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Disable boot animation.

Don't know if you guys know this but I disabled the stupid boot animation and now my phone boots in about 25 seconds.
I get a black screen for about 10 seconds but phone boots a lot faster now.
Edit your build.prop file.

Cool you should post a guide on how to do that. I'd love to try it.

I found it here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-923545.html

You just got to delete the file via Root Explorer or a similar root file management app. He's right though. Much faster boot time. I removed the file just for the sake of removing Samsung & T-Mobile's tagging on my phone but it provided some unexpected benefits.
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Flash-able zip of ringtones?

I have a like 5 custom ringtones and 5 custom notifications that I made .ogg specifically for CM7 and Im getting tired of manually moving them from my SD card to the right file after every nightly. Is there a way to package them into a flashable zip that puts them in system/media/ringtones and system/media/notifications ?

Can't you just create a ringtone and notifications folder on your sd card under media>audio and copy your files there? Or does cm7 not work that way? I did that for my stock rom and every rom I have flashed since picks them up...haven't tried cm7 though...

You can use ringdroid (available in the market) and you can create custom ringtones or notifications. I use a website called phonezoo and they have almost any sound you can think of. Put it on your SD card, open it in ringdroid, then make it a ringtone or a notification. My wife wanted the Perry the Platypus sound from Phineas and Ferb as her notification, and that's how I did it.

Yeah, don't know why you couldn't just have them on the SD card. But, to answer your question, it would not be hard to create a flashable zip for just the ringtones. I would start with one of the zips for something similar, say specific programs like the GApps for CM. Look at the file and modify the script and folders with what you want to put where. Should work.

Im not sure if it is my phone or what but when I set them being on the SD card they sound like crap and they reset themselves to stock every time I plug my phone into the computer for USB drive. So it works better putting them straight on the phone.
kmdub, thanks I will look into that I did a little bit of theme modification before so I think I can figure it out, just wasn't sure where to start.

dcwiker05 said:
Im not sure if it is my phone or what but when I set them being on the SD card they sound like crap and they reset themselves to stock every time I plug my phone into the computer for USB drive. So it works better putting them straight on the phone.
kmdub, thanks I will look into that I did a little bit of theme modification before so I think I can figure it out, just wasn't sure where to start.
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If you are installing the nightly from zip, I would just modify it before installing.
I have ~150 ringtones and notifications on my phone, and I too prefer them on internal storage. Whenever a new ROM comes out for me to try, I edit it right on the phone using Root Explorer and integrate the tones. This way, none of them get reset if my phone boots up without them in the proper location.
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NotATreoFan said:
If you are installing the nightly from zip, I would just modify it before installing.
I have ~150 ringtones and notifications on my phone, and I too prefer them on internal storage. Whenever a new ROM comes out for me to try, I edit it right on the phone using Root Explorer and integrate the tones. This way, none of them get reset if my phone boots up without them in the proper location.
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Not sure why I never thought of this...considering that is how I did the changes I made to my old theme. Thanks this makes the most sense and that is how I'm gonna do it from here on out. Also doing it this way when I flash over an existing nightly it should save all my settings and stuff so I wont have to reset them per person.

[Q] Taboonay 2.0

Anyone running Taboonay 2.0 and got cell standby off...? How

delete phone.apk and telephony.apk from system/app always works for me. I hear editing the build prop works for some and not for others, same with tabtools app.

shaun298 said:
Anyone running Taboonay 2.0 and got cell standby off...? How
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Thanks I will give it a try. One warning to other 2.0 user, I added the wifi= thing to the build.prop file and rebooted. Took for ever to come up, lost the splash screen and running 10 times slower and when I touch the app botton at top right to go to applications, the screen goes blank and finaly goes back to desktop. I restored the backup build.prop and rebooted and had the same thing.
The file had correct permission.
Tried other things, but in the end just reflashed.
Thanks for the tip

Update.
deleteing phone.apk locked it up and had to hold power botton in.
deleteing the telphony did not crash anything.
Just renamed both files did not work seems everything in that folder gets run.
The cell.standby icon is still their but its not using the bat.
Maybe erase bat statts..?
Now got to go and see what broke. Im so burnt on roms I could puke, luck Im between jobs and have massive hours to play. Thanks for the help.

using Thor's latest kernel and editing build.prop did the trick for me, with no need to touch phone or telephony.

