If anyone is interested in running an Android emulator heres a short guide for it.
Step 1: ADB
If you haven't already, you need to install ADB on your computer. See this guide:
ADB Guide
Step 2: Configuration
Now open SDK Setup.exe from wherever your android-sdk-windows folder is and go to the [Virtual Devices] option and press [New]
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and this window will show up
Heres what to put
Name: Put something simple like "Android_2.2", etc
Target: From the dropdown box, select whichever Android version you want. I want Android 2.2 so I will select "Android 2.2 - API Level 8"
SD Card: Insert a size in MBs. I put 500(MB). The larger the size, the longer it will take to process. Ignore the File option
Skin: I would recommend you skip this option
Hardware: If you press the [New...] Button it will give you a bunch of options. Basically, you can configure if your emulator can support GPS, Dpad, Keyboard, etc. Most of them are enabled by default but you can increase the ram via "Device Ram Size". I set it to 500(MB) for example.
Heres what it should look like when finished
Click [Create AVD]
Step 3: Running The Emulator
Now open up CMD (Start>Run>Cmd) and enter the following commands:
cd c:\android-sdk-windows\tools (or wherever your "android-sdk-windows\tools" is)
emulator -avd "AVD Name" -partition-size 500 (AVD Name is whatever name you used in the beginning and 500 is the size of the emulators internal memory in MBs. You can increase the size if you want)
Now the emulator should show up and when its done booting up you should have something like this.
And you have your emulator
Step 4: Installing APKs
Now you might want to install some apps/games on it. You can either download APKs from the internet or rip them from your phone. First, open up another CMD (Start>Run>CMD) and type:
cd c:\android-sdk-windows\tools (Or whatever command you used in step 3)
To rip APKs from phone, connect phone to computer and put phone in USB Debugging mode Settings>Applications>Development>USB Debugging. Now go:
adb pull /data/app
Now in your android-sdk-windows\tools folder there should be a list of APKs. Now disconnect your phone and to install the APKs to the emulator, go:
adb install ______________.apk (Whatever the name is)
*NOTE* If you downloaded an APK from the internet, put it in the android-sdk-windows\tools folder first.
And there you have it. Enjoy!!!
Gary~~
TIPS
Will add tomorrow
Hi xGary,
i`ve done all the steps but when i type emualtor -avd Android -partition-size 500 tell me `emulator`is not recognized as an internal or esternal command, operable program or batch file.
rendeiro2005 said:
Hi xGary,
i`ve done all the steps but when i type emualtor -avd Android -partition-size 500 tell me `emulator`is not recognized as an internal or esternal command, operable program or batch file.
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Oh sorry, it was supposed to be emulator not emualtor. Typo
Thanks for the guide but how do you make the emulator landscape?
emulator does not show up
Hi,
I followed all the steps but after starting emulator from cmd no window came. Infact two or three times a black cmd window appeared and dissappeared instantly. was not able to read the text on the window.....
on other forums, somebody suggested to wait for a while....but i waited for about half n hour...nothing happened....
i can see a process "emulator.exe" in taskmanager which is consuming around 50% of cpu usage...and 18 MB ram......
My computer config: Pentium dual core with 4 GB of RAM
kindly guide....thanks in advance...
You may start the emulator by selecting the avd and press "Start" button. I did it today and works fine.
I just saw the guide here but luckily (I'm newbie to this) I did exactly the same steps except the start the emulator through CMD.
Btw if you go to se's dev website you can grab a preconfigured x10 avd.
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Edit: heres the link
http://developer.sonyericsson.com/wportal/devworld/downloads/download/dw-102216-xperia-x10sdkadd-onr1?cc=gb&lc=en
gavriel18 said:
Btw if you go to se's dev website you can grab a preconfigured x10 avd.
