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I recently got into flashing custom ROMS onto my Droid X. I have had it since launch and was rooted from the day the first root was released, rooted after the 2.2 OTA and recently, have gotten kinda bored of the same old launcher pro and got into looking at custom ROMs. Last night I successfully went through the process of flashing ZapX semi-blurless rom. I loved the speed and not having all the moto junk but have noticed that you can't necessarily use themes on blurless ROMs. I was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of a good ROM or themed rom that I could manually remove bloatware or at the least a themed ZapX rom? Thanks for the help in advance!
rubix focused 0.5, period
Haven't tried zapX yet. I've run Rubix for a few days and it's been great. Just loaded Apex this morning, but haven't had time to 'run it through its' paces'.
As for themeing, if you are comfortable with editing the zip file for the theme, just remove the blur related APK's that have been removed from your system
May take a little investigative work to make sure you remove the right ones, but it's doable.
FYI, Fabolous (Apex) also released a version of his NexTheme for the Apex ROM and it looks pretty nice.
Thanks for the help! Im probably gonna use the RubiX ROM and mess around with the .zip
I have fabolous nextheme with teenfaces + bigdx (swype + multitouch) + removed blur related themed apks + win7font (probably from env theme) + vanilla lock screen mod
And I am loving it
rohitece06 said:
I have fabolous nextheme with teenfaces + bigdx (swype + multitouch) + removed blur related themed apks + win7font (probably from env theme) + vanilla lock screen mod
And I am loving it
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One of these days you'll work up enough nerve to branch out and truly customize your device.
LMAO
so if i have a rom installed (the deodexed 2.2 OTA that someone released), and then I install another rom on top of it, is it completely replaced?
whereas if i install 1 theme on top of another, they coexist?
also, themes can only go on top of roms that are deodexed, correct?
DroidXChat said:
so if i have a rom installed (the deodexed 2.2 OTA that someone released), and then I install another rom on top of it, is it completely replaced?
whereas if i install 1 theme on top of another, they coexist?
also, themes can only go on top of roms that are deodexed, correct?
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The way I understand is that the theme only replaces portions of the ROM that realate to the visuals. It leaves the meat of the ROM applying to it operating intact. Correct me if im wrong.
DroidXChat said:
so if i have a rom installed (the deodexed 2.2 OTA that someone released), and then I install another rom on top of it, is it completely replaced?
whereas if i install 1 theme on top of another, they coexist?
also, themes can only go on top of roms that are deodexed, correct?
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somethingwired7 said:
The way I understand is that the theme only replaces portions of the ROM that realate to the visuals. It leaves the meat of the ROM applying to it operating intact. Correct me if im wrong.
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Yes & no. Themes generally only replace certain files, but many times those files are certain application APK's. And the theme may ADD apk's that you didn't have (ie, you have a blur-less ROM, and put on a theme that includes blur stuff).
If two themes don't change/replace the same file, then yes portions may co-exist.
Not all ROM installations are completely wiping /system. Some of them only replace the portions of /system that have been modified. Thus, you could theoretically get some intermixing of two ROMS as well.
zaphod
if im getting ready to go from an OTA 2.2 rooted w/ build.prop mods and bloatware frozen; what would you suggest doing to retain a list or backup of my current aps to know what i want when i get back up and running after flashing to rubix blurry? appbrain sync be sufficient?
also, syncing contacts/etc possible via backup assistant; or is that removed as well (or down-loadable in the market)?
im looking to get back to where i am now widget, app, contacts, etc wise after getting back up with the least problems due to no syncing or having to write everything down.
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zaphod
if im getting ready to go from an OTA 2.2 rooted w/ build.prop mods and bloatware frozen; what would you suggest doing to retain a list or backup of my current aps to know what i want when i get back up and running after flashing to rubix blurry? appbrain sync be sufficient?
also, syncing contacts/etc possible via backup assistant; or is that removed as well (or down-loadable in the market)?
im looking to get back to where i am now widget, app, contacts, etc wise after getting back up with the least problems due to no syncing or having to write everything down.
