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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BAttitude7689:
I know there is a sticky..... ROOTING STOCK 2.2!!

but there are a bunch of pages and Ive read thru them, but just wondering with the dev's, who are trying to root the stock 2.2 are we having ANY luck, or we still beating are heads against the wall with no further options??
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joeriginal:
Im the guy who does this nicely so keep that in mind, but do you see that sticky in and how its says in Bold there is NO KNOWN WAY OF ROOTING 2.2, well as soon as it is rooted that will change, and for updates check that thread and dont post Q's. Its all in the sticky, people are ganna keep telling you look there, if the devs take their time to answer everybody personally it will take longer for root.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattrb:
Dude if you want Root then buy a new EVO on eBay and sell your old one. You will come out losing 20$ but its worth it.

This is the quickest route.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverZero:
Except it's getting harder every day to find a new one with 2.1 still on it. And it would be just my luck that I'd order one off Ebay (probably pay a lot because root is becoming such a high-ticket feature now) and then find out the next day that an exploit was found in the OTA.

Just wait it out. And yes, I'll change the sticky when there's something new to report. If you read the OP, I even updated yesterday to say that.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TeknoJnky:
http://twitter.com/unrevoked
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrDSL:
My pee is really really yellow today! Can anyone tell me whats up with that? I think I need to drink more water but I'm not sure.

I know I could google it or there is a topic on it already somewhere but I don't want to read that much so if someone could tell me here that would be great...thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edufur:
lol! Lol! Lol!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyfunk:
I could bne worse. It could be blue.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nenn:
like i said yesterday, ship me your phone in a box with $100 and ill root it for you. its a sweet little SDCARD HAX.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BAttitude7689:
Why not inform the rest of the community on this info on how to root 2.2, unless ur conducting a scam.......
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clockcycle:
Take any vitamin B recently? Or something that might have caused you to flush your kidneys or your liver?

I'd have your doctor check that for you.. :eek:

-CC
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jbroad572:
Because it doesn't exist otherwise we'd. All be doing it. Quick way to lose a hundred buzz.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joeriginal:
Ohhh ok thanks, cause I was ganna stop by the post office and ship my phone with the money....phewww that would of been embarrasing.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superlinkx:
I really hope he's just being sarcastic...

As for the pee thing, LMFAO!
[Desire General] iLHaNroID:
Below list is apps/services that I never or rarely use but started by OS at every boot!

-Stocks

-Facebook

-Flickr

-E-mail

-Gmail

-Friend Stream

-FM radio

-Footprints

-News

-News and weather

-Peep

-Google maps

Is there a way to exclude them from startup menu like as it is in windows?

for unrooted Desire running on official froyo as well...
[Desire General] Psy-Blade:
Erm....

Buy a regular phone?

lol, I've been thinking of creating a custom rom once cyanogen 6 is stable, taking out all the bits I don't use. Perhaps you could consider that route?
[Desire General] nawoa:
As the above guy says, install a custom rom but remove those APKs from the (IIRC) "system/apps/" directory.

Having done that with a Cyanogen nightly, I have JuiceDefender, SetCPU, 3G Watchdog, Google Services Framework, News and Weather, and Swype as my only running services. Bold are the ones that are actually part of the OS, the others I added. 265mb RAM free at startup! :D

However, before doing anything, I would recommend downloading "OS Monitor" from the market and getting some perspective on how much CPU those processes are actually using. It might surprise you... I know it sucks to have stuff running on your phone you don't want, but usually those things are actually very lightweight and harmless. News and Weather (genie service) for instance uses virtually nothing but is nice to have.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Lordje:
I'm looking for a P2000 Alarming app for Android.

I found out that there has to be some app called Alarming Droid but I can't download it from the market (so probably it's not compatible with the X10 mini).

But is there somebody who can adjust it to get it working on X10 mini (pro)?

Or somebody who can just upload the .apk fil for me?

I really need this app for my 'work' (photojournalist)...

Thanks in advance!
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] McKenrick:
Alarmingdroid

If you are looking for the ALARMINGDROID you have to search it by developers name. The app is called alarmingdroid and it is made or produced by Gabri van Lee.

I did have the same problem, i could not find it by searching on the name of the app. By the way, app's for android's should all be compatible.

This app works perfectly on my Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc.

Good luck.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dagrim1:
Having a question regarding the support (mainly in the form of help and manuals) of locations which are mainly downloadable through the market.

My main examples are:

Juice Defender

Titanium Backup

Both of these are very sweet tools but I often find myself wondering what different settings/options do. It's nice to be able to look things up about a program but even though apps have official sites with some form of support I still feel things are alacking in this department...

