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Any way to push .apk's on a computer with no admin rights?

Or am I just out of luck? I'm at work and don't have administrator rights, so I can't install ADB drivers either. Is there another program I can use?

(depending on the app) just use a file manager to install.

JINXR said:
Or am I just out of luck? I'm at work and don't have administrator rights, so I can't install ADB drivers either. Is there another program I can use?
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you could always drag and drop the apk to your sdcard and use a file explorer on your phone to install the apks
damn, got beat lol

regaw_leinad said:
you could always drag and drop the apk to your sdcard and use a file explorer on your phone to install the apks
damn, got beat lol
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like the f*cking rabbit and the turtle muthaf*cka

I'm needing to install a couple of HTC apps that aren't included with the RegawMOD app (quickoffice, pdfreader, and the navigator interface). Is that possible using a file manager?

JINXR said:
I'm needing to install a couple of HTC apps that aren't included with the RegawMOD app (quickoffice, pdfreader, and the navigator interface). Is that possible using a file manager?
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it wont be in system/app/ but yes theyll work

JINXR said:
I'm needing to install a couple of HTC apps that aren't included with the RegawMOD app (quickoffice, pdfreader, and the navigator interface). Is that possible using a file manager?
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yes it is.

should work, i think you can install new .apk's through file manager, not overwrite. or thats my experience.

98classic said:
should work, i think you can install new .apk's through file manager, not overwrite. or thats my experience.
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(depending on app) file explorers use package installer to install the apps, overwriting is more than possible.

98classic said:
should work, i think you can install new .apk's through file manager, not overwrite. or thats my experience.
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Yup
you can, and if it says "Install failed" or something close to that, you can always use the "move" or "cut" function in the explorer to just paste it into the directory you want it in. then reboot.

regaw_leinad said:
Yup
you can, and if it says "Install failed" or something close to that, you can always use the "move" or "cut" function in the explorer to just paste it into the directory you want it in. then reboot.
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yes you can install or you can overwrite? or both?

98classic said:
yes you can install or you can overwrite? or both?
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both.
interested reg, i didnt know you could paste in the desired directory and a simple reboot would install.
the more you learn
*big rainbow between outstretched hands*

roger on both.

mountaindont said:
both.
interested reg, i didnt know you could paste in the desired directory and a simple reboot would install.
the more you learn
*big rainbow between outstretched hands*
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No reboot required if you're using root explorer. Matter of fact, I always export my ringtones directly from SD card to sys/media/audio/ringtone w/ every flash of a new rom, and they'll stay in the system for the duration of future flashes (until complete wipe anyways..)

Thanks guys. I was able to use ASTRO File Manager and it worked like a charm.
Now I just gotta find a few more apk's that I need.

JINXR said:
Thanks guys. I was able to use ASTRO File Manager and it worked like a charm.
Now I just gotta find a few more apk's that I need.
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google is your friend
found every apk i ever needed there. like every. get it?

mountaindont said:
found every apk i ever needed there. like every. get it?
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Hmmm I am not sure what you are hinting at here.

regaw_leinad said:
you could always drag and drop the apk to your sdcard and use a file explorer on your phone to install the apks
damn, got beat lol
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I just wish I could beat you to answering a question.. lol

When you plug the usb in does it show that it detected a device but can install the drivers? If so and you have the sdk tool kit on your pc you can push via the adb command to the phone. I had the same issue at work could see or load any drivers for my phone but was able to push everything to my phone.

Flashable boot animations?

Can someone post up some flashable boot animations for those that adb illiterate? I saw about 2 or 3 in the sticky but none that caught my interest. Think you guys can help me out?

This would be sweet. Hope somebody comes through

U dont need adb...use root explorer. That's what I do.
Dont wanna mess with ADB?
Download the boot animation file.
Rename to bootanimation.zip
Put on root of SD.
Open up Root Explorer, navigate to root of SD long press the bootanimation.zip file, and select move
Navigate to /system/customize/resource
Click Mount R/W
Click paste, and overwrite the existing file.
Reboot.
**NOTE: you may want to back up the existing boot animation first, in case you dont like the new one.
Sent from the bowels of my mind...

snap That's what I am talking about.

