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Updating Swype

Hi guys,
I'm running my stock (but rooted) ROM, is there any way to update the included version of Swype? I love Swype but the version shipped is 2.2.42 which, from my looks online, is fairly ancient.
Since it is part of the ROM, I presume this all but rules out just installing an updated apk over the top.
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Passa91 said:
Hi guys,
I'm running my stock (but rooted) ROM, is there any way to update the included version of Swype?
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That's interesting, i would also like to know if that's possible!

I just tried this.
1. use root explorer to delete swype.apk in /system/app/
2. use root explorer to search "swype" in /system/lib/ and delete the one you find
(sorry, I forget the file name. it's like "libswype" or something~)
3. download and install the swype you need
4. use root explorer to move swype.apk from /data/app/ to /system/app/
It works.
I'm not sure what the libswype thing is, so it would be better to have a nandroid backup before trying this.

I have found a way to install the latest beta Swype on any device that comes with Swype pre-installed. Follow the directions below, originally posted on the Swype forums for the Droid X;
Originally Posted by grooves12
First, your Droid X must be rooted. There is plenty of info out there on how to accomplish this.
Get a root file manager (I use root explorer)
1. Change your default input method to anything other than Swype.
2. Mount file system as R/W
3. Delete (or move/rename) \system\app\swype.apk
4. Delete (or move/rename) \data\dalvik-cache\[email protected]@[email protected]
5. Delete (or move/rename) \system\lib\libSwypeCore.so
6. Reboot
7. Download and Run the latest Swype Beta installer
8. ENJOY!
I hold no responsibility if you screw up your system, and recommend you make a backup before attempting this, but, the above steps worked perfectly for me, and I am now running the latest Swype beta on my X.
These steps should also work on other models that come pre-installed with Swype from the factory, but I don't have another one to test, so have no way of being sure. If anyone tries it, let me know if it works for you!
(One thing. I found that after install, swyping letters wouldn't create words in the msg box. To possibly avoid this, go to tutorial in the Swype installer just after install and type any words and then finish, you should be good to go )

sooo i did as above but as soon as i click in a text input it opens the keyboard and then closes instantly...

As long as you follow every step, it should work.try un-installing the swype app and using the swype installer again, and reboot for good measure. I can tell you this has worked for me on 2.21 stock rooted rom.
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ok got it working thanks.

Many Thanks
Works like a charm!
Now it is possible to install/make a custom wordlist and use it without the complaints by swype that another word exist with the same spelling and it should be deleted popup!!
Great!

Thanks for the guide. Worked easily for me. The beta version seems better than the one that came with my defy+.
Cheers,
Nova

The beta version is a way better than the pre-installed one!
I lost mine updating to ms2ginger 3.0.
Took it back from their site
No regrets

Jellybean Information

Hi everyone! A Jellybean OTA has been released for Google I/O, so in order to keep things organized all new discussions about it will be redirected here. Please keep in mind that this is a developer preview, as such it will likely have bugs and you must root in order to install it. If you don't wish to root you'll need to wait for Google or Samsung to release an OTA for your device.
If you have anything you feel should be linked here feel free to shoot me a PM with it.
Cheers!
Information & Guides:
Information about JellyBean
Introducing Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) preview platform, and more
Android 4.1 for Developers
Differences between 4.0.4 and 4.1
Screenshot Gallary + Change List
[HOW-TO] Install official JRN84D (Jelly Bean 4.1) on your GSM Galaxy Nexus
Jelly Bean Flash Update 11.1.115.12
Jelly Bean related Guides
How to regain root after updating to 4.1
Firmware & ROMs:
GSM
[ROM][CWM] Jellybean 4.1 JRN84D Stock, Rooted, Busybox, Deodexed + New Radio!
Direct Link for takju IMM30D to JRN84D OTA
Torrent link for OTA
New Radio XXLF1
[REF] [BOOTLOADER] Bootloader Collection - Look for PRIMELC03
Toro
[ROM]Team Liquid Vicious-Toro-JellyBean Fully 100% Fucntional Deodex
Toro+
[ACS][ROM] Jelly Bean R U Jelling official thread - Shabby Penguin/DreamsForgotten
Other Useful Guides
[HOW-TO] [GSM & CDMA] Convert to latest yakju/takju/mysid build / Return to stock

