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[Solved][Help] Req. the Contacts app

Well, I deleted one app too many from my Defy. Titanium Backup is wonderful, but it backs up ONLY DATA for system apps, so I'm hosed UNLESS...
Could someone mail me the original Contacts app? It's data backup is named 'Contacts-2.1-update1' with the internal name 'com.motorola.blur.contacts'. I think that's all I'd need. There's also 'ContactsUnconnected-2.1-update1' and 'Work-Contacts-2.1-update1' so it wouldn't hurt to get them too.
BTW, the symptoms? When I try to dial by tapping on a contact name the call fails, a red stop sign flashes over the signal strength bars, and an alarm message is posted saying something to the effect that the network service is not available. To make a call I need to do a long press and choose Call from the menu. Ouch!
So, please, anyone who knows how to do it (I use Ghost Commander, a free app, which has a Send built in) send this app to 'Mars-On-Earth at dslextreme dot com'.
Thanks a bunch!

Sign up as a developer at Motorola, it's free. Then you can download "Motodev Studio" which among other things, will let you accesss /system/app
Otherwise, reflash the rom using RSD Lite, there's a guide for it here:
http://android.modaco.com/content/m...ering-bricked-firmware-on-your-motorola-defy/

Sorensiim said:
Sign up as a developer at Motorola, it's free. Then you can download "Motodev Studio" which among other things, will let you accesss /system/app
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Are you saying the "Motodev Studio" includes the original app files?

MarSOnEarth said:
Are you saying the "Motodev Studio" includes the original app files?
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MOTODEV Studio does not contain app files. It is Motorola's developer tools for Android phones. Sorensiim is referring to the DDMS perspective that ships with it. DDMS allows you to extract files off the phone and there is an Eclipse view in MOTODEV Studio.
If you already have the Android SDK installed, you can run the DDMS desktop application from sdk/tools (on windows, it's a .bat file).

Sorensiim said:
Sign up as a developer at Motorola, it's free. Then you can download "Motodev Studio" which among other things, will let you accesss /system/app
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Do you even have to sign up for anything?
I haven't and yet I was able to find this download page by Googling 'MotoDev Studio'.
Anyway, I just wanted to double-check/see if I understood things correctly, does MotoDev Studio let you delete/uninstall apks from the handset?
Could it be used as a simpler method of doing this.

Motodev studio gives you a nice graphical interface to pushing and pulling files, for instance, one could push the contacts apk to the phone.
If you sign up, it will even download the latest Android SDK for you

@Sorensiim, @ericcl:
Thanks, but my problem is I deleted the app. Erased, puff, gone. I do have the tools to put it back, I don't have anything to put in there. And there is in /system/app and what is the native Contacts application binary. SO, would some kind soul grab the binary off of their healthy system and send it off to me. Please.

Get the apk from here lad
http://modmymobile.com/forums/639-m...motorola-defy-system-boot-recovery-dumps.html
Download the system.zip and extract the apk from there
Oh and a tip - dont delete apks rename them to say .bak especially if you are messing about trying to see whats safe to delete, that way you can just change the name back

Higgsy is saving the day! Yey!
Higgsy said:
Get the apk from here lad
http://modmymobile.com/forums/639-m...motorola-defy-system-boot-recovery-dumps.html
Download the system.zip and extract the apk from there
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Thanks a bunch!
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Oh and a tip - dont delete apks rename them to say .bak especially if you are messing about trying to see whats safe to delete, that way you can just change the name back
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Good call! [ & embarrassed]

Rats! This is so close, maybe close enough, but the ROM dumps are for the UK model. The USA Defy has newer software (it appears. The US version is 2.1-update1) and the apps seem structured differently. In the USA ROM there is just one Contacts app, on the UK one it seems to be split in two, *Data and *Provider app. Hmm.

