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ROM question....

I have tried a few ROMs here for my Hero and am not finding anything for what I need. Maybe I haven't looked enough but I have looked.
I have tried the Blue Froyo and Darch's 2.8 and neither let me play any of the music I have on my sdcard in a file called Music. On the stock ROM music player they show up just fine.
I also am having an issue with both not letting me use my voice mail properly, I have found the VVM zip and this only solves part of the issue for me. I still don't get proper notification of new messages. Instead I am getting two or more messages from 9016 for each new voice mail.
Any one point me towards a ROM that helps with both of these? Non-sense preferred but not a must. Sorry for being lazy but there are so many ROMs here and trying them all just to test these two things out would be very time consuming and asking these questions in all threads would be very redundant.

Try CM6.
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chefthomas99 said:
Try CM6.
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If you mean the nightly, I have and maybe I'm too picky because it isn't themed like the blue froyo is. It also has these two issues I'm asking about so that won't help.
Anyone else have a suggestion for me?

You may need to reformat your SD card. There's really no reason it wouldn't play files from a "Music" folder unless it's having trouble reading the SD card somehow. Try reformatting the SD card (after backing up everything on it) and then reload all the files on it and try again.
As for the voicemail thing, on any AOSP-based ROM (DD, CM) those notifications from 9016 won't go away....it's kinda how android tells the Sprint VVM that a voicemail has been received, but to my knowledge no one has figured out how to disable those texts from coming in. Using Handcent SMS (an app from the market), you can supposedly blacklist the 9016 number but I'm not sure if that's a complete fix because I've never tried it myself. Most or even all Sense-based ROMs don't get that text.

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You may need to reformat your SD card. There's really no reason it wouldn't play files from a "Music" folder unless it's having trouble reading the SD card somehow. Try reformatting the SD card (after backing up everything on it) and then reload all the files on it and try again.
As for the voicemail thing, on any AOSP-based ROM (DD, CM) those notifications from 9016 won't go away....it's kinda how android tells the Sprint VVM that a voicemail has been received, but to my knowledge no one has figured out how to disable those texts from coming in. Using Handcent SMS (an app from the market), you can supposedly blacklist the 9016 number but I'm not sure if that's a complete fix because I've never tried it myself. Most or even all Sense-based ROMs don't get that text.
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Thanx I'll try that when I get home as I'm at work right now. Strange that all sense roms I've tried see my music fine but not these two which of course are my favorites. Came from a moment so sense is weird to me.
The voicemail thing I guess I'll learn to live with as I'm reserving an epic tomorrow @ RS.
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Edit: ever have one of those moments where you say to yourself "why didn't I think of that" ? Well I should have but I feel so stupid I can't even think enough to do that right now...formating the sdcard did the trick....thanx again

Bump...so one of the 9016 messages I got for vvm looks like a command to turn on a notification. Just curious if this has been looked into. Maybe we could get this to work by tweaking the command or maybe the command isn't being ran because the receiving app needs tweaking?
sent from my Blue Froyo Hero by space aliens

raiderep said:
If you mean the nightly, I have and maybe I'm too picky because it isn't themed like the blue froyo is. It also has these two issues I'm asking about so that won't help.
Anyone else have a suggestion for me?
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2.2 works just fine for me... music plays perfectly and theres a black mod theme in themes and apps for 2.2 which is by far the best theme i've seen for an android

DirtyShroomz said:
2.2 works just fine for me... music plays perfectly and theres a black mod theme in themes and apps for 2.2 which is by far the best theme i've seen for an android
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I have seen that one, I am kinda partial to the blue froyo theme but I noticed that the nightly isn't themed. I will try that one out for theming the nightly, thanks. I've played with theming on another phone but haven't quite figured it out yet on the Hero or I'd just make one myself.

Messaging app from 2.2/2.2.2

I need the messaging app from Froyo for Milestone 2. Could someone upload it for me? I will be appreciated

Here ya go: http://www.mediafire.com/?6oof65mihhspap2

Thanks a lot One more thing. conversation.apk, could You?

