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Hey guys,
I've modified Brut.all's Maps to better suit my taste and with Brut.all's permission I'd like to share the *.apk with you.
What's changed:
All icons with "BRUT" watermark reverted to stock
The [brut] suffix removed from the application name
Package name reverted back to com.google.android.apps.maps, so everything works correctly, including Car Panel and Chrometophone.
Bonus:
Zipaligned
Map caching enabled by default
DISCLAIMER
I am in no way responsible for damage done to your phone or to you, reindeers run over, alien abductions or global warming Everything you do, you're doing at your own responsibility. The one and only author of this great mod is Brut.all, so all cash and women are to be sent to him.
DOWNLOAD & INSTALLATION:
1) Always do a nandroid backup.
2) Download the zip file below, put it to your SD card root and flash via recovery or ROM Manager.
squrl_maps-brut16.zip, md5sum e958982666a36ed2a7df1924ae49e7c6
FEATURING IN
Paul's MCR r8 for the HTC Desire online kitchen (WIP)
Neophyte.x360's NextSense Froyo ROM
KNOWN ISSUES:
Some users are reporting that they don't see Maps, Navigation, etc. in the app drawer after they install the update.zip.
If you are experiencing this issue, read post #80, it contains an explanation and a fix as well. It may be a bit drastic, but it's the price you have to pay if you want to use this mod.
Enjoy
Special thanks to Brut.all for his work and friendly approach & to ivarson_swe for the help with package name reversion, and for the tip with enabling the map caching feature by default.
PS: If you like what I do and want to show some appreciation, you can register your Dropbox account through my referral link. You'll get 250MB for free, I'll get 250MB for free and we'll be both happy
works Great!
Works great! thanks for the Mod squrl! the only thing not working is voice search though
Tanks!
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Great work, but i wonder is that possible to change package name to "com.google.android.apps.maps" instead of "brut.googlemaps" ???
reason to change: brut.googlemaps doesn't work in chrometophone
wedjohn57 said:
Great work, but i wonder is that possible to change package name to "com.google.android.apps.maps" instead of "brut.googlemaps" ???
reason to change: brut.googlemaps doesn't work in chrometophone
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chrometophone asks what application you want to use when you send it something from google maps to your phone.
So no problem here.
Maybe you selected to allways use the normal google maps?
trion said:
chrometophone asks what application you want to use when you send it something from google maps to your phone.
So no problem here.
Maybe you selected to allways use the normal google maps?
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no, the chrometophone is having bug on this. it default to com.google.android.apps.maps. you can check the bug filed as below.
http://code.google.com/p/chrometophone/issues/detail?id=129#c0
snakevenom said:
Works great! thanks for the Mod squrl! the only thing not working is voice search though
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Does it work in stock 4.3 Maps?
wedjohn57 said:
Great work, but i wonder is that possible to change package name to "com.google.android.apps.maps" instead of "brut.googlemaps" ???
reason to change: brut.googlemaps doesn't work in chrometophone
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Have that planned for 4.4
squrl said:
Have that planned for 4.4
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Hi, I had help you do the mod. i replaced the AndroidManifest.xml with the original GM . Tested, work greatly.
Download link
wedjohn57 said:
Hi, I had help you do the mod. i replaced the AndroidManifest.xml with the original GM . Tested, work greatly.
Download link
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This worked like a charm with Google Car Home. Thanks!
wedjohn57 said:
no, the chrometophone is having bug on this. it default to com.google.android.apps.maps. you can check the bug filed as below.
http://code.google.com/p/chrometophone/issues/detail?id=129#c0
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Strange, i use brut version, because can't install the normal, flashed a rom without google maps over a rom witch had google maps and now can't install the normal version.
But when i send some route with chrome2phone it asks if i want to open it with my browser or googlemaps brut. and it works normaly.
i first flashed this one and then i had to install maps.brut...i wouldnt work if i didnt..and then navipanel separately..and now it works flawlessly
thanx m8
trion said:
Strange, i use brut version, because can't install the normal, flashed a rom without google maps over a rom witch had google maps and now can't install the normal version.
But when i send some route with chrome2phone it asks if i want to open it with my browser or googlemaps brut. and it works normaly.
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may i know which version of chrometophone and brut you using?
I'm trying to apply the zip via open recovery but it fails "E:Could not find the update-binary." anyone knows how to avoid this? Thanks!
Which recovery are you using? The stock? I recommend clockworkmod recovery by Koush, you can either flash it permanently to your Desire using unrEVOked, or use it with the fake-flash method.
Brut has a new version 4.4, brut15 out. Can you, by any chance, modify it for the Car Panel again?
I'm a bit busy ATM, but have that planned fot tomorrow
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I'm a bit busy ATM, but have that planned fot tomorrow
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Great news
indeed great news.
Version 4.4.0 (brut16) up! Check first post
Hi I'm from the Philippines and never did get Brut's maps to work over here!
Is it supposed to work?
Also tried installing this package but it doesnt show up in my app list, how am I supposed to install this? Thanks
Hi guys!
