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[Q] how to install adobe flash to system partition?

Hi all,
I'm trying to install adobe flash to the system partition to save space. I've done it by adding the flash apk and libs to the gapps addon (required for CM6 anyway).
I can see in root explorer that in /system/apps I've got com.adobe.flashplayer.apk, and in /system/lib i've got libflashplayer.so and libysshared.so.
Under settings->applications I can see that Adobe Flash Player 10.1 is present.
In browser settings, Enable plugins is set to "on demand".
But when I try a flash site that used to work, it no longer does. What am I missing?
Thanks for any help,
Phil

It seems if you leave the .so files where they were in /data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib, eveything works. So it looks like the app doesn't bother to check /system/lib, but goes straight to its own data folder.
Any way to remedy this? I've saved 4-5 MB on /data by moving the apk to /system, but the .so files are 8MB between them, i'd like to get them on /system as well.

Before flashing a ROM, move the APK file into the /system/app folder in the ZIP file and then re-zip it

EddyOS said:
Before flashing a ROM, move the APK file into the /system/app folder in the ZIP file and then re-zip it
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Hi Eddy, that's exactly what I did as I said in my first post. It didn't work initially, but I now have it working by restoring the /data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib folder with the two libs in it.
So the apk is in /system/app, but there are still these two big libs on /data taking up about 8MB. I was wondering if there is any way to get the system to pick them up from /system/lib like with all the other libs.
Cheers for any help,
Phil

I just have the APK in /system/app and it's fine - got over 100MB of storage (but I only use 5 apps and have them all moved to /system/app)

really? can you do me a favour and check in /data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib and see what you have in there? Should be one huge (~7mb) .so file and a smaller one.
you definitely have the latest flash 10.1 final? version 10.1.92.8? (check in settings->applications).
I'm thinking of creating symlinks in /data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer/lib to the two files in /system/lib and see if that works.

Yes I do have the latest it's there by default in Paul's MCR r8 ROM (first thing I did once it was out) - he normally has it set to go to /data/app but I move it (and the other 5 apps) to the /system/app folder and it's fine...I'll have to install Root Explorer again to check the folder, though...
EDIT: Checked that folder, there's nothing in there at all...

Oh. Huh. Can you check and see if they're in /system/lib? I wonder how paul's got this set up. Should probably just ask him

What file(s) am I looking for?

libflashplayer.so and libysshared.so. Cheers

libflashplayer.so is, libysshared.so isn't

ok thanks for your help i tried the symlinks and it works for now although i guess its a bit hacky. Don't know why yours picks it up from /system/lib and mine won't. I'll see if I can get one of the elder gods to give up their wisdom

wingphil said:
ok thanks for your help i tried the symlinks and it works for now although i guess its a bit hacky. Don't know why yours picks it up from /system/lib and mine won't. I'll see if I can get one of the elder gods to give up their wisdom
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any progress on this? I also would like to push those shared objects into the /system/lib/ folder to save on space

You need to have the matching apk and libraries in /system for it to work.

teppic74 said:
You need to have the matching apk and libraries in /system for it to work.
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Had the libs in /system whith fresh MCR r8 ROM .. once i upgraded via Market to latest version they were also in /data/data.
So is there a way to get them to /system again (so that they will really be taken from there by the apk) ?
I am S-Off so the moving itself is easy ;-)
Marcus

soory if i dug an ol thread but i cant make it work...
copy the apk file to /system/app via root explorer and reboot...
in settings/application/manage application/all/
Adobe flash player is in it but it is only 56kb..
set browser for enable plugin to be 'on-demand' and 'always on' but no go (tried surfing on adobe flash mobile showcase site).....
to think i am thinking to move adobe air using this method too..
what else is needed?
Running Nexus One, CM6.0

Hi everyone!
I see this thread is a a bit old, but I've been trying to do the exact same thing with installing Flash Player in /system. My device also won't find the libs in /system/lib, so I'm thinking about doing the symlink stuff as well, but I'm not quite sure how to do this, since I don't have a lot of linux experience. Could you please help out a little?
Will this work?
Code:
ln -s /data/data/com.adobe.flashplayer /system/lib/com.adobe.flashplayer
Also, just to check: is there anything else I should do besides copying the libs Adobe Flash installs in its /data/data folder to /system/lib and creating the link?
Thanks a lot!

Not needed to make symlinks.
Just create folder /system/lib/plugins/com.adobe.flashplayer and move libs to it.

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[Q] How to create custom rom from nandroid backup?

anyone knows anythink about it?? I have tried building a rom from system.tar(backup file from nandroid) but it contains only the stock apps...

Extract the system.tar to get system folder
and if ur using kitchen
then copy it to the WORKING_XXXX folder or create such folder
and there is no other way...all u do is somehow get the system folder and then modify it
and thanks for the help dude

SSSidGGG said:
Extract the system.tar to get system folder
and if ur using kitchen
then copy it to the WORKING_XXXX folder or create such folder
and there is no other way...all u do is somehow get the system folder and then modify it
and thanks for the help dude
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Already tried that but it contains only the apps which come with the original stock rom(stock apps) and not the ones I downloaded..

