Hi. I'm using JB ROM AOKP custom IceColdJelly built on 4.1.2. Anyway, on a fresh wipe, had removed /data /system, I had accidentally set 'htmlviewer' as a default to a certain extension. I meant to hit the icon next to it, jota as its a text file type. Anyway, I cleared all defaults in 'all' in manage apps. I still have htmlviewer for the default even though when i click on it in manage apps the 'set defaults' has nothing in it so it can't be clicked etc.
I tried installing new text file apps and even removing htmlviewer in titaniumviewer which results in nothing literally after clicking the file in a file manger. Even tried a couple default app managers which only show nova launcher as a set default app (since its the only thing I have set since clearing all defaults in manage apps). Just seeing if anyone has any idea what to try before I give up and fresh wipe again which takes ages due to all the various apps I install (like 60 games for a start, have games for me and our 2 kids on the phone). It's a fair bit of data to download so I'd prefer just trying to fix the default issue if I can.
Well, a workaround of sorts. Installed a file explorer with an inbuilt file viewer that is viewing the text file types that my 2 existing file explorers were using that htmlviewer as a default. Not perfect but beats the crapnout of fresh installing a new ROM.
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Last night I downloaded an app from the market: Anttek App Manager. I didn't really need it, I just came across it & it seemed like a good program that I could use to replace a couple of other apps.
I opened up the program & didn't do anything. I did grant it superuser permissions when it opened, but did nothing else except browse through & get a feel for the interface.
Suddenly I was having a force close party all over the screen. Market, maps, settings, homescreen, anything system was force closing. I tried opening settings to uninstall the app but it force closed immediately. Tried with Market, same result. I could get into user apps to uninstall but when it tried to uninstall through the system uninstaller it would force close. I finally uninstalled through Titanium Backup. I was still getting force closes so I rebooted. After the reboot I could open system apps again. I checked my apps in settings & the app was gone from he downloaded tab but remained under the all tab. I uninstalled again. I checked through root explorer & it wasn't there, but in protected apps there was a downloadfile.apk that was timestamped with when I rebooted. I emailed it to myself to check out later if needed & deleted the file.
What do you guys think? Was it just something buggy that I'm blowing out of proportion or is it something to worry about?
Edit: I'm running cyanogenmod 6.1.2 if it matters.
I honestly dont know if it was something malicious or not. I had an issue when I downloaded an app (Don't remember what it was) and it downloaded 300+ downloadfile.apk. As you probably guessed it filled up my sd card. In my case I found it prudent to do a complete wipe and reflash my ROM. I set everything back up and havent had any more issues.
I would probably wipe and start over or Nandroid back to before you downloaded the app. Just my opinion...
Yeah, I think I'm just going to restore from a backup. I just don't want to have to reflash my theme & font, but it doesn't take that long, I'm just lazy.
I was wondering if there's anyway a virus could go deeper than what is changed by wiping/flashing/restoring? I'm somewhat technologically literate but when it comes to the deep down stuff I'm lost.
Im running the latest stable version of CM with Amon Ra recovery. It runs great except for these three problems.
1. I use the Zeam Home Launcher and every time I reboot the system resets it back to the default launcher. I press home and choose Zeam launcher, but none of my widgets load.
2. Is there a way to keep Wifi on even when the screen is turned off. I know this was a setting on MIUI, however I cant find a setting for CM7. I would like it to stay on all the time.
3. I have the latest version of the Market. When I search for an app it displays the total number of matches found in the top right corner. However, when I scroll down the list it ends after about 20-30 apps even though there its showing hundreds of matches. I then do the same search online, see all the available apps, and know for certain that they are compatible and can install them from online.
I have done a factory reset twice and reinstalled everything, including ROM and Recovery.
Thanks for reading and any help you might be able to provide.
BioBot said:
Im running the latest stable version of CM with Amon Ra recovery. It runs great except for these three problems.
1. I use the Zeam Home Launcher and every time I reboot the system resets it back to the default launcher. I press home and choose Zeam launcher, but none of my widgets load.
2. Is there a way to keep Wifi on even when the screen is turned off. I know this was a setting on MIUI, however I cant find a setting for CM7. I would like it to stay on all the time.