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Appbrain will certainly work for creating/maintaining a list of your current apps.
The Froyo Market app, however, also does this if you have your google account set to backup. When I re-flash (way more than I would like to admit ), first time I sign into my google account, and go into market, it starts downloading (a very long list!) of apps that I had.
Note that this will just get your apps/widgets installed. Any data/settings/screen layouts will need to be re-created. I've not found a good way to restore this yet. While there are some programs (titanium) that will do this, it's been known to create problems.
As for contacts, I have both an exchange and g-mail accounts. My contacts are automatically synced there. If you put all of your contacts on your google account, they should sync as soon as you sign in.
I don't know much about 'offline' methods of contact syncing.
For starters I would go with 928 Black Glass
Zaphod-Beeblebrox said:
I've not found a good way to restore this yet. While there are some programs (titanium) that will do this, it's been known to create problems.
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As long as you don't use Titanium to restore anything for /system it works fine. that is where the problems all come from as people restore /system things from an old build that does not work on there new build.
IMO the best way to restore apps if you want all your data settings back is to use My Backup Pro.
Currently I am using the Community Rom 1.2 flashed from the stock OTA ED01.
As the title states, I have chosen to use the Gingerbread keyboard in settings and at random times it will switch to the Swype keyboard. As an example, I can sometimes start to type a text using the Gingerbread board, which is good, and within a few minutes I can open the browser to type and the swype board pops up? Also, when I reboot it pretty much always reverts back to the Swype keyboard.
Any ideas on how to make the setting for using the Gingerbread keyboard stick?
Could I maybe get a link to the Gingerbread APK that is used in the Community Rom?
Appreciate the help ahead of time...
Update...
Flashed latest Red Voodoo CWM 3.x UPDATED 4.26.11 with Odin and wiped cache, dalvik, reloaded Community Rom 1.2 Patch and fixed permissions.
Gingerbread keyboard seems to be working now without switching to Swype.
Update 2
Spoke too soon...
As soon as I plugged the phone in to charge and let it sleep for a while, it reverted from the Gingerbread board back to Swype.
Any ideas???
Root your device. Once its rooted, you can then install Superuser and a root-enabled uninstaller. You can then uninstall swype, which (if you're like me) is not a feature you'll miss.
I know this may be a silly question but I have just started flashing ROMS though I have read extensively.
I flashed from Android 2.3.3 to CM 7 nightly build 30, I like the new roms but some of the system apps I had and backed up with Titanium Backup are no longer on my phone or in my titanium backup on my SD card. The two apps I miss the most are Swype and Polaris office.
What did I do wrong and how can I rectify it. I had to revert to Bionex 2 but I would prefer to use CM 7.
Thanks much.
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I know this may be a silly question but I have just started flashing ROMS though I have read extensively.
I flashed from Android 2.3.3 to CM 7 nightly build 30, I like the new roms but some of the system apps I had and backed up with Titanium Backup are no longer on my phone or in my titanium backup on my SD card. The two apps I miss the most are Swype and Polaris office.
What did I do wrong and how can I rectify it. I had to revert to Bionex 2 but I would prefer to use CM 7.
Thanks much.
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When you install a new ROM on your phone, you are going to get only system apps which are backed into the new ROM. I guess CM7 does not come with SWYPE and Polaris Office pre-installed. The main purpose of custom ROMs is to remove any unwanted system apps which came pre-installed on your phone. Though if you want these apps you can find the .apk files for them and put them under system/app folder and restart your phone.
Try and find a thread in general section. There is one thread which has all the original .apk files.
yea cm7 dont come with swype or polaris that was a stock feature thats jus how they do there roms even if u backed it up in titanium u wouldnt see a setting to restore now as far as apps not being in titanim. go into titanium hit ur menu button n im pretty sure theres a setting that says refresh apps list try that bud.
Thank you for your response. I downloaded the app pack yesterday. It had Swype in there but not Polaris. I installed Swype but it didn't work it just kept crashing.
