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What i was thinking if we could remove the camera app and replace it with Snapphoto to make it the default camera?
Please tell me if this is possible and if the button for the camera on the side of the phone if we can make it be used to activate the SnapPhoto App?
Thanks
-David
davidhooper4 said:
What i was thinking if we could remove the camera app and replace it with Snapphoto to make it the default camera?
Please tell me if this is possible and if the button for the camera on the side of the phone if we can make it be used to activate the SnapPhoto App?
Thanks
-David
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If i had to guess yes you can.
Since Snap gives you the option to be set as default.
MOD EDIT: removed instructions
Might wanna wait till someone with more expertise confirms or directs you to correction.
Would you still be able to update SnapPhoto from the Market if you did this?
thanx for the adb code
im going to try it out right now
ok it works find i just made a mistake.
Thanks mikey1022!!
amgupt01 said:
Would you still be able to update SnapPhoto from the Market if you did this?
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Yeah just like normal
Found a problem.
i made SnapPhoto to the default camera, but when im going to attach to a message and i choose camera and i get unexpected error
any solution?
I remember reading somewhere on the forum if you delete the camera.apk, you wouldn't be able to change your wallpaper & you might lose your pictures app. Are you still able to change the wallpaper & browse your pics?
Sounds like you need to place Camera.apk back in
the Camera app is built in and can not be removed without consequence.
It controls more than just the camera
is there a reason you want to replace it? you can have both at the same time.
I would have to guess....space
Ill go back so dum of me but i didnt back up the apk. so should I just reflash my current blue star 5 theme?
ALWAYS BACKUP EVERYTHING...fyi
If you need I will upload both the apk and odex
why delete the original camera software? just set SnapPhoto as the default camera and it will open when you press the shutter button.
Menu > Settings > Set as default camera
works fine
neoobs, hey my pictures app went away so if you could upload that for me would that include the pictures app with the camera app or could you upload those both please!!!!!
We know that.....why? unless he tells use, we can guess.
It happend, its over, hopefully he learned something out of this
BACKUP.
Plus that/this is also how he/myself learn also.
Taking the easy road at times isn't always fun. Take what this forum is all about. Taking things to their limits one way or another.
davidhooper4 said:
neoobs, hey my pictures app went away so if you could upload that for me would that include the pictures app with the camera app or could you upload those both please!!!!!
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What is your version? RC30?
yes sirr neoobs
here you go
http://rapidshare.com/files/185706261/camera.rar
and at that I close this thread.
FINAL CONCLUSION: DO NOT DELETE CAMERA.APK
Hey, I was wondering if it was possible to mod the gmail app so that it allows you to download attachments directly from the app rather than just previews. Also for the Camera app when viewing pictures you have taken, is it possible to mod it so u can change the picture by swiping like in the gallery instead of using the stupid forward and backward arrows? Any devs wanna give it a shot?
The camera thing might be possible... the gmail thing... well, the gmail app is closed source & proprietary....
pretty sure froyo has direct download from gmail
anyone wanna take a crack at modding the camera to do this?
Zephyron said:
anyone wanna take a crack at modding the camera to do this?
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haha i just checked the camera app and it does open the gallery so you can indeed swipe to go through your pictures. You should just wait for froyo
flybyme said:
haha i just checked the camera app and it does open the gallery so you can indeed swipe to go through your pictures. You should just wait for froyo
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would you be so kind as to check if the gmail app allows direct download in froyo? thanks!
Zephyron said:
would you be so kind as to check if the gmail app allows direct download in froyo? thanks!
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ok heres how it is: apk files emailed show "install"
picture show "download" and 'preview"
unknown doesnt allow anything i dont believe. The attachments are context based on whether you can download. Do you have specific file types you want me to check?
flybyme said:
ok heres how it is: apk files emailed show "install"
picture show "download" and 'preview"
unknown doesnt allow anything i dont believe. The attachments are context based on whether you can download. Do you have specific file types you want me to check?
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nope, this is perfect! thank you so much!
Do anybody know of a better mms app other than the stock and handcent. I'm running DC.3.2.3 Rom the problem is that the stock mms compress the picture way to small. Handcent takes too long to send out the pictures as if it donot want to send. Gmail works perfect just cannot sent to a phone number.
Any suggesting
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You can always try ChompSMS it's quite popular and very similar to Handcent.
This is the issue that really bugged me, I hated that the stock app couldn't send a file bigger than 14k and didn't like using chomp or handcent. If you are still looking for a more elegant solution, I might have a possible solution. I replaced the mms.apk file in the ROM I was about to flash with the vanilla one (attached) and after booting up it worked perfectly. I like the black background and when I attach a picture it doesn't compress it to crap. I just opened the zip file of the ROM with winrar and deleted the old mms.apk in the sys app folder and dropped the new one in its place. I realize this solution is less than ideal, and there is probably a better way with adb, but I figure soon enough you'll flash an updated ROM anyways.
