Hi, I've got a new phone recently, and I'd like to turn my old HTC legend into a mp3 player.
I'd like to completely remove Android and just make it a file manager similar to an iPod Classic, so I can play audio and video files.
I want the file manager to be the ONLY program on the phone, exept being able to take pictures (althogh the last is optional)
How do you do that/anything similar?
Thank you.
Ummmm that's not going to happen, android is the operating system that is which makes everything work on the phone, if you could some how manage to "only" have a file manager installed, how you going to play the music? You would need a music player too, the music player isn't going to work cause none of the hardware will be working because you need the os to make it work.....
Best thing you can do is if its not rooted, either use the complicated root methods on xda or unlock the bootloader with the htcdev.com method and the s-off recovery for clockwork mod and flash a rooted rom then you remove the sim card and use it that way, apparantly there is a setting in the build.prop file that will let you do this it is
keyguard.no_require_sim=?
True or false
True means you need sim card
False means you don't need sim card.
I haven't actually tried this as yet so can't confirm if it actually works.
Edit:- just tried this for you, those settings didn't make any difference when I restarted my phone it didn't stop me from booting and using my phone, only thing missing network access.
Btw what you see on an iPod is only a user interface, there is still an embedded operating system beneath what you see on the surface...
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Yes I understand that, but how do you remove everything that isnt a file manager and media player and change the UI to only be the file manager.
By that I mean, when I launch the phone, I come directly to the file manager, no logo, no launcher.
What you are wanting to do might, and I emphasis might be possible but I'd suggest its going to be pretty complicated.
You will also not be able to do this if you remove android compleatly
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It's not important to me wether or not it's an android.
I'm sure you can install some other lighter OS instead
Ranger told you already, but here is ANOTHER confirmartion: NO, you NEED Android.
But you can root the phone and delete all not-important-APK's (Apps!) such as facebook/twitter/flickr and stuff. You can get a simpler launcher from the market. Then delete vending.apk from /system/app/ (vending.apk = Android Market) and some Sense UI files maybe??
Install ADW Launcher, Poweramp and your file manager of choice.
Configure ADW to only show shortcuts to Poweramp, the camera and your filemanager. It'll still have tons of apps installed, and all the potential that comes with having the rest on your system, but to you it'd look pretty much like nothing but an mp3 player.
Don't see why you want to get rid of Android - it'd be like removing iOS from an iPod touch, and by the sounds of it you haven't exactly rooted and messed around with this before?
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Hi,
i pulled the deskclock.apk file from CM5 for N1 zip (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=623496) and installed it from the phone with no issues at all (extracted to pc, moved to phone, then launched from folder). however, i can't seem to change the settings -- i get a force close. same thing happens when i click on the music icon, but i assume its looking for the stock music player instead of TW music. that one doesn't concern me much.
do i need another app to configure? is it possible to manually edit a file?
i am unrooted, if that helps. (just waiting for samsung distribution of froyo this month...).
thanks!
I also get force close..
in case this helps someone else, i found that "Alarm Clock Plus V2" gives all the functionality and looks of the stock deskclock.apk, but actually works well (on the Vibrant) and has more functionality.
db3 said:
Hi,
i pulled the deskclock.apk file from CM5 for N1 zip (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=623496) and installed it from the phone with no issues at all (extracted to pc, moved to phone, then launched from folder). however, i can't seem to change the settings -- i get a force close. same thing happens when i click on the music icon, but i assume its looking for the stock music player instead of TW music. that one doesn't concern me much.
do i need another app to configure? is it possible to manually edit a file?
i am unrooted, if that helps. (just waiting for samsung distribution of froyo this month...).
thanks!
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My guess is there is a dependency missing. Another app that deskclock uses. Try grabbing the Clock.apk from cm5 and try again.
Try going to market and look for Samsung. The galaxy version of the desk clock is there.
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thanks guys. i think i'll stick with alarm clock plusV2 for now though -- does everything i want.
rel500, i downloaded that app before and, although i like it overall, the night mode is way too bright for me. it also doesn't seem to stay on while plugged in, which is a little annoying. thanks for the suggestion though.
