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Porting phone.apk from stock to cyanogen

So right now I'm in dsixda's rom kitchen, trying to pull a few stock apps(phone, dialer, contacts, messaging) from a rooted stock rom(cr 2.13 OTA) to the nightly CM7. It's giving me process.com.android.phone has stopped unexpectedly at boot and won't let me past. So I know that the OTA rom is froyo and CM is gingerbread, I'm assuming thats my problem. so that being said, first am I right? What do I need to do to make this work? and where can I get a stock gingerbread rom? can I simply drag and drop phone.apk, dialer.apk, etc. or is there more to it?

TheUnknown7 said:
So right now I'm in dsixda's rom kitchen, trying to pull a few stock apps(phone, dialer, contacts, messaging) from a rooted stock rom(cr 2.13 OTA) to the nightly CM7. It's giving me process.com.android.phone has stopped unexpectedly at boot and won't let me past. So I know that the OTA rom is froyo and CM is gingerbread, I'm assuming thats my problem. so that being said, first am I right? What do I need to do to make this work? and where can I get a stock gingerbread rom? can I simply drag and drop phone.apk, dialer.apk, etc. or is there more to it?
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I don't think that will work. Espresso roms are sense, cm roms are not, they have different frameworks and such. First off, I'm PRETTY sure phone.apk is just the backend to sms/dialer/radio/etc., so you can leave that alone. Why do you want to move those apps over to cm7? Theming? Messaging and contacts I KNOW won't work because they require the tmobile framework resources that cm roms don't have, same with the dialer. You won't be able to move messaging either, since it has different coding from froyo to gingerbread. Contacts and dialer you MIGHT be able to move over if you ALSO move over the com.htc.resources.apk from /system/framework to the same location on the cm rom. You also might have to move the com.tmobile.framework.apk or something like that from /system/app to the same location on cm7 as well.
That may or may not work, it'll more likely just cause force closes everywhere since htc apps are very dependent on other apps and proprietary framework resources that stock android doesn't have.

I don't understand why you would want any of that. To each his own, but I think cyanogen has made all of that stuff better and simpler. The only thing he needs to add is the ability to end the call from the notification bar. I thought sense had a good idea there
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I'm not knocking CM I do like it, it's just still buggy. For example in his contacts when entering a new a number with the keyboard the numbers are haywire and dont work, so you have to use the touchscreen. The main thing with the dialer is I miss the T9 speeddial, and messaging is a bit buggy as well, plus I like the old mms.apk ui better. For now I found out about dialer 1 on the market and will use that, but hopefully when it's all said and done things will be better on CM. Can anyone suggest a good messaging app from the market? contacts too maybe?

TheUnknown7 said:
I'm not knocking CM I do like it, it's just still buggy. For example in his contacts when entering a new a number with the keyboard the numbers are haywire and dont work, so you have to use the touchscreen. The main thing with the dialer is I miss the T9 speeddial, and messaging is a bit buggy as well, plus I like the old mms.apk ui better. For now I found out about dialer 1 on the market and will use that, but hopefully when it's all said and done things will be better on CM. Can anyone suggest a good messaging app from the market? contacts too maybe?
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I use GoSMS. It's free, and you can theme it and such.

Alright. and almost forgot, the stock music player... any way of porting that? I really like the original widget better, and I miss controlling it from the lock screen. I want the old calendar back as well. thoughts?

i missed the dial by name from the SenseUI - this app is a GREAT replacement, you swipe from side to side to get to recent/favs/dial, and it's free: https://market.android.com/details?id=kz.mek.DialerOne

TheUnknown7 said:
Alright. and almost forgot, the stock music player... any way of porting that? I really like the original widget better, and I miss controlling it from the lock screen. I want the old calendar back as well. thoughts?
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this is available in the later CM7 nightlies (30+) - you can hold the volume buttons to do prev/next, and you can even have the controls on the lock screen...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_gY1fGpKBs&feature=player_embedded
This is a replacement contacts called Phonebook 2.0. It's pretty cool.
Also, pretty much any of the widgets in sense are sense only ;p

Thanks guys. Yep figured out about the music player, thats good. Already using dialer one, I like it better actually. Now I'm missing the calendar. I really miss being able to see when stuff is coming up on the old widget. Any body got anything on that?

