BiGnAdAd {How To} Manually Deodex Your Froyo Droid X to Allow Custom Themes
 

You must be rooted & have Froyo 2.2!

This is a guide on manually deodexing, you phone. You will need to perform this if you plan on using developers theme's for Froyo. I have performed this 2 or 3 times on my DX without a problem. If you have questions feel free to ask :)

What you'll need:
A Windows based machine
xUltimate v2.2
Patience

Process:

1. Unzip xUltimate v2.2, and launch "Main.exe"
2. If everything goes well xUlt should recognize the phone and make a connection. You now should see a list of options.
3. Run option 1. After option 1 is done, run option 2.
4. Now these well take a while. Run option 3.
5. IMPORTANT: After you have run option 3, you MUST navigate to the xUltimate folder and find "origi_frame" folder, and delete "guava.odex". It's a bad file, and interferes with deodexing process.
6. Now run option 4, and wait.
7. Exit xUltimate, and put the phone in USB mass storage.
8. Go back into the xUltimate folder and copy "done_frame", and "done_app", and move them to the root of the sdcard.
9. Open a command prompt, and do the following:

Your phone should now be deodexed!

You may notice an increase in speed, and you now have the ability to edit certain files with greater effects. (i.e. services.jar)

Credits Via Alldroid.net:
Rainabba and Mike919: For initially working with me to get a white clock, and later deodex.
toxman: For testing, and being a huge risk taker.
teenfaces: For letting me use his services.jar
And especially Xeudoxus: For letting me a guinea pig, for xUltimate, and answering my questions. And also for the making the xUltimate tool. It defiantly makes thing easier.

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reserved....

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Thanks Big. I tried it on my rooted Droid X, with the Froyo 2.2 leak installed. And I keep erroring out at step 4 when it tries to deodex framework.odex. See image . . . I've checked the host forum and no solution. I've tried it over and over.

Any thoughts?

http://www.dlggraphics.com/images/deodex_error.png

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This is one thing i found. will continue to look into this

OutOfMemoryError

If your Java program is running out of memory, there are several things you can do.

1. Make unused objects garbage collectable.
2. Avoid excessive object creation.
3. Allocate more memory for the heap.
4. Choose an alternative technique (eg, caching).

First you should understand where things are in memory, and typical reasons for running out of memory. Stack and Heap

Memory is allocated in two regions.

• The stack is where local variables (declared in methods and constructors) are allocated. Local varables are allocated when a method is entered, and deallocated when the method is exited. Because local variables are small, only primitive types and references, it is very unlikely that the stack will overflow, except in a case of unusually deep or infinite recursion.
• The heap is where all objects are allocated with new. It is the heap that is more likely to run out of memory. There are several approaches to solving out-of-memory problems in the heap.

Make unused objects garbage collectable

Java's automatic garbage collection recycles an object's memory when there is no active reference to it. When you are finished using a large data structure, make sure there are no references to it. It's easy to leave a reference to unused object around. Assigning null to the reference at the root of the data structure may be sufficient.
I wrote a program which processed source programs in three phases, building a large data structure for the output of each phase. I carelessly kept references to the data structures from the first two phases, even tho I no longer needed them. I was surprised to run out of memory. Simply assigning null to these variables for the unused data structures solved my problem.

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Thank you sir . . .

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does debug need to be on, and whatsync mode does the phone need to be in??

thanks

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it gets to daemon started successfully.....then nothing. Am i doing some wrong?

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Yes, Need to be in windows media sync

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Alright i have a problem, I've made it thru everything up to the terminal commands. I accidentally deleted the apps before copying them (missed a step) now I have gone to menu-privacy-factory reset. It worked as it reset my phone to stock-ish. I still have the superuser app in the phone. The problem is my contacts do not populate the list when I hit the contacts button on the bottom of my screen. They're in there but do not auto-pop. Any help would be great!

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You should try and perform a SBF

Instructions here

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heres a dumb question...(kinda lost). How do i get my command promp to the $ or whatever i need to enter code?
right now i have c:\>
it says adb not recognized.

