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[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the.snks:
Hello all,

I did some searching around and couldn't find the answer. I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to pull the Phone.apk file from a CM build and use it in my rooted, but otherwise stock NS4G. The reason I want to is because CM's builds have a built-in blacklist app, that I want.

So what did was copy the Phone.apk from the latest nightly (22), and tried to installing it on my phone. It didn't work, and I just got the error 'application not installed'. And simply dropping it in the /system/app folder (overwriting the old phone.apk) didn't work either. I just got a lot FC's whenever I tried to open the call settings.

Is what I'm trying to do even possible, or am I barking up the wrong tree?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikeyinid:
Well. Contacts.apk is the one you want. And yes it will work. But you have to be deodexed also.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the.snks:
Didnt work. It still told me that the app was not installed. Is there an official process for this?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikeyinid:
Are you deodexed? If so flash this

http://droidfiles.us/downloads/mikeyinid/Transparent_Dialer.zip

Its transparent but its the CM dialer. You can grab the contacts.apk from CM if you want and put it in the .zip instead, I personally have had issues when using the one from cM, not the transparent one though.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the.snks:
Failed again. I tried flashing it from recovery and it just says 'installation aborted'. I am running the deodexed build of Gingerbread, that I got from Pete's site.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkhrist:
I use system app remover you can get it in the market. After you install it you will find a folder called /SystemAppBackup. Drag your cm apks and copy them to this folder. Open system app remover app, click the menu button, and press "restore app" choose your apps and boom. Rom manager doesn't always work for me on this phone even when you set permissions. This has worked for me. Hopefully it will bring you luck
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the.snks:
Didnt work. System app remover let me copy the modified apk over but once I did I could no longer open the dialer (app is not installed on your phone error). So instead of messing around this, I'll just wait for CM to go final.

Thanks to everyone for your help.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamsforgotten:
Most likely the signature didn't match the room your on copy the meta inf folder from a system app to the contacts and try that
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4redstars:
make sure the app has the right permissions when plopping it in the right folder. Root explorer is good for checking and setting permissions
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the.snks:
I just switched back to CM RC1. Thanks everyone for your help.
[Acer Iconia A500] perry59:
Ok, the tagline is misleading...

I picked up an A500 about a week ago and still trying to decide if I want to keep it. Primarily, I wanted it for reading. At this it does pretty good, tried a few eReader apps and settled on Moon+. So, it satisfies my reading requirement BUT as an android tablet I expect more. It is supposed to play audio and video files but I find that android is rather crummy at that. It will only play .mp3's for audio, 95% of my music is in lossless WMA. For video, it only plays .mp4. All my video is either mpg, avi or wmv. So it seems an android tablet kinda stinks for entertainment purposes.

So, I hit the forums here and started looking for info and alternatives. I heard some other apps would work. I downloaded winamp, poweramp and playerpro and none of them would play my wma files.

For video, I downloaded Moboplayer (had good reviews here) and Arcmedia. Arcmedia just totally croaked on all files. Moboplayer would play wmv but the sound was completely hosed. Moboplayer did play mpg's and mkv's ok though, but again most of my video is wmv. Sure wish VLC worked on android.

So, right now it looks like the only thing this tablet is really good for is reading books. For that I could just get a nook or something and save some money. I wont even mention gps, thats another thread.

So have I missed something or are android tabs just lame for entertainment (only playing mp3/mp4)?

PS

Yes I know others have asked similar questions. Sorry for the redundancy, but perhaps some progress has been made that isnt on the forum.
[Acer Iconia A500] bpivk:
They are OK but you have a lot of files in Windows Media Audio or Video format which is IMHO badly supported on Android phones.

