I've seen several reviews which mention that Samsung's S Planner app is missing from the AT&T version of the Note, but screenshots of the AT&T Calendar app appear very similar to S Planner. Can anyone confirm if there are differences in these two apps or did AT&T simply rename S Planner to Calendar?
SteveD01 said:
I've seen several reviews which mention that Samsung's S Planner app is missing from the AT&T version of the Note, but screenshots of the AT&T Calendar app appear very similar to S Planner. Can anyone confirm if there are differences in these two apps or did AT&T simply rename S Planner to Calendar?
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Well, you could always get the .apk from the International and install it on the ATT Note once it's rooted since it'll have to be installed in the system/app folder.
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They are similar but not the same. The AT&T version doesn't have all the features as the international such as dragging appt times around to new places or scheduling a meeting from s memo.
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Thanks. I just picked up my Note from BestBuy and I think you're right... I cannot get the Calendar to use the date/time in the S-Note memo to set the new event date/time; it just includes the note in the "Memos" field for the event. The date/time you have to set manually.
However I can move events around (in the week or 3 day view) by just press/hold and slide it to a new time.
If you look under /system/app you will see that we have the splanner.apk so I am thinking that the calendar app is just a modified splanner app
Attached are the apk/odex from the Telus version
I'm not 100% sure what the difference is, but on the Telus version of this phone it is called as on the 'international'. I have attached the apk/odex files from /system/app. Feel free to try.
donbowman said:
I'm not 100% sure what the difference is, but on the Telus version of this phone it is called as on the 'international'. I have attached the apk/odex files from /system/app. Feel free to try.
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I downloaded it. What do I need to do now? I'm staring at it sitting in astro. I did try to extract it and install simplanner but it won't install the system app. Do I need to use root explorer to move it?
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I downloaded it. What do I need to do now? I'm staring at it sitting in astro. I did try to extract it and install simplanner but it won't install the system app. Do I need to use root explorer to move it?
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Yes. Move them to your /system/app folder. First you have to rename to ones already in there. Best to just add .bak to the end to maintain their existence. Double check permissions (rw-r--r--). Once you've done all that, reboot your device and they should install automatically like any other system app.
Let us know how it goes.
move them to /system/app, make sure they are 644 permissions (read by all). then reboot.
I have both models and they seems the same to me. When I put my google account in an synced the calendar looks just like the s planner. I also checked to make sure I could convert hand written s memos to the calendar and it works fine.
You know, now that I'm re-watching the YouTube video, they make it a little deceiving. The video makes it look like it recognizes your text and programs the calendar entry based on your keywords i.e. you enter dinner tomorrow at 9 pm and it schedules a meeting the next day at 9 pm with the title dinner. However, re-watching the video, it doesn't actually schedule her meeting correctly she just shoots past it so you can't see that it's not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKcBijqJtHA
Yeah, maybe I was expecting too much, or confused with the Calendar quick add feature. On the AT&T Note Calender quick add will convert plain language to the proper event date and time, but from S Note it doesn't. It does a decent job of recognizing the handwritten note but only places that info in the memo section of the new Calendar event. Maybe that's all the internatiinal S Planner can do as well.
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Yes. Move them to your /system/app folder. First you have to rename to ones already in there. Best to just add .bak to the end to maintain their existence. Double check permissions (rw-r--r--). Once you've done all that, reboot your device and they should install automatically like any other system app.
Let us know how it goes.
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Ok I am going to be really stupid here. I haven't done anything to my phones since my HTC a few years back. I just got this ATT Note and am trying to install the files that were given in this thread.
You say to move them to system/app. Here is my questions. How do I get there? I went through just plain old Windows Explorer and that doesn't seem to be right. Is there a program that I need to download to put these files in to where they are needed, or an I just not getting it at all (which could be possible).
Thanks for the help. Have done a lot of searching and still am very confused
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Ok I am going to be really stupid here. I haven't done anything to my phones since my HTC a few years back. I just got this ATT Note and am trying to install the files that were given in this thread.
