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[Q] Trying to extract AT&T apps from stock rom

Hi all, I'm having great difficulty trying to extract anything from the system.img or boot.img files I got from the stock AT&T rom for the Inpsire 4G. I first had tried to unyaffs the files but I realized that HTC does not use this to package their files anymore. Next, I tried to mount in PowerISO, then unrar (both noob attempts, i know). I've read numerous places that I can mount them as a loopback device in linux but I do not a linux box ready to do this with. In fact, I just erased that HDD to install Windows 7 before I wanted to extract these files.
So my question is this: without using virtualbox or a VM or reinstalling Ubuntu again, is there any way I can extract these rom files from their img archives in Windows? I'm thinking NO but if there is anywhere I would get a definitive answer, it's here.
If not, maybe someone could package up these APK's for me? I'm primarily looking for the AT&T Wifi Hotspot apk as I constantly use McDonald's and Starbucks for WIFI and am looking to automatically authenticate the ssid as my bb Torch used to, without the agreement and landing page.
Thank you to all who look at this, and more thanks if you can help me in my endeavor.

Theming the phone

Hello all,
I am new here and just got my Galaxy S 4g. I am used to creating themes on the iphone and am getting very frustrated with this phone so far. I have rooted my phone, and also downloaded go launcher and a couple widgets. and a couple different file explorers.
Problems I am having is that everyone says the apps and themes are located in the phones data folder. My data folder is always blank with nothing inside. I search for the exact name or location of the apps and it says 0 files. I look at the apps running and details of them tell me they are in the /data folder, but My folder says empty. I even have the show hidden files checked.
Also I am trying to find a way to browse the phones files (not the memory card files) from my computer. I have now read over hundreds of pages of searches and can not find any answers.
Please help me.

the files that you are going to want to find are the framework-res.apk and twframework.apk.
those files are located in the system/framework/
i use android commander to push and pull files cause it is the easiest for me. you will need winrar to unzip the apk's but if you want to edit the .9.png's you will need APK manager to unpack the .9.png's and Ultimate Compiler to recompile after you edit or the png's will stretch wrong and look horrible.
There is a link on the main Android Themes page on XDA that has a wonderful write up in PDF about theming...
ill see what else i can post when i have time later to help you out.

[Q] Rar on android.

Hi:
I've recently started to develop my own comic reader. The problem I've come up with is cbr files, which are esentially rar files. Now I know there are comic readers out there (all of them, I think) that support cbr files. So there is a way of doing this, I just can't find how.
In the rarlabs official page (search google rar addons and it's the first page) there are several options. I would like to know if I download the commandline arm unrar how I could install it on Android (I have a motorola Xoom, it would be for Honeycomb), assuming that is correct.
If this is not an option is there a command line unrar application that I could call from my own? and How would the code be (to call an external application, that is)?
If the above is not possible, what is the way to get to unrar something in android?
The only real option I've seen would be to use junrar (hosted on github)
But it seems complicated and I'm not sure it works very well as I've seen a lot of conflicting reports.
Thanks for any help!

Try http://www.all-freeware.com/results/rar/for/android to unpack rar on Android.
Success,
Senax

Hi:
I'm not exactly sure what you wanted me to try. There is nothing in that page that would allow me to uncompress a rar file on android. Only a bunch of unrar utitilities and some android things but they are not related, that is, there is nothing that says unrar that also works on android.
thanks anyway.

Unrar
great app available here: androidzoom (dot) com/android_applications/tools/unrar_dhpu.html
Cheers,
Romuloxiii

Hi:
It's seems that I didn't make myself clear.
I want to develop an android application that needs to unrar files. Is there a way to call the unrar application from my own code?
If so, can you tell me how?
Otherwise, I appreciate the effort, but I can't use that.
Thank you very much!

You can bring the unrar binary along in the /asset of your app,
on first launch copy it to your apps /file directory, chmod +x it, and use exec("sh") to unrar the files from shell.

oh, I see. I think I get the the idea but I don't understand all the instructions.
What did you mean by importing thebinary on my asset?
If I do the step above why do I need to copy the binary on first launch?
Don't I need root privileges too chmod it? And how do I do it from my source code?
And finally where can I find the command line use of the application? Or is it the same as the Linux version?
I know there are a lot of questions, but please keep in mind that I'm very new at doing this.
Thanks for all the help!

You need to put it as asset to bring it along.
You need to copy it because asset files are not directly accessable.
You don't need root to chmod the file in your own directory.
You do it by using a shell from your code i.e. Process.exec("sh")
And finally you want to program the app not me,
so don't be lazy and invest some time.
Google google google google...
If there are still questions left after that, you may ask again .

