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[Q] Workaround for more paper icons?

I've been using adw with the "paperless theme" recently and love it (look it up).
It includes a bunch of icons for common apps to make them fit in with the hand drawn theme. Unfortunately, on my hero a lot of them dont work, probably due to sense customisations and replacements. End result is a mixture of awesome paperness and the normal icons, bleh.
I want to download the apk for the theme so that I can open it up, get the icon files out and then use bettercut or something to apply them to shortcuts of my choosing. Only problem is, I can't work out how to get hold of the apk. I can't find it outside of the market, and once installed it doesn't show up in File Manager's apps list, so I can't copy it to SD.
Is there a way of retreiving it from the phone? Or 'intercepting' the market link and directly downloading the apk to SD instead? I've read about a solution using adb to get the apk off the phone but since my trusty hero won't connect over usb any more, that's not an option.
Any ideas?

pizza65 said:
I've been using adw with the "paperless theme" recently and love it (look it up).
It includes a bunch of icons for common apps to make them fit in with the hand drawn theme. Unfortunately, on my hero a lot of them dont work, probably due to sense customisations and replacements. End result is a mixture of awesome paperness and the normal icons, bleh.
I want to download the apk for the theme so that I can open it up, get the icon files out and then use bettercut or something to apply them to shortcuts of my choosing. Only problem is, I can't work out how to get hold of the apk. I can't find it outside of the market, and once installed it doesn't show up in File Manager's apps list, so I can't copy it to SD.
Is there a way of retreiving it from the phone? Or 'intercepting' the market link and directly downloading the apk to SD instead? I've read about a solution using adb to get the apk off the phone but since my trusty hero won't connect over usb any more, that's not an option.
Any ideas?
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pizza65 said:
I've been using adw with the "paperless theme" recently and love it (look it up).
It includes a bunch of icons for common apps to make them fit in with the hand drawn theme. Unfortunately, on my hero a lot of them dont work, probably due to sense customisations and replacements. End result is a mixture of awesome paperness and the normal icons, bleh.
I want to download the apk for the theme so that I can open it up, get the icon files out and then use bettercut or something to apply them to shortcuts of my choosing. Only problem is, I can't work out how to get hold of the apk. I can't find it outside of the market, and once installed it doesn't show up in File Manager's apps list, so I can't copy it to SD.
Is there a way of retreiving it from the phone? Or 'intercepting' the market link and directly downloading the apk to SD instead? I've read about a solution using adb to get the apk off the phone but since my trusty hero won't connect over usb any more, that's not an option.
Any ideas?
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If your usb doesn't work anymore use the wireless adb... pretty sure its on the market still. Get root explorer and check in system/app you'll find your apks there copy and paste them to your sd card.

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[Docks] Technica Designs docks

Updated: 9.29.10
9.28.10 - Added Dock5
9.29.10 - Added Dock6 & Dock7
I am a Graphic Designer and I am currently working on some Custom Docks for us Android users. I'm releasing several sets of docks plus specialty ones. Some may not be seen in thumbnails. I will try and create docks regularly.
How to Apply Docks:
1. Download rar file below
2. Unrar to SD (internal or external)
3. Install Launcher Pro
To Apply:
Menu/Preferences/Appearance Settings/Dock background/Custom
Choose your dock
Please share your comments and suggestions and I will continue to work hard on making more for everyone.
Also, if you really like them, please feel free to donate!

Dyluck said:
Updated: 9.29.10
9.28.10 - Added Dock5
9.29.10 - Added Dock6 & Dock7
I am a Graphic Designer and I am currently working on some Custom Docks for us Android users. I'm releasing several sets of docks plus specialty ones. Some may not be seen in thumbnails. I will try and create docks regularly.
How to Apply Docks:
1. Download rar file below
2. Unrar to SD (internal or external)
3. Install Launcher Pro
To Apply:
Menu/Preferences/Appearance Settings/Dock background/Custom
Choose your dock
Please share your comments and suggestions and I will continue to work hard on making more for everyone.
Also, if you really like them, please feel free to donate!
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I will def be checking htese out

