Thanks in advance for anyone willing to either help me or point me in the right direction.
I stupidly deleted the stock mms app. Never used it so I figured it would be alright. Nope. It was only when I noticed that I was unable to send mms messages and I was getting double txt messages in GoSMSPro that I knew I had an issue. I've since learned I shouldn't have deleted stock. Whoops. I've tried reading, tried reflashing roms, reinstalling another stock MMS app. None seems to eliminate my issue. When I reflashed Bionix the problem goes away but after restoring my data the stock mms is still gone and problem is back. I'm under the impression to restore all I need I need to restore data from my latest backup after flashing, and I can't quite seem to find the right stock mms app or I'm either not installing it correctly. I've had my Vibrant for about 4 months, so I'm no expert at this point, and why I'm asking for help. Anyone?
Have you tried finding the stock mms.apk file?
EDIT: I got it, pm me if you want it
Yes, I just downloaded what I thought was the stock mms.apk (stock-jpy-mms.zip) and flashed it. It seemed to install correctly, but when I got a txt its showing up there double and in GoSMSPro double as well. It's not the same green messaging icon as the stock I remember so I'm thinking it might not be the right one? I'm at a loss here. Any ideas?
any luck with the apk?
You need to put the stock mms.apk in the system/app folder and in go sms in the settings under important tips make sure the box for stock sms unistalled is not checked
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Put mms.apk onto my external SD. Moved it to system/app but it wont install. Rebooted...doesn't show. It's in the folder but won't work. What the hell is going on? Tried APK Manager but it doesn't even show up there. Thanks for the help so far...looks like I need more.
You might have done it already and it might not matter but did you change the permissions when you moved it to system/app?
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Hi all im in big trouble i deleted the file DialerTabActivity.apk by accident from my Vibrant trying to erase the short cut for the call logs and i ended up deleting the dial pad.. can any one please post it if you can i tried already different ones and all of them seem corrupted and wont install on my phone i have been searching for a while already but i dont want to reflash my whole phone for just this file everything seems to be working fine. thanks for all your help
fregoso3000 said:
Hi all im in big trouble i deleted the file DialerTabActivity.apk by accident from my Vibrant trying to erase the short cut for the call logs and i ended up deleting the dial pad.. can any one please post it if you can i tried already different ones and all of them seem corrupted and wont install on my phone i have been searching for a while already but i dont want to reflash my whole phone for just this file everything seems to be working fine. thanks for all your help
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I just went through my Titanium backup and I don't see anything label DialerTabActivity.
Where did you delete this from?
Attachment has the .apk and the .odex file, not sure if you needed both
Thank you Daniel for your help and everyone else whos trying to help me out but it didnt work it wont install i deleted the file from System then App
Try to push the apk with adb to the same place you removed it..
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Hope i'm not "noobing" here but..
I use SGSII with Litening Rom 6.1
I found a Contacts.apk which fits all SGSII roms that adds Hebrew letters to the letters bar for fast searching a contact
Used Root explorer to replace the old Contacts.apk (did backup the old one to another folder of course) and perfomed a reboot
When the device started, I had no "Phone" and "Contacts" shortcuts at the bottom and everything related to Contacts app did FC
I guessed it was a faulty apk so I restored the old one and rebooted but got the same result: no "Phone" and "Contacts"
of course that before all that I did a full backup with the recovery console so everything's back to normal.. did the same procedure again and got the same result...
am I missing here something? Should I do anything else other then simply replace the apk and reboot? (most of the threads are not stating other steps )
Please help
Thank you
No, you did not miss anything the usual step is to install the apk and reboot.
It might be the apk was not designed for the S2 because it corrupted your phone. Some apks on the market are not designed for all android phones but specific to a model because it contains code that is not on other phones.
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No, you did not miss anything the usual step is to install the apk and reboot.
It might be the apk was not designed for the S2 because it corrupted your phone. Some apks on the market are not designed for all android phones but specific to a model because it contains code that is not on other phones.
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I assume that i haven't did nothing wrong but why would restoring the original one did not fix it? that's my actual question
As the download apk that may have been designed for different may have changed some values that were not only associated with the contacts and phone.
because not all the modifications the apk installed on your phone where erased when you tried to restore the old apk.
