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can we get rid of the menu screen?

Does anyone know if there is a way to get rid of the menu screen? I hate having to press the menu button twice to get to the home page. Is there a way to get rid of it? I would like to replace it with the slide unlock that is on the market

If you have root you can edit framework.apk and remove /layout/ keyguard_screen_lock.xml I beleive that will do it but make sure you BACK UP YOUR PHONE FIRST

soundwire said:
If you have root you can edit framework.apk and remove /layout/ keyguard_screen_lock.xml I beleive that will do it but make sure you BACK UP YOUR PHONE FIRST
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So can you give steps on this because many of us dont want to brick our phones.
Like tell me if im right.
1st step:Backup your phone with nandroid backup.
2nd:go to your computer and connect your phone to it via usb.
3rd:turn off your phone and go to the bootloader (camera+end)
4th: press back untill fastboot
Thats were i get confused on how to go further.
Any help

i hooked it up to my computer and deleted that file but i had no luck it still comes up

Step by Step Request
soundwire,
I am only finding either a .jar or .odex. Can you (or, anyone willing) guide me to the apk?
Appreciate it.

Which apk are you looking for??

Mikey1022 said:
Which apk are you looking for??
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The framework.apk posted above. I would like top edit/delete the keyguard_screen_lock.xml to remove the menu lock.
thanks for the reply.

I think he meant /system/framework/framework-res.apk but wouldn't you need to resign it after deleting that file and wouldn't this just crash the phone?

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I think he meant /system/framework/framework-res.apk but wouldn't you need to resign it after deleting that file and wouldn't this just crash the phone?
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Thanks for that. I'm not sure about it crashing. Can we get anyone to confirm that this deletion was successful?
<EDIT> I resigned the the deleted the keyguard_screen_lock.xml in the framework-res.apk. I resigned the apk and attempted to push the new .apk. My G1 said there was not enough space on the device? -this is where I probably messed it up- I then manually deleted the original .apk and the phone crapped out. It is stucl on my custom boot screen. re-imaging device as I type.

ok, i've been messing with this and i'm quite sure (not 100%, obviously ) that it can't be done by simply removing the XML. I think they will need to be edited.
heres what i got:
if you remove any of these files, it crashes the phone:
keyguard_screen_unlock_landscape.xml
keyguard_screen_unlock_portrait.xml
keyguard_screen_glogin_unlock.xml
if you remove these it does nothing:
keyguard.xml
keyguard_screen_lock.xml
my guess, is that the images (or whatever's controlling how they are displayed) ais located within unlock_landscape.xml and unlock_portrait.xml
i'm gonna experiment a little more, maybe renaming blank files. I'll keep you all posted
EDIT: ok, changing the portrait and lanscape ones to blank files does nothing, it still crashes. i'm almost 100% sure now that these XML's need editing. the phone doesn't like it when you just remove them

You need those xml files in there, so deleting them would cause your phone to crash.

yeah, thats right. i've listed the ones that make your phone crash and which ones don't in my last post. As soon as we find a way of completely editing these XMLs it will unlock so many things. we'll be able to do nearly anything we want.

It seems like xml editing is pretty tough right now:
"Please be aware that in order to make these changes I actually didn't edit any of the raw xmls. I actually hex edited the values in the binary formatted files. I used HXD to do this."
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=479019

i know, it's a damn shame google encrypted them.
they could at least let us play with some of them, like the layout ones etc.
so much for open source.

XML Edit
It looks like all the xml docs are encrypted. At least for now I am at a standstill.

I know stericson was able to edit some of the xml files. lol. im trying HXD, mmm interesting! =]

you guys are still trying to figure out how to do this? lol, ive accomplished this 2 weeks ago. it aint easy

IRIE4IPIER said:
you guys are still trying to figure out how to do this? lol, ive accomplished this 2 weeks ago. it aint easy
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Care to explain mate?

IRIE4IPIER said:
you guys are still trying to figure out how to do this? lol, ive accomplished this 2 weeks ago. it aint easy
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If your talking about disabling the lock screen.....I really doubt you did. It's not just a simple xml edit. It also has to do with the actual java files, which is what controls whether the keylock comes on or not. This may be possible in the future with cupcake, but not with T-mobiles builds.
If you have figured something out though, please share it.
Stericson

you guys are still trying to figure out how to do this? lol, ive accomplished this 2 weeks ago. it aint easy
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Yeah sure, if that was the case you would be a linux programmer's and linux programmer's likle to help others P) and it looks like you want to keep it all for yourself... So i think that you didn't remove it.
But if you post a manual/tutorial i will believe you (after trying!)

Decompile ROM to find out what's inside?

