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T-Mobile Froyo DriveSmart Settings

Can anyone help me try and remove the DriveSmart settings menu found in Settings.
I deleted the DriveSmart APKs but its still showing in Settings which means its hardcoded in there...

you will have to decompile the settings.apk and remove the entire line of drivesmart

I actually tried that already but couldn't recompile it for some reason.
Can you give it a go? I can send you the edited files...
jboogie3 said:
you will have to decompile the settings.apk and remove the entire line of drivesmart
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Actually, only this line needs to be edited if I'm not mistaken:
Path: res\values\
File: bools.xml
Line: <bool name="has_tmo_driveSmart_settings">true</bool>
Process: Change the value from true to false
Any help would be appreciated. I've been trying but get errors when I try to recompile Settings.apk
Thanks!

Here's the original APK.
I hope someone can help me out. I've used APK Manager and APK Edit and neither tool can recompile it after I've edited it...

I was kinda hoping it would get rid of the settings portion when the apk's for drive smart were deleted as well. oh well.

That is exactly what this is aimed at.
I was able to delete the strings from the de-compiled code however, I got errors when re-compiling it.
Hopefully, someone out there can help with this...
dlamber7 said:
I was kinda hoping it would get rid of the settings portion when the apk's for drive smart were deleted as well. oh well.
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Was finally able to compile it without any errors.
Someone, try this please: Modified T-Mo Froyo Settings
Thanks!

Has anyone tried the modified Settings I posted?

I'll try it here in a little bit. If not today than tomorrow and let you know. Just install zip via recovery?

Nope. Rename the existing Settings.apk and Setting.odex and then move the modified Settings.apk to system/app/
Don't forget to set the correct permissions...
Thanks!
dlamber7 said:
I'll try it here in a little bit. If not today than tomorrow and let you know. Just install zip via recovery?
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I still really want this done.
Can someone post a deodexed Settings.apk from the latest FroYo update please...

Anyone figure this out yet? I tried placing the settings.apk from this thread into my working kitchen folder over writing the stock settings.apk but when I flashed the rom the settings option was missing from the app draw???

[MOD] jholtom's CRT animation on Screen Lock

jholtom said:
Hi, All,
I got it working for screen off only
The changes are in framework-res.apk
Attached is the apk for Prime 2.0.4 ONLY!
To Use:
remove the unsigned- part from the name and use root explorer or adb push to put it in system/framework/
and then reboot!
To do this mod to another rom:
Decompile using apktool or apkmanager (which utilizes apktool) and then...
find bools.xml in res/values of a decompiled framework-res and then find this line
Code:
<bool name="config_animateScreenLights">true</bool>
and change the true to false
save and recompile and push or use root explorer to apply the new file
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I'm quoting and reuploading to this post in case anyone else wants to try it out.
Jholtom do you mind if I post this on RootzWiki as well, giving you full credit?

+1
Would be nice.

Nothing so far. I too have been looking.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1267728
I know you already mentioned it but there's actually two apps

Sucesss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi, All,
I got it working for screen off only
The changes are in framework-res.apk
Attached is the apk for Prime 2.0.4 ONLY!
To Use:
remove the unsigned- part from the name and use root explorer or adb push to put it in system/framework/
and then reboot!
To do this mod to another rom:
Decompile using apktool or apkmanager (which utilizes apktool) and then...
find bools.xml in res/values of a decompiled framework-res and then find this line
Code:
<bool name="config_animateScreenLights">true</bool>
and change the true to false
save and recompile and push or use root explorer to apply the new file

Made a stupid mistake!! I can't remember how to push the file using ADB and my Transformer is force closing like crazy hahaha. Can someone give me some quick instructions? Watched a couple videos but they're all different and not working. I've got ADB running, it's mounted, the .apk is in the ADB folder but I can't get it to push. Please help! Thanks so much!
EDIT: Nevermind. Also a stupid mistake haha, that was a close one.
Thanks for doing this jholtom, I've wanted this for a while as well!

awesoe works nice man ought to make a thread for it so people can find it... or edit this one...
Sent from my Optimus Prime Transformer

Nice work. Seems I have to choose between this or the battery percentage mod but not both.

Thanks jholtom . You should contact roach so he can have it built in the rom!

It works! Tha mate.

I dont really mind where it gets posted
Credit is always nice though

jholtom said:
Decompile using apktool or apkmanager (which utilizes apktool) and then...
find bools.xml in res/values of a decompiled framework-res and then find this line
Code:
<bool name="config_animateScreenLights">true</bool>
and change the true to false
save and recompile and push or use root explorer to apply the new file
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Can't seems to find res/values (using apkmanager do I need to decompile or extract APK?)

