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Here are a few Apk's I modified the icons on. I will be changing and modifying more when I have a chance. Enjoy. Just use ADB to push them to the /system/app directory on your phone or use Root Explorer on your phone to move them to the same directory.
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What would be the easiest way to download and change the font systemwide?
Here is a way to do it in the terminal.
First backup the fonts that you have on your phone. This will dump them in your SDK tools directory.
adb pull /system/fonts
Put those fonts in a different directory to keep them safe. Decide what font you would like to replace and what fonts they will replace on the phone. Rename those fonts with the same file name as the ones that you pulled from the phone. So, if you wanted to replace Droidsans with Helvetica, you would rename helvetica.ttf to Droidsans.ttf. Once you have renamed them, put them in your tools directory.
Then push them back to the phone:
adb remount
adb push DroidSans.ttf /system/fonts
Reboot the phone. Now the new fonts should be working.
Also, if you put all of your websafe fonts on your phone (verdana, georgia, etc), your browser should actually start using them on the websites that you view. I am not completely sure about the stock browser, but I know that it worked in Opera.
looking for fonts online i found some but i pushed one and i couldnt read it at all does anyone know what the default font size is to preview before i push it to the phone?
for ROOT
please backup with Xrecovery before trying this. Sometimes when I tried to change transitions for other downloaded on the internet I had bootloop.
I’ve managed to change transitions in X8 to Stock Android (sliding left and right).
I’ve prepared framework-res.apk file that you have to switch with the original one.
You can try to prepare your custom transitions by changing the files in .apk in res/anim folder. You have to change files that begin with semc_activity. You can find animation .xml file on the Internet. To swapping files you can use WinRAR.
In framework APK there are files called activity_open_*.xml and semc_activity_open*. I’ve just deleted the semc* files, copy and renamed the other files so that they begin with semc_*.
Installation using propc method:
Extract the zip file into root of your sd card. (make sure the files are in root).
in adb shell, use this command:
_________
su
cd /sdcard
sh reframe.sh
_________
I think you can also swap the framework-res.apk file using root explorer, but I didn’t tried it.
I advice to use these custom transitions together with LauncherPro because it has custom fancy applaunch animation. With ADW launcher there’s probably no transition when launching app (I don’t know why). You can use SpareParts application to change the speed of transitions.
Remember – backup first with xrecovery.
Hello
How can i get back "AllShare Play" for my Galaxy S3? I installed another firmware and a rom and don't really know when it was deleted. I tried to find a solution but I couldn't find anything to solve the problem.
Cance
Go find a Stockish Rom that still has the bloatware........and just extract the System/app folder and put the apks that you want back into your current system/app folder.
Yeh useful tools are bloatware
Thanks for the fast answer but I don't know how to extract the folder when I have a ROM with the needed APK. Can I do this on my computer or do I have to do this on my phone?
Download the Rom to your phone or Computer.
Extract the Rom using a File explorer on your phone or a 7zip/winzip program on your PC and go through the folders...Find the
System/App folder it will be filled with every system app you can need......pick out the apks you want to add into your current set up.
save them to a folder and put them back on your phone....or if on your phone just copy them from the extracted location and navigate back to your Local System/App folder, make the Folder R/W so you can add and remove the system files.....and just paste them back in your current system folder overwriting the current ones. and set the premission to match the rest of the folder most of the time i think its rw-r-r
and reboot. sounds long.....but it only takes me 2 min to copy and replace the files and reboot.
its really simple once you do it a couple times.
hope this helps
Thank you very much, didn't know that it is this easy. I never opened the zip file of a rom ^^
What's the name of the apk? I don't see an obviously named app?
After root I deleted DefaultContainerService.apk by mistake but one good thing is I had copied terminal, linuxforandroid and ROOT Explorer to the system/app folder.
Bad thing is these 3 apps are not installed by default even though it is in system/app folder. (Other pre existing apps are installed) when the reset happens.
I am not able to install any apps now without DefaultContainerService :crying:
Even after format I am having root format.
When you move apps to /system, they must have permissions set to 0644 then reboot to have it take affect. If you can find a stock based rom, you should be able to extract that apk and move it to system, set permissions, reboot and good to go.
Partial
The solution is great. i used adb and changed the permission and reset the phone.
I can see the app installed but when i open it it tells failed.
I found temp solution of pushing DefaultcontentProvider through adb but still I want it to be in default app list. Do not want to push after every reset.
Thought id share this since it can be quite a hassle to find everything needed if you wanna translate stuff yourself or edit something for personal needs.
This was done on miui stable 8.1.3.0 from xiami.eu on a mi5 but should work on other miui versions and roms (with slight modification)
Download Bursoft apktool (http://bursoft-portable.blogspot.se/p/blog-page_23.html) and unzip to C:\BatchApkTool
Make sure you have java installed (www.java.com)
You will also need root
Fetch the following files/folders from your phone and copy them to C:\BatchApkTool\_framework
system/framework/framework-res.apk
system/framework/framework-ext-res/
system/app/miui/
system/app/miuisystem/
system/priv-app/miuisystemUI/
Place the apk you wanna modify in C:\BatchApkTool\_INPUT_APK\
Execute BatchApkTool.exe in c:\BatchApkTool\
Press 1 to decompile
Go to your C:\BatchApkTool\_INPUT_APK\ folder and if everything worked alright then open the newly created folder from the apk file you just decompiled and make whatever change you wanna do. If you wanna translate, then open the \res\ folder and make a new folder called values-sv (if you wanna add swedish language for example) then you can either copy strings.xml from another language folder and edit them or grab xml from a partially (or fully but not 100% voted) translated source like crowdin or github
Do not use caps or anything other wierd stuff or it wont compile afterwards
You can now return to batchapktool and press 3 to recompile and hopefully no errors, otherwise check log to determine possible cause.
Do not sign the apk!
Now open the recently modified compiled apk with winrar (your w/e zip program you prefer) and grab resources.arsc out of there. Now open a copy of the original apk and paste the resources.arsc into it (replacing the existing resources.arsc).
Plug in the phone to the computer and copy the apk to the internal memory
Open your favourite root browser (using romtoolbox filemanager myself) and go to the location of the original apk and rename it (or make a backup incase any error occurs), now copy the modified apk you copied earlier into the folder of the apk you wanna replace, e.g system/app/ or system/priv-app/
Kill/close app (incase it was started earlier) and restart it and see if the changes are live!
Edit: After you replaced the files, then you need to chmod those aswell to 0644 and possibly clear cache in twrp
Might have forgotten something but just ask and ill try to help