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[Q] Chinese Language Causes "andriod.process.acore" crashes

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As the title says, I installed a patch to enable Chinese language. When I selected "Chinese" in the language setting, a dialog poped up complaining "andriod.process.acore" crashed.
I have tried installing "more locale 2" and same issue happened.
Could anybody help me?

try to install penpower.

jason1ca said:
try to install penpower.
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Don't understand. What's is "penpower"? Why do I need to install that?
Could you explain?

I properly found the root cause of this issue. It may cause by the content of my contact. There maybe have some invalid characters in my contact and once I enabled the Chinese language, the system crashed. Once I switched back to English, everything went well.
My solution is to delete all my contacts before enabling the Chinese language. Now the system is ok. But another problem came. I can't sync my contact anymore. Everytime I clicked the sync button, the phone did synced but nothing happened. No contact is synced to my phone. What's wrong? Maybe cos I deleted all contacts on phone and the system still though all contacts were already synced. Can I force to dump all my contact to phone?

mumu_li said:
I properly found the root cause of this issue. It may cause by the content of my contact. There maybe have some invalid characters in my contact and once I enabled the Chinese language, the system crashed. Once I switched back to English, everything went well.
My solution is to delete all my contacts before enabling the Chinese language. Now the system is ok. But another problem came. I can't sync my contact anymore. Everytime I clicked the sync button, the phone did synced but nothing happened. No contact is synced to my phone. What's wrong? Maybe cos I deleted all contacts on phone and the system still though all contacts were already synced. Can I force to dump all my contact to phone?
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did you manually delete the contacts by long pressing and selecting delete? if you did, it deletes them from google too..... you should just clear data in contacts storage..... also why not just use an asian rom that uses chinese by default? maybe that will solve some of your problems

AndroHero said:
did you manually delete the contacts by long pressing and selecting delete? if you did, it deletes them from google too..... you should just clear data in contacts storage..... also why not just use an asian rom that uses chinese by default? maybe that will solve some of your problems
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Firstly, yes, I did exactly as what you described.
Secondly, yes, I should flash with a asian rom then everything would go away. Actually I used a latest stocked rom and did not check if it's for asia pacific or not. Now I don't want to re-flash asia rom since I have already installed a lot of apps.

mumu_li said:
Firstly, yes, I did exactly as what you described.
Secondly, yes, I should flash with a asian rom then everything would go away. Actually I used a latest stocked rom and did not check if it's for asia pacific or not. Now I don't want to re-flash asia rom since I have already installed a lot of apps.
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you could do a nandroid backup in recovery, flash an asian rom, then use the advance restore feature to restore your data and ext partition, giving you all your apps and data back and if it dosent work you can always restore the whole nandroid and get your old rom back as it was. either way you can find a custom asian rom with apps2sd ect here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=789058
and for future reference, to delete contacts without removing them from your google account, go to settings>applications>manage applications, find contacts storage and click delete data

[Q] [q] facebook app

My Facebook app went funny last night, it wouldn't show my friends pictures and wouldn't come out of refresh. So I logged out, turned off my wireless connection, rebooted my phone, turned on the wireless and tried to log back in. I was met with this error:
Login Failed
Sorry, login failed to reach facebook servers. Please check your network connection or try again later.
( org.bouncycastle.jce.exception.
ExtCertPathValidatorException: IssuerName(OU=Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority, O="VeriSign, Inc.", CPS Incorp.by Ref. LIABILITY LTD.(c)97 VeriSign, OU=VeriSign International Server CA - Class 3, OU="VeriSign, Inc.", O=VeriSign Trust Network) of signing certificate. [javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException])
It is still the same after uninstalling and re-installing the app.

