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Titanium Backup recently enabled conversion of app databases to a new WAL format. Is this safe to do? Can any dev's shed any light on this new file type?
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This ****s me I did this on my Samsung Galaxy, it WIPED ALL SETTINGS on my phone. no warning that it is dangerous!
Had to revert back, and then restore all settings again.
I learned quickly not to do anything that hasn't been discussed and tested by these talented people with XDA. And its still not 100 percent safe even then. I noticed by the release notes for the new TB Pro that its for all 2.3 roms, recognized by sqlite3, and is supposed to be faster than the old app database file type. What I don't know is the side effects, and what effect it has on rom updates applied over the change
Droid 1 Rooted (ChevyNo1 0.9MV Kernel, LGB2.6)
Droid 3 Rooted (Stock Kernel, Custom lite De-bloat)
Settings wiped out confirmed plus MAYBE a few very destructive glitch (Unconfirmed by others):
Power button only lists one entry: Power off instead of the original three - Confirmed by bonks
Home button not working (In respect, task switcher not available) - Confirmed by 0nebukadnezar0
Search button not working - Confirmed by bonks
Android market not connecting - Confirmed and solution provided by 0nebukadnezar0
SMS wiped
Nexus S Stock ROM 2.3.4 rooted (Kernel Netarchy Nexus 1.3.7)
Added symptoms :
Lost APN settings (0nebukadnezar0 on Galaxy S)
Screen lock not working (0nebukadnezar0 on Galaxy S and bonks on Motorola Droid 3 rooted)
Facebook authentication lost (0nebukadnezar0 on Galaxy S)
Some other application's settings (0nebukadnezar0 on Galaxy S and bonks on Motorola Droid 3 rooted)
Do not run this batch until further update!
Do not use this function!
I've also been hit by this. I paid for this software and it should really have a warning that:
1. it affects all application data: I was under the impression it affects only the TB internal database
2. it converts user data of the complete device: I had thought twice if this had been clear
3. one should create an up-to-date backup first
Instead it highly praised that this is a performance improvement traded against little higher storage usage. Why shouldn't I want to enable such a feature?
Had I known the implications I would've created a full backup first and thought twice. Now I had to go back to a three day old backup. My phone was completely wiped. No error message. Still some settings were missing after restore: TB still seems not to be able to correctly restore ActiveSync settings, and all widgets were gone from my start pages.
This is extremely unsatisfactory for an app I paid for. Please, developer: Improve your warnings in an application like a backup app which handles sensible data.
I noticed it in the change log, and was like " Uhh... why, in the last 6 months, have I not heard of this new super fast database conversion before now... I better ask someone before I mess with it"
Luckily I did, I'm still running the stock rom minus vcast and a few additional bloaties removes, and have dreaded altering anything without the bootloader unlocked, as this is my second device, the first returned returned DOA. I appreciate your testimonials guys, our stories will save the devs a few headaches, and will give titanium devs some live input on the batch operation. If Pzouza or Chevy has any comments on it, the input would be welcomed, as this is the first most of us have heard of it
Droid 1 Rooted (ChevyNo1 0.9MV Kernel, LGB2.6)
Droid 3 Rooted (Stock Kernel, Custom lite De-bloat)
verkerria said:
I noticed it in the change log, and was like " Uhh... why, in the last 6 months, have I not heard of this new super fast database conversion before now... I better ask someone before I mess with it"
Luckily I did, I'm still running the stock rom minus vcast and a few additional bloaties removes, and have dreaded altering anything without the bootloader unlocked, as this is my second device, the first returned returned DOA. I appreciate your testimonials guys, our stories will save the devs a few headaches, and will give titanium devs some live input on the batch operation. If Pzouza or Chevy has any comments on it, the input would be welcomed, as this is the first most of us have heard of it
Droid 1 Rooted (ChevyNo1 0.9MV Kernel, LGB2.6)
Droid 3 Rooted (Stock Kernel, Custom lite De-bloat)
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+1 Droid3 rooted and de-bloat via titanium
Same thing happened to me. Not very pleased. Titanium Backup usually warns against dangerous options. This batch option not having one gives a false sense of security. I'm restoring a month old nandroid backup via clockworkmod now and then hopefully restoring my TB backups.
same thing on my Galaxy S:
- home button does not work anymore
- Market "Server Error", this has been cleaned through "Clear Data" under Manage applications
- lost 3G settings, it was necessary to enter the APN configuration manually
- screen lock does not work anymore
- lost the facebook authentication
- some other apps have lost her settings
Titanium Backup DB modes
Rooted Droid 3 with TB pro
Power button only lists two entries rather than I think the three or four it had.
Home button not working
Search button not working
Screen lock not working
Some other apps have lost their settings
-> Widgets needed to be readded
-> All email accounts had to resync
What I did:
Wokeup, saw TB update, downloaded & installed, tried new feature in TB for faster databases.
Ran the "Convert DBs to Rollback Journal mode (works on all ROMs)" batch process. It completed successfully.
Ran the "Convert DBs to WAL mode (faster, slightly bigger, Android 2.3+ only)" batch process. It completed successfully.
Hit the home button, tried to open an app. Force Close. Tried a few more apps, all force closed.
Restarted.
The white animated "DROID" screen infinitely repeated itself.
Removed battery.
Powered On.
Successfully reached Home screen (ADWLauncher EX).
My fault for trying these new features without looking into it first, but I did not think they would be dangerous.
Now, are Journal mode and WAL mode the two available types of DBs. Could I just run the Rollback Journal mode to revert back? Is this safe?
Their wiki says it's safe but has anyone tried this? matrixrewriter.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=TB+-+Technical+FAQ&highlight=rollback%20journal
(#32 and #33)
Woah, glad I googled this before running it on my Galaxy Tab. Will avoid.
From Titanium Support:
We're truly sorry about this issue. Yes, today we discovered a terrible bug in the SGS2 stock ROM, which explains what happened. Titanium Backup has converted your databases to WAL fine, but the SGS2 stock ROM itself does not support WAL properly: instead of opening the WAL databases, it will silently erase them and then claim that the open has succeeded!
Before allowing any conversion to WAL, Titanium Backup performed a verification, which we have tested and properly fails on older ROMs. On the SGS2 though, the verification passes because the test database is fine after the conversion - well yes it's fine, but it's empty.
We have improved the WAL testing code and we will release an updated version as quickly as possible. The new version has been tested well on SGS2 and detects the problem properly (ie: it prevents conversion to WAL format). This only applies to stock ROMs though, as CyanogenMod (for example) does not contain the buggy Samsung code and fully supports WAL without issues.
If you have no backups of the erased databases, we're very sorry to confirm that it cannot be recovered, unfortunately. Please accept our deepest apologies for this issue. If you would like a refund, please let us know because we stand behind our product.
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I converted back to journal mode but this did not fix any of my issues. I'm guessing that the lockscreen, home button, and search buttons had some kind of association to a database from the manufacture install which I don't know how to recover. Any ideas?
Bad Titanium Pro!
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Woah, glad I googled this before running it on my Galaxy Tab. Will avoid.
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ditto to that, I was just about to hit that button and thought maybe I should do some googling...
All, the standard rule to all root users, is to do full nandroid backups before making any serious changes to your phone. changing database formats is a major change. You should have all done a full nandroid, then a full tb backup. That's the main rule of thumb if you start down the road to root. Anytime you play with root focused apps, you're playing with fire. At some point we all get burned. I have plenty of times, but always get back with a nand restore. we all learn eventually. I know I've messed up a few phones this way, but that's the joy of going the root route. Its all in fun.
I wasn't aware of this feature and definitely will be trying it now that its been posted.
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Ok, after doing a full nandbackup, and TB backup of User Apps. I did successfully migrate all the DBs to WAL format. I then rebooted right into CWM, formated the cache to avoid any old data crap, rebooted back into normal phone. Ran my most common apps and had no issues I've got 217 user apps on my phone, I think I ran 20 of the core apps I use. no issues in the first 1 hour. I did confirm all the previously posted issues and experience none of them within the first hour of testing. This is probably due to me not messing with the system apps. I'll test that next for the fun of it and report back. But, I can safely say, in my case, I had no issues with this conversion of "user" apps.
Power button only lists two entries rather than I think the three or four it had.
Home button not working
Search button not working
Screen lock not working
Some other apps have lost their settings
Widgets needed to be readded
All email accounts had to resync
Stay tuned for round 2 of testing
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Ok Round 2 WAL conversion and testing completed.