Hi, sorry for the language..
Id deleted some apps yesterday and i have no menu anymore... so i think i just failing during my choose. When i restart the phone i only can have access to my account on motoblur... and it doesn't work as well cause he cannot connect or something more, i don't know what happened.
I'm so disappointed. Must I install system.zip by the pc ? I'll try that when it finishs to dl but...
EDIT : Flashing the rom, i success... omg so much fear thank you for your guide

MarSOnEarth said:
Rats! This is so close, maybe close enough, but the ROM dumps are for the UK model. The USA Defy has newer software (it appears. The US version is 2.1-update1) and the apps seem structured differently. In the USA ROM there is just one Contacts app, on the UK one it seems to be split in two, *Data and *Provider app. Hmm.
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the uk version is 2.1 update 1 too. The moto apps are the same as far as I know/have read? then again I have never seen the US system/app.
There are many Dev's who have reflashed the UK .sbf (because the us one is not available) - fixed the 3g and wifi calling and say its the same
in my dump I have
contactsdata.apk
contactsprovider2_0.apk
contactsunconnected.apk
Think we need another US user to check their system/app and let us know what they have.

Higgsy said:
the uk version is 2.1 update 1 too. The moto apps are the same as far as I know/have read? then again I have never seen the US system/app.
There are many Dev's who have reflashed the UK .sbf (because the us one is not available) - fixed the 3g and wifi calling and say its the same
in my dump I have
contactsdata.apk
contactsprovider2_0.apk
contactsunconnected.apk
Think we need another US user to check their system/app and let us know what they have.
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Ok I just pulled back the system/app dump JBoogie3 posted from the Tmobile US rom from Here
It has exactly the same 3 contact apks as the uk rom. So not too sure where you are getting there was only 1 lol.

Higgsy, you just beat me to posting that link to the US ROM dump.
Now, the discrepancy in naming stems from how different utilities display the app names. In TitaniumBackup the file I junked is called 'Contacts-2.1-update1' with domain 'com.motorola.blur.contacts', and I'm still not quite sure what is its file system name. TitaniumBackup does not display it.
I ran a diff on the file list in JBoogie3's ROM dump and my Defy's file system (in the attachment) and the most likely match for the above file would seem to be the BlurContacts.*
Which begs the question, what file manager do you guys use? What for SMB access? FTP? Is it one and the same utility, or separate.
So far SwiFTP (a server on the phone) has been solid for me, and with WinSCP (on a PC) it's been a good combination at home. What's good/can be trusted on (standalone) Android?

root explorer (application) will let you show whats actually in system/app - titanuim aint gonna show you this. Titanium IMO is only good for backing up user apps
Also you can use motodev studio and browse system/app via that
Or good old adb
Theres probably a 101 other ways too - these are my suggestions.
EDIT: an FTP client is not the way forward for sure

oh and blurcontacts.apk also resides in both the UK and US system/app, so thas the one you've deleted and need to replace.
I would either install root explorer or motodev studio (easiest way for you) and check your system/app against the dump and replace any files as required

Higgsy said:
root explorer (application) will let you show whats actually in system/app - titanuim aint gonna show you this. Titanium IMO is only good for backing up user apps
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As I found out the hard way. It only backs up data for the sys apps.
Higgsy said:
Also you can use motodev studio and browse system/app via that
Or good old adb
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I've got both downloaded (but not yet installed).
Higgsy said:
Theres probably a 101 other ways too - these are my suggestions.
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And I thank you for it.
Higgsy said:
EDIT: an FTP client is not the way forward for sure
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Right, the file permissions, but a good FTP utility is always good for /sdcard and backups, right? ;-)

Higgsy said:
oh and blurcontacts.apk also resides in both the UK and US system/app, so thas the one you've deleted and need to replace.
I would either install root explorer or motodev studio (easiest way for you) and check your system/app against the dump and replace any files as required
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Again, thanks for the suggestions. Slowly I'll settle in with my workflow.

