So i want to take the phone app out of eugenes macnut and toss that on my phone
The way i went about this was unzipping the macnut rom and copying the phone.apk going in through root explorer and plopped it in to my system/app/ folder.
the first time i did this it started an endless "force close phone.app" and had to fire up a backup i made in recovery...
the second time i tried it i replaced both phone.apl and phone_util.apk, this time i got a force close pop up two or three times then it went away... but nothing on the phone changed.
what am i doing wrong here.
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i also tried just unzipping both roms i am using... swapping the files around and re-zipping and flashing... but it hung on the install and i was told thats because of the xml file does not know what the modification was so it does not know how to handle the changes.
:the explanation:
I just like the way it looks with the contact option in the tab. Also I dont like how the "log" list either one thing or everything; I prefer to see incomming/outgoing/missed and not have to have a full thing of text messages.
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Sorry if I missed the answer I'm looking for but I did search first, I tried editing a few .png files and after pushing the framework-res.apk back everything on my phone went into a force close loop, I tried pushing the original back and it did the same thing, any help?
I tried editing a PNG file the in call screen pic and pushed it to phone and same thing happened to me,no idea why
After you edit framework-res it must be signed you cannot simply flash it, first you must edit the images you choose, make sure the names stay the same, make it an apk, sign the apk, the reload in the rom by pushing it.
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Captainkrtek
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How do you go bouts signing it
I've never had to resign that one after making any changes. Just a reboot would suffice.
Edit: Maybe try using Metamorph to make your changes. That's what I did recently on that particular apk without a problem. I mistakenly thought I pulled/pushed that one, but maybe I didn't.
PPCGeek01 said:
I've never had to resign that one after making any changes. Just a reboot would suffice.
Edit: Maybe try using Metamorph to make your changes. That's what I did recently on that particular apk without a problem. I mistakenly thought I pulled/pushed that one, but maybe I didn't.
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heres a good instruction for theming and a singningzip for your sdk tools folder... http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/56-mods-blackbar-etc-50x/page__st__20__p__3320#entry3320
I have a different boot animation on my phone and I'm not sure hot to apply it I don't have a pc so I want to do this straight through the phone I have sufb and astro file and the new boot animation shows up but I don't know where to put it any body know what I can do?
Willsnews
So just to be clear I have it on my phone but don't know how to switch between the stock and the new one x_x help me please I can't stand the stock animation t mobile gives
Willsnews
You want root explorer. First you want to extract the zip file that contains the boot animation that you want, using astro file manager. Then go into root explorer, and replace /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg and /system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg
That will replace the video. The bootup sound is /system/etc/PowerOn.wav
replace those files with the one from the zip.
The shutdown video is a handful of image files located in /system/media/video/shutdown
and the shutdown sound is /system/media/audio/ui/Shutdown_128.ogg
Any other program other than root explorer cause I can't buy it cause I can't put it on my bill?
Willsnews
I have sufbs astro and andexplorer can I use those to do it?
Willsnews
Astro file manager doesn't give me a extract option but sufbs does but I guess I need ther root explorer for this cause I haven't had any luck any other way if you do know of a way to do this with the things I have listed it would be awesome to know and thanks for the reply x_x
Willsnews
I also do not have busybox wil that make a difference?
Willsnews
i tried a different approach but it worked for me.
i used root explorer and deleted the .PNG files from
/system/media/video/shutdown
then, i used VirtualDub (free download, just google it) and opened a gif that i wanted to use as my shutdown animation
once in virtualdub, go to file, export, image sequence and change the name to
shutdown_
for the number of digits in select 1
then change output to .PNG
click ok.
Go to the folder that you exported it to and select 14 consecutive images that you want to use and change the file names in order to shutdown_1, shutdown_2 etc....
move these files to your external sd card.
Now go back into root explorer and find these files. Select all of them and move them to system/media/video/shutdown.
You are done. With this method you can use any .gif you want so long as it has only 14 frames. I'm sure there is a way you can use more than 14 frames but I haven't figured that out yet.
I followed all these steps.
1) I'm rooted
2) Have Root Explorer
When I go to paste my new .png files over the old ones, everything seems fine. But when I check the files, they are still the old ones.
Also when I try and delete some of them, they appear gone for a second, then re-appear.
I've tried changing permissions for the files / folders, which appears to work. But then when I look at the permissions again, they have been set back to the way they were before.
Any help appreciated.
Mike
Same thing for me, I have no idea where to go from here, all i know is i will do anything it takes to never have to see that eye sore of a pink square t mobile bootup again... Someone help a brotha out
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There is an app to do it on the evo... not that it helps us.
