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How to port sense ui?

How can i port sense ui to vanilla rom?
Which are interested files?
I already know about needing to edit init.rc, to put customize folder in system and to copy htc apps and libs but i can't get it working, how can i do?

Well, you'll definitely need the htc framework / res in /system/framework
along with Rosie, and the associated widgets in /system/app

adwinp said:
Well, you'll definitely need the htc framework / res in /system/framework
along with Rosie, and the associated widgets in /system/app
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I have to edit framework-res too, right?

No, although you need com.htc.resources.apk.

Ok, i tried to do this but there are some problems
1. There aren't sense colors (for example highlight color is android's original orange)
2. There aren't sense images
3. Notify bar is white and not black
4. Rosie Home FC continuously
How can i fix?

1: copy over the framework from /system/framework from another rom
2: copy over the htc-specific apps from /system/app (you definitely need rosie.apk and htcaddprogramwidget.apk, amongst others)

adwinp said:
1: copy over the framework from /system/framework from another rom
2: copy over the htc-specific apps from /system/app (you definitely need rosie.apk and htcaddprogramwidget.apk, amongst others)
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1. Already tried, stuck on bootscreen
2. Copied all htc apps
Ideas?

Just download Villain, and copy every apk starting with HTC from system/app.
You could try copying the framework too, but I've had a lot of problems porting it over 100% working vanilla builds. Try copying the framework over, but I can't guarantee it'll even boot. I think Villain is pushing it.. there are so many Sense apps and widgets that it seems sluggish.
Adwinp had it just right with his [email protected] roms. Perfect balance of Sense and no-sense. Very quick, but looked like sense.

nprussell said:
Just download Villain, and copy every apk starting with HTC from system/app.
You could try copying the framework too, but I've had a lot of problems porting it over 100% working vanilla builds. Try copying the framework over, but I can't guarantee it'll even boot. I think Villain is pushing it.. there are so many Sense apps and widgets that it seems sluggish.
Adwinp had it just right with his [email protected] roms. Perfect balance of Sense and no-sense. Very quick, but looked like sense.
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I tried taking sense from villain and from hero/espresso hybrid:
- With villain if i copy the framework i can't get the phone to boot, if i don't copy the framework the rom starts but rosie give continuosly FC
- With espresso hybrid without copying the framework the rom doesn't recognize rosie as home, if i copy framework phone doesn't boot
Solutions?

Well
I can safely say it's being worked on . And Even more so that it is possible.
I currently have a working build based on Espresso Rosie with only a few problems in HTC widgets to iron out.
I can't promise when it'll get released (if at all) on my current schedule, but if I find the time to finish it for my personal needs. (I can't currently afford the time to keep flashing from my stock ROM to the Vanilla 2.1 I'm building it on).
I'm sure someone will beat me to a working build, but depending on how this next week goes with my real work, I may or may not have the time to finish it.

Just tried merging villain's framework-res with my rom's one, the phone remains on bootscreen

Exit93 said:
Just tried merging villain's framework-res with my rom's one, the phone remains on bootscreen
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Out of interest - are you trying to re-sign the framework-res? Re-signing it with test keys will force it to hang on the boot screen.
I believe the launcher is the same... correct me if I'm wrong.

nprussell said:
Out of interest - are you trying to re-sign the framework-res? Re-signing it with test keys will force it to hang on the boot screen.
I believe the launcher is the same... correct me if I'm wrong.
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Yeah...
I resigned it with stericson's method

So... we can't modify graphics in that res package? I wanted to customize it

Sorry for the little bit of thread hijacking here.
I too am interested in porting Sense, but to a Samsung device that's currently not supported in this forums - the Galaxy Spica (i5700).
I have tried to copy all HTC apps but the phone did not recognize them. For example, if I push all apps to /system/app and press the home button, the default home comes out and not sense (no prompt either).
Every other app FCs (for example com.htc.music or com.htc.browser).
Copying the HTC framework to the phone would result in eternal bootscreen.
Copying all the libs to the phone would result in hang

[Q] What apk's are not pngopt safe?

