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Root [ROM] Mikfroyo - ALL Versions

Is anyone using Music Mod with this ROM? I haven't completely narrowed down the culprit, but I have only had this issue while on Mikfroyo. When I use the Music Mod widget to start playing music, everything works fine. When my screen goes off, the music keeps playing, but when I turn it back on, the widget stops working. The buttons light up as though they are responding to my inputs, but the music won't pause or skip forward, and I can't use it to to open the program. If I remove and reapply the widget, it works again until the screen goes off.

Again, it may not be specific to this ROM, but I figured I would start here.

Mikfroyo with the default kernel.
SetCPU with "screen off" profile at 245/384
 
akazabam said:
Using root explorer, go to /system/app. What do you see as the permissions for the stocks apk? It will be on the bottom right of each file. It looks something like rw-r--r--

As to your getting stuck at at the splash screen, try making another nandroid backup, then see if you get stuck. If you don't, well, maybe it was a fluke. If you do, I'll bet you have an issue with recovery. I'd say reflash recovery (or update to 2.2.1), then trying making a nandroid backup, and see if it happens again. Like I said before, I've had it get stuck after making a nandroid backup before (though a battery pull fixed it for me), but I have heard of it happening to other people the way it happened to you.
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I'm trying to install the stocks widget and I followed the above mentioned steps however my permissions are different
 
Got it. Assuming it doesn't work at the moment, remount /system as r/w (assuming it's r/o, currently), long press on the apk, then select permissions. You'll see three rows - user, group, and others. Right now, user has no permissions (not good :)). Select the check boxes to give the user read and write permissions. It's interesting that none of the apks in /system/app don't have execute, when apks in /data/app do... In any case, do that, reboot, and see if it works. Add execute permissions if you need to, but like I said, nothing else in /system/app does, so...
 
Its not popping up in my widget list so I'm assuming give user execute permission?

Edit: also under properties it says owner is system and groups sdcard_rw while for my other widgets it says root
 
rbby228 said:
Its not popping up in my widget list so I'm assuming give user execute permission?

Edit: also under properties it says owner is system and groups sdcard_rw while for my other widgets it says root
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And that's after it's been copied to /system/app? That's weird... Delete it and push it with adb (instructions above) or maybe try with the terminal emulator by doing:

su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
cp /sdcard/Removed_Apps/appname /system/app

That should ensure it's done as the root user. Adb will, of course, do it correctly, as well.
 
I just installed 4.5 and I can't get the black theme to install. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. The ROM has loaded just fine after I flashed it.

I tried it once by installing the ROM, rebooting, then wiping dalvik/cache and then flashing the theme zip, and I got stuck at the white HTC screen. Then I tried reflashing the ROM and immediately flashing the theme zip and still the same thing. Is it not compatible with 4.5? It said version 4.3 and up, so it should work shouldn't it? Am I missing a step?
 
MizzouBrent said:
I just installed 4.5 and I can't get the black theme to install. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. The ROM has loaded just fine after I flashed it.

I tried it once by installing the ROM, rebooting, then wiping dalvik/cache and then flashing the theme zip, and I got stuck at the white HTC screen. Then I tried reflashing the ROM and immediately flashing the theme zip and still the same thing. Is it not compatible with 4.5? It said version 4.3 and up, so it should work shouldn't it? Am I missing a step?
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I don't think the FB theme as been updated yet, as there are links for 4.3 and 4.4, only. Here's what (I think) is happening - 4.5 was updated to include the rotary vanilla lockscreen. It's hidden by the default existence of the htc lockscreen, but major changes were made to framework files, none the less. The 4.4 flat black theme does *not* include said framework changes, as the rotary lock screen was a flashable mod at the time. So, if you flash the 4.4 fb theme over 4.5, and leave it at that, it will most likely not work for that reason.

That being said, you *might* be able to make it work by flashing the 4.4 fb theme that you've already got, plus the 4.4 vanilla lock screen mod for the fb theme in the same recovery session.

The process would be:

1) Flash ROM
2) Reboot (just because)
3) Flash FB theme (don't reboot)
4) Flash FB theme Rotary lockscreen mod.

Look at post 2 in the mikfroyo thread at xda to find the link. Or just get it from this direct link. This will *theoretically* work, but there could be other things that will cause it not work. As you'll be flashing framework files, there could be differences between the the 4.5 versions and the 4.4 versions that you'll be replacing them with. I can't promise that they won't be incompatible. Try it, and see if it works.
 
I am trying to use the preprogrammed speed dial 2, which is probably the same thing. Any special steps to reinstall Sprint Zone? Anything to worry about?
 
ArtooDetoo said:
I am trying to use the preprogrammed speed dial 2, which is probably the same thing. Any special steps to reinstall Sprint Zone? Anything to worry about?
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Speed dial should work fine. It's *2 that won't work. What exactly is happening? If you want sprint zone back, you'll need to push it to /system/app. Do you have adb set up? If not, you *should* be able to just copy it there. Do you have root explorer? That's the easiest way.
 
ArtooDetoo said:
You lost me on adb and I tried to copy/paste using ES file explorer, but it failed.
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You'd have to mount /system as rw, and use ES in root mode. You can't just copy it. Install the terminal emulator from the market if you don't already have it, and type these commands:

su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
cp /sdcard/Removed_Apps/SprintZone.apk /system/app/
ls -l /system/app/SprintZone.apk
mount -o remount,ro -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system

You should get some output with the ls command. Reply with whatever it says, just so I know it was copied right. After you do that, reboot (you might not need to) and verify that you have Sprint Zone. You should be able to use *2 after that.
 
No need to concern yourself with it if it work, and you don't know anything about Linux. Basically, it doesn't match the typical file permissions of apps in /system/app. If you're interested, just google Linux permissions.
 
Ok, because I haven't been messing around with the device to any great extent root-wise, other than unrevoked and Mikfroyo. Are there any steps I should take before flashing to 4.5?
 
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