yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Edubyah:
You need the library to go with the keyboard. What build are you using? Jelly Bean is at data/data/ com.android.latinIME

Alright I found an apk that will install Google services framework for you so we don't have to you can find it in the HTC store search GSM.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] lacoursiere18:
Hi guys! Cool thread idea! I am trying to figure out two things if anyone is able to help.. I would like to modify the system bar in tablet ui to be transparent.. I believe it is a .9png or maybe just a png but not sure of its where abouts =) I am on a TW base rom 4.1.2 using apkmanager as my tool. More details will be given if needed.. Also, transparent lockscreen status bar.. I have seen the mod in a N7100 thread and was wondering if anyone knew the location of the files to edit in the framework-res bc I believe that is where the lockscreen files are.. Many thanks to anyone you could point me in the right direction! Thanks in advance!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] vlngu118:
Hey guys,

I am working to port a ROM from the galaxy ace to the galaxy s1.

And I Wanted to know of it's even possible since they have different resolution.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tOrNadO™:
Hi.. I am trying to port SGS2 ROM to Sony Xperia S.. I tried to unpack boot.img.. It says the error shown in the attachment.. Someone help?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Brute.Force:
Yeah it is possible. Means it will boot but most of the things in your rom will be stretched out and look bad.

Can you provide more info what rom are you porting?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tOrNadO™:
Omega 4.1.2 version of SGS2.. Sadly there are lot of coding changes in the updater-script.. So i figured it may not even boot.. So now trying to port Xperia Z's stock ROM to Xperia S.. But still, for any ROM, i have to be able to unpack boot.img right? In this case, i find that error in the attachment.. Why is it so??
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Darkman:
Hello i`m new in the Developer Section :D

I hope i can find here some how teach me for making a Root Injected ROM for an Samsung Device (GT-I9295 S4 Active).

I have make many deodexed ROMs and a few MODs for the Samsung Note 10.1 ... i work with Dsixda`s Kitchen (great Tool!) and Cygwin.

With Dsixdas Kitchen i can extract System.img and i can Root the boot.img and added SuperSU + files in the System Folders.

How can i now repack the system.img for flashing over Odin?

I hope the question is here on the right place!?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Brute.Force:
You can use dsixda kitchen to unpack boot.img . You need to unpack boot.img only if you are porting stock roms.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] vlngu118:
Are there any solutions to this?

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9000 mit Tapatalk 4 Beta
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tOrNadO™:
Yes bro.. Its a stock based ROM i was trying to port.. I tried to unpack boot.img of my CM10 ROM.. I wasn't able to.. Some error.. So stopped the port.. Now i am trying to port Stock Xperia Z ROM to my Xperia S.. Just for the sake of Stamina Mode.. :/
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] itlnstln:
I'm a relative novice to Android development and I have a question about the notification light, specifically for the N4. I have a 4.3 ROM for personal use that want to increase the pulse speed for notifications. There are apps that do this (Light Flow), but I want to make a permanent change to the ROM to avoid installing an app for a simple tweak. Is there a build.prop/framework/config setting somewhere that controls this? Also, if I don't feel like recompiling the ROM for one change, is there a way to make the change post-compile? TIA, sorry for the noobiness.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] KemikalElite:
Wow its been such a long time since I've done anything development related that I forgot I posted that.

I haven't posted anything new to it in quite a while but I hope to start updating it again soon. Also anyone is welcome to join and make additions and improvements.

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I have a question for who ever might be experienced enough to know about this. In CyanogenMod 7 there was built-in OpenVPN support.

(meaning to use openvpn you could go to Settings > Networks > VPN > OpenVPN and connect with it the same way you could connect to a VPN on stock Android. Instead of having to download a separate app.)

After Android 4+/CM9+ It wasn't included as a feature. Does anyone know if there's any way to merge this into 4.3?

I assume this would involve forking from github and updating the code to make it compatible with CM10.

Using the apps for it from the Play Store always get killed if I use too much memory and Android has the Always on VPN option so I thought about using that instead.

Wopped from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 4 Beta
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
Hey I'm trying to combine two system.ui apks, is this possible and if so how would I do this?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] KemikalElite:
You can edit APKs by opening them in an archive program such as WinRAR or 7zip.