I tried to run pngopt on the latest froyo release and after flashing the ROM, the HTC_IME.apk continually force closes.
I ran the pngopt on the entire /system/app dir before flashing and now I recall reading from Fresh's release notes that through experience he knew what apk's did not pngopt well.
Can anyone give me a list of apk's I shouldn't touch with pngopt?

Since I'm sure not a lot of people know the answer to this I will just post my findings so far.
It looks like HTC_IME.apk is the only apk that doesn't like png optimization. I have been running my ROM for several hours and no problems so far after replacing HTC_IME with the original untouched version.
I removed all of the Sprintware first, so there may be problems with those apk's and pngopt, I have no dersire to install those and find out

I've been searching this forum and google. What is pngopt?

ioos said:
I've been searching this forum and google. What is pngopt?
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I'm an idiot. You guys are just talking about generic png optimization aren't you? So you just unzip the apk, optimize it and re-zip? Is there a "favorite" optimizer for linux?

(req)Live Wallpaper Water

Any one have Water Live Wallpaper apk?I lost it after installing JPC.

Is this the one

Thanks, but not this one.I search this, which autumn leaves fall in water.Sorry for bad english.
This:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEsZXHS7J0I

There is no apk just for this wallpaper...
It is include in an apk with other live wallpapers
Here is the apk and obex files
Just put them in system/app folder (make a backup of your own files before!!!)
It's come from JM7

I've missed all the LWP!
I've puted the apk and obex files in system/app folder, but i can't select the LWP from the menu. I've tryed to restore the original files, but the result is the same.
Please help me!

Thank you for the help!
I've installed a new rom and i have the LWP again.

Hi,
i tried to install the given Livewallpaper.apk and odex, but couldn't see any of the livepapers in that apk in the livepaper menu.
therefore i looked into the apk provided in this thread and in my apk from the JPO-Release.
Both apks contain the water pngs and a resource named fall that seems to be the water livewallpaper.
My assumes
- the livewallpaper.apk from the Android 2.1 Release seems not to be compatible with Froyo.
- There is a problem with the livewallpapers.apk that prevents the fall/water livewallpaper to be shown.
I really liked that livewallpaper - any hints what i could do would be appreciated.

Wolkenfels said:
Hi,
i tried to install the given Livewallpaper.apk and odex, but couldn't see any of the livepapers in that apk in the livepaper menu.
therefore i looked into the apk provided in this thread and in my apk from the JPO-Release.
Both apks contain the water pngs and a resource named fall that seems to be the water livewallpaper.
My assumes
- the livewallpaper.apk from the Android 2.1 Release seems not to be compatible with Froyo.
- There is a problem with the livewallpapers.apk that prevents the fall/water livewallpaper to be shown.
I really liked that livewallpaper - any hints what i could do would be appreciated.
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+1 .
That livewallpaper was awesome

Wolkenfels said:
Hi,
i tried to install the given Livewallpaper.apk and odex, but couldn't see any of the livepapers in that apk in the livepaper menu.
therefore i looked into the apk provided in this thread and in my apk from the JPO-Release.
Both apks contain the water pngs and a resource named fall that seems to be the water livewallpaper.
My assumes
- the livewallpaper.apk from the Android 2.1 Release seems not to be compatible with Froyo.
- There is a problem with the livewallpapers.apk that prevents the fall/water livewallpaper to be shown.
I really liked that livewallpaper - any hints what i could do would be appreciated.
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I tried this on fusion 1.2 stock Tmo. Vibrant and had the same problem. It may be because that's a deodexed rom and this won't work without the odex I don't know. But I also had to reflash to get my stock papers back.

i also want that LW too

We all like water Live wallpaper ,and we can't make it run on 2.2 ?

