yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire General] Lothaen:
someone said you can do the removing of apps yourself by just opening zip and deleting - but you can't color code stuff that way :)

minor thing the log shows a report for each file twice:

14:14:29 - Extracting files: 1/988

14:14:29 - Extracting files: 1/988

14:14:30 - Extracting files: 2/988

14:14:30 - Extracting files: 2/988

14:14:31 - Extracting files: 3/988

14:14:31 - Extracting files: 3/988

14:14:31 - Extracting files: 4/988
[Desire General] Lothaen:
where is the list of apk's that have been marked being stored? anyway we can import/export this to share it with everyone else?

there's a list here for the evo that we can probably use as a template...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=769528
[Desire General] Chrusb:
It's stored online in a database, it's automatically shared with everyone else! :D
[Desire General] Lothaen:
ah i see

well I marked some already then :)
[Desire General] JoaoVr:
I like this =) Nice =)
[Desire General] Chrusb:
New version

Version 1.3 is up, it has some nice new features!

Check it out in the main post!
[Desire General] Lothaen:
i may be being a bit thick but if you move an apk from system -> user - what does that achieve?

i tried moving quickoffice.apk to user and when installing the rom it didnt install.... i suspected it would install but be uninstallable afterwards?
[Desire General] Chrusb:
That is what it supposed to do, there are limitations with the user partition though, size limit etc. So it can happen that not all apps will be installed.
[Desire General] jokk3:
could you please add resize, the program is a little bit to small on a full HD screen...:)
[Desire General] Lothaen:
i wonder if it was the app itself or something too - oh well - I didnt particularly want quickoffice but thought it'd be nice having the option :)

thanks
[Desire General] Chrusb:
@jokk3 I think that's do able, maybe in the next version :D!
[Desire General] Chrusb:
How would you like it to re-size? Been playing around with re-sizing but the layout is going weird..
[Desire General] jokk3:
if it looks weird in "free resize" make like it is now and a fullscreen mode... :)
[Desire General] Chrusb:
Think i can fix that ;D
[Desire General] Lothaen:
full screen optional :p I'd rather not have it full screen while i'm at work :D
[Desire General] Chrusb:
Heh, it will be optional ;)

Update will probably be live next week, kinda busy with school atm!
[Desire General] JoaoVr:
How can I download APKs from free apps like Adobe Reader to my computer?

Thanks
[Desire General] Chrusb:
You can, most of the time, find it by searching with Google.

Just type the name and add .apk to it.
[Desire General] Chrusb:
New version is out!

Check the main post :)
[Desire General] Lothaen:
For a future thought....

what about being able to add in new features/scripts to roms...

e.g.

app2sd+

data2sd

data++

CRT animation

boot animation

down animation

kernel

maybe radios/ril updates able to be put in too?

or even the ability to scan a/the web to find out if some of the free apps are updatable, and to download and push them in from the editor?

e.g. open rom -> click a 'check for free updates' button -> scans website -> facebook update available -> downloading -> removing old apk -> adding new apk to zip -> done

that might be a nice cool feature!
[Desire General] Chrusb:
That sounds like a good idea!

I've been looking into some things and I think that the bootanimation etc won't be a problem.

Now I need to figure out how to add app2sd+ and stuff, so if know of any tutorials where they explain how to add this to your rom that would be very nice!
[Desire General] Lothaen:
quick search brought up this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=512743

I guess s-off for boot animations and stuff? unsure if you can flash them with s-on (don't think you can) so if you add something like that it might be nice to have a popup or notification that you need s-off or something for features that require it :)

good luck with it! it sounds like an interesting project to look into!
[Desire General] jokk3:
the program is gettin better and better, realy nice work...

some sugestions...

when i remove those .apk´s i dont wont, cant you make an .ini file or something that remembers those .apk´s i removed so when i add a new rom that i want removing .apk´s in all those in the .ini file can be removed directly...

