I just replaced the OTA 4.0.4 with CM10 4.1.1 rom and unfortunately google play doesn't auto download and install the apps i have in my account.
Contacts and calendar were synced ok though.
Is that supposed to be like that?
Could be a couple of reasons:
1) You didn't flash gapps after the rom.
2) Some roms don't have the ability baked in. I have experienced it many times. With CM10 being pre-nightly this is possible.
Once in a while the restore just glitches and doesn't work. Very rare but happens to me sometimes.
Just back up your apps with tibu
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It's because you changed rom flavors. To Google you got a new device as your I'd changes when you flash a different rom like stock to cm10. Stock to stock or cm10 to cm10 will let you restore from google
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Newbie here, Why do i read everywhere that i need to flash gapps if I ever flash my device?
Is gapps Google Apps?
Yes they are apps and framework from Google, like Google sync, Gmail, Maps, Talk... Google asked ROM developers to remove their copyrighted gapps from their ROM so you have to flash it most of the time.
Yes, Gapps is Google Apps, and it includes the Market among other things...
We have to flash it separately because google asked several popular developers to leave google apps out of their roms since it contained proprietary software.
another noob here, just about to flash a custom rom (AKOP to GNex) for the first time.
if i have all apps (user and system) backed up with titanium, do i still need to flash gapps?
(on a slightly less relevant note: i'm copying all titanium backups as well as the rom backup from clockwork mod rom manager to my computer so as not to lose them when flashing the new rom because i'm not really sure if they would be wiped. will they?)
thanks for your help
I have aokp ms4, annd flashed the gapps thats on aokps website. I lost the Google Music player.. Is there a way to get it back?
Malarie said:
I have aokp ms4, annd flashed the gapps thats on aokps website. I lost the Google Music player.. Is there a way to get it back?
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I believe google music is still in the market. Just download it.
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I would keep your titanium backups on your comp, just in case. I wouldn't, however, back up system apps as that can cause conflicts when you're restoring in a different rom. Just back up user apps. And yes, you do still need to flash gapps.
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gonintendo said:
I would keep your titanium backups on your comp, just in case. I wouldn't, however, back up system apps as that can cause conflicts when you're restoring in a different rom. Just back up user apps. And yes, you do still need to flash gapps.
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Precisely, well said.
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We have to flash it separately because google asked several popular developers to leave google apps out of their roms since it contained proprietary software.
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Google did not ask "several popular developers." To my knowledge, it was only Google sending CyanongenMod a Cease & Desist... because of this, developers decided to respect Google and stick to the respective Google Apps rather than including them in their ROMs. It is illegal to include these gapps with their ROM. However, you're fine with including them until Google sends that developer a C&D but only CyanogenMod received the C&D.
As far as TitaniumBackup.. you can also sync your backups to DropBox and now Box.
another noob here...just wondering how do u flash gapps? im planning to flash AOKP anf they said to flash gapps...
trissc said:
another noob here...just wondering how do u flash gapps? im planning to flash AOKP anf they said to flash gapps...
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Download gapps from the given source and flash them via CWM like a ROM.
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Google did not ask "several popular developers." To my knowledge, it was only Google sending CyanongenMod a Cease & Desist... because of this, developers decided to respect Google and stick to the respective Google Apps rather than including them in their ROMs. It is illegal to include these gapps with their ROM. However, you're fine with including them until Google sends that developer a C&D but only CyanogenMod received the C&D.
As far as TitaniumBackup.. you can also sync your backups to DropBox and now Box.
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That's who I was referring to.
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That's who I was referring to.
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CyanogenMod at the time was a one-man project by Cyanogen himself. Not all these other developers who are now associated with the project.
@trissc: 1) Flash ROM
2) Flash Gapps
3) Flash Kernel (if desired).
NOTE: You will have to reflash gapps after flashing a updated version of the ROM. Otherwise you will lose the gapps.
Because Gapps are google's, they don't allow the third part developer use or edit them, but they allow users to download and install by themselves
So i just upgraded to Dougshells AOKP rom and its working awesome.
