hi sry for this dumb question but Is There Any Registry Editor for Samsung Galaxy S2 Android thanks
Only Windows has a registry. What are you wanting to do?
pjfriend said:
Only Windows has a registry. What are you wanting to do?
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same things i used to do on my old HTC HD2 tweeking wifi and make it little more faster
You might be able to achieve what you want if you have a specific question...
SII has 'N' class radio anyway so it should be a great deal quicker than your HD2.
Ahh , you mean editing the build.prop which resides in system. Must be rooted(stand to be corrected?) and opened through root explorer/ astro/estrongs file explorer
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I saw this thread and thought 'Thats the first question I asked when I moved from wm6.5 to android!'. Welcome to Android mate
No, is basically the answer
thanks pjfriend
turborider said:
is that so hard for u to understand what Registry Editor mean? lol
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Is it so hard for you to understand that system register is Windows-specific? There is no such thing on a Linux, MacOS X, DOS, BSD, Android, iOS, Bada OS, Symbian and so on.
Cheers Brut.all
turborider said:
wow i never thought polish plp have mobile phones in there,dont be smart azz on me dude,i never used android before,bloody hell i wish plp be more helpful than answering crap,i just wanted to know if Yes or No on Registry Editor
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What's wrong with you? There were like 4 people who told you that there just isn't a registry editor for Android because Android does not have a registry! And you just seem to ignore those people, and insulte Brut.all because of his origin. We don't need people like you in our Android community.
This is getting to be like a monty python comedy sketch LISTEN turborider, there is NO registry, there is NO registry like service or system on android. You can make some modifications using a text editor to build.prop to change some system behaviour.
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This is getting to be like a monty python comedy sketch LISTEN turborider, there is NO registry, there is NO registry like service or system on android. You can make some modifications using a text editor to build.prop to change some system behaviour.
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tyvm matey for your help
Instead of insulting people who try to help, maybe rather actually read the replies properly
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please Moderators close this thread sry for my post and ty again ice_coffee
@turborider
Ok, I think I'll explain this further to you.
Windows stores much of its configuration in a system register. Most of other systems, including Android, store config in many configuration files. They're usually textual and human readable, so you could open and edit them using any text editor, even notepad. Usually every installed service/daemon has its own configuration file(s).
This approach has pros and cons over system register. Config files are less standardized: some of them are xml files, others are ini-like or even custom format. So it's quite messy comparing to system register. On the other hand developer could choose format which is most suitable for his needs and you don't need any special software to edit system configuration. Config files are also very simple from technical point of view and this is good.
Unix systems usually store their config files in /etc/ directory. On Android it's /system/etc/ - there you will find a lot of files and you could open any of them, look into, edit, etc. Of course it's not a good idea to do some random changes I don't think you'll find complete guide to Android config files, because every device/ROM is different. Fortunately most of these files aren't specific to Android, but Linux/Unix or some service, so you should be able to find some help in Google.
Happy hacking
P.S.
Yes, we have mobile phones in Poland ;-)
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Advanced options for wifi are in /system/etc/wifi/tiwlan.ini, but I'm not sure whether every device uses tiwlan driver. Of course these options aren't the same as in Windows configuration.
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@turborider
Ok, I think I'll explain this further to you.
Windows stores much of its configuration in a system register. Most of other systems, including Android, store config in many configuration files. They're usually textual and human readable, so you could open and edit them using any text editor, even notepad. Usually every installed service/daemon has its own configuration file(s).
This approach has pros and cons over system register. Config files are less standardized: some of them are xml files, others are ini-like or even custom format. So it's quite messy comparing to system register. On the other hand developer could choose format which is most suitable for his needs and you don't need any special software to edit system configuration. Config files are also very simple from technical point of view and this is good.
Unix systems usually store their config files in /etc/ directory. On Android it's /system/etc/ - there you will find a lot of files and you could open any of them, look into, edit, etc. Of course it's not a good idea to do some random changes I don't think you'll find complete guide to Android config files, because every device/ROM is different. Fortunately most of these files aren't specific to Android, but Linux/Unix or some service, so you should be able to find some help in Google.