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Edit: heres the link
http://developer.sonyericsson.com/w...d/dw-102216-xperia-x10sdkadd-onr1?cc=gb&lc=en
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Thanks. Downloading now.
gavriel18 said:
Btw if you go to se's dev website you can grab a preconfigured x10 avd.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
Edit: heres the link
http://developer.sonyericsson.com/w...d/dw-102216-xperia-x10sdkadd-onr1?cc=gb&lc=en
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Take a look at the description:
Dec 16, 2009
Sony Ericsson Xperia™ X10 add-on for the Android SDK
The Sony Ericsson Xperia™ X10 add-on for the Android SDK includes the complete Android system with additions customizing it for the X10 : Sony Ericsson splash screen; X10 colour backgrounds; A "skin" of the X10 which is a simple graphic of the front of the phone; A hardware.ini file to set the operating parameters for screen, camera, audio and so on.
According to date this "complete Android system with additions customizing it for the X10" is for Android 1.6. I didn't dig pretty deep, but search for a new version wasn't successful. It can be a base, but look like requires a lot of customization for current Android version.
@che
But what do you plan on doing with it? And can you not use the hardware profile while using 2.1 apis?
@ freco no prob
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problem was with android 2.1
Hi,
thnx for the replies..
yesterday i was trying to start the avd for version 2.1 and it was not running....today i downloaded other versions..(almost all from 1.5 to 2.2) and tried to run emulator of them again..
except 2.1 all other went fine...i think there is some problem with Android 2.1....by d way m happy now...and can start some work..
gavriel18 said:
@che
But what do you plan on doing with it? And can you not use the hardware profile while using 2.1 apis?
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I think to try to program for Android and this profile allows to see how the program will look like at specifically X10 platform.
kashifsiddique said:
Thanks for the guide but how do you make the emulator landscape?
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turn of Number-Lock and Click the #7 key to swap the screen from portrait - to landscape - and back #-)
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I remember that there was a video originally released on Youtube demonstrating the Rosie UI of the HTC Hero in an emulator. Would anyone happen to know what emulator was being used to do that and how one would go about to get it to run in the emulator?
Thanks.
the emulator that i believe was from the android sdk. you can download it http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.5_r3/index.html
Im not sure if hero is on the emulator because it requires some files which are not in 1.5 database.
modaco got the emulator to run cyanogen's mod http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534580
if you want to run it here are the steps for Windows
1. download sdk
2. extract it to the C: or root of any drive to make it easier to acess
3. Download Java SDK http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp "Java SE Development Kit (JDK)" JDK 6 Update 14 will do
4. Install, and open command prompt (start > run > cmd)
5. navigate to the tools folder of android sdk
ex if you extracted it to C:\android, type
Code:
cd c:\android
cd tools
Next type to create avd
Code:
android create avd -n NAME -t 2
To test and run it
Code:
emulator -avd NAME
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it should look like this when your done
cool
x9f said:
the emulator that i believe was from the android sdk. you can download it http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.5_r3/index.html
Im not sure if hero is on the emulator because it requires some files which are not in 1.5 database.
modaco got the emulator to run cyanogen's mod http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534580
if you want to run it here are the steps
1. download sdk
2. extract it to the C: or root of any drive to make it easier to acess
3. Download Java SDK http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp "Java SE Development Kit (JDK)" JDK 6 Update 14 will do
4. Install, and open command prompt (start > run > cmd)
5. navigate to the tools folder of android sdk
ex if you extracted it to C:\android, type
Code:
cd c:\android
cd tools
Next type to create avd
Code:
android create avd -n NAME -t 2
To test and run it
Code:
emulator -avd NAME
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it should look like this when your done
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This looks cool I would like to try anyway I could use my nandroid backup and how if yes
can someone give use commands for lunix? those commands aren't working on Ubuntu..
You can run a nandroid backup image through the emulator, so you'd have to install hero on your phone first.. which I assume would defeat the object of emulating hero in the first place.
AdrianK said:
can someone give use commands for lunix? those commands aren't working on Ubuntu..
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sorry forgot to mention this is for windows
i'm not fluent in linux
you can try the webpage and scroll down for linux
http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.5_r3/installing.html
Renegade_R said:
I remember that there was a video originally released on Youtube demonstrating the Rosie UI of the HTC Hero in an emulator. Would anyone happen to know what emulator was being used to do that and how one would go about to get it to run in the emulator?
