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[Gen8 Android Development] liutszho:
I'm trying to recreate what you did, I partitioned my microsd with 512 MB for swap, and the second partition is the remaining space (around 15 gigs) for storage.

I boot up my archos but can't figure which file to edit to mount both partitions, it seems like it only mounted the 512MB one since that's what rootexplorer can only open as "sdcard".

Any hints?
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
I think you have to turn that around. The first partition should be the data the second the swap.
[Gen8 Android Development] jan_tsui:
I am using the first partition as the swap, the second partition as the data.

I think your swap partition is not in a right type, I use paragon partition manager to format the swap partition as Linux Swap2 type.
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
So you placed you swap on the external sd card right?
[Gen8 Android Development] jan_tsui:
Yes, I use below command "swapon /dev/block/vold/179\:17" to set 179:17 as my swap device. And this partition is the Linux Swap partition in my external SD card.

Actually I have created three partitions on my external SD card. 1. Swap partition, 2. ext3 partition, 3. fat32 partition.

1. Swap partition, it is easy to understand

2. ext3 partition, I am trying to move the app on internal sd card to this partition by create the symbolic link

3. fat32 partition, for me to transfer file from window to the sdcard

Once system is booted up, it will auto mount the 2. ext3 partition to /sdcard/sdcard, and what I have done on extraroot.sh is to free up the original swap partition, and mount the external one, and also manually mount the 3. fat32 partition to /sdcard/Data.
[Gen8 Android Development] fatcheung:
Would you please tell us how can you " move the app on internal sd card to this partition by create the symbolic link" ?

Also, how to do "mount the external one, and also manually mount the 3. fat32 partition to /sdcard/Data" ?

Would you tell us the detail please? I want to do this too.

Thanks! :)
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
If you can make a special thread with the explanation how you did this I can link it here
[Gen8 Android Development] dafko:
CifsManager with my archos 101

Hi,

I was trying this method to unlock cifsmanager potential, but without any success. After uploading chulri's module (cifs.ko) and setting proper startup extraroot.sh, my archos always restart while mounting device. Is there any way to see log or something.

Thank you. :o
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
You could connect to your PC with the USB cable and adb logcat maybe that will show you something.
[Gen8 Android Development] Nazo:
This isn't terribly important, but, just a thought: you might want to use 32K for the bs parameter (and count would then have to be 8192.) Generally the best performance with SDHC is had by using 32K (and 16K for SD if anyone still has one.) Obviously this is not terribly important since it's just a 256MiB file, but it just strikes me that you might just as well use the more optimal setup anyway. When I was writing the script for mine I went ahead and made that change and never even really noticed it taking the time to do it.

One thing I'm wondering: Is there any way we could create icons for scripts? In particular, it would be nice to have an icon that you could click to toggle the external swap off and back on rather than having to open a terminal and manually run it just to mount via USB. (Actually, for that matter, is there maybe some command that can be run to actually do the USB mounting itself? Perhaps the swap off/on scripts to be linked could automatically do it all so you can do everything with one tap basically.)

Is there any way to write to the main filesystem at all btw? I saw your other post about using mount --bind to do an on the fly switching of sorts, but even with extraroot.sh this could potentially be troublesome. Is there maybe any way to batch mount --bind? (Since I would assume binding a directory would actually make the filesystem see only the newly bound directory and not the old one.) I noticed something say the host filesystem was squashfs. Or should I assume that even just modifying this image would be enough to void the warranty? (It's not very clear on the site exactly what voids it, but they claim that the SDE firmware "watermarks your device" so they can tell it has been installed even if you remove it. This could just mean it toggles some bit somewhere during the process though... Well, some sort of batch mounting would be fine, but I don't know enough bash scripting to do such a thing if it could be done cleanly. (Of course, if there were any way to get to the main filesystem you could permanently root it I guess, so I'm assuming that's the very thing that voids the warranty.) I guess in the meantime I'll just manually have it bind files individually anyway, but some sort of automation where I could just put files in a folder to be automatically handled could be really handy.

Oh, and one other thought, but would it maybe be possible to use this somehow to stop automatically starting processes beyond what Android Assistant and etc can do? They won't stop certain things from starting it seems due to "google limitations" (as Android Assistant put it) and you have to manually kill them. If it could be done via a script like this I'd bet it would bypass such limitations easily, but if the script is too early in the boot process I suppose it couldn't do it.

BTW, if anyone hasn't noticed, Archangel still works for 2.2. I'm using it on the latest firmware at the time of this writing anyway.
[Gen8 Android Development] Flix123:
I've chulris root and want to disable ads, but it doesn't work.

I copy the downloaded extraroot.sh to /sdcard/sdcard/, but there are still all the ads.

