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…
What? HTC Dream IS HTC?!
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!
FTW
Required files for this to work;
libpdfreader.so
FilePicker.apklibpdfreader.so must be pushed using adb (or shell) to /system/lib
FilePicker.apk must be pushed using adb (or shell) to /system/appNote: 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! :)
Friday, 15. May 2009
Sweet work, it worked like a charm!! *thumbs up*
Friday, 15. May 2009
works great. one question: the ‘about’ screen shown in the howto never displays; the app goes straight to filepicker and searches for PDFs; nor are there any options when the menu key is pressed. Is this normal behavior?
Your blog is pretty impressive; keep up the excellent work.
Friday, 15. May 2009
@arqueware
The about section is available after you load a pdf, please menu - then you can select it. I just took a screen shot of it since it shows you can get past the “HTC Device” restriction. ;)
Friday, 15. May 2009
nice job!
Thursday, 28. May 2009
Works on HTC Magic. well done!
Tuesday, 2. June 2009
Wow, this is an awesome find! And great work on the patch! Works excellent on the G1, and very fast, too. (I have to admit, it’s on par with my laptop on that. XD)
Wednesday, 10. June 2009
Could someone tell me how to do this step by step. I have a rooted phone with terminal and can not fiigure this out. Thanls
Wednesday, 24. June 2009
Doesn’t work on htc dream. It shows a window with: “programm reagiert nicht” and a button close.
Can anybody help me please?
Thursday, 9. July 2009
How do you get root permissions to change. The operation fails everytime I try the mount command. I have the RC43
Sunday, 19. July 2009
Excellent, worked like a charm on my HTC Magic after rooting it (http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Magic_Rooting)
Thursday, 30. July 2009
Works nice!
Note: I had to rename the FilePicker.zip to be FilePicker.apk for the PDFViewier.apk to successfully install.
Sunday, 2. August 2009
know how to remount using cygwin/ XP ? thanks…
Wednesday, 5. August 2009
i had not enough free space, but the Maps.apk is useless, when you have installed the new one, so you can delete it in /system/app.
and now it works perfect, thanks
Wednesday, 26. August 2009
You should do the same with HTC Calendar, Flash, QuickOffice, etc…
Saturday, 10. October 2009
Could you do your magic and make this work with the new 4.1.999 CM. :)
The lib requires something that’s not there:
I/dalvikvm( 450): Unable to dlopen(/system/lib/libpdfreader.so): Cannot load library: reloc_library[1172]: 89 cannot locate ‘FT_Get_Glyph’…
Wednesday, 14. October 2009
I have a donut 1.6 ROM and PDFViewer is Force Closing. Any chance you can update the file to work with 1.6?
Saturday, 7. November 2009
Hi!
Can not make the system rw with that command. It’s said read only file system. Thanks
Saturday, 7. November 2009
Hi, I know this post is way outdated, but since it seems like you know how to make a workaround to get the htc pdfreader to work, I thought I would ask you to do it again for the cyanogen’s current donut build :)
I’ve tried many ways trying to get it to work but basically, it still doesn’t. In the logcat, when I try to run the pdf viewer app, it says this:
Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Library pdfreader not found
And it force closes. Maybe you can fix it? :)
Saturday, 7. November 2009
@yuri - you’ll need to remount the file system
@shaneaus and tim, feel free to email me and we can try some stuff out
Saturday, 14. November 2009
Yeah, I’m with jeremiah….the only way I rooted was with a superly noobish guide from youtube…and the only way I got cyanogen is cause I sorta knew what to do from PSP hacking…but I’m not really sure with the commands and all.
I have no idea why it needs to “remount”, and I have no idea how to PUSH the files. I’ve tried with Astro(file manager), but it just gives me an error everytime I try to transfer the files to the root folder. Any help? Please?
Monday, 16. November 2009
Ah, and did the fix ever work for Tim? I just had to downgrade to get it..
Tuesday, 1. December 2009
anyone found a way to make this work on donut-based cyanogenmod?