Is it possible to replace the HTC "Messages", "People" and "Phone" with the default Android Apps or apps from another android phone?
Yes the stock ones are certainly possible. The easiest way would be to download Cyanogenmod 6 and extract them from there and then push them to your phone.
I have done this before and can confirm it works just fine.
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Is there any way to install the Android 2.2 original Dialer and Contacts (like in SDK) instead of Motorola's one?
I tried renaming BlurDialer.apk and BlurContacts.apk before installation, no luck. Also Contacts.apk from Desire ROM or SDK image cannot be installed even with adb install or update.zip from recovery.
I realize that these apps are highly integrated into system, but I'm sure there must be some way... And I know that any good 3rd party dialer may suit my needs, but so is the original one.
This is something I really want too. I can't add a contact without a valid account? That's really dumb. This can't be the original Android dialer app, although I've never used another Android phone so I'm not sure. Any ideas?
The reason I wanted to go to the original Android dialer/contacts was because of a bug, not being able to add anything "without an account" which was present in all of the ROMs I tried. I flashed the Chinese 2.2, bricked the phone and was unable to go back, as I guess I was pushed an update OTA that restricted downgrading. Ended up flashing the official leaked T-Mobile Froyo ROM and I can now add contacts.
have you found a way to install contacts.apk ?
I would be interested in this, too.
drait said:
I would be interested in this, too.
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You can count me in too. I love the Froyo contacts!
I recently did a root on my phone, but everything has been left stock. All I did was delete bloatware such as Sprint (NASCAR, etc) and NOVA 2 HD. I also installed a Camera.apk (the one without the shutter and auto-focus sounds). I want to keep my phone as is, so if an OTA update comes along, such as ICS, will I run into any problems? I have the old Camera saved in a folder called "bak" in the system folder just in case I ever needed it again.
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I recently did a root on my phone, but everything has been left stock. All I did was delete bloatware such as Sprint (NASCAR, etc) and NOVA 2 HD. I also installed a Camera.apk (the one without the shutter and auto-focus sounds). I want to keep my phone as is, so if an OTA update comes along, such as ICS, will I run into any problems? I have the old Camera saved in a folder called "bak" in the system folder just in case I ever needed it again.
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If you used one of pre-rooted ODIN OneClick packages, just put back Camera.apk and restore the stock kernel if you installed CWM and an OTA will work.
The other pre-rooted packages may or may not work with OTA depending on what they changed.
Android 4.2 keyboard with gesture, its as good as swipe.
http://m.pocketnow.com/2012/10/30/android-4-2-stock-keyboard-now-available-for-download-unofficially
After installing go to languages and input and check Android Key board
Hope it will be useful.
Download and Install
Now, getting it on your device is going to be easy for some of you, and less easy for others. You'll need to be on Android 4.0+, to start.
If you're on a phone with a UI overlay that has the stock keyboard disabled (eg, Samsung TouchWiz, HTC Sense, Sony), you can just download the apk below- no root required. To install, make sure you have "install from unknown sources" enabled in your phone settings, and after installation, go into your phone's keyboard settings and enable "Android keyboard." Then, you can switch to the new keyboard. This may also work on some "stock" Android custom ROMs - but it will not work on stock Android builds distributed by Google.
Get the apk here: http://d-h.st/XuS
If the apk doesn't work, you're running a phone that is either A.) running stock Android (as in, AOSP), or B.) running software that has the stock Android keyboard as an option, you'll need to download this ZIP file, and flash it in recovery. That also means you're going to need root. as you'll be writing to /system/apps. Before you do, though, either back up the stock keyboard (if you don't know how, you probably shouldn't be doing this) or create a full image backup, just in case. Here's that ZIP file:
Get the zip here: http://d-h.st/36D
Source: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...d-4-2-keyboard-with-gesture-typing-right-now/
Android 4.2 camera
available now with photo sphere simply move to system apps and set permissions to rw-r-r- and reboot.some reports of photo sphere force closing but had no problems here
http://www.mediafire.com/?927d7dm454g435o
Here's the working zip, flash from cwm
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33551677
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Have you got the keyboard working?
the camera was already posted here
4.2 keyboard doesn't work with our device.
yah....it dosent start...
I love my WF$....
Works well with my wfs
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how does it work on ur wildfire s??
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nope, keyboard wont start
running AOSP ROM with keyboard bug so flashed the zip and changed in "input" settings but now no keyboard will start.
the onCamie
:crying: This update does not work
Hello people.
I've Samsung S4 phone and I like S memo on it, but I want it on my tablet, So is it possible to get it on my Nexus 7? I already tried to copy the APK To system/apps and gave it permissions by Root Explorer, but it FC
Any help?
Generally, the OEM-specific features are tied to their modified versions of Android and won't run on anything else. For example, you can't install HTC Sense stuff on AOSP either.
Hi, my mom has the Dual modification (GT-I9192). Recently I installed Lineage OS 14.1 with Android 7.1.2 on her phone (because Android 4 didn't support many modern applications already), and she can't get used to the new dialer and contacts applications. She constantly misclicks contacts on the Favorites screen and keeps calling wrong people.
I wonder if it's possible to somehow rip the original apps from the stock firmware and transfer them to the new one, because my mom really liked them. I had downloaded stock firmware (I9192XXUAMH2), opened it with ext4 unpacker, found app folder, but I can't find the right one. SecContacts.apk is what I'm looking for? Anyways, I just don't know the right way to do it. I gained root on the device and looked into the priv-apps folder of the new system, found Dialer and Contacts applications. No sign of SecContacts which I could try switching by the old one. And I'm not sure that it would even be compatible, thinking of different Android versions. Maybe I need some sort of flashable zip of the dialer app for flashing in recovery mode (I use TWRP, but it's not very relevant, I suppose)?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.