Did you try RockPlayer? Some people report good results with that but I don't have any WMA or WMW files anywhere to try it out.
[Acer Iconia A500] daveid:
So your Android device has major problems playing Microsoft DRM'd proprietary files... I am not the least bit surprised, as licinsing would be expensive, and not Open Source. Mine plays all my ogg audio, AVC/AC3, AVC/OGG, Mpeg4/OGG, Mpeg4/MP3, etc. just fine. Of course it can't do all the video natively (I suspect the MKV parser is a dud, as it can decode properly the same streams from an mp4), but Moboplayer handles those just fine. The problen you are going to continue to have is expecting MS codecs to play nice on Android devices. Maybe find one that advertises WMA/WMV support?
[Acer Iconia A500] Aaron Camp:
Try RockPlayer for video.

It has run everything I have thrown at it.

As far as your music collection, I have not seen a lot of support for wma anywhere outside of a microsoft product (windows, zune, xbox, etc)

You might want to bite the bullet and convert those to a more sustainable format.

Also, even though you have found a book reader, try Aldikio. I love it. I just wish it had syncing options...though those are supposedly in the works.
[Acer Iconia A500] Digiguest:
Best Players for Android Honeycomb are:

Doubletwist Player and Moboplayer.

Give these a try. Moboplayer has codecs inside of it should it SHOULD be able to play anything.....and its FREE.
[Acer Iconia A500] csi15:
you could also try handbrake to convert your video files into a more android friendly format. However, no matter what you end up doing, the Iconia is going to run circles around a Kindle any day of the week. ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] 4dthinker:
Rumor is that Amazon will be coming out with a couple of android tablet in the next few months. Surely before Christmas if they are.

As for WMA lossless very few players can handle it out of the 50 or so I have reviewed for my blog. Check the Android market for "WMA player". You might get lucky.
[Acer Iconia A500] perry59:
Thanks for the info all !

Didnt have much luck with rockplayer either :(

(Moboplayer says it will do wma, but if you dig a little deeper it says it cant do the lossless wma)

Oh well, I certainly cant put my whole audio/video collection on a tablet anyway so I could just occasionally convert some files to put on it in a format it can handle. BTW, these files are not drm'd they even play on my "dumb" phone.

As far as ebook apps, I did try Aldiko and liked it but what kinda killed it for me was that it cant do annotations.
[Acer Iconia A500] WereCatf:
perry59, your biggest issue is that you've chosen to use a Microsoft's own proprietary format that simply isn't supported too well anywhere, and the reason for that is that Microsoft requires a hefty sum of money in licensing deals for the support.

FLAC is probably the most widely-supported lossless audio codec these days, so unless there's some very specific reason for you to keep using WMA you could transcode all your audio files to FLAC.

H.264/.mp4 also seems the most ubiquitous video codec+container, but I admit that transcoding all your video files from one lossy codec to another is not only messy and time-consuming, but it also loses on the picture quality a little. However, if you do decide to just transcode videos for the tablet every now and then and keep the original files you could use Handbrake or Cyberlink MediaEspresso; Handbrake does the transcoding in software so it takes quite a bit longer, MediaEspresso does it in hardware if you have an Nvidia CUDA-compatible card or ATI Stream one.
[Acer Iconia A500] umanko:
Mp3 is best format small in size at same time high on quality use it instead :-)
[Acer Iconia A500] WereCatf:
Mp3 is a lossy format, the OP chose a lossless format for a reason.
[Acer Iconia A500] ben.marks:
Try VPlayer for videos

VPlayer is the best video player for Android.

Video formats: divx/xvid, wmv, m4v, flv, rmvb, avi, mkv, mov, mp4, 3gp, ts, tp...

Streaming: http, rtsp, mms and m3u(apple http stream, m3u8

https://market.android.com/details?id=me.abitno.vplayer.t&feature=more_from_developer

Only free for 7days, altho it is only like £3
[Acer Iconia A500] umanko:
To identify qualty difference with ears u need very high quakity speakers which might cost more then tab itself :-)
[Acer Iconia A500] WereCatf:
It's a lot easier with headphones as there's no echo from the walls around you, the furniture doesn't affect the sound, and finding headphones with wide frequency response area isn't difficult.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewddickey:
I've become somewhat of a flash-aholic recently and brick my phone quite often. Especially with all the experimentation with dual boots and kernels and such.