Thanks.
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What's your goal for doing this? You know there are Hero ROMs?
Deathwish238 said:
What's your goal for doing this? You know there are Hero ROMs?
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i guess he wanted to try it on the computer
Thanks works well but slow
try adding more memory to it.
modaco web page said:
1. Download the Android SDK (which includes the emulator) from here.
2. Extract the downloaded zip.
3. Run a command prompt, and change to the 'tools' directory of the SDK (or add the tools directory to your path).
4. Type 'android list target'
5. Note the 'id' number of the '1.5' target (in my case it's '2')
6. Type 'android create avd -n enhanced -t 2' (substitute 2 with the target number determined above if required)
7. You will be prompted to create a hardware profile. This is optional, but I selected 'yes' and accepted the defaults for everything except RAM, where I gave it 256MB. wink.gif
8. Download and unzip this image file.
9. Copy the above file to the location of the enhanced.avd directory ('C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\.android\enhanced.avd' on Windows XP, and 'C:\Users\<user>\.android\enhanced.avd' on Windows Vista).
10. You're ready! Type 'emulator -avd enhanced' to run! Note: inital boot may take a few minutes!
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I have the leaked Hero ROM. Is there any way to, say, load it in the SDK emulator?
I'm also interested in this topic.
Does anyone have a system.img from a hero rom?
Did you ever get the Hero Rom working in the emulator?
Do any of you think it's possible to run a full blown Window manager on our phones?
Not anything like gnome or kde, but awesome or lxde.
I have grown increasingly tired of all of Android's home applications.
Look forward to seeing comments
Well, I know you can run Debian Linux on our phones... I don't really think there is a point though because our CPU isn't powerful enough to make it very functional. The Droid may have a chance, and the Nexus One or Evo probably could.
Our phones should be powerful enough. Awesome and similar window managers use very little cpu.
wow, I'm no where near able to answer your question but what an interesting idea!! That would be very cool!
Thanks to REGAW helping me learn I used my new gnome bootable usb last night, how cool!!
Only downside is it doesn't save ANYTHING from the session, I'm going to partition some space for it on my hdd
id love to see ubuntu ported to our heros. the tp2 users have it, why not us?
I'd say Ubuntu is a bit too much I think a Debian port would be much more friendly.
Now that I think about it, I wonder if gentoo could be compiled on the phone and used as a phone.</off topic>
This topic is about running a *Window Manager* on the phone, not another operating system. I was reading about Android on the Wikipedia page earlier, and I read that there was no X support, so I dont think it would be very easy to get it working :/
Some of those manager are deathly simple. I guess they could potentionally be ported.
if you were running one of these overclocked roms would this change anything, I found this elsewhere, I didn't write it, you may have read it before:
OK, here's howto get Debian up and running on your HTC Hero running the MoDaCo Custom Rom 2.9:
1. Download this archive:
androidfanatic.com/cms/unofficial-app-repo.html?func=fileinfo&id=21
2. Extract the archive, resulting in a folder 'debian'. Inside this folder
replace 'installer.sh' and 'bootdeb' by the files provided with this howto.
Make sure they are replaced, delete the old ones first!
3. copy the folder 'debian' to the root of your sdcard. The root is the highest level, e.g.
drive E:\ if you are on a windows pc. Unmount sdcard on pc and phone.
4. Download ConnectBot from the market. See included QR-Code for use with Barcode Scanner app.
5. Start ConnectBot and open a local shell. To do so click on the drop down menu on the lower left
that says 'ssh' and select local.
6. As this is your first start of Debian you need to "install" it first. Execute the following
commands (press enter at the end of each line, always allow root access if asked):
su -
cd /sdcard/debian
sh installer.sh
bootdeb
At this point you are changing into the Debian environment. From now on do not restart
your phone or kill ConnectBot without executing 'exit' first. Now continue with commands:
/scripts/onetime.sh
exit
That's it, you are done! Now you can do whatever you want with your Debian installation.