Try pure messenger, almost like the sense one, almost.
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@Nerovingian
Thank you! That was the exact thing I was searching for awhile ago, but people were pointing me towards handcent and chomp (which were overkill for what I wanted). I was looking for white on black background mms app. I don't like the stock because just about everything else in the evo is a dark theme. The mms was obnoxious black on white and was blinding if the lights were out where I was. I hope your app is kosher and will behave itself (if you know what I mean)....
I understand what you mean. If you have any doubt, there is am excellent post in the Android development forum that has all of the vanilla apks. Just search for vanilla topics and you should be golden.
Thanks for the tip
I was always under the impression that the apps compress in order to comply with file size limits per different carriers. Am I mistaken?
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I just opened the zip file of the ROM with winrar and deleted the old mms.apk in the sys app folder and dropped the new one in its place.
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I got this
E: Wrong digest:
system/app/Mms.apk
E:Verification failed
Installation aborted
what did i do wrong? I'm running fresh 1.0.1 with amon recovery.
@supwidachew
It worked for me. I went where the original was and renamed it to mms.apk.old. Then I went to the other mms.apk and installed it. No copying. It had some message about replacing something and I just said ok. In the settings of the app, white text on black was checked but not working. I unchecked it then got out of menu and killed the app with a task manager. Started app again and went into settings and checked the box then backed out again. I think I might have done this maybe three or four times before it finally took. I haven't tried sending anything yet so I don't know what's different with that yet.
Wrong word choice and misspelling courtesy of swype.
I have same rom as you but clockworkmod recovery. I didn't flash it, I installed it like any other apk downloaded (not from market )
Wrong word choice and misspelling courtesy of swype.
So this is indeed better than the HTC Messaging app? It doesn't compress pictures horribly? and it still works? Does the sense widget with numbered notifications still work? Does the lock screen message preview still work? Does the status bar message preview still work? Thanks.
ahhh, ok. Let me install it and see how that works.
Allow me to elaborate on my process. I replaced the apk in the ROM file using winrar before I flashed the ROM (see picture to see where I replaced the file) using clockwork recovery, so I haven't tried to install it like a normal apk or through any other method. Since it is the vanilla apk it does not do the lock screen notification where sense shows it, although it does show in the notification bar while locked. Additionally, it does not compress the pictures horribly and I have tested sending and receiving, both which worked. I have only tested my method on Baked Snack 9.7, so I apologize if it does not work on your preferred ROM. Perhaps someone more experienced can offer a better method like using adb?
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Allow me to elaborate on my process. I replaced the apk in the ROM file using winrar before I flashed the ROM (see picture to see where I replaced the file) using clockwork recovery, so I haven't tried to install it like a normal apk or through any other method. Since it is the vanilla apk it does not do the lock screen notification where sense shows it, although it does show in the notification bar while locked. Additionally, it does not compress the pictures horribly and I have tested sending and receiving, both which worked. I have only tested my method on Baked Snack 9.7, so I apologize if it does not work on your preferred ROM. Perhaps someone more experienced can offer a better method like using adb?
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Thank you. Does the message icon on the home screen still show the amount of unread messages with this?
freeza said:
Thank you. Does the message icon on the home screen still show the amount of unread messages with this?
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I'll try tomorrow and let you know. Nandroid is my friend.
If the icon you have on the home screen is the one that was dragged from the app drawer, the answer is no. At least in my setup it wasn't and not an option in settings either. There wasn't a mms widget either
Wrong word choice and misspelling courtesy of swype.
I tried sending a 44kb sound file with the vanilla mms app. It refused to push it out. I tried installing handcent and chomp and try each of them and they both failed. I found where the mms app installed itself and deleted it. Then I renamed the old "mms.apk.old" to mms.apk,rebooted, then the file sent okay. Damn, I was kinda liking the other app too. Hmm, I wonder if I can have both the vanilla and the htc messaging apps installed.... I'm gonna try it now.
Wrong word choice and misspelling courtesy of swype.
Nope, they want to over write each other. I gotta choose...
Wrong word choice and misspelling courtesy of swype.
freeza said:
So this is indeed better than the HTC Messaging app? It doesn't compress pictures horribly? and it still works? Does the sense widget with numbered notifications still work? Does the lock screen message preview still work? Does the status bar message preview still work? Thanks.
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This does not have numbered notifications on the widget like sense. It has a notification icon in the task bar, it does not do task bar preview like sense. As far as lock screen I dont know.
This app is used for two purposes:
1. You open a file and when you select an app it is automatically selected as the default app. You want that you must be presented with an app chooser every time you open that file. (This happens in Samsung S6 Marshmallow and might happen in other devices and ROMS).
