Sorry for noob question..
what's the best way to edit a build prob in a rom before you install it? plus would the zip then need to be resigned in anyway before you could install it?
any help much appreciated, cheers
open zip, copy the file, open with wordpad, edit, paste into zip
thanks. does that then need to be signed to load properly without sending into bootloop?
u only need a rooted phone and a file manager with root(superuser) accesss. edit the file as a normal text file. be careful while u do it though. u can brick ur device if u arent!
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Hey all, Well i know we could not wait for a Honeycomb theme, i know i cannot, but heres my conundrum.
I have made a honeycomb keyboard, but cannot get it to install for the life of me, ive used the testkeys, shared, platform, etc (all using Signapktic from Stericson. Does anyone have any clue as to why it will not install?
A few questions that i know you might ask, answered ...
No, there is no other keyboard, other than swype, and samsung keypad..
I made it off of the GB keyboard...
Yes, I have made many of themes, many of changes to Frameworks, and have had sucess installing, and running my custom roms....
My question basically is this, IF POSSIBLE, CAN ANYONE SIGN THE FILES I HAVE TO MAKE THIS WORK? PM ME AND I SHALL SEND THE FILES. CREDIT WILL BE GIVIN, I AM ON THE OTHER HAND GOING TO NEED SOME SORT OF PROOF YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING, I WORKED REAL HARD ON THIS, SO FOR RIGHT NOW ITS PRIVATE, HENSE THE PM.
THANKS AGAIN IN ADVANCE. REMEMBER .. LETS GET THIS HONEYTCOMB GOING
I know that most of the keyboards dont work simply by installing but rather need to be pushed to the data\app or data\app_s folder depending on which rom you are running. You can accomplish this using adb or using a file explorer like RootExplorer.
Thanks
Thank you man, this helps a whole lot. Now do i need to re-sign each apk inside the rom folder? or can i just re-sign the .zip?
georgegreco86 said:
Thank you man, this helps a whole lot. Now do i need to re-sign each apk inside the rom folder? or can i just re-sign the .zip?
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I'm not sure what .zip you're refering to other than a CWM recovery flashable .zip for you keyboard. If this is what you mean, then use the same signiture (key) you'd find in any of the flashable .zips on the forums. In other words, just copy over the META-INF folder from some other .zip to yours. Of course, you'll want to make sure the update-script in this folder is pointing at the proper directories for installation.
For your apk, you should only need to sign it if you changed the AndroidManifest.xml. Otherwise, just keep the META-INF folder from them original apk.
I would like to replace some of the .png`s inside framework-res.apk. Can i open it in winrar and just drag the modified files over? Can`t seem to find a decent answer
No.
using win rar or win zip would be very risky...
u have to use android sdk for dis....
and if u r changing .png files from the root system u have to make .apk file and then install it which will install ur new modifications....
but dis methord is also creepy.....
Do u want to make a theme or just want to make some modifications.??????
Hit the thanx button if dis helps u...
I want to modify a flashable theme for a modded ROM.
Just drag and drop the modified files. Don't forget to re-sign the apk and the zip.
yeah he's right...
u would need apk manager for dis....
just change the old files with ur modified one and ur good to go....
but i should warn u to make a nand before u do anything bcoz if somthing goes wrong u'll get a boot loop...
and at that time nand will me ur biggest resue......
hope is helps ya...
Could I create a .zip file including apps so I could flash it after I flash a rom just like we do with Gapps packages?
take an existing zip file and remove the apps you dont want in it and add the apps that you want to the zip file and save it. then you can flash this new zip file. Otherwise you would have to create a new zip file from scratch.
Its not hard to do actually. Just go on irc and someone will help you. Im just lazy and steal other peoples scripts but I actually know what the commands do.
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Awesome. Thank you both very much! I really appreciate that.
Edit: I just thought of another idea with this. Couldn't I use astro and copy and paste the apps I want into the roms I flash so they're always there? Or is that different and I should I go to irc and ask how?
i am using samsung galaxy ace with a custom rom. i want to have some of the stock apps mainly stock camera, stock task manager, and stock messages. is there a way i can get it and put it in my custom rom ???
my method-
i am not sure whether this will work or not but i think that if i get the apk file then i can put it in root/system/apps and set permissions to rw-r-r. this should work according to me.
but how do i get the apk file?
for that also i think i could extract it from the installation files for stock rom...
but the installations i have come across are either .md5 or .tar files for stock rom. hence i am unable to help to extract it and get the apk file. also i am unable to find a direct zip installation setup via cwm for stock rom. if i get that then its easy to extract the apks.
please help. i am not sure if my method is right. if it is then help me with it, if not then please tell me the other method
I think it´s not that easy, becaus the stock apps are using another framework, so they will not work if you just put them in the root/system/app folder. You have to install the framework which is used by the stock Samsung rom. If I´m wrong please correct me.
Hi all...i used this site [http://uot.dakra.lt] to make my own rom.When i
finished all,i put the zip file into my SD and with CWM5 i select "install zip from
SD card"...all works correctly....but,when i reboot the phone,this one dont start
and froze on bootanimation and i must re-install the rom to use it.I thought tht
maybe my phone is not compatible with the update but im not convinced...plis
help me in anyway.
You're not using the framework-res.apk from your current firmware , right ?
Herpderp Defy.
i solved hjust now ....i have replaced update-binary with another update-binary file and all works
thx aniway
No im not solved help me plis
do u use stock or cm7 rom?
stock rom...i dislike cm7
then copy files from system/app called system ui.apk
and copy framework-res and tw-framework from system/framework
and upload them dont know what else u could do wrong