Now with the easy 4.1.1 root im wondering if there is a way to get vanilla android now on my xperia s tab?
jimbohurt said:
Now with the easy 4.1.1 root im wondering if there is a way to get vanilla android now on my xperia s tab?
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You can't get true vanilla without a bootloader unlock, but you can use titanium backup to delete the Sony bloat. That's what I did on my Tablet S, and it also happens to be muuuuuch less laggy. As for the rest of the UI, I know there is an app to change the soft keys (I have never tried it), but for the settings app and the rest of the system there isn't much you can do
lopezk38 said:
You can't get true vanilla without a bootloader unlock, but you can use titanium backup to delete the Sony bloat. That's what I did on my Tablet S, and it also happens to be muuuuuch less laggy. As for the rest of the UI, I know there is an app to change the soft keys (I have never tried it), but for the settings app and the rest of the system there isn't much you can do
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Perfectly answered question! Thanks so much brotha. Ive been meaning to check out titanium backup deletes but have been nervous. So you can confirm that ALL sony crapeware is safely removable? Thanks dude.
jimbohurt said:
Perfectly answered question! Thanks so much brotha. Ive been meaning to check out titanium backup deletes but have been nervous. So you can confirm that ALL sony crapeware is safely removable? Thanks dude.
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I can't confirm that all of it is safe to remove, i just left all the small app stuff, appinstaller.apk, dtcpctrl.apk, all the playstation games (xtab doesn't have these I don't think), mediaplayers.apk, SENinstaller.apk, SENmediator.apk, the ir remote stuff, and the media remote app (You can get rid of this, I just left it because I have a Sony blu-ray player). You can remove any socialife plugins, anything related to socialife, registration app, etc. I also run Nova Launcher to give it that AOSP look, but I haven't checked to see if any of this hampers the stock launcher. Remember to install the recovery backdoor so you can reinstall 4.1.1 if something goes wrong. I did have an issue where titanium backup didn't remove some of the apps, so I had to use a file explorer to delete that crap in /datapp/vendor/vendor0/app/ and /datapp/vendor/vendor1/app/. You might have a slightly different file system because you have a XTS on 4.1.1 and I have an STS on 4.0.3, so be careful
jimbohurt said:
Perfectly answered question! Thanks so much brotha. Ive been meaning to check out titanium backup deletes but have been nervous. So you can confirm that ALL sony crapeware is safely removable? Thanks dude.
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Make sure you use All In One tool and install rescue back-door and then disable update notifications. This will lower the incremental so if you **** your tablet then you can easily install JB again.
lopezk38 said:
I can't confirm that all of it is safe to remove, i just left all the small app stuff, appinstaller.apk, dtcpctrl.apk, all the playstation games (xtab doesn't have these I don't think), mediaplayers.apk, SENinstaller.apk, SENmediator.apk, the ir remote stuff, and the media remote app (You can get rid of this, I just left it because I have a Sony blu-ray player). You can remove any socialife plugins, anything related to socialife, registration app, etc. I also run Nova Launcher to give it that AOSP look, but I haven't checked to see if any of this hampers the stock launcher. Remember to install the recovery backdoor so you can reinstall 4.1.1 if something goes wrong. I did have an issue where titanium backup didn't remove some of the apps, so I had to use a file explorer to delete that crap in /datapp/vendor/vendor0/app/ and /datapp/vendor/vendor1/app/. You might have a slightly different file system because you have a XTS on 4.1.1 and I have an STS on 4.0.3, so be careful
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Make sure you use All In One tool and install rescue back-door and then disable update notifications. This will lower the incremental so if you **** your tablet then you can easily install JB again.
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What a great community, thanks so much. So do I need both titanium backup AND All in One tool? Or is the latter just a part of the former?
Two separate. You Can grab titanium off of Market. AiO is in The dev. Section of this forum, courtesy of Condi.
Sent from my C6603 using xda app-developers app
jimbohurt said:
What a great community, thanks so much. So do I need both titanium backup AND All in One tool? Or is the latter just a part of the former?
