I would like to know what process is entailed in changing out a phone.apk
I am running a gingerbread 2.3.4 rom deodexed, but with a stock dialer and I hate it.
I have seen some roms using an ics style dialer thats much cleaner, but I cant figure out how to make the switch.
I tried asking for and installing a copy of the ics style phone.apk ( renamed old one, copied new one in, set permissisons, rebooted to recovery, wiped dalvik, rebooted, and fail - the lock screen came up but when unlocked the phone was just black and I was forced to cwm reinstall rom).
Pointers?
i belive you installed a wrongrom or something in the system that went wrong like it being odexed or deodexed
godfeast said:
I would like to know what process is entailed in changing out a phone.apk
I am running a gingerbread 2.3.4 rom deodexed, but with a stock dialer and I hate it.
I have seen some roms using an ics style dialer thats much cleaner, but I cant figure out how to make the switch.
I tried asking for and installing a copy of the ics style phone.apk ( renamed old one, copied new one in, set permissisons, rebooted to recovery, wiped dalvik, rebooted, and fail - the lock screen came up but when unlocked the phone was just black and I was forced to cwm reinstall rom).
Pointers?
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Also try a different APK, they don't all work with all ROMs
Also, you can flash a theme with a better dialer or use a theme manager engine if you are on CM7 base too.
ok, so basically switching out the contacts.apk and phone.apk should have worked with proper permissions set up, I just used a wrong type of apk?
I hadnt thought about just theming it - havent gotten into that yet, but thanks for the suggestion, as I may look into that then.
godfeast said:
ok, so basically switching out the contacts.apk and phone.apk should have worked with proper permissions set up, I just used a wrong type of apk?
I hadnt thought about just theming it - havent gotten into that yet, but thanks for the suggestion, as I may look into that then.
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It could work with another APK, depends where you got it from. A Sense APK would never work in an AOSP ROM for instance.
Theming might be more fun.
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This Rom is made for the Appalachian Wireless hero users out there.This is a complete rebuild of my original rom, it is faster, better optimized and themeable with some new features added.
FIRST OFF THANKS GOES TO..
dsixda
MrDanger
theresthatguy
First boot can be a little slow about 2-3 min while it's rebuilding the cache.
FEATURES
Added Market fix so protected apps will now display in market.
Added Flash 10.1
Moved Maps to /data/app so duplicate versions won't be installed when it gets updated from the market.
Rooted (unsecured boot.img)
Rooted (Superuser.apk + su)
Deodexed /system/framework, /system/app
PNG optimized for speed
Bash shell support
BusyBox installed
Nano text editor installed
Live Wallpapers
ADDED APPLICATIONS
Wireless tethering installed
Estrongs Files Explorer
Terminal
Spare Parts
CarDock
REMOVED APPLICATIONS
amazonmp3
StockWidget
TwitterWidget
Facebook
HtcFacebook
HtcFootprints
HtcFootprintsWidget
HtcTwitter
HTMLViewer
LearnMore
PDFViewer
Quickoffice
Stock
teeter
Removed apps are placed on your sdcard in the AW10/removed directory.
To Reinstall
connect your phone to your computer
choose charge only when prompted on your phone
open a command prompt, cd into the android-sdk/tools directory and run
Code:
adb remount
adb push /sdcard/AW10/removed/nameofapp.apk /system/app
INSTALL:
DOWNLOAD
Alternate DOWNLOAD mirror
place .zip file on sd card
reboot into recovery mode
nandroid backup
wipe
wipe dalvik cache
install AW10.zip file
live wallpapers are optional, to install them flash lwp.zip via recovery separately from the rom.
known issues:
issue: if you flash the lwp.zip and the rom together at the same time, it can cause boot loops.
fix: install the rom let it boot once, reboot then install the lwp.zip.
issue: updating of google maps in market fails
fix: uninstall old version first by going into Settings/Applications/Manage applications uninstall maps then re-download from market.
NOTE: Live wallpapers only work when using an alternate launcher like ADW or Launcher Pro from the market.
got any screenshots?
joeman24 said:
got any screenshots?