I'll try again though.
The missing apps I was talking about was Swype and Polaris and as you said those came stock.
I like CM 7 just wish I could have those two apps working on it.
The original swype apk will most likely not work...what will work is if you go to beta.swype.com and register for the beta, it will download the swype installer and then swype...which will work for your phone.
And go here for the original apk thread.
Polaris office is not that file, where can I find the apk for it?
If you scroll down a little bit, someone posted a link to everything that was in /system/app folder...I haven't looked in those files but I would assume it would be located there.
You can ignore everything in this post, head here and download the latest swype beta with full ICS support.
Hi guys, as you may (or may not) have noticed, Swype on ICS is pretty limited at the moment, as you cannot download additional languages. This might be fine (as long as need only English an Spanish), but as I need Dutch, German and Chinese as well, here is the solution I came up with:
Thanks to HolyFlasH, we do have a mirror of the original, lost file again. Dude, you rock!
QUICK MODE (takes up around 50 mb on your device, has all languages)
Delete Swype and the Swype installer if you have them installed
Register for the beta here
Download the installer and log in, but don't download anything yet.
If you don't have it already, install Titanium Backup
Download this file (mirror) , extract it to your SD card (overwrite any existing Swype backup)
Run Titanium Backup and restore the app + data for swype.
Switch back to the installer, select "Enable Swype", do your configuration as usual.
You should have all languages available, untick or uninstall the ones you don't need.
Enjoy
SLOW MODE (takes more of your time, saves your precious megabytes)
Download a non-ICS ROM for your device (I recommend CM, because it is the quickest one for our purpose)
Enter the recovery mode of your device
Do a full backup
Install the downloaded rom
Do the minimal configuration (get Wifi connected and download titanium)
Install Swype and the languages you need
Do a titanium backup for swype
Go back to recovery mode, restore your device to ICS
Restore your titanium backup
Send the link of your titanium backup to me so I can add it to this post
PS: Please report if it works on your device, I was only able to try it on my HTC Sensation.
Maybe its just my Phone, but i have ICS on Galaxy S installed, and when i try to restore swype from sd-card, titanium backup asks me what to restore, but without any option like the common ones (app, app+data, data).
Any idea?
Worked fine on my SGS I9000
I did some things extra to the steps mentioned above to get this work on my SGS:
- you have to extract the file you have downloaded to /mnt/sdcard/TitaniumBackup
- reboot
- install swype from the installer just as you would always normally do. DON't ENABLE it yet
- go to TitaniumBackup and restore file "Swype 3.26....."
- in my case TitaniumBackup only restored data
- go to the installer and enable Swype. You can also enable Swype in the settings of your phone
- now you are ready for using the newest version of Swype in every language which is available
Hope this helps.
Works on my i9000 with ICS Build 11 as well. However I did restore data after installing and running Swype (actually after trying a couple of times to download Polish language).
Why is it that you recommend restoring before running swype?
the backup file which you have downloaded and you have to restore includes every available language.
You don't have to download polski language extra.
In my opinion it doesn't matter if you are restoring the backup before running Swype the first time. But that's the way it surely worked for me.
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Why is it that you recommend restoring before running swype?
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Because I don't know for sure how the licensing for swype is running. Doing it my way ensures that all licensing stuff that I might have forgotten to remove from the backup is overwritten.
But never mind, do it any way that is working for you
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Thanks Guys!
Guess that since everything works fine, I'll wait until Swype releases new beta that supports ICS
edit: didn't work on my sgs i9000
but i just installed swype in SDK emulator, pulled the data folder, pushed it to phone
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Could someone please tell me what I'm missing?
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The languages don't show up anymore?
At first, try this one: Go to any text field, try to actually swype some words (in any language available, probably English), then go back so the Swype setting and try to select German.
If this does not work, then the configuration files from this backup are the reason you can't remove languages without causing errors. This is because at the time the backup was taken, I had all languages selected. I'll post a guide on how to download only a few specific languages in the original post. If you made your custom bundle, please send me a link so I can put it in the original post.
