Anyone have any thoughts on how this might happen? I know it is early in the WP8 game, but was hoping someone will figure this out soon. WP8 makes it really easy to add ringtones, but nothing for things like: text, email, reminder, etc. I have an HTC 8x, and find the sounds options to be quite limited, and not appealing.
I am guessing we need a dev to find a way to access either the registry, or the system files. Would be great if there was an API, so someone could create an app to do this....
Thoughts anyone?
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I've searched the internet and a few forums and couldn't find exactly what I'm looking for. At first I started using the Note application in WM6 and quickly decided I wanted something better. The Task app works decent too, but there is something weird about it to me. Maybe I'm just being picky. I kind of the like the Checklist Tree app found here. The interface is kind of old and outdated looking as well as doesn't really display properly. When you scroll down, it doesn't quite display everything. Also adding to the list seems more cumbersome than necessary. The main feature I would like it a way to delete all checked off items. Another really annoying part of this program is that it does not autosave. You have to save everytime before you close it or you lose everything. There isn't even a reminder to save before you close. I do really like the hierarchy layout though. Sorry to complain so much and I'm sure I'm being picky, but does anyone else know of anything and what do you guys use. Thanks!!
really? no one??
What about this one?.
http://www.ggaub.com/hswiki/tiki-index.php
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So, I have absolutely no knowledge of any type of Android coding, but I'm hoping to learn through trial and error. I've always hated the native Music app -- especially its appearance, but also certain features here and there. My question is, how can I go about editing this?
I'm in the process of re-skinning the APK, basically replacing the old images with better ones. But how would I go about more substantive edits? Suppose I wanted to change the background color to white and the text to black, or the time-jumper at the bottom of the screen from orange, how would I go about that? There's some XML files in the APK, but whenever I open them, I get a bunch of odd characters that I can't really make sense of.
Am I correct in assuming that the source code is not available for Music.apk? If it is, how do I get it and where do I go from there?
Like I said, I'm an absolutely beginner at app creation/modding, but I'm usually a pretty quick learner. I went from zero web design experience to replacing my University's housing website with a brand new one in less than a week, so if I get a push in the right direction, I should be good to go. I did a site search for tutorials on modding a system app, but couldn't find anything.
Any help?
PS: Once I get some edits started (if I ever get that far), I'll definitely be sharing it with XDA. So, any advice you could provide could be mutually beneficial!
jay652 said:
So, I have absolutely no knowledge of any type of Android coding, but I'm hoping to learn through trial and error. I've always hated the native Music app -- especially its appearance, but also certain features here and there. My question is, how can I go about editing this?
I'm in the process of re-skinning the APK, basically replacing the old images with better ones. But how would I go about more substantive edits? Suppose I wanted to change the background color to white and the text to black, or the time-jumper at the bottom of the screen from orange, how would I go about that? There's some XML files in the APK, but whenever I open them, I get a bunch of odd characters that I can't really make sense of.
Am I correct in assuming that the source code is not available for Music.apk? If it is, how do I get it and where do I go from there?
Like I said, I'm an absolutely beginner at app creation/modding, but I'm usually a pretty quick learner. I went from zero web design experience to replacing my University's housing website with a brand new one in less than a week, so if I get a push in the right direction, I should be good to go. I did a site search for tutorials on modding a system app, but couldn't find anything.
Any help?
PS: Once I get some edits started (if I ever get that far), I'll definitely be sharing it with XDA. So, any advice you could provide could be mutually beneficial!
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android_source_root/packages/apps/Music
Not exactly a secret.
Why wouldn't it be available?
Ipod touch music player
not even kidding and all apple hatred aside, i've always wanted a ipod touch style music player on android! the touch music player is nice looking and very easy to navigate through. if you could make something like that, it would be PERFECT!
pbonello said:
not even kidding and all apple hatred aside, i've always wanted a ipod touch style music player on android! the touch music player is nice looking and very easy to navigate through. if you could make something like that, it would be PERFECT!
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Something like that would be pretty simple cause its just list views that expand other list views.
As for starting to edit you can change most of the colors is the strings.xml and the layout xmls. For images make sure you dont replace .9.png with normal images. If you have the sdk setup use draw9patch in the tools folder.
lbcoder said:
android_source_root/packages/apps/Music
Not exactly a secret.
Why wouldn't it be available?
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Thanks, that helps. I'll get started by taking a look at that.
I'm not sure why I thought it was unavailable. I mean, some of Google's other apps are close-sourced, thought I suppose those are all part of the Google Experience.
I guess I thought that if the source code was available, someone would have improved the Music app substantially by now. In my opinion, it's terrible and could use a lot of work.
I have searched with not much luck. Anyone know of any apps that make your notifications repeat until you dismiss them or something similar? I know the Blackberrys have apps like that. Anything for Android? Thanks
there might be a registry tweak for it, but ill search around and let u kno!