also if there is a way that i can store my own ringtones and all media in "\system\media\" ... thought about a solution... if i store my media in a directory in the rom editor catalog there could be a button to press like "replace with your own media" and the program could replace my media with the boring stock media, for those who just want to add there could be a button for that to like "add your media"

thanks again for a wonderful program...
[Desire General] Lothaen:
I was thinking something like that too - but do you really want to be restricted to the media that is stuck in the ROM? I was thinking maybe some of the ringtones and stuff could be stripped out in future and/or moved to a structure on the sdcard so it isn't wasting internal space...

also I was thinking maybe to have a TAB feature...

one for APK add/remove

one for bootAnimation Add/remove (for boot animation - also it'd be great if you could get this to preview in the editor!)

one for media add/remove (can also have sounds you shouldn't remove -ones that are preset for phone/text by default probably shouldn't be removed in case people forget to set custom ones)

Don't know how easy it would be to put in previews - similar to the bootanimation could have a preview for mp3/media bits :)
[Desire General] jokk3:
but... i think its a good idé to have your default ringtones in the rom, if the fat32 partion breaks or you format or something happens, the phone wont make a sound when ringing... could be a problem if your on vacation and not near a computer to fix it... ;)
[Desire General] Lothaen:
Yes :D What I mean was its on the system partition rather than quick and easy swappable on the sdcard.
[Desire General] jokk3:
didnt get what you meant at first... edited the answer above :)
[Desire General] flavio.moringa:
it works with all roms

it works with all roms? Insertcoin's for instance?
[Desire General] Chrusb:
@Jokk3

That could be a good idea, it's coming on my to-do list! Think it's not that hard to add some different sounds to your rom :).

So does the personal apk-removal list!

@Lothaen

Think i'm going for the TABcontrol indeed, i'd put some things in the menu bar but that isn't really working out as it should. So next version will have the tab pages ;).

@flavio.moringa

Good thing you asked that, it isn't working the way it should. it simply puts the sd-ext apps in the system apps list. This does NOT change the way the rom adds files to sd-ext, I've quickly removed some things so that they won't be put in the system app list, so in the next version that won't happen again and eventually it should work out just fine!
[Desire General] Lothaen:
ringtones etc would normally be in the : system\media\audio\...

alarms

notifications

ringtones

ui

although i dont think you can customize ui without changing stuff in that folder directly? (i.e. you can't have it on the sdcard)

the others if you have a folder on the sd card, i.e. media\audio\ringtones it will add whatever is in that dir to the list of ringtones when you go change stuff.

so as long as you don't mess around with the rom's default ringtones (not sure where that is decided though but it'd be cool to detect that and not allow that to be removed from the rom) you can dump the rest of them from the dir or add your own in :)
[Desire General] Chrusb:
I don't think it's a big problem if you add your own ringtones/alarms/notifications to the system/media/audio/whatever folders. I think that only the ui sounds could be important for the system, but I will check it out for you guys ;)
[Desire General] Lothaen:
I concur with the above - I think changing UI sounds you'd need to replace the files, not delete/add

the others (apart from whatever sounds are set as 'default' which could be done but isnt clever) to add/remove as you feel

you could probably venture into wallpapers on the same ilk
[Desire General] Chrusb:
Exactly, but then the question is, how does the rom know what the default sounds are right? That should be something that you could edit, if that's the case, there is no problem at al!
[Desire General] Lothaen:
exactly.

unfortunately having a quick look around in a .zip I don't know the answer :P

I did wonder about \system\customize\mns but couldnt see anything for ringtones

but trying to google around didnt help either
[Desire General] jokk3:
the rom doesnt know what sounds that are in those maps, if you remove the default that comes with the rom and replace it with your own the rom will choose the first one alpabeticly (spelling?) ...
[Desire General] Lothaen:
really?

when I last flashed it set one of the tones as zeta... I thought it had to be written somewhere..

found this:

