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Im sorry if this is the wrong section for this, I figured this would be the best spot.
The reason im posting this is because a lot of people were asking how to use the EVO keyboard (with arrows) on NON-Evo sense builds. First off, as far as I have tried, the build does have to be a sense build. I have tested this on just about every sense build for the HD2.
I've attached the renamed apk that ive been using. Hopefully it will work since I sent it straight from my phone. If you use it, skip #1.
1.) Rename the HTC_IME.apk to newHTC_IME.apk
2.)Go into the folder where the newHTC_IME.apk is (if you download it from your phone then it will be in the "download" folder) and using "Root Explorer" or another root file explorer long press the apk and select copy.
3.)Go to your system>>app folder and paste the newHTC_IME.apk. Since its not the same name as the original it will not ask you if you want to over ride the original. But it will still be there if you choose you do not want the EVO keyboard later on.
4.) You WILL have to reboot for the changes to take affect, if you do not you will not have a keyboard till you do reboot.
I hope I didnt make this complicated lol, and yes i know....some of you know how to do this. I did it for the ones who did not.
Works perfectly with desire sense mdeejay build. Thanks.
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that's really great! sometimes it's pretty hard to navigate in text and this makes it a lot easier. thank you!
Same great result here... Thnx man...
Thank You
U don't know how long ive been searching for this and all the time it was right under my nose!
Im copying the newHTC_IME.apk to, "sd/android/AndroidApps/," then rebooting but nothing!
Ive tried clicking on newHTC_IME.apk in this folder it tries to install but then says, "application not installed".
Please Help.
did not work for me...got a process error. used android commander to push .apk to systems folder
Worked fine for me, really helpfull, no doubt Android is getting better and better for the HD2, im not using winmo since day one on Android
AbuGWM5 said:
U don't know how long ive been searching for this and all the time it was right under my nose!
Im copying the newHTC_IME.apk to, "sd/android/AndroidApps/," then rebooting but nothing!
Ive tried clicking on newHTC_IME.apk in this folder it tries to install but then says, "application not installed".
Please Help.
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the method you're doing won't work.. follow the OP's instruction on how to do it, or install droid explorer and then copy/paste the newHTC_IME.apk file to system/app folder.
BE VERY WARY ABOUT THIS!!!
I'm going to have to start from scratch as doing this has lost my keyboard, permanently.
I keep getting a "Sorry" message saying that "The application Touch Input has stopped unexpectedly" and my keyboard is unavailable.
This is after installing this new keyboard, as well as after restoring the original one. It's basically just screwed my keyboard so I'm going to have to rebuild my instance of Android from scratch.
AbuGWM5 said:
Im copying the newHTC_IME.apk to, "sd/android/AndroidApps/," then rebooting but nothing!
Please Help.
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You've got to copy it in sd/Android/root/system/app>
and reboot!
this should work for you.
hellraiser-rh said:
You've got to copy it in sd/Android/root/system/app>
and reboot!
this should work for you.
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mine doesnt even have app folder in my root folder can i just make a folder in the root and do it like that? and after i put it in the folder where do i go to select the evo keyboard sorry for acting like a noob lol
Yes thanks a lot but I was very afraid because I had to erase and save elsewhere the old file . I could not copy the new file in root system app as it was saying that i had not enough place in the rom.
Thanks for the apps . It work great !
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App
has any one had a success in getting this keyboard working on non sense builds? Eg cyanogens?
abrise said:
Yes thanks a lot but I was very afraid because I had to erase and save elsewhere the old file . I could not copy the new file in root system app as it was saying that i had not enough place in the rom.
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use supermanager to gain the root access
leo-HD2 said:
use supermanager to gain the root access
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My friends, i'm not able to write the file newHTC_IME.apk into /system/app/.
I've installed "Root Explorer" and I also cannot, it tells me that there's no space to copy the file... even i use mount r/w
i'v also tried to access superuser but i dont know how it works... superuser2.3.6 app screen shows me there's no apps, log shows me there's no log, and i don't know how can i give root privilegies to "root explorer"
thnx!