Also as a tip: If you're looking to do any sort of theme customizing most of the parts for it are going to be inside the framework-res.apk, which is also releated to systemui.apk

Wopped from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 4 Beta
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
Thank you :victory:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] wassgha:
Hello guys, Please if anyone can help me please reply! Here is my problem:

I am trying to port a LewaOs Rom to my Mtk6598 phone using this program http://chinaphonearena.com/forum/Thr...-Tool?pid=5482 , and after a lot of tries I ended up with a ROM that gets past the "Android" logo, shows the boot animation then does a small vibration as if it was gonna show up the launcher however it continues to show the boot animation and do that small vibration each 10 seconds or so... Can someone please tell me what could the problem be? What files should I change for it to work? Thanks.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] xylu:
i think you have to provide the experts your logcat, for them to see whats wrong.. :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] VegasEvo4G:
Does anyone know how to add a custom image for the status bar in a ROM that has a built in status bar color picker in settings? I'm theming a touch wiz based ROM and would always change status_bar.xml and tw_status_bar.XML in layout to call a drawable PNG instead of a color. However, in the newest update, the rom now has a built in status bar color picker and theming those two xmls in layout does nothing. Any ideas?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Gava97:
i try to compile slimbean and when i start it shows this error:

Trying dependencies-only mode on a non-existing device tree?

============================================

PLATFORM_VERSION_CODENAME=REL

PLATFORM_VERSION=4.1.2

TARGET_PRODUCT=slim_kumquat

TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT=userdebug

TARGET_BUILD_TYPE=release

TARGET_BUILD_APPS=

TARGET_ARCH=arm

TARGET_ARCH_VARIANT=armv7-a-neon

HOST_ARCH=x86

HOST_OS=linux

HOST_OS_EXTRA=Linux-3.8.0-19-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-13.04-raring

HOST_BUILD_TYPE=release

BUILD_ID=JZO54K

OUT_DIR=out

============================================

gava97@gava97-MS-7715:~/slimbean$ make

============================================

PLATFORM_VERSION_CODENAME=REL

PLATFORM_VERSION=4.1.2

TARGET_PRODUCT=slim_kumquat

TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT=userdebug

TARGET_BUILD_TYPE=release

TARGET_BUILD_APPS=

TARGET_ARCH=arm

TARGET_ARCH_VARIANT=armv7-a-neon

HOST_ARCH=x86

HOST_OS=linux

HOST_OS_EXTRA=Linux-3.8.0-19-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-13.04-raring

HOST_BUILD_TYPE=release

BUILD_ID=JZO54K

OUT_DIR=out

============================================

make: *** ./: Is a directory. Stop.

can anyone help me?

thanks for your work and time
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] souler456:
How do I change the Screen Refresh Rate? From 30Hz to, lets say, 50Hz? :eek:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] KemikalElite:
There might be some sort of custom kernel configuration that might be able to set it.

Otherwise there might not be an easy/reasonable way to change it without opening the phone and reprogramming the chipset.

Usually screens are designed to operate at one rate only and that's the only one it will run with. Why would you need to change the Hz rate anyway?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] HandyBesitzer:
Hi,

i really searched a lot and also asked some members of the comunity, but i could get my lockscreen's shortcuts working.

My problem is simple. I moved the shortcuts so they are now under the lockring. That wasn't that hard. But now i still need to drag the shortcuts down instead of up to unlock the screen. How can i change this??

It's a Sense 3.5 ROM for Desire.

Thank you a lot

HandyBesitzer
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] vitalero:
Hey guys i got a huge question, im interested in learning how to develop APPS but all i can find in the forums are how to compile my own ROM and kernel and stuff, can someone point out or send me to a guide that helps beginners to learn to make their own APP ?

i have found this link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z149x12sXsw

but this guy just runs around changing stuff doesn't even explain what he is changing and why change them and not other stuff or what he is doing

will be happy to get a normal guide im not slow nor stupid just a guide that will give me all the tools to work and build my own android app, i have knowledge in java oriented already

thank you
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ch604:
hi yall, if this is the incorrect location, then flame on.

i have an android all-in-one desktop replacement (acer da220hql) that i got from one of my friends for doing some computer repair. he got it in a lot of TVs he bought for his ebay business, but at the time, it didnt power on. i replaced the power board and the system works great; its just locked with a text password. great, i say! factory reset it!

but the sticky issue comes in: there is no way for a user to factory reset the device without sending it back in to acer, and besides this, the device is out of warranty. there are no hardware buttons on the machine other than the power button, and usb debugging is disabled, so no adb shell. i cant get into the machine to enable this of course, and i have no idea what google account is associated with the machine, and therefore i also cannot unlock it remotely.

this is where i plea to you for help. I know that the device is running android 4.0.4 or earlier, and i need to delete the /data/system/*.key files to remove the lockscreen password. i hoped that i might be able to leverage this bug (http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/86) to force usb debugging on, but im not sure what kind of sql query i would need to form to do that. furthermore, this particular device is equipped with a hardware ethernet port. not sure what tcp ports are open on there, havent nmapped it yet, but im pretty sure it would listen for dhcp.