Done
finally got it to run.
i used the apktool to decompile the LiveWallpapers.apk from my Phone (Froyo)
and also decompiled the Eclair Version Mopral posted earlier in the thread.
As i compared the AndroidManifest.xml-files i saw that there were 2 entrys more in the eclair version that defined the water and the polar clock LiveWallpapers.
Simply changing the Manifest and building the apk didn't work.
First i had to get rid of the LiveWallpapers.odex file.
I used xultimate to deodex the LiveWallpapers.apk file (means it put the part of the odex-file into the apk as dex-directory again).
So i deodexed the apk, then decompiled it with apktool, changed the AndroidManifest.xml, compiled it again with the apktool.
Finally i had to sign the apk again so Android let me install it.
I used this tool for that: forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=473580
then i simply pushed the apk onto my phone and installed it.
After that i could pick water as well as the polar clock (which i find very ugly) and both work on my phone.
I hope it works on your phone too - don't forget to make backups! I take no responsibilty if it does not work for you.
sorry for not adding the urls to the tools - but as a new user i am not allowed to post links to outside pages... just google for apktool and xultimate in case you want to do it yourself.

Good detective work!
Don't blame me, blame my keyboard's autocorrection algorithm.

Wolkenfels said:
finally got it to run.
i used the apktool to decompile the LiveWallpapers.apk from my Phone (Froyo)
and also decompiled the Eclair Version Mopral posted earlier in the thread.
As i compared the AndroidManifest.xml-files i saw that there were 2 entrys more in the eclair version that defined the water and the polar clock LiveWallpapers.
Simply changing the Manifest and building the apk didn't work.
First i had to get rid of the LiveWallpapers.odex file.
I used xultimate to deodex the LiveWallpapers.apk file (means it put the part of the odex-file into the apk as dex-directory again).
So i deodexed the apk, then decompiled it with apktool, changed the AndroidManifest.xml, compiled it again with the apktool.
Finally i had to sign the apk again so Android let me install it.
I used this tool for that: forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=473580
then i simply pushed the apk onto my phone and installed it.
After that i could pick water as well as the polar clock (which i find very ugly) and both work on my phone.
I hope it works on your phone too - don't forget to make backups! I take no responsibilty if it does not work for you.
sorry for not adding the urls to the tools - but as a new user i am not allowed to post links to outside pages... just google for apktool and xultimate in case you want to do it yourself.
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great work buddy.
Ok i have followed your guide. All credits to you. I have enabled the falling leaves live wallpaper and its working fine on my i9000 phone.
here is the link :---
http://www.mediafire.com/?31ndvryn56qmia8
Anyone who wants to use it , just replace this uploaded "LiveWallpaper.apk" with the one present in system/app/.
I haven't enabled the polar clock as its the crappiest live wallpaper i have ever seen.
Also remember that i have tested this on fully deodexed Docs Froyo ROM. I cant guaranty for other systems.
OP you can change the thread topic as "Solved" by "Wolkenfels".
Also provide this link in first post for others.

thanks for the link Nickporwal - i thought i had attached the file to my original post but must have done something wrong. Doh.
i have only this apk deodexed all others are untouched.
Cheers

Thank you both.
finally it work again ,tested on Spike Speedy Edition v3.0 OC.
a reboot is required before running WATER livewallpaper

Can somebody show how to do this in a video because i'm a newb @ this lol ?

thanks for this, I was missing this wallpaper. Stupid how they take it out.

nickporwal said:
Also remember that i have tested this on fully deodexed Docs Froyo ROM. I cant guaranty for other systems.
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Works the LWP on JPO rom with speedmod kernel?

beat.kitano said:
Works the LWP on JPO rom with speedmod kernel?
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LWP is just an application - i can see no reason why i shouldn't work with "speedmod".
Cheers
Wolkenfels