The only way pnly way to guarantee every thing is deteled is to to do a factory reset or in your case flash your back up which will wipe your phone and reset to stock for that firmware.
This could be a good hint, although i DID notice "fits all S2 custom roms" and i use LR 6.1
So i would like to to a little experiment:
1. Backup Contacts.apk
2. Delete Contacts.apk
3. Reboot (Device will load without Contacts and Phone i guess)
4. Pasting Contacts.apk from backup again
5. Reboot
To your opinion, this will restore the Contacts and Phone right?
If it will, it will proof that the procedure i did was OK and the cooked Contacts.apk was invalid..
am I right?
yes, it should work as long as you make no other changes.
As custom roms as always evolving due to upgrades and changes.
Cooked versions of apks unless they are also upgraded also may have invalid links that are no longer recognized and that why it failed.
i will test it and post a result soon
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yes, it should work as long as you make no other changes.
As custom roms as always evolving due to upgrades and changes.
Cooked versions of apks unless they are also upgraded also may have invalid links that are no longer recognized and that why it failed.
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It appears that you and me both were wrong..
just tried the test.. no good, after removing the file, contacts is missing, even after putting it back
still waiting for someone to answer the 1st post and save me :\
EDIT: Iv'e noticed you mentioned: INSTALLING, what do you mean by that? actually running the apk? (have tried, it asks to replace, i say yes but in the end i get "application not installed"
apparently the contact apk is not initializing properly.
I have one other suggestion.
from the recovery back up pull out the contact.apk that you know is working and try your experiment again and see if that solves the problem. do not use the back up you just made.
There maybe an issue with the backed up contacts in that the file maybe damaged.
have you set the correct permissions for the contact.apk?
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have you set the correct permissions for the contact.apk?
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Well, I haven't touched the permissions
Lets try to solve it one step at a time
When everything is working properly and the original apk is I'm system/app.. I cut the apk and paste it elsewhere.. Contacts is removed..
Cutting it and pasting it back wont restore it.. why?
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rotemakerman said:
Well, I haven't touched the permissions
Lets try to solve it one step at a time
When everything is working properly and the original apk is I'm system/app.. I cut the apk and paste it elsewhere.. Contacts is removed..
Cutting it and pasting it back wont restore it.. why?
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Well it depends where you are cutting and pasting it to. Your phone works on the ext4 filesystem, where files have built-in permissions setting, they'll keep these permissions as long as they stay on a linux filesystem.. however if you copy contacts.apk to the sdcard or to external_sd (which is fat/fat32), then these permissions are lost.. therefore you'll have issues when moving to sdcard and back
if you wanna test this then try renaming the original apk to contacts.bak (it'll get uninstalled and disappear from app drawer) without moving it out of system/app, then try renaming it back to contacts.apk, reboot phone and it'll be back and working
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Well it depends where you are cutting and pasting it to. Your phone works on the ext4 filesystem, where files have built-in permissions setting, they'll keep these permissions as long as they stay on a linux filesystem.. however if you copy contacts.apk to the sdcard or to external_sd (which is fat/fat32), then these permissions are lost.. therefore you'll have issues when moving to sdcard and back
if you wanna test this then try renaming the original apk to contacts.bak (it'll get uninstalled and disappear from app drawer) without moving it out of system/app, then try renaming it back to contacts.apk, reboot phone and it'll be back and working
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Thanks for the heads up!
Actually i did cut it to and paste it from the sdcard!
will try it and post the result here soon
If this will work.. what are the permissions i should set for the cooked apk?
rotemakerman said:
Thanks for the heads up!
Actually i did cut it to and paste it from the sdcard!
will try it and post the result here soon
If this will work.. what are the permissions i should set for the cooked apk?
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no problem, app permissions should be rw-r--r--
just have a look at the permissions for any other app in system/app if you're unclear on how to set them
appears that this wasn't the problem either
This try i just renamed contacts.apk to contacts.bak, the permissions remained the same
contacts was removed, renamed back, nothing happend
no one?
maybe you need to wipe Dalvik Cache or even a full wipe to factory
Just to give an outside perspective, have you tried searching the app drawer for the phone and contact apps? The bar at the bottom on the homescreen is just a shortcut bar. If the phone and contact apps are in the app drawer, you need to add their shortcut back to the bar.
