What exactly is Google Addons?
The market
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The Google Apps? You need them so you're apps function correctly, gmail, market, ect. Needed to be flashed up your first installation of a gingerbread rom. If you mean when you first boot up your phone, just extra apps you can install if you want.
The Google Apps addon is a flashable ZIP which contains the files for the Android Market, Google Talk, Google Sync, and other back-end files and libraries needed for Google applications from the Market, like those that allow for C2DM (push notifications).
They aren't included in CyanogenMod and other similar ROMs due to Google throwing a hissy fit back in CM4, saying that CM could be used to port those applications to devices which don't come with Google Apps, despite the fact that there are no such devices currently in development, let alone back then.
Ok so if I'm installing any AOSP ROM's then I need to install the Google Addon's as well. But this is not needed with any Sense ROM's. Thanks all!
irl5fan said:
Ok so if I'm installing any AOSP ROM's then I need to install the Google Addon's as well. But this is not needed with any Sense ROM's. Thanks all!
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I tried some AOSP JB ROMs and none syncs with my google account: none restores my Wi-Fi passwords and my settings and in the menu Settings-backup and restore-account of backup (I hope this is the right translation, my phone is in Italian) there isn't my google accounto, but "Backing up to debug-only private cache.
Why does this thing appen? With my old nexus s it wasn't like this!
Can I do something in order to make AOSP ROMs work like the OTA?
Also the Gallery doesn't sync with Picasa, but I solved this problem puting the gallery of the OTA in system/app.
I hope someone can help me!
Thanks to everyone!
veneirt said:
I tried some AOSP JB ROMs and none syncs with my google account: none restores my Wi-Fi passwords and my settings and in the menu Settings-backup and restore-account of backup (I hope this is the right translation, my phone is in Italian) there isn't my google accounto, but "Backing up to debug-only private cache.
Why does this thing appen? With my old nexus s it wasn't like this!
Can I do something in order to make AOSP ROMs work like the OTA?
Also the Gallery doesn't sync with Picasa, but I solved this problem puting the gallery of the OTA in system/app.
I hope someone can help me!
Thanks to everyone!
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Depending on the ROM you may have to flash a GAPPs package
I always flash gapps when nedded..
Am I the only one with these problems?
Hmm..
Gapps package you're using is not working?
Does this happen with yakju/takju official images?
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other gapps work fine, but my phone doesn't sync settings and Wi-Fi history, I always use the package provided by the developer....
according to the galley, i found out that the AOSP gallery (gallery4.apk o something like that) doesn't sync with picasa, but I don't know what about settings.
gmail, the play store, current.......every gapp works fine apart from settings sync.
The official image and the OTA are OK, they work good.
I am planning to flash PA to my old Nexus 7 (Tilapia) without gapps. The idea is to find out whether an Android device can be decoupled from Google. And whether such a device can still be used in a normal day to day scenario for surfing, mail, contacts ...
There are many apps out there which could be used instead of the apps in the gapps package (i.e. play store => f-droid, mail => k-9, chrome => firefox, maps => navit / OsmAnd, ...). And with a simple raspberry pi and owncloud also some of the google services can be replaced by an self hosted solution.
What are your thoughts on this:
- Is this possible in principle with PA?
- What should I watch out for when setting up the N7?
- Any other suggestions?
Of course you can do it. The ROM is functional without gapps
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I don't know what it is you should be watching out for when trying your experiment but I believe it can be done. You'll have to use a 3rd party app store to download the apps you want to replace the stock apps with (k-9, etc). But once you start doing that, what's the point?
To prove you don't need to use Google Branded apps? Just root your device, install Titanium and freeze all the google apps. Same thing, right?
Just flashed PA without gapps. Added some great Apps from f-droid. Everything works great. Next steps will be to Conect to a dropbox server.
Currently I am getting a notification that a new system update, a new gapps version is available. Can I somehow disable in PA the check for new gapp versions?
Thanks!
lafranconi said:
Just flashed PA without gapps. Added some great Apps from f-droid. Everything works great. Next steps will be to Conect to a dropbox server.
Currently I am getting a notification that a new system update, a new gapps version is available. Can I somehow disable in PA the check for new gapp versions?
Thanks!
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Just set it in the ota app...
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Pirateghost said:
Just set it in the ota app...
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Thanks Pirateghost, just found it.