Ok, I'll try it and get back to you!
Thanks!

Sorry for my lazyness, but I've been Googling for a good half hour without finding a simple 'unrar' binary executable compiled to run from terminal on rooted ARMx32 device. I don't want bloated GUI APK's or libraries for development implementation, but just the plain command line interface executable. Anyone, please? It's a pity they haven't baked it into Busybox as an applet, IMO.

Create own Rom

It seems to create your own rom is more involved than I thought. I knew I should have learned linux. I wanted to fool around and use different browser .apk files from one rom to another. I messed around with this when I had my blackberry. It also seems like its easier to brick your droid. With blackberry I had a list of .cods same as .apks to use. So to open your .tar or .md5 you need android-sdk and then use adb commands? Is there a list of which system files that can be changed from one update to another. I did some searching but I guess not enough. Is there a quick version to create I guess a system dump with what files that can be changed without killing you phone? From what I read you have to use Odin to extract files to your sd card then to your computer or use Sdk with commands. Once extracted to to use a browser one to another you transfer the .apk other files. Do I have the basics or is it way over my head which is why we have developers?

blueis300 said:
It seems to create your own rom is more involved than I thought. I knew I should have learned linux. I wanted to fool around and use different browser .apk files from one rom to another. I messed around with this when I had my blackberry. It also seems like its easier to brick your droid. With blackberry I had a list of .cods same as .apks to use. So to open your .tar or .md5 you need android-sdk and then use adb commands? Is there a list of which system files that can be changed from one update to another. I did some searching but I guess not enough. Is there a quick version to create I guess a system dump with what files that can be changed without killing you phone? From what I read you have to use Odin to extract files to your sd card then to your computer or use Sdk with commands. Once extracted to to use a browser one to another you transfer the .apk other files. Do I have the basics or is it way over my head which is why we have developers?
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Its way over your head! But even devs had to start somewhere. Guys like JT learned everything he knows thru google fu and he actually got the fascinate recognized cyanogen. So don't give up!
Sent from my Gummy Charged GBE 2.0 using XDA App

I would love to start to learn how to dev.
Any one could point me in the right direction?

Lol Yeah I figured it was above me but will keep reading, ask some questions and see what happens.

blueis300 said:
It seems to create your own rom is more involved than I thought. I knew I should have learned linux. I wanted to fool around and use different browser .apk files from one rom to another. I messed around with this when I had my blackberry. It also seems like its easier to brick your droid. With blackberry I had a list of .cods same as .apks to use. So to open your .tar or .md5 you need android-sdk and then use adb commands? Is there a list of which system files that can be changed from one update to another. I did some searching but I guess not enough. Is there a quick version to create I guess a system dump with what files that can be changed without killing you phone? From what I read you have to use Odin to extract files to your sd card then to your computer or use Sdk with commands. Once extracted to to use a browser one to another you transfer the .apk other files. Do I have the basics or is it way over my head which is why we have developers?
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Look up harvard's cs50 course.. Its free and online and will get you started.. Ide post a, link.. But I'm lazy so google it
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ty ace
i'll look into it, I've been looking for info for awhile, and was wondering where to start reading up on a "how to"!

[Q] tool for opening .rar file ??

any tool for opening a .rar file on wp7.5 ??

i am also looking for something like that.

Opening - for what? What would you like to do with rar content?

Presumably, the same think you'd do with the ability to open ZIP files on the phone, which it already has (I've never actually needed to do this, except for hacks, but it works).
The RAR format has some annoying restrictions around its use; some developers don't like it for that reason and are therefore less likely to develop for it. You'll probably need to get a C/C++ RAR library and then port it to the phone and access it through COM. Doing it all in managed code would be cleaner (and would let you put it on the Marketplace) but I don't know if there are any managed implementations to work from, so you might have to write the whole thing.

@sensboston
actually i wanna open the mail attachment whic come in .rar format..

GoodDayToDie, here is the managed code to work with rar archives: http://nunrar.codeplex.com/ (and project already has SL implementation so it can be easily ported to WP7 platform). Technically it's possible to create .rar extension handler (for full/policy unlocked devices) but I see no reason why this should be done...
vivek27, I still don't get why do you want to open rar attachments? What are you going to do with unrared files? You can't play 'em or install 'em or read 'em. Just unpack to the rar-handler isolated storage file? Why?

loki338 said:
hey dude why r u not use winrar .ZIp Apps
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I doubt there's such an app on MP .