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[Question]App Editing

Lately I've been editing all my apps from the market using mixpix404's tips. I just wanted to know is it possible to pull stock apps to edit and if so could someone give me the code to pull and re-install?

creid2352 said:
Lately I've been editing all my apps from the market using mixpix404's tips. I just wanted to know is it possible to pull stock apps to edit and if so could someone give me the code to pull and re-install?
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not sure about that stuff but where is the mixpix404's tips? I'd like to read them.

n19htmare said:
not sure about that stuff but where is the mixpix404's tips? I'd like to read them.
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It's posted under the themes section

not sure about pulling them but i know you can if you do it in the update.zip before flashing.

creid2352 said:
Lately I've been editing all my apps from the market using mixpix404's tips. I just wanted to know is it possible to pull stock apps to edit and if so could someone give me the code to pull and re-install?
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It's mixpix405... get it right! jk... but seriously!... jk
As for editing stock apps, I think you'll have to edit an update and flash the update to your phone. In a theme, the stock apps are in the system/app folder... Use 7-zip to open the archive, edit, resign, reflash... I havent tried it, so I can't say for sure it works... And I dont really know how else to do it.
You may just be able to extract, for example, the Calendar.apk from the update.zip, edit it, and then use conventional means (appmananger, astro, ADB, etc) to install it, but I have absolutely no clue.

NEW app for Mac users. auto push.

In all my laziness I decided to make another droplet app that allows Mac users to automatically push files to their sd cards. I find this useful when I don't want to mount my sdcard, or when I'm in recovery. I just loaded the new cm update 4.2.1 with this.
I have made 2 other apps that come in handy every once in a while. An app to sign your .APK and .ZIP files. And the less useful ADB Install app. Just drag a folder of .apk files onto this app and they will all be installed by adb without you having to do anything. The downside to this app is that you don't receive updates from the market if there are new versions. SORRY!
You can download all three together here or individually below
Android-Push just drag file onto app with phone connected to usb. must have adb installed.
Android-Sign drag .apk/.zip files to sign them. must have testsign.jar in ROOT Directory(Macintosh HD)
ADB-Install Drag folder of .apk files to install them. must have adb installed.
YOUTUBE VIDEO TUTORIAL

jessetbenton said:
In all my laziness I decided to make another droplet app that allows Mac users to automatically push files to their sd cards. I find this useful when I don't want to mount my sdcard, or when I'm in recovery. I just loaded the new cm update 4.2.1 with this.
I have made 2 other apps that come in handy every once in a while. An app to sign your .APK and .ZIP files. And the less useful ADB Install app. Just drag a folder of .apk files onto this app and they will all be installed by adb without you having to do anything. The downside to this app is that you don't receive updates from the market if there are new versions. SORRY!
You can download all three together here or individually below
Android-Push just drag file onto app with phone connected to usb. must have adb installed.
Android-Sign drag .apk/.zip files to sign them. must have testsign.jar in ROOT Directory(Macintosh HD)
ADB-Install Drag folder of .apk files to install them. must have adb installed.
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Nice work. Will these work on a PPC Mac running Leopard or is an Intel machine required?

AWESOME!!!
your fcking AWESOME MAN!! or woman if your not a man lol. im a test this baby tomorrow morning. ive been waiting for some easy mac tools to help me out. Thank you soo much.

keep it coming
thanx again, great work

hey! thanks a Lot! really handy

Wow... these apps are sweet! Thanks for making these and letting the public use them! I'm glad I can sign my files before flashing!
thank you!

wondering if you or someone can post a youtube clip demonstrating how to use each.

