I never really use Live Wallpapers on my Evo, but I noticed today that the option is completely gone now. HW 003 with latest stock OTA rooted with unrevoked.
Menu -> Wallpaper from the stock home screen and Launcher Pro Plus are both missing the Live Wallpapers option, and if I try to open a Live Wallpaper from the Market (which installs fine), it tells me my phone does not support Live Wallpapers.
The two things I can think of that I've done lately are installing Launcher Pro Plus and running Fix Permissions from ROM Manager (seeking better battery life). Currently my LiveWallpapers.apk and LiveWallpapersPicker.apk have permissions of 644, but changing them to 777 seems to have no effect (even after a reboot).
I tried several things last night:
uninstalled Launcher Pro
reinstalled busybox
ran fix permissions from Clockwork Recovery
attempted to reinstall LiveWallpapers.apk
I say attempted because the install failed on both LiveWallpapers.apk and LiveWallpapersPicker.apk. I grabbed these from the latest Sprint OTA update.
Now, according to Astro, both apk's are in /system/apps, but there is no uninstall option, just install.
Can anyone lend me a hand? I have a nandroid backup from a few weeks ago, but I don't really want to flash it unless it's absolutely necessary. Thanks in advance.
VaughnOnix said:
I never really use Live Wallpapers on my Evo, but I noticed today that the option is completely gone now. HW 003 with latest stock OTA rooted with unrevoked.
Menu -> Wallpaper from the stock home screen and Launcher Pro Plus are both missing the Live Wallpapers option, and if I try to open a Live Wallpaper from the Market (which installs fine), it tells me my phone does not support Live Wallpapers.
The two things I can think of that I've done lately are installing Launcher Pro Plus and running Fix Permissions from ROM Manager (seeking better battery life). Currently my LiveWallpapers.apk and LiveWallpapersPicker.apk have permissions of 644, but changing them to 777 seems to have no effect (even after a reboot).
I tried several things last night:
uninstalled Launcher Pro
reinstalled busybox
ran fix permissions from Clockwork Recovery
attempted to reinstall LiveWallpapers.apk
I say attempted because the install failed on both LiveWallpapers.apk and LiveWallpapersPicker.apk. I grabbed these from the latest Sprint OTA update.
Now, according to Astro, both apk's are in /system/apps, but there is no uninstall option, just install.
Can anyone lend me a hand? I have a nandroid backup from a few weeks ago, but I don't really want to flash it unless it's absolutely necessary. Thanks in advance.
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I don't use ROM Manager for anything. It is far too easy and more productive to do things manually. Using Root Explorer or another file manager that lets you alter system files, you can easily maneuver to the /system/app folder, select the live wallpaper .apk, select Mount R/W and set the permissions to however you see fit. Hopefully, you've made a nandroid backup of your device PRIOR to making the changes that have caused you these problems. If not, get in the habit of doing so because if things go wrong or you find that you want to return things back to the way they were prior to the change(s), all you have to do is nandroid restore. Everything would be as it was.
dougjamal said:
I don't use ROM Manager for anything. It is far too easy and more productive to do things manually. Using Root Explorer or another file manager that lets you alter system files, you can easily maneuver to the /system/app folder, select the live wallpaper .apk, select Mount R/W and set the permissions to however you see fit. Hopefully, you've made a nandroid backup of your device PRIOR to making the changes that have caused you these problems. If not, get in the habit of doing so because if things go wrong or you find that you want to return things back to the way they were prior to the change(s), all you have to do is nandroid restore. Everything would be as it was.
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Thanks for the response. Root Explorer is indeed how I set the apk's permissions to 777 just to test. I'm not in the habit of making nandroid backups unless I'm flashing something.
I'm not trying to blame ROM Manager and/or Launcher Pro, just wracking my brain trying to figure out how I got here. I could have very easily lost Live Wallpapers long before either of those.
Edit Update:
I broke down and flashed to my nandroid backup from sometime before running fix permissions and installing Launcher Pro... still no Live Wallpapers option. Now I'm out of ideas.
VaughnOnix said:
Thanks for the response. Root Explorer is indeed how I set the apk's permissions to 777 just to test. I'm not in the habit of making nandroid backups unless I'm flashing something.
I'm not trying to blame ROM Manager and/or Launcher Pro, just wracking my brain trying to figure out how I got here. I could have very easily lost Live Wallpapers long before either of those.
