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Hi all, i hope someone can help me.
Everytime I soft-reset a annoying shortcut named "EasyMenu" comes back in my menu, even when I delete it.
So I made a script that will delete the shortcut.
That worked with:
Delete( "\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\EasyMenu.lnk" )
Only when I place the script in the StartUp folder it wont work, I think because the script will run earlier than that the icon will be made.
So I was hoping that I can change the script so it will be executed after for example 30 seconds.
I hope someone can tell me how to do this, I tried some things in from the commands.txt but no luck, I am not verry good with programmer.
Thanks in advance!
Coen
coenboomkamp said:
Hi all, i hope someone can help me.
Everytime I soft-reset a annoying shortcut named "EasyMenu" comes back in my menu, even when I delete it.
So I made a script that will delete the shortcut.
That worked with:
Delete( "\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\EasyMenu.lnk" )
Only when I place the script in the StartUp folder it wont work, I think because the script will run earlier than that the icon will be made.
So I was hoping that I can change the script so it will be executed after for example 30 seconds.
I hope someone can tell me how to do this, I tried some things in from the commands.txt but no luck, I am not verry good with programmer.
Thanks in advance!
Coen
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sleep(5000) - this will sleep the script for 5 seconds (5000ms) (you can replace the number with the required delay). HOWEVER, this is overkill. You'd be better trying to figure what is creating the easymenu.lnk file in the first place.
Ok, so the EasyMenu.lnk is a little program from my provider, it gives me fast acces to my services and rintones, picutres, games and my chat and fun things for my sms/mms, pretty usless.
I searched my register for "Easy" and here are the results:
Reg1:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\OEM\STK]
"BackToSetupMenu"=dword:00000001
"Disable_IdleModeText"=dword:00000001
"Enable_IdleModeStatusIcon"=dword:00000000
"Link"="\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\EasyMenu.lnk"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\OEM\STK\SetupMenu]
Reg2:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start\EasyMenu.lnk]
"Group"=dword:00000000
"Rank"=dword:ffffff9b
I hope someone can tell me what to change to stop the making of the shortcut.
Thanks in Advance
OK, this is related to the SIM Toolkit (which is actually an app on your SIM card put there by your service provider/carrier/operator).
This is an unusual case of application icon, since it's not a normally installed app. Off the top of my head I don't know any perfect way to disable SIM Toolkit, but we may be able to delete the cause, or have it create the link elsewhere on your filesystem (so that it doesn't appear in your start menu).
I can't say for certain if this can easily be removed, but there's a couple of things we can try...
Try modifying the following entry in your Registry (just to prove this entry is creating the link), then reboot -
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\OEM\STK]
"Link"="\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ThisIsATest.lnk"
IF we discover a new link in your start menu, then great.... we've found the cause (and the simple fix would be to either remove this reg entry, OR change the link to something like "\Temp\deleteme.tmp"
Let me know how you get on with that!
Hey TheBrilliantMistake
Sorry that didnt do the trick, its still there under the name EasyMenu.lnk
Only why is it bad to use the script?
What do you mean with overkill?
Greetz
coenboomkamp said:
Hey TheBrilliantMistake
Sorry that didnt do the trick, its still there under the name EasyMenu.lnk
Only why is it bad to use the script?
What do you mean with overkill?
Greetz
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Well, it's not too bad to use the script, it's just that the ideal solution would be to stop the problem occurring in the first place...
Try the script for the moment and see how that works (might have to play around with the timing to make sure it deletes it every time)
Second try...
Try renaming the stk_service.dll file to oldstk_service.dll (you might need to use an advanced file manager like Resco File Explorer, or Total Commander to do this).
Then delete the easymenu.lnk and reboot.
OR
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\stk_service dll=stk_service.dll <---- make this key empty instead of pointing to STK Service dll.
Its a program that locks photos so you need a password to view them. Heres my problem.