Sorry, I wasn't able to edit my post for a long time & hope now that I can add a few more information from time to time.
Hello everybody,
I'm on stock Jelly Bean with official Jelly Bean bootloader + radio and want to tell you about my experience with it (There is a link in the first post to the tutorial for stock Jelly Bean).
Basic Information
I have not noticed any bugs with this ROM. The system is way smoother compared to any Ice Cream Sandwich version (Mostly the animations. The App Drawer animations is now completely fluid . Many things that have annoyed me in ICS have been fixed and new some new functions have been added.
Biggest differences between ICS and JB:
This part will be a little bit messy because I'm going to change it a little bit but I really don't have that much time so I will do it in parts
Changes in Settings:
- Data Usage Graph is now linear, like in CM9
- Wi-Fi Direct has now an option menu
- WPS-Pin and Push Button Configuration is now supported
- The account-settings are now a seperated category in the settings
- Developer options have been rearranged and new ones have been added
- Some benchmarks are better:
- Some benchmarks are worse:
- Now there's an arrow downwards instead of the back button when the keyboard is opened:
- There is an other lockscreen animation and you can access google now from lockscreen:
- new animations:
- access google now instantly by swiping up from the home button:
- Process of adding a new word to the dictionary have been optimized:
- New Wallpapers:
- New Search-Bar:
- New Radio and Bootloader:
- New Boot-Animation:
- Homescreen objects rearrange when you add an widget automatically:
- New Google Music App:
- New Youtube App:
- New Google Maps app:
- New Voice Search app:
- Contacts with a higher resolution:
- Expandable Notifications:
- Completely redesigned nofication bar:
- New animations in gallery app
- Optimized Camera app:
- New programm-chosing-menu:
- If you want a tutorial or more information about jelly bean just write your questions here. I will update this post afterwards.
Questions:
Is google now english only? :
- No. I just asked a few questions in german. It gave me search results but I it just list sites with the answers. No knowledge graph in german. But it shows me my weather and my route to work with tiles
What happens if you enable/disable WiFi Direct for 5-10 times in a row? In ICS, after a couple of times toggling WiFi Direct the wifi driver crashed and I needed a reboot in order to make WiFi and WiFi Direct work again:
- Sorry I don't have another Wifi-Direct device to test this feature at this time.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app

Jellybean OTA released!
root
how i did it
ok you need to have clockworkmod recovery installed...
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
(insecure boot.img)
unzip boot.img.zip, boot to bootloader and
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
or flash JRN84D-insecure-boot.zip from recovery
-put the CWM-SuperSU-v0.92-mod.zip on your sd and flash
done. :good:
if you have problems...
flash Koush's Jellybean repack (IMM76I OR IMM30D) http://d-h.st/Gkh
If recovery isn't sticking for you, delete recovery-from-boot.p in /system
...this is chainfire's super su

Jellybean OTA released!
Gallary : https://www.dropbox.com/sh/aqvteoek9k8ewwq/yzKZD-V6vJ
Some small changes that were not announced:
THE BAD: Navigation is still Gingerbread looking. Background gradients are still pixelated. Most importantly, NO PINCH TO ZOOM IN GMAIL! WTF Google?
The multitasking drawer loads faster when you press the button, but it makes you wait on the dimmed screen while it load the app screenshots. It gives the illusion of being faster.
Different animation based on how you switch to an app (ICS had only one)
Hotword Detection: launch voice search when you say "Google" (when you are running google now)
Jelly bean easter egg
New Developer options:
SD card privacy protection (won't come into effect before the next major release)
Animator duration scale (the window and transition animation options are still there)
Disable HW overlay (not sure what this one is)
etc
In contacts, there is a "Auto-sync app data" option that I think wasn't there before.
Messaging app widget!
New Contacts icon
New share action and intent picker pop out (big icons instead of a list)
Default font seems to be a little thinner than ICS Roboto in some places
NOTIFICATIONS CAN BE DISABLED. This one is a godsend. You can long press on notifications to get the info of the sender app (useful for detecting spam apps)
When keyboard is active, the back button turns into a downward arrow (just like tablet ICS).
WPS PIN setup for Wifi
Wifi-direct has more options (like CM9)
"Add-on dictionaries" : it's empty now until 3rd party keyboards leverage the new API. (I think you would be able to get dictionaries from play store in the future)
Kernel is based off 3.0.31 (ICS was 3.0.8)
Google play music has been updated (Nexus Q settings link, better interface, etc)
Keyboard shortcuts (example: brb expands to "be right back"). Catching up to Apple much Google?
NO ROOT RESTRICTION ON GOOGLE PLAY MOVIES!. I wonder how they pulled this off without compromising DRM.
SAFE BOOT: long press on "Power off" (in the menu that shows up when you long press power button) to get into this mode. Only system apps will be loaded (should come in handy when dealing with rogue apps)
Screen seems to be better calibrated. The colours are more neutral and less yellow.