Everything works perfectly. Not sure why everyone else is having issues. I would say anyone else should be free to do the conversion. Again, this is how I did mine. I did a full nandbackup, in case i screwed things up and messed my phone up. Did a full TB backup of system apps. Then did the conversion to the system apps. Immediately after rebooted into CWM. I formatted the cache. Rebooted, let my phone load up. I did notice during the first 5-10 seconds of the loading home apps and widgets half of the widgets gave a widget error, but I was patient enough to let the phone get fully loaded. After that all widgets did start back up just fine. I tested all reported bugs and errors everyone else had, and I had no issues with anything. I'll keep an eye on things for the next few days. I'm a heavy, nerdy user of my phone, and am constantly tweaking it so i'll know if I screwed something up and report back.
Widgets all loaded fine after reboot.
Search works as it should
Long Press Power button pulls up standard 4 options.
Home works fine
Long press home pulls up all recent items (do keep in mind if you reboot there are no recent items so you have to go into apps for it to tell you recent items)
Lockscreen works as it should.
I would say this WAL conversion for both System and User apps works just fine. But, that is only in my case apparently. I am using Steel Droid 3 (v1).
Good luck to the rest of you. Oh, and I have no affiliation to TB, but I must admit that its one of my most used Root apps since it helps me unscrew myself when I do fudge things up. It is just so much faster to fix mistakes than a full nandrestore. Albeit the NandRestore is my Plan B fix it solution TB is plan A.
Where exactly is this option? I havent seen anything and just redid apps for data
WAL DB Conversion Success
I followed Izeltokatl's information by performing a full backup with Titanium Backup and ClockWorkMod via ROM manager, then updating the system and app DBs to WAL via TB, then immediately booting into recovery and wiping the cache.
I'm happy to report complete success updating my Ideos U8150 running Gingerbread 2.3.7 to WAL DB without any problems.
Even after wiping cache, the quick search function was force closing, so I just restored it from TiBu.
So what are real benefits of Wal or Rollback Journal databases of android. Is it really faster? Are there any reasons to make Rollback journal conversion on unsupported roms?
Has anybody tested it?
Some good reading.
http://www.sqlite.org/draft/wal.html
The ROM I was running was using SQLite version 3.7.2, and I unchecked 'force system SQLite' in preferences and it upgraded to the TiBu optimized version which is quite a bit newer. Seems to speed things up slightly if you convert to WAL.
Another Android first from
Fahrbot Mobile
SwitchMe is a unique application for
root users that allows you to log in and
out of multiple installations of Android
just as you would on a desktop
computer.
The technology behind SwitchMe
saves all of your applications and data,
protects it and stores it as a file in
memory. You can then log out of an
account and log into a fresh installation
of Android or another account with its
own unique content.
You may create as many profiles as
the memory is capable of holding.
Some of these may require very little
free memory because they contain few
apps,
others will be larger as they contain
many applications and lots of cache
and data.
Why is this functionality useful?
Privacy - the most obvious benefit is
that you can securely share one
device among multiple users, which
gives you privacy and peace of mind.
Testing - if you are a developer, you
can use profiles as clean sandboxes to
test your applications and their
interaction with the system.
Gaming – with multiple installations of
Android on a single device, you can
now play online MMOs as different
characters.
Speed - the games your kids play slow
down your tablet, but with SwitchMe
you can easily create profiles without
games or instant messengers.
Battery life - when the battery is low
but there are important emails or
documents to edit later, switch to a
profile which only contains these
essentials.
These of course are only suggestions -
there are plenty of other uses for the
functionality SwitchMe offers.
Usage warning
Its critical to understand that incorrect
use of this application can potentially
harm your device. This can happen if
you create and switch to a profile that
exceeds the available memory –
switching into this profile will cause a
boot loop as Android attempts to
unsuccessfully build the Dalvik cache.
Before proceeding with use we
recommend that you perform a full
nandroid backup through recovery.
INITIAL LOAD TIMES MAY TAKE A
WHILE, THIS IS NORMAL, DONT
RESTART YOUR DEVICE
Stay tuned, and please rate the
application by pressing the star button
on the main screen - good ratings help
us improve and expand functionality!
Market link:
https://market.android.com/details?id=fahrbot.apps.switchme
The Lite version only allows the
creation of two profiles and has no
security features.
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Why when I open the app there's notification that my device not supported...I use cm7 rc5
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I dont know. Probably because of apps2sd!
ftgg99 said:
I dont know. Probably because of apps2sd!
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Do u allready try yet??
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Another Android first from Fahrbot Mobile
SwitchMe is a unique application for root users that allows you to log in and out of multiple installations of Android just as you would on a desktop computer.
The technology behind SwitchMe saves all of your applications and data, protects it and stores it as a file in memory. You can then log out of an
account and log into a fresh installation of Android or another account with its own unique content.
You may create as many profiles as the memory is capable of holding. Some of these may require very little free memory because they contain few apps,
others will be larger as they contain many applications and lots of cache and data.
Why is this functionality useful?
Privacy - the most obvious benefit is that you can securely share one device among multiple users, which gives you privacy and peace of mind.
E-reading - whenever you want to read on your tablet but dont want any notifications or need any connectivity, just switch to an ereader profile.
Testing - if you are a developer, you can use profiles as clean sandboxes to test your applications and their interaction with the system.
Gaming – with multiple installations of Android on a single device, you can now play online MMOs as different characters.
Speed - the games your kids play slow down your tablet, but with SwitchMe you can easily create profiles without games or instant messengers.
Battery life - when the battery is low but there are important emails or documents to edit later, switch to a profile which only contains these essentials.
These of course are only suggestions - there are plenty of other uses for the functionality SwitchMe offers.
Usage warning
Its critical to understand that incorrect use of this application can potentially harm your device. This can happen if you create and switch to a profile that
exceeds the available memory – switching into this profile will cause a boot loop as Android attempts to unsuccessfully build the Dalvik cache.
Before proceeding with use we strongly recommend that you perform a full nandroid backup through recovery.
UNOFFICIAL A2SD SOLUTIONS ARE NOT SUPPORTED, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK
Stay tuned, and please rate the application by pressing the star button on the main screen - good ratings help us improve and expand functionality!
Usage warning
Its critical to understand that incorrect use of this application can potentially harm your device. This can happen if you create and switch to a profile that
exceeds the available memory – switching into this profile will cause a boot loop as Android attempts to unsuccessfully build the Dalvik cache.
Before proceeding with use we strongly recommend that you perform a full nandroid backup through recovery.
MOST UNOFFICIAL A2SD AND SIMILAR SOLUTIONS ARE NOT SUPPORTED, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK
Stay tuned, and please rate the application by pressing the star button on the main screen - good ratings help us improve and expand functionality!
Market link:
The Lite version only allows the creation of two profiles and has no security features.
Screens:
Seems neat, can you use the same version of Android with multiple profiles?
Yes... isn't that what it says?
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So it is a lot like BootManager? Only hopefully works well and doesnt have tons of bugs
No its nothing like bootmanager.
Hi, first thanks a lot for this app, was looking for something like this a while.
My question is,
i create two accounts, as tell by the help.
One is my main OS, CM7, nightly 181, glitch 13.1
The other account i just see like four hundred kb memory used. if i reboot with this account i get a boot loop only solved by nandroid restore.
What am i doing wrong?
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I don't know, its probably something to do with SD links to apps, or just sme weird crazy from the nightly. Works fine on all our cm7 and 9 builds at the office.
By the way, tried the TASK from for 10.1 - it worked fine! So your issues are probably from the mods and other crap. But while you're there, ask yourself, what kind of nutjob would want a grey framework on a tablet like this? Just ditch it for something cool like KANG or at least that Overcome!
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ftgg99 said:
I don't know, its probably something to do with SD links to apps, or just sme weird crazy from the nightly. Works fine on all our cm7 and 9 builds at the office.
By the way, tried the TASK from for 10.1 - it worked fine! So your issues are probably from the mods and other crap. But while you're there, ask yourself, what kind of nutjob would want a grey framework on a tablet like this? Just ditch it for something cool like KANG or at least that Overcome!
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Ok, message received.
Will try from clean cm7 and then I'll go on from there.
Thanks
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ftgg99 said:
Yes... isn't that what it says?
Sent from my GT-P7500 using xda premium
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I was just double checking...
Any issues to report?
1.0.10 - this release is aimed at increasing compatibility, if your device was not supported before for some reason, please use the new logging function to let us know why!
Improved logging, added ability to send logs even from incompatible devices
Reworked native switch code - it is now faster and much more stable on all architectures
Added new notification graphics for all screen resolutions
Any issues to report? Did the last version help those who could not fast switch?
i have jus tried on my kindle, and it works. now ill have to re root it to switch back
This is very cool! I had to pull my battery on the first restart though. My boot animation was up for over 30 minutes. Pulled the battery and it booted right into the second profile.
