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[Q] I deleted Gtalk, Talk, etc (the talk services) help

HELP! I have Root Explorer installed on my rooted Evo (2.1) no custom ROM. Like an idiot, I uninstalled gtalkservice.apk, talk.apk and talkprovider.apk. Fortunately I moved them to my sd card so they didn't disappear. Of course, now I keep getting that "com.google.process.gapps" error message and I haven't been able to download apps from the market all day. I tried reinstalling the apps with both package installer and with app installer to no avail. Someone please tell me how to fix my idiotic mistake! Thanks!

have you tried adb install?

fenixjn said:
have you tried adb install?
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How do I do that? I don't know if I have that on my phone and I can't download anything from the market...do you have a link and instructions on how to use? Sorry I'm such a noob....

HAXSUNG GAL said:
How do I do that? I don't know if I have that on my phone and I can't download anything from the market...do you have a link and instructions on how to use? Sorry I'm such a noob....
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Is your phone rooted? If so, hopefully you have installed a custom recovery and you can flash the google apps file from the CM6 thread. If you are not rooted there are 2 options:
1 - Rerun the RUU. This means you'll lose all data OR
2 - ADB install the missing apps, this is more complicated as you need several things, like the android development kit, the driver and the files you took off.

fenixjn said:
Is your phone rooted? If so, hopefully you have installed a custom recovery and you can flash the google apps file from the CM6 thread. If you are not rooted there are 2 options:
1 - Rerun the RUU. This means you'll lose all data OR
2 - ADB install the missing apps, this is more complicated as you need several things, like the android development kit, the driver and the files you took off.
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Thanks for your response Fen....OK yes I'm rooted. 2.1 Evo. How do I get to the CM6 thread?? I rooted several months ago and other than get myself into trouble today I haven't done any other stuff than install root-friendly apps....

A shout out to MIZTAKEN over on the Captivate board that had kindly posted all (3) .apk's because his Dad had also stupidly zapped them off his Galaxy S making app market unusable....THANK GOODNESS....uploaded all 3 - life is good!!!!

[APP][Q] Facebook 1.4.0

so Facebook updated their Android app. When i try to update, installation was unsuccessful.
Having had to deal with this before....i backup'd w/ TB, uninstalled, restarted, and trying to update again. Same issue (installation was unsuccessful). Now, TB won't let me restore my backup for some reason
Has anyone else experienced this yet or know how to fix it??
Worst case, could someone upload the 1.4 .apk for me?
Thanks guys.

MMBosstones86 said:
so Facebook updated their Android app. When i try to update, installation was unsuccessful.
Having had to deal with this before....i backup'd w/ TB, uninstalled, restarted, and trying to update again. Same issue (installation was unsuccessful). Now, TB won't let me restore my backup for some reason
Has anyone else experienced this yet or know how to fix it??
Worst case, could someone upload the 1.4 .apk for me?
Thanks guys.
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Some ROMs will not allow the update...for instance I'm running Ultimate Droid and launcher pro fails for done reason.
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*Fixed*
I had to uninstall w/ TB and Reboot. Clear cache/data from market (restart) in order to install.
Then had to fix permissions with rom manager in order to run the app.
Seems like quite a hassle...wonder if anyone else is going through troubles

MMBosstones86 said:
*Fixed*
Seems like quite a hassle...wonder if anyone else is going through troubles
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Market told me there was an update available, I went in and did the manual update and it d/l and installed with no problem. See device info below. We finally get to catch up with the iPhone zombies with "Places"....cant say that I missed it too much.

I'm running Uncommon Sense and I can't update to FB 1.4.0 either. It just says installation unsuccessful. If anyone finds a solution please post.

fillossofer said:
i'm running uncommon sense and i can't update to fb 1.4.0 either. It just says installation unsuccessful. If anyone finds a solution please post.
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after it fails in the market, go to astro sdcard/download and instal from there. Thats what i do with all the fail installs. Always works.

