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Clear Taskbar

I did a search, found one but the icons are changed. Does anyone have a .zip to have a clear taskbar (completely see through bar at the top) and leave whatever current icons I have on?

DirtyShroomz said:
I did a search, found one but the icons are changed. Does anyone have a .zip to have a clear taskbar (completely see through bar at the top) and leave whatever current icons I have on?
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unless its metamorphed then it will change ur icons at the top. the png is in the framework files so what ever the framework file where someone changes the png will also change the icons that are in the framework file. like mentioned above the only other alternative is to use a metamorph to just change that one file.

Can you point me in the direction to that through metamorph?

cbarlan said:
unless its metamorphed then it will change ur icons at the top. the png is in the framework files so what ever the framework file where someone changes the png will also change the icons that are in the framework file. like mentioned above the only other alternative is to use a metamorph to just change that one file.
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Why cant he through in a transparent one? change the PNG to transparent I mean?
EDIT: Like this one! ;P
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6271011&postcount=14

MyDroidHax said:
Why cant he through in a transparent one? change the PNG to transparent I mean?
EDIT: Like this one! ;P
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6271011&postcount=14
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yes thats where I saw it

i have been asking for that to...clear taskbar, clear rosie, everything. right now i kinda have it clear but all my stuff is black.
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DirtyShroomz said:
yes thats where I saw it
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Then why not just extract the apk? and put it in yours? lol
Or shall I do all the work for you, and let you learn nothing.

MyDroidHax said:
Then why not just extract the apk? and put it in yours? lol
Or shall I do all the work for you, and let you learn nothing.
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I have no comp I do everything on my phone

DirtyShroomz said:
I have no comp I do everything on my phone
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OHHH.. Okay one sec ill brb... Do you need a flashable zip? and do you also want clear task bar buttons so it doesn't show that stupid square around the icons?

Yes please to all questions!

DirtyShroomz said:
Yes please to all questions!
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Kay.. Working on it now
EDIT: The entire frame work is changed and I cant find where teh notification bar is.. Do you want a zip with the entire frame work? (it will change more than the notification bar)

hahah stupid squares around the icons good one. those tend to bother me to.
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hey mydroid, can you let me know which files the power control widget are? i'd like to clear them out and couldnt find them. also i changed the location icon in the tasbar. looking for the usb connection to change too. thanks.
http://www.4shared.com/file/XS9fbxCS/clearnexus-signed.html

MyDroidHax said:
Kay.. Working on it now
EDIT: The entire frame work is changed and I cant find where teh notification bar is.. Do you want a zip with the entire frame work? (it will change more than the notification bar)
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What do you mean?

DirtyShroomz said:
What do you mean?
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hey if you feel comfortable, pull the framework-res.apk. drop this image into the drawable-mdpi folder. then push back to phone. should make clear.
dont just right click and save or will make white. open then right click. if you want the icons i used pm me and i'll zip them up for you.

sdotcarlisle said:
hey mydroid, can you let me know which files the power control widget are? i'd like to clear them out and couldnt find them. also i changed the location icon in the tasbar. looking for the usb connection to change too. thanks.
http://www.4shared.com/file/XS9fbxCS/clearnexus-signed.html
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Where is your clear notification bar though? It's not in the same spot as every other theme/rom?
EDIT: I will look into getting that clear for you.

sdotcarlisle said:
hey if you feel comfortable, pull the framework-res.apk. drop this image into the drawable-mdpi folder. then push back to phone. should make clear.
dont just right click and save or will make white. open then right click. if you want the icons i used pm me and i'll zip them up for you.
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Could this be done from phone?

MyDroidHax said:
Where is your clear notification bar though? It's not in the same spot as every other theme/rom?
EDIT: I will look into getting that clear for you.
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thanks. its in framework-res.apk in the drawable-mdpi folder. i post the clear png in the post above yours.

MyDroidHax said:
Where is your clear notification bar though? It's not in the same spot as every other theme/rom?
EDIT: I will look into getting that clear for you.
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Thanks a lot for your work man really appreciate it

sdotcarlisle said:
hey if you feel comfortable, pull the framework-res.apk. drop this image into the drawable-mdpi folder. then push back to phone. should make clear.
dont just right click and save or will make white. open then right click. if you want the icons i used pm me and i'll zip them up for you.
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He cant, no computer.... He needs a signed zip.