TheUnknown7 said:
Thanks guys. Yep figured out about the music player, thats good. Already using dialer one, I like it better actually. Now I'm missing the calendar. I really miss being able to see when stuff is coming up on the old widget. Any body got anything on that?
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The stock calendar widget is an agenda style widget
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[Q] Replacing Sense MMS.APK

Hi all,
My phone is rooted. Not a fan of the Sense 4.0 SMS/MMS app. I know I can download the default ICS 4.0.3 MMS.apk from the market.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.concentriclivers.mms.com.android.mms
When I go to install it, it says it will overwrite the existing application. Before I get reckless...
Couple questions:
- Why is there no existing mms.apk in /system/app ? I can't find it. Does HTC call it something different or...?
- How do I backup the current Sense version in case I screw this up and need to restore it?
- Is the Sense one tightly integrated into the rest of Sense? Will it break other apps, widgets...?

So far I got this working.
1. installed stock ICS SMS from market
2. backed up and removed /system/app/Message+CRC_1.apk
3. rebooted phone
Haven't tested MMS nor any sense features that might bomb (I hope not)
I'll update thread if there are any problems and I need to roll this back

Any Update
Hey. Just wondering if you had any update on how this worked? Everything still fine? I want to go to the ICS MMS app, cause the sense one isn't as nice.

microsurf said:
Hey. Just wondering if you had any update on how this worked? Everything still fine? I want to go to the ICS MMS app, cause the sense one isn't as nice.
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I use it daily, the SMS app works perfectly. Love this change.
The HTC SMS widgets that display your messages on your desktop may not work (don't think mine do) but this is easily remedied by just finding other widgets in the market etc. Just don't put the default HTC ones on your desktop.

Won't uninstalling the app just automatically put stock sense app back in there?

johnl199 said:
Won't uninstalling the app just automatically put stock sense app back in there?
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No. The stock ICS app does not play nice with the stock Sense app, you can't have them both on the phone at the same time. Its not like when you install GOSMS or something.
I had to actually delete the sense app right off the phone completely for it to work properly. Otherwise I had strange problems such as messages being sent twice.
Since I physically deleted the sense app there is no going back without re-installing the sense APK.

Did you save the stock apk? No joke one of my hesitations is the messaging app. If I can switch to stock ICS for messaging I may be ordering mine yet tonight.
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Can you post a picture of the app running on your HOX?
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TheIowaKid said:
Can you post a picture of the app running on your HOX?
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Honestly no why would i? I updated this post to be kind but I'm not building something here, this was for my own use and it works perfectly. I'd that's not what you're looking to hear, find another thread. I won't lose sleep at night.
As for backing up the original sense app, yes I did see step 2 above. I used adb for this just pull the file.
Again this works perfectly If anyone cares to try it. nothin to lose, if you don't like it just put the sense file back and reboot.

I installed both the calendar and the sms app today and they seem to work fine. Haven't tried mms. Haven't uninstalled anything yet, will see if I run into trouble. Thanks for posting readk, been searching for this but didn't find it until now
EDIT: Ran into problems immediately of course where pressing the Messaging app launched the HTC Messages app. Following your instructions for backup and removal seems to have done the trick though. Next step will be to do the same for the calendar

readk said:
Honestly no why would i? I updated this post to be kind but I'm not building something here, this was for my own use and it works perfectly. I'd that's not what you're looking to hear, find another thread. I won't lose sleep at night.
As for backing up the original sense app, yes I did see step 2 above. I used adb for this just pull the file.
Again this works perfectly If anyone cares to try it. nothin to lose, if you don't like it just put the sense file back and reboot.
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Wow, get out of the basement once in a while and realize how to communicate with humans. I simply really liked the idea of stock ICS messaging on the HOX and since I don't have mine yet I was just asking to see it because I imagine it would look really awesome. Why would you? I guess since you were sharing what you were doing I thought you wouldn't mind. Guess not.
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Just wanted to note that trying to send or receive a MMS crashes the app.

span_01 said:
Just wanted to note that trying to send or receive a MMS crashes the app.
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Doh. Well that sucks. I was just about to try this.
Thanks for the information!

TheIowaKid said:
Can you post a picture of the app running on your HOX?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
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I'd post screenshots for you, but I think I can't until I make 10 posts.