Unlike the above post, I did not need to reroot. I'm assuming it's just because my ROM is rooted already.
Please excuse my ignorance, I try to avoid flashing as much as possible, but how would I go about installing a different ROM onto just one profile?
Thanks for this nice app! I will actually use it!
EDIT:
Things I noticed:
-On my first swap back into my default profile, I had no vibration! No apps, ringer, notifications, or anything at all. I messed with my settings but it would not vibrate until I restarted.
-This might sound crazy, but I actually think this improved my boot speed. I am running a Droid Charge with Humble 5.0. It wasn't slow before, and maybe it's in my head, but it seems really fast! (I don't have fast swap enabled either)
tctim said:
i have jus tried on my kindle, and it works. now ill have to re root it to switch back
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You will only loose root if it was installed outside /system with a different name... since 1.0.8 the app copies the binary as well, so that should not be happening. Let me know if it still is please!
Works fine for me! Bought the pro version as this is really very handy - and cheap!
The only real issues so far have been with MIUI... almost everything else should work fine.
I enabled fast switch, and I am very impressed with it! I can switch to my second profile in about 15-20 seconds.
It works great on Droid Charge running Humble 5.0 (2.3.6)
One thing I noticed is that I need to configure my account settings on both profiles, or it messes up my normal profile. Because I am not logged in to my google account on the second, it got rid of all my contacts on the first, and had some verification issues when I tried to buy apps, and with google voice. It also changed my keyboard. None of these are huge issues, you just need to reconcile these differences between the profiles.
Does it work for all Android ?
KCP100 said:
I enabled fast switch, and I am very impressed with it! I can switch to my second profile in about 15-20 seconds.
It works great on Droid Charge running Humble 5.0 (2.3.6)
One thing I noticed is that I need to configure my account settings on both profiles, or it messes up my normal profile. Because I am not logged in to my google account on the second, it got rid of all my contacts on the first, and had some verification issues when I tried to buy apps, and with google voice. It also changed my keyboard. None of these are huge issues, you just need to reconcile these differences between the profiles.
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That shouldnt be happening... are you sure?
mrubs said:
Does it work for all Android ?
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It works for all Android versions except those with some types of folder and file links like a2sd.
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL THREAD.
IF YOU FIND ANY DUPLICATE THREADS WITHOUT PROPER CREDITS FOR ME, PLEASE REPORT.
I SHALL TAKE THE NECESSARY ACTION
Most of you might be very much familiar with the rooting procedure. Its the process of giving yourself superuser permissions (ex - administrator in windows xp ).
If you are using a custom rom, then there is no need to specifically root your phone. But if you are using stock roms, then there is a guide to root in the forums.
Once rooted, you can now take your own decisions for your device which include improving system performance or flashing custom roms using cwm recovery or using any of these below listed apps. Use it wisely, as playing with your device performance can have damaging effects.
I AM NOT AT ALL RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE DONE TO YOUR DEVICE BY YOU.
Moving on, many of the rooted-on-stock and custom rom users might already know most of these apps and their uses, so this thread is for the begginers who have just rooted their devices.
Further, most of these apps are available in the playstore (mostly paid, but if you want the cracked versions, you can find them in the internet.
So here are some of the apps that might be usefull for you. I will also update this apps list as soon as, I find more usefull apps.
HIT THANKS IF YOU LIKE THIS THREAD.
Titanium Backup -
Losing all the apps on your device accidentally or while flashing custom rom is a bad feeling. Re-downloading every app is a painstaking work so fortunately for root users, Titanium Backup provides the solution. Titanium Backup is a powerful backup utility which stores your apps, app data, and system data on your SD card for safekeeping. Titanium Backup can also painlessly remove, freeze-unfreeze any app, including system apps. This app can be configured to run its tasks on a schedule, and the $3.99 donate version allows you to set up multiple schedules for the various combinations of backups it is capable of performing.
ROM Manager -
ROM Manager allows you to flash almost any ZIP to your phone, whether it be a kernel, ROM, app package, or radio image or even initiate a nandroid backup.
Although it is strongly recommended to use the clockworkmod recovery or rz recovery for cfw and odin for stock, as many mini users reported it was bricking their phone.
ShootMe -
This app is for all those dev's out their, who want show the world what they have achieved.
ShootMe is a screenshot capture app that allows you to take a screenshot of your mini with a simple shake of your device.
Juice Defender: Ultimate Juice Defender -
Juice Defender is a battery conservation app. It uses various triggers, rules, and timers to control how often your device utilizes 3G/EDGE APN’s and wifi. These data connections are the number one drainers of battery life when your phone is idle, so Juice Defender allows you to decide when, where, and how often you want them to be active. Ultimate Juice ( paid version of Juice Defender) must be installed over an existing copy of Juice Defender, which unlocks a few additional capabilities for users with root permissions. It also provides some extra goodies for root users including the ability to adjust CPU clock speeds on the run to conserve battery, which requires root permissions.
ES File explorer -
This an application for exploring your phone’s directories.
For developers, its usefulness is self-explanatory. For the average user, it certainly is a solid file explorer with a better interface especially, ES file exp. One more unique feature of these file explorers is the ability to modify permissions settings on files or folders. It comes packed with some solid features apart from the conventional file viewing. Its completely free and is available in the market.
Root explorer -
Similar to any other file explorer app in the market. But its specialty is that, it can crawl deep into the deepest corners of android and modify them like the elusive dalvik cache to sd. Its a paid app available in the market.
Cachemate -
CacheMate is cache cleaner app like no other cache cleaning app does it. Two, CacheMate can clear certain data from the device. This was/is extremely tedious to accomplish and linux does not handle this. Three, CacheMate clears cache from the SD card. While you can go and do this yourself, CacheMate does it all for you just by a simple tap on screen.
Reboot Control-
Reboot Control does 4 things, and 4 things only:
It allows you to reboot, recovery boot, wipe handset or bootloader boot with a single tap. The real usefulness of QuickBoot is in the ability to make home screen widgets for these functions, so they’re always at your fingertips. Since, almost all the custom roms these days use this as a built-in function so this app can be usefull for the stock users.
AdFree -
Blocks data access to a list of sites that store ads. Speeds up browsing experience as the ads aren’t downloaded along with the site and even blocks many ads from displaying in many of the ad supported apps.
Virtual Button Bar -
If your mini's buttons are about to fall off or something has happened and your buttons no longer work, then this app can save you a lot of time and trouble. Its entire purpose is to provide on-screen emulation of the dedicated hardware
buttons on most Android devices. The app offers various customizable features, such as user-definable buttons and positions, lockscreen animations, the ability to change various hardware button actions (volume, camera, etc) and a few
aesthetic variations such as transparency and button size. Virtual Button Bar is $1.63, but there is fully-functional trial available, as well in the playstore.
Call Blocker -
If you have specific numbers that you want to be blocked each time they call, then there’s a good chance you’ve turned to apps that automate this process. There is one problems with that, though:
Most apps still let your phone ring at least once. That’s where Root Call Blocker rises above the rest. Root Call Blocker detects incoming calls at the system level, so it can block them much more efficiently. In fact, it’s so efficient that it blocks the call before your phone even rings, so you’re completely unaware that the offending caller has tried to contact you in the first place. The app offers
many other features as well, such as call logs, multiple rejection methods, multiple profiles, caller grouping, SMS auto-replies, and much more. This app is not free, but there is also a trial version so you can give it a try before dropping any money.
SetCpu / NoFrills -
These apps let you control the speed of operation of your mini. They come with all the latest governers and I/O schedulers, though some roms governers are rom specific. Also, an Overclock kernel is required to use this app.
LBE Privacy Guard -
This is probably one of the best privacy guards that are ever seen apart from the pdroid patch by Yagya. Its functionality is akin to that of a software firewall, with some elements of Windows UAC thrown in. LBE sits in the background and “listens” to your apps as they request various permissions and then provides you a notice with options to either grant or deny access.
Dual Mount SD Widget -
The inability to mount your SD card to both your phone and PC at the same
time can be quite annoying, as you can’t access any of the information or apps that reside on your SD card when your device is mounted to your computer. Dual Mount SD Card is a simple and practical solution to this problem, as it allows you to access your SD card from phone and PC alike while it’s mounted. In order for this app to function properly, you must first disable Android’s auto-mount option, using the widget instead. This available on the playstore.
