[Q] ADB App mods not working - XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Ok I have a problem. Kinda big. I make a mod to the drawables in res folder only for some apps, using adb to pull and push them. When i push them, the mods work perfectly until I reboot the phone, and then they don't show up in app drawer or manage apps list, so i can't uninstall them and putting the modded apk's on sdcard to install returns "Application not installed". What am I missing?

Please help me....This is making no sense at all.

Hmm if they are non-system apps then you may need to sign them to install but I don't think they'd work via push either.... Not sure what the problem is...

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Help --> stock calendar

Hello, i tryed to install androir stock calendar.
i deleted calendar, calendarprovider and semccalendar vanilla or somethink like that
now i cannot install the stock calendar and calendarprovider.apk
can anyone help?
i can use ADB to install id (with rootexplorer i cannot copy the files to system/app even it i am rooted
Help please
Did you delete apps from system/app or moved to /data/app and then uninstalled it?
The correct way to remove default apps is to move then from system/app to data/app, reboot and the uninstall it opening settings/manage applications.
If you just deleted apps from system, its better to repair your phone with SEUS and remove stock apps with correct way. Believe me, I removed apps before without uninstalling then and system was sucking my battery very fast. Just make a repair, uninstalled things correctly and now my phone is so much better.
Wat is the need of removing the app make backup of that and replace wid the android default calendar...
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Yes i think i have deleted directly from System/app :-(
but i think there is a way to install it with ADB no?
maybe i can put original SE calendar and remove again the correct way?
I didn't try it, but I think u can...
mclaudio said:
Yes i think i have deleted directly from System/app :-(
but i think there is a way to install it with ADB no?
maybe i can put original SE calendar and remove again the correct way?
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Did the "rm /system/app/Candendar.apk" and wondered why it didn't work.
The system keeps some files in memory and they survive the "rm" command. Fixed this by doing;
1. Setting> Applications > Manage Applications and removing all calendar named apps, (there were about 4 still including com.sonyericsson.calandar!)
2. Restart phone.
3. Copy standard Calendar and CalandarProvider across (I used scp and dropbear, you could do the same with adb or rootexplorer) Files are here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9434204&postcount=2
4. Restart phone. (I didn't need to run the "install" command, files were "chmod 644" already)
Now have the standard calendar rather than the SE calendar!
Solved ! thanks

[Q] Uninstalling apps

I want to uninstall some stock apps that I got with latest Gingerbread 2.3.3 ROM. How to determine which apps I shouldn't uninstall? For example, can i uninstall Facebook apps, Gmail app, news & weather app...
you will only be able to remove system apps if you are rooted.
If you are rooted and S-ON you can do it via recovery and adb, make sure you mount the system folder.
If your running a winblows PC then find android commander use it instead of adb, makes accessing the android phone so much better.
You can delete most of the stuff in the /system/app folder, depends on what you want to keep, I suggest you copy the files from the phone to local PC harddrive before you delete in case you need them back. Just make sure not to delete those file that look like system apps eg rosie.apk settings.apk etc....
If you are S-OFF then you can do it right from the phone
If you don't know what root, S-ON or S-OFF is then maybe not a good idea to play with the system stuff untill you learn all that there is to learn on the subject....

this is not a motoblur device

Hello
I was wondering if anyone could help me. Im using awd lancher and installed an antteck app manager and froze a moto app by mistake, the phone got in to a force close loop which even a restart couldnt fix. I managed to uninstall the app by grabbing time between the forced closes.
Now it says " this is not a motoblur device" when I try to use the moto default home launcher.
I have reinstalled the antteck app which shows no frozen apps.
Would a reset to factory work? My concern is if there is no ADW launcher and motoblur is still not working my phone will not work.
Orange UK rooted on gingerbread stock
Thanks for any help
jonnym
Jonnym said:
I managed to uninstall the app by grabbing time between the forced closes.
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Which app? The one you froze?
Jonnym said:
Would a reset to factory work?
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No, a factory reset just wipes the data partition.
A possible solution
If you know how to use ADB, and know where to acquire the ADW.Launcher APK, then you could do this:
NOTE: You may need root to do this. I have no idea, actually.
Copy ADW.Launcher to your ADB folder and rename it to launcher.apk to make things easier later.
Open Command Prompt, and CD to your ADB folder.
Type "adb remount" to mount /system as writeable.
Type "adb push launcher.apk /system/app.
You could possibly get away with pushing it to /data/app, but I've never tried pushing to /data before.
The app I uninstalled was the antteck app manager used to freeze the app.
I cant remember exactly which app I froze. It was one from a list of apps safe to freeze I found on the XDA forum, it wasnt safe. It may well have been the moto home launcher as I was trying to free up ram for the webtop.
I get the problem when I use home switcher to try to launch the original home rather than ADW
I no longer see the moto home launcher in the app list on the app manager.
I could try flashing with the sbf, but being a noob im not ready to do that unless all else fails.
Any help gratefully received
Jonnym
I just renamed blurhome.apk_fro to blurhome.apk in the system/app folder using root explorer and all has been fixed. It would seem that although I reinstalled the antteck app manager it doesn't search for previous frozen items. It also didn't show up in titanium backup either that can be used to freeze apps, not a criticism just an observation.
Thanks for all the help
Jonnym
Jonnym said:
I just renamed blurhome.apk_fro to blurhome.apk in the system/app folder using root explorer and all has been fixed. It would seem that although I reinstalled the antteck app manager it doesn't search for previous frozen items. It also didn't show up in titanium backup either that can be used to freeze apps, not a criticism just an observation.
Thanks for all the help
Jonnym
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Glad you learnt something new. =D
And you should find the "safe" list you referred to and tell them its actually NOT safe.
Ill look for the list later...although it might have been a of stupidity and not on the list at all, I tend to do these things late at night

[q] rom help, stuck in a jam

ok so when i want to input apps into my rom (system/app) they force close
and when i add them to (data/app) they also force close
i understand im suppose to put the lib folder in the apk into a certian folder for each app
that i can find in data/data/, can you guys help know how can i know the name of that
folder
android_isda_**** said:
ok so when i want to input apps into my rom (system/app) they force close
and when i add them to (data/app) they also force close
i understand im suppose to put the lib folder in the apk into a certian folder for each app
that i can find in data/data/, can you guys help know how can i know the name of that
folder
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If you have FCs on your phone, try to wipe cache (and Dalvik cache) in recovery mode first.
To install apps, you do not need to copy the files into special folders.
Just click the apk file and select install.
The app will install from apk file automatically, if there is no "old" version installed and all required things (access, other apps, phone model, etc.) are available.
If you are not sure about installed apps, just check in settings menu: Settings > Applications.
Or use an app like Titanium Backup to manage your apps (+ app data).
oh please, im not a noob, i know how to install apks, i need to pre include them in my rom,
certain apks, for example "ChatOn", when i install it normaly it will work with no problem,
but when i put it in system/app it will force close when i first start the phone
the same goes with data/app

[Q] Why can't I uninstall bundled apps?

I'm using titaniumBack on a fully rooted device yet everytime I reboot after uninstalling, the devices come back. Even if I manually delete the apk's from app or priv-app, they come back.
I resolved this by installing CM12 :good:

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