Enabling Auto-Rotate Quick Settings Toggle on Phones

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Enabling Auto-Rotate Quick Settings Toggle on Phones

Requirements

• Rooted device
• adb (http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html)
• apktool (https://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/)

Instructions

1. Pull SystemUI.apk off the device

    $ adb pull /system/app/SystemUI.apk
   

2. Install the framework (only necessary on non AOSP builds)

    $ apktool if SystemUI.apk
   

3. Decompile the apk

    $ apktool d SystemUI.apk
   

4. Modify SystemUI/res/values/bools.xml quick_settings_show_rotation_lock to true

5. Recompile the sources and create SystemUI/build

    $ apktool b SystemUI SystemUI-tmp.apk
   

6. Extract and copy META-INF and AndroidManifest.xml from the original SystemUI.apk to SystemUI/build/apk/

7. Recompile the apk

    $ apktool b SystemUI SystemUI-modified.apk
   

8. Zipalign the apk

    $ zipalign -v 4 SystemUI-modified.apk SystemUI-modified-zipaligned.apk
   

9. Backup the old SystemUI.apk

    $ adb shell cp /system/app/SystemUI.apk /system/app/SystemUI.apk_bak
   

10. Push the new apk to the device

    $ adb push SystemUI-modified-zipaligned.apk /system/app/SystemUI.apk
    

Notes

I tend to do everything in recovery so I can easily mount /system as rw. To boot in recovery:

$ adb reboot recovery