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I've been using Gmail / Google Calendar for a while, so I was pretty excited to get an Android phone. I was rather spoilt though, as I'd been using Pocket Informant rather than the terrible Windows Mobile Calendar App. I really liked what I saw using the androidonhtc.com testing image.
Let's face it though, HTC's calendar app is an epic fail. The default Android calendar from the testing image was much better.
How can I reinstall the default android calendar? I've not been able to find a link to download the APK, and I did see one post saying someone hadn't been able to install it because there was a name conflict with the HTC cal.
I'm happy with the rest of TouchFLO - I don't want to go back to vanilla android, and I'm not terribly keen on a Hard-reset - but will if there's no other way.
Cheers,
I second that. Have been using pocketinformant on windowsmobile too, and can't understand why htc decided to implement the useless standard wm calender for the hero.
I definetly need the cupcake standard calender. Is there really no way to install it? Or is there a chance for pocketinformant Android version?
I'm not fussed about PI for Android - yes, it was good, but I think WebIS has gone for the market and is spending all of their effort developing for iPhone and blackberry.
The cupcake calendar had in its favour:
* Week view
* Proper day bars on the month view
* GCal look-and feel.
I'll be very happy if I can get it working instead.
Anyone?
Root your Hero and use adb push command to install the android default calender. Very easy and fully functional.
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1784534/Android/Magic/Calendar.apk
Take a backup of the calender.apk and calender.odex if u change your mind...
NisseGurra said:
Root your Hero and use adb push command to install the android default calender. Very easy and fully functional.
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1784534/Android/Magic/Calendar.apk
Take a backup of the calender.apk and calender.odex if u change your mind...
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Here's how, following the root article on theunlockr.com
I used Astro File Manager to backup the HTC Calendar.apk and Calendar.obex
Code:
[email protected]: ~/androidsdk/tools$ ./fastboot devices
HT97GL903527 fastboot
[email protected]:~/androidsdk/tools$ ./fastboot boot cm-hero-recovery.img
downloading 'boot.img'... OKAY
booting... OKAY
[email protected]:~/androidsdk/tools$ ./adb shell mount /system
[email protected]:~/androidsdk/tools$ ./adb shell rm /system/app/Calendar.apk
[email protected]:~/androidsdk/tools$ ./adb shell rm /system/app/Calendar.odex
[email protected]:~/androidsdk/tools$ ./adb push Calendar.apk /system/app/
678 KB/s (325187 bytes in 0.468s)
[email protected]:~/androidsdk/tools$ ./adb shell reboot
[email protected]:~/androidsdk/tools$
The only thing that doesn't work properly is on the month view, the title bar reads "2$s, 3$s - 5$s, 6$s" instead of the proper date.
Thanks for the help!
using Exchange sync
Can the default be used if your are integrated with Exchange?
What is so different between the htc calendar and the cupcake calendar. i'm new to android and trying to learn if someone can past screenshots or something.
Is the cupcake calendar really better than the htc calendar?
the cupcake calendar will show time bars for each day in the month view. That way you can see on the first glance how many meetings you have for every day.
the htc celander will only show one FLAG, which basically says "you have 1 or many meetings on this date". This is completely useless in the month view.
In example i have a daily meeting at work, and therefore the htc calendar will show me a flag on each day. So every month is filled with flags on the month view and i can't see when i actually have more than the daily meeting coming.
btw: i don't want to root my device, don't have the time and nerves to fix everything if something goes wrong. Isn't there ANY other way to get the old calendar? cant i find it somewhere in the hero rom, and just change some link parameters to get it opened by default?
Wow. The default calendar is SO MUCH faster and nicer.
Could we do the same for other apps, e.g. the alarm app or the contacts app? Can someone upload the .apk files for these?
frandavid100 said:
Wow. The default calendar is SO MUCH faster and nicer.
Could we do the same for other apps, e.g. the alarm app or the contacts app? Can someone upload the .apk files for these?
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Why would you want to change the alarm/clock app? They work just fine for me and looks great!
The problem I'm having after pushing the cupcake calendar is that there is this big bar across the top of the screen with a plus sign on it. It looks like it's supposed to be a button but the cupcake calendar isn't drawing it correctly.
:/ So I cant see the first few hours in day view..
Any fix?
hello guys is any chance anyone could put a step by step guide on how to put the orginal Calendar app onto the hero?