The apps that u install after getting the device started are not in the system folder but the data folder which can be found in data.rfs.tar
and then in data folder open app u will find them either there or a backup of those somewhere in the .tar file only dnt remeber properly

your downloaded app is stored in data.rfs.tar (if you put them on internal memory) or .android_secure.vfat.tar (if you put them on sdcard)

SSSidGGG said:
The apps that u install after getting the device started are not in the system folder but the data folder which can be found in data.rfs.tar
and then in data folder open app u will find them either there or a backup of those somewhere in the .tar file only dnt remeber properly
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kurotsugi said:
your downloaded app is stored in data.rfs.tar (if you put them on internal memory) or .android_secure.vfat.tar (if you put them on sdcard)
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ty both of u.. srry culdnt press the button cuz i hav reached my limit of 8 thnks
is it safe to place the files in /system/app folder and remove the old ones??

yup...if you already have the newer one its safe to remove the old one. but make sure you delete the odex files too. no need to press that silly button. I'm just a noob here, not a dev.

You can try but when i put vending.apk when 1st open it installing again on /data and operamini.apk can't put on system always force close in my case.

in DXLB and newer firmware market in system app is named phonesky.apk. vending.apk is the older version used in older firmware. we don't need them if we already have phonesky.apk.

google now ics

i just installed google now on my hox with venom and faux kernel but its a bit slow any one know how i can improve it?
i used this guide
Originally Posted by homeslice976 View Post
I broke the previous instructions down a little with the few added things I had to so to make it work..maybe a little less confusing for some..maybe not... Thanks goes to gachana for the original instructions and to all the others involved in this that are wayyy smarter than me!
•Download LennoxPackage.zip from http://www.mediafire.com/?8lv1h2879q925x1 from post # 2370.
• Extract all 3 folders from LennoxPackage.zip to a new folder on your computer
•Then download and replace the Velvet file in the app folder of your new folder with Velvet.apk from post # 2425 link http://www.mediafire.com/?h6itqk1mrr1zjjy
• Move the folder you've created (with 3 subfolders) to your SD Card
• On your phone, in /system/app/, rename GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk to GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk.bak using Root Browser (or something similar)
•In the folder you placed on your SD - you'll need to move everything from the /app/ folder to /system/app/, and set permissions to RW/R/R for each of the 3 .apks
•copy the files from the lib folder on your SD, and paste to system/lib (note, a couple of these already exist. Before copying these files go through /system/lib/ and rename any existing files to include .bak, then copy/paste new files. If you don't do this it will paste them with '- copy' as part of the file name). Change permissions of these New files to rw/r/r
• rename the existing "config" folder in /system/usr/srec/ on your phone to "config.bak", then just paste "config" and "en-US" from the srec folder on your SD to /system/usr/srec/. I also changed permissions on config and en-US to RWX/RX/RX
•Reboot and enjoy.
which i got from here
http://androidforums.com/android-ap...y-working-google-now-ics-root-users-only.html

[Q] HTC Locations' App. on other Custom ROMs

Hi,
I need to install HTC's Locations app on any custom ROM (ie: MyOneV or CM9/CM10)
So any1 can help me with this ?
(i tried it though, by moving these files (from MyOneV5.0FX Removed apks) htclocation.apk,locationpicker.apk,locatiooninstaller.apk in System/app folder bt it didn't worked)

When you move those files to system app manually, you need to put right permission rw-r--r-- then reboot.
Or the simplest way is, open the Removed_Apks_RC5.x.zip with 7-zip (not extract), delete all apks that you don't need and leave those location files in zip.
Then flash the zip in recovery.
And these files will not work on a CM rom.

ckpv5 said:
When you move those files to system app manually, you need to put right permission rw-r--r-- then reboot.
Or the simplest way is, open the Removed_Apks_RC5.x.zip with 7-zip (not extract), delete all apks that you don't need and leave those location files in zip.
Then flash the zip in recovery.
And these files will not work on a CM rom.
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Thankz
I tried that too, by removing all apks from zip keeping the said three files & flash it in recovery, still it doesn't appeared in apps!
Though i'll try again may b missed something or some file..

I just tried it, it works.
Your filename looks different, attached here the files from the Removed_Apks_RC5.x.zip, I named it to location.zip. Flash in recovery.

It Worked: Thanx

Application Library Files Missing

Hey everyone, I have a quite strange question.
In the /system/app folder, some Google apps do not have a ./lib folder. See the screenshot! Chrome lacks ./lib folder but still works fine without any update. (so it uses the original Chrome.apk)
If I replace this Chrome.apk with the latest one, and chmod 644 as usual, Chrome won't work, unless I extract the /lib folder in the .apk file.
Quite strange, right? We all know apps that include libs require ./lib folder and its .so files to run.
Anyone who can explain this please?
My goal is to merge some updated apps into /system. But the partition is so small that I don't want to extract the libs.

TEEEEEEEEED said:
Hey everyone, I have a quite strange question.
In the /system/app folder, some Google apps do not have a ./lib folder. See the screenshot! Chrome lacks ./lib folder but still works fine without any update. (so it uses the original Chrome.apk)
If I replace this Chrome.apk with the latest one, and chmod 644 as usual, Chrome won't work, unless I extract the /lib folder in the .apk file.
Quite strange, right? We all know apps that include libs require ./lib folder and its .so files to run.
Anyone who can explain this please?
My goal is to merge some updated apps into /system. But the partition is so small that I don't want to extract the libs.
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Not all apps in /system/app folder have lib folders. Only a couple of mine do.
Edit: I may have misunderstood your question. Just let me know

shagbag913 said:
Not all apps in /system/app folder have lib folders. Only a couple of mine do.
Edit: I may have misunderstood your question. Just let me know
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Yes, but YouTube has lib. There should be a /system/app/YouTube/lib folder.

Oh do anyone notice the system_other.img in the full factory image? It is smaller than system.img and maybe flashed into system_b. I will extract the image and see if it contains lib.
However I can't see system_b mounted... Boot slot is a...