[MOD] UOT Kitchen (Use at own risk)

Just thought I would post a link to the UOT Kitchen. I just found it last night and have never heard about it since i started messing with my cappy which is odd.. Closest thing ive seen is the serendipity kitchen or docs rom kitchen. Anyways this is not supported for our phone but I did get everything on there to work. You just have to have some basic understanding of flashing a rom and a little bit of theming knowledge to get it to work. I used the UOT Kitchen to Customize the APK for me then i had to manually install it myself to get it to work because the CWM 3 Zip it created didnt work for me.

Anyways it lets you do a couple things easily if you dont already know how to do them like editing your notification bar header, footer, the colors, fonts, boot screens, icons, overscroll glow color(gingerbread).

Here is a picture of my phone after modifying running continuum 5.4.1

This is stock continuum (no themes except for what i did with the UOT Kitchen)


I know the pics are ugly But I was just seeing what I could do and What worked. As you can see you can Change your Notification bar font, color, header, footer.. You can change the color of your popup boxes and the backgrounds to some of the system boxes.. Also other things work like changing the overscroll glow color which i couldnt take a picture of for some reason.

Remember this kitchen is not technically compatible with our phones so if you screw something up I am not responsible I posted just to show you it does work. But I had to manually install the theme myself.

Hope this helps someone.

Hey Xerp,

I'm somewhat of a noob when it comes to modding themes, add-ons and such.  I'm running Serendipity VII (GB based 2.3.3 ROM) and I tried uploading my framework-res.apk and systemUI files to UOTKitchen and I kept getting error messages.  I thought I was following their instructions to a T but apparently I'm retarded.  Any insight you can offer would be greatly appreciated. 

Xerp,

Actually I was trying to mod my battery icon, window animations, window glow and so on....  I already installed a custom boot animation (but I did that manually with Root Explorer into my system/media folder) - you could be right though, it might be S7.  I don't know.  When I get home from work tonight I'm gonna try going back on the UOT Kitchen & trying it again by trying to upload my framework-res.apk and SystemUI files like it says to do.  

**Update: I tried again to no avail.  The error response I'm receiving is "Server (10) Error" for both framework-res.apk and SystemUI.apk files. Oh and they're both UNDER the  max required file size. Ugh!***

Not sure where our communication has broken down but let me clarify.... I received that server error message while trying to UPLOAD my framework-res.apk and SystemUI.apk files and as I result I couldn't even get to the point where they cook you a CWM flashable zip file.  Get what I mean? I did exactly as their How-To section described by copying and pasting the framework-res.apk and SystemUI.apk files to my SDcard and then (thru USB) moved them to my PC for upload.  Is there some other way I am supposed to accomplish this?

Nonetheless... I appreciate you taking the time to try.  I wasn't sure if it was something I was doing that was CAUSING their server to not 'like' my files.  I don't know if that's the case or that S7 just isn't compatible.  What Version of Serendipity were you running when it worked for you?

well i am glad you were able to resolve the issue.. if there are any issues with phone calls, bluetooth, wifi, etc.. message me so i can help you resolve the issue... if anything its a problem or corruption with the framework res apk so if anything text me if your having issues doing something im here to help if i can..

Just wanted to show some shots of mods I made with UOT. I'm running Serendipity 7 with the OJ theme I acquired from an amazingly talented themer on XDA... so everything has an orange glow theme to it....





Sent from my Serendipity VII powered Captivate®

The battery mod is from UOT Kitchen. The ROM and orange theme just came with the vertical GB batt icon with no % displaying. The kitchen has a slew of battery icons to choose from with and without the % and you can customize the color using hex codes to match it perfectly. I've used UOT countless times now... LOL

I did the whole android green thing (which is the color the stock S7 ROM comes in) for awhile. But then a theme dev on XDA created a blue theme and I used that for a few weeks and now he just released the OJ (orange) theme and its a bit easier to read and see than the blue. Check out the Market shot below too...



Sent from my Serendipity VII powered Captivate®