Ugh I'm on uncommon sense to, no fix yet guys?

If your facebook apk is in the system/app directory, you may need to manually delete the apk (use Root Explorer), reboot, then try installing Facebook from the market.
(This worked for me with Uncommon Sense)

MMBosstones86 said:
*Fixed*
I had to uninstall w/ TB and Reboot. Clear cache/data from market (restart) in order to install.
Then had to fix permissions with rom manager in order to run the app.
Seems like quite a hassle...wonder if anyone else is going through troubles
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^ theres the fix, it works...but its a pain to go through

theotherrogue said:
if your facebook apk is in the system/app directory, you may need to manually delete the apk (use root explorer), reboot, then try installing facebook from the market.
(this worked for me with uncommon sense)
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this works

theotherrogue said:
If your facebook apk is in the system/app directory, you may need to manually delete the apk (use Root Explorer), reboot, then try installing Facebook from the market.
(This worked for me with Uncommon Sense)
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Worked for me, thanks! (also running Uncommon)

fillossofer said:
Worked for me, thanks! (also running Uncommon)
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Another success here with that helpful advice. Thanks!!

[Q] Google services framework HELP!!!

I consider myself to be somewhat intelligent, mostly when it comes to being able to read, write, and search for things on the internet. I have searched these forums and others and only found two references to this question with no answers. Forgive me if my self inflated ego of being able to find answers online is misplaced.
When I try to install the Google services framework (googleservicesframework.apk) on my kindle fire I get the message "application not installed". What am I doing wrong? How do I install this? I am trying to install google apps, namely gmail. After I got the "application not installed" I did reset the device and install the gmail.apk but to no avail, the app would not even open.
I am running 6.2.2 and have recently rooted my kindle and have superuser access. I understand that root is not necessary to install google services framework but I did it nonetheless in hopes that it would help (which it has not).
I know others have had this problem, but I have not found any advice anywhere on this, please help!!! Thanks!

if you'r rooted and put the googleservicesframework.apk in /system/app then there is no need to install it (yes it will fail) - just restart the kf - you'll see it running ...

Thanks for the response! After pasting the googleservicesframework.apk to /system/app and restarting I do not see the application under "running applications", in fact I didnt even see it under "all applications". I know you said there was no need to install the app, but after I didnt see it running I tried to install it anyway then reset, it didnt help.
Its probably good to mention that ive tried this with multiple apks, ive read that there are different ones although I cant seem to tell which ones are different.
Any other advice??

This is the .apk I used on both my KF and my wife's KF. In fact I just installed it on hers last night. Hopefully it works for you.

It Worked!! It must have just been the difference in the apk. Thanks so much for the help guys!

Argh. Sorry all, having searched everywhere and found this thread I did what you said and STILL get Application Not Installed.
Can anyone offer me advice? Much appreciated if so.

look at post #2 !

This worked for me also
Thanks. I was having the same problem with my Kindle and this version worked for me also.

Kranix said:
This is the .apk I used on both my KF and my wife's KF. In fact I just installed it on hers last night. Hopefully it works for you.
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Thank you so much! I had a link to an older apk that did not work correctly. With that apk and "Any Cut", I was able to create a shortcut to "Accounts and sync" to get my gmail contacts and mail syncing properly.

Not an APK file
Kranix said:
This is the .apk I used on both my KF and my wife's KF. In fact I just installed it on hers last night. Hopefully it works for you.
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Hello,
the link you provided is not an APK file. Rather, it is a ZIP file.

eazyigz said:
Hello,
the link you provided is not an APK file. Rather, it is a ZIP file.
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When You move it to the kindle rename the File with a File explorer. Just remove the .zip extension and replace it with .apk. It should then install properly....Mine did.

Kranix said:
This is the .apk I used on both my KF and my wife's KF. In fact I just installed it on hers last night. Hopefully it works for you.
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yes this apk fie gets installed but after the installation of this fil play store stops working ...what to do plz help me ?