Already done
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=554826
or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544788
for a more generic step-by-step to remove applications.
i think i'm taking the easy way out:
waiting for somebody to release a PI style calendar app. Shouldn't take too long i guess..
Shahpur.Azizpour said:
i think i'm taking the easy way out:
waiting for somebody to release a PI style calendar app. Shouldn't take too long i guess..
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I second that. Some of your suggestion for solving this problem is quite hightech. I don't even know what you guys mean by "root"-ing the Hero... Isn't stuff like this a bit risky on the Hero?
Shahpur.Azizpour said:
waiting for somebody to release a PI style calendar app.
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Dumb question - what's 'PI'?
Dumb answer....
PI means personal information.... if this is wrong no doubt someone will mention that... if so see above
Sidekicker said:
I second that. Some of your suggestion for solving this problem is quite hightech. I don't even know what you guys mean by "root"-ing the Hero... Isn't stuff like this a bit risky on the Hero?
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"Root", on computer, means "Almighty administrator".
Rooting a Hero is just like removing Parental control to do funny things.
You can't do much on android without rooting :/
Risky... well, i'm pretty noob but i didn't had any problem. Just had to follow the steps explained on the rooting thread.
If you want to learn more about rooting, pros and cons, it's pretty well discussed on a bunch of threads around there.
seanyowl said:
Dumb answer....
PI means personal information.... if this is wrong no doubt someone will mention that... if so see above
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no, PI stands for Pocket Informant which is the most powerful calendar app on windows mobile and iphone.
Hi,
Has anyone performed the Calendar change on a Hero running the new Generic 2.4 ROM published by MoDaCo?
I followed the instructions both in this thread and the one linked to above - while the phone was in recovery mode I removed Calendar.apk and Calendar.obex from /system/app and then pushed a new Calendar.apk file over into /system/app from a Cupcake ROM I downloaded (signed-kila-ota-150275.53dde318.zip from android.clients.google.com).
However, when I rebooted my phone there was no calendar app showing.
I have PureCalendar installed which should launch Cupcake calendar on click, but that did nothing (I changed the appropriate setting).
Trying the HTC Calendar widgets just caused an error - as they expect the HTC Calendar I imagine.
Thinking I might also need the Calendar.odex file I pushed that over, but with the same results.
I'm now back with the HTC Calendar (thank goodness I took a backup).
Any ideas? Do I need to install the new Calendar.apk (using Linda or similar?) to make it available? Was I using a bad version of Cupcake?
Any ideas welcome.
Dave
Well, I tried to post this in the themes and apps section, but for some reason, it says that I can't get to that forum - access is denied.
Anyway - from #teamwin, I'm here to announce Twin Pic!
Ever been frustrated about not being able to share your 3D pics with your friends? Well, look no farther! Twin Pic does just that . It is essentially MMS picturemail without using MMS at all!
This uses google's push notification API (just like Gmail uses), so it doesn't use battery.
You can send any picture format (3d pics included!), and the app is free! The receiving friend will get a push notification when they have received a pic, and clicking the notification will display the image using HTC's 3d-capable gallery.
To send a TwinPic to someone, just use the "Share" menu on a picture, and it will prompt you for a contact. Select the contact that you want to send it to (note that both people must have TwinPic installed in order to share), and poof, it's that easy!
If you want to reply or forward a TwinPic from the history menu, long press an item in the history list and select one of the choices .
This is the beta version, so if you have any crashes, suggestions, etc, please post them here and we will gladly look into it .
DOWNLOAD --> http://tinyw.in/1z4
Also! To facilitate 3D picture sharing, I'll keep a list of email addresses that people are willing to share so they can test sending/receiving 3d pics. I'll start:
EDIT: I moved the public list here.
Very cool aspect bro.......gonna give it go now
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Teamwin just never stops....its amazing
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Thank alot Teamwin, great app and easy to use. What next? may be permanet root. lol.
Teamwin at it again!
Wow, amazing. I can't believe HTC didn't have anything like this ready for the 3D revolution lol. Great work!
Scotty_Two said:
Wow, amazing. I can't believe HTC didn't have anything like this ready for the 3D revolution lol. Great work!
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Can't believe it? Surely you jest....
Teamwin FTW!!
Great job!!! Thanks much
Thanks Shinzul & TeamWin for this sweet little app. I had some chick offering to send me a 3D pic of her for a Google+ invite and it was devastating to find out that they couldn't be sent between phones. Anyway, maybe now I'll get my 3D pic of her!
sick!
sent from a soon to be MIKOPTED EVO 3D
Awesome! Now I just wish I could test it.
