I found wandering around on google this video where you see the full application transparency. As you can see, you see the "desktop" of the phone with a lot of screen savers. for those who want to accept this challenge
(chrisrotolo looks a little !!!! even if this is done with an animated background )
I really dont like this look. and Imagine how any apps you have... some may be just a .png, but most Im guessing will have to be .xml edits ( first you have to find them) and then rebuilt. Wont be done by me, I can help you and give you some tips.
What Im more interested in is having a custom icon, to open the app, we know you can do it with custom launcher, by choosing another picture, but not in app drawer, thats where they have to be done manually. Not all that tough really.
I can do a settings.apk when I have time.
What Chris is getting at is that the transparency has to be done on an app by app basis. I have a lot of this working on #mystreak already. I'll look for links later. Gmail, email, phone, market, Google voice, twitter, Facebook, themed transparent.
Keep in mind that modifying non system apps (ie stuff downloaded and not in /system/apps) usually means you have to resign the app, and resigning the app means that you cant automatically update as it will complain about signature mismatches.
For system apps this doesnt matter at all since they cant be normally updated.
For apps that dont update often this might be acceptable
for apps that update often this might be a huge hassle to keep updated, at least as pre-modified apks
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Keep in mind that modifying non system apps (ie stuff downloaded and not in /system/apps) usually means you have to resign the app, and resigning the app means that you cant automatically update as it will complain about signature mismatches
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You basically get stuck with whatever app version you themed transparent. The important thing to take away though is that these transparent or inverted apps are almost never rom or streak specific. So if you just browse XDA android apps and themes section, you can find that someone has already done the hard work.
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I've installed tons of apps on my Nexus One (naturally) and am really annoyed to find many of them position themselves in the 'Share' menu on my gallery. There's no way (that I can see) to reorganize or limit this, either.
I typically either use Pixelpipe or Twidroyd to upload from there - I'd like to be able to either
A. pick and choose what does and doesn't show up in this list
OR
B. reorder it so the ones I want to use are closer to the bottom bar.
Currently, Pixelpipe *and* Twidroyd are at the top of the list. This isn't a big deal in portrait mode, but in landscape mode, they're cut off and I can't scroll up to get to them.
I would like such a mod as well!
Not being able to edit it was the main reason I uninstalled twidroid. Cuz I saw no sense why, when in twidroid, twidroid would be the first option under 'share'. That really annoyed me. I mean why whould I need to share a tweet via the 'share' menu in twidroid?
Now...quite happily using twicca which doesn't force itself as the first app under the 'share' settings.
just put a .nomedia file in the folder that has the pics you dont want in the gallery
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just put a .nomedia file in the folder that has the pics you dont want in the gallery
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You didn't get the request.
When you open a photo in the gallery app, click on 'More', and then click on 'Share', there are a TON of apps in there, most of which I don't want to use from that menu. The main one that I want to use is Pixelpipe. However, it shows up in the top of this list. That's fine in portrait mode, but the top of the list is cut-off in landscape mode, which is a hassle. I'd like to be able to either reorganize this list or remove some apps from it at my discretion, so that it's not littered with options I'm not going to use.
one way to modify the app's manifest xml and remove the broadcast receiver or other related lines.
in for this...
Billy
I like the fact that the OS allows this type of integration. It's awesome, but an option should be in settings to turn it on or off for each app.
britoso said:
one way to modify the app's manifest xml and remove the broadcast receiver or other related lines.
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So I'd need to do that for every app that appears in the list?
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So I'd need to do that for every app that appears in the list?
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That's correct. The applications declare in their manifest.xml to which Intents they can respond. They only way to have an application no longer appear in a Share menu item is to have it no longer handle the Intent that is going to be passed, and the only way to do that is to modify the application's manifest.xml.
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That's correct. The applications declare in their manifest.xml to which Intents they can respond. They only way to have an application no longer appear in a Share menu item is to have it no longer handle the Intent that is going to be passed, and the only way to do that is to modify the application's manifest.xml.
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Would I have to do this again whenever the app is updated, too?
Also, given that I have root, is there any way to set this up as an app somehow? I could launch the app, which would consist of a checklist of the apps that I have installed on my phone (which was compared against a master list somewhere of apps that declare this intent). I could then simply uncheck the ones that I want removed, and the app would automatically remove the declaration from each app's manifest? Or perhaps a way to monitor the Intent, see which apps are declaring that intent, and then populate the checklist like that?
This has been bugging me for the longest time, it would be great to be able to disable Facebook, Picasa and crap like that which I never use.
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Would I have to do this again whenever the app is updated, too?
