Hi All,
as you may see, I'm new to XDA and even though I'm familiar with linux, I'm new to the whole Android thing. I successfully flashed VillainROM onto my SGA and noticed that I don't like the stock gingerbread launcher. So I tried to get any TouchWiz-Style launcher on my phone:
I tried the "TouchWiz Launcher for Gingerbread [V4]":
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1049501
I had to replace the "update-binary", but finally it doesn't match the screen size of the sga and moreover it always crashes when I'm trying to start any app.
I also tried the "Honeycomb" theme:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1104335
Some icons and the general menu style changed, but the launcher didn't change - could that be because I couldn't figure out how to install that "minimal.zip"-file?
I somewhere grabbed "TW4_for_Tab - 182dpi.zip" of which I thought it was made for the sga, but it failed to install.
Besides, I tried some other TouchWiz (4) mods of which I can't find the reference anymore. Some of them didn't install (the well-known "error in /tmp/sideload/package.zip") even with a replaced "update-binary", so that wasn't a success either.
I figured out how to mount the unmodified 2.3.3 Samsung-ROM and could access the TouchWiz30Launcher.apk - but I didn't try to move it to my system folder because it isn't de-odexed - is it a problem to put a non-de-odexed apk (and it's .odex) onto a generally de-odexed phone?
Now I'd like to know if there is any easily usable TouchWiz I could use. Some enhanced version of TouchWiz with additional features would be nice, but I think I would also be satisfied with the unmodded Samsung TouchWiz.
Thanks in advance!
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Good morning,
I'm looking for a working deskclock.apk for my Atrix. I loved this stock app on my old Desire, and used to left it open during the night as a clock.
I really miss it on my Atrix, coz the screen always gets off when I leave the phone with the stock clock app. opened.
I tried Kaloer Clock but it ain't perfect. Either the screen gets off by itself, or the screen remains on, even if the app is not open.
I tried to extract the deskclock.apk from some Desire's ROMs but the installation failed..
Do you know any similar apps or is there a way to make it work on the Atrix ?
Is this the stock clock app from android or something specific to the sense rom? If stock, I used one I pulled from CM7 for the nexus one. It just installed like a regular apk.
I tried to install one that I get in Desire's CM7 that I've extracted but I have an error duringn the installation. Maybe I should extract the ROM with the appropriate tool Will try and let you know, thanks
edit : I've extracted a fresh downloaded CM7 ROM for Desire, copied the file Deskclock.apk located in /system/app and tried to install it on my Atrix, but after a short progress bar I'm stuck with an error "error occurred during kit analysis" (french translation).
I won't even try with the Desire stock app which obviously requires sense...
If someone knows a similar app...
re-edit : the application Alarm Clock Pro does exactly what I was looking for !
Gentle alarms good too, but no desk top clock.
Swyped from 'mount' Olympus
Did anyone tried to use --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1531222&highlight=lost cause i wonted to customize my status bar with it and after instal in recowery i lost my status bar and needed to restore system ;/ It looks fantastic and i'm wonderig if someone tried it in cm9 for legend (as i tried) with better succes then I
Secound question is if there is any way to replace stock launcher contats dialer from CM9 to Go launcher and other Go aps without "make as defoult". I meen if there is any way to remove from system contats, dialer and trebuchet and replace it with Go aps
the "Reloaded ICS" thread lists a deodexed cm9 rom as requirement - our current legend's cm9 is obviously odexed atm...
Okay so I decided to stick to stock rom, because after last update I'm finding it very fast, and my battery seems to last longer then ever (I do have it supercharged and im using 128MB of swap), but I still like stock AOSP apps more than SE, so I took apps from JJ's hybrid (those should work w/o problems, as the rom is based on stock), I successfully 'installed' (copied to system/app) mms.apk, calendar.apk, deskclock.apk (for the latter I had to remove semcdeskclock.apk because of same signature), however, when I tried to 'install' phone app, the phone started misbehaving (it won't connect to mobile network, and settings stopped working randomly).
How do I get stock AOSP phone, contacts and that nice menu that you get, if you click on a contact shortcut on dekstop (in this case SE decided to stick to android 2.1 style, for some strange reason. It looks very out of place).
I am not interested in running a custom rom again, because I tried a couple, and at least one important thing didn't work as it should've, and if possible, I would like to do it manually (copy all the files where they should go with file manager), but I'll settle for recovery zips too.
Thanks!
If you read through the thread for JJ's rom, you'll see that he had to modify quite a few things (framework, etc.) to get those AOSP apps working and (reasonably) bug free. Unless you're trying to reinvent the wheel, you'd be better off using his rom if you want them, there's no magic way to get them to work. His rom is available as a recovery zip (intended for locked bootloaders, but of course doesn't need to be) if you prefer that.
Yeah, I thought so. I'll stick to stock, it feels less buggy. Thanks!
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I recently flashed Clean 1.2 and that's when this started. I use these apps often, so I know it wasn't an issue until I changed roms. Not getting any assistance in the rom thread. Wondering if anyone has seen this.
I am using ADW. I switched back to stock TW and I get the same view in the apps on TW, so it's not the launcher causing this..I have reinstalled the apps and it still happens.
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I believe it's caused by modified touchwiz launcher such as the 5x6 format instead of the stock 4x4 format.
No idea how to fix other than going back to the stock config'd launcher.
As there don't seem to be any dev projects getting anywhere soon for the EU version.
Would it be possible to remove Sense for this phone and install a new launcher over the top (Apex or similar) (I am aware that I can just install a launcher, but I don't have the space on my phone, and I find it creates a very slow phone adding new layers)
So essentially make it senseless and completely mod my phone front end.
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As there don't seem to be any dev projects getting anywhere soon for the EU version.
Would it be possible to remove Sense for this phone and install a new launcher over the top (Apex or similar) (I am aware that I can just install a launcher, but I don't have the space on my phone, and I find it creates a very slow phone adding new layers)
So essentially make it senseless and completely mod my phone front end.
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I got rid of most of the sense stuff but you do need to be careful... best thing to do is to use either root toolbox pro or titanium backup to freeze each app individually then if theres no problem you can delete them from your phone.. only problem I had was that on the original software all the stuff i deleted just reinstalled when the phone reset... but using deodexed version of eu gave me more freedom...
another problem can be that some launchers wont work when you convert them to system apps...