yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] porcupineadvocate:
Took the recompiled APK, made a copy. Then copied AndroidManifest.xml, /META-INF/ and /res/ from the stock APK onto the recompiled APK, then re-copied only the modded files (in /res/) from the (copy of) the recompiled APK.

This only works if you don't add, remove or change any file names, only the contents, I think. The SE signature is kept in the copied files.

This isn't a new technique - the theme mods that hack the xml files in framework-res.apk all do this, too. I'm not sure why I couldn't get it to work without copying /res/ over to and fro, it shouldn't be necessary... but heck, whatever.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] myth999:
Kool thanx for the quick response. I always used to resign apps. But shall keep in mind this thing too. Thanks :)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] porcupineadvocate:
I don't think you can run re-signed apps as system apps...?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] myth999:
I meant in all apps in general i Used to resign. I never modified system app.

I have been with Timescape n SE backup restore only
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
Doing it the way <3D described - pulling the resources.arsc ony - resulted in an apk that had to be signed with a testkey in order to be accepted as system app.

E: I know, i know - it's just a keyboard but this hack is sooo sweet :)

X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24 - Customized
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Neo Cortex:
Thanks porcupineadvocate. Excellent mod.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] porcupineadvocate:
Hey, does anyone use a language input that displays candidates (e.g., Chinese?). Could you take a screenshot of the stock input displaying some and post it?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
Are you talking about word candidates?

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24 - Customized
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] newtron_b1:
now we need that SE messaging app to see all those smilies! :P
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] porcupineadvocate:
I meant word candidates as in CJK characters, not word completion suggestions, although that would be great too. I'm not sure how they are displayed.

I was thinking it would be ideal to mod the keyboard so that it still displayed the shift and caps buttons but overlaid them over the main activity rather than resized it. Not sure how best to do this, though...
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] porcupineadvocate:
Quite tempted to rewrite the app so it that doesn't show the smilies, actually, since the smilies are just converted to text anyway...

The SYM key list is in res\lol.xml, it seems.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
Yea - the lol marked xmls are the symbol/smilie popup

E: ups... The shift state could be cool to have layered ontop like you talked about.

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24 - Customized
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] JaX3RiR:
When I try to install porcupineadvocate's custom SuquashiInputMethod.apk, I get an error saying "Application not installed". What could possibly be wrong? I can re-install the original SuquashiInputMethod just fine.

And yes, I uninstalled the old Suquashi, replaced it with the new one in /system/app/ and then tried installing it. Boom, error :(
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
You should just remount /system rw and overwrite the one in /system/app with the custom - reboot to xrecovery and clear dalvik cache. This should work - dont worry if your phone freaks out after overwrite, just use the normal power off.

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24 - Customized
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] farhanino:
Can u use xrecovery for the input bar minimising or only adb push? Coz I dnt knw how to adb push :x lol

..::XDA Rock::..
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] porcupineadvocate:
Steps I use:

- connect cable, USB debugging mode

- open command prompt, change directory to the location of SuquashiInputMethod.apk.

-

adb push SuquashiInputMethod.apk /sdcard

-

adb shell su -c "mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock0 /system && busybox cp /sdcard/SuquashiInputMethod.apk /system/app && chmod 644 /system/app/SuquashiInputMethod.apk"

- superuser will prompt you for permission on your phone (you HAVE rooted your phone, right?) Accept.

-

adb reboot
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] porcupineadvocate:
It's probably possible, but I don't know how to use xrecovery, so you'll have to ask someone who does know to set up an update.zip or whatever it is.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
Well - i can't seem to get around the workings of update.zip so if noone else beats me to it i'll give it a try.

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24 - Customized
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] JaX3RiR:
Awesome!

It works flawlessly now! My best guess is that I didn't set the correct permissions previously.

Root Explorer was all I needed. I downloaded the zip, extracted it, copied the SuquashiInputMethod.apk to /system/app/, set the permissions to rw-r--r-- and rebooted. Perfeck.

