[MOD] - Rosie Remaps! Personalize your "Personalize" button--UPDATE UNLIMITED Options

the1wingedangel · Dec 17, 2010

[MOD] - Rosie Remaps! Personalize your "Personalize" button--UPDATE UNLIMITED Options

The right soft key on the rosie 'dock' which pulls up the "Personalize" menu is useless and redundant. You can already long click anywhere on the home screen to bring it up, or press Menu --> Personalize. It's just not important enough of a button to warrant a third method of bringing up the drawer!

Well now you have options. I've made many different files to remap it to various common apps, and one general file that can be mapped to any app of your choosing. (Check the image at the bottom of this post to see the corresponding icon changes)

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[UPDATE 1.1.11]:
I have been getting many requests for various random apps, and in an effort not to make a hundred different remaps, I have now made one generic one that can be mapped to any application through the use of the an awesome app (made by appelflap) called LaunchKey. He offers 2 versions, one on the market for only ~0.65 cents, and a lite version available on the forum for free here. If you like his work, PLEASE buy the market version, its cheap and we all know you will get tons and tons of use out of it!

How it works: Install the LaunchKey app. Follow instructions below to push my modified Rosie_custom.apk to your phone. Open LaunchKey and use it to select which app to open. When you press the right dock button on my modified rosie.apk it will open whatever app that you have chosen from inside the LaunchKey app. That's it! You can change what application is opened at any time from within LaunchKey with ease!

Note: LaunchKey can also be set to toggle some system functions, or open a quick menu with a list of 8 or so of your favorite apps. The donate version has even more options. Its a really nice app, so seriously buy the donate version in the market

Download Rosie_custom.apk here

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[Options]:
-Custom to ANY application you wish (you MUST have the LaunchKey app from above installed first)
-Browser
-HTC/Google messaging app
-HTC contacts app
-Gmail
-Gvoice
-Maps
-Gtalk
-Market
-Gallery
-Facebook
-Turn off screen (this one requires the Kill Screen app to work, see my thread here)
-Handcent SMS
-Chomp SMS
-HTC Mail app
-Camera
-XDA app

[Info]:
The original rosie.apk was taken from the Virtuous ROM. It has been confirmed working with ANY Virtuous 0.7.x, 0.8.x and 0.9.x versions.

However, this is the version without the auto-rotate modification. Meaning it only switches to landscape mode when the keyboard is out. I find the auto-rotate too sensitive, as the home screen is always flipping on me when I don't want it too. I may make versions of this with the auto-rotate mods later, if enough people want it.

[How To]:
-Grab the appropriate file that you want (some attached to second post). The names are self explanatory

-Save it somewhere on your computer
-Plug your phone into usb
-Reboot into recovery
-Type this in a command prompt

adb shell mount /system
adb shell rm /system/app/com.htc.launcher.apk
adb push [your saved file location]\Rosie_xxxxx.apk /system/app/com.htc.launcher.apk

-Reboot
-Enjoy

I may make options to open other apps later. For now though, these were the most common requests when I did this mod for the Espresso launcher. If you like it, feel free to donate

the1wingedangel · Dec 17, 2010

More files attached here.

dictionary · Dec 17, 2010

Maybe one for Gtalk as well?

phoenx06 · Dec 17, 2010

You my friend, are amazing

Sent from my HTC G2

theXeffect · Dec 17, 2010

wow can u add the new market app ....would be da ****z!!!

the1wingedangel said:
The right soft key on the rosie 'dock' which pulls up the "Personalize" menu is useless and redundant. You can already long click anywhere on the home screen to bring it up, or press Menu --> Personalize. It's just not important enough of a button to warrant a third method of bringing up the drawer!

Well now you have options. I've made 6 different files to remap it to various common apps. (Check the image at the bottom of this post to see the corresponding icon changes)

[Options]:
-Browser
-HTC messaging app
-HTC contacts app
-Gmail
-Gvoice
-Maps

[Info]:
The original rosie.apk was taken from the Virtuous 0.7.0 ROM. It has been confirmed working with ANY Virtuous 0.7.x version, and the newest Virtuous 0.8.0.

However, this is the version without the auto-rotate modification. Meaning it only switches to landscape mode when the keyboard is out. I find the auto-rotate too sensitive, as the home screen is always flipping on me when I don't want it too. I may make versions of this with the auto-rotate mods later, if enough people want it.

[How To]:
-Grab the appropriate file that you want. The names are self explanatory
-Save it somewhere on your computer
-Plug your phone into usb
-Reboot into recovery
-Type this in a command prompt

adb shell mount /system
adb shell rm /system/app/com.htc.launcher.apk
adb push [your saved file location]\Rosie_xxxxx.apk /system/app/com.htc.launcher.apk
-Reboot
-Enjoy

I may make options to open other apps later. For now though, these were the most common requests when I did this mod for the Espresso launcher. If you like it, buy me some OJ

eViL D: · Dec 17, 2010

Nice job man!

