I'm running Viper ROM which has HTC Reader uninstalled and placed in the Removed apps folder. All of the other .apks in that folder install except for HTC Reader. Does anyone have an apk they can send me or know of a way to get that running again?
I really like the dynamic page turning of HTC's Reader. I've tried 7 other ebook programs and none of them offer the page turning dynamics of HTC Reader.
TIA
Edit: so I know I need to put it in system/apps and set the permissions correctly. How do i set permissions correctly?
toneman1984 said:
I'm running Viper ROM which has HTC Reader uninstalled and placed in the Removed apps folder. All of the other .apks in that folder install except for HTC Reader. Does anyone have an apk they can send me or know of a way to get that running again?
I really like the dynamic page turning of HTC's Reader. I've tried 7 other ebook programs and none of them offer the page turning dynamics of HTC Reader.
TIA
Edit: so I know I need to put it in system/apps and set the permissions correctly. How do i set permissions correctly?
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I've explained this in my thread to you. Move the reader app to /system/app with root explorer. Press and hold on another app in that folder and tap permissions. Whatever you see checked and unchecked there, do the same for the ereader app. Reboot if you still don't see the app. It should then show up.
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Got my nootlet sideloading and rooted, rocking the GoLauncher, replaced b&n home screen, and i'm happy except for a couple things: google market only wants to crash, but more importantly I miss being able to drag books onto the home screen. I tried anycut but didn't see a way to add a shortcut to a file.
Am i not using it right or is this not (yet) doable?
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Download ES File Explorer from the market.
Navigate to any folder or file with it, and long press. Choose Shortcut. It will create a file or folder shortcut on the homescreen.
Since you're using GoLauncher, you can also longpress the shortcut, choose 'replace' and select any icon you want from installed themes or icon packs, or select 'custom icon' and create one (say, of a book cover) from a .jpg file.
You are my hero! Thanks.
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Also, google market crashing is a permissions issue - it should be in system/apps, with all other programs set as rw-r--r-- and Vending.apk specifically showing rw-rw-rw- (you can check this with root explorer) - at least it is for me, and rw-r--r-- promptly crashes it. data/app should also have a com.android.vending.apk with permissions rw-r--r--. If not, reinstall, or factory reset + reroot (don't need to do the drivers part again). You *will* miss a functional android market. It's more useful than you think.
I un-rooted then re-rooted the nook. That seems to have solved all the issues I was having. So zmobile, your advice made perfect sense, thanks.
cellhead said:
I un-rooted then re-rooted the nook. That seems to have solved all the issues I was having. So zmobile, your advice made perfect sense, thanks.
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Great! Glad it works
Hi there,
nook tablet not rooted
Go Launcher and ES Explorer on
tried to find my ebooks searching for .epub or .pdf but cannot find nothing.
i'm uploading my books from pc with calibre.
everytime i try to enter in a path (internal memory, sd card...) a message pop up similar to (sorry i do not have my nook here now) "no folders are found, do you want to create one?"
thanks
The books go in /media/my files/books
Path on sd card is /my files/books
They will all show up in the library then.
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in my gallery it shows images from my g+ account, but no others. is there a way to make it read from the sdcard?
3D gallery does read from SDcard by default, try moving it to /system/app and giving proper permissions.
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nevermind. it is reading from the sdcard. i didnt realize things downloaded from dropbox were finding there way onto the system instead of sdcard! is this right? i thought dropbox would automatically move files downloaded from the cloud to sdcard
jsp254 said:
nevermind. it is reading from the sdcard. i didnt realize things downloaded from dropbox were finding there way onto the system instead of sdcard! is this right? i thought dropbox would automatically move files downloaded from the cloud to sdcard
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Dropbox downloads go directly to the SDcard , it creates a folder named dropbox in the root of your sdcard.
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I agree, it should, but its not. I'm not near my device right now to tell you the exact path, but they are going to somewhere in /media in the root folder. I had to use root explorer to move an image from there to sdcard. I'll update this later with the path. I'm also going to look and see where the dropbox apk installed. I recently "8 restart" reset my device and ran the snowball mod root process. I may have geeked it up in the process. I may need to un-root and run the program fresh.
On a side note, I have never seen a device where so many people do the same thing and have so many different results. Even with snowball mod, I have some white on white menus. Such as adw ex settings menu and beautiful weather widget's settings menus.
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jsp254 said:
I agree, it should, but its not. I'm not near my device right now to tell you the exact path, but they are going to somewhere in /media in the root folder. I had to use root explorer to move an image from there to sdcard. I'll update this later with the path. I'm also going to look and see where the dropbox apk installed. I recently "8 restart" reset my device and ran the snowball mod root process. I may have geeked it up in the process. I may need to un-root and run the program fresh.
On a side note, I have never seen a device where so many people do the same thing and have so many different results. Even with snowball mod, I have some white on white menus. Such as adw ex settings menu and beautiful weather widget's settings menus.
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Oh that explain better you have snowballmod which it has 2 mods to use internal space so you need to find apps that can access all your media apart of your sdcard, quickpic gives you that option instead of gallery 3D.
Settings > browser > included folders
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jsp254 said:
in my gallery it shows images from my g+ account, but no others. is there a way to make it read from the sdcard?
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Im sure you got an answer to this already, I had this issue too, and my music wasn't showing in the music player either. I found a folder on my SDcard labled "my files" in this folder there are folders for pictures, music etc. I moved the pictures and music to the appropriate folders a BAM they all show up now.
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I just download cypher rom, but I really miss reader and pdf apps can someone compile an apk, thanks...
Load up whatever ROM had those items on it, download and install Astro file viewer (free app).
Create a backup (application backup)of the apps you want to keep, and then transfer them to your SD card.
Install on Cypher rom.