aaaaaaahhhhhhhh said:
My Facebook app went funny last night, it wouldn't show my friends pictures and wouldn't come out of refresh. So I logged out, turned off my wireless connection, rebooted my phone, turned on the wireless and tried to log back in. I was met with this error:
Login Failed
Sorry, login failed to reach facebook servers. Please check your network connection or try again later.
( org.bouncycastle.jce.exception.
ExtCertPathValidatorException: IssuerName(OU=Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority, O="VeriSign, Inc.", CPS Incorp.by Ref. LIABILITY LTD.(c)97 VeriSign, OU=VeriSign International Server CA - Class 3, OU="VeriSign, Inc.", O=VeriSign Trust Network) of signing certificate. [javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException])
It is still the same after uninstalling and re-installing the app.
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That sounds as though your phone isn't actually reaching the facebook page but is being redirected somewhere else. Are you sure it's not something to do with your wifi network? Can you get to facebook OK from a laptop?
I'd expect this sort of thing if you were connected to a hotspot without having logged into the hotspot from the phone.

fudgeboy said:
That sounds as though your phone isn't actually reaching the facebook page but is being redirected somewhere else. Are you sure it's not something to do with your wifi network? Can you get to facebook OK from a laptop?
I'd expect this sort of thing if you were connected to a hotspot without having logged into the hotspot from the phone.
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I have the excact same problem... Started yesterday.
Tried 2 differents Wifi's and my 3G connection.
Can't log in with facebook app, Friendcaster etc. Can't sync my facebook contacts. So I removed the sync account, and tried to add it again (Facebook for HTC Sense) But cannot log in there either.
But m.facebook.com in browser is working fine, same on my laptop.
HTC Desire
Revolution Rom 4.0

same problem here with my HTC Desrire. Facebook app cannot reach facebook servers. even after clearing app cache, uninstalling it and what not. is there a fix for this.

bld519 said:
same problem here with my HTC Desrire. Facebook app cannot reach facebook servers. even after clearing app cache, uninstalling it and what not. is there a fix for this.
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I have reported this to Facebook. Must be a technical change they made which had an impact on mobile devices connecting, with the exception of browsers.

aaaaaaahhhhhhhh said:
I have reported this to Facebook. Must be a technical change they made which had an impact on mobile devices connecting, with the exception of browsers.
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But the funny part is, it only affected HTC Desire.
My GF with Samsung Galaxy S, and all others that I know, dont have problems...
Found this problem on other forums too, all Desire's
And one have tried a factory reset.

Facebook was unreachable a couple of days ago. But I got a message saying that they are doing maintenance. When it came back up, all it had me do is log back in. Everything is fine until now.
I wonder if your issues has something to do with the Facebook integrated on Sense. You guys using Sense roms by any chance?
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stankyou said:
Facebook was unreachable a couple of days ago. But I got a message saying that they are doing maintenance. When it came back up, all it had me do is log back in. Everything is fine until now.
I wonder if your issues has something to do with the Facebook integrated on Sense. You guys using Sense roms by any chance?
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Yes, it is a Sense Rom I'm using..
I have just tried to freeze Facebook for HTC Sense via Titanium Backup, still same problem with "Facebook app"

same problem from same day... i tried few older version of fb app but none works. HTC Desire InsertCoin rom

Same here since a couple of days. It seems to be a problem on FB side, but in some way related to the software of the phone. I own a Desire with RcmixS Rom Gingerbread. I flashed it with an ICS Rom and it worked after that. Come back to Gingerbread after factory wipe and problem is there again.

mannybiker said:
Same here since a couple of days. It seems to be a problem on FB side, but in some way related to the software of the phone. I own a Desire with RcmixS Rom Gingerbread. I flashed it with an ICS Rom and it worked after that. Come back to Gingerbread after factory wipe and problem is there again.
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But still related to Desire, how weird
Cause on a Samsung Galaxy S, running 2.3 GB, it's working just fine.

