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Does anyone know where i could get the apk for the htc smart dialer and contacts applications found in the rogers build?
Android Market. 3 day free trial and then £2.99
Thanks, but that is not what i mean. What i am talking about are custom applications made by htc that only appear on their custom builds, not in the market. I wanted to see if there was a way of obtaining them similar to the way of obtaining htc's custom keyboard.
screen shot or a link would be helpful
crxtasi said:
screen shot or a link would be helpful
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sorry, couldn'd find a big enough screen shot, but click this link:
http://www.htc.com/www/product/magic/overview.html
click the "take quick tour button" and you will see exactly what i am talking about.
You could download a Roger's ROM from the dream forum and extract the .apks from there.
@thefoss
could you explain how that is done; just from the point where you extract the rogers rom.
Well I tried installing the HTC Contacts and Dialer APK from the hero build but no success says it will NOT install on This Phone. Even tried the Smart Dialer from the Market and does the same thing.
OH by the way I tried to install them on my Mytouch 3G with no success Someone help us out on this Plz
chuco469 said:
Well I tried installing the HTC Contacts and Dialer APK from the hero build but no success says it will NOT install on This Phone. Even tried the Smart Dialer from the Market and does the same thing.
OH by the way I tried to install them on my Mytouch 3G with no success Someone help us out on this Plz
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Your def not moving over htc dialer and contacts to mytouch with out root. Its not just not happening right now. And superdial from the market installs just fine
That app is SLOW :/
If you really want all HTC stuff simply install HTC image...
The problem is that you'll need to install lot of HTC stuff with that dialer...
The idea is cool but... slow :/
HERO applications will NOT work on NON-HERO ROM's.
The HTC Smart Dialer and Contacts is NOT A HERO APPLICATION
Wadajr said:
@thefoss
could you explain how that is done; just from the point where you extract the rogers rom.
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Go here and download the Rogers-Wiped Nandroid image. When you unzip that package there will be a collection of .img files. Go here and download Unyaffs (I have only used it on Ubuntu and I have no idea how it will work on Windows) and put it in your android-sdk/tools directory (assuming this has been added to your PATH). Make a directory called system and cd into it. Use unyaffs to extract the system.img file that you downloaded
Code:
unyaffs system.img
In that system folder there should be a bunch of folders and a few files. Look in the app folder. You will see the .apk files there.
Hope this has helped a bit!
i guess the mytouch has to be rooted for this to work on it. they wont install via appmanager, but why does htc_ime.apk work and these wont. im guessing because they are system files. yeah im a noob
Make sure you have the install from "Unknown Sources" checked... Then try again. It is in the APP manager under settings.
ive rooted my mytouch, and the apk's wont install on cyanogen 32B 3.9.9.1
i would really like to know about this as well. my mytouch doesnt have a rooted rom on it but i do have superuser permissions. can i push it using adb? i wouldnt know what commands to use.
I wanted to bring back this thread because I have the same question as the above 2 posters.
Does anyone know why the apk installer wont install the contacts apk (my phone is rooted, and I pulled the apk from a rom that I've used on this phone)?
those HTC utilities are not open source, hence they are not included in any of the cyanogen mods. the HTC framework that is needed for them to work is simply not present.
your only option is to get a rom for the rogers/tim etc which does include them..
Extracted htc_contacts.apk
I've extracted the file htc_contacts.apk and I've opened with Archive manager under Ubuntu.
I've found many many XML files, some certs... I think the installer check the phone model and then says You cannot install the apk. But if the apk is the only source for installatione, we could find the controls in it.
Am I wrong?
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Hey,
Here's the file to install Gallery 3D to the Desire.
You have 2 ways of installing:
1) Install Android USB Driver (search for it) run the following commands:
adb install <filename and path>
2) Copy to SD Card, open in a file manager (make sure "install from unknown sources" is checked in menu) (untested)
New version:
Gallery works great, launches camera, and plays videos!
Download
brummiesteven said:
Hey,
Here's the file to install Gallery 3D to the Desire.
You have 2 ways of installing:
1) Install Android USB Driver (search for it) run the following commands:
adb install <filename and path>
2) Copy to SD Card, open in a file manager (make sure "install from unknown sources" is checked in menu) (untested)
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hmm isnt the Android 3D gallery is inside the Desire by default? or is that something else?
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hmm isnt the Android 3D gallery is inside the Desire by default? or is that something else?