Thanks for the help and a round of applause to porcupineadvocate!
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
I use ghost commander - free, and dual panel conntrol with extensive but protecting root management.

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24 - Customized
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
Could be awesome with slade's theme for the rest of the keyboard - SE's theme sucks big time :P

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24 - Customized
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] porcupineadvocate:
Upload slade's themed SuquashiInputMethod.apk and if I have time I'll mod it?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] slade87:
If recompile suquashi set compression from 9 to 0 gives a nice performance boost. Thats what i did
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
It where posted earlier in this thread - i think i've lost that apk in the meantime :/

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24 - Customized
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] zilexa:
Perhaps someone can change the first post with a guide how to get this done?

And will this only work with stock firmware or also with MiniCMPro - Froyo - Final (cm6) ?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tux1n:
Well - making a thread for the custom-SuquashiIME actually is a nice idea.

The work you guys did deserve a "release" :P

>X10 mini pro - U20i - 2.0.2.A.0.24 - Customized
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Squezzz:
Hallo all, I have a question :may we bind on hardware keyboard "changing language" may be on Sym+shift

and if it possible, write plz how =)

thank's for attention
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Annihilus:
Bump.

Can anyone do this?:)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tcprado:
I'm unable to install this modded version provided by porcupineadvocate.

If I just replace the files, it won't show up on the keyboard section on settings. Any suggestions? Also, can I keep my keymap (pt_BR)?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] porcupineadvocate:
Did you set permissions correctly? chmod 644 and all that.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tcprado:
Whoohoo! Thanks! Working now! I did forget to set the permissions.

Pt_br layout also working flawlessly
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Vindfeld:
also has problems, don't have the symbol menu or dk layout anymore :(

chmod 644 :confused:
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] royalbloodvi:
anyway to make the ugly blue background black?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] paradorx:
i have change the background to black.. i will share it if porcupine give the permission
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] royalbloodvi:
nice, could you upload it and pm me the link? =)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] nightcrawlerbr:
I would like that too, the blue background is awfull, doesn't fit the new firmwares. Please upload the black one!
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] paradorx:
i will post here first, as i will wait for porcupine response..

please thank porcupine as he was modding this, i just changing the theme :D
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] tcprado:
If anyone is interested, I was able to make the Android Keyboard work with our Brazilian layout hardware keyboard by editing /system/usr/keychars/qwerty.kcm.bin

this way the 'ç' key works and the physical keyboard is correctly mapped.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] nightcrawlerbr:
I would like that. Android keyboard is way faster and has less cruft then "Standard Input" from SE.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funky666:
Hi guys, here's the thing:

Yesterday I was given my friend's HTC Dream and told to get the CM6.1 working. Since that she used to have a 1.6 ROM called Bonsai. I was told to get as much data from it as possible. The reason to change the ROM was that the phone was unable to import contacts from a SIM card and some other minor problems, so the girl said that Bonsai is crap and she wants to go back to Donut :) Of course I suggested the CM6.1 instead. I also told her that we can copy the contacts via SIM card reader, upload them to Gmail and get them back to Dream, but she kinda liked the idea of having a working Froyo on her device, but that's not the point.

So what I did was:

1. Titanium backup

2. Nandroid backup

3. New 2.22.28.25 radio, recovery (recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0-cyan).

4. CM 6.1 DS + gapps.

5. Titanium restore.

I restored all of the apps, previously installed on Bonsai, the phone finally started importing the contacts and messages from SIM card, I got all the apps settings and data as well. But I can't get the SMS and MMS messages from the phone's memory back to the inbox...

Is there a way to get them back?

I got the nand backup and the Titanium backup. I didn't set it to run automatically yet, so I think it didn't overwrite the old copy with a new empty one or something :) Is there a way to recover the messages?