SmasherDK said:
But still related to Desire, how weird
Cause on a Samsung Galaxy S, running 2.3 GB, it's working just fine.
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Trying logically to understand why this happens only on Desire with gingerbread (since on my with ICS it was working) and looking at the error I thought it could be a problem of certificates that are not up to date, in this case may be only on a specific android distribution like the one we have on Desire... (app developer are maybe forgetting our loved phone since it's getting older) so I tried to understand how to update this certificates and I've finally found that there are some files where they are stored inside a system directory.
Here attached you can download a zip with some certificates I found. To install them you have to put the file on the SD, go into recovery mode and then simply choose to install a zip from SD card. Reboot... My FB started working again! I had tried everything before this without success... so maybe this will work for you too.
Let me know! :fingers-crossed:

mannybiker said:
Trying logically to understand why this happens only on Desire with gingerbread (since on my with ICS it was working) and looking at the error I thought it could be a problem of certificates that are not up to date, in this case may be only on a specific android distribution like the one we have on Desire... (app developer are maybe forgetting our loved phone since it's getting older) so I tried to understand how to update this certificates and I've finally found that there are some files where they are stored inside a system directory.
Here attached you can download a zip with some certificates I found. To install them you have to put the file on the SD, go into recovery mode and then simply choose to install a zip from SD card. Reboot... My FB started working again! I had tried everything before this without success... so maybe this will work for you too.
Let me know! :fingers-crossed:
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I BET it's because facebook.com have automatic activated some new security settings, https, and (dont know the english word for it) safe login, where you will receive an sms the first time you log on from a new unit...
I downloaded your zip file, extracted cacerts.bks, cwcerts.zip & otacerts.zip and copied them to my system/etc/security folder, quick restart, and it's WORKING :good:
And I was receiving an sms so that i could log on.
Funny part is, that those certificates looks older than the ones I allready got, but they are a little bit bigger.
But it's working... thank you :laugh:
Contact pictures are back

SmasherDK said:
I BET it's because facebook.com have automatic activated some new security settings, https, and (dont know the english word for it) safe login, where you will receive an sms the first time you log on from a new unit...
I downloaded your zip file, extracted cacerts.bks, cwcerts.zip & otacerts.zip and copied them to my system/etc/security folder, quick restart, and it's WORKING :good:
And I was receiving an sms so that i could log on.
Funny part is, that those certificates looks older than the ones I allready got, but they are a little bit bigger.
But it's working... thank you :laugh:
Contact pictures are back
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I've been having the same problem since Monday, only I don't have a Desire but a Wildfire S. I don't seem to have the system folder on the SD-card nor can I find anywhere else to put the files (I tried putting them in the .android_secure-folder just to try anything and restart but no progress...). Is there perhaps another way to fix this for a Wildfire S? Thank you!

låvisa said:
I've been having the same problem since Monday, only I don't have a Desire but a Wildfire S. I don't seem to have the system folder on the SD-card nor can I find anywhere else to put the files (I tried putting them in the .android_secure-folder just to try anything and restart but no progress...). Is there perhaps another way to fix this for a Wildfire S? Thank you!
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Is your mobile rooted?
Don't think you can do it if it's not rooted

mannybiker said:
Same here since a couple of days. It seems to be a problem on FB side, but in some way related to the software of the phone. I own a Desire with RcmixS Rom Gingerbread. I flashed it with an ICS Rom and it worked after that. Come back to Gingerbread after factory wipe and problem is there again.
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I've been using the LeeDroid rom, downloaded the facebook app. Been using it for a while until it went funny.

aaaaaaahhhhhhhh said:
I've been using the LeeDroid rom, downloaded the facebook app. Been using it for a while until it went funny.
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Try the fix with the new certificates files.. It worked for me :laugh:

SmasherDK said:
Try the fix with the new certificates files.. It worked for me :laugh:
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Yeah, I'm happy my solution works for you as well. If you like click me a Thanks on this forum
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aaaaaaahhhhhhhh said:
I've been using the LeeDroid rom, downloaded the facebook app. Been using it for a while until it went funny.
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Yes, having LeeDroid you should already have a cooked recovery... just power off the phone, keep pressed vol - and power... choose recovery with vol buttons and enter with power button. You should be now on you recovery (probably clockworkmod). Choose install zip from SD and select certs.zip you can find on my previous post and that you have to put on your SD. At the end reboot. You should now be able to use FB.