It's definitely not just the shortcuts... trying to access contacts through other apps like WhatsApp causing a FC or something..
I'm trying to find a solution that doesn't involve switching rom or wiping anything
What else can I do?
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Found a solution!
Changed the kernel (speedmod t42) and wiped dalvik and cache (kernel is probably not related, but still, that's what I did)
Here is a link to a mms.apk with everything working, including all images, etc to be used with MIUI 1.10.14...
http://db.tt/H7rZp1iD
Special thanks to Andmer for answering a couple of my questions that helped me build this... enjoy.
Im running older miui, but thanks for the work. Since it was everyone's biggest gripe.
Rick S said:
Here is a link to a mms.apk with everything working, including all images, etc to be used with MIUI 1.10.14...
http://db.tt/H7rZp1iD
Special thanks to Andmer for answering a couple of my questions that helped me build this... enjoy.
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Awesome, thanks man. Will test it now.
Replaced using root explorer and now SMS is gone? Not sure what went wrong, looking into it now.
Edit: Tried a reboot, still gone. Was I suppose to change permissions/owner in root explorer?
Can't seem to figure out what went wrong...I'm going to assume replacing it via root explorer is a no go.
Swyped from my MIUI'D Fascinate.
streebs87 said:
Replaced using root explorer and now SMS is gone? Not sure what went wrong, looking into it now.
Edit: Tried a reboot, still gone. Was I suppose to change permissions/owner in root explorer?
Can't seem to figure out what went wrong...I'm going to assume replacing it via root explorer is a no go.
Swyped from my MIUI'D Fascinate.
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that's happened to me with MIUI in the past...i just unzipped the extended settings mod, dropped it in the system/app folder, rezipped it, then flashed in recovery... try rebooting a few times.. that's how I've gotten it back in the past... hope i helped.
Well what I'm doing right now is replacing the mms.apk in the 1.10.14 zip and flashing it. I've done that on previous builds and it worked. If I am using the Extended Settings, will I have to replace it in that?
EDIT: Replaced mms.apk via winrar on my laptop, flashed, sms app still gone.
streebs87 said:
Well what I'm doing right now is replacing the mms.apk in the 1.10.14 zip and flashing it. I've done that on previous builds and it worked. If I am using the Extended Settings, will I have to replace it in that?
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if you are reflashing the entire rom zip, then yes, you will have to reflash the extended settings mod again after first boot.
Sorry to confuse you, but what I meant was do I replace the mms.apk in the 1.10.14 zip or the extended settings zip?
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Sorry to confuse you, but what I meant was do I replace the mms.apk in the 1.10.14 zip or the extended settings zip?
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Yeah,kind of confused myself on how to install this. Tried Root Explorer and package installer and both say "application not installed" . Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
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Well, I officially had a very dumb moment. I got frustrated, and went back to 1.9.9, which has been the most stable for me. Noticing my Messaging icon was still gone. Upon a closer look, it was there, just some how got moved to my last screen. Was probably there the whole time, I just assumed it'd be in the same spot. Doh!
Going to try this again with 1.10.14
easiest thing to do is use root explorer... navigate to the extended settings mod zip you downloaded... long press the zip... choose extract all... go to extracted... place the mms.apk in system/app... back out to original mod folder... long press the folder... choose zip... choose go to zip... move to wherever you want on sd card... flash in recovery
Thank you very much for this, this is amazing! I just over wrote the mms.apk in the flashable 10.14.3 zip that I had and flashed, everything working, it is now a perfect port! I love the individual notification/sms sounds in the control panel, I had to flash back to 9.16 for working mms, now I can keep .14, thanks again!
Replaced mms.apk in the 1.10.14 zip, flashed, and all is working well. Thanks a bunch Rick.
Swyped from my MIUI'D Fascinate.
Works perfectly so far. Thanks!
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Hey man, serious thanks Rick S. You've made me a happy soul. I appreciate you doing what you do.
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Is this for 1.10.14.3 or 1.10.14. Because I still can't send pics on 1.10.14
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ive tried both what streebs87 did and what Ricky suggested. and still cant send mms.