7. To go into Debian from now on you use the following commands in a local shell in ConnectBot:
su -
bootdeb
You can automate that by passing these two commands as 'post-login automation' in ConnectBot,
long click the 'Local' entry in ConnectBot and edit the host.
Remember to leave with 'exit'! Alternatively you can click the trackball once and then press 'd'
on the keyboard. This resembles 'Ctrl+d', which is the logout command for unix shells. Do this
two times more to shut down the local shell in ConnectBot.
8. If you want to access your Debian by ssh execute the following command:
/etc/init.d/ssh start
9. To free some space in your image file execute the following command in the Debian environment:
apt-get clean
Do this also after every usage of 'apt-get upgrade' or 'apt-get install'.
10. For additional information here is howto resize your debian.img (for Linux only):
androidfanatic.com/cms/community-forums.html?func=view&id=1610&catid=9
And see here howto install a graphical desktop enviroment, in this case lxde or icewm:
(Note that i had to resize my debian.img first!)
wiki.lxde.org/en/Android
I'm not going to quote the entire post
@tmachovec: thanks for the info, but I'm looking to see if we can actually run it on the phone. Not connect to a fake X11 server over local ssh. I appresicate the input. But I'd like to run this on the phone
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml
Gentoo has an ARM build, so it's possible.
noidea` said:
I'm not going to quote the entire post
@tmachovec: thanks for the info, but I'm looking to see if we can actually run it on the phone. Not connect to a fake X11 server over local ssh. I appresicate the input. But I'd like to run this on the phone
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Gnome, KDE, IceWM or LXDE Desktop on your Android! 1 Year, 2 Months ago Karma: 9
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Many comments on sites that have blogged this post seem to be getting the wrong end of the stick. This is not connecting to a remote desktop on another machine! This is x11 and LXDE Desktop running LOCALLY on the G1 device, the reason I had to connect back to LOCALHOST using VNCViewer (also running LOCALLY on the device) is because there are no drivers available. This circumnavigates the need for any special drivers.
Now back to business!
It's official you can run X-Windows and your choice of GUI (Gnome, KDE, IceWM etc on an Android device!
Screenshots are below!!
androidfanatic.com/community-forums.html?func=view&catid=9&id=1620#1620
wow im lost in all this (NOT linux savy)
what does this mean?
Ok, so I've been trying to do this and I can never manage to get it working. When debian boots, it gives me an array of errors, but its too quick to reboot so I can't read whats wrong. I'm 99% sure it has something to do with the image being read off the sdcard. I read the installer script and manually moved all the necessary files because the script would not do it.
Yes, I ran everything as su
Has any one else had problems with this?
Thanks tmachovec
Any one have info on my problem?
I couldn't get it to load either, same problems with getting Debian to boot. I know a little about linux but not enough solve these issues.
noidea` , I have no idea.
just wondering has any one been able to do this successfully on their Hero's?
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just wondering has any one been able to do this successfully on their Hero's?
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Have you tried doing some of the stuff from this site
http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-hero-hero-modaco-com/292093/debian-lenny-now-running-on-hero/
Its the gsm htc hero.. Different phone, but some of the stuff might definitely apply.
Heres a post I made after i got it to work
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6438126#post6438126
I GOT IT WORKING
here is a screen shot.. Im willing to do any kind of screen shot to prove it
Ill zip up my exact files that I use and the simple command to get it up and running.
Ill open up something and type my name and post a screen shot in a bit.
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Team,
This One-Click Root process will copy over the rooted-update.zip or unroot-update.zip file then reboot your phone. Follow the instructions in the CMD prompt that launches.
Credits:
LeshaK at Samdroid: for the original rooted-update.zip.
gunnarhafdal : for creating the Mac GUI for my app.
This has been tested on stock Android 2.1 Eclair only. If you rooted using another process you can use this process to unroot as long as you didnt load a rom that created links to busybox.
For the following models:
GT-I9000
Captivate SHG-I897
Vibrant SGH-959
GT-I9000M
Epic SPH-D700 (Untested but should work like other phones. Post with your results. This is harmless it will either work or it wont. It copies over 3 files to your existing build.)
