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Extra Features on AOSP 1.6

I'm setting up this thread to keep extra functions on AOSP 1.6 & the actual development of AOSP 1.6 separate.
Discuss issues with extra functions in this thread & NOT the AOSP 1.6 thread.
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Googlebits:
Flash with this signed update.zip: Multiupload (RS|MU|DF|HF|ZS|4S)​
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Superuser:
Flash with this signed update.zip: Multiupload (RS|MU|DF|HF|ZS|4S)​________________________________________________
Busybox:
This needs to be installed if you install Superuser.
Code:
adb remount
adb shell
busybox --install /system/xbin/
adb reboot
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HTC Keyboard
Download Clicker.apk & HTC_IME.apk from here.
Do the following commands:
Code:
adb remount
adb install -r Clicker.apk
adb install -r HTC_IME.apk
adb reboot
Go into Settings>Locale & Text, made sure "Touch Input" is checked
Long press a text box, selected Input Method & selected "Touch Input"
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Thanks:
quietcbelongs for working on AOSP 1.6
gbhil for the two signed update.zips, this really makes it much easier for everyone
cyanogen for the framework-free HTC keyboard

Great thread.
A couple things to do after you get the Googlebits on:
Move su
Code:
#cp /system/xbin/su /system/bin/su
#ls /system/bin/**to verify su copied**
#rm /system/xbin/su
Install busybox symlinks
Code:
#busybox --install /system/xbin/
I'm loving this build. As soon as GPS gets working I'm deleting my 1.5 nandroid backup.

Link is broken. :-(

JasonMudd said:
Link is broken. :-(
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Link perfectly fine for me, site is loading a little slow, but it's still there.

Thanks for posting googlebits.
Just a FYI
its a bit cleaner if you do the following.
unarchive google bits to androidsdk/tools
change dir to androidsdk/tools
adb remount
adb push system/framework /system/framework
adb push system/etc/permissions /system/etc/permissions
adb push system/app /system/app
adb reboot

lonerebel said:
Thanks for posting googlebits.
Just a FYI
its a bit cleaner if you do the following.
unarchive google bits to androidsdk/tools
change dir to androidsdk/tools
adb remount
adb push system/framework /system/framework
adb push system/etc/permissions /system/etc/permissions
adb push system/app /system/app
adb reboot
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I prefer to push each file individually but I guess that would work also.

lonerebel said:
Thanks for posting googlebits.
Just a FYI
its a bit cleaner if you do the following.
unarchive google bits to androidsdk/tools
change dir to androidsdk/tools
adb remount
adb push system/framework /system/framework
adb push system/etc/permissions /system/etc/permissions
adb push system/app /system/app
adb reboot
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Worked great for me! Thanks!

It may be something else I've broken (I've been tinkering), but is anyone getting gmail push with this build?
Mine seems to have stopped. I can check the mail manually, but nothing is getting pushed to me. Since this could be a Google issue, or something I've done, I'm looking for input before i troubleshoot.

incogneato said:
It may be something else I've broken (I've been tinkering), but is anyone getting gmail push with this build?
Mine seems to have stopped. I can check the mail manually, but nothing is getting pushed to me. Since this could be a Google issue, or something I've done, I'm looking for input before i troubleshoot.
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I was getting Gmail fine the first day. I'm going to reflash my phone tonight & start fully testing it.

nevermind.

thanks so much for this works like a charm

contacts arent syncing
Hi. I'm having a problem getting my contacts to sync up.everything else though is working flawlessly though

Do the protected apps in the market place show up with this rom??
Thanks!

incogneato said:
It may be something else I've broken (I've been tinkering), but is anyone getting gmail push with this build?
Mine seems to have stopped. I can check the mail manually, but nothing is getting pushed to me. Since this could be a Google issue, or something I've done, I'm looking for input before i troubleshoot.
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I'm also having issues with new emails being pushed to my phone, but I have been tinkering with SU, so I also may have broke it. I have already installed this on another friend's Hero & I'm going to see if they are having the same issue.
UPDATE:
My friend has not been having an issues receiving new email or with the notifications, so something related to SU or busybox, is possibly causing the issue.
darchstar said:
Hi. I'm having a problem getting my contacts to sync up.everything else though is working flawlessly though
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I think there might be issue with Google sync after the initial sync.
jerrygon said:
Do the protected apps in the market place show up with this rom??
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Yes protected apps show up in the market & install fine.

gu1dry said:
I'm also having issues with new emails being pushed to my phone, but I have been tinkering with SU, so I also may have broke it. I have already installed this on another friend's Hero & I'm going to see if they are having the same issue.
UPDATE:
My friend has not been having an issues receiving new email or with the notifications, so something related to SU or busybox, is possibly causing the issue.
I think there might be issue with Google sync after the initial sync.
Yes protected apps show up in the market & install fine.
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Thanks. I went the whole way back. RUU, rooted with 1.5.2 recovery, flashed quietcblongs 1.6 and copied over googlebits. I'll leave it for a while and verify sync works as expected.
I don't see how busyboxes symlinks or moving su could break it, but your research mirrors mine, so we will see what happens.

Sometime last evening Google syncing stopped again. I'm going to try some mixing and matching with the various 1.5 and 1.6 versions of googlebits.

When i put the code in the cmd it says code not found

i meant error device not found

Did you install the Android SDK? If you did, did first cd to the tools folder of you Android SDK, before you did all the adb commands?

i did i do not know what is wrong

[SOLVED] Installed applications -> .apk?

