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Live wallpapers.apk installed on G1 from NeXus dump

Ok guys i've managed to successfully install the LiveWallpapers.apk from the NeXus dump and also the MagicSmokeWallpaper.apk on the G1 on android 2.1. problem is that I can't get the LiveWallpaperPicker.apk to install in order to use live wallpapers. reason being is because it isn't being deodexed properly.. I used the deo-all tool and it de-dexes the .apk but i see that it throws an error during the process and i can't find out what it is since the terminal quits to quickly for me to do so. i sign the .apk and install, but throws the error "dexopt". so my theory is its not properly being de-dexed.. once I get this solved i'll also have the new launcher2.apk, gallery3d.apk, and visualization wallpapers.apk able to be installed.
any help??

bump this get this poppin

I liked to see those apps working as well...

Major progress, so thanks to a cpl devs who helped out (miketaylor, djengizz) i've been able to install the livepaperpicker.apk and the prompt to use live wallpaper shows up now.
but it fc's. reason being is because for some odd reason when it gets deodexed the mainclass in the classes.dex gets deleted and so the activity can't be read and it isn't initialized by dalvik. all we would need is to be re-compile the classes.dex back with the mainclass and in theory it should work.. but that's where the problem lays. smali isn't being so nice and throws bunch of errors.

ive heard talk about these wallpapers. what exactly is so special about them?

[email protected]@ said:
ive heard talk about these wallpapers. what exactly is so special about them?
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From what i've seen they allow the wallpapers to be animated, so for example, you can have a wallpaper that has different weather effects, or a pic of the ocean moving etc.

I cant wait until this is working on the Manup 1.0.1 rom.

good luck guys, this would be amazing.

update: there's just 1 issue holding this back from happenning afaik, once we get this worked out it should be a go.

jroid said:
update: there's just 1 issue holding this back from happenning afaik, once we get this worked out it should be a go.
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Thanks for your feedback
Hope you can tune the app soon!

Maybe something is wrong with the app that you been trying to deodex. Have you tryed downloading another nexus dump from a different source and deodexing those apps? Just a suggestion in case you didnt think about it just trying to help!

i am trying to install this on my droid with 2.1.
You need to move over some of the libraries from 2.1 or else it will not work.

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i am trying to install this on my droid with 2.1.
You need to move over some of the libraries from 2.1 or else it will not work.
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ok like what libs??.. my main issue right now is when de-odexing the apk, it leaves out the mainclass activity, so it cannot be initialized by dalvik and throws a fc. I've got it installed however and attempts to intialize when prompted

jroid said:
ok like what libs??.. my main issue right now is when de-odexing the apk, it leaves out the mainclass activity, so it cannot be initialized by dalvik and throws a fc. I've got it installed however and attempts to intialize when prompted
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Maybe he is talking about this lib's:
http://www.alldroid.org/viewtopic.php?f=210&t=850
"lib files - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BFIEKPH3"

anthonws said:
Maybe he is talking about this lib's:
http://www.alldroid.org/viewtopic.php?f=210&t=850
"lib files - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BFIEKPH3"
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will look over these files. thank you

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will look over these files. thank you
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Any Progress on this...ill be a beta tester if you need any

this is one of the coolest features of 2.1 to be honest...the eye candy factor is amazing. Seems like progress is being made though...you think it will be done soon? want it on my mt3g soon =D

guys, I have everything I need to get this working, it's just I still have the 1 problem that is totally hindering this. i'ved asked for help to somebody but they haven't responded back, although it's not something that me and djengizz haven't tried already. at this point, only hope we have is getting an un-odexed dump, OR jf updating the smali tools that are throwing the errors that we get. believe me, if u guys can't cait to have this, imagine how i feel having everything set and ready to go with only 1 thing holding it back, especially since I was basically the first 1 to start up on this mod before anyone else.

Sucks I cant do anything to help...im just sitting down while you do all the work so I can watch my wallpaper move
sounds like your really trying hope you get this out soon...you'll be my hero for sure.

basically, the main problem is in smali... I have all the smali files and try re-assembling but smali just throws loads of erros and doesn't make the classes.dex we need to get this up and running.

[Q] A call out to the Galaxy S ROM delevopers, help needed!