2. You want the app chooser to pop up but you don't want to press the JUST ONCE button every time i.e you want to open desired app with single tap.
The solution to this is that you need to go and open the file as before, but instead of selecting the desired app you should select APP PICKER.
Then you will again be presented with a list of apps which can open that file. Now you can open that file with your desired app.
Next time you open the file, you will be presented with a list of apps which will also include the App Picker. Now you would not need to select app picker again.
Your problem should now be resolved, that (1) you will always be shown an app picker, and (2) you will not need to press JUST ONCE button.
I have tested this on various apps and 2 devices, but I will be happy to bring more updates if they are required.
Currently the app should work on following:
Text files
Images
Videos
Audio files
Other file types such as pdf, xlsx etc. (all types are impossible to test so please give feedback if something is not working)
Internet Browsers
Email Apps
LINK to play store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appsbyusman.alternativeapppicker
It would be great to be able to select the apps that are suggested in the resolver list.
In addition, being able to do the same for the Share feature would be awesome! I know that several users (including myself) miss a xposed module that we used on KK.
In the custom Rom I'm using, the share feature already shows single tappable chooser so my app would essentially do the same thing. In fact I'm creating a chooser in this app in the way an app invokes its share function.
I didn't understand the first part of your comment though.
Primokorn said:
It would be great to be able to select the apps that are suggested in the resolver list.
In addition, being able to do the same for the Share feature would be awesome! I know that several users (including myself) miss a xposed module that we used on KK.
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Does the share dialog give ALWAYS and JUST ONCE buttons?
Hey I was looking for something like this thanks.
The problem I am having is that is does not show up for whatsapp Gallery.
Could you help me out?
ViolentR said:
Hey I was looking for something like this thanks.
The problem I am having is that is does not show up for whatsapp Gallery.
Could you help me out?
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Whatsapp views images within its own app and my app works for opening videos
usman farhat said:
Whatsapp views images within its own app and my app works for opening videos
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Oh i see, would it be possible to implement this, so it gives options for image selecting as there's a few image apps that I like to select images from sometimes. Annoying how the force the app you select to be the default one after.
https://gyazo.com/94295946039e1564c81d79bb6e284c63
ViolentR said:
Oh i see, would it be possible to implement this, so it gives options for image selecting as there's a few image apps that I like to select images from sometimes. Annoying how the force the app you select to be the default one after.
https://gyazo.com/94295946039e1564c81d79bb6e284c63
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Well, in the version I am using it doesn't even show the picker as shown in your image. It shows its own internal gallery for image selection.
usman farhat said:
Does the share dialog give ALWAYS and JUST ONCE buttons?
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Nope.
usman farhat said:
I didn't understand the first part of your comment though.
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Imagine you have 10 suggested apps to open a link/file or to share a link/file, it would be great to be able to remove some suggested (useless) apps, to only keep 4 apps for instance.
usman farhat said:
Well, in the version I am using it doesn't even show the picker as shown in your image. It shows its own internal gallery for image selection.
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Oh, If you hold down the Gallery button instead of clicking it should show the picker. Unless you've already picked one and it's defaulted to it.
ViolentR said:
Oh, If you hold down the Gallery button instead of clicking it should show the picker. Unless you've already picked one and it's defaulted to it.
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define "Gallery button"
@Primokorn
Good idea! I will look into this.
usman farhat said:
define "Gallery button"
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The Gallery button on whatsapp
https://i.gyazo.com/ac1cc1ad0f9b167e7beef140b65eab41.png
ViolentR said:
The Gallery button on whatsapp
https://i.gyazo.com/ac1cc1ad0f9b167e7beef140b65eab41.png
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I think i can do this. But can't promise though. I'll try to implement it.
usman farhat said:
I think i can do this. But can't promise though. I'll try to implement it.
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Thank you!
:fingers-crossed:
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Thank you!
:fingers-crossed:
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Just uploaded the update including your request
It will take some time to reach you. It should theoretically work for all file types but I can only test it on the gallery app.
usman farhat said:
Just uploaded the update including your request
It will take some time to reach you. It should theoretically work for all file types but I can only test it on the gallery app.
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Hi, thank you for updating it. I gave it a try and it doesn't seem to select the App Picker when I try select it.
When I select App Picker it'll just open up the menu again to select a default app.
I uploaded a gif of it - https://i.imgur.com/79aABtu.gifv
ViolentR said:
Hi, thank you for updating it. I gave it a try and it doesn't seem to select the App Picker when I try select it.
When I select App Picker it'll just open up the menu again to select a default app.
