Avoid Icons Overwrite After Firmware Update

[mttrss5]

Hi everyone, I've created some custom icons to overwrite Default theme icons (or missing ones).

The problem is that every time I update the firmware, the theme icons are overwritten. How can I avoid this behavior?

I put Every icon in the system/media/theme/mod_icons folder.

Ty

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[Saman]

this is my problem too
i think we have to make a flashable zip for our icons. but i dont know how

 

[mttrss5]

Hold on, I'm writing a simple Shell script to move automatically the custom icons back to the theme folder and fix any icon file permission issue

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[mttrss5]

Ok @Saman I've written this simple script to fix icons overwrite, just follow this steps:

1. Make sure you've root access
2. Make sure you're on the Default theme (I didn't test with others)
3. Create a directory with custom icons in it (e.g. in /sdcard/miui_mod_icons)
4. Save the following script into the root of /sdcard and name it themefixer.sh

#!/system/bin/sh
mount -o rw,remount /system
if [ $? == 0 ]
then echo Mounted RW system
else exit
fi
# copy all files to destination directory
cd /
cp -f $1/* /system/media/theme/miui_mod_icons
if [ $? == 0 ]
then echo Icons successfully moved to theme directory
else
    echo Cannot move icons to destination. Restore RO system
    mount -o ro,remount /system
    exit
fi
# set correct permission to icons
chmod 644 /system/media/theme/miui_mod_icons/*
if [ $? == 0 ]
then echo Setting 644 permissions
else
    echo Set permission aborted. Restore RO system
    mount -o ro,remount /system
    exit
fi
# Mount RO system
mount -o ro,remount /system
if [ $? == 0 ]
then echo Completed. Please reapply your theme
else
    echo Error reverting RO system
    exit
fi
exit

5. Open terminal emulator (or similar) and type the following

$ su
$ sh /sdcard/themefixer.sh <path/to/custom_icons>

NOTE:

1. $ is the shell input, you don't have to copy it
2. <path/to/custom_icons> according to previous instruction is something like /sdcard/miui_mod_icons (don't need to add slash at the end of che path)
3. Every icon or file in the /sdcard/miui_mod_icons will be copied into theme's custom icons folder.
4. You have to repeat only steps from 5 on and add new icons to /sdcard/miui_mod_icons folder