No ADB knowledge needed. Just follow instructions.
1. Download mini-adb Here
2. Extract that and put it on your desktop.
3. Download original image file Here
4. Extract the image file using winrar, and put the extracted file onto your desktop.
5. Go into the extracted image file you extracted in step 4, and navigate to
Desktop\ota_odex_V1.1\system\app and find swype.apk.
6. Take the swype.apk, copy it, and paste it into your mini-adb folder you extracted in step 2. Put it here: Desktop\EZ-MiniADB\MiniADB. The folder should also have RunMe.bat and adb.exe, and also the newly pasted swype.apk
7. Go back into the extracted image file you extracted in step 4, and navigate to Desktop\ota_odex_V1.1\system\lib and find libSwypeCore.so
8. Copy and paste that libSwypeCore.so into the same folder you pasted the Swype.apk
9. Go download HTC sync and install it.
10. Plug your phone into the laptop and make sure debugging mode is on.
9. Now go to your mini-adb folder on your desktop and double click RunMe.bat
10. When the black command prompt window pops up, type the following:
adb remount [PRESS ENTER]
adb push libSwypeCore.so /system/lib/ [PRESS ENTER]
adb push swype.apk /system/app/ [PRESS ENTER]
11. Unplug your phone, and you are done! You can set the option of using swype in your settings!
+1 Thanks if you got Swype Working
ADB KNOWLEDGE
Now that you used ADB to push the files, you can also use ADB to push other things to other places. Just make sure whatever you want to push is in the same folder as your RunMe.Bat....
or you could use the root explorer app and extract the files, move the files and install the apk from there... much easier and you dont have to use ADB
WarBird87 said:
or you could use the root explorer app and extract the files, move the files and install the apk from there... much easier and you dont have to use ADB
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Quite frankly I never came across with a guide with your method. If you think your way is better, go make a guide for it. All the guides I came across didn't work for me except for this one, so that is why I made a guide.
I also found this .apk called Swype Restore in the Cyanogen forums.
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/...over-your-swype-after-installing-cyanogenmod/
Does the tutorial mentioned in OP require me to have this Cyanogen mod installed ? .. I just got a Desire Z about a week or two ago and I'm just running the default stuff and would like to just install Swype into that directly if possible ..
Or just sign up for the beta and install it...
Mnemoch said:
Or just sign up for the beta and install it...
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If you take the effort to do it this way, you can always reinstall swype in like 3 seconds, beceause the apk and the lib file is already in ur mini adb folder.
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Can anyone color the green parts of this icon red for me?
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Which icon do I need to replace if I want to use one of these, and where is it located? Thanks much.
Much Thanks
jonnybueno said:
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Thanks a bunch Johnny. Im way past due in sending some baby formula your way!!!
Icon Replacement
nyonya said:
Which icon do I need to replace if I want to use one of these, and where is it located? Thanks much.
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Its in System/App/vending.apk
ic_launcher_androidmarket.png
ic_market_bag_normal.png
Remember you will need to push these back thru adb shell after your done.
PS. The files need to be renamed also to the ones listed above.
craigmack said:
Its in System/App/vending.apk
ic_launcher_androidmarket.png
ic_market_bag_normal.png
Remember you will need to push these back thru adb shell after your done.
PS. The files need to be renamed also to the ones listed above.
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I tried replacing the first file (I can't even figure out where ic_market_bag_normal appears, so I decided to leave it alone for now) and pushing back the apk, no go, my market icon is the same as before. Just to be sure, I replaced the icon in both the drawable-hdpi and drawable-mdpi folders. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
Instructions
nyonya said:
I tried replacing the first file (I can't even figure out where ic_market_bag_normal appears, so I decided to leave it alone for now) and pushing back the apk, no go, my market icon is the same as before. Just to be sure, I replaced the icon in both the drawable-hdpi and drawable-mdpi folders. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
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This is what I did.
1. adb pull /system/app/Vending.apk
2. Used the same icon for both files.
3. Named one ic_launcher_androidmarket.png and the other ic_market_bag_normal.png
4. I copied these two files to the following spots:
C:\sdk\tools\Vending.apk\ (This is the location as soon as you open up the Vending.apk file)
C:\sdk\tools\Vending.apk\res\drawable-hdpi\
5. Placed the the new Vending.apk file on my sd card
6. Reboot into recovery
7. Mount System and SDCARD
8. adb shell
9. su
10. /system/bin/cat /sdcard/Vending.apk > /system/app/Vending.apk
11. /system/bin/chmod 4777 /system/app/Vending.apk
12. exit
13. adb reboot
Make sure the "V" in Vending is capatilized. I had this problem at first.
craigmack said:
This is what I did.
