Hi,
Is there a ADB command line that would revert the recent menu in a card style menu? Instead of the limited 8 apps only?
I tried looking for it but i might not be searching correctly. I have change this in the past (I think) but i can't remember if it was a custom ROM feature or a ADB command line...
Thanks for any feedback
To answer my own question...
In the build.prop, the line we need to change in order to have the recent apps in a card style instead of the 8 only recent apps.
ro.recents.grid=true
Change true to false
Is there a way to edit that line through an Adb command without Root permissions?
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So I took the plunge and have removed peep and learn more from the phone, all working well so far. don't want to push my luck and remove more.
How did you managed it? I'm guessing you have root access or something?
yes rooted and booted loads of bits i want to remove but not sure what effect they would have on the system.
adb shell rm /system/app/Learn*
adb shell rm /system/app/com.htc.Twitt*
I managed to remove learnmore and the Stocks app and its widget. No discernable bad effects. I used Root Explorer successfully to do this, thought I havent managed to get Root Explorer to Copy and paste either to or from the device (Yup I know its read only, but Root Explorer, when working correctly, allows you to toggle R/w and R/0 ).
Daisy xxx
Dayzee said:
I managed to remove learnmore and the Stocks app and its widget. No discernable bad effects. I used Root Explorer successfully to do this, thought I havent managed to get Root Explorer to Copy and paste either to or from the device (Yup I know its read only, but Root Explorer, when working correctly, allows you to toggle R/w and R/0 ).
Daisy xxx
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Daisy! Quick question?? how did you manage to get root explorer to work. It seems to for-close on me all the time!
Dayzee said:
I havent managed to get Root Explorer to Copy and paste either to or from the device
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It's now working here. I used the update.zip mentioned here to gain "adb remount" ability for an unrelated issue and a side-effect is that Root Explorer now copies/pastes as expected.
Maybe a little tutorial on how to uninstall apps ??
I remove "rosie" to get back old style android look : its blazing fast and all htc's applications still works.
I used the Update.zip from Pauls Method at MoDaCo (Should go in the wiki if Paul says its OK?) and then was able to copy from /data/app/ to my SD Card using Linda File Manager whilst in "adb remount" (link via usb, then use command prompt to get to the adb directory and type "adb remount" then use the Linda File manager to do the bizz.)
Haven't tried removing anything or putting anything in yet, cos I really don't know whayt I'm doing. I just want to know HOW it can be done really. :0)
Dayzee
minogue said:
Daisy! Quick question?? how did you manage to get root explorer to work. It seems to for-close on me all the time!
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I don't get force closes, but it certainly doesn't work for me as it should. Pressing the buttons to change from R/W to R/O usually says Busy: cannot remount - also any "copy" seems to go ok but the "paste" never works.
I've got Root Explorer 1.4 I think. Also tried it with adb remount but it didn't seem to work either.
Daisy xx
NisseGurra said:
I remove "rosie" to get back old style android look : its blazing fast and all htc's applications still works.
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I want to do this but worried I might get the "force close error" when opening the peoples application when using the standard android UI. Its happened a few times when I set Home as my default application, reverted back to Touchflo and it been working great.
Removing Rosie completely will also remove the black look that HTC put in the ROM? Or is that something that is fixed by theming? (Like the top bar being black on the Hero, but white on the Magic)
Edit:
Well I went ahead and gave Rosie the boot, allong with some other HTC widget stuff (which becomes obsolete when you remove Rosie) I used Root Explorer to delete the files (adb shell rm wouldn't work :-\)
All I need now is the default white bar at the top instead of the HTC Black one
Not sure where to post this. Hopefully it is the right place.
I found this a little while back, and it's a tool to write the the Android settings provider directly when you have shell access (adb shell). Easier than fooling around with sqlite3. You don't need root elevation to do this either, it seems.
There is a new binary shipping with Android Jellybean 4.2, which can be used to directly read/write to the system settings provider, accessible via command line.
