[Solved] Excel Build.prop V1 - Access More Apps

[Charlie]

That app is not available on my Apollo either

[blueeagle69]

@Charlie
Have you been over to the XDA forums?
There is a guide there concerning unblocking some apps in the market.
Apart from the build.prop they are talking about the vending.apk file.
But I would have thought the vending.apk would be for country specific files?
Lastly it mentions that the market sometimes checks whether or not the camera on the device has autofocus?
Or have I totally lost the plot.
I'll post the link if you need it.

[Charlie]

@Charlie
Have you been over to the XDA forums?
There is a guide there concerning unblocking some apps in the market.
Apart from the build.prop they are talking about the vending.apk file.
But I would have thought the vending.apk would be for country specific files?
Lastly it mentions that the market sometimes checks whether or not the camera on the device has autofocus?
Or have I totally lost the plot.
I'll post the link if you need it.

You are making sense - but we only needed to make changes to the build.prop and add some more permissions in /system/etc/permissions - ie - for hardware, like camera, microphone etc. (sounds easy now, but it was not the normal changes needed, the Excel was being stubborn)

I am just fine turning and cleaning up the code and writing the how to - How long that takes to complete, depends how much free time I have this week. Hopefully it will get done soon.

[blueeagle69]

Makes sense mate.

I look forward to getting my replacement Excel back.

I have spent the last couple of days, trying to learn ADB.
It seems in the three weeks of owning an Android device, it has taken over my life.
My poor Symbian smartphone feels a little abandoned.

[Charlie]

@blueeagle69

It is good to know some of the commands in ADB (I am not that great with it, but knowing the basics - has got me out of a few bootloops and other tricky situations)

Commands like:

push
pull
remount
chmod
Shell

[Mitre]

Hi Charlie
yes sometimes the command line is the quickest way to do any thing like
"mv" to move or remame(All you MsDOS guys should eat this up)
whilst getting Ubunto onto my pc came across O'Reilly's linux index pretty much all the commands work on Android each command has a short description of what it does very good reference material
http://oreilly.com/linux/command-directory/
"modprobe " is what i need to use to get BT into the Kernel but think i@m gettting nowhere
All good fun

[blueeagle69]

@Charlie
I can see me enjoying this ADB business.
But like you said. If your device has a funny half hour due to an incorrect setting or something, ADB sounds a lifesaver.

[Charlie]

UPDATE:

The 'How To' on this can now be found here, before you rush over there, I have yet to put the links to the files need. As I still need to clean them up and I am tired after writing all the instructions. <beer time >

Thanks guys for all your help on this and a big thanks to Mitre as he was helping me via PM's with this too.

[Mitre]

well done mines a largeJD coke

[Charlie]

well done mines a largeJD coke

I am skint, so here is a small coke instead, sorry