I uploaded a gif of it - https://i.imgur.com/79aABtu.gifv
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This is how it works. Without app picker, you would select an app and it would automatically become the default and you will not get the popup next time. But now as you have selected app picker, the app picker is set to default and you will always see a choice of apps. You need to select app picker as default only once.
usman farhat said:
This is how it works. Without app picker, you would select an app and it would automatically become the default and you will not get the popup next time. But now as you have selected app picker, the app picker is set to default and you will always see a choice of apps. You need to select app picker as default only once.
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Oh!! Wow sorry I didn't realise, i thought it lead into another custom app picker, but this is perfect, thank you very much for all your work. :good:
You're welcome!
Glad you liked it
Hi
Seems like Google Photo's is hard coded to be the default picture viewer.
If you install something else you are not prompted to choose the new default as you would expect.
Disabling google photo's and trying to force new default doesn't work either.
Perhaps with future ROM?
Anything anyone achieved without root etc. till now? Thanks.
Reorienting back and recent keys seems like a no go either, what do people do to get round that?
Thanks for any tips already.
technotika said:
Hi
Seems like Google Photo's is hard coded to be the default picture viewer.
If you install something else you are not prompted to choose the new default as you would expect.
Disabling google photo's and trying to force new default doesn't work either.
Perhaps with future ROM?
Anything anyone achieved without root etc. till now? Thanks.
Reorienting back and recent keys seems like a no go either, what do people do to get round that?
Thanks for any tips already.
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For remapping the buttons the app from Flar2 works.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flar2.homebutton
technotika said:
Hi
Seems like Google Photo's is hard coded to be the default picture viewer.
If you install something else you are not prompted to choose the new default as you would expect.
Disabling google photo's and trying to force new default doesn't work either.
Perhaps with future ROM?
Anything anyone achieved without root etc. till now? Thanks.
Reorienting back and recent keys seems like a no go either, what do people do to get round that?
Thanks for any tips already.
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Hmm...
If I tap on an image file I get a choice :
jhill110 said:
Hmm...
If I tap on an image file I get a choice :
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try from within the camera - take pic - review it - only allowed Google Photo's, for me at least..?
technotika said:
try from within the camera - take pic - review it - only allowed Google Photo's, for me at least..?
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Tryna different camera. Counterintuitive? Maybe. Probably. Definitely. But you will get the option that you want.
But this has ALWAYS been the case with HTC. I have installed the HTC camera app on other phones, and it was imperative to have the HTC Gallery app to be able to review the photos after they are taken. I know that it's a different gallery app that we are taking about, but I think have the Camera App is the real issue here. The app defines the default photos app.
I may be wrong, but that's something that I discovered a while back.
technotika said:
Hi
Seems like Google Photo's is hard coded to be the default picture viewer.
If you install something else you are not prompted to choose the new default as you would expect.
Disabling google photo's and trying to force new default doesn't work either.
Perhaps with future ROM?
Anything anyone achieved without root etc. till now? Thanks.
Reorienting back and recent keys seems like a no go either, what do people do to get round that?
Thanks for any tips already.
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You could use a custom rom like leedroid, there you can define your favorite app for pictures and it will launch from the camera.
And you can use custom roms without root.
diamond09 said:
You could use a custom rom like leedroid, there you can define your favorite app for pictures and it will launch from the camera.
And you can use custom roms without root.
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Still need to unlock the bootloader. I'm sure you know that...but there are still some newbies to the scene.
AarSyl said:
Still need to unlock the bootloader. I'm sure you know that...but there are still some newbies to the scene.
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Sure I know about that, it was just a hint to the right direction.
There are some very good guides for it.
What if you sideload the old Gallery app?
If you want back the old HTC Apps try here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...blinkfeed-plugins-devices-08-03-2015-t3049438
I tested it on my shiny new U11
Still no way to change the gallery app when you open photos from camera? Google photos is driving me nuts and I dont want to use it
NeoDJW said:
Still no way to change the gallery app when you open photos from camera? Google photos is driving me nuts and I dont want to use it
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Switch to QuickPic
I cant, already tried that.
NeoDJW said:
Still no way to change the gallery app when you open photos from camera? Google photos is driving me nuts and I dont want to use it
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install htc album from apk mirror, then disable the google photos app. It should default to htc album then.
It should but it doesn't, and I don't know why... When I disable google photos and install htc gallery nothing hapens when I try to open photos from camera.
Any fix for this yet?
Would love to see a fix too!
I got around all the little issues with Photos by disabling that app.
Then got "QuickPic" from Google Play and made it Gallery app in it's settings.
Aggravation instantly gone. Works fine without giving an argument about everything.
haasgo said:
Would love to see a fix too!
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on our rom you can pick any gallery app as preview album in the camera app.
I've tried many apps as I've never really used Google photos before and had no luck with any. But I've started to like it now. Especially since they added opening straight to albums in the settings.