Edit Update:
I broke down and flashed to my nandroid backup from sometime before running fix permissions and installing Launcher Pro... still no Live Wallpapers option. Now I'm out of ideas.
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It's been a while since I've used LauncherPro extensively, but and I could be mistaken, but there's a chance that the HTC live wallpaper may be off limits while using LP like many of the HTC widgets are. The reason I say this is because your nandroid restore from long before your fix did not produce any live wallpapers. Do this, if you have the time: go into the applications menu, clear defaults after scrolling down and selecting LauncherPro. Press the home button and then select Sense as your launcher. Now select a live wallpaper and see if it displays. If it does then you know they are off limits to LP.
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dougjamal said:
It's been a while since I've used LauncherPro extensively, but and I could be mistaken, but there's a chance that the HTC live wallpaper may be off limits while using LP like many of the HTC widgets are. The reason I say this is because your nandroid restore from long before your fix did not produce any live wallpapers. Do this, if you have the time: go into the applications menu, clear defaults after scrolling down and selecting LauncherPro. Press the home button and then select Sense as your launcher. Now select a live wallpaper and see if it displays. If it does then you know they are off limits to LP.
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Well, my nandroid was from before I ever installed Launcher Pro, and I'm testing with more than just the HTC live wallpapers, but clearing defaults and data for Launcher Pro changed nothing.
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Hi all.
Im on DC 3.2.3 and Ive spent the past 2 days (ignoring the wife LOL) setting up my "desktop" to my liking. Im running ADWLauncher and do not see any similar option to that of the HTC Sense launcher where i could save a theme that I put together to save the hassle of setting it all up again, should I go a different route and want to revert to a saved theme.
Is this possible to do ?
nyc_zx10 said:
Hi all.
Im on DC 3.2.3 and Ive spent the past 2 days (ignoring the wife LOL) setting up my "desktop" to my liking. Im running ADWLauncher and do not see any similar option to that of the HTC Sense launcher where i could save a theme that I put together to save the hassle of setting it all up again, should I go a different route and want to revert to a saved theme.
Is this possible to do ?
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why not do what alot of us do and back up your current ROM using ROM Manager. that way if you ever decided to test something else new, you can always go back to your currently nice setup ROM within minutes without having to worry about backup and etc...
With Titanium backup, you can backup user and system apps. There is a system app for HTC Sense: Desktop. Just restore that after you flash a new rom, or whatever, and you're right back to the way things were configured before. I use it quite often.
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With Titanium backup, you can backup user and system apps. There is a system app for HTC Sense: Desktop. Just restore that after you flash a new rom, or whatever, and you're right back to the way things were configured before. I use it quite often.
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So the only thing I need to backup in Titanium to restore my current ADW Launcher theme setup, is HTC Sense: Desktop ?
I have sense disabled via DCConfig.
Thanks
I rooted the other day and am running CM6 on my Evo. I don't much like ADW launcher, so I installed Launcher Pro. Every time I reboot my phone it defaults back to ADW. So today, I decided to buy Root Explorer and delete the APK for ADW in my system/apps folder, along with a couple other apps that I don't use. Without doing much research (drinking), I proceeded to delete some APKs. My phone will now not boot. It is stuck on the boot animation (which is beautiful).
Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can fix this issue? I promise to never delete anything again, and stop drinking.
Thanks!
Love, a drunk stupid californian
Yeah hold the volume down +power button while the phone is off till you get to the white screen and select recovery.
reflash from there.
LearnIIBurn said:
I rooted the other day and am running CM6 on my Evo. I don't much like ADW launcher, so I installed Launcher Pro. Every time I reboot my phone it defaults back to ADW. So today, I decided to buy Root Explorer and delete the APK for ADW in my system/apps folder, along with a couple other apps that I don't use. Without doing much research (drinking), I proceeded to delete some APKs. My phone will now not boot. It is stuck on the boot animation (which is beautiful).
Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can fix this issue? I promise to never delete anything again, and stop drinking.
Thanks!
Love, a drunk stupid californian
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well what you should have done is:
1. don't delete something if you don't know what it is
2. simply go to menu>settings>apps>manage apps>adw launcher and hit clear defaults
now to fix it... boot into recover wipe everything and re-flash
HAHA yes thank you. I forgot about my nandroid. Extended memory loss is one of the greatest side effects.
