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[Q] I need help on zipalign.

What is zipalign, what are the benefits of zipalign and how do i do this?
Thank you

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Someone help me please

just use the search option

EdisDee said:
just use the search option
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I find just one thread with the same question and that thread also has only 2 posts and the person who made the thread posted saying he found the answer but never mentions what the answer is.

I found something about placing a file in the init.d folder but the file was not specified so if anyone has the file in their init.d folder could they copy it to their sd card, upload it to dropbox or any other file share website and share it with me please.

Help please

I know this is bloody perfect forum but sometimes you just need to jump out for a while. It's easier.
"The Android SDK includes a tool called zipalign that optimizes the way an application is packaged. Running zipalign against your application enables Android to interact it more efficiently at run time and thus has the potential to make it and the overall system run faster. We strongly encourage you to use zipalign on both..."
source: http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/zipalign.html
Enable? Nor sure. Kyrillos has it by default. I don't remember about others...
EDIT: Remove ".TXT" and place in /etc/init.d (or /system/etc/init.d). I belive it should be enoguh but can't say for sure. I only hope Kyrillos will not mind, it is from his 8.1 rom. Or hillbeast who edited it to work with hybrid.

mrvek said:
I know this is bloody perfect forum but sometimes you just need to jump out for a while. It's easier.
"The Android SDK includes a tool called zipalign that optimizes the way an application is packaged. Running zipalign against your application enables Android to interact it more efficiently at run time and thus has the potential to make it and the overall system run faster. We strongly encourage you to use zipalign on both..."
source: http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/zipalign.html
Enable? Nor sure. Kyrillos has it by default. I don't remember about others...
EDIT: Remove ".TXT" and place in /etc/init.d (or /system/etc/init.d). I belive it should be enoguh but can't say for sure. I only hope Kyrillos will not mind, it is from his 8.1 rom. Or hillbeast who edited it to work with hybrid.
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I did what you said. I am rebooting the phone now and hopefully your help is sufficient

Smonic said:
What is zipalign, what are the benefits of zipalign and how do i do this?
Thank you
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Download "ADB Mask Controller"
install it, connect your phone with USB debugging enabled.
Make sure the connection is detected by the application, click on the refresh button beside SEARCH Option in the program.
in the first screen, you will find option "Push Zipalign" Do that.
Go to the screen titled "Zipalign"
select the optioin you want to use zipalign for user app or system app or both.
Caution : Use this tool judiciously, it has many advanced features used by ROM developers mainly. Like pushing an app to system, removing bloatware, Sql LIte, and many many more.....A wrong step may force you to reflash your ROM.
Hope it helped.

umangsagar said:
Download "ADB Mask Controller"
install it, connect your phone with USB debugging enabled.
Make sure the connection is detected by the application, click on the refresh button beside SEARCH Option in the program.
in the first screen, you will find option "Push Zipalign" Do that.
Go to the screen titled "Zipalign"
select the optioin you want to use zipalign for user app or system app or both.
Caution : Use this tool judiciously, it has many advanced features used by ROM developers mainly. Like pushing an app to system, removing bloatware, Sql LIte, and many many more.....A wrong step may force you to reflash your ROM.
Hope it helped.
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I clicked on 'push zipalign' a number of times and then clicked on zipalign data/app but nothing happens. It says zipalign not found. Push zipalign and try again or sth like that. I've rebooted my phone and i'm trying now,

Check if you have /system/bin/zipalign. If not try to put it there manually.
ADB controller might have problems mounting your /system r/w and it is read-only. Maybe you can mount it r/w and then try with controller (just guessing, though).
And you'll need to have the S03_zipalign made by kyrillos and hillbeast in /system/etc/init.d (or just /etc/init.d) posted earlier. For what I can tell it zipalign's all apps from /system/app and /data/app.

mrvek said:
Check if you have /system/bin/zipalign. If not try to put it there manually.
ADB controller might have problems mounting your /system r/w and it is read-only. Maybe you can mount it r/w and then try with controller (just guessing, though).
And you'll need to have the S03_zipalign made by kyrillos and hillbeast in /system/etc/init.d (or just /etc/init.d) posted earlier. For what I can tell it zipalign's all apps from /system/app and /data/app.
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I second that esp rw option, its already there in ADB Controller. U can manually browse as instructed above. Its not that difficult, I am sure u will be able to do it well, reply here if u still get probs even after taking all steps as directed in my previous post and the post i quote above.