The app is dependent upon the stock music apk that is on the CM builds, it is looking for that for the settings to be changed and also to open up the music player portion, you can set the alarm but that is it, unless you go to the hybrid build, which has the needed music player, or if you know what you are doing you can replace it yourself. But be aware that many of the touchwiz features are dependent upon each other. So know what your are doing before you break it.
Did they pull the desk clock from the market not showing up on mine
a better ipod touch replacement?
Bought one from the BB sale for $65 to give to the 4yo as a music/game/book player. Is there anything that rooting will help me with? are there apps that are available to a rooted phone that would allow me to lock it down and make it more toddler friendly? as it stands I am having a hard time finding a really kid-friendly mp3 player app.
The only advantage I can think of right now is if there is a ROM that I flash that will u/g android to run flash, since many of the games he likes are flash. Are there any other benefits to rooting this for a kid?
I have two other of these as our main phones and his came with 2.2.1(?- no hot spot) and ours came with 2.2 if that makes any difference.
Rooting your phone is mainly to allow complete access to the phone. By rooting it would enable you to do basic things like remove factory installed apps or you could install custom recovery's and rom's.
As far as using it as a music player you can use the built in music player or download a music player from the Android market but those wouldn't benefit from the phone being rooted and not sure if there are any kid friendly ones out there.
I don't know of any apps or Roms that would let you lock out settings or features of a phone that would prevent a toddler from accessing them. I currently run ADW launcher on my optimus V and I know that has options to hide the status bar, hide the dock bar and remove extra desktops. You could install that and make it default launcher, hide status bar and dock bar to prevent access to the app drawer and remove the extra desktops. This would limit your toddler to only have the apps you want available on the desktop. Now this wouldn't be totally locked out because the menu button on the phone is still active which would allow settings to be accessed
There is a thread about installing flash player to the Optimus V with a custom rom but in my attempts to get it to work I wasn't able to. All the sites I visited still said I needed flash player installed. Not sure if I wasn't doing it right but I don't access alot of flash content so I never put much effort into making it work. If you search on XDA I'm sure you'll come across some info on flash.
One note that even though the phone is not activated it will still seek out signal from the sprint towers so when it's not being used on wifi I'd put it in airplane mode to conserve some battery
Hope my little bit of info helps and hopefully you get some more suggestions from others
Hey xda. Okay so I'm here yet again asking for help, both in general and directly from Finlessbob or Dochoppy. So I have finally determined what I want in my new ROM "SOSA-Tab 1.0 Apricot" (or for Phones, SOSA 1.0 Apricot). Here are some of the features:
For the Nextbook Premium 7 and Velocity Micro Cruz T408:
1. Beats Audio 2. Increased GraphicsQuality 3. Speed Tweaks 4. Settings Tweaks Integration (Hoping to integrate bottom status bar BEFORE release, If anyone can help me with that it would be much appreciated) 5. (NP7 only) Cover Flow Music Player
And the list goes on and on. I am not going to tell about the phone because that is not my mission at the moment. Right now I need some help building the ROM for the Velocity. I have rooted it, but I cannot integrate the root into a custom rom, or anything else for that matter. The tablet comes stock with a recovery image that allows you to flash thefirmwaredownloaded offof the velocity cruz website in it. Here is my problem. I took out and added some stuff (namely superuser, an ereader app, etc.) and flashed in the recovery. My tablet is then sent into a bootloop and it wont work until I wipe the device via recovery and non of the stuff I added is integrated. The link provided to the site directly links you to the place where you download the firmware, for those that want to take a crack at looking at the rom, have fun. Its not in some funny file format like a cramfs or ext3 system image, its just in a ".tgz" (fancy zip file,use7zip)and insidethatisa ".tar" file(again justanotherfancyform of a zip file, use 7zip also).
