I was wondering if there is a simple trick to installing the SEMC-Gallery3D.apk on a non Sony android device. I copied the .APK file and got the application not installed screen. I then tried to change a few different values in the build.prop, and was still un-successful. Just curious to know if anyone knows a trick to getting this to install.
Already tried copying the APK to the system/app folder and changing the permissions accordingly as well with no luck as well.
Any suggestions people? I would really like to have the SEMC 3D Gallery on my tablet.
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I installed the stock MMS.apk file on my de'odexed stock rom (rooted of course). Everything worked well and the app runs, but when reading text threads there is an ugly white border around the edge of the screen, its strange. Its not present when viewing the list of conversations, only in the thread view. I'm not sure if that's how its supposed to look or not, but if not, anyone have any idea how to fix this?
I'll get a screenshot up as soon as I get home.
I first obtained the MMS.apk from the cyanogen rom, then thinking that it might be modified and thus creating my problem, I grabbed the AOSP version from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=789493
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
UPDATE:
Found another thread where people are experiencing the same issue, apparently its a problem with how sense handles the application:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=752604
I attempted to open up the Mms.apk (AOSP version) with APKtool and play around with the xml files for the UI, but wasn't able to get it to recompile and test any changes I made, the app would just crash on launch. I simply made a few changes to the colors, but I admittedly don't really know what I'm doing and it wouldn't run. If anyone who's more experienced in this area could offer some advice I'll try again.
That's a picture of the issue, it appears in both landscape and portrait mode.
Texts were blacked out just for privacy sake.
Well after a few hours of messing around in the XML files for the AOSP messaging app, I was able to find a solution to this issue. I modified the XML file to have it correctly display the black color background when using the black theme. I was not able to eliminate the border entirely, but by changing the scrollbar type from Inset to Overlay I was able to make it uniform and far more visually pleasing.
I have attached my modified Mms.apk file, feel free to test it out.
For the specifics of what I did for those who are interested:
Two files were modified in the apk
- /res/layout/compose_message_activity.xml
- /res/layout/compose_message_activity_black.xml
In both files I changed the scrollbarStyle propery to "insideOverlay", in addition to removing the reference to always show the scrollbar track.
In the black xml file I changed the background color to "@android:color/black".
The original XML files were extracted using APKTool and Recompiled to their binary format, then reinserted into the original apk without resigning.
This is awesome! ... Except it doesn't filter out the VVM message streams that come through. :|
I haven't encountered this problem though I use google voice so I'm not really sure what it is you're referring to.
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beautiful ty!!!!!!!!!
Imma cry
I cant send mms!
Try turning off wifi while sending/receiving mms
no wifi
i don't have wifi on when i do this i just have 3g on so i can send mms!
i zipped the file with the one that had the white outline .is there a way to make this new apk. file into a .zip file for me ?
I'd imagine you could simply replace the APK file in your zip with my modified one and install that way. Use a program like winrar or 7zip to replace the apk within the zip.
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I'd imagine you could simply replace the APK file in your zip with my modified one and install that way. Use a program like winrar or 7zip to replace the apk within the zip.
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sorry but i cant find either of thoses programs u mention to replace the APK file in my zip with your modified version .is there another program or a manual way of doing this process ?
how do i install this? since it's an APK, i thought i'd just install it from Astro but it says it's already installed and asked if i wanted to uninstall.
To install this you need to either delete or rename the Mms.apk that's already on your phone in the /system/app directory (I just rename to Mms.apk.bak) and then copy the modified one into that same directory followed by a restart of the phone. Because its a system app you cant install it the same way you would a regular apk, at least from my understanding.
You will need to get write access to the system directory to accomplish this (I used an app on the market called root explorer, though you can also do all this through the ADB shell)
Hi guys, i was wondering if their is a way to have the same program twice on your phone?
Reason why i ask is because there is a program i have with a widget and that widget is configured with user name and password, now what i wanna do is have the same program installed twice so i can have the second widget on that second installed program, configured with a different user name and password.
Is this possible
Pretty sure that's a no, but I'd like to know if it is possible as it's be handy
Have you tried pulling the apk, changing the name with some apk editor (also the com.###.### stuff) and see if it installs next to the other app? I have no idea how to do this but it might work.
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Have you tried pulling the apk, changing the name with some apk editor (also the com.###.### stuff) and see if it installs next to the other app? I have no idea how to do this but it might work.
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yea i just tried this now, opened the apk file with winrar and i changed the com.###.### stuff in files AndroidManifest.xml and resources.arsc with a different directory and when i go open the app in my phone, it shows the apk is screwed
any other ideas
Hi, anyone knows how to push apk app taken out from system into our note 2?
I found the lost screen recorder apk in one of the system dump.zip after extracting it, I tried moving it into system/app and changing permission and installing is still not successful!
Am I doing it wrong? How then will be the right way to do it? please advise? Thx in advance... Really love to have screen recorder function as advertised by samsung
Normally you would push to /system/app make sure permissions were correct and then reboot, you do not need to 'install' it.
but you might need an ODEX file as well as the APK
Reboot
Hi, ok so just place the apk plus it's odex files in system/app , change permission and reboot it will be install correctly? :laugh:
Hi, I did just as you mentioned.. Reboot still screen recorder remains not install tried to install it then ... No luck still...
its highly likely that there are other files that the apk needs in order to work, can you upload the files you have?
I have a ZL running 4.2.2 and it is rooted.
I wanted the upgraded mail app that is found on the Z1.
I got my hands on the semcemail.apk v5 and used root explorer to move it into system\apps and set the permissions to rw r r. I first tried having the name be different (semcemail2) to see if I could run it along side the native one. On reboot it would not now up as an app.
Then I figured it must be a core app and have the same file name but when the original apk of the same name is over-written the mail service fails and the app simply doesn't run.
Replacing the original gets me back to where I started.
Am I missing something? Others seem to have been able to get it to run on non z1 with these steps.
Hello
If anyone can help me- I'm running Magazine UX rom and ran a couple others like s tab for note. Anyway, I found the hancom office apk file in my root explorer, extracted them, moved them to system app folder corrected permissions, then installed. After doing so I cannot find it anywhere but back in root explorer. Can anyone tell me how to get this on a screen , open and finally use?
Thanks
Why go through the trouble of moving them into /system and setting permissions? Have you tried just installing them like normal apps?
Also, which APKs are you using? You need the shared component and the viewers and/or the editors.
blindmanpb said:
Why go through the trouble of moving them into /system and setting permissions? Have you tried just installing them like normal apps?
Also, which APKs are you using? You need the shared component and the viewers and/or the editors.
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Hi hopefully I can explain this correctly… I found all the hancom apk files in one pf the previpus roms (s tab) in the root explorer. I know that to get an apk to work, it has to be put in the system/app folder and the permissions have to be changed to rw rr or whatever it is to match all the others in the folder. After doing so, extracting all of them and trying to open, the only one that finally appeared in my apps was hancom office viewer. The other 4 had 'done' for an option buttom unlike the viewer which also had 'open'. When I hit the open buttom I get the touchwhiz error. Anyway, heres spme pictures- I am beginning to thinks its this magazine ux rom that Im using. What is your opinion of all this and what rom do you use?