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Restore the messaging app?

So I did a bad thing, in my ultimate conquest to remove things I didnt need/want/care for, I deleted the default messaging app as I use handcent.
Here is the issue:
Now since this is my first android phone I dont know if this is standard across all overlays or just touchwiz, but in the phone/contacts app, when you touch someones picture, it opens up a popup of all the ways you can contact someone.
Before it showed messaging, and when I hit it I could use handcent as the default. Now nothing is there. I have the same issue with the launcher pro People widget.
Am I screwed and its time to restore (again ><) Any way to get this functionality back?

You could try grabbing the messaging app's .apk from a rooted stock system backup (I think there's one in the Captivate dev forum), and then sideloading it onto the device to see if it fixes your problem. You can sideload using the Sideload Wonder Machine (just google it, it's the easiest way I've found to sideload apps so far).

Deleted stock Calendar

Hi!
Seems I'm not the only on that got carried away a little by deleting some (for me) unusefull apps on my droid.
since I'm using a third party calendar I thought (I proved myself wrong) that the stock calendar wouldn't be of much use. Apperantly.... It is.
Whe syncing my exchange mail / contacts / calendars it give me an error on the calendar part.
Typically example of OOPS!
Who has the stock calendar as APK?
I'm not sure whether it is the google calendar that support the agenda sync on mail for exchange...

From whatever ROM you are using, get the calendar apk from the zip.
Should be in system/app.
And push it to system/app on your phone.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App

How did you delete the .apk file originally. When I try to delete files with ES File Explorer it tells me I cannot delete the file
There are a few I would like to get rid of that I don't use, just to free up some space. namely Stocks, twitter and such.

rooted my phone.
btw. restored my image with clockwork to overcome the issue (luckily I made a clockwork backup 2 days ago)
however there seems to be a way to remove stock apps.

What are the repercussions of removing contacts provider in Android?

Personally I think the contacts provider (and other providers)in Android is a huge security risk. Every app and it's brother wants full access to your contacts so they can mine them for usable information. This can be just to add easy links to friends or to spam them with advertisements or offers to identity theft.
I've started using a pim manager that does not access Androids contact provider, calendar provider , tasks or other providers in it's operations.(And I really wish it was open source)
I have already removed the Google sync apks from my device and have removed contacts, calendar in the past. But not the providers.
It might cause some badly written apps to crash.
But I can't forsee any other serious problems.
Ideas? Thoughts?

Honestly sounds like a good idea..
Myself I decided to go for a while without any gapps and any other "store" installed on my phone.
My contacts are imported from a .vcf file which i update manually when needed.
I also have installed AFWall+ and i blocked the internet access to pretty much all the other apps including the system ones.. (everything i could get away with basically )
This could be a solution as well but it's rudimentary one at the moment.
nutpants said:
Personally I think the contacts provider (and other providers)in Android is a huge security risk. Every app and it's brother wants full access to your contacts so they can mine them for usable information. This can be just to add easy links to friends or to spam them with advertisements or offers to identity theft.
I've started using a pim manager that does not access Androids contact provider, calendar provider , tasks or other providers in it's operations.(And I really wish it was open source)
I have already removed the Google sync apks from my device and have removed contacts, calendar in the past. But not the providers.
It might cause some badly written apps to crash.
But I can't forsee any other serious problems.
Ideas? Thoughts?
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I already don't have Google apps on my device.
Everything blocked with afwall+ using profiles so things only get net when I'm using them on the net.
Fdroid is where I get 90% of my software and from the internet for much of the other 10%
I have a old phone with nothing on it personal at all. Which has play store for the 3 or 4 paid apps I need, it does updates for them and a few free ones. I copy the apks over to my daily driver.
I constantly hound developers on play store to support offline devices and not to implement features that break the app when there is no internet. Even app I don't use lol.
(I have 2 tablets and far too many old phones.only two devices are online(some are local lan only))
Someone should start a offline foundation. But being online it might be ridiculous..

