Xposed - Legacy thread. Don't panic, Xposed is still here.

SilencerOfLambs · May 16, 2012

Excellent.I have been looking for something like this.I really hope more people take notice of this.

I am going to try this now.I just have one question.Do we uninstall it like a normal apk or do we need to do something from withing the application?Sorry if this sounds silly :|

---------- Post added 17th May 2012 at 12:11 AM ---------- Previous post was 16th May 2012 at 11:53 PM ----------

It works flawlessly on my SGS2 running the latest dxlp9 firmware.

I just wanted to know one thing.If at all i wanted to uninstall it,would i uninstall it like any other apk or do i need to follow a certain procedure inside the application?

And many thanks for this great work.I was looking for something like this.

EDIT-..Just one small bug.The signal bars dont show 5/6 bars when selected.Instead it shows a blank image(like when there is no signal).

EDIT 2-..This is a tiny tiny bug.The CRT works great.But i noticed if i lock the phone,unlock it and wait for like 5 seconds and then press the power button(to lock it again),then i don't get the CRT effect.
However if i lock it,unlock it and immediately lock it after that I do get the CRT effect.(This is a very random bug..It doesnt happen everytime)

rovo89 · May 16, 2012

There is an option in the installer to uninstall Xposed. Uninstalling the app alone does nothing in this aspect.

The problem with the status bar has been reported before, but I cannot reproduce it. Have a look at the other thread, I asked some questions to the reporter there.

SilencerOfLambs · May 17, 2012

Ok..Thanks

Jecht · May 17, 2012

rovo89 said:
Can you try this version? I looked at the CM9 source code and it should work like this, but I could obviously not test it.

It works fine now! Thank you.

shramos@gmail.com · May 17, 2012

Value too large for defined data type.

Hello, I'm trying to install Xposed and I am having the following error message:

Mounting /system writable...
cp: can't stat '/system/bin/app_process': Value too large for defined data type.

Any ideas what could be causing this?

Tungstwenty · May 17, 2012

Either it failed to mount it rw, or there is no free space left on /system

rovo89 · May 17, 2012

Probably Busybox.. someone reported the same error before and updating Busybox solved it.

shramos@gmail.com · May 17, 2012

Yeah .. Founf that post and opened busybox installer, reinstalled it with 1.20 version and it worked.

Thanks,

rovo89 · Jul 4, 2012

Finally, after two months of hard work, here is a new version of the Xposed framework, 2.0rc1.

First of all, I would like say a big "thank you" to Tungstwenty. We had lots of discussions and brainstorming in these two months, which I feel led to a even more stable framework and a more elegant development environment.

The changes might not sound very exciting - the main new thing is the replacement of native libraries like libsurfaceflinger.so (which is needed for the CRT effect). But the special thing is that this doesn't touch the actual library, you will get your old library back if you disable the module. And even more, you choose a library only for a test-mode, which is activated by a click of a button (which triggers a soft reboot). When you reboot, the library will be gone - so you can test new libraries without any risk.

Many more improvements were done under the hood, they are mostly interesting for module developers. Lots of things are easier now, lots of helpers have been added.
The downside is that previously developed modules are incompatible with this. But don't worry, this is only true for the methods you need use to manipulate the code. The concepts in general stayed the same and you do not need find out which methods to hook again.

There is another incompatible change. Previously, I had published apps with the debug key. Now, I have signed them with a productive key. This means you will have to uninstall the old version first before installing the new one.

This release is still classified as a "release candidate" - but both Tungstwenty and me have been using the "bleeding edge" versions for daily, productive use, so we are confident that it will work for you, too.

Phil3759 · Jul 4, 2012

rovo89 said:
Finally, after two months of hard work, here is a new version of the Xposed framework, 2.0rc1.

First of all, I would like say a big "thank you" to Tungstwenty. We had lots of discussions and brainstorming in these two months, which I feel led to a even more stable framework and a more elegant development environment.