For the sake of time I am not going to go too deep into the directories of the system folders, as anyone who has taken a crack at deving for android knows whats insideof them. Hopethatdoesn't look like a bunch of mumbo-jumbo, and likeI said if you want to take a crack at it, just download the firmware from the website linked above. I also want to know (from anyone with experience in this like dochoppy or finlessbob) can I convert something to expand the apps space like you all did for the Nextbook Premium 7, because 523mb of space is cool and all, but (hating to sound oh so greedy) I want MORE lol, so if there is a possibility for that I would love some assistance. And one last thing, how do I change the splash image for it, there is no ".rle" file like there was for the nextbook, so help would be appreciated for that also.
Thanks, Ognimnella
P.S. - if anyone knows how to build a custom cwm recovery for tablets like thiss that would be helpful also. Im working on custom roms but it wont let me flash.!
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I have a Cruz T410, and I hear they are releasing a new line with the exact same hardware but ICS. I'm pretty good at this modding stuff, but a novice in ROM or kernel cooking, so I will be little to no help most likely. I figure that if we can extract the ROM from the new one and modify it to update our T4XXs.
I have a friend who works retail that should have one I can play with soon, so if you know how I might extract it and get it to you to mod lemme know.
As for what I've done successfully to my Cruz is:
Full Root via Gingerbreak
LCD Density to 140
Removed Status Bar (Root Explorer to remove from system folder after titanium back up)
Remapped buttons, Vol up = Menu, Vol down = Back, Power = End
I used blade buddy to change end behavior to home then screen off so holding it down still brings the shutdown menu up as normal. Made a "Sound" shortcut on homepage.
ADW EX with ICS theme
Android PRO widgets with Lucid theme.
Latest Modded Google Play
(Was tricky but got it!)
Wave Launcher
(Awesome WebOS like gesture bar of shortcuts, with sound and screen off shortcut.)
SwiftKey Keyboard
(Best for tablets!)
Every Emulator Running Smooth
System Tuner
(Adjust SD Cache to 3 or 6MB, it gives a big performance boost. Also change the auto kill to aggressive, and clean cache)
All GAPPS (Lots of trial and error to get newest possible versions of everything)
Dolphin HD ofcourse
Fully functional remote desktop (Awesome without the ugly taskbar!)
Removed Bloatware
Once again, I'm noobish, but I make much better tablets jealous.
I got the tablet as a gift and really wish it was more popular because of its potential. I'm poor so this is going to be my tab until it dies.
I don't post much and I feel kind of silly, but it feels like there isn't much good information out there for how to make it cool. I'll explain how I did everything in detail for those who ask. And would love suggestions.
Also!
I have an adapter for USB in, is it possible to add a host controller for keyboards or gamepads?
Thanks in advance..
Well damn ur a hell of a let further than I am, I rooted it, and installed hcl launcher to give me a honeycomb feel. I modified the build prop to view me as a nexus s tablet and installed the play store too, took a lot of combination experiments but I have a zip with the needed files to install. I think rather than REMOVE the status bar, I just wanna move it to the bottom of the screen. I have Nova 3 and modern combat 2 black Pegasus installed, but the calibration is misaligned due to the persist ant and horribly placed status bar. If I could find the place in the code where I can move the status bar to the bottom of the screen rather than the top, this alone would make the thing a keeper.
Oh and Google host controller for android and report back whether or not we have USB hosting, if we do, I smell a game pad purchase in the future
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Right on, we are on the same page with the taskbar. I have tried installing the default gingerbnread statusbar to make it where it can hide at least, but it still showed up as the crummy stock bar even after removing the SystemUI.APK from System folder. Another option:
Copy systemUI.APK to your SD. Remove it from system folder, uninstall, re install.
This makes it show up in services so you can disable it when you want to play games or watch videos.
I think you can do this with Titanium by converting it to a user app aswell.
I too have a back up of all the latest GAPPS and my modded bulid.prop if anyone needs em.
I'll keep working on it, glad I'm no longer alone, lol.
keeng james said:
Right on, we are on the same page with the taskbar. I have tried installing the default gingerbnread statusbar to make it where it can hide at least, but it still showed up as the crummy stock bar even after removing the SystemUI.APK from System folder. Another option:
Copy systemUI.APK to your SD. Remove it from system folder, uninstall, re install.
This makes it show up in services so you can disable it when you want to play games or watch videos.
I think you can do this with Titanium by converting it to a user app aswell.