<module name="Settings">
<function name="resource_path">
<set name="single">
<item name="path">/system/customize/resource</item>
</set>
</function>
<function name="extra_ringtones">
<set name="plenty" max="5">
<item name="ringtone" type="file_name"></item>
</set>
</function>
<function name="default_ringtone">
<set name="single">
<item name="ringtone" type="file_name"></item>
</set>
</function>
<function name="extra_alarms">
<set name="plenty" max="5">
<item name="alarm" type="file_name"></item>
</set>
</function>
<function name="default_alarm">
<set name="single">
<item name="alarm" type="file_name"></item>
</set>
</function>
<function name="extra_notifications">
<set name="plenty" max="5">
<item name="notification" type="file_name"></item>
</set>

in COMMON.xml located here: \system\customize\common.xml

saw bootanimiation and sound too though if anyone is interested:

\system\customize\CID\default.xml

<BootConfiguration>
<BootAnimation animation="/data/local/bootanimation.zip" audio="/data/local/android_audio.mp3" />
</BootConfiguration>
<ShutdownConfiguration>
<ShutdownAnimation image_png="/data/local/downanimation.zip" image="" fps="15" />
</ShutdownConfiguration>
</customization_form>
[Desire General] jokk3:
the first thing i do with a new rom .zip is to delete all those crapy sounds and place my own once there... been working so far, the first ringtone ive got "beaver" is always default...
[Desire General] Lothaen:
interesting - I didn't know that - maybe it has somewhere a 'default' set and if it can't find it as you said it goes for the first available.

another thing that might be worth adding in as an option is symlink hosts for adblock (for those who don't want to s-off) ?
[Desire General] Lothaen:
CRT Animation - enable or disable in a ROM might be handy for some people too

not sure how that is added to a rom though TBH

maybe something to investigate at some point...
[Desire General] jokk3:
im using

[ROM][03/07] ░█░ · Stock Sense Gingerbread v1.1 -GB 2.3.3 · ░█░ · |FIT on NAND 250mb|

and there is an option in the rom to enable/disable CRT animation.
[Desire General] Lothaen:
that's cool - I think it'd be nice to be able to enable/disable that sort of stuff even if the dev of the rom didn't (or forgot) to put it in :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1151765

you mean this one? I didn't see anywhere on the first couple of posts to be able to enable/disable that animation?

I thought I read somewhere that the CRT animation for the htc roms was a couple of extra lines somewhere in a config file...?
[Desire General] Chrusb:
Hi guys, sorry for not responding for a while. Been busy with school and now I'm in Dublin for work!

I've managed to read in the audio files (alarm, notification, ringtone. UI sounds will come later) and you can already delete them. Now I just need to make sure you can add some as well.

Also I've got the bootanimation replacement working (it works with cyanogenmod) and I will look into the CRT animation asap.
[Desire General] Lothaen:
nice work!

is the bootanim only working with cyanogenmod or just untested with others? :)
[Desire General] TechXero:
You should add ability to add a whole folder of APks not 1 by 1 coz that would be time consuming !

And does it work on other devices like HD2 ?
[Desire General] Chrusb:
It's untested with others ;)
[Desire General] Chrusb:
You can drag an drop a selection of APK files on the box you want them to be in!

It should work with other devices! If you're gonna try it, let me know the result ;)
[Desire General] Lothaen:
how about being able to combine radio/RIL zip's into the rom?

That might be nice as i've tried to get new custom rom users to start flashing and one thing was mentioned that they didn't like flashing 3 or 4 zip's to get something working, especially getting the order right!

it might be nice to be able to combine radio into the rom package if possible...
[Desire General] Rookie-droid:
learning

why create a program that could help people adding/removing apps from the rom without diving into the rom zip file ???

practice makes perfect and you root your phone to test all roms and configurations possible, for the best of all users.

7zip to open every single zip file on android is a must have

root explorer on your phone

and there you will learn more than every program who will limits you
[Desire General] Lothaen:
I agree learning is great, but when you have a new android person, do you really want to scare them off by throwing them in at the deep end of exploring?

This is a great tool, it starts people off by removing apps and adding apps, then as someone gets more experienced they'll go into the ROM files themselves and start exploring, 'oh the apks are in this folder', 'and the bootanimation.zip' is here etc. etc.

