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Replace default applications?

I was wondering if its possible to replace the default applications?
Specifically, I'd like to replace the built-in "Alarm clock" app with Koush's excellent "Klaxon" app.
Anybody know how to do this? Can it be done with ADB push/pull?
I'm running JF's rooted RC30, 1.2, with the engineering booloader.
cheers, and happy new year!
-- michael

adb remount
adb shell rm /system/app/AlarmClock.apk
adb shell rm /system/app/AlarmClock.odex
adb push Klaxon.apk /system/app
That's one way to do it. Klaxon will then survive hard resets.
The recommended way to do it is to extract the system directory to your computer. Change the files around in the same manner as above, and use "mkyaffs2image -f directory image" to create a new image. Then use fastboot to flash that image. That's a bit more complicated though.

Koush said:
adb remount
adb shell rm /system/app/AlarmClock.apk
adb shell rm /system/app/AlarmClock.odex
adb push Klaxon.apk /system/app
That's one way to do it. Klaxon will then survive hard resets.
The recommended way to do it is to extract the system directory to your computer. Change the files around in the same manner as above, and use "mkyaffs2image -f directory image" to create a new image. Then use fastboot to flash that image. That's a bit more complicated though.
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koush, thats a good idea! i want to try that. hey question, did you get the wireless in cupcake to work?

korndub said:
koush, thats a good idea! i want to try that. hey question, did you get the wireless in cupcake to work?
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Nah, I didn't play around with it for that long.

Koush said:
Nah, I didn't play around with it for that long.
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me either. too bad that its not complete. would be nice to have the native keyboard...

Koush said:
adb remount
adb shell rm /system/app/AlarmClock.apk
adb shell rm /system/app/AlarmClock.odex
adb push Klaxon.apk /system/app
That's one way to do it. Klaxon will then survive hard resets.
The recommended way to do it is to extract the system directory to your computer. Change the files around in the same manner as above, and use "mkyaffs2image -f directory image" to create a new image. Then use fastboot to flash that image. That's a bit more complicated though.
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Would it be possible to do this all through cygwin, or would I need a full linux VM?

s0niqu3 said:
Would it be possible to do this all through cygwin, or would I need a full linux VM?
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Those commands would work in Windows or Linux.

Koush said:
Those commands would work in Windows or Linux.
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Hi,
I know the adb commands will work, I apologize for not being more specific, I was wondering if it would be possible to extract the system image, and build a new one without a linux vm.

s0niqu3 said:
Hi,
I know the adb commands will work, I apologize for not being more specific, I was wondering if it would be possible to extract the system image, and build a new one without a linux vm.
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Yes, the mkyaffs2image tool is available as a Windows binary. I've seen it floating around this forum somewhere. Or you can ask JesusFreke to build you the executable; he has Cygwin set up properly.

Ok, time for another question that's semi-related.
Can anyone think of any reason why removing the "email" program can't be removed?
I only use the gmail app, and can't foresee needing the regular email app as gmail can check any other accounts I ever setup.

I tried push some app to system/app and I find that all app add to system/app will be alway active (as running app or service)

s0niqu3 said:
Ok, time for another question that's semi-related.
Can anyone think of any reason why removing the "email" program can't be removed?
I only use the gmail app, and can't foresee needing the regular email app as gmail can check any other accounts I ever setup.
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I second the question. I'd like to remove the stock Email and replace it with K-9.

danguyf said:
I second the question. I'd like to remove the stock Email and replace it with K-9.
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So far I have removed:
Alarm Clock
Voice Dialer
Email
IM
Talk
com.amazon.mp3
Sound Recorder
Camera
The stock Browser with the auto-rotating one
Stay away from sync/service packages (Im*, calendar, gmail, gtalkservices, etc) as you will find yourself with some interesting errors and malfunctioning apps. Leave MyFaves be as well (documented elsewhere in the forum); if you want it gone, install ADP1.

