I suppose its not a huge deal, but on 2.1, all my backed up .apk files look like icons when I use Astro or ES File Manager or any install/uninstaller apps.
In 2.2 they just look like default android apk icons.
I normally can tell what is what by icon but when they all look the same, it's a pain in the ass.
Does anyone know WHY 2.2 has this issue? Why can't it see the programmers icon properly or is the issue IN the programs (file managers) I'm using. So far they all have this issue it seems though.
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yea i use my appcontrol and my linda file manager and efile....and it shows the android default icon for all of them...i think its 2.2 or i think the file managers havent updated there apps maybe
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Hi, after FroYo update all new apk files that I put on my sd card dont have their icons in Astro file manager. The icon is default. Is it Astro or FroYo problem?
I'm guessing it's an astro thing but as I don't use it I don't know.
Contact them and ask.
So which file manager do you use, and why not Astro?
Everyone says that Astro is the best so I chose it... but it seems to have many small bugs, something is always wrong with it. So I am thinking about change.
I have not used Astro before I upgraded to froyo but can confirm that it does not show icons for the apk files. It just shows a standard Green and white Android logo.
I use app monster and also root explorer. I also have ES File Explorer installed for some reason but have never used it :lol:
I notices an inconvenience by using 2.2 ROMS: The apk files are displayed only with a standard android icon. On 2.1 every apk file was displayed with the corresponding icon (same as shown during installation)
I tried several FroYo ROMs available here and result was everywhere the same. I also tried ASTRO, ES File explorer, some other file explorers from the market.
Does anybody know a trick to display the real icons of apks in file managers?
eteching said:
I notices an inconvenience by using 2.2 ROMS: The apk files are displayed only with a standard android icon. On 2.1 every apk file was displayed with the corresponding icon (same as shown during installation)
I tried several FroYo ROMs available here and result was everywhere the same. I also tried ASTRO, ES File explorer, some other file explorers from the market.
Does anybody know a trick to display the real icons of apks in file managers?
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Snap. Also, with Astro backups it used to display the proper app name and icon, now its just that Android icon w/ 'com.......' etc.
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Tonight i tried another 2.2 ROM and there is same issue. No APK icons displayed. However i found out, that in the stock applications settings icons of installed programms appeared (but still not in FileManager)
eteching said:
Tonight i tried another 2.2 ROM and there is same issue. No APK icons displayed. However i found out, that in the stock applications settings icons of installed programms appeared (but still not in FileManager)
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Did you find out why this is doing it and how to sort it out? I have noticed that it will not show the file details before you install it! so always says 0k.
Looks like the file is not been read!
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This is probably borderline, I would say general...
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NoobNazi
i am facing the same problem any solution so far
need help
it dosent display the icon because the .apk is an executable file, it should show a little picture of the android logo, this is just to show the file is executable, i dont remeber what it displayed in eclair to be honest, maybe they changed something in froyo, anyway there is atleast one file explorer that shows the correct image from the .apk's ive seen it, i think it was oi file manager
Froyo apk icon preview
eteching said:
I notices an inconvenience by using 2.2 ROMS: The apk files are displayed only with a standard android icon. On 2.1 every apk file was displayed with the corresponding icon (same as shown during installation)
I tried several FroYo ROMs available here and result was everywhere the same. I also tried ASTRO, ES File explorer, some other file explorers from the market.
Does anybody know a trick to display the real icons of apks in file managers?
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File Expert v2.5.0 can do it perfectly,
Download link:slideme.org/mobileapp/download/15cc90a4-dc4d-102d-a194-6ec07c99d928.apk
So I'm running cm6.1 and have sprint vvm installed and working just fine but I want the green vanilla icon instead of the sprint icon. Does anyone know of an existing apk with that icon already on it? I have already tried to modify the current vvm apk I have and replace the vanilla icon with no avail. For whatever reason when I change the icons in better zip, it does not save the changes. I have tried everything so now I'm hoping I can just find an apk that someone has already modified. Any help would be great!! Thanks!