Also, given that I have root, is there any way to set this up as an app somehow? I could launch the app, which would consist of a checklist of the apps that I have installed on my phone (which was compared against a master list somewhere of apps that declare this intent). I could then simply uncheck the ones that I want removed, and the app would automatically remove the declaration from each app's manifest? Or perhaps a way to monitor the Intent, see which apps are declaring that intent, and then populate the checklist like that?
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You would need to have root access to modify the APKs of protected and system apps. If you updated the application, it's manifest.xml would have to be changed again, too. I'm not completely certain that if you did this to Market apps if they would be updatable because of signing issues; you could do an adb pull, modify the manifest.xml, then adb push the file back, but if it's modified, I'm not sure that the Package Installer would allow the installation because of the signature.
As far as an application to automate this, I'm not sure if the permissions system on Android allows modification of another app's APK. In theory, the application would scan every APK, examine the manifest.xml of each one, and make a list of which apps respond to which Intents. It could then selectively modify the APKs (and possibly re-zipalign), but I'd rather have a slightly over-populated Share menu than deal with the hassles of broken Market application updates because my installed apps are no longer properly signed.
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...I'd rather have a slightly over-populated Share menu than deal with the hassles of broken Market application updates because my installed apps are no longer properly signed.
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Unfortunately, I think I agree with this.
Perhaps it would be easier to figure out a way to re-organize this list so that the apps that I'm actually going to use show up at the bottom (closer to the toolbar) instead of the top? Hypothetically, this would only involve finding the code that populates this list and changing 'descending' to 'ascending', right?
Rather than modifying the apps, wouldn't it be easier to have an exceptions list that the Share menu just ignores? I know that's not a very technical explanation, but what I'm trying to say is a more centralized solution where you cut out programs regardless of whether or not they have made themselves available for the Share menu.
Would be nice to edit this. If i remember correctly, during the Donut days, Cyanogen was experimenting with adding bluetooth share to the gallery app. In his code, he made an error that resulted in the "share" menu to be empty if if bluetooth is turned off. Meaning, Picasa, email, twidryod and everything else won't be there if bluetooth is turned off.
So this means that there was a way to make things disappear from the list.
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Would be nice to edit this. If i remember correctly, during the Donut days, Cyanogen was experimenting with adding bluetooth share to the gallery app. In his code, he made an error that resulted in the "share" menu to be empty if if bluetooth is turned off. Meaning, Picasa, email, twidryod and everything else won't be there if bluetooth is turned off.
So this means that there was a way to make things disappear from the list.
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Interesting - I'll have to see if I can find out how.
Unfortunately, I couldn't code my way out of a paper sack, so at some point I'm going to have to find someone to actually *do* this for us.
I would love this feature too. I currently have so many choices, I can't even see Pixelpipe on the list. I don't need to send photos to Google Googles.
I appreciate the option to, but I'd love to turn it off by app.
Very frustrated at this point with all the missing apps. No facebook, no zeam, basically half my apps are missing. I've installed them manually but I'm sick of doing this every time there is a new update.
I'm running Uruk1.0 and have installed the Uruk-market, check to make sure the Galaxy id was in place, cleared the framework over and over again but still not seeing at least 20 of the apps I use.
Anything else I can do?
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Very frustrated at this point with all the missing apps. No facebook, no zeam, basically half my apps are missing. I've installed them manually but I'm sick of doing this every time there is a new update.
I'm running Uruk1.0 and have installed the Uruk-market, check to make sure the Galaxy id was in place, cleared the framework over and over again but still not seeing at least 20 of the apps I use.
Anything else I can do?
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Have you ever seen these apps in the Market on your Archos? Some things will not show up, no matter the device footprint, or the firmware version. Even using Market Enabler doesn't help. Also, alot of apps request hardware that isn't strictly necessary, like gps and 3g, and won't show up on devices that don't have the requested hardware.
yes, I used to see them just fine before I moved to Uruk1. On Uruk.7 I could download them. Not sure what changed.
I downloaded an app called App quarantine from the market and put the following apps in the don't run bin , but before doing that I downloaded Go Launcher / Go Contacts / Go Sms Pro and did a ehh, conversion from the stock samsung apps to Go Stuff. Has anyone else done this or anything similar?
Apk's no longer running on boot
(See screen shots, i'm lazy today.)
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I downloaded an app called App quarantine from the market and put the following apps in the don't run bin , but before doing that I downloaded Go Launcher / Go Contacts / Go Sms Pro and did a ehh, conversion from the stock samsung apps to Go Stuff. Has anyone else done this or anything similar?