I have a question....right now i have my work exchange account setup on my phone. The administrator policy requires that i set a 8 digit passcode in order to get into my phone everytime i need to use is. this is EXTREMELY annoying. Is there anyway to "hack" or get around it so i dont need to enter a passcode anymore, but the exchange server still see's the policy on my phone? Just curious. Thanks!
You dont mention what version you running on your phone (GB or ICS), but there are options for this. Here is one someone modded the Email to make the backend think the policy is in place but the requirement for having a pin is removed. But this is for GB I believe.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1353028&highlight=exchange+policy
Dixit
dixit said:
You dont mention what version you running on your phone (GB or ICS), but there are options for this. Here is one someone modded the Email to make the backend think the policy is in place but the requirement for having a pin is removed. But this is for GB I believe.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1353028&highlight=exchange+policy
Dixit
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ahh my mistake, your right. Sorry about that. I am running ICS
mygti02 said:
ahh my mistake, your right. Sorry about that. I am running ICS
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Are you running the stock ICS? Or some custom ROM for ICS? Which version, you need to be a bit more specific.
There are ROMs already created that have these Email.apk's modified for bypassing the Exchange Policy, but some you have to do that rom, others you could pull the APK and put it into yours (if you are deodex'ed of course).
Like here is one that has it already removed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1608088
Dixit
dixit said:
Are you running the stock ICS? Or some custom ROM for ICS? Which version, you need to be a bit more specific.
There are ROMs already created that have these Email.apk's modified for bypassing the Exchange Policy, but some you have to do that rom, others you could pull the APK and put it into yours (if you are deodex'ed of course).
Like here is one that has it already removed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1608088
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sorry for not providing all info, im running Custom Rom, SkyICS 4.2E, and it is deodexed
Then you can pull the two Email APKs from the Romracer ZIP and push them onto your phone via ADB or Root Explorer or however you want, make sure permissions and ownership is set right, and that should take care of it.
Dixit
dixit said:
Then you can pull the two Email APKs from the Romracer ZIP and push them onto your phone via ADB or Root Explorer or however you want, make sure permissions and ownership is set right, and that should take care of it.
Dixit
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Thanks a bunch. One last question (for now) Do you know what the permissions need to be setup as?
Permissions on any app/apk you dump into /System/App (which is where these two APKs for the email need to do) need to be set to RW-R--R-- and ownership has to be "root:root".
dixit said:
Permissions on any app/apk you dump into /System/App (which is where these two APKs for the email need to do) need to be set to RW-R--R-- and ownership has to be "root:root".
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thank you!
mygti02 said:
thank you!
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crud, the email apk is the stock email app Will this work with any of the google ICS email apks?
What you mean? If you replace the two email APKs it will bring the Samsung Native email app. If you want the Google (AOSP style) one then you will need to find a rom or say even a Galaxy SII based custom rom where someone has modified the APK to remove the exchange policy.
If you search you will probably also run across a thread (cant find it right now) where it actually shows you how to decompile and modify the APK itself to remove the policy, then recompile it.
Dixit
dixit said:
What you mean? If you replace the two email APKs it will bring the Samsung Native email app. If you want the Google (AOSP style) one then you will need to find a rom or say even a Galaxy SII based custom rom where someone has modified the APK to remove the exchange policy.
If you search you will probably also run across a thread (cant find it right now) where it actually shows you how to decompile and modify the APK itself to remove the policy, then recompile it.
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I will do that. Thank you very much for all your help!
Has anyone tried this exchange app with CM9? I'm looking for an exchange and email apk that will work with the new CM9 build.
kevinmayer86 said:
Has anyone tried this exchange app with CM9? I'm looking for an exchange and email apk that will work with the new CM9 build.
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On Alpha 3 I was able to use the ICS modified ones, but for some reason I am unable to delete or copy them in the Alpha 4 release, so I went back to GB.
kevinmayer86 said:
Has anyone tried this exchange app with CM9? I'm looking for an exchange and email apk that will work with the new CM9 build.
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Here you go, from CM9 20120614 nightly build, modified to disable exchange security: cm9-email-exchange-4.1-nosec.zip
Note: This is NOT CWM flashable, you'll need to extract the 2 apks from the zip and copy / push to system/app.
eagercrow said:
On Alpha 3 I was able to use the ICS modified ones, but for some reason I am unable to delete or copy them in the Alpha 4 release, so I went back to GB.
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I have also come across this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117452 that should work on our phone also.
cschmitt said:
Here you go, from CM9 20120614 nightly build, modified to disable exchange security: cm9-email-exchange-4.1-nosec.zip
Note: This is NOT CWM flashable, you'll need to extract the 2 apks from the zip and copy / push to system/app.
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kevinmayer86 said:
I have also come across this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117452 that should work on our phone also.
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Thanks guys! I'm sure at least one of these is going to work! I'll report back after I install the new alpha tomorrow.
The dual sim functionality in my XT1033 works perfect in CM11 (nightlies), but... I' missing the option where SMS and dialer can remember which SIM to use for a specific contact. Is that function hidden somewhere or is it not (yet) implemented?
dleb said:
The dual sim functionality in my XT1033 works perfect in CM11 (nightlies), but... I' missing the option where SMS and dialer can remember which SIM to use for a specific contact. Is that function hidden somewhere or is it not (yet) implemented?
