PRS-T1 Rooted w/rupor's package; now searchbox widget crashes

[altruizine]

After having run Porkupan's root package for a while, I recently switched to Rupor's root package. In general, I'm happy with the package, but there are two oddities I observed:

1. The Google searchbox widget on the launcher's home screen crashes when touched. Here a logcat dump:

Spoiler:

E/AndroidRuntime( 2584): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.android.quicksearchbox/com.android.quicksearchbox.SearchActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2663)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2679)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2300(ActivityThread.java:125)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2033)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at android.widget.ListView.setItemChecked(ListView.java:3410)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at com.android.quicksearchbox.ui.SuggestionsView.onFinishInflate(SuggestionsView.java:40)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:626)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:621)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:407)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:320)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:276)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:198)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1647)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at com.android.quicksearchbox.SearchActivity.setContentView(SearchActivity.java:182)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at com.android.quicksearchbox.SearchActivity.onCreate(SearchActivity.java:130)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2627)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2584):        ... 11 more
W/ActivityManager( 2134):   Force finishing activity com.android.quicksearchbox/.SearchActivity

2. In some apps, contrast in some listviews is decreased (or rather nonexistent, as in black-on-black) rather than increased. One noteworthy offender is Titanium Backup.

I guess that both problems are related to the listview tweaks included in Rupor's package.

What could I do to diagnose or fix the problems?

Thanks in advance!

[altruizine]

PS: In there a better place to report or discuss this problem? Rupor's Sourceforge bug tracker seems rather empty... And no, I am not fluent in Russian.

[altruizine]

To test my theory that the framework modifications are the culprit, I just tried swapping out the root package's framework.odex with the original one.

Result: This made the Google search box work, but broke lots of other stuff (some apps would not start anymore). Also, it did not seem have an effect on the black-on-black list view. I could not test with Titanium Backup, though, as that app would not start anymore either.

[rupor]

altruizine
This place is OK, you do not have to be fluent in Russian

I will take a look at Google searchbox (not yet sure what it is) as soon as I am back from vacation, which probably should happen in the first week of July To tell you the truth I verified all buttons from the home page - and they all where working properly. Currently the only computer I have access to is iMac in my hotel room...

For #2 - some applications indeed have a problem with properly using Android color theme, usually there is very little I could do about it. For a very long time Android did not have a proper UI guidelines - so there are many apps which set colors in the code or are using colors from default white on black theme. If this is a legitimate app - contacting authors and explaining what is going on may help.

[uboot]

@altruizine: I have modded rupors root package to not change colors, works without problems so far, I think it was framework-res.jar which I replaced with stock version from 1.04 firmware...

[rupor]

@altruizine

The only Google Search box I was able to locate is the one with becomes visible when word in Reader is selected (dictionary, wikipedia, google...).

It works on my reader without a problem - opens WebBrowser on Google page with selected word as a parameter, connects (WiFi) if necessary and shows search results...

Are you sure that you are running AMR unmodified and you did not install for example Morkl's reader on it?

[breitfred]

Originally Posted by uboot

@altruizine: I have modded rupors root package to not change colors, works without problems so far, I think it was framework-res.jar which I replaced with stock version from 1.04 firmware...

Thank you uboot.

It works fine. That was the solution I was waiting for...
As long as other apps uses not appropriate color themes it is the better way than to ask all other to change their apps.

[altruizine]

Originally Posted by uboot

@altruizine: I have modded rupors root package to not change colors, works without problems so far, I think it was framework-res.jar which I replaced with stock version from 1.04 firmware...

Thanks uboot! This has resolved the contrast issue for me.

[altruizine]

Originally Posted by rupor

The only Google Search box I was able to locate is the one with becomes visible when word in Reader is selected (dictionary, wikipedia, google...). […]

No, that's not the search widget I meant. I rather meant the home-screen widget as shown at the beginning of this the-ebook-reader.com article: Rooting Directions for Sony Reader PRS-T1 (Video)

You can create this widget with these steps:

1. Install and run ADWLauncher EX
2. On the ADW home screen, long-tap until the “Add to Home screen” menu appears
3. Select “Widgets”
4. Select “Search”
5. Accept 4 columns/1 row

Thanks for taking an interest, rupor!

PS: I don't think it's relevant but as you asked: No, I did not install Morkl's reader.

[rupor]

@altruizine

Sorry - I cannot help you with this, this is not part of firmware and I do not have and not going to install ADWLauncher...

[altruizine]

Originally Posted by rupor

Sorry - I cannot help you with this, this is not part of firmware and I do not have and not going to install ADWLauncher...

I understand. Thanks anyway for your great contributions, rupor!