Now I just need to figure out out how to use it.
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Force close
Just a little bug
Get force close upon clicking "previous page"
Also no history is shown after sending a picture, (is it only for receiving?)
Thanks once again for a great app!
Kyledlindgren said:
Just a little bug
Get force close upon clicking "previous page"
Also no history is shown after sending a picture, (is it only for receiving?)
Thanks once again for a great app!
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Yeah the history is for when you receive pics... when you send them, you already have the pic you sent, so I didn't think to add a "sent to" history item. Although I suppose I could do that.
Also I am starting a list of email addresses for people who want to share pics. Figured we might as well keep a list in case you don't know anyone else with an evo 3D... DO keep in mind though, that this works on any android phone, and with any image format, not just 3D...
I get FC's when you open up the app, and say, it opens up on page 1. If you hit "previous" page, it will goto page 0, if you select "previous" page again, the app will FC.
Edit: nvm, I see you already know. Excellent work #TeamWin!
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Nice -- Glad to see bug reports already flowing in with so many folks on board already.
Is there an image viewer app other than the stock Gallery that can utilize the hardware to view 3D images? I have used QuickPic since I moved over to CM on my OG EVO but that doesn't recognize any 3D content. Maybe TeamWin could come up with something? Maybe make TwinPic a full fledged viewer? I'm not a huge fan of HTC's Gallery and we are going to need something once we are able to get AOSP on this thing...
sounds good, haven't tested yet but did notice when im at the "main screen" i guess. It says "1 of 0" and "2 of 0" for pages and when I cycle to previous page when at page "0 of 0" I get a FC. I know its beta. But just helping ya about by reporting the bugs as requested in OP.
[email protected]
Thanks for providing an application that HTC should have installed out the box! I can't wait to see what TW and the other devs can do when HTC opens their dev support!
nice!! teamwin at it again
Google Talk with Video and Voice Chat officially works on our phones. After hours of chatting with the Atrix devs, and tons of learning throughout the process, we got it done!
You Must Be Rooted!! If you are not, Go buy an HD dock and see this page:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1199098
Anything in BOLD is to tell you what you are going to be doing.
Anything in RED needs to be typed in.
Preliminary Steps:
1. Root your phone using the above link.
2. Delete Talk.apk from your phone
use Root explorer to navigate to /system/app/
locate the Talk.apk file
click "mount as R/W" in upper right corner
long-press Talk.apk and press delete
After you are rooted and have deleted the Talk.apk:
1. Download the necessary lib file
http://www.multiupload.com/3O8RT5EAT5
1.5 Download the Google Talk apk that supports video chat
http://www.multiupload.com/TN67C757KH
2. Open up and ADB Shell as root
adb shell
su
(You should now have a # instead of a $)
3. Remount /system partition as RW instead of RO
/bin/mount -o remount,rw /system
exit
exit
4. Push libtalk_jni.so to /sdcard/
adb push libtalk_jni.so /sdcard/
5. Copy libtalk_jni.so to /system/lib
cp /sdcard/libtalk_jni.so /system/lib/
6. Exit adb shell
exit
exit
You should now be back in your Android SDK folder.
7. Push Talk2.apk to /sdcard/
adb push Talk2.apk /sdcard/
8. Use Root Explorer to install the Talk2.apk
9. After installing, reboot phone and you should be good to go!
Thanks to: Eval-, Crnkoj, and a few others in the Atrix forums for the help on getting this to work!
Now that we all have root access (if you haven't rooted your phone, go buy a dock!), I think it'd be great if the devs could possibly work on getting Google Talk to support the video protocol. After all, we are running 2.3.4 so our version supports it. Also, I remember downloading a modified apk for the Skype app on my E3D and it allowed for video chat... anyway that can be done for us?
Edit: 8/3/2011
I'm currently working on the Google Talk app to get a version which will support our FFC... My phone isn't available for testing because it's a work phone and I need some people (with rooted photon's) to put their babies up to the test. Anything you do can simply be undone with a factory reset... I promise
UPDATE: Got the Apk to install that supports native video chat, but I get FC when trying to use the Video feature. Anyone with any sense of programming further than basic stuff willing to help out?
I was about to ask the same thing.