[GUIDE] ROM Tweaking

What you will need:
Basic tools
- Notepad++
- ZIP manager tool like 7zip
Advanced tools
- Cygwin
- smali (assembler/disassembler)
- APKTool/APK Multi-tool
Lets Begin:
Download a ROM (we use CM in this guide) of your choice (don’t forget to get the permissions for it modding from the developer) and extract it. When you extract it, you will see at least two folders and one file
Folders
- system
- META-INF
Files
- boot.img [this is not present in defy/defy+ ROMs so don't worry about it ]
NOTE THAT I AM ONLY GIVING DETAILS ABOUT THOSE FOLDER WHICH YOU CAN REMOVE/EDIT
THE \system\bootmenu\2nd-boot\ FOLDER
In this folder you'll find the kernel [zImage] file of the ROM here you can change it with the one you compiled or by others.
The Tts folder
The ‘TTS folder’ is all about Text-To-Speech. It contains all the files needed by the Android system to get Text-To-Speech working. If you are removing the TTS feature from your ROM, make sure you remove this entire folder and the TTS related apps from the ‘system folder’, as this will save a lot of space.
The WiFi and Usr folders
The WiFi folder contains the drivers required by the WiFi module to function. So i strongly recommend NOT to touch this folder. If you delete any file from this folder, you will mess up the WiFi functionality.
The usr folder contains some miscellaneous but very important stuff. It may contain anything and everything needed by the Android operating system. For instance, this folder contains all the key-mapping. If such files are messed with, your device will be non-functional although it will boot.
The Build.prop
The build.prop file is pretty self-explanatory. Here, you can change the most basic things, like the android version that setting shows. Wondered how people are making 2.3.4 look like 4.0.3 in settings? Its build.prop. Also,you can change what ‘About phone’ shows here.
Other things,you can change things like,how long your wifi scans,how much battery your phone saves while in sleep, Dalvik VM heapsize and default ringtones. If you are wondering what # stands for, it signifies that, the particular line is commented out, and the system does not read it. You can use it add comments to the build.prop. This helps others understand, what is the function of a particular tweak.
A guide for some basic build.prop tweaks can be found here.
Please be aware that, these build.prop modifications are not universal. So, you will have to experiment with the tweaks and their values.
The META-INF folder
This folder contains instructions for the Android Recovery about how to work with the files present in the zip. This folder contains many folders, but the only one we need to edit is the update-script file.
Making Flashable ZIP
In order to create a flashable zip, first zip the ‘system, META-INF’ folder and the ‘boot.img’. Let’s name this zip as ‘update.zip’. Next we need to sign the zip. Get a signer here. Put your update zip in the same folder as the signer. Then run the ‘signer.bat’ file. This will sign your zip file. After the signing process is complete, you can change the name of the zip to your liking.

confused
hi,,,i'm new here,,,,
after reading ur post, actually i can't do this,,,
and i installed miui v5 rom and always find crashing about "android process stopped."
and i can't edit the rom or make update of it because of no jnderstanding it, but i like miui so far.
so, can u give me the link of miui v5 rom that not crash, in order to me just to instal it without editting.
thx so much.

gwesal said:
hi,,,i'm new here,,,,
after reading ur post, actually i can't do this,,,
and i installed miui v5 rom and always find crashing about "android process stopped."
and i can't edit the rom or make update of it because of no jnderstanding it, but i like miui so far.
so, can u give me the link of miui v5 rom that not crash, in order to me just to instal it without editting.
thx so much.
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Checkout my miui thread I have already posted the original link there
D5+/cm11/1.2GHz.
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coolshahabaz said:
Checkout my miui thread I have already posted the original link there
D5+/cm11/1.2GHz.
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which one???
is it the official rom from miui site or edited rom you created??
actually its take too long doenloading from official site. but rom i doawnloaded is always crashing android.process.stopped.

gwesal said:
which one???
is it the official rom from miui site or edited rom you created??
actually its take too long doenloading from official site. but rom i doawnloaded is always crashing android.process.stopped.
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The one I edited had that prob of crashing, n the one on official site is about 240mb ty its taking time
D5+/cm11/1.2GHz.
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[TEST] Android 5.0 deodexed system G900FXXU1BNL2