Easy way to change a 5 row app drawer to 4?

I've asked a few people and searched like crazy with no real answer so I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I'm running Calk's HD rom and it's awesome. I would just prefer a 4 row app drawer as opposed to the 5 it comes with. Is there an easy way to change this? I haven't been able to locate the setting in the rosie.apk. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

What if you use adw launcher? You can change it from 3 to 8.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/adw-launcher/org.adw.launcher
Oh wait I think he is using adw, well then go to settings, adw launcher settings, screen preferences, under desktop layout change the Desktop Columns from 5 to 4.

Thanks. I'm referring to sense though. I should have specified. I know how to do it with adw and launcherpro. I wish it were that easy in sense.
Get to duh choppa!

ah crap, sorry

You need to decompile your Rosie.apk and change the "5" value in the all_apps_view.xml (its actually titled something like that) to a "4". Then you will need to recompile and flash.

ericwgarza1 said:
You need to decompile your Rosie.apk and change the "5" value in the all_apps_view.xml (its actually titled something like that) to a "4". Then you will need to recompile and flash.
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Thanks so much. It looks like to do this the xml would need to be converted first or done with hex editing. Way beyond my skill. But I'm going to trying recompiling the apk using the all_apps_view.xml from a different rosie with a 4 app drawer. I'll post my results.

That didn't work. Not sure the setting lives there. The rom I grabbed the all_apps_view.xml file from has an opaque app drawer, calk's has transparent. After compiling the rosie with the new xml file and rebooting, I still had a 5 row app drawer but the background was opaque.

DeathBySnuggles said:
That didn't work. Not sure the setting lives there. The rom I grabbed the all_apps_view.xml file from has an opaque app drawer, calk's has transparent. After compiling the rosie with the new xml file and rebooting, I still had a 5 row app drawer but the background was opaque.
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there are 3 changes to be made.... one is the one u were given already.
keep in mind that u MUST decompile cuz it changes things inside the resources.arsc file
the second one is inside values/integer.xml
change
Code:
<integer name="allprogram_grid_columns">5</integer>
to have the value 4 instead of 5.
and in values/dimens.xml change
Code:
<dimen name="all_program_grid_view_horizontal_spacing">1.0dip</dimen>
to have the value 6.0dip.
that should work.
good luck.
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just saw u said u using the HD rom... i was referring to the a non HD rosie... so although it should still be the same thing, it might not be... so keep that in mind in case it wont work... but thats how u would do it for the regular Rosie.

aamikam said:
there are 3 changes to be made.... one is the one u were given already.
keep in mind that u MUST decompile cuz it changes things inside the resources.arsc file
the second one is inside values/integer.xml
change
Code:
<integer name="allprogram_grid_columns">5</integer>
to have the value 4 instead of 5.
and in values/dimens.xml change
Code:
<dimen name="all_program_grid_view_horizontal_spacing">1.0dip</dimen>
to have the value 6.0dip.
that should work.
good luck.
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just saw u said u using the HD rom... i was referring to the a non HD rosie... so although it should still be the same thing, it might not be... so keep that in mind in case it wont work... but thats how u would do it for the regular Rosie.
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Ok, that's a little over my head considering I don't even see the xml files you're referring to. I'm only able to play with what I can see by unpacking the apk using simple methods. Changing the all_apps_view file changed the drawer background, which is undesired. If I simply swap out the the full rosie.apk from the other rom, I can achieve the 4 row drawer with the opaque background but I'm looking to retain the translucent. So, perhaps it's easier to start with the other rosie with the opaque background and modify that to have a translucent background? Can using the original all_apps_view accomplish this or is there an easier way?