Very nice. Love the black/blue one. Looking forward to others. Thank you.
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I can't get LPP to find these. I downloaded them and unpacked them to my sd card, but when I go to choose my dock in "custom" it routes me to my gallery. I tried putting the file in the gallery and it wouldnt show up. I even converted the file from .png to .jpg to see if it would show up and it didn't. How do I do this? TIA

Nice. Ill try them out soon

zeroxg4 said:
I can't get LPP to find these. I downloaded them and unpacked them to my sd card, but when I go to choose my dock in "custom" it routes me to my gallery. I tried putting the file in the gallery and it wouldnt show up. I even converted the file from .png to .jpg to see if it would show up and it didn't. How do I do this? TIA
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Try this: unmount then remount your sd card or reboot. Those are about the only two ways I've found to"refresh" the sd card listings of photos.
Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot Froyo on Hero action here!

zeroxg4 said:
I can't get LPP to find these. I downloaded them and unpacked them to my sd card, but when I go to choose my dock in "custom" it routes me to my gallery. I tried putting the file in the gallery and it wouldnt show up. I even converted the file from .png to .jpg to see if it would show up and it didn't. How do I do this? TIA
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When you use custom it takes you to the gallery, I use the Launcherpro Icons and docks app from the market (not free) and create a sub-folder for docks (and icons) not available through that program. They show up in the gallery in whatever folder name I have for them.
The benefit for me is that once I finish modding launcher pro I can use that program to quickly and easily hide the icons/docks from the gallery.
Hope that helps.
EDIT: and what user7618 says

RENAMED: Is it possible to change app drawer icons!

I haven't seen any threads after reading through hundreds of threads about icon packs bettercut virtual desktop you name it still no flashable zips for icons??? Is this even possible I don't understand why it's so hard, themes have icons that work for the app drawer...The only way to change the icon is to decompile it and reinstall it without the right digital signature??? Is there a thread about this? I understand that adw has themes you can make which will switch your app drawer icons but thats not what I'm talking about...

Pneuma1985 said:
I haven't seen any threads after reading through hundreds of threads about icon packs bettercut virtual desktop you name it still no flashable zips for icons??? Is this even possible I don't understand why it's so hard, themes have icons that work for the app drawer...The only way to change the icon is to decompile it and reinstall it without the right digital signature??? Is there a thread about this? I understand that adw has themes you can make which will switch your app drawer icons but thats not what I'm talking about...
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This is what you're asking, right?
- Is it possible to create a flashable .zip (flashed from Recovery) that deletes icon.png from all installed applications, switching them out with alternatives provided in the flashable .zip?
It's possible, I guess. It could be done with the general applications that come with most ROMs. Keeping in mind that this is for one specific device, i.e the HTC Desire. But beyond that it'd be pretty hard to create a .zip that does the job. Again: Possible but, hard. I think we'll see other ways of switching out icons rather than a flashable .zip. I'm thinking an application of some sort.

Well I've looked into that to only thing i've been able to come up with is adwex... Now how do they do it? Is it b/c your using that launcher so it can basically display whatever app drawer icon it wants? with the theme...How do themes for roms do it?

Pneuma1985 said:
Well I've looked into that to only thing i've been able to come up with is adwex... Now how do they do it? Is it b/c your using that launcher so it can basically display whatever app drawer icon it wants? with the theme...How do themes for roms do it?
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I have no idea how to theme ADW. Never used it.
ROMs come with standard applications. When people create themes for those ROMs they tend to theme the applications that come with it.

So complicated thought androids were made to be hacked whats goin on here...Guess its a lost cause!

Well, like you said, it's waiting to be done, these devices seem made for tweaking and hacking, so if you you really want it, try to figure it out!
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Oh I desperately want it I just dont have the coding capabilities to do it lol otherwise believe me I would!