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Do the all in one tool first section 4 option one and three
Then titanim
rooted lighting wildfire on unoffical j.b from benni
and sony XTS rooted stock j.b
Raedek said:
Two separate. You Can grab titanium off of Market. AiO is in The dev. Section of this forum, courtesy of Condi.
Sent from my C6603 using xda app-developers app
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thanks so much everyone, one last question: will you please link me to that all in one app because even through the search part of the form I still couldn't find one made by condi. I did find, however an All in One cleaner app but I figured that isn't the one.
jimbohurt said:
thanks so much everyone, one last question: will you please link me to that all in one app because even through the search part of the form I still couldn't find one made by condi. I did find, however an All in One cleaner app but I figured that isn't the one.
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Top of dev section. Sony Tablet S > Tablet S Development
jimbohurt said:
thanks so much everyone, one last question: will you please link me to that all in one app because even through the search part of the form I still couldn't find one made by condi. I did find, however an All in One cleaner app but I figured that isn't the one.
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Link to Condi's ALLinONE tool is in my signature.
jimbohurt said:
thanks so much everyone, one last question: will you please link me to that all in one app because even through the search part of the form I still couldn't find one made by condi. I did find, however an All in One cleaner app but I figured that isn't the one.
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Its not an app the all in one tool its and exe tool written be condi for windows like the root tool you used to root your device
rooted lighting wildfire on unoffical j.b from benni
and sony XTS rooted stock j.b thanks djrbliss
Cat McGowan said:
Link to Condi's ALLinONE tool is in my signature.
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dex9mm said:
Its not an app the all in one tool its and exe tool written be condi for windows like the root tool you used to root your device
rooted lighting wildfire on unoffical j.b from benni
and sony XTS rooted stock j.b thanks djrbliss
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thanks so much guys, so I'm going to want to do the rescue back door option? Then that way if I mess something up I can always just get stock jelly bean back? Is this correct?
dex9mm said:
Do the all in one tool first section 4 option one and three
Then titanim
rooted lighting wildfire on unoffical j.b from benni
and sony XTS rooted stock j.b
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Sorry bro, last question. What does the option three (disable notifications) do? What would happen if i left it on?
jimbohurt said:
Sorry bro, last question. What does the option three (disable notifications) do? What would happen if i left it on?
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You will get an annoying pop up saying that an update is available. Which there is NOT it is the JB you are already on.
stifilz said:
You will get an annoying pop up saying that an update is available. Which there is NOT it is the JB you are already on.
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Will i get the pop up on my device or on my computer? Also, the back door rescue, where is that stored?
And sorry i tried to thank your post but its limiting me to 8 thanks a day! I will go back and thank you tomorrow
Thanks for the help man
jimbohurt said:
Will i get the pop up on my device or on my computer? Also, the back door rescue, where is that stored?
And sorry i tried to thank your post but its limiting me to 8 thanks a day! I will go back and thank you tomorrow
Thanks for the help man
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No worries. All updates for Sony Tablet S and Xperia Tablet S are done through the Tablet itself. Rescue Back-Door simply changes vendor.prop located in the /vendor folder. It changes the line. ro.update.incremental (or something like that) to before HoneyComb and that is why we refer to it as lowered incremental. If you look at the file name after -ota etc the number is as follows 130516001.zip 13(year) 05(month) 16(day) 001(version), that is the incremental. This is what Sony's recovery looks at when trying to install a zip. So if you have JB installed and do not use back door you CAN NOT flash anything. Whereas you have back door installed you CAN install any zip for your region. i.e R3 > R6, R6A, R6B, JB for Xperia S
stifilz said:
No worries. All updates for Sony Tablet S and Xperia Tablet S are done through the Tablet itself. Rescue Back-Door simply changes vendor.prop located in the /vendor folder. It changes the line. ro.update.incremental (or something like that) to before HoneyComb and that is why we refer to it as lowered incremental. If you look at the file name after -ota etc the number is as follows 130516001.zip 13(year) 05(month) 16(day) 001(version), that is the incremental. This is what Sony's recovery looks at when trying to install a zip. So if you have JB installed and do not use back door you CAN NOT flash anything. Whereas you have back door installed you CAN install any zip for your region. i.e R3 > R6, R6A, R6B, JB for Xperia S
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Cool, okay so its gunna 'trick' my device into being on an older version inside vendor so that it will let me flash? So my device thinks its on honeycomb and wants to notify me there is an update even tho in reality I am on jelly bean and there isnt one? Sorry a little bit of that is over my head but I'm understanding at least that I know for sure i need to get a back door!!
