Extract AndroidManifest.xml, assets, res Folder and smali (disassembly from Java virtual machine) from an apk
$ cd APK-Multi-Tool-Linux
$ java -jar other/apktool.jar d pace-apk-here-for-modding/ANDROID.apk out
Extract jar from apk with dex2jar to get an .jar file
$ d2j-dex2jar.sh ANDROID.apk
Now you can have a look at the java files with jdgui (found a description at reverse-engineer-an-android-app-apk)
or decompile the class files with jad (found a description at stackoverflow)
./jad -o -r -sjava -dDESTDIR path/to/*/.class
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Download Android-Kitchen
Download an image and extract it to ~/image.
compile sim2img
$ cd Android-Kitchenextract ext4 image
$ scripts/compile_simg2img
$ tools/samsung_files/simg2img_files/simg2img ~/image/cache.img ext4_cache.imgloopmount ext4 image
$ mkdir cache
$ sudo mount -o loop,ro,noexec,noload ext4_cache.img cache
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apk-downloader is a google chrome extension to easily download apk files from google play store.
start chrome with
#> chromium-browser --ignore-certificate-errors --allow-running-insecure-content
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According to samsung udate the Galaxy S3 firmware with the highest Changelist at the moment is csc (salescode) VD2 919627 build date 01.02.2013 (Germany Vodafone branded) and my csc image is ATO (Austria unbranded) 566833 build date 10.12.2012 (got this by OTA).
To have the newest firmware but with ATO csc i devided to take cache.img and hidden.img from ATO and boot.img, modem.bin, recovery.img, sboot.bin, system.img and tz.img from VD2.
First I downloaded VD2 and ATO, extracted the X.tar.md5 files, discarded ".md5" from the filenames, untared the ".img" files and compressed a new VD2 archive with cache.img and hidden.img from ATO.
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pm segfaults if LD_LIBRARY_PATH is missing like on login with ssh
$ su -c "/system/bin/pm"
[1] Segmentation fault pm
$ su -c "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/vendor/lib:/system/lib pm"
if pm is not found like this
$ /system/bin/pm list packagesyou can do
sh: /system/bin/pm: not found
/system/bin/sh -c "/system/bin/pm list packages"or prepend /system/bin/pm with
#!/system/bin/sh
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