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[Q] Shell Script help please

Hi there, so I have heard there's some way to write sh scripts for android?
I am wanting to make an easy way to randomly change one line in an XML file located on the flash. Meaning it'll need su priviledges.
Basically I'm wanting to make something that'll change the mobile id for grooveshark with one touch, so the trial wont expire (why oh why don't they go to their usual ad supported method?)
I want to make a shortcut on my home screen that I can touch to to reset my trial
Any pointers?
These are the contents of the XML file in /data/data/com.grooveshark.android.v1/
Grooveshark.xml:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' standalone='yes' ?>
<map>
<string name="cc4">8765432198</string>
<string name="cc1">0</string>
<string name="cc2">0</string>
<boolean name="hasTrialStarted" value="true" />
<string name="cc3">0</string>
<int name="splashSponsoredExpires" value="0" />
<boolean name="trialHasExpired" value="false" />
<string name="cid">229</string>
<string name="loginUnPwToken">5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99</string>
<string name="username">username</string>
<string name="sessionID">c3a5a6eca887891b9bf69687badb7531</string>
<long name="mobileID" value="555554" />
<int name="sponsoredSplashCount" value="0" />
<int name="trialExpiresTime" value="1382277664" />
<int name="splashSponsorID" value="0" />
<boolean name="gs_tos_bool" value="true" />
<int name="trialNumPlays" value="0" />
</map>
I changed any numbers that'd allow you to auto log in as me
The important part is: <long name="mobileID" value="555554" />
that value has to change whenever your trial expires.
Can anyone give me some pointers? I don't need a tutorial, just an example of shell scripts on the home screen of android.

Well, I have an update. I couldn't find any good reference for shell scripts on linux, so I went ahead and just set up the SDK. I don't have too much java experience, bt I was able to get the interface made pretty easily using the online resources. Now I simply need to make the button in the app death the xml file, find that string and replace it with a random number. I anyone has some good examples of how to search and edit the contents of a file, that'd be awesome. Any takers?
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any new??

[REQ] Hack App to show Hidden Setting

I was wondering if someone could tweak this app to show a hidden setting, I've looked into several XML files in this APK and I can see that in the Global Settings the setting to Enable 3G/4G but when you use the program and go into the settings it is hidden, the Disable HD Purchase warning does show.
I'm hoping if someone can tweak this and re-sign the APK I can use it to view videos over cell connection! Thanks for you help
default_settings.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<PreferenceScreen android:id="@id/PreferenceScreen"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<PreferenceCategory android:title="@string/settings_general_section" android:key="general_settings">
<CheckBoxPreference android:title="@string/bypass_hd_notice" android:key="bypass_HD_Notice" android:summary="@string/bypass_hd_summary" />
<CheckBoxPreference android:title="@string/bypass_wifi_notice" android:key="bypass_Wifi_Notice" android:summary="@string/bypass_wifi_summary" />
</PreferenceCategory>
<PreferenceCategory android:title="@string/settings_info_section">
<Preference android:enabled="false" android:title="@string/deviceID" android:key="deviceID" />
<Preference android:enabled="false" android:title="@string/version_notice" android:key="buildNum" android:summary="unknown" />
</PreferenceCategory>
<PreferenceCategory android:title="@string/settings_account_section" android:key="account_settings" />
</PreferenceScreen>

No such luck huh? well can anyone give me any hints as to how to make this happen?
Is anyone looking into it?

ive been looking into this too, there seems to be a lot of hidden settings on the app, havent had much luck though.

[Q] VideoView overlaps another VideoView but not other elements

Hi,
I want to display 2 videos each taking half the screen vertically, I put them in a ScrollView in order to show only part of each video. I put both ScrollViews inside a FrameLayout. The problem is that the top VideoView inside the top ScrollView overlaps the bottom VideoView inside the other ScrollView. While if I use anything other than a VideoView on the bottom (A button or a Text Field for example) the top VideoView doesn't Overlap it. I tried to use a LinearLayout instead of a ScrollView in the bottom, but the result was the same.
here is my xml file :
Code:
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
tools:context="com.compname.appname.Activity2" >
<ScrollView
android:id="@+id/scrollView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="160dp"
android:fillViewport="true" >
<VideoView
android:id="@+id/videoView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</ScrollView>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="160dp"
android:background="#BF1"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_gravity="bottom" >
<VideoView
android:id="@+id/videoView2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</LinearLayout>
Any idea what I'm doing wrong here?
All help is appreciated.