Yeah I figured this out while ago thank you his for trying to help me and the thread can be deleted or closed
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I have a different boot animation on my phone and I'm not sure hot to apply it I don't have a pc so I want to do this straight through the phone I have sufb and astro file and the new boot animation shows up but I don't know where to put it any body know what I can do?
Willsnews
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if you have CWM go to recovery and install the zip of your boot animation (if its not in a zip idk) but this worked for me
Im trying to teach myself here and actually reading unlike others at times, but What my GOAL: is to remove the GPS icon in my ROM when it is not active. I may be wrong so please correct me if I am...
I started with "APKtool" to decompile my "systemUI.apk" I then edited "HtcCdmaStatusBar.smali" located in "com/android/systemui/statusbar/policy"
I ran into a problem with compiling it back together with errors (after trying for hours to find my mistake) I moved on to...
"APK-Manager"
Again following instructions I decompiled "systemUI.apk" using "com.htc.resources.apk" as well since its a system file..
It seems to have worked, it said to delete whatever I modified in the "keep" folder well the ".smali" files don't appear only XML and system images but I went ahead and tried to take that "SystemUI.apk" that I recompiled with the edited files and dropped it in my phone via root manager
(well yea that didnt seem to work)
I moved on to this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=549309
I used it as a reference to edit the files I wanted to and not the the ones that were on the guide. well I had no errors and I and did everthing correctly, as i thought and the finally step I pushed the "SystemUI.apk" via adb and then rebooted
That resulted in a force close on my "status bar" i believe it said when I booted it up, after i cleared the force close my phone worked fine except the fact I had NO TASKBAR what so ever...
I am running "Showdown 1.0'
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1209777
Like always, Thanks for any help or ideas in advanced....
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Moving to Q&A
Where did the thread go? Dont see it in Q &A forum??? Having the same problem
I was JUST having a very similar issue.. I was trying to decompile and recompile rosie but it kept giving me errors. Someone said try apkmanager 4.9 (I was using 5) and my problems went away. Also I noticed if you are using a file that has already been modified apkmanager didnt seem to like that. I had to take a stock one, make the xml changes, build it then replace whatever images I had replaced in the original
and now I cant get the ***** to build right. I'm not trying to mod it so the pull down notification bar is semi-transparent but it wont build correctly
pastebin of my apkmanager log file http://pastebin.com/uZ8JacJL
Hi there,
I upgraded my Galaxy 551 to Gingerbread 2.3.6. All went well. Unfortunately it seems to be a common side effect that the Z and Y keys (and some others) get swapped. The fix is apparently to modify the file /system/usr/keychars/sec_keypad.kcm.bin. The ideal thing is to put the old file from before the FW update back in, but of course I don't have that anymore! But the existing one can apparently be altered. If I can copy it to the SD card I can alter it in a hex editor and put it back.
So, I rooted my phone with that one click application, and that went OK too. I installed root explorer and found the file. There were also some others in the same folder I may be able to use. But, I cant make the folder R/W (pressing the button does nothing) so cant do anything with the file. I also tried Super Manager with no luck.
I am new to the phone fiddling stuff so noob level instructions would be appreciated!
Think I have it sorted. I installed superuser and then Root Explorer allowed me to select read/write. Now to try sort out this file!
OK, seems that you need to edit the file /system/usr/keylayout/sec_keypad.kl. Did that. DO'H now my keyboard doesn't work at all! Glad it saved a backup for me! Not sure what I did wrong, only edited two characters in a text file! Even the power button doesn't work. Got to pull that battery out LOL!
It seems when the file was saved it was saved with zero size. When I try to delete it to replace it with the backup it says cant delete, read only. So, not sure how I am meant to replace this and fix this problem.
Any ideas, remembering that I cant actually use any buttons on the phone!
Thanks to the limits on new accounts, I cant post this in the relevant thread, so...
I recently used http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1716124&page=73 on a new rom flash for the admire.
I found I had no gps, so I reflashed my phone then installed the gps fix script. Seemed like it worked, so I went about spending 6 hours tweaking my phone over the day.
Gps is gone again - not sure if maybe cell phone tower setting was turned on in locations tab and maybe got apps to work without it, but whatever the reason this script doesnt work for me.
The thread states that to flash one of the scripts in that doesnt have a gos issue, i need to uninstall the prior script.
How do I go about that without flashing my phone again and losing tons of work?
Do I have to look at the script and manually go in and delete every file it created and unalter every script it changed then reflash the new script?
Help?
Asking in your devices forum could be better.
But in general, yes, take a look at the zip you flashed. Inside META-INF/com/google/android you'll find an updater-script file that can be opened as text and tells you where everything inside the zip got flashed to.
Generally, scripts that run at boot get flashed to system/etc/init.d
Use a root explorer to locate the init.d address, or the name of the files that you saw inside the zip.