I personally think this is a perfect tool to start people off and encourage them to start investigating - I know several people who are still scared to root, and telling someone to go digging in a zip file and removing some .apk's would push them even further away - I'm sure they'd rather have a nifty GUI to help things along a bit... even if its just at the start of their Android learning curve :)
[Desire General] chronaden:
thanks for this!
[Desire General] alex1972:
I think this is a helpful tool. You should continue this project. Not everyone here is a dev

^^

Alex
[Desire General] Chrusb:
Thanks for all the feedback everyone, I really appreciate it! :)

I'm currently not at home because I'm working abroad.

This means I cannot spend a lot of time on this project but I will when I get home!

My purpose of this program is to help the beginners with adding/removing stuff from their rom, just to help them!

If you want to do more stuff, you have to experiment, just like I did for this :).
[Desire General] wals1h:
thanks im a noob :) and shal lookin to this
[Desire General] Chrusb:
Haha, glad to be of service :D.
[Desire General] psycho693:
Awesome thanks
[Desire General] Chrusb:
New version up! Sorry it took such a while!
[Desire General] Lothaen:
Tried it with a sensation rom - seemed to work but gave an error on installing additional apps - not sure if that was the original rom fault or from the editor though...
[Desire General] Chrusb:
Hm.. Do you, by any change, remember the error it gave you?
[Desire General] Lothaen:
addition apps failed to install - but the rom installed fine anyway :)

not 100% sure as its not my phone :P
[Desire General] Lothaen:
install error

mount () expected 4 args got 3

or words to that effect

insertcoin sensation rom 2.4.3 :) just a couple of apks removed - but the rom installs fine but generates the error at the end.
[Desire General] Chrusb:
Okay, thanks for the info! I will look into it :D.
[Desire General] JoaoVr:
Hi,

When I try to integrate this app to my Desire ROM I got a error like this:

"Your APK was not built correctly. Please remember to first build the native part."

It is Rom Editor fault or APP fault?

Thanks =)
[Desire General] Chrusb:
Hm, for me that seems to be an app error since my program does not alter the apk files. It just moves them to the right places etc. ;)
[Desire General] JoaoVr:
What is the default mp3 for desire alarm/notification/ringtone so I dont delete it...
[Desire General] danarama:
You will find this specified in the build.prop file of the rom.
[Desire General] Lothaen:
yeah - it does seem to vary dependant on rom (or base) - froyo/gingerbread in particular I think...

for a couple of GB roms - Zeta has been the default notification a few times for me and quietly brilliant the ringtone.
[Desire General] Chrusb:
Hm, i dont think it matters if you remote the default ringtones, alarms etc. You just have to set new ringtones on your first boot and then its fine! (I am not 100% sure about this)
[Desire General] Lothaen:
i think it will default to the first one in the list to start with.

e.g. you delete the default whatever ringtone, and you have one called alpha it will set to that. if you have none - then i dont know
[Desire General] Chrusb:
Hi guys,

I'm very sorry I did not update this program already. My school is going insane on assignments, they are giving us stuff which they don't even know so it is kinda messed up.

I just want to let you guys know I'm still working on this, this has not been abandoned or anything. I'm very thankful for all the downloads and feedback I get :). That is a great motivation.

The new version will be a lot better (in my opinion) and is going to work on more devices then it does now.

Hang in there guys, and thank you.

Cheers
[Desire General] Lothaen:
looking forward to it!

it does work fairly nicely as it is so we don't need updates for updates sake at least :)
[Desire General] halaros2:
Links dead anyone have the latest 1.5 version to upload???

Thanks
[Desire General] Chrusb:
Here is a dropbox link, I think multiupload is down or something.

Link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9446209/romeditor1.5.rar
[Desire General] crisco886:
No dice

Tried this with the ICS 4.0.4 BCM RC3.4U1 and it didn't want to load the ROM. Ended up using Winzip to edit the files. AND BOOM it installed and worked on my desire!
[Desire General] Chrusb:
Well, that's probably because the code is a bit rubbish and it's abandoned. I'm sorry but I don't have the time anymore to work on this.
[Desire General] paua__:
Dear forum,

My girlfriends Desire (Rooted, S-OFF, latest LeeDroid ROM) keeps shutting itself off everytime it charges up to 100% battery.