So do you know the proper way to remove apps using root explorer? Or will CM6 trip out if I touch any of its preloaded apps? Thanks for the help
nicholaaaas said:
well what you should have done is:
1. don't delete something if you don't know what it is
2. simply go to menu>settings>apps>manage apps>adw launcher and hit clear defaults
now to fix it... boot into recover wipe everything and re-flash
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I understand this. I did read to delete the apk in the system/apps folder on multiple articles. It's a completely legit way to remove apps according to many people.
And of course I tried to clear ADW's defaults, if that worked I wouldn't be trying to delete it. It starts whenever it wants to despite me telling it not to.
LearnIIBurn said:
HAHA yes thank you. I forgot about my nandroid. Extended memory loss is one of the greatest side effects.
So do you know the proper way to remove apps using root explorer? Or will CM6 trip out if I touch any of its preloaded apps? Thanks for the help
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thru titanium back-up... you can delete pretty much everything/anything you want
LearnIIBurn said:
I understand this. I did read to delete the apk in the system/apps folder on multiple articles. It's a completely legit way to remove apps according to many people.
And of course I tried to clear ADW's defaults, if that worked I wouldn't be trying to delete it. It starts whenever it wants to despite me telling it not to.
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are you using homeswitcher? if you have LP set to default and clear ADW defaults you should be good
LearnIIBurn said:
HAHA yes thank you. I forgot about my nandroid. Extended memory loss is one of the greatest side effects.
So do you know the proper way to remove apps using root explorer? Or will CM6 trip out if I touch any of its preloaded apps? Thanks for the help
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Yeah, research this while not drinking.
PS: Labor Day is tomorrow.
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Barebones
List of things that are okay/not okay to remove.
I'm not sure how up-to-date it is.
When flashing to a new rom, is it needed for me to completely wipe the phone to Factory reset?
Reason why I am asking is because I have everything placed into folders and located where I want them and when I flashed the rom I had to get everything back (Titanium Backup) but I would still have to put the settings how I liked them, the apps into folders, align the folders, have my home screen how I liked it (which took about 2 hours).
Someone said just use the .data file (and restore that after i have flashed to the ROM i want) I have when I backup my Rom before flashing. Basically, factory reset, install new rom, wipe cache, fix permissions. After I reboot, I go back into recovery, go to advanced restore and JUST RESTORE THE /DATA? Will this work?
Supposedly you can restore the Touchwiz settings by restoring the data component of the app after factory resetting and flashing your new ROM.
...I migrated away from Touchwiz some time ago and am using GoLauncher. One of the features it offers is the ability to backup/restore its settings independently. I also find that when I restore it from a Titanium backup it brings back the location of each item on each desktop screen.
One limitation is that neither way will restore widgets. This is apparently a limitation built into Android. If you have lots of widgets you'll need to make note of which ones were placed on which screens and recreate them after flashing.
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Supposedly you can restore the Touchwiz settings by restoring the data component of the app after factory resetting and flashing your new ROM.
...I migrated away from Touchwiz some time ago and am using GoLauncher. One of the features it offers is the ability to backup/restore its settings independently. I also find that when I restore it from a Titanium backup it brings back the location of each item on each desktop screen.
One limitation is that neither way will restore widgets. This is apparently a limitation built into Android. If you have lots of widgets you'll need to make note of which ones were placed on which screens and recreate them after flashing.
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That's the main thing, I tried to search it but did nto find anything definitive on it. The thing I don't like about Go Launcher and Launcher Pro is that I can't really arrange what I want in folders and label them the folders either. That just leads to a large clutter in apps.
Any thoughts?
I have folders in the app drawer and on the desktops with the latest version of golauncher
Using tapatalk on my Galaxy 2 to post this!
ronin4740 said:
I have folders in the app drawer and on the desktops with the latest version of golauncher
Using tapatalk on my Galaxy 2 to post this!
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I like go launcher. Only questions is when backing up, where does it save (I know is says saved to SD but I can't find it in the files to move to the SD card for when I will FLash the phone to a different Rom)?
Also, how much RAM does this take? Does anyone ever use a task manager to close out of apps? It seems that a lot of apps run even when I havent even opened them in weeks.
what's everyone's experience with using the /data technique? Also, does anyone notice a battery drainage use golauncher?
