Hello, I just recently installed a custom ROM (Darkside Evolution 3) on a Galaxy SII T989. I noticed it did not come with the Market Updater app (com.android.vendor.apk) and wanted to know why something like this would not be included, and can I reinstall it. I have a backup from ROM Toolbox of this app, so I can restore it.
Will missing this app not allow me to update either Google Play or my apps automatically?
Thanks.
BigGPops said:
Hello, I just recently installed a custom ROM (Darkside Evolution 3) on a Galaxy SII T989. I noticed it did not come with the Market Updater app (com.android.vendor.apk) and wanted to know why something like this would not be included, and can I reinstall it. I have a backup from ROM Toolbox of this app, so I can restore it.
Will missing this app not allow me to update either Google Play or my apps automatically?
Thanks.
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It should, although you might have a bad download a reflash would probably fix it. A restore would as well I'd think.
VoiD_Dweller said:
It should, although you might have a bad download a reflash would probably fix it. A restore would as well I'd think.
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Thanks for replying. I actually tried flashing twice, with a full wipe in-between, and still no Market Updater app. I would have posted this question in the actual developer thread for that specific ROM, but seeing as though I don't have ten posts yet, I am not allowed.
Thanks
VoiD_Dweller said:
It should, although you might have a bad download a reflash would probably fix it. A restore would as well I'd think.
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Thanks !!
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Hi ,I flashed cm7 yesterday everything seems to work well except the android market every time i try to download something it force to close for some reason!
any help would be appreciated!
yeah I flashed gapps ,and i did a full wipe !
I have CM7 on my desire and no problem with my android market. Try a full wipe again and check your gapps version, the correct version for CM7 is 20110115.
cris32 said:
I have CM7 on my desire and no problem with my android market. Try a full wipe again and check your gapps version, the correct version for CM7 is 20110115.
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I used 20110307 which is the latest one ,anyways ill give 20110115 a try !
You can try the Market Doctor that's part of Titanium Backup.
My market cannot be opened. it actually opened but immediately closed/crashed. Now on Starburst rom, everything just so smooth.
hello i flashed cm7 today i can`t find "market" . can someone help me ? what is gapps .. ? i didn` flash it.. thanks
ok sorry , gapps is google app sorry
oh i just dislike how the market is not included, everything else i can, but i mean come on!!! Oh and don't we have to flash app2sd script as well?? why make it so complicated? why can't they just inc everything in one?
lavafire said:
oh i just dislike how the market is not included, everything else i can, but i mean come on!!! Oh and don't we have to flash app2sd script as well?? why make it so complicated? why can't they just inc everything in one?
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becasue the cyanogenmod has much visibility in the world..and google asked cyanogen to remove the gapps from the rom (legal things)..other roms usually have gapps included because no one (google) care about it..
Maybe you can try this apk first. Don't need to use Recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1231823
lcsboy said:
Maybe you can try this apk first. Don't need to use Recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1231823
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I had the same problem and tried this but I have to add an account but it wont let me add my gmail account. Any ideas?
Ok so i absoloutly love the ROM, But after this last update (9-1-2012)for some reason after following the flashing process and the ROM installs and everything i go to download my apps from the play store and some if not all of my apps say that they are incompatible with my device (galaxy s3). I tried reflashing, reverting back to ICS the flashing, cleared all caches. Can someone please help me? am i missing something? am i doing something wrong? am i the only one? i dont see anything on the cm10 post either about that. please let me know. thank you
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Ok so i absoloutly love the ROM, But after this last update (9-1-2012)for some reason after following the flashing process and the ROM installs and everything i go to download my apps from the play store and some if not all of my apps say that they are incompatible with my device (galaxy s3). I tried reflashing, reverting back to ICS the flashing, cleared all caches. Can someone please help me? am i missing something? am i doing something wrong? am i the only one? i dont see anything on the cm10 post either about that. please let me know. thank you
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Sounds right. Anything dependent on touchwiz wont work. You're likely to get s lot of incompatible errors because of the changes in the density as well. Running tablet mode comes at a price. you can just sideload the ones it says are incompatible or get them from blackmart.
blackmart link (use responsibly)https://dl.dropbox.com/s/t9pqttpf4p4bp76/blackmart[1].apk?dl=1
My thing is that I was using the previous version just fine was able to download apps fine so what's different in this release
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blueeyedbassist said:
My thing is that I was using the previous version just fine was able to download apps fine so what's different in this release
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This is just taking a shot in the dark but maybe something changed in the build.prop. Try pulling the build.prop file from the last version of P.A and replacing the one in /system. Then resync w/google
Hey everyone. Whats up. I am wondering if a complete wipe is mandatory every time when upgrading to a the latest cyanogen mod version? (To Clarify I mean from an older cyanogen 10.1 rom version). If so is there simple instructions that you could give me to explain exactly how?