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No it includes Sense's gallery "Photos".
It just gives you 2.1 style gallery that's on the nexus one which looks better than the default for HTC, just install using astro file manager and off you go just place a short cut on one of the screens.
If anyone can figure out how to get launcher 2 style all programs and keep sense ui that be top
Thanks, brummiesteven
Sorry, what is Gallery3D and why do I want it?
It works but not well, for example pressing the camera icon, will crash the application and prompt a force close, there also seems to be some issue with the screen going black for a few seconds.
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It just gives you 2.1 style gallery that's on the nexus one which looks better than the default for HTC, just install using astro file manager and off you go just place a short cut on one of the screens.
If anyone can figure out how to get launcher 2 style all programs and keep sense ui that be top
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Ive been trying to get Launcher2 working, but still get crashes when selecting it
any ideas?
This is gallery3d:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMwoPS8ts7Y
Edit: Direct link to camera is the only thing I have found which doesn't work in gallery3d so far.
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It just gives you 2.1 style gallery that's on the nexus one which looks better than the default for HTC, just install using astro file manager and off you go just place a short cut on one of the screens.
If anyone can figure out how to get launcher 2 style all programs and keep sense ui that be top
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What other programs are you looking for?
Im trying to connect this up using eclipse but it aint happening
jonneymendoza said:
Im trying to connect this up using eclipse but it aint happening
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Connect up using eclipse?
Eclipse is a programming environment =/
brummiesteven said:
Connect up using eclipse?
Eclipse is a programming environment =/
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Yea but i want to develope and test apps on it. i could also run apk files and let it install on its phone via eclipse.
Eclipse cant recognise it via the ddms.
Bet you aint got a clue what im on about
jonneymendoza said:
Bet you aint got a clue what im on about
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Of course I know what you're on about.
jonneymendoza said:
Yea but i want to develope and test apps on it. i could also run apk files and let it install on its phone via eclipse.
Eclipse cant recognise it via the ddms.
Bet you aint got a clue what im on about
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Of course I know what you're on about.
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Eclipse is an IDE, you can develop/run/deploy jar files from it to the phone (also apk I assume). NetBeans works too with JAR files, not sure with APK though.
BTW, you cannot transfer the APK file directly to your phone and install it from there?
Does the 3D gallery replace the Sense one? Or is it just an alternate app?
irkan said:
Eclipse is an IDE, you can develop/run/deploy jar files from it to the phone (also apk I assume). NetBeans works too with JAR files, not sure with APK though.
BTW, you cannot transfer the APK file directly to your phone and install it from there?
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I *think* he's trying to test his own code via the phone which I'm not sure is possible or not, pretty sure you have to use the emulator.
Ghisy said:
Does the 3D gallery replace the Sense one? Or is it just an alternate app?
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You'd get 2 apps, "photos" which is the sense UI version and "Gallery" which is Gallery3D
brummiesteven said:
Of course I know what you're on about.
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irkan said:
Eclipse is an IDE, you can develop/run/deploy jar files from it to the phone (also apk I assume). NetBeans works too with JAR files, not sure with APK though.
BTW, you cannot transfer the APK file directly to your phone and install it from there?
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If you know what im on about, have you guys got it hooked up to eclipse successfully on windows 7 OS?
btw, you can transfer the apk file directly to your phone but you cant launch it.
edit: really need a sub forum for us developers
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I *think* he's trying to test his own code via the phone which I'm not sure is possible or not, pretty sure you have to use the emulator.
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Your spot on. i want to test apps on my phone and yes you can do it on a nexus one, G1 and the hero.
jonneymendoza said:
Your spot on. i want to test apps on my phone and yes you can do it on a nexus one, G1 and the hero.
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Are you saying that you can't test your own apps on the Desire through the standard developer tools? That's more than strange. brummiestevens said he could install apps via adb, so testing your own apps should work.
i pushed it on with adb, it shows up in root explorer now, but not in the widgets list. anyway to make this work?
can you send me the file? i would like to try some attempts...
i jsut copied the file to my sdcard and installed it via root explorer...worked like a charm...is the file you have themed?
EDIT: My bad for some reason (it must be late) i thought i read Google News widget...I do want to get the HTC news widget on my phone also...
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can you send me the file? i would like to try some attempts...