Bzerk1 said:
wondering if you or someone can post a youtube clip demonstrating how to use each.
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Agreed, that'd be really nice

power pc macs?
Nice work. Will these work on a PPC Mac running Leopard or is an Intel machine required?
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I don't know if this will work or not on power pcs. The programs only use terminal commands. you will still need to have the necessary files on your computer, like the testsign.jar and adb installed. try it out and let me know.

youtube video
Bzerk1 said:
wondering if you or someone can post a youtube clip demonstrating how to use each.
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Thanks for giving me the excuse to use the new screen recording!
here is a youtube video. I hope i didn't forget any details
YOUTUBE

jessetbenton said:
Thanks for giving me the excuse to use the new screen recording!
here is a youtube video. I hope i didn't forget any details
YOUTUBE
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Thank you! ^_^ very simple and informative.

jessetbenton said:
Thanks for giving me the excuse to use the new screen recording!
here is a youtube video. I hope i didn't forget any details
YOUTUBE
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Thank you very much, this is much appreciated! Great work on the video as well.

Stock .apk's backup

Has anyone backed up the stock applications? I accidentally deleted audiotuning.apk and want to put it back, even though I haven't determined what it's for. If anyone has backed these up to their desktop, I would greatly appreciate it if someone could send it to me so I don't have to reinstall.
Coming from a lifetime use of Blackberry, it seems we can't fix our mistakes as easily on Android

dmasjz45 said:
Has anyone backed up the stock applications? I accidentally deleted audiotuning.apk and want to put it back, even though I haven't determined what it's for. If anyone has backed these up to their desktop, I would greatly appreciate it if someone could send it to me so I don't have to reinstall.
Coming from a lifetime use of Blackberry, it seems we can't fix our mistakes as easily on Android
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Attached.
I use the Sdx Stock App to backup and delete system apps. If you're rooted it's invaluable.

apogee82 said:
Attached.
I use the Sdx Stock App to backup and delete system apps. If you're rooted it's invaluable.
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Thank you!!!!
It seems I can't copy this over to system\apps. Looks like the .odex was deleted also. Could you please attach this for me too? Hoping that will do it. I'm rooted so I don't know why it's not showing up (using root explorer)
Or do I have to do this using adb ?
I am going to zip all these up and post them on here for other morons like me after

dmasjz45 said:
Looks like the .odex was deleted also. Could you please attach this for me too?
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Rename it to .odex it's not really a zip file. I had to name it that to get around the forum limitations.
I'm pretty sure you have to do it using ADB and mount the system/app directory as writable. If you install the Sdx tool you can backup a few apps, then navigate to the sdx directory on the sdcard that gets created and manually add the audioTuining files in there and then restore them using the Sdx app.
That's a long way around ADB but it should work.

Thanks again!!!
Jeeze what a hell of a job it is to push a few files to /system folder
Anyway, got them over there...Unavailable to actually install it (no idea why) but at least it's sitting back in there
That takes care of my OCD until I notice what it affected

where can i find that sdx tool? are there any other free apps out there that I can back up my phone with?

I'd be most grateful if someone could attach VoiceSearch.apk, and VoiceSearch.odex.
Accidentally deleted.

infamousjax said:
I'd be most grateful if someone could attach VoiceSearch.apk, and VoiceSearch.odex.
Accidentally deleted.
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do you mean voicedialer.apk and .odex? I don't see VoiceSearch
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the .odex file is in the rar

DevilDogVIKING said:
where can i find that sdx tool? are there any other free apps out there that I can back up my phone with?
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Attached to second post.

apogee82 said:
Attached to second post.
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I can't believe I missed that, thanks

can someone upload the Sprint_App_Updater.apk?

You can get them all here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=773142

Hulu on any rom and no modified apps

Whambam I've got it! You don't need to be deoxed and all that jazz. To use the hulu app you will need the modified version of flash. But to watch on the browser you can use the newest version of flash.
Step 1. Open the browser app
Step 2. Clear the url and type "about:debug" then press go (if you did it right nothing will happen)
Step 3. Press menu>more>settings
Step 4. Scroll down UAString then select" desktop"
Tada!!!!
Edit: apparently you still need the modded Hulu flash
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App

Nope no go.

