System: Nexus 6P w/ Franco r9 kernel and Chroma 2/3/2016.
I noticed today that while using the Messenger app from Google I cannot attach a photo by clicking the Attach>Photos button. I can attach files from other online services (e.g. OneDrive) but since I normally use Photos I'd like to be able to do it from there. I can still send it from within the Photos app, but this is annoying, and while I was running stock ROM I'm fairly sure I could do this. Any suggestions?
P.S. Also I'd like to remove the Gallery app that seems to come bundled with either Chroma or GApps; it's useless to me and interferes with my other apps. There's no option to do so, however, and I can't find the files. Any ideas?
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So this week I went ahead and flashed Liquid Smooth...overall I like a lot about the ROM. However, I have found a few things that I miss from the stock TW. Those things include:
The Gallery App - What I really miss is the ability to display social network photos (google and Facebook) and also easily use high quality versions of the pictures within my phone (ie. wallpapers).
Related to Gallery - The ability to view videos and pictures on my Co-Star (GTV) box at the push of a button when viewing on my phone. Instant big screen viewing...I miss it.
I know that TW apps such as the gallery and phone cannot be installed on AOSP...but does anyone have any suggestions on apps that may be able to replace those features? I have found Pictarine as a pretty good option for Facebook photos (since JustPictures! FB login no longer works). However I'm still missing the ability to push to my Co-Star...since it's not closed Samsung functionality, I figure that there has to be something out there.
Eyebolt said:
So this week I went ahead and flashed Liquid Smooth...overall I like a lot about the ROM. However, I have found a few things that I miss from the stock TW. Those things include:
The Gallery App - What I really miss is the ability to display social network photos (google and Facebook) and also easily use high quality versions of the pictures within my phone (ie. wallpapers).
Related to Gallery - The ability to view videos and pictures on my Co-Star (GTV) box at the push of a button when viewing on my phone. Instant big screen viewing...I miss it.
I know that TW apps such as the gallery and phone cannot be installed on AOSP...but does anyone have any suggestions on apps that may be able to replace those features? I have found Pictarine as a pretty good option for Facebook photos (since JustPictures! FB login no longer works). However I'm still missing the ability to push to my Co-Star...since it's not closed Samsung functionality, I figure that there has to be something out there.
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For some things there just aren't viable replacement widgets out there, like Email., but there are plenty of TW based custom ROMs here that allow for unbelievable themes and mods which look and perform as good or better than CM /AOSP and still let all the Samsung features work or even add more features from S4 and Note 2. Its surprising to me how far Google and 3rd party developers seem to have messed the boat on good widgets. Of course for Google some of it is politics, they don;t want to be closely tied to for example Facebook integration, since Facebook is in many ways a competitor to Google. Its for that reason that I think the new "Google Experience phones will be a failure with most people because honestly, AOSP Google is pretty bland and has no good pathway to better widgets unless you intend to use only Google apps and not things like Facebook, twitter, etc.
For the Co-Star/ ViMu media player you might try some of the UPnP/DLNA compatible stream apps in the market
Hi peeps...
I'm currently running the hexagon stock modified rom and i was wondering what stuff i can remove without screwing it up???
I pulled a few bits n pieces out like the weather stuff and google maps and gmail using link2sd and it ran fine for a while then something went wrong and the phone would lock up if the screen went off...
I would like to strip everything down to the bare minimum... I use my kindle fire for 90% of stuff now... All i want is basic phone functions, a twitter client, skype and emails... Plus tethering and gps.... And play store for updates
I'm considering changing sense for something else too if theres anything smaller and quicker...
Any tips would be welcome! Thx in advance!
Almost forgot... Can i delete the internet browser and install firefox to replace it rather than install it alongside?
shugs81 said:
Hi peeps...
I'm currently running the hexagon stock modified rom and i was wondering what stuff i can remove without screwing it up???
I pulled a few bits n pieces out like the weather stuff and google maps and gmail using link2sd and it ran fine for a while then something went wrong and the phone would lock up if the screen went off...
I would like to strip everything down to the bare minimum... I use my kindle fire for 90% of stuff now... All i want is basic phone functions, a twitter client, skype and emails... Plus tethering and gps.... And play store for updates
I'm considering changing sense for something else too if theres anything smaller and quicker...
Any tips would be welcome! Thx in advance!
Almost forgot... Can i delete the internet browser and install firefox to replace it rather than install it alongside?
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you can delete usually many apps like weather, stocks, mirror, calculator, browser, facebook, even search, mail,dictionary, gmail and talk. However, some apps are linked with others like contacts is merged with messaging so removing one might affect another. I will not delete any app that you can not see in app drawer and neither delete an app which i think might be integrated with another one!
You can also remove camera
So it turns out that KitKat has broken Xposed framework. I was happily using the Keepchat module on my S3 to save Snapchat pics and vids.
Anyone using a similar app that works on the N5 (I am rooted).
Sent from my Nexus 5 using xda app-developers app
OK, I've since tested a few apps, with varying success.
None of the apps I found could offer the full functionality of Xposed framework + Keepchat module, which is:
Silently save pics, videos AND stories (this occurred when you view them using the official Snapchat app)
Name the saved files using the senders details
There are several different Snapchat replacement clients which you can use to save pics & vids, but you cannot use them to view or save stories. Also they log you out of Snapchat each time, which gets old real fast.