You say to move them to system/app. Here is my questions. How do I get there? I went through just plain old Windows Explorer and that doesn't seem to be right. Is there a program that I need to download to put these files in to where they are needed, or an I just not getting it at all (which could be possible).
Thanks for the help. Have done a lot of searching and still am very confused
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You have to be rooted in order to move a system file. And you would have to be running a file explorer such as ES file explorer with the system mounted as read/write.
If you are rooted, then go into options in ES and put a check next to root explorer and mount system. Make sure you say yes to superuser request. I like to change the home directory from /sdcard/ to just /
That should start you in the true file system and not in the SD card.
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You have to be rooted in order to move a system file. And you would have to be running a file explorer such as ES file explorer with the system mounted as read/write.
If you are rooted, then go into options in ES and put a check next to root explorer and mount system. Make sure you say yes to superuser request. I like to change the home directory from /sdcard/ to just /
That should start you in the true file system and not in the SD card.
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Ok I got ES on my phone but still trying to figure out how to mount it. I am downloading Android SDK Manager because I found something saying I can mount it with that.
Is there a section somewhere that is already written up to explain all this to me so I don't know to keep bugging you guys. When I do a search I get sooooo many things it is hard for me to weed through to get to what I really need.
All of this for a stupid app that is suppose to be on the phone but from what I hear stupid ATT took off.
Thanks for all the help.
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Ok I got ES on my phone but still trying to figure out how to mount it. I am downloading Android SDK Manager because I found something saying I can mount it with that.
Is there a section somewhere that is already written up to explain all this to me so I don't know to keep bugging you guys. When I do a search I get sooooo many things it is hard for me to weed through to get to what I really need.
All of this for a stupid app that is suppose to be on the phone but from what I hear stupid ATT took off.
Thanks for all the help.
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I honestly prefer ghost commander, it's dual window, have the files you want to move in one, and system/app in the other, on the system window you can scroll right on the little bar on bottom and click remount as rw, then you can move or copy items
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I honestly prefer ghost commander, it's dual window, have the files you want to move in one, and system/app in the other, on the system window you can scroll right on the little bar on bottom and click remount as rw, then you can move or copy items
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So I would move the files from my PC to somewhere on the SD card and then use this Ghost Commander to move them to where I need to in the root directory.
Am I getting that right?
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Ok so I got my files on my sd card and I can see the in Ghost. 4 of the files already exist in the system/app so I am confused why it is not there. I did try to run it directly and got an error.
I still can't figure out how to read/write from the root.
I tell you, this S Planner better be worth all the crap I am doing to get it on my phone.
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Ok I got ES on my phone but still trying to figure out how to mount it. I am downloading Android SDK Manager because I found something saying I can mount it with that.
Is there a section somewhere that is already written up to explain all this to me so I don't know to keep bugging you guys. When I do a search I get sooooo many things it is hard for me to weed through to get to what I really need.
All of this for a stupid app that is suppose to be on the phone but from what I hear stupid ATT took off.
Thanks for all the help.
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Search doesn't work too well. Especially the app. When you open es, press the menu capacitive button, go to settings aand choose root explorer. Press yes for superuser prompt when it comes up. Then select mount system as writable. Also, change home directory to just "/" instead of "/sdcard/". Then you should be able to see everything. Go to the sdcard where the files are... long press on each file and choose copy. Then go back until you see the folder titled "system". Go into that folder then into the "app" folder. At the bottom of your screen there should be an arrow with a box around it. Press that and touch the files. That will copy them to the folder. You should get a confirmation that they copied successfully.
Don't worry about asking too many questions. That is the purpose of a forum, to discus and to learn. Though it could be argued that many people have forgotten that. Ill try to post up some pics as it goes through....
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Tried that and am getting - Test failed, this feature can not run on your phone.
So what else do I have set up correctly.
Sorry to be such a pain the ass, I appreciate all the help.
dsireme said:
Tried that and am getting - Test failed, this feature can not run on your phone.
So what else do I have set up correctly.
Sorry to be such a pain the ass, I appreciate all the help.
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Don't worry about it. As I said before, that's what we are here for. It would appear that based on the response from es explorer, you aren't rooted...
