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Hello everybody I was annoyed by the new camera and messenger icons that came with the latest Facebook update so I wrote Facebook Icon Remover to easily disable them. This application requires root. I've had reports that when disabling/enabling the icons the main Facebook icon may disappear from your home screen (but not your application drawer) but you can simply add it back. Let me know if you have any issues using this application.
EDIT: Just a heads up that I will no longer be supporting Facebook Icon Remover. If you wish to hide icons for any applications you should checkout my latest app CCSWE App Manager. More info here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1639707
machx0r said:
NOTE: You shouldn't need this application if you are running ICS as it already provides a mechanism to hide applications in the app drawer.
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Turns out it's very simple for manufactures to disable this option in the stock ICS settings app and from what I've seen it looks like most of them do. The latest version 1.0.4 has been updated to support ICS devices.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Unintentionally sent from my Nexus One using xda Premium app.
Thank you very much, this is very useful.
Yeah! Thanks!
Works perfectly! AND! Keeps the icons off even after removing the app. Nice.
machx0r said:
Turns out it's very simple for manufactures to disable this option in the stock ICS settings app and from what I've seen it looks like most of them do. The latest version 1.0.4 has been updated to support ICS devices.
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Out of curiosity: in Java, how do you disable apps for ICS? Always met by segmentation faults when using the PackageManager.
sibbor said:
Out of curiosity: in Java, how do you disable apps for ICS? Always met by segmentation faults when using the PackageManager.
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I'm launching a process to start su and executing the pm command to disable components. There seems to be an issue in ICS with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable not getting set in a shell launched by su. See this thread for more details:
https://github.com/ChainsDD/su-binary/issues/6
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I'm launching a process to start su and executing the pm command to disable components. There seems to be an issue in ICS with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable not getting set in a shell launched by su. See this thread for more details:
https://github.com/ChainsDD/su-binary/issues/6
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so u simply use
pm disable com.facebook.katana
or some additional commands are needed?
mike1986. said:
so u simply use
pm disable com.facebook.katana
or some additional commands are needed?
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That would disable the entire Facebook application and all it's components. If you want to disable a specific component you need to provide the class also. From the pm help:
pm enable PACKAGE_OR_COMPONENT
pm disable PACKAGE_OR_COMPONENT
And...
The enable and disable commands change the enabled state of a given package or component (written as "package/class").
machx0r said:
That would disable the entire Facebook application and all it's components. If you want to disable a specific component you need to provide the class also. From the pm help:
pm enable PACKAGE_OR_COMPONENT
pm disable PACKAGE_OR_COMPONENT
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The enable and disable commands change the enabled state of a given package or component (written as "package/class").
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soo...
that would be:
pm disable com.facebook.katana.activity.media.CameraLauncherActivity
pm disable com.facebook.katana.orca.ThreadListLauncherActivity
correct?
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Nope, keep searching...
mike1986. said:
soo...
that would be:
pm disable com.facebook.katana.activity.media.CameraLauncherActivity
pm disable com.facebook.katana.orca.ThreadListLauncherActivity
correct?
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That might work but I'm using the full names:
Code:
pm disable com.facebook.katana/com.facebook.katana.activity.media.CameraLauncherActivity
pm disable com.facebook.katana/com.facebook.katana.orca.ThreadListLauncherActivity
Now that the secret is out all my ad revenue is going to disappear ;-)
machx0r said:
Now that the secret is out all my ad revenue is going to disappear ;-)
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oh damn I didn't know that was suppose to be a secret. I can remove my posts!
mike1986. said:
oh damn I didn't know that was suppose to be a secret. I can remove my posts!
