I am on EE03, and I edited the manifest of the Settings.apk to remove the Sprint Hotspot bloatware. Going back to the original Settings.apk works, just not my modified version.
Can someone walk me through decompiling, changing the manifest, and recompiling. I am using APKManager.
Is editing this APK possible with the new rom?
Restruct said:
I am on EE03, and I edited the manifest of the Settings.apk to remove the Sprint Hotspot bloatware. Going back to the original Settings.apk works, just not my modified version.
Can someone walk me through decompiling, changing the manifest, and recompiling. I am using APKManager.
Is editing this APK possible with the new rom?
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Did you re-sign it? Or is that only non-system apps?
kennyglass123 said:
Did you re-sign it? Or is that only non-system apps?
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I tried signing and not signing it.
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What's the best way or program to recompile xmls. Im able to use apk manager and apktool to decompile and make my edits but I can never be able to recompile successfully. So is there any other way it can be done?
suwu10 said:
What's the best way or program to recompile xmls. Im able to use apk manager and apktool to decompile and make my edits but I can never be able to recompile successfully. So is there any other way it can be done?
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For just XML ? Are you running Linux/Mac/Win ?
Greetz to Burque !
suwu10 said:
What's the best way or program to recompile xmls. Im able to use apk manager and apktool to decompile and make my edits but I can never be able to recompile successfully. So is there any other way it can be done?
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If there is nothing wrong with your edits apk manager should be able to recomiple without a problem. What error are you getting?
suwu10 said:
What's the best way or program to recompile xmls. Im able to use apk manager and apktool to decompile and make my edits but I can never be able to recompile successfully. So is there any other way it can be done?
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Im aware you stating making your edits is not the issues, but just making sure you made your changes using Notepad++ and not just Notepad....
Sorry I didn't post but i figured it out. I was using a themed framework and system ui so that's why I was getting errors when decompiling and recompiling. I just used as close to stock as possible framework and system ui then dragged over to my theme and it worked
I am interested in changing the color of the text of the status bar. I have already modified all the images I need, now just need to modify the xml.
I am modifying the framework-res.apk colors xml. After I have made the change I recompile the apk. Switch out the Meta-INF and AndroidManifest.xml with the ones from the original apk but when I push to my phone the color of the status bar text isn't changing. These are the lines I have changed:
<color name="status_bar_text">#ff73cd68</color>
<color name="status_bar_clock_text">#ff73cd68</color>
You might find better luck actually pming a themer or posting it in the theme section. Not much Turner's drop by here
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davidc23 said:
You might find better luck actually pming a themer or posting it in the theme section. Not much Turner's drop by here
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yeah I was thinking that, I might just check on the irc channel. Thanks for looking out.
Hmmm did you reboot the phone?
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globalninja said:
Hmmm did you reboot the phone?
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Yeah, I didn't actually push the framework. I created a flashable zip.
dtm_stretch said:
Yeah, I didn't actually push the framework. I created a flashable zip.
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If you got the framework-res.apk to recompile without errors then the changes you made should definitely work. There is no need to sawp anything owhen recompiling, just edit the xml, recompile it as a system app and push it to system/app via root explorer or any equivalent.
Which ROM framework are you trying to modify?
fnut6969 said:
If you got the framework-res.apk to recompile without errors then the changes you made should definitely work. There is no need to sawp anything owhen recompiling, just edit the xml, recompile it as a system app and push it to system/app via root explorer or any equivalent.
Which ROM framework are you trying to modify?
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Thanks ill give that I try.
I am actually modifying the ICS theme for Cakulin's rom.
**Doesn't seem to work either. I should be changing the colors.xml in the framework-res.apk right?
Got it: Make sure to delete the stupid resources.arsc!
dtm_stretch said:
Thanks ill give that I try.
I am actually modifying the ICS theme for Cakulin's rom.
**Doesn't seem to work either. I should be changing the colors.xml in the framework-res.apk right?
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Yes, and although you won't find the values folder when you recompile you'll still need to delete the resources.arsc when recompiling, if you'd like, you can attach the framework-res.apk you're trying to modify and I can change it for you.
