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Getting pandora Radio to work on HD2 ( for WVGA devices )
-If you intall the new pandora radio cab for VGA devices from the pandora website you would need to pay for the service
-If you Install the old pandora cab the buttos are all over the place and their too small
This guide is for fixing all of that and gettig it to work properly on your HD2
(UPDATE)
You can just Download the .cab file from Here
Then go to >start>settings>Personal>Buttons> and assign the Send Key(Hold) Under> 2. Assign a program: and select Input Panel.
Assigning that key is for enabling the keyboar as the keyboard is not going to pop up automatically after assigning the key just press and hold the send/green phone button and the keyboard should pop up so you can type in your login info.
OR TRY THIS
1. Download VGA Pandora Files.zip from Here
2. Unzip it and copy the 4 files to your SD card
3. Open file explorer and Install the pandora cab, advance config tool cab, you will need Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 3.5 to install avanced config tool so if you dont have it already in your phone install the NETCFv35.wm.armv4i cab
4. Open pandora radio from the start menu and enter your credentials or create a new acc (dont skip this step becuase if you leave it for last you wont have a keyboard to enter your credentials so you MUST DO IT NOW) once you are logged in you will nottice that the buttons are all over the place dont worry about that and close the pandora app
5. Open Advce configuration tool from the start menu and navigate to Network>TCP Window and change the value to 98304
6. Save your changes, and soft-reset.
7. Go in to file explorer and replace the orginal pandora.exe (in \Program Files\Pandora\Pandora.exe) with the pandora.exe from VGA Pandora Files.zip (the last of the 4 files I asked you to move to your SD)
8. ENJOY
Seems to be a problem for UK users to access the service - copyright issues. So I assume this is for US only... unless anyone knows differently.
thnx everything worked except that u can't create new stations because there is no keyboard. is that how its supposed to be? I mean ill settle fir this tho its better than nothing at all. thnx anyways tho. still great.
...or you can get the WVGA version for the TP2. Am I missing something here?
http://fluffyphones.com/fluffy-apps/pandora-htc-touch-pro-2-rhodium-wvga-windows-mobile-download/
That's what I have and it works excellent on the HD2 -- buttons and everything. The only problem that I encounter is that I can't seem to receive incoming calls when Pandora is playing.
lude219 said:
...or you can get the WVGA version for the TP2. Am I missing something here?
http://fluffyphones.com/fluffy-apps/pandora-htc-touch-pro-2-rhodium-wvga-windows-mobile-download/
That's what I have and it works excellent on the HD2 -- buttons and everything. The only problem that I encounter is that I can't seem to receive incoming calls when Pandora is playing.
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Yeah! I think that could work aswell I was looking for something like this but I couldnt find it so I set it up like that
Thanks!
O.k I downloaded the TP2 pandora link above.
But i cant login. I click on the field to enter my name but the keyboard never pops up?
How in the world did you guys manage to log in on your HD2?
GNOve said:
O.k I downloaded the TP2 pandora link above.
But i cant login. I click on the field to enter my name but the keyboard never pops up?
How in the world did you guys manage to log in on your HD2?
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thanks.
Go into settings. Menu -> All Settings -> Personal -> Buttons.
Change "Send Key (Hold)" to "<Input Panel>". (you prob have to change the other "Button"s to different assignments. I changed them to random things and haven't encountered any problems yet) Exit out.
Now when pandora needs you to type, just long press the Send key and the keyboard should popup.
kidincredible said:
Go into settings. Menu -> All Settings -> Personal -> Buttons.
Change "Send Key (Hold)" to "<Input Panel>". (you prob have to change the other "Button"s to different assignments. I changed them to random things and haven't encountered any problems yet) Exit out.
Now when pandora needs you to type, just long press the Send key and the keyboard should popup.
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I installed the CAB but I can't seem to get into "settings" as described above. Is "Menu" located somewhere while Pandora is running?
Works but is u-ugly
Great setup, works wonderfully. Is there a way to make this appear more formatted to the HD2 screen? Everything is bunched at the bottom for controls and the images are to right overlapping in the middle.