I am currently running into two issues:
I installed the "920 text editor" via f-droid. But when I try to start it the app it opens for a nearly a second and then a error window says >"920 Text Editor" wurde beendet.< (I am using a German system; translation something like >"920 Text Editor" was stopped.<). Is there a log file which could provide more information why this application was not able to start?
I paired my German bluetooth keyboard (QWERTZ layout) with the nexus. But unlike to stock Android in PA they keyboard is mapped with the American layout (QWERTY layout). So some keys are not inline with the labelling. I did not find a way to change the used layout in the settings. Any ideas?
Hi guys,
I tried looking around but couldn't find a solution but i have a custom ROM and i wanted to install a few stock apps like the remote app and the power saving app because i was used to them, where can i find them and install them?
You can see if they are ported to aosp by browsing the themes and apps section.... But as a rule, apps made for Sense require the Sense framework to function. So sense based roms should have the apps, or at least you could manually install them.
As far as finding them, some may be on the play store, or you can wait for someone to upload them for you. ?
Darth said:
You can see if they are ported to aosp by browsing the themes and apps section.... But as a rule, apps made for Sense require the Sense framework to function. So sense based roms should have the apps, or at least you could manually install them.
As far as finding them, some may be on the play store, or you can wait for someone to upload them for you. ?
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Hi, thank you for the reply, yes i can now agree with you that i need a sense based ROM to have the stock apps working because they are available on the play store and you can install the app but when you run it, it refuses and says unsupported device.
Thanks for this
Hi, on the apkmirror i saw yesterday the google phone 4.0 already, but in cm 13 just 2.12.
how can i update all google apps in cm 13. the open gapps micro i installed.
thanks.
thwrldbyjw said:
Hi, on the apkmirror i saw yesterday the google phone 4.0 already, but in cm 13 just 2.12.
how can i update all google apps in cm 13. the open gapps micro i installed.
thanks.
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All Google apps should update themselves via play store. As for Google phone, can you find it on play store?
Are you talking about that one?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.dialer
the version seems to be 2.5.12_rc9
Anyway it's only for Nexus phone as all other phone use their own dialer and especially all CM rom (that's why you have to add the gapps afterward but that won't replace the dialer).
For other gapps, simply install the biggest gapps package, some google apps can only be updated, that mean if it's not pre installed, you can't install it (the purpose of the gapps). gapps micro lack a lot of google apps so use stock or super.
Edit : ok, simply use the google apps package called "stock"
https://github.com/opengapps/opengapps/wiki/Stock-Package
it will replace the dialer, the dialer you want.
have google apps under cm, but dont update the play. if i download from play than will duplicated.
am i right, that just from recovery have to install again the latest open gapps, and will up to date the phone, calculator, all google apps.
gapps will be considered as system app, the version from google play will act as an update.
Global Rom 11.0.9.0 rooted with TWRP and Magisk. Using Terminal debloater to gradually get rid of both miui bloat and google stuff.
Has been working ok until after debloating Cleaner, Games, Google Velvet, google One time initializer and google partner set up and google play services and Framework and Play store.
"Downloads" as a heading was in twice as well and took both of them out.
I would not have expected any of these to have stopped that function - anybody have a suggestion as currently cannot actually uninstall those and others?
sabei said:
Global Rom 11.0.9.0 rooted with TWRP and Magisk. Using Terminal debloater to gradually get rid of both miui bloat and google stuff.
Has been working ok until after debloating Cleaner, Games, Google Velvet, google One time initializer and google partner set up and google play services and Framework and Play store.
"Downloads" as a heading was in twice as well and took both of them out.
I would not have expected any of these to have stopped that function - anybody have a suggestion as currently cannot actually uninstall those and others?
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If your trying to remove all good stuff. Maybe easier to try install a China ROM instead of global. It already has no Google.
Since you are removing playstore and framework, all other Google apps would not function.
And the cleaner app aid closely tied to miui security app, and that can't be uninstalled.
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If your trying to remove all good stuff. Maybe easier to try install a China ROM instead of global. It already has no Google.
Since you are removing playstore and framework, all other Google apps would not function.
And the cleaner app aid closely tied to miui security app, and that can't be uninstalled.
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That is the point - I don't want any Google, but I also don't want loads of Chinese tracking instead.
I will probably move soon to a custom rom but wanted to try Miui first for a bit.
I will see if I can reinstall the cleaner although I have read elsewhere it was removed without fuss.
I will see if I can reinstall the cleaner
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For reference for anyone else who has this issue I did this via the debloater module and lo and behold Uninstall now works........