umangsagar said:
I second that esp rw option, its already there in ADB Controller. U can manually browse as instructed above. Its not that difficult, I am sure u will be able to do it well, reply here if u still get probs even after taking all steps as directed in my previous post and the post i quote above.
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Thanks for the help. I'll go back and thank the posts
Anyway i decided not to do any tweaks because i always end up flashing a different ROM anyway, I'm weak when it comes to flashing ROMS
It's like an addiction

Smonic said:
Thanks for the help. I'll go back and thank the posts
Anyway i decided not to do any tweaks because i always end up flashing a different ROM anyway, I'm weak when it comes to flashing ROMS
It's like an addiction
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hahhahahha...this tweak is not that difficult to implement..and i guess pretty safe...agree totally to the last line

I thought I'd give this a go. I've moved the first file on the previous page to system/etc/init.d and the second file on the top of this page to system/bin. Is this sufficient?

you mean to say you have s03_zipalign in /system/etc/ini.d and zipalign file posted above as /system/bin/zipalign ??
i guess this should do for you .. awaiting to hear if u succeeded.

umangsagar said:
you mean to say you have s03_zipalign in /system/etc/ini.d and zipalign file posted above as /system/bin/zipalign ??
i guess this should do for you .. awaiting to hear if u succeeded.
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It's working fine. The apps load up fast and i'm happy Thanks!

[Q] Keyboard Dropping/Missing Keystrokes?

Since I've gotten my Sidekick, I've noticed on most ROMs a horrible tendency to not register key-presses on the physical keyboard. There was one ROM early on that didn't do this (or very little) and one of the versions of RAGE was very good. I'm running GOV3.2 Bulky right now and it's not horrible, but it's noticeable. Does anyone have an idea of what might cause this? Thanks.

ged92781 said:
Since I've gotten my Sidekick, I've noticed on most ROMs a horrible tendency to not register key-presses on the physical keyboard. There was one ROM early on that didn't do this (or very little) and one of the versions of RAGE was very good. I'm running GOV3.2 Bulky right now and it's not horrible, but it's noticeable. Does anyone have an idea of what might cause this? Thanks.
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I thought my keyboard was going bad or i just did not press the key all the way, now im on stock and i have not had that issue, hope someone finds the rom

ultraprimeomega said:
I thought my keyboard was going bad or i just did not press the key all the way, now im on stock and i have not had that issue, hope someone finds the rom
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I wonder what the issue is that's causing it to show up on custom ROMs. Though, I've had it on the stock ROMs as well.

Have you tried this version of the kernel? Along with the removal of the keystroke logger, it also contains a patch that allows you to lower the keystroke timer delays... If you are experiencing dropped keystrokes, this could help, as the patch was designed for tht very issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1663622

yogi2010 said:
Have you tried this version of the kernel? Along with the removal of the keystroke logger, it also contains a patch that allows you to lower the keystroke timer delays... If you are experiencing dropped keystrokes, this could help, as the patch was designed for tht very issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1663622
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Thank you!!!!!!!! I went ahead and dug into that thread. I do have that kernel already on my phone. I looked at the thread linked in that thread that gives a patch to adjust the timer delay and column delay in the kernel. HOWEVER, I'm not knowledgeable enough to apply that patch to my phone as it's given. Elsewhere in that thread, someone gave the commands to edit the settings manually through a terminal which I did through Android Commander on my PC and it worked wonders! Being the suspicious type, I guessed that the settings might not keep after a reboot. Unfortunately, that is the case and I had to reapply the settings after my phone finished restarting. So, I'll have to play with this a bit more to get it to keep, but thank you for showing me this!

You're welcome! That patch was made just for this issue. And yeah, it doesn't stick after a reboot, so we could either compile the kernel with chosen settings added in, or make a simple init.d script. I never did either one lol, was too lazy to try editing and building the kernel from source, and was on the stock ROM so I thought maybe it had no init.d support. You could probably create a file with those same commands used in Terminal, and throw it in your init.d folder to change the settings at boot.

yogi2010 said:
You're welcome! That patch was made just for this issue. And yeah, it doesn't stick after a reboot, so we could either compile the kernel with chosen settings added in, or make a simple init.d script. I never did either one lol, was too lazy to try editing and building the kernel from source, and was on the stock ROM so I thought maybe it had no init.d support. You could probably create a file with those same commands used in Terminal, and throw it in your init.d folder to change the settings at boot.
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I set my column delay to 30 and my timer delay to 1 and it now feels like I'm typing on a Sidekick again! I wouldn't know how to correctly compile the kernel myself with these settings changed. So, are there any devs out there willing to make a zip that can be flashed in CWM so these settings will become permanent?

