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Custom Icon help

I'm using the EvoV8 RevA froyo build. I'm using Bettercut to replace my home screen shortcut icons and for the most part it's working fine. When I try and replace my "Contacts" application icon I get the error "Application not installed on phone" when I try and launch it. I'm trying to circumvent that problem by using App Organizer to change the icon but all that application seems to want to do is group apps into a folder. I just want a single custom icon representing my "Contacts" application on my home screen, not a folder that contains the "Contacts" app inside it. Anyone have anyway to achieve this knowing the Bettercut has problems with this particular application?

Im having the same issue with some apps. everyone told me use FloderOrganizer and that works better imo

RickBaller said:
I'm using the EvoV8 RevA froyo build. I'm using Bettercut to replace my home screen shortcut icons and for the most part it's working fine. When I try and replace my "Contacts" application icon I get the error "Application not installed on phone" when I try and launch it. I'm trying to circumvent that problem by using App Organizer to change the icon but all that application seems to want to do is group apps into a folder. I just want a single custom icon representing my "Contacts" application on my home screen, not a folder that contains the "Contacts" app inside it. Anyone have anyway to achieve this knowing the Bettercut has problems with this particular application?
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i wanted to do the same thing. i couldn't get it working, but i can't call myself an android expert either. but i think this method SHOULD work
1) download the rom and unzip it in windows
2) unzip the stock Contacts.apk
3) go to /res/drawable-hdpi/
4) find the icon
5) adb pull Contacts.apk from your phone
6) replace the original icon with the one from the stock rom
7) re-zip the file
8) adb rm Contacts.apk from phone
9) adb push edited Contacts.apk to phone.
obviously a nandroid backup before all of this is fairly important. if anyone else can confirm that this would work that would be helpful. i wanted the stock Contacts & Camera icons and ran into the same error you did.

You guys need to get Folder Organizer. Once I got it, I uninstalled both BetterCut and AppOrganizer. It's way better.
Cheers...

kiddecks said:
i wanted to do the same thing. i couldn't get it working, but i can't call myself an android expert either. but i think this method SHOULD work
1) download the rom and unzip it in windows
2) unzip the stock Contacts.apk
3) go to /res/drawable-hdpi/
4) find the icon
5) adb pull Contacts.apk from your phone
6) replace the original icon with the one from the stock rom
7) re-zip the file
8) adb rm Contacts.apk from phone
9) adb push edited Contacts.apk to phone.
obviously a nandroid backup before all of this is fairly important. if anyone else can confirm that this would work that would be helpful. i wanted the stock Contacts & Camera icons and ran into the same error you did.
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Okay...you don't need to remove the contacts.apk....when you push the new one to your phone it automatically replaces the old one. So there is a step or two less......
Are you renaming the new icon the same name as your old icon? Also....are you keeping the exact same size, example 72x72 pixels is app icon size for the EVO.

Where is the default lockscreen wallpaper file?

I changed my lockscreen wallpaper, now I fancy returning to the default (red starburst design). I cannot find it ANYWHERE. Where is the default lock screen wallpaper?

I couldn't find it either.
I could only access it if I wanted to change the phone wallpaper (not the lockscreen wallpaper) but it still didnt give its location. It is probably buried in a zip file or something

Loconinja said:
I changed my lockscreen wallpaper, now I fancy returning to the default (red starburst design). I cannot find it ANYWHERE. Where is the default lock screen wallpaper?
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Probably stored in a system apk (like SystemUI.apk or framework-res.apk/touchwiz-framework-res.apk). Browse through some of them with 7-zip, extract any /res/drawable***** folders and look through them, you might find it. If you do, just copy it to your SD card and load it from there.

its inside framework-res.apk under system/framework.

how do i get into system/framework?

ganavel9783 said:
how do i get into system/framework?
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any filemanager just about. I use Linda/root explorer.

Wrong y'all
Go with root explorer to data/data/com.coliris.media/files and delete zzzzzz_lockscreen_wallpaper.jpg and you will auto revert to default whatever it is in framework-res.
Or you can delete gallery data In settings and restart phone.
Credit for this info goes to @dhiru1602 in sgs forum.
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Wallpaper Location
Loconinja said:
I changed my lockscreen wallpaper, now I fancy returning to the default (red starburst design). I cannot find it ANYWHERE. Where is the default lock screen wallpaper?
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Its Located in this directory
/system/app/TwWallpaperChooser.apk
Better yet intall the ASTRO file manager then hit the search button for the file.

Change Icons In App Drawer?

did have a totally bog standard (stock) desire hd til yesterday, then i decided to root it and installed Revolution on my phone.
I've been using Desktop Visulizer to change icons on my main screen, but does anyone know how i can go changing the icons in the app drawer??
Any help....much appreciated.
matt

Install root explorer, go to system/app and pull any apk u want to change the icon of, open archive of the apk (with 7zip, winrar, etc), find the icon png and edit to your taste, save your changes and update archive, put back the apk file and reboot your phone.

u can find the icon png in res/drawable-hdpi folder

[Q] 2.3.3 folder icons on 2.3.4?

Since the 4.0.2.A.0.42 (2.3.4) update, folders on home screens are now shown as a box with small icons of the first four shortcuts rather than the user-selectable fixed folder icons of the previous firmware.
Personally, I think the "small icons in a box" icons are really ugly. But there's a practical problem too - when changing to home pages with several folders on them, the launcher sometimes freezes while it reads the icons of all the shortcuts contained in these.
Is there any way (a mod is required, I presume) to restore the old 2.3.3 behaviour and just choose folder icons for folders instead of displaying their contents? Any help gratefully received!

Instal some other launch
Or
Instal v6 superchargher for fixing problem about freezeing.
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It looks like SiMi Folder is an option, but I still need to know where the original SE icons for the folders are - I extracted home.apk but they weren't there, so they may have been removed in this firmware. Can anyone help? Maybe extract them and upload the icons somewhere?
I still have the problem of not being able to use these folders in the dock of course as they're not widgets, so if there's another solution I'd be interested. I like the SE launcher otherwise, and don't want to get rid of it.
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Never mind, I found them in an old version of home.apk I found here. If there's another solution I'm still interested though.

[Q] Changing Battery and Wifi icons on ICS (Not showing up)

Ok so i was playing around and decided to change my icons in the system ui.apk
The only problem is that the icons displayed are still stock ICS blue. I made sure to decompile the apk, changed the images (wifi and battery icons. the notification close "X" i edited is working), recompiled (no errors), resigned, pushed to my device's /system/app, and cleared the dalvik cache.
It shows in root explorer that I have my edited app and the files I edited are in the apk as well. so can anyone tell me what is going on?

OK I figured it or. For anyone who cares kf uses drawable-sw600dp-mdpi for its icons
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