Apk's no longer running on boot
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There are a number of apps that do the same type of thing, Titanium Backup will 'freeze' apps as well as a whole host of additional features.
Then of course, another option is to just rename the apps from *.apk to *.bpk and rebooting.
My personal preference is a third option called Autostarts which is similar to MSconfig in Windows but for Android. The reason being is, it gives you the ability to keep an app from ever running unless you actually tap the app to run it but still allows you to keep the app installed in the event you want to use it. Google Maps comes to mind, I want it installed, I dont want it running in the background.
I dont recommend removing any of the bloatware if you plan on staying on stock but, some of it for US Note users was able to be uninstalled without root via either Settings->Applications->Manage Applications->All Applications, then tap an app and see if uninstall was lit up, if so, sweet. Or, alternatively you could go thru the Market->(Menu Key)->My Apps but not all apps show up in this list. As a side note, I actually manually did a search for many of the apps on the phone and manually updated them because they were not showing up in the market 'My Apps' list.
One other side note, most of the Samsung apps are actually pretty decent, I usually dont touch them. Its the ATT software and the apps ATT took bribe money from third parties that bothers me (Yellow Pages for example).
Oh, and a little known feature of Go Launcher is the ability to hide apps.
Tap the App drawer icon to get to the list of apps on your phone, tap the menu button, tap hide apps. For those of us that havent bothered to root, this at least gives you the ability to not have to look at apps you dont want to see in the app drawer.
Wow thank you for all the info. As far as staying stock, I like making my devices unique to me, I did keep all spen related apps, but killed pretty much everything else. I doubt my phone will ever see an official release of anything, Xda all the way
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There are a number of apps that do the same type of thing, Titanium Backup will 'freeze' apps as well as a whole host of additional features.
Then of course, another option is to just rename the apps from *.apk to *.bpk and rebooting.
My personal preference is a third option called Autostarts which is similar to MSconfig in Windows but for Android. The reason being is, it gives you the ability to keep an app from ever running unless you actually tap the app to run it but still allows you to keep the app installed in the event you want to use it. Google Maps comes to mind, I want it installed, I dont want it running in the background.
I dont recommend removing any of the bloatware if you plan on staying on stock but, some of it for US Note users was able to be uninstalled without root via either Settings->Applications->Manage Applications->All Applications, then tap an app and see if uninstall was lit up, if so, sweet. Or, alternatively you could go thru the Market->(Menu Key)->My Apps but not all apps show up in this list. As a side note, I actually manually did a search for many of the apps on the phone and manually updated them because they were not showing up in the market 'My Apps' list.
One other side note, most of the Samsung apps are actually pretty decent, I usually dont touch them. Its the ATT software and the apps ATT took bribe money from third parties that bothers me (Yellow Pages for example).
Oh, and a little known feature of Go Launcher is the ability to hide apps.
Tap the App drawer icon to get to the list of apps on your phone, tap the menu button, tap hide apps. For those of us that havent bothered to root, this at least gives you the ability to not have to look at apps you dont want to see in the app drawer.
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Just to add I guess a 'fourth' option, I like to use the app 'root toolbox' available on the market with both free and pro versions. Under the advanced menu you can remove any system apps you like but the nice thing is anything you remove is automatically backed up to the root toolbox folder on the internal sd. The backup is done automatically so you dont have to worry about removing something and forgetting to backup first and also gives you the option to restore any system apps you removed simply and easily. Ill be honest the restore feature has saved my bacon many times lol and is also a great way to experiment which apps are safe and unsafe to remove.
Hello everyone,
Here is my problem.
My background music (ttpod ) frequently get killed when I open browser or anything other thing, even when I am typing this right now got killed again.
I tried dozens ROM as stock, omega, android revolution...etc, all happens same thing.
I also tried Jkay and Xpose framework to whitelist it, but still...
Anything idea?
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Did anyone answer you with this one? I can't restore anything Jkay in my settings it just says restore failed, even though I have not limited access for Jkay on anything?
qtwrk said:
Hello everyone,
Here is my problem.
My background music (ttpod ) frequently get killed when I open browser or anything other thing, even when I am typing this right now got killed again.
I tried dozens ROM as stock, omega, android revolution...etc, all happens same thing.
I also tried Jkay and Xpose framework to whitelist it, but still...
Anything idea?