Well hello everyone.
I am an application development student from Belgium.
I am proficient in Java, VB.NET, some c/c++ and also PHP/JS/HTML/CSS
Anyways, my recent interest has been going out to creating custom roms for the galaxy S!
The problem now is though, I was able to find some guides and such, but most were incomplete, and for HTC(and other) devices.
I have no idea what is different between making a ROM for galaxy S or a ROM for an HTC device.
If anyone would like to link me to some good resources that can help me on my way, or would like to collaborate (and in the meanwhile teach me a bit) I would be more than happy! (I am open for collaboration as I am pretty proficient in Java and I'm always happy to code and learn more about coding!)

I think the question is really want you want to do!
Custom ROMs for Android are as simple as using recovery console to replace files on the system with your own versions.
ie. Replace the framework.apk which contains all theme images with your own modified one, which you can use to skin the device. Same for replacing other system apps.
Unfortunately, most of these apps are closed source, so modifying them is difficult. The stock android system has open source versions of most of them though, and you can modify those and build them, and then replace the ones on the device. I'm not entirely sure how to build them up though, but it probably isn't too hard.
Then there are custom kernels, which let you actually change the underlying linux system underneath android - Samsung has an open source version of the kernel available that you can compile, and then flash to your phone using Odin or other tools. Compiling the kernel is pretty tricky though.

Well i'm really talking about stuff like SamSet, MoDaCo, Doc's ROM and others.
I'm not saying I want to create a pro ROM in a day or anything, but i'd really love to learn more to get better (always looking for more stuff to put on the resume, I guess?!)
Thanks a lot,
Kenny

Bump for some help
(sorry for the double post but i'm really eager to learn)

I don't have time to give a detailed response right now. However you will want to read up on yaffs (file system) and odexing/deodexing ROMs.

Thank you I will definately do that,
I am following a guide now to start out creating custom ROMs for android, however it was written for Motorola Droid and I have no idea what you have to do different for a samsung galaxy s.
I am a good coder, even though I say so myself, with a lot of experience. I also have a lot of linux experience, you name it
Only the problem is the old, and much known "where do I get started?"
So if anyone can point me out in the right direction on that, tell me how/where you started out, I would appreciate it greatly!
Thanks!

Very sorry to bump again
I set up my environment in ubuntu today to get started (just gotta fix a few errors, didn't know android wouldn't compile on java 1.6, only on 1.5)
Anyways, still need some help here! thanks!

Again I am awefully sorry for the bump here but i'd really like some help.
Note that i'm not a newbie at coding whatsoever and i'm not unfamiliar with some hardcore java, c/c++ and other languages, I'm just having trouble getting started when it comes to modding an existing android release (there are tutorials on HTC and other devices but some methods do not apply to the galaxy S)

If you're trying to create a ROM from scratch then unfortunately you're out of luck at the moment. No one has really managed to do so yet. By "from scratch" I mean the Android Open Source Project (i.e. official Android git repository).
What you can do is grab an existing firmware. Extract the contents, de-odex the apks, modify them or add new apks, optionally you can also compile a custom SGS kernel using Samsung's kernel source. Then you can re-odex the ROM, pack it back up and distribute it.
There's no real "starting place" as such and you won't yet find any tutorials about how to create SGS ROMs. Just give it a go and see where you get.

Yes, I do mean creating a ROM from stock samsung firmware, of course.
So my next logical question would be now:
How do I go over extracting contents from the existing samsung firmware, de-odexing and so on?
Any links/guides/tips are greatly appreciated, as long as they are applicable to this cell phone and not totally crap, thanks!

Samsung uses rfs, I think you should know. There is a thread somewhere in this forum regarding extracting .rfs file. Understood you need Debian though.
For some readup, go search for a famous guy named JesusFreke. Tons of materials...
Hope that from here onwards, this can lead you on, and to find out more. Google is your friend too...

