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i know most people hate sprints apps. but some of them are useful.
like sprint zone, sprint tv, sprint football , and sprint navigation
because the google nav doesn't always work so well, and thinkfree office.
been looking for solutions. haven't been able to find any. can someone help .
right now im running the stock rom(only because it was sunday and i was using
the sprint football app) with the phoenix 1.49 kernel
Foggie is so Epic said:
i know most people hate sprints apps. but some of them are useful.
like sprint zone, sprint tv, sprint football , and sprint navigation
because the google nav doesn't always work so well, and thinkfree office.
been looking for solutions. haven't been able to find any. can someone help .
right now im running the stock rom(only because it was sunday and i was using
the sprint football app) with the phoenix 1.49 kernel
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There are a couple ways to do it. If you haven't flashed the new ROM yet, you can open up the Stock ROM with WinRar or 7zip and extract the apk files for the Sprint apps to your computer somewhere. Then open up the zip file of the ROM you wish to flash(with WinRar or 7-zip again), and insert them into the system/app folder. Then flash the ROM to your phone and your good to go. I do this every time I flash a new ROM because I play Asphalt 5 and it's not included in any of the ROMs.
If you're already running the ROM of your choice, then you will have to use adb to push the files to the system/app folder or use something like Root Explorer to copy and paste them there.
i am running a rom already... but i have no problem reverting back to stock... i cant find all the apks. so basically , unzip the rom ... put the apks in the system folder then creat another zip
Easiest way would be to find a ROM Dev who has removed Sprint apps and provides them in a folder.
EDIT: I removed the link i posted. In the Devs post he had a folder labled as "Sprint Apps", but it actually takes you to a donwload for his ROM. If you can find the apks in a folder, back up your current set up, flash Epic Experience or one of those ROMS that places the removed apps in a folder on your SD, then restore back to your previous rom and set up. The removed apps folder will still be on your SD Card. You can then follow the below:
Download an app like ES File Explorer or Astro File Manager, open app, find and open, find the folder where the apps are stored, and push the apps. Done.
Text Football to 7777 and sprint will send you a link to the newest football app. For the other apps just get them from the thread here with all the stock apps hosted.
If you have a custom rom the football app may not update automatically and thus not work so you need to get the newest one. Its easy and sprint wont spam you after you send that text.
I'd post it in the rom's thread, but with less than 10 post...
i've got an issue on the rom liberty3 v2.0 (link at bottom). Under every app where i need to choose a sound (handscents, stock messaging, even under the sound settings page) when i choose to customize the sound, the usual pop-up shows my folder choices to get audio from. problem is, my "complete action using" folders are the "android system" and "handcent sms." there's no music file, no ringtones, alarms file, hell, not even a root explorer option. this one has me baffled. any help?
any help would be greatly appreciated.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1368049
Try getting rom toolbox if you can. You can move the tones to a folder accesible by another app if you can get to one. Or maybe it wil let you use rom tool box to complete the action. I love this app, its so handy!
Can you simply download a file explorer and have that option pop up?
not quite...
i appreciate the input, but i already had root explorer installed, as well as downloading the legacy rom toolbox. the problem was there regardless. it's not showing the other usual options, such as root explorer, music, etc. wondering if a reinstall is in order. the rom works flawless other than this.
yup, that did it
i reinstalled the rom and instead of downloading all previous apps via my titanium backup on file, i did them individually and for whatever reason, the matrix was ok with this. the file options are there along with each of the actual files being present. other than that, this is the best rom i've used so far.
I'm curious if anyone has used Rom Toolbox, and knows if it can change the color of the three soft key colors (you know, back, home, task mgr)? Or do you know how to do this WITHOUT running a ROM. I'm not a big fan of ROMs. I know how to manually replace the boot animation, but figured if ROM Toolbox can do both of these, then I will use it. Either my search skills are very crappy (which I know to be fact, lol) or nobody has ever really posted about this. Any help would be appreciated. These are last two things I need to finish my customizing. Thanks.
EDIT: CRAP! Can a mod move this to the Q&A? That's where I was, and I somehow ended up in the General section, lol. Thanks.
Edit the systemui.apk file, in the res/drawable-hdpi folder all the icons are there.
Custom ROM not needed, just root since it's a system file.
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More difficult than thought. I extracted SystemUI.apk from "system/app", replaced the default images with the ones I want to use, zipped it back up, renamed it from SystemUI.zip to SystemUI.apk, and then when I attempted to paste it back into system/app, it wouldn't let me since the folder is read only. I can't seem to change the permissions of "/system/app" so that I can paste this in there. I had a feeling this try wouldn't work, as I got the instructions from a Galaxy Nexus instruction which stated that it would really only work if a deodexed ROM was installed, but figured i'd give it a shot anyway.
I also tried using ROM ToolBox. Created my theme, but it says the theme is incompatible when I try to install it (followed the directions step by step for creating the theme). Looks like I may have to contact the developer of RTB since it would appear that the Nexus 7 isn't supported yet.
"We have compared the images and apps with your current system and have determined that this theme will not work for your current device setup."
Any other thoughts? Am I doing something wrong? Just don't really have a need for a full fledged ROM. Just wanna change 3 little software buttons, lol.
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Forgot to mention that I also tried Zip Themer, but like RTB, it doesn't support Nexus 7 yet. I'll be sure to inform both developers
Use root explorer, put the modded apk on your SD then using the phone copy it from SD to /system/app with root explorer and click the mount r/w button at top , or use adb t push it to the device
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If your rom is odexed (which the stock.rom is), then you will not be able.to achieve what you want...