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No lol I'm totally joking. I've already told several people the commands I'm using and imagine the application will continue to be useful for people who don't want to go through the trouble of doing it manually. Glad I can help
machx0r said:
No lol I'm totally joking. I've already told several people the commands I'm using and imagine the application will continue to be useful for people who don't want to go through the trouble of doing it manually. Glad I can help
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I wrote init.d script, might work as well
Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
# ========================================
# init.d script for Android Revolution HD
# ========================================
(
while : ; do
COMPLETED=$(logcat -d *:I *:D | grep -c android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED)
if [ $COMPLETED -ne 0 ] ; then
echo "BOOT_COMPLETED: disabling Facebook icons"
pm disable com.facebook.katana/com.facebook.katana.activity.media.CameraLauncherActivity
pm disable com.facebook.katana/com.facebook.katana.orca.ThreadListLauncherActivity
sysrw
rm /system/etc/init.d/96facebook
sysro
exit 0
fi
sleep 1
done
) &
was just looking to how to remove this **** yesterday! thank you!
can you make one that can remove all the Latitude and google places icons... those annoy the hell out of me :S
danial.aw said:
can you make one that can remove all the Latitude and google places icons... those annoy the hell out of me :S
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Working on it ;-) Shoot me a PM so I can let you know when my next app is ready.
machx0r said:
Working on it ;-) Shoot me a PM so I can let you know when my next app is ready.
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I'm trying now to disable HTC Setup Wizard icon Also pissing me off
EDIT:
Code:
<application android:theme="@style/CommonTheme" android:label="@string/stupwizard_app_name" android:icon="@drawable/icon_launcher_htc_setup_wizard" android:taskAffinity="" android:description="@string/htc_company_name" allowSkinChange="true">
<activity android:label="@string/stupwizard_app_name" android:name=".MainActivity" android:taskAffinity="android.task.htcsetupwizard" android:screenOrientation="unspecified" android:configChanges="locale|mcc|mnc|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize">
So I guess there is no separated taskAffinity and I can't disable the icon without disabling the whole app.
Thanks you. Just what I was looking for since few days.
Hey everybody,
I recently updated to lollipop. I am on the mt7-L09 running version b324. I must say I really love everything about it. I have successfully rooted it and I am running twrp 2.8.7.0 recovery and everything is running great. The only issue is that I would love to have all apps work with the new split screen feature the way you can on a samsung device. Did anyone know of a way to get all apps working with split screen? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
I have almost got it figured out. I just need to know how to get an apps component name. I used sqlite editor data/data/com.huawei.hwmwlauncher then to hwmultilauncher.db then to hw_mwlauncher. And the list of all the allowed apps are there. With component name and package name. I am trying to add youtube and I know the package name is com.google.android.youtube I just cant get the component name. Any help on this and I can figure out the rest and post a tutorial on it.
kxhan15 said:
I have almost got it figured out. I just need to know how to get an apps component name. I used sqlite editor data/data/com.huawei.hwmwlauncher then to hwmultilauncher.db then to hw_mwlauncher. And the list of all the allowed apps are there. With component name and package name. I am trying to add youtube and I know the package name is com.google.android.youtube I just cant get the component name. Any help on this and I can figure out the rest and post a tutorial on it.
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Check out http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/ComponentName.html. Can you post the existing ComponentNames?
PoisonNinja said:
Check out http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/ComponentName.html. Can you post the existing ComponentNames?
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Thank you, and yes I sure can post the existing ones. I spent all night decompiling apk's and have gotten youtube and tumblr to work with multiwindow. I have found that the component names are located in each apk's androidmanifest.xml file. The problem is that they are not all the same, and they are all in diferent spots within the manifest.
This is youtube component name com.google.android.youtube/com.google.android.youtube.app.honeycomb.Shell$HomeActivity
You notice the first part before the / is the package name of the app. After / is the package name and the activity the app is supposed to launch with. The problem I think is that not all dev's write the same way. For instance this is the Gallery app's component name com.android.gallery3d/com.huawei.gallery.app.GalleryMain
I have been able to run split screen for all apps on Mediapad X2. Maybe it can help mate 7 too(though not sure how different these devices are)
thread here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/mediapad-x2/general/emui-3-1-apps-multiscreen-t3193389
Thank guys for the support .. wish you the best of luck
bark1234 said:
I have been able to run split screen for all apps on Mediapad X2. Maybe it can help mate 7 too(though not sure how different these devices are)
thread here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/mediapad-x2/general/emui-3-1-apps-multiscreen-t3193389
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I have been able to get most apps to work. I get the component names by running logcat through adb. When I open the app the component name shows up in the log. The problem I am having now is finding the permisions and editing them so they all fully work in multiwindow
Does anyone know what file the whitelist app list is in? Some Blacklist apps are in a file called "karaokeeffect"
So today i was messing with my phone and wanted to open system UI tuner ok ? So i went and created a nova launcher activity widget, and open the list of the setting's app activities and while I was browsing i found a NFC one though my varient (BLL-L21) doesn't have NFC, so i was surprised and chose it and when i try to click it says "permission denied".