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HI
I have check the SDcard Root and I have a lot of DiskCacheIndexxxxx.tmp
Does anyone know what are this files?
Thanks
good question
Good question I have about 50 of them!
Most likely app-created index files to hold the location of cached contents. Did a quick google search and you can find other refs to these files, mainly in other android and even other xda threads (G1 for instance) where in one someone said he went ahead and deleted them with no ill effects. YMMV
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=714909
zkid2010 said:
Most likely app-created index files to hold the location of cached contents. Did a quick google search and you can find other refs to these files, mainly in other android and even other xda threads (G1 for instance) where in one someone said he went ahead and deleted them with no ill effects. YMMV
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=714909
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I found that already and delete the files..
but it has start creating new ones..
Thank you
believe they are caused by Quandrent Advanced. I only get them when I have that app installed. I just delete it and use Quadrent Standard and the files go away
I had this exact problem. It was caused by installing 3d froyo gallery from the market. After removing this app, rebooting (and deleting all the files in the root), the problem was resolved. Not sure if this applies to you guys, but figured I'd chime in.
Also, they are not caused by quadrant advanced, i've been using that for quite some time, and it never dumped files to the root of the card.)
Sounds pornographic to me
Just kidding. Anyway yeah it's Quadrant.
mstrk242 said:
I had this exact problem. It was caused by installing 3d froyo gallery from the market. After removing this app, rebooting (and deleting all the files in the root), the problem was resolved.
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Instead of using 3D gallery from market you can use standalone *.apk from Nexus it works without creating any temp files on sdcard root.
Catch it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=712553
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 have a rooted device with custom rom and now i want to have fun setting silly different sounds at events and notifications like receiving a mail,uninstalling an app,app installed,transfer file completed,startup,shutdown,connected to wifi,wifi connection lost,someone on instagram likes your photo,instagram new follower...can i have a list of events and how to set a sound for each of them?
can someone help?
Mmmmm. did you find it in the market? i haven't heard that kind of mod. But it sounds cool
I hope this helps, cheers
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Mmmmm. did you find it in the market? i haven't heard that kind of mod. But it sounds cool
I hope this helps, cheers
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well i think i could did it myself if i knew how to set sounds when some events in the phone happens.also i'm looking for a list of all events.
up..
A list of all events is pretty ambitious. Good luck.
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Ohhh, come on now. I could do this years ago with early windows mobile versions.surely it's possible to do it now?
Or am I missing the point of this question?
Because no one else has offered any help, I'll offer the general principles (principals?) and see if that helps you.
Use a file explorer like root explorer (for which you don't need root) or astro to find the director in which the stock sound are stored. Download or transfer (from PC) the sounds you want to use and put them on that same directory with the stock sounds. Reset (turn off power) on your gadget. Turn it back on, and then go into settings to set up notification sounds and you should see the new ones there in the same list as the stock sounds to select.
I hope this helps.
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Ohhh, come on now. I could do this years ago with early windows mobile versions.surely it's possible to do it now?
Or am I missing the point of this question?
Because no one else has offered any help, I'll offer the general principles (principals?) and see if that helps you.
Use a file explorer like root explorer (for which you don't need root) or astro to find the director in which the stock sound are stored. Download or transfer (from PC) the sounds you want to use and put them on that same directory with the stock sounds. Reset (turn off power) on your gadget. Turn it back on, and then go into settings to set up notification sounds and you should see the new ones there in the same list as the stock sounds to select.
I hope this helps.
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thank you.
yes it helps however are there sound notification when u boot,reboot ,hold the phone?when u uninstall an app?is it possible to set a sound for a contact that call you that is different than another contaqct sound?is it possible to set a sound when an anonymous number calls you?
the fact is that i even want to use the lots of different sound files i have to turn my phone the silliest possible
how do i know which events have a soound notification associated,and how do i create a new association if i wanted to?
You are now way past my expertise. The only thing I can think of is Tasker. But I don't know anything about Tasker because it takes time to learn it, and I just wanted to solve one problem, not learn Tasker syntax.