Pneuma1985 said:
So complicated thought androids were made to be hacked whats goin on here...Guess its a lost cause!
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You want to make a script that:
- Deletes icon.png from an .apk
- Removes and re-signs the .apk
That's a big goddamn pile of code right there!
This is not iPhone and if you're that fond of changing the app drawer icons you can do it manually, with each application, which is a *****. This seems very important to you so I urge you to actually do some reading and start this process yourself. We're a big community and we all contribute to make Android awesome. Just because there's no easy solution to mass changing icons doesn't mean it's a low-end operating system that can't be hacked. We've done more with Android than you could ever do with any other OS!
Icon-Pack-Changers came to Windows 7 just a brief time ago. That OS has been out for ages now. Have patience enough and wait for someone to make a breakthrough or do something about it yourself. Thinking it's a lost cause helps nothing.

Ok icon pack changer did not recently come to windows 7 they have been out since win7beta. Windows in itself is a completely different file system how it works is completely different and how to exploit its files is completely different. And lots of people love to hack windows because for the most part its a complete piece of garbage and its really easy to hack. I personally found a way to change system icons when I was still on beta and doing a pack change was as simple as hooking the code! You being a deviantart member you should know that icon packs for windows and the software to change them has been out forever on deviantart over a year now at least.
Ok back to the original post...
yes my basic point in posting this was... is anyone currently trying to solve this icon problem that anyone knows about? I understand that getting around this seems to be mind boggling. I was thinking about in a different way is there any way we could possibly do a digital injection of the icon file???? Sort of like how you can do digital injections of files in windows changing the code by injecting the file???Not sure if this would work but I guess the only way to test it is try it!

Pneuma1985 said:
Ok icon pack changer did not recently come to windows 7 they have been out since win7beta. Windows in itself is a completely different file system how it works is completely different and how to exploit its files is completely different. And lots of people love to hack windows because for the most part its a complete piece of garbage and its really easy to hack. I personally found a way to change system icons when I was still on beta and doing a pack change was as simple as hooking the code! You being a deviantart member you should know that icon packs for windows and the software to change them has been out forever on deviantart over a year now at least.
Ok back to the original post...
yes my basic point in posting this was... is anyone currently trying to solve this icon problem that anyone knows about? I understand that getting around this seems to be mind boggling. I was thinking about in a different way is there any way we could possibly do a digital injection of the icon file???? Sort of like how you can do digital injections of files in windows changing the code by injecting the file???Not sure if this would work but I guess the only way to test it is try it!
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You actually used more space to tell that the bet... The point is that icon pack changers wasn't even shed light on until some while ago. If you disagree then you're a Windows 7 God and all hail thy great knowledge of teh operating systemzzzzz.
No. All installed applications are signed digtially. If you break/remove the signature you're gonna have to re-sign it. There exists an application for this or you could base your script on APKManager. You cannot simply do a digital injection of an icon file unless you're running some sort of home replacement that caches the icons or something similar.
If you would have focused on the Android part of my comment and not the Windows 7 part you might have got that already.

Well seeing as I was looking at it from a windows user standpoint and not and android coders standpoint and seeing as I'm not an android coder and I just know a little bit about the android file system and a lot about the windows os. an injection doesnt break the digital signature at all ive already tested this on an apk file it's how winrar works when you open an apk replace a file and it still works the reason it works is b/c the file is still signed and your injecting a file into the apk! If that works why wouldnt an injection tool work.

Pneuma1985 said:
Well seeing as I was looking at it from a windows user standpoint and not and android coders standpoint and seeing as I'm not an android coder and I just know a little bit about the android file system and a lot about the windows os. an injection doesnt break the digital signature at all ive already tested this on an apk file it's how winrar works when you open an apk replace a file and it still works the reason it works is b/c the file is still signed and your injecting a file into the apk! If that works why wouldnt an injection tool work.
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If it works; Awesome. Share the wealth.