Here ya go again: http://www.mediafire.com/?i91sv85s6qudd05

Hmm, I was trying to change the conversation.apk (it's a sms app) in Gingerbread to this from Froyo but it's not so easy as I thought I was trying to paste it to system/app and change permissions but it don't want to work with the 2.3.4. Maybe you have any idea how to do this

Very cool
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mkmck said:
I need the messaging app from Froyo for Milestone 2. Could someone upload it for me? I will be appreciated
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Not sure if it's going to work straight from the box on the blurred phone... but you can always try Cyanogenmod7 on MM2 ;-) (see development section).
BR,
A.

b0ssman said:
Not sure if it's going to work straight from the box on the blurred phone... but you can always try Cyanogenmod7 on MM2 ;-) (see development section).
BR,
A.
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In CM7 we can use this froyo app messaging?

The are a few issues with trying to use the Blur apps in non-blur roms. I used to like the Blur clock (for the dock) and tried to get it into CM7, but gave up instead and just used the default app.
For SMS, have a play with goSMS, its pretty similar to the blur one (they have a few skins which are similar, I changed my up and skinned it differently anyway)

I get a bit confused here. I just can't just instal Froyo messaging apk to have the ballon like visualisation? Just using specific apps?
Go message doesn't work to me, when message have 160+ characters when I send te people who receves get symbols like "! & %" and can't read.

Handcent skin mod

This is the first anything I have put forth to share, but wanted to because everyone shares with me. I took the darkness skin offered by handcent and put my own twist on it. The only way I've tried to apply it is to uninstall the original one and install this one. No need for root access. I hope you like it...
Screenshots:
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This my latest and final one. It is the same type of skin as the one above, but this one replaces the metal skin.
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It's a bin file can't install...
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I'm new...what can I say, I will fix it now.

Updated, its a go now. Sorry for the derail.

Nice dude looks good. Not a big skull fan but good work.
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Well its the colors more than the skull I was going for.

If anyone has suggestions of what they would like to see, let me know.

I can't get this to work at all on liquid 3.0 for the thunderbolt... That's the only snag I've found so far.

Edit: moved updated skin to first post.

I can't install it on my HTC Desire with CM7.1. Handcent is up to date. After the install failed I resigned the apk and tried again but still no luck. Any ideas?

I had problems with liquid for the thunderbolt, and also with a few other roms. I haven't changed anything and it works on bamf forever. I'm not sure what keeps it from installing on certain roms. I tried adb push and that didn't work either. I'm not very well versed in system operations. I wish I had a definitive answer.

I tried a few more times (resigning, repacking and resigning, repacking and optimizing and resigning etc.) but still no luck. Maybe it's because of my ROM (CM7.1) or the Handcent version (3.9.9.1) but there are problems even with the original handcent skins from the market (I tried the Halloween skins). They install but I can't select them in the handcent app.
I also tried to mod the handcent apk but even stranger things are happening there: it installs without any issues but when I open it it crashes. No FC warning or something but it simply closes right away.
I'll keep trying so maybe someday we can all enjoy various skins for handcent.

Thanks for the effort. It only worked on certain roms for me. My friends with unrooted phones didn't have any trouble, so unfortunately I think it just wont work for everyone. I am making another one, but I wont be able to put up any screenshots.

Okay... I changed one more... It will be my last one because I get bored quickly of any one thing. I'll put it in the first post.

Enabling Facebook Contact Sync in Ice Cream Sandwich

I'm using Koush's CM9 Alpha 12 ROM at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1356228 with the Franco kernel, and I'm saddened that it's sorely missing one big feature that i'm used to in the NSCollab ROM i came from. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=959282)
In the stock Android 2.3.3 that came with the phone, if the Facebook app was installed, it could sync contacts over from your account, including phone numbers, emails, and pictures. The OTA 2.3.4 removed that function, as Google had deemed it as a violation of their TOS.
NSCollab (based off of CM7), which i'd used since 2.3.5, enabled that function somewhere in the system files, and it was fully usable, no questions asked. The CM9 build i'm using, however, lacks that feature.
I've compared both of their build.prop files and don't see any differences that would stand out, and I'm at an impasse here. I'm almost determined to find the setting in the CM7 ROM that allows Facebook syncing on this device and be able to use it in CM9. I'm not sure i want to comb every system file, though. Any assistance?