Thank you in advance for any help.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funky666:
Anyone have an idea?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IVI4V3R1CK:
You are probably hosed. Switching between ROMs sometimes the saved SMS/MMS and Call Log data doesn't get loaded correctly. My guess is they may use a different version (maybe an earlier AOSP release) of the application, so it won't read the backup properly.

I did find other's who's had the problem here.

It does blow, but at least the phone is in working order, right?

EDIT: I was talking with a buddy of mine who dev's for the Vibrant forums (Br1ck'd). He said since you haven't created an additional backup yet, you can go back to the original ROM (Bonsai) and then do a restore. Once the restore is done, use a different SMS backup method (for SMS and for call log) and then reflash to CM 6.1. Then use Titanium Backup to restore all information, and then restore the SMS/Call Log using the respective application.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funky666:
Thanks for the advice and links, I already though of restoring the 1.6 ROM and trying some other backup method, but I was hoping there is another method.

The CM6 was being used now for few weeks now, so I don't think wiping the call logs and messages AGAIN to restore older ones would be a good idea. Or is it? Will I be able to backup the data (CM6) now, then nand restore (to 1.6), sync the messages in another app (or any PC sync program), go back to CM and somehow sync it again to 'mix' the data?

Or is there any other way to read the messages from Titanium / Nandroid and covert them into any kind of a readable text file? A PC program to read this data from a backup file (without restoring it on the phone) or something?
[Galaxy 3 General] Mr.Gamer:
Hello everyone, i'm using the JPF clean rom + modified jpb kernel found on the dev section... everything is working fine but USB tethering sucks most of the time since JPA firmware!

The thing is, why wifi tethering is perfectly fine and stable while the USB one just interrupts from working time by time?

I'm really disappointed by this, anyone experiencing similar issues?

REAL SORRY, wrong forum... please move on general :(
[Galaxy 3 General] flores.diane02:
i have experienced this too....good catch buddy
[Galaxy 3 General] disconsolate:
Did you format before the ROM upgrade and then again after? If not, then that could be your culprit. IF you hard reset before and after a ROM change, this reduces the number of problems you get later on! Try that. Back everything up (data), do a hard rest, update firmware, and then hardreset again. Then restore your data, and it should resolve the issue!
[Galaxy 3 General] LePeR1898:
Noticed atm if i disable my screen from turning off my connection doesn't die on me :(
[General Topics] vvl:
I wonder what is referred as camcorder and what the difference is with the camera I see on the back of phone.

Say, if i use "MediaRecorder" class in API to capture the video - does it use camcorder, or camera?

Pardon my ignorance...

-V
[General Topics] HQRaja:
When we say 'camera', we're referring to the picture mode and when we say 'camcorder', we mean the video recording mode. It's the same hardware camera on the back (or in front) in both these cases.
[Touch HD General] redoano:
Hi all,

I will buy a second hand used Htc Touch HD but i want to be sure that all the hardware of the phone works. So is there a test mode to test all hardware (such as GSM, GPS, Speakers, Mic, memory card, buttons, nand-flash and etc.) ? I used e-ten before and it had a test mode to be sure that all the hardware is working
[Touch HD General] xdafan32:
There's no "test mode" that I'm aware of, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone had written something to do what you're looking for...
[Touch HD General] redoano:
I called customer service to learn if there is a test mode. They informed me older HTC models had a test mode (*#*#3424#*#*). Newer models does't have a test mode
[Touch HD General] hrk7474:
Then you'll just have to play around with it for half an hour :)
[Touch HD General] redoano:
I have it now :P
[Windows Mobile Themes] xmarkom:
This is my idea of simple but profi home screen.

It can be done with traditional home screen plugins or probably with some good theme/widgets for Mobile shell or some other today "replacer".

You will be able to change widgets vertically.

To scroll widgets horizontally (optional)

This is just idea.

I like it because every information i need is on one screen.

Resoultion is 480x800 and it is best for 3.2"+ screens
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vvl:
Pardon my ignorance, I wonder what is "camcorder" and what the difference is between it and camera i see on the back of the phone.