Thanks all!
wi11iamedward said:
Great setup, works wonderfully. Is there a way to make this appear more formatted to the HD2 screen? Everything is bunched at the bottom for controls and the images are to right overlapping in the middle.
Thanks all!
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I don't believe you can. I wasn't meant to be used on the HD2 large screen.
Still trying to get keyboard
When i attempt to change the voice command to text input it doesn't stay. When i leave the page it goes back to voice command. Is there something I'm supposed to do? I tried double clicking but that didn't do anything. It just won't stay on text input. Can anyone help me?
andemps318 said:
When i attempt to change the voice command to text input it doesn't stay. When i leave the page it goes back to voice command. Is there something I'm supposed to do? I tried double clicking but that didn't do anything. It just won't stay on text input. Can anyone help me?
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Start/Settings/Personal/Buttons
Make sure the Button (Send key/Hold) is highlighted. Then scroll up to <Input Panel>. You should see the assignment change then hit OK.
If the Button is not highlighted it will not make the change.
Edwin320 said:
I installed the CAB but I can't seem to get into "settings" as described above. Is "Menu" located somewhere while Pandora is running?
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I got this to work. First, I installed Resco Explorer (Free 7 day trial): at
(I tried posting links to each cab, but as a new user, I can't post links...sorry.)
Next, I installed Zoomer (German site, but the App is in English):
(Link Removed)
(Original Zoomer XDA post:
(Link Removed)
and I installed the Pandora TP2 app found here:
(Link removed)
After these three apps were installed, I opened Resco Explorer, and found the Pandora app that had been previously installed. When I opened Pandora from within Resco, the on-screen key to bring up the keyboard was present. I simply was able to click on each field in Pandora, and hit the soft key to being up the keyboard. Once I entered my login information, Pandora simply started to work. I then ended all programs, opened up Zoomer, picked Pandora from Zoomer's list, and did a soft reset. Now when I open Pandora from the WinMo honeycomb, I can pinch and zoom (and reposition the zoomed portion of the screen) to make things easier to work with.
I followed this procedure on both my and my wife's new TMoUS HD2s and the the Pandora works fine on both.
Good luck.
(P.S. I like the Resco functionality, so I'll be buying the program after the trial ends)
help
hi i am having a problem when i sign in pandora it is asking me for a 5 digit u.s. zip code but no where i can type it. please help thank you
linhtoon said:
hi i am having a problem when i sign in pandora it is asking me for a 5 digit u.s. zip code but no where i can type it. please help thank you
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Sign up online first on say your desktop or laptop and then all you have to do is log in on phone and all your stations will be there.
kidincredible said:
Go into settings. Menu -> All Settings -> Personal -> Buttons.
Change "Send Key (Hold)" to "<Input Panel>". (you prob have to change the other "Button"s to different assignments. I changed them to random things and haven't encountered any problems yet) Exit out.
Now when pandora needs you to type, just long press the Send key and the keyboard should popup.
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This worked perfectly for me. From my HD2's HOME SCREEN (not in Pandora) I navigated to Settings, Menu, All Settings, Personal, Buttons to change Send (long press) to (Input Panel)
Thanks!
what worked for me
i just had the same problem. i just pressed the home key went to the task manager then selected pandora and when i went back the keyboard was there again. repeat process for all of the fields and there you go free misic. thanks for the great work guys.
The first post mentions "the new pandora radio cab for VGA devices from the pandora website".
I might be willing to pay $3 for a more *official* way of making Pandora work on my HD2. My question is: Where on the Pandora site is this $3 cab file? I can't find it.
fucntions perfectly, first time install without incident.
thanks for the work!
I'm having an issue with avi video files not having a default player anymore. I know that the actual default player cannot play them, and I do have other programs for it. Unfortunately though, I cannot seem to figure out how to change the default program used for a specific file type.