So i wanted to know is NFC disabled because there is no NFC chip in the device or is it disabled using software ? And if it it's disabled using software is there is way we can activate it using root or ADB ??
And of course thanks
Some variants have it disabled by default due region limitations... Learn more here https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-6x/how-to/discussion-honor-6x-nfc-chip-t3666943
There was one guide on forum giving some more info on this on how to enable this via chaneg in build.prop (this seems limited via software and no hardware limitation here)
Just check once if not found I will roam around again
EDIT- just saw the link shared by @RedSkull23, yeah this was the thread I was talking about. see the 5th post
shashank1320 said:
EDIT- just saw the link shared by @RedSkull23, yeah this was the thread I was talking about. see the 5th post
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Dunno if it will really works because i didn't tried personally since that BLN-L21 has NFC on by default, but modifying build.prop and local.prop in some boolean value can give results that you couldn't even imagine!
RedSkull23 said:
Dunno if it will really works because i didn't tried personally since that BLN-L21 has NFC on by default, but modifying build.prop and local.prop in some boolean value can give results that you couldn't even imagine!
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Exactly. Not sure if this is hardware limitations or a software one.
So... Ads, ads and ads. Finally Adguard Premium has let me down on the "Ads Front." So I decided to download Android Studio, took forever to find sdk 23 (complete) but did, cloned Adhell 3 source into build and "POOF" out came a "app-debug.apk." (Adhell 3) Grabed knox license and all is well on my s5. Crazy cause MinMinGuard apparently is up to no good. Here is screen shot. No ads or redirects. just thought I would share my new ad-free experience with you.
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Another cool new feature of Adhell 3 is that you can disable specific apps from using mobile data. (a feature that I believe should be built-in stock android; LineageOS has it)
could you share the .apk sir? so we can edit package name via editor pro.
Could you link the host file?
Here's a guy who hosted it and the thread it was in here if it's not working let me know, I have it saved too
If anyone was wondering, the updated README.md on https://github.com/fusionjack/adhell3 says:
-# adhell3
+## Move to gitlab.com
+You know where to find and you need to be registered there.
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Yanchev said:
Could you link the host file?
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If i were you, i would register at gitlab to get latest source. for example, the block url address was changed so basically if the old url is in there, well, don't exhist anymore, no more block list, like empty host file. its not hard to build, he provides clear steps on his gitlab page.
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dhopack said:
could you share the .apk sir? so we can edit package name via editor pro.
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even better, new SABS
https://github.com/GoldenKappa/notSABS
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Any way to get pre made apk? I would then change its name with APK Editor Pro and add my knox, or I need to do that when making the app with android studio?
mankvl said:
Any way to get pre made apk? I would then change its name with APK Editor Pro and add my knox, or I need to do that when making the app with android studio?
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yes, obviously you did not try the link I provided.
go to the link that I posted. You have a choice to download either or as in compiled or not.
oh yeah, make sure to view the page in desktop version.
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1droidmod said:
yes, obviously you did not try the link I provided.
go to the link that I posted. You have a choice to download either or as in compiled or not.
oh yeah, make sure to view the page in desktop version.
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I'am using notSABS, all good, thanks. Just wanted to try Adhell 3
mankvl said:
I'am using notSABS, all good, thanks. Just wanted to try Adhell 3
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SORRY!!
was assuming u were asking about notSABS, not adhell3.
2 b honest with you, notSABS is working better for me as adhell 3 force closes here and there, was pretty annoying.
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Any changes in 1.0.0 other than the rebirth?
Hello, could I ask if you know who is the official dev of Adhell3?
I would LOVE to see sub-service control for Google Play Services. The idea of hiding it is apparently to protect the users, but system services is exactly what needs to be controlled the most.
Could you please, pretty please, somehow release a version that also lists system apps when viewing service control? I am sick and tired of GPS drain and the way I could control that in Android 7 was by disabling a significant number of them (mostly analytic/datamining-related services, and some location services).
