Can someone post the APK and odex file for the Calendar? I must have accidentally removed someting within my system app drawer and need to push the files back to hopefully resolve the FC's i am getting.
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Usually when I theme an app I move it from /data/app to /system/app and then edit the files and do an update.zip to install the themed application. However, the problem with this is that I am not informed of market updates after moving the app to /system/app. Now I know that some people just edit the apk itself and resign it and that allows it to stay in /data/app.
I tried doing this, edited an apk, resigned it and that part went well. However, then I'm confused. Do I uninstall the app that's sitting in /data/app? Do I just cut and paste the new apk into /data/app? Or do I just install the new apk using Astro or something and let it overwrite the existing one.
I tried all three and it doesn't seem to work for me. It appears like everything went ok and it tells me application installed but none of the edits I make stick. Further, I noticed that in /data/app all the apks are named com.something.something.apk, whereas if you download an edited APK from some website it's usually named Facebook.apk, or Pandora.apk, etc.
So how the heck do I do this? I know the resigning is working because I edited the "Pandora.apk" that I downloaded from another source and resigned it, but when I try to pull from my phone I get the error that it either didn't install, or it does install but no changes happen.
How do you get com.something.something.apk to become Pandora.apk or Facebook.apk and then install it directly without having to do an update.zip??
anyone have a clue?
somebody anybody haha...why do my apps disappear from the app drawer after editing the apk in /data/app??
Dude i feel your pain, i've been in the same position.
Check this out it might help:
What are you editing in the apk?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6479689&postcount=1
If your changing the name then the update can't find the apk, you cant move house but keep the same adress, you wont get your mail!!
Also if your wanting to update the edited apk, it will be overwritten by the updated version so your back to square one.
Hope this helps.
Search for apk tool, it will do what you want.
Ok so i just downloaded this app the other day and really like it....
http://www.appbrain.com/app/easy-answer-button-free/org.nsd.easyanswer
the only thing i dont like about it is the look of the buttons. so i went into data/app and copied out the app to my computer. opened it up, looked at the drawable folder and found the images i wanted to replace. there were only 4.
so i found out their size (400x120) and made 4 new images that i wanted to use, used Astro to put them back into the app, deleted the original app in data/app, pushed the app to system/app, and changed permissions, then rebooted.
now i have done the widgetlocker mods using this method and had success. however, widgetlocker is a .apk, where as this app is a .zip file. so i figured, OK, lets try it in the data/app since that other way didn't work...still a no go.
just wondering how to modify these .zip apps, and get them to work.
any help is greatly appreciated.
I want to save some space on the internal storage, and since tha system partition is enormous, on 4.3 I integrate the updates into system/app. For example If Facebook gets an update I delete "facebook-xhdpi.apk" and I just move the new facebook from data/app to system/app and voila! Even after a factory reset I have no problems...
But on Kit Kat this is almost impossible. Even after signing the apks, renaming them like the old ones and giving the correct permissions via root explorer they force close. Even Google+ gives a "reinstall-loop" as I call it :crying:
What can I do? Fixing permissions by TWRP doesn't work either.
Open the APK using 7zip, extract the libraries there(the files inside the lib folder), place the extracted libraries inside /system/lib/, delete the libs folder inside the apk, move the apk to /system/app/ or /system/priv-app/ depending what type it is.
Just a warning though... Be careful with replacing already existing libraries in /system/lib/ sometimes they break stuff so if that happens just don't replace them.
Doesn't titanium offer this kind of switch? Have never done it but if it's automated then it's worth a look.
It does... But once you wipe data of the app you moved to system it force closes again. Thing is... System apps doesn't extract libraries in /data/data/ folder hence they force close.
Riyal said:
It does... But once you wipe data of the app you moved to system it force closes again. Thing is... System apps doesn't extract libraries in /data/data/ folder hence they force close.
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Would it be possible to change the path via titanium or even shift the files via a file explorer? Again haven't done it myself before either.
Also could the apps be added to the ROM you're installing prior to the initial flash?
Sent from my C6903 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
can some one with stock rom please upload the files on system that related to google speech / now?
on system/ tts (all of it)
and wherever the velvet.apk is located so all of that folder (I can't find it probably because I've messed up with the google now (I have deleted the system apk and converting it back from user to system with titanium doesn't do well..
and pretty much everything you think might be related to this.
I would highly appreciate any help!
Thanks!
Hello,
I have uninstalled CM gallery and would like to put it back, but havent found any separate apk. Could somebody please do it for me? Or if there is a way how to make Moto Gallery delete pictures properly, it would be fine. I've tried another build, but still the same problem.
Thank you
Jakub
Unpack the rom. Go to system/app and copy the apk (itll be in the folder usually called Gallery2).
Make a zip of the apk using zip me app from play store and flash through recovery.