For Virtuous Doubleshot (Glacier/myTouch 4G) : Home Screen Landscape Support

2011-09-02T01:47:00.000-07:00

First off, Thanks to Google/Android, XDA Developers, Virtuous Doubleshot, other Android posts, which got me to this.

Virtuous Doubleshot released for Glacier & Vision, both support home screen landscape version. Rosie.apk is same for both the versions, but it is hardware keyboard driven, so it doesn't work on ur HTC Glacier/myTouch 4G.

Here is how U do it:

1. Take a backup of ur /system/app/Rosie.apk. Pull the Rosie.apk to ur host PC.

2. Using apktool, decompile** the Rosie.apk. (apktool d -f -t glacier Rosie.apk)

3. Open Rosie/AndroidManifest.xml & replace all "nosensor" to "sensor".

4. Using apktool, recompile the Rosie.apk. (apktool b Rosie Roise.apk)

5. After this, you need to sign the apk & zipalign it. Done, good to go...!!!

6. Mount ur /system read-write.

7. Push back the signed version of Rosie.apk to /system/app.

8. Reboot (probably not necessary. but it will be clean setup i thought).

**-> U might get some errors at step 2, to fix that,

1. pull com.htc.resources.apk & framework-res.apk from the device or ur Virtuous Doubleshot.

2. Add these resources to apktool base.

(apktool if com.htc.resources.apk glacier)

(apktool if framework-res.apk glacier)

3. Now continue with Step 3 & 4. It should work fine.

I was able to do this & it worked pretty well. Just remember, I tried this not to publish but to put it on my phone, so if you end up bricking(highly impossible i think), or losing data(again, i dint face this), I don't take any responsibility.

Moreover, you may not be able to do this on other ROM releases for myTouch 4G. This can only be done on the ROM ports which have landscape support, technically speaking, Rosie.apk must have landscape resources under Rosie/res/. Otherwise it will not work!

Hope its useful, Im posting this bcoz I googled a lot for myTouch 4G/Glacier HomeScreen rotation/landscape support etc & there wasn't even a single post yet.

*** one last thing, my original Rosie.apk was ~21MB, but the recompiled version is 3.2MB. I don't know why, please let me know if you know why. But the 3.2MB recompiled version seem to work fine!!!

I WANTED TO POST THIS ON XDA DEVELOPERS, BUT IT IS NOT ALLOWING ME TO DO SO. I HAVE TO BE ON 10POSTS TO DO IT, N I AV NO CLUE OW TO MAKE TAT HAPPEN. :( :(