I just got reader working on my cypher rom flashed evo view.
I've attached the reader apk that I took from A Clever Name's ROM.
Simply add this to your system/app folder and restart the tablet, the reader should pop up in your applications tab.
I tried to look for the apk for the pdf reader, but since I primarily use ezpdf I couldn't find it and wasn't too worried about it.
If you can get me the name of the apk for the pdf reader I can see if it was in his ROM (or you can do that yourself)
Can I add my own books to that Reader and if so in what format. I have a couple of books here in two different formats.
This is the default reader app that comes from the stock HTC. So you use it exactly like that one and it supports the scribe fuctions and so forth.
Thank you for your prompt response
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Can I add my own books to that Reader and if so in what format. I have a couple of books here in two different formats.
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I have some epubs in a folder in my sd card, reader search and add all the compatible files. You can convert books to epub using a free app calibre
Hey guys thanks for the solution for recap, the only missing step was how to access system/app folder, just download root explorer from market (maybe anyone can suggest a free app) and paste the apk in system/app folder restart the device and you are ready to go.
Installing it was perfect. As long as your rooted, lol. To get the books to show up on your phone. A restart is required. I placed the books on my SD Card and left it there the whole day and the Reader did not pick up on them. But when I did a restart a few minutes ago an alert popped up telling me that it's importing my books and there they were on the Reader. Thanks again for the app; now to sit back with a cup of tea and enjoy reading =D
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I currently have a HTC EVO 3D, and on that phone I am able to create a folder named ".story" in my file manager app, and all the pictures i put in there will not be shown in the gallery app. Works very nicely and exactly how i want it to.
Now onto my issue.
I tried to do the same on my Prime, creating the folder, putting the exact same images in that folder (all from dropbox, syncing it to my comp, phone and tablet).
But the images still show up in the gallery app.
I also tried to put a file named ".nomedia" in the folder where i keep all my pictures, still didn't work.
I tried rebooting several times to see if i had to force a media rescan, but it seems like it didn't work.
I'm running .21 update, stock, with root.
Am i missing something, or doesn't this work on the prime? If so, any other way to do so? (I don't want to use a "vault" app to hide pictures and such)
- Moon
I had the same problem a few weeks ago. Try the app Hide it Pro. It's free on the Play Store and does pretty much what your asking for. It also works with videos, Docs and apps.
Sorry can't post links yet!
Edit: oops sorry, I didn't read the full post
it is annoying
You are not alone, naming the folder with a initial . and creating a .nomedia file does not work for me either, and I find it annoying. Clearing Gallery cache did not help either.
Works just fine, ".foldername" with a .nomedia file in it. Does for me at least, hides it from gallery and from the built in file manager. ES file explorer picks it up but it's at that point you're not hiding anything
EDIT: Try making a file on your computer, right click and New>File, name it .nomedia, then DropBox (that's a sign up link, you'd help me out as well as yourself by using it) it. Download it and copy/pasta to the folder. That's how I did it, because a guide I read said it worked better if from the PC instead of through Android.
If you're trying to hide a whole trove of things, make a folder and name it ".foldername" and then put your hidden folder in there and name it ".foldername2", then drop a .nomedia into .foldername and .foldername2 as well, doubling up on that.
I wouldn't recommend that with app picture caches though
If you are up for using a different Gallery app, you can whitelist and blacklist folders to be displayed in QuickPic
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Works just fine, ".foldername" with a .nomedia file in it. Does for me at least, hides it from gallery and from the built in file manager. ES file explorer picks it up but it's at that point you're not hiding anything
EDIT: Try making a file on your computer, right click and New>File, name it .nomedia, then DropBox (that's a sign up link, you'd help me out as well as yourself by using it) it. Download it and copy/pasta to the folder. That's how I did it, because a guide I read said it worked better if from the PC instead of through Android.
If you're trying to hide a whole trove of things, make a folder and name it ".foldername" and then put your hidden folder in there and name it ".foldername2", then drop a .nomedia into .foldername and .foldername2 as well, doubling up on that.
I wouldn't recommend that with app picture caches though
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I did as you suggested, and it friggin worked! AWESOME!, mucho love to you
Now my files on my tablet is in a folder named ".story", inside that is a folder named "story" with a ".nomedia" file in it, and inside the "story" folder are all my pictures. (I made the ".nomedia" file on Windows, dropboxed it over to my Android Tablet (I made a new .txt document, removed the .txt and just named it ".nomedia" if anyone is wondering)).
After you try it, be sure to reboot your tablet, as that forces a media rescan
I'm not liking Marshmallow. I upgraded my HTC One (M8) from lollipop to Marshmallow and have encountered lots of permission issues with apps.
This one make no sense to me... Every time an app is updated, you have to grant permissions, all over again. This is no big deal for some apps because you will receive a prompt to allow/grant the various permissions they need but some apps do not prompt you like they should. It took me a while to figure out why auto-sync stopped working for my email and calendar app. They never prompt for permissions after they update (even when used for the first time) so I have to manually grant permissions using the phone's Apps settings. Maybe the app developers need to change some code but I think this new way of granting permissions is overkill and it sucks! Just one man's opinion
Also, you no longer have the option to select external storage as the default location when apps are installed. I manually moved each of my apps to external but some of them would crash or hang even though I made sure all permissions were granted. I had to move them all back to the internal storage in order for them to function properly.
Anyway... The reason I created this post is to ask if others have encountered this issue and to ask about a couple of apps. Neither WPS Office nor MS Word can save files to the external SD card but Polaris Office works just fine. Also, no longer can you specify a "Downloads" folder on an external SD card for Dolphin Browser to use. Anyone else experience these or similar issues? Is there a way to change this behavior?
It's my [email protected] SD card on my [email protected] phone! I should be able to use it however I see fit.
Cheers!