If I use "MediaRecorder" object to capture video - does it use camcorder, or camera?

Thanks,

-V
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kmiloco49:
Camcorder records video, camera is for pictuares
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kunnusingh:
wrong post, this thread is only for windows os :(
[Nexus S General] villano1:
I bought a nexus s. I have problems on the wifi signal, a bit weak signal, you may increase any program or replace it with a wifi chip more powerful?

and a bit of time looking but have not found anything, can someone help me.

thanks
[Nexus S General] Bronk93:
Its a known issue with the nexus s. I've read from several sources that its caused by a low power wifi chip used to conserve battery.

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] mr_ali_net:
it's not a hardware issue

because the same chip were used in the 3rd generation iPod Touch

i think it's a software problem :confused:

source

ifixit . com
[Nexus S General] KidCold:
the wifi is terrible for the nexus s. It pisses me off so much! i cant use wifi where i used to be able to with my old iphone 2g
[Nexus S General] SooSpecial:
Yes I have the same issue.

This phone is full of problems. I'm sick of it. Still have the iPhone 4 so might switch back to it.
[Nexus S General] gogol:
Try to live with it.

This is one of the weak point of Nexus S, and I hate it because I use my phone mainly for web browsing.

My old HTC Desire has much much better wifi reception.

Oh btw, I don't think the chip can be changed :) This is hardware issue.

If you cannot live with it, sell and buy another one.

For me, I will keep it because 3G is also good enough at my place. As soon as there is new Nexus, I might switch.
[Nexus S General] mathrawka:
You can always buy a wifi repeater for around $40 or so.

The wifi on the Nexus S is a bit disappointing, but if you get a repeater it should make your life more bearable :)
[Nexus S General] skylia:
same exact problem, i hope they come out with a fix for this.
[Nexus S General] ruthless10001:
So you guys saying NS has the same chip with ipod touches but has less wifi reception for conserve some battery right.?

I am not sure if this make sense to anyone but "WiFi Tether" program has "Transmit Power" option in its options section that you can change the power up to 30 mW(15 dBm). What i am tring to say is if it is possible to play with transmitting powers of the wifi chip why cant they just play with wifi options??
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guntram:
Hello folks,

I have a Wildfire, running CM7 #36, Jacob's 4.1 Kernel flashed.

Now I wanted to edit the /system/build.prop to get access to further apps (rom manager pro, e.g.).

After remounting system via

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

I wanted to copy/remove or whatever the /system/build.prop, but I only get

# rm /system/build.prop

rm: can't remove '/system/build.prop': Directory not empty

What does this mean? /system/build.prop is surely not a directory (ls -al).

Any help would be appreciated - can't post in the development-forums because of unsufficient number of posts - thanks,

Guntram
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevin2516:
Don't remove it...

Pull build.prop using adb, edit and push it back to /system
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guntram:
Hello Kevin1625,

unfortunately, this gives the same message (which I don't understand anyways?):

$ adb push build.prop /system
failed to copy 'build.prop' to '/system/build.prop': Directory not empty

Any ideas?
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevin2516:
Are you doing this via terminal??

Adb is used on your computer.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevin2516:
Mount system via recovery.

Open a cmd

cd into your tools folder

adb pull /system/build.prop

Edit it.

adb push build.prop /system/build.prop

adb reboot

I think youre trying to adb shell, there is no need.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guntram:
Thanks kevin2516 (what are these numbers for?)!

Seems, that build.prop is somehow blocked, when trying to access it on the running phone.

When I adb push on the mounted /system in recovery, everything seems to work fine.

Except, that I don't get the wanted result (Rom Manager Premium in the market) :-(.

Did you got it running, using SympMarket (which only once gave me >4000 video results - but I'm not able to reproduce ;( )?

If so, do you remember how?