Modding - Tweaks - General Changes - Information Sharing

Modding - Tweaks - General Changes - Information Sharing​
Hi all firstly i would like to say i am very much still a learner when it come to Android modding and have only been doing this for a couple of months as something new to keep me learning, This is just a thread i am using to keep some of the information and edits i utilise, due to the fact i have 6 kids busy life and bad memory i thought it a good idea to keep this somewhere besides my PC for future reference.
Thread Requirements.
1. Basic knowledge of compiling and decompiling apk and jar files so they can be edited.
2. Notepad++ Download
3. APK editing tool - I have been using APK Multi Tool Version 2.0 WIP
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I will start with CustomSettings.apk as i am editing quite often at this time,
I take no credit for this amazing apk that credit goes completely to ficeto
All drawable icons unless already included will have to be added by the modder
Adding CustomSettings.apk to SecSettings
Firstly you will need to register customsettings to your system to do this
1. pull/extract your SecSettings.apk and decompile it
2.open res/xml/display_headers add line anywhere in display_headers ( where you place it will vary where its shown in phone menu )
Example i placed mine just after the line
Code i placed mine after
Code:
<header android:id="@id/setting_search">
<intent android:targetPackage="com.android.settings" android:targetClass="com.android.settings.search.SearchMain" />
</header>
Code to add to display_headers
Code:
<header android:title="@string/BlaizzrRom" />
<header android:icon="@drawable/ic_settings_blaizzr" android:title="@string/Rom_Ext_Fea">
<intent android:targetPackage="com.ficeto.customsettings" android:action="android.intent.action.MAIN" android:targetClass="com.ficeto.customsettings.RandomActivity" />
</header>
Now open res/values/strings.xml and add these lines, You can change the highlighted text in RED to whatever you want to display in you'r menu, The GREEN highlight text is the Category text
Code to add to Strings[/B
Code:
<string name="Rom_Ext_Fea">[COLOR="Red"]Extended Features[/COLOR]</string>
<string name="BlaizzrRom">[COLOR="Lime"]Blaizzr Rom Settings[/COLOR]</string>
Save\ Recompile Secsettings\ Ensure CustomSettings.apk is already on phone and permissions set correct, push SecSettings to phone set permissions restart and you should now have your extended menu displayed.
It wont really do much ATM until there are some options added..
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Naming CustomSettings Menu
Once you have CustomSettings registered to your system you may want to rename to new menu to better suit your custom rom, To do this
1. decompile Customsettins.apk
2. go res/value/strings.xml
3 Find the entry named " app_name " change this to whatever you want the new menu to be registered as within your system.
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CustomSettings clickable changing menu headers ( pics )
This one has abit more to it to follow, i will try and make it easy to understand ( sorry if it gets confusing )
1. select 2 pics you wish to use for your headers, name them to easily identify, preferably bnp format but it does not matter to much, i have used gif,jpeg and other with success ( gifs dont animate though )
2. add selected pics to customsettings/res/drawable
3. in same drawable folder create 2 new xml files call these anything you like but it may be usefull to name them something like "rombanner01" & rombanner02 for easy callback
4. in rombanner01.xml add this code ( red highlight area is where you add the name of your pic, same pic name in both entries )
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@drawable/[COLOR="Red"]addsecondpicnamehere[/COLOR]" />
<item android:state_selected="true" android:drawable="@drawable/[COLOR="Red"]addsecondpicnamehere[/COLOR]" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/rombanner02" />
</selector>
5. in rombanner02 add this code ( red highlight area is where you add the name of your other pic )
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<animation-list android:oneshot="true"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:duration="3000" android:drawable="@drawable/[COLOR="Red"]addfirstpicnamehere[/COLOR]" />
</animation-list>
6.goto res/loyout and create a new xml file ( name it anything you want for this guide i will use rombanner.xml) add this code
In this code set android:layout_width to the screen width of your device, --- change android:layout_height to the height you want your pic to display at.
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ImageView android:layout_gravity="center" android:paddingBottom="3.0dip" android:clickable="true" android:layout_width="1080.0px" android:layout_height="225.0px" android:src="@drawable/rombanner01" android:scaleType="fitXY"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" />
7. Now ensure all these new xml files are saved. Now open res/xml/prefences.xml
add this code right below the xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> line of text ( highlighed red text is where you add the name of your new layout.xml )
Code:
<PreferenceScreen android:layout="@layout/[COLOR="Red"]rombanner[/COLOR]" android:selectable="true" android:key="rom_logo" />
Now recompile your customsettings push to phone and set correct properties and check your new menu you should now have your pic at top of new menu page and when you press it it should switch to your alt picture.
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CustomSettings general pages setup
Everything related to page setup is basically controlled by the res/xml/preferences.xml
to setup a basic page you would use code ( the space between the code would be filled with your code for on that page.
Code:
<PreferenceScreen android:title="Basic Apps Control" android:summary="Control over some of the included applications">
</PreferenceScreen>
Above code will create a page called Basic Apps Control, with a subtext of Control over some of the included applications
CustomSettings adding sub-header / Category
This is used to split pages into sub Categories the code is
Code:
<PreferenceCategory android:title="Application Selection">
</PreferenceCategory>
Above code will create a category called Application selection.
To utilise together we just add them together, Firstly we create the page itself then we add the sub category like so
Code:
<PreferenceScreen android:title="Basic Apps Control" android:summary="Control over some of the included applications">
<PreferenceCategory android:title="Application Selection">
</PreferenceCategory>
</PreferenceScreen>
adding your code between them will add the that item to this page in this category. eg
Code:
<PreferenceScreen android:title="Basic Apps Control" android:summary="Control over some of the included applications">
