I have a Korean HTC Desire HD that I rooted and installed the Ice Cold Sandwich rom on.
I currently live in Japan and am on the Softbank network. The biggest problem is that I can't send images through email to other mobile users because of a 1mb limit.
I have been trying to find an email app that will compress images before sending while keeping the original intact.
The closest that I have found is this: AndroMail (sorry can't post links since I'm a noob)
The problem is that I can't get it to connect to my gMail account. I sent the developer a message but he hasn't replied.
I've also read that the Galaxy S3 has this feature by default.
Is it possible to install the S3 mail apk on the DHD (and if so, does anyone know where I can get it?), or are there other options?
By the way, I do understand that there are apps that I can use to compress images.
What I am hoping to find is an email app that is able to do the compression before sending.
It's not that I'm lazy, it's just that I'm lazy
Okay, so I found the S3 rom. I'm going to try to extract the mail app and install it on my phone.
I still haven't found any other mail apps that include image compression as a feature.
Also, from what I can tell, the AndroMail app servers are not working. There is a gateway option in the setting. By default, it has different servers listed. I can change them, but I have no idea what I would need to change them to. Anyone else use this app?
Okay, so I successfully extracted the S3 secMail apk and odex files from the rom using the guide here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667081
Then I attempted to deodex the files using the guide here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1053227
I couldn't deodex. I got no output files. I checked to make sure Java was installed (I knew it was, since I sometimes try to do some basic programming with the Android SDK).
So, since I couldn't deodex, I figured, why not? I tried to install the S3 secMail app anyway. As I expected, it didn't work.
Is there no mail app that has this functionality? I guess I incorrectly assumed that this was basic feature.
Okay, after four days of trying, I'm about ready to give up.
I have tried side loading different SecMail apps, but I'm assuming it's locked to Samsung devices only.
I have also scoured the internet and both Google and Amazon markets, and nothing.
I have just about given up. One last time, is there anyone that knows of any mail apps that offer image compression, or is it possible to port SecEmail (the only mail app I know of that does offer image compression) to the DHD
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Hi,
Just wondering, I want to bypass the exchange policy (annoying pin lock), so thinking of using those modified AOSP email.apks.
However I would like to retain use of the original email client provided by Samsung.
Anyway to say setup and sync with the modified email.apks but then use Samsung's read/compose ? Do they share same database?
Ideally of course would be a modified Samsung email.apk.
Cheers
fy
fylim said:
Hi,
Just wondering, I want to bypass the exchange policy (annoying pin lock), so thinking of using those modified AOSP email.apks.
However I would like to retain use of the original email client provided by Samsung.
Anyway to say setup and sync with the modified email.apks but then use Samsung's read/compose ? Do they share same database?
fy
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My initial response was: no. But thinking about it, there is a chance this actually might work. AFAIK, the way that the modified email apks work is that the creation of a "security device admin" is surpessed when defining an exchange account (don't know the exact name in english, but it's a device wide pin lock because you have to enter it every time you wake your phone from sleep). But apart from that a modified email apk creates accounts & databases exactly the same way as the original. One question remains open, and that is that an original email app might check for a policy also every time the account is actually used.
Also, a problem with the modified email apks is that they want to replace the existing email system app. If there is a way to keep the exisiting email app in place, and install a modified second one to just create the exchange accounts, this might work. I have been installing system apps manually through Root Explorer before, surpressing replacements, i will try tonight with email apps
Thanks. For your feedback. It is not exactly clear how the modified apks work. I would think that it would be easier to 'inform' that the policy is applied but does nothing to trigger the pin lock setting.
In this case it may work. Also head that Autostarts can disable this device administrator on some phones but sadly the 1.6.1 version on mine doesn't. It says do not have sufficient permission although already given rooted permission.
Appreciate if you could let me know how did your tests go.
Cheers
If anyone can help with this, I’d really appreciate it. I have been a little disappointed since plunging into Android that for whatever reason, the email app (not Gmail) doesn’t have a “move to folder” option. I’ve had this option on WinMo and Symbian phones so I found it hard to believe that functionality wasn’t in Android. FYI, I am currently running CM 6.1.1.
Well I bought my wife a Samsung Epic 4G for Christmas and lo and behold, the email app on her device has that option! Her phone is rooted and running the Epic Experience ROM. I have tried, to no avail, to put the email app from her phone onto my N1. I have the apk file, have tried to just install as is, have tried pushing via adb, even tried inserting it into the CM ROM zip file in place of the one that was in there. So far I’m not even close. So here are my questions:
Are there any ROMs for the N1 that have this function included?
If not, is it possible to install this in place of the email app in CM?
I’m rather fond of CM and would rather do the latter if it’s possible. I was able to get as far as getting the file signed, and the closest I got after that, I received the error:
INSTALL FAILED MISSING SHARED LIBRARY
With over 200 lib files in the Epic ROM, I have no idea which one(s) would be necessary to make this work. Both phones have Android 2.2.1.
Again, any help would be greatly appreciated!
No help on this at all? C'mon folks, I know we've got some smart people in here that can make this work!
Hi! This is my first post here.. Though I've been lurking for quite some time now.
I'm really interested in a WP7 style messaging app. I've used the 'messaging metro beta' by Ferran Garigga and found it unsatisfactory even without the in-app purchase. The other app (i forget the name) by bitmod dev was even worse.
I mailed Ferran and he's working on improving on the app. Till then I guess the options are dead.
