I finally took the jump to cm7 final as the first installed rom on my phone, had been rooted for a while now. It loaded LauncherPro with no issues but most of my system app shortcuts don't work. How can I get access to the Dialer? I wanted to create a custom shortcut with LauncherPro and change my icon. Where may I find it? Same with contacts?
Ok I feel like a idiot because I found them under apps named as contacts and phone under applications. I was looking at the Activities, sorry.
No need to feel like an idiot each ROM is different and takes some getting used to. The fact you were able to figure it out on your own will make you feel that much more comfortable with your new ROM.
Related
Hey there, im rooted etc... basically i had a quick question
I currently use LauncherPro as my default home app, and have absolutely no intention of going back to the stock rosie app.. im not looking to take all the sense stuff away, basically all im wondering, is what is the command to run in adb in order to remove the sense launcher specifically so that launcherpro is the only one that i have?? Everytime i open task killer i see senseui running in the background even when its not being used so ide like to take it completely off so its not hogging memory
sounds like you want this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=718701
As above, I'm looking for a contacts widget that will work with 2.3.3. Does anyone know of any? I've tried a half dozen or so from the market but they either don't work, or don't work the way I want them to.
I'm just looking for a non-scrolling sense type one. I don't want to install any launchers or anything like that, I'm happy with the phone as it is in that respect, so I would rather have a static one.
The closest one to the mark was Contact Widget, it looked the part but was very buggy. It was meant to show 20 contacts at any one time but after I had selected the 20, it then only displayed 4 and pretty much froze. Not sure if that's a 2.3.3 issue or not.
Any recommendations?
If you want one that's non-scrolling, I would suggest not installing anything. Just add shortcuts to your contacts on the home screen. You can also put them into a folder if you so choose.
ohyeahar said:
If you want one that's non-scrolling, I would suggest not installing anything. Just add shortcuts to your contacts on the home screen. You can also put them into a folder if you so choose.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for that, 2 years I've been running android and didn't know that lol.
I eventually found and sorted out elixir which does the job nicely.
So I think my biggest complaint on this phone, in my opinion, is touchwiz. I think its plain ugly and makes my phone look like a cartoon. And the apps like the calculator dialer clock calendar etc. all try desperately in subtle and blatant ways to copy apple, which really irritates me because the stock GB apps worked just fine, and in some ways I think better.
Touchwiz goes far beyond the launcher, and I've done everything I know how to do that I've searched to replace my launcher and excessively theme to make my phone look like ICS and keep touchwiz out of my face...but its still irritating to me to open up my contacts and be greeted with this silly interface that makes dialing and finding contacts a swiping-frenzy joke while the stock GB dialer was perfectly fine, and better IMO.
Coming from the Nexus phones with ICS...Gingerbread is no prize either but I think is much better as far as all those apps go. So my question is if its possible to replace the built in dialer, clock, calendar, calculator with .apks or other files? and If so how I would go about doing it? Thanks everyone.
Here's what I do.
Freeze all the touchwiz apps I dont like (i.e. dialer, contacts, launcher, etc.) and I use Apex Launcher and Go Contacts/Go Dialer EX. Works fine, and you can theme that easily.
If you are sporty, you can download a Nexus ICS rom and pull the phone/dialer, contacts, calc, etc. that you like, and try to put it in your system/app folder or data/app folder. havent tried this so it may not work.
minotauri said:
Here's what I do.
Freeze all the touchwiz apps I dont like (i.e. dialer, contacts, launcher, etc.) and I use Apex Launcher and Go Contacts/Go Dialer EX. Works fine, and you can theme that easily.
If you are sporty, you can download a Nexus ICS rom and pull the phone/dialer, contacts, calc, etc. that you like, and try to put it in your system/app folder or data/app folder. havent tried this so it may not work.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thats what I think I may do...but I'm probably going to take the stock GB stuff since I'm thinking ICS stuff wouldn't work right on juggs. I'll try to pull the apk's from eugene's CM7 and see what happens.
Oh sorry, I have ICS on the brain. Forgot to check your sig and see you were on Gingerbread
alot of times, you may be able to find the AOSP version of the apps in the market too.
I tried to get the kitchen to work yet for some reason it just won't run. not sure if it is because I have a 64bit system while it refers to 32bit or not.
My question is that I found a rom I really want to use but don't want the lockscreen,messages app or launcher. Is it just easy enough to edit the roms zip and remove those apk and add the apk for what I want and then flash it?
Yup. Kitchens r crap half the time. I use them to break open the boot.img or add a few things here and there. The rest is done on my own
XDA Moderator
Ok.....
What I have is I want to use AlterRom since it more closely gives what I am after. It has GoLauncher already which I have used since I purchased my phone but I also use GoSMS to work around the 160 Char limit by Sprint. I can install it easily enough but I also want to remove the messaging that is there already because of rom size. I will also be using Swyper keyboard so I want to remove the one installed also for rom size. I use GoLocker so how do I delete the one installed? It doesn't remember what I set as default so it always loads the rom version instead of Golocker?