If you want to do something as cool, mod the HD music apk for proper rotation on desire.

steviewevie · Dec 17, 2010

Ooh, nice work !

dadewy · Dec 17, 2010

the1wingedangel said:
The right soft key on the rosie 'dock' which pulls up the "Personalize" menu is useless and redundant. You can already long click anywhere on the home screen to bring it up, or press Menu --> Personalize.

Excellent! I love it.

At the risk of appearing greedy...

Any chance of seeing the app-drawer button get the same treatment? Same rationale: if you need it hit menu and there it is already!

Gmail on the left, phone in the middle and messaging on the right would make me a happy man

ddotpatel · Dec 17, 2010

Very nice!!! .... any chance of a tut so we can do it ourselves for other ROMS?

Bravo pal.

EDIT..... Follow up project for you,.... re-sizing? Reckon that is possible?

Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

neoobs · Dec 17, 2010

ddotpatel said:
Very nice!!! .... any chance of a tut so we can do it ourselves for other ROMS?

Bravo pal.

EDIT..... Follow up project for you,.... re-sizing? Reckon that is possible?

Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

Would also love to see what files you edited so I can change it to whatever app I want.

Tomb77 · Dec 17, 2010

Great work, very useful!

Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

acejoker25000 · Dec 17, 2010

neoobs said:
Would also love to see what files you edited so I can change it to whatever app I want.

You need smali and baksmali to decompile apk or odex then go through the out folder and edit the launcher.smali file and recompile into classes.dex using smali place in apk and done more steps are needed if you have to reodex

Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App

HAK Devil · Dec 17, 2010

This is great and I followed all the instructions and while the actual button press is working great and getting me to the messaging app the icon itself has not changed from the initial personalize one. Maybe it is because I am using the metal skin?

Edit - Yeah, that seems to be it because the icon is appearing correctly using the default HTC skin. Is there any way to change this because I really like the Metal skin

imblacklife · Dec 17, 2010

I was waiting for something like this before I flashed another sense rom. You are one great person thanks I will be trying this out after I get home from work

sonofabit · Dec 17, 2010

Works great. Thanks for this!

tdpham102 · Dec 17, 2010

Great work...can these mods be done through terminal emulator?

Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

joemm · Dec 18, 2010

Great job, just pushed contacts to my Rosie launcher, worked flawless on Virtuous 0.8.0. Thank you.

dadewy · Dec 18, 2010

tdpham102 said:
Great work...can these mods be done through terminal emulator?

Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

Just copy the appropriate apk to your sdcard using whatever method and then from term:

Code:

mount -o rw,remount /system
cp -f /sdcard/Rosie_gmail.apk /system/app/com.htc.launcher.apk
sync
mount -o ro,remount /system

Remember to change Rosie_gmail.apk to whatever file you are using.

Worked fine for me. The launcher reset itself and all was fine (I had to remove/re-add a widget or two, for some reason, but no biggie).

suprajztwenty · Dec 18, 2010

my dxtop, home app does the same thing

the1wingedangel · Dec 18, 2010

Glad everyone likes them. More options should be up with in the next hour here, including the requests for market and gtalk.

eViL D: said:
Nice job man!

If you want to do something as cool, mod the HD music apk for proper rotation on desire.

Don't know if I can pull that off, but I may take a look at it one of these days.

dadewy said:
Excellent! I love it.

At the risk of appearing greedy...

Any chance of seeing the app-drawer button get the same treatment? Same rationale: if you need it hit menu and there it is already!

Gmail on the left, phone in the middle and messaging on the right would make me a happy man

True, but the app drawer only has one other method, vs two. Plus I would figure its used more frequently than the personalize button. But I'll see if I can make a gmail/phone/messaging version when I get a little more time. Just finishing up a few other versions of this and another little project that I have going on which should be up today

ddotpatel said:
Very nice!!! .... any chance of a tut so we can do it ourselves for other ROMS?

Bravo pal.

EDIT..... Follow up project for you,.... re-sizing? Reckon that is possible?

Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

Re-sizing what exactly? I'm not sure what you mean. As for the changes made, see the quote below:

acejoker25000 said:
You need smali and baksmali to decompile apk or odex then go through the out folder and edit the launcher.smali file and recompile into classes.dex using smali place in apk and done more steps are needed if you have to reodex

Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App

Exactly. Now why do I feel like you followed me here from the espresso forums?

HAK Devil said:
Edit - Yeah, that seems to be it because the icon is appearing correctly using the default HTC skin. Is there any way to change this because I really like the Metal skin

Yes, you need to open up the Metal skin, replace the personalize_on.png and personalize_rest.png images in both the drawable-land-hdpi and drawable-port-hdpi folders with the ones from the rosie_xxxx.apk you installed.

suprajztwenty said:
my dxtop, home app does the same thing

That's nice

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