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*known bugs* May send text message to wrong recipient. I have not had this happen yet, but it has been reported.
I have attached the MMS.apk that I used for this. If you have an updated MMS that you want to try go for it. Also if anyone has the cm 7 MMS and can get it working let me know. I couldnt extract it and get it to work. I got this mms from a ROM someone made for the captivate. I only use it for the long multiple vibrate notification for text messages that I often miss when I am at work due to the noisy factory conditions I work in.
Method for install
1. Android Central Sideload Wonder Machine the mms to your phone. Alternately you can put the mms.apk on your phone and just install it from there, but it requires sideloading to be enabled, although if you have it rooted, you probably have sideloading enabled too.
2. Uninstall the "Text messaging apk" using titanium back, or root explorer. *requires root*
The old apk is called text messaging apk in titanium backup. Not sure the exact file name(text.messaging or whatever) as I have deleted it already.
Thanks for this. Stock mms is the best IMO. Speedy and stable
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I have been really wanting to do this, but I am not seeing mms.apk anywhere on the phone itself. I am guessing motorola calls its mms app something different? I have the new one on the SD card ready to go, but I don't know where the old one is to backup/freeze in the meantime.
Edit: Maybe it's conversations.apk?
daveop said:
I have been really wanting to do this, but I am not seeing mms.apk anywhere on the phone itself. I am guessing motorola calls its mms app something different? I have the new one on the SD card ready to go, but I don't know where the old one is to backup/freeze in the meantime.
Edit: Maybe it's conversations.apk?
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Step two says remove "text messaging apk" its called text messaging apk
Athailias said:
Step two says remove "text messaging apk" its called text messaging apk
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You're right, it seems to be called Text Messaging in TiBa, I don't see an actual file when using root explorer, but freezing "text messaging" in TiBa and installing this mms.apk is working perfectly. Thanks for your help
This MMS apk still has the pre 2.3.2 SMS bugs.
Well that's not good. Ill ask around in the captivate forum for a newer version. I get a parsing error when I try to pull it out of the update file on cyanogenmod. I even tried swapping out the cert files within the apk itself and I still cant get the newer apk to install. I will update the op.
I have a copy of a Mail.apk for Sense 3.5 with this stuff disabled, but it is not for XHDPI...
Can someone hook me up, or how would I go about removing it myself? Thanks.
How about a $20 incentive??
To clarify, I want to be able to log into an exchange server and not have to PIN lock the phone, or setup SD encryption...
That would be nice to be able to do that using the stock email app. This is the 1st phone I have had that forced encryption on the sd.
A decent alternative is Enhanced Mail. Been using it for awhile just so I don't have to lock my phone
Edit: You might wanna look in this thread and see if you can get one of them to work on it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1036167
Edit: I downloaded the mail.apk from the link below. Put it on my sd card and moved it to system/app and changed the permissions per the instructions on that post and rebooted the phone. Setup my exchange account and all is good. Got to the point of setting up exchange policy and clicked on activate and that was it. Didn't even have to put in a pin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1320947
dmoses1969 said:
That would be nice to be able to do that using the stock email app. This is the 1st phone I have had that forced encryption on the sd.
A decent alternative is Enhanced Mail. Been using it for awhile just so I don't have to lock my phone
Edit: You might wanna look in this thread and see if you can get one of them to work on it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1036167
Edit: I downloaded the mail.apk from the link below. Put it on my sd card and moved it to system/app and changed the permissions per the instructions on that post and rebooted the phone. Setup my exchange account and all is good. Got to the point of setting up exchange policy and clicked on activate and that was it. Didn't even have to put in a pin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1320947
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Already sent out a few requests...the only thing with the mail.apk you posted is it isn't for the HD screen, so sizing is off a bit.
Try this one. Hacked that up real quick... might just do the trick. ;D
Fenny said:
Try this one. Hacked that up real quick... might just do the trick. ;D
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THANK YOU!
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Can you make this work with Infellabilis v1.3 ? I have been using the one you posted on all others version of that rom but for some reason it just force closes on the latest.
dmoses1969 said:
Can you make this work with Infellabilis v1.3 ? I have been using the one you posted on all others version of that rom but for some reason it just force closes on the latest.