DeathBySnuggles said:
Ok, that's a little over my head considering I don't even see the xml files you're referring to. I'm only able to play with what I can see by unpacking the apk using simple methods. Changing the all_apps_view file changed the drawer background, which is undesired. If I simply swap out the the full rosie.apk from the other rom, I can achieve the 4 row drawer with the opaque background but I'm looking to retain the translucent. So, perhaps it's easier to start with the other rosie with the opaque background and modify that to have a translucent background? Can using the original all_apps_view accomplish this or is there an easier way?
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U wont see those xmls unless u decompile man... that's why I said u have to do it.
U using calk hd? Right?
Ill make u one real quick.

aamikam said:
U wont see those xmls unless u decompile man... that's why I said u have to do it.
U using calk hd? Right?
Ill make u one real quick.
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Yeah I'm running calk's HD. Thanks man. I was just getting ready to try another frankenstein rosie.

DeathBySnuggles said:
Yeah I'm running calk's HD. Thanks man. I was just getting ready to try another frankenstein rosie.
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here u go... let me know how it worked.

aamikam said:
here u go... let me know how it worked.
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Absolutely perfect! Thank you so much. Donation sent. (well, sent before I knew it worked just for the effort but double bonus that it does!) Why can't sense be as configurable as lp or adw?
Thanks again.

DeathBySnuggles said:
Absolutely perfect! Thank you so much. Donation sent. (well, sent before I knew it worked just for the effort but double bonus that it does!) Why can't sense be as configurable as lp or adw?
Thanks again.
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thank you very much.

[Q] Homescreen icons

I was wondering, Is there an app to change the icons of folders on the homescreen? Im trying to make my phone look pretty simple.

simpledesign said:
I was wondering, Is there an app to change the icons of folders on the homescreen? Im trying to make my phone look pretty simple.
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Download a theme, from here or from the market. Or make your own.
Thow that's a lot of work, and even more if transparancy is involved.
You could try Axialis Icon Workshop. Extract the icons and change them, manually, pixel by pixel. Save them in your gallery and you could apply those.

Im talking about to app for my andoid phone to change the icon. I worded it right according to my situation.

I use SiMi Folder widget.

simpledesign said:
Im talking about to app for my andoid phone to change the icon. I worded it right according to my situation.
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Well then use a widget as 3rdstring suggested. I thought you where a bit further in android development. Sorry for that, although its fun to have your own icons. And pretty exlusive too.

you could also use folder organizer lite.

[Q] Theming JVB

I've been theming small aspects of JVB, specifically Perception II. I've tried to theme the background of the music controls inside the status bar drawer. On Froyo ROMs, I could just throw a modified png into the zip. Now, I do that and it's still purple. I even decompiled and recomplied with the new pngs, but it doesn't work. Any ideas on what to do? I attached the modded files below. Thanks!

Are you replacing the ones in twframework-res.apk?
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modest_mandroid said:
Are you replacing the ones in twframework-res.apk?
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Of course. I opened them in Photoshop and edited and put them back into twframework. Thing is, I've done this before very successfully modifying themes on Froyo.

Wacky.. dunno dude, I'll give it a shot later tonight and see if I can get it to work if the wife doesn't burglarize all my time.

modest_mandroid said:
Wacky.. dunno dude, I'll give it a shot later tonight and see if I can get it to work if the wife doesn't burglarize all my time.
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Wow thanks a lot man

Yeah, that's weird.. changing the png's doesn't seem to affect what actually shows up. Makes you wonder if it's grabbing them from somewhere else entirely..
Edit: I was right! Check out /system/app/MusicPlayer.apk, it has it's own set of status bar png's. I haven't tried replacing them myself yet, but I have a strong feeling that those are the ones you should be changing as opposed to the ones in twframework-res.apk. Samsung seems to enjoy scattering their graphics around.. there are also a couple pertinent to the status bar and dropdown shade in SystemUI.apk and Phone.apk.
Good luck, dude! Let me know if those were the correct ones!

modest_mandroid said:
Yeah, that's weird.. changing the png's doesn't seem to affect what actually shows up. Makes you wonder if it's grabbing them from somewhere else entirely..
Edit: I was right! Check out /system/app/MusicPlayer.apk, it has it's own set of status bar png's. I haven't tried replacing them myself yet, but I have a strong feeling that those are the ones you should be changing as opposed to the ones in twframework-res.apk. Samsung seems to enjoy scattering their graphics around.. there are also a couple pertinent to the status bar and dropdown shade in SystemUI.apk and Phone.apk.
Good luck, dude! Let me know if those were the correct ones!
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Is SystemUI.apk new to Gingerbread? I'll look into it.
God THANK YOU, that's an amazing find and so useful to me! I am SO GRATEFUL. Damn, Samsung isn't the most efficient company of coders. Putting lockscreen music control backgrounds in framework-res and status bar ones in music apk? Wow.