1. adb pull /system/app/Vending.apk
2. Used the same icon for both files.
3. Named one ic_launcher_androidmarket.png and the other ic_market_bag_normal.png
4. I copied these two files to the following spots:
C:\sdk\tools\Vending.apk\ (This is the location as soon as you open up the Vending.apk file)
C:\sdk\tools\Vending.apk\res\drawable-hdpi\
5. Placed the the new Vending.apk file on my sd card
6. Reboot into recovery
7. Mount System and SDCARD
8. adb shell
9. su
10. /system/bin/cat /sdcard/Vending.apk > /system/app/Vending.apk
11. /system/bin/chmod 4777 /system/app/Vending.apk
12. exit
13. adb reboot
Make sure the "V" in Vending is capatilized. I had this problem at first.
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Thanks for the instructions. I did exactly that, but my icon still has not changed. Is there temporary files I need to delete somewhere, or something like that?
Thanks.
im not sure yet if this has changed with 2.2 , but with 2.1 you cannot theme the market app...and make it stick. There is an update that market automatically installs, this can be found in /data/apps/ but ive tried theming that aswell to find it only FCs... Even after resigning! So hope that 2.2 doesnt have an updated version pushing the system version aside.
i was tolf to move this here this is a question ,,,idk how to do step 5..it has to do with movin file to sd card im guessing..idk help me?
help me root my phone i dont understand this im really f'd up this is like dsa adveture
ok here is the problklmemo
"Step 5: Plug your phone into the computer via USB, Make sure that the connection type in the Notification Pull-Down Bar is "Charge Only", not "Disk Drive" or else this won't work.
If your computer asks you to restart after the new drivers were installed, do that now
Once ready, type these commands in cmd prompt from your adb tools directory.
Code:
adb push unrevoked-forever.zip /sdcard/
adb push flash_image /data/local/
adb push rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin /data/local/tmp/
adb push mtd-eng.img /sdcard/
adb push PC36IMG.zip /sdcard/"
oksssssss now..one person say i right click on tools and open cmd,,,so i dids that
then i type it in and its doesnt work..it says adb or abd waterver it is is not a command and its not reconixed...help me please!!!thanjs
i have windows 7 64 bit
Did you do ALL of this first?
Step 1: Download the Android SDK here
Step 2: Extract the Android SDK zip. Move the contents of the extracted zip to C:\
Your Android tools folder path should now be C:\android-sdk-windows\tools
Step 3: Download HTC Sync 2.0.40 here
Run the installer. Move on once installed. If reboot is required, do so and then move on.
Download my evo-root.zip.
It contains a few files necessary to root the EVO.
Unzip the contents of the zip to your android sdk tools folder.
Download the unrevoked-forever.zip
Place this zip in your tools folder as well, as a zip, not extracted.
Download this PC36IMG.zip (This is the same as running an RUU, so it will delete all of your user data when we use it later in the guide, so backup everything you want to save on your phone first)
Put this zip in your sdk tools folder as well, as a zip, not extracted.
After unzipping the contents of evo-root.zip to your android sdk tools folder and placing the PC36IMG.zip and unrevoked-forever.zip in the folder, move on.
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You need to change the directory to your tools fold so that the computer can execute advanced commands. Look for a thread about setting up adb. In the thread it will tell you the steps to do so. I would post this for you however I do not have access to a computer and I am use to using advanced on a Mac.
Sent from my PC36100
nebenezer said:
Did you do ALL of this first?
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yes i did i had no problems untill step 5
Read my post in the thread you created in development.
How do I get these Icons for my status bar? Ive looked in themes and apps and flashed a couple but I still dont get all the icons to stick. any ideas?
The first attachment is what I want and the second is what I have.
Please help!
If you know how you need to put them in the com.htc.resources.apk also
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roscoenr said:
If you know how you need to put them in the com.htc.resources.apk also
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How do I do that?