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Hmmm...I see no reason this wouldn't work on the latest (ie, he still uses the standard mail.apk). Also, the mail.apk you attached is a fraction of the size, are you sure sonethi.g isn't messed up?
The only difference I see is the latest one is not deodexed if that makes a difference.
EDIT: Ok, I finally got to work. Not sure what was going on. I tried several different ways and it kept force closing when trying to open it. This time I deleted the original Mail.apk and Mail.odex, rebooted. Used root explorer and copied yours from the sdcard to system/app and then changed permissions, rebooted again and its working.
Again, thanks for the app.
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To clarify, I want to be able to log into an exchange server and not have to PIN lock the phone, or setup SD encryption...
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Company I work for could fire you for attempting this.
Hey guys, I've been struggling with this for a while. I am on the 2.3.5 Electrify ROM, so it says that my carrier is U.S. Cellular.
I'm trying to change that so the text says "Sprint".
I have tried almost everything I can think of.
I did an ADB pull of the framework-res.apk, decompiled it, hex edited the eri.xml file (changed out the "U.S. Cellular" with "Sprint "), saved it, recompiled the APK, then pushed that to the phone.
Tried all of the carrier name changing .apks, but none of them work.
Any ideas?
Thanks a ton in advance.
i think your main problem is that you are on an electrify rom and not a photon rom
Yeah, that's the root of my problem.
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i remeber reading some post a while back with same problem with no good outcome. Do you have insurence? they were saying that you would have to take it to sprint to get out of there. Hope it works out for you.
Read that thread. Someone posted an xml file that fixes it.
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Here it is http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22012299
You need to change the eri xml in the framework-res.apk with one modified to say sprint. Its possible to do right on the phone using an app like ninja morph if you have no knowledge of decompiling, editing, and recompiling apks.
EDIT - I've attached a deodexed framework-res.apk from 2.3.5 which has been modified and displayed "sprint" as the carrier on my phone.
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You need to change the eri xml in the framework-res.apk with one modified to say sprint. Its possible to do right on the phone using an app like ninja morph if you have no knowledge of decompiling, editing, and recompiling apks.
EDIT - I've attached a deodexed framework-res.apk from 2.3.5 which has been modified and displayed "sprint" as the carrier on my phone.
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You rock! That worked! Thanks!
I edited the the eri.xml file a million times, recompiled, pushed, but it never worked.
I wonder if it's cause I am odexed?
npaulseth said:
You rock! That worked! Thanks!
I edited the the eri.xml file a million times, recompiled, pushed, but it never worked.
I wonder if it's cause I am odexed?
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The odex was likely the culprit. That apk also has the apn.xml in it that I took from a sprint build. I used the apn-conf from a sprint build in /system/etc, changed the build prop to use the sprint apn (310120), replaced /data/data/com.Motorola.telephony/db/carriers with the Sprint one and still no go on MMS receiving using the stock app. I have 2 theories to check in my down time but go sms works in a pinch for now.
Cheers!
P.S. if you flashed the electrify zips around check your custom recovery. Install-recovery wasn't removed and it will revert to stock recovery upon booting the first time. CWM can be applied same as before but unless you delete the file it will do the same every time you boot up.
Awesome man. I just tried to APN switch-a-roo (oddly enough before reading your post), and I can't get it to work with the stock app either. I went in the APN.xml file and change the "Carrier: Sprint" to Carrier: U.S.Cellular", and that didn't work either.
Nah trust me, everything from easy to moderate difficulty has been ruled out. I have 2 remaining ideas to test but it will need to wait until I get some free time.
If I figure it out I'll let you know and someone can package a flashable zip with my framework-res, a replacement build.prop, the apn-conf, and whatever else is necessary to get it working. I want nothing to do with owning it so the community will be responsible to package it and support each other but id call that a fair deal.
Again no promises, its contingent on my free time and my GF's tolerance of me on my phone
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Nah trust me, everything from easy to moderate difficulty has been ruled out. I have 2 remaining ideas to test but it will need to wait until I get some free time.
If I figure it out I'll let you know and someone can package a flashable zip with my framework-res, a replacement build.prop, the apn-conf, and whatever else is necessary to get it working. I want nothing to do with owning it so the community will be responsible to package it and support each other but id call that a fair deal.