Hexamob Recovery Pro -
If you’ve ever accidentally deleted any data from your mini, then Hexamob Recovery Pro is here to save the day. Hexamob Recovery Pro is a data recovery tool designed to grab deleted files from either the SD card or internal storage of your Android phone. It supports the FAT file system, and offers the ability to scan the media for specific files types, including audio, video, images etc.
Total Commander -
Total Commander is a feature packed dual-pane file manager for Android, based off of the popular Windows file manager of the same name. It really is the only file manager that you’ll ever need. Most of the CM7 roms come cooked with it, in case you are using stock this will come in real handy.
Sixaxis Controllerer -
Sixaxis Controller allows you to connect a PS3 controller to your mini, giving you the ability to have a full gaming experience on your handset. You grab Sixaxis Controller form the Market for $1.62.
Wireless Tether -
Wireless Tether remains the best way to utilize your mini as a WiFi or Bluetooth (PAN) hotspot. Its free and its open source. Available in playstore. But, it is certainly a battery killer so use it while charging the device.*
Shark For Root -
It’s essentially a stripped down version of WireShark. It’s a particularly geeky app to have, but for developers or those of us obsessed with monitoring where our traffic is going its a great app. Shark monitors all network activity on your device (presumably from all interfaces) and outputs a .pcap file by consrving quite an amount of battery when compared to other apps in the playstore. So use it and know the difference yourself.
adbWireless -
adbWireless does exactly what its name implies, all without the need for a USB cable. There really isn’t much to say as the app is, quite literally, a big red button that you can push to enable/disable wireless ADB connection. There’s also a widget for those times when you’re too lazy to fire up the full application. Its available on the playstore for free.
Move2SD Enabler / Install manager -
Move2SD Enabler or Install manager, allow users to move any app to the SD card. Like adbWireless, it’s as simple as pressing a button. It’s free and both the the apps are available in the playstore. Although scripts like s2e and link2sd etc are there its sometimes convinient to use apps like these.
Market Autoupdate Bulk Toggle -
Another simple yet incredibly useful root-only app:
Market Autoupdate Bulk Toggle. This is an app that takes the Market’s auto-update feature to a whole new level:
Pressing "Autoupdate On" does exactly what you’d expect: it turns on auto-update for all of your installed apps. That’s it – you’ll never have to confront that pesky "Allow automatic updating" option in the Market again. The only caveat is that the program only enables automatic updates for apps that are already installed and won’t apply to those installed in the future – for those, you’ll have to rerun Market Autoupdate Bulk Toggle and press "Autoupdate On" again. Unsurprisingly, you’ll still have to push the "Update" button yourself when an app receives a manual update (which only happens when its permissions change – not a frequent occurrence). Although this feature is present in the playstore, all those who like using the old market this surely comes in handy. It’s free and available on the playstore.
Theft Aware -
Theft Aware, while considerably more complex than the other items on the list, is an Android security app unlike any other. With it, you can remotely track your phone if it gets lost or stolen, wipe it, call it and spy on the thief, and much more. Its free and available on the playstore.
MyBackup -
Pretty much like titanium backup but, if you love backing up your phone’s
data but wish you back all of it up at once, all for free. MyBackup might just
be the perfect app. With it, you can not only back up your apps data before changing ROMs; you can also schedule backups, back up to your SD card, and back up things you never even thought possible, such as contact info, home screens, and SMS/MMS conversations.
This app offers two versions, a free version with nearly all of the functionality, and a paid version for $4.99. The main difference is that the free edition only allows you to save your backups on your SD card, while the premium allows placing them on Rerware’s servers, although I wouldn’t recommend anybody who
values their data to use a random online service.
DroidWall Android Firewall -
It will make sure apps on your phone don’t unnecessarily waste your limited data plan without your knowledge. The app’s main feature is turning off EDGE or 3G or WiFi access for any application, thus allowing you to restrict which apps can access the network. In addition to saving bandwidth, DroidWall can be used for security – just lock down a suspicious app to make sure it doesn’t try to unnecessarily encroach your privacy. As an added bonus, a log of what goes on is included.
Button Savior -
This is an similar to virtual buttons bar app, but with a slightly different and better UI. Button Savior might be worth a look.
Samba Filesharing -
Samba file sharing is the bomb. It turns your phone into an smb server and puts your sd card on your desktop when you’re on a wifi network. It allows you to share files between your mini and pc over WiFi as a Windows shared folder. With this free app, you can wirelessly copy files to/from your Android device via the same drag-and-drop interface you use when your handset is plugged into your computer with a standard USB cable. Even the security freaks have a reason to celebrate –
Samba offers customizable username and password options in addition to letting users choose a Windows workgroup name and a device network (NETBIOS) name.
MarketEnabler -
One of the most frequent excuses for piracy has to be "The app isn’t available in my country" or "Google doesn’t allow paid apps where I live." No longer!
MarketEnabler makes your Android phone believe it’s on another carrier – perhaps even one in another country. For example, a Swede could use this app to access Google Books, which is, by official terms, available exclusively in the US, right ? So use it and let the downloading begin !
SD Maid -
SD Maid frees up space on your phone’s SD card by cleansing it of "corpses in the basement," or unnecessary data left behind by apps no longer installed on your mini. It works with all roms currently on the forums. Use it and know the difference.
AutoKiller Memory Optimizer -
Hate using scripts like V6 supercharger ?
Then is THE app for you.
It tweaks your mini just like the V6, to run smoothly. It kills all the idle process running in the background and saves a lot of battery. You can choose various OOM values for all the apps like foreground, visible, empty etc. Donators are also able to choose alternate presets, enter Chuck Norris mode, and enjoy an ad-free experience. Its available in the playstore for free, worth a try.
zMooth root -
Another on-screen app. You must be wondering, whats wrong with this guy. Well, the only reason is my phone. My buttons are almost gonna fall off. So I pretty much like the apps which have various customizations. So bare with me .
Moving on, this app is on the same bandwidth as Button Savior etc. zMooth relies on webOS-like gestures rather than clunky virtual buttons. To access zMooth, users can start by simply pulling up a blue (default) bar from the bottom of the screen. To go back, they can swipe left; swiping right is pressing the Menu button; and drawing an "up-arrow" will return to homescreen. The $1.19 pro version adds the ability to change the gesture area’s width and colors as well as a "lightning strike" gesture for powering the device on/off.
LCDDensity -
It changes the font of your mini, virtually everything. This is not a resolution changer (lol) , as I have seen many comments in playstore. It simply changes the depth and space of your mini. Using the app is very easy – simply adjust the slider or click on one of the big rectangular buttons to alter the density, then click ‘Apply’ to restart your device and see the changes in effect. Of course, the smaller the font, the harder it is to press onscreen objects; the larger the font, the more screen space goes to waste.
Keyboard Manager -
When it comes to landscape keyboards, it’d be hard to top what HTC has going with Sense UI. If it’s portrait input you’re after, however, Swype is the cream of the crop. So how can you decide ? Should you manually change your input method each and every time you switch orientations, or type exclusively in one
position? As it turns out, you won’t have to partake in either of those practices; downloading Keyboard Manager will suffice. The app is simple:
Allow users to use one keyboard in portrait mode and another when they turn their phone on its side.
Live dmesg boot and live logcat boot -
You won't have any words, to being shown the real dmesg (kernel debug) or logcat (Android debug) log every time your mini boots up ? So this is an app for all those dev's out there who are crazy about logs.
Screencast Video Recorder -
Taking a lot of screenshots and "videos" of apps and games is a habit to you ? Then Screencast is your go-to app, especially for the latter. If you ever find yourself in need of a way to record what’s happening on-screen, look no further than Screencast. The app costs $4, but there is a demo available so you can give it a shot before you buy.
Game On -
It not only allows users to backup and restore game data, but download and share game progress over the Game On network. Yeah, you read right – share. Game. Data. Maybe you’re stuck on a particular part of a game. Perhaps you just don’t feel like playing through all the boring crap (Gta 3) and want to jump straight into the good stuff. It doesn’t matter the reason you want to progress in a game – Game On is the solution. Game On costs a buck in the playstore. So give it a try and happy gaming !
Chainfire 3D-
With this app you can play all the HD games on your mini. It comes with various visual gameplay options. Its a paid app and is available in the playstore. Do give it a try.
WiFi Protector -
WiFi Protector is a security app that protects your device from Wi-Fi sniffing attacks. It’ll detect and prevent ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) attacks, like DoS (Denial of Service) and MitM (Man in the Middle). Unlike most of the other apps in the roundup, this one actually offers a little bit of functionality for non-rooted users too. It can even defend your mini against WiFiKill, an app that can eject basically any user off of a Wi-Fi network with the tap of a button. Its a paid app available on the playstore.