I too have a back up of all the latest GAPPS and my modded bulid.prop if anyone needs em.
I'll keep working on it, glad I'm no longer alone, lol.
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Hey can you snd me the latest gapps for this and what device did you pattern your device after. Im looking for and anroid 2.3 tablet that is recognized by the play store as an actual tablet, i dont like phne version apps on a tablet screen.!
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Subscribed.. I got the Zenithink zt282 and kinda dumped my t410... maybe I get to mod it to my liking with ur help / posts..
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Keeng james, 140 density crashes almost everything on me, went back to 160 (stock is 180)
How did you remapped the keys?
EDIT: I went to /system/usr/keylayout and edited qwerty.kl
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Did you ever build the rom
ognimnella said:
Hey xda. Okay so I'm here yet again asking for help, both in general and directly from Finlessbob or Dochoppy. So I have finally determined what I want in my new ROM "SOSA-Tab 1.0 Apricot" (or for Phones, SOSA 1.0 Apricot). Here are some of the features:
For the Nextbook Premium 7 and Velocity Micro Cruz T408:
1. Beats Audio 2. Increased GraphicsQuality 3. Speed Tweaks 4. Settings Tweaks Integration (Hoping to integrate bottom status bar BEFORE release, If anyone can help me with that it would be much appreciated) 5. (NP7 only) Cover Flow Music Player
And the list goes on and on. I am not going to tell about the phone because that is not my mission at the moment. Right now I need some help building the ROM for the Velocity. I have rooted it, but I cannot integrate the root into a custom rom, or anything else for that matter. The tablet comes stock with a recovery image that allows you to flash thefirmwaredownloaded offof the velocity cruz website in it. Here is my problem. I took out and added some stuff (namely superuser, an ereader app, etc.) and flashed in the recovery. My tablet is then sent into a bootloop and it wont work until I wipe the device via recovery and non of the stuff I added is integrated. The link provided to the site directly links you to the place where you download the firmware, for those that want to take a crack at looking at the rom, have fun. Its not in some funny file format like a cramfs or ext3 system image, its just in a ".tgz" (fancy zip file,use7zip)and insidethatisa ".tar" file(again justanotherfancyform of a zip file, use 7zip also).
For the sake of time I am not going to go too deep into the directories of the system folders, as anyone who has taken a crack at deving for android knows whats insideof them. Hopethatdoesn't look like a bunch of mumbo-jumbo, and likeI said if you want to take a crack at it, just download the firmware from the website linked above. I also want to know (from anyone with experience in this like dochoppy or finlessbob) can I convert something to expand the apps space like you all did for the Nextbook Premium 7, because 523mb of space is cool and all, but (hating to sound oh so greedy) I want MORE lol, so if there is a possibility for that I would love some assistance. And one last thing, how do I change the splash image for it, there is no ".rle" file like there was for the nextbook, so help would be appreciated for that also.
Thanks, Ognimnella
P.S. - if anyone knows how to build a custom cwm recovery for tablets like thiss that would be helpful also. Im working on custom roms but it wont let me flash.!
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Did you ever build the rom and if so, where is it.. I would like to try it out.. My mom bought herself one of these t408 tablets and the stupid thing didnt even come with google play app store.. Now I would like to go all out on it..
Thinking1 said:
Did you ever build the rom and if so, where is it.. I would like to try it out.. My mom bought herself one of these t408 tablets and the stupid thing didnt even come with google play app store.. Now I would like to go all out on it..
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Get on freaktab.com for roms
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I've tried and tried and I just can't set my own sounds . I've searched xda and my problem and [non-successful] results are exactly as described in this [closed] thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40583172&postcount=5 BUT the solution in the very next post (and other suggestions) aren't working for me.
I put two sound files onto my One by installing ES File Explorer and copying the files from a server on my home network. The files got onto that server via ESFE directly from my old phone.
I put the mp3 I want to use as a default ringtone into /sdcard/Ringtones. The built-in Android sound picker doesn't show it, so I used ESFE to select it and I did break the default sound picker, just as described in that post, but the ringtone wasn't actually changed (i.e., I was still stuck with the default "AT&T Firefly" ringtone). I had to rename/delete the mp3 in order to fix the Android sound picker. Before I found that thread, I did a factory reset to fix it.