Some ROM chefs post a list of what they have cooked into their roms, some don't. But if I like a certain application/software cooked in and I don't know the name, like for example a battery meter that looks cool, how do I find out what it's called to get a cab of it on my own? This brings me to a point, is there a way to decompile a ROM and get a list of pre-installed/cooked applications, and then from there either find a cab for that particular application or make your own from the ROM you just decompiled? Just wondering, sorry if this has been posted already. Thanks.

Reverse engineering is what we do here in XDA LOL. Anyhow, if you like something, go to explorer and look for file name u think it might be! Its a WAG, but it works, and then go to the link in my sign and search! Good luck.

Yeah well I tried searching for it via explorer, no luck finding it lol. Thanks however. Plus I would want the version number on the app too. Is it possible to decompile a rom and get a list of installed apps? Like the chefs post when they release?

Short answer is yes, as a ROM contains a collection of various packages. Grab any one of the kitchens and give it whirl.

What happens if the rom I want to decompile doesn't have its kitchen released?

Use dumprom, however I think youre best shot is to use the ROM tread and ask there.

kickindrummerkid said:
What happens if the rom I want to decompile doesn't have its kitchen released?
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No worries, most any kitchen can dump a ROM. ImgfsTools is actually what you seek, but the kitchens paint a bigger picture if you're not already familiar with the cooking process.

Ok so I dumped the rom however, how do I tell out of all the dll's and exe's in "dump_imgfs" folder which one is the battery icon OEM. Also, how do I make a cab out of it?

There isn't going to be a big, flashy "This is the battery monitory" sign.
Your first step would be to guess, based on the names of the files. Something that includes "Bat" and "Mon" is a great candidate. Put your guesses in google and see what you find.
If that doesn't work, you're gonna have to guess based on some other criteria. For example, MS will often set the operating system DLLs to the same date. If that date was preserved when the ROM was cooked, you can eliminate all the OS ones and google the rest.
Now, there's 2 methods that may be a lot easier and get you a faster response:
1. PM/email the author of the ROM and ask. Be polite and thankful, and let them know you appreciate their work.
2. Google "Windows CE Battery Monitor" and look through the results.

I found out by looking up an OEM package for another battery and found out the registry settings for it and went to my registry on my ROM and found out what DLL it pointed to. Then I created a CAB and flashed a new ROM and then installed the CAB and it worked . However, is there any way to edit the DLL and change how it looks? I tried hex editing but that's no luck for a picture.

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Ok so I dumped the rom however, how do I tell out of all the dll's and exe's in "dump_imgfs" folder which one is the battery icon OEM. Also, how do I make a cab out of it?
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Now that you have figured out the details. Can you please write step-by-step procedure how new ones in this arena can accomplish this?

[TOOL] Online .apk installer (for the real newbie's)

Today a friend of mine wanted to install a .apk file on his Android phone and he did not have a clue on how to do this.
So.. After some hours PHP coding here I created an online tool for him (and other newbies).
Basically the users selects the .apk he wants to install, and points his Android camera to the given QR code.
Please have a look at http://bit.ly/e4mLXu , and let me know what you think.
Some things like About and FAQ are still missing, but will be added later this week.
Thank you.

It's a good concept but the site layout is so unnecessary, you don't need all those unneeded images and links in the website that has nothing to do with its function.

armoguy94 said:
It's a good concept but the site layout is so unnecessary, you don't need all those unneeded images and links in the website that has nothing to do with its function.
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Thank you for your input.. I guess that I did go over the top a bit on the design.... But I was really in my zone when doing the page layout
I'm re-doing it at the moment, and I will try to keep it as KISS as possible.
Once again thank you for your input.

Awesome idea. A friend of mine just got her first Android phone, and is pretty clueless about installing APKs, even though I rooted her phone and walked her through it with Root Explorer. This will make it much simpler for her.

Good idea! Can save some time. It`s already saved in my favorites!

file manager, astro..
this is for first class rookies

Sorry but have I missed something here??
Why on earth would ANYBODY really actually need to use this? (no offence) Has your friend lost the plot?
Why would you go through all this instead of simply installing a file manager liek ASTRO via the market?
a) Copy apk to sd card/phone
b) install ASTRO File Manager from market.
c) Install apk
How difficult is that?
If I have missed something here please explain because I cant think of any scenario where this would be an advantage.

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Sorry but have I missed something here??
Why on earth would ANYBODY really actually need to use this? (no offence) Has your friend lost the plot?
Why would you go through all this instead of simply installing a file manager liek ASTRO via the market?
a) Copy apk to sd card/phone
b) install ASTRO File Manager from market.
c) Install apk
How difficult is that?
If I have missed something here please explain because I cant think of any scenario where this would be an advantage.
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unless that not everyone knows those steps.

