Hey guys,
I'm using the App "Smart IR Remote - Anymote" by ColorTiger on my S4 I9505, which runs Cyanogenmod 12 Nightly 150124 (Android 5.0.2). I set up some remotes in this app, which I would like to backup in case I have to update Android and wipe everything. The buildin backup/restore function with google+ doesnt work for me.
My questions:
1. Does anyone know where the remotes or app data in general are stored in the internal memory? (I could then just copy that particular folder, like old school backup...)
2. If I use apps to move Smart IR Remote to the external SD card, do you think remotes and settings will be copied as well?
3. Any other ideas how to solve this porblem?
Thank you very much in advance!
Cheers,
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Tried to use root explorer, but after reboot the file appeared again in system apps..
Tried to use terminal emulator that comes with CM 6.1, but got error message "cannot remove , because the folder is not empty" - something like that...
The apps I want to remove are: Maps, Navigation,E-mail,Voice Search,Talk and some others....
By the way, what I shouldn't delete? I mean the apps that can make problems with the system....
Appreciate any suggestions.
Most of those are Google apps so I wouldn't remove them in case you start getting non stop force close errors. If you wanted to remove the files, you would need to have AUFS. Search for it.
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hey man,
listen maybe you know what can be a problem with bluetooth in cm 6.1.
can't to connect to pc to send and receive files....
Also can't send files via bt to other phones....
Using windows 7 32 bit.
?
Maybe there is some radio update I should flash?
I'm not really sure but are you using a bluetooth file transfer app?
I only use bluetooth on rare occasions to transfer apps to my Archos...
marclh1992 said:
I'm not really sure but are you using a bluetooth file transfer app?
I only use bluetooth on rare occasions to transfer apps to my Archos...
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no, no applacation used, just find pc with the device and try to send file to it or receive file from it.....
Right now, I think that when pairing the devices it said that it gonna find and downlaod drivers for this bluetooth device(htc legend), but it didn't - i thing that it's a problem....
But I ca't also send files to other phones....it's strange...
unzi200888 said:
Tried to use root explorer, but after reboot the file appeared again in system apps..
Tried to use terminal emulator that comes with CM 6.1, but got error message "cannot remove , because the folder is not empty" - something like that...
The apps I want to remove are: Maps, Navigation,E-mail,Voice Search,Talk and some others....
By the way, what I shouldn't delete? I mean the apps that can make problems with the system....
Appreciate any suggestions.
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If U can't remove the apps from /system/app then you probably do not have S-OFF - what does recovery screen say? ..
I have the same issue here on my Legend since it is running hboot 1.01.. darn!
But anyway, you can use android kitchen to mod a ROM .. works nice Link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246
Why don't you use an easier method of getting rid of unwanted applications? You can use Titanium Backup, it has a nice exploit discovered by Paul O'Brien from Modaco (more details about it HERE, but if you have CM 6.1 already you are rooted and need only Titanium Back that is already included in CM 6.1 ROM as far as I remember). You just have to go to the apps list, long press on it and from the popup select last option to remove the application.
For BT transfers, look in the Market after an application called Bluetooth File Transfer.
Rapier said:
Why don't you use an easier method of getting rid of unwanted applications? You can use Titanium Backup, it has a nice exploit discovered by Paul O'Brien from Modaco (more details about it HERE, but if you have CM 6.1 already you are rooted and need only Titanium Back that is already included in CM 6.1 ROM as far as I remember). You just have to go to the apps list, long press on it and from the popup select last option to remove the application.
For BT transfers, look in the Market after an application called Bluetooth File Transfer.
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wow,
thanks a lot man...
About bt - bt transfer didn't help...
In stock 2.2 it worked fine without any program....
Hey I have a question thought maybe you might be able to help. I just updated my samsung galaxy note 3 and its with wind mobile and it's sm-n900w8 modle. Anyways I keep hearing about this sd card thing being removed on the web today and how everybody is pissed about it. I tried reading about it but don't understand. Is there anyway it could be super simplified for me? Any help would be great thanks.