Happy hacking
P.S.
Yes, we have mobile phones in Poland ;-)
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Advanced options for wifi are in /system/etc/wifi/tiwlan.ini, but I'm not sure whether every device uses tiwlan driver. Of course these options aren't the same as in Windows configuration.
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ty mate sry for the last post
android options are stored usually (and always for the system's settings) in sqlite3 format and the dbs are around in /data (look for settings.db)
you can edit them on the device via adb shell and sqlite commands, but i suppose there might be some gui for it as well
this is akin to registry on windows, just op just doesn't know the technical differences. no need to be aggressive pricks about it -
Only Windows Operating System has registries. Unix-based one's store configuration files in /etc directory, eliminating the need for a registry.
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...this is akin to registry on windows, just op just doesn't know the technical differences. no need to be aggressive ****** about it -
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+1 to that. A clearly teachable moment wasted by some nasty responses.
@turborider, as already mentioned, the build.prop file can be modified to make some tweaks (and some Android systems might also let you create a file called local.prop that can do some of the same things) but these are not nearly as far ranging as the windows registry. There are many forums and threads which describe the various tweaks and which can be found by searching for ["build.prop" tweaks]. Speaking of searching, for questions like this it is usually more productive to find existing threads covering the topic because such tutorials are likley to have higher traffic than a thread that asks a single question. One simple example of a build.prop tweak that I recently used was to change a value (switching between 1 and 0) which enabled/disabled a particular audio feature (audio offloading, to be precise) while testing a bug in Lineage OS, but there are more significant things that can be done by tweaking the build.prop. There are also other ways to tweak Android OS as suggested by @bilboa1. Search, and you'll find that stuff.
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I just noticed, i was looking through the windows folder and i found the filed i wanted to rename to force it to fail loading for a test,
using resco i cleared the readonly flag.
i renamed the file
within 2 seconds the screen refreshed and the original file was there again aswell as the renamed one.
this is similar to xp's prefetch where you can delete system specific files and it will replace them itself, in theory delete the windows folder and it will rebuild itself back to a working system, i went through it on a W2003 Advanced Server course aswell.
if this repairing action could be halted, it would open the devices modding capabilities somewhat.
This is NOT prefetch.
Prefetch is when windows loads some programs into ram ready to run them at boot time. This means its quicker to run word etc when you choose it, so booting takes longer and running word is quicker.
and in theory, if you delete the windows folder, it will be deleted and windows will quickly crash, and not boot again.
It does NOT have the power to re-create copies of deleted files from nowhere!
This magical self generation of windows files is not taught on "W2003 Advanced Server course" or any other, I suggest you ask for your money back.
cool
Pyrofer, thanx for the well needed humour, u made me laugh with your comments.
You are thinking about the System File Checker thingy. On Windows (not on WM5) there is a directory with a copy of all the system files. If you replace or delete a system file then windows picks up on it and restores the file. As Pyrofer said, its not magical and its not prefetch
Paul
Pyrofer, I think you should get some facts straight before typing,
as a test for me, check you got system restore running, go into your windows installation folder and MOVE notepad.exe to somewhere else, low and behold notepad.exe reappears in the windows installation folder.
http://www.theeldergeek.com/system_volume_information_folder1.htm
That link may educate you a little more
or this one
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309531
have you been on any computer courses, maybe you should, as its obvious you know very little about modern operating systems, I may have got the prefetch incorrectly named and should have been clearly explained to the now obvious non technical network engineer, but atleast i know what the systems are capable of.
If WM5 is using the extended_rom as the system restore like and this can be stopped, alot of tidying up from the windows folder will make more ram avaliable
This magical self generation of windows files is not taught on "W2003 Advanced Server course" or any other, I suggest you ask for your money back.
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Have you done the course? maybe you should and you'll find out yourself that windows is more capable than you think.
GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT BEFORE SHOOTING PEOPLE DOWN IN FLAMES TW4T
System Restore / System Volume Information has nothing to do with the system file protection feature you are describing. They are 2 entirely seperate things. The feature you are actually taking about is described here;
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=222193
WM5 does not have either of these features, the extended rom only contains OEM cab files and operator settings, WM5 has no advanced features like this at all.
There are a number of possible explanations, rom files cannot be deleted, but some can be masked by another file of the same name, you can then delete or rename the 2nd file exposing the 1st file in rom. I have seen this behaviour in WM2003.
Paul
thanks psneddon, thats the system i was trying to find the name of, if that can be stopped from happening.
Thanks for having a go at my knowledge, its always nice to see that you did exactly what you accused me of...
"System Restore / System Volume Information has nothing to do with the system file protection feature you are describing. They are 2 entirely seperate things"
And you agreed with this comment, ie, admitted that in your correction of your post, where you slagged me off, you still got it wrong.
So, in two posts you got them both wrong, in my post i stated a list of correct facts. I never said there was no feature to restore wnidows files, i said that it wasnt prefetch and it wasnt.
ALso, I wasnt "BEFORE SHOOTING PEOPLE DOWN IN FLAMES " and using all caps to shout, I was simply trying to point out your mistakes in a humerous way, obviously my humour went over your head.
I didnt flame you, or call you a twat.
Im sorry if I managed to offend you and understand that humour is a very subjective thing, at least one person here got the joke, so lets just end it here please.
I accept your apology, maybe some smileys around the humor parts would help me a little :lol: and maybe i did fly off the handle a little after nearlly getting killed on my way to work this morning. :roll:
WFP ( Windows File Protection ) does exist, ive now researched into it a little and its been around for a while, and you can delete the contents of the windows folder or system32 and it will replace it all (windows o/s related anyway).
What i was implying was that the universal could be using a similar system to this, ie, getting missing files from the rom and putting them back, and like WFP, this comes with an overhead on performance as it has to continually monitor specific folders for the changes.
I know replacing a file with a blank renamed file blocks this from happening but this can cause issues down the line, like replacing the imate today skins, yer renaming txt files and replacing them stops them from being recreated, but you can still choose them in the today skin manager.
Anyway i've had enough caffine now, lets get the Univeral up to the standards that the advertising led us to believe.
Hi,
I am using XML to provision and configure my PDA with settings and I have a couple of questions for anyone who has done this before. I have some settings working so I got cocky and thought I could do some more but I now need a little help with this...
Needless to say I am very grateful for any help/advice I can get on these...
1. Using XML I want to be able to delete unhelpful registry entries such as today items
2. I would also like to be able to set the following values in seconds:
BattSuspendTimeout
ACSuspendTimeout
3. I would like to be able to increase my Screen\Text Size up one level from the default
4. I would like to be able to creat shortcuts in the program menu for Office via the XML/CPF route but do not know the correct syntax
Is there a good resource for making these changes? I have serahced Google and come across various MS Visual Studio elements but not much for the XML, MakeCab, CPF route.
All the best, and thank you for anyone who can help me,
Sam.
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Hi,
I am using XML to provision and configure my PDA with settings and I have a couple of questions for anyone who has done this before. I have some settings working so I got cocky and thought I could do some more but I now need a little help with this...
Needless to say I am very grateful for any help/advice I can get on these...
1. Using XML I want to be able to delete unhelpful registry entries such as today items
2. I would also like to be able to set the following values in seconds:
BattSuspendTimeout
ACSuspendTimeout
3. I would like to be able to increase my Screen\Text Size up one level from the default
4. I would like to be able to creat shortcuts in the program menu for Office via the XML/CPF route but do not know the correct syntax
Is there a good resource for making these changes? I have serahced Google and come across various MS Visual Studio elements but not much for the XML, MakeCab, CPF route.
All the best, and thank you for anyone who can help me,
Sam.
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The best place to look is the MSDN books.