SOLVED: I was able doing the same, deleting HTC_IME.pak and copying newHTC_IME.pak. Thnx!!!
Hi motoman234,
Do you happen to have a copy of the cm6 themed keyboard used in shu8i's first batch of builds?
Thank you
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so much thanks
Thanks a lot
Had some problems figuring out the permissions, but workt great with Root Explorer.
thanks for the app. Really enjoying the arrows
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This is very easy now after having the permanent ROOT -- thanks to PAUL for wonderful Visionary+, Evostance for brilliant guide, and those geniuses who make this happened (you know who )
First you need to get permanent root. Here is the link to the guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=834427
(If you read till page 10, you will definitely know how to do it and what to expect).
Second, go buy ROOT EXPLORER from the market. (Best explorer for rooted phone period).
Go to /system/customize/resource
Make sure you enable the r/w (read write option), other wise you cant do modification.
You will see both the audio and bootanimation there.
If you hated that sound (just like me), just delete the audio.mp3. If you want to change the bootanimation, just copy your bootnimation.zip to overwrite the default one.
That's all....reboot the phone....and you will have your peace...and enjoy the new bootanimation.
kuailan said:
I am just wondering is the good old way of adb pushing the bootanimation.zip work for HD? I do noticed the stock animation are located in /customize/resource folder in the system ROM. Has anyone try changing the bootanimation? Just hated those sound in bootup (prefer no sound).
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firstly i'd like to state, this is development and not Q & A not being mean just stating.
secondly if you had read the ref guide which is pinned to the top you might have got your answer.
finally your answer...
NO
you can not write on the nand with the temp root. no can you adb push.
permanent root is on its way and i believe the nand will be unlocked on that so you may have write permissions. once this has been obtained then you can push a custom boot animation if required.
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firstly i'd like to state, this is development and not Q & A not being mean just stating.
secondly if you had read the ref guide which is pinned to the top you might have got your answer.
finally your answer...
NO
you can not write on the nand with the temp root. no can you adb push.
permanent root is on its way and i believe the nand will be unlocked on that so you may have write permissions. once this has been obtained then you can push a custom boot animation if required.
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First of all thank you for the answer (actually I also thought so, and your answer just confirmed that)
And as for posting in develeopment, I DO believe that changing bootanimation is part of Android development (anything that involved creating/modifying and changing of the default system files). Just like recovery or flashing tools, people also develop bootanimation changer application to make life easier for others.
Also I did some search, and this is the first post for any bootanimation for Desire HD. I hope once "root" has been accomplished. People can just use this thread to put the guide to changing those animation.
Therefore I do read and follow the guidelines.
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kuailan said:
First of all thank you for the answer (actually I also thought so, and your answer just confirmed that)
And as for posting in develeopment, I DO believe that changing bootanimation is part of Android development (anything that involved creating/modifying and changing of the default system files). Just like recovery or flashing tools, people also develop bootanimation changer application to make life easier for others.
Also I did some search, and this is the first post for any bootanimation for Desire HD. I hope once "root" has been accomplished. People can just use this thread to put the guide to changing those animation.
Therefore I do read and follow the guidelines.
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well glad you're a happy bunny
but several things,it isn't development as you were asking a question at time of writing.
secondly themes section deals with bootanimation and things like that. sound can be disabled by just renaming the file i.e. add a .bak after mp3 just for back up purpose or you can delete the file entirely up to the user.
with customs roms, they may be in a different location. i do believe that AOSP builds are located in media where as in sense builds /customize/resource
it can change depending on the developers choice really. thats why when a person releases a theme, it states what rom the user must be using to avoid problems.
anyways there's no need to carry on with that as you have got what you wanted, full root so you can do w.e. you like know
my personal favourite boot animation was the original hero one, but since that doesnt work anymore/havent found 1 that has been converted to work with the new roms, i like "making fro-yo" it just draws a pic of a frozen yoghert and colours it in.
