[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twiice:
I've been trying for many days to get this to work, it's driving me nuts!!

I can decompile and recompile framework-res.apk and other apps successfully, but every time I decompile a theme chooser *.apk I get errors trying to recompile.

Is there a trick to this? I am running Reaper 3.0(CyanogenMod 7) installed the framework via installation options(that's all), have paths to platform-tools, tools etc.. The latest Android SDK installed (and all the others..)

Once again I'n only getting these errors Recompiling TC Themes.

Here is an Excerpt of my APKMULTITOOL.LOG, the start middle and end.

(full log is also attached)

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Thu 06/21/2012 -- 22:05:11.28|
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java version "1.7.0_05"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_05-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 23.1-b03, mixed mode, sharing)
Could Not Find C:\android-sdk\place-apk-here-for-modding\../place-apk-here-for-modding/signedcom.araviel.theme.aerish.apk
Could Not Find C:\android-sdk\place-apk-here-for-modding\../place-apk-here-for-modding/unsignedcom.araviel.theme.aerish.apk
I: Loading resource table...
I: Loaded.
I: Loading resource table from file: C:\Documents and Settings\twIIce\apktool\framework\1.apk
I: Loaded.
I: Decoding file-resources...
I: Decoding values*/* XMLs...
I: Done.
I: Copying assets and libs...
W: Could not find sources
I: Checking whether resources has changed...
I: Building resources...
W/ResourceType( 3988): Bad string block: string #14 extends to 1847, past end at 60
W/ResourceType( 3988): Bad string block: string #13 extends to 1842, past end at 60
W/ResourceType( 3988): Bad string block: string #12 extends to 1075, past end at 60
W/ResourceType( 3988): Bad string block: string #11 extends to 815, past end at 60
W/ResourceType( 3988): Bad string block: string #10 extends to 812, past end at 60
W/ResourceType( 3988): Bad string block: string #9 extends to 1061, past end at 60
W/ResourceType( 3988): Bad string block: string #8 extends to 1575, past end at 60
W/ResourceType( 3988): Bad string block: string #7 extends to 2075, past end at 60..................
res\xml\com_melodis_midomiMusicIdentifier.xml: Invalid file name: must contain only [a-z0-9_.]
res\xml\com_melodis_midomiMusicIdentifier.xml: Invalid file name: must contain only [a-z0-9_.]
C:\android-sdk\platform-tools\..\projects\com.araviel.theme.aerish.apk\res\values\styles.xml:3: error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name '@android:style/Theme'.
C:\android-sdk\platform-tools\..\projects\com.araviel.theme.aerish.apk\res\values\styles.xml:4: error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name '@android:style/Theme'.
C:\android-sdk\platform-tools\..\projects\com.araviel.theme.aerish.apk\res\values\styles.xml:9: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name: attr 'android:shadowColor'.
C:\android-sdk\platform-tools\..\projects\com.araviel.theme.aerish.apk\res\values\styles.xml:10: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name: attr 'android:shadowDx'.
C:\android-sdk\platform-tools\..\projects\com.araviel.theme.aerish.apk\res\values\styles.xml:11: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name: attr 'android:shadowDy'..............................................................................................................................................................................................
Exception in thread "main" brut.androlib.AndrolibException: brut.common.BrutException: could not exec command: [aapt, p, -F, C:\DOCUME~1\twIIce\LOCALS~1\Temp\APKTOOL7854039488745011416.tmp, -x, -I, C:\Documents and Settings\twIIce\apktool\framework\1.apk, -S, C:\android-sdk\platform-tools\..\projects\com.araviel.theme.aerish.apk\res, -M, C:\android-sdk\platform-tools\..\projects\com.araviel.theme.aerish.apk\AndroidManifest.xml]
at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.aaptPackage(AndrolibResources.java:193)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.buildResourcesFull(Androlib.java:302)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.buildResources(Androlib.java:249)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Androlib.java:172)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Androlib.java:155)
at brut.apktool.Main.cmdBuild(Main.java:182)
at brut.apktool.Main.main(Main.java:67)
Caused by: brut.common.BrutException: could not exec command: [aapt, p, -F, C:\DOCUME~1\twIIce\LOCALS~1\Temp\APKTOOL7854039488745011416.tmp, -x, -I, C:\Documents and Settings\twIIce\apktool\framework\1.apk, -S, C:\android-sdk\platform-tools\..\projects\com.araviel.theme.aerish.apk\res, -M, C:\android-sdk\platform-tools\..\projects\com.araviel.theme.aerish.apk\AndroidManifest.xml]
at brut.util.OS.exec(OS.java:83)
at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.aaptPackage(AndrolibResources.java:191)
... 6 more

I would GREATLY appreciate it if anyone could shed some light on this for me, I've been googling for days, but sadly (at the moment) I've no programming skills whatsoever and sorting through technical posts is confusing at best.