Sfrrr
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sfrrr said:
You are now way past my expertise. The only thing I can think of is Tasker. But I don't know anything about Tasker because it takes time to learn it, and I just wanted to solve one problem, not learn Tasker syntax.
Sfrrr
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ty but tasker is paid app..any free alternatives?
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ty but tasker is paid app..any free alternatives?
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It's definitely worth the money
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Put the audio files on your sd card. Use a file explorer to navigate to the folder /system/media/audio. There are four subfolders in there: /alarms, /notifications, /ringtones, and /ui. Most of what you want to change should probably be in the /ui folder. Most of the files in there are named more or less according to what function they're associated with, so simply rename your own file to match the one you want to replace, delete or rename the current file (you'll need to have the folder mounted r/w), copy and paste your renamed file into the /ui folder, and repeat until you have your phone sounding as silly as you want Individual ringtones can usually be set by opening up a contact's info and editing from there.
This is how I've done things, works on stock Samsung roms, don't know about others. Have fun!
S2
You've right. s2 has worst sound quality..
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Put the audio files on your sd card. Use a file explorer to navigate to the folder /system/media/audio. There are four subfolders in there: /alarms, /notifications, /ringtones, and /ui. Most of what you want to change should probably be in the /ui folder. Most of the files in there are named more or less according to what function they're associated with, so simply rename your own file to match the one you want to replace, delete or rename the current file (you'll need to have the folder mounted r/w), copy and paste your renamed file into the /ui folder, and repeat until you have your phone sounding as silly as you want Individual ringtones can usually be set by opening up a contact's info and editing from there.
This is how I've done things, works on stock Samsung roms, don't know about others. Have fun!
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well,thank you,that helped.
i guess i will try what you say if Tasker it's too difficult to learn.
shockwaverider said:
Put the audio files on your sd card. Use a file explorer to navigate to the folder /system/media/audio. There are four subfolders in there: /alarms, /notifications, /ringtones, and /ui. Most of what you want to change should probably be in the /ui folder. Most of the files in there are named more or less according to what function they're associated with, so simply rename your own file to match the one you want to replace, delete or rename the current file (you'll need to have the folder mounted r/w), copy and paste your renamed file into the /ui folder, and repeat until you have your phone sounding as silly as you want Individual ringtones can usually be set by opening up a contact's info and editing from there.
This is how I've done things, works on stock Samsung roms, don't know about others. Have fun!
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tasker is hard.
how can i associate a sound when an app is uninstalled?
massimog91 said:
tasker is hard.
how can i associate a sound when an app is uninstalled?
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can someone help?
I was wondering, is there any way to hide the files that are placed on the "sd card" that are placed there by Android/Any other apps. I basically only want to see the folders that I make/put in there, and hide the ones that I don't use. Thnx in advanced
Seeing as it's vfat, you could maybe try setting the hidden flag, but I'm pretty sure it'd just be ignored.. and I don't think you can even really set it under linux/android. So yeah probably not much you can do, as hidden files are usually prefixed with a period. You might already have a couple hidden files on your SD card. However if you add the period to the files you want to hide, the programs looking for them won't find them because they're a different name.
Sorry I couldn't really help you but I guess you learned something, heh. Some file managers might have some kind of file hiding feature.
what sd card ? Droid DNA dont have sd card.....
It has an internal SD Card.
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what sd card ? Droid DNA dont have sd card.....
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What's up with these high tech devices not having sdcard capabilities? You mean you need to tell me,you just spent 500 dollars on a phone that only has 8gb of storage,8gb goes fast!!!! Not to mention, a portion of that 8 belongs to the system files and other various things....I got entirely off subject,so my apologies
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Jrhodes85 said:
What's up with these high tech devices not having sdcard capabilities? You mean you need to tell me,you just spent 500 dollars on a phone that only has 8gb of storage,8gb goes fast!!!! Not to mention, a portion of that 8 belongs to the system files and other various things....I got entirely off subject,so my apologies
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Troll elsewhere.
Put a '.' in front of the folder
EX: /sdcard/DCIM/100MEDIA/.naughty
The gallery wont see it, so no pictures or videos will show up if thats what you want
Only way to see the folder is with root explorer or another file manager.