I purchased Bootanimation changer by Andres Schomis a while back when I was still using the original Desire. There are quite a few nice and interesting ones there. My fav so far is the pissing droid (to piss off some of my iphone mate ) and the alienware. I am sure they are also available in this forum (just do a search). There is no option for desire HD yet, but seem like the one that work for Desire also work just fine in HD. To make the app work, you will need to set the custom path. I highly recommend that app for bootanimation.
Somehow I feel this thread should be in the Themes/Apps subforum instead Since it basically has to do with customization. Anyway, thanks a lot for the instructions.
phunkycow said:
Somehow I feel this thread should be in the Themes/Apps subforum instead Since it basically has to do with customization. Anyway, thanks a lot for the instructions.
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Agreed with you there mate
I do like the instructions, always helpful for those not browsing the development threads (which do take up a lot of reading time )
Ok can some one tell me what i'm i doing wrong?? it's been more then 6 hours since I started working on this.
Here is my anamtion
Download me please
I cant figure out whats wrong with it....
I even saved it as store with winrar even tried copying the files inside the HTC stock zip and still same problem
can someone help me please?
Bump any one can help?
Just delete the bootanimation.zip inside the /system/customize/resource
Then just copy your animation to the same path /system/customize/resource.
Make sure your animation is also named bootanimation.zip
For some reason I'm not able to enable the r/w function in the resource folder. The only place I can do it is in the root directory (with system, sdcard etc). Any idea of why this is happening? (my phone is perma-rooted and I have granted Super user permissions).
kuailan said:
Just delete the bootanimation.zip inside the /system/customize/resource
Then just copy your animation to the same path /system/customize/resource.
Make sure your animation is also named bootanimation.zip
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I did my animation that made with Photoshop dont work any idea why? any other animation works fine
Sylpher said:
For some reason I'm not able to enable the r/w function in the resource folder. The only place I can do it is in the root directory (with system, sdcard etc). Any idea of why this is happening? (my phone is perma-rooted and I have granted Super user permissions).
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This drove me mad for a while too.
I uninstalled root explorer then re-installed and I could the select r/w for all folders.
hi
do i need s-off for this or is just permanent root enough??
thnx
anyone got any good animation zips and sounds?
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anyone got any good animation zips and sounds?
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yeah, thats what i wanna know too
Does anyone know what would happen if you removed the boot animation entirely? Will the phone still boot ok?
I'm happy not to have one at all if it speeds things up
Guys
first I didn't find the bootanimation in system ressource i found it in data/local/
along with the android-audio.mp3
second I tried to change these file it worked but the animation doesn't show up and I have just a small android when I boot up
What can I do ?
PS : my file may be too big 27 megabite for the bootanimation.zip
I tried already, but why whenever I reboot, the bootanimation.zip would revert to the original one?
Really love the XT9 input on Acer a500, can someone help extract the apk? Want to use it on other android. Thanks for help.
If this iis just an APK then all you is copy it to your sd/usb card other by command line or with a third party app like root explorer. Then install it on whatever device you want.
This should have also been placed in the Questions section for this device no development/R&D is needed to do this.
Welcome to XDA.
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If this iis just an APK then all you is copy it to your sd/usb card other by command line or with a third party app like root explorer. Then install it on whatever device you want.
This should have also been placed in the Questions section for this device no development/R&D is needed to do this.
Welcome to XDA.
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I know you wanted to help but if you took a look at this forum, there is no Questions section yet...
As for the OP's question, make a Titanium Backup of both apps and system data and check if it appears there.
Oh my bad .....
First I give all credit to rooobbbbb for finding the file, over on his thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1362543
I really don't know a lot about android, but through my brief experience with the fire and root explorer I figured out how to keep the wallpaper from changing without a computer and ADB. Here are the steps:
1) You need root access. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1348830
2) Download root explorer or similar program that allows the changing of file permissions.