Also, where do I get a laptop dock so I can root? LOL
VDub2174 said:
I was about to ask the same thing.
Also, where do I get a laptop dock so I can root? LOL
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Not a laptop dock, it is the HD dock... go to the Sprint store closest to you and they should have them for $130 + tax. There's no restocking fee so you can return it
ballerx43 said:
Not a laptop dock, it is the HD dock... go to the Sprint store closest to you and they should have them for $130 + tax. There's no restocking fee so you can return it
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That's what I meant.....lol I forgot what thread I posted that in
I'm gonna have to check that out, thanks
I agree. I was very disappointed that I cannot talk to people using Google Voice & Video. Heck, I can't even voice chat! Only text.
I installed Fring which lets me do voice chat over Google Talk... but still no video.
What's the point of having a front-facing camera if there's barely any software that supports it?
So my photon isn't available for testing because it's turned into a work phone but I had a theory as to how to get working Gtalk on our phones!
ballerx43 said:
So my photon isn't available for testing because it's turned into a work phone but I had a theory as to how to get working Gtalk on our phones!
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What is your theory? Perhaps someone else can try it out.
ballerx43 said:
Not a laptop dock, it is the HD dock... go to the Sprint store closest to you and they should have them for $130 + tax. There's no restocking fee so you can return it
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I picked mine up at a Sprint store for $99 + tax then I got the car dock at $59 so the gave me 10% off for the pair ....(Im SERO so only get the 10% off)
If your a sprint premier customer you can get 25% off for the pair ... ($99 + $59 = $158 - 25% = 118.50 + tax)
brianez21 said:
What is your theory? Perhaps someone else can try it out.
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Already decided to say screw it to work and take the risk with just using my own phone. Need some help with the programming though. All help is appreciated!
Any thoughts on why the feature was disabled in the first place? I thought this was the purpose of the FFC -
Well, got it working... instructions above
I'm waiting to receive my photon. However, I'm so confused to the process.
Is ADB Shell a program?
Also, are we typing the instructions before the "title" of each step?
thanks and sorry for the ignorance...
yungwunn911 said:
I'm waiting to receive my photon. However, I'm so confused to the process.
Is ADB Shell a program?
Also, are we typing the instructions before the "title" of each step?
thanks and sorry for the ignorance...
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I don't blame you, did a quick write-up before leaving for the day i'll try to edit it tonight to make it easier to understand.
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ballerx43 said:
Not a laptop dock, it is the HD dock... go to the Sprint store closest to you and they should have them for $130 + tax. There's no restocking fee so you can return it
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Or just use the one they have on display at the store for a few minutes if you can find one.
Worked great without using ADB, just moved both files to the locations in the instructions with ES Explorer in root mod.
Damn, that phone is getting better by the minute with all the developers' genius work. Thanks to all involved in making this device a true super phone.
e-motion said:
Worked great without using ADB, just moved both files to the locations in the instructions with ES Explorer in root mod.
Damn, that phone is getting better by the minute with all the developers' genius work. Thanks to all involved in making this device a true super phone.
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That could potentially work, I just wrote the steps in a way that it will work for anyone and everyone.
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Mods, can we have this moved to the development section?
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Does "talk 1.3 installer" in the market not work? It does the exact same thing and its an app. Way easier.
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Not that I know of... I just did the write up because it's guaranteed to work
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Great write up! I thought I'd also mention, for those that don't want to root their phones (are there really people like this?), you can use Qik for video chat.
Is there a way to filter "ls" results (since it returns hundreds of apps) without the use of "grep" or "find" (since neither are recognized when in adb shell)?
Paul22000 said:
Is there a way to filter "ls" results (since it returns hundreds of apps) without the use of "grep" or "find" (since neither are recognized when in adb shell)?
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Using ls *hi* will show files with hi word in any place in the name
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lhurtado said:
Using ls *hi* will show files with hi word in any place in the name
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THANK YOU!!!!!
Trying to Google this was *insanely* difficult
Definitely writing this down. Never would have thought two stars around the search term would work, hah! Thanks again
Grep works on mine?
So, on my Streak 5 I have installed clean 407 ROM, which works great. And I need to mod Mms.apk so it do not convert SMS to MMS after certain number of characters.
I read many threads about modding, and I tried everything. But, to be short I did next:
-decompile .apk file
-found .xml file
-change values ( smsToMmsTextThreshold )
-build .apk file
-changed it in /system/app
-rebooted device
...and nothing happend.