3. I have the latest version of the Market. When I search for an app it displays the total number of matches found in the top right corner. However, when I scroll down the list it ends after about 20-30 apps even though there its showing hundreds of matches. I then do the same search online, see all the available apps, and know for certain that they are compatible and can install them from online.
I have done a factory reset twice and reinstalled everything, including ROM and Recovery.
Thanks for reading and any help you might be able to provide.
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1. When you choose the zeam launcher, make sure you check the box that says 'set as default' set your widgets. They should stick now.
2. Settings > Wireless settings > Wifi Settings > Press Menu > Advanced > Wifi sleep policy: set to never
3. If you keep manually scrolling the rest of the results should show up.
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1. Zeam launcher has been set to default launcher every time. Tried again with no success.
2. FIXED. Thanks. Why in the world would they make you press "Menu" inside of a menu window ? Seems weird to me.
3. Scrolling changes nothing. How would you NOT scroll manually anyways ? Not trying to be rude, just sayin.
One down, two to go !
BioBot said:
1. Zeam launcher has been set to default launcher every time. Tried again with no success.
2. FIXED. Thanks. Why in the world would they make you press "Menu" inside of a menu window ? Seems weird to me.
3. Scrolling changes nothing. How would you NOT scroll manually anyways ? Not trying to be rude, just sayin.
One down, two to go !
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1. IDK then, that's how it should work...try force stopping it then clearing the data
2. Huzzah
3. Well some people would just see the bottom, and not continue scrolling [seen it happen] try clearing the market cache and data.
Try uninstalling adw launcher
And search games on market. Does it really only show 20-30 games..?
Having trouble with AOSP? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1295702
Posted a video of what happens when i search something on the market.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLkQhVDhk-4
you can see that it says there are 4500 results, but i get no where near that many.
i cleared the cache and the data, rebooted and still nothing.
BioBot said:
Posted a video of what happens when i search something on the market.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLkQhVDhk-4
you can see that it says there are 4500 results, but i get no where near that many.
i cleared the cache and the data, rebooted and still nothing.
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Have you tried installing a new market? [vending]
Download the latest CM7 gapps, extract the vending.apk [market], place it on your sd card, then install it.
I had the same problem with the Market, and I know others did too. Mine was only on occasion, but still obnoxious. So far the newest Market leaked from ICS (version 3.2.0) has fixed the problem for me. I couldn't install it over, I had to replace the apk in /system/app, set permissions (rw-r--r--) and reboot. Remove or rename any com.android.vending.apk you may have in /data/app, just in case. Backup your old Market in Titanium Backup or rename it so you can revert back if needed.
Link here: http://db.tt/pTvEmx4v
As for the launcher issue, I had similar problems when I was running CM7 way back on nightly 21 or something. Try updating to a newer version or downgrading to a previous version. Or you can try reflashing the rom over itself. You'll need to reinstall the new Market if you flash anything.
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Launcher Issue
Notice: The stock launcher for CM is ADW Launcher. I'm not a big fan of it either so I've also replaced mine. Normally just installing a launcher from the market and selecting it as your default launcher (via the pop up window that displays when you have multiple launchers installed) is all it takes to make it a default. I normally wouldn't advocate changing your system apps. However, in your case it seems like the system just doesn't want to cooperate with you.
Here is how to do it.
1. Make sure ALL launchers are uninstalled. (except for ADW of course)
2. Download a root file explorer like ES File Explorer
3. Download Zeam Home Launcher's apk file to your SD card
4. Open ES File Explorer (or whatever root file manager you downloaded) and make sure your root folder is mounted (so that you can modify its contents instead of it being read only)
5. Copy Zeam Launcher apk from SD card to /System/App/
6. Delete the apk for ADW Launcher (the stock launcher) from /System/App/ (or you can just move it to your SD card in case you decide later that you want to use it again)
7. Reboot phone
8. Enjoy Zeam as your new PERMANENT stock launcher.
I am deeply sorry if this makes ppl angry, I am sure that there are several topics about this but I simply can't find them, ergo too much information no information..
What I want to do is to change some system apps before flashing the rom, I have tried by simply unzipping the rom, changing the apk and rezipping the file but it won't even flash.
I wanna flash mildwilds oxygen version but I want to change the launcher (lpp), music player (poweramp) and the gallery (quickpic), that's all..
thx for your understanding and help.
