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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

What is the latest, most complete 1.6+ ROM for the Hero?

Is there a version that is fully functional? I would like a 2.1 ROM, but I'd mainly like to use the 1.6+ apps. Any suggestions?

AFAIK, all of the 2.x ROMs for the CDMA Hero have a working camera. Many are missing Bluetooth, as well.
Personally I'm loving quiet's AOSP 1.6 ROM (see my signature for a link.)
It's only missing Bluetooth. Some people are having problems with SMS or MMS on it, though. Have a browse through the thread.
This is one of the most popular non-1.5 ROMs on here right now, I think.

I don't even use Bluetooth, so I will have to check that out. I just do a nandroid backup before installation, and then flash it right? Will I have to reinstall my apps?
And for the other 2.x ROMs, is Bluetooth the only major issue? What types of things exactly are wrong with them?

I HIGHLY recommend you do a wipe after your nand backup, in which case, yes, you will have to reinstall all of your apps.
You could always do an "adb pull" on /system/app and /system/app-private to save all the apk's for your programs.

Is_907 said:
You could always do an "adb pull" on /system/app and /system/app-private to save all the apk's for your programs.
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User install apps are not stored in /system/app/, they are stored in /data/app/....

yeah and i use bluetooth everyday, so i cant even try these out..

gu1dry said:
User install apps are not stored in /system/app/, they are stored in /data/app/....
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Very true... this is what I get for trying to type forum replies while talking to other people at work, lol.

Sorry, I didn't see a guide on this, but how do I backup those apps specifically?

Is_907 said:
Very true... this is what I get for trying to type forum replies while talking to other people at work, lol.
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It's art to multitask at that level
TheBiles said:
Sorry, I didn't see a guide on this, but how do I backup those apps specifically?
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Code:
adb remount
adb pull /data/app/ c:/backup-apps/

And that is just after I'm connected with root, right? How do I go about restoring them?

Yes that's after you have been rooted. You can reinstall the apps several different ways, apps on the Market, or command-line:
Code:
adb remount
adb install -r NameOfApp.apk

Thanks. I will probably give AOSP a try! Is there anything else I should know before installing?

To backup your SMS (once your rooted), you have to do the following command:
Code:
adb remount
adb pull /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db c:/WhereYouWantToBackupTo
And to put them back after flashing:
Code:
adb remount
adb push c:/WhereYouBackupedTo /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db

gu1dry said:
To backup your SMS (once your rooted), you have to do the following command:
Code:
adb remount
adb pull /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db c:/WhereYouWantToBackupTo
And to put them back after flashing:
Code:
adb remount
adb push c:/WhereYouBackupedTo /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
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Wow thanks so much, this is exactly what I've been looking for. I like to keep my texts from ROM to ROM but restoring via the apps on the market take a long time. This is by far the fastest method!

I thought the AOSP 1.6 build was a developer rom? ie, no paid and secured apps will be listed in the market.
Am I wrong in this? Will there be a full 1.6 app market?
I do use bluetooth, but I think that the draw to 1.6 apps would outweigh my bluetooth use..though, not being able to use a hands free device in Oregon is a $140 ticket..hmmm...

Attempted 1.6 AOSP using the information here, but am unable to send or receive SMS. Back to TTG I go.

Any chance you would know where the phone call database is stored?

Code:
adb remount
adb pull /data/app/ c:/backup-apps/
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I'm new to this, and i fully rooted my cdma hero, but I'm having trouble with the adb remount command
all i get is
"remount failed: Operation not permitted"
how do I get it to work?
Edit: ok i figured it out on my own.