Came from CM9.
Wiped data and dalvik.
Installed ROM. Everything is perfect. JB is incredible

Wifi doesn't work

http://android.clients.google.com/p....signed-takju-JRN84D-from-IMM30D.5a07884d.zip

Hi, is Takju OTA safe to apply to a Yakju Nexus?

braingravyuk said:
Hi, is Takju OTA safe to apply to a Yakju Nexus?
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you'll need to be running the Takju ROM before it will let you use it

hopefully this thread wont close on me right after i post...
so i backed up my apps with galaxy nexus toolkit before the downgrade and flashing method and after flashing i cant seem to get it to restore the apps through the toolkit. is there a restore option from the phone itself while its connected? in the toolkit it just hangs and doesnt prompt on screen. i had to setup the wifi with a static ip but it kept saying avoiding due to bad signal so i uncheckmarked that setting and now im getting TERRIBLE wifi coverage where i used to get moderate. anyone have any ideas on either of those problems? im also standing right next to the router.. currently restoring nandroid and starting the whole process over but instead with just koush

I cant acces to my recovery, i flashed the koush version and since then i cant access my recovery. I use the toolkit and my phone is not recognized by it in fastboot mode, but in adb yes. I dont have root, i have booting rom but no way of coming back

zedklind said:
so i backed up my apps with galaxy nexus toolkit before the downgrade and flashing method and after flashing i cant seem to get it to restore the apps through the toolkit. is there a restore option from the phone itself while its connected? in the toolkit it just hangs and doesnt prompt on screen. i had to setup the wifi with a static ip but it kept saying avoiding due to bad signal so i uncheckmarked that setting and now im getting TERRIBLE wifi coverage where i used to get moderate. anyone have any ideas on either of those problems? im also standing right next to the router.. currently restoring nandroid and starting the whole process over but instead with just koush
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I use mybackup pro then just drag the backup folder to an from phone to PC to save an restore.Toolkit backups never worked for me.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

hernan078 said:
I cant acces to my recovery, i flashed the koush version and since then i cant access my recovery. I use the toolkit and my phone is not recognized by it in fastboot mode, but in adb yes. I dont have root, i have booting rom but no way of coming back
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happened to me too. You shouldn't flash such an unstable build if you're not comfortable with terminal and fastboot/adb commands.

ArmanUV said:
happened to me too. You shouldn't flash such an unstable build if you're not comfortable with terminal and fastboot/adb commands.
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what can i do?

Wifi is not working for me as well, i tried clearing dalvik cache and wiping the device (as per some guy's advice in a different thread) but it still didn't solve it for me.
Anyone managed to fix this ?

slayr76 said:
I use mybackup pro then just drag the backup folder to an from phone to PC to save an restore.Toolkit backups never worked for me.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
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i ended up flashing koush on top of my original ics 4.0.4 without wipe and it works great! works as if it was a legit OTA. also noticed wifi didnt require static ip change and a slight improvement for the wifi. im loving the new google search! better than siri still playing with it and thanks to all that put their time into this! nexus FTW

hernan078 said:
what can i do?
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fastboot a new recovery in
hanged_man said:
Wifi is not working for me as well, i tried clearing dalvik cache and wiping the device (as per some guy's advice in a different thread) but it still didn't solve it for me.
Anyone managed to fix this ?
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see second post...no wifi issues on koush's repack

ogdobber said:
fastboot a new recovery in
see second post...no wifi issues on koush's repack
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i cant, my computer dont recognize my phone in fastboot

The keyboard expansion where "brb" expands to "be right back" doesn't work.
Also, the voice search I think has gotten worse... the cards don't seem to work properly (aside from weather) and saying things like "Listen to Hello by Lionel Richie" and "Map of nearest gas stations" just returns google web search results.