Oh and I can't use 7zip because I'm on a Mac.
The reason the icon won't stick is probably because you've updated vvm apk. If you apply the icon to the apk in /system/app it won't work because the updated apk is in /data/app. Look for the vvm apk in /data/app and try that.
I just looked in the data folder but it is empty... hmm. And the current vvm app I have is stored on my SD card. I initially downloaded the original apk and then installed through astro. Also there is no voicemail apk in system/app either. I never imagined I would have this hard of a time! Lol any other suggestions? And thanks for the help thus far!
You don't have Sprint_VVM.apk in your /system/app folder? And there is nothing like com.voicemailblahblah-1.apk in your /data/app folder? I don't know if astro can read teh /data folder, if you see nothing in /data/app you need another file explorer or use ADB.
I am using the file explorer that came with cm6.1. When I access the data folder from the root it is empty. Would the fact that the voicemail app doesn't come with cyanogen have to do with it? I initially just took the vvm apk from fresh 3.4 and installed it through astro. And it worked just fine. So now I figured out how to add the. PNG files to the apk and save it successfully, however after I uninstalled the original vvm apk and install the new apk it says application did not install.. does that make sense? Lol
After about 30 failed attempts I finally got it figured out! I didn't realize I needed to delete the meta-inf folder before really signing it. Again thanks for helping!
Yeah, all your market apps are in /data/app along with any updated system apps. You can't see those apps with astro or the cm explorer but they are there.
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Hey guys!
So I bought AudioManager Pro and I love the look of the widget on my homescreen and I love the app itself. The thing is, there doesn't seem to be a theme out there that perfectly fits my current homescreen's look. So I decided to make my own.
I don't know much about APK's and such so the tutorial on theme making AudioManager provides doesn't do much for me so I thought of just messing with the .png's inside the apk to suit my needs.
So I made a copy of the apk using root explorer and placed it somewhere on my external sd so I could mod it on my pc. I edited the fuxia (cus I hate it!) .png's to create the look I want. I didn't extract the apk or anything. I just opened it with winrar and opened each .png I edited there. Saved the edits on to desktop and dragged them into the apk file to replace the originals.
I drag this modded apk back to the original directory replacing the old one using root explorer... I then try it out by adding the modded widget to homescreen and it works!!! ...up until I reboot my phone that is. Once I do, my AudioManager Pro gets uninstalled for some reason. :| So I have to reinstall and replace the apk each time I reboot. Not THAT big of a deal but annoying none the less.
I've tried backing up the modded apk using titanium, uninstalling the app, then reinstalling from backup but then the apk wouldn't install that way. Any other suggestions?
Is there a way I can put AudioManager Pro in the apps folder where all the persistent apps are? Perhaps that would keep it alive post-reboot? If so, any suggestions how to do this?
Thanks in advance!
Since the 4.0.2.A.0.42 (2.3.4) update, folders on home screens are now shown as a box with small icons of the first four shortcuts rather than the user-selectable fixed folder icons of the previous firmware.
Personally, I think the "small icons in a box" icons are really ugly. But there's a practical problem too - when changing to home pages with several folders on them, the launcher sometimes freezes while it reads the icons of all the shortcuts contained in these.
Is there any way (a mod is required, I presume) to restore the old 2.3.3 behaviour and just choose folder icons for folders instead of displaying their contents? Any help gratefully received!
Instal some other launch
Or
Instal v6 superchargher for fixing problem about freezeing.
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It looks like SiMi Folder is an option, but I still need to know where the original SE icons for the folders are - I extracted home.apk but they weren't there, so they may have been removed in this firmware. Can anyone help? Maybe extract them and upload the icons somewhere?
I still have the problem of not being able to use these folders in the dock of course as they're not widgets, so if there's another solution I'd be interested. I like the SE launcher otherwise, and don't want to get rid of it.
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Never mind, I found them in an old version of home.apk I found here. If there's another solution I'm still interested though.