Searching the internet keeps coming up with going into Manage Applications then clearing defaults of something that currently is the default, but that option is always ALWAYS greyed out (I went one by one for everything in there). Regardless, I did find a program on the Market called "ClearDefault" that basically clears all defaults for programs, but it did not help.
Also, the problem is not that something else already is the default. The problem is that NOTHING is the default for it right now (something happened to change this but I can't figure out what).
There must be a file somewhere inside the phone that decides this. If it isn't accessible inside the phone, then I'm looking for how to do it manually via my PC, terminal, or adb.
This is something I want to learn for future reference as well as the current problem at hand.
Hopefully we can come together and figure this out.
EDIT:
I forgot to mention that attempting to open the file via Astro or the browser's downloader just comes up with an error. I can obviously open the file/s via the player's file selection browser, but I cannot figure out how to make it open said player upon download or clicking.
kbone213 said:
I'm having an issue with avi video files not having a default player anymore. I know that the actual default player cannot play them, and I do have other programs for it. Unfortunately though, I cannot seem to figure out how to change the default program used for a specific file type.
Searching the internet keeps coming up with going into Manage Applications then clearing defaults of something that currently is the default, but that option is always ALWAYS greyed out (I went one by one for everything in there). Regardless, I did find a program on the Market called "ClearDefault" that basically clears all defaults for programs, but it did not help.
Also, the problem is not that something else already is the default. The problem is that NOTHING is the default for it right now (something happened to change this but I can't figure out what).
There must be a file somewhere inside the phone that decides this. If it isn't accessible inside the phone, then I'm looking for how to do it manually via my PC, terminal, or adb.
This is something I want to learn for future reference as well as the current problem at hand.
Hopefully we can come together and figure this out.
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I forgot to mention that attempting to open the file via Astro or the browser's downloader just comes up with an error. I can obviously open the file/s via the player's file selection browser, but I cannot figure out how to make it open said player upon download or clicking.
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Long press in astro
select open as
select video
select default ceckbox
select program desired
finished
Thanks a lot for the response. I'm glad someone finally came to the rescue. Unfortunately, I tried that already (and forgot to mention it). It just opens the default HTC player which cannot play avi files. Although, I did try it again just to be safe.
kbone213 said:
Thanks a lot for the response. I'm glad someone finally came to the rescue. Unfortunately, I tried that already (and forgot to mention it). It just opens the default HTC player which cannot play avi files. Although, I did try it again just to be safe.
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Damn. I'd try installing again. Or you could dive off the deep and and convert all of them to h264 lol
Oh come on, no one on xda-developers (hackers united) can figure this out? I'm having the exact same problem! Except I have the issue with both music and videos.
Tapping an .mp3 in astro opens up the default Music player, and if I go into astro settings and remove 'audio' from the MIME type for .mp3s and long-press the file > open as > audio it still plays with the default Music app. Going into home > settings > applications > manage applications > music does no good because there are no defaults set, the button is grayed out!
And I have the problem with videos too, except in settings > applications > manage applications, there is no option for 'Dell Video Player' (I have a Dell Streak) or even 'Video Player', it's not even in the list!
If any android genius out there can figure this out I'd really appreciate it.
Apologies in advance if I am posting in the wrong section.
I've been talking to some people over on the CM forums about this and we haven't found an answer yet.
If you look in my screenshot, right below the alarm, my name is on my lockscreen. This was put here using an old setting on CyanogenMod 6.1.2 on my HTC Evo 4g. You did this on CM6 by going to Settings > Location & Security. Then there was a checkbox to "Show Custom Message". You then put in text!
Does anyone know which file stores this value on CM7/Android 2.3? I've pulled the eri.xml file from my phone and I can edit my carrier text but I have not been able to find my name. I like being able to edit that text and I wanted to update it to something new but the settings no longer exist under CM7. Thanks for looking!
I have found a ton of utils for editing carrier text but nothing for the text pointed to in the red arrow.