Sushant Rohilla said:
yes this apk fie gets installed but after the installation of this fil play store stops working ...what to do plz help me ?
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Yeah, it is simple. Take your Kindle and smash it with a hammer and go by a Nook. Seriously this thing is the biggest pain in the A$$. I have got it to work only to have it shut down and not recognize the framework again. My Nook was so much easier to root and the Nexus 7 is even better, you don't have to root it.
**** Kindle and Nook to a lesser extent.

Ichigo,
The problem is when the framework is not working the Google Play Store crashes. None of my Android phones, my nook, or my nexus ever had such difficulty. The Nexus was nice because it didn't need any root.

Ichigo said:
Did you read the spoiler?
Anyways, that would be an OS problem. You could always just install a different ROM. Besides, I was on stock and had the framework work fine. As long as you have the current version and had the permissions set to rw-r-r, it should work.
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Yes, I read the spoiler.
No, I installed several different roms on both CM and TEAMWIN attempting every combination I could think of. Nothing seemed to work. Finally I gave it to my little girl as a reader and installed all the apps with APK files because I couldn't get the play store to not crash. My wife was ready to kill me I was wasting so much time with the thing. It was a free Kindle, so it wasn't that big of a deal.At least now my daughter can't go on and download any app she wants, I have control over that.

eazyigz said:
Hello,
the link you provided is not an APK file. Rather, it is a ZIP file.
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The app that I use to unzip these files is androzip. Try using this to unzip the file.

Nicx02 said:
The app that I use to unzip these files is androzip. Try using this to unzip the file.
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just change the .zip file extension to .apk

Kranix said:
This is the .apk I used on both my KF and my wife's KF. In fact I just installed it on hers last night. Hopefully it works for you.
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this is veeerrry helpful. thank you so much! :victory:

I deleted my Google services framework in Titanium Backup...
So i moved it to system/app using Root Explorer install and reboot.
Now works - thanks!

[UPDATED 11/1/2012] [Exclusive] Unreleased Gmail 4.2 APK With Pinch-To-Zoom

Now that the dump is out, im hosting the gmail apk again! enjoy!
here it is guys, the newest Gmail 4.2 Reported to be working for Android 4.0+, rooted devices only. If you are having issues with 'waiting to sync', clear app data under settings and try again
Installation Option 1:
uwdus said:
Uninstalled old apk with Titanium -> Reboot -> Installed new Gmail apk with explorer -> Reboot - Done
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Installation Option 2:
The Gmail 4.2 APK is signed by Google, but with a different key than the one in the Play Store (we checked the signatures - they differ). One is probably the test key and the other the production key. For this reason, you can't simply install it as an update and therefore need to be rooted with the ability to mount the /system directory for writing in order to remove the existing Gmail APK.
OK, let's get down to it. You'll probably need ADB installed on your computer (here's an easy way that doesn't require downloading the Android SDK). There is a chance that this might work without ADB by just removing the APKs mentioned below and installing the new one, but it didn't seem to work reliably for everyone. This should, though:
1. Download Gmail 4.2 from one of the mirrors above.
2. Rename it to Gmail2.apk.
3. Make a Nandroid backup in case something goes wrong (this is always a good thing to do before messing with your device).
4. Delete (or move if you want to save the APKs) all other versions of Gmail. Usually there are 2 or 3 copies. One will be in /system/app (that's the original Gmail that was pre-installed on the device) and there may be a few in /data/app (these are the updates installed from the Play Store). They'll be called "Gmail.apk," or "com.google.android.gm-[number].apk," An easy way to tell is to look for the Gmail icon.
5. You may need to delete the .odex files matching the APKs in step 4 too, if you have them. Neither I nor Artem had to do this, but there are many different ROMs out there, and we're trying to cover all bases. Ignore this step and only come back to it if something doesn't work later.
6. Reboot. Once you do, you should have no Gmail as far as Android is concerned.
7. You can try to install the Gmail 4.2 APK you downloaded at this point by tapping it in your favorite file explorer (move the APK to your device first, of course). If that doesn't work, or if you prefer ADB, fire up a command line and type adb install Gmail2.apk.
If you get an error message, you probably didn't delete all copies of Gmail. If you don't feel like playing with ADB for Step 7, I've also gotten it to work by just copying the APK to /data/app, but that's not as fool proof as "ADB install".
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get it here
Video review courtesy of qbking added
original link: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...ed-gmail-4-2-apk-with-pinch-to-zoom-and-more/