How to Change Music Widget in any Cupcake Build

Always perform a nandroid backup before attempting any mods.
This is a tutorial on how to change the music widget to the one of your liking. It doesn't matter if you have the Dude build and want the G build widget or have the G build and want the 1.5Hr1 widget. This will work for any cupcake (Android 1.5) user who is not happy with their current music widget. I use a windows PC and I am not a Linux guru so I'm not going to attempt to tweak my tutorial for Linux users. Hopefully it's not to hard for them to figure it out from this. (I think it's just file path differences, maybe?)
First step is to have ADB commands working on your computer. Follow this link if you don't know how to do this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=502010
Now that you have ADB, you have to download the appropriate music player/widget that you prefer.
This one is for installing the dark blue music widget with the off-center play/pause button and the transparent record and needle logo. My personal favorite for looks, but has a play/pause with a easy to miss touch area.
http://rapidshare.com/files/227653807/Music_fancy_widget_G_build.apk
This one is for installing the plain white and pale blue music widget with rectangular shape and the large play/pause button with it's large touch area.
http://rapidshare.com/files/227653907/Music_standard_build.apk
This third option is for future development. You can "harvest" a third music widget/player from a third source that doesn't yet exist using the ADB pull command. Lets say your using build X, but build Y has a theme available and you love the themed music widget on themed build Y. What you do is perform a nandroid backup of your current build so you can return to it later and install build Y and then theme it. (Don't waist your time setting up your settings because you won't be on this build for long. Just make sure USB debugging is enabled in settings > Applications > Development so you can use ADB.) You can skip this step if you have access to a friends phone who's already running the music player/widget you want. Connect the USB cable to the phone and go into where you run your ADB commands in Command Prompt on your PC. Type in this command.
adb pull system/app/Music.apk c:\your_path_here
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The "system/app/Music.apk" part of the command is case sensitive. This will create the Music.apk with the widget you want at the path you specify. Next you can use Fastboot to restore your nandroid backup of build X. (Nandroid saves everything. It's as if you never left.)
Next step is to rename the downloaded file "Music.apk". It's case sensitive and take note of the folder path it's in.
Next, enter the following ADB commands from the appropriate place in Command Prompt. (Start > Run > type "cmd")
adb remount
adb shell rm -r system/app/Music.apk
adb push c:\your_path_here\Music.apk system/app
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"system/app/Music.apk" and "system/app" parts are both case sensitive.

saying no such directory, would apps to sd card cause that, and ifso what would i instead need to put in?

i never knew there was a difference between the music widgets...
whats different about them?
the gui??

pgiuoco said:
saying no such directory, would apps to sd card cause that, and ifso what would i instead need to put in?
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On the last step, adb push, dont just put your directory, put in the file name also, Music.apk. For example, i put the file on my C directory to make it easy, so I typed "adb push c:\Music.apk system/app" without the "".
FYI - I have Apps2SD and I used the above command. Guess that doesn't make a difference, assuming because the symlinks say so? I'm such a Linux noob!!!!

bigballa said:
i never knew there was a difference between the music widgets...
whats different about them?
the gui??
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Yes, different looking gui, the Dark Blue is very nice!
P.S. Nice write up!

setzer715 said:
On the last step, adb push, dont just put your directory, put in the file name also, Music.apk. For example, i put the file on my C directory to make it easy, so I typed "adb push c:\Music.apk system/app" without the "".
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Wow, that was a BIG OOPS! Thanks for catching that. I fixed the original post.

Has anyone found a way to do this via Terminal Emulator? I'm at work so I wanna do this now instead of waiting till I get home.

djdeviance said:
Has anyone found a way to do this via Terminal Emulator? I'm at work so I wanna do this now instead of waiting till I get home.
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I'm not a frequent Linux user, but I know a couple of commands. You could download the apk file to your sdcard and try this. This method is not recommended!
su
rm -r system/app/Music.apk
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This will delete your old music player. Next, you can just install the new music player apk through Apps Installer or whatever you use in it's place. This will allow you to use the new music player as if it was any other 3rd party app. However, I recommend uninstalling it and doing it through the ADB push when you get home.

yeah the app installer method didn't work for me

pgiuoco said:
yeah the app installer method didn't work for me
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Did you delete the original Music.apk first? Do you have cupcake, or are you using JF RC33 like it says in your sig? This music player has a widget embedded and needs cupcake. If neither of these is the problem, then just use the adb push commands in the first post. I don't recommend using apk installer. I just posted that to help out someone who was too impatient to get home to his pc.

testing567 said:
Did you delete the original Music.apk first? Do you have cupcake, or are you using JF RC33 like it says in your sig? This music player has a widget embedded and needs cupcake. If neither of these is the problem, then just use the adb push commands in the first post. I don't recommend using apk installer. I just posted that to help out someone who was too impatient to get home to his pc.
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Haha ended up doing it at home anyways. =D Yeah i was kinda doing nothing at work. So as usual I started fidgeting with my phone.

the steps given in the first post work perfectly...!!!
i am on ADP1.5H A2SD...Gud Work...THNX..!!