Thanks, Hell

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Do you have the android-sdk-windows package on your pc?

if so, then navigate to it and go into tools folder
i usually create a shortcut to command prompt into that folder so it opens in that directory
Make sure that your droidx is plugged in and in windows sync mode
open command prompt and type in adb shell
that will get you to a $ prompt
typing su will get you o a # prompt

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I have windows 7. I cant find the command prompt short cut. I do have sdk on pc. in tools folder i have no command manager. when i right click to add shortcut to cm where is is located?

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I used windows 7 too... just click start...type in cmd and click and drag that command prompt shortcut to your tools folder

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when i get to sdcard done app (putting it in right ) it tells me no such file or directory. went and checked both folders on on sd card.

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when at command...do i do one line at a time <enter> or enter it all then <enter>????

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think i got it...ran test everything passed except for odex, it had fail, does that mean it didn't work or odex failed because nothing is odexed anymore??

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I downloade xUltimate v2.2 [updated 9-15-2010.when I tried to unzip it with winrar it said it had 2 ERRORS in & of course wouldnt open it.PLEASE HELP ME DEODEX MY DROID X SO i CAN USE YOURS BADASS THEMES ! iMY DROID X IS ROOTED AFTER OTA 2.2 ,i ALSO HAVE KOUSHES BOOTSTRAP ,ROM MANAGER PREMIUM INSTALLED ! DO I HAVE TOO DEODEX,IF SO PLEASE TELL ANOTHER WAY .PLEASE HELP ME INSTALL UR THEMES $ I GIVE U MY WORD I WILL GIVE U NICE DONATION!P.S. I TRIED TO INSTALL UR THEME BEFORE & BRICKED MY FONE ,GOT A NEW ONE THOUGH. THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!:spin::help::banghead:

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Im stuck at command prompt I cant get it to work... I open up CMD and i start typing and it just cant find it says adb is nto recongnized =( can some one help please

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same here ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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Everything worked for me up until step 9.Open a command prompt, and do the following: I am not the most computer savy person and Im not sure how to do this step correctly. When I open the cmd.exe and start to enter the code it says, "adb is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file". What am I doing wrong here? any help on this would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks Graham

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Hey Bignadad,
Thank you for this info I appreciate it. Only have one problem. In the c-Prompt when I get to
cp /sdcard/done_app/* /system/app/ It says no such File or Directory???
I put the two file on my sdcard as per the instructions so its looking for system/apps,
I remember when I took java (Chubby here. lol) *=all but sometimes the file is to deep and
the parses stop at a lower level missing it by 1 or2files before. I know the system/apps is
only one level back so it should b able to find it. If I remember right, it was ./* for 1 level
and .//* for 2 or more. It went something like that, i think. Its was many years ago.
Can this b the case here. Or am I just an old man who didn't remember to good. Lol
Was wondering if u can help me with that.
Thanks again Bro for all ur help :-)
UPDATE;
Hey Big,
I was just wondering, now that I have the folders on my phone is it possible to use the
Terminal Emulator to push these thru instead of the adb. And if so can I get the instructions for that please?

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Hey Skinshaman,
You have to give it the full path to the folder first.
All the way to the jar folder. You must also start with "cd".
put a space then type the first folders name followed by "/".
Then the second folders name followed by"/" etc...
all the way to the "jar" folder. Mine For example ="c:>cd footlocker/droidxstuff/xultimate2.2.2/jar
Now hit enter. After that no more "cd" u are in the jar folder.
All you type once in the jar folder is the code that Bignadad gave us
"adb" enter "su" enter "stop" enter etc. Hope this helps. Happy deodexing:wink:

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I have My Droid plugged in and I have it on Media Sync. With USB DEbugging on. It says:*Checking Scrpit Version....*
* Checking Phone ROM Build....*
* Waiting for Phone....*
And then it never goes on! My phone is plugged in and registered on my computer. Everytime i get a text it shows on my computer so i know its in. ANy help??