(Edit: The post I was referring to is here by Hooolm. I can't believe I've been missing it. Anyways, I was really inspired by his work but I just can't stand that green color!)
Sorry if this is common knowledge or posted somewhere else but I searched and couldn't find anything similar. I know there's another post that may be similar and I thought I bookmarked it but I guess I didn't.
Anyway, I really, really hate the default green icons and couldn't find anyway to change them via a theme or small zip from someone else, so I decided to try and change them myself.
I am somewhat familiar with apk manager and I came across 4.9 honeycomb edition located here by tphillips (thanks bro) and decided to dig around the usual suspect apk's and see if I could find those icons myself.
I finally found the ones I wanted in SystemUI.apk in SystemUI.apk\res\drawable-xlarge-mdpi but finding the icons and swapping them out was another thing.
After much aggravation and FC's, on a whim after re-reading tphillips thread, I changed the compression to zero and that was it.
Here is a picture of two of the icons I've changed so far. I still have to change the rest of them but it's getting late and I just wanted to share this with anyone else who might want to change out those icons themselves.
btw I'm using wifi only version with Bonsai 3.0 and pershoots latest kernel
The next thing I would like to change is the default battery icons in the taskbar. I think I've already found those icons but if someone else would be so kind as to verify their location that would be much appreciated
Here are my icons after redoing them this morning. I'm happy with it and think I'll stick with those for a while.
Sorry if this is common knowledge or posted somewhere else but I searched and couldn't find anything similar. I know there's another post that may be similar and I thought I bookmarked it but I guess I didn't.
Anyway, I really, really hate the default green icons and couldn't find anyway to change them via a theme or small zip from someone else, so I decided to try and change them myself.
I am somewhat familiar with apk manager and I came across 4.9 honeycomb edition located here by tphillips (thanks bro) and decided to dig around the usual suspect apk's and see if I could find those icons myself.
I finally found the ones I wanted in SystemUI.apk in SystemUI.apk\res\drawable-xlarge-mdpi but finding the icons and swapping them out was another thing.
After much aggravation and FC's, on a whim after re-reading tphillips thread, I changed the compression to zero and that was it.
Here is a picture of two of the icons I've changed so far. I still have to change the rest of them but it's getting late and I just wanted to share this with anyone else who might want to change out those icons themselves.
btw I'm using wifi only version with Bonsai 3.0 and pershoots latest kernel
The next thing I would like to change is the default battery icons in the taskbar. I think I've already found those icons but if someone else would be so kind as to verify their location that would be much appreciated
Here are my icons after redoing them this morning. I'm happy with it and think I'll stick with those for a while.
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