Just thought I'd share what I've run across so far. After updating to rc33 the market would not work, I have since done a wipe, tried installing a complete them I converted to rc33 and it gets stuck on the second boot screen, so I decided to play with some files and see what could be causing it. I removed the framework-res.apk and replaced it with the stock one. Now I'm getting to the android logo screen, so something may have changed with framework and I am using the template to create this theme. I noticed I was still getting txt messages even though I was on the android logo screen, I've seen this before when I removed Launcher.apk and didn't replace it. So I replaced my launcher with stock and it boots up my theme, sorta.
I have a list of icons that do not take the new icons i've created.
Amazon
Camera
myFaves
Market
Pictures
Settings
Superuser
Terminal
Voice Dialer
Voice Search
Youtube
Everything else is working just fine and copied over. What kinds of problems has anyone else run into? I'm done for the night, gonna work on it some more tomorrow
**Update
including a link to a modified jf rc33 file that frees up system space by removing media files
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zy4myo...C33_light2.zip
I can't get past the Android screen. Is there a way to go back to RC30?
I updated to RC33 and had Buuf installed before the update. Installed the RC33 first then the radio, no issues. It even kept my Buuf wallpaper.
I just installed the light version of Buuf that the creator released a bit ago and had no issues updating that. Maybe he can shed some light
SVTRacer said:
I can't get past the Android screen. Is there a way to go back to RC30?
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did you make a back up with Nandroid? You can also put RC30 update on your SD card and boot into recovery console and update back from there.
Not sure how the new Radio is going to work with RC30 though
any theme creators wanna chime in?
I am not a creator but I have some input I guess. It is very puzzling.
I edited Stericson's stock theme template, changed app icons (removed some apps) resigned each APK, modified the framework-res.apk (did not touch any xml files, and tried to only modify images I thought were changed to create Blue Star 5 - my basis for theming). I zipped it up, signed the zip. And updated my phone.
It took a while to get past the android logo (which by the way did not change color as I expected with the new framework files), but eventually booted up for me. No problem. My case may be special, because before I applied my update I removed some stock APK's and all the stock ringtones, ensuring I had room to spare on my /system partition. I removed amazon, email, and IM - the APK's and ODEX's. My update zip that I used initially to apply my theme contained :
All APK's except those listed above - resigned all that I modified.
And JUST the framework-res.apk
I have since modified some more files in the framework and created another update.zip that just included that file - it applied just fine.
However, no one else has been able to install this theme on their phone (that I know of), and I can't figure out why. Maybe it is the space that I had free?
I am at work right now but when I get home I am going to start from scratch. last night I was using stericson rc33 and was installing the hole drawable folders to the apk.did not think there are new images in some of the apk.that is what you get when you try to get a theme out fast and I am going to look to make sure the images are still the same name .there is some new apk. in rc33 and not just voicesearch.apk and tmoimplugin.apk and like i said at work so i don't have the names rc30 has one apk. not in rc33
yeah tmoimplugin.apk is where all the emoticons for Im are stored.
I just tried editing the clock in launcher and applying it but it didn't work. Maybe it does have somehthing to do with system being too full, that could explain why only some icons are changing.
I installed a theme and now I'm stuck on the Android screen.
I have RC 33 and I tried wiping data and still won't work.
Help Please
Anyone know how to get rid of the theme and wipe everything back to RC 33?
I don't have access to my sd card so I can't reinstall RC 33.
Can anyone help me?
please don't spam the boards, this thread is about figuring out what issues are keeping us from installing themes. If you don't have access to another computer you can't reflash the jfrc33 update
daveid said:
I am not a creator but I have some input I guess. It is very puzzling.
I edited Stericson's stock theme template, changed app icons (removed some apps) resigned each APK, modified the framework-res.apk (did not touch any xml files, and tried to only modify images I thought were changed to create Blue Star 5 - my basis for theming). I zipped it up, signed the zip. And updated my phone.
It took a while to get past the android logo (which by the way did not change color as I expected with the new framework files), but eventually booted up for me. No problem. My case may be special, because before I applied my update I removed some stock APK's and all the stock ringtones, ensuring I had room to spare on my /system partition. I removed amazon, email, and IM - the APK's and ODEX's. My update zip that I used initially to apply my theme contained :
All APK's except those listed above - resigned all that I modified.
And JUST the framework-res.apk
I have since modified some more files in the framework and created another update.zip that just included that file - it applied just fine.
However, no one else has been able to install this theme on their phone (that I know of), and I can't figure out why. Maybe it is the space that I had free?
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I think you are on to something with this, I removed the amazon app then reflashed one of my update files and now my custom my faves icon showed up. Of course i got forceclose on a few things and my phone wouldn't find service. I wonder how we see how much free space is in system
I am not spamming.
Obviously I installed a theme which caused my phone to screw up.
Don't worry I'll try and figure it out myself, thanks for your help.
Possible solution to RC33 theme crisis!
Ok I'm not entirely sure how or why this works, but with any luck a sharper mind will! Whenever i replaced the application icons or frame images the phone hangs at boot and i'm forced to unplug and restore via nandroid. However if i copy the image file, edit it with gimp and then put it back (resigning both the apk and the zip, it updates perfectly. At present i have modified about half of my icons and got a new splash screen. I just thought i'd share this success and hope someone can work out whats different about the new icons etc.
three posts in 10 minutes is spamming. starting a new thread would have been better
I am not sure what changed but i tried copying the PNGs i changed in framework-res from FadetoBlue and it won't go past the first screen. But i did try editting a bunch of files from RC33 and it works fine. So i think most the themes will need to be rebuilt from RC33.