This is a feature that I miss that I had on my Behold 2. I work in a noisy environment and a lot of times I cant hear my phone. If there were repeat notifications then maybe I would be able to hear it when I get messages.
Cool thanks. I think this would really help Android. I miss way more reminders with Android vs Blackberry. Still like Android better though
i have heard someone that wp8 has still not been hacked?? is it true??
TarunDham said:
i have heard someone that wp8 has still not been hacked?? is it true??
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That is true. Microsoft has made it even more difficult for us to find working exploits in order to do things such as modify the registry and modify look & feel. It will be quite some time before real progress is made. I wouldn't expect for anything to happen soon, but please keep checking at these forums to see if anything has been done.
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That is true. Microsoft has made it even more difficult for us to find working exploits in order to do things such as modify the registry and modify look & feel. It will be quite some time before real progress is made. I wouldn't expect for anything to happen soon, but please keep checking at these forums to see if anything has been done.
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@snickler: stupid little question to that: shouldn't it be possible to edit the keys in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive?
as far as I know from Windows 7 and 8, editing this hive doesn't need administrative privileges. Am I wrong?
sp4rt4n-i17 said:
@snickler: stupid little question to that: shouldn't it be possible to edit the keys in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive?
as far as I know from Windows 7 and 8, editing this hive doesn't need administrative privileges. Am I wrong?
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With WP8, policies are enforced to limit modification to just about ALL parts of the registry. With what I've seen, certain apps (Nokia apps for instance) have specific certificates installed that gives them a specific right to a registry key. Basically Microsoft really didn't want us touching ANYTHING.
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With WP8, policies are enforced to limit modification to just about ALL parts of the registry. With what I've seen, certain apps (Nokia apps for instance) have specific certificates installed that gives them a specific right to a registry key. Basically Microsoft really didn't want us touching ANYTHING.
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another silly question is windows phone 8 ever gonna get hacked? I mean did you find anything so far? it seems that you cannot touch the registery in no way ... in other way you cannot send fake xml to phone that it can accepted as developers? (can't we make a fake webservice?!)
well then how can we access this?! did you get any attention for that? how long do you think it will take to get this windows hacked? (even an approximate time will do help much )
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To be fair, that's the same as it was on WP7; apps couldn't even modify HKCU directly (short of being elevated by WP7 Root Tools). The early registry editors used high-privilege OEM drivers, not their own permissions. I'm hopeful there will be *something* we can tweak, but it won't be much until we find some EoP exploit.
EDIT: Asking "how long" is a ridiculous question. It's like asking how long until the current iOS version is jailbroken, or something like that. Nobody knows. Nobody can know. If we had the answers, it wouldn't be research. There could be a breakthrough this afternoon; hell, there could have been one last night. We could keep pounding on it for years. There's no point in even attempting a guess. This isn't something iterative, something where progress can be measured.
the fact that some of the guys have been able to find a way to read (but not write) to the registry is a start, but there's still a long ways to go. Considering Windows Phone 8 has been out since what, oct or nov of last year? There's even HeathCliff that has taken a glimpse in the .cabs. There's a way to run programs out of the sandbox, but even that is limited. Snickler wrote a registry reader, but doesn't allow editing of dword . And we've got GoodDayToDie's Webserver that *JUST* recieved the ability to read the registries, but its very picky. Slowly things are coming together and eventually with everyone looking, someone will stumble upon something. It's taken months to get this far.
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i have heard someone that wp8 has still not been hacked?? is it true??
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All Windows Phone Comunity are trying to hack the OS, but for a lot of problems (secure boot, ecc), it's so hard.
Essentially the current roadblocks for flashing custom roms are Secure Boot and BitLocker, not to mention knowing how to write back to the new ROM files. For accessing internal apps and stuff, we are having trouble finding how to set/change permissions. There's a ton listed in the registry, but its not fun finding out the how atm.
I dont know where to ask this question on the internet. I figure if someone knows how to accomplish this it would be you guys.
I have a yamaha p45 digital Keyboard. It comes with built in about 8 or 10 voices. They are pretty good but there are some really great custom ones out there. Like actual recordings of specific peoples pianos where they record every key from that persons piano at like 16 different pressure sensitivities and things like that.
I really want to hack these into my keyboard as opposed to using a different keyboard or running it through a computer program to add the sounds. The default tones have to be stored in the memory in the keyboard somewhere and if so then it would seem to me that they can technically be change. It might not be easy or next to impossible but I dont think its entirely impossible. Like I would imagine yamaha could probably change them.
Anyway. Im curious if i could potentially connect the keyboard to my computer and pull up the memory to the piano through command line and potentially replace the voices with custom ones. Does anyone know anyone who is doing this? or has heard about it? or even know if its possible without the assistance of a yamaha developer or some nonsense. Im really curious if this is possible i have some great voices i would like to add to the piano. Any help would be great.