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I updated some things and added some screen shots.
Wow, and I thought I was the only person with Appalachian Wireless to Root, you know I had a terrible time rooting. Just about every guide I could find was for Sprint only. I wish I had found you about 2 months ago. I had to upgrade to the Stock 2.1, before I was able to root. Did you have as hard of a time getting your Hero rooted as I did on Appalachian Wireless? Just curious.
lordofletterbox said:
Wow, and I thought I was the only person with Appalachian Wireless to Root, you know I had a terrible time rooting. Just about every guide I could find was for Sprint only. I wish I had found you about 2 months ago. I had to upgrade to the Stock 2.1, before I was able to root. Did you have as hard of a time getting your Hero rooted as I did on Appalachian Wireless? Just curious.
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no i waited until 2.1 was released and rooted, i didn't want to take the chance of messing up my carrier settings with the sprint RUU, and not being able to restore them, i was tempted though very tempted.
Could you please host this somewhere else??? I cant get it to download from mediafire..
can't download it ,can u give another link ty
baddime said:
can't download it ,can u give another link ty
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please be patient with me I'm working on this, should be fixed in a little while.
OK because all my files on mediafire got wiped
and i was going to release this newer version in a couple days anyway, i decided to go ahead and post it tonight.
the only thing missing that i wanted to include in this version is some custom mods i made for it.
i decided to just add them to the original post as metamorph addons instead of including them with the rom, that way you can pick and choose which ones you want instead of me I'll try to have them up soon.
Very nice codejunkie. You've got a little more accomplished with this rom than what I got done with it. My rom was pretty much bare stock. Nothing removed. I was able to get it de-odexed, but when I started looking into changing the rosie, that was when things started becoming unstable.
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Very nice codejunkie. You've got a little more accomplished with this rom than what I got done with it. My rom was pretty much bare stock. Nothing removed. I was able to get it de-odexed, but when I started looking into changing the rosie, that was when things started becoming unstable.
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Thanks for the kind words, I've been working on theaming a lot Lately and your so right any wrong change to the framework files and things can go crazy fast.
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App
Awesome man kudos to you...Thank you so much been hitting all the others since someone talked me through a root back in early summer and forgot how nice sense was. How do we add themes for it?
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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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.
unboostedzc said:
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.
Anyone up for porting this custom rosie to Evio 1.8, i tried just flashing it, it will boot, but buttons dont work, and it doesnt look right.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/j7170...Rosie Dialer Browser Icons Mod by DG4FREE.zip
Found in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=891820
Def. some of the coolest looking rosies I have seen.
Thanks,
Rush
Yeah buttons don't work cause nuns uses the Rosie app and calk doesn't and not looking right is cause of the framework and yeah someone could power this would be nice I like the clean look and used them on myns rom in the past
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i just want apps in the center and phone on the right. that and rosie settings so i can put miren browser on there. any way to do either of these manually btw? especially miren browser.
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I downloaded Rosie Settings Mod zip from MikFroyo thread and looked into the package, it looked like the modded APKs are com.htc.resources and Rosie, and of course the Rosie Settings APK.
I am on 1.7.7 with personally modified APKs and Framework PNG files, so I simply replaced above APKs with the modded ones and flashed it. At the first boot, it worked fine including the option to change the left and right Rosie buttons, but when I changed the right button to Dolphin HD and opened the browser, my phone just rebooted and got stuck at splash screen. I then pulled the battery and re-flashed the zip, ever since it's working fine. Not sure what caused the crash at the first boot...
Edit: I found a strange behavior. It works fine after flashing the zip, but whenever I reboot it gets stuck at the splash screen. Removed the file for now.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/74t7lavn11z1bv2/RosieSettings_Mod_EViO.zip
st0921 said:
I downloaded Rosie Settings Mod zip from MikFroyo thread and looked into the package, it looked like the modded APKs are com.htc.resources and Rosie, and of course the Rosie Settings APK.