Gotta test this out....
It feels so good to finally have this! My new default version....bump the rest til Google adds it officially lol

itsmikeramsay said:
Gotta test this out....
It feels so good to finally have this! My new default version....bump the rest til Google adds it officially lol
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Enjoy man. Looks like I posted this here on xda before anyone else, and I posted it here first, so you guys were the first to have a crack at it lol
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Doesn't seem to want to install for me. Tried package installer and Root Explorer and no go!
I deleted it and that didn't work either.
Powered by the SGSIII

Any special way to install this. Won't work with my nexus 7 on 4.1.2
Going to try on my GS3 here soon.
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verboten said:
Any special way to install this. Won't work with my nexus 7 on 4.1.2
Going to try on my GS3 here soon.
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Instructions are in the OP
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mrmako777 said:
Instructions are in the OP
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So sorry, I didn't see it in the XDA app. My Bad, thanks for this.

Haha, my bad hecka missed them too. You know what they say, if you want to hide something just put it in the OP at XDA. Lol
Powered by the SGSIII

U have to give permissions to. I just deleted old gmail in ROM toolbox. Renamed new one to gmail2.apk gave permissions then rebooted and voila

Works fine
Inviato dal mio GT-I9100

FYI - I was able to uninstall the old gmail with titanium, reboot, and install the new gmail without any problem.

ScientificOne said:
FYI - I was able to uninstall the old gmail with titanium, reboot, and install the new gmail without any problem.
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Installed fine for me Thanks a ton!!:good:

Thank you so much. This is soooo much easier than the first post. It worked for me perfect with Titanium. I wiped data and then uninstalled. Rebooted and went to root browser and found Gmail2. Installed AND: Instant Gratification.
Have a Cigar

[wrong thread, sorry]

OP updated with video review and alternate instructions :good:

Does this pre-release version supercede future Gmail updates?
Thanks for the update. Love the new pinch-to-zoom feature! (BTW, swipe to "archive or delete" always archives for me. Can't figure out how to choose delete, instead.)
Question: Now that I have this pre-release Gmail2.apk installed, does this mean that I won't get any more Production releases of the Gmail app? (After all, I uninstalled the original Gmail app with Titanium Backup before I installed the new Gmail2.apk.) Once Gmail 4.2 is formally released, should I uninstall the Gmail2.apk and re-install the deleted Gmail.apk? (Will that work using TB?)

neoteric55 said:
Thanks for the update. Love the new pinch-to-zoom feature! (BTW, swipe to "archive or delete" always archives for me. Can't figure out how to choose delete, instead.)
Question: Now that I have this pre-release Gmail2.apk installed, does this mean that I won't get any more Production releases of the Gmail app? (After all, I uninstalled the original Gmail app with Titanium Backup before I installed the new Gmail2.apk.) Once Gmail 4.2 is formally released, should I uninstall the Gmail2.apk and re-install the deleted Gmail.apk? (Will that work using TB?)
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As of now gmail won't appear in your play store. Once it's released to the public, you should be able to uninstall the leak and just download the new one from the store.
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removed old gmail from explorer... just downloaded the renamed file.... click to install... took a second to sync.. and bam.. golden
didnt have to copy paste into system/app -
thanks again OP :good:

i dont think this works on cm10 i couldnt get it to work, has anyone

I always delete the gmail ap in favor of K9 mail. Can the gmail app be used for other pop3 email accounts as well?

