Add support for patching Android from inside Android itself

[ale5000-git]

Add support for patching Android from inside Android itself.

[ale5000-git]

• Add mode 3 to allow to get the file to patch directly from the phone itself: Done
• Decompress file inside Android: Done
• Disassemble file inside Android: Done
• Patch file inside Android: Done
• Reassemble file inside Android: Done
• Recompress file inside Android: Done

[okias]

Can we get something to test? ;-)

[ale5000-git]

It is already here.

You need to:

• Install QPython3 on the phone;
• You need also busybox and zip on the phone, they don't need to be installed just placed in /system/xbin or in the tools folder of Tingle (you also need to set the executable permission on them);
• Copy Tingle on the phone in the projects3 folder of QPython3;
• Run Tingle from QPython3 interface and use mode 3.

PS: Also mode 1 and 2 will work.

[okias]

Assembling out/classes.dex running for too long :( I gtg, so I'll test next update..

[ale5000-git]

I haven't yet optimized it.

[okias]

DEBUG: Compressing framework.jar Traceback (most recent call last): File "/storage/emulated/0/org.qpython.qpy/projects3/tingle/main.py". line 515, in >module} compress(os.curdir+"/out/", "framework.jar") ... OSError: [Errorno 13] Permission denied

seems like somewhere missing su command

[ale5000-git]

This is strange. The compression happens inside the temp folder provided by QPython, it doesn't need root.

Do you check that the "zip" executable have proper permissions?

[okias]

@ale5000-git yup, you are right :) "root sdcard_rw" instead "root shell" and "-rw-rw----" instead "-rwxr-xr-x".

So howto for dummies:

1. Install QPython3 on the phone
2. open F-Droid install "busybox installer", run it and "Install"
3. PC # adb shell
4. Phone # su
5. Phone # mount -o rw,remount,rw /system
6. Phone # cd /system/xbin
7. Phone # wget https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/zip-for-android/zip.zip
8. Phone # unzip zip.zip && rmdir zip
9. Phone # chown root:shell zip
10. Phone # chmod 755 zip
11. copy from computer or if you have git in phone, clone in phone
12. PC # adb push ~/projects/tingle /storage/emulated/0/org.qpython.qpy/project3/tingle/
13. OR Phone # cd /storage/emulated/0/org.qpython.qpy/project3/
14. OR Phone # wget https://github.com/ale5000-git/tingle/archive/master.zip
15. OR Phone # unzip master.zip
16. Phone # mount -o ro,remount,ro /system
17. Phone: run QPython3

[ale5000-git]

In the latest version of QPython3 the folder is qpython/projects3/ instead of org.qpython.qpy/projects3/.

[gabsoftware]

How long is it supposed to take on the "DEBUG: Assembling out/classes.dex" step? Waited 20 minutes already, could it possibly stuck? Is there a detailed log available?

[ale5000-git]

@gabsoftware: In this phase it is inside "smali" so the script cannot know what is happening inside but you can see the logcat of the phone.

I'm not sure about this phase alone (that is the one that take longer) but the entire process may take from about 30 minutes to about 3 hours (depends from the phone).

[gabsoftware]

Ended doing it in my computer... Just needed a few seconds to patch. Is that really how powerful are our CPU today compared to ARM processors?

[ale5000-git]

@gabsoftware: The Android part of my script isn't yet optimized but on a phone you have small battery (so if it the CPU would be too fast it would discharge too fast also) and small RAM.

[avently]

@ale5000-git Something wrong here.

/data/user/0/org.qpython.qpy3/files/bin/qpython-android5.sh "/storage/emulated/0/qpython/projects3/tingle-master/.last_tmp.py" && exit rojects3/tingle-master/.last_tmp.py" && exit < MENU

1 - Patch file from a device (adb)
2 - Patch file from the input folder
3 - Patch file directly from the device

3

OS: Linux 3.10.65+ (linux-android) Python: 3.2.2 (32 bit) Mode: 3 Working dir: /storage/emulated/0/qpython/cache/Tingle-lqpr1x Decompressing framework... DEBUG: Decompressing framework.jar Disassembling classes... DEBUG: Disassembling framework/classes.dex Patching... Detected: Android 7.x / 6.0.x (or LOS/CM 13-14) Patching succeeded. Reassembling classes... DEBUG: Assembling out/classes.dex

Exception in thread "main" com.beust.jcommander.MissingCommandException: Expected a command, got -j1 at com.beust.jcommander.JCommander.parseValues(JCommander.java:725) at com.beust.jcommander.JCommander.parse(JCommander.java:304) at com.beust.jcommander.JCommander.parse(JCommander.java:287) at org.jf.smali.Main.main(Main.java:87)

Return code: 1

ERROR CODE: 83

[ale5000-git]

@avently: It should be fixed, please try it and report back.

[avently]

@ale5000-git stuck on Assembling classes. Half of an hour is gone and nothing changed. The last error is gone

[ale5000-git]

@avently: Depending from the phone it may take from 30 minutes to 3 hours. It works but it isn't yet optimized.

[avently]

@ale5000-git apktool, Mt manager do this fast. Maybe a minute or less

[ale5000-git]

On a pc this take about a minute but on a phone it is slower.

Different methods of patching take different times.

[Rubylion]

Hi. I wanted to install tingle, like discribed in this post. But in the tingle-master.zip that I downloaded there's no 3rd option🤔. Could you check that please. Thanx for your work anyways.

[ale5000-git]

@Rubylion: The option 3 appears only when Tingle is executed directly on the phone.

[Rubylion]

Mmhh. That's exactly what I did. I downloaded the master.zip file. Extracted it to the qpython/projects3 folder and executed qpython. Only 2 options available.

[ale5000-git]

@Rubylion

Please tell me exactly: 1) If it is QPython3 or QPython 2) The exact version 3) Also it would be nice if you copy or do a screenshot of the log

[Lojaleto]

Подтверждаю, пункта 2. версия qpython3 - 1.2.0

[ale5000-git]

@Rubylion @Lojaleto It should be fixed now.

[Rubylion]

Hey. I'm sorry not coming back to you. I was busy and just forgot about it, cause in the meantime I found the Nanomod project, which alsi patches the services.jar. It does a good job and I wonder if you guys could just team up as you're working on the samehow the same thing. Anyways, thank you very much for your effort and hanging on to provide untechnical users like me a live without google, etc. Keep it up.

[Lojaleto]

Не работает

[ale5000-git]

@Lojaleto: It should be fixed now. Sorry for the time needed to fix it but I don't have too much free time currently.

[ale5000-git]

Since now it adapt dynamically it will found all the needed dependencies in most Android ROMs so it will work out-of-the-box. I'm closing this issue since most things are fixed; it still miss optimizations but they will be done in the future, for now it is fine.

If someone have any problem please open a new issue.