ged92781 said:
I set my column delay to 30 and my timer delay to 1 and it now feels like I'm typing on a Sidekick again! I wouldn't know how to correctly compile the kernel myself with these settings changed. So, are there any devs out there willing to make a zip that can be flashed in CWM so these settings will become permanent?
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I've noticed this problem and thought it was just me :$

I've had this happen as well as my screen thinking I was pressing it in one location when I wasn't even touching the phone. :s Had me at my wits end.
Sent from my SGH-T839 using xda premium

To those interested in the commands I used to fix the keyboard, see below. If you reboot your phone, these settings will go away and you will need to input these commands again. For a permanent fix, someone will need to add them to a kernel that can be flashed. To use these commands, your phone must be rooted. I've successfully used Android Commander to enter these commands from my PC while my phone is connected via USB.
The current timer delay may be read with:
cat /sys/devices/platform/s3c-keypad/timer_delay
The default is 5 if I remember correctly.
A new timer delay may be set with:
echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/s3c-keypad/timer_delay
The default 300 µs column delay value may be read with:
cat /sys/devices/platform/s3c-keypad/column_delay
A new delay may be set with:
echo 30 > /sys/devices/platform/s3c-keypad/column_delay
In either command, you may experiment with different values by changing the 1 or the 30 in either command to what you want. I believe the lowest is 1 and the max is 256 for the timer delay. If you damage your phone running these commands, that's on you. I'm just telling you what I did and feel worked for me. YMMV. Also, if you don't want to connect your rooted phone to your PC and want to use Terminal Emulator from the Play store, that will work too. You need to enter 'su' prior to running the above commands and grant the terminal super user permissions for the commands to take.

ged92781 said:
I set my column delay to 30 and my timer delay to 1 and it now feels like I'm typing on a Sidekick again! I wouldn't know how to correctly compile the kernel myself with these settings changed. So, are there any devs out there willing to make a zip that can be flashed in CWM so these settings will become permanent?
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I'll work on it for the next releases of the Bi-Winning roms and also try to attach flashable zips.

RicAndroid said:
I'll work on it for the next releases of the Bi-Winning roms and also try to attach flashable zips.
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Thank you!

ged92781 said:
Thank you!
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You are very welcome! All done, BTW. Posting my updates now.

Permanent Fix(Manual way)
Taking the timer_delay and column_delay tricks shown above...I was able to make an init.d script(pretty easy, tbh) but don't feel it merits an update.zip since it's so easy. What I did was:
1. go to /etc/init.d
2. find the last script(In GOV3.3 it's 18complete) and rename it - adding one to the sequence(In my case I renamed it to 19complete)
3. make a new file name 18keyboardfix(The number depends on your rom, really...like if you renamed the above file to some thing like 33complete, you'd call this 32keyboardfix. Easy? right?)
4. Open the file you just created and put:
Code:
!#/system/bin/sh
echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/s3c-keypad/timer_delay
echo 30 > /sys/devices/platform/s3c-keypad/column_delay
5. Set the permissions to rwxr-xr-x or whatever the numeric equivalent is. (0755, iirc)
6. Reboot
7. (Optional) Recheck the values with the following commands:
Code:
cat /sys/devices/platform/s3c-keypad/timer_delay
Code:
cat /sys/devices/platform/s3c-keypad/column_delay
I take no credit for this fix. Really, it was all ged92781 for providing the commands. All I did was find a way to make it permanent(Well, it's just reset when the devices is turned off and the init.d scripts set it back to you desired values, but that's debatable on whether it's permanent or not...either way...it works and is a simple fix)

SammaelAkuma said:
Taking the timer_delay and column_delay tricks shown above...I was able to make an init.d script(pretty easy, tbh) but don't feel it merits an update.zip since it's so easy. What I did was:
1. go to /etc/init.d
2. find the last script(In GOV3.3 it's 18complete) and rename it - adding one to the sequence(In my case I renamed it to 19complete)
3. make a new file name 18keyboardfix(The number depends on your rom, really...like if you renamed the above file to some thing like 33complete, you'd call this 32keyboardfix. Easy? right?)
4. Open the file you just created and put:
Code:
!#/system/bin/sh
echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/s3c-keypad/timer_delay
echo 30 > /sys/devices/platform/s3c-keypad/column_delay
5. Set the permissions to rwxr-xr-x or whatever the numeric equivalent is. (0755, iirc)
6. Reboot
7. (Optional) Recheck the values with the following commands:
Code:
cat /sys/devices/platform/s3c-keypad/timer_delay
Code:
cat /sys/devices/platform/s3c-keypad/column_delay
I take no credit for this fix. Really, it was all ged92781 for providing the commands. All I did was find a way to make it permanent(Well, it's just reset when the devices is turned off and the init.d scripts set it back to you desired values, but that's debatable on whether it's permanent or not...either way...it works and is a simple fix)
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Uh, oh....I used echo "number" /proc/sys/devices/platform/s3c-keypad in my script. Will I have to change it?