[Request] Secret Flag Modified Google Search Apk

Question is, can someone modify the apk as below???
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...-enable-voice-prompt-in-search-results-video/
Turns out, there's a secret flag within Search that lets you use the hotword, set by default to 'Google,' anywhere in search results instead of just the home Activity. By default, Search will let you say "Google" to activate voice input only in the main Search screen, after which you'd have to tap the Back button in order to use it again. It's nice, but it's not very fluid, as you have to keep touching your device.
The secret flag enables it in search results, so you can perform search after search after search without ever touching your phone or tablet.
As for the technical details, the flag is located in res/values/bools and is called hotword_from_results. To activate it, one would flip it from false to true, like so:
<bool name="hotword_from_results">true</bool>
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Wezi said:
Question is, can someone modify the apk as below???
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...-enable-voice-prompt-in-search-results-video/
Turns out, there's a secret flag within Search that lets you use the hotword, set by default to 'Google,' anywhere in search results instead of just the home Activity. By default, Search will let you say "Google" to activate voice input only in the main Search screen, after which you'd have to tap the Back button in order to use it again. It's nice, but it's not very fluid, as you have to keep touching your device.
The secret flag enables it in search results, so you can perform search after search after search without ever touching your phone or tablet.
As for the technical details, the flag is located in res/values/bools and is called hotword_from_results. To activate it, one would flip it from false to true, like so:
<bool name="hotword_from_results">true</bool>
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I decompiled, made the above changes, recompiled with no errors, and got it to install but it force closes every time i try to open it. Maybe someone else can provide some insight. I used AutoAPKTool to make the edits

Cans someone resolve this? I'd do it myself but having tons of trouble getting my device to show on adb (after many tries, different methods)

I tried to make an Xposed module to patch it on the fly, but it is not working:
Code:
resparam.res.setReplacement("com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox", "boolean", "hotword_from_results", true);
upon starting the module, I get "Resource$NotFoundException", I tried other forms of the setReplacement method but none worked. I am still new to Xposed, so maybe I am doing this in a wrong way, attached are the sources of the Eclipse project in case someone can make it work.

If someone have the source of google now apk i can do something
I don't know if it's available, or also can be made from decompiling and recompile

firetrap said:
If someone have the source of google now apk i can do something
I don't know if it's available, or also can be made from decompiling and recompile
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no you dont need source, just decompile. change the value, recompile. replace it
done.

Yes I know it's just iam working right now in my app and for me it's much easier to have the source I only had to import to eclipse than playing with apk tool etc in a few hours I will do that
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firetrap said:
Yes I know it's just iam working right now in my app and for me it's much easier to have the source I only had to import to eclipse than playing with apk tool etc in a few hours I will do that
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you dont need to import to eclipse, all you do is just decompile it and change false to true.
you're making it so complicated on your part. i already did it, going to test it now it literally takes 30-45 seconds to do.

zephiK said:
you dont need to import to eclipse, all you do is just decompile it and change false to true.
you're making it so complicated on your part. i already did it, going to test it now it literally takes 30-45 seconds to do.
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Yes but i was in the company desktop and here i don't have acess to apktool just because my company restricts the download site as dev host rapid share etc. now at home i had decompiled changed from false to true and recompiled and signed etc etc.. so i tested and the behaviour is the same are you guys sure that it's only change to do?! i think i had all perfect if you want i can upload the "modded apk"
EDIT: it doesn't work i don't know why here is the decompiled files and its true, i recompile sign and check manifest and all ok, but after install the behavior its the same
https://mega.co.nz/#!KZlVkIgS!FVLyrUXwtI4w5NHX22u7bWMcWZpEr5-7SydfU_fYX6M
Here the recompiled file i made you can test:
https://mega.co.nz/#!yJUjmYCC!fancLR6DwIlQHxYmX9JmNzCJEPBmpLgkIFsTFw4e_jw
Maybe the guy from the "30-45" seconds have more time to debugg this