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doesn't make me angry at all, i've not seen a dedicated guide for this sort of thing, only picked it up from others. i now do this all the time, particularly with mildwild oxygen.
i would recommend using 7zip
- make a copy of the rom.zip, so you have something to compare, and a 'stock' backup in case you go wrong
- double click on rom.zip (which opens it, do not extract it)
- delete/replace system apps
- close 7zip to update the rom.zip
couple of other notes:
- don't delete important system apks, like settings for instance
- you can delete lots of other stuff, like languages you won't use(system/tts/lang_pico) and sounds (system/media/audio), saves a lot of space.
- i have found not all apps work on the system partition, they simply force close (don't know why). winamp, quickpic don't work for me, but most other stuff does like go launcher, go sms pro, jorte calendar, elixir. takes a bit of trial and error. you can always move them back and forth with titanium or something like SystemCleanup.
- once you've finished editing your rom.zip, you must make sure that your total system size is less than your hboot system size (<145MB if on cm7r2), otherwise it won't boot. you can check this with 7zip as it should show how big your system will be when extracted.
good luck, i find it more fun editing a custom rom before flashing...
eddiehk6 said:
- i have found not all apps work on the system partition, they simply force close (don't know why). winamp, quickpic don't work for me, but most other stuff does like go launcher, go sms pro, jorte calendar, elixir. takes a bit of trial and error. you can always move them back and forth with titanium or something like SystemCleanup.
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Thx a lot for your help!
I played with Ginger Villain 3.3 and I actually might be able to help you now:
Amongst other app I also moved apps like quickpic and poweramp and at first they gave me fc (like you mentioned) but then I updated quickpic via the market and restored (only the data) of poweramp with titanium and now they both work
Some general tips to whoever wants to try this as well:
If you are on the Mac you can download Winzip for Mac since there is no 7zip for Mac and it's Mac clones don't allow editing directly in the zip file.
If you want to extracting .apk files from your Android in order to add the apks on another rom you can use EStrongs File Manager (source)
- Open ES File Manager
- Click on the menu button of your device
- Click on "Manager"
- Click on "App Manager"
- Long press on app you want to extract
- Click on "backup"
- Extracted .apk files will be placed on the "backups" directory of your sd card
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charliebigpot said:
Thx a lot for your help!
I played with Ginger Villain 3.3 and I actually might be able to help you now:
Amongst other app I also moved apps like quickpic and poweramp and at first they gave me fc (like you mentioned) but then I updated quickpic via the market and restored (only the data) of poweramp with titanium and now they both work
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thanks, will try this too!
eddiehk6 said:
- i have found not all apps work on the system partition, they simply force close (don't know why). winamp, quickpic don't work for me, but most other stuff does like go launcher, go sms pro, jorte calendar, elixir. takes a bit of trial and error. you can always move them back and forth with titanium or something like SystemCleanup.
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I realize this is an old thread, but it was the first result of my google search.
I've seen the force close problem and in my situation, the apk filenames had spaces in them. Once I removed the spaces, the apps worked fine. Just something to be mindful of in case you run into that problem.
Does anyone know which stock system app is associated with the Default app manager. I think I may have removed it when I was debloating because everytime I click on a hyperlink I always hav to choose which app I want to use to open it. I have tried clearing all the set defaut apps and then reset them many times but it does not work.
Dear all,
Already posted about pinkish fotos. No reply.
Then I found a version of gcam that was working fine. Yes! Loaded the xml file for my phone realme 6 pro. And boom, force close of the app when making foto.
Checked settings, cleared cache and app data. Deleted app and reinstalled. Not working anymore. Then changed around in the settings to see if it really wiped.
Wiped, reinstalled, and the settings I changed where still there.... Huh?
Also now I recall that after the pinkish thing started, all versions afterwards I installed also had the pinkish color on them.
How can I deep clean my settings, apparently it still saves something somewhere after loading an xml file.....
Please help. Cams are unusable likes this :-(
Tanx a million.
Have you verified that the folder where the XML files are kept was cleared out?
Also, is the device rooted? I've had similar issues in other apps and had to clear out all settings from their protected data directories (/data/user/0/xxxx, /data/user_de/0/xxx, etc) You can find the data directories using App Manager. Without root, those folders cannot be modified directly but I've heard it is possible to do an ADB backup, modify the backup, then restore. I have no experience with that route.