jimbohurt said:
Cool, okay so its gunna 'trick' my device into being on an older version inside vendor so that it will let me flash? So my device thinks its on honeycomb and wants to notify me there is an update even tho in reality I am on jelly bean and there isnt one? Sorry a little bit of that is over my head but I'm understanding at least that I know for sure i need to get a back door!!
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Yes and yes. You've got it. Perfect
stifilz said:
Yes and yes. You've got it. Perfect
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Last thing, shnould I also do option 3 then 2 to setup up a flash zip of what I have now incase thats what I have to flash to later?
I want to make my system free of meanless stuff. Can anybody help ?
Delete the useless apps to you from system, everything else is in need.
May be charging animation and bootanimation is removable, but it won't save any space.
Sent from my Xperia U using xda app-developers app
JohnHK said:
I want to make my system free of meanless stuff. Can anybody help ?
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Well the unwanted apps are called bloatware like Support App and Android Stock Browser. If you want to remove all those apps which came installed in the phone when you bought it and cannot be deleted, you will have to root your phone and then install ES File Explorer or any other app which can uninstall them. Then you would be able to uninstall even those wallpapers which came loaded and even the phone and messaging app.
Use search button for your phone and you will find helpful threads...
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moli2398 said:
Well the unwanted apps are called bloatware like Support App and Android Stock Browser. If you want to remove all those apps which came installed in the phone when you bought it and cannot be deleted, you will have to root your phone and then install ES File Explorer or any other app which can uninstall them. Then you would be able to uninstall even those wallpapers which came loaded and even the phone and messaging app.
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I've unlocked bootloader and rooted xperia, but I want any member to give me an answer to make the progress easier. Accually, I don't know all the functions of those apps.
JohnHK said:
I've unlocked bootloader and rooted xperia, but I want any member to give me an answer to make the progress easier. Accually, I don't know all the functions of those apps.
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Well I would recommend you to go for 'MoonBreakers Rom' if you are with Xperia P JB! Coz we have already removed all useless bloatware and made this Rom!
I Have a htc amaze and for some apps when i want to open them, an error says "Application is not from market" how can i fix my problem? please help!!
Re-Install
aliv.2022 said:
I Have a htc amaze and for some apps when i want to open them, an error says "Application is not from market" how can i fix my problem? please help!!
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Please re install form Play Store.
I think you install form cracked apk.
Icaros7 said:
Please re install form Play Store.
I think you install form cracked apk.
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Unfortunately in Iran we haven't access Google play store because of prohibitions!!!!! is'nt any other way to don't see this error? my friends have these apps on Samsung phones and they don't have any problem!!!
Here it is
Follow my instructions
Go to Settings>Security>Unknown sources option tick it
then you can install any apps
HIT THANKS if i help you..
076ajay said:
Follow my instructions
Go to Settings>Security>Unknown sources option tick it
then you can install any apps
HIT THANKS if i help you..
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I've done it before,there is no problem in installing the app, app is installed but when i want open it problems arise...
aliv.2022 said:
Unfortunately in Iran we haven't access Google play store because of prohibitions!!!!! is'nt any other way to don't see this error? my friends have these apps on Samsung phones and they don't have any problem!!!
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Do you have same apk with your friends??
Umm...I think youd better use "Luc*y Patcher" or "Fr** dom" ...
:-?
Icaros7 said:
Do you have same apk with your friends??
Umm...I think youd better use "Luc*y Patcher" or "Fr** dom" ...
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Luc*y Patcher... i think it works! good idea but if i don't want to root my phone? isn't any other way?
aliv.2022 said:
Luc*y Patcher... i think it works! good idea but if i don't want to root my phone? isn't any other way?