So, my specific question: what methods do you recommend for brute forcing this lockscreen password (locally or remotely), or removing the password altogether?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Vanilla-Ice:
Apps backup with multiple versions

hello,

I was wondering if there is a backup app that will automatically backup any app upon updating it from playstore

so I can always roll back to the previous versions no matter how many times I update it I still have all the previous versions backed up

of course backing up app data too would be a bonus.

I know I can manually do this but for a smart device things like this should be seamless

I have been disappointed repeatedly by application updates bringing more new bugs than features

to the extent that I have stopped updating anything for months now the phone looks dull :(

thanks
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] JoelLButler:
Great list -- helpful!

Wow -- thank you for this. There is an adage "If you want to learn how to carve, have something in mind you want to make." Just going through these links I was easily able to identify ones that would directly help me learn by solving a current problem. For me this is going to allow me to quickly add to my toolkit and understanding.

---------- Post added at 07:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:20 PM ----------

This response, though not timely, is aimed at anyone (like me) who identifies or identified with the question. There's no shortage of videos but I find the "Coding In Flow" series to be very good -- covers a lot of ground but in small bites. Also helpful was the series on Kotlin, which if you are just learning may be currently the way to go (I realize there is some debate on this, with the extreme camp being "If you want to learn Kotlin, start by learning Java").
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] RedXXII:
Lol sorry I do apologize. I have the Samsung Galaxy SII Epic 4G Touch SPHD710 is the model number.

This is what I see. Just a regular sliding lock screen. Was just looking for something I could customize myself.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] il Duce:
What are you wanting to do, I'm pretty familiar with sprint sense.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jeffsanace:
That's not much of a lock screen, meaning there's nothing there to mod. I would try widget locker, it has unlimited options, different lock styles, widgets on lockscreen, music controls etc. It is a paid app but well worth the couple bucks. You can customize it any way you want, there are many themes here on XDA for it as well.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Robobob1221:
I was applying transparency to the status bar and pull down notification. That went ok, but resulted in the gps reticle being a permanent icon. So I tried following SteelH's advice of going into the services.jar to edit the smali script of htcCdmaStatusBar, but it wasn't where he suggested.

I poked around the other apk and found said smali in the SystemUI.apk. However rather than two instances of the script which he said to edit I found three.

Perhaps it isn't the right smali, but would there be more than one version of it?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] RedXXII:
I've used widget locker in the past but always go back to the stock lock screen for some reason. I have a different screen shot. But I guess I'll give widget locker another try. Sorry for the confusion. Long day at work.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] il Duce:
Often the lines are off a little in smali. What device? I'm sure it's in services.jar. You could link his tutorial and your decompiled smali folder from the jar and I could try to find it.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Robobob1221:
I'm using the HTC Evo 4G.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=780614

There's a 7zip attached of my decompiled services.jar. Above is the link I've been using. I'll say that there doesn't seem to be a status folder/sub directory.

I've included a decompiled SystemUI.apk as well as this is where I found the smali for HtcCdmaStatusBar (smali/com/android/systemui/statusbar/policy)

Thanks for any help you can give me:)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] il Duce:
so my guess is you're not on stock sense. maybe 2.1/3.0? anywho, yes the smali IS in systemUI, where you found it. Not entirely sure if you modded it but I'm guessing you did.

I looked at steel's guide for sense 3 here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1200161

and in your smali here:

.method private updateMtGpsIcon()V

.locals 7

.prologue

const/4 v4, 0x3

const/4 v2, 0x0

did you change that ? did the 0x0 used to say 0x1? if you modded it did it already work?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Robobob1221:
This is stock sense for the Japanese Evo. 2.1 yeah. I've only de-sensed it.

And I haven't modded any of those values for the gps icon. That's what is there.

Okay. I hadn't seen that thread. I will have a look again.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] il Duce:
Oh then try changing the 3 to a 0 and push. Good luck :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Robobob1221:
I'm putting these into a ROM I'm modding on my computer. Once I've recompiled should I take the files out of the new apk and copy them into the old one or replace completely? I mean I have the res folder, the Manifest.xml, resources.arsc, and classes.dex. Do I copy all of them over to the original apk?

EDIT: I finally got my status bar transparent without the GPS reticle. Thanks for the help il Duce
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] KemikalElite:
Hey everyone,

I saw this thread and thought it might be a good resource to start sharing some of my guides and tutorials with the xda community. Ever since I started Modding my first android phone I've wanted to give back to the community to make it a better place. I've posted a few ROMs but really I'm such a faildev.