Again no promises, its contingent on my free time and my GF's tolerance of me on my phone
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Been down this road before...
If you look at a logcat of when trying to retrieve a mms you will notice that the remote network (sprint) rejects the connection due to an unkown device.
Unless we can figure out how to change the phone so it does not idenify itself as 2.3.5 then I think we are out of luck.
Spent many days on this and decided it was not worth it.
RJR
Anyone with a 2.3.5 electrify build running on a Sprint photon can download the attached build.prop.txt, edit the name and remove the .txt part so it's only named build.prop, place it in /system. Once you have it in, reboot. It's a sprint-a-fied build.prop for 2.3.5.
Also attached the sprint bootanimation.zip. Just download that and place in /system/media . I know thats bothering someone out there.
For the real purists, while you're in media you might want to check out audio/ringtones and audio/notifications because USC added their own sound file in each you may consider deleting.
EDIT- Almost forgot, you need to set the permissions properly once you move the file(s). Both files should be rw-r--r--
I did both of those things already. Ha.
They actually were really bugging me.
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I did both of those things already. Ha.
They actually were really bugging me.
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Use my build.prop and after a reboot, please check if MMS receive works. The device fingerprint is changed to the sprint photon fingerprint. I can't test because I currently have one of my blackberries activated to test some other work.
Thanks.
EDIT- also I noticed you said you've been playing around in the apn xml. Please put it back to stock. My build.prop should set your operator as 310120 on boot. Or at least it should. You could check to make sure.
For those of you running ViperRez and miss the Htc Locations;(Footprints) app from Venasaur, I have a quick solution to get it working again.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yxhovh7z35z9zbx/jRrZKD36JX
1. Download the zips and two folders in the link and place them on your phone
2. Flash the zips in recovery first
3. Take the files from system_app and copy them to /system/app using a file explorer(root explorer) and change the permissions to rw-r-r for all files
4. Take the files from system_lib and copy them to /system/lib using a file explorer(root explorer) and change the permissions to rw-r-r for all files
5. Reboot phone and enjoy the Htc locations app again
P.s. The reason I use Locations is because I live in a rural area without internet all the time and its nice to have offline gps maps when I go hiking and such without them expiring after 30 days like google maps, so if its not to much trouble could you put it in as an option in aroma Joelz? I'm sure others in rural areas would appreciate it as much as me. Plus your rom is the only sense 4.0 one that I've gotten Locations to work on.
can you get the HTC Twitter widget goin too?
I tried but I don't know which lib or framework files it needs to go along with the apk's, if someone else knows then I'm sure it would be just as easy as htc locations.
mine keeps telling me it cant connect to the server right after it tells me to download, retry gets the same result. Cancel leaves the program. Thos are my only options. Any ideas?
jbeitel said:
mine keeps telling me it cant connect to the server right after it tells me to download, retry gets the same result. Cancel leaves the program. Thos are my only options. Any ideas?
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I've added "Footprints_system_files_signed.zip" to the dropbox folder, try flashing both of the zips in recovery first then replacing the system/app and system/lib files and be sure you fixed the permissions to read/write for user and read only for the other two (rw,r,r)
I added those but it still says can't connect to server for downloading location files (before the app launches). Any ideas? Maybe an alternate way to get them?
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If I didn't work I have no clue as I'm not a really a developer or anything I just noticed another thread that got locations working on another phone so I just took the files needed for them to run from the team pkmn rom (since its a sense 4.0 rom for rezound that had locations working on it) put them in there right place on my phone rebooted and it worked for me. When I took the files from the other phone and tryed it didn't work and gave me the same problems your having. Silly question but your trying this in a rezound and not another phone right ? If you using a different phone you'll need to find a rom for that phone with a similar build that has locations working, pull the files from it and put them on your rom. Also some people say to install LocationsInstaller.apk but when I tryed to install it it wouldn't work so I just stuck it in system/app rebooted and the location app appeared in my launcher finally.
Also not sure if this has anything to do with it but when I was running xXx I downloaded the maps of the west and midwest to use offline, So I already had the offline data for the maps when I attempted to get this working. Also its off by about 50 feet but when I'm hiking the backcountry without internet I can live with 50 feet.
