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This is my attempt to get some more creativity, innovation, and roms here on xda. alot of people here have incredible skills but they cant be harnessed because they dont know what to do. if you are an artist we need you make icon packs. you have made 30 roms but you cant sign them. blah blah.
so no one abuse this but i attached a toolkit to do anything and everything with android on windows. im pushing this to be used for creating themes. hopefully it can help. but i thought it would be nice if everyone had this and the opensource community could start to grow even more.
i like this idea because it can help fellow Devs and even the watchers. everyone can get involved and give something to the community.
And now i present the Avabox
Any questions post them up.
OUTLINE------------------------------------------------------------
unyaffs-you have the ability to take system.img and data.img from you nandroids and get specific items from them.
Autosign- sign anything and everything. name your zip update.zip and follow the readme. roms themes, apps, anything.
Baksmali- put in apk in the folder. read readme. edit any icons wallpapers, anything. close it up and enjoy.
Perlscripts- this opens the boot.img for you.
Read the readme on all of these programs.

So this is going to be a quick tutorial Im gonna put up a video soon on how i got this to work on my computer
First things first download Avabox and unzip it in your C folder (same place you put androidsdk).
then get the java runtime from here not to be confused with the java development kit but since your there might as well grab it as well.
Install the java runtime then reboot
then open up avabox and click on autosign and place the zip you want signed in that folder and name it update.zip (dont add the .zip part it should already be a zip file).
then open up command prompt and type:cd\
cd Avabox/auto-sign
java -jar signapk.jar testkey.x509.pem testkey.pk8 update.zip update_signed.zip
After that last enter give it a second and look in your avabox/update file and you'll notice a new file called update_signed.zip
I know that this is almost word for word from the read me but a few differences can go along way expect a video shortly..... well around wednesday or whenever i can get someone to help with this

porting
im interested in learning how to port and combine different aspects of themes and other mods. will this do it or is there other software i need. I can do the work if shown the way. I read all the post everday with peopl;e asking for this and that and i do it myself. If shown I would help with requests as much as possible. HELP PLEASE

Thank you Avalaunch!!

so with this software, can i take a signed theme mod (like launcher or taskbar) and it will grab the images for me to edit, and then repack and sign to a flashable zip?

Everyone that knows how to use bak/smali, I have a question.
The modifications I made to the extracted pngs aren't getting transferred back to the original apk when I close it back up. Any Ideas? I'm getting really close to a breakthrough for 2.1. Any help would be appreciated

regaw_leinad said:
Everyone that knows how to use bak/smali, I have a question.
The modifications I made to the extracted pngs aren't getting transferred back to the original apk when I close it back up. Any Ideas? I'm getting really close to a breakthrough for 2.1. Any help would be appreciated
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hm ill have to check into it. it should be making a new classes.dex too. i never really used it on edits.

Avalaunchmods said:
hm ill have to check into it. it should be making a new classes.dex too. i never really used it on edits.
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It changes the classes.dex and resigns it it looks like, but doesn't copy the mods of the pngs to the apk.

regaw_leinad said:
Everyone that knows how to use bak/smali, I have a question.
The modifications I made to the extracted pngs aren't getting transferred back to the original apk when I close it back up. Any Ideas? I'm getting really close to a breakthrough for 2.1. Any help would be appreciated
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What do you mean? Baksmali and Smali are for decompiling classes.dex and opening it up for the .smali files that are inside. Smali takes that output and recompiles it back into classes.dex for your .apk or .jar file.

You need to update the baksmali and smali .jar's. You have older versions and that will cause issues with certain .jar and .apk's when decompiling. baksmali-1.2.1.jar and smali-1.2.1.jar are the latest versions and will not require the BOOTCLASS PATH to be included...