installed the certs and Facebook is now working. :good:

låvisa said:
I've been having the same problem since Monday, only I don't have a Desire but a Wildfire S. I don't seem to have the system folder on the SD-card nor can I find anywhere else to put the files (I tried putting them in the .android_secure-folder just to try anything and restart but no progress...). Is there perhaps another way to fix this for a Wildfire S? Thank you!
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No låvisa, the folder is on the internal memory, but you can't write on it if you are not rooted. You can probably apply the file from the recovery also without root, but you need a cooked recovery. To permanently install the clockworkmod recovery, that is not the stock one and that have more option like the one to install zip, again you would need to be root. Instead I think you can (I've never do it this way, sorry...) install the clockworkmod recovery temporary without root from your stock recovery, just the time to flash my zip.
Here you can find all the available way to install the clockworkmod, look at the update.zip method:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/ClockworkMod_Recovery

Google Syncing Issues, Plz Help!!!

Hey guys,
I would like to start by apoligizing if there is a thread relating to this issue, but i have searched the forums and couldn't find a solution. The problems i am having is that Google just will not sync on my phone ATT Galaxy S3. I lost all contacts, google play, and google talk. nothing is working anymore.
Recently i tried to install "freedom" on the phone to get free in app purchases. then installed localepicker. now removed the locale picker and the freedom app and i am not sure if this is what caused the problem.
I dont know alot about all this rooting and flashing and stuff like that... i rooted the phone a very simple way from this website just to get game gaurdian on the phone to mess around with games.
So if anybody could helo with my problem thta would be excellent.
Thank you very Much.

Namikaze Minato said:
Hey guys,
I would like to start by apoligizing if there is a thread relating to this issue, but i have searched the forums and couldn't find a solution. The problems i am having is that Google just will not sync on my phone ATT Galaxy S3. I lost all contacts, google play, and google talk. nothing is working anymore.
Recently i tried to install "freedom" on the phone to get free in app purchases. then installed localepicker. now removed the locale picker and the freedom app and i am not sure if this is what caused the problem.
I dont know alot about all this rooting and flashing and stuff like that... i rooted the phone a very simple way from this website just to get game gaurdian on the phone to mess around with games.
So if anybody could helo with my problem thta would be excellent.
Thank you very Much.
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When you go in settings and add account, do you get an error? Also, do you set it to manually sync or automatic?
Did it randomly stop or it was after flashing?

BWolf56 said:
When you go in settings and add account, do you get an error? Also, do you set it to manually sync or automatic?
Did it randomly stop or it was after flashing?
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Can not establish a reliable connection to the server.
This could be a temporary problem or your Android device may not be provisioned for data services. If it continues Call Customer Servic .
Thats is the message that I keep getting. And i noticed it this morning after I deleted all that freedom/locale pocket stuff. The Internet still works, it's just it refuses to sync the Google account.
Thanks again for taking the time to help me.

Namikaze Minato said:
Can not establish a reliable connection to the server.
This could be a temporary problem or your Android device may not be provisioned for data services. If it continues Call Customer Servic .
Thats is the message that I keep getting. And i noticed it this morning after I deleted all that freedom/locale pocket stuff. The Internet still works, it's just it refuses to sync the Google account.
Thanks again for taking the time to help me.
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When you look at your signal, is it grey? When it is colored (blue most of the time), then it's connecting with Google, if grey, it's not.
I did a little google search (can go a long way ) and found a few solutions:
1- Just restart the phone without the SIM card, and connect to some WiFi network, so you can login to your Google Account. It will log you into the account, and then you can put the SIM card back.
2- Add YouTube app and login with gmail account
Go into Gmail App and add account if needed.
Sign into Gmail account wither username and password
Go through login process
3- Hard reset your phone. You will lose all information that is currently on your phone when you do this.
Select Settings -> Security -> Factory Data Reset
Once the phone reboots, input your google account information when the phone asks for it.