Just my 2cents. hope i am wrong though.
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I think you are on to something with this, I removed the amazon app then reflashed one of my update files and now my custom my faves icon showed up. Of course i got forceclose on a few things and my phone wouldn't find service. I wonder how we see how much free space is in system
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From terminal emulator or ADB run "df".
Try removing some stock APKs from your update file, and see where that gets you. Of course, remove them from your phone.
Safe ones are (if you don't use them) com.amazon.mp3, email, IM. You can remove the apks and odex's if you don't use those programs. That's what I did and my theme flashed fine on my phone, but not on others (who probably have those files installed) also I removed the stock ringtones, you can just pull the whole /system/media folder and push it back after testing.
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I am not sure what changed but i tried copying the PNGs i changed in framework-res from FadetoBlue and it won't go past the first screen. But i did try editting a bunch of files from RC33 and it works fine. So i think most the themes will need to be rebuilt from RC33.
Just my 2cents. hope i am wrong though.
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I just copied pngs as well, and it did work for me. I think Stericsson hit it on the head when he mentioned free space in my other thread. Definitely an avenue to explore.
yeah this is a free space issue, with the stock rc33 update I only have 352k avail in system, I just made a file with only app icons being changed, by rebuilding from scratch and now system has 0 available and not all my icons flashed over, infact it even removed myfaves.
Ok, I am so flippin' confused right now!
I am running redemptive revolution rom and noticed that the background for the clock is "missing" (or just transparent).
I have looked at the png files inside the apk for htcclockwidget but can't seem to figure out what is changing the color!
I've even tried pushing the htcclockwidget.apk file from other roms to the phone but they never work. (always end missing from the widget adding screen) even after changing permissions with root explorer the widget never shows up after numerous restarts!
Anyone have a suggestion that I might not have tried?
ok, feel free to delete this.....I tried flashing a new clock via recovery and it actually worked that way!
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Also, I think I would have been fine replacing it with root explorer too but needed to go into programs and find HTC Sense and clear data! (just in case someone else runs into the same problem I had)
New to the CM7 world, but not new to rooting, I have been messing with my system files and I want to know if i did something wrong:
I purchased ADW Ex and wanted that launcher to be my only one, so I used the new ROM Toolbox and froze ADW with no problems. This still wasn't good enough for me (Aren't we all tweakers, that's why we are here?) so I deleted ADW in system/app and moved ADW Ex from data/app to the system/app. - Rebooted. My EVO seems to be running fine but when I look at the app in the android applications it says its only 684kb. The only place I see it showing its full size (1.8mb) is Root Browser (ROM Toolbox). I did not move the app to the SD so where is the rest of the apk file? Did I do this procedure correctly? I nandriod so I don't mind back-tracking.
Typically the app will show a smaller size if its not in the system vs the sd card. Though if the launcher is working and no fcs, then you did it right and should have no problems.
After rooting my SGS2 and installing Cyanogen Mod 9 I have loads of apps that can do things which other apps can do, if that makes sense. I currently have the following apps installed and I want to know which ones I can remove because they duplicating their features, kind of like on a PC where you have Google Chrome, IE, Firefox...like you have 3 web browsers un necessarily.
Rom toolbox Pro
Terminal Emulator
Superuser
SMS Backup & Restore
Lucky Patcher
Root Explorer
Rom Manager
Busybox free
AppExtractor
Chainfire 3D
CWM
Titanium Backup
So for example Rom Toolbox Pro has a root browser so can I delete Root explorer?
Also is there a way where I can change my theme back to how it was? I am so used to like the standard SGS2 layout and theme I just wondered if I can change it back. Like I am finding it weird getting used to the keyboard, when I pull down the notification bar I don't have wifi, bluetooth, gps, 3g, auto rotation anymore. And the messaging layout is different etc.
And is there a way where I can get back my old default apps like My files, Music, Task Manager...I know that there are apps that can do that but I kind of liked having the default ones that were there?
Thanks peoples.
Okay I just found out that Samsung Apps only work on official Samsung ROMs right? That's what I have just read here..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1654574
Yeah thats right, just copy&paste the Samsung .apks wont work, but they can be ported in order to work.
Hi Guys,
I used a system uninstaller to get rid of some bloat for system included apps like the original file explorer, music apps etc. I must had selected the default Home app so i am unable to get back to the normal looking home screen. I was able to do a factory reset (shouldn't have in hindsight, as this deleted the uninstall app as well as the removed home apk). Got back into settings as notification bar works and switch to Easy Home.
Whenever i switch to standard Home the phone hangs, i can only use Easy Home atm.
So the question is how to obtain the default KitKat (v10l) home.apk and where should i place it?
Thanks in advance.
hippo2s said:
Hi Guys,
I used a system uninstaller to get rid of some bloat for system included apps like the original file explorer, music apps etc. I must had selected the default Home app so i am unable to get back to the normal looking home screen. I was able to do a factory reset (shouldn't have in hindsight, as this deleted the uninstall app as well as the removed home apk). Got back into settings as notification bar works and switch to Easy Home.
Whenever i switch to standard Home the phone hangs, i can only use Easy Home atm.
So the question is how to obtain the default KitKat (v10l) home.apk and where should i place it?
Thanks in advance.
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Afaik, LG Home path is /system/priv-app/LGHome.apk
You can extract the apk from the Official v10l KDZ using LG Compressed KDZ Extractor (requires python). Unless someone is kind enough to provide the apk?
Here you go. Lollipop version.
Thanks for this but it didn't work as i am on KitKat.
Can someone else provide me the apk from their v10l?
I guess copying out of that system directory should work too rather than extracting from KDZ.