Do you have adb
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roscoenr said:
Do you have adb
Sent from my unrEVOked using xda app
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I sure do!
connect you phone with debugging on. open up you cmd, cd to you rsdk tools folder, use command adb
pull /system/framework/com.htc.resources.apk.
once you have done this the com.htc.resources.apk will be in you tools folder. Make 2 copys of this to a place that you can work with it. Leave one of these alone. take your other one and you open this with 7zip DONT UNZIP THIS ONLY OPEN. navagate to res\drawable-hdpi inside you will find many png file find the png that is what you have on your status bar and replace it with the one you are wanting making sure they are named the same. once you have all your files replaced close it up. Take your modded com.htc.resources.apk and place it in your sdk tools folder. With your phone connected open you cmd cd back to your sdk tools folder and use the commands
adb remount
adb push com.htc.resources.apk /system/framework
adb reboot
after you have issued the last comand let it set your phone will reboot its self and you should have your handy work
roscoenr said:
connect you phone with debugging on. open up you cmd, cd to you rsdk tools folder, use command adb
pull /system/framework/com.htc.resources.apk.
once you have done this the com.htc.resources.apk will be in you tools folder. Make 2 copys of this to a place that you can work with it. Leave one of these alone. take your other one and you open this with 7zip DONT UNZIP THIS ONLY OPEN. navagate to res\drawable-hdpi inside you will find many png file find the png that is what you have on your status bar and replace it with the one you are wanting making sure they are named the same. once you have all your files replaced close it up. Take your modded com.htc.resources.apk and place it in your sdk tools folder. With your phone connected open you cmd cd back to your sdk tools folder and use the commands
adb remount
adb push com.htc.resources.apk /system/framework
adb reboot
after you have issued the last comand let it set your phone will reboot its self and you should have your handy work
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Are there certain png files I am looking for once I get the file open or will that just stick out at me?
Easiest way I found is look for the ones you see on you're phone
I'm following the guide at http://solo.dc3.com/dinc/ and I'm on step 2 where you move all of the crapware back to /system/app. I made the mistake of deleting the apps instead of moving them, so I re-downloaded them from http://www.chadhaney.com/droidIncDefault/ (both the apps and the odex files). I followed all of the instructions under step 2 for moving the files back, but none of them show up in /system/app after rebooting the phone. Since I'm copying the files from my computer to the phone, the command I used was
Code:
adb push C:\path\to\file \system\app
and it seemed to work (I didn't get any errors). Is there something I'm missing?
thevoiceless said:
I'm following the guide at http://solo.dc3.com/dinc/ and I'm on step 2 where you move all of the crapware back to /system/app. I made the mistake of deleting the apps instead of moving them, so I re-downloaded them from http://www.chadhaney.com/droidIncDefault/ (both the apps and the odex files). I followed all of the instructions under step 2 for moving the files back, but none of them show up in /system/app after rebooting the phone. Since I'm copying the files from my computer to the phone, the command I used was
Code:
adb push C:\path\to\file \system\app
and it seemed to work (I didn't get any errors). Is there something I'm missing?
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Whenever I push something, I put the file in the Android SDK - Tools folder, then run the adb push command. EX) adb push Gmail.apk /system/app/
That way you aren't having to type out the path to the file. Also make sure that when you are in recovery, you mount /system first, then run the adb push command.
I deleted my gmail by mistake. Using root explorer. I cant download it from the market. Were can I get the apk to restore.
You could download one of the ROMs in the Dev section. Take the .apk out of there and push it to /system/app.
However, I'm not 100% positive it will work because of the .odex file.
I found one that was 2.3.5.2 and was modded for the go launcher ex notifactions. Works but not the same as the one that was installed. Its a different look basically. Why wouldnt google have this in the market.
Here's the stock image from google. You can pull it from there.
I take it you have the VZW GN : https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/mysid-icl53f-factory-65895fa8.tgz
yes verizon. i did try and pull the gmail.apk from a rom and tried to install and it wont.
how do i pull the gmail from that file u linked??
You should try pushing it with ADB.
Code:
adb push Gmail.apk /system/app
El Daddy said:
You should try pushing it with ADB.
Code:
adb push Gmail.apk /system/app
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i suck with adb. what do i need to do?
1) Put the .apk in the same folder as adb.exe (located in Android SDK\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools on my computer. Yours could be different.)
2) Open the command window directed at that folder. (Hold shift and right click then from the drop down window click "open command window here")
3) Then enter
Code:
adb push Gmail.apk /system/app
4) Then
Code:
adb reboot
I've attached the Gmail.apk
it says im a read only file system and will not push it.
The file you sent me is working now. All I did was install the apk file like any other apk using root explorer. Thanks alot for all the help.
Yeah I forgot you had to be rooted.
Glad it worked for you.
Iam rooted. Thats what is werid. Only way I can use root explorer is if im rooted.