Am I the only one who think helpfiles, manuals and such are a bit of a forgotten section in android market and apps? Just something I only noticed recently and prolly because of the fact there's just so much possible in android :)

In no way meant as complaints or anything btw!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jim M:
This is a stock FroYo ROM w/root by SteelH

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=743781
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arozer:
Since EPST 2.2 within FroYo won't allow you to change the PRL(the ##775# trick), I need to install EPST 2.1.

Where can I find that? (And how do I replace it?)

I'm fully rooted with netarchy custom ROM.

Thanks.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snandlal:
Here you go....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arozer:
Thank you for the file.

Now do you know which folder I have to place it in?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rugedraw:
If you're rooted, all you have to do is place it on your SD card, and open it with a file explorer (I use EStrong) and it will run the install. From my understanding, if you don't have root, you cannot install from the SD card so I don't know how you would go about it. I rooted my phone as soon as I got it so I don't even know what it's like to NOT have root.....lol.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Caanon:
Whoops, wrong thread, sorry, didn't mean to necro it :/
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djowen6565:
I could use a little help here. I downloaded and installed the above file to my HTC Hero running Froyo 2.2 and I am still unable to use the ##775# option. Any reason why this wouldn't work on my Hero?

And yes, I do understand that this is not a hero forum, however, It also seems that most of the Evo guys found their roots in the Hero, so help a brotha out ;)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kperry1911:
I just had to reinstall EPST from 2.1 following a ROM change. I did get it to work by following these steps:

1. Initial attempt to install from SD gave options to uninstall / run. I uninstalled from here.

2. in Root Explorer went to system/app and renamed the original EPST.apk to EPST.tmp in case I needed to reinstall (This is optional).

3. Copied the EPST 2.1 apk to system/app.

4. clicked EPST.apk from w/in Root Explorer and prompted to install from there.

5. Closed Root Explorer and tested ##775# again. It now works, just as it did on Myn's ROM.

Hope this helps anyone still having issues with ##775# resulting in no action.

-kp
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spiderman3k:
this will work in 2.3.?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spiderman3k:
No. This won't work in 2.3. Bummer!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamikaze2311:
Bro,

could u give me EPST 2.1 file? need it very bad :) thanks before
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dtr145r:
here is the 2.1 epst.apk

:)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spiderman3k:
here it's, enjoy
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamikaze2311:
thanks all :) appreciate...but i cant straight install using Estrong / astro, my HTC Evo still using newest Stock ROM but now have root..please inform any step im missing to install ? thank you before
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dtr145r:
get root explorer copy it over the 2.2 epst.apk and then click it again and install

its because you are in a system folder. you need to be in R/O status i believe which you cant in astro.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hesantos83:
Hi. I just got an evo from someone and unfortunately they had upgraded the system to 2.2 froyo ota. so right now the phone is stuck on digital roaming and there is no way for me to update the prl. I already tried with cdma workshop ver 3.5.5 paid, Qpst 2.7 build 355. on cdma workshop it says the new prl has been writen but the phone stays on roaming so is not writing the prl to the phone. on qpst it's giving me roaming list receive failed and it's failing to retrieve the phone's information. I also tried to update the prl from the phone settings but that's also failing. if anyone has any ideas please feel free to post them so I can try them thanks.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hesantos83:
I was able to downgrade to 2.1 and root the phone using the new method but unfortunately my prl still says version 00000 and I'm still roaming anyone else has had this problem with the prl showing zero's and unable to change it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hesantos83:
Ok. Guys here is what i have tried so far. Cdma workshop. Qdxm qpst unicdma and ##775# to try to update the prl and all of there programs say the prl was successfully updated but once i check the prl version is 00000. Now i have 2 phones with the same issue, one working on sprint and the other on boost mobile i get all my phones from craigslist .. One of the phones became stuck on roaming after trying to repair meid with cdma workshop.. I have tried with several different prls. Tried to copy all the nv items from another evo that is not roaming but nothing helps i know the nam config is good because i compared with the evo that is working.. Everything on the phones work i'm able to make calls, mms,web browsing the only thing is that 3g is extremely slow and that i have the triangle on top of the signal bars..and on boost mobile once i drive a couple of blocks from my house and try to make a call it says verizon wireless your feature update was sucessfull and i'm not able to call until i return home. I'm sure the prl on these phones got corrupted somehow.. How can i repair a corrupted prl..i have done a least 10 android phones incredible, samsung moment,htc evo for family and friends and this is the first time i have ran into this issue.. If anyone knows ho to get rid of this corrupted prl please help me.. Also i have access to a couple of good evos and cdma workshop 3.6 i would like to try and copy the flash from the good working evo and put it on one of these with the corrupted prl but i have not been successful trying..thanks guys for all your help..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lafrad:
I'm assuming you have done the easy way already... ##786# for a factory reset, then battery out while the phone is at the white evo screen the SECOND time... leave the battery out for 15-30 minutes... battery in and power it on to boot. Should reactivate, update PRI if it needs it, and also update PRL. It is a factory wipe, but in your case, that should be no problem.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bboydp:
Let me first start off by saying I do not know much. So I am asking if anyone knows of some beginner guides to start creating my own theme's.