MarSOnEarth said:
Right, the file permissions, but a good FTP utility is always good for /sdcard and backups, right? ;-)
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yeah it fine for transferring between sdcard etc i have one set up myself - I use Andftp

Higgsy said:
Ok I just pulled back the system/app dump JBoogie3 posted from the Tmobile US rom from Here
It has exactly the same 3 contact apks as the uk rom. So not too sure where you are getting there was only 1 lol.
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I'd like to thank Higgsy for much advise, and JBoogie3 for posting the US ROM dumps from which I got the needed apps. Through many twists and turns my goof up has been remedied. And I really mean twists and turns, the latest being that even after the deleted apps had been copied back to their place they were still not being recognized, until after I realized that all but the restored apps in /system/app were owned by 'root', while the restored apps were owned by 'sdcard_rw', or something similar. chmod and chown'ing finally got it all working.
Thanks again.

[REQ] Battleheart hack/money cheat

Trust me I have searched t'internet to no avail.
I don't need or want people asking me why I want to cheat in this game...needless to say I had a Galaxy S II stolen and lost a 12hour worth save of this game.
I'm amazed that the iPhone version has an easy hack... but nobody has been able to do this in the wonderful Android community....
Anyway... I offer a beer to whoever can help me with this (or the first person to haha)... I promise.
Thanks in advance.

Really, nobody has a clue on this one? I previously found a couple of properties files but for some reason can't find them now...
I'm serious about donation too
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kickassdave said:
Really, nobody has a clue on this one? I previously found a couple of properties files but for some reason can't find them now...
I'm serious about donation too
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Really not that much harder than doing it on the iphone.
If you got titanium backup then backup the game then open com.KelliNoda.Battleheart-20110702-203401.tar
you get a folder called data.
then thers some folders inside it.
correct path to the directory where the file is you want to edit is data\data\com.KelliNoda.Battleheart\shared_prefs
thers an XML file in there, edit that one to your liking.
For the gold i edited this line
<int name="1gold" value="xxx" />
where x is the amount of gold you currently have on the what i assume is first save
i changed it to <int name="1gold" value="999" />
and i had 999 gold.
basically just edit it along and see what happens.
Not really sure where this XML file is located on your phone but since titanium is free on market you might as well use it

Some quote for an easier editing
Also if you want to change their level just look for
1partyDB#level. Replace the # with 0-8. Each number corresponding to a party member.
To edit their power and defense, look for
1partyDB#power and 1partyDB#defense. Replace the # with 0-8.
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the # correspond with the heroes that you have. 0 is lucille, 1 is shepherd. and so forth
here's an example:
<key>1partyDB1power</key> <---- the first '1' corresponds to the save file. the second '1' correspond to the character (shepherd)
<integer>75</integer> <---- change this to change his attack power.
take a look at the picture I've attached to get a better understanding.
Please note that this was done with version 1.0.0.
I haven't tried it with the newer version yet.
Edit: I tried it with the newer version and it works still.
Also the best way to look for the hero's value is just to search for their name and then most of the value you would want to change would be just right above their name. [power level is right below their name though]
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To change lucilles level look for
1partyDB0level and change it to
Code:
<int name="1partyDB0level" value="30" />
for shepherd look for 1partyDB1level and chance it to
Code:
<int name="1partyDB1level" value="30" />
so both

here's my xml file http://www.mediafire.com/?27gtc0ch59exxob where i got all possible partymembers at lvl 30 and lucille/shepherd at lvl 40 and and little over 23 million gold.
firstly make sure you got a folder called TitaniumBackup on your SDcard, if its not there then open titanium backup and make a backup of battleheart or if you havnt made a backup of battleheart then make sure you do that before moving on.
Put the above mentioned file into the TitaniumBackup dir.
unmount your SDcard
run titanium and choose to restore data only to battleheart.
then run battleheart and you should find a savegame called goa200
I'm also sure you could simply do
Code:
ADB push com.KelliNoda.Battleheart.xml /data/data/com.KelliNoda.Battleheart/shared_prefs/
but i dont have adb on this laptop so i never tried
just make sure you kill the battleheard process first

