Safe to Delete .APKs from Zipped Rom? - Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

As the title says, I've started deleting bloatware from zipped roms by deleting all the .apks I don't want.
Haven't had any related issues yet, but I'm wondering if it is possible I could run into one ...
So is this a reasonably safe process or not?
What do you think?

Haints said:
As the title says, I've started deleting bloatware from zipped roms by deleting all the .apks I don't want.
Haven't had any related issues yet, but I'm wondering if it is possible I could run into one ...
So is this a reasonably safe process or not?
What do you think?
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You mean, you deleted the apks aftr unzipping the rom & again zipped the rom file back & flashed? If yes, then I dont think you will run into problems..in one of the JB thread someone asked "how about making a light version of this rom with aroma installer?" & OP replied saying "unzip the rom, remove the apks which you dont want & zip it back, then flash"..I tried searching for that thread, but coudnt find it

No, I didn't bother to unzip it, if by that you mean extracting it to my desktop. I just opened it up with winrar, took a look around, deleted what I didn't want, and closed it up again. No problems so far but it actually isn't any faster than uninstalling the apks once the rom is installed ...

Don't you feel risking a possible brick
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Google safe apps to remove. Will take you to a page here withba full list of bloat,and what is safe to take out.
From the man in your attic...

Haints said:
No, I didn't bother to unzip it, if by that you mean extracting it to my desktop. I just opened it up with winrar, took a look around, deleted what I didn't want, and closed it up again. No problems so far but it actually isn't any faster than uninstalling the apks once the rom is installed ...
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ofcourse, its almost the same..

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[Q] accidently deleated a htc sence file

I accidently deleated com.htc.android.world clock. Any way to get it back without a factory reset?
1) Questions do not go in this forum, they go in the "Q&A" forums
2)Download any sense ROM and just pull the /system/app/WorldClock.apk from the zip file and push it to your /system/app on the phone.
i downloaded the world clock apk, tried installing it using astro but wont install. how do i push the apk and odex files on the phone?
jeffpope0 said:
i downloaded the world clock apk, tried installing it using astro but wont install. how do i push the apk and odex files on the phone?
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1) Questions do not go in this forum, they go in the "Q&A" forums
Porkrinds said:
1) Questions do not go in this forum, they go in the "Q&A" forums
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Agreed..plus you even took the time to check the box saying it was a question?????? then you could have taken the time to see the STICKY THREAD saying post questions in the right section.
second off if you dont know what your deleting before you delete it then you shouldnt be deleting stuff from your phone. Do some research before you start deleting items. PLUS do some research about pushing an item. quit being lazy.
Go to the market and get an app called system app remover(it works wonders)!
you criticize more than you help
jeffpope0 said:
you criticize more than you help
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you probably need to put it in system/app and reboot not just install it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=674833
jeffpope0 said:
you criticize more than you help
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Exactly what Aiwetir said...
That's the Way I'm Always Able to Fix my Eff ups! But to Tell you the Truth... I Believe Whenever it Did Work Successfully for me, The System Apps were De-Odexed! But give it a Try, Might Still Work??
Good Luck!
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circle battery on thunderbolt