The reason it works in custom ROMs is because they patch it to work. It's not a build.prop issue I do not believe. It is a bit deeper than that. Hopefully someone can she some light to get it working. It's a feature I use as well.
But that's the explanation "why" it does not work.. because it's not supposed to by design lol.

by no means do I have an answer but, syncmypix in the market is a decent alternative for the tome being.
tapa tapa tapa

ka24e said:
The reason it works in custom ROMs is because they patch it to work. It's not a build.prop issue I do not believe. It is a bit deeper than that. Hopefully someone can she some light to get it working. It's a feature I use as well.
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I'd determined that long ago, but i'm almost certain there's a flag somewhere in the system files. My cousin has an HTC Thunderbolt (horrible phone on the stock ROM) running the stock ROM, Gingerbread 2.3.5, and it's enabled on it. I know that Google specifically disabled it on their flagship phones, and i want to know how they did it and how to reverse it.
mlin said:
by no means do I have an answer but, syncmypix in the market is a decent alternative for the tome being.
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I have tried Syncmypix, Friendcaster, and another one that tries to re-enable native syncing, but none of them work near as well as native syncing.

In GB it was in system\app\ContactsProvider.apk , one line need to be added which whitelists com.facebook.katana. Maybe it's the same in ICS.
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There, I looked it up: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=978470

Here you can find the official statement from Google about Facebook sync:
http://www.androidguys.com/2011/02/23/google-drops-facebook-sync-nexus/
Anyway you can sync your contacts using Friendcaster and you can update your contact pics using syncmypix

madd0g said:
In GB it was in system\app\ContactsProvider.apk , one line need to be added which whitelists com.facebook.katana. Maybe it's the same in ICS.
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I'd considered that, even set up a decompiling environment, but never got around to trying it. Just tried it, and found out that comparing the two ContactsProvider.apk files (from CM7 and CM9), that ICS does not use the arrays.xml that Gingerbread did. Adding it in, recompiling it, and signing it results in FC's and wiping out your contacts storage. Thank god for Titanium backup.
Edit: Derp, found out system apps aren't supposed to be signed. Trying again.
provolinoo said:
Here you can find the official statement from Google about Facebook sync:
http://www.androidguys.com/2011/02/23/google-drops-facebook-sync-nexus/
Anyway you can sync your contacts using Friendcaster and you can update your contact pics using syncmypix
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I well know what Google did, and i'm very disappointed in them. And i'd rather not use third-party apps if we can enable native syncing at the system level.

Pushing the unsigned apk doesn't cause FC issues, but it still doesn't sync. The Facebook app cuts off at "Other Settings". Does anyone want to test out the apk for me, see if they get the same results?

The APIs are different in ICS and doing the white list trick may not work. Check out the smali folder because there could be stuff that needs to be changed in there too...

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Pushing the unsigned apk doesn't cause FC issues, but it still doesn't sync. The Facebook app cuts off at "Other Settings". Does anyone want to test out the apk for me, see if they get the same results?
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I've already tried this. You'll be able to get the account to sync in Accounts, but the new contacts app is substantially different from the Gingerbread one... Like ^ says, I think a few smali edits have to be made to include this properly.
Greetz

I'm combing the smali folder as we speak, but nothing stands out as a definitive match

The one problem about ics, you're working to fix. Thanks man! I hope you find your answer!

Haven't found it yet, though. I've been trying to get into contact with koush, see if he's had any insight.

MoDaCo got it working on the Galaxy Nexus. If anyone has the galaxy yet, you could upload his rom and them comb through the /system and see what has been changed. we could then possibly implement it for the Galaxy S as well.
http://www.slashgear.com/galaxy-nexus-ics-rom-restores-facebook-contacts-sync-13201934/

Someone get on that!