This is deodexed system part of G900FXXU1BNL2 ROM.
It's for chiefs and devs only and cannot be flashed directly.
Because i don't have S5 device, i cannot test it by myself. So, i'm asking qualified devs with S5 to try to make ROM based on this package and make a report if it can boot or even work.
Some important notes:
1) Because almost all APKs were originally odexed, all of them were required deodexing and then signing. So, original signatures are lost. I've used standard android development test certificate. Usually it's ok for system APK which never update from Play Store (only through ROM updates).
Thus, probably some APKs won't work correctly. You can delete such APK and replace it with one from Google Play store. Btw, Play Store is also resigned and may be won't work with Google servers (need to check).
Also, all resigned APKs won't be able to update in Play Store - so you need to replace such APKs with those from Play Store as well.
2) Following APKs i wasn't able to deodex without errors and not include in package:
Maps.apk
Music2.apk
DocumentService.apk
3) In Android 5.0 APKs having library, they are placed in lib folder of APK sub-folder. While deodexing, i've put these libs inside APKs. Probably, you need to extract these libs and put them all into /system/lib (same as all pre-5.0 ROMs).
4) I've placed APKs similar to pre-5.0 way (not every apk in its own folder). I hope it will work this way. If device won't be able to boot, then place them as in original system structure.
Those, who can build the ROM, please test it and tell me about result.
https://mega.co.nz/#!A4kynJpR!pobkpLuFBAUnhtnUwgJSa2KfT6S8apqWwYD5Asb83DU
Update 1:
- contains only modified parts of system, i.e.: only framework, app, priv-app dirs.
- app and priv-app dirs now have correct structure: each apk in its own dir and lib sub-dir.
- not re-signed, i.e. all apks contain original Samsung or Google certificate
- oops, i've forgot to delete Maps.apk, Music2.apk and DocumetService.apk - they were deodexed with errors and most likely won't work.
https://mega.co.nz/#!1l1BlSza!QN1fNyrU7qtwBu6xqkBRH85h3rL81Rvlc-JZv1OtMeE

Nice build
Sadly im just a normal rom builder with knowledge on v4.4 and below, idunno on v5.0 have to learn it to make good roms out of it

Procedures with 5.0 should be the same. The only difference i've found is placing apks in separate subfolder. I think, it required only for pre-odexed ROMs. So, just need to make an usual ROM, same as 4.4 and then check if it work.

sorg said:
Procedures with 5.0 should be the same. The only difference i've found is placing apks in separate subfolder. I think, it required only for pre-odexed ROMs. So, just need to make an usual ROM, same as 4.4 and then check if it work.
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Very good than ill give it a try when home
But im not an advanced dev sadly dont expect much [emoji14]

I've tested it out, by putting all your deodexed apk's in their folders of my odexed XtreStoLite 2.0 TW Lollipop BETA ROM (and removed the 'arm' folders), also extracted out the lib files from your apk files, and put them in the 'lib' folder.
And replaced mine framework folder with your deodexed one...
But the phone doesn't boot up then.
So your deodexed files are probably not working.

edgarf28 said:
I've tested it out, by putting all your deodexed apk's in their folders of my odexed XtreStoLite 2.0 TW Lollipop BETA ROM (and removed the 'arm' folders), also extracted out the lib files from your apk files, and put them in the 'lib' folder.
And replaced mine framework folder with your deodexed one...
But the phone doesn't boot up then.
So your deodexed files are probably not working.
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No log?

edgarf28 said:
I've tested it out, by putting all your deodexed apk's in their folders of my odexed XtreStoLite 2.0 TW Lollipop BETA ROM (and removed the 'arm' folders), also extracted out the lib files from your apk files, and put them in the 'lib' folder.
And replaced mine framework folder with your deodexed one...
But the phone doesn't boot up then.
So your deodexed files are probably not working.
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logcat would be helpful.
Also you can try it step by step. At first, use odexed framework, and my deodexed APKs in subfolders (use my framework.apk and twframework.apk for certificate match).
Then try to put deodexed APKs into common folder (like 4.4 ROM).
If either of above will work, then try to replace the framework jar files.
It's not exactly because of wrong deodexing. May be you need to keep /arm/boot.* files in order to pass initial boot. And then may be OS will re-create new boot.
So, need to try different combination and look what you get in logcat. May be 5.0 requires some additional steps for deodexed ROMs.
Btw, after extracting libs, don't delete them from APKs.

