Themes - knowledge point

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Hello,

First post and allready asking stuff.
I'm starting on making themes and although I have read a lot of stuff I can't get it.

Major questions:
- Do I need to have a custom rom to make themes? Can I install a theme on a standard, factory clean android magic?
- What are those RC33, Rc30, etc... And how do I know what do I have?

At the moment I have a stock HTC magic 32A. The only non standard thing in it, is it's rooted.
The build number only says: CL#33743 (no RC stuff...).

Any help would be appreciate.

take a look at this thread...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=519924

Hey smurf... thnks for the answer.
I've allready readed that post (and most of the links in it), and still got the same questions.

They only talk about G1/dream and all those RCXX... The problem my magic says CL#33743. Am I missing something here? Do I need to install a RCXX image?

Originally Posted by wedlled

Hey smurf... thnks for the answer.
I've allready readed that post (and most of the links in it), and still got the same questions.

They only talk about G1/dream and all those RCXX... The problem my magic says CL#33743. Am I missing something here? Do I need to install a RCXX image?

afaik you have to be rooted to install themes, an exception is when you are using a home replacement.

RC stands for Release Candidate and its just a version numbering thing i guess...

Hello again...
Yeah, I tried instead of just asking.

After a few more reading I realise I was making some confusion. I have a rooted phone so I just adb pull the files I needed to theme (framework-res, htclauncher, etc...) changed the drwable files and adb push them again

It's kinda of what a update.zip does but with more files. Nothing better that trying

Now I just don't know why some people ressign apk's, but I guess a little more reading will fix that too.

Thnaks for your help smurf.