how do you add different icons into the status bar
Use an app called metamorph. You can modify the framework...and that's the status bar icons
Tbolt meatclaws via talkatap
Go to uot.dakra.lt/kitchen and make one for yourself. You can edit the colors and much more. All you need is your ROMs framework-res.apk.
Get the framework.apk from the rom your using (/system/framework/framework-res.apk) and from the theme that has the icons you want, then use 7-zip to get into the framework res apk / drawable (drawable-hdpi) folder and swap out the .png files that you want to change. Make sure the new file has the same name as the one you are replacing.
You'll have to copy the .png files onto your desktop to view them and get familiar with the apk folders, it's not difficult.
Close the framework-res.apk in 7-zip, no need to re-sign it, and push it back onto your phone.
reboot.
or Ninjamorph.
is the methods described only for custom roms? im running stock rom...
any apps u guys recommend that use the least amount resources?
update....I just installed this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8639993
is editing framework-res.apk a better solution? im just looking for least amount battery consumption...thank u kind sirs
adding the circle battery was the first thing I did on stock rooted ROM...it's easy to do again if you change ROMs.
IISiDeK1CKII said:
Go to uot.dakra.lt/kitchen and make one for yourself. You can edit the colors and much more. All you need is your ROMs framework-res.apk.
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So easy! Thanks!
IISiDeK1CKII said:
Go to uot.dakra.lt/kitchen and make one for yourself. You can edit the colors and much more. All you need is your ROMs framework-res.apk.
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I had no idea there was a kitchen like this available without the nasty coding.
Thanks very much!
do you have to be rooted to use this
OK I just tried this. After I flashed the .zip I got a TON of force closes from various places. Browser, google search, some others, right when the phone booted. I followed the directions and extracted and uploaded my ROM. the only options I wanted to flash were the circle battery and the bootanimation. The bootanimation and circle battery did show up, but after it booted there were just way too many force closes.
Can anyone help on what I need to do?
First thing I always do out of habit is go into CW, clear cache, clear dalvik cache, then reinstall my zip. Takes care of most FC issues.
ZuneNinja! said:
OK I just tried this. After I flashed the .zip I got a TON of force closes from various places. Browser, google search, some others, right when the phone booted. I followed the directions and extracted and uploaded my ROM. the only options I wanted to flash were the circle battery and the bootanimation. The bootanimation and circle battery did show up, but after it booted there were just way too many force closes.
Can anyone help on what I need to do?
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I want to try the UOT Kitchen but I can't confirm if the stock TB rom is odexed or deodexed. I am a newb, been looking for an answer, but I can't find one.
**UPDATE** So I been browsing my rom files and ive seen some .odex files. I think this means its an odexed rom and can't be used with the kitchen. Is that correct?
all confusing to me! haha
I have done quite a few mods to the graphics in the Framework, including the battery one here. My question is that every time I push the framework back and reboot. I have to re-setup a few things (i.e. passwords) and clear contacts and resync. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong? Thanks for any help anyone may have.
Stock rom is odex. You can download plainjane rom that is deodex stock and rooted.
tbtaf said:
Stock rom is odex. You can download plainjane rom that is deodex stock and rooted.
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Thanks, I'm actually doing that now

[Q] MaxQ rom kk2 titanium backup question

Hello, all,
I haven't been able to find an answer to this on my own, so I thought I'd just ask. In the MaxQ rom KK2 version, some -not all, but some- of my apps I restore with Titanium disappear after reboot. Their com.whatever names still show in the app drawer, but they all are uninstalled. The same apps restore fine in Pinnacle 1.3.
Anyone have any idea?
Your best bet would be to post your question in the MaxQ thread . You also should look in the Illuminance KK2 and the Serenity KK2 thread where it's been covered.
Edit: my bad, you don't have enough posts to ask in the devs section, You can still go read in the other 2 roms I metioned, they have been covering this same problem.
Check and make sure tibu is installing them to the phone abs not the sdcard.
if they are being installed to phone see if In the offending ROM, open it up, is there a data folder?
If so take all the apps from /data/app
Move them to /system/app. Then open illuminance and take the meta-INF folder from it and put it in the other ROM, overwriting the original. Then flash that.
aww.W.T.F? said:
Your best bet would be to post your question in the MaxQ thread . You also should look in the Illuminance KK2 and the Serenity KK2 thread where it's been covered.
Edit: my bad, you don't have enough posts to ask in the devs section, You can still go read in the other 2 roms I metioned, they have been covering this same problem.
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Thanks, I didn't realize this was happening across multiple roms. I've been on Pinnacle for quite some time, so I haven't kept up with the latest happenings. I figured I was just doing something stupid.
studacris said:
Check and make sure tibu is installing them to the phone abs not the sdcard.
if they are being installed to phone see if In the offending ROM, open it up, is there a data folder?
If so take all the apps from /data/app
Move them to /system/app. Then open illuminance and take the meta-INF folder from it and put it in the other ROM, overwriting the original. Then flash that.
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Thanks. The first thing I do when I install Titanium is to make sure it's restoring to the phone's internal memory.
Tried the meta-INF thing. Didn't change anything.
I guess I'll stick with Pinnacle. I just wanted to change to something with a different theme. Oh well.
Thanks again to both of you.