ADB Push

I searched around and couldn't get a clear answer. I'm a noob at anything command prompt/terminal related.
I was screwing around with adb last night after figuring out that I can remove program .apks with the rm <com.whatever.program> command. I got a little trigger happy and removed things that I don't use, just to test it out. I made a nandroid backup before I started. The phone runs fine, but now the Market won't download anything. It just sits on the Starting download... screen.
One of the .apks I removed was GmailProvider.apk. Whether this is the problem or not, I'd like to reinstall it for practice. I can always nand restore later.
So my question is... How can I use adb push to reinstall an apk?
I tried:
Code:
adb push C:\GmailProvider.apk
adb install C:\GmailProvider.apk
adb install C:\GmailProvider.apk \system\app
And about every variation of the 3, in and out of the adb shell.
It didn't work, and I'm at a loss to do anything else. So does anyone have any suggestions?
EDIT: I think my "\" should be "/". I got this
Code:
BusyBox v1.15.2 <2009-12-02 TIME EST> multi-call binary
Usage: install [-cdDsp] [-o USER] [-g GRP] [-m MODE] [source] dest|directory
Copy files and set attributes
Options:
Then some usage stuff here.
Then I looked at the command prompt and made a face like .
Suggestions?
It might help to say that I'm using EvilEris 2.0.1, Windows 7.

Just reflash your ROM after doing a titanium backup. Easiest fix.

try this after putting GmailProvider.apk in your sdk\tools dir:
Code:
adb remount
adb push GmailProvider.apk /system/app
remount marks the system directory as read/write

silverramsrt said:
try this after putting GmailProvider.apk in your sdk\tools dir:
Code:
adb remount
adb push GmailProvider.apk /system/app
remount marks the system directory as read/write
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Beat me to it. ADB is powerful and pretty cool if you know some good commands, but you can really mess up your phone if you know what I mean. Not mess up like brick (unless you really try) but more like phone won't load gmail now, phone won't get past the htc screen. As long as you have a nandroid backup you SHOULD be fine, the push, pull and rm commands are really the first step of rom building. If you know what files you pushed and rm'd you can make your dream rom.

CPCookieMan said:
Beat me to it. ADB is powerful and pretty cool if you know some good commands, but you can really mess up your phone if you know what I mean. Not mess up like brick (unless you really try) but more like phone won't load gmail now, phone won't get past the htc screen. As long as you have a nandroid backup you SHOULD be fine, the push, pull and rm commands are really the first step of rom building. If you know what files you pushed and rm'd you can make your dream rom.[/QUOTE
i am installing htc facebook.apk on a rom that has had all the Bloat removed.do i need to do something after i have pushed a apk file into system/app?? i have tried rebooting the phone and the program isnt there,ive tried going in the phone with root explorer and tried installing while having it in r/w and r/o and still cant get it to install.im not sure what im doing wrong.any help is apreciated
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i am installing htc facebook.apk on a rom that has had all the Bloat removed.do i need to do something after i have pushed a apk file into system/app?? i have tried rebooting the phone and the program isnt there,ive tried going in the phone with root explorer and tried installing while having it in r/w and r/o and still cant get it to install.im not sure what im doing wrong.any help is apreciated
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You do not have to do anything after an adb push.
What rom? Some roms have been modified to the point some htc apps will not work. Addionally a copy of the htcfacebook.apk from an eris build may not work on a sprint based or g1 based roms do to signature variations
Sent from my Eris using XDA App

zach.xtr said:
You do not have to do anything after an adb push.
What rom? Some roms have been modified to the point some htc apps will not work. Addionally a copy of the htcfacebook.apk from an eris build may not work on a sprint based or g1 based roms do to signature variations
Sent from my Eris using XDA App
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im running xtrom 3.0.......i just went ahead and installed the social app flash and deleted what the ones i dont uses,but thanks for the help anyways.i was looking into pushing friendstream into it but found out its only works in sprint base builds

Custom Rom App Removal

hey guys,
how would i go about removing apps from an installed custom rom?
ive tried titanium back... doesnt work, tried pulling the apps from the pack nothing,
ive tried root exploits and it just sends your phone into an almost
"paperweight"
like state,
any further moves i can do to remove various bits ? there as some things i just genuinely dont want.