Offline Charging Animation Fix for i9300

Hey guys. I had to post here (new to the forum). This is how I fixed the offline charging animation for my i9300.
- Flashed Stock ICS ROM (downloaded from sam-mobile).
- Rooted
- Installed Root Explorer
- Backed up system/media folder to sdcard (simply Copy and Paste).
- Flashed SlimBean ROM (my favorite!), Wipe Data and Wipe Cache and Flashed Gapps.
- Rooted
- Installed Root Explorer
- Copied backedup media folder to system/media.
- Rebooted.
Voi-la! Offline Charging Battery Animations plus OFFLINE CHARGING BATTERY LED LIGHTS.
Not sure if it will work for all ROMS, but it you're willing to give it a shot I'm hosting the file of the ICS MEDIA folder in 4shared:
Please PM message me for 4 link, since xda wont let me post links unless I have 10 posts.
Please bear the file above is in RAR format.
Let us know if it worked.
Hugs from Brazil,
Jean

ojeann said:
Hey guys. I had to post here (new to the forum). This is how I fixed the offline charging animation for my i9300.
- Flashed Stock ICS ROM (downloaded from sam-mobile).
- Rooted
- Installed Root Explorer
- Backed up system/media folder to sdcard (simply Copy and Paste).
- Flashed SlimBean ROM (my favorite!), Wipe Data and Wipe Cache and Flashed Gapps.
- Rooted
- Installed Root Explorer
- Copied backedup media folder to system/media.
- Rebooted.
Voi-la! Offline Charging Battery Animations plus OFFLINE CHARGING BATTERY LED LIGHTS.
Not sure if it will work for all ROMS, but it you're willing to give it a shot I'm hosting the file of the ICS MEDIA folder in 4shared:
Please PM message me for 4 link, since xda wont let me post links unless I have 10 posts.
Please bear the file above is in RAR format.
Let us know if it worked.
Hugs from Brazil,
Jean
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Try splitting the link like h.tt.p://web.si.te.com

Choristav said:
Try splitting the link like h.tt.p://web.si.te.com
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ww.w.4sha.red.co.m/r.ar/.tz.l0.oA.wA.ce/me.dia.ht.ml
Remove dots

ojeann said:
ww.w.4sha.red.co.m/r.ar/.tz.l0.oA.wA.ce/me.dia.ht.ml
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http://www.4shared.com/rar/tzl0oAwAce/media.html
So for anyone else interested, what kind of animation are we talking about? Is it possible to find a youtube video on the matter?
I haven't used ICS/stock touchwiz for years till the 4.4.2 port, so I wouldn't even know if I'm missing it or not.

Choristav said:
So for anyone else interested, what kind of animation are we talking about? Is it possible to find a youtube video on the matter?
I haven't used ICS/stock touchwiz for years till the 4.4.2 port, so I wouldn't even know if I'm missing it or not.
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It fixes the icon. Usually when you turn the phone off and charge, most ROMS pump a grey weird battery icon so you never know when the phone has actually reached full power. This fix gives back that animation...so u know when you're done charging.
It sounds really lame, but its quite annoying.

I don't really have any problem about the offline charging animation of my S3, it's just that the animation stops at 90% as if it's full. Though it is full if i opened it.

[Q] Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 8.0 AT&T SM-T337A Root but NO Recovery

