I am currently working on a ROM. I just did a fresh xp service pack 3 install on my PC. previously xml files had no issues but now when I decompile them and open with xml editor it gives "An invalid character was found in text content. " error. And if I use notepad++ it gives NUL NUL NUL like these characters after each alphabet!!
I am totally confused! can anybody tell me what will be the issue???
Yeah i also can`t open the xml files it would be usefull if someone tells us how ot open them
What apktool do you use to decompile?
From the Galaxy to your phone
shaaan said:
What apktool do you use to decompile?
From the Galaxy to your phone
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o, i have to use apktool??? LOL I DIDNT KNOW XD seriously... my dumb brain fail: P
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foggydisaster said:
o, i have to use apktool??? LOL I DIDNT KNOW XD seriously... my dumb brain fail: P
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If you solely extract the files using (e.g.) winrar or the apktool you wont be able to edit the XML-files. Make sure you chose "decompile" when ure gonna use apktools.
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i am trying to edit infinity view apk.
I decompiled it using APK Multi tool and created a project but it always gives me error as shown in fig.
Plz tell me how to fix this error.
I think i have to import some files but don't know how to do them properly. i tried somethings but unable to resolve this error.
I think you also need framework files.
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singh_dd93 said:
i am trying to edit infinity view apk.
I decompiled it using APK Multi tool .
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Why are you editing with eclipse. What do you want to change exactly? Edit the xml file with notepad++ .. And compile back apk with apk tool again.
Thanks,
PALLAVI KALYANAM
pallavikv said:
Why are you editing with eclipse. What do you want to change exactly? Edit the xml file with notepad++ .. And compile back apk with apk tool again.
Thanks,
PALLAVI KALYANAM
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That´s it my friend...
Use notepad++ to edit .xml and .smali files.
If anyone can help me integrate SDK tutorial or sequence mobilcore..tolong help me , God bless
Hi friends im having trouble writing the update-script for a flashable zip with deodexed system/app & system/framework. this is my first attempt at one. could anyone tell me where im going wrong please ive been trying all day with no luck. But its not for my ray its for my j theres not many devs to help me on the j forum.
heres my zip: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/90938124/deodex_xj-signed.zip
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Hi friends im having trouble writing the update-script for a flashable zip with deodexed system/app & system/framework. this is my first attempt at one. could anyone tell me where im going wrong please ive been trying all day with no luck. But its not for my ray its for my j theres not many devs to help me on the j forum.
heres my zip: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/90938124/deodex_xj-signed.zip
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just give me the updater script. file
here it is thanks
There is no mount and unmout cmd's in the script..
Well iam on phone now...
Simple solution for u is to use any any existing mod's meta-inf folder in ur mod.
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Have a look at a working updater-script and you will see a huge difference
For example you need a command like
Code:
extract_dir
More set perms and mounting/unmounting system. Please check out a "real" updater-script :good:
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sandy7 said:
There is no mount and unmout cmd's in the script..
Well iam on phone now...
Simple solution for u is to use any any existing mod's meta-inf folder in ur mod.
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ok i'll try thanks
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Have a look at a working updater-script and you will see a huge difference
For example you need a command like
Code:
extract_dir
More set perms and mounting/unmounting system. Please check out a "real" updater-script :good:
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i think i'll just give up i'm no dev lol
my next attempt still cant get it right please someone help me
well here what u did wrong...updater script was a txt file...and there was no updater binary script.
so next time use Notepad++ to edit these files..
here i only fixed everything...it should work now....
http://d-h.st/Gai
sandy7 said:
well here what u did wrong...updater script was a txt file...and there was no updater binary script.
so next time use Notepad++ to edit these files..
here i only fixed everything...it should work now....
http://d-h.st/Gai
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Thankyou so much for your efforts but its not flashing error status6 i looked it up and resigning fixes the problem but then it just aborts. i'll just forget about it i'm sure you all have better things to do than help silly nooby me lol. Thanks again.
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Thankyou so much for your efforts but its not flashing error status6 i looked it up and resigning fixes the problem but then it just aborts. i'll just forget about it i'm sure you all have better things to do than help silly nooby me lol. Thanks again.
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I think the best thread you can start to learn it: How to make a flashable zip
I started here too once a time...
Wechy
Wechy77 said:
I think the best thread you can start to learn it: How to make a flashable zip
I started here too once a time...