Does the autosign work windows 7 (64 bit)? I've heard issues with other autosigns on 7. If it doesn't, no biggie I got xp in a VM... lol

obannvi said:
What do you mean? Baksmali and Smali are for decompiling classes.dex and opening it up for the .smali files that are inside. Smali takes that output and recompiles it back into classes.dex for your .apk or .jar file.
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Yeah I get it now, after playing with it for a while.
Avalaunch, you should change the first post.
Baksmali- put in apk in the folder. read readme. edit any icons wallpapers, anything. close it up and enjoy.
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that description is a little confusing to a person that NEVER used smali/baksmali before. It makes it seem like after you edit the unzipped files, you could just run smali and it will put al the changes in the new apk. I figured out that's not how it works lol I feel pretty stupid now looking back at my last question haha

regaw_leinad said:
Yeah I get it now, after playing with it for a while.
Avalaunch, you should change the first post.
that description is a little confusing to a person that NEVER used smali/baksmali before. It makes it seem like after you edit the unzipped files, you could just run smali and it will put al the changes in the new apk. I figured out that's not how it works lol I feel pretty stupid now looking back at my last question haha
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What im trying to figure out is why would you even need to use baksmali/smali to edit .png's inside an .apk. All that needs to be done is opening of the .apk with 7zip, modify whats in /res/drawable etc then close...No need to sign .apks or anything. If anything, the script needs to contain something to extract /res/ * from the .apk to edit.

obannvi said:
What im trying to figure out is why would you even need to use baksmali/smali to edit .png's inside an .apk. All that needs to be done is opening of the .apk with 7zip, modify whats in /res/drawable etc then close...No need to sign .apks or anything. If anything, the script needs to contain something to extract /res/ * from the .apk to edit.
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I'm actually doing more than that. I am changing the code to look for instead of <name of file>.jpg to <name of file>.png
While also putting the new png in the apk. Think that's possible? I changed all of the locations where that file comes up in the smali code.

regaw_leinad said:
I'm actually doing more than that. I am changing the code to look for instead of <name of file>.jpg to <name of file>.png
While also putting the new png in the apk. Think that's possible? I changed all of the locations where that file comes up in the smali code.
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I gotcha. So you're looking in blah.smali for any reference to .jpgs and changing that reference to look for .png instead??

obannvi said:
I gotcha. So you're looking in blah.smali for any reference to .jpgs and changing that reference to look for .png instead??
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yeah, not working too well atm, but working on it.

I think this is what I've been looking for. Downloading now.
Just noticed that ActivePerl was for 64bit. I am downloading 32bit as I have only have 32bit Vista Pro installed and not the 64bit.

regaw_leinad said:
Yeah I get it now, after playing with it for a while.
Avalaunch, you should change the first post.
that description is a little confusing to a person that NEVER used smali/baksmali before. It makes it seem like after you edit the unzipped files, you could just run smali and it will put al the changes in the new apk. I figured out that's not how it works lol I feel pretty stupid now looking back at my last question haha
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i guess i need to explain more. i use baksmali to make apks easier to search through. for me at least. instead of changing the type and everything i just put it in the folder and baksmali then do changes and create a new archive. sign and change .apk. if you smali it back to apk then it wont save edits. sorry about that anyways has this helped people so far? i love showing that windows can be a dev platform

&RoidRage said:
I think this is what I've been looking for. Downloading now.
Just noticed that ActivePerl was for 64bit. I am downloading 32bit as I have only have 32bit Vista Pro installed and not the 64bit.
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yes just google active perl i use win 7 64bit and when this toolbox was made, it was only made for certain people who had 64bit.

Sorry for the n00b question, but I have searched and haven't had much luck. Hopefully, this is the best place for this question. I just started editing .png's and updating some apk's files to customize some things on my phone for looks. However, I am really interested in modifying the taskbar and notification screen, but I have no clue where to start. Is there a guide somewhere I could follow to learn how to change them? What programs, if any additional ones will I need etc..?
Thanks for your help!
Figured it out on my own. framework.apk and resources.apk

How to host an .apk file?

Hi!
I've been trying to upload an .apk to my webhost (through ftp) and when I try to download it through the given url, the file doesn't download. Instead I only get text, just as if my host don't understand the file.
Any idea how I can fix this? Is it though .htaccess or what? /:
(I've tried to search this but with no luck)