~Fellow rocker
Thanks in advance
rockingfreely said:
Hey everyone. Whats up. I am wondering if a complete wipe is mandatory every time when upgrading to a the latest cyanogen mod version? (To Clarify I mean from an older cyanogen 10.1 rom version). If so is there simple instructions that you could give me to explain exactly how?
~Fellow rocker
Thanks in advance
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If it doesn't say in the OP where the instructions are, you are normally safe. You can always use Titanium Backup to save all of your apps and settings and them restore them after installing the updated version. Never restore system settings to any ROM that is not what you backed them up from. Apps are fine to do so.
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If it doesn't say in the OP where the instructions are, you are normally safe. You can always use Titanium Backup to save all of your apps and settings and them restore them after installing the updated version. Never restore system settings to any ROM that is not what you backed them up from. Apps are fine to do so.
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Thanks Gray for your prompt reply, although to sum my question up more, I was really asking something different. You see I have an older version of cyanogen mod 10.1, using the same rom, I'd like to know how to upgrade to the newest version which is Feb 26 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2099881 without deleting my data. It kinda sucks to go through this process time and time again lol
~rockingfreely
The answer is in the OP install instructions of that ROM.
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the reason you always wipe is to avoid bugs and problems. Even though you can get away with dirty flashing sometimes, most of the time its going to cause problems and lag
Do yourself a favor, buy either titanium backup pro or rom toolbox pro, backup whats important with those, and clean flash. those are the best way to keep things while avoiding problems
Hi everyone,
2 days ago, I updated my SGH-T989 running CM10.0 to CM10.1 Experimental. I shouldn't have done it, but at 7am before my first coffee my mind just said "Hey! There's an update to 10.1! Awesome!".
Anyway, it wasn't a good move. Since then I can't log into anything Google. When I go to my settings and look at the accounts, there isn't even a Google account type to add to my accounts. So no Gmail, no Google Play, no anything that requires Google.
Anybody else find this? Can anyone help me get it back?
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Hi everyone,
2 days ago, I updated my SGH-T989 running CM10.0 to CM10.1 Experimental. I shouldn't have done it, but at 7am before my first coffee my mind just said "Hey! There's an update to 10.1! Awesome!".
Anyway, it wasn't a good move. Since then I can't log into anything Google. When I go to my settings and look at the accounts, there isn't even a Google account type to add to my accounts. So no Gmail, no Google Play, no anything that requires Google.
Anybody else find this? Can anyone help me get it back?
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Did you dirty flash from CM 10 to CM 10.1?
did you flash the correct gapps file for 10.1?
if you didn't, you won't get any google apps.
The question is did he even flash gapps lol
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Shmi117 said:
Did you dirty flash from CM 10 to CM 10.1?
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I'm sorry...what do you mean by "dirty flash"?
mike-y said:
did you flash the correct gapps file for 10.1?
if you didn't, you won't get any google apps.
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I guess I didn't. I just found a link (goo.im) and am downloading them now. I'll let you know if it works.
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did you flash the correct gapps file for 10.1?
if you didn't, you won't get any google apps.
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Worked. Thanks!
Got them from goo.im/apps
glad it worked!
for future reference, whenever you flash a rom of a different OS number, you usually need to flash a new gapps (google apps) file to get the correct apps for that update.
And a "dirty flash" means you didn't do a factory reset (wipes cache, dalvik, and data) before you flashed the new rom. You should always perform a factory reset before flashing a new rom (unless it's just an update of the same rom), to clear out the old apps and files. Otherwise you can have compatibility issues.
What happens after the root ?
Do I have to run factory reset ?
Do all my settings stay the same ?
Do I now have the SD app and media transfer capabilities ?
Any feedback and info will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks guys
You should just Google that question and read about why you should root. Google is your friend.
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emeres said:
What happens after the root ?
Do I have to run factory reset ?
Do all my settings stay the same ?
Do I now have the SD app and media transfer capabilities ?
Any feedback and info will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks guys
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Nothing.
No.