The changes might not sound very exciting - the main new thing is the replacement of native libraries like libsurfaceflinger.so (which is needed for the CRT effect). But the special thing is that this doesn't touch the actual library, you will get your old library back if you disable the module. And even more, you choose a library only for a test-mode, which is activated by a click of a button (which triggers a soft reboot). When you reboot, the library will be gone - so you can test new libraries without any risk.

Many more improvements were done under the hood, they are mostly interesting for module developers. Lots of things are easier now, lots of helpers have been added.
The downside is that previously developed modules are incompatible with this. But don't worry, this is only true for the methods you need use to manipulate the code. The concepts in general stayed the same and you do not need find out which methods to hook again.

There is another incompatible change. Previously, I had published apps with the debug key. Now, I have signed them with a productive key. This means you will have to uninstall the old version first before installing the new one.

This release is still classified as a "release candidate" - but both Tungstwenty and me have been using the "bleeding edge" versions for daily, productive use, so we are confident that it will work for you, too.

Great,

But on its own it is useless I guess? Where are the modules to add call recording, locale or any other module?
Or is it now only for developers to code their modules?

rovo89 · Jul 4, 2012

You can find the list of known modules in the first post:

rovo89 said:
Modules:

Tweakbox by myself and Tungstwenty

Ok, right now, there is only one, but it has quite many features.

Phil3759 · Jul 4, 2012

rovo89 said:
You can find the list of known modules in the first post:

Ok, right now, there is only one, but it has quite many features.

I missed that module, sorry

Looks promising
Can I use it on JKay framework? I want to try call recording (think not affected by Jkay) and disable input notification (which is in the framework but not yet switchable by Jkay app)

rovo89 · Jul 4, 2012

I'm pretty sure it will work. I think Tungstwenty is using it like this. Also, JKay's mods are based on stock ROMs and the modifications shouldn't have changed the code too much for Xposed mods to work.

This is the good thing: It works on top of almost every ROM that isn't entirely different than what is was built for. And the other good thing is: If you ever want to use the unmodified ROM again, you can just disable the module. No need to flash the ROM or mods again as all changes done with Xposed are applied during runtime.

Phil3759 · Jul 4, 2012

rovo89 said:
I'm pretty sure it will work. I think Tungstwenty is using it like this. Also, JKay's mods are based on stock ROMs and the modifications shouldn't have changed the code too much for Xposed mods to work.

This is the good thing: It works on top of almost every ROM that isn't entirely different than what is was built for. And the other good thing is: If you ever want to use the unmodified ROM again, you can just disable the module. No need to flash the ROM or mods again as all changes done with Xposed are applied during runtime.

So it must be a running process on boot?

rovo89 · Jul 4, 2012

The Xposed framework and the modules aren't apps in the classical sense. In the first post, I have mentioned a few technical details how it works. In short: Once it is installed and you reboot your phone, it will just be there, not as another app but as a part of every running app.
If you are worried about battery lifetime or performance: In the past months, I didn't notice any such effects. There are no additional wakelocks, services etc. and the added code is not much compared to the many lines of code that are executed anyway.

Phil3759 · Jul 4, 2012

Thank you very much (out of my 8 thanks for today, sorry)

I will give it a try and come back here to give a feedback

Tungstwenty · Jul 5, 2012

Phil3759 said:
Can I use it on JKay framework? I want to try call recording (think not affected by Jkay) and disable input notification (which is in the framework but not yet switchable by Jkay app)

Yes. As rovo mentioned, I'm using Tweakbox at the same time as JKay and there's no collision whatsoever. There a few things that are provided by both - e.g. CRT effects, SIP, signal strength bar count - but ultimately you can use one or the other for that. At worst, one will override the settings from the other.

Examples:
For CRT, currently I am using Tweakbox since we finally achieved both Off and On effects, plus doing the effect in landscape when the phone is rotated, if you wish. I have therefore disabled CRT in JKay and the lib provided by his framework is being overridden at boot time (without touching /system) by a newer one included in Tweakbox. (for this one, I think probably Tweakbox will take precedence irrespective of CRT and "Fast screen off" on JKay).
For SIP, I have it off in Tweakbox since JKay already activates that (plus I don't use it).

Phil3759 · Jul 5, 2012

Thank you for the information

Any plans on the locale plugin?