My advice would be to try and install the LocationsInstaller.apk and see if it actually installs and if it does reboot your phone and try to launch the app, if it launches it should tell you its out of date and needs to download files, let it do its thing reboot again and if all went well it should work. If it doesn't I'm out of ideas for now and maybe someone else (developer) can chime in with there thoughts.
I never intended for this to be for the community but I figured if it worked for me it might for others. If all else fails for you there's and app called "Maps (-)" in the market that appears to have offline maps and lots of customizing but to get full features you need "Maps (+)" which costs $2.99 and im a cheapskate lol. MapsWithMe also seems like a good alternative that is 100% free
Nice this got on the portal!
Hi,
I did exactly as it is in this instruction on my Desire HD with custom Jelly Android and have an error:
Unfortunately Location launcher has stopped.
Any ideas how to fix it?
Thanks...
Rafal
Sorry if am posting on the wrong thread, but pls does anybody have an alternative download link for the viperrez rom?..the link on the main thread is dead
From personal experience on a sense rom WiFi drops in and out regularly even though my router is fine and every other device connected to it is fine. It is annoying as it always happens to drop when I need data such as when I'm browsing Google+ or need to search something on Google Now. WiFi drops, 3G connects, 3G disconnects, WiFi connects, all of that creates about a 5 second wait time which is NOT negligible.
Anyway, I started reading up on what manages the WiFi connections in Android, and more specifically Sense because I don't get this issue whatsoever on CM10. I may have found the possible verdict as I successfully no longer get WiFi drops and it stays constantly connected to my access point.
What I found was that the default settings.apk from sense is what manages the WiFi connections so I decided to stick in a stock AOSP settings.apk file in there in its' stead to see if that helped. It did greatly help, and on top of that on all settings screens such as app info screens and app instalation screens I get the AOSP look that I love. It really does complete any 'sense-less' ROM.
So without further ado, I have attatched the stock settings.apk with a few mods to make it work on sense flawlessly. Please make your /system partition writeable and overwrite the sense settings.apk in /system/app/ with the one attatched. Please let me know if this works for you guys too. For reporting make sure to put your ROM version in.
Do the permissions need to be changed?
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Works perfectly. Thank you.
Can someone please explain how to do this, including what app to use for the permission changes? I'm really not comfortable with file managing apps and switching out system files yet. But I really want to try this out, mostly to complete my vanilla android look and feel.
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Maybe I'm just missing it, but i dont see option in About Phone to update PRL, Profile.
Im i blind?
Edit: just like AOSP roms, you can't update them. My mistake.
wolfeyes30 said:
Maybe I'm just missing it, but i dont see option in About Phone to update PRL, Profile.
Im i blind?
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It doesnt have those options I'm afraid. As for the permissions, learn something and use google
Cool, nice job man. This is the first I've seen of the AOSP menus, very cool. I'm looking forward to CM10 even more now. I wasn't having any wifi issues, but I liked the sound of having a little touch of AOSP to hold me over until an official release is out.
I used ES file explorer on Viper4G (you may wanna make a nandroid first):
1. Launch ES, open menu, go into settings
2. Make sure Up To Root, Root Explorer and Mount File System are enabled
3. Browse to the download location of the apk in the OP
4. Copy the apk
5. Browse to /system/app
6. Paste the apk and confirm overwrite
7. Reboot phone
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Interesting. I had the same Wi-Fi cycling issues on cm10 8/1 build as I did in sense roms... I'll have to give this a try...
Tried using this with MeanROM 2.9 and Nova Launcher. Settings menu wouldn't come up for me at all.
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Cool, nice job man. This is the first I've seen of the AOSP menus, very cool. I'm looking forward to CM10 even more now. I wasn't having any wifi issues, but I liked the sound of having a little touch of AOSP to hold me over until an official release is out.
I used ES file explorer on Viper4G (you may wanna make a nandroid first):
1. Launch ES, open menu, go into settings
2. Make sure Up To Root, Root Explorer and Mount File System are enabled
3. Browse to the download location of the apk in the OP
4. Copy the apk
5. Browse to /system/app
6. Paste the apk and confirm overwrite
7. Reboot phone
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Thank you very much, I'm gonna try this later! I learn from trying things hands on, and this will help get me started.