Alternatively, I might try to re-build the app with this modification myself, but I am nowhere near as good in java to do that yet. If the dev can see this - please give us more control. And THANK YOU for giving us any kind of sub-service and permission control at all. Nobody else did this for us since Oreo. THANKS!!
Bobzee said:
Hello, could I ask if you know who is the official dev of Adhell3?
I would LOVE to see sub-service control for Google Play Services. The idea of hiding it is apparently to protect the users, but system services is exactly what needs to be controlled the most.
Could you please, pretty please, somehow release a version that also lists system apps when viewing service control? I am sick and tired of GPS drain and the way I could control that in Android 7 was by disabling a significant number of them (mostly analytic/datamining-related services, and some location services).
Alternatively, I might try to re-build the app with this modification myself, but I am nowhere near as good in java to do that yet. If the dev can see this - please give us more control. And THANK YOU for giving us any kind of sub-service and permission control at all. Nobody else did this for us since Oreo. THANKS!!
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Same name here as in Gitlab.
It's a simple change in Android Studio for what you're looking for if you build the app itself. It's just changing 1 line.
Too bad that adhell 3 doesn't have a Dark or Black mode - Was really easy to install & get it verified ?
I'm still using notSABS on of my devices & BK Manager on another - Not really sure if there's much (if any) difference between notSABS & adhell 3....? ?
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I see quite a bit of misinformation in this and similar threads. Please keep in mind that AdHell3 is NOT supported on XDA. For official and up-to-date information about the AdHell3 project, please visit:
Main repo: https://gitlab.com/fusionjack/adhell3
Scripts for compiling: https://gitlab.com/fusionjack/adhell3-scripts
Get your EDU ELM key from: https://seap.samsung.com/license-keys/generate/edu
Official Support Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/hfreZum
Dependable(?) precompiled APKs: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/sb37c6gmhqgbn
Mike B. said:
I see quite a bit of misinformation in this and similar threads. Please keep in mind that AdHell3 is NOT supported on XDA. For official and up-to-date information about the AdHell3 project, please visit:
Main repo: https://gitlab.com/fusionjack/adhell3
Scripts for compiling: https://gitlab.com/fusionjack/adhell3-scripts
Get your EDU ELM key from: https://seap.samsung.com/license-keys/generate/edu
Official Support Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/hfreZum
Dependable(?) precompiled APKs: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/sb37c6gmhqgbn
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Adhell3=Old News
I have been using adguard premium for months now and I would have to say it how much better application for blocking ads and unwanted spyware being tracked, etc.
EDIT:I'm only speaking on my personal experience I'm not trying to down talk adhell3 in anyway
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How can I remove blocks which I had before the key has expired?
1droidmod said:
Adhell3=Old News
I have been using adguard premium for months now and I would have to say it how much better application for blocking ads and unwanted spyware being tracked, etc.
EDIT:I'm only speaking on my personal experience I'm not trying to down talk adhell3 in anyway
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Since Adhell3 is no longer under active development, it matters little, but they are two different animals. Adhell is/was merely a tool to configure the underlying Knox firewall and YOU decided what it should and should not block. While Adguard's DNS server is one of the suggested alternatives, the full Adguard app gives you only very limited choices and uses additional resources.
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Dragon31337 said:
How can I remove blocks which I had before the key has expired?
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Simply uninstall Adhell and your Knox settings will revert to default.
Do you have the Camera Access toggle in quick settings. I can't find it anywhere. I only have the Microphone Access toggle. Is that normal?
Same for me, probably Samsung didn't implemented it yet.
Samsung excluded it on the A-Series for some reason. You can however enable it with root by modifying floating-features.xml
kaancaliskan said:
Same for me, probably Samsung didn't implemented it yet.
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That's a bummer. Samsung will always be Samsung I guess.
SkylinesHD said:
Samsung excluded it on the A-Series for some reason. You can however enable it with root by modifying floating-features.xml
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Nice to know how to get it working! Checked on RayOS and ShaDis implemented it there too!
can someone please show me what is this exactly? I am still not sure if to update
clivend said:
can someone please show me what is this exactly? I am still not sure if to update
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Its just a feature nothing special really. With that toggle, you can cut camera access to any apps.