First off I don't know too much about ftp but from what I do know I would imagine what you want to do would involve the .htaccess file in the apk's directory
My guess would be in the .htaccess file you'd have to edit/add the FilesMatch line
(if that doesn't work it may me just "Files" instead of "FilesMatch" - not sure)
Code:
<FilesMatch "\.(apk)$">
ForceType application/octet-stream
Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>
Other alternatives I can think of are either:
Change the link from [B]ftp[/B]://your.ftp.org/blah/android.apk to [B]http[/B]://your.ftp.org/blah/android.apk when you give it out - but I realize this kinda defeats the purpose of using a FTP in the first place
Upload the .apk into a zip. That should force the 'save as' dialog
Hopefully this does the trick for you
**I hope this post looks correct - adding the html myself I may have messed up somewhere along the line, if it you see /LIST] or anything like that I'll fix it when I have access to a computer **
Sent from my Android using Tapatalk

kyouko said:
First off I don't know too much about ftp but from what I do know I would imagine what you want to do would involve the .htaccess file in the apk's directory
My guess would be in the .htaccess file you'd have to edit/add the FilesMatch line
(if that doesn't work it may me just "Files" instead of "FilesMatch" - not sure)
Code:
<FilesMatch "\.(apk)$">
ForceType application/octet-stream
Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>
Other alternatives I can think of are either:
Change the link from [B]ftp[/B]://your.ftp.org/blah/android.apk to [B]http[/B]://your.ftp.org/blah/android.apk when you give it out - but I realize this kinda defeats the purpose of using a FTP in the first place
Upload the .apk into a zip. That should force the 'save as' dialog
Hopefully this does the trick for you
**I hope this post looks correct - adding the html myself I may have messed up somewhere along the line, if it you see /LIST] or anything like that I'll fix it when I have access to a computer **
Sent from my Android using Tapatalk
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Geniuous! Worked like clockwork!
(I used the http://-link from the start, that's where it failed.. but the .htaccess content did it's job!)
1+Thanks! ^^

Lumia 950/950XL Service level execution

Hi,
I've been able to use vcREG 1.5 on a 950XL to execute any exe file via services.exe, except it's getting stopped by Code Integrity. That's also why putting older NdtkSvc.dll doesn't work on the newer phone (aside from the fact that it has to be in c:\windows). I thought oh maybe any valid arm executable signed by microsoft would be enough, so I copied some executables from the Raspberry Pi Windows 10 IoT image, but I could only get them to run inside the app sandbox because they weren't in the system catalog :'(
Example:
21-March-2016 15:04:08.339601 0x000003D4 0x00000F88 Verbose Microsoft-Windows-CodeIntegrity Code Integrity completed validating file hash. Status 0xC0000428.
21-March-2016 15:04:08.339631 0x000003D4 0x00000F88 Error Microsoft-Windows-CodeIntegrity Code Integrity determined that a process (\Device\HarddiskVolume37\Windows\System32\services.exe) attempted to load \Device\HarddiskVolume39\WPSystem\ftpd.exe that did not meet the Windows signing level requirements.
So now the trick is to find an executable on the system that currently exists, that can be used to gain further access... I've been trying various things like OOBE stuff etc without any luck so far.
Hoping someone else has some ideas... maybe even executing a dll function to import registry from a file or something directly, then we could unlock interop on 950's..
Thanks

Great work
maybe you can MTP your 950/950xl and look for the files in the \windows folder
micheal

Can you tell me how to execute a exe via services.exe ? Thanks?

naiple said:
Can you tell me how to execute a exe via services.exe ? Thanks?
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use vcREG1.5 to edit HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\NlpmService\ImagePath
Change it to whatever executable you want, reboot and it will run as LOCAL SYSTEM, provided that it is signed correctly.
NOTE: Changing this will stop your Glance screen from working, so take note of the original value and restore it after you are done if you use glance.

megasounds said:
Great work
maybe you can MTP your 950/950xl and look for the files in the \windows folder
micheal
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Actually using MTP isn't the best thing for that, because you are missing out on more than half of the available executable files as they are not viewable via MTP on 950/XL due to permissions. It's best to mount the FFU image and look around that way.
I have already looked and tested most of them, thus why I was asking if anyone else had some ideas.

darkfires said:
use vcREG1.5 to edit HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\NlpmService\ImagePath
Change it to whatever executable you want, reboot and it will run as LOCAL SYSTEM, provided that it is signed correctly.
NOTE: Changing this will stop your Glance screen from working, so take note of the original value and restore it after you are done if you use glance.
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Thanks! I will try it on my lumia

darkfires said:
use vcREG1.5 to edit HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\NlpmService\ImagePath
Change it to whatever executable you want, reboot and it will run as LOCAL SYSTEM, provided that it is signed correctly.
NOTE: Changing this will stop your Glance screen from working, so take note of the original value and restore it after you are done if you use glance.
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I can't find NlpmService because my lumia730 don't have a Glance screen ... is there any way else to run a exe?