Rooting adds the following to your system and unrooting removes them:
/system/xbin/busybox (version 1.17.1)
/system/xbin/su
/system/app/Superuser.apk (version 2.3.1)
and links /system/bin/su to /system/xbin/su
More will follow as they are released. PM me to add your Galaxy S Model.
Warning: I am not responsible for bricked phones, rooting can void your warranty....
PC Instructions:
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Download the app: here, mirror.
Watch the video for the full procedure on The Unlockr.
Video/Procedure Link Click Here
Requirements: Install Link: Dot Net Framework version 4
Rooting Instructions:
1. Make sure your phone is on USB Debug mode: (MENU > Settings > Applications > Developement > USB debugging = Checked )
2. For Windows x86 and x64 systems make sure that the Samsung Drivers are installed. You can get them here.
3. Extract the contents of GalaxyS_Vibrant_One-Click_Root.rar to a folder.
4. Connect your phone to your PC via the USB cable and launch the file "T-Mobile Vibrant One-Click Root.exe" file.
5. Click the "One-Click Root" button. This will launch a command shell follow the instructions in the CMD window.
Mac Instructions:
Download the app: here, mirror.
It requires Mac OS X 10.5 or higher.
Rooting Instructions:
1. Make sure your phone is on USB Debug mode: (MENU > Settings > Applications > Developement > USB debugging = Checked )
2. Connect the phone to your computer.
3. Click one of the buttons depending on what you want to do.
4. After the phone has rebooted into recovery select "apply sdcard:update.zip" for I9000 and I9000M and choose "Reinstall Packages" for the US models using the volume keys and then press the home button for I9000 and I9000M and the power button on the right top side for US models to start the process.
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Done! You are rooted.
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Un-Rooting Instructions:
To Un-Root follow the same instructions except click on the Un-root button. If you rooted using another process you can use this process to un-root as long as you didnt load a rom that created links to busybox. I would suggest to restore you phone back to stock ROM before even needing to unroot and if you are on stock un-root all you want otherwise what is the point of un-rooting.
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Getting Started with Android After Rooting:
Flash Clockwork Custom Recovery On your phone:
Follow this URL to find fill information on ROM Manager:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734164
Install ROM Manager from Market.
Launch ROM Manager and click on Backup ROM and save you android O/S stock rooted making getting back to stock un-rooted much easier..
Great app! I am on a Mac and rooted already so I don't need it but this should help about 90% of all new users.
Thank you.
+1 for the program. I rooted it last Sunday, and am too on a Mac, but this should def make the process alot easier for people.
This should go up as a sticky.
man it does not get easier for the new android users lol
Man I wish this app came out sooner...Fkn awesome!
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One question since this seems to be a major topic as well, any way you could have it load a generic settings.db file or one click exit to the existing one for non-market apps?
That seems to be giving some people a bit of a headache.
decepticon said:
One question since this seems to be a major topic as well, any way you could have it load a generic settings.db file or one click exit to the existing one for non-market apps?
That seems to be giving some people a bit of a headache.
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I will see what I can do. I don't have a Captivate. I have a Vibrant. But I have sent a request to kirbo20 to send me his file. If I get it I will add it to the app.
TGA_Gunnman said:
I will see what I can do. I don't have a Captivate. I have a Vibrant. But I have sent a request to kirbo20 to send me his file. If I get it I will add it to the app.
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I will pull mine and post it here in a few
is your file the original?
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It's edited to enable non-market apps
This is awesome, I have been waiting for this!
I am having a problem though, I have gotten to the "press the One Root Button" step. The green shell screen says it can't load the update onto my sd card, so when I re-install packages, it can't find the zip file. It does reboot the phone though and it is set on debug, is there a step I missed? I do have another 8g speed6 sd card I put in the empty slot, could that be messing it up?
Well sounds like your drivers maybe not set up right. go to start then run and open up prompt by typing cmd and see if "adb devices" runs and sees your device.
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Ah, I just did it manually. Easy. Thanks for the motivation though.
Awesome work. I'll probably wait for the updated version with the "Unroot" option, but very cool nonetheless!
