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Root [Virgin Mobile/Sprint] Remove QSlide

the1986 said:
Original attached.

In terms of adb, this won't be totally comprehensive, but you'll need:
- adb (get from Android SDK / platform tools, or probably included with some other tools)
- the LG USB drivers

Make sure the apk you want to flash is in the same folder as adb. Open a command window in that folder. Enter "adb devices" to confirm you have a connection. From there enter the following:
adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount /system
exit
exit
adb push LGSystemUI.apk /system/app/LGSystemUI.apk
[if this stage goes well you should see a number of bytes transferred]
adb reboot

I'm a little slow this morning so it's possible you'll end up with an error somewhere along the line here, with any luck you'll be able to google and find an answer
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Tried using this to return my drop down menu the entire thing is gone since I tried root explorer as suggested by another person to modify the apk now no drop down menu and restoring from recovery isn't working as well. VM Optimus F3
 
Instead of modifying the system apk why not just delete the apps named like browser_bin.apk

Each qslide app will have a _bin next to it. When you delete these apps they wont appear on the menu and once they are all removed it will just show the word qslide.

All apps are in /system/apps with the system apps
 
the1986 said:
I assume you've already rooted via motochopper as that's a prerequisite here.

I prefer to push system files via adb but that's slightly more complicated so here's the root explorer method.

I suggest ROM Toolbox Lite, which you can get from the Play Store-- it contains, among other things, Root Browser and Rebooter.
- Place my modified LGSystemUI.apk on your SD card or internal storage download folder (if you download on your phone from this thread, it will be in /sdcard/download and you can long-press the ZIP file and Extract)
- Find it using Root Browser-- external SD card is under /storage/external_SD, internal storage is under /storage/sdcard0
- Long-press the downloaded LGSystemUI.apk and select copy
- Navigate back to /system/app
- Select 'paste', select Yes to overwrite
- Press back until you're at the main ROM Toolbox window
- Scroll down to rebooter, select Reboot

Let me know if you have any issues with this, as I said it's not my preferred method, but getting adb set up properly if it's your first time using it is a whole other beast
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This method works perfectly . I dont know about the root browser app i used root explorer worked great. I am able to push via adb but as my computer is currently inoperable this method works great. Thanks again now I have a notification window again!
 
the1986 said:
Yeah it's just not for everyone-- I didn't use any of the apps so it was just taking up space. I hardly use the quick settings either, so I did a mod for myself that removes those as well.
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How did you do this? I really want to get rid of this as well. I noticed the OP mentioned something vaguely about how to manually edit the file without a direction of how to go about doing it yourself. Could you either post the .apk or give a step-by-step description of how to do it myself?

Best would be both for everyone on the forum.
 
otacon239 said:
How did you do this? I really want to get rid of this as well. I noticed the OP mentioned something vaguely about how to manually edit the file without a direction of how to go about doing it yourself. Could you either post the .apk or give a step-by-step description of how to do it myself?

Best would be both for everyone on the forum.
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First figure out how to decommpile and recompile apks, not gonna go over that so many tutorials and google is your friend. when you decompile the apk navigate to /LGSystemUI/res/values and open bools.xml

Find this code
<bool name="config_systemui_feature_floating_launcher">true</bool>
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Change it to this
<bool name="config_systemui_feature_floating_launcher">false</bool>
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recompile and push the apk to your phone and reboot. dont forget to copy the signatures after recompiling *Google it*.
 
Thank you for the quick reply. I'll try this as soon as I got up my computer. I've been wanting to replace that with my paid version of Power Toggles forever...
 
Yeah, the de/re-compilation was the part that was just way too frustrating for me to want to type out.

Attached should be LGSystemUI minus QSlide, minus Quick Settings as well. If it's not for some reason (not on my main computer, just grabbed this off my phone), just let me know in the thread and I'll fix it when I get home.
 

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Did the mod manually using Ghost Commander (rooted). I did chmod permissions and the group on /system/app/LGSystemUI.apk to 664 and root. Powered off and rebooted. Worked just fine, no Qslide and the Notification bar and Quick Settings are still there.
Thanks.
 
the1986 said:
Original attached.

In terms of adb, this won't be totally comprehensive, but you'll need:
- adb (get from Android SDK / platform tools, or probably included with some other tools)
- the LG USB drivers

Make sure the apk you want to flash is in the same folder as adb. Open a command window in that folder. Enter "adb devices" to confirm you have a connection. From there enter the following:
adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount /system
exit
exit
adb push LGSystemUI.apk /system/app/LGSystemUI.apk
[if this stage goes well you should see a number of bytes transferred]
adb reboot

I'm a little slow this morning so it's possible you'll end up with an error somewhere along the line here, with any luck you'll be able to google and find an answer
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I did something really stupid. Long story short while resetting permissions after copying LGSystemUI.apk I set the permissions on both /system and /system/app to rwx--x--x (I think). The phone will not boot past the VM splash.

How can I get back into adb to reset the permissions, and what should they be for /system and /system/app?

Please help!
 
reidi said:
I did something really stupid. Long story short while resetting permissions after copying LGSystemUI.apk I set the permissions on both /system and /system/app to rwx--x--x (I think). The phone will not boot past the VM splash.

How can I get back into adb to reset the permissions, and what should they be for /system and /system/app?

Please help!
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Boot into cwm recovery, mount system, and then adb to device and change permissions. wrx-rx-r
 
Can't we just copy the apk to the system?

We had the same mod for the Optimus L9 and there was no need for adb.

As a matter of fact... We just flashed a zip and and BOOM no more qslide cx
 
I hate to say this, but I would recommend that people do not use this mod as it takes the systemUI away. It's the same as not having a systemUI. This removes the dropdown notification area.

I may of spoke too soon. I didn't see the second link further down in the thread. :/

You should edit the first post with the updated link
 
I tried as well. I can decompile the app with no problem. I just can't recompile it back to an apk with or without any changes. I also tried lgsystemui.apk's from other phones. All with the same result. :-/
 
xclusive36 said:
I tried as well. I can decompile the app with no problem. I just can't recompile it back to an apk with or without any changes. I also tried lgsystemui.apk's from other phones. All with the same result. :-/
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That's because you didn't resign the systemui.apk after recomping it. The mod works guys I disabled qslide months ago for my ROM on the f7. If you go up a few post back you'll see where I said to edit after you decompile the app. After you make the edits recompile the apk and then open it up with winrar. Then find the original systemui.apk from stock system and open that with winrar as well. Now you have your newly compiled apk and stock apk open up in front of you. Drag the META folder from stock app into the new app and drag the resource blalalalala I forgot what its called but it can't miss it it start with "resource" lol anyway drag that from the stock apk into your newly compiled apk then close both files and push the new apk to your phone.
 
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