What can I do to disable the ads?
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
These script do not work for chulri's root method. You just need to replace the hosts file that is all.
[Gen8 Android Development] Flix123:
So, I just have to copy the hosts file on SD card, that's all?

And could you please give me an actual hosts file?
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
There is one here copy that hosts file to /etc/hosts
[Gen8 Android Development] Flix123:
Do you mean the hosts.for.mobile file in the zip folder? Do I have to rename the file?

And what would I do, when the tablet doesn't boot because of the file?
[Gen8 Android Development] Flix123:
OK, forget my questions.:D

I've tried to replace the hosts file with a new one (97 kByte), but the Root Explorer says, that there wouldn't be enough space.

What can I do?
[General Questions and Answers] Winky42:
Newbie post

We are looking to have versions of our *very* simple game in different languages. Which ones are most important to have in place at launch? Which can we delay?

Here's the list we're going for:

ENG French German Italian Spanish Russian Swedish Japanese Korean...

...should we prioritize any in particular?

And a follow-on question...we would keep the splash and about pages in English (to make our lives easier) because that translation would be a lot more involved. What's the consensus on that? Is it reasdonable to expect users to have some English facility?

Many thanks!

Cheers, S
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] nitsuj17:
I came across these two great threads for the X10 and the Epic 4G and thought that it might be good for the fascinate themers/prospective themers to have a kind of community repository for theme help/links edits/how tos...while these 2 (and many others) are great resources for themes...i felt that actual edits/knowledge specifically for our phone would be a help.

i guess just based on the amount of themes i port i tend to get a ton of pms across xda/androidforums/irc on how to get started, what programs to use, how to make what edits, etc

i really dont know a whole lot relative to "real" themers from other phones and most of what i know i either picked up from reading endless links or begging for help.

whether this catches on and proves useful, or it goes down in flames like others things ive tried...i figured its worth a shot :)

rather than post endless links that dont always pertain directly to our phone, perhaps a good format would be me maintaining the op with small write ups of whatever edits/how tos and linking the the original. ill gradually start putting up the edits i know of that work with touchwiz and aosp (over the next few days)...but would GREATLY appreciate it if some smarter people would help out and post edits im mssing....also feel free to ask questions of how to edit what, where something is, and if i dont know/can't find out, then hopefully someone else can :)

Post away.........

***If anyone is interested in writing up brief tutorials on whatever or contribute links/edits, it would help out a lot*** :)

Fascinate Contributors

(directly or indirectly through posts or help along the way in some form):

dtachtd

thatdudebutch

sbrissen

andmer

retrokid223

adiliyo

oldmanjames

tiger4life

adrynalyne

s44

Credit to these threads/posts/links for much of the info

Want To Learn To Theme?

How to Theme Your Droid

Theme Help Tutorial
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] nitsuj17:
Installing the Android SDK (especially for adb) is mentioned below..however (imo): DO NOT BOTHER THINKING ABOUT GETTING INTO THEMING WITHOUT FIRST INSTALLING AND HAVING SOME BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF ADB. Far too many people that have issues doing theme related stuff (mostly irc) do not even have adb installed or know what it is. To me this is appalling! /end rant

Getting Started (much of this info grabbed from DtatchD http://androidforums.com/android-themes/174669-how-theme-apks.html)

What do I need (tools) to theme with?

-Umm obviously you need to be rooted :cool:

-Have the Android SDK installed

*If you've never done this before, follow Adrynalyne's awesome ADB Tutorial/Workshop

-Some form of editing software

*if you have photoshop, great...if you want a free (and imo awesome) program, then gimp is the way to go!

*another free alternative (some prefer to gimp) is paint.net

-Something akin to winzip

*or my preference (again free) 7-Zip

-Tools for editing/decompiling xml (also for cheating on .9's..but more on that later)

*look no further than either apktool, or apkmanager (automated version of apkt)

*i personally use notepad ++ to edit the decompiled xml files

-a program to *deal* with .9 images

*if you follow any how-to guide, its going to tell you that you have to patch the images in the Draw-9 Patch tool in the SDK, and then compile the images in eclipse. I'm going to tell you its a lot easier than that. Make sure you have apk(tool, manager) and then get the super awesome Draw9 Patch tool from xeudoxus here (might as well grab the full xultimate as well to deodex with)

-something to edit the service.jar with

*2 ways to go about this. one is installing smali/backsmali in your sdk (if you plan on removing things like the clock from the status bar, you need this as well) or another ridiculously awesome program Ohsaka's colorchanger program

-other REALLY important tools/programs

*Theme Kitchen (ever wonder where most of us get all those battery images/data + signal icons?)