Only issue i am having is that there isnt a "contacts" application.
If i use Titanium backup to restore my "contacts" from ICS will that harm anything?
My contacts wont even sync from google.
Am i missing the stock "Contacts" App?
Khameleon said:
So i just upgraded to Dougshells AOKP rom and its working awesome.
Only issue i am having is that there isnt a "contacts" application.
If i use Titanium backup to restore my "contacts" from ICS will that harm anything?
My contacts wont even sync from google.
Am i missing the stock "Contacts" App?
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Do you flash gapps? If not well flash the latest JB gapps and you will be fine.
Do not use your ICS contacts backup in JB ROMs.
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Do you flash gapps? If not well flash the latest JB gapps and you will be fine.
Do not use your ICS contacts backup in JB ROMs.
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I Did Flash Gapps, and it was for JB. But now im wondering if it is missing the contacts folder for some wack reason.
I recently installed [MOD] Android 4.1 to Android 4.2 Mod package! (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1991734), however the camera and gmail app doesn't work. The camera app freezes and the gmail app just force closes automatically.
Is there a way to uninstall the pack without restoring the phone, or just the camera
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I recently installed [MOD] Android 4.1 to Android 4.2 Mod package! (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1991734), however the camera and gmail app doesn't work. The camera app freezes and the gmail app just force closes automatically.
Is there a way to uninstall the pack without restoring the phone, or just the camera
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Format /system and reflash your current ROM and your current ROM ONLY. Then you can reflash 4.1 gapps.
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Format /system and reflash your current ROM and your current ROM ONLY. Then you can reflash 4.1 gapps.
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I'm pretty sure hoe to format/system, but im not to sure on how to reflash CM10. Do I have to use odin again or can I do everything from my phone?
Hello everyone,
I decided to create this Q&A thread for my CM10.1 builds. General discussion for the ROM or questions/troubleshooting can go here. Not every issue is necessarily a ROM bug. Actual bug reports with logcats or kmsg or whatever's needed for the bug should still remain in the development thread.
I wanted to try this out to prevent people with less experience or fewer posts feel alienated from not being able to post in the ROM thread. This thread is open for the community to help each other with issues. I've started a short FAQ to prevent questions from being asked repeatedly and also to help everyone out.
FAQ
Q: How do I flash this ROM? Any special steps?
A: If coming from a different ROM, it's recommended to do a factory reset prior to flashing as well as wiping /system.
Q: How do I update from builds? Do I need to wipe?
A: Flash the new build in recovery. If you're using an ext4 no data limit mod be sure to flash it after the ROM before rebooting to prevent any loss of data or missing apps issues.
Q: Do I need to re-flash gapps when I update builds?
A: No you do not as they get backed up and restored by CM provided you don't wipe system before flashing the ROM.
Q: What kernel is included with the ROM?
A: This ROM ships with my latest incredikernel so there's no reason to flash a specific kernel after the ROM unless you want a different kernel/older version of incredikernel.
Q: I got notified in goo manager that a gapps update is available. Is it safe to flash?
A: no. The system partition is too small on the incredible and they won't flash properly. Use my gapps instead from my main ROM thread.
Q: Why does my camera show weird lines and graphic corruption?
A: I'm not 100% sure on the cause but it is most likely driver related. Every JB ROM has this issue. Use a third party camera like Camera ICS for now.
Q: The camera recording is so choppy. Is there anything I can do about it?
A: The performance of the GPU in the Droid Incredible is very limited and Jellybean was never meant to run on this phone. As a result, some of the methods used to get things to work are a bit hacky which can explain the general graphics glitching.
Q: Will there ever be official CM 10.1 nightlies?
A: No, the CM team has stated they won't bring the qsd8k devices to ICS or later which includes devices such as the Nexus One, Droid Incredible, and Evo 4g.
Q: HELPP!!! I lost the advanced reboot menu. What do I do?