If you do a search of XML syntax it has all the options.
Hello All,
I want to make some application for PPC's under WM6 that restrict users from installation any software on PPC.
Does somebody faced with this?
I was looking for some tweakers or smth, to look how it gonna be, but nothing found for WM6.
I was looking for some registry hacks, but no luck.
Any ideas are welcome.
Cheers.
what a thread, so this could help:
1. dont give it to your brother,
2. ask your daddy to buy him his own ppc
3. make a backup
4. give the mio to your mom and go back to kindergarden
5.and just open a thread on a developers side if you have something usefull.
hope i could help you
Well I can see this being as the device used for demonstration purpose and OP wants to forbid people from messing it up.
One thing I can think of is to make the windows folder and registry files "read-only" so no other things can be added or used on the phone, after configure the phone the way you wanted.
I'm sure its possible, as a Exchange Activesync security policy.
Surur
vanuska said:
Hello All,
I want to make some application for PPC's under WM6 that restrict users from installation any software on PPC.
Does somebody faced with this?
I was looking for some tweakers or smth, to look how it gonna be, but nothing found for WM6.
I was looking for some registry hacks, but no luck.
Any ideas are welcome.
Cheers.
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Forbidding an EXE from installing would also prevent EXE's from running. Thus rendering everything on the device inopperable.
Preventing CAB files from running though, should just be a matter of altering the registry and what the associated actions for CAB files are.
look in \HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\cabfile\Shell\Open\Command\
The default string value is wceload.exe "%1" /XXXXXX (XXXXX can be a value of either /delete or /nodelete)
Anyway breaking this string will prevent cab's from installing.
The only other method of doing something like you want, that I can come up with at the moment, would be to create an app that either runs at startup or as a service. It's function would be as suggested above would be to restrict new files from being created in specified storage/registry locations.
I say NEW files as you would not want to restrict modification of existing files in those locations otherwise you risk breaking functionality of pre installed apps.
This is a very simple application that enables you to specify any kind of Uri to launch. This is done through creating a Toast notification that, when clicked on, will execute the specified Uri. This uses a native method outside of the regular SDK; the standard methods available in the SDK that you'd normally use to create a Toast notification are restrictive in what kind of Uri you can specify. By using the native method not part of the SDK, these limitations can be by-passed.
I've attached both the XAP and the source code. The source project contains three projects:
CShellChromeAPI: The C++/CLI project which calls the native un-documented method
NativeToastLauncher: The .NET wrapper which simplifies the interaction with the C++/CLI project
NativeToastLauncherApp: The test application used to quickly launch any Uri
You'll notice I've hard-coded a default Uri when you launch the application: this will open the Windows Phone 8 "About" page.
To run this, you'll need to side load the XAP which requires a dev unlocked device...
Can I use any system GUID to launch?
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Can I use any sytem GUID to launch?
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Any registered app GUID yes. You'd do app://GUID/_default (or replace the _default with the particular task to run - in most cases, that's _default).
@cpuguy this is awesome, thanks!
If you guys are looking for GUIDS and default tasks, they are all in the app's WMAppMAnifest.xml. the "ProductID" is the GUID and the "DefaultTask Name" property contains the name of the default task.
Hopefully we can use this to find a program to exploit.
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Does anyone happen to have a list of the ID's for the system and settings apps? Obviously, I can't go into the code and get these without messing with the file system. If no one has them, then I can just trial/error until I get some...
If you download the registry hives located at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2393883 , you can load the Software hvie and search for "app://" That will give you a few system files you can launch.
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I posted a zip file of the default ones in a new thread.
IF anyone has tethering blocked, see if you can get it to work by launching this URI app://5B04B775-356B-4AA0-AAF8-6491FFEA5629/Default
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If you download the registry hives located at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2393883 , you can load the Software hvie and search for "app://" THat will give you a few system files you can launch.
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Im only seeing the app:// function used on the system settings options after going through the regsistries so far.
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Im only seeing the app:// function used on the system settings options after going through the regsistries so far.