[Q] Gallery keeps crashing

So after rooting my phone, my gallery has been crashing every time I try to open it.
I rooted with this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2709701
I tried clearing the data and clearing the cache and it didn't work.
I tried going in from my computer and copying out the data and deleting it so that I can restart with a new DCIM folder, but it's written protected... =/
Ideas anyone?
How do you mean password protected? Never seen that on an Android folder. Shouldnt you just remove this lock to help your app?
Uberharm said:
How do you mean password protected? Never seen that on an Android folder. Shouldnt you just remove this lock to help your app?
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Sorry didn't mean to say password protected. I misspoke and meant to say written protection. I can't delete the files or edit it, but I can copy it.
Ok So it's slightly different from flashing a phone like my galaxy S2 I9100.
On my phone I should flash a ROM and a .zip package of gapps (google apps) among which is the gallery app.
Since you don't have to flash such a package I wonder whether you came from a KK ROM.
You said you rooted it like this. So I assume you came from stock KK ROM which comes with your AT&T Note 3, which should be no fine. But you can check that though.
Further ideas;
it could be a corrupt file somewhere on your device. You're gallery app will try to show it or make a thumbnail out of something which will result in a crash. For this you can try other gallery apps (I liked quickpic) and see if they crash.
Maybe you can unprotect the folder/files simply by:
http://www.ehow.com/how_5059293_rid-write-protection-file.html
On this thread it appeared to be an old SD card so that could be the problem as well.
Uberharm said:
Ok So it's slightly different from flashing a phone like my galaxy S2 I9100.
On my phone I should flash a ROM and a .zip package of gapps (google apps) among which is the gallery app.
Since you don't have to flash such a package I wonder whether you came from a KK ROM.
You said you rooted it like this. So I assume you came from stock KK ROM which comes with your AT&T Note 3, which should be no fine. But you can check that though.
Further ideas;
it could be a corrupt file somewhere on your device. You're gallery app will try to show it or make a thumbnail out of something which will result in a crash. For this you can try other gallery apps (I liked quickpic) and see if they crash.
Maybe you can unprotect the folder/files simply by:
http://www.ehow.com/how_5059293_rid-write-protection-file.html
On this thread it appeared to be an old SD card so that could be the problem as well.
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Lol sorry for the misunderstanding. Just to clarify, yes I flashed it with the KK ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2709701
and rooted with this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2783157
Yeah I've tried to unprotect it, but the options were grayed out. It won't let me click on them or unclick them.
When I access my DCIM folder it looks like this. The folder would contain my pictures and a bunch of other files that I don't recognize. I'm not sure whether it was from the ROM or the root.....
and with Quickpic it worked... ish~ I was able to open the app with a long loading time...and it also contains the other files that I don't recognize as well....
ugh i ended up just reformatting my SD card, i just wanted to get rid of the problem.
oh well. thanks for the help really appreciate it.

