Haha yep you're right about thst...
I think I want to tinker with forcing bootloader to make this easier and also make a good Gear Pay cloak patch...
But World Cup and I got the fans now to do.
Then got to put shocks and replace tie rods on my car haha. My screen is warm and it starts to really bother my thumb after a while so I am sending it to Samsung for a week.
I only learned how to root earlier this year because i got an s8 so i was messing with the s7.. never rooted s8 but got interested in the s7 again after s8 got oreo update OTA which caused bootloop (disabled updates with adhell so it hasn't updated at all since original OTA but my sdk license expires on the 12th of this month) had to factory reset... my s7 got boring so i traded my s8 to my wife for her s6 (g920i) and between everything I learned a lot but I've only had the time do do all this because of what I do for work (security) I sit for 12 hours a day 7 days a week, week on week off. I'm like 50 feet away from the cell phone tower and since i have unlimited data I download most of my files via mobile hotspot to my laptop whilst at work including both CRF1 files from OP just now. I'm back to the S7 now because of oreo and only keeping up with it because of safestrap and samsung pay(which i only started using since safestrap) otherwise I'd trade it for a G930F (local carrier used to sell international models until s8) to flash into twrp, infinity and beyond
I have a deodexed A8 rom on the s6 so for practice I was able to add outdoor mode to SecSettings but it didn't work when i tried to flash it in a zip, I had to use root explorer to merge it and i also failed to add advanced power menu(no bootloop or crash after even force replacing the files). However, I don't really care about actually getting those features on the s6 nougat, I want them on my s7 oreo. I deodexed the SecSettings decomplied modded and recompiled the file and remembering that OP told me after looking at my file that my services.jar mod that it uses a dummy file for odex so i figured i could just do the same thing with SecSettings. I just need to know the "rules" of this thing. I made a an empty file called SecSettings.odex and put it into the zip to flash. Didn't work, no bootloop. Then I pushed it into the system in eng boot mode no luck, Tried again this time with first # rm SecSettings.apk and # rm SecSettings.odex Settings crash toast notification, factory reset still settings crash toast. Basically, I want to know what I am doing wrong, do I need to sign the apk, what keys are used for what, zipalign. Dummy odex, what about the vdex file, what do I do about them. Or does the apk have to be re-odexed again?
Of course I have a lot of questions but if I knew at least a few more rules I could figure some things out at least. Don't really need to to the "why it works" (that will come with time after applying it) just that it does. Like grammar in any given language, that's just how it is. One doesn't need to think about using a verb or a noun, one just uses them. One day I will hopefully actually give back to our community instead of just take. i'm transferring most likely by the end of the month and wont have as much time as I do now.
@jrkruse again thank you you just downloaded your new files gunna flash here in a few mins
