Thread: Absolutely Minimal Root (AMR) and Apps2SD firmware
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Old 06-12-2012, 07:02 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by spotlesssky View Post
The process you just described sounds a bit complicated to me. What do you mean by changing it's attributes? Can I just remove the APK file from the system to other places (like backing it up), and later paste back the file to the system if anything goes wrong? I mean, can the process be reversed? And also, where's that APK file? I try to search it in Total Commander using the word Latin but nothing comes up so far.
You asking questions to which I do not have an exact answers and I do not want to mislead you.

Minimal root you have had before did exactly what I described. You could learn what EXACTLY was done by looking at its /sdcard/tmp/do_update.sh. It moved /system/apps/EbookLatinIME4Ebook.apk to /data/apps/EbookLatinIME4Ebook.apk and made sure that it is not read-only, essentially converting system app into simple app, but keeping it around. You probably could achieve the same in a different way - but as I already said, you are on your own, sorry. If it sounds complicated to you - it probably is
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