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that's what I saw too. I am having way more luck finding cool stuff in the extracted ffu. Take a look at the zip file in the new thread I started.
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that's what I saw too. I am having way more luck finding cool stuff in the extracted ffu. Take a look at the zip file in the new thread I started.
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yea, I saw the new thread. Hopefully somebody can find a exploit in all that. It executes some cool files. Too bad there wasn't a cmd.exe file on our phones that we can execute.
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yea, I saw the new thread. Hopefully somebody can find a exploit in all that. It executes some cool files. Too bad there wasn't a cmd.exe file on our phones that we can execute.
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actually..there is! but it's stuck in a WIM. It inflates it on an "as-needed" basis.
I am hoping that we can use the backgroundworker to run some stuff elevated
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I am hoping that we can use the backgroundworker to run some stuff elevated
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But they all are pretty much isolated. It is unlikely that you will be able to run anything elevated
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yea, I saw the new thread. Hopefully somebody can find a exploit in all that. It executes some cool files. Too bad there wasn't a cmd.exe file on our phones that we can execute.
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Not only is there a CMD.exe, but there are other interesting things like a BSOD screen, Control Panel, registry keys referencing desktop (A future exploit I might attempt), and even native EXEs (We knew about native EXEs since WPs release).
Why does this launcher not work with "normal" toasts: {YOUR-APP-GUID} and "/Page1.xaml"? Only with empty GUID and full path.
Similarly, any chance this could be used to open arbitrary XAML pages, rather than just the ones defined in the app manifest? For example, something like what was posted in another thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=45265419&postcount=56) using the following URI: app://5edbdbbc-2ab2-df11-8a2f-00237de2db9e/_default#/View/APNSettingPage.xaml to launch a hidden page in the Connection Setup app. I don't know if that's a weird behavior of CS or if its universally possible (and while it feels lazy to ask, I'm at work right now). There are a bunch of "hidden" pages in the ATIV S Diagnosis app, some of which would be very useful, but the navigation code for them is blocked or outright missing. If we could invoke those directly... There are probably a bunch of other such hidden gems in other OEM apps too.
Yes you can. The way I found the one in the HTC app was by loading the dlls in JetBrain's dotPeek. Then I looked for the xaml files. It is all a relative URI based on what dotPeek/the app "sees". The only thing the manifest states is where the default entry point is for the page. Basically I looked in the manifest file for how it calls the "default" page. and then replace it with the relative URI for the other page you want.
If you guys want, I can write up a simple tutorial. I just have an HTC 8x, so my hands are tied. If someone can figure out how to deflate an nbh file so I can browse it, that'd be fantastic! I found a "dead" 521 on eBay that I am thinking of picking up for research since there are way more tools for Nokia.
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Yes you can. The way I found the one in the HTC app was by loading the dlls in JetBrain's dotPeek. Then I looked for the xaml files. It is all a relative URI based on what dotPeek/the app "sees". The only thing the manifest states is where the default entry point is for the page. Basically I looked in the manifest file for how it calls the "default" page. and then replace it with the relative URI for the other page you want.
If you guys want, I can write up a simple tutorial. I just have an HTC 8x, so my hands are tied. If someone can figure out how to deflate an nbh file so I can browse it, that'd be fantastic! I found a "dead" 521 on eBay that I am thinking of picking up for research since there are way more tools for Nokia.
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That's correct. I have been navigating to various - normally unreachable - XAML pages in quite a few of the Nokia apps. I gave an example of that in a different thread:
Code:
app://[COLOR="Navy"][B]2377fe1b-c10f-47da-92f3-fc517345a3c0[/B][/COLOR]/[COLOR="Orange"][B]_default[/B][/COLOR]#/[COLOR="Green"][B]Launcher[/B][/COLOR];component/[COLOR="DarkRed"][B]MainPage.xaml[/B][/COLOR]
In this example, I launch the Nokia extras+info app (2377fe1b-c10f-47da-92f3-fc517345a3c0) with the default entry point (_default) which, as @compu829 stated, can found in the app's manifest. Following that, you can add "#/" (not sure if either the hash-tag or slash can be taken out or both are required to work but I know with both, it does work) to the URI to specify a particular XAML file you'd like to open. Following the "#/", you get to specify the assembly (i.e. the .DLL in the XAP file) in which the XAML file is located (Launcher). And finally, you add ";component/" followed by the full path to the XAML as defined in the embedded resource file (MainPage.xaml).