MiltonOntario said:
Hey I have a question thought maybe you might be able to help. I just updated my samsung galaxy note 3 and its with wind mobile and it's sm-n900w8 modle. Anyways I keep hearing about this sd card thing being removed on the web today and how everybody is pissed about it. I tried reading about it but don't understand. Is there anyway it could be super simplified for me? Any help would be great thanks.
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A simplified answer:
Google changed the permissions of third party apps regarding external storage due to security concerns.
In KitKat third part apps aren't able to read/write to sdcard unless the apps are updated and they generate a folder separately for that app. Even then they only have access to that folder and no other. System apps will still be able to read and write so stuff like My Files from Samsung still has full control.
This is what it means in a nutshell.
akselic said:
A simplified answer:
Google changed the permissions of third party apps regarding external storage due to security concerns.
In KitKat third part apps aren't able to read/write to sdcard unless the apps are updated and they generate a folder separately for that app. Even then they only have access to that folder and no other. System apps will still be able to read and write so stuff like My Files from Samsung still has full control.
This is what it means in a nutshell.
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So things like downloading a ringtone from the web browser or using my otg cable or using a torrent client will not be affected? I also noticed that in application manager if I click on some of the apps it shows the move to sd card as greyed out and others it shows it as highlighted is this normal? And also I noticed that when I go into my sd card the folders for a lot of my apps are there but the size of my card for storage amount has not dropped is this normal and does it really affect the average joe who's not big into tinkering with Android os?
MiltonOntario said:
So things like downloading a ringtone from the web browser or using my otg cable or using a torrent client will not be affected?
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The torrent client and browser will need to be updated if they aren't already or you can use the stock (system app) browser. But no, basically those things will not be affected and should work just fine.
akselic said:
The torrent client and browser will need to be updated if they aren't already or you can use the stock (system app) browser. But no, basically those things will not be affected and should work just fine.
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Ok dudes I will just go about using it like as per usual. Thanks for the help guys!
If you have rooted your note 3 then it is possible to modify a system file to give all non system apps that for example you have downloaded from play store to behave as they would before kit kat changed write permission.
See this post for details of how to edit the file to allow apps to be able to write to your sd card.
Fairly easy to do, just have to use any file editor to add a single line in a system file.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=51036231&postcount=482
Alternatively someone has posted that they have written an app to do this on play store.
I can't find link to this at the moment.
Will edit this post If I find the post.
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Hello,
I am using a Sprint Galaxy S4 on stock 4.4.2. I recently set out to enable native tethering so I can have 4g on my tablet. After looking around a little I found the odex and jar for my device/version (NAE) and used TowelRoot to get root access. After copying over the services.jar and services.odex files I found that any time I install a new app it will crash when I try to open it. My root access has also been removed (TowelRoot will not give me root anymore) and some programs can't write to the phone or SD Card such as Box. Since root access has somehow been revoked I can't put the old services.jar and .odex back in place.
I installed the jar and odex by simply copying them to the system/framework folder per a QBKing77 guide. Another guide had suggested installing using goomanager but I quickly found that it was discontinued. I considered using Flashify but ended up just using QBKing's method since it was quicker and required no extra app.
Thanks for any help you can give me. I'm happy to provide additional information (such as a stack trace of a crash) if it's helpful in any way.
raxitron said:
Hello,
I am using a Sprint Galaxy S4 on stock 4.4.2. I recently set out to enable native tethering so I can have 4g on my tablet. After looking around a little I found the odex and jar for my device/version (NAE) and used TowelRoot to get root access. After copying over the services.jar and services.odex files I found that any time I install a new app it will crash when I try to open it. My root access has also been removed (TowelRoot will not give me root anymore) and some programs can't write to the phone or SD Card such as Box. Since root access has somehow been revoked I can't put the old services.jar and .odex back in place.