RicAndroid said:
Uh, oh....I used echo "number" /proc/sys/devices/platform/s3c-keypad in my script. Will I have to change it?
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Idk, honestly. Try and see if your script works first, if not, then use the one I made using the commands ged92781 provided. Now...to find a way to fix the spaztic touch screen...that'll be tricky.

SammaelAkuma said:
Idk, honestly. Try and see if your script works first, if not, then use the one I made using the commands ged92781 provided. Now...to find a way to fix the spaztic touch screen...that'll be tricky.
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I'm using your commands, dude. I'm very into details....so thanks!

RicAndroid said:
I'm using your commands, dude. I'm very into details....so thanks!
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Lol. No problem. And good luck with the custom rom cooking.

Minfree settings in CM12 Roms

As there are again and again discussions concerning the minfree settings in CM12 roms, I decided to open this thread. If a moderator thinks, this is the wrong place for this thread, just move it, to where it belongs.
Obviously, since the last builds of CM12, the settings for minfrees cause some trouble. After a clean install of any rom, the minfree settings in trickstermod and in fauxclock are completely empty. In fauxclock the settings for OOM (out of memory) Score as well. Some people entered them manually, but I'm afraid, this won't help.
To really solve this, you have to do the following steps: open your file explorer, go to sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters. There you will find 5 files. Two of them do not have correct permissions. The first one, called adj, is for the OOM Scores. The other one, called minfree, is, you won't guess it, for the minfrees. :fingers-crossed:
As you see, both of them have only write permissions, but no read permissions. So I guess, the system will ignore these settings completely. I checked this, using cool tool from play store, very nice tool to show for example the actual free ram in your status bar. And in deed, the ram went down to 25MB, after I had opened a handful apps, and then my phone stopped working. I only could do a reboot.
Now the solution, which is quite easy: change the permissions into rw-rw-rw (666), and maybe change the group under owners into root (I'm not sure, if this is necessary, but it does make no problems, so why not).
Et voilà - if you now open trickstermod or fauxclock again, you will see the preset parameters. As you can see also, the minfrees there are really high. In another thread, there have been suggested the following settings, which are a good standard:
trickstermod 48/60/72/84/96/120
fauxclock 12288/15360/18432/21504/24576/30720
Important: In fauxclock, the minfree settings are not made in MB. You have to enter the so called "pages" for minfrees, which I can't explain exactly, what this is. In general, if you want to change minfrees in fauxclock, just take the settings in MB, you want to, and multiply by 256. This will give you the correct values.
BTW I don't think, it's a good idea, to change the OOM Scores, as long as you do not know exactly, what you're doing.
So, hopefully I could help a bit and clear some things up. But the final question to the CM devs remains:
is this a bug or is this a feature?

With me, those files were already chmod 666, owner root. I use latest liquidsmooth rom. What i did, prior reading your post, was that i set minfree in trickster, from my presets, than immedatly switched to faux, parameters were there, pressed apply, switched set on boot and rebooted. After that minfree r sticking in faux and trickster. Guess that my actions leaded to what you have described. Anyway, your way is much more convinient - at least one app less to use

I don't get it... The directory you mentioned is empty on my one s as well as on my nexus 10 both with cm12.
However my settings stick since I use fauxclock.
One more thing I don't get is in fauxclock. It says "kilobyte" explicitly in the minfree settings although you said (and it stems to be) this strange pages value....

mariachi62 said:
I don't get it... The directory you mentioned is empty on my one s as well as on my nexus 10 both with cm12.
However my settings stick since I use fauxclock.
One more thing I don't get is in fauxclock. It says "kilobyte" explicitly in the minfree settings although you said (and it stems to be) this strange pages value....
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You have to use your file manager with root permissions. Depending on which file manager you use, this can be done differently. The inbuilt CM12 file manager can be given root permissions in settings, in Root explorer for example you have to mount the directory as r/w.
An yes, you are right, fauxclock says, the settings are in kilobyte, but this is not correct. If you succeed to open the minfree file with your file manager, you will find there exactly the values, you have entered in fauxclock.