I'm on Viper4G as well. De-sensed. I can't think of any bit of Sense that will be visible... Other than maybe the icons in the status bar. I'm sure those are theme-able to ICS look too... I'll have to look into that!
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PsiPhiDan said:
I'm on Viper4G as well. De-sensed. I can't think of any bit of Sense that will be visible...
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Same here, no sense for me now. :good:
PsiPhiDan said:
Other than maybe the icons in the status bar. I'm sure those are theme-able to ICS look too... I'll have to look into that!
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You bet...you can download AOSP status bar icons through the Venom hub and then apply them in the Venom tweaks menu. I personally prefer the stock icons though because they are a bit more crisp looking.
To those with wifi issues. If you have sense, go to wifi settings choose frequency then change to 2.4 ghz.
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Hey Art2Fly, I would suggest you either make a new thread or change the title of this one... This is a pretty big deal outside of the WiFi issue! I am more excited about the AOSP styled settings menu! That's pretty significant, and I would imagine that all the devs making non-Sense ROMs will be baking this into their ROM. Nice job - I love the new look!
Premo - I totally agree on the ICS theme... Not quite polished enough for me yet. So close to pure AOSP without having AOSP... Haha. It's really impressive how much Sense they removed.
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So i just tried this and now I dont have setting.. Like non.. the button is gone and all. I tried a factory data reset and still nothing.. Any ideas on how to get my setting back? Im stock rooted.
i did this
1. Launch ES, open menu, go into settings
2. Make sure Up To Root, Root Explorer and Mount File System are enabled
3. Browse to the download location of the apk in the OP
4. Copy the apk
5. Browse to /system/app
6. Paste the apk and confirm overwrite
7. Reboot phone
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So i just tried this and now I dont have setting.. Like non.. the button is gone and all. I tried a factory data reset and still nothing.. Any ideas on how to get my setting back? Im stock rooted.
i did this
1. Launch ES, open menu, go into settings
2. Make sure Up To Root, Root Explorer and Mount File System are enabled
3. Browse to the download location of the apk in the OP
4. Copy the apk
5. Browse to /system/app
6. Paste the apk and confirm overwrite
7. Reboot phone
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Did you change the permissions to 644?
NissanNick said:
So i just tried this and now I dont have setting.. Like non.. the button is gone and all. I tried a factory data reset and still nothing.. Any ideas on how to get my setting back? Im stock rooted.
i did this
1. Launch ES, open menu, go into settings
2. Make sure Up To Root, Root Explorer and Mount File System are enabled
3. Browse to the download location of the apk in the OP
4. Copy the apk
5. Browse to /system/app
6. Paste the apk and confirm overwrite
7. Reboot phone
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That's strange. Yeah, factory reset won't help because that clears the data and cache partitions only, but this modification is to the system partition. You could try downloading a Sense based rom (like Mean, Clean, Fresh, etc.), open up the zip file and pull the settings.apk out of there to replace the one you've got now...it should be the same as the one you had originally. Did you do a nandroid backup first?
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First, I would like to thank Wolfeyes30 for sending me here. Thanks!
I'm visually impaired and this settings.apk is absolutely freaking fantastic! Thanks so much Art2Fly, this is really really sweet.
I can't comment on the impact on wifi yet, as I just installed at work.
Currently on MeanROM 2.8
4x4 Rosie 360 Landscape
Running deSensed .07
Pushed to /system/app using ES Esplorer
Renamed original settings.apk (added .bak) & saved for later use
Original .apk permissions were rw-r--r--
Set permissions on Art's settings.apk
Rebooted
Profited
Goes without saying...nand'd before this process started.
Thanks so much Wolf & Art!
Skid
this took care of my wifi disconnecting problems after screen off....downside is beats doesn't seem to work
edit: lack of beats might be due to my desensed viper rom
Ok I figured it out with the help of another member. Thanks!
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To those with Wifi issues, have you noticed a difference with the new setting apk? Kinda wanna try this assuming it works as the OP says
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