Telling which rom and which apps might help

[ROM] Pays-ROM HD SPARTA v1.0 [ULTRA LIGHT] [19/NOV/10]
[ROM] Pays-ROM HD SPARTA v1.0 [ULTRA LIGHT]
i cant list the apps i want to remove as im off to work, but can you do some background work into it for me??

fkofilee said:
[ROM] Pays-ROM HD SPARTA v1.0 [ULTRA LIGHT]
i cant list the apps i want to remove as im off to work, but can you do some background work into it for me??
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Have you tried doing it from terminal?
Code:
adb remount
adb shell
su
cd /system/app
ls *
rm INSERTANNOYINGAPPNAMEHERE
reboot
adb pull is not for deleting apps. It is for copying the app to your computer.

when i say pull... lol. i mean removing them from the system completely

fkofilee said:
when i say pull... lol. i mean removing them from the system completely
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I've just discovered there are issues where /system isn't getting wiped correctly prior to a new rom being flashed. Keep getting apps from other roms and such sitting in my /system folder even after a wipe and flash - at this stage I assume CWM is bugged? Could be your issue is related.

nope the ADB coding doesnt work as its almost like there is a PERMANENT R/w lock on the section i need to remove apps from

unfortunately the issues AERNT related, as ive wiped everything before, these apps are pre installed on the ROM. What does me with this is that the root exploit to remove these apps as in Titanium backup ... just turns the phone into a very expensive paperweight till the battery is remove
weather apps (widgets etc,)
Twitter apps , teet and various other bits i want to remove

fkofilee said:
unfortunately the issues AERNT related, as ive wiped everything before, these apps are pre installed on the ROM. What does me with this is that the root exploit to remove these apps as in Titanium backup ... just turns the phone into a very expensive paperweight till the battery is remove
weather apps (widgets etc,)
Twitter apps , teet and various other bits i want to remove
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Get a new rom ???

hmm flash a new rom??this is the most refined rom i can find for DHD.
for that reason its more of a hassle to flash new roms
I would rather crack it, mind you i might be really thick asking this. that code you gave me have i got to get the adb.exe from android SDK and do this via a cmd.exe window on my pc or have i got to do it on my phone via termnial emulator.

how weird!!!... i used to terminal emulator to allow su (I.E to give system SU Permissions and now i can remove the apps ) haha
Shocked!!
Admin Please close & Deleted Thread.

fkofilee said:
hmm flash a new rom??this is the most refined rom i can find for DHD.
for that reason its more of a hassle to flash new roms
I would rather crack it, mind you i might be really thick asking this. that code you gave me have i got to get the adb.exe from android SDK and do this via a cmd.exe window on my pc or have i got to do it on my phone via termnial emulator.
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Yes from the android sdk. It *should* work from a terminal emulator as well if you run these commands first to mount the /system/app directory as read/write:
Code:
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
chmod 777 /system/app
Other option would be to use the root explorer app, it is a paid app though well worth it.

dr.m0x said:
Yes from the android sdk. It *should* work from a terminal emulator as well if you run these commands first to mount the /system/app directory as read/write:
Code:
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
chmod 777 /system/app
Other option would be to use the root explorer app, it is a paid app though well worth it.
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Weird thing is i tried root explorer , and it still wouldnt R/W the app folder... but as i said now solved... slightly weird though that i completely missed that lil bit on the su permissions for the system directly.

fkofilee said:
Weird thing is i tried root explorer , and it still wouldnt R/W the app folder... but as i said now solved... slightly weird though that i completely missed that lil bit on the su permissions for the system directly.
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Yeah you ninja'd my last post
Glad to hear you're gtg now.

but mind you the mount script i ran and it didnt work lol.... maybe i did them the wrong way round, (Raise SU first then do mount cmd??)

dr.m0x said:
Have you tried doing it from terminal?
Code:
adb remount
adb shell
su
cd /system/app
ls *
rm INSERTANNOYINGAPPNAMEHERE
reboot
adb pull is not for deleting apps. It is for copying the app to your computer.
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Works. Thanks!

