Optimus G car home .apk?

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Hello, I was wondering if anyone could post there car home .apk as Google has stopped development and support for it, and there original version does not run properly on Ice Cream Sandwich and above. But, I was noticing at Best Buy today that Optimus G owners have an updated version included with there factory rom. If someone could post that for the rest of us perhaps we can get it to run properly on other newer android devices?


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I can't find any car home or dock home apk. I also used nova launcher to search for anything that looked like a dock activity but could find nothing.

Edit: I have a bell optimus g.

Perhaps it is just on the At&t version? Thanks for looking!

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What does this Car home .apk actually do?
(sorry another newb question).

Originally Posted by Supa_Fly

What does this Car home .apk actually do?
(sorry another newb question).

App lets you to use phone easily while driving by showing big buttons you cannot miss for navigation, maps, contacs, call, music, voice search, emergency call.

Here we go:

Originally Posted by Tim4

Here we go:

I tried these files (in /system/app) but it seems like the app's dock intent isn't registering.
I tried to force the device into car dock mode using the magnet method, and I get the car dock icon in the status bar but the app doesn't launch.
I also can't seem to find any activity that I could use to launch it manually.
I don't really have time to troubleshoot but if someone else figures it out could you post it here?

edit: meh, <uses-sdk minSdkVersion="16" targetSdkVersion="16"/>
Android 4.0.4 is SDK v15.

Originally Posted by xxbeanxx

I tried these files (in /system/app) but it seems like the app's dock intent isn't registering.
I tried to force the device into car dock mode using the magnet method, and I get the car dock icon in the status bar but the app doesn't launch.
I also can't seem to find any activity that I could use to launch it manually.
I don't really have time to troubleshoot but if someone else figures it out could you post it here?

edit: meh, <uses-sdk minSdkVersion="16" targetSdkVersion="16"/>
Android 4.0.4 is SDK v15.

Huh, TIL.

Tried it on my E970 with a little NeoD magnet right under Volume Down. Mine launches and foregrounds CarHome (and I'm running 4.0.4). First time I had to remove and replace the magnet, but after that, it came up each time.

Now, to find a dock for this....

Originally Posted by nericus

Huh, TIL.

Tried it on my E970 with a little NeoD magnet right under Volume Down. Mine launches and foregrounds CarHome (and I'm running 4.0.4). First time I had to remove and replace the magnet, but after that, it came up each time.

Now, to find a dock for this....

I tried again with the attached APK and this time had a computer close by to troubleshoot.
Am noticing this in the logcat after boot:

W/PackageManager(  389): StaleDexCacheError when reading apk: /system/app/CarHome.apk
W/PackageManager(  389): dalvik.system.StaleDexCacheError: /system/app/CarHome.apk

I haven't seen this error before so I'll have to google a bit to figure out what's going on here.

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Figured it out. I deodexed the CarHome apk from the AT&T rom posted in their Optimus G forum.
If you're interested in doing it yourself, grab the rom from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2067871.

Next, extract system/framework to a folder somewhere and the system/app/CarHome.apk and system/app/CarHome.odex files somewhere else.

Use baksmali to decompile the odex file:

java -jar baksmali.jar -d frameworkDir -x CarHome.odex

It will produce an out folder with the smali files; use smali to recompile these:

java -jar smali.jar out

Rename the resulting out.dex file to classes.dex and inject it into CarHome.apk (I used 7zip to do this).
Put the resulting apk in /system/app and reboot.

The apk I created is here, in case anyone doesn't want to go through the mess of manually deodexing: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/454322/CarHome.apk