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Hi this must be a noob question, but i need to know how to replace the default dialer .apk file and also the contacts .apk file to something else (exDialer and exContacts) in the ROM itself.
Try extracting the apks from the stock ROM and replace it. Report back.
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Nope it didn't seem to work!
It said installation failed.
Just follow these steps...there is a chance they might not work but you are free to try it
1.Install the dialer app(dont move it to sd card)
2.Use a file manager app with root permissions enabled(eg- ES File Explorer) and go to the "phone memory" then "data/app" copy the app's apk to the sd card
3.Now uninstall the app ....the install was for getting the apk file
4.Rename the backed up apk as "Phone.apk" (case-sensitive)
5.Backup your CM7 dialer by going into phone memory "system/app"....it will be named "Phone.apk".....back it up somewhere in the SD card
6.Now just take the apk of the dialer you wanted and copy it in phone memory "system/app"
7.Finally change the permissions of the apk as follows
--->In ES File Explorer,after moving your desired dialer's apk,long press for menu
--->Then select Properties
--->In the properties window there will be a button labelled "Change" just beside permissions
--->Then Select the 1st two check boxes in User,1st in group and 1st in other and press ok
8.Reboot the phone and pray to God it works
9.To revert back,just put the original "Phone.apk" in "system/app" and reboot
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8.Reboot the phone and pray to God it works
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lol!
Sadly, no it didn't work. Damn this is tough!
Originally Posted by csoulr666
8.Reboot the phone and pray to God it works
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lol!
Sadly, no it didn't work. Damn this is tough!
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What happens?
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You're not supposed to remove the default dialler app. It's a part of the system framework and the results when you do try to remove it will be severe. I believe that the phone aspect of Android is integrated into the default dialer apk (Both in sense and in AOSP).
In any case, there is no need to remove the dialler apk.You just install an alternate dialler and set that as default. It's works as if the original dialler was never there.
You cannot bring over the sense dialler though since that depends on the entire sense framework.
Just install exDialer and set it as default.
You can push it to /system/app if you would like. Leave the original one as it though.
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What happens?
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As soon as I replace the Phone.apk, it force closes to the homescreen. After I try restarting the device, it refuses to get past the Boot Screen Animation.
AceRoom said:
You're not supposed to remove the default dialler app. It's a part of the system framework and the results when you do try to remove it will be severe. I believe that the phone aspect of Android is integrated into the default dialer apk (Both in sense and in AOSP).
In any case, there is no need to remove the dialler apk.You just install an alternate dialler and set that as default. It's works as if the original dialler was never there.
You cannot bring over the sense dialler though since that depends on the entire sense framework.
Just install exDialer and set it as default.
You can push it to /system/app if you would like. Leave the original one as it though.
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So you're saying there is no way I can natively replace the dialer to the exDialer in the Rom itself?
FYI: The Rom concerned here is HCMIUI 3.2 by Henry. Brilliant Rom otherwise!
Exactly, the default dialler cannot be replaced except perhaps by a full replacement say from the original cm7 rom or a themed version of your current dialler. You can only add a secondary dialler which will work in addition to the original one.
Check out the apk for the original Phone.apk
You'll find the components of the in-call screen.
cm7 themes for example retheme the framework which applies some modifications to the original in call screen.
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Exactly, the default dialler cannot be replaced except perhaps by a full replacement say from the original cm7 rom
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^ How do i do that? Actually this is exactly what i want to do, a full replacement!
You can probably take the Phone.apk and replace your current one with (Make sure you set the permissions to 644) but it really won't make much of a difference. Instead, just install the cm7 Theme Chooser and change your theme. HC MIUI is basically a themed cm7 rom with a MIUI flavor, MIUI apps and stellar animation effects!
Would love to get those on other ROMS!
There's actually a fuller MIUI (gb) but it's only on beta (There are some usability issues in which the colours in some apps are FUBAR) and the MIUI 4 (ics) is only on alpha... On my phone, the Phone crashed on making a calling the MIUI 4...
Well i guess this is not possible the way i thought i would!
maybe someone can make a patch or something that will do this( maybe for other default apps also) just a thought?!
