OK so I really like the music, SMS, and file explorer apps that come in the JB MIUI ROM. So I pulled them from the zip file but I cannot install them. Every time I go to install them the install process seems to run however it says application not installed. Anyway to properly install them? Do I have to push them through adb or some other method? Thanks in advance.
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Maybe have dependencies and then you can not do ... maybe ...
remount /system rw, push the apps there through adb (with the device in recovery).
not installed probably because you already have sms, music installed?
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Hi everybody,
This is a total n00b question, but I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. I want to install some of the AOSP apps onto my rooted Evo. So I downloaded eclair from google and built it it. Then I copied the Gallery.apk onto my SDK card and tried to install it. It goes through the motions, even as far as telling me which permissions that the app needs to run (Storage, etc).
Then it says, "Application not installed." with a done button.
I probably simply can't do what I'm trying to do, but if you can point in the right direction, I'd love to have a hand. I can't find log files or anything that would be useful.
-Ted
I'm not sure about AOSP apps, but here's what you do to add HTC apps back into roms:
1. Get something like Root Explorer so you can easily write to /system/
2. Copy your apk to /system/app/
3. Change it's permissions to match those of other apk's in the folder
4. Reboot phone
(And this should have gone in Q&A, but it's all good )
K I'm also confused about this but the HTC app part. If I wanted the stock clock widget can I make them work with launcher pro?
Also kind of confused about what exactly asop is in laments terms
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I posted something along these lines in Q&A. Of course the problem with Q&A is there aren't nearly as many people around, but I did eventually get somewhat of an answer.
I was trying to take the apks from bugless beast and install the AOSP dialer, calendar, calculator, browser, and messaging apps into another ROM. I love bugless beast, but ironically it has some pretty bad bugs, hopefully we will see some updates.
At any rate, I eventually got some assistance on installing from adb, you may want to just look at the thread, but the short explination is to run
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adb remount
and then you can do an adb shell command to get onto the phone (or use "adb shell <on-phone command>") to run
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install <apk name> /system/app
This will be a very easy way to bugger things up, as I have found out from trying to get the contacts/dialer app running. I would love to hear what all I need to do to get the contacts/dialer/phone portion running as it is in bugless beast.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715635
Thanks for this. It didn't error or anything, but it didn't work either. The app isn't available.
tedroden said:
Thanks for this. It didn't error or anything, but it didn't work either. The app isn't available.
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So you did the remount, and then either ran adb shell install <apk> /system/app or ran "adb shell" which entered the phone, and then tried "install <apk> /system/app ???
There were no error messages, and then did you reboot?
If you did all of that, what apk were you trying to install?
I really want the calendar app. I tried doing something like this to install the calendar on the emulator. It didn't work there either. It acted like it worked, but all I got was a calendar app that would launch then fail immediately.
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I really want the calendar app. I tried doing something like this to install the calendar on the emulator. It didn't work there either. It acted like it worked, but all I got was a calendar app that would launch then fail immediately.
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You probably need the calendar provider apk. I'm using the apks from bugless beast, other ones may have problems I'm not having.
did the remount, and then ... ran "adb shell" which entered the phone, and then tried "install <apk> /system/app ???
There were no error messages, and then did you reboot?
If you did all of that, what apk were you trying to install?
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Yep, I did all of that. Trying to install Gallery.apk
From what I recall about install, it just copies the file with the proper permissions, it's not doing anything super fancy. I can manually verify that the apk is in the /system/app folder, so technically, 'install' worked. It's just not showing up as an app that I can use.
laydros said:
You probably need the calendar provider apk. I'm using the apks from bugless beast, other ones may have problems I'm not having.
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I have them both and put that into the same folder. Didn't seem to be good enough to make the emulator happy.
so i removed friendstream.apk because of forcecloses and htcfacebook for sense i got the apks from a stock rom and used root explorer to mount and paste the files into the /system/app folder so theyre there, but i dont see the apps or widgets but when i try to install them using the app manager on android it says its already installed, any ideas? thanks!
im using damage control 3.2.3 with a custom kernel for damage control 3.7.1, thanks!
Leave them on your sd card and then try installing them using your file explorer.
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i tried their htc apks so they dont install normally ive pushed it before and it worked fine just now its not showing up
zeeyo987 said:
so i removed friendstream.apk because of forcecloses and htcfacebook for sense i got the apks from a stock rom and used root explorer to mount and paste the files into the /system/app folder so theyre there, but i dont see the apps or widgets but when i try to install them using the app manager on android it says its already installed, any ideas? thanks!
im using damage control 3.2.3 with a custom kernel for damage control 3.7.1, thanks!
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when pusing them to /system/app with root explorer you have to change the permissions of each app you copy over (hold select the app and choose change permissions) i just check off all of the permissions thingys
when pushing through adb it does that automatically
hope that helps
the default ones are all can read and user can write plus read
Thread moved to Q&A.
yea i checked all the permissions and used adb before and still not showing up, lol really frustrating
any ideas guys, really miss friendstream lol
An easy way to fix permissions is through ROM manager.
Download it in the market and select fix apk permissions.
That might do the trick..
Don't forget to reboot.
yea tried that doesnt work, really weird
Very strange, did you try an adb install? Rather than push..
Ok well I modded 2 apps, by using adb push and pull and it works fine, the modded widgets both comes up just like how it should with my design added to it.
But whenever i restart my phone the 2 apps just disappears and i haven't got a clue why, they doesn't come up in my widget menu or in the app launcher and i'm having to download them from the market and install them again
When i go to Root Explorer and go to the folder where I pushed it too it says it's still there. I've pushed the app to where it should be /data/app where all the other downloaded apps are stored.