naiple said:
I can't find NlpmService because my lumia730 don't have a Glance screen ... is there any way else to run a exe?
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I only decompiled the NdtkSvc on 950XL, the one on 730 might be different. But to answer your question there is only one other way, and it will kill USB so you won't be able to connect to it via PC at all until you reverse the change. If you post your NdtkSvc.dll I can check it for you.
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\NokDeviceHubSvc\ImagePath

darkfires said:
I only decompiled the NdtkSvc on 950XL, the one on 730 might be different. But to answer your question there is only one other way, and it will kill USB so you won't be able to connect to it via PC at all until you reverse the change. If you post your NdtkSvc.dll I can check it for you.
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\NokDeviceHubSvc\ImagePath
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Ahh, i find the Nlpmservice. Don't know why i cant find it yesterday... And if you need any thing(unlocked bootloader, uefi...) from 730 or 540 i can post it, both are prototype and can enter massStorage. Hope i can help you. Thank you for the answer

naiple said:
Ahh, i find the Nlpmservice. Don't know why i cant find it yesterday... And if you need any thing(unlocked bootloader, uefi...) from 730 or 540 i can post it, both are prototype and can enter massStorage. Hope i can help you. Thank you for the answer
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I'm trying to do something different and I found this topic so if you still have these devices can you extract NlpmService.dll file from System32 and upload it here for me?

[Tool] Android Adb File Explorer

I'm an Android Developer and I need a tool support push pull data to mobile base on ADB commands. I search xda forum and found a tool at here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1821601 .
But it have some problem and i developed a new tool with some advance features:
Attacted new adb version, high speed transfer for Android 7 or newer.
Support push, pull for multi files/folder.
Show more information of files/folders and sort data by name.
Don't freeze with large data.
Note: Current only support Windows.
Download: AndroidAdbFileExplorer.7z
XDA:DevDB Information
AndroidAdbFileExplorer, Tool/Utility for the Windows 8 General
Contributors
codinginthebigcity
Version Information
Status: Testing
Current Beta Version: 1.1.1
Created 2017-05-12
Last Updated 2017-05-12

Thank you for your app. Works very good.

Needs multi-file pull.

I tried to access /data so I clicked 'back' and everytime I choose a folder it trims 3 firsts symbols from selected folder.
Example:
I select folder named 'system' and in path I get /tem
I select folder named 'misc' and in path I get /c
I select folder named 'config' and in path I get /fig
I cannot edit filepath as it is not editable.
Please fix this

this is the only such application works!

broken and unusable. keeps thinking date and id is a path variable on every command,

This tool is lovely! Used it to move a ton of files from my Pixel on Pie to my PC so that I could do a full wipe and install of Android 10, then moved the files back. The speeds seem to be at least 10x faster using this than MTP over USB. Thank you so much!!!

works great for android tv.
Thanks broman

Thanks a TON !!!!!!!!!!
I used this software to backup various folders from the internal storage of my Moto G5 Plus and it worked flawlessly.
And the copy speed is too good to be true (but it is)
God bless you

This is the best method to transfer big amount of data from your phone. I had 35GB of photos and videos and this app transfer that quick and without any data corruption. MTP is not even close to that method. Thanks a lot!

FYI: I think this tool unfortunately doesn't really work under Android 11 any more, probably due to the new restricted storage access design by google.
Running an Pixel 2 with Beta RC3 and some files and folder won't be shown. For example the "camera" folder under "dcim" wont show at all.
Other files under downloads: some show, some don't.
Maybe you could look into it and fix it with an update? Was immensely usefull for copying pictures.
Thanks for your great work

Link/url is not working.
If can fix please.
Or if any other better File explorer after 3 years.

A new link would be great for me, too.

