Biden2020prez one thing is i needed to make my screen very small to press the right button. So ill try to make a macro droid apk with a smaller res.
- Flip Phones
Alcatel TCL Flip 2 (T408DL)
Biden2020prez Nice find! If it's just one time for the setup you can just temporarily change the screen size, no need for you to work on modifying macro droid (unless you really want to...)
Biden2020prez nice idea in theory but in practice with many apps there is app functionality that only works with the pointer disabled such as scroll-up and certain selects and other than the power button which exits the apps I don't see a way of disabling mouse within app to toggle for non-root
dovwcom Ha, just make a second macro that puts it to 0
I made a macro that turns mouse on and off (so you can set it to one button). It also displays a toast on bottom that says mouse on and mouse off (it wont show unless you allow display over other apps which is only allowed with adb, but i figure most people rather have no toast anyway)
https://filetransfer.io/data-package/4xiaJsYQ#link
Biden2020prez How do you import the file - I tried import within app from storage from home screen and that didn't work at all, tried to import with ES Explorer as text file which failed and then I renamed it to .mdr and the import didn't work either
dovwcom Very weird. It opens just fine with fx file, but i just tested with es and it didn't. You can bluetooth it to your phone and click on it from notifications, and open with macrodroid. That worked for me.
Biden2020prez How do you install as data app
ZTEGuy regular install. Data means not system.
ZTEGuy system apps should.
Biden2020prez Can you clarify?
chaimzalman system apps should stay even after factory reset.
Biden2020prez I think @ZTEGuy is asking how to install an app as a system app
chaimzalman somewhere in the 600 posts he said he did it, so i don't think he was asking that.
Biden2020prez I was asking because I installed apps as system, and they didn't come back, but I figured it out thanks
Jumptoheaven Also, does anyone know why the mouse wont scroll up?
Jumptoheaven I haven't disassembled the mouse code yet but suspect it's just a hard limit due to how they wanted it to work with the included chromium browser.
Jumptoheaven don't know. But its possible with a bit of hard work. You can put mouse on top, hold dpad middle while dpad down. Just don't go too far down or else it resets. By the way, this mouse supports drag.
Released first version of modified recovery: https://github.com/neutronscott/flip2/wiki#recovery-image
neutronscott yay! Thanks!
neutronscott thank you so much for your continued service here - I have two questions:
1) I am not looking for any of the super ROMs developed so far so for me cutting down super install time isn't yet a need - what I am wondering is what else you have currently in your Recovery image that may give me extra functionality - do you have a working custom Recovery mode and if so what can it do?
2) Was anyone at any point in this thread able to extract Do you have an unmodded boot.img that could be flashed to restore the phone completely to factory state?
Biden2020prez how? (do i drag)
dovwcom the modifications to recovery so far are to use adb shell. One utility which may help if you've remounted /system as rw and made edits is e2fsck to fix any corruption.
There is an over the air update which came with the boot.img which is how we were able to start modifying the device. It was posted long ago. This may work too:
https://g2slave-us-east-01.tclcom.com/a17514a9c29dfaf623fbdde097915c876c94238d/83/781583
neutronscott It should be able to recover from brick, right?
NEC if its something dragable then use dpad center plus whichever direction you want to drag it. For example: when making a macro with multiple steps, press the up/down arrow, and reorder the actions (or trigger) by dragging them up or down (from the lines on the right)
neutronscott You're unbelievable!!
Out of curiousity, how did you make Magisk giving you su, without being bound to the Magisk app granting?
AndroFlipper in recovery? I just put it in the magisk.db already 🙂
Biden2020prez recovery doesn't add any ability as far as bricked device. fastboot is already available before recovery even if it's slow.
Boot sequence is something like:
brom > preloader (mmcblk0boot0) > lk > boot/recovery
Really would like to find an entrance to brom!
neutronscott why cant your bricked devices be reflashed. Will they boot fastboot?
ZTEGuy Haven't seen one
neutronscott not sure I follow - thinking about my question assuming my phone is working fine but I want the option of entirely undoing all of the changes from factory firmware made by having flashed neutron.img what would be my options? Uninstalling Magisk and other manual steps or is there a boot.img I could flash to do that? Are you saying that the OTA image would do that?
dovwcom In the OTA update there is a copy of the stock boot.img, you can reflash that and then do a factory reset and I think you should be back to factory firmware. (assuming you didnt change anything manually outside of /data/)
lgexalter1 I guess it depends if he wants to make it factory with his user data or without...
ZTEGuy getting preloader into fastboot is available in other utilities but it's using the same method. The python mtk client should work.
Biden2020prez why cant your bricked devices be reflashed. Will they boot fastboot?
No they won't because the first I overwrote preloader (hoping to unlock access to brom), and the next I probably triggered some security eFuse, not sure.
ZTEGuy If interested this is a very small python utility that'd enter fastboot: https://gist.github.com/plugnburn/b3b0bcfd926c48ec5373bea84ce59337
neutronscott Thanks
Biden2020prez MS swiftkey is a virtual keyboard app - thank you for the tip - installed Google messages
Got mine in today from that eBay deal. Disappointed in the build quality (screen half wiggles quite a bit, even when closed), but not bad for the money & capability. Gonna do it to it soon.
Man, do I miss the days of high quality flips & bar phones tho. 🙁 There's seemingly none now.
sappypappy yeah this one would be nice if it were $100 less https://pure-talk.com/product/qin/ /d/710-xiaomi-qin-f30-2-versions-kosher-and-full-review
neutronscott Yeah. $100 less & the ability to side load/customize would be great. Maybe it will happen.
I've looked through all 745 messages I would like to know what is the ADB command to uninstall email? Thank you
Biden2020prez I have had no luck installing launcher after removing it from system. Did you actually rm the directory in priv-app or only use pm disable? And was this on the TF or another phone?
Have others been able to replace Launcher in data? Mine was crashing because of a status bar permission. For now I removed that notification code.
Next I trimmed down two methods which Tct modified to hard code the app list. I tried tidying up the smali by hand and somehow lost a variable and it kept crashing because of missing icon for built-in apps... So for the moment, a teaser, with all the icons hardcoded to one I found hah
The major edit is in com.android.launcher3.Launcher.bindAllApplications(). I also removed calls to mGflipComparator from com.android.launcher3.allapps.AppInfoComparator.compare(). It looked necessary but I didn't see what happens if I didn't remove it. It probably only makes the sorting weird when mixed up with apps not in the list.
I hate to ask but I've tried several times with no luck. I have a Tracfone T408DL. I boot the phone into fastboot mode, I run 'fastboot flashing unlock', I press volume unlock and the phone proceeds to unlock the bootloader, next I run 'fastboot flash boot neutron.img' the cmd line seems to indicate it. works and I run 'fastboot reboot'. I then run through initial set up and dial *#*#217703#*#* to bring up the app list. However, I never see "Launch Magisk (stub downloader)". I just see the normal apps and other than the factory reset nothing seems to actually have happened. I've also tried flashing neutronscott recovery image but once again this seems to do nothing. I'm at my wit’s end. Any help is greatly appreciated. I feel like I'm just skipping a step or doing something dumb thats preventing the process from working.