for the Sony ericsson x8 at xda its a cm6 based rom with fully working tmobile theme engine (theme choser) im in the process of getting the rom on the blade, it boots with display and theme choser works but other than that not much else.

[Guest brookergray]

Not to be rude, but your wrong. Search for a rom called froyo.bread for the Sony ericsson x8 at xda its a cm6 based rom with fully working tmobile theme engine (theme choser) im in the process of getting the rom on the blade, it boots with display and theme choser works but other than that not much else.

Not to be rude, but next time do your homework before you tell someone that they are wrong when they are not. The rom that you mentioned proves my point, not yours. It is compiled from source code by the rom developer. Sigh.

Also, please tell me that you are trying to get it work by compiling it from the sources not by pushing files.

Edited December 3, 2011 by brookergray

[Guest tkelly0727]

I wanted the lunar ui thats all. And it only works with theme chooser in cm7. Correct me if im wrong.

[Guest furrabbit.nh]

Not to be rude, but next time do your homework before you tell someone that they are wrong when they are not. The rom that you mentioned proves my point, not yours. It is compiled from source code by the rom developer. Sigh.

Also, please tell me that you are trying to get it work by compiling it from the sources not by pushing files.

I think you will find that cm6 was built from source and the theme chooser was incorporated after.. And i wasnt trying to be funny... Also i wasnt trying to prove a point all i was saying is that it is feasible that theme chooser can be incorporated into any rom with the right work....

I'm also doing this just to see if i can not for nothing serious, and as for compiling from source i can do that but... the only blade device tree im aware is for GingerBread, and probably not going to work on cm6?? (Froyo)

And as for pushing files into the x8 rom from blade 2.2.1 isnt all bad as they have 90% identical hw

Edited December 3, 2011 by furrabbit.nh

[Guest brookergray]

I think you will find that cm6 was built from source and the theme chooser was incorporated after.. And i wasnt trying to be funny... Also i wasnt trying to prove a point all i was saying is that it is feasible that theme chooser can be incorporated into any rom with the right work....

Do you understand what source code and compiling means? Here is what that guy did with the rom: checked out the Cm6 code than the theme engine, after that he rebased the theme engine code to support froyo. Than he compiled. And yes it would be possible to add it already compiled rom, but anyone who is smart enough to do it knows better. It's the difference between 100 hours or 1000 hours of work.

Yes the only device tree is for GB. What's wrong with that why do you need froyo?

@op it would not be enough to simply add the theme engine, the theme itself would have to be modified too because they are made for GB roms.

Edited December 3, 2011 by brookergray

[Guest furrabbit.nh]

What's wrong with that why do you need froyo?

I prefer it....

And yes i do understand.... And i do realise that the theme engine is in pretty much in everything.... At no point did i mention that it was as easy as moving the framework and theme engine apk to another rom... If it was every other rom for every android handset would have it...

Like i said not trying to argue over it, i posted to say it is possible, and may/probably gone the wrong way about it.

Edited December 3, 2011 by furrabbit.nh

[Guest fonix232]

@furrabbit.nh:

The T-Mobile Theme Engine is not just the Theme Chooser application, but changes buried deep in the framework. It was made for 2.3+, and for 2.2 support, it needs a lot of work (directing back SystemUI.apk resources to framework.apk, etc), and most of the themes won't work correctly, as they basically rely on the CyanogenMod structure, what is now miles away from AOSP.

Adding this theme manager to an existing ROM is a pain in the ass: first you need to get all the classes changed by the Theme Engine Overlay, then baksmali these files from a, the original ROM you want to add TTE to, b, a stock ROM compiled without adding TTE c, a stock ROM compiled with TTE. Diff the files from b and c, then diff a and b, and add the [b,c] differences to a without the [a,b] differences. That's all you need to do, and as a developer myself, I can tell you it will not just take weeks (8hours daily), but half a year of work.

[Guest unrandomsam]

If the rom in question is compiled from source, than yes. Otherwise hell no, it's too much work to add it to a pre-made rom.

I thought it was originally coded by tmobile USA ? Surely it works for their roms ?

(I don't bother with themes at all though except when there is a compelling reason to(i.e keeping SE stuff I want more than to have stock theme.).

[Guest unrandomsam]

I think you will find that cm6 was built from source and the theme chooser was incorporated after.. And i wasnt trying to be funny... Also i wasnt trying to prove a point all i was saying is that it is feasible that theme chooser can be incorporated into any rom with the right work....

I'm also doing this just to see if i can not for nothing serious, and as for compiling from source i can do that but... the only blade device tree im aware is for GingerBread, and probably not going to work on cm6?? (Froyo)

And as for pushing files into the x8 rom from blade 2.2.1 isnt all bad as they have 90% identical hw

TomG has (had ?) a pretty reasonably working froyo device tree in his github (Can use it pretty easily with QAEP froyo_almond). Camera build system changes you would have to port (Or just hack the right camera files directly into the source tree).

You can get the armv6 / build system / dalvik / libc patches etc from CM6.

You can use either VMSPLIT 2G or 3G doesn't matter (QAEP already has the map file on froyo).

The last set of 2.6.32 kernel source zte released is pretty good just the Swedish Spring overclock patch if you want it then should be ok.

We have a proper set of ZTE's props for 2.2 no silly hacks.

I am pretty confident that anyone could do the above and get a stable working rom. (I used one for a while for myself but then the gingerleak came and I never bothered fixing the parts I didn't care about.).

If you are going to use Froyo anything other than 2.2.3 is unacceptable. (Security).