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[bignadad]

Originally Posted by Zaphod-Beeblebrox

Be careful mucking with the framework Big. Without a recovery option at this point, several people have gotten themselves stuck in a boot-loop.

Quick question.. when you say muck with the framework what do you mean?

i have my apk's and i go into the res/drawable folder to look at the png's....
Is altering a png to the exact dimensions and specs as original altering the framework? i have my png's but want to start testing on my device.. BUT i don't want a brick or the cost of insurance replacement either...

i have looked at the android developer site and have considered building for market... only cost $25 to get started..... any advice there? Anyone?

Of course they would be free if i did

[Veritech_910]

Maybe hold off just a little bit and see what's to come of Birdman's "unbricker" or whatever lol. I've bookmarked his Twitter

http://twitter.com/mrweeeedbirdman

[Zaphod-Beeblebrox]

Originally Posted by bignadad

Quick question.. when you say muck with the framework what do you mean?

i have my apk's and i go into the res/drawable folder to look at the png's....
Is altering a png to the exact dimensions and specs as original altering the framework? i have my png's but want to start testing on my device.. BUT i don't want a brick or the cost of insurance replacement either...

i have looked at the android developer site and have considered building for market... only cost $25 to get started..... any advice there? Anyone?

Of course they would be free if i did

This is the only thread I've seen on XDA where people are changing graphics, etc.:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=733966

The consensus seems to be that just replacing png's is probably safe. The key word here is 'probably'. If something goes wrong, the phone will get stuck in a boot loop and I don't think anyone has figured out how to cure it just yet.
Once its in boot loop, it won't connect to ADB, so you can't push the old framework back. Even if you make a copy/.BAK of the file, I don't think you have any access to rename/copy that file when its too late.

I'm still very much a newbie on android internals, but it appears that all the 'goodies' are in framework-res.apk. And that's where the potential boot-loop issues are coming from.

Once there is a full flash recovery option available, I think it will be much safer to tinker. At this moment, I am still a little too hesitant to flash any of the custom taskbars and/or themes that require metamorph.

[Zaphod-Beeblebrox]

Big,
You may want to read up on this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...83#post7391383
If I'm reading between the lines correctly, you may be able to recover from a bad framework-res.apk file by re-applying the .604 update. As long as you haven't removed any of the stock apk's.

[wesscoggin]

Looking Great Big!!

[jmorton10]

Very nice.

~John

[jmorton10]

Those links are all telling me "cannot DL, the content is not supported on this phone" for some reason.

~John

[bignadad]

Originally Posted by jmorton10

Those links are all telling me "cannot DL, the content is not supported on this phone" for some reason.

~John

which one?

i just tested the toggles and worked fine...
i downloaded from ppcg
copied to storage card
used ASTRO to install

[jmorton10]

I'll try that later, I was just clicking the links from the phone browser.

~John

[jmorton10]

That edge gloss looks awesome.

~John