Here is my settings.db file. Some have speculated that it varies some from phone to phone so may need some testing.
It has been edited to enable non-market apps.
reminder to anyone using someone elses settings.db:
Make note of the android_id in your settings.db before swapping. You'll need it!
I think I am going to leave deploying settings.DB alone.
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I created a duplicate batch for vibrant when it comes to rooting.
Ill paste the code in a sec.
Side loading
Script I had for SL'ing didn't work cause once adb shell is launched batch imput no longer works.
The Windows Phone 8 Emulator is installed as a part of the Windows Phone 8 SDK. You can follow some steps below to begin hacking the emulator.
Things to do:
everything....
InteropUnlock
BCD Editing
Well, first thing is first. Getting the WP8 SDK to install.
PREREQUISITES:
A SLAT capable CPU and BIOS. Some OEMs have only enabled the virtualization feature, but missed the SLAT feature.
Your computer needs to support hardware DEP (No execute bit for AMD).
An OS that supports Hyper-V: Server 2008, 2008R2, 2010, 2012, 2012R2, or Windows 8 Pro.
Note: AFAIK, the only officially supported OS for this is Win8Pro-x64
Access to a user account that has Administrator rights.
Steps for "Getting Ready!"
Set the date to 10/5/13 - one day before expiration (thanks to mister2d.)
Install the SDK normally. (Note: the complete SDK should be installable on any 64bit OS that has the OS version at 6.1 or newer, just follow the tutorial in my signature.)
Install the Visual Studio Update 4.
Install the Windows Phone Emulator - Update 3
Now, most of you can launch the emulator by opening the Windows Phone Deployment Tool (or Windows Phone Power Tools) and deploy to the resolution of choice and to either RTM or GDR3.
I seemed to hit a bug where XDE (the emulator shell) can't create a Virtual Machine properly. It seems to be surrounding the disk being attached improperly.
So.... You can skip the entire part above if you have the Flash.vhd and the desired resolution vhd.
Using the WP8 emulator only using Hyper-V Manager
Open Hyper-V Manager
Click on New, then Virtual Machine
Name the VM what ever you like.
Set RAM at 512 or 1024. 2048 me be a little finicky.
Leave Networking on Not Connected unless you have fully configured Hyper-V.
Select "Attach a virtual hard disk later"
Click Finish.
Right click on the VM you have just created and go to settings.
Click on DVD Drive and press remove.
Click on Hard Drive and paste the location of the desired resolution vhd.
e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v8.0GDR3\Emulation\Images\Flash.480x800.vhd
Double click on the VM to bring up the control interface and press the blue-green "start" button.
Controls for the VM:
Back - Escape/F1
Start - F2
Search - F3
Vol UP - F9
Vol Down - F10
Camera full-press? - F7
Mouse left & right click - tap
NOTE: THE CURSOR DISAPPEARS WHEN MOVED INTO THE VM SCREEN.
Things disable out of box.
Microsoft accounts
dialer (I can't seem to get any of the dialer codes to work yet.)
camera (kinda...just displays a colored box running around the edges.)
Steps to InteropUnlock:
Attach the vhd
type diskmgmt.msc at the start screen. click attach vhd. paste the location of the vhd and press ok.
e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v8.0GDR3\Emulation\Images\Flash.480x800.vhd
right click on blue disk shown and click on detach vhd once done with working on it.
type regedit.exe at the start screen.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Click File, Load Hive.
Go to the main partition (the one that has all the links to the other drives...)
and go down to Windows\System32\config (it will ask for permission to enter...)
Hmm....Seems to be interopunlocked already...
More soon!
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Just saying this in case you didn't know this: You can mount the VHD file as a hardware and explore/edit emulator system files.
That's exactly what's in the op, but I'm not sure what persists and there's a few others too, but I ran out of time to mess with it. Just highlight the text and you'll see that the directions are there.
Essentially this should be able to operate like a real device, but it needs a few tweaks. Also its funny to see in settings for it to say i386 under the SoC.
