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How to upgrade rom after I applied a theme?

I don't really understand the way themes work. Do they just replaced some of the resource files? Or do they replaced some of the apks? Then How do I cleanly remove a theme? Just flash the same version of ROM back? Won't there be some files only belong to the theme itself still left in the phone?
And what will happen when I try to upgrade the Rom with a theme installed? Will it roll back to the original theme, as all the resource replaced with the new Rom? And if I still want to use this theme, just flash one with the new version?
I am just confused, will themes add files not belong to the rom itself, then just upgrade or reflash without a wipe might not be able to clean the theme. But a wipe is the last thing I am gonna do.
Right now, I am using CM 4.01 with Teds Hero Theme, and I really want to upgrade to CM 4.02, but these questions confused me for a long time, I just need a positive answer, then I can flash and move on.
Thanks

A theme has modified images and files of the rom. when you flash a theme it writes over the original files with the edited ones. you should be ok with flashing cm 4.0.2 then flashing the 4.0.2 version of your theme.
If you are really curious what all a theme changes just open up your theme and look at what files are in it.
plain jane answer to your question.
make a nandroid backup (that way if something does go wrong you have a stable version to go back to if you are not ready to wipe to fix it)
flash cm 4.0.2
flash 4.0.2 version of theme.
if nothing goes wrong then you are good

Thanks for the reply, I'm going to give it a try~

Theme help please

If i flash another theme will it delete my old theme?

I have a similar question that I hope someone can help me with.
I installed a theme which I no longer like. I prefer to use the stock Cyanogen theme. I have upgraded to Cyanogen 4.2.6 and the theme is no longer there however icons from the theme are still on my phone. I have done a wipe and it still did not help. How do I restore the Cyanogen icons?

detonate said:
I have a similar question that I hope someone can help me with.
I installed a theme which I no longer like. I prefer to use the stock Cyanogen theme. I have upgraded to Cyanogen 4.2.6 and the theme is no longer there however icons from the theme are still on my phone. I have done a wipe and it still did not help. How do I restore the Cyanogen icons?
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did you wipe your ext partition? i am guessing, no. boot into recovery, wipe your phone, wipe your ext partition, apply the recovery image that cyanogen gives you BEFORE YOU APPLY THE ROM. THEN ONCE YOU HAVE INSTALLED THAT RECOVERY IMAGE, FLASH THE ROM.

mattssn said:
If i flash another theme will it delete my old theme?
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come on man, common sense.
OF COURSE IT WILL.

if its the google apps...just flash my template to revert

Reverting to stock Cyanogen theme

Alright I have spent plenty of time looking and have come across nothing. How do you revert back to the theme that original came with the Cyanogen mod?

You can flash the rom again. If you've flashed one of my themes, I usually include a template for the rom version you flashed for, meaning you can go back to original images that I replace with my theme.
I specify my themes because some themes change more than the open source images, and flashing my templates over them might not get you back to original, especially if they have themed google apps (gmail, youtube, market etc that are not included in the roms)
You'd have to do a complete reflash then, from htc1.6 base then rom.

If you are using cyanogen, you might have to install dev image, then cyanogen rom. I had to do that recently due to the fact that the theme changed more then it should've. If that still doesn't work, wipe, reflash all over again. Hope this helps...

SG_Shadow said:
If you are using cyanogen, you might have to install dev image, then cyanogen rom. I had to do that recently due to the fact that the theme changed more then it should've. If that still doesn't work, wipe, reflash all over again. Hope this helps...
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After Cyanogen 4.2.7.1, I should install dev image, then Cyanogen rom.
If not, I always loose Market, Maps and Google Talks.