You will need to deodex your rom before theme'ing
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Out of nowhere yesterday, my alliancerom themes disappeared, when i go into alliance manager to go to the themes all of the zip files are gone and i dont know where they went, i ended up doing a clean install of alliancerom build 1.1 and they still aren't there?! help! thanks much at this point i'm not sure what to do next. Second issue, when i go to reboot my phone it doesn't power off completely. the phone shuts down but the buttons stay lit and it doesn't completely power off, tried reinstalling the rom, and on a different rom-slot and nothing has fixed it. Not sure exactly what this means honestly.
Did you install on stock slot? If not that's one of your problems.
http://bit.ly/1brshoa
Fail
Yes i have. And it doesn't do any good. I've moved the stock rom on and off the stock slot it didnt fix it.
Solved theme missing error
FIGURED IT OUT! after going thru the dev page and a bunch of time spent, i realized i was overthinking it. it's super easy all you have to do is go into a file explorer find the alliance folder, rename it, exit open alliance manager and it recreates and automatically extracts the themes from the zip file for you. problem. solved.! winning.
brando5055 said:
FIGURED IT OUT! after going thru the dev page and a bunch of time spent, i realized i was overthinking it. it's super easy all you have to do is go into a file explorer find the alliance folder, rename it, exit open alliance manager and it recreates and automatically extracts the themes from the zip file for you. problem. solved.! winning.
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what do i do after i open the manager, not quite following you
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what do i do after i open the manager, not quite following you
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ok, use es file explorer or the default one to find the alliance folder, change the name from alliance to whatever you wish ( i named it allianceno lol) exit out so the new name is applied, then open the alliance manager go to choose theme, and voila the theme zip files have re-extracted and appear.
I don't spend lots of time at the computer, so I like to find ways to do as much as possible on the phone. One thing I've found is that every theme I try has at least one element I wish I could change, as much as I like it overall. I don't know enough to make my own theme, but I found a way to change elements of the theme without using a computer. I'm sure this is not news to many of you, but I figured there might be other non-experts like me out there who might appreciate it.
1. Download Apktool apk file below, install it, open it, {it will automatically update on the first use for some reason}, go to settings and check 'device has root', {leave other settings alone}, then close the app, reopen and grant su access.
2. Make a directory in storage somewhere called 'apktool', {or something}, and copy the following to it: /system/framework/framework-res.apk, /system/framework/SemcGenericUxpRes/SemcGenericUxpRes.apk, and whatever themes you want to mix and match.
3. Open apktool app, navigate to apktool directory, and import the framework files by tapping on each one and selecting 'import as framework'. When done, you can then tap on the theme apk files and select 'decompile all', and they will be decompiled into folders called {appname}-src. Go into the folders with a root explorer and change what you want, then go back to apktool, and tap on the folder you want and choose 'recompile'. When recompile is done you end up with an apk called '{appname}-src.apk'. Tap on that and choose 'sign'. When done you will get an apk called '{appname}-src-sign.apk, which you can install normally.
-Notes, questions-
- I'm currently using Z1c stock .236 deodexed rom. This app should work on other phones, roms, versions, etc, but I can't say for sure. What I know is that there are at least 5 versions of the app out there, {Google search for 'apktool 4.4' or '5.2', etc}, and it seems like each one works better on certain versions of Android. There are also configurable settings. If you have a different phone or rom, etc, you just have to mess around with it.
- This app should work as normal apktool for modding systemUI and framework, but I can't get it to recompile on LP, but only on Kk. Decompile works fine, but on recompile it complains about lacking resources. I don't know what file it wants. If someone can figure it out that would be great.
-If you don't know what files to change, all I can say is that I didn't either. Start with the obvious stuff, like navbar keys, and see how brave you get. Just make sure your file names are changed, since every app doesn't use the same names for the same files. As long as you work with copied files you have nothing to lose. If something is wrong with your modifications, then it won't recompile correctly, and you'll just get an error message, so you can't really install something that's going to mess up your phone.
- This also works for changing appearance of other apps, not just themes. See my recent posts in the Naked Browser thread for examples. However, sometimes it won't be able to decompile an app, and there's probably nothing you can do. I think the way apktool works is based on how the app was created. If something is not compatible, it just won't work.
- You don't have to decompile just to pull files out of an apk, but you do need an app that can do it. I use Rom Toolbox Pro. There may be free ones, {maybe Mixplorer}. I think you can just change the extension to zip and extract normally. However, some files and folders are not the same zipped in the apk as they are when decompiled.
File link - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5E7sFT1phjoS003R0tkM21qUlk/view?usp=docslist_api
Nice tutorial bro :good:
Thank you very much!
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Since sharing themes with others' work is not kosher, (http://forum.xda-developers.com/crossdevice-dev/sony/share-frankentheme-t3282360), I figured I'd add a little more here for anyone's personal use. In general, here's what I've found with these themes:
- Within each apk there is an 'assets' folder, which contains zip files. Each zip file mods a certain aspect of the ui. For example, there will be one for settings, which contains the little pictures next to each settings option, (personalization, with the little rainbow, etc). You can experiment with simply swapping these around with different themes. However, if you want to add a settings zip, for example, to a theme base that does not already have a settings zip in it, you have to mod the main android manifest file in the top level of the apk. If you want to see how it needs to be modded, look at one that has it already. It's pretty obvious, since it's the same entry for each zip, but with the corresponding zip name. You can also extract these zips and replace files in them and rezip. Keep in mind, though, that there are some things that aren't that simple and just won't work.
- There are some things that are coded in, and can't be changed, (as far as I can figure out), like accent color. It seems like accent color just comes with the 'android' zip, and there's nothing you can do about it. As a workaround, you can find an 'android' zip with a color you like, and change out the other files from the zip you wish you could change the accent on. Again, sometimes it just won't work and you won't know why.
- Some themes don't follow this pattern at all. I haven't learned much about them yet.
Screenshots show examples I've used...