Working on a Yakju
Check out the android version
I won't spoil what happens when you hold the bean!! (ermm yeah)

4.2 Keyboard and camera

Android 4.2 keyboard with gesture, its as good as swipe.
http://m.pocketnow.com/2012/10/30/android-4-2-stock-keyboard-now-available-for-download-unofficially
After installing go to languages and input and check Android Key board
Hope it will be useful.
Download and Install
Now, getting it on your device is going to be easy for some of you, and less easy for others. You'll need to be on Android 4.0+, to start.
If you're on a phone with a UI overlay that has the stock keyboard disabled (eg, Samsung TouchWiz, HTC Sense, Sony), you can just download the apk below- no root required. To install, make sure you have "install from unknown sources" enabled in your phone settings, and after installation, go into your phone's keyboard settings and enable "Android keyboard." Then, you can switch to the new keyboard. This may also work on some "stock" Android custom ROMs - but it will not work on stock Android builds distributed by Google.
Get the apk here: http://d-h.st/XuS
If the apk doesn't work, you're running a phone that is either A.) running stock Android (as in, AOSP), or B.) running software that has the stock Android keyboard as an option, you'll need to download this ZIP file, and flash it in recovery. That also means you're going to need root. as you'll be writing to /system/apps. Before you do, though, either back up the stock keyboard (if you don't know how, you probably shouldn't be doing this) or create a full image backup, just in case. Here's that ZIP file:
Get the zip here: http://d-h.st/36D
Source: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...d-4-2-keyboard-with-gesture-typing-right-now/
Android 4.2 camera
available now with photo sphere simply move to system apps and set permissions to rw-r-r- and reboot.some reports of photo sphere force closing but had no problems here
http://www.mediafire.com/?927d7dm454g435o
Here's the working zip, flash from cwm
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33551677
Press thanks if u liked
Sent from my Android Lappy
Cyrin

Have you got the keyboard working?
the camera was already posted here

4.2 keyboard doesn't work with our device.

yah....it dosent start...
I love my WF$....

Works well with my wfs
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how does it work on ur wildfire s??
Sent from my Wildfire S using Tapatalk 2

nope, keyboard wont start
running AOSP ROM with keyboard bug so flashed the zip and changed in "input" settings but now no keyboard will start.

the onCamie
:crying: This update does not work

[Q] Question for Advanced users/Devs

So first things first I am running Goldeneye 7.1 stock kernel. I wanted the new themed Google Keyboard in the apps and themes section and downloaded both the zip and the apk but since a stock Google keyboard comes with the rom as a system app the themed keyboard wouldn't show up, even by flashing the zip. I tried removing the google keyboard from system apps (it was called Latin.apk or something like that) and themed keyboard still gave me cannot download app already installed. I finally ran the zip of the rom on my PC with a program called APP Swapper, i took out Latin.apk and put in the themed keyboard, now it works but every time i restart the phone i keep getting a google keyboard foreclose error until i reinstall the themed keyboard apk again. And then its fine till the next reboot. Any ideas why this is happening? and any solutions? Thanks in Advance.

ArmoMafia said:
So first things first I am running Goldeneye 7.1 stock kernel. I wanted the new themed Google Keyboard in the apps and themes section and downloaded both the zip and the apk but since a stock Google keyboard comes with the rom as a system app the themed keyboard wouldn't show up, even by flashing the zip. I tried removing the google keyboard from system apps (it was called Latin.apk or something like that) and themed keyboard still gave me cannot download app already installed. I finally ran the zip of the rom on my PC with a program called APP Swapper, i took out Latin.apk and put in the themed keyboard, now it works but every time i restart the phone i keep getting a google keyboard foreclose error until i reinstall the themed keyboard apk again. And then its fine till the next reboot. Any ideas why this is happening? and any solutions? Thanks in Advance.
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Hye i kinda lost you but its not a good idea to remove system apps. And try to avoid changing them too.. I have gotten many force closes that way. I believe if you place it in /data/app/ then it will just use it from there as a system app, overriding the original system app without breaking.
I haven't tried the themed keyboard myself but you should probably ask this in that thread. Do you know what his script does exactly?

Desire HD 4.3 keyboard Force Close [[FIX]]

Every time i install 4.3 on my DHD and Gapps 4.3 the Keyboard starts force closing + the menu and back buttons do not work either !
1) The easy solution is to download a third party free keyboard app apk file and place it in your sd card ..
2)nstall the app
3)go into language input options .
4)check the box for your third party keyboard !
5)from the default option select the keyuboard app you installed!
No more annoying messages + back keys and menus keys work fine too
http://www.appsapk.com/perfect-keyboard-free/

Hello,
Thanks for your workaround.
I encountred the same problem using the wrong Gapps version. Are you sure you used the last 4.3 Gapps version?
Regards,
Hope it helps.