Unpack/repack .apk Files

This tutorial is about how to unpacking and repacking .apk files. Intended for people who don't want to mess with Command Prompt, or for those who want to do it in graphical user interface.
Requirements:
-An archive manager, such as WinZip, WinRar, or Power Archiver, that is capable of extracting and making .rar archives
-Formatter .  Click to download

How to unpack .apk files:

1. Open Formatter (Are you already have it downloaded and installed on your computter?)
2. Click the "Choose File" button and choose your apk file. Then, in the first text box, enter ".rar" (without quotes). After that, enter your desired name for your .rar archive and click the big "Rename!" button
3. Go to the folder where your .apk file was. You should see a .rar archive, named by the name you entered in Formatter. Extract it with your archive manager

How to repack .apk files:

1. Compress the extracted files in a .rar archive (compress them normally like any other archive)
2. Open Formatter
3. Choose the .rar archive you made a minute ago
4. Set the format to .apk
5. Set the name to whatever you want
6. Click the big "Rename!" button

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Overclocking Your Android msm7k Device

This patch applies to many android devices.

Overclock6ing msm7k has been supported on wince devices'  linux port for a long time now. (months for msm720xa, and maybe even more for 720x and 750x, I haven't see the details). So it's the same idea that has been implemented here. Making it work was more difficult than for wince devices, because the radio software is way too clever on android. Still, we got past this difficulty, and it works.
It's actually even better than what ToAsTcfh actually got, he posted only older results which were bottlenecked at 620MHz, now this patch provide users with a 710MHz frequency.
And it should work for all msm7x0xa devices. (so that makes almost double speed for stock G1 ).
For people who wants even more overclocking, you can change the values:
the writel(0x25, ......) line,
This value is the multiplier from 19.2MHz to cpu frequency, 19.2MHz*0x25=710.4MHz
You can change it to whatever value you want, but the higher limit seems to be around 750MHz.
If you want to play with mem values, edit the line:
[code="C++"""""]{ 528000,6 ACPU_PLL_2, 2, 1, 132000, 3, VDD_7, 160000, 0, 5, -1 }[/code]
Change the 3 after 132000, it's the divisor of memory compared to cpu frequency, -1 (with default settings, it's 132MHz=528MHz/(3+1)
The patch is attached, and also available at http://htcandroid.xland.cz/oc.diff.txt
Basically, all devices from HTC from before 2009 should be supported (all versions of G1, G2, G3), LG GW620, samsung galaxy, and many others.

To newbies: To get this patch working, you need to build the linux kernel for your phone. Basically, wait for you rom modder to do it.

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Latest Firmware Update Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660, S5660DXKC3

1. Open the latest Kies (must be the latest update / Kies 2.0.0.11032_12_9)
2. Plug GIO to PC
3. Kies detect the latest firmware

4. Click Update.

5. Download process Firmware by Kies (wait until finish)
6. GIO restart and it says Downloading.
7. Once completed GIO restart again.
8. Backup Process (which has been backing up data).
9. Done.

If Stuck on Upgrade time

1. If more than 5 minutes of the firmware update process is still at 0% / stuck and in a state GIO tetep DOWNLOAD mode, please disconnect the USB cable. remove the battery and then reinstall.

2. Close Kies and Updaternya with ALT + F4 until no longer Kies window
3. Then run back Kies, there will be a failed firmware update notifications, and offered to do an emergency firmware recovery.
4. Next up was asked to run Kies into recovery mode (download mode)
5. GIO Make sure power is off and there is no usb cable is attached.
6. Press the volume down + home + power button simultaneously
7. make sure it says Downloading ... GIO screen.
8. Plug the USB back to the GIO.
9. Press Retry the Emergency Firmware Recovery window
10. Update will begin to take place, there will be no downloading of data in return.because already in the previous download that still exist in the cache
11. Wait until the download is complete .. Update done

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