Yeah root explorer is just simply that awesome. It doesn't get any easier then using root explorer.
Its like drag and drop..

fmedina2 said:
Can someone post up some flashable boot animations for those that adb illiterate? I saw about 2 or 3 in the sticky but none that caught my interest. Think you guys can help me out?
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which ones do you want flashable? I make them a flashable zip if you want...

Uh what if I don't want to fork out the dough for Root Explorer? Is this someting that can be done in ASTRO?

skbgiants said:
Uh what if I don't want to fork out the dough for Root Explorer? Is this someting that can be done in ASTRO?
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No if can't be don't with astro
Dredge said:
Navigate to /system/customize/resource
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I don't even have /customize/resource
I've always put it in system/media
Dredge said:
Click paste, and overwrite the existing file.
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I've always renamed it .bak
Any difference between our 2 differences?

[Q] Is there an easy way to remove the AT&T boot animation from stock rooted ROM?

I have this ROM: Inspire 4g Stock ROM Optimized--Root, Deodex, zip-aligned, HSUPA, non-market ap....
Is there an easy way to kill the AT&T boot animation when it starts up? I like the stock rom, and I like all the crapware has been removed, but the AT&T Rethink Possible silly animation on this ROM drives me nuts. Any way to remove it?
thanks!

Bella, this thread will likely be moved as it's a question and not development. As your other thread was moved.
Second, it's in System/customize/resource. I wouldn't recommend deleting though, replace it with something else. Loots of boot options on XDA.

lrs421 said:
Bella, this thread will likely be moved as it's a question and not development. As your other thread was moved.
Second, it's in System/customize/resource. I wouldn't recommend deleting though, replace it with something else. Loots of boot options on XDA.
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OOPS! Sorry I didn't mean to post in here again... my bad. Apologies to the mods.
Can you give me a link to what boot animations I can easily replace it with?
Also, I think related, any way to get rid of the reference to AT&T in the app store? I hate knowing this is an AT&T phone, hehe

bella92108 said:
OOPS! Sorry I didn't mean to post in here again... my bad. Apologies to the mods.
Can you give me a link to what boot animations I can easily replace it with?
Also, I think related, any way to get rid of the reference to AT&T in the app store? I hate knowing this is an AT&T phone, hehe
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Check in the themes and apps sections, they're literally everywhere. Yes you can get rid of the at&t reference in the market but it requires a lot of editing in the build.prop. There was an extra step too but I forget...

lrs421 said:
Check in the themes and apps sections, they're literally everywhere. Yes you can get rid of the at&t reference in the market but it requires a lot of editing in the build.prop. There was an extra step too but I forget...
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Cool, will replace the theme. Thanks.
Anyone know exactly what edits to the prop file are needed to de-AT&T the Android Market?

I have some custom boots there check it out.. Custom boots

mudknot2005 said:
I have some custom boots there check it out.. Custom boots
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Having a little difficulty applying these. If I power down, then press POWER and VOL DOWN to boot into recovery, do I have to wipe or clear cache or just apply zip or how do they work?
Thanks!

Mudknot made it easy for us. In that thread he linked to, download the bootanimation you want from the list that IS flashable through cwm. Boot into clockwork and choose to install zip from SD card. Find the bootanimation zip, select it and then answer yes to the "are you sure" question.

bella92108 said:
Having a little difficulty applying these. If I power down, then press POWER and VOL DOWN to boot into recovery, do I have to wipe or clear cache or just apply zip or how do they work?
Thanks!
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If your using ginger bread then it won't work.. If your using froyo all you will need to do is flash it. You don't want to do a full wipe because it will erase everything. Cache and Devlik are entirely up to you
It won't work on gingerbread because I haven't had time to flash gingerbread, and update the update script.

