Hey guys.
I couldn't find how to sign zips and apks on a mac anywhere. I know how to on my windows machince but its annoying to transfer files back and forth. Anyone give me a hint as to how to sign on a mac?
Thanks
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thats intresting, iwanna know too :cyclops:
I remember reading about this a while back... Anyway, you need to have testsign.jar in your root folder.
Then, you'll want to download this file. The .zip has the testsign.jar file too. This is a droplet application; meaning, you just drag and drop any .apk or .zip file, and it signs them for you. Credits go to @jessetbenton for the droplet file.
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I am an avid Android fan - and reasonable tech saavy..... however, I don't want to root my phone. I have looked for *.apk files (skins in particular) for the Thunderbolt but have had no luck in finding any. I find lots and lots of *.zip files, but no *.apk files.
Can someone point me in the direction of these (if indeed there are any)? I have read in the forum that there are many available, but I can't find them!
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks again -
Sean
There should be apk's in those zips.
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Thanks for your response... I am sure there are *.apk files embedded, but I don't have a clue as to how to extract them in order to download.
ses020570 said:
I am an avid Android fan - and reasonable tech saavy..... however, I don't want to root my phone. I have looked for *.apk files (skins in particular) for the Thunderbolt but have had no luck in finding any. I find lots and lots of *.zip files, but no *.apk files.
Can someone point me in the direction of these (if indeed there are any)? I have read in the forum that there are many available, but I can't find them!
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks again -
Sean
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This thread has many
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=801928
Why are you so against rooting if you don't mind me asking? I understand its not for everyone and just want to hear from people on the other side of the spectrum.
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If the file downloads as a zip file just change the extension name from .zip to .apk and you should be good to go
If you download it to your phone you can use androzip, root explorer (can use without root, but just the SD card, can't touch system files) or I think even Astro file manager can unzip files. If on your pc just unzip, plug your phone up in disc drive mode and move it to your SD card.
Hers is the link to like 30+ apk skins. You do not need to be rooted just download and install with Astro or similar program.
FYI the apk's are in several posts so just scroll the link and you will find them
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=801928
EDIT: Figured it out.
Care to share?
Yeah, will be nice if you could share this information with others
aitorTheRed said:
Yeah, will be nice if you could share this information with others
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Man, I hate it when people do that...
1. Search for APK Manager in XDA and install it on your PC
2. Download and Install the Android SDK kit on your PC
3. Follow the instructions for APK Manager and place the APK file in the modding folder
4. Open APK Manager and select Decompile APK (Your APK file will be placed in a separate folder for you to work on)
5. Change what you want to change in the APK
6. Recompile the APK and sign it (unless it's a system file like framework, those are not signed)
A lot more is involved in modding an APK file and you really should know something about how the files inside the APK work before you go changing things, but in a nutshell, that's the basics.
Hope that helps!
What I have learned.
I had a specific question, but here is what I can tell you.
1. Setup APK Manager, it saves a lot of command line typing.
2. Pretty much always use option 9 and 11, never 1 or 3.
3. If you are simply changing graphics and not smali or XML files, don't use this, open it in 7zip and drag the files. Decompiling changes the image darkness sometimes.
4. Unless you are working on your own apk file, always say yes to 'is it a system apk', when it asks you to keep existing files, say yes. Delete from the 'keep' folder what you edited.
5. If you edit XLM files, delete resources.arsc from the file, this is where they all get compiled to.
6. You can use this for jar files, just rename to apk then back to jar when finished.
7. If you get an error try using option 20 to increase the memory to 1024.
8. If you edit jar files, delete classes.dex in the 'keep' folder when compiling.
9. Treat all files as signed system files (as noted above) and you will be much safer. If the file has a signature on it, this will save it.
Thanks for the info
Is there anything that can install system files. They won't install with ap manager so does it have to be pushed?
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Hello,
What program do I use to open an apk file?
I want to modify an apk file and then save it.
thanks
I think you just put it on your computer, rename it from .apk to .zip
extract.
There ya go.
IDK but you may have to sign it somehow again, but im not sure if you even need to.
Or just use winrar and open it.
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I grabbed APK Manager from the development section. More for theming, but powerful.
How to decompile an apk file
use 7-zip if all you want to do is replace images and already edited xml's
Is there some places where I can find all the stock tones for the SGS2 as one complete zip, or each folder as a individual zip so I can download them?.
And if not, is there then a way for me to either find them on the phone and copy them over, or as the last resort is there some way for me to extract them from the image files we use to flash through Odin?
Any help or hints in relation to this is more then welcome....
And thanks in advance.
Use Root Explorer some other file explorer by which you can have access to all directories.
Navigate to /System/media/audio
You can find "ringtones", "notifications", "alarms" folders. Copy to wherever you want.
i am not rooted, can some 1 up load the sms, notification n ringtone.
Download any official (based) rom and extract them yourself from the zip. Same location.
I have them, PM me your email address.
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Download any official (based) rom and extract them yourself from the zip. Same location.
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I have an official rom laying around on my laptop and I only have *.img files inside.
Could someone post them up for me also. Im missing a load of then default tones for some reason when I upgraded my ROM. Thanks.
Would also like this.
I will zip em all up shortly and post them
MeX_DK said:
I will zip em all up shortly and post them
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Didn't mean to jump ya but:
http://www.mediafire.com/?hma2y999mfuapbm
Already had them.
These are NOT flashable, i could probably make em so but I already had them all zipped. What I do is just put them in the GAPPS so everytime I flash a new CyanogenMod the audio gets copied in as well.
that link is dead
Whats up everyone. Finally got my hands on a pc to root my verizon s3. Downloaded all needed files and now im at the point of extracting the root66 to a tar file. Havnt been on windows for a while so off memory I d/led winzip. That didn't work because I guess incompatible with. Z7? Okay, so thats fine so I figure theres something else out there for this exact file type. Do a quick Google search and found 7 zip. But now every time I try to extract im getting "cannot open xxxx as archive".
Don't know if this helps but my file is still in my download folder and images trying to extract it to the same folder. I tried all the other options as well but to no avail. So any help would be greatly appreciated
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winrar works fine. get it here: http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
Thanks dude. I d/led a bad file. Hopefully all goes smoothly now
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