Root So now that we have root.

[Wiesshund]

Has anyone been looking into changing anything on the phone from stock, aside from freezing/removing unwanted stock apps?

I notice our camera app is devoid of a few functions.
Like the video recorder does not have the effects buttons.
I see that we do have the background animations in /system/media/video though.
I have not yet found a videorecorder apk from another ICS phone to try swapping it out with.

I did find google's moviestudio.apk but it worked baddly on this phone
displayed wrong on the screen so not very useful, though it technically did work and run.

I did pull the voice control app from a galaxy S3, it did work fine, not useful as we have one already, but was interesting to see it actually did function.

I noticed our phones have no bootsound binary, so no startup sounds even if you put the ogg file in the right place or even call it up in the boot animation.
Still looking to see if i can find that binary and make it work (and not brick the phone)

Changing the UI sounds is a piece of cake, we do not have as many sound calls as other phones, but that is more the ui apps themselves, not the phone.

I found you can safely remove all the unwanted ringer, alarm, notification sounds, if you want to gain some wasted internal space. Just leave the default sound or add your own named in the default name.

Same goes for wallpapers

 

[Trancenstuff]

ooo, funny you ask, because the camera is actually the last piece of stock crap on this phone i want to drop.(ive been wondering if i could do it safely).i like i said in the other post have been using ucam for it, but i have been ready to just get rid of the stock camera all together..sounds and stuff were the first things for me to change around after getting root..usually is when i need to get myself used to the root on a new phone.

 

[Wiesshund]

i mean no harm came when i move the camera app and odex to the SD card for safe storage, it just was not there for me to use, but i dont think you can simply trash it since other things in the OS call up the camera, you would want a good bullet proof replacement, i have not found one yet.
I got the apk off an s3 but it appears to require S3 framework to operate.

Id be happy with a plain android camera.apk with a few of the missing features.
And i would love to know how to manually focus the auto focus people keep telling me we have, far as i know it is fixed focus?

 

[Trancenstuff]

yes i know, too many things use it, kind of like the stock browser on some of my other phones..so instead i have given full access elsewhere and pretended ive deleted it.i too would love to figure out the auto focus.