Originally Posted by klquicksall

True brut is the theme god father lol

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No doubt. Without him 92% of this wouldn't he possible.

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Been very busy lately and only just seen the update, thanks Brut.all.

I created a little right click reg-edit for windows based on your tool here, hope you dont mind.
If you have any objections just let me know!!??

OK I'm decompiling SystemUI.apk (using framework-res.apk for same ROM), once decompiled without any changes (just testing) I compile it again (opt. 11 - system - yes) and sign it and the file is 209kb instead of the original 257kb.

Problem is when I adb push it it won't install, when booting no statusbar is visible...for the life of mine I can't figure out whats wrong.

Is there a special way to compile/decompile SystemUI.apk?

Originally Posted by Locster126

OK I'm decompiling SystemUI.apk (using framework-res.apk for same ROM), once decompiled without any changes (just testing) I compile it again (opt. 11 - system - yes) and sign it and the file is 209kb instead of the original 257kb.

Problem is when I adb push it it won't install, when booting no statusbar is visible...for the life of mine I can't figure out whats wrong.

Is there a special way to compile/decompile SystemUI.apk?

Ok are you using a sense rom? In any case you need the meta-inf and Android manifest from the original apk.

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Hey guys, I'm having trouble working with Rosie.apk from an evo3d port. I have no problem decompiling or recompiling any other apks from this rom or any other, including other Rosies. For some reason, this one apk is the only one giving me problems. Here's the errors when compiling:

c:\>apktool b Rosie Rosie1.apk
I: Checking whether sources has changed...
I: Smaling...
I: Checking whether resources has changed...
I: Building resources...
libpng error: Read Error
ERROR: Failure processing PNG image c:\\Rosie\res\drawable\all_apps_divider.9.pn
g
libpng error: Read Error
ERROR: Failure processing PNG image c:\\Rosie\res\drawable-hdpi\all_apps_divider
.9.png
c:\\Rosie\res\values\public.xml:87: error: Public symbol drawable/activity_title
_bar declared here is not defined.
c:\\Rosie\res\values\public.xml:88: error: Public symbol drawable/alarm declared
 here is not defined.
Exception in thread "main" brut.androlib.AndrolibException: brut.common.BrutExce
ption: could not exec command: [aapt, p, -F, C:\Users\MIKEYB~1\AppData\Local\Tem
p\APKTOOL2559603846819444637.tmp, -I, C:\Users\Mikey B\apktool\framework\1.apk,
-I, C:\Users\Mikey B\apktool\framework\2.apk, -S, c:\\Rosie\res, -M, c:\\Rosie\A
ndroidManifest.xml]
        at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.aaptPackage(AndrolibResources.jav
a:193)
        at brut.androlib.Androlib.buildResourcesFull(Androlib.java:301)
        at brut.androlib.Androlib.buildResources(Androlib.java:248)
        at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Androlib.java:171)
        at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Androlib.java:154)
        at brut.apktool.Main.cmdBuild(Main.java:174)
        at brut.apktool.Main.main(Main.java:59)
Caused by: brut.common.BrutException: could not exec command: [aapt, p, -F, C:\U
sers\MIKEYB~1\AppData\Local\Temp\APKTOOL2559603846819444637.tmp, -I, C:\Users\Mi
key B\apktool\framework\1.apk, -I, C:\Users\Mikey B\apktool\framework\2.apk, -S,
 c:\\Rosie\res, -M, c:\\Rosie\AndroidManifest.xml]
        at brut.util.OS.exec(OS.java:83)
        at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.aaptPackage(AndrolibResources.jav
a:191)
        ... 6 more

There were MANY more instances of "Public symbol drawable/* not defined" for res/values/public.xml, cut them out to size down the error log. Basically every drawable defined in the xml threw this error, but the thing is all of the drawables exist and are where they are supposed to be. Also, this is from a straight decompile and compile, no edits made. I have my sdk in PATH as well as apktool 1.4.1 in my windows dir so aapt shouldn't be a problem. Anybody have any ideas??

Originally Posted by klquicksall

Ok are you using a sense rom? In any case you need the meta-inf and Android manifest from the original apk.

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nope, no sense ROM, just touchwiz 4 on the galaxy s2...hmm any other ideas?

Originally Posted by Locster126

nope, no sense ROM, just touchwiz 4 on the galaxy s2...hmm any other ideas?

You will also want the tw framework apk in addition to framework res.apk.

Sense has com.htc.resources.apk. I know touchwhiz has one similar.

And yes for all system apks you need to transfer ORIGINAL meta inf and androidmanifest from ORIGINAL apk. It's not just a sense thing. :)

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Originally Posted by tommytomatoe

You will also want the tw framework apk in addition to framework res.apk.

Sense has com.htc.resources.apk. I know touchwhiz has one similar.

And yes for all system apks you need to transfer ORIGINAL meta inf and androidmanifest from ORIGINAL apk. It's not just a sense thing. :)

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+1. Also, I've noticed a normal reboot is sometimes required to have the status bar appear. I have no idea why this happens.

If you're able to bootup ok after applying the your changes, and everything appears to be normal except for a status bar, try a normal reboot.

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after build apk , does it need to signe apk or no?

Originally Posted by kia1349

after build apk , does it need to signe apk or no?

Data app (third party, market app) = signed. Test sign usually works for most apks.

System app (apps that go in system/app) = not signed. Look at a couple posts above. You need to transfer original meta inf and AndroidManifest.xml from ORIGINAL apk to new one, the one in "dist" folder.

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