Jrhodes85 said:
What's up with these high tech devices not having sdcard capabilities? You mean you need to tell me,you just spent 500 dollars on a phone that only has 8gb of storage,8gb goes fast!!!! Not to mention, a portion of that 8 belongs to the system files and other various things....I got entirely off subject,so my apologies
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Troll elsewhere.
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Not to mention that its 16gb internal storage, not 8gb. So, if you're gonna troll, troll correctly at least..
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BigRed35m said:
I was wondering, is there any way to hide the files that are placed on the "sd card" that are placed there by Android/Any other apps. I basically only want to see the folders that I make/put in there, and hide the ones that I don't use. Thnx in advanced
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Put a '.' in front of the folder
EX: /sdcard/DCIM/100MEDIA/.naughty
The gallery wont see it, so no pictures or videos will show up if thats what you want
Only way to see the folder is with root explorer or another file manager.
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Yup, prefixing a folder name with a (dot) "." is Linux for a hidden folder - ".hideme".
BigRed35m said:
I was wondering, is there any way to hide the files that are placed on the "sd card" that are placed there by Android/Any other apps. I basically only want to see the folders that I make/put in there, and hide the ones that I don't use. Thnx in advanced
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Hiding the pron?
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Putting a period "." in front of the folder will mark the folder as hidden by Linux standards, but be warned that the root user can see hidden folders by default. So, any app in the /system/app folder or any app with root privileges that doesn't follow the Linux hidden folder convention will see it and use it as a normal folder.
Sent from my rooted and debloated Droid DNA.
If you just need to hide files from the gallery/music player adding a file called ".nomedia" will prevent most apps from displaying it.
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I guess the main reason that I was asking if there is an easy way to hide folders is because I don't particularly like looking through a longer list of folders than necessary when finding the folder I want to go through.
Hi - I've tried a thorough search through the forums and haven't found what I needed; my apologies if this question has already been answered. I have firmware 10B and I successfully rooted using IROOT.
I borked up my stock camera app (short version: I tried to install a modded camera; it didn't work and when I went back to the original stock files they didn't work either). I downloaded the original camera apk from another post and tried that as well. No luck. When I download the apk, it shows up with the proper icon in my downloads file. But when I move it to system/priv-app, the icon is replaced with a generic "apk" icon. When I double-click on it, it gives me a parsing error. I've tried setting permissions but the outcome doesn't change. When I click on other apk files in priv-app, an update window appears.
Depending on what specific actions I take, I generally run into one of two problems - either the camera app doesn't show up at all in the app drawer, or it does show up but when I click on it I get an FC.
I've run out of ideas to try, so I'm hoping that I can get some help. Here's what I'm thinking I might need:
1) Original stock versions of lgcameraapp.apk, lgcameraapp.odex (both from system/priv-app), camera_config.xml, meda_profiles.xml (both xml files are in system/etc)
2) Tips on any other camera-related files that I might need to replace
3) Suggestions on how to correctly add lgcamera.apk and lgcamera.odex into system/priv-app (i.e., do I need to delete something first; when should I reboot; any other settings besides permissions; clear cache or dalvik - which I haven't figured out how to do; special reinstall script, etc.)
4) Any other helpful tips or suggestions
I definitely have earned a slap on the wrist for failing to backup first so any criticism or judgment will be humbly acknowledged.
Thanks in advance. I'm hoping that even though this is sort of a cluster, maybe someone else will benefit from any solutions that turn up.
helpfulstan
What app did you use to try to replace the files? Did the app ask to remount the /system partition as R/W (default is R/O)?
What permissions were you using (should be 0644 HEX or rw-r--r--)...?
Should always append .bak to files being replaced, do NOT delete ANYTHING. 32GB should be plenty able to support this...
You should .bak the original apps, add the new apps, change their permissions. Then, .bak the .xml files, add the new files, change their permissions. THEN you can reboot. If all the permissions are right you should be good to go at that point. You don't need to do anything with clearing caches, dalvik, etc.