-W_O_L_F- said:
Why does this launcher not work with "normal" toasts: {YOUR-APP-GUID} and "/Page1.xaml"? Only with empty GUID and full path.
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I presume your reference to the "empty GUID" is for the first parameter of my static Launcher.LaunchToast method? That first parameter is, as far as I can see, ignored for the actual toast launch. If I'd have the signature of the "Shell_PostMessageToast" method, I could perhaps understand what it does but, without it, I just knew it wanted a GUID (passed to it as a string) and that that GUID could be an empty one. I reversed engineered the signature from that native method (found in ShellChromeAPI.dll) by taking a look at another native assembly calling it. Naturally, this only tells shows me how that method is being called but doesn't return the name of the parameters. If I remember correctly, the assembly calling that method was passing its own application GUID... I could have done the same but, I didn't see what use it had so I decided to keep passing it an empty GUID.
The format of the toast is different most likely because that's the raw toast launching method. The other format you're used to is the more developer friendly one that's sanitized prior to launching it (so you can't launch another app directly).
Success!
@GoodDayToDie , this is exactly what I'm trying to do! And here is result:
Hello - I'm doing some security testing on a WP8 application. The isolated storage has a bunch of .DATA files. If I try and view these in notepad ++ it is gibberish. Any ideas on how to view the contents of these files? I'm assuming they are database files.
OK, first of all, you already asked this in another thread. DON'T DO THAT.
Without knowing what the app in question is - which I don't really expect you to tell me - I can't much help you. I assume this is a blackbox assessment, or you'd have checked the source code. If the app is managed code, you can try decompiling it (you can try this if it's native code too - IDA Pro supports ARM - but that's obviously more difficult).
The extension .DATA doesn't mean anything. There are only a few common database formats used on WP8, so it might be one of those... but then, it could also be encrypted so even if you figure out the format you'll need the key too. It could just be a flat text file that has been compressed and/or encrypted, for that matter. You could try checking the file for magic numbers, either manually using a hex editor or by checking the file using libmagic (on *nix systems, /bin/file is usually a front-end to libmagic and should be able to tell you if the file is, for example, a known compressed format).
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OK, first of all, you already asked this in another thread. DON'T DO THAT.
Without knowing what the app in question is - which I don't really expect you to tell me - I can't much help you. I assume this is a blackbox assessment, or you'd have checked the source code. If the app is managed code, you can try decompiling it (you can try this if it's native code too - IDA Pro supports ARM - but that's obviously more difficult).
The extension .DATA doesn't mean anything. There are only a few common database formats used on WP8, so it might be one of those... but then, it could also be encrypted so even if you figure out the format you'll need the key too. It could just be a flat text file that has been compressed and/or encrypted, for that matter. You could try checking the file for magic numbers, either manually using a hex editor or by checking the file using libmagic (on *nix systems, /bin/file is usually a front-end to libmagic and should be able to tell you if the file is, for example, a known compressed format).
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Sorry about posting in multiple spots. I figured I shouldnt ask multiple questions (diff topics) in one thread so I thought I would do a stand alone. Won't happen again. The vendor has told me that these files are encrypted...but I am also trying to get some more info on what that actually means and what they are doing for key storage.
It's quite likely that the files are encrypted using the data protection API for WP8 apps (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...ity.cryptography.protecteddata(v=vs.105).aspx). From what I've read, that uses 3DES with a key derived from the user (probably meaning app) and system (probably meaning device-specific) identities. The key derivation and management is invisible to the user, though.