Is there a way to convert my backup .img files to .sin/.ftf files so that they may be flashable via flashtool? I've looked all over the internet and XDA, but can't quite get everything together to make this happen. I know that being able to flash data could be troublesome, but I get tired of having to flash stock firmware and then root, then xrecovery to get back to my backups.

And by that time, I've forgotten what I was experimenting with/where I left off and what baseband I was on.

I'm not looking for a walkthrough, but just a finger-point of in the right direction.

Checked out Doomlords posts, SIN2IMG and the such, but that's to go in the opposite direction that I need.

(I highly doubt, but) If anything, a way to flash xrecovery via flashtool without having a working rom.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewddickey:
unyaffs.exe

Gonna play with this in a bit.

I'll report.

Let me know if you've used this.

Still accepting all help offered.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewddickey:
Compile .sin

Also looking how to compile a .sin file.

Google gives me one of three types of info:

sin(sine wave) - trigonometry

.sin - Microsoft game files (Age of Empires, Rise of Nations, etc.)

and of course, sin - Christian morals
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewddickey:
Okay....I cannot find a valid link to Jerplea's SIN reconstructor. Only dead links.

Does anyone have a copy of this? Seems like it'll be my only hope.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewddickey:
unyaffs worked great. Just drag and drop then you get your system, data, and cache from the corresponding .img.

Now I'm using the ConvertTool to break down the .sin but cannot figure out how to extract the .tgz that comes out. 7zip says that it cannot open it as an archive.

Wanting to look at the file structure of the .sin.

...Back to work...
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewddickey:
Thanks to all that......uh............helped?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ferrari2:
Hi andrewddickey,

Appears you have been successful in converting .img to .sin/.ftf

If is it true can you make a post telling how achieve this ?

Thanks in advance.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thatsupnow:
Yea I'd be interested in knowing how to do this too
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rtblittlebrown:
I'm 99.999999% sure you won't be able to flash them using flashtool
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewddickey:
The whole idea is a no-go.

Sorry. Hope you didn't get your hopes up.

From jerpelea

From zdzihu
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Greenycq20:
unless andrewddickey happens to have the RED certificate to compile the sin.

99.999999% sure you dont
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aZuZu:
soon i will post tool for that problem for win users :D

kernel.sin unpack and repack for cracked bootloader...
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unix_6:
this question always puzzle me
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hollowaysxp:
So....

How to Convert *.img file to *.sin or *.ftf??

please....
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mayazcherquoi:
A file with the FTF extension is merely a ZIP archive.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hollowaysxp:
if *.img can convert *.sin

it's can flash sin by x10 flash tools

I want to keno,how to Convert img to sin.

thanks a lot...
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ppgexia:
看来这条路子是走不通的了，如果能的话那真是神了的说
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laneyofdeath:
Was an interesting idea buddy
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manasw8:
You can download the msm7227.7z . Extract it and the contents are some apps and some folders.

One of them is 'sinTools'. Inside it are some applications, i think, that can help in making .sin files to sign these.

Please try and help me what to write in the command window.

Thanks in advance.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ingolema:
anyone found a solution yet? would be nice to be able to create your own ftf's

guess it's somehow linked with cryptographics so it's only one way, but i'm too tired to check right now.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DJ-Mills:
Hi, I recently flashed cf-root after buying my gs2. I installed rom manager and flahed cwm 4.0.0.2 from there. However now when I reboot into recovery I get the custom cwm that comes with cfroot 4. If I pull the battery in the custom cwm when I put the battery back in I get cwm 4.0.0.2.

Does anyone know how I can remove the custom cwm or both and then flash cwm 4.0.0.2?