Can anyone help?
Yeah i can help. Root explorer and any other app that lets you edit system files is useless. The only time we have write access to system on a Desire is from a custom recovery. If you flash one of these using Unrevoked then boot to recovery and push files they will stay.
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Yeah i can help. Root explorer and any other app that lets you edit system files is useless. The only time we have write access to system on a Desire is from a custom recovery. If you flash one of these using Unrevoked then boot to recovery and push files they will stay.
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Oh right, well that's just bloody **** ain't it.
Well how do I make flashable zip files then?
Is there a simple and easy way of doing it?
Thanks for the help by the way.
Hello devs.. i am trying to use adb while im in the clockwork recovery screen to remove some apps and some unwanted audio files. Everything is ok as far as being rooted and getting a number sign and the adb commands. The issue im having is that i cannot cd to the app folder. I can cd to the system folder and sdcard folders with no problem. But when i cd into the system, and then i use the list command "ls" to show me what im working wit it says app. But when i try " cd /system/app or cd /app " it says directory doesnot exist. Is there something im doing wrong here? I have installed, removed, pushed and pulled many apps using abd perfectly and i am not a noob.. but it seems like its a whole new ball game when it comes to the slide.. the super user tasks managers no longer work, a dev named roman told me they no longer work and i would have to use adb in clockwork recovery mode to execute any changes to the phones files. But im stuck at this point. Any suggestions? Also i have tried to remove the files directly with a command like " adb rm /system/app/Gallery3D.apk or rm /system/app/Gallery3D.apk" with no results. Is there a way using adb to delete the contents of an entire directory without deleting the directory itself? Thanks in advance devs
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Hello devs.. i am trying to use adb while im in the clockwork recovery screen to remove some apps and some unwanted audio files. Everything is ok as far as being rooted and getting a number sign and the adb commands. The issue im having is that i cannot cd to the app folder. I can cd to the system folder and sdcard folders with no problem. But when i cd into the system, and then i use the list command "ls" to show me what im working wit it says app. But when i try " cd /system/app or cd /app " it says directory doesnot exist. Is there something im doing wrong here? I have installed, removed, pushed and pulled many apps using abd perfectly and i am not a noob.. but it seems like its a whole new ball game when it comes to the slide.. the super user tasks managers no longer work, a dev named roman told me they no longer work and i would have to use adb in clockwork recovery mode to execute any changes to the phones files. But im stuck at this point. Any suggestions? Also i have tried to remove the files directly with a command like " adb rm /system/app/Gallery3D.apk or rm /system/app/Gallery3D.apk" with no results. Is there a way using adb to delete the contents of an entire directory without deleting the directory itself? Thanks in advance devs
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You probably forgot to mount /system. You can do so via the CWM Recovery partitions menu.
ohhhhhh...ok thanks alot.. i did miss that.
bbbblack said:
ohhhhhh...ok thanks alot.. i did miss that.
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Better way of doing it is using 7zip and removing/addin files that way,than flashin that rom,its cleaner and faster.
lviv73 said:
Better way of doing it is using 7zip and removing/addin files that way,than flashin that rom,its cleaner and faster.
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Not sure I agree, but to each their own.
This is kind of a cross post from the Apps forum, but I am getting no response there. CM6 uses a different music app than the stock HTC player, and the stock player works with the included headphones that have the control buttons. Which ROM can I steal the HTC player from and push back to my phone?
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This is kind of a cross post from the Apps forum, but I am getting no response there. CM6 uses a different music app than the stock HTC player, and the stock player works with the included headphones that have the control buttons. Which ROM can I steal the HTC player from and push back to my phone?
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You could try to push the HTCMusic app from the OTA update. But I think it might be odexed so you might run into a problem. I haven't checked it out yet
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This is kind of a cross post from the Apps forum, but I am getting no response there. CM6 uses a different music app than the stock HTC player, and the stock player works with the included headphones that have the control buttons. Which ROM can I steal the HTC player from and push back to my phone?
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I doubt this will work with CM6 but it is worth a try. It says its for 2.1 and I havent tried it but I thought I would throw it out as a idea. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=679707
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You could try to push the HTCMusic app from the OTA update. But I think it might be odexed so you might run into a problem. I haven't checked it out yet
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Yeah, I tried pushing the HtcMusic.apk/.odex files to the /system/app folder with no luck (I do not know what being odex'ed means to being able to do this). Any other thoughts?
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You probably forgot to mount /system. You can do so via the CWM Recovery partitions menu.
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Do you think it's best to do it from clockwork recovery? What I have been doing is just doing a delete from inside the rom with win rar before installing.
You can use Android Commander which also works for the slide. You just need to be in recovery with both your system and cache mounted so it will make changes otherwise it'll look like it did on the computer but actually when you restart the program you find it did nothing. lol Don't forget to open the program with Administrator Rights. I think the program makes things much easier.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=597098
thanks the commander worked perfectly! any reason why apps that i push dont show up in the phones app list when i boot up again?
I flashed mikfroyo 4.5 and I'm trying to install some of the sprint stock apps (footprint, etc...) I keep getting "application not installed" I'm using root explorer. Any suggestions? Thanks
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You have to use the push command in adb. If you do a search you should find the parameters, I don't know them off the top of my head.
adb push /pathtoapk /data/app/
I think you could just use something like root explorer, es file explorer to accomplish this also.
You can use the above methods, or put the apk file on the root of sd card, go to your file manager, and install that way; works for me at least.
Also, if you have conflicting files they won't install either. Like, you can't install new versions of swype with old ones in