Damnit, you're right. Solid explorer doesn't show the content of the directory.... I use it a long time and always had the feeling solid explorer shows me all files...
Cm file manager works, thanks!

mariachi62 said:
Damnit, you're right. Solid explorer doesn't show the content of the directory.... I use it a long time and always had the feeling solid explorer shows me all files...
Cm file manager works, thanks!
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It does work with solid explorer as well. The point is, there is no option, to set root permissions manually in solid explorer. So the trick is to create a situation, where solid explorer will ask for root access. For example: long press any folder in your system root, tap properties, tap change (attributes) and now press OK, without changing anything. You will be asked for root access.
Now everything should be fine!

got a problem.
parameter file is empty.
using unofficial cm12 on htc one s with icecode kernel

waver1967 said:
got a problem.
parameter file is empty.
using unofficial cm12 on htc one s with icecode kernel
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problem solved

For solid explorer, just try to open /data and it will ask for root permissions. I do it every time I flash my phone.

Thanks a lot man! I wasn't aware of the skewed minfree files. Was setting them in Trickster and wondering why the apps keep shutting down on me when multitasking. Great work

oll0 said:
Thanks a lot man! I wasn't aware of the skewed minfree files. Was setting them in Trickster and wondering why the apps keep shutting down on me when multitasking. Great work
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They will still close even so...just not so obvious

Rapier said:
They will still close even so...just not so obvious
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Uh yes obviously. However they were actually closing the instant i opened another app. Couldnt even keep two apps open at the same time, that was pretty bad.

oll0 said:
Uh yes obviously. However they were actually closing the instant i opened another app. Couldnt even keep two apps open at the same time, that was pretty bad.
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Yes, I know what you mean. Was the same for me. Having better minfree settings that stick after a reboot helped but didn't solved the issue completely. But at least now phone is usable. I put my hopes in that Google patch they'll release with 5.0.3
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Thanks for this thread, I changed the permission with "chmod 666" using adb shell, but after a reboot, the files were back to write-only mode, is it normal ? How do you make it permanent ?

Sylvain_44 said:
Thanks for this thread, I changed the permission with "chmod 666" using adb shell, but after a reboot, the files were back to write-only mode, is it normal ? How do you make it permanent ?
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If it's reverting, I guess the only way would be through an script that runs at boot time. But it's strange, the permissions should stick once set...

Sylvain_44 said:
Thanks for this thread, I changed the permission with "chmod 666" using adb shell, but after a reboot, the files were back to write-only mode, is it normal ? How do you make it permanent ?
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I used a file explorer with root permissions like root explorer or ES file explorer. My permissions are actually rw-rw-rw, both for adj and minfree file. I guess, this is 666? And they stick after a reboot. But honestly I am not quite sure, if I changed something else. IIRC, I might have changed the permissions for system/etc/init.d/90userinit to rwxr-xr-x. Maybe you want to check this, too.

Well, they don't stick because init.rc sets them to chmod 0220 on boot. That makes me wonder if maybe it was supposed to be like this? I wanted to change it but I don't want to screw anything up. There is a dedicated section for low memory killer in init.rc and only things there are chmod 0220 for those two files and chown for them - so basically the things that we are fixing in this thread. A bug or a feature?

jakubmi9 said:
Well, they don't stick because init.rc sets them to chmod 0220 on boot. That makes me wonder if maybe it was supposed to be like this? I wanted to change it but I don't want to screw anything up. There is a dedicated section for low memory killer in init.rc and only things there are chmod 0220 for those two files and chown for them - so basically the things that we are fixing in this thread. A bug or a feature?
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Thanks for this hint! Indeed, this might be the other thing, that I had changed. In CM11 roms, the described permissions in init.rc are 664 - both for adj and minfree file. I am not quite sure, if this helps, but it's worth an attempt. You can change the permissions in init.rc to 644, reboot and see, if the permissions for adj and minfree are sticky now. I just did this ,and everything is fine -so you can try without risk, I guess. But I must say, I hadn't the problem before, that the permissions for adj and minfree were reset after reboot. Could be related to the changes in init.rc, but I am not sure.

A weird thing: I made a backup and tried anyway yesterday but after a reboot my init.rc restores itself to normal. I tried another time: Modified the values and saved. After reopening it's still there and it stays there but only until I reboot the phone. After reboot the permissions are not set correctly and init.rc restores itself to original state. Is there something I do not know about modifying init.rc? Because that is the first time I try to do something with it.

