yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] aludal:
I was under impression the .exe in question is just a self-unpacking flashing set consisting of installer/uploader for flasher.apk and a zipped ROM. Plus run command/batch file. That's the level of autopsy I would be content with ;). In my case with that Pandigital Novel eReader that will mean that my next custom firmware upgrade (Froyo?) can be initiated from any source/Web site repo I choose and over WiFi in the end.

As for serifs, believe me, it's completely different story when one deals with tablets 7" and larger, as opposed to <5" smartphones. Tablets have quite a bigger chunk of uses as eReaders, so serifs are very important for better readibility. Sure, many eReaders come with their own sets of serifs, but the best of them should give you the choice of picking your own serif your eyes are comfortable with in a prolonged reading session. Readability is not just ability to easily read "i" from "l", etc. in small Sans'es, it is also a chance to avoid a headache after several hours of non-stop reading of an interesting book. Sure, it's quite different from the smartphone uses like casual browsing, texting, etc.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] LiquidSolstice:
Testing Font Flash on CDMA Hero. Will let you know how it goes

=]
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] [deXter]:
Hi, can someone tell me what exactly does the "Optimize system" function do? Has anyone noticed any performance improvements after using this? Thanks!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] LiquidSolstice:
Score! I got Zegoe working on my HTC Hero CDMA (Sprint) with RegawMOD.

Worked without a hitch. Pressed a button, reset phone, and bam, gorgeous typeface. Many thanks!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
Optimize system is not one function which is doing some kind of magic ;)

It opens a submenu with additional functions:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
Nice :)

Did you select "Other phone"?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
I didnt see any files were extracted - just one file, without viewable source :(

I believe that there is a difference between a smartphone and a tablet, regarding the fonts. But this seems too special to change it in the suite for everyone. Why dont you take a look at the source of this batch (just open in a texteditor) - and change the lines with the commands i posted above - it's really easy - so you get your special edition :D
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] koricua74:
No I wasn't in recovery mode; I just made sure to reboot after applying the font. I might try applying while in recovery since it would "technically" save me a step. Thanks again for the utility :D
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
No problem ;)

HTC Evo is allready included in 2.01 :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] [deXter]:
Ah thanks, guess it it should really be called "customize system" .. or even "tweak system" :)

Anyways, I haven't actually tried it yet because I'm on a Desire and using Linux. Any ETA on when it may be ready? Your program looks really promising.. Thanks!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
Actually I have nothing to do with the linux port :)

crizznaig is the one who is working on it :)

But you can use the the Linux suite now with you desire, too if you follow theese steps before:

1. Reboot in recovery
2. Start Shell
3. "mount /system"
4. "mount /data"
5. "mount /sdcard"
6. start suite and choose "Other device"

This should work :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mra1n1:
Well i can happily say that this application works very well with the T-Mobile Pulse (Huawei U8220). i have tested this on an android 2.1 custom ROM.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] SiNJiN76:
Where can I get more fonts? Do the fonts have to be Android specific fonts or can I use the fonts I have on my PC? If I can...does it have to be renamed? :confused:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
Thx for that info :)

Did you choose "Other device" ?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
You can use any font you like. You will need a regular version, and a bold version.

Name in Droidsans.ttf & Drodsans-Bold.ttf and place them in the 1custom folder.

Look at the instructions (Font Flasher / [ i ] ) first.

If you got it working, hit us up with some screenshots. If I like them, I will include them in the next version :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] SiNJiN76:
Cool. Thanks for the clarification.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] aludal:
Schade... It might mean that the flasher is internal, probably from Recovery. So, did I get it right that unzipping the .exe gives you just another zip, the actual ROM?

And thank you for all your care, sure, you probably don't need to expand your utility by inclusion the Android tablets, too. The principles of your design were valuable to me enough to do something similar for our tablet gang at Slatedroid.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] lucidvtec:
this app is SICK.!!!!1

never used the shell after i installed clockwork

this does ALOT....works great on Win7 64bit
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
I didnt see anything unzipping. :(

Maybe the only thing the exe is going to unzip are the drivers!?

Maybe if tablets getting more famous, I think about expanding my suite :D
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mra1n1:
Yes i did indeed :D

Device:

Tmobile Pulse (Huawei U8220)

Android 2.1

ROM: FLB-MOD 1.41

Superuser 2.3.x by Darktremor

ADB and all other drivers installed from cd that came with the phone

hope thats enough info
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
Yes, perfect. Thx.