Thanks for your help! I am using ES File Explorer to move the files around; I had renamed the original .apk and .odex files as .bak, but I didn't think to do that with the .xml files.
I tried it again, double-checking that I used the permissions you suggested but it still didn't work. Then on a whim I renamed the .xml files as .bak and tried once more. The camera app successfully launched this time - and it took pictures - but there is still one small problem; the preview does not fill the whole screen. So I'm making progress but not 100% there.
Can anyone post copies of system/etc/camera_config.xml and system/etc/media_profiles.xml? I'd love to get the camera app working correctly again, but at least now I can take some pictures!
Thanks, helpfulstan
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What app did you use to try to replace the files? Did the app ask to remount the /system partition as R/W (default is R/O)?
What permissions were you using (should be 0644 HEX or rw-r--r--)...?
Should always append .bak to files being replaced, do NOT delete ANYTHING. 32GB should be plenty able to support this...
You should .bak the original apps, add the new apps, change their permissions. Then, .bak the .xml files, add the new files, change their permissions. THEN you can reboot. If all the permissions are right you should be good to go at that point. You don't need to do anything with clearing caches, dalvik, etc.
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https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gzga1b4peuwiux9/AAC6WQ3feSxg9K-Zr8CM1A1-a
There you go
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What do you mean the preview doesn't fill the whole screen? At max resolution it won't.
Thanks for the files. Unfortunately it still isn't working. There is something else going on here and darned if I know what.
What I meant by doesn't fill the whole screen is that it doesn't fill the WIDTH of the screen (when the phone is held portrait) at full resolution. You are right that it doesn't fill the whole screen top to bottom at max resolution. On my phone, though, even the 10M mode doesn't fill the whole screen top to bottom.
I'm also noticing that tap to shoot isn't matching up with what I see in the preview. When I tap, it focuses and shoots, but the focus point is not where I actually tapped. It's like the tap to shoot thinks the preview is filling the whole screen even though it's not (it's focusing on the place that my finger WOULD have tapped if the preview were the right size).
The other thing that I've just noticed is that I can't shoot videos. The app FC's.
I'm wondering if maybe there's another .xml that got crudded up somehow. I now am using your stock versions of all the files you sent me - so clearly the camera app is using at least one other file to determine the screen size, preview size, etc.
Another oddity - Google camera is working almost perfectly. I can shoot pictures and videos and the previews are the correct size. However, when I try to use the settings in the Google camera to change the resolution, it FC's. So my guess is that Google camera is accessing the same messed-up file (or files), in addition to it's own configuration files.
Anyway - I really appreciate your willingness to help with this. This is kind of an interesting (but inconvenient) mystery to me. Thanks again, helpfulstan
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There you go
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What do you mean the preview doesn't fill the whole screen? At max resolution it won't.
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Ok, I figured it out. More later. Thanks for your help, it did the trick.
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Ok, I figured it out. More later. Thanks for your help, it did the trick.
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Good deal. Curious to know what happened.
In summary: although I knew I needed to change permissions, and thought I was changing them correctly, I wasn't.
The longer version is that for some reason (entirely my fault) no matter how much I looked at rw-r--r--, when I went to set permissions in ES File Explorer I kept leaving out the last "r". In the permissions window, the different settings are laid out in a table rather than with letters and dashes. So I would select Read and Write for the first option, Read for the second option, and it just escaped me that I needed to select Read for the third option as well.
After all your help yesterday I did a search for recently edited files (to see if there was some other mysterious settings file that had been edited). In order to do that, I had to modify the view in ES File Explorer to show file details, which showed permissions in addition to the dates. As soon as all the permissions were showing up in the file browser, it was obvious that the permissions for the files I changed wasn't the same as the permissions for the existing system files.
I have no idea how long I would have struggled with this particular user error if you hadn't posted the correct permissions in the format that matched my browser!
Once I got the permissions set correctly for all four files, I rebooted, and everything has worked perfectly from then on.
If anyone else makes the same error I hope they find this thread because it might save them a lot of grief.
