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[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!

[Q] Swype in Kindle Fire Utitlity?

would it be possible to add the installation of Swype custom keyboard into the kindle fire utility. I don't wish to permanently root my fire I just want the keyboard by temp rooting.

melmantheman said:
would it be possible to add the installation of Swype custom keyboard into the kindle fire utility. I don't wish to permanently root my fire I just want the keyboard by temp rooting.
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I don't know if any of the devs would be willing to do that since it's probably against Swype's Terms and Conditions.

Maybe
What if the User would have to download it themselves and place it in an appropriate directory and the utility will just move it and give permissions? I don't think that would violate anything.

melmantheman said:
What if the User would have to download it themselves and place it in an appropriate directory and the utility will just move it and give permissions? I don't think that would violate anything.
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Why not just sign up for the beta and open the link that they email you on your Kindle then download it that way?
http://beta.swype.com/android/create/

Cant
it will not appear under input device on the kindle. Amazon locked it up I suppose.

I still use Swype everyday on my Kindle Fire. 6.2.2

How did you go about that?

melmantheman said:
How did you go about that?
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You need to be rooted to install it with the stock ROM.

There be the problem
Well see that's the reason that i wrote this. I dont want to root. if they can put it into the kindled fire utility than it would make peoples lives easier. I along with many others do not want to root and I find no real need to for the kindle. only when a good ICS Rom comes out will I jump on it.

melmantheman said:
Well see that's the reason that i wrote this. I dont want to root. if they can put it into the kindled fire utility than it would make peoples lives easier. I along with many others do not want to root and I find no real need to for the kindle. only when a good ICS Rom comes out will I jump on it.
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Your reason would be to install Swype. You can do quite a bit more with a rooted Kindle Fire vs a stock one. I still can't see the dev doing this through the KFU, beyond the possible terms and conditions issue is the fact that you would have other people wanting him to add in certain apps that can't be installed on a stock Kindle Fire, similar to Swype.

melmantheman said:
Well see that's the reason that i wrote this. I dont want to root. if they can put it into the kindled fire utility than it would make peoples lives easier. I along with many others do not want to root and I find no real need to for the kindle. only when a good ICS Rom comes out will I jump on it.
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Everything can't be handed to you. Developers can't take proprietary apps and make them easy to install for you.
KFU makes it super easy to root. That's all you need. Root access and super user. Then you can do a search for swype installation. It's not that hard once you have root and you can easily get that with KFU. You can do temp root and then install swype, you can perm root and then get OTA voodoo root keeper and unroot till you need root again.
No root, no swype. Contact Amazon and maybe they'll add the ability to add swype if enough people write in.
I admit that swype is one of the reasons I eventually rooted. I kept stock because I love the feel of stock.

Exactly
Yeah you can install gapps and such without rooting permenantly which is what I did. That's exactly what im hoping will happen. I askednkn the KFU thread ill see when they answer.

melmantheman said:
Yeah you can install gapps and such without rooting permenantly which is what I did. That's exactly what im hoping will happen. I askednkn the KFU thread ill see when they answer.
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Just temporarily root it again, install swype and then un-root it.

I may have an idea
See but you cant do that without KFU and it doesn't install swype that way. maybe if I changed the name to another apps name than it will install and change permissions for me...

melmantheman said:
See but you cant do that without KFU and it doesn't install swype that way. maybe if I changed the name to another apps name than it will install and change permissions for me...
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Ok i did that but its not letting me use burrito root for that. keeps saying i dont have permission. I try to push it to /system/app but it's "read only" even though adb is in root! Any suggestions guys
here is the code from the batch i put in:
:extrasubmenu_7 Install Swype
cls
echo. ***********************************************
echo. * Swype Installer *
echo. ***********************************************
echo.
IF EXIST apps\swype.apk (
echo. found.
echo. Skipping download...
echo.
) else (
::Looks like our apps.zip isn't downloaded, so lets get it.
echo. swype is missing cannot Continue
)
if "%adb%" == "Online" (
::We need to check to make sure we are running root.
if "%rooted%" == "No" ( call:burrito )
::We need RW for this.
call:mount_rw
echo. did it work?
::Lets install our default apps that are cooler.
::tools\adb install apps\swype.apk
::Here is the stuff we need to put into /system/app.
tools\adb push apps\swype.apk /system/app
tools\adb install /system/app/swype.apk
::Fix our permissions of the new stuff
tools\adb shell chmod 644 /system/app/*
:ut the system back to read-only.
call:mount_r
tools\adb shell reboot
echo.
echo. ***********************************************
echo. * All Done! *
echo. ***********************************************
echo.
echo. That's all folks. Our apps have been installed.
echo.
:ause to show our output
pause
) else (
echo. Oops... something went wrong.
echo. We are unable to locate your Kindle Fire.
echo. Make sure it is plugged in and powered on.
echo.
pause
)
GOTO:EOF

If you use any custom ROM then you can download a swiping keyboard from the play store. If you don't want to root, then you can't get a custom keyboard
Sent from my Kindle Fire using xda premium

Daevionne said:
If you use any custom ROM then you can download a swiping keyboard from the play store. If you don't want to root, then you can't get a custom keyboard
Sent from my Kindle Fire using xda premium
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Well no not anymore as it seems. with the 6.3 update the "temporary root" option is not in the kindle fire utility 0.9.5
Without that i guess there is no other option.