I am on 1.7.7 with personally modified APKs and Framework PNG files, so I simply replaced above APKs with the modded ones and flashed it. At the first boot, it worked fine including the option to change the left and right Rosie buttons, but when I changed the right button to Dolphin HD and opened the browser, my phone just rebooted and got stuck at splash screen. I then pulled the battery and re-flashed the zip, ever since it's working fine. Not sure what caused the crash at the first boot...
Having said that, below link contains Rosie Setting mod with the original resource.com.apk and Rosie.apk (except for the buttons of course...) from EViO 1.8 for anyone who wants to try.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/74t7lavn11z1bv2/RosieSettings_Mod_EViO1.8.zip
Please let me know whether or not it works.
P.S. Please do a nand backup first as I don't wanna be responsible for any troubles. Also, the zip is not signed, so you might wanna change the toggle before flashing. Use at your own risk...
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is this confirmed working? as in, did you actually add in the code to the apks to make it work, or are you just shooting in the dark here?
dkdude36 said:
is this confirmed working? as in, did you actually add in the code to the apks to make it work, or are you just shooting in the dark here?
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Like I described it worked with v1.7.7 with one crash at the first boot. Haven't tried with v1.8 yet.
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Like I described it worked with v1.7.7 with one crash at the first boot. Haven't tried with v1.8 yet.
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wow, so you were just able to flash caulkin's rosie and resources, along with the settings, and then it would just work. that is pretty cool. somebody here should pm myn for details though. that app could be very helpful if we use it right.
Found a bit strange behavior. Every reboot it gets stuck at splash screen... It looks like the issue is in Dalvik-cache, as wiping Dalvik every time will boot correctly. File deleted for now.
i'll pm myn tomorrow, unless somebody else does it first. didnt riptide9 also port the rosiesettings to his theme? he might also be the person to ask.
I looked into the resources.apk file, but was not able to find the reason for the reboot issue. The dl link is up for anyone with more technical knowledge who can customize this for Calk's rom...
http://www.mediafire.com/file/b51ppmp3d167d58/RosieSettings_Mod.zip
Couldn't/cant pm anybody tonight. It'll have to wait until morning or somebody else to do it. I reeeealy want this mod on caulkin's 1.7.7 (1.8 was too buggy for me)
Resurect, well a little one anyway.
I actually have this functioning at the moment, just moving over most of caulks assets, so it looks close to stock.
DONE!! Here's the thread!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12799448
I'm running Open Soju 0.2.5 on my Nexus S 4G, loving the ROM, but decided I liked the Messaging app from CM7 where it allows white on black, SMS splitting, etc. And since 0.2.5 is deodexed, I thought I would try moving the mms.apk included in CM7 over to my System > Apps folder on my phone..
Successfully moved over, installed and it runs great! Only problem is, every time I reboot my phone the original mms.apk seems to be installed, I have to go into root explorer and re-install the new mms.apk.. anyway to avoid it being replaced upon reboot?
Thanks
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I'm running Open Soju 0.2.5 on my Nexus S 4G, loving the ROM, but decided I liked the Messaging app from CM7 where it allows white on black, SMS splitting, etc. And since 0.2.5 is deodexed, I thought I would try moving the mms.apk included in CM7 over to my System > Apps folder on my phone..
Successfully moved over, installed and it runs great! Only problem is, every time I reboot my phone the original mms.apk seems to be installed, I have to go into root explorer and re-install the new mms.apk.. anyway to avoid it being replaced upon reboot?
Thanks
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Hmmmm maybe remove the stock version, then push your modded version?
I am trying to change the camera and the email in the Weapon rom to the black email from Faux's AOSP and also the camera from the same rom. I tried installing with the apk's but no go. The camera actually installed on my old Cliq (test dummie) just fine but wont on the G2x. I switched out the apk's in the rom zip and am going to attempt to re-flash it. My question is this: do I have to wipe everything and am I going to loose all my setting and rings (i switched the audio file in system with one that has the tones I want) and whatnot. Or will all that remain the same if I flash overtop this rom?? Thanks
As always, I will be sure to hit the Thanks button