Anyone saved a copy of this? Also looking for a link

giant59 said:
Anyone saved a copy of this? Also looking for a link
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Found it on an old computer for you.
I still prefer using this app instead of "Android Studio", especially if I'm only using Android Studio just for file transfer (overkill 800+ megabyte download) whereas "Android ADB File Explorer" is less than 1 megabyte. I also find it a lot easier to move directories with subdirectories with "Android ADB File Explorer".
Android ADB File Explorer MEGA download link (file is untouched from original download in 7z): https://mega.nz/file/vhpFiQwb#PngUnnspu6VA2enWCN9t06kGYcWkugsA1qWXswKjbTY
I've converted the original 7z file to ZIP for attachment to this post. No other changes were made.
Edit: I don't have any issues on Android 11 moving multiple files and directories with this. Much, much faster than MTP
Edit 2: I encountered the Android 11 issue with missing subdirectories. I just copied the parent folder and the subdirectories that weren't displaying in "ADB File Explorer" still copied over anyways.

ninjæon said:
Found it on an old computer for you.
I still prefer using this app instead of "Android Studio", especially if I'm only using Android Studio just for file transfer (overkill 800+ megabyte download) whereas "Android ADB File Explorer" is less than 1 megabyte. I also find it a lot easier to move directories with subdirectories with "Android ADB File Explorer".
Android ADB File Explorer MEGA download link (file is untouched from original download in 7z): https://mega.nz/file/vhpFiQwb#PngUnnspu6VA2enWCN9t06kGYcWkugsA1qWXswKjbTY
I've converted the original 7z file to ZIP for attachment to this post. No other changes were made.
Edit: I don't have any issues on Android 11 moving multiple files and directories with this. Much, much faster than MTP
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MD5 Hash Matches
Hash: 22c12aaa9c47bee6e5ed0f3887969883

Is it still being maintained? I hope someone can add in the option to connect to ADB over WiFi (probably just another input field for IP address and change the adb connect command)

HRSE said:
Is it still being maintained? I hope someone can add in the option to connect to ADB over WiFi (probably just another input field for IP address and change the adb connect command)
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The developer of this utility hasn't logged into XDA in over four years, so my guess is that this isn't being maintained. However, "codinginthebigcity" has updated their "Watch Navigator" app in the Google Play store as recently as February 2021. So they may still be active in Android development. Their email [email protected] is listed in that app description if you want to pose your feature request directly to them.

Well the link is dead, so much for this.

Toothless_NEO said:
Well the link is dead, so much for this.
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Did you try the re-uploaded link or attachment four replies up?

Last chance to get FirefoxOS/B2GOS nightly builds

Hi all,
Mozilla is cleaning out it's archive and intends to remove almost all of the nightly builds for B2G.
UPDATE: Bug being tracked, they will keep the latest of each branch/target combination (based on what I suggested, I hope I'm right!): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1470575
https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/intent-to-remove-old-builds-on-july-1-2018/28831
As part of a project to clean out obsolete artifacts from archive.mozilla.org, we intend to remove old files from https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/b2g/ on July 1, 2018.
On July 1 we will:
Delete all files under https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/b2g/tinderbox-builds/
Delete everything except latest-mozilla-central* from https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/b2g/nightly/
If removing these files will seriously impact you, please reply back to me and we can hopefully find a way to preserve the files you need while still cleaning up the majority of the old builds there.
Thanks,
Chris
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I know that in the past some people have found what's in the archive useful for making custom ROMs for normally unsupported devices. I don't if anyone is still using them, however if you are then please reply to the thread in Mozilla Discourse or on the FirefoxOS development mailing list: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.fxos/Q68CmQ3lD4g/TY6GMjLnCgAJ.
EDIT: attached ZIP of sitemaps generated from https://www.check-domains.com/sitemap/ to help people navigate this enormous archive.
EDIT 2: Attached an XLSX file to try and help people navigate the archive.
EDIT 3: Add Bugzilla link.
Cheers

Does anyone know what the current size of the repo is?
Perhaps a mirror can be made?

AFAIK it's apparently 23TB, stated on irc.mozilla.org #b2g.

madb1lly said:
AFAIK it's apparently 23TB, stated on irc.mozilla.org #b2g.
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Yikes, I only have around 1.5TB total in my desktop (shared between 12 hard drives, another terabyte on my laptop, and another in an external drive.
I think that perhaps the DataHoarder subreddit would be a good place to post this (I do not have a Reddit account).

Mozilla have not said they will delete everything, I think they are happy to keep files that people use. The problem is that we don't know what people use, hence why I thought I would spread the word and see if anyone uses any of the files.

OP updated: attached ZIP of sitemaps generated from https://www.check-domains.com/sitemap/ to help people navigate this enormous archive.

OP updated: attached XLSX made from the sitemaps to try and make it easier for people to navigate and identify what they think may be useful.