Thank you very much for your help. I owe you a beer. On my phone just now but you got a donate option I can send to?
I managed to work out how to do it from your first post. Only wanted to modify the gold but again thank you very much for the other information as well
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kickassdave said:
Thank you very much for your help. I owe you a beer. On my phone just now but you got a donate option I can send to?
I managed to work out how to do it from your first post. Only wanted to modify the gold but again thank you very much for the other information as well
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No need for any donate. i play battleheart as well and never thought it was that easy to cheat =)

kickassdave said:
Anyway... I offer a beer to whoever can help me with this (or the first person to haha)... I promise.
Thanks in advance.
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I did promise! I think it's fair... but if you are sure it's ok... fair enough!

kickassdave said:
I did promise! I think it's fair... but if you are sure it's ok... fair enough!
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and i kindly refuse said offer as it wasnt much of a thing to do =)

goa200 said:
No need for any donate. i play battleheart as well and never thought it was that easy to cheat =)
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That's very nice of you dude, we appreciate the help. Thank you!

no matter how i edited the value, it wont stick. it kept returning back to original value.
edited: finally got it to work, i was using root explorer and it automatically restore backup file. thanks for the guide.

MorRoquen said:
That's very nice of you dude, we appreciate the help. Thank you!
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I knew I wasn't the only person trying to work out how to do this... ended up doing a wee level hack as well haha.
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when i edit the values it dont change, it back to the original, why?

My values go back to normal or the game force closes, what am I doing wrong? Nd I'm using version 1.13 arm

goa200 said:
here's my xml file http://www.mediafire.com/?27gtc0ch59exxob where i got all possible partymembers at lvl 30 and lucille/shepherd at lvl 40 and and little over 23 million gold.
firstly make sure you got a folder called TitaniumBackup on your SDcard, if its not there then open titanium backup and make a backup of battleheart or if you havnt made a backup of battleheart then make sure you do that before moving on.
Put the above mentioned file into the TitaniumBackup dir.
unmount your SDcard
run titanium and choose to restore data only to battleheart.
then run battleheart and you should find a savegame called goa200
I'm also sure you could simply do
Code:
ADB push com.KelliNoda.Battleheart.xml /data/data/com.KelliNoda.Battleheart/shared_prefs/
but i dont have adb on this laptop so i never tried
just make sure you kill the battleheard process first
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thanks for the tip!
just a noob question. how do i edit the xml file inside the .tar.gz file? i tried extracting the contents and then editing the xml file but winzip cannot put it back into the .tar.gz file.

Y0sHii said:
My values go back to normal or the game force closes, what am I doing wrong? Nd I'm using version 1.13 arm
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two things:
1) don't edit in windows. it inserts carriage return characters not compatible in Android/Linux/Mac's/etc. Download a text editor onto your phone (I used TextWarrior) or do it in Linux
2) make sure edited xml file has same owner, group and permissions as original xml file. Root Explorer can easily change owner/group/permissions.

aussiebum said:
2) make sure edited xml file has same owner, group and permissions as original xml file. Root Explorer can easily change owner/group/permissions.
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I couldn't set owner/group even after the file was in /data/data/com.KelliNoda.Battleheart/shared_prefs/. Instead I just checked read/write for "Others" under permissions and that made it show up.

aph said:
I couldn't set owner/group even after the file was in /data/data/com.KelliNoda.Battleheart/shared_prefs/. Instead I just checked read/write for "Others" under permissions and that made it show up.
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You can do it on a PC
If you take out the file and edit it using notepad, you can overwrite the file within the tar using 7zip without having to decompile and recompile the tar.
Open it up using 7zip, browse to the location of the XML file and click and drag your edited version in to overwrite. You'll get a couple of messages, ok them both and you're done. Now just move the tar file back to your titanium backup folder overwriting the original. Now restore your backup and hey presto.
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kickassdave said:
You can do it on a PC
If you take out the file and edit it using notepad, you can overwrite the file within the tar using 7zip without having to decompile and recompile the tar.
Open it up using 7zip, browse to the location of the XML file and click and drag your edited version in to overwrite. You'll get a couple of messages, ok them both and you're done. Now just move the tar file back to your titanium backup folder overwriting the original. Now restore your backup and hey presto.
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Using TB restore data on Battleheart yields FC's for me 100% of the time. After a phone crash, I've been working on restoring my chars (not interested in cheating) for 4 days, trying at least 2 dozen potential solutions.
The "Others r/w" hack works for me at the moment and after days of effort, I'm sitting happy getting it to work at all.
If it breaks again I'll give your method a shot. Thanks for the input!

