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Root Theming without flashing?

Slickinator

Slickinator

Android Enthusiast
Is it possible to take the picture files from the framework's drawable hdpi from another rom or theme and "inject" them into my framework and push it to my phone basically theming it? I'm not planning on making a theme or ROM to release if you guys are wondering "This guy's gonna take a bunch of stuff from everyone's work and release it as his own" haha
 
Slickinator said:
Is it possible to take the picture files from the framework's drawable hdpi from another rom or theme and "inject" them into my framework and push it to my phone basically theming it? I'm not planning on making a theme or ROM to release if you guys are wondering "This guy's gonna take a bunch of stuff from everyone's work and release it as his own" haha
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yea you can mod n push the files to your phone w/o flashing, although its usually safer to so while booted into recovery and mount system. Pays to have a backup too. ;)
 
What I do is I'll add images to the framework-res.apk or systemui.apk with 7zip on my pc and then just push the apk via www.androidcommander.com. Reboot and voila. Quick and easy.

I prefer this way because it gives me an apk that I can store and keep as a backup for the particular changes i made. Like I currently have a set of navigation Icons that I really like that are not stock so I keep that particular systemui.apk on my internal storage as a backup for when I flash a new rom or update my current ROM.
 
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