Browser multi touch and zoom buttons

[hondapro]

I finally installed bugless beast 7.4 and really like it. I like the multi touch in all the applications but I found that I miss having the zoom buttons in the browser. I like the multi touch for fine zoom control but I like just hitting the zoom button and it automatically fits the text to the screen. Does anyone know of a way to have both? I know you can double tap the screen but I find I like the button better.

 

[hondapro]

Dose anyone know how I would go about removing the browser in the rom and replacing it with the stock 2.0.1 browser?

 

[hondapro]

Nevermind I just answered my own question. I got it from a nandroid backup.

 

[hondapro]

So I removed the the multi touch browser files and put the original browser.apk and browser.odex back in /system/app but then the phone wont boot. I put the mtbrowser files back and it works fine again. I thought that would work but apparently not. Does anyone know how I would go about doing this?

 

[GorillaTheHutt]

this isn't helpful to you, but it really annoys me that MT and the zoom buttons are mutually exclusive. why can't we have both?? the zoom buttons are much nicer for one-handed use, but the MT is nice for precision zoom. really a bummer that they actually take out the zoom button for MT.

 

[hondapro]

Yea Exactly what I thought. I wonder if the Nexus one has the zoom buttons and mt.

 

[droidosis]

The video I saw of the 2.1 MT on the Nexus had both pinch zoom and the zoom buttons. Could it be that your hacked ROM is just that? It isn't the official MT browser, right?

-droidosis-

 

[droidosis]

The latest update to the Google maps app has pinch zoom and the zoom buttons on the Droid, I just checked.

EDIT: double tap zoom also works.

-droidosis-

 

[hondapro]

The video I saw of the 2.1 MT on the Nexus had both pinch zoom and the zoom buttons. Could it be that your hacked ROM is just that? It isn't the official MT browser, right?

-droidosis-

Yea the browser in the rom is not a Google release. I'm not complaining I just want to go back to the old browser and keep everything else in the rom.

 

[hondapro]

I finally got the stock version working. I found that Pete put up a deodexed stock 2.0.1 nandroid backup here. I removed the mt browser and copied the stock Browser.apk to the phone and it works great.

I did this with adb but you can do it from the phone too.

From Phone:

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
rm /system/lib/libmtwebcore.so
cat sdcard/Browser.apk > /system/app/Browser.apk
mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
sync

From Computer:

adb shell
$ su
# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
# rm /system/lib/libmtwebcore.so
# rm /system/app/Browser.apk
# exit
adb push (location of stock Browser.apk) /system/app/Browser.apk
adb shell
# mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
# sync