Hey!
I have a lot of applications on my phone. I would like to collect all to my memory card in form of .apk-files, so I easily can install the programs I have now after I've flashed with another ROM.
How do I do this?
I have ADB Shell installed, my phone is rooted and so on and so forth.
I would like to avoid making a backup with Astro, since the installation probably won't come out clean (?).
EDIT: Solved it via ADB.
Wrote the following:
adb pull /data/app/ c:\"foldername"\
adb pull /data/app-private/ c:\"foldername"\
And all your installed applications will be copied to the folder you specify, as .apk-files.

After you backed up all your .apk files, did you have to manually re-install all your apps? or did you have a way to batch install them via adb? or is it possible to adb push those files back to /data/app/ and /data/app-private/ ?

Just push them. The directory is /system/sd/app/ if you have a2sd enabled.

[TIPS] simplest way to install tons of app...

copy .apk(s) to any folder in sdcard, mine "marketapp"
then type these following commands below:
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adb shell
su
cd /sdcard/marketapp
for app in *.apk; do pm install -r $app; done
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this is the simplest way...
regards,
d4rkcell

Nice tip, thank you for this one!

the way i do it is via AppBrain
just click on Installapps, then all the all aps in your apps brain account will get installed back to the phone
it was very helpful the other day i had to format the phone because of a bug in Launcher Pro

Stable ROM w/Backup Assistant?

Are there any stable ROMs that have Backup Assistant? My son just bought a Droid X and I rooted it for him. I have an Incredible and it seems like I have so many more choices as far as ROMs go. I put a couple ROMs on his X but they both had Backup Assistant removed and he really needs to have it.

I'm not sure of any of the ROM's currently that have Backup Assistant still in it. I think most of the ROM's have taken out all/most of the Moto Blur features and a lot of the "bloatware" that verizon throws on their phones. MY guess would be that most devs are pulling this out of the phone. If you really want to add it back in, I would try this...I have never had to do this for Backup Assistant, but I have manually added Facebook back in like this...
NOTE: If you have the phone rooted, I would make sure that you have koush's bootstrap installed and make a backup of the phone in its current state in case something goes wrong. Then you have a backup you can restore.
The usual...I take no responsibility if your phone gets messed up from following this...
Open a command prompt with the phone attached using Charge only USB mode.
Type the following commands:
1) type: adb shell (press enter)
2) tyep: su (press enter)
3) type: mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
You will need the android sdk installed, and open up ANOTHER command prompt to the sdk/tools/ folder. Paste the attached .apk and .odex files for backup assistant in the tools folder. You will need to rename the .odex.zip file to just .odex
make sure that ithe phone recognized by adb (at command prompt, type adb devices)
From command prompt at C:\<sdk location\tools\
1)type: adb push BackupAssistanceClient.apk /system/app
2)type: adb push BackupAssistanceClient.odex /system/app
switch back to the first command prompt where you typed adb shell (MAKE SURE NONE OF THIS IS MISPELLED! the slightest error can brick a phone!
1) type: cd /system/app
2) type: chmod 644 BackupAssistanceClient.apk
3) type: chmod 644 BackupAssitanceClient.odex
4) Type: exit
you may need to type exit one more time, but make sure it returns you to a normal command prompt. Then type adb remount
This will remount the /system portion of the phone back to the normal read-only state.
Then you will need to reboot the phone. When it loads up, this should have the app reloaded for you to use.

lennie paz said:
Are there any stable ROMs that have Backup Assistant? My son just bought a Droid X and I rooted it for him. I have an Incredible and it seems like I have so many more choices as far as ROMs go. I put a couple ROMs on his X but they both had Backup Assistant removed and he really needs to have it.
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Why not pull his contacts off of Verizon's website and import them into Gmail?

milan616 said:
Why not pull his contacts off of Verizon's website and import them into Gmail?
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Either they do not know how to do this, or they don't want their contacts with Google
I would suggest syncing with Google over using the Backup Assistant
Log into the Backup Assistant web site
Somewhere you will find export contacts
Export as a csv file
Log into GMail
Go to Contacts
Click import
Find your downloaded csv file
Import
Run the merge and clean option
And you are done

I BELIEVE Apex still has Backup Assistant, not 100% sure though as I've been running GummyJAR for a while now:
http://androidforums.com/droid-x-al...id-x-running-running-fast-can-12-16-10-a.html
Honestly if you just want to be able to keep track of your contacts, I would just back them up to the SD card, load up a different ROM (my personal favorite after having tried them all is GummyJAR at the moment), load the saved contact list then make sure your Google account is backing them up. It's what I do and I prefer it over relying on Verizon's software.

Yeah gmail.contact sync is super easy... but apex has backup assistant on it still, fyi
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My favorite would be chevyno1's SSX 1.1 at the moment.
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Yeah ApeX is definitely the way to go !! and it indeed does have Backup assist.

milan616 said:
Why not pull his contacts off of Verizon's website and import them into Gmail?
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To the OP, this is what I would suggest. Gmail backup is much easier. Once you log in to the phone with your Gmail account, your contacts will automatically come up.

Yes I would suggest Gmail contacts as well. I ROM all the time and my contacts always get sync'd to my phone as soon as I add my Gmail. Once I add my FB it also syncs with their profiles and adds/updates pictures.

Q Easiest way to remove bloatware?

Hi. Can someone tell me the easiest way to remove bloatware like soundhound, amazon mp3 etc. My phone is rooted BTW.
Thanks

You'll need the android sdk installed on your computer but then:
adb remount
adb shell
cd system/app
rm whateveryoulike.apk
It goes without saying that a backup is a good idea before you start deleting stuff. Some things you can delete no worries but others may be dependencies etc. But as far as bloatware is concerned you shouldn't have a problem.

Or if you don't have the sdk installed you could install a file manager like astro file manager from the market and browse and delete the apk's directly on your phone. They're in /system/app/ anyway.