*RGB Color Picker (one of many resources to get color codes, or you can do it in gimp from color picker too)

Drop by IRC Freenode: #fascinate-themers for help/discussion
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Bob-o:
I think this will open up a lot of ideas for people to try it! Nice post nit. I was gonna ask how you get started themeing.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Hatespawn:
Indeed. I have been trying to learn a bit through reading and whatnot. I have all the tools and am teaching myself how to use them. This guide will be EXTREMELY helpful compared to bouncing between all the pages I currently have bookmarked.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] bendbowden:
Such an important point. You must work from a stock (or as close to stock as possible) deodexed framework-res.apk and twframework-res.apk when making xml edits (although I realize this section is dealing with image editing). You can't use one already themed because when you recompile stupid **** will happen. I had to figure this out the hard way (and had to dig to do so).

BTW: awesome guide, nitsuj17! If the ***tbc*** 's are as detailed as what you have already done, this guide will be one of the best and most comprehensive/non-technical guides out there. Keep up the good work!
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] agsded:
You sir, are the man! Been looking for exactly this!
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] nitsuj17:
sorry ive been neglecting this the last few days...its gonna be a wip/add as i go thing for awhile :)
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Slacker101:
I liked you for porting matted blue.. now I love you for making this lol. Was looking for a guide and stumbled on this.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Domush:
THANK YOU for starting this guide!

I realize I could have searched endlessly to learn this stuff, but in reality I have more skills than time and learning yet another thing the hard way isn't in the cards.

I'm impatiently waiting for more on the TW framework specific section, as I have no idea what edits work for what in each.

Also, some

real work examples

would be excellent.

e.g.: The required xml file edits for changing all text to #5555FF.

An

image reference

would be awesome, as well.

e.g.: The most commonly themed images and what their framework.res names are.

I find myself trying to make a theme and giving up simply because 50% of the images look very similar, and I don't have the time to edit an image, flash it, boot the phone, figure out what changed, then move to the next random-looking image.

Also, is there a faster method to test theme changes?

Booting the phone, copying the theme over, rebooting to CWM, flashing the theme, then booting to see the changes is extremely time consuming, especially when you're not even sure where the change will occur and find yourself randomly pulling up menus and dropdowns trying to see what your change affected.

Cheers for the help.

You really did fill a deep void and I thank you bunches for the help. You will also see a beer or two coming your way for the effort. Community support like this really does get rewarded, in more than just new themers making themes.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] nitsuj17:
Ill be getting to more and more in depth answers and faqs as I go along....dl30 kinda dropped in the middle of my work on this and theres a lot of themes to do. :)....but thank you for specific questions id like to see more from everyone so I know what are some more commonly asked questions and what people are looking to do. :)
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Deleted member 2774262:
This is a really good idea, I talked about making one a while back but never really got around to it. Maybe I can talk to some of the guys and we can throw something together.

ADB is probably the quickest and least painful way to test a theme. When you have completed it adb push <path/to/file/locally> <destination/on/phone>. Then adb reboot.

e.g.: adb push framework-res.apk /system/framework/
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] tennisjunkie:
N00b here with theme question for Fascinate

I apologize if I am posting in the wrong place also if this has been asked before. I have searched the web and also the forum and I was looking for step by step instructions on how to install a theme ( like myst v3.3) because prior to downloading DL30 I was running supah clean and tried installing dark-myst ( on DL09- Samsung Fascinate) and I placed it on the SD card ( yes clockword is installed) and I went to update.zip then to install zip from sd card and loacted it. it installed, cleared the cache and then it went to the SAMSUNG screen and I had to restore the phone in order to get it functioning again. I am hoping that someone can provide step by step instructions on installing a theme onto Samsung Fascinate with DL30? Thank you !!!!! :)
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] letmehearucaw:
Are you saying it got stuck on the "SAMSUNG" screen? If you used a DJ05 theme on a DL09 rom, you have to apply the DL09 theme fix otherwise your phone will get stuck on "SAMSUNG".

DL09 Theme Fix: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17566514/DL09 Theme Fix.zip

Edit:

Install DL30: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=937499

Flash only DL30 themes after installing DL30! Here's a list: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=922455

Installing a DL30 theme is the same as on a DL09 but you need the new CWM to do it.

Sorry for all the info. I hope somewhere in there you got an answer to your question.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] letmehearucaw:
I'm a totally new at this but if I can help do some legwork on it I'd be willing to try. I was just thinking about looking for a list like this...
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] tennisjunkie:
Samsung Fascinate DL30 and installing themes

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to all my scattered questions. So to install a theme I put it on my SD card then flash through ROM Manager, then boot into recovery and apply theme from SD card? DO I need to backup and clear data? I dont want to uninstall the ROM. I ended up installing Rubiks DL30 ROM. It is pretty nice looking.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] letmehearucaw:
Correct. Place the theme you want (should be .zip file) onto your SD card. So if you already have the rom installed, then you reboot into CWM recovery (when I upgraded to DL30, I never even used Rom Manager).