replacing xt9

not really sure which forum to post this in (sorry if this is the wrong one), but all of the new roms that have been created seem to lack the xt9. i had really started to like it. i downlaoded the system dump and was wondering, if i copied the T9DB folder (from the dump) over to the system folder of whatever rom im going to flash, would that fix the problem.

Melvin's ROM: Beast MOD II has it. I'm pretty sure this is more a general question though. Also pretty sure copying and pasting is a no go.
Sent from the future, back to the past.

Adj. said:
Melvin's ROM: Beast MOD II has it. I'm pretty sure this is more a general question though. Also pretty sure copying and pasting is a no go.
Sent from the future, back to the past.
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the xt9 option is in all of them under keyboard, but doesnt work. open up sms and try to type something.
i just checked :\

You also need the lib, libXt9core.so. Melvin probably removed it. You should be able to drop that and the apk in their right places and it should work.

Romanbb said:
You also need the lib, libXt9core.so. Melvin probably removed it. You should be able to drop that and the apk in their right places and it should work.
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the lib is acutally there. im going to try n drag the t989odex folder over and see if it works, since i cant get an answer from melvin :\

camf3xu said:
the lib is acutally there. im going to try n drag the t989odex folder over and see if it works, since i cant get an answer from melvin :\
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That's a bad idea, lol. If you can get the logcat when it FCs I might be able to help identify the issue

Romanbb said:
That's a bad idea, lol. If you can get the logcat when it FCs I might be able to help identify the issue
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moving the folder over to the rom's system folder within the zip fixed it :] and it didnt force close, just didnt work (even when it was enabled)

how did u get this to work? i dont understand what you are saying. Android is super new to me.

you can always install Go Keyboard, which offer XT9

imsohungover said:
how did u get this to work? i dont understand what you are saying. Android is super new to me.
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its very simple. first i downloaded this system dump. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1300682 . then opened it up and dragged the folder T9DB over to my desktop. then plugged my phone in the computer and connect to usb storage. dragged the file over to my external sd card and unplugged my phone. then open up root explorer (or some file explorer that allows root access) and copied the file and navigated your main folder (just titled /) scrolled down to find system and pasted the folder in there. restart and it works
the lib is also required for it to work but that wasnt removed witht he rom im using. if you want to check to see if its still there go to the lib folder located within your system folder and scroll all the way to the bottom and their should be a file called libxt9core.so
i tried to go into as much detail as possible to make it as simple as possible for you :]

This is one of the few features of the SGH-T989 which I truly despise. I LOVED the auto-correct on the Nexus S, but XT9 frustrates me terribly because a) it assumes English and I do not always type in English and b) it will drop entire words into my sentences if I hit space or something, ending in some REALLY weird messages!! I turned it off, because it was taking me a lot longer trying to go back and edit my messages ex-post-facto than just make a spelling error here or there.

do you know where i can get the lib file at? im using bombaridier and it doesnt have it in the lib file.

heinrich said:
This is one of the few features of the SGH-T989 which I truly despise. I LOVED the auto-correct on the Nexus S, but XT9 frustrates me terribly because a) it assumes English and I do not always type in English and b) it will drop entire words into my sentences if I hit space or something, ending in some REALLY weird messages!! I turned it off, because it was taking me a lot longer trying to go back and edit my messages ex-post-facto than just make a spelling error here or there.
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i suppose i can understand non english. pretty sure u can fix the space problem in options tho
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do you know where i can get the lib file at? im using bombaridier and it doesnt have it in the lib file.
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the lib is also in the system dump i described earlier. located at T989odex/lib/libXt9core.so

do u know any other root explorer i can use? Right now i am using Explorer and its giving me the "you cannot paster here because the file system is read-only"