This tool also makes it easy to change system settings using shell commands (Github source). Since adb is run as a system process, using ‘adb shell’ allows full read/write. If these commands are run from within an application, it requires the appropriate permissions unless it is being run with elevated permissions (root).
Code:
settings
usage: settings [--user NUM] get namespace key
settings [--user NUM] put namespace key value
'namespace' is one of {system, secure, global}, case-insensitive
If '--user NUM' is not given, the operations are performed on the owner user.
Corresponding keys can be found in the frameworks core Settings.java (Github source).
It can be used to get system state without explicit API calls. For example, change screen brightness to 200 (1-255):
Code:
settings put system screen_brightness 200
R: Tip: New command-line binary 'settings' shipping with Android 4.2
This is something cool.
Need to look at it!
Inviato dal mio Galaxy Nexus con Tapatalk 2
I'm using a tronsmart Vega and wish to enabke/disable a system setting (enabke/disable sata drive).
What is the key to get/set?... Have no idea..
I am trying to use tasker and settings binary to chqnge font scale when in one particular app, however, i cant gwt it to switch font_scale even on console. I guess it has to do with user id i have to provide maybe but i am doing something wrong.
I tried
#settings put system font_scale= 1.3
which seems to be accepted, but with no effect
#settings user current put system font_scale= 1.3
and
#settings user u0_f70 put system font_scale= 1.3
Which both gave me an unspecified error and even ome other versions i dont remember. I suspect the way how i specify the user to be the culprit, but then i dont know...
Basically, after I had my first experience with my Navbar burning into my screen, I went out to find a way how to get immersive mode on my new replacement phone without using apps
So here we are
What is immersive mode? its basically full screen mode with the navbar and status bar in auto hide mode. To unhide them all you have to do is swipe up from the top for the status bar or swipe from the bottom for the navbar
Read more here
Things you need:
You need android terminal emulator on Android or cmd on Windows
i would prefer to do this from a PC so you can copy and paste the commands, but it can be done with any terminal emulator also.
Step 1: Connect your phone to your PC enable USB debugging mode
Step2: Open up cmd in Windows and type:
Code:
adb shell
Step3: Enter either of the following commands
To autohide statusbar only, use command:
Code:
settings put global policy_control immersive.status=*
To autohide navbar only, use command:
Code:
settings put global policy_control immersive.navigation=*
To autohide both nav and status bar, use command:
Code:
settings put global policy_control immersive.full=*
To revert back to stock, just re-enter the command you did but without the *
eg:
Code:
settings put global policy_control immersive.full=
Tried multiple times to run this in my android terminal emulator but kept getting "getcontentproviderexternal" messages. was also to lazy to walk across the room to my PC. I ended up downloading "nougat quick settings" from the play store and it works perfectly.
I disabled my nav bar by adding "qemu.hw.mainkeys = 1" to my build prop, made my status bar immersive, then downloaded LMT for pie controls. Couldn't be happier with this setup.
noidea24 said:
Tried multiple times to run this in my android terminal emulator but kept getting "getcontentproviderexternal" messages. was also to lazy to walk across the room to my PC. I ended up downloading "nougat quick settings" from the play store and it works perfectly.
I disabled my nav bar by adding "qemu.hw.mainkeys = 1" to my build prop, made my status bar immersive, then downloaded LMT for pie controls. Couldn't be happier with this setup.
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that method is too dirty. I like to do things the right way
flex360 said:
Basically, after I had my first experience with my Navbar burning into my screen, I went out to find a way how to get immersive mode on my new replacement phone without using apps
So here we are
What is immersive mode? its basically full screen mode with the navbar and status bar in auto hide mode. To unhide them all you have to do is swipe up from the top for the status bar or swipe from the bottom for the navbar
Read more here
Things you need:
You need to be rooted
You need android terminal emulator on Android or cmd on Windows
i would prefer to do this from a PC so you can copy and paste the commands, but it can be done with any terminal emulator also.