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Not the answer you are looking for here but wouldnt it be easier and less annoying and stressful to just flash back to the rom where you could change it, change it to what you want and then flash back ?
that is if i am understanding you correctly and your name shows up now of course with the new rom...
i would think if you changed your name to whatever you wanted then you could go back to the new rom and it would appear the way you want it.
I'm going to give that a try tomorrow. Not sure if it sticks through an upgrade or not but worth a try. Im just curious at this point what confit file it is. Wish there was a filemon or similar tool for Android. Although, if can dump all the files off the phone before and after I should be able to do comparisons....hrm. Project for tomorrow.
OK, finally took the time to work on this a little further.
I reflashed CM6, booted and confirmed there was no lockscreen text. Took a nandroid and copied off the system.img
I then put a lockscreen text in - used a custom phrase that would not be in any of the config files normally. Rebooted, took a nandroid and copied off this system.img.
Extracted both system.img files using unyaffs.
I did a binary and CRC comparison off all the files, no differences. So apparently this setting is stored somewhere else. Hrm......
AHA. Found the little bugger finally.
Had to pull the data.img and extract that. The setting is located in
/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
lock_screen_custom_msgTESTTEXT
lock_screen_show_custome_msg1
These are the two options that I found. So, now to see if I can safely edit that DB file and modify the text on CM7. I already have the text on my screen so the data fields are in the DB file already so I suspect I can just edit that file and then replace it on my phone.
Hm. Editing is no good. Blew away all my settings and I not longer can enable any lockscreen.
Hah. Got it! Using ADB works. Instructions:
adb shell
sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
.tables (you should see a secure table listed)
.header on
.mode column
select * from secure;
Now scroll through the results. Find the "lock_screen_custom_m" item under name. Note the ID number to the left. Write the ID number down.
update secure set value='your custom message here' where _ID=NN;
NN is the ID number you wrote down.
.quit
Reboot your phone.
There you go, just in case anyone else is interested.
jdostal said:
Hah. Got it! Using ADB works. Instructions:
adb shell
sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
.tables (you should see a secure table listed)
.header on
.mode column
select * from secure;
Now scroll through the results. Find the "lock_screen_custom_m" item under name. Note the ID number to the left. Write the ID number down.
update secure set value='your custom message here' where _ID=NN;
NN is the ID number you wrote down.
.quit
Reboot your phone.
There you go, just in case anyone else is interested.
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Nice find!
I used a derivative of your method to reset the alarm notification on the GB lockscreen when the buggy POS alarm app G-Alarm left it there after removing all the alarms and uninstalling it.
That one is in system instead of secure, and it can be set to a blank string per http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Settings.System.html#NEXT_ALARM_FORMATTED to clear it
Neat! Glad it could help someone out.
jdostal said:
Neat! Glad it could help someone out.
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Yup, much appreciated! Also great to learn how to edit databases on Android.
Also, I didn't have a USB cable so I did it with the terminal editor. For convenience (i.e. having a real keyboard) I used Webkey for PC access to my phone and its built-in terminal editor to make the changes.
That sounds painful!
I don't know where I read the guide, but definitely use ADB. With ADB you can basically connect to the shell on your phone from your PC through a command prompt. Makes doing this sort of thing MUCH easier!
jdostal said:
That sounds painful!
I don't know where I read the guide, but definitely use ADB. With ADB you can basically connect to the shell on your phone from your PC through a command prompt. Makes doing this sort of thing MUCH easier!
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Did you miss the part where I didn't have a USB cable?
I keep experiencing mysterious, extensionless files that appear in my downloads folder. Sometimes one, sometimes more. I have confirmed that they only appear after I open the Snapchat app, even for just a brief second.
When I open the files as text I get random Chinese characters that don't seem to want to be decoded.
What are these files? And how do I remove them for good? I can hide them, but they reappear under different names.
Is there any way to either
A) prevent an app from creating files in the download folder
B) change the directory where Snapchat creates these files
C) stop Snapchat from making these files altogether
I am using Snapchat Beta on an unrooted Droid Turbo 5.1
SOLUTION: Using es file explorer, I highlighted the unwanted files and selected Menu > Hide. They're gone now and they don't seem to be coming back even though I've been using Snapchat numerous times per day. Still, if anyone knows why these files exist, how to get rid of them, or how to prevent an app from creating a file like this in the first place, this information would be appreciated.