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DJ-Mills:
Can nobody help with this?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
Yes, in the menu move to reboot using volume keys and hit home

Failing that, odin a stock rom to recover
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DJ-Mills:
I flashed my stock kernel but restarting into recovery from rom manager still goes to the custom cwm. :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viva.fidel:
In the original Galaxy S, Samsung bundle the kernel & the recovery in the zImage file in the stock firmware so that might be the case here too. Download the original from samfirmware.com, remove everything from the tar file except zImage and flash the tar as PDA through Odin

Can you not just fake-flash the CWM 4.0.0.2 recovery through the custom CWM (through an update.zip or whatever) as that is what ROM Manager does anyway
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DJ-Mills:
I tried flashing the zip from the custom cwm but it says unable to verify whole-file signature.

I odin'd Lightening rom 1.4 and now it seems im just left with the real CWM. yey!

Thanks for all your help.
[Off-topic] falseman:
I had a normal miui home screen. Which do you have?
[Off-topic] RinZo:
Cool story bro
[Off-topic] muerteman:
In before this waste of my life gets closed. Search man, there is one general one of these and at least a couple of device's have their own specific ones in their forum.
[Off-topic] falseman:
If you don't like it, Get away from this thread, I'm new in xda. Why should I search for this topic in other threads. Or stfu, and make a screenshot of your homescreen and post it!
[Off-topic] falseman:
Back on topic please.
[Off-topic] LordManhattan:
If you had searched for 4 seconds or maybe checked out the themes section, you'd find a thread with 33000 posts.

CLICKY
[Off-topic] LordManhattan:
On topic:

Screen shot
[Off-topic] RinZo:
Quite literally
[Off-topic] Mr. Clown:
Thread closed since there's already one open.
[Epic 4G Themes] || Acer ||:
Found this in the Galaxy i9000 Themes&Apps section, and it works perfectly on the Samsung Epic.

Push these to your system/app, and they should work.

These are not mine, credit goes to styxx: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1058654

Screenshot :
[Epic 4G Themes] || Acer ||:
Lol. Just released I showed my e-mails. Meh, I don't really care what they say but I might as well fix that xD.

Edit: There we go :)
[Epic 4G Themes] ac16313:
Lol you did (x

So are these for froyo?

Sent from my SPH-D700
[Epic 4G Themes] || Acer ||:
Haven't tried. My guess is they would work. Push them to your system/app and see if you can use them.

P.S. The nice thing about these widgets are they can be usable on ANY launcher.

Like other Samsung widgets, you do not need the TW Launcher to use these widgets.
[Epic 4G Themes] ac16313:
Yeah I really like the clock widget, I just tried pushing it but it doesn't show up on the widget selection menu.

Sent from my SPH-D700
[Epic 4G Themes] || Acer ||:
What launcher are you using? I know it shouldn't matter but maybe since you're on FroYo, it'll only work on the Touchwiz Launcher? I mean, that's farfetched but worth a shot.

Most likely, it's not 2.2 compatible. Sorry.
[Epic 4G Themes] ac16313:
I'm using Go Launcher , yeah I thought so, well thanks for the help

Sent from my SPH-D700
[Epic 4G Themes] MikeyLee:
These dont work
[Epic 4G Themes] || Acer ||:
I'll try to fix this right away.

Meanwhile, Try downloading the .apk from the link I provided then. Idk if my computer is being goofy.
[Epic 4G Themes] allmasteraa:
I tried the .apks and this is what I've got so far:

FC's on the email widget - doesn't even load before crashing

And the digital **** doesn't show up in the menu

I'm gonna try to flash them right now and do you know if those other apps there work too?

(FYI Using midNIGHT ROM v6.0 Gingerbread)

------EDIT------

I just installed it using CWM and it works perfectly. Both the clock and email work. I had to setup email cus I never used it but apparently it might be different from the original app. Again I don't completely know. Gonna try the other apps now to see if they work.

Thanks!
[Epic 4G Themes] AproSamurai:
Earlier this week, I tried to overwrite and use the SGSII Email App but it didn't actually stick after the flash, remained unchanged, would that be possible to port over for us?
[Epic 4G Themes] || Acer ||:
Tell me if any of the Hubs work!
[Epic 4G Themes] allmasteraa:
I just tried the social hub and it didn't show up. It flashed through CWM but it was nowhere to be found in the drawer. I'm going to try the others but I'm guessing they won't work.