^ decompile.
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Alex9090 said:
^ decompile.
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Thanks. Yeah finally figured how to decomplie. Changed the field from true to false. Just trying to see what i'm doing wrong cause after compiling it back it doesn't have the crt shut down

Theres some sort of setting that can apparently cause it to work about 7/8 of the time but not that other 1/8. I'm looking around to see what it is and how it can be resolved.
And just in case did you push or install with root explorer?

jholtom said:
Theres some sort of setting that can apparently cause it to work about 7/8 of the time but not that other 1/8. I'm looking around to see what it is and how it can be resolved.
And just in case did you push or install with root explorer?
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I used Root Explorer, I'll try to push it to see if it's any better.
EDIT: I just compile again and it seems to be working better. Thank you.

Hi all! First off, thanks to jholtom for figuring this out. I have thrown this mod in my PCB Blue theme (beta testing only now), and confirm that it works, BUT only when on the homescreen. I.E. if you are in any other app, the CRT animation will not run. Switching back to the homescreen does allow it to work again though. Another trick (if you have the kb dock) is to hit the "LOCK" key (top-right) while in another app, and then the CRT animation appears to play on further on/off toggles, but without unlocking the screen.
Not sure what the cause/solution of that may be, but I did find this thread on RootzWiki that also shows how to edit a .smali file in 'services.jar'. I am too lazy to decompile 'services.jar' and the .smali script, but if someone else is able to, maybe we can see if the further mods will allow it to work 100% of the time. Here's that thread:
[DEV] Enabling CRT ON & OFF Animation in Roms [HOW-TO]
I hope Roach gets wind of this, and maybe his expertise will point us in the right direction for how to get it working perfectly. It is such a simple animation overall, but one that gives us such joy and pleasure
Cheers!

Was hoping you would catch wind of this scar45 and put it in your theme. And nice work to you jholtom!

I hadn't looked at the CRT off animation for HC before as I read it didn't work right but I also didn't know about the potential fix in the services.jar file.
I'll have a wee play about and see what I can come up with.
Can any tell me if the issue still exists where it only works in landscape?

Roach2010 said:
Can any tell me if the issue still exists where it only works in landscape?
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It work while in portrait also but the animation only shut down in landscape.
Like on the phone it only shut down in portrait. Hope I make sense.
It only work when you're on one of the home screen and not anywhere else.

Yeah, I got it working for screen on and off but only from the Home Screen. When you do if from within an app the TF flips out.

[Q] (Q) OTA Battery Full notification

Has anyone found a way to remove the battery full notification from the 2.3.3 OTA Rom? I know this has been asked before, but I can't tell if the answer is still no, or I simply haven't found the correct thread.

Vorkosiganm said:
Has anyone found a way to remove the battery full notification from the 2.3.3 OTA Rom? I know this has been asked before, but I can't tell if the answer is still no, or I simply haven't found the correct thread.
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It has been removed in most custom OTA ROMs

Assuming that I don't want to switch to another ROM, is it possible for me to remove the notification from the stock ROM (by modifying framework-res.apk or such), or can the removal only be done when compiling from LG's source?

Vorkosiganm said:
Assuming that I don't want to switch to another ROM, is it possible for me to remove the notification from the stock ROM (by modifying framework-res.apk or such), or can the removal only be done when compiling from LG's source?
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It can removed from the stock rom, but you need to know exactly what you're doing, as far as modding smali in apks.

Can you give me any help to point me in the right direction for what I need to do? I think I know how to edit the apk's, and I am guessing that I would need to edit one of the xml files, but the naming conventions are not always logical. For example, config_animateScreenLights is related to the crt screen off animation for some reason.

Vorkosiganm said:
Can you give me any help to point me in the right direction for what I need to do? I think I know how to edit the apk's, and I am guessing that I would need to edit one of the xml files, but the naming conventions are not always logical. For example, config_animateScreenLights is related to the crt screen off animation for some reason.
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This is not an xml edit, its a small smali edit, but here goes:
adb pull SystemUI.apk from /system/app and decompile SystemUI.apk, navigate to
\smali\com\android\systemui\statusbar\policy\StatusBarPolicy.smali
Find & remove the ENTIRE "showChargingComplete" method
then find and remove this line
Code:
invoke-direct {p0}, Lcom/android/systemui/statusbar/policy/StatusBarPolicy;->showChargingComplete()V
Recompile SystemUI.apk and push to /system/app, then reboot.
If this sounds too hard or tricky, let me know.

Thanks! That worked perfectly.