[Mod]Ad free host file + hulu plus

Made this to have ad blocking and be able to watch Hulu on my gnex without having to revert from adfree every time I wanted to use Hulu. Just removed the lines that referenced Hulu.
IT IS ADVISED YOU MAKE A NANDROID BEFORE APPLYING.
Just rename "huluhost" to "hosts"
Backup original host file from /ect
Then move or copy new host to /ect
May need to delete cache/davlik
http://db.tt/HUhD8dRN
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA

Just saw this when I went back a page. Glad to find an updated hosts file with a bit extra bite. :-D Mind if I add some stuff to it, and use it in my ROM releases? I WILL give you credit for it. :-D

will this work on any device?
Or just nexus?

Yessss, thank you!
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

Didnt work fo me I had adds in every app.

Should work on any device.. host file is basically the same stuff as windows.. can even use this file for your windows machine and block the ads there too..

chevycam94 said:
Just saw this when I went back a page. Glad to find an updated hosts file with a bit extra bite. :-D Mind if I add some stuff to it, and use it in my ROM releases? I WILL give you credit for it. :-D
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Not at all do what you want with it.

Medic97 said:
Didnt work fo me I had adds in every app.
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Yea sorry. You have to rename it to hosts
Originally the OP said host
*OP has been updated*
Sorry about the typo. It should work once you rename it to hosts.

Does my Nexus have to be rooted? Aside from the ad's, I'm pretty happy with it the way it is. I can't find the /etc folder or a hosts file at all.

meganame said:
Does my Nexus have to be rooted? Aside from the ad's, I'm pretty happy with it the way it is. I can't find the /etc folder or a hosts file at all.
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You need root.

@blue2107 the file is down.
FYI. Here is a the method I use, it will also keep your file up to date.
1) Use adfree to download latest hosts file, this will also backup your original
2) Copy the file to your sd card
3) Open the file with a text editor that supports "find and replace" function, I used Jota Text Editor
4) Replace "hulu" with something else, I use "nothulu"
5) Replace the ect/hosts file with the one you just edited
Let me know if you have any feedback or if you have any problems with this method.
Also I attached a copy of the file I am using.

Check out "AdAway"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adaway
It has a white list feature.
I have not used that feature myself, but the application is great.

[MOD]PopupBrowser

Howdy folks -
I started with the modified-to-be-expandable PopupBrowser.apk found here and added/modded it a bit further. I reset a number of the layout dimension xml stuffs back to stock UVALL4/UVALK8 values, edited some smali stuff so the expanding states "fit" a little better (so minimized doesn't cut off the title bar, mid-size state is about the same as the size when you first open the popup browser, and large-size state fills up a bit more of the screen), and set it up so that when wanting to "popout" the content in the popup browser into a "full" browser it will look for Chrome first - if Chrome isn't installed, it'll point to the stock (given similarity of package names this should be either stock TW or AOSP) browser. FWIW I originally put this together for inclusion in a rom I put together... just putting that out there
Anyhoo - here it is
md5: DBAB8033D6041B39D664F0A1F175DB02
Let me know if there are any problems
NOTE: If odexed the zip should move /system/app/PopupBrowser.odex to /system/app/PopupBrowser.odex.bak

This looks great! Can't wait to give it a try!