Thx bruhs
It may very well be spyware, like the one at mspy dot com, or a government spyware app distributed via Snapchat.
Based on the file sizes people are reporting and the way it changes, I'd say this file in particular is probably an encrypted log file for a key logger. That is: It is everything you've typed, and it's sent to the one who's spying on your phone activity.
Hint: Hiding the file won't solve the problem (for the person who's being spied on anyway...).
THIS IS FOR SAMSUNG DEVICES THAT ARE NOT ROOTED AND HAVE THE MULTI WINDOW FEATURE.
I really wasn't able to find anything on why app crashes happen in multI window mode for some apps when using mw-pen on devices that are not rooted. So I wanted to post a blurb on how to manually stop the crashes as well as how to manually enable an app, and get things working. Again this is for devices that are not rooted, though it will work with rooted devices. There really is no point in doing it this way on a rooted device unless your bored or you are just slightly insane.
Since your not rooted you will lose all current app data that is not hosted in the respective applications cloud. As well you will need to recompile new packages when updates are released if you want new features or the program will no longer connect, etc. Updating directly from the app store will kill the multiwindow feature on the respective app. If you are user of MW-Pen app enabler skip step 9. and as MW does this already. If you just didn't want to use mw pro......or are again slightly insane.... then do step 9.
All of the steps below will be carried out on Android device.
You will need the following software:
1) File exploration program with zip support (JRUMMY Root Browser works great)
2) Apk Editor (Free version should be fine although I use pro)
We will assume you have the previously mentioned software installed. If it is not you should do so AFTER reading this post.
1) Create an independent folder in "/sdcard/APKeditor/(My project)/" , additionally I created ./backup & ./new (./ representing the working parent directory).
2)Once the folders are in place, go to Settings>Applications>All Applications>YourTargetApplication I recommend stopping your application and clearing any data or at least cache. Although the information should not transfer over it would really bite if you were the one random exception in this vers, and you were giving copies out. Do not disable the application only stop it.
3) Now you will want to backup your target app. To do this fire up "Apk Editor" select the option to pick an apk from a currently installed app select the option for common edit. Click through until you see the save button on the top right corner. THIS IS BACK UP!! SO DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING!!
4) Once it has completed successfully I recommend flipping back to your application manager and uninstalling the target app. Then flip back over to APKeditor and install. Test the app to verify nothing became corrupted and the app functions normally with a backup only. This will help in your trouble shooting.
5) Once you have the app installed and everything is good you will want to again go to to your app manager, stop the target app and clear data or at least cache. Stop do not disable.
6) Now open your File Browser of choice that met the requirments and navigate to "./sdcard/APKEditor/" you shold see an apk named "_Base" with the icon of your target app. That is your know good backup so you will want to move the apk file to its respective backup folder created earlier
7) Once the backup is secure go back into APKeditor and again select the option apk from app. This time instead select the Full Edit option (Resource Rebuild).
8) The fun part! This part should take you no more than 15 seconds if it takes longer than that your messing up (JOKE). From the edit screen you will see 3 buttons in the bottom. Go to the last button or "tab" it is labeled "Manifest". Once selected go ahead and long press an entry under <intent-filter> any entry really should be fine but let's be safe. On the menu that pops up you will see the option "Open In New Window" select it. Take a minute at first to look things over and familiarize yourself with the patterns at first it may seem a bit overwhelming. There is a logical structure to the file it is telling things what to do and where they belong. The top will have the permissions required followed by accessing features pertains to those permissions. We don't care about that however. The main areas you should look through (just look at to get familier) are the <intent-filter> entries along with what preceded the entry and the structure and what follows and again and again until you see the pattern. What we will be doing in the next step (The 10 second step) is adding entries under the <intent-filter> sections.