I rooted my cell and obviously lost the program. But when i reinstall it after root it wont show my old photos. Like they don't exist. From what i can tell it moves them to another folder sdcard/com.aopworks.photolock/.locked and changes the files to .jpge instead of .jpeg etc. But even if i rename them they dont work. And the creator doesn't seem to return emails...any help would be appreciated!
first thing i want to do is say i know this is not a q/a forum and i'm sorry for posting a question. i hope this does not get me banned, but i needed a devs assistance, not the random advice of people as inexperienced as myself, and thought this the best place to seek it. if this is completely the wrong place, please just move it and don't delete/lock it on me. I have looked everywhere i knew before turning to this section of the forums to ask questions like this. i am an aspiring dev, and am trying to learn the tools and cannot figure anything out when it comes to adb. ive spent hours on here. androidcentral. and google. almost 5 tonight alone on this one specific problem. all leading me in circles- giving me lists of commands and not telling me what or how they work and where the files i need/want go, or even how to access or create them.
heres the thing. i can make themes. change elements on my phone, make cwm3 files and flash them great. ive done a lot of custom tweaks and swaps to and between my favorite roms and themes.
NOW i want to get a copy of my system. an image of it; like nandroid only something i can view/edit. something similar to one of those zips i downloaded for the roms i've been playing with. something i can click through and view. nandroid is an image- an image that i cannot even get to emulate with my regular virtual disk emulators. im getting pissed. i got told to do a system dump with adb. what good does that do me? ive done about 50 tonight. i cant find where the stupid things even dump TO. all i want is a file that has all everything i need in it that i've changed. somethign with my framework, twframework, apps, and all the other system changes that ive done and im ready to throw my damned computer and phone into my wall. ive sat here for over 4 hours, on here, android central, and google. and i'm still effing lost. the ONLY thing i've acomplished is to figure out how to use cmd prompt to enable adb. thats IT. im ready to scream. PLEASE- someone tell me how i can make this stupid phone dump the files i want/need onto my computer or sd card or someplace accessable. someplace that i could, in theory, open and view and use to make a theme/rom of my own. sorry for ranting but im really irritated right now on account of the hours i've spent and gotten NOWHERE. please help me (and please dont send me on to a post or a website that just tells me what the commands are. i know what they are. i have lists and lists of them. thats all ive been able to find tonight. i want to know HOW to use them, where they dump to, and how to make a useable file FROM them.)
I only got thru half of this, but search for unyaffs to extract a nandroid backup, essentially giving u a copy of your /system folder.
EDIT: attached. Create your backup through clockwork. Copy the backup folder to your computer, paste this zip inside that folder, extract, open up DOS prompt (go to that folder), type unyaffs system.img . I recommend a google search for unyaffs for more detailed info, as this thread will prob be moved/closed.
.. causes clutter for people looking through actual development projects.
close away. THANK YOU. thats what ive been trying to do with adb and figure out for hours. thank you thank you.
Np. ..went thru hell looking for that a while back.
I'm not sure if this is possible as ICS has no built in file manager, but is there anywhere I can put an apk file that it would be accessible without one? Specifically I want to be able to open an apk to install a file manager as the first thing I do after flashing a rom, to avoid needing to go through the market.
I thought maybe I could leave it in sdcard/download but it seems like the downloads program is blind to anything in that folder that wasn't officially "downloaded". (I suppose I could upload one to my dropbox and download it via the browser, if there are no viable options). Also made a few stabs at getting the gallery program to show one but it seems to filter out anything that's not a picture or video.
Any ideas for places to stick an apk and get one of the stock programs to let me open it?
maybe email it to yourself?
but you would have to log into the email app to do that
but there isnt really anyway to access the file without a file explorer
Open your favourite rom zip, add your apk to /system/app, save the zip, push that zip to the phone, flash.
Peesashiz said:
maybe email it to yourself?
but you would have to log into the email app to do that
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Yeah in general I'm trying to cut out the step of signing into anything and just restoring my apps from a backup before I need to cancel automatic restore functions (which I do want on and running once I do my own initial run of things).
bk201doesntexist said:
Open your favourite rom zip, add your apk to /system/app, save the zip, push that zip to the phone, flash.
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I'm guessing this comes with the consequence of raising any apk added in this manner to system app level? Not that I distrust the apps I'd have in mind for this to do anything malicious themselves, but is there any danger of opening security holes by elevating apps not designed to be system apps?
What I've done many times is just enabling Air Plane as soon as I can after flashing a ROM. That's way I can install any apk I want.
Hope it helps.
heo_con184 said:
What I've done many times is just enabling Air Plane as soon as I can after flashing a ROM. That's way I can install any apk I want.