SystemUI.apk handles all the notification bar/dropdown stuff and all of those images are used instead of what's in twframework-res.apk now (GB).
The background and buttons for the dropdown are in MusicPlayer.apk though. Crazy.

So apparently the toggle PNGs in SystemUI.apk are locked, so they cannot be edited in Photoshop and lose their transparency. Sucks....

Yeah, kinda sucks. I grabbed a screenshot of Explorer with large thumbnails, copied each one and inverted them so they're smoothed to black background, made black transparent, then changed the color. It works out ok I guess.

CuriousTech said:
Yeah, kinda sucks. I grabbed a screenshot of Explorer with large thumbnails, copied each one and inverted them so they're smoothed to black background, made black transparent, then changed the color. It works out ok I guess.
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They still turn out jagged because the originals, using transparency, are smoothed. I think I can get someone to fix that...

If anyone is interested, I am recreating a lot of the elements by hand. It's HARD OH MY GOD, some pieces require 7 layers of separate transparencies i have to match to the originals. But I'm making a theme, just modded stock for now but I'll be working on it for a while. I'll make a thread soon!

So ALL the battery icons are locked... I downloaded a random GB theme and took out the battery icons, and those are locked too. Decompiled framework, still locked. What the hell???? How do I mod them?!

I figured most stuff out now. Except how to change the status bar background. I put it into SystemUI.apk (2 different names), framework, and twframework. Nothing works. Any clues?

Haloruler64 said:
So ALL the battery icons are locked... I downloaded a random GB theme and took out the battery icons, and those are locked too. Decompiled framework, still locked. What the hell???? How do I mod them?!
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How'd you solve this?
Haloruler64 said:
I figured most stuff out now. Except how to change the status bar background. I put it into SystemUI.apk (2 different names), framework, and twframework. Nothing works. Any clues?
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Check SystemUI.apk drawable-hdpi directory, also check the values directory, there's one xml in there that defines the background color for the dropdown shade.
Edit: nevermind, changing that xml does nothing

Haloruler64 said:
Is SystemUI.apk new to Gingerbread? I'll look into it.
God THANK YOU, that's an amazing find and so useful to me! I am SO GRATEFUL. Damn, Samsung isn't the most efficient company of coders. Putting lockscreen music control backgrounds in framework-res and status bar ones in music apk? Wow.
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Half of it is left over Google crap, half of it is left over Samsung Froyo crap, and half of it is actually being used.
It's quite the mess.

Haloruler64 said:
If anyone is interested, I am recreating a lot of the elements by hand. It's HARD OH MY GOD, some pieces require 7 layers of separate transparencies i have to match to the originals. But I'm making a theme, just modded stock for now but I'll be working on it for a while. I'll make a thread soon!
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Why aren't you using the originals? Is it because they're Index images that don't open properly? If so, open them with Adobe Fireworks, save them, then open them in whatever else.

res\layout\status_bar_tracking.xml has the background color. Change to image:
<View android:background="@drawable/status_bar_background" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1.0" />
Copy the file from the theme in my sig if you need a working reference. It has no clock in the bar and no text in the toggles as well.

MikeyMike01 said:
Half of it is left over Google crap, half of it is left over Samsung Froyo crap, and half of it is actually being used.
It's quite the mess.
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3 halves, it must be all kinds of messy!

modest_mandroid said:
How'd you solve this?
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GIMP, convert to RGB, then it works. But GIMP has no real batch mode, like Photoshop. Which sucks.
MikeyMike01 said:
Why aren't you using the originals? Is it because they're Index images that don't open properly? If so, open them with Adobe Fireworks, save them, then open them in whatever else.
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Yeah that's why originally. Can you open 171 files in Fireworks and save them automatically? I don't wanna do that for all the status bar stuff individually.
Also I have to get Fireworks.
CuriousTech said:
res\layout\status_bar_tracking.xml has the background color. Change to image:
<View android:background="@drawable/status_bar_background" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1.0" />
Copy the file from the theme in my sig if you need a working reference. It has no clock in the bar and no text in the toggles as well.
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Wow thanks! I'll do that now.
EDIT: Using APK Manager 4.9, I keep getting errors while decompiling SystemUI.apk. Any reason or special method to decompile it?