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Use SuperOneClick to root your phone easily then use Lucky.... or just... look for a prepatched version on TPB, not that im endorsing piracy in any way. Piracy is wrong
Hi all I'm new to the forum and looking for some advice please..ive just got a nvidia shield 2017 I've switched the apps from unknown sources toggle on but I still cannot install apps such as the downloader app by AFTVnews.com and Aptoid. Any ideas gratefully appreciated.
Mermeo29 said:
Hi all I'm new to the forum and looking for some advice please..ive just got a nvidia shield 2017 I've switched the apps from unknown sources toggle on but I still cannot install apps such as the downloader app by AFTVnews.com and Aptoid. Any ideas gratefully appreciated.
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Are you rooted? How are you trying to install them?
Hi thanks for your reply Ive tried to install on es fike explorer and also on the aftv downloader app...im sorry I don't understand what you mean rooted?
Mermeo29 said:
Hi thanks for your reply Ive tried to install on es fike explorer and also on the aftv downloader app...im sorry I don't understand what you mean rooted?
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So did you download them with es explorer, can you see them in the apps section of es explorer, also suggest you restart your shield then tick unknown sources again and try
When in file I go to favourites there is no Google option so I chose yahoo for a search engine. Then on yahoo typed in Aptoid tv pressed to download and nothing appears to happen. In.aystore apps say not compatible with nvidia shield. I've only had a firestick previously so I'm struggling to understand what's different the shield
Mermeo29 said:
When in file I go to favourites there is no Google option so I chose yahoo for a search engine. Then on yahoo typed in Aptoid tv pressed to download and nothing appears to happen. In.aystore apps say not compatible with nvidia shield. I've only had a firestick previously so I'm struggling to understand what's different the shield
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go to browser and type in apk mirror and download the apks from there
Got it thanks for the info Johnny.
VPN
Hello again could you possibly recommend a vpn to use on the nvidia shield please?
Mermeo29 said:
Hello again could you possibly recommend a vpn to use on the nvidia shield please?
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I use nordvpn that is my choice, I suggest you do a websearch on best vpn"s and compare them to make your decision
Thanks for the info
Hi all,
I was wondering if anybody could assist with helping make an APK work on Android TV.
Zwift is the app - it's a VR Cycling and Running app.
I have the latest version of the APK to sideload -- Unfortunately it's not signed to work with Android TV yet, so it comes up with the error "app not installed"
Does anybody know a workaround?
I'm not sure which parts of the APK to modify or how, other than re-signing. I've search online high and low.
Help is greatly appreciated. I can attach the APK if required.
Thanks
THE_KINGDOM said:
Hi all,
I was wondering if anybody could assist with helping make an APK work on Android TV.
Zwift is the app in question - it's a VR Cycling and Running app.
I have the latest version of the APK to sideload -- Unfortunately it's not signed to work with Android TV yet, so it comes up with the error "app not installed"
Does anybody know a workaround?
I'm not sure which parts of the APK to modify or how, other than re-signing. I've search online high and low.
Help is greatly appreciated. I can attach the APK if required.
Thanks
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If you was able to disable signature verification the app will install
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PoochyX said:
If you was able to disable signature verification the app will install
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Any quick and easy way to do this?
Thanks
THE_KINGDOM said:
Any quick and easy way to do this?
Thanks
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Well you need root to do that.....
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PoochyX said:
Well you need root to do that.....
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I thought it's possible to modify the apk files ? I've attached the APK in my last response
THE_KINGDOM said:
I thought it's possible to modify the apk files ? I've attached the APK in my last response
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No you can't modify the apk for that....the frame jar is what is responsible for detaching signatures....
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PoochyX said:
No you can't modify the apk for that....the frame jar is what is responsible for detaching signatures....
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Okay.
Am I correct in a assuming that the APK isn't signed for Android TV? - with the "app not installed" error msg when trying to install the APK.
What if it's something else other than whether or not the APK is signed that may be causing this? Perhaps it could be something resolvable without root?
I need to get this apk installed on the Sony Bravia so I'll do whatever is requred, if rooting turns out to be the only way then I'll do that.