[SPH-L720] [NG2] Original TouchWiz NG2 Bloat

If you accidentally deleted an application that you wanted later or just simply desire the files for development of custom TouchWiz based roms (or any other reason) and don't want to fish for them on a stock device, then here they are
These files are from the unmodified but rooted NG2 software. The only modification was that the device was rooted, so obviously @Chainfire's supersu is not part of the original files.
[sph-l720-system-app.rar - RAR archive] [MD5=(pending)] [File Size: ]
for all files in the /system/app directory: DOWNLOAD HERE
[sph-l720-system-priv-app.rar - RAR archive] [MD5=(pending)] [File Size: ]
for all files in the /system/priv-app directory: DOWNLOAD HERE.
**EDIT **
Note these are NOT flashable ZIPs. These are archives of each directory for cherry-picking the bloat apps.
**EDIT 2014 OCT 25TH***
Will not be making flashable ZIPS. If you so desire to do so, go for it. I now have the S5 and no free time as it is.
typefortytardis said:
If you accidentally deleted an application that you wanted later or just simply desire the files for development of custom TouchWiz based roms (or any other reason) and don't want to fish for them on a stock device, then here they are
These files are from the unmodified but rooted NG2 software. The only modification was that the device was rooted, so obviously @Chainfire's supersu is not part of the original files.
for all files in the /system/app directory: DOWNLOAD HERE
for all files in the /system/priv-app directory: DOWNLOAD HERE.
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Thanks for this brother & correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't this be in the 'Themes & Apps' section?
Parkourkid93 said:
Thanks for this brother & correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't this be in the 'Themes & Apps' section?
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You know what maybe. I'm sure anyone whom would use this would be for modding and making of TouchWiz based roms, but if this is the wrong place for this I do apologize.
typefortytardis said:
You know what maybe. I'm sure anyone whom would use this would be for modding and making of TouchWiz based roms, but if this is the wrong place for this I do apologize.
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No big deal, most likely if it belongs in another section a mod will let inform you that its being moved, I was just curious, just downloaded, going to flash a tw ROM & test a few of these , did you pull these yourself by the way?
Parkourkid93 said:
No big deal, most likely if it belongs in another section a mod will let inform you that its being moved, I was just curious, just downloaded, going to flash a tw ROM & test a few of these , did you pull these yourself by the way?
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Yes I did. I simply took them from a stock rom. Which I'm sure anyone could do - just I know I never thought to until i'm at a point where I have no choice but to flash back to stock. So now everyone has them handy.
They are simple file copies. It's not a flashable zip. Extract and use adb to push or simply copy to your device. Again these are mainly for those who are building custom TouchWiz based roms and want to include some of the bloat - but can be used by those who need some of the applications for whatever reason. But they aren't flashable and some probably will have to be replaced using adb push.
I will try to work on a flashable zip but that will take me some time. Also a flashable zip file doesn't help those whom say only want Sprint's Zone app for example but don't need the rest of the bloat. Just saying. But will post when I have made flashable zips for all-in-one bloat.
typefortytardis said:
Yes I did. I simply took them from a stock rom. Which I'm sure anyone could do - just I know I never thought to until i'm at a point where I have no choice but to flash back to stock. So now everyone has them handy.
They are simple file copies. It's not a flashable zip. Extract and use adb to push or simply copy to your device. Again these are mainly for those who are building custom TouchWiz based roms and want to include some of the bloat - but can be used by those who need some of the applications for whatever reason. But they aren't flashable and some probably will have to be replaced using adb push.
I will try to work on a flashable zip but that will take me some time.
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Okay good, just making sure & I know, I barely use abd plus i'm already laying down, just got done playing Diablo 3, so I'm just going to push em using ES File Explorer lol
Parkourkid93 said:
Okay good, just making sure & I know, I barely use abd plus i'm already laying down, just got done playing Diablo 3, so I'm just going to push em using ES File Explorer lol
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Someone else chime in here if this is wrong:
but... some of the touchwiz apps will refuse to work thru a simple file copy from within the device. If that happens, some of it - keyword "some" will be fixed by using a custom recovery like philz-touch or CWM or TWRP and clearing both cache and dalvik-cache after doing the file copy - at least that worked on 4.3 and 4.2.2. But KitKat has changed some things so I'm not sure.
If anyone else has dealt with this, please do comment....
When pushing .apks with ES or Root Explorer (my personal favorite) you do need root and need to place in the correct folder (system/app, system/priv_app, or system/lib if it's a lib file) and be able to change permissions - usually to rw, r, r.
... So definitely pay attention where you copy the files from and where ya put 'em.
If not done, they will not work.
Hope this helps someone!
Just wanted to let those of you whom are watching this thread know that due to personal stuff I have no time to make flashable ZIPs anytime soon but if anyone wants to take a stab at it before I get to it then be my guest
Will this zip file work on ASOP rom?
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axs3543 said:
Will this zip file work on ASOP rom?
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No most of these apps need a TW framework.
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Maybe I am missing it, or it's named something funny..but I am not seeing the stock messaging app in either of those zips. I apologize if it's right in front of me, but I don't see it!
Edit: I'm an idiot, I found it. SecMMS.apk. But it wont install, just says "App was not installed." Why would that be?
Did you manually push it to system/priv-app folder, set permissions, and reboot?
Don't try to just click on it and install via context menu
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Recorded Video Playback
I get "Unable to play video" message when I try to play back a video I recorded (I can play it on my computer)
carefree12 said:
I get "Unable to play video" message when I try to play back a video I recorded (I can play it on my computer)
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Are you using a TW based rom? What file format is the video in? Will it play in another app, such as MX Player (great app btw I prefer it to any stock video app - I delete them)?
mxmr said:
Did you manually push it to system/priv-app folder, set permissions, and reboot?
Don't try to just click on it and install via context menu
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Yes I copied it to the system folder and then tried to install it. What do you mean by set permissions? For arguments sake I gave it rwxrwxrwx permissions and it still will not install.
vadyr56 said:
Yes I copied it to the system folder and then tried to install it. What do you mean by set permissions? For arguments sake I gave it rwxrwxrwx permissions and it still will not install.
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Make sure you copy it to /system/priv-app folder, and set permissions to rw-r--r-- (644) NOT rwxrwxrwx, otherwise it will not work.
Reboot and you should be good to go.
mxmr said:
Make sure you copy it to /system/priv-app folder, and set permissions to rw-r--r-- (644) NOT rwxrwxrwx, otherwise it will not work.
Reboot and you should be good to go.
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Rebooting and trying now, hoping my error with the permissions was the issue. Also, I'm not finding the stock calculator app in these archives. I may be being stupid again though, I apologize if that's the case.
Edit: No luck with the push, permissions, reboot attempt. I don't get what I could be doing wrong. And I'm definitely in the correct folder.
vadyr56 said:
Rebooting and trying now, hoping my error with the permissions was the issue. Also, I'm not finding the stock calculator app in these archives. I may be being stupid again though, I apologize if that's the case.
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I attached the stock calculator app to this post
Edit: No luck with the push, permissions, reboot attempt. I don't get what I could be doing wrong. And I'm definitely in the correct folder.
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One more time verify permissions are set correctly..they should match all of the other apps in the folder. Reboot to recovery and wipe cache/dalvik and try rebooting. Hopefully that works.
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I attached the stock calculator app to this post
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Oh geez yup I'm an idiot again, thank you for providing that. Not sure what I'm doing wrong with the mms app though. Wondering if I should just install the bloated ROM and debloat it myself

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