Using Icons From Themes In Nova Launcher

Is it possible to use the icons from the stock Theme Store in a 3rd party launcher such as Nova?

Y.G. said:
Is it possible to use the icons from the stock Theme Store in a 3rd party launcher such as Nova?
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Did you ever figure this out... I know we can change the icons but only built in one's show up

If your rooted, you could use a file explorer app like root explorer to go into data/app and find your themes appicon folder. Inside you will see a base.apk. You can copy that base.apk onto your phone and extract it, or pull it onto your pc and extract it. Inside you will see a res/drawable-sw360dp-xxxhdpi-v13 folder. The icons are in there. Save them in a folder on your phone and manually edit your icons in Nova on your homescreens and /or folders to replace icon.
I know it sounds like a bunch of work, but it really doesn't take that long. It's about the only way you can do it.

Here's what the folders for the themes look like in data/app.....

dazednconfused said:
Here's what the folders for the themes look like in data/app.....
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Thanks... Definitely more of a hassle than I thought it would be, but it works! For now just changing main home screen icons....

dazednconfused said:
Here's what the folders for the themes look like in data/app.....
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I've been trying to make a similar change. I'm using the Sense 7 Launcher and the only icon I have left is the "Apps" icon. I'd like to change it out with this icon.
I have looked in data/app/com.htc.launcher-1 and copy that base.apk to a different location on my phone. Opened the base.apk. Found res/drawable/all_apps_button_icon.xml
My question is what is the best way to convert my image to an .xml and replace the one in the base .apk so I can paste it back into the original location?
Ugg. I sure hope that made sense?

wildjeep said:
I've been trying to make a similar change. I'm using the Sense 7 Launcher and the only icon I have left is the "Apps" icon. I'd like to change it out with this icon.
I have looked in data/app/com.htc.launcher-1 and copy that base.apk to a different location on my phone. Opened the base.apk. Found res/drawable/all_apps_button_icon.xml
My question is what is the best way to convert my image to an .xml and replace the one in the base .apk so I can paste it back into the original location?
Ugg. I sure hope that made sense?
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If you send me a copy of the apk, I'll try to take a look at it tomorrow.

dazednconfused said:
If you send me a copy of the apk, I'll try to take a look at it tomorrow.
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BOOM!!!
Well Done @dazednconfused​

wildjeep said:
BOOM!!!
Well Done @dazednconfused​
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Glad it worked man. ....that's awesome!
Did they get the sense theme store working on that launcher?

dazednconfused said:
Glad it worked man. ....that's awesome!
Did they get the sense theme store working on that launcher?
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Yes, as long as all those steps are done in that order. It's okay, but yours are way better than I've seen in the HTC Themes store
Google+ in the blink feed is the only thing that isn't working yet for our phone

wildjeep said:
Yes, as long as all those steps are done in that order. It's okay, but yours are way better than I've seen in the HTC Themes store
Google+ in the blink feed is the only thing that isn't working yet for our phone
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Thanks. My AnaKonda theme got released in the Sense themes about 3 weeks ago. I think it's in the others section. But those themes are pretty simple and don't really get into deep theming.

Sweet. I hope it gets lots of hits. Can you see how many downloads it has?
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dazednconfused said:
If your rooted, you could use a file explorer app like root explorer to go into data/app and find your themes appicon folder. Inside you will see a base.apk. You can copy that base.apk onto your phone and extract it, or pull it onto your pc and extract it. Inside you will see a res/drawable-sw360dp-xxxhdpi-v13 folder. The icons are in there. Save them in a folder on your phone and manually edit your icons in Nova on your homescreens and /or folders to replace icon.
I know it sounds like a bunch of work, but it really doesn't take that long. It's about the only way you can do it.
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This is good work. Thanks.