I don't suppose you could post a link to that modified SystemUI.apk file? I'd love to get rid of the battery full popup, but I've never compiled/decompiled an .apk, so it sure would be a time saver.
Thanks in advance!

I certainly can. A couple of things first. I found that using the OTA, you cannot just push the SystemUI.apk to your phone using adb (it has to do with the permissions baked into the ROM), I had to make a flashable zip. This means that you will need clockworkMOD to flash the zip. Also, the SystemUI.apk that I have includes xboarder56's green signal fix (from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179748&highlight=ota+gingerbread). I can apply the battery popup fix to a stock SystemUI.apk if you want, just let me know. In any case, I have to recreate the flashable zip, so it will take a few days.

I'm rooted, running the rooted but stock ROM "P999_2.3.3_Stock_OTA" by xboarder.
The only mod I've added is the battery icon mod from this thread installed: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1190283&highlight=battery+mod
So I assume you can't just pull the SystemUI.apk and post, then copy in place using ES Explorer? If you can post a flashable .zip that works for me, whatever is easiest. Many, many thanks....

[REQUEST] .zip to remove CRT animation from jaggyrom

hello , is there any way to remove the crt animation when the screen is locked ?

anirudhbs1996 said:
hello , is there any way to remove the crt animation when the screen is locked ?
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Yeah I made a zip for that.. will post it later.
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If you want to do it yourself, all you have to do is pull framework-res.apk off your phone (from /system/framework; you can copy it with a root file explorer and then copy it off the SD card onto your computer), decompile with apktool, then open /res/values/bools.xml and look for this line:
Code:
<bool name="config_animateScreenLights">false</bool>
Change the "false" to "true", recompile the apk with apktool and replace it back on your device. (It may be safer to take the "resources.arsc" from the new APK, and copy it into the original APK using something like 7zip, rather than putting the new APK straight onto the device, but in theory either should work fine).
Otherwise, just wait for hsn97's upload.

ill try to do it on my own , if i fail ill wait for hsn97's upload .

anirudhbs1996 said:
ill try to do it on my own , if i fail ill wait doe hsn97's upload .
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There u go
just simply flash it, ive made both zips for getting it and for removing it in case if u want it back

hsn97 said:
There u go
just simply flash it, ive made both zips for getting it and for removing it in case if u want it back
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thanks , i did fail doing it , somehow i could only remove crt effect only when i lock the phone .

hsn97 said:
There u go
just simply flash it, ive made both zips for getting it and for removing it in case if u want it back
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can u make crt animation for sense 4

anirudhbs1996 said:
thanks , i did fail doing it , somehow i could only remove crt effect only when i lock the phone .
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So its working fine for u ?
Hpsgill said:
can u make crt animation for sense 4
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Sorry bro no idea of sense 4 but still using it

yeah , it works fine

Hpsgill said:
can u make crt animation for sense 4
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If you do the reverse of my post above (i.e. change "true" to "false"), that should enable the CRT animation I believe.

SifJar said:
If you do the reverse of my post above (i.e. change "true" to "false"), that should enable the CRT animation I believe.
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Cmon just for removing the animation no ones gonna decompile an APK and many are also unknown of apktool and all these stuff ..
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hsn97 said:
Cmon just for removing the animation no ones gonna decompile an APK and many are also unknown of apktool and all these stuff ..
sent from xda premium using my fingers
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May as well learn. And it takes only a few seconds to decompile it; I'd say the entire process of pulling the APK, decompiling, editing, recompiling, pushing APK back and waiting for phone to reboot could probably be done in under 5 minutes. Compared to potentially waiting days/weeks for someone else to upload a flashable ZIP to do it, I'd say that's fair enough

i dont know what i did the first time , it worked only once , then i tried to decompile the apk file ,when i made the changes and tried to recompile it again , it didnt work , for many apk files ... does anyone know the solution ?

anirudhbs1996 said:
i dont know what i did the first time , it worked only once , then i tried to decompile the apk file ,when i made the changes and tried to recompile it again , it didnt work , for many apk files ... does anyone know the solution ?
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Are you just modifying framework-res.apk, or are you trying to do app APKs (I'm not sure because of the "for many apk files")? If you're trying to do apps, they need to be resigned after modding, or else they won't install. If it's framework-res.apk, I don't know what's wrong. More detail would be helpful; what exactly did you do, at what point does it fail, is there some error message etc.