I recently found a thread on the Galaxy S page for a WP7 style theme. It had themed apps like browser and MMS. If I can't have a mms that works like WP7 at least i can have one that's themed like it.
So I tried to fool around with it. Epic Fail :|
Was wondering if someone could port it?
Or at least tell me how?
I can't help, but AFAIK, mms.apk is a core system application that handles SMS/MMS. To "port" another mms.apk would mean to first decompile the app, make necessary changes, handles how it registers with the core system, take care of dependencies, changing appearance etc.
For the last task, changing appearance, you can use this script under windows, try googling "apk manager". Extract the apk, get its icons, play around with color schemes in .xml etc.
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I have a set of Focus S phones that I purchased already unlocked and am using with MetroPCS. After setting up the APN with the wireless manager, I find that I am able to receive MMS messages but not send them, presumably because the field for the MMSC reverts every time I set it, as described in posts here such as http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809492 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1589253 .
I found the link to the wpcentral post ( http://forums.wpcentral.com/samsung-focus-s-4g/194390-2.htm#post1684126 ) about upgrading to 8773 and keeping a functional mms - unfortunately, the phone described was one that was starting out in the 7720 state where he could indeed set the MMSC server as needed, whereas I received mine already fully updated to 8773. His method therefore doesn't seem directly applicable.
Unless, of course, I can downgrade my phone to the stock 7720 version beforehand. I've searched, but haven't been able to find any such ROMs, and indeed have found a few people saying that they don't exist. But I thought it might be worth a try asking, anyway. Does anyone have such a ROM, or know that it exists?
Alternately, and this is probably even more of a long shot, but is there a way of directly editing the backup of a phone so as to alter the saved MMSC field there, so that when the altered backup is restored it would be functional? The filetype is pks, apparently an 'oracle database,' and is sadly not particularly intelligible when viewed with a text editor, but perhaps there is an editor somewhere that can parse it to modify the information stored within?
Epopeus said:
I have a set of Focus S phones that I purchased already unlocked and am using with MetroPCS. After setting up the APN with the wireless manager, I find that I am able to receive MMS messages but not send them, presumably because the field for the MMSC reverts every time I set it, as described in posts here such as http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809492 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1589253 .
I found the link to the wpcentral post ( http://forums.wpcentral.com/samsung-focus-s-4g/194390-2.htm#post1684126 ) about upgrading to 8773 and keeping a functional mms - unfortunately, the phone described was one that was starting out in the 7720 state where he could indeed set the MMSC server as needed, whereas I received mine already fully updated to 8773. His method therefore doesn't seem directly applicable.
Unless, of course, I can downgrade my phone to the stock 7720 version beforehand. I've searched, but haven't been able to find any such ROMs, and indeed have found a few people saying that they don't exist. But I thought it might be worth a try asking, anyway. Does anyone have such a ROM, or know that it exists?
Alternately, and this is probably even more of a long shot, but is there a way of directly editing the backup of a phone so as to alter the saved MMSC field there, so that when the altered backup is restored it would be functional? The filetype is pks, apparently an 'oracle database,' and is sadly not particularly intelligible when viewed with a text editor, but perhaps there is an editor somewhere that can parse it to modify the information stored within?
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ok, there isn't a flashable ROM for any WP7 build on the Focus S, we never had one and at this point I doubt we ever will, the only thing I didn't do was hook up the EPROM to a magic box and pull the info off directly.
Im not sure why your having MMS issues, if you can change it with wireless manager it should persist, you can of course interop unlock any version of our device now, so it might be worth considering to re try that then install WP Root tools and give the wireless manager Root access, although it shouldnt it need it.
Interesting idea. I'm trying to install WP root tools now, having a spot of trouble with the interop unlock part, as my phone isn't listing any networks I can choose under the wireless manager, so I have to use the "switching sim cards" method, which means I have to borrow someone else's sim card.
I'll give an update when I have an answer.
Well. It took some doing to get the phone interop unlocked so that I could install root tools - I eventually had to perform a hard reset. Sadly, giving root access to the wireless manager doesn't seem to have made any difference for its ability to actually change the MMSC setting. The behavior is the same as before - I can edit the field, and it says that it's saving, but when I go back into mms_line afterward, it's back to the cingular setting.
I'm looking to remove the SMS limit. I'm currently on 6.0 (pure nexus rom), but I would also like to know how to do it on 5.1.1. Manually is preferred so I know exactly what is being changed on my device.
Why? Because it's my phone and I should be able to remove this ridiculous limit if I want to, and...
I wrote a python script that sends out multiple SMS to a large group of my friends. I keep getting that annoying pop up that the app is sending large amounts of text messages, and having to hit the allow button multiple times. This wouldn't be an issue if hitting the allow button actually sent all of the text, but it doesn't. Quite frustrating.
I've read a few thread on XDA about the issue, but can't seem to remove the limit. I tried following a guide in one of the s3 categories to no avail.
I am looking for this too!
After hours of searching today - it appears that the setting has been moved into the framework?
com.android.internal.telephony
https://android.googlesource.com/pl...droid/internal/telephony/SmsUsageMonitor.java
I hope I'm wrong as I'm no Android dev.... But, if I'm correct the only way I know of to "fix" it is to make the change in a custom Android build/ROM.
This SUCKS as I use mass texting for business purposes (communicating with many individuals who sign up for contract work). I really like Android N (along with AndroidPay) - but, looks like I'll be going back to M (on a custom ROM)...
If anyone locates/determines a way to alter that file using RootExplorer/Sqlite or some other way - please let me know.