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MoDaCo got it working on the Galaxy Nexus. If anyone has the galaxy yet, you could upload his rom and them comb through the /system and see what has been changed. we could then possibly implement it for the Galaxy S as well.
http://www.slashgear.com/galaxy-nexus-ics-rom-restores-facebook-contacts-sync-13201934/
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when you go through the Rom kitchen on their site it says the option is installed to system partition

Awesome, good looking out. Downloading it now, i'll be combing the files right away. You don't need to have the actual phone to peek at the system files

But unfortunately, it seems that it is a premium feature.

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But unfortunately, it seems that it is a premium feature.
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You can download it. I did earlier. Look at the first post of the thread its there.
The premium stuff is like to cook your own. I'm sure the standard one available in the first post has it implemented.
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Oh, sweet. I'm not familiar with that developer, so i didn't know how he does his stuff. I'll push and pull some files to and from my phone, see if i can't get it working.

[REQ] Working inverted contacts for stock 4.1.1 JB crespo4G

Hello everyone. Long time lurking first time posting. After running CM for a long time I decided to go back to the stock ROM for it's smoothness and stability. Of course in doing so I've given up theme chooser. :-/ So I've had to manually find inverted apps and replace everything which isn't that much of a problem except when it comes to contacts. I know when I originally ran the stock ROM I was able to locate a working inverted contacts for my device but I guess too much time has past and I haven't had the same luck. I've spent all weekend trying to find one...Searching the web, pulling from this ROM and that ROM, trying to make my own with only partial results. No luck. I've made no progress other than frustrating myself. So I fall upon the mercy of the forum and beg someone to please provide me an inverted contacts.apk for a Nexus S 4G running a deodexed JRO03R. Of course I have all of the prerequisits such as root and recovery and I've done a TON of searching both on and off the forum. Just because I'm a first time poster does't mean I'm a noob.

Funny timing! I have made a few ROMs before and I have tried so many Contacts apks to get contacts inverted. I actually can't find MMS either so I am going to try and find an old theme and try Metamorph app. I am using ExDialer with Dark ICS theme until I figure it out. I even went and added WiFi Tether added tons of inverted apps and toggles with Notification Toggle app and reodexed. I can't give up 4G tether. If I find one or can edit one I will post a link

I have a working inverted MMS with spit that I can post when I'm at home and on my PC. Provided I can get my post count high enough to post links. I can't remember the source though...Since going back to stock and trying so many apps and so many mods from so many sources it's all kind of became a big blur. I'm contemplating using a non-stock contacts for the time being but I like the vanilla Google apps so much, both in function and design. I just hate light holo and wish everything was dark.

Home and back on my PC. Here is the Mms.apk I promised. You'll have to add the first part yourself seeing as I haven't hit 10 posts yet. Everything works to my knowledge. Not one FC or error thus far. Sends and receives everything as far as I can tell. I always had a problem with CM sending and receiving photos but this one works. Incoming text is blue and outgoing is white. Main screen text is white, viewed texts are black to match the background, non-viewed are highlighted grey, and the count is silver. As mentioned it has split and Emoji support.
Sorry for the brief post before as I was at work. Didn't want to come off as a rude ****. My plans include re-odexing but not until I get past this one hang up. I also am using Notification Toggles amongst many other things. So far I've managed to find or create most everything blacked out including the framework so the menus and stuff are black. Also anything calling out for the default grey background gets replaced with black. Like Titanium Backup, Settings, or Root Explorer for example. Google wise I have inverted:
Email
Hangouts
G+
Voice
Drive
Search/Now (Whatever you want to call it)
Maps
Play Music
Youtube
Calculator (Actually the calculator from CM10 so there are more features. I've also added some other CM10 goodies that work like DSP Manager and Torch)
Calender
News and Weather
Google Settings
Play Store
MMS
And a bunch of other inverts such as my online storage sites or Pandora. I've modified and added so much I could go on for several posts. It's really only this last hump to get over until I feel my ROM is perfect.
I never thought about a morph theme...I thought about using the bits and pieces from my favorite theme to create my own invert but everything is XHDPI and I don't want to resize all of the images just to find out I F'd up again. I've also though about Xtheme seeing as how I'm already using various Xposed modules but I would rather not have to rely on a theme engine. I've successfully changed all of the images, bars, and text colors in one of my various attempts but the background remained white... I have no problem pulling apart apks, changing code, and stuff like that but my talents are a bit limited. I'm a hacker rather than a proper developer so it's more a bit of poking and proding then changing and hoping everything comes together right in the end.
* Moderators * Please don't get pissed at me for circumventing the no links until 10 posts rule. It is a safe apk I found on here somewhere and no spam links. It's a link to my personal Dropbox without any AdFly links or anything like that. Done so in the spirit of helping a fellow member of the community. When I get over 10 posts...Which I'm sure I will...I will fix the link.