I just modded this and got it running w/o issue.
I'm on CM 10.2 so I had to do some adjusting as there was an update installed to /data/app, with the original in /system/app.
I just uninstalled the update via the Play Store, and then moved the original (for CM it's QuickSearchBox.apk to QuickSearchBox.apk.bak), and adb pushed the newly modded apk (attached), to /system/app.
After doing all that, BOOM goes the dynamite.
Works for me, YMMV.
Hotword Quick Search

JsChiSurf said:
I just modded this and got it running w/o issue.
I'm on CM 10.2 so I had to do some adjusting as there was an update installed to /data/app, with the original in /system/app.
I just uninstalled the update via the Play Store, and then moved the original (for CM it's QuickSearchBox.apk to QuickSearchBox.apk.bak), and adb pushed the newly modded apk (attached), to /system/app.
After doing all that, BOOM goes the dynamite.
Works for me, YMMV.
Hotword Quick Search
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Any way to do this without using ADB? (Having tons of trouble getting my SGS3 to be recognized). Tried installing the apk by itself but the installation fails.

trein91 said:
Any way to do this without using ADB? (Having tons of trouble getting my SGS3 to be recognized). Tried installing the apk by itself but the installation fails.
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Are you rooted? I needed to make this a system app, as mentioned, to avoid signature conflicts, etc.
If so, I can make a zip to install to /system/app for you. I don't think it will work (as you have discovered), if you try and install as a standard app to /data/app, which is what clicking the download link and attempting to install is doing.

JsChiSurf said:
Are you rooted? I needed to make this a system app, as mentioned, to avoid signature conflicts, etc.
If so, I can make a zip to install to /system/app for you. I don't think it will work (as you have discovered), if you try and install as a standard app to /data/app, which is what clicking the download link and attempting to install is doing.
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Please make a flashable zip, would love to try it
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OK. So I didn't have any files in data/app so I went ahead and just made quixksearchbox a .bak, and pushed new one after renaming it and setting permissions. Its working great.
I'm on PA
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Here's a flashable zip. Though, because it has to place the APK in the /system/ folder (partition), the zip (out of the box), is only likely to work on the Nexus 4, since mount points are going to differ by phone. Any other phone you'll have to modify the script.
As mentioned previously, if you want to try and flash, FIRST, be sure to uninstall 'Google Search' from the play store.
Since I don't think there is a way to move a file in edify, and I'm too lazy to include a shell script to run a move command, I instead delete QuickSearchBox.apk if it is in your /system/app/ folder (instead of backing it up if you want to restore later), and then copy over qs.apk (the modded version).
I restored to original, ran the above process on CM 10.2, and got the results expected / desired (i.e. the attached zip is confirmed working in my setup).

It works on PA 3.99. However you'll need to set voice to US English or it won't work.
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Anon87 said:
It works on PA 3.99. However you'll need to set voice to US English or it won't work.
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Would be nice if this could be activated with any language.
Is it possible by changing any other flag?

JsChiSurf said:
Are you rooted? I needed to make this a system app, as mentioned, to avoid signature conflicts, etc.
If so, I can make a zip to install to /system/app for you. I don't think it will work (as you have discovered), if you try and install as a standard app to /data/app, which is what clicking the download link and attempting to install is doing.
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Good Afternoon,
I am getting FCs after flashing the app. I am using a stock rooted ROM
I removed Google Search< restarted the phone<verify Googgle search was removed< flashed zip<rebooted phone<open app<set up account<FCs
anyone got a suggestion to get it working,

Lento10 said:
Good Afternoon,
I am getting FCs after flashing the app. I am using a stock rooted ROM
I removed Google Search< restarted the phone<verify Googgle search was removed< flashed zip<rebooted phone<open app<set up account<FCs
anyone got a suggestion to get it working,
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Is the ROM odexed?

jarjar124 said:
Is the ROM odexed?
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Deodex stock rom
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