Can't remove stock messaging or it breaks SMS. Look for keyboard.apk or latinime.apk. for keyboard but remember u need the right lib files to get swype to work. And u can't remove stock lock screen. Its integrated into the os. Look at running pngopt or something to reduce rom size. Or open up each apk and remove language files. Delete live wallpapers or wallpapers u won't use. I've never used alterrom but there is always ways to make a rom smaller.
XDA Moderator
Sorry about that. I said swiper but I meant Swiftkey as a keyboard.
So can I just use Titanium Backup to freeze the stock lockscreen? If so what file would I be looking for?
Fangstien said:
Sorry about that. I said swiper but I meant Swiftkey as a keyboard.
So can I just use Titanium Backup to freeze the stock lockscreen? If so what file would I be looking for?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Nope. Stock needs to be left alone. Golocker should take over. The stock is not an apk. Its built into the frameworks. Unless its sense then there's an apk u can delete
XDA Moderator
Not sure if Sense or not. Says Senseless but OP says 'most' Sense removed. I will share the thread link and hopefully you will be able to tell better.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1550526
To get go locker working right with the stock lockscreen, goto settings>security>screen lock and select none then set go locker as default. This will disable stock lockscreen so it won't interfere with golocker :thumbup:
We are legion, for we are many.
Sent from the DarkSide of the GalaXy with a MEK device
I have done that. I remember once GoLocker had a setting that would force it over stock but I can't find it now. Problem is that when installed I get both lockscreens.
But let me see if I can understand. If I am editing a Sense Rom all I need to do is delete the lockscreen apk,Rosie or whatever is launcher apk and only the apk that handles viewing of messages(not the provider) apk and add the apk of the apps I want to use and then flash the rom correct? I can do this with any app I wish to change out and delete the apk for the files I do not want like Navigation(Google Maps does it) and that's it or do I also need to modify the build.prop to reflect the changes?
No need to make any build.prop edits from what you wanna do.
If its Sense lockscreen look for HtcLockscreen.apk, and delete that.
An enviousOG
Don't remove mms.apk(the messaging app) it will break mms and only SMS will work, just hide the messaging app in the drawer. Removing htclockscreen.apk and [Desktop]Rosie.apk and any HTC Widgets is OK the mms.apk is small enough if you delete all of the Rosie and sense Widgets it won't make much difference. After deleting HTCLockscreen.apk you will be left with the stock android sliders, if you set screen lock to none in security settings you should just go straight to your homescreen or app when u turn the screen on, if that's the case then setting go locker as default should make it so golocker is the only lockscreen you see. Another option since youre going senseless anyways is cm7.2 its much smaller than a sense rom even if the sense rom is senseless :thumbup:
We are legion, for we are many.
Sent from the DarkSide of the GalaXy with a MEK device
Thanks. That is what I was hoping. I really wasn't looking forward to making changes to the build.prop. Not a problem to do on my PC and it'll flash correct?
As for cm7 that was the one I was looking at but I can't get Sprint Zone to work on it. Is an application I use a lot so is kinda important to have.
-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
Don't remove mms.apk(the messaging app) it will break mms and only SMS will work, just hide the messaging app in the drawer. Removing htclockscreen.apk and [Desktop]Rosie.apk and any HTC Widgets is OK the mms.apk is small enough if you delete all of the Rosie and sense Widgets it won't make much difference. After deleting HTCLockscreen.apk you will be left with the stock android sliders, if you set screen lock to none in security settings you should just go straight to your homescreen or app when u turn the screen on, if that's the case then setting go locker as default should make it so golocker is the only lockscreen you see.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If he's talking about Alter ROM, that's all been done already.
Really, that ROM is pretty small to begin with (335MB free internal after default install, plus you can always set up a2sd to move dalvik)
Removing these three small apps doesn't seem like it will result in any meaningful increase in available RAM.
I guess my two questions would be, how much free RAM are you aiming for (and why - do you have that many apps?) and what is so useful about Sprint Zone?
Sent from my PC36100 using xda app-developers app
For the Touchwiz framework, the contact, Dailer, and messaging system I find are a lot more straight forward. Especially for contacts, left swipe to message, right to call on contact row.
I know that the Samsung Stock Apps require Touchwiz, and I tried any possiblilty to try and get them working on the JB 4.3 with CM 10.2 (CM being my favorite for being easy to use and giving me the stuff I want).
So I thought: Why not modify the Samsung Stock Contacts Contact.apk and Dailer and remove the Touchwix framework dependency so it can work on Trebuchet thus, finally work on AOSP custom firmware like AOKP or CM. I would try to research such a thing but It would take me a while to learn anything about coding....The APK coding has already been done with samsungs Contact.apk, I would assume it would be easy to change but then again I don't know.
.
Can such a thing be done to bring back the apps, or has a thing already been done? With two days of research and just snooping around I decide to resort to this. I simply want the simple, darker desingn of the Contact and left and right swipe of contacts to message or call back.
Can't be done from everything ive been told...to many important dependencies
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda app-developers app