[APP] ICS/JB AOSP Email Client for Motorola RAZR HD.

• [MANDATORY] First and foremost, the phone needs to be rooted. If you haven't done so, check out this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1943851

• [MANDATORY] ADB on your computer or Terminal Emulator app on the phone. If you want ADB, the email-policy-patch in this thread has the file in the 'lib' folder: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1117452

• [RECOMMENDED] Titanium Backup for backing up and removing the stock Motorola Email client. If you want to save these files, do this before proceeding to the instructions below. The APK files you need to backup/remove are MotoEmail.apk and MotoEmailConfig.apk.

Instruction for ADB Users

• Connect the phone to the computer.

• Download the corresponding Email.apk and Exchange.apk in the attachment section at the end of this post. Get the ones with the prefix 'ICS_' if you are on 4.04 Ice Cream Sandwich firmware, OR 'JB_' if you are on the 4.1.2 Jellybean firmware. DO NOT mix them or use the wrong ones, as they may not work correctly. Rename them to Email.apk and Exchange.apk respectively and place them in the root directory of your phone's internal SD card.

• Go to the directory where you put your ADB executable. Hold SHIFT key, right-click anywhere in the window in this directory and select 'Open Command Prompt Here'.

• Type the following in the command prompt and press Enter:

Code:

adb shell

• If the Motorola driver is installed correctly and the phone is plugged to the PC, it should change the prompt to 'shell@vanquish'. Type the following and press Enter, and the prompt should change to 'root@vanquish':

Code:

su

• Now you're ready to actually do the work of getting the AOSP Email client on the phone. First, we need to set the /system partition to allow us to read/write to that directory, and remount it to make sure the permissions are updated. Type the following and press Enter:

Code:

mount -o rw,remount /system

• ...Let's change the current active directory to where all of the phone's installed apps are kept. Type the following in the command prompt and press Enter:

Code:

cd /system/app

• Type the following in the command prompt and press Enter to copy the Email.apk that you downloaded earlier into this directory:

Code:

cp /sdcard/Email.apk /system/app/Email.apk

• Type the following in the command prompt and press Enter to copy the Exchange.apk that you downloaded earlier into this directory:

Code:

cp /sdcard/Exchange.apk /system/app/Exchange.apk

• Almost there! The last thing we need to do is change the permissions of these copied files so the OS can handle them properly. Type the following and press enter:

Code:

chmod 744 Email.apk

Code:

chmod 744 Exchange.apk

• *Thanks to vrus1 for pointing this out*

Code:

Go to Settings > Manage App > Email and select 'Clear Data'.

• Reboot the phone. Do this the ol' fashion way by directly interfacing with the device or enter the following in the prompt:

Code:

exit

Code:

exit

Code:

adb reboot

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Instruction for Terminal Emulator Users

• Connect the phone to the computer.

• Download the corresponding Email.apk and Exchange.apk in the attachment section at the end of this post. Get the ones with the prefix 'ICS_' if you are on 4.04 Ice Cream Sandwich firmware, OR 'JB_' if you are on the 4.1.2 Jellybean firmware. DO NOT mix them or use the wrong ones, as they may not work correctly. Rename them to Email.apk and Exchange.apk respectively and place them in the root directory of your phone's internal SD card.

• Open the Terminal Emulator app. Type the following in the command prompt and press Enter:

Code:

su

• Now you're ready to actually do the work of getting the AOSP Email client on the phone. First, we need to set the /system partition to allow us to read/write to that directory, and remount it to make sure the permissions are updated. Type the following and press Enter:

Code:

mount -o rw,remount /system

• ...Let's change the current active directory to where all of the phone's installed apps are kept. Type the following in the command prompt and press Enter:

Code:

cd /system/app

• Type the following in the command prompt and press Enter to copy the Email.apk that you downloaded earlier into this directory:

Code:

cp /sdcard/Email.apk /system/app/Email.apk

• Type the following in the command prompt and press Enter to copy the Exchange.apk that you downloaded earlier into this directory:

Code:

cp /sdcard/Exchange.apk /system/app/Exchange.apk

• Almost there! The last thing we need to do is change the permissions of these copied files so the OS can handle them properly. Type the following and press enter:

Code:

chmod 744 Email.apk

Code:

chmod 744 Exchange.apk

• *Thanks to vrus1 for pointing this out*

Code:

Go to Settings > Manage App > Email and select 'Clear Data'.

• Reboot the phone.

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• If you encounter any issues following these steps, please let me know so I can correct it.

• Other Motorola ICS/JB device users: This should work for your devices as well as the firmwares between our devices are nearly identical.

• Using the AOSP Email client will now allow you to use the Exchange Security Policy Bypass script that is not compatible with the Motorola client. Please be aware that by doing this, you may be violating your company's security policies which may place you under severe disciplinary actions or job termination at your company's discretion. Others that have provided the tools and instructions to perform this, including myself, cannot be held responsible if the worse case scenario occurs. You have been warned.