<PreferenceCategory android:title="Application Selection">
<Preference android:icon="@drawable/ic_SuperSu" android:title="SuperSu" android:key="activity;eu.chainfire.supersu;eu.chainfire.supersu.MainActivity" android:summary="Root Access Control" />
</PreferenceCategory>
</PreferenceScreen>
Will add a tab for superSu and launch the application upon being selected
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This is just the start there is much more to come, sorry i can only add info as i get chance and i will continue to add as i go, if there are any questions or anything else please ask, and if you have any guides you would like to share then please let me know and i will add/link them
Hope this helps someone somewhere and not just me lol
BongOfWar
3minit quick launch and S Finder, Quick Connect on one panel with toggle Android L
First i take no credit for the quick launch mod that belongs to @gharrington
You will need to download 3minit quick launcher smali from here
Just grab the smali files as the codes on there do not work for Lillipop.
now decompile SystemUI.apk and goto..
SystemUI.apk\res\layout open quick_connect_layout_zero.xml
Change it to following:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical" android:id="@id/sfinder_qconnect_layout" android:background="@drawable/quick_connect_layout_bg" android:focusable="true" android:descendantFocusability="afterDescendants" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="@dimen/finder_connect_layout_height"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:systemui="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.android.systemui">
<HorizontalScrollView android:scrollbars="none" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="@dimen/3minit_quick_layout_height">
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.policy.quicklaunch.QuickLaunchContainer android:gravity="center" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="@dimen/3minit_quick_layout_height" android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />
</HorizontalScrollView>
<LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical" android:id="@id/sfinder_qconnect_layout" android:focusable="true" android:descendantFocusability="afterDescendants" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="@dimen/finder_connect_layout_height">
<LinearLayout android:gravity="center_vertical" android:orientation="horizontal" android:paddingLeft="@dimen/finder_connect_button_padding_right" android:paddingTop="@dimen/finder_connect_button_padding_top" android:paddingRight="@dimen/finder_connect_button_padding_left" android:paddingBottom="@dimen/finder_connect_button_padding_bottom" android:focusable="true" android:descendantFocusability="afterDescendants" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<RelativeLayout android:id="@id/sfinder_button_layout" android:background="@drawable/ripple_drawable" android:focusable="true" android:nextFocusLeft="@id/quick_connect_button_layout" android:nextFocusRight="@id/quick_connect_button_layout" android:clickable="true" android:layout_width="0.0dip" android:layout_height="@dimen/finder_connect_button_height" android:layout_weight="0.5" android:layout_marginEnd="9.0dip">
<TextView android:textSize="@dimen/tw_quick_panel_sfinder_qconnect_button_text_size" android:textColor="@drawable/tw_quick_panel_sfinder_qconnect_button_text_color" android:gravity="center" android:id="@id/sfinder_button_big" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/accessibility_sfinder_button" android:singleLine="true" android:drawableLeft="@drawable/tw_quick_panel_quick_sfinder_button_image" android:drawablePadding="@dimen/tw_quick_panel_sfinder_qconnect_drawable_padding" android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" android:layout_centerVertical="true" android:fontFamily="sec-roboto-light" />
</RelativeLayout>
<ImageView android:id="@id/expanded_divider_3" android:background="@color/quickpanel_button_divider_color" android:layout_width="1.0dip" android:layout_height="17.0dip" android:layout_marginTop="18.0dip" android:layout_marginBottom="18.0dip" android:alpha="@dimen/quickpanel_button_divider_alpha" android:layout_toStartOf="@id/sfinder_button_layout" />
<RelativeLayout android:id="@id/quick_connect_button_layout" android:background="@drawable/ripple_drawable" android:focusable="true" android:nextFocusLeft="@id/sfinder_button_layout" android:nextFocusRight="@id/sfinder_button_layout" android:clickable="true" android:layout_width="0.0dip" android:layout_height="@dimen/finder_connect_button_height" android:layout_weight="0.5" android:layout_marginStart="9.0dip">
<TextView android:textSize="@dimen/tw_quick_panel_sfinder_qconnect_button_text_size" android:textColor="@drawable/tw_quick_panel_sfinder_qconnect_button_text_color" android:gravity="center" android:id="@id/qconnect_button_big" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/accessibility_qconnect_button" android:singleLine="true" android:drawableLeft="@drawable/tw_quick_panel_quick_qconnect_button_image" android:drawablePadding="@dimen/tw_quick_panel_sfinder_qconnect_drawable_padding" android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" android:layout_centerVertical="true" android:fontFamily="sec-roboto-light" />
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Now goto SystemUI\res\values\dimens.xml search for "finder_connect_layout_height"
Change code in Red, Add code in Green
Code:
<dimen name="finder_connect_layout_height">[COLOR="Red"]132.0dip[/COLOR]</dimen>
[COLOR="Green"]<dimen name="3minit_quick_layout_height">75.0dip</dimen>[/COLOR]
Toggle
Goto SystemUI\smali\com\android\systemui\statusbar\phone\PhoneStatusBar.smali
search for code "iget-object v8, p0, Lcom/android/systemui/statusbar/phone/PhoneStatusBar;->mQconnectSfinderView:Lcom/android/systemui/statusbar/QconnectSfinderView;
" (( I use this line as only had 1 line of this in smali ) if you find more than 1 of this line let me know and i will edit guide )
Directly below this code add
Code:
iget-object v0, p0, Lcom/android/systemui/statusbar/phone/PhoneStatusBar;->mContext:Landroid/content/Context;
invoke-virtual {v0}, Landroid/content/Context;->getContentResolver()Landroid/content/ContentResolver;
move-result-object v0
const-string v1, "3minit_quick_connect_toggle"
const/4 v2, 0x0
invoke-static {v0, v1, v2}, Landroid/provider/Settings$System;->getInt(Landroid/content/ContentResolver;Ljava/lang/String;I)I
move-result v0
if-nez v0, :cond_5
Custom Settings
Basic Switch and SystemUI Restart..
Code:
<SwitchPreference android:title="Quickconnect Panel" android:key="3minit_quick_connect_toggle" android:summaryOn="Panel is hidden" android:summaryOff="Panel is shown" />
<Preference android:title="Restart SystemUI" android:key="tool#restartsystemui" android:summary="Tap after setting 3minit Quick Connect Panel" />
Screen shots below of both panel showing and panel gone through using toggle