Undelete -
This one is sure to save many people a lot of heartache. We’ve all mistakenly
deleted files before, potentially losing them forever. The next time that happens, though, Undelete is here to save the day by scanning your device’s SD Card, finding all the deleted files, and, in most cases, restoring these files. The app is free in the playstore, so there’s no excuse to ever lose another file.
Mobile ODIN Pro -
Flashing your firmwares the mobile way. Currently this app is not fully supported by our device but the dev claims it to be working on low-end devices like ours too. Check this out:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1347899&highlight=galaxy+mini+mobile+odin
Call Master -
It’s probably the best call and text firewall in the playstore. It can control dozens of variables in countless situations – everything from blocking certain numbers during certain times of day, sending specific numbers to voicemail, to auto-hang ups etc.
avast! Mobile Security -
Last, but certainly not least is avast! Mobile Security – an app that every rooted user should have installed. I know what you’re thinking – an antivirus app? Really? Yes, really. This app is different than the rest of the anti-virus applications in the Market, because it is also the best anti-theft solution of any app. (The other features of the app are top-notch, as well, but the anti-theft functionality is its only root function). Why is its anti-theft so good? Because
it used to be Theft Aware , an app that is listed above. TA was bought out buy avast! and incorporated into its Mobile Security app. The best part is that the root function of the app wasn’t altered in any way – avast’s anti-theft setup is identical to Theft Aware in every way but with a wonderfull UI – it’s simple and intuitive, and when it’s finished, you can rest assured that if your device is ever lost or stolen it’s as protected as it can be.
avast! Mobile Security is free and if you only choose to install one app from this roundup, I suggest that this is the one.
30/03/2012 - UPDATE
Battery Callibration
If you have a regular habit of changing roms ? Then this is the right app for you.
Its a battery calibration app. It wipes all the battery stats/data from your phone and will make your phone ready to produce some fresh new stats. In this way your battery will last longer as it is always recommended to calibrate the battery after flashing a new rom. Its a free app and is available in the playstore.
BusyBox Installer
Did you ever feel, where can I get a old version of busybox ? This is a common query while using the V6 Supercharger, since it recommends a busybox 1.18.2 or higher version. So ever come across an app that requires an older version of busybox ? Then this is right app to turn for. Its a free app and many versions are available in the playstore so, choose wisely
Script Manager
"THE" app for applying "ANY" script for your phone. It can help create terminal widgets for apps that aren't available for that app, by simple taps of the screen. SM widgets is another add-on for this app so you can use its full power.
For a guide to create terminal widgets, you can check this out :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1509027
It can also help tweak your phones performance by applying scripts like V6, kickass, 3G booster etc. A must have app for any dev or tweaker. It can serve as a decent root explorer for an average user. Its available in the playstore for free.
Root Uninstaller
Annoyed by the fact that you can't remove those useless system apps ? No more ! This is that app, that removes all the useless apps from your mini. It can also freeze user apps, backup them, delete them, unfreeze them, move them sd card etc. Its a powerful to have and sometimes may come in handy some times. Its a free app available in the playstore.
Easy Tether
Too lazy to go into settings>wireless and networks>tethering>usb tether ??
Then this is your go to app. Its a one-click tethering app for your mini so that you can use it to browse on your laptop or desktop. Its a free app available in the playstore.
ScreenShot UX
A screenshot app that has all the cool features like shake to capture your screen. Its fully functional trial is available in the playstore. Use it and feel the app before investing in it
Screenshot ER
Another screenshot app. Its a completely free app in the playstore unlike any other in the playstore. As it is free, there has to be some way to chop our legs. . So that drawback is a 6-sec delay after taking every screenshot. Though if u buy it, you can reduce that delay to 1-sec. Some of its features are, screenshot preview ( various views for previews ) , shake SS, on-screen button, notification capture etc. Use it and the know the difference yourself.
01/04/2012 -- UPDATE
Z Screen Recorder
Probably the only app to give some competition to screencast app. Its a similar app compared to the screencast video recorder. It simply has two big buttons, when the app is opened. It simply records whatever is happening on the screen and saves the video to your sd directly. It has fully functional demo in the playstore. Try it before buying it.
SD Booster
The dev of this app claims it to increase the external memories speed upto 40 times than before. You can set this app to work from boot. If you don't believe me or the dev, just use any of the benchmark tools and see the proof your self. Its a tiny-free app available on the playstore. Do try it
SD Speed Increase
Originally developed by our xda member '"brainmaster". Its a similar app to SD Booster. The app has similar results to that of its competitor in terms of write/read speeds in any benchmark apps. Its also a tiny-free app available in the playstore.
System Tuner Pro
The most complete android system utility app/tool. It does all activities like backing-up your apps, task killer, logcat reader, terminal emulator, memory controls, freeze/unfreeze apps, activity recorder, system tweaker etc. Use it and you'll know the difference yourself. You can also setup widgets and notification indicators to any of these function and monitor your phone with real ease. Its a free app available in the playstore.
Tasker
If you have a habit of forgetting things ? Then this is the BEST app available in the whole playstore. Then only drawback of this app is, YOU. lol, yeah coz if you forget to set the tasker to do its task, then you are actually limiting its function. So moving on, Tasker is powerful app that has triggers which can make you remember the mildest things through its alarm and etc functions, 200+ built-in actions , task completion, scene/icon/design your own task according to yourself. So what are you waiting for ? OH wait, have you forgotten what you were doing ? Then first download this app.
Its a paid app available in the playstore.
That's all for now friends. Enjoy the apps and don't forget to -
HIT THE THANKS BUTTON.
CHANGE LOG ---
UPDATE 1 --- Some more apps added
UPDATE 2 --- Some more apps added
UPDATE 3 --- Thanks to the Moderator and also to all your responses, this thread is made STICKY
UPDATE 4 --- Some more apps added See Post #2
UPDATE 5 --- Thread ownership changed
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05/04/2012 - UPDATE
Font Changer Root
Requires FULL ROOT and of-course a working-full busy boz. CWM and a backup(just for safety
) is recommended as a boot-loop MIGHT occur, according to dev. Moving on, this allows you to change fonts. You might be asking, Why root for a puny font changer app ? The answer is, it changes fonts. Yes it changes fonts of virtually anything, even the keyboard you are using right now
. According to the dev, it creates a buck-up of your default font in-case something happens. While removing this app, make sure that you restore setting of your default font. In case you forgot, just restore your nandroid back-up
.
It has the following features -
*font preview and changer.
*screen density changer.
*Quick reboot (after changing the font, a really QuickBoot occurs, thanks to this app.)
* localization of languages (English,Russian, Spanish etc. )
Its a free app in the playstore and a donate version is also available in case you like the app.
AnTuTu CPU Master
AnTuTu CPU Master is a tool for changing CPU/GPU speed. Its similar to SetCpu or no-frills. It slightly has better UI. You can overclock your device for faster performance or slow down by reducing the clock frequency. Its a tiny-free app available in the playstore.
Faster Fix Speed up your fix of your current location using your mini's GPS. Here is the link to the trick/hack used in addition to this app : Enjoy
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...239713&page=18
Webkey
Using this app you can now control your phone from any browser. Yeah, you heard me right !
With this app you can send screenshots, control another phone, download-upload files, get gps location, read-write sms, export-import contacts-sms-call logs, terminal emulator etc.. So what are you waiting for ? Go ahead and try this app as its a free app available in the playstore
Root Checker
This tiny-free app DOES NOT REQUIRE ROOT. Then why on the list :O ? As the name implies, it simply checks your su-binary and verifies that your phone is properly rooted or not. So this app is helpful for beginners who rooted their stock recently and lets you check whether you have followed the procedure correctly or not.
Its available in the playstore for free.
Spare Parts
This is a very handy app to have. It currently works only on custom roms and CM7. It a tool to control all your hidden interface changes in your custom rom. Going through setting for even changing even the screenlock can be painful, So this app save that time and energy easily.
It also allows you to change the screen transition type and its speeds, wifi sleep policy, useage statistics etc. Its a free app and is available in the playstore.
SuperSU
Another great app from a great master, none other than our ChanFire himself. After giving us some great apps like CF3D, live demsg and logcat etc, its time to include this great app to the list. Its a replaceable counterpart app for the superuser app by Chainsdd i.e our default superuser permissions granter by applying the standard procedure. So installing this app simply replaces you current/default permissions granter. Try it and as always perform a back-up of your apps and data. Its a free app and is available in the playstore.
Swapper
It lets you create, add and manage swap memory file without a swap partition on SD card. Reconfigure the app if you changed your swap size. This tiny app is free and its available in the playstore.