There have been other threads about winrar and its abilities to mod files in an apk thats nothing new ive seen several threads about it and your totally getting off topic man taking it away from the initial point of my post which was to see if anyone knew about a current project to mod app drawer icons. I never said I've been successful at changing an icon for the most part b/c there usually indexed files thus when you go to change them and open the file it changes to much from gimp to photoshop. My question has anyone else actually been able to change them on any level? I've seen others mod apk files with a number of different tools. Not necessarily image files b/c you break the signature on that end thats why i brought up injection and its possibilities... If I had been successful you think I'd be posting this NO ID BE POSTING HEY I FIGURED IT ALL OUT!!!!!!!Got you nay saying me
Injection tools do work I have injected files into digitally signed game files on an xbox and not changed the digital signature so saying that injection doesnt work is a load of crap! I was trying to think about it outside the box thats all and you really wouldnt know unless you tested it in the same environment! And seeing as I don't know how apk signatures work thats why I brought it up.

Pneuma1985 said:
There have been other threads about winrar and its abilities to mod files in an apk thats nothing new ive seen several threads about it and your totally getting off topic man taking it away from the initial point of my post which was to see if anyone knew about a current project to mod app drawer icons. I never said I've been successful at changing an icon for the most part b/c there usually indexed files thus when you go to change them and open the file it changes to much from gimp to photoshop. My question has anyone else actually been able to change them on any level? I've seen others mod apk files with a number of different tools. Not necessarily image files b/c you break the signature on that end thats why i brought up injection and its possibilities... If I had been successful you think I'd be posting this NO ID BE POSTING HEY I FIGURED IT ALL OUT!!!!!!!Got you nay saying me
Injection tools do work I have injected files into digitally signed game files on an xbox and not changed the digital signature so saying that injection doesnt work is a load of crap! I was trying to think about it outside the box thats all and you really wouldnt know unless you tested it in the same environment! And seeing as I don't know how apk signatures work thats why I brought it up.
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If you change anything in an .apk the signature is removed.
When the signature is removed the mod becomes temporary
The next time you reboot or anything like that the .apk will be "corrupt" or unusable.
If you modify an .apk with WinRaR you still remove the signature.
EDIT: Unless the .apks are all installed to /system.
But if they're installed to /data they'll be corrupt.
- Mod app drawer icons? .. That's not what I got from the OP and I even asked you what you meant and you nodded saying what I understood from your post was right .. Gah ..

Yeah I want to be able to mod app drawer icons lol thats what I was talking about Now I know that adw has themes but most of them look pretty crappy and rom themes do change them and there is the apk tool posted on xda main page that resigns files without the same signature. What about a work around to take the signature out of the file and reapplying it how big is the encryption on the signature?
Oh and another question are the adw themes just an overlay of the file how does that work?
I may just try to edit a adw theme if I can get a good template using apktool just resign it without the same signature adding my own icons in would that work?

Pneuma1985 said:
Yeah I want to be able to mod app drawer icons lol thats what I was talking about Now I know that adw has themes but most of them look pretty crappy and rom themes do change them and there is the apk tool posted on xda main page that resigns files without the same signature. What about a work around to take the signature out of the file and reapplying it how big is the encryption on the signature?
Oh and another question are the adw themes just an overlay of the file how does that work?
I may just try to edit a adw theme if I can get a good template using apktool just resign it without the same signature adding my own icons in would that work?
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Sure. I just don't know of any tool that can modify an .apk without removing and re-signing it.
Haven't checked out anything regarding ADW, so I can't be much help. But dissecting a theme might be a good idea.

Yeah I tried that I resigned the file right and installed the apk now the apk works just fine after multiple reboots it's just it didnt change the file lol.. Even when i go back in and open the apk the file is changed just doesnt appear on my screen to be changed even after removing the data of the theme??? Cant understand it really. I know the file doesnt have the same signature I checked it.
here is the thread about apk tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=640592

Pneuma1985 said:
Yeah I tried that I resigned the file right and installed the apk now the apk works just fine after multiple reboots it's just it didnt change the file lol.. Even when i go back in and open the apk the file is changed just doesnt appear on my screen to be changed even after removing the data of the theme??? Cant understand it really. I know the file doesnt have the same signature I checked it.
here is the thread about apk tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=640592
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Your icon.png didn't change? Are you sure you changed the correct one?
- Double check in /data that you don't have multiple .apks (Might be one of them is name apkname-1.apk).