1) Is it basically scripting? Or will I have to write completely new code for all my functions... By the way, I fail at programming, so please inform me so I don't waste my time.

2) Would someone like me who does not know much scripting, have a hard time doing this or is it relatively quick to pick up?

3) Is it done on the phone or through the ADB Shell?

Thanks a bunch in advance.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdkoreclipse:
It is done with photoshop and 7zip......all it is is replacinng drawable icons from the res folder
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bboydp:
Thanks for the quick reply, do you have any possible examples to show me how to do this?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcberg2010:
You going to do your editing on the computer. I believe the command is

adb remount
adb pull framework-res.apk /Desktop/Theme

/Desktop/Theme is a directory you create on your computer. If adb pull doesn't work just download what ever rom your using to your computer and copy and paste framework-res.apk out of /system/framework.

Afterwards you can use 7zip to find the files you wish to edit. Its been a while for me but i believe most files are located in drawable-hdpi. Use Gimp or Photoshop to edit whatever images you want to. Do not edit any images with file extensions .9pngs as they require some additional steps, and can cause issues when you try and put it back on your phone.

Once your done move the files to the tools directory of sdk. cd to that directory and run..

adb remount
adb push framework-res.apk /system/framework
adb reboot

That should work for personal reasons. If your looking to create an update.zip to release for others i can help you with that too.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bboydp:
Excellent, thank you, I will give it a shot!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bboydp:
Just noticed you are an expectant father, congratulations. I have a 6 month old, who is a ton of fun!

Ok, so I went through 'astro' found the file framework-res.apk inside of /system/framework as you stated above, the only problem is from adb shell, whenever I run pull, it gives me the following message:

'remote object 'framework-res.apk' does not exist'

I have debugging turned on, so I should have access, and adb mounted just fine...

If you have any ideas, I would appreciate it.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MMBosstones86:
try mounting the partitions through Clockword Recovery. I've had issues in the past where a partition wasn't mounted, therefore the computer couldn't find it.

Hope it works, i'm looking to start theming some as well and this looks like it'll help!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcberg2010:
Thank you. I don't think u need to be in adb shell. Try using astro to copy and paste that framework-res.apk to ur sdcard. Then just disk drive ur card and remove it.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bboydp:
Thank you, I will keep that in mind.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bboydp:
Lol, that works easily... thanks!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeyItsLou:
ok so i've used 7zip to pull the images from the drawable icons folder out of the framework res what's the simplest way to say add transparency to my notification window would I use Photoshop for this?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cupcakera:
Also interested in a guide for this.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Garrett07:
Yes with photoshop you manipulate the image's transparency using a ton of different tools but the easiest being the blend tool by simply double clicking on the image in the layers pallet

EDIT* Hopefully that makes sense lol
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] invisiblek:
dont forget xml files, for fully rounded theme you will have to modify some of these! :)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djkms:
So you want to know how to theme heh. Cool, we need more themers!

Here is a guide to get you started:

The Ultimate Android Themeing Guide

Can't afford Photoshop? No problem, download Gimp, its free and will work great for themeing.

Download for Gimp

Dont know how to do something with your theme? Google to the rescue. For example; say you want to add a transparency to your image. Just google "how to add transparency with Gimp". Google can answer all your questions.

Couple things to keep in mind while themeing.

1: Dont change the size of the default image

2: Some images are 8-bit paletted. You are really limited on what you can do in 8-bit. While in your graphics program change the image to 24bit rgb or 32bit cmyk, do your edits then change the image back to 8-bit when you are done.

Instead of using adb to pull the apk's I want to edit I just extract them from the ROM itself. If you download your ROMS from ROM Manager they can be found on your SD card in the clockworkmod/download folder. For example Skyraider can be found in clockworkmod/download/pcjock.com/skyraider/Roms folder.

Inside the rom zip file you will see a folder structure similar to data/meta-inf/system/tools etc. There are 2 main apk's you are looking for:

framework-res.apk - this is the main "theme" area for droid devices

com.htc.resources.apk - this is the main "theme" area for sense based roms

Both of these can be found in the system/framework folder within the zip of the ROM. Editing these 2 apk's will theme about 80% of your overall look of the phone. The other 20% use their own png's found within the apk of that particular app. These apps can be found in system/app of the ROMS zip file.