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Hey dude,
Jump on to the Xposed modules site and download the one called AppSettings_0.4.apk located here
Set this in Xposed to make it function. Open the app. Then go back to Xposed Privacy if you have it and enable this settings app to have full control. Then go back to the AppSettings apk and this should then allow you to search and should display all of your apks. This is your permissions controlller app now (not necessarily security like Xprivacy but more so the gateway for your Xposed framework. Think of it like a new toll road that has just been opened, it will allow a better route for traffic to flow to its destination, but there at the moment the toll booth is un-manned and the gates are shut so no one can use the toll road until you put a man in the booth to control the boomgates
Find Jkay app and check allow for all of its functions and bam everything working 100%
Really once you get used to this, this framework can allow for Jkay + more. Jkay should be porting his app to Xposed modules rather than trying to update every freakin framework release there is, especially considering that most of the functionality doesn't change between releases all that much. With Xposed he should publish for the top level of functionality and people who don't have a framework that is equiped with that functionality just won't get it, none of their apps will force close, nothing will screw up if they flash the incorrect version etc.
But....thinking about it, my feeling is that Jkay is more about the money than anything? If he was to do this he wouldn't make any money off people buying his app so I guess that will never work for him.
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Hey dude,
Jump on to the Xposed modules site and download the one called AppSettings_0.4.apk located here
Set this in Xposed to make it function. Open the app. Then go back to Xposed Privacy if you have it and enable this settings app to have full control. Then go back to the AppSettings apk and this should then allow you to search and should display all of your apks. This is your permissions controlller app now (not necessarily security like Xprivacy but more so the gateway for your Xposed framework. Think of it like a new toll road that has just been opened, it will allow a better route for traffic to flow to its destination, but there at the moment the toll booth is un-manned and the gates are shut so no one can use the toll road until you put a man in the booth to control the boomgates
Find Jkay app and check allow for all of its functions and bam everything working 100%
Really once you get used to this, this framework can allow for Jkay + more. Jkay should be porting his app to Xposed modules rather than trying to update every freakin framework release there is, especially considering that most of the functionality doesn't change between releases all that much. With Xposed he should publish for the top level of functionality and people who don't have a framework that is equiped with that functionality just won't get it, none of their apps will force close, nothing will screw up if they flash the incorrect version etc.
But....thinking about it, my feeling is that Jkay is more about the money than anything? If he was to do this he wouldn't make any money off people buying his app so I guess that will never work for him.
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thanks anyway , i have ready solve this problem :good:
No problems man. I usually come back and answer my own questions on the forum so that when others search that they can know answers too. So I will leave my post up.
It wasn't just me was it? The information required to solve the problem WAS NOT easily located in the sea of information within the framework thread?
Hello guys and thanks for reading this. I'd like to require your knowledge and collect your expériences, opinions about wether or not I should root.
1 / So here's the deal, what I wish for is a device with which :
-I could prevent selected apps from launching in the background by themselves (see attached picture - i never asked for any of those to launch - seriously the phone was on for only 5 minutes or so) in a one time configuration process. For example, I'd block Facebook but let Messenger do its thing freely.
-I could completely uninstall the following apps : Hangouts, Google+, Gmail, News & Weather, Chrome, Play books, Play Music... Basically everything Google except Maps, YouTube & The Play store..
2 / I Wonder, if it's possible to accomplish (some of) those things by rooting but without flashing another rom. What I mean is, can we change the governor, install super SU, other tweaking solutions... but at the same time keep the stock rom as it is whith all the apps installed as they are... and simply applying tweaks on top of it?
3 / Also, never have I once went back to factory settings, since day one, and I can feel that some apps take a bit longer to load. When receiving the SENSE 5 / 4.2.2 update, I could definitely sense a big boost in responsiveness in the OS but it now feels like before the update. Maybe it's due to those background processes, starting and ending by themselves? Or because the internal memory chip is beginning to die (I did use the phone like an animal in its early days by doing things like downloading torrents and unzipping files between 500mb-5gb) and still do sometimes. And I rarely uninstall apps. I have like 200 (every shortcuts included - like settings, help,... so basically 170 apps maybe?) and i need them at least every once in a while, so I'm the preventive type, not a hoarder.
Here are 2 attached pictures :
-the first one showing you those unwanted background processes.
-the second showing you the storage status
Enough with the background, what are your thoughts?
Thanks in advance.
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Hello guys and thanks for reading this. I'd like to require your knowledge and collect your expériences, opinions about wether or not I should root.
1 / So here's the deal, what I wish for is a device with which :
-I could prevent selected apps from launching in the background by themselves (see attached picture - i never asked for any of those to launch - seriously the phone was on for only 5 minutes or so) in a one time configuration process. For example, I'd block Facebook but let Messenger do its thing freely.
-I could completely uninstall the following apps : Hangouts, Google+, Gmail, News & Weather, Chrome, Play books, Play Music... Basically everything Google except Maps, YouTube & The Play store..