Step 1: Connect your phone to your PC enable USB debugging mode
Step2: Open up cmd in Windows and type:
Code:
adb shell
Step 3: type
Code:
su
Enable to root request on your phone
Step4: Enter either of the following commands
To autohide statusbar only, use command:
Code:
settings put global policy_control immersive.status=*
To autohide navbar only, use command:
Code:
settings put global policy_control immersive.navigation=*
To autohide both nav and status bar, use command:
Code:
settings put global policy_control immersive.full=*
To revert back to stock, just re-enter the command you did but without the *
eg:
Code:
settings put global policy_control immersive.full=
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Awesome! Thank you for this. Is there a way to choose only certain apps to be immersive?
you do need to be rooted to do this. thats why you were having issues
I updated the OP
jal3223 said:
Awesome! Thank you for this. Is there a way to choose only certain apps to be immersive?
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no that would require messing with the code in the app itself
flex360 said:
you do need to be rooted to do this. thats why you where having issues
I updated the OP
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jal3223 said:
Awesome! Thank you for this. Is there a way to choose only certain apps to be immersive?
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You could setup tasker to do this. Btw, I am rooted, but still can't get this to run in android terminal.
jal3223 said:
Awesome! Thank you for this. Is there a way to choose only certain apps to be immersive?
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Sure!
for example, if u want to enable some apps
Code:
settings put global policy_control immersive.full=com.chrome.beta,com.google.android.apps.magazines,com.medium.reader
or if u want immersive full except some apps
Code:
settings put global policy_control immersive.full=apps,-com.google.android.apps.nexuslauncher,-com.twitter.android,-com.google.android.apps.photos,-com.google.android.GoogleCamera,-com.google.android.keep,-com.android.settings
The difference is the "-" before [app full name]
Thank you for this! This is exactly what I was looking for. I really appreciate you sharing.
Would just like to confirm this works without root. Been searching for ages on how to do this since the AT&T Galaxy S6 Edge+ can not be rooted. Decided to give this a shot and it is perfect.
adb shell settings put global policy_control immersive.full=*
Wow this is amazing. Works without root using autotools. Thanks!
jon6fingrs said:
Wow this is amazing. Works without root using autotools. Thanks!
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What is "autotools"?
puertorecon said:
What is "autotools"?
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It's a tasker plugin that lets you change secure settings without root after giving it permission through adb.
This is amazing, thanks very much!
Yep, tried this on my Nexus 6 without root, works indeed!
Can you guys give me some instructions on how to do this on Tasker with Autotools? I am a noob with Tasker / Autotools.
Zyneros said:
Would just like to confirm this works without root. Been searching for ages on how to do this since the AT&T Galaxy S6 Edge+ can not be rooted. Decided to give this a shot and it is perfect.
adb shell settings put global policy_control immersive.full=*
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Works perfect. Thanks. What abd command would I use if I want to put it back should I decide to?
KorGuy123 said:
Works perfect. Thanks. What abd command would I use if I want to put it back should I decide to?
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its all in the first post
how did you miss that?
I really do not want to root,...please send some insructions on how to do it with Tasker and Autotools. Thank you very much!!!
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wrong thread. kindly delete.
Is there anyway I can do this without root? I changed my DPI and gboard is too small I can't get used to any other keyboard and I want to hold off on root for now.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.xda-developers.com/gboard-tweaks-height-sensitivity/amp/
Is there an adb cmd that can allow me to get to the file to edit it or something?
Use adb, or one of my favorite apps LADB so you can do this directly from your phone. Once you're in the ADB shell:
Cmd device_config put wallpaper_content G_WALLPAPER_GALLERY true
Cmd device_config put launcher ENABLE_SMARTSPACE_ENHANCED true
The first one gives you some hidden wallpapers in the Google wallpapers app, and the second changes your at a glance widget and gives you a menu to enable or disable features however it's not complete yet, but personally I hate the Giant at a glance widget and prefer this one.
Adittionally, you can check out a list of other things to experiment with by entering cmd
device_config list