Thanks a lot,

Guntram
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidwheaty:
thank you so much man! saved my phone after i accidently set PPI to 280 :L
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] usaff22:
and you should also adb shell chmod 644 /system/build.prop
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ques1234:
Device says that system directory can not be accessed when pushing the file
[Android Software Development] nemuro:
Why are the ad blocking patches permitted here?

I remember the scandal with the "Impaled Angry Birds" version.

So why are developers developing in the disadvantage of others that rely on ads to receive revenue for apps that aren't lite versions and have no paid apps released?

More importantly, why are these distributed, discussed and allowed on this developer forum?
[Android Software Development] Meltus:
I guess because they're not technically breaking any rules.

There are rules against pirating apps but none against blocking the ads (which is sort of the same thing if you think about it, both are stopping the developers from getting the money they deserve).

But yes, i think 'adblockers' should be banned from these forums. I can't believe Google even allows them to be posted to the market tbh :(

You should start a poll and see if we can get the rules changed :)
[Android Software Development] Filgaliel:
It's not illegal to block ads on webpages? Which the apps also block.

/Feras - Galaxy Tab
[Android Software Development] Gahh Its Lee:
I've felt adblockers necessary in a few games because they were almost unplayable. The problem also is alot of people only wanna block web ads but the ad blockers get apps too.
[Android Software Development] Mr. Frost:
I don't have a problem with watching ads in apps and I think it's a better way then selling apps that have no ads. I wouldn't buy most of the apps I have installed and with ads I can help the developers.

BUT: some ads are linking to a wap page which uses WAP billing. So when you touch the ad you have a contract over 10$ a week or something which is automatically billed with yor normal moblile contract. that makes it impossible to get your money back without risking high fees from your mobile provider for not paying your bills. Beacause it's not possible to block WAP billing (at least with O2) the only possible way to avoid this is to block the ads.

I'm very sorry for that, but if nothing changes (possibility to block wap billing, ads without wap links ...) I keep on blocking the ads.
[Android Software Development] joeearl13:
I'd probably shouldn't be allowed, but I am glad that it is.

Some developers just throws ads in at the last minute and it often ruins the playability of a game and you end clicking ads by accident just trying to use the app which is not acceptable. I'll click an ad when I choose to.

My feeling is a lot of apps don't use ads respectably or creatively enough and so I rarely want to click an ad anyway. It's generally some lame text link to a larger corp. with little relation to the small-name game I'm playing. If someone's is going to make an awesome game, make an awesome ad too for something the majority of the people who downloaded your game are going to want. Have seen an endless stream of banner ads for the last 10 years of my life. Yawn.
[Android Software Development] muqali:
Be careful with the "stopping developers from getting the money they deserve." comment. It is what the mpaa and riaa goons say too. It's hard to say who would use or stop using an app based on ads/too many ads if they couldn't be blocked. Developers can also sell limited free versions and full paid.

I won't deny or argue it, as there are problems with both sides, but a blanket ban seems a bit one sided in favor of the powers that be.
[Android Software Development] Chainfire:
Adblockers themselves aren't breaking any of our rules, and are thus allowed - though it's certainly debatable what kind of person would use them.

That being said, I know there are apps out there that simply work around the adblocking and show you the ads anyways.

Note that copyrighted apps re-posted here but with the ads disabled (in most cases even without the ads disabled) is definitely against the rules. If you spot one, report the post and it will be removed, as happened with Impaled Angry Birds - though it was unfortunate it took so long to be removed (you can blame me for that if you want, I do).
[Android Software Development] notasimpleway:
I get annoyed at ROM revs that apply this. Let the user decide. I had a guy ask me to make one of my apps free because he said all the other apps like it were. I would but so many people block ads now. I'd like payment for my work and I can't find a good spot to place ads in the app. Maybe a load screen, but people would tire of that fast IMO. Maybe it is possible to write code to check if ads are blocked and have the app not function or very limited.

Sent from my iPhone with the bigger Gee Bees.