[Q] Replacing the stock calendar app with default android calendar - Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini

Sony Ericsson includes a custom calendar application with its' Android phones and it is extremely limited, ugly, and slow.
I found the default Calendar.apk for Android and ran it on my phone, but all I got was "Installation not successful"
How can I run an apk as root from the phone?
Cheers

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I finally figured out how to do this...
You will need a rooted device, adb installed on your computer, and the stock calendar application, attached here.
On your phone uninstall Calendar and CalendarProvider. Using Titanium Backup or some other app makes it easier.
Then go to phone Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications and delete:
com.android.calendar
com.android.calendarprovider
Connect the phone to you computer in debug mode and launch a terminal.
adb install /pathToFile/CalendarProvider.apk
adb install /pathToFile/Calendar.apk
You're done

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Is the stock Android calendar different for each android device?

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Has anyone else tried this?
Very keen to get rid of the stock calendar application, it's really bad.

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I would try this however I need to find the stock Android calendar first.

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The stock calendar app is now attached to the previous post

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If I replace this calendar app with the stock app from SE, will I retain my calendar entries? I should expect so since it is based on Google Calendar right? Just asking to make sure, thanks in advance.
Sent from my U20i using XDA App

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Google stores the data so don't worry about it.
But remember you are replacing the Sony Ericsson app with the Android stock app.
Cheers

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were you successful in replacing the SE calendar app with android stock?
is it stable?

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x10bravia said:
were you successful in replacing the SE calendar app with android stock?
is it stable?
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I would like to know this as well. I really want a decent calendar and sync it with my outlook.
Sent from my SE X10 Mini Pro using Tapatalk Pro

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just follow the steps and it'll work.
it's stable and faster than the default app. cheers

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thanks for the response.
i'll definitely do it this weekend.

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this must be for 1.6.....
i have 3 default calendar apps here in my 2.1....
calendar, calendar bridge, and calendar storage....
and can only find calendarprovider.apk in the system/app folder...
should i delete all 3? and replace them with the attached calendar and calendarprovider?

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x10bravia said:
this must be for 1.6.....
i have 3 default calendar apps here in my 2.1....
calendar, calendar bridge, and calendar storage....
and can only find calendarprovider.apk in the system/app folder...
should i delete all 3? and replace them with the attached calendar and calendarprovider?
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This is for 2.1
I think it's safe to delete those apps since I don't have them and the phone works. Then install the attached files.
cheers

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I tried this yesterday - I just got an "Incorrect version" error when I tried to install the stock apps. I tried manually copying them to /system/app/ but the phone didn't pick them up (no icon in the launcher)

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Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE] on my mini (not pro). Now my calendar is broken

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j2sun said:
Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE] on my mini (not pro). Now my calendar is broken
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That happened to me at first.
You need to remove "com.android.calendar" and "com.android.calendarprovider" before installing the new calendar. Are you sure you did this?

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j2sun said:
Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE] on my mini (not pro). Now my calendar is broken
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Yup. That's exactly what happened with me, too. I copied back the SE calendar apps to /system/app and chmod'd them to 644 and rebooted, and got the SE calendar back. If you didn't back those up first, there's a copy of all the system apps on the forum somewhere.
(I deleted everything with "calendar" in the name from the /system/app folder, along with the corresponding data from /data/data/, rebooted, and tried installing the supplied apks, from adb, via a file manager, and by directly copying to /system/app/ and none worked.

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That's weird. It works perfectly on my phone with Android 2.1
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nachodeh said:
That's weird. It works perfectly on my phone with Android 2.1
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Did you have to change the file rw permissions?