If someone could post screenshots of the different UIs, that'd be great.

For some reason, when I pushed the Music.apk it worked fine, but when I tried to do the same thing with the CalendarProvider.apk, it didn't....

This method works for me as well. How do you take screenshots with the new builds?
CalendarProvider.apk... Just do a normal .apk installation.

Does this only work for Rooted phones as when I try it I get permission denied
Code:
C:\android\tools>adb shell rm -r system/app/Music.apk
rm failed for system/app/Music.apk, Read-only file system
C:\android\tools>adb shell
$ su
su
su: permission denied
$

jayaustn said:
If someone could post screenshots of the different UIs, that'd be great.
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i second this idea

moosefist said:
i second this idea
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I third it

music.apk
can someone post some different download links for the two different music.apk builds? rapidshare has always hated me and will still not let me download either of them saying that my ip address is already downloading something. thanks.

Can someone post pics of all the music widgets in order to compare them?

Installing APKs and Odex files

A friendly forum member provided me with some files to install for applications included in most roms available... voicedialer and footprints.
I succesfully installed VoiceDialer.apk by following these commands..
1. adb push VoiceDialer.apk /data/local/tmp
2. adb shell pm install /data/local/tmp/VoiceDialer.apk
3. adb shell rm /data/local/tmp/VoiceDialer.apk
Tried it right away, and it indeed worked. I usually just install apps from the downloaded file manager but figured I'd expand my horizons and try it this way. I don't recognize this way of doing it, I thought it was basically adb push /system/apps_s (or something like that), but this is all I could find quickly on how to do it.
None the less, I tried the same thing with Footprints, and was given this error via adb..
"Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_DEXOPT]"
Google result..
"Installation return code: this is passed to the IPackageInstallObserver by installPackage(android.net.Uri, IPackageInstallObserver, int) if the new package failed while optimizing and validating its dex files, either because there was not enough storage or the validation failed."
All chinese to me
So I tried installing Footprints via linda file manager.. and get the genreal "footprints could not be installed on this phone"
I also have .odex files for both the footprints app, and the footprints widget app.. i don't know if odex files are necessary though, as the system might create them on their own
Can anyone help me with how to install Footprints? I Don't understand why Voice Dialer installed but Footprints is no go..
Thank you.
edit: forgot to mention.. voicedialer does not seem to work quite right. I tell it exactly what to do.. "call joe blow on mobile" and it still pops open an option screen for joe blow, and if i click on one of the options it force closes. But saying "open calendar" seems to work. Just not phone numbers i guess?

Any ideas anyone?

Try
adb remount
adb push Footprints.apk /system/app/Footprints.apk
adb push Footprints.odex /system/app/Footprints.odex

What'st he difference between system/app and system/app_s? Is app_s just a different link to the app directory or is it something different?

giberish
isnt footprints a thing from hero? it might be the fact you are using a non hero rom? alot of hero apps seem to be closely tied in with hero overlay making it unusable for a non hero rom. which rom are you using?

redmdc said:
isnt footprints a thing from hero? it might be the fact you are using a non hero rom? alot of hero apps seem to be closely tied in with hero overlay making it unusable for a non hero rom. which rom are you using?
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Yes forgot to mention.. I am using a hero rom.. jacxheroski 1.4 32a with new kernel

bonesy said:
Try
adb remount
adb push Footprints.apk /system/app/Footprints.apk
adb push Footprints.odex /system/app/Footprints.odex
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This worked, thanks. Pushing to app_s seems to cause error, no errors with doing it this way.

Can you tell me if your phone started crashing when doing this??

If you miss the framework, then yes it will crash.

bunny0007 said:
If you miss the framework, then yes it will crash.
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what's the framework? Pardon for my noobness. =p

briggs81 said:
What'st he difference between system/app and system/app_s? Is app_s just a different link to the app directory or is it something different?
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Hey glad it worked, just for future purposes....theres no such thing as /system/app_s/....it doesnt exist....its either :
/system/app/
or
/data/app_s/

i accidently deleated com.htcworld clock. I have both the apk and odex files but have no idea how to get them back on my phone. i dont have any of the sdk files from when i rooted either. anyone know how to get that file back on my phone?