Honestly you are better off permanently rooting your kindle. The roms these days r off the chain. At first I was hesitant on rooting it but I found out that there is no absolutely permanent way of rooting, there is always a way to unroot your device.
Sent from my Kindle Fire using xda premium

7.3.0 Driver issues...

I received the OTA update to 7.3.0, and it destroyed everything.
I did a factory reset, and tried to root with the same process I used before the update.
RootQemu tells me
"You must install your device speciffic drivers so that the device is visble to ADB"
In my pc's device manager, under "Kindle", it says "Android composite ADB interface"
I have deleted, downloaded and installed about a dozen different drivers, and have seen the "correct" Android composite adb interface in the device manager with about a third of them, however, no matter what,
RootQemu tells me:
"You must install your device specific drivers so that the device is visible to ADB'........
WHY?????????????????

Are you sure you still have adb turned on in settings....
I'm guessing you're making a mountain out of a mole hill and just neglected to re check that step
Sent from my GT-P3110 using xda app-developers app

mrkhigh said:
Are you sure you still have adb turned on in settings....
I'm guessing you're making a mountain out of a mole hill and just neglected to re check that step
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Yeah, ADB is on. I wish it was that simple.
Actually, it probably is something that simple.
Just can't figure it out.

Ed the Lame said:
Yeah, ADB is on. I wish it was that simple.
Actually, it probably is something that simple.
Just can't figure it out.
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Have you tried using ADB to do anything else, such as pushing a file to the sdcard?

[Q] root problem - 8.4.6

Im trying to root my kindle HD 8.4.6 with this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2337634
but im getting an error,
here is a pic that explains better:
http://imgur.com/Yh5zM44
if someone can help be, im looking to root and install a custom rom.

Did you extract all the files somewhere or just run the runme.bat inside the zip? Because it sounds like you are missing the files included in the zip. You have to extract the files from the zip for it to work. If that's not the case then feel free to post back I will attempt to assist, but it will be a few hours before I can get back on.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire HD running CM10.1 Tablet UI using xda-developers app

stunts513 said:
Did you extract all the files somewhere or just run the runme.bat inside the zip? Because it sounds like you are missing the files included in the zip. You have to extract the files from the zip for it to work. If that's not the case then feel free to post back I will attempt to assist, but it will be a few hours before I can get back on.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire HD running CM10.1 Tablet UI using xda-developers app
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Not the case here. I did extract all files.
Thanks a lot foryour time.
my final target is to have CWM11.
i have win 8.
maybe something wrong with the path thing.. but im gettin good results while checking with "ping 4.2.2.2"

Well yea ping would work, it's in the system32 folder, as long as binaries root was completely extracted and you ran a command prompt as admin i don't see why it would fail. It seems as though it's having issues accessing the adb command, make sure its in the binarie's root folder.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire HD running CM10.1 Tablet UI using xda-developers app

highrizer23 said:
Im trying to root my kindle HD 8.4.6 with this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2337634
but im getting an error,
here is a pic that explains better:
http://imgur.com/Yh5zM44
if someone can help be, im looking to root and install a custom rom.
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You have Windows 8? Did you disable Windows driver security enforcement. Here is a tutorial I pass off to others to get it done.
http://www.fotoclubinc.com/blog/how...on-of-windows-7-printer-drivers-on-windows-8/
You can also try Root Many Android v31 available here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1886460

stunts513 said:
Well yea ping would work, it's in the system32 folder, as long as binaries root was completely extracted and you ran a command prompt as admin i don't see why it would fail. It seems as though it's having issues accessing the adb command, make sure its in the binarie's root folder.
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Seems like I'm stuck.
Someone is offering a service for rooting for 20$ via team viewer I'm about to give up.
Can I just install 2nd bootloader directly or u must root first?
There is another way to root?
linear , I'll try. Is this root ok for me?

That root is fine, I think it's newer version of the one you are using, and I wouldn't bother with the offer, I do that kinda stuff free xD. Kinda are supposed to have a commercial licence to charge people for services over team viewer if I remember right and not most people don't want to fork over that kinda money unless they are a business. If worst comet's to worst just pm me and I don't mind using teamviewer to get it rooted.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire HD running CM10.1 Tablet UI using xda-developers app

stunts513 said:
That root is fine, I think it's newer version of the one you are using, and I wouldn't bother with the offer, I do that kinda stuff free xD. Kinda are supposed to have a commercial licence to charge people for services over team viewer if I remember right and not most people don't want to fork over that kinda money unless they are a business. If worst comet's to worst just pm me and I don't mind using teamviewer to get it rooted.
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thanks a lot!
thats so kind of you.
giving it a last shot and updating.
probably gonna Pm you soon..
i really appericiate all the help!