[Completed] Problem with TTS after installation of Custom Lollipop Rom

Hi, I first want to thank anyone whom attempts to figure this out and to all the people here who are always helpful and take time out of their own life to do this. The problem I am having is that when I try to go to settings/Language & Input/Text-to-speech output I get Unfortunately, Settings has stopped. I can only tap ok at this point the window with same message pops up exactly 3 times then I am back at the Langauge & Input submenu. I have also noticed that any app that uses tts simply does not work, basically the tts is not initializing at all. I am currently using a LG L90 D415 with Lollipop xTreme Rom posted by MicroMod777. I have downloaded Ivona tts from the play store and I cannot change my tts engine since the tts output settings menu will not open. I am trying to figure out if their could be some sort of workaround for this, such as changing it thru a shell, I do currently have root on the device as well. If anyone has suggestions I would love to hear them...willing to try about anything as I need this feature to function, I may have to flash a whole different rom, which sucks bc I have so many apps etc that I would rather not download again if it can be helped.....thanks a million.

toxinburn said:
Hi, I first want to thank anyone whom attempts to figure this out and to all the people here who are always helpful and take time out of their own life to do this. The problem I am having is that when I try to go to settings/Language & Input/Text-to-speech output I get Unfortunately, Settings has stopped. I can only tap ok at this point the window with same message pops up exactly 3 times then I am back at the Langauge & Input submenu. I have also noticed that any app that uses tts simply does not work, basically the tts is not initializing at all. I am currently using a LG L90 D415 with Lollipop xTreme Rom posted by MicroMod777. I have downloaded Ivona tts from the play store and I cannot change my tts engine since the tts output settings menu will not open. I am trying to figure out if their could be some sort of workaround for this, such as changing it thru a shell, I do currently have root on the device as well. If anyone has suggestions I would love to hear them...willing to try about anything as I need this feature to function, I may have to flash a whole different rom, which sucks bc I have so many apps etc that I would rather not download again if it can be helped.....thanks a million.
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Hello and thank you for using XDA Assist.
Sorry to hear about your trouble. From your description, there is a very good chance that the issue is with your ROM or modifications you may have made to that ROM (such as deleting a required system file or framework). We cannot provide tech support here on XDA Assist, but we can suggest that you ask your question with all relevant details in your ROM's thread, probably at http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-l90/development/rom-l90-d415-lollipop-xtreme-v1-0-4-25-t3092813 where the developer or others familiar with the ROM may be able to suggest a simple fix. Note that if you have to reflash your ROM, you can still save and restore most of your apps and data easily if you first make a good backup with Titanium Backup or a similar tool.
Good luck!

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Sorry to hear about your trouble. From your description, there is a very good chance that the issue is with your ROM or modifications you may have made to that ROM (such as deleting a required system file or framework). We cannot provide tech support here on XDA Assist, but we can suggest that you ask your question with all relevant details in your ROM's thread, probably at http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-l90/development/rom-l90-d415-lollipop-xtreme-v1-0-4-25-t3092813 where the developer or others familiar with the ROM may be able to suggest a simple fix. Note that if you have to reflash your ROM, you can still save and restore most of your apps and data easily if you first make a good backup with Titanium Backup or a similar tool.
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Ya I think it is the rom itself, and as my luck would have it the creator is no longer working on it....so I am assuming I am outta luck here, I guess I could still make a backup of apps only but the issue I have is this...I am using link2sd and the app data is stored on a 2nd ext4 partition on my extsd card due to the fact I was running low on internal space, and this is the only workaround for that problem since moving apps to the actual external sdcard was removed I think with ics, so maybe I can get it to work still but I doubt it. As far as deleting things, I never did that...the tts has not worked properly from day 1 of the flash so I can only assume something is missing.

[GUIDE] Google Pay working SIMPLY with unlock/root on Pixel 4/XL [GUIDE]

Hey guys... I've seen various methods to get Google Pay working and simply put, none of them worked for me. All that I could find left was advanced stuff involving SQLite editors and that's just not for everyone. So I started trying other known working methods from different devices, and this is what I did to get it going without issue.
1. Open Magisk, Magisk Hide, and tick the check box next to Google Pay. Proceed normally through the following steps after doing so.
2. Force stop Google Pay, clear app data/storage.
3. Open a root file manager
4. Using root file manager, find /data/data/com.google.android.gms/databases directory
5. Select a file called db.dg and chmod the permissions to 440, save and make sure it in fact saves
6. Reboot and set up Google Pay.
This should get you set up in no time without a need for modules or advanced user techniques. Hope it helps!
Edit: People seem to really dislike this method for some reason, so just throwing out there it seems everyone else recommends the SQL editing. This method worked for me, but YMMV and everyone else hates it