Other apps save the pics and vids as they arrive in Snapchat - but since stories don't "arrive" in the same way, they don't get saved.
There are a couple of apps which require you to jump through hoops to save snaps, ie. go to Snapchat load the snaps but don't view them, go to the "saving" app press this, do that, etc etc - no thanks.
For now I'm using SnapCapture [Root] by Innovationz - simply because I had already paid for it in the past (before moving on to Xposed/Keepchat), and also because it's automated and saves the pics & vids without any intervention from me, and without messing around in another app or client.
I'm just hoping that Xposed gets updated soon, and normal service can be resumed
Hey, you wouldn't to know where I could get SnapCapture would you?
Awhile ago all the snap save apps were removed from the Play Store :/
I have a (4GB) Tronsmart TS7 (some times known as a Alps Glacier TS7). It's a Chinese MTK6589 based phone running Android 4.2 purchased from geekbuying.
For the most part the device is stock, there are next to no pre-installed apps apart from the usual, and the only additional apps I have installed are: Playstation, Steam, ColorNote, Shuttle+, Root Explorer DI Radio, Chrome & Gmail
The problem I have is that there are apps appearing on the device that I am not installing. So far it has been the same set of apps that appear:
Mobo Market
UC Browser
TrustGo Security
DU Battery Saver
337 Game Master
GameCenter
(there may be more)
These apps don't start appearing right after a factory reset, but start to arrive 1-2weeks later. They also seem to be packaged similarly; when I say packaged I mean opening them seems to prompt with the same menu & style (accept licence etc) before it gets to the main app. Also, after you open the app from the app drawer it then creates an icon on the desktop. Maybe opening it actually does the installing?
The apps themselves seem to be legit.
I have factory reset the device (twice), and changed my Google password but they are still appearing. They don't show up in my Play store history so they must be coming from elsewhere.
My main concern is that if it is downloading things without my permission, what might it be uploading ? Not to mention wasting my 3g data etc.
So I have a few questions:
Should I be (really) worried?
Is there a way to monitor this? eg connect to a wifi hotspot and packet capture the network traffic? or maybe use a process monitor (the ones I've tried so far haven't shown anything) to see if there is some sort of script in the background?
Can it be stopped?
Thanks in advance, I would be interested to know if anyone else has/had this problem?
I have the same problem.
I haven't tried flashing some other ROM yet, but I guess that is the only way to get it to stop installing those things.
Have you actually found any other roms to install?
For anybody's information:
You may have noticed how you always end up with a 'Tronsmart.mp4' video file appearing in your gallery app. This is damn annoying since it appears twice, once on the internal and once on the external SD card. There is an '\system\app\CopyTest.apk' file which creates both of these. Should be safe to delete it and thus prevent the file(s) appearing
I have actually decompiled this apk. It works as a service that runs when MEDIA_UNMOUNTED or MEDIA_MOUNTED is invoked, and does absolutely nothing else.
I have the same problem, those random apps installing and the video always in my gallery. I have managed to stop tge apps by using a firewall and allowing only my apps that i want to use the internet. I havent found a solution though to fix the problem. Probably tronsmart is spamming its customers...
mariosm1cy said:
I have managed to stop tge apps by using a firewall and allowing only my apps that i want to use the internet.
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What Firewall did you use? I might be able to use something like that to pinpoint the app that's causing this.
Sory for the late reply. I am usin "android firewall" free from google play store.
USB debugging disabled stopped it on mine
edit: not that easy, wasn't enough. made some cleanup by disabing/removing some system apps. seems to work so far although there are still some strange events like superuser crashing and right after that system downloader.apk reappearing. haven't seen any other junk coming back
these are the apk's i removed:
systemupdateassistant
systemdownloader
omacp
mtkbt
midtest
galaxy4
fusedlocation
engineermode
engineermodesim
cds_info
basicdreams.
I installed KatKiss marshmallow 6.0.1 on my Transformer tf700t because I was tired of it being just an e-reader. It is stable and handles routine apps much more quickly and smoothly, making it once again useful - except as an e-reader. Ironically, I can no longer use it to access books on the 3m cloud library. 3m cloud library uses adobe reader to load e-books that are available through our library. I can access the app. However, when I attempt to download a book, the app shuts down after several seconds, every time. It does not post any error message other than the app must shut down. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling both the 3m cloud library app and the adobe reader app. I've changed the order of installation as well. I've experimented with different security, media file and permission settings. Nothing seems to work. My 3m cloud account functions and downloads books properly on my Nexus 6 phone, which runs the stock marshmallow. Despite the large HD screen which I love, on my Nexus 6 is not a viable e-reader option. Is there something simple I am missing? Does anyone else on XDA have any experience with 3m cloud library?
The TF700t is my primary e-reader, so I am frustrated and desperate. Thanks in advance for any assistance you may be able to provide.
3m Cloud Library Katkiss ROM
Does anyone with a TF700 running Katkiss have a local library card? If so, could you download the 3M cloud library android app and log on through your local library account. Then, download a book and see if the app works properly. I really like Katkiss, but was having problems downloading books using the 3M app. It kept closing when I went to read a book. I don't know if the problem is with Katkiss, or perhaps my account. If someone else can test it, I would be very appreciative. Thanks.
ps. I'm currently using Cromi-x resurrected. It is okay, but lags quite a bit. I'm constantly getting the 'app stopped working' notice with the wait or ok prompt. The app didn't actually stop, it was just slow.