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Hmm but then what is your method for getting to that apk? If you do it over wifi that seems to defeat the point, no?
Personally I've found that it works just fine to uncheck the boxes for recovery syncing during the setup process, and then just re-enabling them later in settings. (Alternately, not signing into my google account at all until I've performed a backup). That way even if I end up signing into the market to download a recovery app, it doesn't automatically try to re-download everything else on its own.
I'm starting to think that my dropbox solution will be the cleanest, as it'll be a simple step of opening the browser and downloading a single apk every time at the same link.
I bet that the inclusion of a basic file explorer will be one of those headline items in a future android release. A nice basic functionality that the bloggers can rehash to death before anything actually hits.
Download the file manager apk over wifi and install the APK via download manager.
I do it all the time with Chinese android tablets with no market access.
Or Bluetooth it from another device.
Or just use the market
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JoeSyr said:
Hmm but then what is your method for getting to that apk? If you do it over wifi that seems to defeat the point, no?
Personally I've found that it works just fine to uncheck the boxes for recovery syncing during the setup process, and then just re-enabling them later in settings. (Alternately, not signing into my google account at all until I've performed a backup). That way even if I end up signing into the market to download a recovery app, it doesn't automatically try to re-download everything else on its own.
I'm starting to think that my dropbox solution will be the cleanest, as it'll be a simple step of opening the browser and downloading a single apk every time at the same link.
I bet that the inclusion of a basic file explorer will be one of those headline items in a future android release. A nice basic functionality that the bloggers can rehash to death before anything actually hits.
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Transfer by USB from my laptop.
Is there a way to do that in which the device will launch the apk you move over? When I copy files over usb, it only ever puts them into whatever directory, and I need a file explorer to interact with them on the phone. And then I'm back to square one, as far as this particular task is concerned (once things are up and running I just use the LAN option in ES file explorer and it's as convenient as could be).
you have the apk in your computer right?
connect the phone to pc, and use adb to install
'adb install <apk_file_name.apk>'
Ah. I haven't used adb since I first unlocked/rooted a few months ago. Guess it probably pays to be a little familiar with those tools; they don't even occur to me when problem solving these days.
JoeSyr said:
Ah. I haven't used adb since I first unlocked/rooted a few months ago. Guess it probably pays to be a little familiar with those tools; they don't even occur to me when problem solving these days.
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mark thread as solved then, if that solved it
Well a completely in-phone solution would still be nice, but I guess if there were any of those they'd have come up by now.
I'll probably use abd if I'm actively working at my computer and a dropbox download otherwise.
I can't seem to get this running properly. Itwont store info on my sdext4 because there is already read only files there. How can i get rid of that? I've tried every avenue via Google. Surely to God there must be an app for rooted users to change read only files.
Will someone be kind enough to offer a suggestion?
Hope this helps.
TheEvoNoob said:
I can't seem to get this running properly. Itwont store info on my sdext4 because there is already read only files there. How can i get rid of that? I've tried every avenue via Google. Surely to God there must be an app for rooted users to change read only files.
Will someone be kind enough to offer a suggestion?
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If you're talking about file permissions, I use ES File Manager to change file permissions.
Nah... That didnt work. I couldnt see them. They were evil. Not sure where i picked them up. The script was set to delete my data connection and Wifi. I ended up finding the script when I tried to partion my SD card. I had a third hidden partition with 33Mb of something F'ed up. I used another SD card and downloaded the same ROM and everything was fine. I ended up using Gparted to wipe my card. Its the ONLY thing that will wipe EVERYTHING no matter what it is. Its doesnt see "read only" scripts.
TheEvoNoob said:
I can't seem to get this running properly. Itwont store info on my sdext4 because there is already read only files there. How can i get rid of that? I've tried every avenue via Google. Surely to God there must be an app for rooted users to change read only files.
Will someone be kind enough to offer a suggestion?
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Download and run this app,make sure you follow the directions and read what each tweak is,does and how it effects your phone,before applying them,theres a tweak in miscellaneous,it will change all of your files in internal and external to (read/write).This is a beta version,even though it says pro.Also make sure whatever rom your running,theres init.d support,if not it will install it,do this first.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m8a074o1ixvr6k0/Android Tweaker ProV3.0.1.apk