I'm afraid my biggest problems already occur in setting up the environment, so it's really the very beginning that gets me stuck, i'm sure coding would be a bikeride compared to setting up the environment for me (i'm no hero in linux,not at all, i'm afraid)
How the hell do I get from point A (being downloading the full source) to point B (starting to create a custom ROM?)
thanks
of course if anyone has the time, and wants to, you can PM me your msn or something, if anyone is up to it

Raykoid666 said:
I'm afraid my biggest problems already occur in setting up the environment, so it's really the very beginning that gets me stuck, i'm sure coding would be a bikeride compared to setting up the environment for me (i'm no hero in linux,not at all, i'm afraid)
How the hell do I get from point A (being downloading the full source) to point B (starting to create a custom ROM?)
thanks
of course if anyone has the time, and wants to, you can PM me your msn or something, if anyone is up to it
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Agreed completely! Getting a full cross-compilation to Samsung's Android going is seriously difficult! There have been some promises for tutorials and guides for setting things up though, but none have appeared yet. Probably because it's hard!

Well thank you for agreeing with me on that.
I am really hoping for anyone that can help me out here, either on here or in private, and give some detailed instructions on how to get started.
Hell there is enough information on creating roms alread, deodexing, adding/removing apps etc etc etc... The real problem lies in setting everything up properly.
I think I have gotten to the point where I'm compiling the android source (without samsung specific files)
note i'm saying "i think i am compiling" because i'm hoping it won't error out on me again after an hour of compiling!
But once that is done... I have no idea where to go next, where to get the samsung specific files, or what to do with them whatsoever once i have them
thanks!

Android generic source won't actually help you much. Samsung has made a huge number of changes to it, and while it is all open source, backporting their changes to get your stock source running on the phone is a major undertaking. I believe cyanogenmod was actually working on this, but it seems without much success so far.
What the other rom makers you see are doing is taking a snapshot of a running rom, copying over all of the APKs and the files on a running device, and then tweaking those. ie. Opening up framework-res.apk and changing the image files inside.
The update.zip roms that are what most people are doing are really just using the Android recovery to replace files on the phone with their own versions. Since the underlying system is linux, and everything is a file, this actually works pretty well.
The kernel development effort is completely separate from the rest of the system though, and Samsung has provided the entire source tree that just has to be compiled. I'm a bit stumped myself on all the details of setting it up, but I have seen some threads on this forum about it, and it didn't seem too bad to set up. Apparently you shouldn't use the codesourcery toolchain though, or something. Not too clued up on it, sorry. Hopefully someone with the details can chime in, or give us a link to the old post on it (I'm failing to find it using the search function! )

Alright sounds good!
So these recovery files you are talking about (the contents of /system) how do i retrieve those from a base ROM such as JM7 or the likes after a clean flash?)

Raykoid666 said:
Alright sounds good!
So these recovery files you are talking about (the contents of /system) how do i retrieve those from a base ROM such as JM7 or the likes after a clean flash?)
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Root your phone, zip them up onto the sdcard, and then copy them off.
There are probably better methods, but this works fine.
Also, with credits to Unhelpful, he has told me that the correct toolchain to be using is 'uClibc or eglibc toolchain with ct-ng'. I have no idea what to do with that yet, but it's a start.

RyanZA said:
Root your phone, zip them up onto the sdcard, and then copy them off.
There are probably better methods, but this works fine.
Also, with credits to Unhelpful, he has told me that the correct toolchain to be using is 'uClibc or eglibc toolchain with ct-ng'. I have no idea what to do with that yet, but it's a start.
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You don't even need to root your phone to pull /system Ryan
adb pull /system <random folder>
is all you need ^^

Alright thank you, I managed to get all the /system files using abd pull /system
now next thing up would be de-odexing right, before I go editing stuff?
Now before I go de-odexing. Can anyone tell me what exactly de-odexing is and why I need it?
and what do I need to do to create an update.zip again?
thanks a lot all!