9) So your 15 seconds is up and now you feel like your ready for the 10 second step. Now that your ready we need to go into a less obvious view. You will now see the reason why I had you look at the code in the first view until you were comfortable. So go ahead and click on the pencil icon in the upper right corner. The first edit will be slightly different than the rest. You will see ano entry that says <application> followed by icon, labels, name, theme, those kinds of things. They should be followed by <activity> then <intent-filter> and then <action>. Under the last <action> item in the grouping and before </intent-filter> is where your entry will go. (<whatever> is the starting point for instructions and </whatever> is the closing point. So if we input in <activity-alias> or <program> then that is where our command would sit. In some random place never meeting up with us for our scheduled date). So we will go below the last action entry in the first grouping, and input the following:
<category android:name="com.sec.android.intent.category.MULTIWINDOW_LAUNCHER" />
<category android:name="com.samsung.android.intent.category.PENWINDOW_LAUNCHER" />
Rinse, wash, and repeat, Rinse, wash, and repeat, Rinse, wash, and repeat......You get the idea... Be sure that </intent-filter> is the line after everytime you make an entry.
10) Now we need to review the document for oddities and/or anomalies to the general rule and what causes app crashes in MultI Window the majority of the time. Typically this happens when overlay singular windows are called from the app and are independent of the general <activity> <intent-filter> <action> rule. In these cases we have to put on our detective hats and poke around. Normally we already know screen the app crashes in so that will is our first clue, so we need to start to look for something to do with that window. If it is a chat window look for a chat window call, etc. In that set of instructions for your crashing window you will want to add in the calls as you have done before you may need to add the first <intent-filter> now you can test. Save the document off to the side and save the apk. And install in real-time. Test the app. You if it was done correctly your app should no longer crash. Unfortunately this is the grey area and things will vary from application to application and this is where detective hats need to be on tight. Look for things like "launchmode=singletask". These can be dead giveaways your in the hot zone of your issue.
11) save the new working apk to the "./new" directory created earlier inserting the app version number after. You can find the new file under the APKeditor folder you should see a new "_Base" File.
*At the end of process 10 you will get an error message when saving saying the file is not authentic etc etc. Ignore the message and continue on.
*As a side note if you follow these instructions, have done trial and error, and things still are not working. Then and ONLY then post below. I can not insure promptness but I will respond when able.
joutcast said:
THIS IS FOR SAMSUNG DEVICES THAT ARE NOT ROOTED AND HAVE THE MULTI WINDOW FEATURE.
I really wasn't able to find anything on why app crashes happen in multI window mode for some apps when using mw-pen on devices that are not rooted. So I wanted to post a blurb on how to manually stop the crashes as well as how to manually enable an app, and get things working. Again this is for devices that are not rooted, though it will work with rooted devices. There really is no point in doing it this way on a rooted device unless your bored or you are just slightly insane.
Since your not rooted you will lose all current app data that is not hosted in the respective applications cloud. As well you will need to recompile new packages when updates are released if you want new features or the program will no longer connect, etc. Updating directly from the app store will kill the multiwindow feature on the respective app. If you are user of MW-Pen app enabler skip step 9. and as MW does this already. If you just didn't want to use mw pro......or are again slightly insane.... then do step 9.
All of the steps below will be carried out on Android device.
You will need the following software:
1) File exploration program with zip support (JRUMMY Root Browser works great)
2) Apk Editor (Free version should be fine although I use pro)
We will assume you have the previously mentioned software installed. If it is not you should do so AFTER reading this post.
1) Create an independent folder in "/sdcard/APKeditor/(My project)/" , additionally I created ./backup & ./new (./ representing the working parent directory).
2)Once the folders are in place, go to Settings>Applications>All Applications>YourTargetApplication I recommend stopping your application and clearing any data or at least cache. Although the information should not transfer over it would really bite if you were the one random exception in this vers, and you were giving copies out. Do not disable the application only stop it.