Going to include your device in the next version :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] LiquidSolstice:
Yes sir :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
thx for feedback :)

device will be added in next version :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] LiquidSolstice:
Well, it would be good to note that I only tested the Font Swapping function, I didn't test anything else, so I'm not sure if we can assume all functions work for the CDMA Hero, but I suppose if Font Swap works, and Font Swap is using nothing more than ADB I guess in theory the others would work. I wanted to try some of the optimize options, but the only one that really applied to me was the remove YouTube.apk, and I already ADB'd into my phone and removed that xD
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
That's allready enough to know ;)

Some devices need to be in recovery to use theese functions. And since you successfully flashed fonts, I know how your device works :)

If someone reports me that one function does not work with a specific device, I can still exclude this option for this device ;)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] LiquidSolstice:
Good point! And nope, I wasn't in recovery when I did it :). Flashed it as is :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] aludal:
Oh sure, they DO get famous, LOL. I will solder a mic into my silly puppy Pandigital and make free phone calls through my Google Voice+Google Call right from my Gmail account, all acroos the States, wooohoo! (It was officially announced today)

Are you sure there's no *Serif, *SerifBold, *SerifItalic, *SerifItalicBold, *{Nina, or whatever} normal weight and bold for CJKV glyphs in your "smart" phones? Schade... hehe.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] WaveMaster1406:
Hey bro.

I get lot of fonts, and you want i can put a link for this here. I hope it will be usefull for you in the next version of this great app. :D

Take some scrnsht of another digital font you can include.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
Of course we also have this fonts on our smartphones, but actually there is no need to change them :D
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
Yeah. I would like to see some screenshots from custom fonts. If i like them, i will include some of them in the next version :)

I cant enlarge your attached screenshot :(
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] aludal:
Sure. Nobody reads "War and Peace" from the screen <4.3". Or 1700 pages of "Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften" von Robert Musil, as in your case, do you? It's a sheer torture never lessened by a serif font of better readibility. So you couldn't care less if the stock DroidSerif is bland, not so well-hinted, kerned, etc. I can understand that. "Normal" substitute for italics on Web pages is less understandable though.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] basthet:
Hi and thanks for your (windows) software, however it is still not working for me:

HTC Desire (and did all as you told) - I got the following error message:

exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2)

seems like adb remount does not work

any suggestions?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
in which step do you get this error?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] basthet:
already at the very beginning.

The program asks if I am in recovery mode, I choose yes (because I am)

Then there comes the deamon starting message, and three times the error I posted before.

BTW: your linux version is not working for me as well. adb cannot be executed - why?

I am on mint 64bit

--------------------------------------------------------------------

I / \ NOTICE: I

I / ! \ Please wait, while /system, /data and /sdcard is I

I ----- mounted... I

--------------------------------------------------------------------

- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -

- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -

- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -

System, Data and SDcard mounted...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
mm strange.

Your phone is rooted, right?

Which recovery do you have?

I dont know about the linux version, because crizznaig is the one who ports it ;)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] basthet:
how to figure out the recovery? Yes my phone is rooted.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
After rooting, i guess you flashed a custom recovery?

Did you root using unrevoked?

Actually there are too famous recoveries: Clockwork & amon-ra
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] basthet:
Really do not remember it, sorry. I think it is Clockwork, as his rom tool works for me. I just followed the instruction form the swiss side (procketpc.ch).
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
mm...don't know what to do.

Only thing i can say, is that this does not seem to be a problem with my suite but with adb in general.

Try to google your errormessage, and let me know if you get it work.

good luck :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] WOW1400:
can we change the font size?i'm using desire and seems like most or the apps wording get cut off.really like the hand of sean :(
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
Hand of Sean is really a big font. But thats the default size, the font comes with.

I think it's not that easy to change the overall system font size :(

If it's to big, search a similar, smaller font in the web, flash it & try it ;)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] 71baker:
Just wanted you guys to know that this works on HTC Wildfire too. Only in Desire mode though! Might wanna add that in the startup.

I have only used the font flashing but when i tried other devices mode i would get that darn "directory not empty" when copying files , so i tried you'r advice to the desire owner a couple of pages back , and when i am in recovery and start it in desire mode it works like a charm , so im sure the other stuff does aswell.