A: There has been a change in CM to disable the Advanced Reboot Menu. Fortunately, it can be enabled in developer options. However, it will only be active while the device is unlocked.
Q: I can't adb into my device. What to do?
A: Seems to be a new issue now but once you enable adb network you can get in via adb even over USB.
Q: I get a process system has stopped responding on boot.
A: Select wait and it will go away. This is a known issue but not consistent. It seems to happen more frequently when using a theme chooser theme as the systemui components are swapped out on the fly.
Q: I want to flash the files for offline voice dictation but the mod says I need 34 MB free and I can't seem to free enough space.
A: Users have reporting the following can be removed and replaced with play store replacements. Unfortunately due to the limited partition size of /system (250MB), there's a lot of stripping of system apps needed to make enough room for the offline files. (There should not be any need to do this now due as of the 4/5 build and gapps)
Trebuchet (Nova), Calculator (Calulations) Apollo (in the Play Store), Exchange and email (Aqua Mail), CM File Manager (FX Explorer), and the accessibility features like talk back.
Also there are about 7Mb of ringtones in /system/media/audio/ringtones. I'd recommend keeping only the ones you want.
Nice FAQ so far. Feel free to take a look at my CM7.2 thread, which had a lot of tips or tricks. I had a bunch, and I can't really remember if they'd pertain to CM10.1.
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Q: How do I flash this ROM? Any special steps?
A: If coming from a different ROM, it's recommended to do a factory reset prior to flashing.
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I'd throw in wipe /system as well. That's a common overlooked step, and without it, there's generally a lot of issues.
google play store issues and google framework services
Hello All
For some reason my phone is only letting me use facebook or foursqure with the google services framework frozen, with sd-maid google now will not do voice search ether with the google framework on or off, I have had this problem for the last month and nothing besides turning the google thing off works. Is there anything more I could do? This problem all so causes google play do crash when ever opened or run.
Thanks to any help!
I only flashed once so far, and back on 7.2 for the moment (a few of my apps didn't work) so figure this is a good place for the question.
How do you get Google Now from the lock screen and from the Launcher? Obviously it's fairly easy to get Google Voice Search working (with it reading aloud answers to you) but the actual Cards and stuff that automatically find things for you.
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I only flashed once so far, and back on 7.2 for the moment (a few of my apps didn't work) so figure this is a good place for the question.
How do you get Google Now from the lock screen and from the Launcher? Obviously it's fairly easy to get Google Voice Search working (with it reading aloud answers to you) but the actual Cards and stuff that automatically find things for you.
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The only way to get Google Now on the lockscreen is to manually add a shortcut to it using CM's built in lockscreen shortcut options. To access it from the launcher you launch the Google Search app.
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Hello All
For some reason my phone is only letting me use facebook or foursqure with the google services framework frozen, with sd-maid google now will not do voice search ether with the google framework on or off, I have had this problem for the last month and nothing besides turning the google thing off works. Is there anything more I could do? This problem all so causes google play do crash when ever opened or run.
Thanks to any help!
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My advice is a factory reset in recovery. It's most likely from incompatibilities between the system framework and apps and it's data. Did you do the wipe when installing CM10.1?
Keep in mind a data wipe will erase contacts, call logs, text messages. Contacts that are not backed up to gmail will be lost. Games that save data locally will also be lost. It's pretty common sense stuff but just warning you.
I know when I accidentally flashed CM7.2 and even once I flashed CM10.1 again before booting, things were messed up and I couldn't access the play store.
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I will try that, I do not remember if I did wipe or not but I did back up my apps and data using my backup root and it restored all the apps and data so could that have been the first problem ?
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I will try that, I do not rememper if I did wipe or not but I did back up my apps and data using my backup root and it restored all the apps and data so could that have been the first problem ?
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I always restore user apps and data without issue. If you restore app data for system apps you're going to run into issues, especially when crossing ROM versions.
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Where is the dev menu in the settings ? I look but it has to be under something
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Where is the dev menu in the settings ? I look but it has to be under something
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Its hidden by Google on purpose. You have to tap build number in about phone 7 times to enable it.