3) Change wallpaper to desired choice.
4) Run said program and go to /data/data/com.android.settings/files
5) In this folder is a file called wallpaper. Change the permissions on wallpaper to have no write access.
6) You can now change the wallpaper from Go Launcher EX or similar program to the same type of wallpaper. Same limitation of having to undo and redo process for different type of wallpaper.
very awesome. thank you for the info works perfectly.
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First I give all credit to rooobbbbb for finding the file, over on his thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1362543
I really don't know a lot about android, but through my brief experience with the fire and root explorer I figured out how to keep the wallpaper from changing without a computer and ADB. Here are the steps:
1) You need root access. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1348830
2) Download root explorer or similar program that allows the changing of file permissions.
3) Change wallpaper to desired choice.
4) Run said program and go to /data/data/com.android.settings/files
5) In this folder is a file called wallpaper. Change the permissions on wallpaper to have no write access.
6) You can now change the wallpaper from Go Launcher EX or similar program to the same type of wallpaper. Same limitation of having to undo and redo process for different type of wallpaper.
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Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
What app do people recommend for changing file permissions?
Juter227 said:
What app do people recommend for changing file permissions?
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Root Explorer works good enough.
Magical3 said:
First I give all credit to rooobbbbb for finding the file, over on his thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1362543
I really don't know a lot about android, but through my brief experience with the fire and root explorer I figured out how to keep the wallpaper from changing without a computer and ADB. Here are the steps:
1) You need root access. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1348830
2) Download root explorer or similar program that allows the changing of file permissions.
3) Change wallpaper to desired choice.
4) Run said program and go to /data/data/com.android.settings/files
5) In this folder is a file called wallpaper. Change the permissions on wallpaper to have no write access.
6) You can now change the wallpaper from Go Launcher EX or similar program to the same type of wallpaper. Same limitation of having to undo and redo process for different type of wallpaper.
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Awesome re-post, bro.
My data file is empty.. ???
That worked perfectly, thank you so much!
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Houndog101 said:
My data file is empty.. ???
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What is the exact path you are opening?
thanks
works perfectly thank you
what's the screen resolution on the fire?
i want to preshrink wallpapers...
worked for me once but when I tried to change it again i get stuck in a loop where I keep getting a dialog box asking me which app i want to use to set the wallpaper. I set the permissions back to what I thought was the default rwx, rwx, ---. can someone confirm the permissions?
desmodust said:
What's the screen resolution on the Fire? I want to preshrink wallpapers.
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It's 1024x600.
toonakan said:
worked for me once but when I tried to change it again i get stuck in a loop where I keep getting a dialog box asking me which app i want to use to set the wallpaper. I set the permissions back to what I thought was the default rwx, rwx, ---. can someone confirm the permissions?
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This thread was a pretty shameless re-post which has caused pointless confusion. There is an existing thread which contains all of the information you seek:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1362543
I posted both the results from the CL using the ADB method, AND what you can expect to see when using the Root Explorer method. Please check there, specifically Post #35. In the CL output you will see the permissions default = 755.
I haven't had any issues changing wallpaper using this thread's method, live or static.
Sent from my Kindle Fire using xda premium
I am sorry hoss12300 if you feel that way, but I never read what you posted about this, and you can even chack that I posted my thread 7 minutes before you posted your response on the other thread. So please don't call this a shameless repost. And I do admit that your post is more complete than mine. I personally don't understand when you say to use adb on this file and say 755, to me that makes no sense, and I was only trying to help others who are also confused by this. Sorry if you feel differently.
californiarailroader said:
It's 1024x600.
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thank you most kindly.
Magical3 said:
I am sorry hoss12300 if you feel that way, but I never read what you posted about this, and you can even chack that I posted my thread 7 minutes before you posted your response on the other thread. So please don't call this a shameless repost. And I do admit that your post is more complete than mine. I personally don't understand when you say to use adb on this file and say 755, to me that makes no sense, and I was only trying to help others who are also confused by this. Sorry if you feel differently.