My stuff:

Win7 Home Premium 64bit

Wildfire w. Clockworkmod recovery

WildPuzzleRom v4

Using the Unrevoked teams hacked USB driver if that makes any difference.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
Thx for reporting ;)

Going to add the HTC Wildfire in the next Version :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] WOW1400:
may i know how to flash back to default font of htc desire?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] duryard:
Hiya.

Before I make a Brick of my wifes New Samsung Galaxay I9000 what are the chances of being able to make her system fonts bigger using this util.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
If you made a backup of your fonts with this suite just reflash the backup.

If not, look for a stock rom and extract the fonts, and flash them like any custom font (see instructions)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
You can only change the font - not the font size.

Only option is, that you search a font, which default size is allready bigger then others (Verdana for expamle).
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] kill3st:
Thanks guys, great tool, worked well. Thanks!!!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Tom C.:
Just want to say, that this works on Hero GSM, too!

(at least the "Font Flasher" and the Logcat). Great work, thank you very much.

A little typo on issue 6 - 4 ("Clear

Maket

DB") :D
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
Thx for Feedback :)

Did you choose Other device?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Tom C.:
Yes - other devices.

Works really great. Actually I am a little bit disappointed, that the dialer (the numbers) didn't change, but I guess this is not only a font issue and needs "deeper" changes, but generally I am satisfied with the result and also, that I found a new, very useful tool for my hero ...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] WOW1400:
thx..work like a charm

for custom font, is it that we must rename the file name to Droidsans and the same file in to Droidsans-bold?so it will be 2 same file with different name..am i right?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
If you have 2 versions of your font (regular & bold), name the regular Drodidsans.ttf and the bold one Drodidsans-bold.ttf.

If you only have one version, just do it like you said - 2 same files with different names :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] sp3a12uk:
Love the program. Thank you.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] aludal:
To Che123:

I mentioned somewhere here already, that we with Android tablets/eReaders may need to change system Serifs. I used your Windows utility, to replace two DroidSans fonts, and I might just run two commands I described in my blog fineoils.blogspot.com (have a look please, and tell me whether your scripts differ). Now we also have 4 Serifs as system fonts and they are no less, or even more important than Sans for eReading and Web browsing. These, for Pandigital Novel, are:

DroidSerifRegular

DroidSerifItalic

DroidSerifBold

DroidSerifBoldItalic

Then, there is DroidSansMono, and some programmers prefer to read their code in Lucida Mono instead of stock Courier. The remaining DroidSansFallback might be left untouched at this point, though I'd love to try to use Arial Unicode in its place.

So, as a request for a more comprehensive Font Flasher of your excellent utility, I would ask for its partial modification in "Custom" font section, namely, a display of list of system fonts of a given device, with parallel list of intended replacements from whatever a user supplies to data/fonts/custom.

Danke schoen
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
ok, i'll gonna add a feature to flash customs

DroidSerifRegular

DroidSerifItalic

DroidSerifBold

DroidSerifBoldItalic

in the next version ;)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Helghast:
I don't think this works for AT&T Captivate.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

I'm trying to flash the florencesans font.

I'm rooted. (SRE 1.2.1a)

I enabled USB Debugging.

I tried BOTH Mounted and Unmounted USB.

It tries to copy the fonts over, but it says "Permission Denied."

I also tried with custom font, it states the same thing.

Help?

*edit

Tried installing through recovery mode, but the Suite states I need to plug-in my phone. This is when I use Other Phone.

I tried EVO -No Dice

HTC Desire in recovery mode. -No Dice

G1 -No Dice
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
mmm... that's strange. Maybe you can try theese steps:

- reboot in to recovery mode on your own

- when finished booting wait a minute

- plugin cable

- start suite

- select desire

- Choose "Yes", when the suite asks, if you are allready in recovery
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
UPDATE:

Added devices & aludal gets his long awaited feature to change the serif fonts now, too :D

See changelog on first Page, for further information...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] aludal:
Oh thank you so much, Che123!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
np. ;)

Did it work?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mo2002:
i have a htc hd2 runnin a nexus ROM, would this work?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
That's a good question :D

Make a backup and just try it ;)

Select "other device" if this does not work select "Desire" - and pls give feed back if it worked :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mo2002:
aite ill check back later in the day, gotta research a bit more i just skimmed through the thread *crosses fingers*
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mo2002:
eh wont work, never finds the device during the font flasher and i cant boot into recovery or bootloader
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
mm...damn.

