So a few days ago I got an email concerning the HTC PDF viewer which apparently comes bundled with the HTC Sapphire. Saddly, there has not yet been a release of it for the HTC Dream. The original thread on xda-developers can be found here which essentially was what the person was directing me too. The problem with this apk seemed to be that it was “locked” to HTC only devices… But - the HTC Dream is an HTC device, right? Not according to this program…

Anyway - long story short, success! I’ve successfully patched the file so that it should be able to be loaded on any HTC Android device. Have a blast reading your pdfs now!

Required files for this to work;

libpdfreader.so
FilePicker.apk

libpdfreader.so must be pushed using adb (or shell) to /system/lib
FilePicker.apk must be pushed using adb (or shell) to /system/app

Note: To push the files to /system, you will need to remount it as rw with the following command:
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

Finally — download and install (either through adb or your favorite package installer) the patched apk! You can download that here, PDFViewer.apk. This was tested on JF 1.5 and 1.45 and seems to work perfect. Please post your programs if any should arise.

Enjoy! :)

So I was skimming through some code looking for some specifics when I ran across the following stuff in Settings;

        /**
         * Frequency in milliseconds at which we should sync the locally installed Vending Machine
         * content with the server.
         */
        public static final String VENDING_SYNC_FREQUENCY_MS = "vending_sync_frequency_ms";

        /**
         * Support URL that is opened in a browser when user clicks on 'Help and Info' in Vending
         * Machine.
         */
        public static final String VENDING_SUPPORT_URL = "vending_support_url";

        /**
         * Indicates if Vending Machine requires a SIM to be in the phone to allow a purchase.
         *
         * true = SIM is required
         * false = SIM is not required
         */
        public static final String VENDING_REQUIRE_SIM_FOR_PURCHASE =
                "vending_require_sim_for_purchase";

        /**
         * The current version id of the Vending Machine terms of service.
         */
        public static final String VENDING_TOS_VERSION = "vending_tos_version";

        /**
         * URL that points to the terms of service for Vending Machine.
         */
        public static final String VENDING_TOS_URL = "vending_tos_url";

        /**
         * Whether to use sierraqa instead of sierra tokens for the purchase flow in
         * Vending Machine.
         *
         * true = use sierraqa
         * false = use sierra (default)
         */
        public static final String VENDING_USE_CHECKOUT_QA_SERVICE =
                "vending_use_checkout_qa_service";

I located a few more interesting snippets - mainly about vending and requiring a sim card.

If there is anyone who is interested in testing some stuff out and has a dev/adp phone without a sim card - let me know. I’d be interested to see if a few patches I worked up would work :)

Here is a dump using Gabors tool of the newest Vending.odex file. Mainly I’m dumping this here for my own purposes, but I’ve seen plenty of people download the last dump I posted - so here is the newest one!

Newer features as I can see:

- report spam
- detect updates
- few minor fixes

Enjoy!

New-vending.rar