How To Get Access To More Apps In Market - (Excel ONLY!)

[Charlie]

@blueeagle69 - No worries, be interesting as to what you find out. I am not looking any further into the live wallpaper issue (sorry), as I have all the apps that run them on the Excel removed. Personally I think they look great but I would rather not use them as they are just a memory/cpu/battery drain.

[blueeagle69]

Agreed mate.
They are great for a quick look, but you wouldn't want to keep em.
My battery is bad enough now, since running Wake Timer. This is the only app I have found that will keep my email notifications workings when the Excel is a sleep. And I've tested a few

Sent from my Scroll Excel/Nexus S using Tapatalk.

[blueeagle69]

Quick update.
I was checking live wallpapers for compatibility (Not that I really want to run live wallpapers), but can you check this your end, when you get 5 minutes please Charlie.
It shows This app is incompatible with your Samsung Nexus S. (PC Android Market).
This of course may be completely normal with Nexus.
http://goo.gl/A7rp1
This app is incompatible with your Samsung Nexus S.
The app is called "Motion Girl"

Cheers.

It might be incompatible completely with a Nexus S - or there is something that I need to add/change to get live wallpapers added - if you look at Koi Free Live Wallpaper - it says not compatible, yet it works as it's pre-loaded on the Excel. I will try to look into this further.

UPDATE: (This does not show 'motion girl' as compatible)

If you want more access to live wallpapers (not all tho') put this file in /system/etc/permissions/ - See part 2 of the 'How To' for details.

Hey Charlie.
Just an update for you concerning some live wallpapers.
Copying that file to /system/etc/permissions does indeed fix the "not compatible" message with some live wallpapers
I just re-tried that Wallpaper, and it showed up on Android Market on the Excel, and of course, showed up on the web Android Market.

[rama1712]

Did this mod all worked great but could can anyone tell me how to change build file to show excel as a SGS or SGS 2
This is so i can run skygo on my EXCEL I can turn root on and off to work but sky app only works on certain andriod devices. SGS SGSII HTC

Thanks in advance

[Mitre]

hi i did charlies mod inc the permissions all went well then treid to change some of the build prop to show as samsung GS2 so that the sky go app may work. also added a couple of files to permissions from my GS2 however got into a bootloop its probably the board in build.prop that is causing the bootloop as i changed from crane to GT_I9100 Charlie spent a long time getting this right and i know he tested some S2 settings but for now alas we have no sky go
still i got a Nexus S for now

[Charlie]

I am 1/2 way through doing a S2 version of the build.prop - almost finished (just not had that much time at the mo')

[Mitre]

got into a boot loop after changing board from crane to GT_I9100
BTW do you know a good app to temp unroot the excel voodo rootkeeper app giving FC's

[Charlie]

got into a boot loop after changing board from crane to GT_I9100
BTW do you know a good app to temp unroot the excel voodo rootkeeper app giving FC's

Are you sure it was because of the board chnage? (i.e. ro.product.board=) as it is normally the ro.product.device= that causes the bootloop, set the latter like this:-

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ro.product.device=GT-I9100;crane-evb

or

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ro.product.device=crane-evb;GT-I9100

Not sure which is the better way around, but both work AFAIR


P.S.

The board should be like so:-

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ro.product.board=GT-I9100

[Mitre]

Thanks Charlie i will test this soon still on your nexus at the mo going to get a few apps then do a nandroid
and start testing

[Charlie]

Thanks Charlie i will test this soon still on your nexus at the mo going to get a few apps then do a nandroid
and start testing

OK - Don't forget to do "Part 3 of 3 - Clearing Data & Cache" again after changing the build.prop