Can't yet post in the dev forums so I'm asking here.
Since flashing Juggernaught 4.1 I've lost my news and weather app. Does anyone know how this might have happened? Or have an apk or zip so I can add it back? Thanks
I still have it on my Juggernaut 4.1 phone, if you're talking about the News and Weather Widget. I just touch the screen, select widgets and it's there.
If you're sure it's not on your phone, then the ROM team include an app called Bloater which allows you to reinstall any of the bloatware apps that have been removed. Run it, select T-Mobile SGS2, then select Samsung Apps, and scroll down to the [Widget]News item. If it shows a button that says Install, then click it and install it. If not, then it's already installed.
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Thanks, but that's not the one that's missing for me.
I'm talking about the one that the icon looks like a newspaper. When you launch it gives you the weather with an hourly slider, and when you scroll to the right you get news. Any thoughts?
both of you are talking about the same App
if you lost it or deleted it by accident, you can always pull it from a stock ROM
just download any of the STOCK rom from Dev section, and copy and paste it from there
They are in fact different. The news widget in bloater is the AP news widget. The app is like I described previously. Using bloater to add back the widget does not reinstall the app. I haven't deleted anything, so I'm not sure why it disappeared when I flashed jugg 4.1, but I will try to add it from stock when I get home later.
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I've installed the latest Incredibly Re-Engineered ROM on my rooted Incredible, but would like to regain use of HTC's Twitter apps & widgets, and the HTC News app & widget. The ROM disables these, but puts them in a directory on the SD card in case someone like me wants to re-enable them.
I've used Root Explorer to copy the following files from /sdcard/Incredibly_Re-Engineered_Optional/Apps to /system/app:
com.htc.NewsReaderWidget.apk
com.htc.TwitterWidget.apk
HtcTwitter.apk
NewsReader.apk
Then, I changed permissions on these files within /system/app to rw-r--r--, changed /system/app back to read only, and rebooted the phone.
After rebooting, I was able to enter my Twitter account information in Settings > Accounts & Sync > Twitter for HTC Sense, and my Twitter feed is now showing up in the FriendStream widget.
I can also launch Peep and News applications from the App tray.
However, when I try to add the HTC News Widget or the HTC Twitter Widget to my home screen, neither of these shows up in the list of widgets that are available to add (i.e., Long Press on Home Screen > Widget > Add Widget List). Neither the HTC Twitter widget nor the HTC News Reader widget show up, and thus, I cannot use them.
So, it's almost as if the Apps have installed properly, but the widgets have not.
Can you think of a solution or anything I might be missing here?? Thanks!!
Isn't there an optional apps folder with those things in it for users?
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Isn't there an optional apps folder with those things in it for users?
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Yes...that's where I copied the items from. The problem is they're not showing up in my list of available widgets, even though the apps seem to have installed with no problem...it's just the widgets that I can't get to show up.
Are you using Launcher Pro or the launcher the ROM comes with?
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Are you using Launcher Pro or the launcher the ROM comes with?
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I am using the launcher that comes with the ROM.
No other ideas??
To clear the remnants of the widgets after removing them, I know you need to "Clear Data" for HTC Sense ("Applications" in Settings).
Perhaps if you do this again it will force a rebuild of the available widgets list, now that they've been reinstalled?
(You will lose any custom scenes, btw)
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To clear the remnants of the widgets after removing them, I know you need to "Clear Data" for HTC Sense ("Applications" in Settings).
Perhaps if you do this again it will force a rebuild of the available widgets list, now that they've been reinstalled?
(You will lose any custom scenes, btw)
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THANK YOU!! That solved the problem!! Cheers.
I'm currently running the starskyrom with the EI22 modem and have go launcher installed but for some reason it will occasionally overlap widgets like calender and beautiful widgets. Never happened before.. Anybody have an Idea why this is happening?
I tried uninstalling golauncher and re-installing but same thing happens.
Go launcher includes options for tighter grids. Native 4x4 shouldn't allow overlaps.
There is an autofit option under Preferences->Screen Settings-> Auto-fit items.
Between those 2 settings, you should be able to stop the overlap.
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Go launcher includes options for tighter grids. Native 4x4 shouldn't allow overlaps.
There is an autofit option under Preferences->Screen Settings-> Auto-fit items.
Between those 2 settings, you should be able to stop the overlap.
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I tried that but its weird cause it will merge widget from other pages and duplicate them on another while overlapping at the same time lol
Had something similar where the corner of the weather widget was showing in place of a widget on another page. I'm guessing you did it already, but delete and re add widget to the screen.
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Had something similar where the corner of the weather widget was showing in place of a widget on another page. I'm guessing you did it already, but delete and re add widget to the screen.
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yeah tried that already.. Weird cause all the setting were the same coming from MIUI and I never had an issue with it.
Any solution to this? I'm suddenly having this problem. I first noticed it while trying another rom and uninstalled believing the rom to be in error. I went back to my staple rom and I'm having the same problem. I deleted Go Launcher Ex folder from SD, uninstalled and reinstalled..problem persists.
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
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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
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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:
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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?
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I just updated my HOX to Jelly Bean (HTC_304) and noticed that my old clock widget disappeared. I went to add it again and to my surprise it was gone along with most of the default clocks my HOX had but new ones were added. Is there a way to get the old clock widgets back?
What kind of clock were you using?
Try installing this apk.
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What kind of clock were you using?
Try installing this apk.
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I was using the one that showed the clocks gears and the other one which had 3 circles , one fore hours, one for minutes and one for seconds (the blue one with the LED , don't know how to explain it better). I tried to install the .apk file you included but it says "App not installed. An existing package by the same name with a conflicting signature is already installed"
You apparently aren't rooted. Then there is unfortunately no way to bring back old widgets.
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You apparently aren't rooted. Then there is unfortunately no way to bring back old widgets.
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I guess I should have mentioned that. Ill keep your apk for when I'll root. Instead of making another thread and clogging up the forum I'll ask here. How do I unhide pictures in the new gallery application? There's no such option anymore! Another question I have, how do I disable word prediction? The option to do so is disabled (pic included).
UPDATE:
I found how to unhide/hide the albums again but on one of the folders, which I had about 14-15 pictures in, only one is showing.
When I swipe up from the home button on the main screen, the magazine program shows up. I uninstalles the prigram since I dont care for it on my rooted note 3. Now whem I swipe up, I get fromgram not installed and it starts the play store to download the magazine app again. Can I assign another program to this gesture?
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When I swipe up from the home button on the main screen, the magazine program shows up. I uninstalles the prigram since I dont care for it on my rooted note 3. Now whem I swipe up, I get fromgram not installed and it starts the play store to download the magazine app again. Can I assign another program to this gesture?
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You can with another launcher but I don't think you can in stock TW, yet... Seems like it would be a single file to tweak but it might go deeper than that. Being rooted is a good first step once the tweak is available though
You can if your running Tweaked ROM.
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And one interesting thing is that my email program started having fc once I tried to open a new email after uninstalling the my magazine. After I restored it, the fcs went away... very peculiar. ..
On 4.4.2 @onurd same happened to mw
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And one interesting thing is that my email program started having fc once I tried to open a new email after uninstalling the my magazine. After I restored it, the fcs went away... very peculiar. ..
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My Magazine and the stock email are linked. If you remove/freeze My Magazine I would get email fc if I tried to open email from the notification drawer. I think I saw someone make email apk that removes/breaks this link.
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My Magazine and the stock email are linked. If you remove/freeze My Magazine I would get email fc if I tried to open email from the notification drawer. I think I saw someone make email apk that removes/breaks this link.
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That would be me...