mudknot2005 said:
If your using ginger bread then it won't work.. If your using froyo all you will need to do is flash it. You don't want to do a full wipe because it will erase everything. Cache and Devlik are entirely up to you
It won't work on gingerbread because I haven't had time to flash gingerbread, and update the update script.
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Not using gingerbread, just the ATT stock rom rooted. Flashing the rom in the above post didn't work... is t here a manual way to replace the animation file?
Thanks!

bella92108 said:
Not using gingerbread, just the ATT stock rom rooted. Flashing the rom in the above post didn't work... is t here a manual way to replace the animation file?
Thanks!
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Just to make sure your using the correct one. The bootanimation.zip files will not flash through cwm. If you are trying to flash them use the ones that say flashable through cwm should be post Number 4. If you want to manually do it. You are going to need a root explorer (ie. super manager, es file explorer, root explorer) you will need to make sure root path is selected and that you have the build mounted as R/W. Copy the bootanimation.zip you want to your sd card (do not unpack it), and copy it with root explorer. From there you are going to want to go into your build (rootpath) and go to data>local>, then you are going to want to past it, agree to overwrite the current bootanimation.zip. Then do a full reboot.

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Just to make sure your using the correct one. The bootanimation.zip files will not flash through cwm. If you are trying to flash them use the ones that say flashable through cwm should be post Number 4. If you want to manually do it. You are going to need a root explorer (ie. super manager, es file explorer, root explorer) you will need to make sure root path is selected and that you have the build mounted as R/W. Copy the bootanimation.zip you want to your sd card (do not unpack it), and copy it with root explorer. From there you are going to want to go into your build (rootpath) and go to data>local>, then you are going to want to past it, agree to overwrite the current bootanimation.zip. Then do a full reboot.
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I tried the latter and it didn't work. I'd already tried to flash with the flashable one, so after that didn't work I tried the non flashable, and copied it to that directory, but it didn't change the animation. I'm using the TPC Inspire Stock Rom and even when I followed the above process I'm getting the annoying big TPC boot animation.
I wish I could get around it :-(

Give me a few minutes Ill see what I can do.
I'm currently not able to flash the rom, but I am going to unpack it and take a look see if I can figure out whats up with it.

Do me a favor, in root explorer go to system>customize>resources and tell me if you see ATT_bootanimation.zip.

mudknot2005 said:
Do me a favor, in root explorer go to system>customize>resources and tell me if you see ATT_bootanimation.zip.
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Yes its in there. Y?

[Q] Boot animation problem

Running Android Revolution HD 5.1.6 by mike1986​So I downloaded the Call of Android boot animation using the Absolute System app. I copy/pasted into the /system/media/ where it should be using Root Explorer (File Manager) app. So after I pasted it in there, I rebooted and it didn't work.​My question: Is this boot animation compatible with my phone? If it's not, oh well. If it is, did I do something wrong or is there something I didn't do?
Thanks in advance.

Oathdynasty said:
Running Android Revolution HD 5.1.6 by mike1986​So I downloaded the Call of Android boot animation using the Absolute System app. I copy/pasted into the /system/media/ where it should be using Root Explorer (File Manager) app. So after I pasted it in there, I rebooted and it didn't work.​My question: Is this boot animation compatible with my phone? If it's not, oh well. If it is, did I do something wrong or is there something I didn't do?
Thanks in advance.
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Check the android revolution thread and see what it says about boot animation. Make sure that's where its supposed to be for that rom. Also did you rename it to whatever its supposed to be named for that rom. I'm not sure if its bootanimation.whatever but look into that too (rename it to whatever the name of the file was you replaced).

You can replace HTC boot animation with any custom boot animation. Just replace bootanimation.zip in data/local
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So I put it in /data/local and restarted. Nothing :/

Oathdynasty said:
So I put it in /data/local and restarted. Nothing :/
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My bootanimation.zip file needs to be located in system/customize/resource for the ROM in my sig. Dig around for where the file is supposed to be located for your ROM.
Edit: Also what the file name needs to be.

Well mine is in system/media/ and it's bootanimation.zip. I even tried installing it in clockwork recovery.