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Thanks
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How do themes effect performance, I have just tried a few and they seem to make everything lag. Is this common?
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How do themes effect performance, I have just tried a few and they seem to make everything lag. Is this common?
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They shouldn't unless they're large because they just swap out images.
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They shouldn't unless they're large because they just swap out images.
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OK thanks, I using Cobalt which I see has been mentioned a few times around here. I wondered with the extra animations and such, it seems to be a rather extensive theme.
Thanks for all you do.
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I am getting a lot of force clouse pop ups but it usually is just the app took longer to load and I just click wait. Is this a bug? Or just something that his in and out? Thanks
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Is it generally safe to run the cpu at 1113MHz? I seem to get a smoother experience running it that high but I don't want to overheat it.
Also, I'm using ClockworkMod Recovery 5.0.2.0. non-touch. Am I able to upgrade to the touch version or am I stuck with my current one?
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I am getting a lot of force clouse pop ups but it usually is just the app took longer to load and I just click wait. Is this a bug? Or just something that his in and out? Thanks
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This has been reported in the ROM development page. Any specific apps? YouTube is known to occasionally force close on boot and system can report the process not responding with a wait and ok option.
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Is it generally safe to run the cpu at 1113MHz? I seem to get a smoother experience running it that high but I don't want to overheat it.
Also, I'm using ClockworkMod Recovery 5.0.2.0. non-touch. Am I able to upgrade to the touch version or am I stuck with my current one?
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1113mhz should be safe. It doesn't run at the max 100% of the time anyways.
I haven't messed with the CWM touch builds but if there's an unofficial CWM touch build for the Inc I don't see anything that would prevent it from working.
It is a lot of time just on the settings or browser thanks
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This has been reported in the ROM development page. Any specific apps? YouTube is known to occasionally force close on boot and system can report the process not responding with a wait and ok option.
1113mhz should be safe. It doesn't run at the max 100% of the time anyways.
I haven't messed with the CWM touch builds but if there's an unofficial CWM touch build for the Inc I don't see anything that would prevent it from working.
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Cool. I'll stick with this speed for now.
I switched to the latest TWRP. Seems to work well.
Sporadic indeed. Not getting the youtube error anymore. Rebooted twice.
is there a similar iTunes windows apps for our Nexus/Android device? like the back up thing like sms/logs/app installed.
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is there a similar iTunes windows apps for our Nexus/Android device? like the back up thing like sms/logs/app installed.
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Your Google account will automatically back up your apps and contacts. When you flash a new ROM it will ask you if you want to restore.
Most ppl here use titanium backup. Instead. including myself. You have to be rooted to do this.
mikeprius said:
Your Google account will automatically back up your apps and contacts. When you flash a new ROM it will ask you if you want to restore.
Most ppl here use titanium backup. Instead. including myself. You have to be rooted to do this.
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Sometimes when i flash a new rom and sign in my google account google wouldn't ask if i want to restore a previous device.
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Sometimes when i flash a new rom and sign in my google account google wouldn't ask if i want to restore a previous device.
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Most likely a problem with the gapps you see using. For just about every custom ROM you can use the pure Nexus dynamo gapps which work well.
I've had problems with open gapps but not Pure Nexus
mikeprius said:
Most likely a problem with the gapps you see using. For just about every custom ROM you can use the pure Nexus dynamo gapps which work well.
I've had problems with open gapps but not Pure Nexus
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Pure nexus Dynamic gapps works with every rom in our nexus 5X ?
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Pure nexus Dynamic gapps works with every rom in our nexus 5X ?
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The Pure Nexus gapps from the Pure Nexus ROM has always worked for me. Opengapps in the past have pulled out certain components. I've also has the restore feature not work.
Presumably if you are flashing gapps then you have a custom recovery and are rooted. I'd recommend using Titanium Backup for your apps instead, its easier than manually having Google re-download all your apps.