Tungstwenty · Jul 5, 2012

Phil3759 said:
Thank you for the information

Any plans on the locale plugin?

Yes, it's on the todo list.

Actually, the feature is already in there

, you just need to configure it manually since a proper GUI is the thing that's missing.
First make sure that Tweakbox isn't running, not even cached. Go to Settings, Applications, Running and see if there's any Tweakbox entry both in the services and in the cached processes view. Terminate it if so.
Then edit your /data/data/de.robv.android.xposed.mods.tweakbox/shared_prefs/de.robv.android.xposed.mods.tweakbox_preferences.xml file and create entries such as these ones:

Code:

<map>
...
<int name="dpioverride/default/density" value="200" />
<int name="dpioverride/com.swype.android.inputmethod/density" value="240" />
<int name="dpioverride/com.sec.android.app.twlauncher/density" value="240" />
<int name="dpioverride/com.android.contacts/density" value="240" />
<int name="dpioverride/com.android.email/density" value="240" />
<int name="dpioverride/com.sec.android.app.calculator/density" value="240" />
<int name="dpioverride/com.sec.android.app.camera/density" value="240" />
<int name="dpioverride/com.sec.android.inputmethod.axt9/density" value="240" />
[COLOR="Blue"]<string name="dpioverride/com.google.android.apps.maps/locale">[B]pt_PT[/B]</string>
<string name="dpioverride/com.google.android.apps.genie.geniewidget/locale">[B]pt_PT[/B]</string>[/COLOR]
</map>

These are the actual settings I'm currently using. I changed my default density to 200, and then included some exceptions of apps that don't look good with different resolutions, so for those I put the original 240 as default.
The same for language - you can see that I'm setting 2 apps to use Portuguese, while I have the global device configuration in English.
Once you save these changes and reboot, you should have the new app-specific settings.

Note that if you override the default density, you should enable on the Tweakbox GUI the option to "Fake 240 DPI for Play Store" if it's not already active. Otherwise you might start missing some applications because they are restricted to certain screen densities.

Phil3759 · Jul 5, 2012

Thank you for the details on locale + dpi (sorry, out of my 8 thanks for today)

I tested the app

First: Great release for a RC build, Thank you a lot

Now, I tried to install and things start bad

Installed Xposed installer apk
Launch app
click Install/Update
Grant root access
Click reboot
Grant root access: hangs, no FC
Home button works, kill with task manager and reboot manually
First boot is slow, also after enable module

Next steps with tweakbox were ok

What I needed actually works, great and thank you
- Call recording
- disable keyboard notification

My issues:

1. boot is slowed, even after modifications (can live with it)

2. first hang up on reboot from app during root grant: killed with task manager

3. when try to "Clean up complete remove): hangs, could only shutdown by power button menu. After reboot, clean up works

4. tweakbox: here is my big issue with many confusion with JKay. Some redundant entries with Jkay mod cannot be disabled in tweakbox while other options can. They override the JKay settings. You need to configure them manually in the Tweakbox
- CRT effect: despite not enabling in Tweakbox and not enable the library in Tweakinstaller, it will override and disable JKay CRT off effect. It needs to be set in your app
- SIP: when disabled in your app, JKay can still activate it
- Signal strength: if set on 4 in your app, it is not disabled. When JKay is set to 6 bars, only 4 are shown (ugly icon effect on full signal)
- I use another app to configure long home menu and the tweakbox will override it always
- Battery full notification: did not test it

What I would expected was to be able to disable the parts of code I do not like. For example, CRT: have an option to ignore it in your app so that the Jkay mod does it. Advantage of JKay mod is that settings are immediate, yours needs a reboot

So if you can add an option to enable / disable code instead of toggle function, it will be great. We use parts we like and completely disable other parts

I will try the locale now

Thank you a lot and hope a final release fixes soon these small issues

---------- Post added at 10:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:23 PM ----------

I edited the part about signal. Sadly, xposed wins here too. When set on 4, it is not disabled. We end with 6 bars icon on JKay but only 4 max active on full signal

So, all the tweaks are forced and not switchable

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