How to set ExDialer as fault
AceRoom said:
You're not supposed to remove the default dialler app. It's a part of the system framework and the results when you do try to remove it will be severe. I believe that the phone aspect of Android is integrated into the default dialer apk (Both in sense and in AOSP).
In any case, there is no need to remove the dialler apk.You just install an alternate dialler and set that as default. It's works as if the original dialler was never there.
You cannot bring over the sense dialler though since that depends on the entire sense framework.
Just install exDialer and set it as default.
You can push it to /system/app if you would like. Leave the original one as it though.
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How do i set exDialer as default dialer. I really want to set it as default one.
Thanks
Hey, after flashing few ROM I saw that not all of them have the CM camera app (with the advanced settings, specially the Power shutter feature).
I tried adding it manually to AOSPA (removed old GoogleGallery.apk and moved Gallery2.apk to system/app),
but I didn't worked out (Gallery worked, Camera FC).
Is there a solution for this?
Update - on vanilla rootbox it worked. Maybe I did something wrong on PA..
(or it just not supported on PA?)
SOLVED!
SlimRom's Gallery2.apk is working!!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1981731&d=1369213413
Thanks sarkar1990!
There is a flashable zip somewhere on xda I will post a link if I can find it again
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And it works on every ROM?
Umm.. Anyone know what files are related to the camera app?
Maybe I'll replace them with the files from CM.
...?
No one knows?
Should I ask on another forum?
I want to have the same camera
I'm also using Vanilla Rootbox (4.0) and I still have the stock camera with stock options - has anybody an idea on how to fix this?
On rootbox I think you can just download the gallery2.apk (download CM and only unzip this app, system>app).
Then remove (or move) old gallery (GoogleGallery.apk).
Move gallery2.apk, change permissions (like other system apps) and restart.
If you can't move it, you need to mount you system partition (r/w), search Google (it's simple).
What I think problem with aospa is that it's missing libraries because it's mostly stock.
ToMeRv32 said:
On rootbox I think you can just download the gallery2.apk (download CM and only unzip this app, system>app).
Then remove (or move) old gallery (GoogleGallery.apk).
Move gallery2.apk, change permissions (like other system apps) and restart.
If you can't move it, you need to mount you system partition (r/w), search Google (it's simple).
What I think problem with aospa is that it's missing libraries because it's mostly stock.
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It works perfectly - thanks a lot. In case anybody out there is as new to it as I am: Use ES Explorer and use it's Root Explorer - it's as simple as this
That's exactly what I used to install CMFileManager
Solved!
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Well, it didn't really solved.
When I click on the power button the device lock, not taking a picture.
I guess there is still something missing.
I'm having a real terrible go at this. I somehow removed the original google gallery apk through ES File Explorer and Installed Gallery2.apk but it crashes every time I try to open it.
I have a Sprint Galaxy Nexus running CM10.1 RC3. I know I must be missing a step or something. Help please.
As I said in another thread, I don't know how to solve it. After updating aospa slimroms camera crashes too.
Hi there!
First of all, I really want to thank you a lot, officiallysonyrebel, for such a great ROM!!!
You did an amazing job and compiled a wonderful ROM.
I'm using it on my Arc S - and it's actually the first ROM, I'm using at all.
I was running crazy with the former firmware and ICS (system too slow & all the other issues you know!).
I even thought, I've to buy a new smartphone, because my issues caused by the ICS - firmware will never be solved.
→ However, YOU SAVED me from further headaches them!!! :good:
Well, back to the essential:
While "optimizing" the ROM to my uses, i. e., deinstalling & moving apps from /system/apps etc., I realized the following "behaviors":
1. In the status bar, there is a date area. So if you click on the date, Calendar.apk opens.
The same happens with my weather widget: If I click there on the date, Calendar.apk opens.
When I removed Calendar.apk to replace it with my favorite Busines Calendar (netgenius.biscal.apk), both link areas simply lost their functionality.
→ Would it be also possible to link this area to any calendar app you want? So everyone could keep this great "link" in the status bar (and in the widget) without loosing its functionality and define himself which calendar app he wants to be linked with this area.
2. It seems QuickSarchBox.apk is linked to the GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk.
When I removed QuickSarchBox.apk, I only had the GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk, which at the same time offered me the Google Now!! functionality.