I keep getting application not installed. I used to have an error saying a file name as such already exists.
After deleting popupbrowser using tbup, it now gives me application not installed.
Any suggestions or easy guides?

mitchillen said:
I keep getting application not installed. I used to have an error saying a file name as such already exists.
After deleting popupbrowser using tbup, it now gives me application not installed.
Any suggestions or easy guides?
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Have you tried pushing it or manually placing it in system/app and then setting permissions?
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mitchillen said:
I keep getting application not installed. I used to have an error saying a file name as such already exists.
After deleting popupbrowser using tbup, it now gives me application not installed.
Any suggestions or easy guides?
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I'm confused - when does it say application not installed? What are the errors exactly (the wording I mean)? After you deleted PopupBrowser.apk from /system/app did you reflash the zip from the OP? A possible issue could have been the popup browser already installed was slightly different in its name (if this was true it was likely a case issue) - what are you running? I can edit the updater-script to remove other similar-but-different-casing apks if this is what was going on.

dwitherell said:
I'm confused - when does it say application not installed? What are the errors exactly (the wording I mean)? After you deleted PopupBrowser.apk from /system/app did you reflash the zip from the OP? A possible issue could have been the popup browser already installed was slightly different in its name (if this was true it was likely a case issue) - what are you running? I can edit the updater-script to remove other similar-but-different-casing apks if this is what was going on.
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I dl'ed the app straight from chrome browser on my phone. I opened it up using ES Zip viewer and it gives me two folders - Meta inf and system.
I open system folder and find popupbroswer.apk and click on it which brings me to the install page, once I click install it tells me "Application not installed"
Am I supposed to do anything else with the stuff that is in meta inf? I'd consider myself amateur with this stuff so bear with me, sorry!
Not sure what "casing" is but I'm stock rooted using Exynos Abuse on UVALK8. Hope that helps

mitchillen said:
I dl'ed the app straight from chrome browser on my phone. I opened it up using ES Zip viewer and it gives me two folders - Meta inf and system.
I open system folder and find popupbroswer.apk and click on it which brings me to the install page, once I click install it tells me "Application not installed"
Am I supposed to do anything else with the stuff that is in meta inf? I'd consider myself amateur with this stuff so bear with me, sorry!
Not sure what "casing" is but I'm stock rooted using Exynos Abuse on UVALK8. Hope that helps
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Ah - I see. The zip is in a format so you can flash it in a custom recovery (CWM, TWRP, etc.). The apk itself cannot be installed via the package manager route (which is why you were having the problem), if you aren't going to use a recovery then you need to push/copy the apk itself into /system/app. Basically you need to set /system/app/ as rw so you can copy stuff into it, copy the apk into it, and (for good measure) set the permissions on PopupBrowser.apk to rw-r--r-- (or 644 if you use a terminal or something similar). Then you should be good to go. It's totally up to you on how you want to go about it. Lemme know (whether in this thread or via PM) if you have any questions.

I don't think this interested many, but I updated the OP - it should work for odexed folks now as well

dwitherell said:
I don't think this interested many, but I updated the OP - it should work for odexed folks now as well
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I just found it and spent a while looking at pop-up browser options. It's awesome man...smaller title bar, shrinkable to view more of the background app.
I did have issues resizing it (bottom right corner of the pop-up window). It doesn't seem to allow me to resize. I can press the "expand" button or whatever it is in the title bar which will enlarge the window but only vertically.
I have the DPI of my phone set to 220 so maybe that's it?

djnutz said:
I just found it and spent a while looking at pop-up browser options. It's awesome man...smaller title bar, shrinkable to view more of the background app.
I did have issues resizing it (bottom right corner of the pop-up window). It doesn't seem to allow me to resize. I can press the "expand" button or whatever it is in the title bar which will enlarge the window but only vertically.
I have the DPI of my phone set to 220 so maybe that's it?
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Resizing in that sense is not supported unfortunately - it's just the ability for 3 stages of "height" more or less.

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Resizing in that sense is not supported unfortunately - it's just the ability for 3 stages of "height" more or less.
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Gotcha - well either way thanks for posting it. Nice to have.

Can one of you send me a link the download in the op isn't working for me
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SIGMAxB said:
Can one of you send me a link the download in the op isn't working for me
Sent from my SGH-T889 using xda app-developers app
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Here ya go.