wrongway213 said:
Hey guys... I've seen various methods to get Google Pay working and simply put, none of them worked for me. All that I could find left was advanced stuff involving SQLite editors and that's just not for everyone. So I started trying other known working methods from different devices, and this is what I did to get it going without issue.
Unlocked users start at Step 1 below. Rooted users - First open Magisk, Magisk Hide, and tick the check box next to Google Pay. Proceed normally through the following steps after doing so.
1. Force stop Google Pay, clear app data/storage.
2. Open a root file manager OR reboot to TWRP if you don't have one
3. Using root file manager OR TWRP file manager, find /data/data/com.google.android.gms/databases directory
4. Select a file called db.dg and chmod the permissions to 440, confirm if in TWRP, save and make sure it in fact saves if using a file manager.
5. Whether in TWRP or using a root file manager. reboot and set up Google Pay.
This should get you set up in no time without a need for modules or advanced user techniques. Hope it helps!
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That will only work if the attestation values in the dg.db file haven't been changed to flag root/unlocked bootloader already.
If your values have already been changed, you will need to manually edit the dg.db file or use the Magisk modules from this post: https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/magisk-google-pay-gms-17-1-22-pie-t3929950/post79643248

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That will only work if the attestation values in the dg.db file haven't been changed to flag root/unlocked bootloader already.
If your values have already been changed, you will need to manually edit the dg.db file or use the Magisk modules from this post: https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/magisk-google-pay-gms-17-1-22-pie-t3929950/post79643248
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Yeah... I'm not sold on making those kinds of edits or loading modules that do so without a working TWRP for this device anywhere in sight. That's precisely why I posted this thread - a working solution that doesn't involve editing things at that level - even if it doesn't work for everyone, I think it'll be more comfortale for those apprehensive to make certain changes without recovery :good:

wrongway213 said:
Yeah... I'm not sold on making those kinds of edits or loading modules that do so without a working TWRP for this device anywhere in sight. That's precisely why I posted this thread - a working solution that doesn't involve editing things at that level - even if it doesn't work for everyone, I think it'll be more comfortale for those apprehensive to make certain changes without recovery :good:
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Having TWRP or not changes nothing for anyone that makes a mistake with those edits or Magisk. Editing the dg.db and messing that up doesn't require TWRP to fix it and there's already a boot image with Magisk core only mode posted by Tulsdiver that will save you in case a Magisk module screws things up (the Google Pay fix module is working perfectly, BTW).
People probably shouldn't be messing with any of this until they understand everything that entails getting Google Pay working on a modified device. I'd argue that changing permissions of the dg.db file is just as difficult for anyone who doesn't understand what they're doing as it is going all the way and modifying the actual values in the dg.db file. It's all a slippery slope for the overzealous people anyway.

wrongway213 said:
Yeah... I'm not sold on making those kinds of edits or loading modules that do so without a working TWRP for this device anywhere in sight. That's precisely why I posted this thread - a working solution that doesn't involve editing things at that level - even if it doesn't work for everyone, I think it'll be more comfortale for those apprehensive to make certain changes without recovery :good:
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Grab the modified kernel in the themes area that forces modules to be deactivated. That way you can just temp boot it to fix your issues if it goes south on you. I've used it several times so far when needing around with different combos of mods, etc...
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-4-xl/themes/magisk-modules-disabler-booting-magisk-t3990557

While I appreciate your efforts this is a halfbaked hack and like the previous poster said it's will do nothing if those values have been tripped. I have always been a believer of figuring out things and going the long route that way you know why and how it was done it's very convenient for somebody else to do it and you just flash it but if you do it yourself you'll find out the intricacies of how Android and how rooting and modding works....

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Grab the modified kernel in the themes area that forces modules to be deactivated. That way you can just temp boot it to fix your issues if it goes south on you. I've used it several times so far when needing around with different combos of mods, etc...
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-4-xl/themes/magisk-modules-disabler-booting-magisk-t3990557
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That's kind of my reason for not wanting to use mods on this device yet - being tied to Fastboot at any given time isn't practical for me. Being unable to buy gas because my phone isn't set up isn't practical for me. My goal is to use my device just like I did when I had working TWRP on other devices without losing functionality OR having to rush to a PC for fastboot. Neither are practical solutions for me - making simple modifications that are easily overwritten gives me much less anxiety than messing with things at a deeper level.

wrongway213 said:
Yeah... I'm not sold on making those kinds of edits or loading modules that do so without a working TWRP for this device anywhere in sight. That's precisely why I posted this thread - a working solution that doesn't involve editing things at that level - even if it doesn't work for everyone, I think it'll be more comfortale for those apprehensive to make certain changes without recovery :good:
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No disrespect, it looks like you're active here and helpful, but I don't think editing some values some values in a SQL editor that is tested and proven in a thread that has 55+ pages is going to hurt anything.