I've read on a couple of forum that its good to clear data and wipe caches (I've done it and not done it without noticing any difference). From there, you flash the theme ("apply .zip from SD card" is the actual command in CWM) and then reboot the phone (this is an option in CWM).

Personal preference, I always make a backup (I use Titanium Backup, but I hear nandroid is good too) before I re-theme.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] tennisjunkie:
Samsung Fascinate DL30 and installing themes

Ok. I apologize for all the questions. I tried to do exactly as you described above and it places me at the "Samsung" screen where it has installed the package then looks as if it is going to boot up but does not boot so I have to start back at stock again. I am trying to use DL30 Midnight V1.1 - (midnight for 2.2) as my theme and my ROM is 2.2 Roms

RubikS 0.3 DL30

Is it possible it is not compatible, any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks again.:cool:
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] rigglemania:
Question - is there a simpler way to compile single XML files and/or resources.arsc? It's rather tedious having to repeatedly compile/decompile entire packages just to make a single XML edit.

I admit my newbness at this, but dangit the time involved purging every last trace of that hideous aqua text adds up quickly :p
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] nitsuj17:
what i do for themes is i make a base framework-res project in apkmanager or tool and then copy it a few times and rename them 1, 2, 3 so i know theyre clean with whatever stock mods (reboot/acc battery) are built in

then i rename them to framework-res.apk when i need them and delete the old project....it saves me some time of having to decompile or locate a stock framewok and integrate whatever options i use all the time.

and if u just need a quick edit that can be pulled out and copied into an existing framework (obviously not in values) it works well too
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] rigglemania:
Drats, not quite the answer I was hoping for, but still a helpful and informative answer. Thank you :)

One more question if it's not too much trouble - Is there a definitive list of files that need to be edited when doing a thorough job of changing text colors? For example if I wanted to change all of the touchwiz primary, secondary, and tertiary text colors? I'm at the point where I have a decent grasp on how to change things, but finding the things that need changing is a bit like stumbling around blindly. From the limited progress I've made so far it seems like changing the values is the easiest way, but it's a bit difficult to tell which values end up going in what.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] nitsuj17:
Its tough to say with some certainty what does what....all the color guides out there are for other phones....and while they help to a certain degree....samsung assigns in several cases different choices for what is assigned to what.....the simplest edit is in the color folder zztwsecondarytext.xml which is the aquatic color for secondary text that so many despise

As for colors.xml in the values folder.....its mostly trial and error on my part when figuring it out
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] notta:
Well there's also the eclipse option too. This allows you to modify single xml's or 9 images.

In short you would add the decompiled xml and/or 9 images to a new android project. Then export as a unsigned apk and rip out your work fully compiled.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] nitsuj17:
that ll work for many edits...but some things like the values folder are only available when decompiled...so you wouldnt be able to make edits there and then transfer them to another framework
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] rigglemania:
But from my experimentation, it DOES seem like you can do so in a roundabout way by using the resources.arsc file. I edited a tw_color value in one project, compiled it, copied the resources.arsc to another project, compiled it and then decompiled it and the change I made was there.

Obviously you have to be careful with this so as not to accidentally introduce other changes or break anything, but IMO it's a potentially more elegant solution to the ugly text color problem.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] nitsuj17:
True...that was kinda the old school way of doing things pre-apkmanager.....now that's largely been kinda put to the side....but like I said there are more than one way to do things....I just happen to do it this way
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Domush:
With so many eb01 themes popping up in this section, there are obviously plenty of people who can help add to this FAQ. How about it themers?

Help us newbies get started.

Sent from my SCH-I500
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] nitsuj17:
Definetly...there's plenty I have to add and plenty others can l...I think q lot of time has been taken up working on themes. :)

But if anyone can just post whatever ticks, hints, tutorials in here I will link to it in the op and summarize it into the op as well
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] andmer:
Butch gave me this great link earlier about text color in menu settings.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=9664604#post9664604
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] rigglemania:
Excellent, thank you both!
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] andmer:
Here's another great post I found somewhere.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=831715
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] nitsuj17:
started post links in the last part of the op...will add more from my own list....just the usual: most of these mods/hacks/changes arent meant for the fascinate....a lot of things work...others have to be adjusted accordingly with the differences in our frameworks/apps...so be careful :)