DroidTweaker Root
A small All-in-one app for your rooted mini. It also can mount the system partition as read-write for development purposes and also can clear dalvik cache directly by the tap of a button. Its presently in beta stage but its working fine for me. This tiny app is free and its available in the playstore.
AdAway
Its an app similar to ad-free. It uses leeches to prevent ads from being downloaded while browsing on your mini. Once you install this app and update the host files, you are ready to go for a ad-free experience on any app or browser. It even removes the ads from app that come with those annoying ads, this ultimately improves the performance of the game.
OTA Root Keeper
Want to " TEMPORARILY UN-ROOT " your device so that you can test some new app or tweak or get access to some stupid website ?? Then this is the right app for you. This app is created by the devs of Voodoo Sound specifically for galaxy s,s2 etc. It creates a back-up of your su-binary before temporarily un-rooting the device. It needs an ext-2, 3 or 4 partition for working. This tiny app is available in the playstore for free.
BuildProp Editor
As the name says, it an app to change and modify the build.prop for tweaking your phone. This is a good app to have for devs who like playing with OOM values. If you don't know what is build.prop file, then you should possibly leave this app let alone download.
It also has recommended values, keyboard layout and comes with a proper explanation. Before playing with the file, the app creates a backu-up of your current build.prop file in case you forget. So even if you are not satisfied with your tweak or an error has occured, you can simply replace the back-up easily.
. This tiny app is available for free in the playstore.
UPDATE
The second update of the week friends. This post is going to be the best app post of all time !
Enjoy and dont forget to HIT THE THANKS BUTTON , for all my hardwork and time just for you people. Cheers
lol rom manager? yeah use it ONLY IF U WANNA HARD BRICK YOUR PHONE ...
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Nice compilation thanx man. !
nice selection of apps to choose from.....
stuck
Sticky thread thanx mod (again)
The apps choise is good. But who is using the antivirus on android device??
It cant help much.
Correct me if im wrong.
suky08 said:
The apps choise is good. But who is using the antivirus on android device??
It cant help much.
Correct me if im wrong.
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Who uses an anti virus? Are you kidding me?
Try installing some of those ****in idiotic supposed-to-be hot korean etc girls wallpaper app from the playstore and see what happens...avast wont even let those ****iin trojan-trackin apps into our device...u can test it urself...nd this app saved my phone twice Coz I lost it..it has the best anti-theft options in the whole playstore...
UPDATE 4
Shortly, update 4 is on its way people
Thank You for the patience
thank's
a have à question
wen a root my galaxy mini i can surcharged the battery ?
A major update people plz refer to post #2
Cleaned the thread for minor mistakes etc..it looks better now
Reserved for future 2
dosdos said:
thank's
a have à question
wen a root my galaxy mini i can surcharged the battery ?
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Why not hit the thanks button ?
I dint get what you were saying lol..be a bit clear
I was waiting for this thread but didn't know it was here since 9 days any ways again good work
Deshabilitado said right if we write about rom manager like this many people will get encouraged to use rom manager
also add screencast
dhlalit11 said:
I was waiting for this thread but didn't know it was here since 9 days any ways again good work
Deshabilitado said right if we write about rom manager like this many people will get encouraged to use rom manager
also add screencast
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Ya same feeling..gotta remove rom manager..in next update probably
I think I already added screencast? If not I'll do it in the next update
Thanx for the feedback
Nice work..update 4 has some good apps like faster fix, thanks man
freakyfriday said:
Who uses an anti virus? Are you kidding me?
Try installing some of those ****in idiotic supposed-to-be hot korean etc girls wallpaper app from the playstore and see what happens...avast wont even let those ****iin trojan-trackin apps into our device...u can test it urself...nd this app saved my phone twice Coz I lost it..it has the best anti-theft options in the whole playstore...
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I never tried to imstall those wallpapers. XD
suky08 said:
I never tried to imstall those wallpapers. XD
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plz don't spam man...
I read the comments to those apps and felt like testing avast...it worked Coz avast detected that app as a malicious tracking app that can read our contacts and call logs.
so that's y I gave that example...
and lol seriously I support u completely
EDIT - thank me if u can, but please no spamming wit useless comments..
Hi everyone one... I am looking forward to making my SM-T280 have a wee better features.
Have modded it with some extra features, but find peeps here are lazy, sor I will be accessing Russian help with a real firmware upgrade for such a great tablet. Will post more info soon.
Major change up
Seems that while waiting, I came up with a simple system file updates from three devices. Sinice the J1 is more compatible to the Table A 7.0 I spoofed the J1 build.prop settings to make Chrome layout look better, whIle system is forced in landscape mode. I also transfered over some system files, which were univereal that were not included in the basic 7.0 tablet.
So far, I have updated my bluetooth profiles and additional automobile connectivity presets, while updating wifi firmware from latest J3 phone firmware running LP. I also included a few J5 additions as well.
Now my tablet is being long term always on tested for stability.
Here is a list of added or enabled features that is on my Tab A 7.0.
FM Radio with recording
Full featured All share services
Samsung Video player with DNLA and pop out play functions
Screen Cast
Car mode with link functionality
Updated bluetooth profiles
Updated settings and system options... which I now forget what was missing, as I am now use to them.
Added missing frameworks and lib files.
Now working on a few lib files for virtual display and quick connect functionality.
An added note... wifi speeds and connectivity are much better now. Before updates I got 33mbps and delayed connections to my home network, now I get 38mbps and a fast connection when turned on.
keep it up !!!!!
dcap0187 said:
keep it up !!!!!
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Will do... though it's been a wild ride with roller coaster events leaving me just about to kick the efforts all out the door.
Excuse the bad typing... explained at the bottom of this reply.
First of... 5.1.1 is an odd animal to get use to from 4.4 and 7.1 variants of android.
I did not realize that 5.1.1 was an abortion in the community efforts to mod and support. Most of the info I grabbed as I started was too outdated and hard to find good stuff was lost over time, server cleanup and lack of dev file space for continuing on for future builds.
So, after dumping xposed for 5.1.1 and going odex based stock, I am satisfied with hown far I have gotten.
Example... with xposed I was able to get private mode to function but... had not much reserved memory available in root storage. Even though the specs given on theach T280 state 1.5MB, which is wrong... it has plenty of room to hold more apk and .so files.
To keep speed and allow for optimum system storage use, I gave up xposed and dived into mixing 10 different stock firmwares from Samsung.
Here is a small list of known working stock firmwares, that allow transplanting apks and mostly library files over to our devices. J1, J2, J3, A3, A5, Note4, Tab S, Tab A series... both 2015 and 2016 models.
I found some custom ROMs that were odex and deodex factory firmwares, that had no disclaimer on useage.
To get missing quick settings features, I had kept an old SQL editor to patch the system db with all the useful toggles and removal of unnecessary ones.
Mirror link 100% functional, and 98% of all Accessibility features are available and operational. Finger Spen in all apps that support spen. Yes, that means the internal photo studio editor that plugs into gallery will fully function. Though I miss the 4.4 version on kitkat, as the later versions are simplified in options, like adding notes behind photos and quick file management features. WFD, Nearby, Ultra Power Saving, Side Key Panel, Full featured multi windows. Backdrop, Smart Face and Signature lock, Smart Cover, and Universal Switch are unlocked and functional.
Care Mode is 50% functional, as the tablet is not a phone, so Maps and Music are fully functional only. Bonus! Voice link via S6 S Voice. It's fully functional with out any issues that I can tell. The only issue is screen DPI to launch S Voice directly from the launcher. Found that the drawing function dumps when hour glass is extracted for screen write. I guess a simple resizing of the images within the apk will correct the FC. I am not a developer and do not mod apk files, even though from what I gather, is one of the simplist mods one can in customizations.
Since Drive Link is a UI to S Voice internals, just use Drive link to do most all of your S Voice needs. No modifications nended to S Voice apk.
Also Voice Wake is part of the package... which allows interaction between Drive Link on voice commands. Without it, you need to touch the mic to wake up S Voice when using Drive Link.
At this time... I need to find a proper WithTV package (note 4 has issues), a proper display.so lib, a way to enable gestures... I had it going in xposed with a few unknown files lost when over written while testing. Don't recall what rom I extracted from, so some day I may stumble upon it once again. I vaguely recall, the ROM was based from India, or TW. May have to look into touchwiz framework patch to get Smart Stay, Smart Pause and Smart Scroll functioning. It's not a priority as I never used them, and don't use S Browser.