[Q] s-on/s-off

hey all. anyone know if we can turn s-off on wildfire yet? kninda frustraiting... its root but not really root

bassmonkey said:
hey all. anyone know if we can turn s-off on wildfire yet? kninda frustraiting... its root but not really root
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To me this is a 100% genuine "WTF?" statement... I don't get what you mean mate, please explain..

bassmonkey said:
hey all. anyone know if we can turn s-off on wildfire yet? kninda frustraiting... its root but not really root
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Not yet till Alpharev v2 realesed
Sent from my HTC Legend

gyroing said:
Not yet till Alpharev v2 realesed
Sent from my HTC Legend
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Thanks dude, I've just came from having a totally customized hero
N despite the screen rez I'm loving this phone but no access to system folder is pants
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App

niksakl said:
To me this is a 100% genuine "WTF?" statement... I don't get what you mean mate, please explain..
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As far as I can tell its a new security thing HTC have added to the hboot, basically makes the system folder read only even with root (think that's correct??)
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App

bassmonkey said:
Thanks dude, I've just came from having a totally customized hero
N despite the screen rez I'm loving this phone but no access to system folder is pants
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App
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Well , it's not totally locked down. You can access it (Read and write) if you boot into recovery. Not the smoothest solution but it works. Also there is AUFS but i don't think i have gotten that to work at all. Maybe it needs to be enabled, haven't really checked but i boot into recovery when i need to change something.

You can change the /system permission with a terminal emulator as Better Terminal Pro on the phone or by the phone connected to your pc via
Code:
> adb shell
doing in both cases:
Code:
# chmod -R 777 /system
when you restart the phone, /system will be reset to the original 755 permissions.

thanks for the response guys
71baker said:
Well , it's not totally locked down. You can access it (Read and write) if you boot into recovery. Not the smoothest solution but it works. Also there is AUFS but i don't think i have gotten that to work at all. Maybe it needs to be enabled, haven't really checked but i boot into recovery when i need to change something.
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how do you do it through recovery? im guessing thatd be with adb?
Tetractys said:
You can change the /system permission with a terminal emulator as Better Terminal Pro on the phone or by the phone connected to your pc via
Code:
> adb shell
doing in both cases:
Code:
# chmod -R 777 /system
when you restart the phone, /system will be reset to the original 755 permissions.
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in terminal i entered su
chmod -R777/system
which then gave me; usage: chmod <mode> <file>
i then entered; /system and got permission denied??

bassmonkey said:
thanks for the response guys
how do you do it through recovery? im guessing thatd be with adb?
in terminal i entered su
chmod -R777/system
which then gave me; usage: chmod <mode> <file>
i then entered; /system and got permission denied??
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If you have written the command exactly as you report is obvious that the os return an error. try to write as i did... (with blanks in between)
of course your phone had to be passed the Unrevoked 3.21 procedure!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=701
Anyway if you are not very much concerned in linux shell commands, i would suggest you to wait another more automatic method.

Tetractys said:
If you have written the command exactly as you report is obvious that the os return an error. try to write as i did... (with blanks in between)
of course your phone had to be passed the Unrevoked 3.21 procedure!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=701
Anyway if you are not very much concerned in linux shell commands, i would suggest you to wait another more automatic method.
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lol.'not concerned' very diplomatic yeah, kind of a windoze boy n therefore not really up on linux.
i did root with 3.21 and i tried the chmod command with all the spaces and terminal just gave me 'bad mode' (it also gave me bad mode when i tried adb) so i tried as i posted. bummer but nevermind, come on alpharev 2

71baker said:
Also there is AUFS but i don't think i have gotten that to work at all. Maybe it needs to be enabled, haven't really checked but i boot into recovery when i need to change something.
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You can enable AUFS in Jacob's latest kernel by typing "aufs --enable" in a terminal emulator app in android, and then reboot the phone.