2 / I Wonder, if it's possible to accomplish (some of) those things by rooting but without flashing another rom. What I mean is, can we change the governor, install super SU, other tweaking solutions... but at the same time keep the stock rom as it is whith all the apps installed as they are... and simply applying tweaks on top of it?
3 / Also, never have I once went back to factory settings, since day one, and I can feel that some apps take a bit longer to load. When receiving the SENSE 5 / 4.2.2 update, I could definitely sense a big boost in responsiveness in the OS but it now feels like before the update. Maybe it's due to those background processes, starting and ending by themselves? Or because the internal memory chip is beginning to die (I did use the phone like an animal in its early days by doing things like downloading torrents and unzipping files between 500mb-5gb) and still do sometimes. And I rarely uninstall apps. I have like 200 (every shortcuts included - like settings, help,... so basically 170 apps maybe?) and i need them at least every once in a while, so I'm the preventive type, not a hoarder.
Here are 2 attached pictures :
-the first one showing you those unwanted background processes.
-the second showing you the storage status
Enough with the background, what are your thoughts?
Thanks in advance.
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If it's a challenge then "I'm a proud owner since January " Well , welcome aboard the sailing ship of the HOX+
Well for starters, everything you said can be acheived by root WITHOUT installing a custom ROM. That actually answers all your questions, HOWEVER, keep in mind, that the first stage of rooting , will require you to WIPE all your data during the stage of unlocking the bootloader. So , your music , apps,pics all will be wiped, and you won't be able to backup your apps the first time. So I hope it's still worth it .
For starters read this guide I wrote : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=46057784 about the difference between different stages, if you can't understand the forum is full of other threads that explain the same thing.
Moving on,
The list of apps you will need is as following:
1-Super SU or SU whatever is a necessary ofcourse.
2-Xposed framework (google it, its not on the play store) Function:
Its a program that you will need to install other tweaks to your phone. Its basically a manager for those tweaks incase you want to turn one off.
Thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574401
3-Xposed Framework > Downloads > "BootManager"
Its a module (thats the term for those "tweaks") that allows you to setup the programs that you dont want to boot. Sadly It doesn't have a full list of apps, but its useful nonetheless.
3'-Greenify:
The reason I named it 3' was because its an alternative for BootManager. Greenify hibernates the apps , making them not run in the background, but when you open the app it wakes up, so its not similar to "disable" function since you can still open the app to work on it.
4-Titanium Backup
Now thats a program I must install everytime I switch roms, if you read the thread you will know whats it's use, but let me sum it up. You backup all your apps and progress and when you switch roms (since everything is wiped again) it restores everything back.
ALSO: It allows you to totally uninstall all the apps even stock ones, but TAKE care not to uninstall anything messy, advice: backup everything before you uninstall.
5-Xposed Framework > Downloads > "Sense5 Toolbox" :
It allows you to make tweaks for the stock rom, rearrange quick settings, add new ones, change lock screen ..etc. Really worth it.
6-Xposed Framework > Downloads > "Recent apps RAM":
When you open up the recent apps lists, there will be a bar at the top displaying the ram used and free ram. When you see that less than 100mb left, then thats when you know the phone will lag. Just clear all the apps and it should be fine
7-Xposed Framework > Downloads > "Recent Apps kill all Button":
The only thing missing in sense is the ability to kill all apps without manually swiping up on each app in the most recent list. That enables a button for that.
IMO: Rooting was the best move I have ever made, and since we have S-ON, then you can't really brick your phone. So life is good.
Anyway, I hope I helped and that you will live a long life with that HOX+
Many days later, thaaaaaaank youuuuuuu!
So I read your thread on the link you proved provided (again thanks), read and seen videos and tutorials about titanium backup, and also read about - and tried Xposed + sense5 toolbox without rooting just to get a glimpse - and it's both easy to use and ergonomic. Of course I couldn't get any benefits of it yet since still not rooted, but hey, you've pretty much served me all the steps on a golden plate.
Also, as a warming up session, I did a factory reset and neck, I backed up everything before doing so and all I lost was my games data + 1 or 2 phone numbers + my text messages. Overall not a big deal + reinstalling everything took nothing more than a couple of downloading hours.
What's left for me is to test out greenify and the other module (boot something) or any other alternative, I'll figure it out you've already done more than enough.
As for the main task, rooting and getting super user access, again I now have enough info thanks to you + the stickies + the whole one x+ section.
I am so grateful for your time. After years with windows mobile and window phone 7 (and 8 months of unrooted use of my hox+, this is new to me and now it seems nothing but easy.
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