I also, stated inadvertently, to place it in system/app that is incorrect it goes in system/framework which may actually be part of the problem.
fnut6969 said:
Yes, and although you won't find the values folder when you recompile you'll still need to delete the resources.arsc when recompiling, if you'd like, you can attach the framework-res.apk you're trying to modify and I can change it for you.
I also, stated inadvertently, to place it in system/app that is incorrect it goes in system/framework which may actually be part of the problem.
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I got it figured out, just before you posted about the resources. Now I just got to figure out why my launcher keeps restarting.
Are the SecPhone.apk corrupt? I can decompile the apk perfectly fine but I cannot get it to recompile after making changes to the xml files. I have tried different SecPhone.apk from different stock ROMs including stock ROMs from the SIII and still same thing. I am currently on XXLSJ stock ROM. If anyone can recompile the SecPhone.apk without any errors please help. Thanks.
princeferoz said:
Are the SecPhone.apk corrupt? I can decompile the apk perfectly fine but I cannot get it to recompile after making changes to the xml files. I have tried different SecPhone.apk from different stock ROMs including stock ROMs from the SIII and still same thing. I am currently on XXLSJ stock ROM. If anyone can recompile the SecPhone.apk without any errors please help. Thanks.
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Excuse me, how do you solved it?
littlethings said:
Excuse me, how do you solved it?
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When you try to recompile the APK, go to the log and find out which XML files having bad lines and just delete those lines. This has at least worked for me. But you can always send me the APK and I'll recompile them for you.
I was just wondering if anyone with the UAMDL software has been able to decompile and recompile the framework on here yet.
I have tried with the APK multi tool and the decompile works fine but when I try to recompile it errors our right away.
Anyone have any luck with this?
If so what tool did you use?
Yes I have.
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I'd like to know this as well, and how people have been successful. I haven't had any luck installing framework-res.apk or recompiling a modified app. From my understanding, it's an issue with apktool and aapt that needs to be updated.
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I was just wondering if anyone with the UAMDL software has been able to decompile and recompile the framework on here yet.
I have tried with the APK multi tool and the decompile works fine but when I try to recompile it errors our right away.
Anyone have any luck with this?
If so what tool did you use?
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That and SystemUI.apk are both missing files needed for them to decompile and recompile right
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elesbb said:
Yes I have.
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Can you elaborate on what tools you used and how to set it up please?
I have been stuck trying to get this to work for over a week now.
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evil1art said:
That and SystemUI.apk are both missing files needed for them to decompile and recompile right
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There are ways for making it work though
TheArtiszan said:
Can you elaborate on what tools you used and how to set it up please?
I have been stuck trying to get this to work for over a week now.
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I used the tool in my signature and you have to remove some layout paramaters in the xml files then recompile and copy the originals over to the newly compiled apk.
elesbb said:
There are ways for making it work though
I used the tool in my signature and you have to remove some layout paramaters in the xml files then recompile and copy the originals over to the newly compiled apk.
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Im the one who figured out the missing style for the systemui
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evil1art said:
Im the one who figured out the missing style for the systemui
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Yeah so did I lol. Ive ran into that issue before and thats all you have to do to get around it.
elesbb said:
There are ways for making it work though
I used the tool in my signature and you have to remove some layout paramaters in the xml files then recompile and copy the originals over to the newly compiled apk.
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We have our own modified apk manger works good
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evil1art said:
We have our own modified apk manger works good
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Ahhh. That makes life a lot easier lol. How did you modify it? Build it from source or edit the jar file?
elesbb said:
Ahhh. That makes life a lot easier lol. How did you modify it? Build it from source or edit the jar file?
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Modified the original files and changed memory heap etc
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Oh okay that makes sense.
I am editing the framework res apk
Making changes only to the arrays.xml file in the values folder.
Which styles should I be commenting out and then which file should I copy to the original?
I tried putting a + in front of a few lines based on the errors I was getting but that seemed to make it worse.