Does not work.

Strange because it works on my friends moto x and my incredible but I will admit I am running the modifed flash but my friends x is using the stock flash.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App

It works on the modified flash. I have not found a modified version of the newest flash yet.

didn't work for me... Where can I find the hulu app? I searched and couldn't find it in the market.

s197 said:
I have not found a modified version of the newest flash yet.
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Modifying flash is quite easy. Just edit libflashplayer.so and change "AND 10,1,92,10" to "WIN 10,1,82,76".

elborak said:
Modifying flash is quite easy. Just edit libflashplayer.so and change "AND 10,1,92,10" to "WIN 10,1,82,76".
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Could you please explain this a little more. Where would I go about doing this?

elborak said:
Modifying flash is quite easy. Just edit libflashplayer.so and change "AND 10,1,92,10" to "WIN 10,1,82,76".
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Would you be able to modify the flash and post an apk?

try this
download and unzip
if this doesn't work let me know i've got another apk i have on my phone

s197 said:
Would you be able to modify the flash and post an apk?
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Sorry, not going to post an apk. I've been down that road and you get nothing but grief from everyone for whom it doesn't work.
Again, it's easy to do. This is the Development forum. I would expect folks posting here to be familiar with the basics of packing/unpacking/signing apks and using a hex editor.

wisenick said:
try this download and unzip
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Not sure what version this is, but just from the size of the included libflashplayer.so file it's clearly not the latest.

elborak said:
Sorry, not going to post an apk. I've been down that road and you get nothing but grief from everyone for whom it doesn't work.
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That's too bad. I guess a few bad eggs spoil it for the rest of us. But I respect your decision.
Again, it's easy to do. This is the Development forum. I would expect folks posting here to be familiar with the basics of packing/unpacking/signing apks and using a hex editor.
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Wish I was, but I'm not. Maybe now is a good time to learn. Trouble is my primary computer is a mac so a lot of the "how to's" are not applicable. I'll look around though, always willing to learn.

wisenick said:
try this
download and unzip
if this doesn't work let me know i've got another apk i have on my phone
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Looks like the old one from june, this poster wants the most recent version to work...

Panda Fuzz said:
Looks like the old one from june, this poster wants the most recent version to work...
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like this????

wisenick said:
like this????
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No, that's version 10.1.92.8. The latest is 10.1.92.10.

I have the latest version patched. I will post it tonight when I get home. Unless someone else has it who can post it.

elborak said:
No, that's version 10.1.92.8. The latest is 10.1.92.10.
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ugh lol, well dang.

ihtfp69 said:
I have the latest version patched. I will post it tonight when I get home. Unless someone else has it who can post it.
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That'd be great, thanks!
Unpacking the apk and isolating the file was no problem. But opening the file in a hex editor (I just tried an online one) produced a bunch of binary code I could not understand. Maybe when I get off of work I'll have more time to try and figure this out.

elborak said:
Modifying flash is quite easy. Just edit libflashplayer.so and change "AND 10,1,92,10" to "WIN 10,1,82,76".
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Actually, I found what seems to be an even better way. With this method you can keep the newest version of Flashplayer (10.1.92.xx from the Nexus/Market), but enable Hulu. Download the HuluPack 2.zip above. Open it and extract the install_flash_player.apk from the zip. Now open the .apk (explore, not try to isntall, Astro works well here), and find the libflashplayer.so file inside the lib folder in the .apk. Extract this to your SD card. Open root explorer, navigate to /system/lib and rename libflashplayer.so to libflashplayer.bak or cut and paste it to your SD card, whatever, just make sure you don't delete it. Now copy the libflashplayer.so from the HuluPack2 install_flash.apk into /system/lib. You can do all this whether Flash is part of your rom or installed using an apk, and you can do this without rebooting the phone. After copying the libflashplayer.so to /system/lib, websites will recognize your flash player as a slightly older version of desktop flash, 10.52.x.x, and Hulu will work, but you will still get the benefit of better performance from the most recent flash player available.