First, I thought that value which I entered was to low ( 200 ), then I changed it into 999999, but...again...same result.
Everything works nice ( no errors ), but no effect from modded Mms.apk
So I need help: does anyone knows where I can seek for solution. What to do? What to change!?
Thank you!
Just to check in info: I clear data under Settings\Applications, and cleard Dalvik cache...same output: again converts message to MMS
Dejan990 said:
Just to check in info: I clear data under Settings\Applications, and cleard Dalvik cache...same output: again converts message to MMS
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It is possible that this conversion to MMS is outside of your control. It may be carried out by your mobile network when you are sending the message. In other words the mobile phone network counts the characters in your message and decides if there are too many to be deemed an SMS.
I am not certain of this, but it does correspond to my experience of different networks.
Having said that there is some information in the Olleh 407 thread regarding changes to the build.prop that might help you. But I don't think the outcome of those mods were conclusive.
Finally, results!
So, after an epic search, I found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423340
(and after that one, another one on an arab site...don't know which )
Anyway, I needed to change /system/build.prop, next lines:
ro.build.CUSTOMER_CONFIG_KT=1
...
ro.build.CONFIG_CUSTOMER_KT=1
into
ro.build.CUSTOMER_CONFIG_KT=0
...
ro.build.CONFIG_CUSTOMER_KT=0
<they are separated lines in file, and appears three times in the same>
<firstly, I changed only ro.build.CUSTOMER_CONFIG_KT=1 into ro.build.CUSTOMER_CONFIG_KT=0 ,and noticed that converting sms to mms, has moved from ~102 chars to 3 messages>
and one more thing/line needs to be added up (don't know why, because I didn't noticed any changes):
ro.telephony.sms_segment_size=160
...
So, what are results?
Before any changes of build.prop, sms was converted to mms after circa 102 chars. Now, it's 3 sms and than mms. <== and that's happening even if I moddified Mms.apk! ...I'll continue to work. But any help will be appreciated :good:
Dejan990 said:
Finally, results!
So, after an epic search, I found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423340
(and after that one, another one on an arab site...don't know which )
Anyway, I needed to change /system/build.prop, next lines:
ro.build.CUSTOMER_CONFIG_KT=1
...
ro.build.CONFIG_CUSTOMER_KT=1
into
ro.build.CUSTOMER_CONFIG_KT=0
...
ro.build.CONFIG_CUSTOMER_KT=0
<they are separated lines in file, and appears three times in the same>
<firstly, I changed only ro.build.CUSTOMER_CONFIG_KT=1 into ro.build.CUSTOMER_CONFIG_KT=0 ,and noticed that converting sms to mms, has moved from ~102 chars to 3 messages>
and one more thing/line needs to be added up (don't know why, because I didn't noticed any changes):
ro.telephony.sms_segment_size=160
...
So, what are results?
Before any changes of build.prop, sms was converted to mms after circa 102 chars. Now, it's 3 sms and than mms. <== and that's happening even if I moddified Mms.apk! ...I'll continue to work. But any help will be appreciated :good:
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You can install the mms app from CM7, it's modded, does not convert the sms to mms [at least on cm7 and DSC] i use it as i don't like anymore the 3rd party applications, i used to use Handcent SmS but now is too heavy and laggy...
Try this one, i extracted it for you
Hope this helps
Force close error. But thank you anyway!
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lol... you guys... you dont need to mod mms.apk or anything.... in the settings for the messaging application... there is one called as SMS split... tick that option and the message would no longer auto convert to mms when it exceeds 160 character limit... it is so simple... wonder nobody realize that..?
erm...is it me, or such option does not exist in mine Mms.apk
Dejan990 said:
erm...is it me, or such option does not exist in mine Mms.apk
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try here..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28874888#post28874888
I understand what are you saying, but obviously we have different versions of Messaging application. Your's is ripped from another ROM or something like that? This is clean one, from Olleh 407, and for sure there is no such option like split message.
Dejan990 said:
I understand what are you saying, but obviously we have different versions of Messaging application. Your's is ripped from another ROM or something like that? This is clean one, from Olleh 407, and for sure there is no such option like split message.
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official optimized app.... messaging v2.3.7 :good:
you could try third party messaging application such as handcent sms, gosms, ics messaging, etc...
please delete.
another alternative stock messaging...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1253108