diff --git a/core/java/android/content/res/Resources.java b/core/java/android/content/res/Resources.java
index c68285242dc44..c630bb51c96cc 100755
--- a/core/java/android/content/res/Resources.java
+++ b/core/java/android/content/res/Resources.java
@@ -630,7 +630,20 @@ public class Resources {
      * Various types of objects will be returned depending on the underlying
      * resource -- for example, a solid color, PNG image, scalable image, etc.
      * The Drawable API hides these implementation details.
-     * 
+     *
+     * <p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> Prior to
+     * {@link android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES#JELLY_BEAN}, this function
+     * would not correctly retrieve the final configuration density when
+     * the resource ID passed here is an alias to another Drawable resource.
+     * This means that if the density configuration of the alias resource
+     * is different than the actual resource, the density of the returned
+     * Drawable would be incorrect, resulting in bad scaling.  To work
+     * around this, you can instead retrieve the Drawable through
+     * {@link TypedArray#getDrawable TypedArray.getDrawable}.  Use
+     * {@link android.content.Context#obtainStyledAttributes(int[])
+     * Context.obtainStyledAttributes} with
+     * an array containing the resource ID of interest to create the TypedArray.</p>
+     *
      * @param id The desired resource identifier, as generated by the aapt
      *           tool. This integer encodes the package, type, and resource
      *           entry. The value 0 is an invalid identifier.
diff --git a/core/jni/android_util_AssetManager.cpp b/core/jni/android_util_AssetManager.cpp
index 7146667472ab3..d422951039e86 100644
--- a/core/jni/android_util_AssetManager.cpp
+++ b/core/jni/android_util_AssetManager.cpp
@@ -703,7 +703,7 @@ static jint android_content_AssetManager_loadResourceValue(JNIEnv* env, jobject
 #endif
     uint32_t ref = ident;
     if (resolve) {
-        block = res.resolveReference(&value, block, &ref);
+        block = res.resolveReference(&value, block, &ref, &typeSpecFlags, &config);
 #if THROW_ON_BAD_ID
         if (block == BAD_INDEX) {
             jniThrowException(env, "java/lang/IllegalStateException", "Bad resource!");