I want to use the other file (a wav) for Google Talk "new messages". I put that file in /sdcard/Notifications and Google Talk did not display it in the list of choices. I created /sdcard/media/audio/notifications and put it in there, too, as well as in each level of that folder tree (/sdcard/media and /sdcard/media/audio). Still no luck.
I'm singling out the Phone ringtone and Google Talk, but no apps see either of the files (I'm only using the built-in sound picker at this point). Apps DO list all of the built-in sounds (Aero, Ao, Aqua, etc. for ringtones, Almond, Azure, Capri, etc. for notifications) and I CAN pick from those, but I don't want to.
I'm running unrooted 100% out-of-the-box stock AT&T 4.1.2 with Sense 5.0. Please don't tell me to root, use another launcher, etc.; I've happily done that on my previous phones and will eventually get there with this one, but I'm not there yet. Maybe after there's an "official" 4.2, but that's another conversation and not a good answer.
I rebooted the phone after every copypaste.
I renamed the files so they were one, 6-letter word (no spaces or non-alpha characters).
I made sure the filenames were all lower case.
Both of these files will play via Amazon MP3, ES Media Player, Google Play Music, and Music on the One.
Both of these files worked as ringtone and notification on my previous phone, a rooted TMO MyTouch 4G running Android Revolution v7.04.
I am stumped and frustrated and have no idea what my phone is trying to tell me with these built-in AT&T mellow yoga-esque windchime noises, which I hate. I want my own sounds.
Are you guys not having this problem? Do I have to use some other specific file format (m4a? ogg?)? Do my mp3 and wav have to be a certain bitrate or something? Is there some other, special place I'm supposed to drop my files? How are you all doing this?
I just use Zedge from the play store. Free massive crowd source database, no need to root.
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SOLUTION
Got it working. You HAVE to copy your own sounds via USB. Full text of solution here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40660425&postcount=9 from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40660425#post40660425
Another vote for Zedge
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I recently bought an HTC One that has been rooted and is running Android 4.3. Overall the phone seems to work properly but there are three frustrating things that I am struggling with (so far):
1) The photo gallery doesn't work - no images are displayed in the gallery even though they are saved in the phone's file system. Can't make new galleries. - This is not critical, I found a third party app that works, but it might be related to the other problems.
2) There are no sounds listed in the Ringtones/Notification/Alarm area and no ability to add any (+ is disabled). The default sounds worked until I tried to install a third party ringtone. Most of the apps crashed, but one app did say it installed the ringtone. Now I have no ringtone at all. Can't find the default 'cause it never showed and if a new one installed it is nowhere to be found, but I have no ringtone anymore. Almost as if the old default got unsuccessfully overwritten.
3) Never got any sync apps to work. HTC Sync Manager fails when trying to install drivers on my computer from the phone. I've tried all of the suggestions that I found regarding that issue.
I am a total noob on Android OS but know my way around Windows pretty well and Linux moderately. If it were a Windows or Linux computer I would think there is a path or permissions setting that is off, but I know nothing about phone OS. I don't want to become a Droid expert or learn the ins and outs of rooting or whatever. I just want a phone that works. I can find my way around the file system. Maybe I need to put it back to original OS? I have seen several articles on that and can probably handle it if I have to, but would rather get the current installation working properly. Any advise you can give is appreciated.
Mike
Put it back to stock with the ruu
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xcrazydx said:
Put it back to stock with the ruu
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Thanks for the response. I am reading articles and watching videos on how to do this. One question that I don't see answered is will reverting back to stock affect my carrier service? I am currently using Straight Talk rather than AT&T.
Thanks
SIM unlock is not effected by flashing a ROM. RUU or custom.
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SIM unlock is not effected by flashing a ROM. RUU or custom.
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Thanks everyone. The guy i bought the phone from put it back to stock. Everything works well now. Not everyone is cut out to be a phone rebel :silly:
Glad all is working well. That is the key!