What I do when editing a apk is extract the apk to my desktop. After I have the apk I want to edit there I open it up with 7zip and extract the whole res folder to my desktop (keep the apk open in 7zip so you can add the res folder back in after your edits). All the pngs you want to edit will be in the drawable folders (ie drawable, drawable-hdi, etc)

Pay close attention to the png files you edit. If it has a .9 in its name you need to take some extra steps when editing the file. A guide on editing .9 pngs can be found here. After you have made your png edits drag the res folder from your desktop back into the apk in 7zip. After that you need to create a update.zip file with your new theme in it. I use apk sign which can be found here. Thats it, your theme should be ready to go.

I hope this helps some. When in doubt do what I did, research, google, research and google some more.

Good luck!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scrdy:
Thanks a lot for that post, exactly what I was looking for.

1 quick question, I was just trying to make a transparent background for my SmoothCalendar Widget, and I edited it in gimp fine, readded the png to the apk, moved the apk back to my sd card, but when I went to install it it just said "cannot install" from what I was reading, this is a signing issue -- is that where the apk sign program you linked comes into play?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djkms:
That would be my guess. Attached is the program I use to sign single apk's (the one I linked earlier is a bit more involved and I use it for themes only).

With the one attached I would suggest using a public key, no need that I can see in using a private key (its more pain then its worth).

Also, I would suggest uninstalling the app before installing the one you themed, most will error out when installing (in my experience anyways).

There is a tutorial link in the zip file on how to sign your apk's. If you need some clarification let me know.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilinfinityil:
my problem (which is why I've never finished some of my themes) is that signing apk's never works for me :(
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scrdy:
I'll give that a go when I get home from work -- thanks for your help.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stu_Gotti:
Excellent thread! I've been poking all around the place trying to find this info... :cool:
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scrdy:
djkms, I hope you're still keeping an eye on this thread -- I have another question (sorry) :(

I tried searching for this, and I can't come up with much, but how do I actually edit the xml file frameworks for the apps? Everything I try to load them in loads gibberish. Thanks, and I'm sorry but it seems like the resources on this are just so thin, unfortunately. :(
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djkms:
The android xmls are coded differently then standard xml. Editing android xml's require hexediting. The guide I linked in my previous post shows you how to edit the xml's. I would honestly say leave the xml's alone unless you really know what your doing. I have personally only had to edit 1 xml file and that was to change the progress bar color..
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcberg2010:
This is one of the better how to guides I've seen in a long time. The OP should update his op to quote the posts with good info/links and then possibly ask a mod to sticky. Possibly?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stu_Gotti:
:o I thought the process of editing the images was on a much smaller scale... actually pulling the stuff apart and taking a look at stuff really makes you fully appreciate the level of effort that these developers put in... kudos to all the dedicated developers that take time out to put together some phenomenal work!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flippingout:
Thank you for the guide and all of the excellent information. I have extracted the apk file, edited the png files and now I want to test it out before I commit a bunch of time. I added the png files back to the apk file in 7zip and, like mentioned before, when I go try to execute the file in Astro File Manager it will not allow an install. Likely because of the signing issue. I have tried to follow the guide and am stuck. Can anyone help on how to get the files signed?

Here is what I've done.

I downloaded SignApk. In the readme it sent me to londatiga (I can't post the link since I am new). There I downloaded openssl. I followed those instructions and when I run the cmd lines it says, I get the following error:

openssl:Error: 'openssl' is an invalid command.

Is there something I've missed or another way to get the apk signed? If you can keep it dumbed down, I would appreciate it. I can get by on quite a bit but I am not overly familiar with this level of programing. :o

Thank you!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djkms:
The way you described in trying to sign it is a private key. There is no need to do a private key unless you developed the app and would like to have it on the market. For personal use just create a public key. Here is how I do it

Create a folder and place all the signapk files into it

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in C:\Windows\System32 find cmd.exe - right click - copy

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paste cmd.exe into the folder you placed all your signapk files in

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Create a new text file in that directory, name it "Code for cmd"

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Open the text file and paste this code into it:

java -jar signapk.jar certificate.pem key.pk8 myapp.apk myappsigned.apk

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save the text file for later use

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place the apk you edited in the signapk directory

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open up Code for cmd text file and replace myapp.apk with theexactnameofyourapkfile.apk theexactnameofyourapkfilesigned.apk

Example: Swypeblue.apk Swypebluesigned.apk

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Highlight all the text - copy

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Open cmd.exe - right click on the blinking cursor - paste - enter

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You should now have yourappsigned.apk in the signapk folder

If it failed then you probably dont have java runtime or java sdk installed would be my guess...
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IncredibleMidgett:
It would be phenomenal if someone posted tools and procedures for doing this on a mac, hint hint nudge nudge...