I cannot restore swype with titanium backup. Titanium asks me, what i want to restore, but there is nothing i can choose.
Can someon help?
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It looks like you havn't installed the Swype completely. It's just the Swype Installer that you've got on your phone.
Fire it up and install Swype first, then use TitaniumBackup to restore data.
Right, i thought i am not allowed to download Swype Beta, because of.
"3. Download the installer and log in, but don't download anything yet."
Thank you!
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Can someone upload an Titanium Backup with German, which is not so huge?
You have to restore the crossed out file, did you try that?
awesome, works great on my Nexus S running CM9 Alpha 18 (4.0.3)
BTW: you can also untar the backup file and remove the languages you don't need, also you can modify the pref file so they will not be selected after you restore the data
King_Nothing_ said:
Worked fine on my SGS I9000
I did some things extra to the steps mentioned above to get this work on my SGS:
- you have to extract the file you have downloaded to /mnt/sdcard/TitaniumBackup
- reboot
- install swype from the installer just as you would always normally do. DON't ENABLE it yet
- go to TitaniumBackup and restore file "Swype 3.26....."
- in my case TitaniumBackup only restored data
- go to the installer and enable Swype. You can also enable Swype in the settings of your phone
- now you are ready for using the newest version of Swype in every language which is available
Hope this helps.
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This way working on My SGS2. ICS 4.0.3 Official XXKP8
Another option that worked for me is to use Appextractor from the market to extract the swype APK + data from an Nandroid backup. Does not give you the newest version of swype, (For some reason the update it installed is not the newest with dragonspeak for me?) But is absolutely the quickest method.
Edit: It now gives the option to download the dragonspeak version, but is stuck at downloading so far...
followed King_Nothing's recommended steps and got it working on my Nexus S running the ICS Rom AndroidMe 1.0.1. Been waiting to Swype in Korean for AGES and finally it's a dream come true... thanks guys!
I get it to install, but some languages are not available, like Dutch.
thanks alot. restored only data from your backup. all working fine.
even if i not need all of those language
Desire HD with Virtuous Quattro beta 2.
It took me a while to find this fix. Thanks, works great.
jzuijlek said:
I get it to install, but some languages are not available, like Dutch.
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Weird, did you restore data with Titanium Backup?
I searched before asking this question without any luck. I have downloaded the valhalla ROM on my Galaxy s 4g and noticed i no longer have swype and can't use multiscreen live wallpaper. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
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If you want Swype you have 2 options. You can either download Swype Beta (from Swype website) or you could take Swype from the Octane ROM.
I personally use the stock Swype from Octane. To get it you need to download Octane.
1) From Octane ROM, copy /system/lib/libSwypeCore.3.25.91.32328.so
2) Copy it to your /system/lib in Valhalla
3) From Octane ROM, copy /system/app/Swype.apk
4) Copy it to /system/app in Valhalla
Do 3&4 for SwypeTip-release.apk
here's the Stock Swype from 236
unrar, place the files on your mSD, then push the 2 apk's to your system>apps folder, and push the .so file to your system>lib folder and reboot = viola
http://beta.Swype.com
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Personally I prefer the beta version. Seems much faster and more responsive to me. Just my 2 cents.
ultimakillz said:
Personally I prefer the beta version. Seems much faster and more responsive to me. Just my 2 cents.
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That's been my take on it as well... and the DNS speech to text generally works better as well than the stock Google one in older versions of Swype.
+1 for beta version
Beta all the way!
thanks for this thread I was sad when I lost swype. but now i have it again.
You know, at first I tried stock swype from a previous ROM, didn't work, however I can see that I forgot to copy the .so file. I couldn't use swype as I got a force close every time I tried to activate it or use it.
Anyway, I deleted the apk from apps and proceeded to download swype from website. I did, and installed correctly, however, after that, I just got fc like I had with the above method. so.. what's the deal? Maybe it has something to do with permissions?
edit: it was indeed a "fix permission" that was needed. Everything is working OK now.