Tayutama said:
You don't even need to root your phone to pull /system Ryan
adb pull /system <random folder>
is all you need ^^
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Haha cool, didn't know you could pull whole folders!
Raykoid666 said:
Alright thank you, I managed to get all the /system files using abd pull /system
now next thing up would be de-odexing right, before I go editing stuff?
Now before I go de-odexing. Can anyone tell me what exactly de-odexing is and why I need it?
and what do I need to do to create an update.zip again?
thanks a lot all!
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The apk files in Android are odexed - that means they have a special index applied for dalvik that speeds them up somehow! I don't know how, I haven't checked how it actually works.
The important point is though:
odexed is faster, but you can't edit it because of signatures or something technical
deodexed means you can change it however you want
More useful info can be found from google - lots of it!
update.zip is easy - it's a zip file in a special format that can be understood by Android's recovery console. The easiest way to do it is to grab an existing update.zip and modify it as needed. Tayutama has millions of em around, so use his!
Then you need to sign it once you're finished with it so that the SGS will accept it. Samsung made a boo-boo and didn't disable the test keys for the 2.1 SGS firmwares. That makes it easy!
http://www.londatiga.net/it/how-to-sign-apk-zip-files/
Just use the test keys to sign it, and then copy it to /sdcard/update.zip and reboot into recovery and it'll work.

Need help installing the Android SDK

I've read the other threads about this but there is no help to be found there unfortunately.
I've been playing with App Inventor because I wanted to avoid learning Java but my think now is that seeing as I do JavaScript/PHP/mySQL and HTML/CSS anyway I might as well do my app development properly.
I've been following the instructions at the official developer.android.com site.
and the part where I have the problem is with Eclipse - at step 1 on that page. I've installed the JDK but when I try to install Eclipse I get an error telling me that there is no Virtual Java machine in the eclipse\jre\bin\ folder.
Well I'm following the instructions so what can I do about this? I don't even understand the error. Is there supposed to be a file in this folder, a folder which a.doesn't come with the standard Eclipse .zip file and which b.doesn't exist at all!
I tried this all before some time ago and got the same problem. At that time I couldn't even use App Inventor because of some JDK/JRE problem but I un-installed and reinstalled Java and App Inventor is working now.
This is one of the most frustrating computing problems I've faced because I've searched all over for an answer and there is nothing out there. Frankly I'm a little surprised at how poor the installation documentation is
The only thing I can think of is I have the wrong version of Eclipse. Which exact one is everyone else using?

Hello Subjective Effect. There is not a folder named eclipse\jre\bin in eclipse installation folder. The version i m using is eclipse-helios. I was not faced the problem you have.

I've solved that part of the problem by downloading a different version of Eclipse. It is a Helios version and is the one with Java. The installation instructions are not clear on this.
I now have another issue but I'll try work that out for the time being.

So I've no idea (again because the instructions are so poor) what to do about this.
I'm on the Android Developers site and trying to start the Hello World tutorial. I'm already stumped at the stage of creating a New Project because after I set up Project name, Application name, Package name and Create Activity clicking "Finish" gives this error:
[2010-10-28 01:33:03 - HelloAndroid] ERROR: Unable to open class file C:\workspace\HelloAndroid\gen\com\subjectiveeffect\helloandroid\R.java: No such file or directory
The reason I think the docs are poor is am I supposed to have created this directory or does Eclipse create it for you? And if it's supposed to be created for you what am I doing wrong?

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So I've no idea (again because the instructions are so poor) what to do about this.
I'm on the Android Developers site and trying to start the Hello World tutorial. I'm already stumped at the stage of creating a New Project because after I set up Project name, Application name, Package name and Create Activity clicking "Finish" gives this error:
[2010-10-28 01:33:03 - HelloAndroid] ERROR: Unable to open class file C:\workspace\HelloAndroid\gen\com\subjectiveeffect\helloandroid\R.java: No such file or directory
The reason I think the docs are poor is am I supposed to have created this directory or does Eclipse create it for you? And if it's supposed to be created for you what am I doing wrong?
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Mine seems to have that error no matter what I type in.

So what have you done about it? Or can I continue without worrying, is this a trivial error message?

1) you should download Eclipse 3.5.2 as Helios is not supported by Android plugin yet.
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-classic-352/galileosr2
2) R.java problem should go away if you restart eclipse

Also, to start with better use the existing sample project HelloWorld rather than setting up your own.

This is a common known bug. You can use the latest eclipse version, once you setup a project, you will have to go under project properties and choose compiler version 1.6, which is set to 1.5 usually.
Tha will solve the problem, because i was facing the same a few days ago when starting to mess with SDK and Eclipse.