Yes.
No.
Rooting just gives you access to the system partition. That is it. Nothing else. It does this by adding a system app that acts as a gateway over what apps can and can't have acecss to making changes to the system partition.
Once oyu are rooted you then can use apps and other tricks to add thigns like SD stoarge and stuff like that.
emeres said:
What happens after the root ?
Do I have to run factory reset ?
Do all my settings stay the same ?
Do I now have the SD app and media transfer capabilities ?
Any feedback and info will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks guys
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2 questions for you:
what Android and baseband versions is your S4 on?
what are you interested in doing after rooting? do you want to stay near-stock or change/customize everything?
I think I am going to use CyanogenMod Installer and be done with it. This seems to be the simplest and most safe solution for newbies like me.
Plus Cyanogen is really close to Kitkat UI so I will just go with that.
One question though:
I know that I don't have to root my phone to use the installer, is the phone being rooted using the installer ? Or does it stay unrooted with the new OS ?
emeres said:
I think I am going to use CyanogenMod Installer and be done with it. This seems to be the simplest and most safe solution for newbies like me.
Plus Cyanogen is really close to Kitkat UI so I will just go with that.
One question though:
I know that I don't have to root my phone to use the installer, is the phone being rooted using the installer ? Or does it stay unrooted with the new OS ?
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KitKat is not a UI. KitKat is a version of the Android operating system. The UI is determined by the ROM, which uses the operating system as a base.
You will find that Cyanogen UI is VERY different from the stock TouchWiz ROM UI that you have now. (You may like it better. Half of custom romusers prefer AOSP roms like CM over stock ROMs like TouchWiz or Sense. Half the people hate them. It's all about prefernce)
As fro root, root is not in the phone. Root is in the operating system itself. Cyanogen comes with root preinstalled, so by installing CM you will have root. All custom roms are pre-rooted like this. All root really is is an app in the system partition called Superuser. That's it.
Thanks for the info again.
My friend is trying to back up his data before we both proceed with the CyanogenMod Installer but has difficulties with backing up third party apps. He says he can back up Samsung apps with no problem but there is always a problem with third party apps. Any recommendation on good backup app ? He also purchased Titanium backup but he needs to root his phone to use it.
That's for my friend now I have one more question:
Will I have googleapps with cyanogenmod installer right from the start ? I still want to use google play store, gmail, google maps and so forth.
emeres said:
Thanks for the info again.
My friend is trying to back up his data before we both proceed with the CyanogenMod Installer but has difficulties with backing up third party apps. He says he can back up Samsung apps with no problem but there is always a problem with third party apps. Any recommendation on good backup app ? He also purchased Titanium backup but he needs to root his phone to use it.
That's for my friend now I have one more question:
Will I have googleapps with cyanogenmod installer right from the start ? I still want to use google play store, gmail, google maps and so forth.
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Just root the phone first and make your back ups.
CF Auto root. It takes 30 seconds. It's the easiest thing in the world. You literally CANNOT screw it up.
Root hte phone, make backups, then install CM.
Also, Helium backup is what I use. Makes everything into a clean batch operation. And it's free. But you need to be rooted.
If I don't need to back anything up should I still root my phone ? As you mentioned before CM Installer comes with the root.
And also after the CM is installed will I have an option to go back to my previous system ?
Will it install Stock Recovery ? And what does that mean ? I am sorry I am really new to all this. Just trying to learn.
emeres said:
If I don't need to back anything up should I still root my phone ? As you mentioned before CM Installer comes with the root.
And also after the CM is installed will I have an option to go back to my previous system ?
Will it install Stock Recovery ? And what does that mean ? I am sorry I am really new to all this. Just trying to learn.
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You can always go back via odin (search and ye shall find more aboit odin). Just install CM and be done with it. Take the plunge.
Sent from your phone. You should be more careful where you leave that thing.
One more and last question:
After CM installation using CM installer, do I get all google apps installed ? Such as Gmail, Maps, Google Voice Search ?
And is lookout app working with CM ?
emeres said:
One more and last question:
After CM installation using CM installer, do I get all google apps installed ? Such as Gmail, Maps, Google Voice Search ?
And is lookout app working with CM ?
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Not sure with the cm installer but I don't think so. Tge gapps package doesnt come with cm when you flash it in recovery. But its easy to do. Just download gapps, they are in every single rom thread on xda, and flash them in recovery
Sent from your phone. You should be more careful where you leave that thing.