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sure, PM me your email and i'll email it to you
ejlax said:
i jsut copied the file to my sdcard and installed it via root explorer...worked like a charm...is the file you have themed?
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you installed the HTC news widget right on the phone? the one i tried wouldn't install.
i got the NewsReader.apk installed and opened...now trying to figure out how to get the widget...
anywho, i successfully modified and then pushed the modified News and Weather (GenieWidget) onto the phone. i themed it to match my FeedR widget.
tried to post a screen cap but it's not letting me. something about being a new member.
i have the widget.apk, but not the NewsReader.apk. maybe that's why it's not working. we need to share files. lol
here is the link for the newsreader.apk
http://www.mediafire.com/?xuzn5r0yzze
the app itself does nothing but force close for me. are you getting the same result?
do we maybe also need the odex file?
i was just going to say that....i am going to check...but the rom that i have is deodexed...do you have odex files?
ejlax said:
i was just going to say that....i am going to check...but the rom that i have is deodexed...do you have odex files?
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i do not have the odex files. i'm giving up for now. lol hopefully somebody can figure it out. i'm good with my skinned geniewidget for now.
You say your rom is deodexed... you're running a fully deodexed rom on DI? Did you build this yourself, or...?
I have some ideas for the news widget, but I'd like to see newsreader working first.
Thanks!
I posted progress..
I posted progress on the same thread in the apps section. I rooted and pulled de-odexed files from an evo build and pushed them to the system/app/ directory, i then cleared the data in HTC Sense app and the widget and icon showed up. The problem is that they force close. You need 3 files
RSS.apk
NewsReader.apk
com.htc.NewsReaderWidget.apk
I don't think it will make any difference to use odex'd files. Usually it is better to have de-odex'd files to install. The files must be on /system/app/ directory in order to even show up and launch. I hope that a dev is able to take a better look at the androidmanifest.xml in the app or use logcat to see what the hell is going on.
If you want to write to the /system/app/ directory,
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mv /sdcard/RSS.apk /system/app/RSS.apk
(etc...)
then applications-->manage-->HTC Sense -->clear data...
But again, FC's will occur until someone is able to look at the manifest and alter it. I looked at the MinSDK for this app and it is the same as the DInc, otherwise I would've changed that part with a Hex editor myself.
Hope someone is able to do this, we would all be one step closer to a smaller Evo, lol. (I really don't like holding a "kindle" to my ear anyways, lol!)
Red.
what errors do you get that cause the force closures? (logcat from adb)
Updating the manifest files isn't hard, but requires resigning... did you need to resign the evo files after deodexing?
vilord said:
what errors do you get that cause the force closures? (logcat from adb)
Updating the manifest files isn't hard, but requires resigning... did you need to resign the evo files after deodexing?
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I didn't need to resign because the .apk files I pulled were from a build that was de-odex'd in the "Evo Android Development" Section. Root Explorer recognizes the files right away, but because they need to be system files, they can't be installed like other apps. I don't have a logcat because I really don't dev too much, but would be thrilled if others tried this.
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When trying to install Gallery 3d it is always unsuccsessfull
Using this apk: http://www.appbrain.com/app/gallery-3d/com.cooliris.media
Am on js3 and root...
So I am running synergy godmode on my EVO 4g. I flashed One of the sense 3.5 ROMs to try it out though. I like several aspects of the sense 3.5, but I also really like the speed that the synergy gives me.
So how would I go about porting some stuff from sense 3.5 to synergy? Specificly I would like to take the music app and move it to synergy. How do I do this?
Thanks for any help!!
Sam
I know how to replace a system app, it is just a matter of figuring out how to get the APk for the music player from the 3.5 ROM. Is it possible to go to root exporer and system/app them copy the music player and paste it into the sd card, flash back to my other rom, then put that APk into the system apps, change the permissions, and then reboot? Would that do it?
rocket999 said:
I know how to replace a system app, it is just a matter of figuring out how to get the APk for the music player from the 3.5 ROM. Is it possible to go to root exporer and system/app them copy the music player and paste it into the sd card, flash back to my other rom, then put that APk into the system apps, change the permissions, and then reboot? Would that do it?
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download Titanium backup and backup all your apps and then load up whichever new rom you want and go back into Titanium backup and restore that app and see if it works...
I tried that. For some reason the apps just don't want to install. Odd. I guess I'll just wait until a more stable rom with sense 3.5 to come out and I'll just use that