SifJar said:
Are you just modifying framework-res.apk, or are you trying to do app APKs (I'm not sure because of the "for many apk files")? If you're trying to do apps, they need to be resigned after modding, or else they won't install. If it's framework-res.apk, I don't know what's wrong. More detail would be helpful; what exactly did you do, at what point does it fail, is there some error message etc.
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C:\apktool>apktool b systemui.apk
Exception in thread "main" brut.androlib.AndrolibException: brut.directory.PathN
otExist: apktool.yml
at brut.androlib.Androlib.readMetaFile(Androlib.java:142)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Androlib.java:159)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Androlib.java:154)
at brut.apktool.Main.cmdBuild(Main.java:182)
at brut.apktool.Main.main(Main.java:67)
Caused by: brut.directory.PathNotExist: apktool.yml
at brut.directory.AbstractDirectory.getFileInput(AbstractDirectory.java:
103)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.readMetaFile(Androlib.java:138)
... 4 more
C:\apktool>
i get the above message

Sounds like apktool.yml is missing. Maybe you deleted it by accident or something. Try decompiling the APK again into a different folder, and then copy apktool.yml from the newly decompiled one into your existing modified one, and retry rebuilding it.
EDIT: Wait, scratch that. Your command is wrong. It should be "apktool b systemui SystemUI.apk" where "systemui" is the name of the folder the APK was unpacked to.

Question??
I dont know how.. I did 2 clean installs of CM 9.1 and CM10... But the Old TV anim remained for both.. and it sortof got mixed with the existing ROM anims.. Can I flash the " TO REMOVE CRT ANIM " directly to remove that OLD TV anim remaining from JaggyROM 3.x.x ??
Will I lose my current ROM DATA and System ?? Sorry Im a NOOB . Thanks

akshat.shenoy said:
I dont know how.. I did 2 clean installs of CM 9.1 and CM10... But the Old TV anim remained for both.. and it sortof got mixed with the existing ROM anims.. Can I flash the " TO REMOVE CRT ANIM " directly to remove that OLD TV anim remaining from JaggyROM 3.x.x ??
Will I lose my current ROM DATA and System ?? Sorry Im a NOOB . Thanks
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Lol , bro when u flash a new ROM nothing remains from the old ROM .. so dont do the mistake of flashing this removing CRT animation zip on CM9/10. In CM9 theres an option to switch off Crt Animation. Just go to Display and unmark it but in CM10 it isnt. I hope it will help u
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For CM10, you have to use the method SifJar explained.

SifJar said:
If you want to do it yourself, all you have to do is pull framework-res.apk off your phone (from /system/framework; you can copy it with a root file explorer and then copy it off the SD card onto your computer), decompile with apktool, then open /res/values/bools.xml and look for this line:
Code:
<bool name="config_animateScreenLights">false</bool>
Change the "false" to "true", recompile the apk with apktool and replace it back on your device. (It may be safer to take the "resources.arsc" from the new APK, and copy it into the original APK using something like 7zip, rather than putting the new APK straight onto the device, but in theory either should work fine).
Otherwise, just wait for hsn97's upload.
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I just was searching for a way to remove CRT from a 4.2 ROM and this thread came up. Just as an FYI for anyone else that has this come up in a search, right now the apktool doesn't work on the 4.2 framework. I'm sure this will work once the tool gets updated.

[ASK][MIRO] Guide on how to decompile system apk file

Hi guys, someday ago i tried to decompile the SystemUI.apk. The modded version is named : SystemUI_mod.apk and the original is SystemUI.apk. I've done the copy procedure of META-INF folder, but every time i tried to push it to my phone, it cause my phone to get a bootlop. Is there any guide on how to decompile, editing, or something that is safe for my phone? And is there any way to mod my font colour to red, blue, or anything? Because my phone background is white, so i cant see anything Thanks for your help :highfive: Sorry if i posted it in the wrong section

FajarMF28 said:
Hi guys, someday ago i tried to decompile the SystemUI.apk. The modded version is named : SystemUI_mod.apk and the original is SystemUI.apk. I've done the copy procedure of META-INF folder, but every time i tried to push it to my phone, it cause my phone to get a bootlop. Is there any guide on how to decompile, editing, or something that is safe for my phone? And is there any way to mod my font colour to red, blue, or anything? Because my phone background is white, so i cant see anything Thanks for your help :highfive: Sorry if i posted it in the wrong section
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use autoapktool tool to decompile...... or just select the icons that u want to change and juss replace them with the orginal one direcly by opening the apk in winrar and just drag and drop

vsbrt said:
use autoapktool tool to decompile...... or just select the icons that u want to change and juss replace them with the orginal one direcly by opening the apk in winrar and just drag and drop
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Its already fixed. Now i can change everything i want :laugh: