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Genie.apk ported to Android 1.5!!

Hey everyone this is the google weather and news application from Android 2.1 and its finally been ported to 1.5 yaa!
It works good, all the widgets work as well enjoy!!
**I didnt not make this port found it here: http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-hero-hero-modaco-com/302211/genie-widget-for-1-5/
Unzip for the apk file

Great stuff, thanks!

Do we run this as an update.zip in recovery? I wasnt able to find any apk upon unzipping?

strongergodzilla said:
Do we run this as an update.zip in recovery? I wasnt able to find any apk upon unzipping?
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No dont do it through recovery it wont work, it should be there if you unzip it, try renaming the .zip to .apk

thanks
thanks for posting the link now only if the porter can port of home++

any advantages of this over the htc default weather app?

It is much more detailed and it included News as well

Thanks for this. Great app

New Droid X Multitouch keyboard

Ok so I downloaded the new droid x keyboard but it says install failed anybody know why

might be because of the phones screen resolution

iloveandroid said:
Ok so I downloaded the new droid x keyboard but it says install failed anybody know why
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Ya, i tried same. I pretty much already knew it wasnt going to work but gave it a shot as well. Just have to wait for someone to hack it up for our screen res and we should be good to go. I am just taking a shot in the dark and thinking that is the only reason why it wont work and could be wrong.

Mine installed just fine. I just cant get the keyboard to pull up

The Eris is mdpi where as the Droid is hdpi its a resolution thing...even if you got it to load the keys would be to big for your screen much like when the HTCIME first came out and everyone was jumping on the hi res version...

sunder74 said:
The Eris is mdpi where as the Droid is hdpi its a resolution thing...even if you got it to load the keys would be to big for your screen much like when the HTCIME first came out and everyone was jumping on the hi res version...
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does anybody know how to convert from hdpi to mdpi????? is it possible???

mattyboy1013 said:
does anybody know how to convert from hdpi to mdpi????? is it possible???
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someone may port it...they're several pngs that have to be resized and edited etc porting any apk and or making a theme is a time intensive task so maybe if a themer or a dev feels like jumping on it...it may happen... if you want to tackle it yourself get you a trial copy of winRAR or another file reader and open a mdpi and the hdpi files and compare the res/drawables....thats a place to start I think.

sunder74 said:
someone may port it...they're several pngs that have to be resized and edited etc porting any apk and or making a theme is a time intensive task so maybe if a themer or a dev feels like jumping on it...it may happen... if you want to tackle it yourself get you a trial copy of winRAR or another file reader and open a mdpi and the hdpi files and compare the res/drawables....thats a place to start I think.
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It also has the resolution for each key specified in the decompiled .smali files inside classes.dex, so I think it's a big job to convert it. It's definitely beyond my ability. You'd need to use a tool like APK Manager 4.4 (search XDA for it) or manually decompile it with baksmali.
EDIT: I was wrong, the resolution in the .smali files is relative, so that's not stopping it from working.

I wonder if this would work with punk.kaos new froyo build?
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DS36 said:
I wonder if this would work with punk.kaos new froyo build?
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Nope it wants to replace the latinime app thats why it wont install

Some Hero folks got it working as-is:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=710522#post6949662
It sounds like it only works with Vanilla-based ROMs since they have LatinIME in them (Android keyboard), and you have to push it to /system/app/LatinIME.apk (overwriting the Android keyboard) instead of installing it as a user app.

thenestor said:
Some Hero folks got it working as-is:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=710522#post6949662
It sounds like it only works with Vanilla-based ROMs since they have LatinIME in them (Android keyboard), and you have to push it to /system/app/LatinIME.apk (overwriting the Android keyboard) instead of installing it as a user app.
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How can I push it without a computer mine is broken at the moment

iloveandroid said:
How can I push it without a computer mine is broken at the moment
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Most likely you can use Root Explorer or a similar app to move it into /system/app while the phone is on, then make sure you check its permissions (should be rw-r--r--), and then reboot for the change to take effect. Again, I haven't gotten this to work for me, but I'm on a Sense-based ROM. The successes reported were on Heros with their "darchdroid" ROM.

I have an idea for getting this to work with Sense, and I'm testing my theory right now. My theory is that we're missing its dependencies (in /system/lib), so I'm going to just flash the "Android Keyboard for Sense" from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5874235#post5874235
And then flash the new Droid X keyboard on top of that. Maybe that'll work.
UPDATE: YES! It works! Hang on, I'll post an update.zip to take care of installing it...

Can you post the flashable droid x keyboard for those on froyo or vanilla roms

iloveandroid said:
Can you post the flashable droid x keyboard for those on froyo or vanilla roms
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It should already work on Vanilla ROMs. Just install the APK on the first page of this thread. The pre-requisite is that you have to have the Android stock keyboard (com.google.inputmethod.latin) installed, which you do.
The tricky part is a Sense ROM, because it doesn't have the Android keyboard.
Attached is a flashable ZIP to install the Droid X Multi-Touch Keyboard onto a Sense-based ROM (or any ROM without the Android stock keyboard).
Credit to itmustbejj for original keyboard.

so I got it to install but I just get it force closing every three seconds

iloveandroid said:
so I got it to install but I just get it force closing every three seconds
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Try the flashable version instead.

thenestor said:
It should already work on Vanilla ROMs. Just install the APK on the first page of this thread. The pre-requisite is that you have to have the Android stock keyboard (com.google.inputmethod.latin) installed, which you do.
The tricky part is a Sense ROM, because it doesn't have the Android keyboard.
Attached is a flashable ZIP to install the Droid X Multi-Touch Keyboard onto a Sense-based ROM (or any ROM without the Android stock keyboard).
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Nice work man. Cant wait to check this out. Might be better than Swype.
Keep it up. You been on a roll lately.

droidkevlar said:
Nice work man. Cant wait to check this out. Might be better than Swype.
Keep it up. You been on a roll lately.
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using it on my Moto Droid and its amazing...better than swype imo having no lag and its very responsive...

Stock Froyo keyboard on desire HD

I want to put stock 2.2 keyboard on desire HD as I'm not a fan of the HTC keyboard.
I tried a linked download from another post on the nexus one forum but it crashes everytime!

Spinstorm said:
I want to put stock 2.2 keyboard on desire HD as I'm not a fan of the HTC keyboard.
I tried a linked download from another post on the nexus one forum but it crashes everytime!
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I'm also not a fan of the HTC keyboard... Nevertheless I'm a huge fan of this modded HTC keyboard: http://www.xda-developers.com/android/get-the-htc-typing-experience-on-your-g2/
Check it out... The keyboard is *highly* customizable. You can even set custom typing sounds without having full root. Great! because this means we now can have the nice tapping sound of the Windows Phone 7 keyboard on our Désiré HD.

appelflap said:
I'm also not a fan of the HTC keyboard... Nevertheless I'm a huge fan of this modded HTC keyboard: http://www.xda-developers.com/android/get-the-htc-typing-experience-on-your-g2/
Check it out... The keyboard is *highly* customizable. You can even set custom typing sounds without having full root. Great! because this means we now can have the nice tapping sound of the Windows Phone 7 keyboard on our Désiré HD.
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Hmm so where do i get that wm7 sounds ??

gaabrysz said:
Hmm so where do i get that wm7 sounds ??
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Here you go. I got it from a WP7 dump (the wav is the original, the ogg file is compiled by me). Strangly there's just one sound.. I guess they are modifying this base sample with a algoritm. Don't see how else they can do this: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/218282.asp
BTW Sounds on the keyboard I refered to are not working on the Desire HD . The developer was so kind to add the source code of the keyboard. I'll see if I can make the sounds work on the DHD

Could you try install this apk and tell me if it works?
note, you'll have to enable android keyboard in the keyboard settings.

as a newbie to android how do you install apk packs is it like a cab file in win mob

combat goofwing said:
as a newbie to android how do you install apk packs is it like a cab file in win mob
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yeah it is. you'll need a file explorer on your phone. Get ASTRO from the market. Drop the apk on your SD card, or download directly if you're viewing this from your phone. Then from Astro just locate the apk and launch!

thanks very much

SupremeBeaver said:
Could you try install this apk and tell me if it works?
note, you'll have to enable android keyboard in the keyboard settings.
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I'm still getting force closes upon opening the keyboard

appelflap said:
Here you go. I got it from a WP7 dump (the wav is the original, the ogg file is compiled by me). Strangly there's just one sound.. I guess they are modifying this base sample with a algoritm. Don't see how else they can do this: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/218282.asp
BTW Sounds on the keyboard I refered to are not working on the Desire HD . The developer was so kind to add the source code of the keyboard. I'll see if I can make the sounds work on the DHD
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To bad. Good luck with making them work
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

teihoata said:
I'm still getting force closes upon opening the keyboard
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well that's disappointing, i was planning on using that keyboard.

I've also been trying to get the Froyo keyboard onto my Desire HD, no luck, all I get is force closes Somebody must have the know how to help with this!

Just wonder we can use swype keyboard in Desire HD, right?

eozen81 said:
Just wonder we can use swype keyboard in Desire HD, right?
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Yes you can, i have it installed on my stock unit.

bio88 said:
Yes you can, i have it installed on my stock unit.
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which version of swype are you using and does it work fine i was told there wasnt a swype version out yet for the DHD cause of landscape/potrait issues

Hmm, i havent tried landscape yet. Ill check soon.
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Landscape works fine with Swype. Anyway, does anyone have the stock froyo keyboard working on their DHD? If so, how??
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krakajak said:
I've also been trying to get the Froyo keyboard onto my Desire HD, no luck, all I get is force closes Somebody must have the know how to help with this!
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regular install won't work because of a library that google keyboards are depending on. The only way to get this to work is to copy it to your system/app folder. (Of course you need a full root to do that)

appelflap said:
regular install won't work because of a library that google keyboards are depending on. The only way to get this to work is to copy it to your system/app folder. (Of course you need a full root to do that)
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Copy the library file, or the keyboard apk?

Teh_Higgins said:
Copy the library file, or the keyboard apk?
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what (also) might work is
a) to install the froyo keyboard the usual way, and
b) to copy the library file libjni_latinime.so (a native c library file that will generate suggestions from a dictionary - faster than a java procedure) to the /system/lib dir. (Attached the library file to this post)
(The FC with the regular installation is caused by the fact that the keyboard can't load the library file. It looks for a native procedure but can't find it)
EDIT: if the attached library file doesn't work, you can also try the one that comes with the apk package (rename x.apk to x.zip and unzip it. In the lib directory you will find the library)

Ebuddy 1.9.1 apk for theming?

I love ebuddy on android, it's better than the official chinese MSN I posted a few weeks ago but I am sick of silver, white and orange. I am unfamiliar with how to get the apk files from apps installed from the android market.
Could someone, anyone please provide me with the apk file for ebuddy 1.9.1 (the most recent) so I can do some colour variations?
Cheers.

Uppy said:
I love ebuddy on android, it's better than the official chinese MSN I posted a few weeks ago but I am sick of silver, white and orange. I am unfamiliar with how to get the apk files from apps installed from the android market.
Could someone, anyone please provide me with the apk file for ebuddy 1.9.1 (the most recent) so I can do some colour variations?
Cheers.
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www.developer.android.com
Install the Android SDK, open Command Prompt and write:
Code:
adb devices
adb pull /data/app app
Or if you know the .apk name
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adb pull /data/app/apkname.apk
That will create a new folder called app in your /tools folder with all your apps.

Ah cheers man, done it
will post some colour variations asap.

Any idea why when i repackage the files as a zip then rename as an apk it fails to install?
I have re-signed the apk but it still wont install, any ideas why?

Uppy said:
Any idea why when i repackage the files as a zip then rename as an apk it fails to install?
I have re-signed the apk but it still wont install, any ideas why?
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Better if you use apk tool: http://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/
Decompile: apktool d name.apk
Compile: apktool b name

Hmm still doesnt work. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong...

Uppy said:
Hmm still doesnt work. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong...
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These resources seems 0 byte in the apk:
"drawable-hdpi-v6/chat_gray_back.9.png"
"drawable-hdpi-v6/chat_orange_back.9.png"
"drawable/chat_gray_back.9.png"
"drawable-hdpi-v4/chat_orange_back.9.png"
"drawable/chat_orange_back.9.png"
"drawable-hdpi-v4/chat_gray_back.9.png"

here's the zip file, if you can tell me what I've done wrong I'd really appreciate it.

Hmm..I let it compile, but fails to install the apk..
Hope someone much expert than me can help you

yeah, its weird how it wont install. like what I was trying to do though?

Uppy said:
Any idea why when i repackage the files as a zip then rename as an apk it fails to install?
I have re-signed the apk but it still wont install, any ideas why?
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Download APKManager and you should be good.
EDIT: Didn't see the answers below mine for some reason ... I'm not at my desktop right now, but if no one has checked it by the time I get hope I'll see if I'm any help.

If you're just changing pngs, try to just extract the apk then zip it when changed. Ie. Don't decompile it
Do this using apkmanager
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zHk3R said:
Download APKManager and you should be good.
EDIT: Didn't see the answers below mine for some reason ... I'm not at my desktop right now, but if no one has checked it by the time I get hope I'll see if I'm any help.
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Thanks dude.
and to mikep99: Already tried that too, thats what I did first. its annoying me now lol cheers anyway.

shameless self bump.
can no one help? i really want to know what the issue is for future reference...

Uppy said:
shameless self bump.
can no one help? i really want to know what the issue is for future reference...
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no idea why your file wont install...
I decompiled a fresh version of ebuddy, compiled back and installed, no probs.
But, for exchanging some png´s only, that´s what I do:
- take a fresh original version (v1.9.1 attached)
- open com.ebuddy.android-1.apk with 7-Zip
- copy/paste new png´s
- close file
- sign
- install

[Q] How to make your own HTC Skins/Themes

Is it possible to make your own HTC skins/themes and if yes how exactly?
Thanks in advance.

Incredible2011 said:
Is it possible to make your own HTC skins/themes and if yes how exactly?
Thanks in advance.
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I haven't tried editing sense themes since.. FOREVER ago, since things like the htc hero / sapphire / dream "were in"
What I did back then was open up the rom file you download, and in it you'll see a bunch of stuff and go into system\app\ and modify to your liking!
I just took a quick look at a sense rom and it appears that "rosie.apk" is still there. IF things haven't changed as much.. that Should be your main launcher.
So what youcould do is open that via winrar and extract images and stuff out.. then edit it!
Other things like the status bar, should be in framework-res.apk (which should be in framework instead of /apps/)
I've only modded my themes using roms from aosp or vanilla so I don't nkow sense too well.. However this should give you a basic understanding! and the more you wanna edit, the more .apk files you wanna open! good luck

On a similar note, I am trying to modify android with customised sounds (lock/unlock/key press etc) and having some issues.
I have directly tried to place the .ogg files into the following path within android itself using droid explorer but that didnt seem to work.
The path i have been placing it is within the following:
...\system\media\audio\ui
Has anyone managed to successfully do this either with a working rom or pre flashing, in which case could give me some pointers on how to do this?
Thanks

am using go desktop...