Just checked CM12 ROM structure:
1) copy each APK in its separate folder (same as stock 5.0 ROM).
2) extract lib to separate lib folder (same as stock 5.0 ROM)
3) all arm folders should be deleted (including framework/arm)

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/deodex-lollipop-system-apps-with-ease/ ???

I've tried to replace some apps by deodexed singly (e.g. SamsungCamera3, SecMms_Candy, TeleService), of course with deleted corresponding arm folder
Unfortunately, none of them work (even completely unmodified), only FC ...

_alexndr said:
I've tried to replace some apps by deodexed singly (e.g. SamsungCamera3, SecMms_Candy, TeleService), of course with deleted corresponding arm folder
Unfortunately, none of them work (even completely unmodified), only FC ...
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can you provide logcat? FC may be related to incompatible certificate.

sorg said:
can you provide logcat? FC may be related to incompatible certificate.
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See attachment... logcat while I'm trying to run deodexed SamsungCamera3

_alexndr said:
See attachment... logcat while I'm trying to run deodexed SamsungCamera3
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I don't see anything about SamsungCamera3 in logcat... If you get FC, then at least FC reason should be shown in logcat.

If it fc post the dumpstate_app_error.txt.gz from data/log rather than taking a log. Guaranteed to include all info

sorg said:
I don't see anything about SamsungCamera3 in logcat... If you get FC, then at least FC reason should be shown in logcat.
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My mistake. I have not looked at sending and uploaded incomplete file. Now it should be ok
Goldie said:
If it fc post the dumpstate_app_error.txt.gz from data/log rather than taking a log. Guaranteed to include all info
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This file is also attached

Assuming this permission is in manifest to start with it looks like some issue with actually reading the manifest?
12-12 09:09:30.688 6530 6530 E AndroidRuntime: Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: Requires SET_ANIMATION_SCALE permission

Goldie said:
Assuming this permission is in manifest to start with it looks like some issue with actually reading the manifest?
12-12 09:09:30.688 6530 6530 E AndroidRuntime: Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: Requires SET_ANIMATION_SCALE permission
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While deodexing i didn't touch neither resources nor manifest, only injected dex then signed and then aligned. Probably, because re-signed apk uses different certificate (obviously, i don't have Samsung's private key), OS denies some system level access.
Usually, when i create custom ROM i resign all APKs which use Samsung certificate - thus all system APKs share the same signature and everything works.

Why do you resign all samsung apks? System apps do not require signing unless manifest is changed. Is this something you have always done?
Disabling signature checking may fix this then I guess or not resigning in the first place

Goldie said:
Why do you resign all samsung apks? System apps do not require signing unless manifest is changed. Is this something you have always done?
Disabling signature checking may fix this then I guess or not resigning in the first place
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No problem, i will update pack with updated structure without resigning.
In my custom ROM i do many changes, sometimes including manifest change and adding additional system APKs imported from other devices or written by myself.

sorg said:
While deodexing i didn't touch neither resources nor manifest, only injected dex then signed and then aligned. Probably, because re-signed apk uses different certificate (obviously, i don't have Samsung's private key), OS denies some system level access.
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Goldie said:
Why do you resign all samsung apks? System apps do not require signing unless manifest is changed. Is this something you have always done?
Disabling signature checking may fix this then I guess or not resigning in the first place
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And... this was the cause :laugh:
I've put classes.dex from @sorg 's apk to original SamsungCamera3.apk and it works as deodexed !!!!!!
I will try to baksmali, then modify the code and smali again