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Convert VHD into vmdisk, then you can run the emulator in VMWare directly with CPU without SALT or VT and can also without win8
Saw this over on the winbeta site. Didn't really check it out but may be useful in backing up any work done on the emulators. As I said I didn't take much time checking it out but may be worth a look. http://go.altaro.com/?LP=WinBeta-30...tm_medium=banner-300x250&utm_campaign=winbeta
What would be really nice is to make it so you can connect your MS account from the emulator.
jordanmills said:
What would be really nice is to make it so you can connect your MS account from the emulator.
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Yeah it might just need an easy tweak, but then again I simply don't know.
Skin WP-Emulator
Skin WP-Emulator from MS Dev Center.
Maybe someone needs
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Nokser
Android Wear APK Tools:
A GUI application which allows you to install any APK straight to your watch (via adb) or uninstall any non-protected package directly. Much more convenient than doing it through the adb command line.
Screenshot:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
How to use:
Download Link: HERE
Windows:
Unzip Android-Wear-APK-Tools.zip, and run Android-Wear-APK-Tools.exe
Linux:
Run the following command in terminal, and then open AndroidWearAPKTools.py
Code:
sudo apt-get install python-tk
Mac:
Install Python from here, then run AndroidWearAPKTools.py
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Connect your watch to your computer, enable ADB Debugging on your phone and your watch, and make sure ADB and the drivers are set up on your computer.
Doesnt work for me.
I opened it, clicked connect to watch, then it told me that it has connected, i can see the list of all the apps that i have installed on my phone. But android wear doesnt tell me that its connected.
I tried to uninstall an app, then it gave me an error. Then i tried installing an app, and it just stayed on "installing app, please wait" for a very very long time.
So, apparently you must have ADB already on the system path or in the main directory of this application and it must be accessible with the command "adb"
I am experiencing similar errors with the app. It tells me I am connected to my watch. I can't see any apps on the list. When trying to install an app it stops on "Installing app, Please wait..."
root required?
Does this require that the Android Wear device be rooted?
Lord_Cyrix said:
I am experiencing similar errors with the app. It tells me I am connected to my watch. I can't see any apps on the list. When trying to install an app it stops on "Installing app, Please wait..."
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same here
can we install ota lollipop from this
by regular method my samsung gear live is not responding to sideload method
doesn't seems to work on windows 10
Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Tkinter.pyc", line 1470, in __call__
File "AndroidWearAPKTools.py", line 36, in connectToWatchCallback
IndexError: list index out of range
EDIT:Fixed by allowing adb access through cmd
works for me
In samsung gear neo 2 ported to android wear, works perfect thx...
NightMean said:
doesn't seems to work on windows 10
Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Tkinter.pyc", line 1470, in __call__
File "AndroidWearAPKTools.py", line 36, in connectToWatchCallback
IndexError: list index out of range
EDIT:Fixed by allowing adb access through cmd
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NightMean, how did you fix it? Could elaborate?
I don't know how to allow ADB access through CMD
Thanks
nagasgura said:
Android Wear APK Tools:
Much more convenient than doing it through the adb command line
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So writing all that code was easier than "adb install" ?
clevebb said:
So writing all that code was easier than "adb install" ?
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Not for him (except he installs and deinstalls applications from 9 to 5 )
But for the rest off the world it´s really comfortable
I installed google chrome but i cant see it in the list of apps installed and i cant uninstall it any help? this is the list http://puu.sh/pc5Ka/0e12811101.png
Thanks for creating such a simple but useful tool!
Hy guys , i've used this method to install apps but i have a problem when opening a pdf file , as you can see in the pictures , i can't select a default app for it. can somebody give me a solution ? thx a lot .
kmc99 said:
Hy guys , i've used this method to install apps but i have a problem when opening a pdf file , as you can see in the pictures , i can't select a default app for it. can somebody give me a solution ? thx a lot .
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Try opening the PDF on your phone instead.
For me, I connect to watch alright, I see the apps list, but uninstalling takes forever.. :/
Much easier to use adb command. meh
My watch is detected by the pc but I see an empty directory ....and if I try to copy a file no way ....
Any idea ?
So the windows 10 users have no chance to enjoy this ???