→ So may it be that QuickSarchBox.apk just "lays on" the "standard" Google Search and also hides the functions of Google Now!?
At the same time, it's really interesting that pressing long on the menu button opens Google Now!.
3. Actually, I didn't want to use Gallery2.apk, but instead Album.apk of Xperia Z.
But when I removed Gallery2.apk, I realized that some other areas are linked to "Gallery2.apk", i. e. my profile in Contacts.apk.
So it happened, when I wanted to add a picture to my profile, the Album of Xperia Z opened, I could choose a foto, but it wasn't "sent" to my profile. The pic - area there kept being blank.
→ Would it also be possible to link this area to any album app you want?
4. When I converted Contacts.apk from a system's to a user's app, moved it to my SD Card and wanted to dial a number of any of my contacts, Contacts.apk just crashed. But at the same time I was able to choose any of my contacts within Contacts.apk to send them a SMS and even decide via which app (Stock, Whatsapp, Textra, ...).
→ I was really wondering, why this happens in that way?
(To get all the functionality back, I converted it already back to a system's app.)
5. It's not possible to move the system app Torch.apk to SD Card. If you do so, it won't work at all.
→ Would be great, it would be possible to convert Torch.apk also to a user app and to move it without problems.
6. Is there a possibility to solve the "camera issue", i. e. the green foto thumbnail?
7. For those, who are interested: I converted a lot of system apps to user apps and moved them from /system/app to /data/app.
After trying them out, I also removed a lot of apps, because I didn't need them at all.
That's how I cleaned the System ROM up to aprox. 150 MB and the intern space up to aprox. 220 MB.
My Arc S literally "runs" now like a charm and the real speed (in comparison to ICS Firmware) makes me very happy.
This is a list of what I converted to user app or deinstalled at all - once, again, I decided to remove this apps, because I personally don't need them at all (a lot of them are live wallpapers:
Moved from /system/app to /data/app - WITHOUT ANY FURTHER ISSUES / PROBLEMS:
Code:
BasicDreams.apk
BeanStalkPapers.apk
Browser.apk
Calculator.apk
Calendar.apk
DownloadProviderUi.apk
Gallery2.apk
Gmail.apk
MediaUploader.apk
Mms.apk
SoundRecorder.apk
Removed at all - WITHOUT ANY FURTHER ISSUES / PROBLEMS:
Code:
Apollo.apk
ATweakerFree.apk
DSPManager.apk
Gallery2.apk
GooManager.apk
HALO.apk
HoloLauncherHD.apk
HoloSpiralWallpaper.apk
HTMLViewer.apk
LatinIME.apk
LiveWallpapers.apk
MagicSmokeWallpapers.apk
NoiseField.apk
PhaseBeam.apk
PhotoTable.apk
SetupWizard.apk
StalkExplorer.apk
Stk.apk
Trebuchet.apk
VideoEditor.apk
VisualizationWallpapers.apk
XposedDPI.apk
XposedInstaller.apk
So, I hope you can give me some answers to my questions an I hope my experiments help our community to get better and better!!!
Regards,
Chipy
disabling button backlight
beanstalk is a GREAT ROM!! but the button back-light is annoying, I really want to disable it.
I saw on the official beanstalk thread that someone posted a mod for adding advanced settings, but it didn't help.
I was able to add the settings for disabling it but it didn't do anything.
I also head problems with mounting the system root with RO, it is stuck in RW and no app was able to change it.
if the mounting issue with the ro-rw will be fixed i will be able to fix the back-light manually so it is more important.
thank you
Hi dropsy1234!
Did you try to mount the system root with ES File Manager (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.android.pop&hl=en)?
Which buttons back - lights do you mean?
I even didn't see any lights...
thanks
hi
thank you for the answer, but I already tried es and fx file explorer and another app... nothing helped. i saw that allot of people had problams with this on android 4.3
i'f i'm the only one with this problem on this ROM then I will try to install it again.
about the light' i'm talking about that annoying light behind (on the sides) the menu button.
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hi
thank you for the answer, but I already tried es and fx file explorer and another app... nothing helped. i saw that allot of people had problams with this on android 4.3
i'f i'm the only one with this problem on this ROM then I will try to install it again.
about the light' i'm talking about that annoying light behind (on the sides) the menu button.