Is there a way to install google play store on rooted fire tv without adb?

Just as the title dictates. I am trying to walk a friend through installing google play on his rooted fire tv, I emailed him all the necessary files and he installed via es file explorer which apprently did not work as it just gives him a white screen. Is this only able to function if it is installed via adb?

Did you guide him through the xposed framework installation as well?

Yes

danknasty, maybe have your friend read the guide. Why would you not use Adb? and you have to install the xposed framework along with the module for google play to function. And to top it off to make it work perfectly fine, you need to use market helper 2.0 beta.

navigates said:
danknasty, maybe have your friend read the guide. Why would you not use Adb? and you have to install the xposed framework along with the module for google play to function. And to top it off to make it work perfectly fine, you need to use market helper 2.0 beta.
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Yea it's an older person so i was trying to make it as "friendly" as possible. He's able to navigate within es file explorer and can stick a usb stick in... adb fire i just feel is gonna be a lengthier and more difficult talk but it may come to that. I have recently installed it via es file explorer myself jsut to test and it seems to work fine so ill have him give it go.

danknasty said:
Yea it's an older person so i was trying to make it as "friendly" as possible. He's able to navigate within es file explorer and can stick a usb stick in... adb fire i just feel is gonna be a lengthier and more difficult talk but it may come to that. I have recently installed it via es file explorer myself jsut to test and it seems to work fine so ill have him give it go.
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You mentioned Rooted. i have a solution for you. Get him to install quicksupport and start it up. Then use teamviewer on your home pc and connect to it using the number quick support generates. Note: the first time the person will have to accept access to root privs. From that point on you'll have full control of his firetv from your PC. I do that all the time for my parents who live remotely.
I also connect to their PC so I have their PC and their firetv and can do adb install or what ever I need. Hope it helps.

navigates said:
You mentioned Rooted. i have a solution for you. Get him to install quicksupport and start it up. Then use teamviewer on your home pc and connect to it using the number quick support generates. Note: the first time the person will have to accept access to root privs. From that point on you'll have full control of his firetv from your PC. I do that all the time for my parents who live remotely.
I also connect to their PC so I have their PC and their firetv and can do adb install or what ever I need. Hope it helps.
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I actually just sent over the team viewer apk. Seems pretty cool can you transfer files with that as well.

danknasty said:
I actually just sent over the team viewer apk. Seems pretty cool can you transfer files with that as well.
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Yeah,. and if he is rooted and has google play which he dosen't as thats what you are trying to install. Then you could install it for him automatically through google any app he needs. Good luck. Let us know how it goes.
One other thing to note is that if he gets the prompt for root grant, you know there is a timer of 15 seconds and he has to accept it in that time. I know i have a hard time explaining that too to my parents.

Thanks I think I lucked out and they hit the permanent root grant option on the unit.

danknasty said:
Thanks I think I lucked out and they hit the permanent root grant option on the unit.
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Is there a permanent root option with the newer firmwares? I didn't know. At least not with supersu. The permanent option used to exist in the older rooted firmwares. The new ones' have to select grant everytime root is requested.

navigates said:
Is there a permanent root option with the newer firmwares? I didn't know. At least not with supersu. The permanent option used to exist in the older rooted firmwares. The new ones' have to select grant everytime root is requested.
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If you select the permanent option when you first root I believe it transfers over. When you update it. That was my understanding correct me if I'm wrong.

danknasty said:
If you select the permanent option when you first root I believe it transfers over. When you update it. That was my understanding correct me if I'm wrong.
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I've done so many roots and have never seen that option. The older firmwares with towelroot had it that way. but when you upgrade from those rooted versions to the new one, you have to constantly grant.

Are you talking about units you've hardware rooted? I just did one not so long ago and in the supersu program there is a choice that says grant always. After upgrade to the latest firmware it still remains.

danknasty said:
Are you talking about units you've hardware rooted? I just did one not so long ago and in the supersu program there is a choice that says grant always. After upgrade to the latest firmware it still remains.
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No. I've never done hardware roots. just the software roots with the ethernet removal trick if you get the right firmware.

navigates said:
danknasty, maybe have your friend read the guide. Why would you not use Adb? and you have to install the xposed framework along with the module for google play to function. And to top it off to make it work perfectly fine, you need to use market helper 2.0 beta.
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Can you provide a link to the guide?

lonny.landry said:
Can you provide a link to the guide?
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Here:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+play+aftv+guide