Clear Genie Widget for evo

is one around i had it on my hero not sure if it would work
i searched but i failed

Nobody ..... ?

I would like that!
Sent from my Evo via XDA's Tapatalk app

I still have my clear W. widget from my hero, and it does install but it shows the regular one. There must be a tweak in the EVO OS to allow the transparency.

adb remount
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rm /system/app/GenieWidget.apk
exit
adb push /path/to/GenieWidgetClear.apk /system/app/

Then go to /system/app using root explorer or something and click on the apk to install it...at least what's how I do it. Then I remove it from /system/app...

RavenII said:
adb remount
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rm /system/app/GenieWidget.apk
exit
adb push /path/to/GenieWidgetClear.apk /system/app/
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That worked, thanks
For those following this, you need to rename the download apk from GenieWidgetClear to GenieWidget. If you dont do that before pushing it, it wont work.

Kykiskly said:
That worked, thanks
For those following this, you need to rename the download apk from GenieWidgetClear to GenieWidget. If you dont do that before pushing it, it wont work.
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You're welcome...I didn't have to rename it though, but as long as it works, that's all that matters.

Sporkman said:
is one around i had it on my hero not sure if it would work
i searched but i failed
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On a side note, how does someone with such a signature...NOT use ANY punctuation?...

Does anyone have one with 25% transparency? 100% is fouling my mojo.

What does this do? Screenshots?
EDIT: Never mind. Thanks for this!
NOTE: I don't have an original geniewidget.apk in /system/app

Thanks will give it a shot once i get home.
Sent from my Evo via XDA's Tapatalk app

Sorry for digging up an old thread, but does anyone have one that is compatible with froyo? This one always crashes.

2.2, Modded Flash version and Hulu

UPDATE: It seems that this only works on the 2.2 roms that are de-odexed... It doesn't work on the plain one that first hit. It is confirmed to work in the following roms:
Sky Raider 2.0
Sky Raider 1.9b
Desensitize Sky Raider 2.2 by jitajt
Not sure how many of you follow the other areas of the site or not... anyways, the guys over on the nexus one area have been enjoying Hulu on their Froyo roms for a while now. I've only seen a couple HTC Inc folks in the original thread so maybe people just don't know about it...
Big thanks goes out to rcxquake as he's the one that created the modified version of flash.
Original instructions for Nexus one are here
Modified Directions (i'll expand these out after I do it again tomorrow):
1) remove flash from your install... most likely it is in the /system/app folder, I hadn't run any flash sites yet so I simply renamed the install_flash_player.apk to install_flash_player.apkb Here's a quick set of instructions for you:
1) Connect phone and enable debuging mode.
2) open a command prompt and go into your sdk/tools folder. run "adb reboot recovery"
3) in the cmd prompt type in "adb shell"
4) On the phone once its loaded up recovery in to partitions menu and mount /system
5) in the adb shell type in "cd /system/app"
5) to rename the flash installer type in "mv install_flash_player.apk install_flash_player.apkb"
7) in ADB tell it "exit"
8) on the phone unmount system and data (not sure if this is necessary or not)​Exit out of recovery and verify you don't have flash installed anymore under settings \ applications \ Manage Applications \ All applications.
2) Download the fixed flash version via rcxquake's thread to your pc and move it to your sd card(direct link to file)
3) Install the downloaded APK file via your favorite file browser (astro for example)
4) If you want to look at the full version of the website, you'll need to enable a special mode in the browser, here's the directions care of the original thread:
1. In the search/address bar of the android browser type "about:debug" without the double quotes.
2. Press Menu
3. Tap More>Settings
4. Go to UAString and change it to desktop.​5) If you want to access the site without setting up the debug mode listed above, Adam B was awesome enough to utilize the Hulu widget page to create a premodded app that you can simply click and watch. Here's his original post and here's a direct link to his APK.
SIDE NOTE If you run his Hulu.apk app, your lock screen will not come up after using it... to remedy this you have to kill it with a task killer... I have emailed him to see if this is something that could be remedied.
Anyways, I hope this helps some others get this going...

I tried this, and read through all of the Nexus One thread, and I still get "Hulu requires Flash Player 10.0.22 or higher. Please download and install the latest version of Flash Player before continuing".
Tried it in recovery (adb install), Astro, and AppInstaller. It shows up as installed in Application Management but doesn't load on any website. The only thing that there was to install (that I could find) was "install_flash_player.apk" in /system/app/.