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Adding to that: if I recall correctly the stock rom had an option (in the mentioned apps) where one could indicate that one would want to have the app remember the sim choices.
Then, upon calling a contact one would have to choose sim1 or sim2, this dialog would have a checkbox indicating that this choice had to be rememberd for this specific contact.
Same doubt here. Tried to use some dialer apps, but w/out success.
CyanogenMod doesn't have this Smart SIM feature which is present in Stock ROM.
nirmalbalaji said:
CyanogenMod doesn't have this Smart SIM feature which is present in Stock ROM.
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But, is it possible to add it? And who would be able to do so? Is it the app maintainer or is it in the specific rom?
dleb said:
But, is it possible to add it? And who would be able to do so? Is it the app maintainer or is it in the specific rom?
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Would it be possible to extract the dialer app from the stock rom and use that to restore this functionality?
dleb said:
Would it be possible to extract the dialer app from the stock rom and use that to restore this functionality?
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Anybody? What can be done to complete the (stock) dual sim functionality?
Is it possible to get this app running on our G3? I don't like the stock email app it doesn't handle contacts correctly with exchange.
I figured it out. I placed both files in System/App and gave them permission 0644. RW-R-R. Rebooted and Android upgraded and the Email was there.
Google Stock Email?
ldkud50 said:
Is it possible to get this app running on our G3? I don't like the stock email app it doesn't handle contacts correctly with exchange.
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I just switched to LG and don't like the stock email one bit.
Is that apk for the google stock email (yellow colored)? Sorry, I'm not familiar with AOSP, so idk if it's the same one or not.
Thanks!!
Yes it's yellow. The @ symbol on the LG stock email app is black outlined. On the aosp it's white. Hope this helps.
ldkud50 said:
Yes it's yellow. The @ symbol on the LG stock email app is black outlined. On the aosp it's white. Hope this helps.
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Thanks man!! I know I must have sounded stupid describing the yellow @ sign!! Actually the @ sign and the letter are both yellow. The envelope is open and the color is white (See attached picture). I'm just so used to using that email app on Samsungs!!
I read that the stock email app was available on the playstore, but I wasn't able to find it. I'm guessing I wasn't able to because I'm using the G3, idk!
I'm gonna follow the steps you posted about placing the files and tinkering with permissions. Looking forward to seeing it works.
Thanks again!
newer version
I have successfully installed the version above. The question is that this is the 6.2 version and my nexus 7 has 6.3 installed. I tried to copy those files to my g3 but the apk files were smaller with odex files. I just couldn't get it to run with or without the odex files . Any idea?
onurd said:
I have successfully installed the version above. The question is that this is the 6.2 version and my nexus 7 has 6.3 installed. I tried to copy those files to my g3 but the apk files were smaller with odex files. I just couldn't get it to run with or without the odex files . Any idea?
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Attached is the latest email app and exchange services from my Nexus 5.
ldkud50 said:
Attached is the latest email app and exchange services from my Nexus 5.
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Hmmm... these new files have the same version numbers as in the first post. The play store shows 6.3 something as the latest version...
onurd said:
Hmmm... these new files have the same version numbers as in the first post. The play store shows 6.3 something as the latest version...
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Email apk version 6.3-1218562
Exchange Services version 6.2-1227136
ldkud50 said:
Email apk version 6.3-1218562
Exchange Services version 6.2-1227136
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Interesting. Both titanium backup and "send feedback" option under the email app with the new APKs show 6.2-1227136 and not 6.3-1218562
onurd said:
Interesting. Both titanium backup and "send feedback" option under the email app with the new APKs show 6.2-1227136 and not 6.3-1218562
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Try these
Will anything nasty happen if I just install them as a normal app rather than a system app? I just clicked on the apk and installed like normal and it seemed to work fine, but wanted to make sure there weren't any unforeseen security issues.
I ran across this SMS app a while back when I flashed a custom ROM called Mokee OS which was based on android 6.0.1. There was a stock SMS app included in the ROM that I "fell in like with". I'm back on LP now though, and the messaging app doesn't seem to be compatible with that version of android as it just crashes after being opened. I have the app's icon, and I'm hoping someone could give me it's name so I could probably search the internet to see if theres a LP compatible version out there. Thanks.
Freewander10 said:
I ran across this SMS app a while back when I flashed a custom ROM called Mokee OS which was based on android 6.0.1. There was a stock SMS app included in the ROM that I "fell in like with". I'm back on LP now though, and the messaging app doesn't seem to be compatible with that version of android as it just crashes after being opened. I have the app's icon, and I'm hoping someone could give me it's name so I could probably search the internet to see if theres a LP compatible version out there. Thanks.
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That's either Google messenger or AOSP messenger app.
sachin n said:
That's either Google messenger or AOSP messenger app.
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I know its not Google's messenger app. I'll check if it's AOSP's
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I know its not Google's messenger app. I'll check if it's AOSP's
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Ohhh! Alright then.