[Q] Flashing themes to Revolution HD ROM

[dansharpy]

Hi,

I rooted my DHD and flashed Revolution HD (2.1) ROM yesterday for the first time!! This site helped massively so thanks to all the devs and posters for the information!! I do have a couple of questions though, please excuse me if these are a bit obvious but until yesterday i had no idea how to even root it!

So i flashed the ROM and rooted fine, then i flashed a custom theme as well from clockwork mod recovery (installed from zip on sdcard). If i want to change the theme to a different custom one do i have to flash it from CWM recovery or can i do it directly from the CWM app??

Also if i now flash a different custom theme will all my user data (apps, settings, media etc.) be preserved?

Basically i like to change my theme quite often but if im going to loose my data everytime then ill have to pick more carefully!

Thanks in advance for your help and thanks again to all the devs and posters for making my DHD even better!!

 

[sphuyal]

Hi,

I rooted my DHD and flashed Revolution HD (2.1) ROM yesterday for the first time!! This site helped massively so thanks to all the devs and posters for the information!! I do have a couple of questions though, please excuse me if these are a bit obvious but until yesterday i had no idea how to even root it!

So i flashed the ROM and rooted fine, then i flashed a custom theme as well from clockwork mod recovery (installed from zip on sdcard). If i want to change the theme to a different custom one do i have to flash it from CWM recovery or can i do it directly from the CWM app??

Also if i now flash a different custom theme will all my user data (apps, settings, media etc.) be preserved?

Basically i like to change my theme quite often but if im going to loose my data everytime then ill have to pick more carefully!

Thanks in advance for your help and thanks again to all the devs and posters for making my DHD even better!!

Welcome on board ARHD user

You flash theme from CWM. Changing themes means giving new look to your phone, so unfortunately you ll have to personalize everything once again. Flashing themes would not remove your data but only your personalized home screen. You can however try mybackup and see if that helps you restore your settings.

 

[dansharpy]

Thanks for the reply!! Just flashed a new theme (revolution) and loving it.

One more question though, im trying to flash a different boot screen and animated framework to the theme but its not working

Im putting the zip on my sd card and flashing via CWM as i did with the theme but its not applying for some reason, is there something im missing?? Both the bootscreen and framework are made for the theme by the way!

Thanks

 

[sphuyal]

Thanks for the reply!! Just flashed a new theme (revolution) and loving it.

One more question though, im trying to flash a different boot screen and animated framework to the theme but its not working

Im putting the zip on my sd card and flashing via CWM as i did with the theme but its not applying for some reason, is there something im missing?? Both the bootscreen and framework are made for the theme by the way!

Thanks

have you replaced the bootanimation.zip file? i do not know if you need to flash the bootanimation. I have flashed splashscreen but not the bootanimation so i do not exactly know. But i m sure if you replace bootanimation.zip file in /system folder it would work.

 

[dansharpy]

Thanks again for the reply. For some reason i went back to recovery 2.5.1.3 to flash something else and just tried the boot animation just in case it made a difference and its all working fine now!!

Cheers

 

[milenko]

Im having the same problem, Im running DHD Revolution Gingerbread beta 3.1 and the boot animations never work. Even if I do replace the bootanimation.zip file. Changed permissions to the zip file too.

Seems there is a difference in opinion on which bootanimation file to replace. I replaced the one in system/customize/resource.

Any ideas?

 

[dansharpy]

Gingerbread works completely differently i think. There is script that also needs to be modified to change the boot animation, i dont know what or where im afraid!

I was on gingerbread for a few days (i think it was mike's second beta) and didnt like it much, so im back on froyo leedroid for now. Might change when there is a few more themes about, bugs are all sorted and custom kernels are available!!