MMS is working perfectly, thanks, but BLN is not working for SMS/MMS, works for everything else. Anyone have any idea? I'm running 1.10.14.3 with extended settings and Glitch's kernel.
Edit: I reflashed the kernel and no change but now i noticed that when a message comes in it goes on and off for a split second. If i touch the soft keys they will light up and stay on.
jpx213 said:
ive tried both what streebs87 did and what Ricky suggested. and still cant send mms.
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Are you on wifi? Because if I'm not mistaken, mms is a bit wonky with wifi on.
Swyped from my MIUI'D Fascinate.
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Are you on wifi? Because if I'm not mistaken, mms is a bit wonky with wifi on.
Swyped from my MIUI'D Fascinate.
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Nope I've tried both on wifi and 3g. Still stuck on sending. I'm wondering if I just go all the way back to stock and reflashing 1.10.14 will do anything... if doing a full wipe didn't fix it then will going back to stock change anything
Im currently running unnamed version 1.1.0 and my mms stopped working after i tried the mms.apk from serendipity. i was using it for a while and it worked fine but then i changed the apk for another and i didnt like it so i changed it back. I have tried apn settings, reflashing, swapping out apk again, restoring from back and wiped the dalvik cahce and wipe/factory. any ideas or help would be much appreciated. im freaking out!!!!
would flashing stock do anything different then what i have already tried
Hello All,
I have galaxy ace duos and accidentally deleted stock messaging app, used for a while handcent sms and go sms pro, but for ten days I can't send a single message with this two applications. I can receive sms though.
Can someone help me to bring back stock message app because that one always worked smoothly.. Gingerbread 2.3.6 is the version off course.
Thanks in advance.
Vidocqq said:
Hello All,
I have galaxy ace duos and accidentally deleted stock messaging app, used for a while handcent sms and go sms pro, but for ten days I can't send a single message with this two applications. I can receive sms though.
Can someone help me to bring back stock message app because that one always worked smoothly.. Gingerbread 2.3.6 is the version off course.
Thanks in advance.
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You are rooted right? Then don't you have Titanium Backup installed? Would've been a walk in the park with it. Otherwise look through the forums of the device for it. If nothing else works you will have to factory reset. But it would probably be better to try clearing data of go sms and handcent sms first. maybe that will get them to work.
1. Follow this YouTube video.
2. If you're not from India, download the package corresponding to your region from this link and flash via ODIN - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1832071
3. You will lose all your data as you are reverting to stock, so make proper backups of everything important.
Thank you both for your replies.
I've cleared data for handcent and go sms apps but it didn't help.
I've already done factory reset but mms.apk wasn't in system/app folder, so I took one from galaxy ace and put it into my phone, permissions set to rw-r-r, but there is no messaging app where it should be.
Any more suggestions?
anyone, please?
I knew that won't work for you because you might put an incompatible Mms.apk. That's why I pointed you to restore to stock. I first tried finding CWM flashable zips of the stock ROM to get the apk for you but I couldn't find them easily. I don't think you've put the right apk in, that's why it's not showing. If it is the right apk but still not showing, you probably need to run 'fix permissions' in CWM recovery, which I don't think you have installed on your phone (according to your post, you've only rooted your phone and nothing else).
Read my previous post. I mentioned that the method I linked to is different from factory restore. You deleted the apk from the /system partition. If you factory restore, only the /data partition is wiped and /system stays intact. So even then, the apk will be missing. Follow the links I posted. Restoring to stock via ODIN is different from factory restore as ODIN first fully wipes all partitions of your device and then flashes the downloaded stock ROM image onto it. In this way, a full image of the /system partition is freshly restored, and includes the messaging apk. You see how it's different from simply doing factory reset on the phone?
I've returned a stock messaging app by flashing stock rom but all data is intact, so i have both, stock messaging app and all applications which i installed before flashing.
So it's all good now then? Cool. The stock ROM you downloaded doesn't wipe data, that's why all your apps are intact. From what I have seen, there are stock images for your phone which wipe data and ones which don't.
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Yeah, thank you for your help again. I have all data, everything works fine, except handcent sms and go sms, but I will use stock msg app from now on.