[Q] how to fix parsing error when trying to install modified app ?

here's what I did.
I don't have a computer. I changed apk to zip and unzipped it. Then I used Axel xml/editor viewer to change things. Then saved it and compressed file to zip then changed to apk. I tried using Zip Signer from app store. I still get the same parsing error when I click app to install.
What do I do to fix it ? apk editor pro works and installs the modded app but won't load the modded app to change things again so I don't want to use that.

Anyone have an answer ?

Try this process, instead. It works famously for me.
First, copy the .apk to a safe place just in case!
1. Extract your .apk to a folder.
2. Edit what you want.
3. Open up your original .apk in an archive manager (7zip, WinRAR).
4. Navigate to the directory where your edited files will go while in the archive manager.
5. Drag-and-drop your edited files into the archiver window which has the .apk open. Click "OK" if it asks if you're sure.
6. Close that window, ADB push it to /[wherever], and install.
Done! :good:

thenookieforlife3 said:
Try this process, instead. It works famously for me.
First, copy the .apk to a safe place just in case!
1. Extract your .apk to a folder.
2. Edit what you want.
3. Open up your original .apk in an archive manager (7zip, WinRAR).
4. Navigate to the directory where your edited files will go while in the archive manager.
5. Drag-and-drop your edited files into the archiver window which has the .apk open. Click "OK" if it asks if you're sure.
6. Close that window, ADB push it to /[wherever], and install.
Done! :good:
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I said I don't have a computer. I can't do that.
I read the problem is the apk is lot aligned. Can I run commands in a Terminal Emulator on my phone ?
1. Compress back to zip. 2 sign zip. 3 change to apk. 4 zipalign apk.
How do I zipalign ? I tried spme things I read for commands but don't know if I'm doing it right.

ryan012 said:
I said I don't have a computer. I can't do that.
I read the problem is the apk is lot aligned. Can I run commands in a Terminal Emulator on my phone ?
1. Compress back to zip. 2 sign zip. 3 change to apk. 4 zipalign apk.
How do I zipalign ? I tried spme things I read for commands but don't know if I'm doing it right.
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Oops. Missed that part.
I have no experience with the commands you are referring to, therefore I cannot help you.
Sorry.

thenookieforlife3 said:
Oops. Missed that part.
I have no experience with the commands you are referring to, therefore I cannot help you.
Sorry.
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It's like this, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...apk-with-7zip-cause-error-during-installation
I don't know how to do the commands or which ones. I tried the ones shown but didn't do anything. I don't know if I did it right.

Stealthy App
Hi there i want to modify an app( Want add stealth Option in menu) please tell my how i can modify app with some easy editor softwares not complicated. Share some links.
Thanks in advance. hoping you will help me!

Scarface47 said:
Hi there i want to modify an app( Want add stealth Option in menu) please tell my how i can modify app with some easy editor softwares not complicated. Share some links.
Thanks in advance. hoping you will help me!
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For reading all the xml files I use Axel (XML Editor / Viewer)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...aystore&pcampaignid=APPU_pzkdVL_aBcmONsKggsgE
You have to click open as on xml and choose axel then click Save As... save it somewhere with the same name as the file name as it is.
then copy the saved file into the folder of where you got it from and overwrite it. Make sure name is same. Now open the saved xml again in Axel ans now you can modify it, then click Save before exiting it.
For changing other things like button images I haven't done that.
I changed what app says inside and what some buttons says. The Strings.XML file is where buttons are or some other things
there's one called APK Editor Pro but it only lets you change app one time. It won't load modified one.
Here, https://play.google.com/store/apps/...aystore&pcampaignid=APPU_pzkdVL_aBcmONsKggsgE

is anyone able to tell me how to fix it ? How to get the apk aligned not using a computer ?