Hi Devs,
I've just joined and am uncertain of the proper place for this thread. Apologies if inaccurately posted.
I have the T337A, which I have rooted on ANF4, but I cannot find a recovery. I have read and read but am not finding the solution to my little project. I would like to get a safestrap on this locked bootloader so that I can install and learn to write custom ROMs. I have tried a safestrap but it was not for this specific device and did not work. I have also installed and purchased CWM Recovery and TWRP Recovery, in my learning process. The problem with the recovery is that there is no custom recovery written for this device and the bootloader is locked, as this is the AT&T WiFi/LTE version. So it looks to me like I need to figure out the partitioning image somehow in order to make a safestrap work on this device...as step 1. Is there anything else that I can do with this locked bootloader? I would love to have some help in writing a custom recovery and ROM for this device but I am a tiny tiny noob here and not a hard core programmer. If I could get some feedback on places to start for such a daunting task, it would be great. I guess one thing that I do not understand is why I cannot make my current rooted ROM the default recovery in TWRP. It asks me to choose from the list of supported devices. I understand that it goes: NAND --> aboot.img/bootloader --> recovery/or/kernel --> OS/or/ROM? If this is close to accurate then I would have to write something to the NAND?, which I'm not sure what is yet, in order to hijack the factory bootloader and then write the partitions on the sdCard for the ROM, like the safestrap folks wrote? It looks to me like they also included a version of TWRP touch which I used on the S4 yesterday and was really cool, so I guess that would be needed as well and is also why TWRP does not work for me now...it cannot hijack the locked bootloader. How do I hijack this hard headed thing? fastboot does not work to this device. In the process of this project, I have also run into a roadblock trying to update the /system/framework/framework-res.apk, in the manner that a flash needs to be done, I think. I want to change the /res/values/bools/bools.xml switch "voice_capeable" to true. AT&T or Samsung disable this on this version of the tablet, I guess to sell tethering or something else I'm not familiar with...but the way it looks to me, everything is configured on the device and I have a phone number provisioned for data at least. Why can't I turn on this switch and use the phone portion of the device? Any time I tickle the running framework-res.apk, it kills the OS. I tried compiling an update.zip aligned and signed with test keys or something like that but when I flash it, it fails with wrong footer and invalid signature...then it wipes me back to the stone ages. I warned I was a noob..! ...but not scared to brick some shtuff in order to learn this and write some custom solutions. An after thought...is there a solution for a bootable extSdCard for Android? This might lead to some options if it is possible.
Gathering phone info...
Collecting information. Be patient! Do NOT disconnect the phone!
Model: SM-T337A
Android Version: 4.4.2
Sales Code: ATT
PDA Version: T337AUCU1ANF4
Phone Version: T337AUCU1ANF4
CSC Version: T337AATT1ANF4
Product Code: SM-T337AZWAATT
HIDSw Version: T337AUCU1ANF4/T337AATT1ANF4/T337AUCU1ANF4/T337AUCU1ANF4
Board Platform: MSM8226
Serial Number: R32FA00PMRF
Imei: 3534.............
Unique Number: C1604.......
Connections: AT,MTP,MTP
Battery Status: 4.28V (94%)
Network Type: GSM
SuperSU Pro v2.40
TWRP donate latest
CWM donate v5.5.3.7
BusyBox Stericson donate v1.23.0
Titanium Backup Pro latest
xPosed v2.7.1
Wanam xPosed v3.3.1
NinjaMorph Pro v2.8.2
ROM Toolbox Pro v6.0.6.5
RootLogger Pro v1.9
Nandroid Backup v4.4.5
Next Launcher 3D Shell v3.20
Root Firewall Pro v2.1
SetCPU v3.1.2
w/respect. PitPin

Sir,
Please wait until mods will move this thread to the device specific forum for more relevant answers.
Stand by
Good luck

We had a dev working to get safestrap, but he struck out. So if you can get it, I'll test. I too have the 337a. Sucks to have a locked bootloader and no dev interest.

pre4speed said:
We had a dev working to get safestrap, but he struck out. So if you can get it, I'll test. I too have the 337a. Sucks to have a locked bootloader and no dev interest.
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Thanks pre4speed. I am taking a look at the two tasks again tonight and decided to take the res/bool = voice_capable issue on first since this will determine how brickable this device can be for me. If I can use it as a regular modem phone then I might be a bit more careful with the bootloader project I did some more tinkering with the framework-res.apk ...specifically the /res/values/bools/bools.xml resource and tried the following:
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Factory wipe
Flashed sammobile.com T337AATT1ANF4 firmware
Rooted
SuperSU
Busybox
Froze AT&T update service and others involved
Titanium backup and pulled a good backup
Online Nandroid and pulled a good backup
Installed my XDA app. of course..!
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Framework-res.apk:
Used total commander to copy the running apk off to the sdCard and then my PC.
Decompilled in APKStudio2.0.3b-Windows (I am also using Ubuntu 14.04 if there is a better way here..also Android Studio on both OS...just learning).
Edited my value.
Recompiled with zip align/sign option.
***Now here in lies the problem, if I haven't already created one above ***
The random article I dug up said that in order to get past the wrong footer and signature issue, and stone-age wipe, when attempting this via abd sideload with an update.zip, is to now copy the edited file back into the original APK using 7zip in order to retain the original signing keys. When I open the original APK archive, it does not show the resource folders deemed "important and I should not jack with them" in the compiled APK (mainly values/* folder). The article mentioned the resource folders such as res/values/bools are compiled and hidden and that I needed to copy over the new resources.arsc file. I see this in the newly compiled APK I made but it also put the Manifest.xml and /res folder in there. Do I need to copy all of that or just the compiled resources.arsc file? I did all and it boot looped me so I'm guessing that I either did something wrong or this was not the right answer. The last part was to chmod the new APK, use total commander to mount the folder as rw, copy over the file, and reboot. All of that worked and I had to reboot many many times...loop.
That is where I am on the modem part and am going to attempt copying just the resources.arsc in a few. I will post more on the bootloader side soon, as I've been researching what goes on from the time I push the power button until the time I swipe the first screen. Lots of reading
w/respect - PitPin