Where did you get the inverted versions you have for 4.1.1 stock?
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I honestly don't remember. I wish I did so I could give proper credit. I'm almost 100% positive it came from one of the graveyards on here but I've been around forums for long enough to know not to dig up corpses...Unless you enjoy fail and getting *****ed at by everyone. LOL I had to dig back through some ancient theads and lots of dead links for 4.1.1 stuff. It's obviously CM based but it didn't have a matching contacts. It was only the MMS.
I'm pretty sure when I originally ran 4.1.1 my inverted contacts came from a JusTunBean pack but I can find one existant mirror or link to an old 4.1.1 inverted installer. Pretty much everything I'm running now came from various sources that I've kind of lost track of. A lot of Team Blackout, a few other random inverts I found like Maps, some pieces of BlackBean like email, a little CM10, a few odds and ends like the SGS2 clock app or Nofication Toggles, some Xposed modules, a bunch of framework stuff like centering the lock screen clock or changing images like the pop ups or dots that appear around the lock, and some other odds and ends stuff like changing the lock handle in Phone.apk to match the lock screen handle that I changed in the framework. I just ghetto odexed my ROM for the time being with Titanium.
I'm at wits end when it comes to Contacts. It's either make my own somehow, hope someone provides, or switch to a contacts/dialer replacement like DW. I'm tired of searching the dark and dusty crevices of the net in hopes of finding a working inverted 4.1.1 Contacts or a live link to one. :-/

In my poking and proding I found out there is a lot more to inverting contacts than just image and basic color xml editing. When you decompile the apk there are styles.xml that seem to be calling out the Holo or Holo.Light theme but I don't full understand all of the values. One does not simply change all of the values from Holo.Light to Holo.

Yeah Contacts and Dialer are combined into the Contacts app. I managed to get everything else inverted as well. I am using exDialer Dark ICS theme for now until I hunt one down. It looks pretty good and works well
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Not bad. I decided to just say screw it and purchased DW. Pricey at nearly $10 but tons of features and it's pretty customizable so I don't have to rely on other's themes. I would post pics but this damn 10 post until links rule. I understand the necessity because of spammers and bots but it sucks being a legit new member. I don't see the point in circumventing the filter either for pics. The first time to share a file sure...But not just for pics. I'm not the type to post BS and gibberish just to get my count up either. I guess I should get involved in topics other than my own then re-visit my thread. I also changed email clients to Aqua Mail while I was at it.

Over 10 so now I can post pics. This is what I've got going on. I haven't played around with all of the options yet though. After paying $10 I probably won't be going back to stock.

Darkcide666 said:
Over 10 so now I can post pics. This is what I've got going on. I haven't played around with all of the options yet though. After paying $10 I probably won't be going back to stock.
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You can also get the Xposed Installer and the Theme Engine. Its like adding theme engine on CM depending on the theme. I am still stock with Xposed and Gunmetal Cobalt theme and has lots of themes to try. This is stock deodexed 4.1.1 Everything is free too