You could always make a nandroid backup before you apply a theme, then if you don't like it you can just restore your nandroid backup.

please help me figure out what I'm doing wrong

I successfully installed the blue haze them for my myTouch. I am running the current cyanogen mod for it. That all worked great, but when I try to install any other theme, I get stuck at boot screen.
I tried the District 9 theme, the clone theme and a couple others.
Am I missing something? I'd feel a lot better if the first theme hadn't worked but it did and now.....GRRRR
Help?

it happens to me too but i dont know why. there are themes who works good and others not.
for example, install a theme and connect your phone to pc, do 'adb logcat ' it will show you all the steps that phone do!!
there are themes that (on my phone) goes on loop at 23% of something, others that launcher give problems and you will see all black!! (except for lockscreen).
if you want to be sure how to install a themes do this passage:
reboot to recovery
install the rom
reboot
watch if the rom works good (it should)
reboot again to recovery
flash the theme
reboot
do adb logcat

P4p3r1n0 said:
reboot to recovery
install the rom
reboot
watch if the rom works good (it should)
reboot again to recovery
flash the theme
reboot
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That's the best advice. And it's best to flash a theme unto a fresh unthemed rom, rather than a themed one. Less probability of having problems. Hope that helps!

so lets say I'm using cyanogen 4.2.15.1
I would wipe, install cyanogen, reboot, install theme, reboot?
Are there some themes that won't work on cyanogen that will on regular donut?
What about the theme CM theme updater? I can't get that to find any new themes.

rudeguy said:
so lets say I'm using cyanogen 4.2.15.1
I would wipe, install cyanogen, reboot, install theme, reboot?
Are there some themes that won't work on cyanogen that will on regular donut?
What about the theme CM theme updater? I can't get that to find any new themes.
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Yes, the process you described is exactly right.
Yes, there are themes that will work on standard 1.6 that wont work on CM because CM contains LOTS of stuff from eclair.
CM theme updater requires a json to be input to search for updates for specific themes. it's not automatic.

ok thanks. I found that I needed to revert back to an older CM version to get that district 9 working. Its working like a champ now.
So there is no way to change the theme (when using cyanogen) without doing a wipe?
Sorry for being a noob!

no, you can definitely change themes without wiping. however, it does cause problems from time to time. I highly recommend metamorph for just this process.

kusotare said:
no, you can definitely change themes without wiping. however, it does cause problems from time to time. I highly recommend metamorph for just this process.
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Is there a good walkthrough for that? I've tried it twice and I locked up my phone both times

Some how have two themes stuck together

I've been having a hard time installing themes on my hero running cm6.1 stable. I finally got Darkhorse v.04 to install but then found two point two green which I liked better. I flashed that one but instead of it replacing Darkhorse it sort of just meshed with it. Some things in from Darkhorse changed and some things didn't. Does this usually happen?
I wiped davlik cache before installing and still have this Darkhorse/ twopointtwogreen theme going on here

The original theme you used probably had more items themed. If the new theme for instance only changed the taskbar and a few misc items and the other theme updated several .apk's etc plus taskbar and application icons, then since you didn't delete the original theme (by reflashing the ROM again or other various ways) then you would get all the new themed items and the old themed items that hadn't been themed in your new theme. I hope that makes sense, I kind of rambled on...

Heaterz16 said:
The original theme you used probably had more items themed. If the new theme for instance only changed the taskbar and a few misc items and the other theme updated several .apk's etc plus taskbar and application icons, then since you didn't delete the original theme (by reflashing the ROM again or other various ways) then you would get all the new themed items and the old themed items that hadn't been themed in your new theme. I hope that makes sense, I kind of rambled on...
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Is there a way to erase Darkhorse without flashing the old rom? Or for that matter when I do flash the old rom again do I need to wipe both factory and dalvik or can I just do dalvik? I experiment with my phone so much that I get annoyed having to set everything up over and over again. I mean it's not a hassle just an inconvenience.

Techynewbie26 said:
Is there a way to erase Darkhorse without flashing the old rom? Or for that matter when I do flash the old rom again do I need to wipe both factory and dalvik or can I just do dalvik? I experiment with my phone so much that I get annoyed having to set everything up over and over again. I mean it's not a hassle just an inconvenience.
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Just wipe dalvik, flash the rom, flash your theme and all settings and apps should remain the same. Assuming you flash the same rom over the existing rom.

Heaterz16 said:
Just wipe dalvik, flash the rom, flash your theme and all settings and apps should remain the same. Assuming you flash the same rom over the existing rom.
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good to know, thanks a lot!