Hulu and 2.2, its Christmas in July!
Having to manually kill the app sucks but it's hulu on my Droid!
Only other issue really is the border in fullscreen mode.
Btw the app works great, if you can't get it to work try a reboot.
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Do you need the app? It sounded like about:debug should cover it, but it doesn't really answer why other pages don't load Flash.

FierceDeityLink1 said:
I tried this, and read through all of the Nexus One thread, and I still get "Hulu requires Flash Player 10.0.22 or higher. Please download and install the latest version of Flash Player before continuing".
Tried it in recovery (adb install), Astro, and AppInstaller. It shows up as installed in Application Management but doesn't load on any website. The only thing that there was to install (that I could find) was "install_flash_player.apk" in /system/app/.
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Tried everything as well. Seems this version of flash doesn't play well on the HTC Incredible. Any chance someone can tweak this to get it working?

works well on the skyrider 2.0 rom only issue is i ave adfree and the hulu app can play cuz im blocking adds and the browser has no UAstring

FierceDeityLink1 said:
I tried this, and read through all of the Nexus One thread, and I still get "Hulu requires Flash Player 10.0.22 or higher. Please download and install the latest version of Flash Player before continuing".
Tried it in recovery (adb install), Astro, and AppInstaller. It shows up as installed in Application Management but doesn't load on any website. The only thing that there was to install (that I could find) was "install_flash_player.apk" in /system/app/.
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Yea thats the file you need to rename "mv install_flash_player.apk install_flash_player.apkb" then your all good.

so far i've only tested on the sky raider one... at the end of the day yesterday we tried the same steps on the regular 2.2 rom on an additional inc someone had at the office (the original full leak) and were unsuccessful. I'm going to flash my phone over to regular as I have an issue with sky raider and syncing, I'll see what I can come up with on getting to work on that one as well.

Works!
Works great, I followed the instructions and was watching hulu in minutes.

jitajt said:
Works great, I followed the instructions and was watching hulu in minutes.
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just so I can keep a running total in my head, what rom are you running, sky raider or the regular 2.2 rom (or one of the others)? thanks

hdialchemy said:
just so I can keep a running total in my head, what rom are you running, sky raider or the regular 2.2 rom (or one of the others)? thanks
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I am running my own Sense free de-odexed ROM.

jitajt said:
I am running my own Sense free de-odexed ROM.
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for the life of me, I cannot get this to work with the plain 2.2.... so, what all is changed in sky raider and your rom that's enabling it....
I tried applying adrynalyne's market fix thinking maybe it just needed to think it was on a nexus... no go.
So, what else is changed in the modded roms?

hdialchemy said:
for the life of me, I cannot get this to work with the plain 2.2.... so, what all is changed in sky raider and your rom that's enabling it....
I tried applying adrynalyne's market fix thinking maybe it just needed to think it was on a nexus... no go.
So, what else is changed in the modded roms?
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they are de-odexed, that may be one reason

Running sky raider 1.9b I was able to get this running following the steps.
Sent from my Incredible using XDA App

jitajt said:
they are de-odexed, that may be one reason
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I'll update the OP with that tid bit..

im trying to rename flash player in adb and this is what i get....
C:\SDK\tools>adb shell
~ # mv install_flash_player.apk install_flash_player.apkb
mv install_flash_player.apk install_flash_player.apkb
mv: can't rename 'install_flash_player.apk': No such file or directory
~ # mv install_flash_player.apk install_flash_player.apkb
im in recovery..mounted...
what im i doing wrong ?

chrisloveskaos said:
im trying to rename flash player in adb and this is what i get....
C:\SDK\tools>adb shell
~ # mv install_flash_player.apk install_flash_player.apkb
mv install_flash_player.apk install_flash_player.apkb
mv: can't rename 'install_flash_player.apk': No such file or directory
~ # mv install_flash_player.apk install_flash_player.apkb
im in recovery..mounted...
what im i doing wrong ?
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navigate to the /system/app folder first.

hdialchemy said:
navigate to the /system/app folder first.
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sorry, but whats the command to do that ../system/app mv install_flash_player.apk install_flash_player.apkb?
thxs

chrisloveskaos said:
sorry, but whats the command to do that ..
thxs
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adb shell
cd /system/app

jitajt said:
adb shell
cd /system/app
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thx you sir