3GS 3.0 Working SMS Theme Bubbles/balloons & More!

[thuwun]

OK everyone after doing a lot of line by line searching through iPhone explorer, ssh, and forums i still have not gotten any progress with the backgrounds for sms; however i have finally figured out how to make the sms bubbles/balloons to work in your themes if you are making them yourself or if you are downloading them from cydia/etc here is what you need to do:

there should already be a folder named:
" MobileSMS.app " (without the " " of course) (make sure your bubble/balloon png are in there named Balloon_1.png and Balloon_2.png) Now this is the same as previous themes. But here is the most important part for 3.0 users (i'm a 3GS 3.0 user so i'm assuming this works for regular 3G and all others that have upgraded to 3.0)

You need to make this folder:
" ChatKit.framework " (again without the " " 's) (this is where you need to have your bubble/balloon png's named Balloon_1.png and Balloon_2.png)
But ChatKit is not limited to Ballons it also contains:

addcontact.png
Balloon_1.png
Balloon_2.png (these are all .png so i'm not typing anymore)
BalloonInputField
checked
compose
compose_atom
compose_atom_selected
delete
deletepressed
failure-btn
failure-btn-pressed
failure-exclamation-glyph
group-icon-normal
group-icon-white
ImageBubbleMask
ImageBubbleMaskUntailed
ImageBubbleUntailed-Green
input-field-cover
MessageEntryBG
multiSend-dropshadow
multisend-navbar
multisend-normal
notchecked
PhotoButton
plus
progressfill
selectedcheck
select-media-bubble
select-text-bubble
SendButton
SendButtonPressed
smalltrash
Video-play-button

So your theme needs to look like this:

Blue Light ( theme folder name; place any springboard png in here)

Bundles (Theme Subfolder)​

com.apple.springbaord (Bundles subfolder)​

en.lproj (com.appl.springboard subfolder)​

SpringBoard.string (en.lproj file; this is your away lock label ) (i.e. "AWAY_LOCK_LABEL" = "Thuwun's iPhone" ) (that's my person message)​

com.apple.TelephonyUI (Bundles subfolder )​

bottombarknobgray.png (com.apple.TelephonyUI file; this is the image of the slideer button when your iPhone is locked)​

Folders (Theme subfolder )​

Chatkit.framework (Folder Subfolder ) (place your bubble/balloon png)​

MobileSMS.app (Folder Subfolder ) (place bubble png and background png (even though i haven't figured outhow to get it to work yet)​

SpringBoard.app (Folder Subfolder ) (place your battery png in here for when iPhone is charging images)​

Icons (Theme Subfolder ) ( place png for all the springboard apps that you want changed)​

UISounds (Theme Subfolder ) (place dtmf-1.caf thru dtmf-9 & dtmf-star , dtmf-pound.caf for telephone keypad sounds and all other system sounds ringtones smstones etc)​

i'm going to stop here but you should get the point... if you need anymore help hit me up annd i'll help you as far as my knowledge and research skill can.




If you would like to see a sample of these images in chatkit,framework you can iPhone explorer or ssh into your iPhone and goto:

root/system/library/privateframeworks/chatkit.framework


Hope This helps everyone... all in a days work

"thuwun"

 

[lionheartednyhc]

Which theme are you using to do this?

I am trying to get it to work with Chromatic Neon. This is how my layout looks..

Chromatic Neon
> Folders
>> Chatkit.framework
>>> Baloon_1.png
>>> Baloon_2.png
>> MobilePhone.app (there is no MobileSMS.app)



I placed the baloons in the new chatkit folder, but nothing happens even after i respring

 

[BuddhistGirafe]

I really do not care about the colour of my bubbles, I just want a working background. If you make any progress on that (which I doubt because I think its a winterboard thing) then let me know. I'm not to big about digging into the codce either, I do not want to screw something up.

 

[enttsully]

Which theme are you using to do this?

I am trying to get it to work with Chromatic Neon. This is how my layout looks..

Chromatic Neon
> Folders
>> Chatkit.framework
>>> Baloon_1.png
>>> Baloon_2.png
>> MobilePhone.app (there is no MobileSMS.app)



I placed the baloons in the new chatkit folder, but nothing happens even after i respring

balloons is spelt wrong... thats why

 

[only1jonarius]

so we need to rename MobileSMS.app to Chatkit.framework?