Thanks again, helpfulstan
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Glad to hear it. I use Root Explorer, that's why I asked about your permissions. RE displays the permissions in the rwxrwxrwx format natively in the directory displays. But, when you go to change them it looks like this in a little popup with checkboxes and then it tells you at the bottom what the CHMOD code would be and the rwxrwxrwx looks like.
Code:
Read Write Execute
Owner [] [] []
Group [] [] []
Others [] [] []
Set UID [] Set GID [] Sticky []
Enter Octal #### rwxrwxrwx
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In summary: although I knew I needed to change permissions, and thought I was changing them correctly, I wasn't.
The longer version is that for some reason (entirely my fault) no matter how much I looked at rw-r--r--, when I went to set permissions in ES File Explorer I kept leaving out the last "r". In the permissions window, the different settings are laid out in a table rather than with letters and dashes. So I would select Read and Write for the first option, Read for the second option, and it just escaped me that I needed to select Read for the third option as well.
After all your help yesterday I did a search for recently edited files (to see if there was some other mysterious settings file that had been edited). In order to do that, I had to modify the view in ES File Explorer to show file details, which showed permissions in addition to the dates. As soon as all the permissions were showing up in the file browser, it was obvious that the permissions for the files I changed wasn't the same as the permissions for the existing system files.
I have no idea how long I would have struggled with this particular user error if you hadn't posted the correct permissions in the format that matched my browser!
Once I got the permissions set correctly for all four files, I rebooted, and everything has worked perfectly from then on.
If anyone else makes the same error I hope they find this thread because it might save them a lot of grief.
Thanks again, helpfulstan
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Glad you figured it out!! Now is there any way you can post screenshots of what you changed the permissions too and which ones you changed. I am in the same boat you were...not sure what I did but I am getting the forces close like you described when trying to open the camera....ugh! Do I need to download the stock files posted earlier?? I am also using root explorer but will download ES file mgr is that will help fix this.
Any further help would greatly be appreciated!!
Thanks
It can't hurt to download the stock files since those worked for me. Just make sure to rename, not delete, the old files. The .apk and .odex files go in system/priv-app and the .xml files go in system/etc. I'll post some screenshots of permissions in the morning; gotta get my kids to bed before things fall apart! Stand by ...
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Ok, here's what it looks like from ES file explorer. For me, as soon as I had the permissions right and the files in the right folder, all I had to do was reboot. Good luck! helpfulstan
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Ok, here's what it looks like from ES file explorer. For me, as soon as I had the permissions right and the files in the right folder, all I had to do was reboot. Good luck! helpfulstan
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Thanks!! Will let you know how it goes
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helpfulstan said:
Ok, here's what it looks like from ES file explorer. For me, as soon as I had the permissions right and the files in the right folder, all I had to do was reboot. Good luck! helpfulstan
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Hey, when i hit the LGCameraApp.apk it opens up as a package installer.....did you have the same thing happen? Wasn't sure if I should proceed with any installation?
I would avoid that. I'm not sure if it actually changes anything (ultimately it will tell you that the installation was unsuccessful) but it doesn't get you anywhere either.
To select the file without launching the installer, long-press (at least in ES file explorer). Then click on the overflow menu (three vertical dots) and choose properties. That will bring up the dialog box that shows permissions and allows you to make changes. h.s.
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Sigh, still not working. This thing about to make me delete the camera and start over from the downloaded files lol.
If you post some screenshots I'll see if I can spot anything you might have missed.
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this is what I have...not sure what im missing.
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this is what I have...not sure what im missing.
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And I have the permissions set the same for all 4 files
Hm. It sure looks right. Did you try the posted files above? One other thing to look at is if you have any of the files in another system folder accidentally (like system/apps). I know in my saga I ended up somehow installing the camera app as a downloaded file and had to uninstall it through application manager. I'm assuming you have the media_profiles file in the right place and with the right permissions. I'll let you know if I can think of anything else. h.s.
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I still have all the old files but renamed them all .bak...at least i thought i did. I will go back thru to make sure. I have moved them all to another folder i.e downloads or whatever. should i just uninstall those? right now im just using a camera app and thats working but just want everything right.