SNote should work, since finger input for spen functions. Only if a developer would make an app to enable finger input as air touch enable. Example... double tap spen detatch/attach toggle. Then I can add Spen SDK and permissions to use my finger for Spen features. I had tested with stock settings menu, and it does have over 50% of the features hidden and S Pen is one of them, just no switch to detect input.
As for private mode... from what I gather, it may be that I need to flash my tablet with a clean fresh factory build and patch to enable private mode firstly. In my mad attempts to keep storage space from being consumed by uneccessary files, I recall deleting an odd file that happened to be a database file created by Private Mode. Once deleted private mode will no longer function. A factory wipe may recover, but in my case there is something changed that needed a full wipe and clean install.
I was not so keen with the Tab A setup UI, so I tested with various Phone models, the A5 and A3 setup UI is like stock but has a slightly better layout and added features that stock does not have.
I did not bother to try enabling Internet Calling and Messaging. Mostly because the last time a developer tried to do something like that, they ended up not being able to compile a working mod. So its all beyond me on diving into such a thing. There is more than just adding a dialer interface.
Well that's pretty much all I can recall in a nutshell. I am going to mess with correcting the Samsung keyboard issues from one of the framework files I am using. Its locked my popup symbols for multiple entry, which would be nice if I had a use for that feature. I have to tap away from the symold list to close the list and then type. Also even more annoying is the spelling and auto correct has greatly became touchy. It seems it wants to correct incorrectly on even the simplest words. Thus my writing looks bad, especially on long paragraphs like on this reply.
Quick update.... disabled chrome spell check and found Samsung keyboard easier to manage on spellchecking... though there is some issues still, so I will dive further.
Removed gesture service, since it requires light sensor, and included spen SDK for SNote to load, and talkback to allow voice interaction in accessibility features. Will try and fit in SNote and Voice Note, as the stock firmware is missing key lib files.
Sticking with A3 / A5 Settings2.apk as it is best all around.
Working on Qconnect, S6 Toolbar, and Personal mode.
Will not fix S6_SVoice.zip for direct useage, as it is only for drive link voice operation only. You can use a S4 SVoice as an option for direct useage. But not installed together. Both SVoice and TTS are huge installs, but a lot less than using all Google. Apps. In fact maps and Google play storeally and services are the only Google Apps I have outside of Chrome.
Ok, I got some of the keyboard spellchecking issues sorted out. Installed the latest open gapps, just to remove most of the Google updates stored on data/apps. Doing so cleans up space and removes some issues with conflicting .so files and apks. Found Chrome was in need of removal on its updates, and I manually copied it into system app folder for the system to make it into a system load when rebooted. Then Uninstalled the update that was chrome left in data/app folder.
Nown for the additional additions...
NOTE4
SVoice Note with voice to text and 3 recording types.
Face Lock functionality
Talkback
No go apps that will not be added... QuickConnect, S6 Toolbox, Smart Stay, Smart Pause, Smart Scroll, Private Mode, and Air Gesture. I gather framework will need adjusted, and systemui may have QuickConnect and Toolbox presets with disabled pointers to launch them.
I may try a few systemui for other devices, like I have with settings2.
Considering how much of the Samsung features I unlocked and added, the only feature I will miss and is worth the effort to attempt further, is QuickConnect. It is a pretty snazzy tool with some interesting features that make it a go to for sharing and connectivity.
When I create a twrp backup of my competed system, it can be restored over existing installation. A dirty flash if you so call it. Just wipe cache before rebooting. It will take about 10 minutea or more, depending on what has been installed.
You can remove some none stock apps as you see fit, as they are for ease of maintenance when flashing clean.
I added a few things to make the tablet more useful for my own use. One is S5 video player. Mainly because it is full featured, allowing pop out video, and built in DLNA to stream from my router media storage and TV box.
If some videos are not compatible, I use aDLNA to launch MX Player for decode that is not compatible to my hardware.
I kept the stock video player, so the additional S5 video player may be removed if one chooses.
One issue is the buttons in S5 Video are not dpi proper on the layout. So black boxes are shown without any context. You can play around to memorize what black box does what, or I'd you are familiar enough with phone style video player pretty 2016, it should not be so difficult.
I debloated the system as much as I could, though many call removing system files that are not required for operation as debloating. Debloating is removing memory consuming apps, not system needed apps. Most all Google Apps are heavy bloaters, in generating cache and data, let alone are bloated within themselves. I tend to stay away from multi platform apks. Especially when there is no need to have ARM8a compatibility in a ARM7 environment. Either figurethane out that Google or stop with your fake and loosely based facts on your betterment of newer platforms. Geezo, my 4.4.2 tablet uses less storage than 5.1.1. And yet it was stated that newer Android is smaller and more efficient. Right? BS... the true facts are right here in my hands
Enough rants... here are the facts. System partition has about 60MB free. Why leave over 500MB free and unused as empty storage? So now you have a maximized system storage for system apps that normally don't get updated. Leaving the updated or user installed apps to use internal or external storage.
Proof it will not cause issues, some custom ROMs will down size system partitions from 3GB to 1GB depending on how minimal the firmware foot print is. So instead of remapping the system partition, I just moved apps into the system.
I have about 900MB free on internal storage running a bunch of streaming apps and CoPilot. The biggest resource hogsite are Google play services, play store, and Samsung TTS with SVoice. Using Google TTS and Voice would greatly consume more valueable storage space.
The 16GB card is my backups and work space for rom stripping. I use a 64GB card for media and apps. There is a script to make External SD into Internal sdcard, so the storage is like what you would have with newer firmwares. Though it is not encrypted, but can be shared between other devices.
So I placed all the installed apps that are not or will never be updated in the system/app folder. Thus increasing my internal storage space by 60MB and more.
After a bit of testing, I found that Knox will keep private mode from functioning. So, some how during my tests, I must have finished my transfering system files after a fresh restore of stock firmware recovery. Thus a partially functioning personal mode. To me kids mode works fine, so if i shoud need to share, to someone who i dont trust with private data, i can give them kids mode all setup for them to never ask again. mwhahahaha! On the lighter side, you can just setup the guest profile and lockout photo apps and such.
tested my apps to sd script. all apps now allow moving to sd, as expected. YAY!
I released enough internal (sdcard) for 1.2gb free with curent unmoved apps installed. May balance it out further, if needed. Dont have much room to test with as my 64GB sd card has 54GB of music and another 8GB in other files. Will need to invest in a 128GB sd card for that.
Tweaked the build prop for faster responce... just a few wee edits actually. One is stupid simple, yet never seen anyone do it on small ram devices. will add a final additional set of tweaks for small enahancements.
This tablet is actually faster than the Note 8.0 it is replacing, though it is slower on cpu speed, and is not overclocked with a custom Boefla kernel.
still working on a small set of bugs... probably from my data from installs and configurations. Once I clear the internal data, it may recover properly, but i rather identify the issue, as I expect the restore file to be flashed dirty.
Gave up on testing systemUI swaps. Seems like samsung has made non adjustable ui schema on their platforms. I cant even drop or increase dpi on this tablet without breaking ui.
One thing i did like about A3 ui was its noticable zoom out feature with the lock screen image, and has different background, like the S5 phone.
Outside of that, once unlocked boom! Back to lockscreen with a ui crash.
Found one issue with A3/A5 settings... it has a different mapping for a sub menu item. Closes out, without allowing a setting. Seems like phone and tablets are perposely done so component features cannot be shared beteen them. Signature lock will show as an option but impossible to enable. To use face lock i must use a tab4 settings. It would be nice to combine all the features on the A3 settings ui to the tab4 setting ui, as it would alow so much more versatility. The tab 4 settings has audio pointing to a different audio schema which fc the setting ui once selected, since the devices do not share the same hardware. Also the motion section does it as well.
Most all the features are good between the two on our tablet. Not going back to original settings as it seems so limited.
Slowly making headway...
Found some nice mic and audio drivers... for the life of me, i thought it was cheap hardware making a bit of digital noise with stock system files and any oem or downloadable audio recorder. I went a head and scoured through build dates on stock driver files to find similarities with tab a stock, and any differences.
Because I only use the tab a to do file and os tests, as its the only thing i have, i cant keep backups or libraries of firmwares to gather what i need. Its mostly download search sort and copy what i need. Then delete and download another rom.
Out side of mystery system files, to patch the latest release for the 7.0 tab a6, i am pain stakingly playing with floating logcat, while launching and running apps.
Decided to remove some apks that i use for tools, and do some cleanup for a clean system build backup. It leaves around 400MB free for what ever you want to add to the system.
Found a nice option to try... once i do a backup, is to run virtual exposed. I dont like the modded xposed for samsung odex. It seems slow and a wee buggy.
I rooted this build with a passive kernel and the latest magisk.