BWolf56 said:
When you look at your signal, is it grey? When it is colored (blue most of the time), then it's connecting with Google, if grey, it's not.
I did a little google search (can go a long way ) and found a few solutions:
1- Just restart the phone without the SIM card, and connect to some WiFi network, so you can login to your Google Account. It will log you into the account, and then you can put the SIM card back.
2- Add YouTube app and login with gmail account
Go into Gmail App and add account if needed.
Sign into Gmail account wither username and password
Go through login process
3- Hard reset your phone. You will lose all information that is currently on your phone when you do this.
Select Settings -> Security -> Factory Data Reset
Once the phone reboots, input your google account information when the phone asks for it.
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Tried step #1 and #2. None of these work. Just a quick question before Itry step #3 . Will it cause to brick my phone? The only reason I am asking is because the phone is rooted, by one of the methods on this site. That is my only worry, will anything happen if I do it that way or doni have to go threw Odin and that whole process again? Once again thanks for the help.

Namikaze Minato said:
Tried step #1 and #2. None of these work. Just a quick question before Itry step #3 . Will it cause to brick my phone? The only reason I am asking is because the phone is rooted, by one of the methods on this site. That is my only worry, will anything happen if I do it that way or doni have to go threw Odin and that whole process again? Once again thanks for the help.
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No you won't brick your phone. Although, make a backup first.

BWolf56 said:
No you won't brick your phone. Although, make a backup first.
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Thanks a lot. When you say back up - you just mean pull all the pics off and put them on my comp, right? Like i said before I'm a noob to the whole android rooting process and things of its nature. Thanks again.

Namikaze Minato said:
Thanks a lot. When you say back up - you just mean pull all the pics off and put them on my comp, right? Like i said before I'm a noob to the whole android rooting process and things of its nature. Thanks again.
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You can go in recovery and make a nandroid backup. That will make a flashable image of your phone which you can get back to if something goes wrong.

BWolf56 said:
You can go in recovery and make a nandroid backup. That will make a flashable image of your phone which you can get back to if something goes wrong.
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Wow. Ok I totally lost you there. I don't know how to make backups and flash stuff. Guess I'll just try to take off the pics and videos. And start from scratch again. I would love to have the latest JB update w/o all the bloatware that AT&T puts on it, but that a whole other project in itself. Lol Thank you for all your help.

Namikaze Minato said:
Wow. Ok I totally lost you there. I don't know how to make backups and flash stuff. Guess I'll just try to take off the pics and videos. And start from scratch again. I would love to have the latest JB update w/o all the bloatware that AT&T puts on it, but that a whole other project in itself. Lol Thank you for all your help.
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You might wanna take a hour or so to go read the stickied guides

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You might wanna take a hour or so to go read the stickied guides
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Fantastic.... all your ideas did nothing...
Still experiencing the same problems. same error message. its like its blocking my phone from syncing. Maybe i deleted a file. I think the best bet would be to flash a whole new ROM or reboot the whole phone, and make it a fresh one.

Namikaze Minato said:
Fantastic.... all your ideas did nothing...
Still experiencing the same problems. same error message. its like its blocking my phone from syncing. Maybe i deleted a file. I think the best bet would be to flash a whole new ROM or reboot the whole phone, and make it a fresh one.
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Do a backup and go back to stock. See if it works there. If not, it's a problem with your carrier, maybe even your sim card.

Gmail 5.0 material design

Gmail 5.0 Is just beautifully designed
I have installed following the steps in the forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-gmail-5-0-t2912373

HtcOnekid said:
Gmail 5.0 Is just beautifully designed
I have installed following the steps in the forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-gmail-5-0-t2912373
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Can you share your steps for installing? I followed the steps in the thread you linked to and when I tried to start GMAIL 0 the video played - but when I tried to use GMAIL - it FC'd -
what steps did you do?
I appreciate the help....

mocsab said:
Can you share your steps for installing? I followed the steps in the thread you linked to and when I tried to start GMAIL 0 the video played - but when I tried to use GMAIL - it FC'd -
what steps did you do?
I appreciate the help....
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Same here just FC

mocsab said:
Can you share your steps for installing? I followed the steps in the thread you linked to and when I tried to start GMAIL 0 the video played - but when I tried to use GMAIL - it FC'd -
what steps did you do?
I appreciate the help....
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Same here just FC
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1- uninstall Gmail using Titanium back up/ restart phone.
2- using rom toolbox edit build.prop
Search for ro.buid.type and Change "user" to "userdebug"
And it should work let me know