If charged below 100% the problem does not occur. She had the same problem when she was running CM Insert Coin ROM, wich was flashed the same day the I rooted and S-OFF'ed her phone.

If you need more info, just ask ;-)

Any suggestions for a fix?
[Desire General] dzumagos:
this is what i would do:

1) try an AOSP Rom (CM7 or Oxygen)

this way you will check if it sense related (but i dont think it is even possible that sense could be the cause)

2) go back to stock with a RUU

if problem still persist, it probably would be a hardware fault - send it to HTC @ repair, or if not possible try a diffrent battery or finally - dont ever charge your phone to 100% :P
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Optimus-Prime:
So im thinking about getting the transformer because of its keyboard dock (origanly had gotten the atrix for the same reason turned out to be crap).

How happy are you?

How is the performance?

What issues have you noticed?

is it worth it?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] zephiK:
I got mines on Thursday. I'm happy with it.

Performance is very snappy and responsive.

Issues? Not really any issues that I've experienced but from what I've been hearing from the XDA forums is about its build quality. I got mines from Newegg because I've always had good experiences from Newegg.

One issue was that when I got it and 3.1 was stated in notifications and I wasn't able to flash the OTA until it was 50%+ even when the tablet was charged, the tablet didn't do the installation UNTIL it was 50%+ charged.

My biggest complaint is the USB cable. You can't charge it from the computer and the cable is pretty short. But you can workaround this by buying a USB3 A Male to A Female.

Fast delivery, low-prices and its build quality is perfect.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] CarsnGadgets:
got mine June 1st.

Performance is great, very smooth and slick.

Apps look great on the IPS screen.

After a bit of fiddling I have it seeing all my network shares.

Internet is great on the Transformer.

Very slight light bleed but nothing worth returning it for.

Left speaker is a bit quieter than the right. Waiting for Asus to

release a patch hopefully, dont want to root it yet.

I have the dock and have found the dock battery drains quickly,

but the tablet battery lasts for 2 days easily with moderate to heavy use.

over all, very pleased.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Optimus-Prime:
hmmm i have been considering which tablet to buy transformer or galaxy tab dont want any of thoose 7 inchers.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] onfire4g05:
I read all the bad stories here on XDA before I got mine and almost wished I hadn't purchased it... after I got it, all those fears went away. It's aa GREAT device.

The only issue I have with it is the stock browser. It's really nice but the poor performance it gives makes it a joke. Opera has been pretty good... only complaint with it is you can't fully change your user agent so sites like Facebook and Google look like junk. I'm guessing ICS may fix these issues, if we don't get a fix sooner.

I, too, ordered mine from Newegg. I have no creaking or dust. a little light bleed but it isn't anything to complain about. Overall, my device feels very solid and, IMO DOES NOT feel cheap, as some have said. My serial number starts with B5, I read that's the batch number... so they may have fixed some of the issues from the early batches.

Finally, I wrote this entire post on my TF with Opera and Thumb Keyboard. HIGHLY RECOMMEND the TF. :-)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] acid123:
I am extremely happy,

Coming over from using the iPad 2, I was 50/50 about the tablet,

As the Market was really good for this I thought even if I didn't like it I could always sell it on,

But after a day of use it turned into my number one choice,

Can't fault it on anything really,

The browser I tend to use with flash switch off so it's really smooth and switches pages with ease,

Only thing I would like to see is a way to cancel the previous open windows on the desktop but this is more a google thing and nothing to do with the Asus...

I didn't buy the dock with my one as I don't see myself ever using it,

I will most likely buy the other dock and sd/USB adapter once release...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Pacifik:
I'm pretty happy all said and done. The only light bleed I notice is where the virtual buttons are always located making it not a very big deal, imo.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] dsnuts002:
I am happy with my transformer. I got it from Amazon a few weeks ago. I am having one issue... the internet browser keeps closing on me and i have the light bleed. But its not bad.