Oathdynasty said:
Well mine is in system/media/ and it's bootanimation.zip. I even tried installing it in clockwork recovery.
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Just copy the file there using a file manager and re-boot. I don't think you need to flash a boot splash. That's all I do in my ROM. Just make sure the file is named correctly.

Well I put it in there, reboot and after it shows HTC, it goes black until sense loads

[REQ] droid boot help

dont really get it but can someone make the droid boot animation and tell me how to install it and everything?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1186665
i found that link and i wanna use the gray one but not sure it would work

stanleynhan said:
dont really get it but can someone make the droid boot animation and tell me how to install it and everything?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1186665
i found that link and i wanna use the gray one but not sure it would work
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here try this use root explorer(if you dont have it you can get it in the market) to put in correct place(depends on the rom you are running(*)?
store on root of SD card
open root explorer make sure to make R/W
go to SDCard and copy file
navigate to bootanimation path (*)
rename bootanimation.zip to something else (bootanimation1.zip)
paste file and rename bootanimation.zip to match what the old one was if necessary
exit root explorer
reboot phone

dased14 said:
here try this use root explorer(if you dont have it you can get it in the market) to put in correct place(depends on the rom you are running(*)?
store on root of SD card
open root explorer make sure to make R/W
go to SDCard and copy file
navigate to bootanimation path (*)
rename bootanimation.zip to something else (bootanimation1.zip)
paste file and rename bootanimation.zip to match what the old one was if necessary
exit root explorer
reboot phone
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Thank you so much, im using senseless extreme and i think its the the customize/resource. you think i can do this with es file manager?
EDIT: im running TMOUS and where would i put the audio? thanks in advance

i'm looking in to that rom i'll get right back with you

dased14 said:
i'm looking in to that rom i'll get right back with you
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i got it down, do you know where i would put the audio, or name it though?

stanleynhan said:
i got it down, do you know where i would put the audio, or name it though?
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are you using civic_tmousv2?

dased14 said:
are you using civic_tmousv2?
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no, sensless extreme 2.0

from what i can see that rom isn't set up for sound. but i can make it where it can.

Not sure if your rom supports audio but on my rom, the location for audio is the same as that of the bootanimation (/data/local/).
It should be named android_audio.mp3 and as for permissions:
Owner: check only read and write
Group: check only read
Others: check only read

dased14 said:
from what i can see that rom isn't set up for sound. but i can make it where it can.
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nah its alright i can live without the sound, but how would you make the sound work?

stanleynhan said:
nah its alright i can live without the sound, but how would you make the sound work?
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edit the default.xml

dased14 said:
edit the default.xml
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im gonna try what babuburn said and wouldnt you need bosinas permission to edit it?

stanleynhan said:
im gonna try what babuburn said and wouldnt you need bosinas permission to edit it?
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dont think so just adding a line, have done it to some peoples in 3vo section. only thing it does is allow the sound to work.

thats cool let me know if you change your mind. so the animation is up and running?

dased14 said:
dont think so just adding a line, have done it to some peoples in 3vo section. only thing it does is allow the sound to work.
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alright, then can you do it for me? sorry for asking for too much. it wouldnt require reflashing would it?

dased14 said:
thats cool let me know if you change your mind. so the animation is up and running?
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yeah animation works. read above for the sound thingy

stanleynhan said:
alright, then can you do it for me? sorry for asking for too much. it wouldnt require reflashing would it?
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stanleynhan said:
yeah animation works. read above for the sound thingy
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no reflashing, just renaming a file and moving the new to that folder using root explorer(or es file explorer) the you just add the mp3 to same folder you put bootanimation in and reboot.

dased14 said:
no reflashing, just renaming a file and moving the new to that folder using root explorer(or es file explorer) the you just add the mp3 to same folder you put bootanimation in and reboot.
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alright, i'd appreciate if you do that

here you go
unzip and read the inclosed text
remember to make a back up

dased14 said:
here you go
unzip and read the inclosed text
remember to make a back up
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dude, i love you so much (no homo) it worked. can i come back to you if his future updates dont support sound?