I hope to have virtual xposed operational on this build as there are so many xposed modules available.
I did include the tools i use.. fake gps, os monitor, logcat extreme, termux, and csc features for samsung.
Still trying to sort out sip symbols staying active when more than one is listed, after initial touch on the symbol.
Voice note is also having one issue... will not type out words spoken when doing voice note dictation. I assume i am missing some system files outside of the lib folder location.
Will have to search for the proper firmware and find what differences are in the file structure and in vendor.
Have added smart selfie alarm for camera, and additional stylized images for bonus material.
As another bonus i included control screen, to keep the screen orientation proper on difficult apps. It has an option to stay in the notification pull down panel, and fits nicely. Just turn off samsung auto screen rotation before enabling the app.
One down two to go!
I found an Svoice that is fully functional on our tab a6 models. So, consider another bonus in the round of fixing wee issues.
This one allows the change of the wakeup command. It seems to work with any command you want to make it. Problem is if you bypass the initial setup, it defaults to Hi Galaxy. I think clearing out all the Svoice apks data and cache will allow changing the command, if you need to.
Still working on Voice Note not typing out text from voice input, and sip symbol key list staying on after initial touch.
It may be from a hidden accesibility function that is available with various setup ui apks.
Like there is another type of unlock scheme on some phones and th J3 version i am using. It very much like pattern unlock but more simpler. Also it can be setup to show direction, or not to show direction, to keep the lock screen blank. Also read out loud to where your direction has been entered.
Down to one last issue to correct
I figured out the main reason why voice note in the voice recorder fails to type out text during voice recording. The tab a6 does not have a proper audio mux and lpcm setup. I tried to configure media by seeing what can be done to add paths. I am not familiar with paths enough to compare and cross reference unknown values to replace from a different schema.
So, until someone who is following can do a proper patch to the media xml files in exec folder, the function will never happen.
I checked with SNote and it does allow all the importing functions, including video from rear camera.
While trying out the patch on my own, I did bump up the recording quality on the video encoding. At least i got something done out of the deal.
I also gave up on virtualxposed. I dont care to run a shell based setup, and most of the xposed modules i use do not play well with the shell.
So, it looks like i will devote my time into isolating the troubles with sip symbol shortcut overlay not clearing from the keyboard after initial symbol touch. It will clear on just a single symbol being shown, or if you touch away from the pop up symbol set.
One thing i did do is clear keyboard data and cache. I may have to reset the csc features xml additions i had set. I have other ideas, but i will tackle the simplest first.
I hope to post my dirty flash mod for peeps with the latest firmware to use on their Tab A6 7.0 tablets.
Since i had very little input on what most want or expect on a modded firmware, i made it for my needs, based on a full Samsung Experience, with minimal google bloat.
I will make a couple of scripts for peeps to run via terminal command or launch from smanager. Since my force installs to external sd card may get in the way of a clean flash with pushing restoration installations.
The scripts will enable or disable force to external sd, and toggle performance mode, and interactive mode (stock default).
All fixed!
Found my symbol key issue was with magnification gestures enabled.
Now that all correctable issues are resolved, I will finalize my small tweak options for user enabled optioms
All fixed!
Found my symbol key issue was with magnification gestures enabled.
Now that all correctable issues are resolved, I will finalize my small tweak options for user enabled options.
I will not have busybox installed, just Magisk rooted with passive kernel.
So, speed tweaks are user enabled after boot. Network tweaks are enabled via sysctl.conf within etc folier
All fixed!
Found my symbol key issue was with magnification gestures enabled.
Now that all correctable issues are resolved, I will finalize my small tweak options for user enabled options.
I will not have busybox installed, just Magisk rooted with passive kernel.
So, speed tweaks are user enabled after boot. Network tweaks are enabled via sysctl.conf within the system/etc folder.
Right now I am happy with over-riding system governor to Perfromance and WiFi congestion control to Reno. Both are the only options avaliable from what the kernel was built with.
There is a small battery increase, but mostly noticeable when comparing to low tasks and multi-tasking. Heavy usage and average use, will not show much difference. I have yet to see a reason to revert back.
This is a stock rom with as many features one can have for the hardware and what Samsung made available for cross compatibility. I have included a full featured accessibility package, along with voice and finger generated spen controls. Plus enabled internal editing of videos and photos. Plus I blocked media from scanning system media for images and songs.
There is too much to explain here, but I will try to compile a full list of features that are installed for a Samsung Experience.
Test image
Here is a TWRP backup of my system. It can be flashed dirty, though i recomend doing a backup of your system before flashing to revert back if needed.
Unzip the contents into your existing twrp backup folder. Run twrp to restore the image. Be sure to enable checking to gaurantee proper restore.
This has install to external set, and magisk root with permissive kernel (you may need to enable it with a utility or shell command). Minor tweaks are in build.prop, you can revert to original build.prop by renaming the backup by removal of the bk extension.
This is 98% completed... i have to update a few files and an app, as they were written over, by mistake.
You should have 200mb free in the system partition. Also a small handful of utiltiies that are no more than 25mb total. I removed google bloatware, and a few Samsung apps that are not required, or can be downloaded from Galaxy Apps or Google play.
Many will just say no need to change a thing... but before i post the final image, i will not bother with future maintanence. So, if any one finds something out side of known issues, given in my update history... (please read through carefully) i can attempt to make some additional changes before i finalize. Thank you.
https://mega.nz/#F!AzZB3SDT!HEtXvvWsk8F_SbgYz9BGzw
TWRP
I'm trying to flash a TWRP recovery image on my T280 using Odin 3.13 and twrp-3.2.3-0-_mone-gtexswifi.tar....but I keep getting a secure boot fail. What did you do to flash TWRP?
good morning
could you explain in detail how to install your rom?
the twrp backup folder where I find it? do i have to create it?
explain this passage to me please
gooberdude said:
Here is a TWRP backup of my system. It can be flashed dirty, though i recomend doing a backup of your system before flashing to revert back if needed.
Unzip the contents into your existing twrp backup folder. Run twrp to restore the image. Be sure to enable checking to gaurantee proper restore.
This has install to external set, and magisk root with permissive kernel (you may need to enable it with a utility or shell command). Minor tweaks are in build.prop, you can revert to original build.prop by renaming the backup by removal of the bk extension.
This is 98% completed... i have to update a few files and an app, as they were written over, by mistake.
You should have 200mb free in the system partition. Also a small handful of utiltiies that are no more than 25mb total. I removed google bloatware, and a few Samsung apps that are not required, or can be downloaded from Galaxy Apps or Google play.
Many will just say no need to change a thing... but before i post the final image, i will not bother with future maintanence. So, if any one finds something out side of known issues, given in my update history... (please read through carefully) i can attempt to make some additional changes before i finalize. Thank you.
https://mega.nz/#F!AzZB3SDT!HEtXvvWsk8F_SbgYz9BGzw
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there are few stuff on your mega, including 2 finals , mod, and christmass rom. Which one to use?
it's people like you that make me love XDA
gooberdude said:
Here is a TWRP backup of my system. It can be flashed dirty, though i recomend doing a backup of your system before flashing to revert back if needed.
Unzip the contents into your existing twrp backup folder. Run twrp to restore the image. Be sure to enable checking to gaurantee proper restore.
This has install to external set, and magisk root with permissive kernel (you may need to enable it with a utility or shell command). Minor tweaks are in build.prop, you can revert to original build.prop by renaming the backup by removal of the bk extension.
This is 98% completed... i have to update a few files and an app, as they were written over, by mistake.
You should have 200mb free in the system partition. Also a small handful of utiltiies that are no more than 25mb total. I removed google bloatware, and a few Samsung apps that are not required, or can be downloaded from Galaxy Apps or Google play.
Many will just say no need to change a thing... but before i post the final image, i will not bother with future maintanence. So, if any one finds something out side of known issues, given in my update history... (please read through carefully) i can attempt to make some additional changes before i finalize. Thank you.
https://mega.nz/#F!AzZB3SDT!HEtXvvWsk8F_SbgYz9BGzw
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Thank You!
Help to update - Some procedure to follow
EliteeSword said:
Thank You!
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Hi! id like so much to update my Samsung A6 SM-T280 - 7 inches. I downloaded the files from Mega but i really dont know how to update Does anyone can help me with some procedure ?
I really appreciate the help!
Regards,
Daniel .
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Hi Gooberdude!
Id like so much to update my Samsung A6 SM-T280 - 7 inches. I downloaded the files from Mega but i really dont know how to update .Does anyone can help me with some procedure ?
I really appreciate the help!
Regards,
Daniel .