[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] jonathanphx1:
Dark Horse Black Market is Here

I recently was able to install the new android market black themed on my Eris and I have been meaning to get it posted with a tutorial on how to get it installed. First off I did not theme the market black I downloaded the themed market from here and I themed to match my Dark Horse theme (not a small task either.)

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/te...22-who-going-re-revisited-vending-apk-61.html

Now to the usual disclaimer: You use this theme at your own risk, your bricked phone is your bricked phone not my bricked phone.

The attched file can be flashed via amon-ra thanks kkpsicholigist for doing this to quote him " I was able to get it to flash with Amon_RA fine. I had the new market installed already and I did a Cache wipe. I attached the file I used." If this dosent work try the method below.

In order to work properly the old android market must be unistalled before this one is flashed in order for it not to either FC or download from the market. I am running Vanilla Tazz 24 with this themed working with no FC's or download problems.

Process for Unistalling prior market: This is going to require adb. I don't know how this will go on the hero for sure as I do not have one. The best I can say is see what happens, or if you feel uncomfortable using adb I'm sure one of the dev's in the Hero forums can help you with the diffrences(if any) that you may run into.

There is three files that you will need to delete:

Vending.apk out of system/app

com.android.vending out of data/data

com.android.vending-1.apk out of data/app

If you do not unistall the market completely and run the market again all prior removed files will be put back. If you do not unistall all three files the market will still remain on your phone

Remove the files by executing these commands using adb from you AndroidSDK/tools

adb shell

You should see a # sign, that's the root terminal on your phone.

In order to remove files, you need to remount your system folder on the phone with write permissions. To do this type "mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system" (it won't say anything it will just go back to a # sign again)

Now type "cd /system/app" and then "ls"

That will list all the apk files, which are the applications.

You can remove them by typing "rm -r Whatever.apk" (it's case sensitive)

Follow this to unistall the 3 files obvoiusly you would use "cd /data/data" to get to the data/data folder and "cd /data/app" to get to data/app folder. BE VERY CAREFUL doing this. Don't just go around deleting files. Some may not be safe to delete

Once all files are deleted and the market is no longer on the phone then you can flash over the Black Dark Horse themed market using ROM manager. Do this at your own risk as the Eris has had issues with ROM manager with bricking,(I have used it for sometime no issues for me).

When I get to my computer later tonight I will upload the Market in the meantime get that ugly green market off your phone, Here is the file have at it. If someone wants to start a new thread in the Hero forum with this its ok with me. I would have trouble answering questions as I don't have a Hero. Have fun.

Enjoy