TheATHEiST said:
Sorry but have I missed something here??
Why on earth would ANYBODY really actually need to use this? (no offence) Has your friend lost the plot?
Why would you go through all this instead of simply installing a file manager liek ASTRO via the market?
a) Copy apk to sd card/phone
b) install ASTRO File Manager from market.
c) Install apk
How difficult is that?
If I have missed something here please explain because I cant think of any scenario where this would be an advantage.
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I have not looked at it yet, but this allows you to do it without connecting the phone to the pc right?
Logical order for your instructions
a) Install ASTRO File Manager from market.
b) Copy apk to sd card/phone
c) Install apk
repeat steps b and c for other .apks

It is a great idea,and nicely done. but i will stay with the other method.

i think its great especially when you forget your usb cable, i never leave home with out but i forgot it, surfing thru xda and didnt feel like opening xda app on phone just download upload install, also, when paw server is down i guess, nice work.

Oops... The site is getting a lot of attention at the moment as it made the XDA's frontpage!
I guess that it's time to start putting together a FAQ for the site.
Things like:
Q: Sorry but have I missed something here??
Why on earth would ANYBODY really actually need to use this? (no offence) Has your friend lost the plot?
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A: I have not looked at it yet, but this allows you to do it without connecting the phone to the pc
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its great especially when you forget your usb cable.
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will be in it
Thank you all for the input.

Dblfstr said:
I have not looked at it yet, but this allows you to do it without connecting the phone to the pc right?
Logical order for your instructions
a) Install ASTRO File Manager from market.
b) Copy apk to sd card/phone
c) Install apk
repeat steps b and c for other .apks
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Err how is that any more "logical" then what I said?
It doesn't make a difference which way around you do a&b so one order isnt any more or less logical then the other.
Your logic fails
deolarte said:
i think its great especially when you forget your usb cable, i never leave home with out but i forgot it, surfing thru xda and didnt feel like opening xda app on phone just download upload install, also, when paw server is down i guess, nice work.
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Ok so if you where not at home and didnt have a USB cable, you could simply email the apk to yourself or use your friends card reader/card slot/dongle etc. There are a million different ways that are much quicker then this. Not trying to dis OP/site etc just suprised that this has been made front page news?

I love how quickly people try to smash an idea just cause it's not their way...what if the user doesn't have a file manager installed? Left their USB cable? Doesn't want to login to a webmail account for security reasons? There are tons of reasons to use this...I say scale it up, and somehow work out longer time periods for the QR codes (Maybe only for registered users?)...besides, it's always nice to have some functional PHP code that could be used in other projects.

I just used this and it is awesome! thank you thank you thank you!

sorry, but its useless. also harder and takes longer time than just copying to sd.

not everybody gets the idea of Astro/File manager.
this is just another way to get to the goal.
sometimes, even if you try to show them a better way of doing things, they still prefer another way which may seem not logical/takes a longer time.
This is a neat idea. it might not appeal to everybody, but it may help somebody.

I don't get this either. I email the apk to my gmail and there's an option in Gmail on your phone for you to install the app.

Hey, i found great use for this. I downloaded a couple of APKs and needed to quickly dl them, and install them. Too lazy to connect to my computer or email it. So much faster.
One cosmetic issue: when I upload an apk the name changes to a crazy long string. Any way to shorten that? I realize you can't keep the original apk name but a simple numbering system (each new upload +1 id kind of a thing) or whatever else might work better. It's not required, but just my input love it!

niceeee!!! this is exactly what i wanted!

Launcher/Navbar, dock Whatever you call it

I've been rooted for about 3 months. I like flashing and changing what I can to try and get the most out of my phone. My issue is this. Many of the new roms have the updated launcher which is all good but the new navbar is so big and goofy looking compared to the old one (of course in my opinion) is there a way to make a flashable zip of the old 3 "button", grey navbar? Or do I just have to get used to the new one. Can post pics if I'm being unclear
Just wondering if I'm the only one who feels this way about the newer launchers?

Diesel321 said:
I've been rooted for about 3 months. I like flashing and changing what I can to try and get the most out of my phone. My issue is this. Many of the new roms have the updated launcher which is all good but the new navbar is so big and goofy looking compared to the old one (of course in my opinion) is there a way to make a flashable zip of the old 3 "button", grey navbar? Or do I just have to get used to the new one. Can post pics if I'm being unclear
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The uot kitchen might have what you need?

thanks i just havent had time to go look and see if i can cook that myself... There wouldnt be some good books i could pick up to learn about doing my own dev work would there? Ive got ideas but not any know how on how to get them past the idea phase Thanks

No luck in the kitchen. i dont know why i dislie it so much but it really does keep me from using alot of roms

You would need to edit the 9.PNG files in framework-res.apk. this can be done with the kitchen and other tools running in the proper linux environment.