Wechy
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thats where iv been trying to learn from but its not really explanatory enough for a noob. im just a factory worker lol not a dev all thought id love to be able to do all this. iv read other threds aswell but none of them said anything about the update binery either. i'm probably just not smart enough. i'll keep trying though
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thats where iv been trying to learn from but its not really explanatory enough for a noob. im just a factory worker lol not a dev all thought id love to be able to do all this. iv read other threds aswell but none of them said anything about the update binery either. i'm probably just not smart enough. i'll keep trying though
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Try download some flashable zips and view updater scripts with notepad++
This is the best way to understand how it works.
If I have some time I write a little guide
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Wechy77 said:
Try download some flashable zips and view updater scripts with notepad++
This is the best way to understand how it works.
If I have some time I write a little guide
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ok thanks. i'll study up lol. how would i remove the .txt extension on notepad++ when i save it turns into a txt file.
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ok thanks. i'll study up lol. how would i remove the .txt extension on notepad++ when i save it turns into a txt file.
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delete extension
but the best way is open one of the updater-script (download any flashable zip) and edit with notepad++
(be sure you edit with notepad++ othervise you will see status6 error when flashing)
Hi, I am hoping that one of the Android developers on here might be able to give me a bit of advice please regarding editting my 'framework.jar' file.
I have a Jiayu G3 phone running Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2 but my caller ID is not functioning properly because it is not matching local & international numbers. Having done a lot of searching it appears that this is probably due to the parameters in the 'framework.jar' file as per this post on xdadevelopers here
I have succesfully decompiled the 'framework-res.apk' file using apktools and confirmed that the 'config_use_strict_phone_number_comparation' variable is set to false. However, I am having trouble decompiling the 'framework.jar' file.
I have copied the 'framework.jar' file from my phone and opened it in a Jave decompiler. However, all I am presented with is the following:
Code:
META-INF
MANIFEST.MF
preloaded-classes
(See attached image)
In the xda post it says the following:
II) Check for and fix MIN_MATCH constant in telephony framework
1) Decompile framework.jar
2) Open smali/android/telephony/PhoneNumberUtils.smali
3) Search for MIN_MATCH constant and set it to 0x7
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...but I don't appear to have that in mine.
Am I doing something wrong.
If anyone could offer any advice I would be very grateful.
Many thanks
Russell
P'S. I tried replying about this in the original xda post itself but I don't have authorisation to post in the developers section so I thought I would try here instead.
So, is no one able to help me with this then. All the searching I've done indicates that when I decompress 'framework.jar' then I should have 'classes.dex' inside. However I don't have that.
Can anyone explain to me why this is please before I pull the rest of my hair out.
Thanks
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So, is no one able to help me with this then. All the searching I've done indicates that when I decompress 'framework.jar' then I should have 'classes.dex' inside. However I don't have that.
Can anyone explain to me why this is please before I pull the rest of my hair out.
Thanks
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You have to use apktool and apply the command to decompile..
eg.
apktool d framework.jar
this in cmd, will create a new folder named framework.jar.out, then you navigate inside this folder were all the smali's files are etc..
PS. you can't open framework.jar in java decompile, you can open framework.jar extract the classes.dex then use dex2jar tool and turn it back into framework_classes.jar this is the one that can be viewed with java decompilers
Does annybody know....
Where i can find a clean Settings.apk for the GE 4.3 (i9505) that i can mod? (Decompile/Recompile)
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You have to use apktool and apply the command to decompile..
eg.
apktool d framework.jar
this in cmd, will create a new folder named framework.jar.out, then you navigate inside this folder were all the smali's files are etc..
PS. you can't open framework.jar in java decompile, you can open framework.jar extract the classes.dex then use dex2jar tool and turn it back into framework_classes.jar this is the one that can be viewed with java decompilers
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Thanks for the help. I'm away this week but I'll give it a go next weekend when I'm back.
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Force it into submission
be rough with it
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Russell_S said:
then I should have 'classes.dex' inside. However I don't have that.
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Are you using a deodexed ROM?
XperienceD said:
Are you using a deodexed ROM?
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You've got me there. How would I find out?
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Ok, I'm gradually learning here. Having done a bit of research it appears that my rom is odexed (I have .apk and .odex files in my /system/app folder).
I'm assuming then that this will scupper my plans to edit my framework.jar file.
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I'm assuming then that this will scupper my plans to edit my framework.jar file.
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No no, you just need to deodex your ROM then, luckily for you I've got a little thread here - [Info/How-To/Tools] Deodexing Made Easy... - which will help you with that, obviously ignore the Xperia Z Users part and give the rest a read.
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No no, you just need to deodex your ROM then, luckily for you I've got a little thread here - [Info/How-To/Tool] Deodexing Made Easy... - which will help you with that, obviously ignore the Xperia Z Users part and give the rest a read.