No i just checked it and I'm positive it's the same file theres only so many pngs that are hdpi so it's basically like just look and find it in the res file no other similar images...And I even went to the extend of naming the apk something different so I would know it's installing the proper apk and still nothing on the image end has changed? And its basically pretty simple I'm trying to change the phone apk icon in the theme just as a tester hasnt worked thus far? phone apk still works even after resign but again nothing has changed. An after thought but another thing that would be cool is being able to edit .9 images without going to the ends of the earth or so it seems lol. And I notice people metamorphing which also seems to solve the problem of signed files? Just need more metamorphs

I have to admit that I've been playing around with this idea as well. I don't have any serious coding experience so I've been taking apart adw themes and theme engine themes for CM7. They manage to change app drawer icons without taking apart the apk and resigning.
It's possible to take a theme engine theme and just replace the icons you want (keeping the correct file name of course) before resigning but from what I've seen it will only make a difference to the icons included in the theme which are usually just gapps etc.
Only low tech workaround I can think of is modifying a theme that changes a lot of icons or editing one of the xml files so that you can add your own icons to the package. I'm not sure which file in an apk does this and I know very little about editing them in general so I gave up there. But from seeing iPhone themes it is a bit disappointing that for such a locked down system it's really easy to theme their icons. My rage about it keeps me up at night.
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Theming Question

What is the app that lets you get the apps process name for icons on miui themes? I've tried most the play store apps, none do what I want, help?
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Anyone?
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Open the play store app link in your browser and take a look at the url.
e.g. https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwxLDIwMywiY29tLm1lZGlvY3JlLnNwcmlua2xlIl0.
Look where it says "id=com.mediocre.sprinkle"
There's your app name.
Or, download something like Quick System Info Pro, long-press the app/process name and select "details".
Or, probably the easiest way is to use a file explorer that allows you to browse to /data/system/customized_icons - you will find all the app process names and icons there.
Oh, and next time please use the stickied threads for general questions.

Easiest way to know what to name an icon for a theme is to use a root level file explorer - I use Root Explorer, but you can also use ES File Explorer (you may have to enable root browsing in the app's settings). Root Browser also has a free version, but I've never been able to get it to work on MIUI. The version bundled with Rom Toolbox, which is the same app, works fine for me.
Using any of those apps, go to the phone's internal storage, then /data/system/customized_icons_1 and copy that folder to your SD card. All of the unthemed icons will be in that folder, named the way you need to name them for the icon to theme on the desktop.
This will be the quickest and easiest way to finish up a theme, because sometimes the main process name of the app is not the process that shows on the desktop. Google Maps is a good example because it puts four icons on your desktop. Facebook will show as com.facebook.katana, but the process name to theme the desktop icon is different.
Edit: Damn, missed the last part of the post above. Oh well, my bad.

[Q] Sideloading Games Into Proper Category + HD Icons

My KFHD7 isn't rooted, but I've sideloaded a few games onto the device that are appearing under the "Apps" category. Is there a way to make the game apps show up under the "Games" category?
In addition, some (if not all) apps that I sideload have low quality icons. Any way to increase the quality so that they're not so fuzzy on the carousel?
[Edit] I have found a thread that answers this question. It's available here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1495854
Many thanks in advanced!

Syph said:
My KFHD7 isn't rooted, but I've sideloaded a few games onto the device that are appearing under the "Apps" category. Is there a way to make the game apps show up under the "Games" category?
In addition, some (if not all) apps that I sideload have low quality icons. Any way to increase the quality so that they're not so fuzzy on the carousel?
Many thanks in advanced!
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I would also love to know how to make this happen. I'm clueless as to how they are flagging the apps as games but the icons shouldn't be that hard... right?

I stumbled upon a guide that allows modification of the APK icons. I've edited the OP to include the link to those who find it useful.

Want to know make this possible too.

Did anyone work out how to do this?

APK Icon Editor
If you want to change Android app icons, check out this APK editor: APK Icon Editor
It also supports Kindle Fire devices.