Please elaborate. Still somewhat of a noob. Thank you though

I looked all over the kitchens sight for a way to contact the people who run it to ask them but I couldn't find it. BUT I was playing Dead Island at the time so my attention was divided. Zombies with guns. What the hell?

Here is a method that may work with just using the kitchen. First you want to take an old 2.1 Rom and make a working folder in kitchen. Then take whatever Rom you are going to use and create a working folder for that one as well. It will ask if you want to back up your other working folder, select yes. You should end up with 2 working folders. What you could do is take the 9.PNG files out of the sense 2.1 rom. They are in system/framework/framework-res.apk. you will have to extract the folder then open the same folder in the Rom you want to use and extract that as well. See what the names of the matching files are and change the name of the 2.1 files to match the files in the Rom you want to use. Once you do that replace them with the 2.1 files. Compress the folder and rename the .zip to .apk. After that proceed with step 99 to build Rom and flash. If it does not work then you will have to use apk manager, which you will have to study up on because it requires a lot more dependancies than the kitchen does. I recommend installing ubuntu to do all this in. I have never swapped 9.PNG files so I am not sure if it will work. This does work with normal .PNG files though. So it is worth a shot.

WOW that sounds complicated. But being as curios and eager to learn as i am i will give it a shot. I assume you mean installijng ubuntu on my netbook so ill figure that out throug google or something, ill try to find some lit on this subject before trying so i can read up on it Thank you so much for your help. None of my friends that i personally know are into this so the only people that i can talk to about it is online friends. Its always easier having someone next to you versus trying to message and post back and forth, Thanks though your the ****

Just swapping .9 will work as long as the dementions are the same. If the themer changed them you will bootloop.
Here is some advice. Grab your favorite theme zip and unzip it with 7zip. Then unzip the apks and look around to get comfortable with the folder layout and image names. The hit up the apk multitool thread and read up on it. Except for the sdk and Java it is all in there. Everything a Modders needs short of the kitchen.

So by what Zelendel says, I don't need to use the kitchen and ubuntu??? It's really complicated to install and I've o.ly got Windows 7 starter on my netbook.

You guys are awesome though. I really appreciate all the help

http://theunlockr.com/2010/03/26/ho...om-for-android-part-1-setting-up-the-kitchen/
Hey buddie I might to late on this one but just in case lol
HTC Inspire

Thanks man I will use that video. I watched the beginning earlier to check out the ubuntu install. Thanks man

Ok I had to go to HTC.com before posting to double check but I just looked at all the new phones and they all have the navbar that I'm trying to keep around. So my question is where did the one that is in all the newer ROMs cone from? I had initially though HTC changed it AMD that's why we were seeing them on all the Roms we love to flash but if the new phones don't have it why does is end up even on a port from another phone that "completely stock, out of the box" have the smaller navbar that I seem to like so much.
Anywho I finally go ubuntu installed in my Virtual Box so I've got to wait till I get off work today to start playing with it. Hope it works. Thank you everyone for the advice and help. I will let you know how it works out. I'm sure it won't be that easy and ill have more questions though. THANKS

They are from unofficial releases that devs got their hands on.

I may be in over my head a nit but I'm still going to try. In ubuntu every time I shut the machine down instead of saving the current state when I open it again it tells me to upgrade the BIOS. I can't find any info on that particular problem. I'm also having issues with the java install. I install it and it seems to go just fine but when I try to verify it says command not found.

Development question

Hi,
I am slowly getting through the basics of apk decompiling, Editing, Debugging & recompiling.
Using tools like Apk Tool, Winrar, Notepad++ Winmerge, Adb .
First time I have touched an android or even done any kind of stuff like this was Early August 2012. So not long at all, Someone might even remember I asked what should I do with my phone after I root it,, haha previous Iphone user.Thank God I changed! I have definately seen the light! Anyways now i have a question to the more experienced Devs. Eg; Lets just say I dont want increasing ringtone How do you pin point where in the apk to start editing i mean there are heaps of files its like looking for a needle in a haystack. One way I came close and pin pointed it is using a previous made mod and then used Winmerge to compare the differences, Problem is the differences in these to Apks is not just the Increasing ringtone, so when I winmerged them it picked out out the other differences Now this deffinatley narrowed it down. I have a feeling it has something to do with the Callnotifier.xml is this the only Xml?
Also Lets just say you dont have another apk to compare it to , how to you find out this stuff..
Another thing is I want to cook up a rom, but the way I want to do it is modding my own rom untill I am happy with it and then creating something like a nandroid without my personal data. then making it flashable for people. What tools is best used for this? I was thinking editing my nandroid and adding it to a cwm flash. but I think there is an easier way.
PS: You can have a look at my signature for my current device i am using
Thanks for you help