Good

mine

mine2

new guide added, hope this is useful to someone

How to build power control widgets/toggles?

Hi, I'm using android 4.2.2 and I'd like to build a power control widget/toggle for my app (example of power control widgets/toggles: https://developer.android.com/design/media/widgets_control.png).
I'm experiencing a lot of difficulties in achieving this task. Debugging this stuff is hard, also reading android developer official documentation and online resources, especially due to the lack of specific examples and tutorial related to this type of objects.
My power control widget/toggle should be composed as following:
- a button as big as around the widget size. Button must be resizable and dark gray;
- a icon with with transparent/alpha background. The icon should not be resizable and it must be centered inside the button;
- a stripe placed at the bottom of button, without margins. The stripe must be light gray and resizable only horizontally (it should always have a thickness of 4dp).
I've tried several methods (for example: relativelayouts, linearlayouts, imagebutton ...), made many checks with test widgets but each method I've tried has always shown new issues and it has not proven effective in order to complete the task (for example: issues about adjusting objects' dimensions and their mutual positions, issues with some objects not displaying theirself, issues with margins and paddings, ...).
This is my current widget.xml:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_margin="10.0dp">
<ImageButton
android:id="@+id/widget_button"
android:background="@drawable/rounded"
android:clickable="true"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:src="@drawable/ic_usb_test"
android:tint="#ff777777" />
<ImageView
android:id="@+id/widget_bottom"
android:background="@drawable/roundedlightgrey"
android:gravity="end"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="4.0dp" />
</LinearLayout>
Exactly, how should I change properties in order to get a really working power control widget/toggle? Any ideas?

Solved
I've found a way to make things happen. Thanks to a irc user, I've, respectively, changed and added android:layout_height and android:layout_weight attributes to ImageButton object.
Then, I've adjusted the size of the widget dividing android:layout_margin attribute on all four sides (bottom, left, right, right, top).
Finally, I've set the icon, removing the tint too.
Here is the layout that helped me getting widget as in attached screenshot:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_marginBottom="10.0dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="12.5dp"
android:layout_marginRight="12.5dp"
android:layout_marginTop="10.0dp">
<ImageButton
android:id="@+id/widget_button"
android:background="@drawable/rounded"
android:clickable="true"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:src="@drawable/ic_slide_switch_off" />
<ImageView
android:id="@+id/widget_bottom"
android:background="@drawable/roundedlightgrey"
android:gravity="end"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="4.0dp" />
</LinearLayout>