3) Now you will want to backup your target app. To do this fire up "Apk Editor" select the option to pick an apk from a currently installed app select the option for common edit. Click through until you see the save button on the top right corner. THIS IS BACK UP!! SO DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING!!
4) Once it has completed successfully I recommend flipping back to your application manager and uninstalling the target app. Then flip back over to APKeditor and install. Test the app to verify nothing became corrupted and the app functions normally with a backup only. This will help in your trouble shooting.
5) Once you have the app installed and everything is good you will want to again go to to your app manager, stop the target app and clear data or at least cache. Stop do not disable.
6) Now open your File Browser of choice that met the requirments and navigate to "./sdcard/APKEditor/" you shold see an apk named "_Base" with the icon of your target app. That is your know good backup so you will want to move the apk file to its respective backup folder created earlier
7) Once the backup is secure go back into APKeditor and again select the option apk from app. This time instead select the Full Edit option (Resource Rebuild).
8) The fun part! This part should take you no more than 15 seconds if it takes longer than that your messing up (JOKE). From the edit screen you will see 3 buttons in the bottom. Go to the last button or "tab" it is labeled "Manifest". Once selected go ahead and long press an entry under <intent-filter> any entry really should be fine but let's be safe. On the menu that pops up you will see the option "Open In New Window" select it. Take a minute at first to look things over and familiarize yourself with the patterns at first it may seem a bit overwhelming. There is a logical structure to the file it is telling things what to do and where they belong. The top will have the permissions required followed by accessing features pertains to those permissions. We don't care about that however. The main areas you should look through (just look at to get familier) are the <intent-filter> entries along with what preceded the entry and the structure and what follows and again and again until you see the pattern. What we will be doing in the next step (The 10 second step) is adding entries under the <intent-filter> sections.
9) So your 15 seconds is up and now you feel like your ready for the 10 second step. Now that your ready we need to go into a less obvious view. You will now see the reason why I had you look at the code in the first view until you were comfortable. So go ahead and click on the pencil icon in the upper right corner. The first edit will be slightly different than the rest. You will see ano entry that says <application> followed by icon, labels, name, theme, those kinds of things. They should be followed by <activity> then <intent-filter> and then <action>. Under the last <action> item in the grouping and before </intent-filter> is where your entry will go. (<whatever> is the starting point for instructions and </whatever> is the closing point. So if we input in <activity-alias> or <program> then that is where our command would sit. In some random place never meeting up with us for our scheduled date). So we will go below the last action entry in the first grouping, and input the following:
<category android:name="com.sec.android.intent.category.MULTIWINDOW_LAUNCHER" />
<category android:name="com.samsung.android.intent.category.PENWINDOW_LAUNCHER" />
Rinse, wash, and repeat, Rinse, wash, and repeat, Rinse, wash, and repeat......You get the idea... Be sure that </intent-filter> is the line after everytime you make an entry.
10) Now we need to review the document for oddities and/or anomalies to the general rule and what causes app crashes in MultI Window the majority of the time. Typically this happens when overlay singular windows are called from the app and are independent of the general <activity> <intent-filter> <action> rule. In these cases we have to put on our detective hats and poke around. Normally we already know screen the app crashes in so that will is our first clue, so we need to start to look for something to do with that window. If it is a chat window look for a chat window call, etc. In that set of instructions for your crashing window you will want to add in the calls as you have done before you may need to add the first <intent-filter> now you can test. Save the document off to the side and save the apk. And install in real-time. Test the app. You if it was done correctly your app should no longer crash. Unfortunately this is the grey area and things will vary from application to application and this is where detective hats need to be on tight. Look for things like "launchmode=singletask". These can be dead giveaways your in the hot zone of your issue.
11) save the new working apk to the "./new" directory created earlier inserting the app version number after. You can find the new file under the APKeditor folder you should see a new "_Base" File.
*At the end of process 10 you will get an error message when saving saying the file is not authentic etc etc. Ignore the message and continue on.
*As a side note if you follow these instructions, have done trial and error, and things still are not working. Then and ONLY then post below. I can not insure promptness but I will respond when able.
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