Worked for me just had to:
1) uninstall the old version (titanium)
2) move the downloaded apk to system\priv-app, and change the permissions
3) reboot
4) change the buildprop to userdebug

Dovigoldberger said:
Worked for me just had to:
1) uninstall the old version (titanium)
2) move the downloaded apk to system\priv-app, and change the permissions
3) reboot
4) change the buildprop to userdebug
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did you also tried messenger,calendar and fit? they are beautiful.

Couldn't find any working links

HtcOnekid said:
did you also tried messenger,calendar and fit? they are beautiful.
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where were you able to get the messenger, and calendar?

makavelicruz said:
where were you able to get the messenger, and calendar?
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http://phandroid.com/2014/10/20/che...y-music-and-more-leaked-android-5-0-lollipop/

I got the message working

HtcOnekid said:
did you also tried messenger,calendar and fit? they are beautiful.
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i can not get calendar to work .. I have Drive, Mesenger , and GMAIl. Calendar doesnt want to install. I have it in priv-app just like the others but its nowhere to found.?

spirodave said:
i can not get calendar to work .. I have Drive, Mesenger , and GMAIl. Calendar doesnt want to install. I have it in priv-app just like the others but its nowhere to found.?
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Yeah calendar is having issues I will report back if I find a fix.

HtcOnekid said:
Yeah calendar is having issues I will report back if I find a fix.
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Nevermind ...After I installed Music and rebooted its up and running . These apps are awesome . Im at work and its slow and our Command Center Server is down so i had some time to browse. Im glad i came across these .Thanks

spirodave said:
Nevermind ...After I installed Music and rebooted its up and running . These apps are awesome . Im at work and its slow and our Command Center Server is down so i had some time to browse. Im glad i came across these .Thanks
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So how exactly did you do it I want to get mine working

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So how exactly did you do it I want to get mine working
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For Calendar? If so I just did it the same way I di the others . I did remove google calendar sync with titainium backup . I put it in system/priv-app and changed permissions to 766 with all of them . Then after rebooting several times (because i installed each app one at a time) it showed up in my app drawer.. Ill post a screenie in a minute

Here it is I also have all installed except fit cause I don't want it and books. The other 6 work fine

spirodave said:
i can not get calendar to work .. I have Drive, Mesenger , and GMAIl. Calendar doesnt want to install. I have it in priv-app just like the others but its nowhere to found.?
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I was able to get all of them working -] simply clicked on and installed the Calendar app from where I had it saved on my SD card - it worked - like all of the GOOGLE APs - JUST AWESOME!

mocsab said:
I was able to get all of them working -] simply clicked on and installed the Calendar app from where I had it saved on my SD card - it worked - like all of the GOOGLE APs - JUST AWESOME!
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Yeah I got them all working. A few hours ago. Calendar wasn't bad it just took a few reboots and removal of calendar sync

spirodave said:
Yeah I got them all working. A few hours ago. Calendar wasn't bad it just took a few reboots and removal of calendar sync
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That is what I did too - when I first tried to uninstall Calendar using Titanium, I didn't see the ap in the list of programs - all I saw was Calendar Sync and Calendar Storage...
So I made sure I backed up the ap in TB - then uninstalled Calendar Sync - then installed the new GOOGLE Calendar by clicking on the ap file on my SD Card - I rebooted and found I had TWO Calendars installed - I then saw both calendars (the old one and the new one in TB) so I uninstalled the old one - rebooted - and all is good.
Look - sometimes I am like a bull in a china shop - but I always make sure I can revert what I am doing in case I do something really stupid - and this time, it worked!
EDIT - what is weird to me is that I did not see the Original GOOGLE CALENDAR in TB when I first tried to uninstall - but after installing the new Calendar - I saw both in my list of aps in TB - odd...