I had a similar problem and gave up for awhile and when I came back to it I found out that I didn't have my paths set correctly for the java jdk, not sure if that is it but it worked for me.

I find if I restart Eclipse it fixes things.
I've been playing with layouts!

[Q] Trouble assembling a DLL

We have an imageinfo.bin, and S000, S001, S002, and S003. We need to combine them somehow.
So, I've found threads that will teach you how to create ROMs based on imageInfo.bin files, but does anyone know how to take the pieces of a DLL (or executable) and put them together as a standalone DLL? We are trying to do that in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=844008&page=3
For an example of what we are trying to assemble, check here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=444604&d=1290160423

You need to get recmod.exe.

Awesome, thanks! You rock.
I'm running into an error message though, "Error! ProcessCase0: bit 5 is zero!" I think maybe the file format for windows phone 7 is different. Is there anywhere I can go to understand this problem, and maybe get the source code and fix it or something?

FWIW my suspicion is that recmode.exe doesn't properly handle signed binaries, since all the WP7 binaries are signed, but previous WM versions weren't all signed.

Ondraster probably knows the right way to re-file them.

OndraSter doesn't know the actual way .
Binaries in WP7 are a bit different, maybe those e32 and whatever (I haven't dug into this ever, don't understand it and I'm not sure it is worth learning, since WM is going off and WP7 won't be cookable or worth cooking) are different and recmod can't handle its new awesomeness .

Hey OndraSter,
Thanks for the reply. It seems it would be something useful in our efforts to run native code on Windows 7 to be able to recmod those things. Do you have the source code, or any tips on how to go about figuring it out? I can give you all the credit, all I want is to be able to assemble the files!

I have the same problem...

[Q] Problem getting started on Android Studio

Hey guys,
I have been having trouble getting started developing applications for android. I know how to use Java, and frequently use the netbeans ide for my java homework ect. But I decided why not adventure out and build upon what I learned in school. Unfortunately I have ran into nothing but problems. The first problem is this:
"Gradle project sync failed. Basic functionality (e.g editing, debugging) will not work properly. "
In the messeages window it reads:
[file path to \app\build.gradle]
Failed to Find: com.android.support:appcompact-v7:21+
I have had trouble using grade in eclipse....well I only got eclipse to work once, when I first got my phone, and managed to make a small pop-up app for my self. I did not know any programming language at the time. I merely just copy and pasted most of the code.
and problem number two;
The generated code is riddled with errors?
I look through most of these errors and they state that certain things can be resovled. For example, cant resolve "support" <--- I think that by not having this imported correctly (I think this falls into the first problem) is causing the rest of the errors in my MainActivity file to go crazy.
Is their any way to post more information? Like a log file, maybe that might be of more help too. I just am unfamiliar with Android Studio, as of right now. Attached is a picture of the IDE when is spawns the error.
Thanks for the help in advance!

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KJ4CCH said:
Hey guys,
I have been having trouble getting started developing applications for android. I know how to use Java, and frequently use the netbeans ide for my java homework ect. But I decided why not adventure out and build upon what I learned in school. Unfortunately I have ran into nothing but problems. The first problem is this:
"Gradle project sync failed. Basic functionality (e.g editing, debugging) will not work properly. "
In the messeages window it reads:
[file path to \app\build.gradle]
Failed to Find: com.android.support:appcompact-v7:21+
I have had trouble using grade in eclipse....well I only got eclipse to work once, when I first got my phone, and managed to make a small pop-up app for my self. I did not know any programming language at the time. I merely just copy and pasted most of the code.
and problem number two;
The generated code is riddled with errors?
I look through most of these errors and they state that certain things can be resovled. For example, cant resolve "support" <--- I think that by not having this imported correctly (I think this falls into the first problem) is causing the rest of the errors in my MainActivity file to go crazy.
Is their any way to post more information? Like a log file, maybe that might be of more help too. I just am unfamiliar with Android Studio, as of right now. Attached is a picture of the IDE when is spawns the error.
Thanks for the help in advance!
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Ok guys, I figured it out. We need to install a package from the sdk manager. The picture shows which one needs to be installed. The package is "Android Support Repository"

Seems you have already gotten the answer. But for this kind of questions, past the main line of the error log into Google is much faster than post a question, I think.