Request: Replace Sense phone.apk with Default Android

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Hi, I was just wondering if it would be possible to replace the sense phone.apk with the default android one. I have s-off and root but I'm not sure if just switching the apk would break the phone?
Thanks in advance

You can't brick your phone. Install the default android launcher .apk, press the home button, select it. Then remove the stock launcher.

hey sorry not the launcher apk i mean the call one that pops up when you are in a call. It has a white background and a picture of a green android thing with the name or number of the person you are calling.
Ive heard that this is the phone.apk but it is tied into more than just the dialer app so replacing it could have bad effects on the phone.

As far as I know that phone.apk does not exits. Its included in the launcher. And at a second thought, I believe that that dialer would pop up in potrait mode, not in landscape so you would rotate your phone to see the number. Try the free launchers avaible in Android Market.

Originally Posted by danuzor

As far as I know that phone.apk does not exits. Its included in the launcher. And at a second thought, I believe that that dialer would pop up in potrait mode, not in landscape so you would rotate your phone to see the number. Try the free launchers avaible in Android Market.

hello, the launcher has nothing to do with the dialer!!!

i use awd launcher but the dialer & contacs are still from the stock rom!

- Ahem, may I?

First of all the launcher is an application that represents a shell which displays your usability options. Let's make some comparisons as it's easier this way.

Imagine that your phone is a PC running Windows. Now, if you don't have the explorer.exe process running, which is a shell, you won't have the task bar, start button, icons on the desktop, can't access programs/games, etc. Your options are very limited and you cannot use almost any features, except the fact that since it's an OS based on different applications, the dialer screen will appear when receiving a phone call, alarm clock will be displayed and so on.

So basically you only need the Launcher to see the list of applications and to be able to run them. That's about it. The themes on the other hand, affect the icons, wallpaper and launcher's graphics. That's it.

Every other application has it's own graphics and appearance style.
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As for the screen you are trying to remove/clear, well that's a different problem. It might be the dialer application that has this screen and without the application you won't be able to dial any numbers and cause a various number of problems.
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- Thank you for your attention.

I think I will just have a go at replacing it and keep a backup in cwm in case something goes wrong. I'll let you guys know how it goes

Originally Posted by themickman007

I think I will just have a go at replacing it and keep a backup in cwm in case something goes wrong. I'll let you guys know how it goes

Replacing it shouldn't break anything. Removing it, will.

Gave it a go by replacing the sense phone.apk with the one from cm7 in the zasa build but all it did was create a force close loop.