I too removed contacts by using /system/app mover from f-droid. It was unintended as I wanted them as a user application but they wouldn't work like this and the icon vanished, that was fine with me for a long time. The other day I wanted contacts for signal (and telegram also won't work without them). I restored the application files from a backup,
For reference in /system/app/ the missing files were
SecContacts.apk
SecContactsProvider.apk
Other contacts programs like Simple Contacts can't run without a system permission called com.android.contacts and without those files in /system/app the permission doesn't get created at boot. The result being that no contact creation is possible.
What I would really like is a modified version of the system app that passes contacts data to the calling program depending on individual contact entry permissions with regard to each calling app; one list for telegram, another for signal etc. I gather that recent android versions above 6.0.0 have functionality to check calling application certificates so something along these lines should be possible. For earlier versions it might be necessary to switch between multiple contacts databases before starting the messaging app and also removing it from the autoboot list.
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/permissions/defining

Boxer mail keeps appearing after uninstall

I am running the latest stock COS 13.1 rom (the one with mods), but I choose to uninstall the mods, they are considered as bundled user apps, which can be uninstalled easily with android itself (no root required).
I uninstalled most of these apps, including Boxer mail, but this last one keeps popping among my installed apps every couple of days. all the others remain uninstall except Boxer (in addition to the boxer onenote mod).
anybody knows a way to remove it forever?

Same here... I managed to successfully uninstall all the unwanted mods&apps, but both Boxer Email and the onenote mod keep reappearing...

I finally found the way to make it disappear for good. I was also annoyed by these ghost apps appearances and kicked it !
Another strange thing was random halts of my One+ 1, some odd reboots, due to the infamous BoxerPluginOneNote trying to incite me to install MS OneNote !
For that you must delete/uninstall some Cyanogen apps located in system/priv-app (you may loose some functionality BUT one of it is responsible for respawn) :
AmbientCore.apk
AmbientUpdater.apk
CMLogger.apk
CyanogenStats.apk
DeviceManager.apk
Plus the ones you don't want in system/vendor/bundled-app
A reboot and that's done !
Anyway I ended installing Boxer which is a good Gmail and IMAP mail client with Boxer Calendar...

Deleting from bundled-app is obvious, but I don't want to alter the system partition, want to keep it stock for updates. I also tried decompiling them all, none of them contains any references for boxer.
the other apps doesn't seem to have any relation to boxer, they are just cyanogen apps that track stats and device, you disabled them for privacy more than just stop boxer from coming back.

Multiple installed ROMs: How to share Apps and Data?

Hi everybody,
recently I installed Dual Boot Patcher and RRemix as 2nd ROM. Now I wonder whether it is possible to use apps and/or aata commonly within both ROMs.
According to this description apps need to be installed within both ROMs. But how could I share my already existing WhatsApp threads or history and maps of my navigation software?
And even more: How can I use calendar entries and written memos commonly within both ROMs - since calendar apps and note apps are different stock apps within each ROM?
Would I have to install an independant calendar and notes app within either ROM?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Bye

Renth said:
Hi everybody,
recently I installed Dual Boot Patcher and RRemix as 2nd ROM. Now I wonder whether it is possible to use apps and/or aata commonly within both ROMs.
According to this description apps need to be installed within both ROMs. But how could I share my already existing WhatsApp threads or history and maps of my navigation software?
And even more: How can I use calendar entries and written memos commonly within both ROMs - since calendar apps and note apps are different stock apps within each ROM?
Would I have to install an independant calendar and notes app within either ROM?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Bye
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Google Calendar and Google Keep are great calendar and notes app with sync functionality. So backing up and transferring data from those two apps on different ROMS should be easy and automatic.
The rest of apps, you'll have to backup and restore with Titanium backup.
But you'll have to backup before changing between ROMs, then restore that backup after booting into the new ROM. or else your Whatsapp conversations/New data in ROM A will get overwritten with the conversations in ROM B instead of being merged.

OK, just tried it using VVS Mobile app. Marked it for sharing within Dual Boot Patcher in MIUI (first ROM). Afterwards I booted into RRemix (2nd ROM), installed it there too, marked it for sharing in addition. After rebooting I could see my saved VVS connections created within MIUI. Similar with here Maps - at least it finds downloaded offline maps but no route history. So it seems to work.
But with WhatsApp I did not get it working. While having it marked within both ROMs to use shared data I cannot see my chats within 2nd ROM. Does anybody have a helpful hint here?
Also contacts, calendar, SMS and call history is not shared while the apps within each ROM are marked for it. I guess I will have to use identical apps within either ROM in order to be able share their data? Or is there sth. else I need to do?