[APP][ICS][12.04.2012] Inverted Gapps Compilation

Hi guys,
As I am flashing many ROMs that doesn't have this incorporated and for me is shocking to see white colors in gapps, I decided to create a zip with the gapps that I use.
I've just took the work from ravp624 at rootzwiki as he is not giving one zip any more.
I think there is no need for screenshots but suggestions are always welcomed.
The file was tested in Slim ICS 3.2 (with normal 240 dpi which is the best for me, you can try with other dpi and let me know).
Compatibility
- AOSP Base
- AOKP Base
- CM9 (incompatibilities in Contacts and maybe Gtalk)
Workaround for CM9 Contacts
CM9 Contacts Workaround
Apps Included:
Calendar
GMail
Contacts
Music ICS
Google Reader
Google Voice
Gtalk
SMS/MMS
Market
Install procedure:
1. Please read the OP in rootzwiki
2. If you want to remove any application just remove the .apk file inside the zip. The .apk can be either on system or data folders.
3. Copy the contents to your internal SD card
4. Go to CMW
5. Clear Davilk Cache
6. Install the zip file
7. Clear Cache
8. Reboot
9. Enjoy!
Thanks to ravp624 for uploading the apps in first place!
Download
Inverted Gapps
Disclaimer: We just do this for fun... no one is responsible if your phone starts radiating lethal x-rays

Thx guy.....works perfect on my Black ics.
Somewhere i found Black xda band Black tweetter.......i already got Black whuattsap band Black tapa.....
It works perfectly on my B31....
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA Premium App

You will need to mod Contacts.apk because it'll disable the dialer..
ravp624 said it himself that it won't function on non-nexus phones, because hdpi files weren't included, or sth..

Thanks Damianmb,
It works fine on Dark Night 4!
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA

Im using Slim ICS 3.2 too,the apps is perfect in Slim ROM?
Download is already!
Google Voice cant use in china

WOW!!!
Thanks, I really need it.

[GR]Frostbyte said:
You will need to mod Contacts.apk because it'll disable the dialer..
ravp624 said it himself that it won't function on non-nexus phones, because hdpi files weren't included, or sth..
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Hi, dialer is working perfect here. Do you experience any problems?

zuwarrz said:
Im using Slim ICS 3.2 too,the apps is perfect in Slim ROM?
Download is already!
Google Voice cant use in china
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Yes working great, Slim is great in battery life and I was just missing the inverted apps .

damianmb said:
Hi, dialer is working perfect here. Do you experience any problems?
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After installing it, I can't access the dialer, it prints "App is not installed".
I'm on arco68's CM9 port for i9001.
Seems it can't draw the ui, maybe because of those missing hdpi files ravp624 mentioned?

[GR]Frostbyte said:
After installing it, I can't access the dialer, it prints "App is not installed".
I'm on arco68's CM9 port for i9001.
Seems it can't draw the ui, maybe because of those missing hdpi files ravp624 mentioned?
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I may look the issue tomorrow. But I tested it in Slim ICS that supports mhdpi maybe because of that? What's your DPI? I use 240 only.

240 here as well.. What could be causing the problem? Other apps are fine, only contacts.apk has the said problem.. You've tested them with cm9?

so good...

I did not try music, vending, reader, voice dialer or contacts but the other apps (other thanks talk) work great. What is Google thinking putting white apps over the sleek darkness off ICS?
Only app I tried to get working but couldn't is gtalk. It copies just fine but does not show in app drawer.
I am running i9000 cm9 nightly 12-Apr.
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Great thanks works good and looks good.

Request
Hey can you invert Nimbuzz to black colour? i use it alot
Thanks

How to get phone back ?
It it is system/app, but it does not start and is not shown in settings-apps.
Has anyone the original 4.0.4 apk ?
Thanks

[GR]Frostbyte said:
240 here as well.. What could be causing the problem? Other apps are fine, only contacts.apk has the said problem.. You've tested them with cm9?
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I'm not having time to investigate the issue but for sure something is missing... can you read the rootzwiki and search the cause there?

Try to flash the latest gapps and then inverted one. I remember I read something about it.
Gapps
Let me know if it works for you and then I will add the instructions to the OP .

Maddinuser said:
How to get phone back ?
It it is system/app, but it does not start and is not shown in settings-apps.
Has anyone the original 4.0.4 apk ?
Thanks
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What do you mean by phone black? Dialer? Contacts?

I said BACK, not BLACK
The dialer (phone.apk) is lost, since i flashed this.
I can make a call from my contact list, but when I choose phone it says: not installed
And it does not appear in app drawer and under settings-apps.
But it is in system/app.

Text Message Wake Up Screen?

Hi, I just flashed CM9 and I'm loving it.
The only thing I miss though is the feature
when you had a new text message, it woke up your screen.
Is that possible with CM9& the stock messaging app?
Is there some kind of mod or modded mms.apk or
something that when you get a new message, your screen will light up?
I apreciate the help, but No, I don't want a Third Party SMS app.
I'd like to keep it stock so no "GO SMS, CHOMP, HANDCENT", etc!
Thank you so much!