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No disrespect, it looks like you're active here and helpful, but I don't think editing some values some values in a SQL editor that is tested and proven in a thread that has 55+ pages is going to hurt anything.
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I'm apprehensive because of what SQL changes under the hood typically mean. I know most people haven't built ROMs, built kernels, maintained for a ROM Team, done platform development, etc. etc . - I have done all those things. One thing I learned is that there are TWO scenarios that will ALWAYS necessitate a clean flash no matter what - SQL changes and Android version changes. Given we don't know as much as we typically do about the state of Coral without TWRP due to Android 10 changes makes me unwilling to assume things proven to work on other devices will work when we get an OTA on this one. Chmod perms will be overwritten but SQLite changes can cause things to go south in my experience - none of which relating to this module. It's about SQL vs chmod for me. I'm doing what I trust and understand until recovery exists to fix things without needing a PC. If no one else finds use for it, I'm OK with that. For my use case - it makes perfect sense. :good:

Fair enough, I figured you knew what you were talking about, everyone needs to make their own decisions. Nonetheless, thanks for contributing!

Here's a simple way to get gpay to work on stock with root after you hide gms and gpay with magisk.
1. Install Termux app and open the app
2. Type pkg install sqlite hit enter and let it install.
3. Type su hit enter
4. Copy and paste this then hit enter
am force-stop /data/data/com.google.android.apps.walletnfcrel && chmod 777 /data/data/com.google.android.gms/databases/dg.db && /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/sqlite3 /data/data/com.google.android.gms/databases/dg.db "update main set c='0' where a like '%attest%';" && chmod 444 /data/data/com.google.android.gms/databases/dg.db
5. Reboot

The Magisk modules are honestly easier.
Busybox module, SQLite module, reboot, the fix module, and reboot once more.

LLStarks said:
The Magisk modules are honestly easier.
Busybox module, SQLite module, reboot, the fix module, and reboot once more.
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How hard is it to enter a few lines in terminal? Lol
People should learn how to fix things without always relying on a module or a zip they can flash.

The manual fix isn't persistent.

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The manual fix isn't persistent.
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What I posted is.

It's weird that google pay to registry my credit cards is so unstable after flashing Gpay Sqlite fixer 1.7. When flashing Gpay sqlite fixer 1.7 at first time, I could registry my 1st credit card but it failed in next credit card. It showed up an error message and said that my phone has been rooted and .... ", So I returned commend mode to key-in few words to make me registry rest 3-credit-card successfully.

You could just delete the GMS folder while rooted and it also works
This is something myself and another user found on the p3 when Google started tripping the values on unlock
Rolling back to a previous version also works but we found that deleting that folder from /data/data along with gsf folder fixed it
Of course after clearing gpay cache.
This is working on my p4xl too

wrongway213 said:
I'm apprehensive because of what SQL changes under the hood typically mean. I know most people haven't built ROMs, built kernels, maintained for a ROM Team, done platform development, etc. etc . - I have done all those things. One thing I learned is that there are TWO scenarios that will ALWAYS necessitate a clean flash no matter what - SQL changes and Android version changes. Given we don't know as much as we typically do about the state of Coral without TWRP due to Android 10 changes makes me unwilling to assume things proven to work on other devices will work when we get an OTA on this one. Chmod perms will be overwritten but SQLite changes can cause things to go south in my experience - none of which relating to this module. It's about SQL vs chmod for me. I'm doing what I trust and understand until recovery exists to fix things without needing a PC. If no one else finds use for it, I'm OK with that. For my use case - it makes perfect sense. :good:
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It might work for you but like it's been said multiple times, if the values are already tripped then your method is useless. Then it would REQUIRE SQL editing.
Posting an incomplete or half baked method can cause issues with newer people on these forums no matter how "simple" it may be.
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How hard is it to enter a few lines in terminal? Lol
People should learn how to fix things without always relying on a module or a zip they can flash.
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This 100%
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Hi there. Just a question. With this mod google pay works flawlessly all the time? No need to redo the procedure all few days when there are updates to play service? Because i need a real stable google pay when i am out only with my mobile to pay.

Just delete the folder...GMS will recreate the folder withthe right values because magisk is already setup to hide GMS