I installed the jar and odex by simply copying them to the system/framework folder per a QBKing77 guide. Another guide had suggested installing using goomanager but I quickly found that it was discontinued. I considered using Flashify but ended up just using QBKing's method since it was quicker and required no extra app.
Thanks for any help you can give me. I'm happy to provide additional information (such as a stack trace of a crash) if it's helpful in any way.
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Flash stock rom
"If someone helps, never forget to hit thanks ? "
DeepankarS said:
Flash stock rom
"If someone helps, never forget to hit thanks ? "
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So I am screwed, will lose all my stuff?
raxitron said:
So I am screwed, will lose all my stuff?
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No
Just flash the stock rom.
You can backup the following by these methods.
Contacts : Press the menu button in the contacts app. Press on Import/Export then export to SD card.
Apps : Download ApkExtract from the play store and backup the apps.
App data (high score in games etc.) : Download Helium from the playstore and backup the app data. Note app data gets stored on the internal sdcard, so move it to the external sd card.
Images : Go to gallery and press on an album. Merge it with an existing album that is present on the ext memory card.
Rest you know how to
You wont lose anything if you just flash the matching stock rom, but why take chances and then repent.
"If someone helps, never forget to hit thanks ? "
DeepankarS said:
No
Just flash the stock rom.
You can backup the following by these methods.
Contacts : Press the menu button in the contacts app. Press on Import/Export then export to SD card.
Apps : Download ApkExtract from the play store and backup the apps.
App data (high score in games etc.) : Download Helium from the playstore and backup the app data. Note app data gets stored on the internal sdcard, so move it to the external sd card.
Images : Go to gallery and press on an album. Merge it with an existing album that is present on the ext memory card.
Rest you know how to
You wont lose anything if you just flash the matching stock rom, but why take chances and then repent.
"If someone helps, never forget to hit thanks ? "
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Thank you for your help. Unfortunately I will still lose my apps and high scores since I cannot currently use any new apps even if I install using the apk instead of play store. But I don't play a lot of phone video games so that's okay and apparently I can just tell Google Play to reinstall all apps. I think I will use this as an opportunity to flash SlimKat and get away from all the silly Sprint bloatware.
raxitron said:
Thank you for your help. Unfortunately I will still lose my apps and high scores since I cannot currently use any new apps even if I install using the apk instead of play store. But I don't play a lot of phone video games so that's okay and apparently I can just tell Google Play to reinstall all apps. I think I will use this as an opportunity to flash SlimKat and get away from all the silly Sprint bloatware.
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And why is that?
"If someone helps, never forget to hit thanks ? "
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Ohh sorry i missed the flow of the thread
Haha reflash stock rom. You will lose nothing..
Hi everybody, on my S5 16GB (12GB real) I don't have enough space to install or update my apps
So I need to free some space, for example
Storage/media/.thumbnails/g900fxxu1boj1_5.0 is 509MB
Storage/apps/synthesis vocal 559MB
DOWNLOAD MANAGER 397MB
FACEBOOK Has 393mb under Apps and 240mb under Storage/media/.face
Can I free something?
You can wipe cached data by going into settings -> General -> Storage -> Cached Data which would probably clear 1GB or more.
Then go back and go to the application manager and swipe over to SD card and move as much apps as you can onto your SD card to free up some space.
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Get rid of the Facebook and Messenger apps.....They 'hog' way too much of the devices resources and ask for totally un-needed permissions.
Replace them with a Web shortcut (on your home screen) to the web based mobile Facebook site.....you won't get notifications, but is it really *that* important to know if you've been 'poked' or if someone has mentioned you in some pointless post or liked a comment you left?
IMO......*real* life is more important......
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
what about the folder with the name of the ROM under .thumbnail? can I get rid of that?
zazolo said:
what about the folder with the name of the ROM under .thumbnail? can I get rid of that?
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Without knowing EXACTLY where on your phone that file is, and how it got there, I can't answer you.....