I've written several guides on my own Ultimate Phone Guide site. I created the site because I didn't want flood forums with too many of my own guides. But I have written an extremely complete guide to CyanogenMod and I plan on writing guides for other ROMs like AOKP and MIUI. My guides are generally aimed at novice flashers that have decent experience with Android and want to get the most out of their device by exploring custom ROMs.

If anyone wants to check the site out the link is in my signature. Front page needs some editing but the actual guides are well formatted. I just don't know if my guides are worthy of dedicated threads on XDA. I write them when I'm bored with my devices and I just thought I'd post this to share the site. The site is open information completely nonprofit and it is a wiki so anyone can add posts to it.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Ajthescot:
An animated dropdown tutorial would be nice .hint hint fernando .seen a guide before but the links for the required files are multiupload fails .

Would like to take a peak at those files lol.

No trees were harmed in the making of this msg .

an astonishing number of electrons ,however,were terribly inconvenienced
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Robobob1221:
The first link for the quick setting smali and graphics is down. Is there another way to get this file?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] vanessaem:
I like Widget Locker also because you can make your own lock themes.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jeffsanace:
I'll look when I get home later.

Recognized " Bad Seed "
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jeffsanace:
I'll ask him or Gruesome Wolf if one of them would write one. GW did the original I believe, he's also done an animated app drawer. They are pretty sick mods.

Recognized " Bad Seed "
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] billbowers:
Ill try to write one up tonight when I get home.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jeffsanace:
Thanks Bill, pm or email it to me and I'll put it right in the Op.

Recognized " Bad Seed "
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] fernando sor:
You may want to add the link as it can't be viewed from the app
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] fernando sor:
I'll do an animation guide for systemui. I can only do sense 3.0 and up as I don't believe i have ever been on 2.1 and have no way to test. I do have an evo 3d on sense 3.0 and a rezound running ics with sense 3.6. Also silver and I are going to do mms inverted for 3.0 when we get a minute
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jeffsanace:
Why thank you my good friend and teammate. That would be delightful.

Recognized " Bad Seed "
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] fernando sor:
Who knows maybe your step father some day
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] pstevep:
I think you meant step dad ;)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] fernando sor:
I sure did stevie

a bad seed
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] KemikalElite:
http://ultimatephoneguide.com/

Some of the most useful/complete pages:

AOKP ROM Page [WIP]

CyanogenMod ROM Page

ROM Manager Page

Howto: APNs

T-Mobile Samsung Exhibit 2 Device Page (Originally used on XDA Wiki with my permission)

Just to add this is one of the reason I think I could get Recognized Contributor.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jeffsanace:
Too late me and your mom just got back from the justice of the peace SON!

Recognized " Bad Seed "
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] fernando sor:
im going to give you your 1000th thanks my friend
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Ajthescot:
on that animated dropdown guide i had mentioned.this was the post i was refering to that i had come across before .

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=17039049&postcount=7

im on evo3d also fern .so thats good news.

on another note i have been working on centering out the text for notifications in the drop down .

seem to have it dialed in with a couple of exceptions .

1, i would like to move the text in second line up a bit.

2,date and time is cut off .

i think i could fix it if i made android:singleLine="true" again but i would like to keep the 2 lines.

could anyone shed some light on how to correct these issues.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] fernando sor:
Thanks for linking. That will save me some time!

a bad seed
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] 1kyon1:
i need help......I've been scouring the realm of google found some tutorials on making the stock mms app have a transparent background and for some odd reason everyone i try i cant get it to work :/. can someone help me by showing me what tutorial they used or something?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] fernando sor:
For 3.0 sense?

a bad seed
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] 1kyon1:
Yeah.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jeffsanace:
Boy did you get the right guy to respond. Fern happens to be the KING of transparent apps, especially for sense 3.0.

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[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] 1kyon1:
I'm sorry im so new here and pretty new to theming :(
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jeffsanace:
That's what this thread is all about, fern with help from myself did the first transparent sense theme. I'm sure he'll be along to help. I'll check back when I get home from work and I'll drop some knowledge on ya if he doesn't first. He knows a lot more about it though.

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[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] 1kyon1:
Alright thanks! ive been puzzled for 2 days trying to figure it out and looking thru other mms.apks from themes to see how its done but no luck.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] fernando sor:
That's one of the hardest mods I've done and is one of the reasons i hate skins. As far as i know we are the only one who have done that and their is def no tutorial. It's not something i can just walk you through

a bad seed
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] 1kyon1:
Alright. but i feel so close to getting it but theres something idk what it is but i just cant spot what it is..but if it too much work for you guys i can keep trying to figure it out.