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I think the arrays and other values xml get compiled into the resources file no?
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I think the arrays and other values xml get compiled into the resources file no?
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Everything in the values directory is found in your resources.arsc file in the apk.
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Ah that makes sense.
The changes made for layouts, does that go into the same area though?
Just wondering if that might cause a problem since that is what I would want to move over.
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That is odd.
I can get this to decompile in apk multi tool but not Elesbb's GUI
I get the following error:
Tue 06/25/2013
0:46:56.39
Decompiling.. "C:\Users\Bill\APK GUI\framework-res.apk"
I: Loading resource table...
Exception in thread "main" brut.androlib.AndrolibException: Multiple resources: spec=0x010802f4 drawable/ic_ab_back_holo_dark, config=-hdpi
at brut.androlib.res.data.ResConfig.addResource(ResConfig.java:65)
at brut.androlib.res.data.ResConfig.addResource(ResConfig.java:58)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readEntry(ARSCDecoder.java:197)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readConfig(ARSCDecoder.java:166)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readType(ARSCDecoder.java:131)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readPackage(ARSCDecoder.java:106)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readTable(ARSCDecoder.java:83)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.decode(ARSCDecoder.java:49)
at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.getResPackagesFromApk(AndrolibResources.java:390)
at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.loadMainPkg(AndrolibResources.java:56)
at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.getResTable(AndrolibResources.java:48)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.getResTable(Androlib.java:48)
at brut.androlib.ApkDecoder.getResTable(ApkDecoder.java:166)
at brut.androlib.ApkDecoder.decode(ApkDecoder.java:99)
at brut.apktool.Main.cmdDecode(Main.java:131)
at brut.apktool.Main.main(Main.java:68)
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Did I miss something.
Made some progress and decompiling ok now on a different computer.
If I add the + before the layouts would that cause operation issues?
I would like to know too.
Still having trouble.
What did you do too decompile?
Okay I can now get it to recompile adding the +layout to the xml files that were erroring in the compile log and only other change was made was to the arrays.xml file to enable bluetooth tethering like on the GS3 did.
however when I push it to the phone and chmod and try it I get a boot loop.
Did I do something wrong?
Am I supposed to copy out the resource.asrc from the file I compiled like a zip then add it to the original that I pulled using 7zip or something?
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
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Okay I can now get it to recompile adding the +layout to the xml files that were erroring in the compile log and only other change was made was to the arrays.xml file to enable bluetooth tethering like on the GS3 did.
however when I push it to the phone and chmod and try it I get a boot loop.
Did I do something wrong?
Am I supposed to copy out the resource.asrc from the file I compiled like a zip then add it to the original that I pulled using 7zip or something?
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
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Move the AndroidManifest.xml and Meta-INF folder from the original apk to the modified one.
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Hi,
i have themed/edited Settings.apk, then i recompiled/signed/zipaligned without warnings with ApkTool, but once overwritten original Settings.apk and chmoded to 0644 i can't restart the phone, it is stuck on "Android starting" or "updating" (i can't remember the correct text showing). Now i resored the original Settings.apk and all is working fine.
Am i missing something? I have used framework-res and framework-res-htc.
I'm on rooted stock rom latest firmware, no xposed.
Thanks and sorry for my bad english.
which version of apktool?
you need to manually resign the rebuild apk in newer apktool versions
In order to run a rebuilt application. You must resign the application. Android documentation can help with this.
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and why the double post?
peteter said:
which version of apktool?
you need to manually resign the rebuild apk in newer apktool versions
and why the double post?
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I'm using "Advanced ApkTool v4.2.0", apktool.jar is a compatible version for marshmallow but i don't remember the version number, previously i themed various xperia themes for marshmallow without issues.
What do you mean with "you need to manually resign the rebuild apk in newer apktool versions"? Like i said i'm using Advanced ApkToo and it has sign command.
Double post is an error, i have requested the deletion.
Thank you
ah ok, thought you were using the standalone apktool from ibotpeaches, there you have to resign the rebuild apk yourself.
just check the link in the quote