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Thanks very much for that, I shall digest the information while I'm on holiday ready to act on it when I get back.
I'll let you know how I get on.
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Hi guys !
I'm having a problem recompiling the systemui.apk, i'm modding some .xml files and everything goes fine, it recompiles ok but when i push it to my phone there's no change i decompile the modified apk and the xml files aren't change either it's like i didn't change anything from them.
Every single time a recompile an apk it goes back to normal
Does anyone else has that problem or is just me , and does someone knows how can i fix that problem?
INFO :
Windows 8 pro
Using : Apktool , Auto apktool and tickle my android (in all of them i get that same problem)
Thanks in advance, regards
Give the Command Prompt Editing section a read, might clear it up. - [Advice/Reference/Guide] The Definitive APK Modding & Theming Thread...
XperienceD said:
Give the Command Prompt Editing section a read, might clear it up. - [Advice/Reference/Guide] The Definitive APK Modding & Theming Thread...
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Already read it and that's what i've been doing, and like i said the changes aren't saved. Every time i delete o put some codes in the xml file with notepad++ i save them but after i recompile the apk i decompile it again to check if everything's alright but the files look like the original ones.
monster30 said:
i decompile it again to check if everything's alright but the files look like the original ones.
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Is this apk in the dist folder?
XperienceD said:
Is this apk in the dist folder?
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Yep. I really don't know why i can't make it work a week ago i didn't have this problem. (i didn't change anything in my laptop etc)
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monster30 said:
Yep. I really don't know why i can't make it work a week ago i didn't have this problem. (i didn't change anything in my laptop etc)
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here, pls try this to de-/recompile using his TuT; BUT recompile TuT has a bug:
''apktool b -f -d semcmusic.apk ( can be whatever name you give to your apk )'' <-- justtype in without ''.apk'' --> will work
i use this mostly bcuz for me, it dont maked any problem's (like some other tools), also allways work
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here, pls try this to de-/recompile using his TuT; BUT recompile TuT has a bug:
''apktool b -f -d semcmusic.apk ( can be whatever name you give to your apk )'' <-- justtype in without ''.apk'' --> will work
i use this mostly bcuz for me, it dont maked any problem's (like some other tools), also allways work
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i tried that one a couple of times and it didn't worked ,right now i try it again and the changes were saved but when i push it to my phone the status bar was gone (i did copy the META.INF folder to the new apk)
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i tried that one a couple of times and it didn't worked ,right now i try it again and the changes were saved but when i push it to my phone the status bar was gone (i did copy the META.INF folder to the new apk)
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and this apktool says recopiling was fine??
also: which rom is this systemUI from; what for a mod u will do?? (will try it on my pc, maybe the problem is win8 ?)
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and this apktool says recopiling was fine??
also: which rom is this systemUI from; what for a mod u will do?? (will try it on my pc, maybe the problem is win8 ?)
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Yep, the recompile goes ok. I wanna change the toggle icons and wanna move the icons in the status bar.
And actually ticklefish already help me with that and when i push it nothing happen either, so i don't think it's a prob with win8 cuz before i didn't had that problem, it started this week
The systemUi is from honami i1 rom from aneel, i already install the framework from the rom.
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. Hey all !
Can any one help me how to decompile systemui as well as to make a new systemui.apk .
I googled lot but Im not getting how to decompile UI even I tried to download some tools like apktool but I don't know why that app never starts
Can any one provide me simple and straight method for making a new system UI and provide tools required to make UI
I'm really noob in such things so your help will not only help me but also other noobs like me. .
Thanks
psyduck said:
. Hey all !
Can any one help me how to decompile systemui as well as to make a new systemui.apk .
I googled lot but Im not getting how to decompile UI even I tried to download some tools like apktool but I don't know why that app never starts
Can any one provide me simple and straight method for making a new system UI and provide tools required to make UI
I'm really noob in such things so your help will not only help me but also other noobs like me. .
Thanks
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It isnt an app that u can just theme with so easily.
U have to open apktool using "CMD" or Command Prompt
If u want to theme easily use ticklefish's Tickle my droid
If u want to theme as u want exactly use apktool.
Also If u just want to edit images (and not xmls)
Just use 7 zip to extract ur apk. Edit pngs in drawable-ldpi and drawable-hdpi using gimp/Paint.net/Photoshop
then put edited files back in the apk
Cheers :cheers:
make sure after the edit put same filename and repack
arun531 said:
make sure after the edit put same filename and repack
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dont repack ever....
either recompile usin apktool or just replace it from the apk without unpacking
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