My absolute favorite thing about the Android OS is how remarkably customizable it is. Even without rooting, you have tons of possibilities for themes, launchers, wallpapers, and notification sounds. But for those who have made the choice to root their phone, things open up even more — kitchens, roms, custom backups, and apps that REALLY dig in and change things. So, have you ever thought about maybe changing your battery icons? If you’ve ever looked into that, you know it’s always involved flashing an update.zip from recovery mode, or pushing files through adb — neither of those options are particularly painless or convenient.
Well, once again our friends over at XDA-Developers have whipped up a tool to help you out. theimpaler747 and appelflap have written an app that will allow rooted users simply to run the app and it will give you choices for icons that you can run, sorted by device. Currently supported devices, as of this writing:
- GT-I9000
- Epic 4G
- HTC Hero CDMA
- Nexus One
- HTC Magic
- Samsung Intercept
- HTC Desire HD
- Droid 1
- Droid Incredible
- HTC Evo
- HTC Hero GSM
- Dell Streak
It is highly, highly recommended that you do a full backup before using this app, as selecting icons that are not compatible with your phone or your rom could cause you some real headaches. It’s not hard to recover from, though, provided that you have a solid backup of your device as it is now.
Some of those icons look pretty cool, and my phone’s on the list…I may have to check this one out myself. If any of you do the same, be sure to let us know in the comments. More details and download at the source.
[via XDA-Developers]