mocsab said:
That is what I did too - when I first tried to uninstall Calendar using Titanium, I didn't see the ap in the list of programs - all I saw was Calendar Sync and Calendar Storage...
So I made sure I backed up the ap in TB - then uninstalled Calendar Sync - then installed the new GOOGLE Calendar by clicking on the ap file on my SD Card - I rebooted and found I had TWO Calendars installed - I then saw both calendars (the old one and the new one in TB) so I uninstalled the old one - rebooted - and all is good.
Look - sometimes I am like a bull in a china shop - but I always make sure I can revert what I am doing in case I do something really stupid - and this time, it worked!
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Yeah once we have a recovery we will be golden.

Question: Is it possible to use the Shield TV without a Google Account?

Is it possible to use the Shield TV without a Google Account?
Does somebody know a way?
Maybe with a custom firmware?

I want to know that too. I had a foster device but I find not an clearly answer yet. do you?
EDIT:
Perhaps this could help us.
EDIT2:
surprisingly I found a key-kombo to get an special menu. You just need to put ↑ ↑ ← ← on the remote. Then you can choose to skip-login. Now we need to know more.

dunno y u wouldnt want goog signed in.. i suppose if u get thrugh setup then can ust adb sideload stuff

Instead of sideloading stuff you can use Aurora store to get all the updates you need and more.
Just once you need to sideload the store: AuroraStore_3.1.5.apk
Source

So it is possible to use the device without a google account then?
I even went a step further and rooted my stock OS shield and deleted all the bloatware that came with it. Then installed only jellyfin (alternative to plex) to stream from my home NAS + put the device on its own VLAN without internet access.
Even this process requires a google account to setup.. WOuld be nice if I could just remove that google requirement if Im not even planning to use it on the internet

cHECKjAM said:
So it is possible to use the device without a google account then?
I even went a step further and rooted my stock OS shield and deleted all the bloatware that came with it. Then installed only jellyfin (alternative to plex) to stream from my home NAS + put the device on its own VLAN without internet access.
Even this process requires a google account to setup.. WOuld be nice if I could just remove that google requirement if Im not even planning to use it on the internet
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See my EDIT2 here. Just use the key-combo.
Without google means in this case that you never connect your device with google.

← ↑ ← ← not work android 8.1

Sorry, forget to mention that you need the shield dev rom.
Perhaps with non-dev and magisk root it could be possible to Flash an apk from the dev Rom but atm it is just possible to skip the Google login with the official nvidia dev-rom.
Greetings by Idijt

I find it if you first set it up with account you just go in and delete the account and turn off auto login.
I have both versions dev and retail both work the same as for deleting the account and turning off the auto login.
Make sure you turn developer tool on though

I dont know about newer firmware versions, but i remember going through the initial setup and skipping everything that gave that option until the create google account screen, where i couldn't go any further, i simply pulled the power plug, put it back in , and i was able to skip the google account creation.
Obviously i dont recommend folks pulling the power cord while system is runing on a regularly basis, didn't seem to be any ill affects, but i would suggest that you have nothing hooked up to the shield like harddrives and such just incase.
I cant remember for sure, but i think there is a way to force a reboot through a connected keyboard and key combination (search engine) while system is running which is a more elegant solution if possible

my shield 2019 pro got an ota today.. i backed it up and can upload it if anyones interested.. seemed to have quite a bit of fixes for audio and some issues on vizio tvs etc

