Changing the "Verizon Wireless" lockscreen text

[Phildo]

I take no credit for this! All credit goes to Mike919 over on Alldroid.org. I have just seen a few people ask about this recently, so i figured i would toss something up here for everyone


Original thread here: Changing the "Verizon Wireless" on lockscreen/statusbar on Deodexed 2.2!! (bonus adb tutor - Droid X Releases - AllDroid Public Board - Changing the "Verizon Wireless" on lockscreen/statusbar on Deodexed 2.2!! (bonus adb tutor - Droid X Releases - Al




ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS make a backup. Goes without saying... I am not responsible, bla blah blah, warranty, blah blah blah...

So this is a quick tutorial on changing the Text in your status bar pulldown and lockscreen from "Verizon Wireless" to whatever you want!

First off, you will need to set up ADB. Yes I'm going to show you how to do this too If you've ever plugged your phone into your PC running android 2.2 you should already have the drivers from your phone installed. If not, Connect your phone to your PC with USB Debugging OFF. Start on PC Mode, and let the phone install ALL software in EACH USB setting. (PC mode, media mode, USB mass storage mode, Charging only mode) One of those will prompt you to install a new version of Moto connect. The lastest version you have should be 1.1.31. Once the new version of MotoConnect installs, go in and ENABLE USB debugging in the development tab under Applications in the Settings menu. (all this while the phone is still connected to your PC!) With Debug mode enabled, go back through your connection options (PC mode, media sync, usb mass storage, charging mode) again and make sure the driver "ADB interface" installs from the phone! When complete you will see the windows "your software is installed correctly and ready to use". Now, on to the fun part!

1. Download the Android SDK .zip Here
2. Unzip this folder and copy the "platform-tools" folder
3. Place the "platform-tools" folder on the root of your C:\ drive
4. You now have access to adb! Congrats! (that wasn't so hard was it??)

To test this, with the phone connected to the PC (always with debug mode on), launch a command prompt. To do this,
1. Start, "run"
2. Type, "cmd" this will bring up a DOS window! Yay! Almost done!
3. Enter your ADB path, which if you put it where I said will be, cd C:\platform-tools
4. from C:\platform-tools, type ADB
5. if you got a giant list of executables, your ADB is all set up!

Now on to the reason I started this! Changing that Verizon Wireless text to ANYTHING you want! (text wise)
Through this whole process, leave your phone connected to your PC, with Debug ON. It doesn't matter which mode. I always keep mine in PC Charging.

Download 7zip Here. and install to your PC.

Download HxD hex editor Here. and install to PC

Next, in the "platform-tools" folder create a new folder and call it framework (all this is case sensitive)

Open your command prompt again from ADB (just like above) and from C:\tools type this exactly

adb pull /system/framework/framework-res.apk C:\platform-tools\framework
Your Daemon should start, and you'll see the cmd prompt do some things and when it goes back to C:\platform-tools check your framework folder you created in "platform-tools"
Tada! you just did your first ADB Pull command! this is the framework-res.apk from your /system! (It is ALSO a good idea to keep a STOCK copy of your framework-res.apk, incase you are to fudge up somewhere, you can just push the stock back to /system/framework with the instructions below and should boot perfectly fine without having to do a full restore)

Right click on framework-res.apk and with 7zip choose "Open Archive"

Double click on "res"

Double click on XML

Click and drag eri.xml to your desktop.

Right click on the eri.xml that is on your desktop, and select Open With> Choose Program

Scroll and find HxD Hex Editor and Check the box that says "Always use the selected program" and click "OK"

A Window with a bunch of numbers and letters shows up. Don't get scared! Just close this window.

Then delete the eri.xml THAT YOU DRAGGED TO YOUR DESKTOP. YOU DON'T NEED THIS!!

OK, BACK in your ARCHIVE where you pulled eri.xml, simply double click on this now. (it opens with your hex editor!)

NOW, this is where it may get a little scary, but just follow directions and it will work flawlessly!

ALONG THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, There is a bunch of ....$#*@ and text.

On line 000001C0, you will see text along the right hand side that says Verizon Wireless.

Boom! Thats what your going to change! Now, DO NOT delete anything. Simply put your curser BEFORE the "V" in Verizon and type what you want!

*NOTE* After the verizon wireless text there are a bunch of " . " Make sure there are THREE " . " before the number "65". If there are less, you used to many characters. You can replace a total of 16 characters. ALSO, if you don't use ALL 16 Characters, remember to put SPACES in (AS IN USE THE SPACEBAR, DO NOT DELETE) up until the THREE " . " before the "65" .

EXAMPLE!!
Stock:
64...Verizon Wireless...65
Modified:
64...DroidX ...65

Since I only used 6 characters, I put in 10 SPACES after the DroidX, so i do not alter the framework size. No matter what, there should always be Three periods (.) before the 65. Follow this and you'll be fine. Just NEVER delete, only overwrite.

If you notice, some of the characters in the Hex code have turned to red. Thats before the text you typed in, changed the Hex code FOR YOU! Simply hit the "save" button at the top once your done.

The 7zip archive will now ask you if you want to apply the changes, and you will say Yes.

Done! Now we push framework-res.apk back to your phone with ADB! Which we know how to use now!

Reboot your phone into recovery with the Bootstrapper recovery.

Scroll down to Mounts and storage and use the camera button to enter into the menu.

Push the camera button to Mount the system.

Take the framework-res.apk that you altered out of your framework folder and place it directly in the "tools" folder.

from your command prompt type adb push framework-res.apk /system/framework

once this completes, use the camera button to remount the system.

use the power button to back up, and reboot! That is it!!! You now have a custom status bar pulldown message. This will say the same thing on your lockscreen instead of Verizon Wireless!! Enjoy!

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[DThomp]

Cool. Thanks for the tutorial. Where did you get that font and how to install it, and can the color be changed?

[Phildo]

the image is not of my phone, but of the originator of the information. however, i have asked recently about the fonts, and this is the info that has come up so far: notification pull down fonts

[DThomp]

OK, thanks. I did a search and came up with this link for update .zip font packs for the X. Maybe they will help.

Fonts in Update.zip - Droid X Releases - AllDroid Public Board - Fonts in Update.zip - Droid X Releases - AllDroid Public Board - AllDroid.org > Home

[Beefydoc]

That is pretty cool...... I never could get ADB set up on my Windows 7 laptop so I pulled out my 7 year old XP machine and set up ADB with no problems.... first time I've ever changed code, but it went smooth as silk...kudos to Phildo and Mike 919 (the originator of the post). It was a fun and educational way to spend a Saturday afternoon while watching college football.

[trancedroid]

is it normal that after downlading the sdk to have abunch of other things updating and downloading??? i have downloaded over 200 begabytes of stuff that its updating.

[trancedroid]

i cant get it to work with windows 7

[scott021467]

I was able to change the Verizon Wireless easy enough, but can someone give advice on how to change the color of the letters. Running Chevy SSX with BLACK GLASS and would like to change the color of the message on the pull down from red to blue.



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[Phildo]

the font color is one thing i have NOT figured out yet, altho, the last month i have not done anything with my phone, just haven't had the time to sit down and mess around with it.

i do have a thread up about this tho, might give you somewhere to start, or maybe revive it and hopefully someone will have the answer

notification pull down fonts

[sqldroidx]

Thanks, this worked exceptionally well and as expected...Now I have one more thing that I can say I have completed.