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HI dropsy1234!
I don't exactly know why do you want to mount the system root with RO?
But checking my settings in es file explorer, they're set to:
Path RO RW
/ X
/system X
So, does this mean, my system root is mount with RO?!
Finally, I realised the light behind the buttons.
Mmmm...
thanks chip
but as you can see i'm new to this forum (only 3 posts) so i have no idea what your es settings mean
thanks for trying to help tough.
I've been using the Android L port and I'm loving it. The only problem is that I hate all the official google apps. Plus the ROM only comes with Google photos. I really want to put something together once the ROM is more stable (although it really is good right now) that includes aosp style apps.
Does anyone know where I can get the apps? Can I just pull them from a custom ROM? Or can someone put together a zip that has a few aosp apps? I'm mainly thinking browser, gallery and a file manager, but suggestions are welcome.
EDIT: I was able to pull the apks out of another ROM, I chose the latest (7-20 at time of writing this) CM11 and put the files where they should be /system/app and I changed the permissions to match other files in the same location. Then I rebooted to recovery and wiped both caches. File manager (CM File Manager) and gallery worked fine, I can't figure out browser though. I found an app on the play store that was an AOSP Browser installer and tried that too, but browser keeps crashing on launch. So if anybody knows how to make AOSP browser install please enlighten me.
Thank you.
This mod will change default apps UI to look like G3:
Contact, Phone, Setting, Lockscreen, Home, Message, Camera
Little icon change for:
Internet, videos, calculator, gallery
How to:
1. You must have a file manager for editing Example.apk, X-PLORE file manager is always highly recommended:
2. Download zip from attachments, open mod & copy(replace) "res" folder in Example.apk.
3. Replace your new Example.apk with the original one in system/app.
4. You MUST always Restart your phone to get the right result! Possible Force closes before restart are normal
Done! Enjoy!
Flashable zip is here!please reply the result
----------editing apk files with X-plore file manager:
hold on an apk file & select "open as archive" & then you can modify APKs easily
----------how this mod works?
this mod will replace only some pictures in Example.apk
If you don't like a change, easily delete its picture from mod folder & copy pics again to the original copy of Example.apk.
!! remember to have the original STOCK APK files somewhere safe !!
I suggest to copy the system/"app" folder somewhere safe
If you want to have changeable status bar & navbar colors same as action bar(flat style like my screenshot, you can use FlatStyleColoredBars! Even on 4.1 like myself. All the credits goes to ibocharov, that's a great module & worthy to buy the pro if you like!
BUT IT'S ONLY FOR 4.3+! BUT NO PROBLEM, install Xinstaller Xposed module & disable checking sdk version & it will be installed & will work on 4.1 jellybean perfect!
NOTE: use the 0.63 or lower versions of flatstylecoloredbars on jellybean, the newer versions cause serious force closes! If you've already faced the problem, use Xposed recovery mode:
Restart the phone,once you see boot animation, press volume down four times or more!
That's how I solve the problem on my (locked bootloader-no custom recovery) device!
The 0.63 version that I'm already using it, is perfect for jellybean,I've attached it(edited,works with 4.1 without other modules )
If you want to have G3 style notification bar & lollipop Navigation bar on your Optimus G like the screenshot, here is the place:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/opt...notification-lollipop-navbar-optimus-t3034589
can you make a flashable zip bro?
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can you make a flashable zip bro?
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The problem is my phone is not unlocked & I don't know how to make flashable zip!
But I make you sure even by deleting the apps above, phone will boot normally(tested) & you can replace or copy your original apps, they will be restored FOR SURE.
Also that's not that much hard to modify them! At most 10 minutes for all of them!
Heeeeey. Thanks for the mods my compatriot We have a good community here: http://forum.mobilestan.net/forumdisplay.php?f=3380
join us
akahroba said:
Heeeeey. Thanks for the mods my compatriot We have a good community here: http://forum.mobilestan.net/forumdisplay.php?f=3380
join us
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Hey, your welcome, but I think it has been a misunderstanding bro!
Which kind of language is that site?
M.M.K said:
I think there must be some misunderstanding bro!
Which kind of language is that site?
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Persian. Well, maybe your tester was an Iranian. The screen shot from contacts was my clue.