I_did_it_just_tmrrow said:
Sorry, forget to mention that you need the shield dev rom.
Perhaps with non-dev and magisk root it could be possible to Flash an apk from the dev Rom but atm it is just possible to skip the Google login with the official nvidia dev-rom.
Greetings by Idijt
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perhaps if they already got it set up to do that they probably already bypassed it.. just sayin lol

elliwigy said:
my shield 2019 pro got an ota today.. i backed it up and can upload it if anyones interested.. seemed to have quite a bit of fixes for audio and some issues on vizio tvs etc
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You can do a:
Code:
adb shell pm list packages -f
zxhwk said:
I find it if you first set it up with account you just go in and delete the account and turn off auto login.
I have both versions dev and retail both work the same as for deleting the account and turning off the auto login.
Make sure you turn developer tool on though
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Yes, this is an option but you need to create an Google account. Yes, you can delete this after the setup but you probably keep it. I dont want to create an account and I dont want to share my informations with google.This should be the last possible fix for this.
banderos101 said:
I dont know about newer firmware versions, but i remember going through the initial setup and skipping everything that gave that option until the create google account screen, where i couldn't go any further, i simply pulled the power plug, put it back in , and i was able to skip the google account creation.
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That sounds nice! Can you tell us what os version and what device you are running?
banderos101 said:
I cant remember for sure, but i think there is a way to force a reboot through a connected keyboard and key combination (search engine) while system is running which is a more elegant solution if possible
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If you find the key-combo, pls tell us. I dont find anything.
ByTheWay:
I uninstall a lot of google services/apps. I will do a
Code:
adb shell pm list packages -f
for you, later this day with my google packages where still left on my device.

Yes I know you do not want to share neither do I . I just made a bogus account and never use it that is all
I use a custom Hal launcher on them because I could never get Nova launcher to work correctly
Both of mine ever since I got them Both are Model P2897 and have 8.0.0 security patch DEC 2018, kernel 4.9.109-tegra-g4fa2f5b [email protected] #1, Sun mar 3 15:08:57 PST 2019. , Build OPR6.170623.010.3507953_1441.7411, Shield SW Version 7.2.3(30.6.131.70)

@zxhwk what kind of modification does it have? The HAL Launcher.

banderos101 said:
I dont know about newer firmware versions, but i remember going through the initial setup and skipping everything that gave that option until the create google account screen, where i couldn't go any further, i simply pulled the power plug, put it back in , and i was able to skip the google account creation.
Obviously i dont recommend folks pulling the power cord while system is runing on a regularly basis, didn't seem to be any ill affects, but i would suggest that you have nothing hooked up to the shield like harddrives and such just incase.
I cant remember for sure, but i think there is a way to force a reboot through a connected keyboard and key combination (search engine) while system is running which is a more elegant solution if possible
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This does not work. I tried a lot to skip the google-login with non-dev rom without success.
Option A:
flash the current dev rom and to the mentioned key-combo to skip the login
Option B:
just type in a fake or real google login and login. Then disable the account.

I_did_it_just_tmrrow said:
This does not work. I tried a lot to skip the google-login with non-dev rom without success.
Option A:
flash the current dev rom and to the mentioned key-combo to skip the login
Option B:
just type in a fake or real google login and login. Then disable the account.
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it can only b skipped on dev firmware

elliwigy said:
it can only b skipped on dev firmware
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Yes it can only be skipped on dev firmware. twhen I guess I would say that the "SetupWraithPrebuild.apk" checked the some system files, perhaps the build.prop and if you not running the a dev-rom you can not skip-google login with the key-kombo.
But some good news are that Steel01 released an experimental LOS16 (pie) rom.
See here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=82142523&postcount=432

thanks for the participation, i thought i was really the only one who didn't wanna login with a gmail account since it took some months for your replies.
i created a new throaway gmail account in the meantime, but it was not easy because google requires a sms verification in my country. i had to use one of these sms websites for that.
nearly all televisions and branded boxes with the android tv os let you skip the google account login during the initial setup.
since nvidia does support this product quite well with constant software updates, they'll probably consider to implement this feature in an upcoming firmware update if we are vocal enough on their official forums and request the 'skip login' frequently?

@uigger @I_did_it_just_tmrrow
How did you guys create throw-away google accounts.. I could never get any of those SMS verification services to work.. I think I tried like 20 different numbers there. All are used already..
I would also love to try lineageOS on the shield but project seems to not update at all since many months and also dev is not answering in forum anymore.
You think it still works good on 2019 shield Pro ? Is it safe to try it and easily revert to default if not.. ?