Copying only the resources.arsc file from within the newly compiled apk back to the original framework-res.apk made some progress. Now I have the phone dialer app icon in my apps drawer... but it is failing complaining about contacts. On to the next round of research..!

PitPin said:
Copying only the resources.arsc file from within the newly compiled apk back to the original framework-res.apk made some progress. Now I have the phone dialer app icon in my apps drawer... but it is failing complaining about contacts. On to the next round of research..!
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Stalled out temporarily on the tab project as laptop hard drive bought the farm. Back in action and made some progress on the tab voice_capable issue. Everything appears to be there and in working order but the SMS modules. I think this has something to do with why the contacts app is blowing up but not sure yet. GoSMS and EXDialer seem to work together without blowing up but the dialer taps the modem and then dies. Taking a break from this to start a thread on rooting the AT&T Alpha. I'm about half way through the exploit on that project. Any input on what might be my SMS problem on the tab 4 would be appreciated. Attached are a few screens.

Does anyone know how to removed the caution sign on the left corner it keep telling me unauthorized action have been detected.

I am in the same boat, I so wish this would come through because I do love this little tab.

same boat
/baker said:
I am in the same boat, I so wish this would come through because I do love this little tab.
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so did you finally get it going or what?I have been wanting to get my Tab going as well. I've Rooted it and paid for an unlock even, which worked fantastic by the way...Thanx XDA!!! The rooting guide I got from here was right on point,no problem at all!!But anyways, I have it on metro pcs now on the unlimited $60 plan which is awesome (.REAL unlimited internet with NO THROTTLING ) for me because now at home I run pda.net, which gives me very good, fulltime, internet for my home computers as well as the ability to stream everything onto a large screen or even via windows when we want to watch with all the bells and whistles! No lag at all usually,and I don't use my hotspot because of the usb internet connect on pda.net. When I do use the wireless connect, it doesn't take any of the allotted hotspot usage up either!!All in all it's a great deal for me. I just got a new sim for it, called in the imei to metro ,which in turn gave me a phone number and data account, and presto!Been on the net ever since! Now that I've had it for over a month ,I wanna get the voice capability to work as well, being that I am paying for 2 lines now. Although I can use the old trusty hangouts dialer with the GoogleVoice easily enough. I want to be able to use my metro number mainly because these phone companies charge and charge and charge, never caring about us,or our need to have communication at our disposal at all times.Cell phones are by far not inexpensive and the internet wasn't started for us to pay aan arm and a leg to use.Anytime I come out good while dealing with a wireless company. it's a stupendous event,I'm telling you!! Heck ,I'm writing from my home computer now, going through the Tab at this very moment! Nevertheless, I'm wanting for the devs, to come through as well. With maybe even a new rom,sans the at&t stuff, of course, since I do now have a different carrier? Heck, the Tab is even great for when we travel! 24/7 unlimited internet /streaming , and the screen size is much better than the phone screen ever was!I just really wanted to thank XDA for the work they put in to help us part - timers out,Ive been rooting and unlocking and bricking and un-bricking for quite some time now,I even repair phones now actually,but the programming and the putting it all out here for guys like me to have fun and tinker with these phones would be entirely impossible without the DEV'S and their hard work for SURE...Thanx Guys!!You ROCK!