Hi. Cudnt ask this in the ROM thread so hope someone here can answer. Flashed the latest Sparkplug ROM. While setting up my screen I noticed there wasnt a music app. I thought maybe I froze it but the ony thing available is a music widget. When I expanded the zip using 7zip I see data/app contains htcmusic.apk but cannot find it anywhere on my phone. Cannot access the widget from the home screen widget setup cause its not listed as a widget.
c0nn13 said:
Hi. Cudnt ask this in the ROM thread so hope someone here can answer. Flashed the latest Sparkplug ROM. While setting up my screen I noticed there wasnt a music app. I thought maybe I froze it but the ony thing available is a music widget. When I expanded the zip using 7zip I see data/app contains htcmusic.apk but cannot find it anywhere on my phone. Cannot access the widget from the home screen widget setup cause its not listed as a widget.
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That may have been removed or broken in the process of optimizing the ROM (I can't speak for the developer, hopefully he will have a better answer). For now, you can install something like Google Play Music which works well on Sense ROMs. The only thing it will lack that the HTC music player has is lockscreen controls.
Edit: You say htcmusic.apk is in /data/app/ ? It should be in /system/app/ to work, if my thinking is correct.
I think I know what the problem is. You need to boot into recovery, format /system, then re-install the ROM.
back story:
I managed to pick up another inc today and flashed Sparkplug to it, I'm planning on setting it up for my wife. I had the same problem, music and many other of the HTC sense apps were installed, though they did not show up in the menu, and the sense widgets didn't show up in the widgets menu either, something was definitely up with the Sense UI stuff, though the phone ran fine and some of the apps (like flashlight) worked just fine. I had rooted, downgraded, and gotten s-off, then installed the ROM. I had done a factory reset but I had not wiped /system, and that was the problem I think. I installed the ROM the first time with ClockworkMod recovery (I figured that would be needed for s-off to work).
Anyway, I installed TWRP recovery (because I like that better), wiped /system, cache, and dalvik, then installed the ROM again (did NOT do a factory reset this time). As I suspected, all the HTC apps are there and work now, including the music player. I highly doubt usinc TWRP or CWN will make a difference, but I think you need to format /system and reinstall the ROM.
Ok. I tried it. Formatted the system & reflashed. Music APK still was not available but the music widget was. Then I installed ADW launcher & the widget disappeared. So if I want music, I cant use ADW. Think ill just head on back over to touch of blue.
music.apk on Sparkplug
Noticed the same thing here. Anyone know where to get music.apk and how to properly install it? Thanks.
Edit: Never mind, found the answer. I can't post outside links yet so... Google "612827 need music apk file" and that should get you a link to androidforums.com. It's for the Galaxy but the file identified in comment #5 worked for me. Just ran it from my Internet browser using "file:///sdcard/Music.apk" and everything worked. Hope this helps the OP if he is still looking for an answer.
Hello xda member's,
Like most of you I've been running firestarter as a home launcher replacement, but lately been frustrated by the Constance reloading of the stock launcher provider by amazon.
I've edited the stock launcher that still lets setting work ( without it I had trouble with settings not working correctly), by using this launcher it allows you to full get the use out of your firestarter launcher without the need for adb settings being turned on.
simply hitting the home button will take you to firestarter and you can still open firetv launcher if needed by showing system apps.
#My system setup
I have firestarter.apk in /system/priv-app
replaced the stock launcher with the provided one attached ( remember to repair permissions)
Root is required as well.
If anyone is willing to try, I could see if I can make it update without root to gain the same effect, so if your interested without root please let me know if you want to test it.
This is not a flashable zip.... this is done via adb shell with root access, and as I said before if your willing to test for none root please let me know.
resevered
seems sideloading fails trying to update, but worth a shot.
strictly root app.
I'm rooted with 5.0.5
Do i install firestarter v3.2.2.apk then move it to /system/priv-app or just move the apk itself?
Edit: I installed then moved to priv-app. However when in firestarter and i click on AFTV settings nothing happens. It won't open the amazon settings. I had to revert back to the stock launcher.
Spookymyo said:
I'm rooted with 5.0.5
Do i install firestarter v3.2.2.apk then move it to /system/priv-app or just move the apk itself?
Edit: I installed then moved to priv-app. However when in firestarter and i click on AFTV settings nothing happens. It won't open the amazon settings. I had to revert back to the stock launcher.
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i'll take another look at it, make sure i didn't hobble something