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
Storage Card\media\.thumbnails\g900fxxu1boj1_5.0
another strange folder
Storage Card\media\Mobi has three sub folders /.gen - /.alt - /.vcache for a total of 1140MB
I had eyefi mobi app, but on application manager was only 77MB, I uninstalled it but obviously didn't solve
If you have room to install one more app, get SD Maid and run it.....it should clear a lot of 'stuff'.....it may be that it even clears those files you've mentioned.......
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
Sorry, the app didn't help... Is the same as the "smart manager" which is installed by default
Ok....Make sure usb debugging is switched on (in developer options) then COPY those files to a pc. Then delete them from the phone (after you have noted their original location) That way, you can push them back to the device if their deletion causes problems.....
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
Guys/Gals some help please!
So I installed lineage 14.1 yayyy finally!
I need help with two things.
EDIT: My phone is sm-j510H
First off and most important I can't get spotify to work via bluetooth in my car phone calls work just fine which is what's mind boggling lol
Steps I took:
I made sure Media was selected in the bluetooth thing for the pairing.
I reset the bluetooth cache (and network since it was together)
I tried installing a magisk calle bluetooth library patcher v2.2 by 3arthur6 but it says it's irrelevant on aosp roms
Any other solutions i can try?
My second issue is I'm trying to install the stock samsung rom for contacts. I found the APK on APK mirror so I downloaded this version:
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/samsu...ung-contacts-10-2-02-30-android-apk-download/
But the problem is when i try to install it it says:" app not installed the package conflicts with an existing package by the same name"
I looked this up and i downloaded apk editor. Here i choose the apk. Choose common edit. Change install location to internal storage (was not specified).
Problem now is that when I try to run the new package it installs but just crashes out no error other than:"contacts keeps stopping"
Any help?
I really only want the ability to slide = call if you know what i mean...
GoodKnight_IL said:
Guys/Gals some help please!
So I installed lineage 14.1 yayyy finally!
I need help with two things.
EDIT: My phone is sm-j510H
First off and most important I can't get spotify to work via bluetooth in my car phone calls work just fine which is what's mind boggling lol
Steps I took:
I made sure Media was selected in the bluetooth thing for the pairing.
I reset the bluetooth cache (and network since it was together)
I tried installing a magisk calle bluetooth library patcher v2.2 by 3arthur6 but it says it's irrelevant on aosp roms
Any other solutions i can try?
My second issue is I'm trying to install the stock samsung rom for contacts. I found the APK on APK mirror so I downloaded this version:
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/samsu...ung-contacts-10-2-02-30-android-apk-download/
But the problem is when i try to install it it says:" app not installed the package conflicts with an existing package by the same name"
I looked this up and i downloaded apk editor. Here i choose the apk. Choose common edit. Change install location to internal storage (was not specified).
Problem now is that when I try to run the new package it installs but just crashes out no error other than:"contacts keeps stopping"
Any help?
I really only want the ability to slide = call if you know what i mean...
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Samsung apps needs samsung rom to work
Only a few ones with a lot of stuff could be use on other roms like aosp or other
You should use Google apps or other non specific apps for aosp
And about that problem with bt
If you can hear a things on your car while calls then it's all fine and maybe something wrong with your Spotify (idk what exactly sooo storage)
Just play an offline music player and see how it's going
Also isn't linage 14 is sooo old??!!
amirizad_7436 said:
Samsung apps needs samsung rom to work
Only a few ones with a lot of stuff could be use on other roms like aosp or other
You should use Google apps or other non specific apps for aosp
And about that problem with bt
If you can hear a things on your car while calls then it's all fine and maybe something wrong with your Spotify (idk what exactly sooo storage)
Just play an offline music player and see how it's going
Also isn't linage 14 is sooo old??!!
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I tried an offline music player but I'll try again! Thank you for the suggestion!
I'm using lineageOS 14 because I can't get any other rom to work lol (I did manage to get odysse to work but i didn't like it)
I'm using the sm-j510h which seems to not be compatible with many roms unfortunately
Use newer ROMs, lineage 14 is outdated.
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