----EDIT----

SUCCESS! The Reader Hub loaded amazingly with a warning from Samsung saying they are not responsible for the third-party app and anything downloaded from it. I haven't messed around too much but at least it launches. That's 3/8 things working from that list, and hopefully more. I might be using the email widget as a normal thing now too. Anything else you need testing? I'm in the mood to do some testing now haha
[Epic 4G Themes] || Acer ||:
Alright, I figured as much.

So you were able to flash the .zip versions of these and it worked? I should just put that in the OP instead since my comp is acting weird with recognizing .apks. I'll try using my friend's PC actually later today.
[Epic 4G Themes] allmasteraa:
Yea I'm pretty sure using the .zip versions will make sure for no FC's and they will make sure it gets installed. Trying SamsungIM now
[Epic 4G Themes] || Acer ||:
Tell me how it goes. It probably won't work, but who knows?

One thing I don't get is: why won't it work? Like, we both run Gingerbread and we're both Samsung Galaxy S's. Sure, there's is international and may have framework changes and no keyboard, but how does that affect how the app performs?
[Epic 4G Themes] allmasteraa:
It might just be some device specificity's that we don't know about that's stopping it from working but who knows. One thing is for sure it won't screw up our devices like other apps might. And another thing, on the Reader's Hub when you click on "News" it says "Service Will Be Available Soon".

Good news and Bad news with SamsungIM:

Bad News: like predicted it didn't work; maybe a dev will get it working

Good News: The weather clock WORKED but for me only half. Maybe its because midNIGHT uses LauncherPro Free and I can't extend it without having to pay.

I don't need PolarisOffice so I'm not going to check that because most people also don't need it.

But we have 4 out of the 8 listed apps/widgets that were up there and that's a good start without any modifying.
[Epic 4G Themes] || Acer ||:
Alright, so things that work:

Email Widget

Digital Clock Widget

Weather Widget (sorta?)

Readers Hub (but not available)
[Epic 4G Themes] allmasteraa:
Only News in Readers Hub is unavailable and you might wanna check out Weather Widget on your own phone to see if it works completely and it's just LauncherPro Free. But yea that's all of the ones we have.
[Epic 4G Themes] || Acer ||:
When trying to flash the Weather Widget it says installation was aborted.

If you could, try downloading ADW launcher or something and see if that changes anything.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] legasus233:
I really like the vanilla look of CM 6 a lot, much more than the look of CM7. However, for some reason CM6 gave me random issues causing me to stick with Fresh 3.5. Is there another rom out there that looks just like CM6 but has everything working, especially 4g? Or is CM 6 the only rom for the EVO with that look.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DDiaz007:
What are these random issues?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
modnation (pretty much all thoughtlesskyle on this one) recently made a theme that does just this. check my sig. it's the one called spring cleaning.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] legasus233:
My corporate calendar would never consistently sync properly and I had weird camera freezes, front camera never working. I tried wiping,clearing data, reflashing, redownloading, you name it. Finally just through in the towel.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
here's an actual link to the theme. it's a froyo (that's cm6) theme for cm7 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=13420115
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rem3Dy:
You are in luck ^^^^^___
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rem3Dy:
What dkdude said....
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nasman1993:
I flashed the 1.1 bootloader with NVFlash, and the tablet would not boot, it loops at the TnT screen. Then I flashed the 2.2 bootloader, and the same thing happens. I can't get into recovery. I can get to APX mode just fine.

Does anyone know what the problem is? (I wanted to flash a BL 1.2 honeycomb ROM)

Thanks in advance
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodintentions:
Yes, I know what your problem is. You do not need to know what your problem is.

Go to the following page. You're a code red.

http://viewsonic-gtablet-for-dummies.webs.com/starthere.htm
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nasman1993:
Thank you, this did it.