Brazildiogo732 said:
Hi, I just flashed CM9 and I'm loving it.
The only thing I miss though is the feature
when you had a new text message, it woke up your screen.
Is that possible with CM9& the stock messaging app?
Is there some kind of mod or modded mms.apk or
something that when you get a new message, your screen will light up?
I apreciate the help, but No, I don't want a Third Party SMS app.
I'd like to keep it stock so no "GO SMS, CHOMP, HANDCENT", etc!
Thank you so much!
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Download sms pop up from Google play. Its free and has some nice options
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy SIV

Talk about wanting your cake and eating it to....
Sent from AOKP Goodness

I would actually suggest a third party messaging app such as gosms pro.
*Very Nice and Extensive List of Features
*Themes
*Private inbox (password protected)
*Emoji plugin for iPhone emotions
And more.
I used to not like third party messaging apps but this one is very well developed.
Btw I do not I'm any way represent the go developers I just like their app
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989 using XDA

Thank you so much for the reply! But the only reason I flashed this ROM and rooted my phone was to have the stock ics Messaging app. Its so clean and sleek looking! Thank you for your suggestion though.

Brazildiogo732 said:
Thank you so much for the reply! But the only reason I flashed this ROM and rooted my phone was to have the stock ics Messaging app. Its so clean and sleek looking! Thank you for your suggestion though.
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SMS pop up isn't a messaging app. Its an add on for your stock sms app
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy SIV

Yeah, I know I was talking about GOSMS. But I installed the one you recommended. I loved it, until I found out that unlocks your screen too. So when it's in my pocket, I can easily butt dial people mess with my phone accidentally. I would re-install that app if it didn't unlock your phone for you. I guess there is just no place like stock. I will be unrooting and going back to ics touchwiz tonight :[

dont listen to these guys. DONT GO BACK TONIGHT download
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...sawake&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
no need for a dumb 3rd party messenger

noodles2224 said:
dont listen to these guys. DONT GO BACK TONIGHT download
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...sawake&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
no need for a dumb 3rd party messenger
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Its works, but if you have BLN, it interferes with it. BLN won't come on if installed.
Sent from AOKP Goodness :-D

ok, well Ive never used BLN so I dont know if it has othe features for gmail or othe app notifications so its one or the other. and plus, he wanted that screen on feature.

noodles2224 said:
ok, well Ive never used BLN so I dont know if it has othe features for gmail or othe app notifications so its one or the other. and plus, he wanted that screen on feature.
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Just informing those that have ROMS with this feature, it does work well though. Does as advertised.
Sent from AOKP Goodness :-D

LoopDoGG79 said:
Talk about wanting your cake and eating it to....
Sent from AOKP Goodness
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Mmmm cake....
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium

I'm using cm10, aug22 nightly and tried both applications. they both worked only when the phone is not on silent. but what i really wanted was the screen to turn on when in silent mode. it'll be really useful especially if you don't want the phone to ring or vibrate, yet you want to know that a text came in just by seeing the screen turn on. i'm also using a galaxy s, so i don't have led lights. any other apps i could try?

sms

snguyen0730 said:
Download sms pop up from Google play. Its free and has some nice options
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy SIV
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Thanks, I've tried that, and it works for everything except when my phone is in silent mode... which is the only thing I need. I just need my screen to turn on when I get a text, using jelly bean's stock sms app.

[Q] Integrating Touchwiz and AOSP

I am trying to create a ROM for the SGH-T989D and I would like to use a combination of Touchwiz apps (dialer, contacts) and AOSP apps (mms, calendar). I was wondering if the apks can simply be put into the system/app folder or if special tweaking of the framework is required to get them to play nice with each other. I am starting from the Telus stock ICS ROM.
I would appreciate any help in this matter.

okzahr said:
I am trying to create a ROM for the SGH-T989D and I would like to use a combination of Touchwiz apps (dialer, contacts) and AOSP apps (mms, calendar). I was wondering if the apks can simply be put into the system/app folder or if special tweaking of the framework is required to get them to play nice with each other. I am starting from the Telus stock ICS ROM.
I would appreciate any help in this matter.
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Some might play nicely. But you will most likely have to edit each apk to make them work. And if you're cooking a cm10 ROM, good luck. Since touch wiz is ics, and cm10 is jelly bean. You will have many issues with force closes and even the app installing
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