I dont know how the hd2 works, since it's no native android device.

Do you know if ADB in general works with HD2?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mo2002:
ill check again 2morro, i have to be bored at work to attempt, this program was good for lazy individuals like myself
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Death_Keeper:
is hebrew supported in any of the fonts you have?

first, i have to say...it realy looks like a great prog.

will any of these fonts enable hebrew support?

which one?

Thank you so much!

Yossi
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] parker09:
Does this work with the HTC Legend? Because we can't access the /sdcard/font/
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
Another good question ;)

Just download the zip and take a look at the fonts before flashing, so you can find out on your own ;)

If theese fonts do not have hebrew support, you can still flash your own fonts ;)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
Do you mean /system/font ?

If you choose "HTC Desire" at the beginning it should work. Pls give feedback ;)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Death_Keeper:
what is the best choice for a samsung captivate?

unfortunatly i had a friend's phone and tried installing using the selection other - it didnt work, and i ended up witing the code by myself in the adb shell...

just for common knowledge what is the best choice for it?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
Actually there are two types of devices: Full root access (like nexus one, g1...) and the other ones, which only have full root access via recovery (Desire, Wildfire...).

I dont know to which one samsung captivate belongs.

So - if other device does not work, try again choosing HTC Desire.

If it works, and I get feedback, I'am going to add the device in the next release :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] AfzalivE:
works quite well on Spica, although I dare not try some HTC specific stuff.

had to change "adb remount" in the bat file to "adb shell mount -o rw,remount -t /dev/blocks/mtdblock3 /system"

as I am using an ext2 system
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
Thx for that info.

Did it not work without changig the commands? Where exactly did you change it?

The different kinds of ext should not be a problem, because there are only 1 or 2 prcoesses which uses the ext partition
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] iamdata:
i cant belive ive only just found this! excellent buddy!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] davita22:
hello friends, can u tell me how i can root my HTC wildfire? I can,t install new fonts, i have pc-suite but on my system/fonts access denied. please help me if you know how root my phone. :confused::rolleyes:

thanks....
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] bluedragon1982:
Rooting is very easy, just visit http://www.unrevoked.com and follow this guide

If you need more infos, visit my blog http://bluenazgul.blogs.blapkmarket.com

And

Take a on the Wildfire forum here

The best rooted Wildfire rom with Sense is WildPuzzle v7.3.1 (v8 based on Chiniese Froyo RUU is also releases but not full working)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tigger69:
Thanks for this, very useful. Confirm it works on the wildfire.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] nimrodg13:
That CRAP is great!!!!! works like charm =]

inlove with it
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
Thx for all your feedback ;)

Nice to see so many people find it usefull :)

Any ideas for further features?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Little Dragon:
hey. i'm using a Samsung Captivate and i'm not sure if this program is compatible for it. i am in desperate need of the Nokiasans font...i love it so much! is it possible to export it into an .apk format so i can push it to my phone?

thanks
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
You can try to connect to your Captivate by choosing "Other" in the device selection. If this does not work, restart and try selecting "HTC Desire".

If it worked, pls tell me which selection was succesfull, so I can add the Captivate to the list of devices.

If this does not work either, please give me some info. I would really like to make this suite compatible with all devices :)

There will be no apk which changes the system fonts. Maybe you could make a zip to flash via recovery. Or you get the ttf files from the suite and push them manually via adb.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] davita22:
thx :) its work very good :)

:)))) :D:D:D:D:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Little Dragon:
i tried both ways and got the same error msg:

remount failed: No such file or directory

how would i go about pushing them manually via ADB?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
Actually, pushing it via adb would be a similar way.

If you choose "HTC Desire" when does this error exactly appear?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Little Dragon:
after i choose the font.

it will reboot into recovery, it appears to mount sdcard and whatnot then i select the font and that's it...

Flash DroidSans.ttf and DroidSans-Bold.ttf

remount failed: No such file or directory

924 KB/s (118348 bytes in 0.125s)

1017 KB/s (113944 bytes in 0.109s)

Press any key...

then to the Reboot menu
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
mm... but he seems to copy something somewhere ...

Is your phone in recovery?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Little Dragon:
it was in recovery the whole time. nothing will happen until i reboot
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Che123:
mm... thats really strange. I would really like to help. But it's difficult to work with an error, I don't get myself :(

Did you ever work with ADB?