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Poor choice of words on my part. I was simply trying to avoid duplication of effort and if nothing else, encourage people to use the built-in search functionality (located at the top right of the page). I've frequented this site for a while now, and I'd be hard pressed to recall a time when a little research failed to find me the answer I was looking for.
Don't mind me. Carry on.
Hello,
In settings I have Developer Options but it does not have things like "force GPU rendering" or Animations scale....where are they?
Running Acer_A041_A500_1.031.00_WW_GEN1
Are we the only ones with this problem?
masands said:
Hello,
In settings I have Developer Options but it does not have things like "force GPU rendering" or Animations scale....where are they?
Running Acer_A041_A500_1.031.00_WW_GEN1
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To get the extra developer options, you have to decompile settings.apk and look in the values xml folder I believe, then recompile it. These are not set by default in stock acer builds.
MD
Moscow Desire said:
To get the extra developer options, you have to decompile settings.apk and look in the values xml folder I believe, then recompile it. These are not set by default in stock acer builds.
MD
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Hi thanks for the reply, I am a complete noob and just received my first tablet (a100) few days ago, and I have no idea what that means lol. I have looked and searched around for like an hour with no luck. I have no idea where this settings.apk is and stuff. Can you help me get in the right direction? I would really appreciate it. I want to force gpu acceleration options, since things like even youtube videos are pretty stuttery.
auraofjason said:
Hi thanks for the reply, I am a complete noob and just received my first tablet (a100) few days ago, and I have no idea what that means lol. I have looked and searched around for like an hour with no luck. I have no idea where this settings.apk is and stuff. Can you help me get in the right direction? I would really appreciate it. I want to force gpu acceleration options, since things like even youtube videos are pretty stuttery.
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Well, first of all, you have to be rooted. And full system r/w access. Normally this shouldn't be an issue, as lots of guides in the Developer Forum.
Secondly, Once that is done, you can look through your system with a file manager, like root explorer, or es file explorer. You want to look in /system/app. This is where you find all the apks that came with your tablet. You'll see a group of them, with an odex file with the same name for a lot of them.
Usually, most people who want to do these things, install the Android SDK to their PC's. This makes it easier to work to push and pull files.
The first place, you probably want to read, is the site freeyourandroid.com
In there, you will find lots of guides to modifying things, from easy to advanced.
MD
Moscow Desire said:
Well, first of all, you have to be rooted. And full system r/w access. Normally this shouldn't be an issue, as lots of guides in the Developer Forum.
Secondly, Once that is done, you can look through your system with a file manager, like root explorer, or es file explorer. You want to look in /system/app. This is where you find all the apks that came with your tablet. You'll see a group of them, with an odex file with the same name for a lot of them.
Usually, most people who want to do these things, install the Android SDK to their PC's. This makes it easier to work to push and pull files.
The first place, you probably want to read, is the site freeyourandroid.com
In there, you will find lots of guides to modifying things, from easy to advanced.
MD
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Hey, thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction, I have learned how to do all of the above now . The only problem is now, I'm not sure which file to edit in values/xml to get these developer options. I'll search around for now, but if someone can tell me which it is it'd really help .
Moscow Desire said:
Well, first of all, you have to be rooted. And full system r/w access. Normally this shouldn't be an issue, as lots of guides in the Developer Forum.
Secondly, Once that is done, you can look through your system with a file manager, like root explorer, or es file explorer. You want to look in /system/app. This is where you find all the apks that came with your tablet. You'll see a group of them, with an odex file with the same name for a lot of them.
Usually, most people who want to do these things, install the Android SDK to their PC's. This makes it easier to work to push and pull files.
The first place, you probably want to read, is the site freeyourandroid.com
In there, you will find lots of guides to modifying things, from easy to advanced.
MD
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Is there anyway to just enable "Force GPU Rendering" without going through all that? I have rooted my tablet.