Okay, after spending the whole day screwing with my phone me and my wife's phones are rooted, unlocked, and s-off running custom roms. Everything is cool except for one thing, somehow my wife's phone lost root and she is getting frustrated not being able to open certain apps and she's getting super pissed at me. Can someone please help. I tried running the perm root in the "noob proof tool thing" and reinstalled superuser in AmanRa and it did nothing. Out of ideas. How do you just root it?
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Have you tried checking the app that handles superuser permissions within the ROM itself?
Most Rezound ROMs have "Superuser" or "Super SU" in the app drawer.
Check how the program is handling permissions in settings and try updating the busybox binaries there for starters.
More than one superuser app running at the same time can be problematic too.
Reinstall the rom
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In recovery clear cache and dalvik cache. And if you flash the same ROM you shouldn't have to wipe data.
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In recovery clear cache and dalvik cache. And if you flash the same ROM you shouldn't have to wipe data.
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Yep, and back up text messages of course, she'll probably not appreciate those disappearing.
Got an option built into message app for SMS, and MMS can be saved a few ways such as this here (if Titanium Backup is installed and working properly with root, since you said "some" apps):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1537931
okay, so can I just update su binaries and, in recovery, wipe cache and davlic cache then just restore her backup? Really trying to avoid having her set all her $hit up again.
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okay, so can I just update su binaries and, in recovery, wipe cache and davlic cache then just restore her backup? Really trying to avoid having her set all her $hit up again.
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Backup was suggested for if you re-flash the ROM and have her set back up lol, I mean that doesn't hurt.
Update SU binaries and wipe caches and check things out again.
To try and sit down and reason it out a bit: What apps are having issues, why just "some." Are all these issues actually connected and directly related to root access? Could just be permissions issue, or problem with restoring from Titanium Backups.
You can use Root Checker off Play Store to check that quickly. If that says you're ok, check the SU app on your ROM and settings, reinstall of that may help.
Again, all root is in a nutshell is access to the whole filesystem, accomplished on our phone by running the system as a particular user with administrative permissions. You interact with the Superuser apps, which in turn use busybox binaries to interface with the system.
Kinda odd it could just dissappear after being installed successfully, unless it got deleted or settings changed, or very unlikely file corruption. Worse case, if it is not another issue, you do not have root access, and cannot pin down the solution, a ROM reflash is suggested. Remember to reinstall SU then if the ROM doesn't have it of course, most all custom ones have root built in, Stock ROMs don't.
Flash a superuser.zip
That's what I had to do.
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I actually did ALL the things you all recommended. Wiped all cache, flashed SU, and updated binaries. It worked. Thanks! You guys are awesome, saved me a huge headache!
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same boat here iv flashed all and cleared all. but havent reinstalled yet...
Should work
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Okay I can't seem to install any new apps or update any existing ones on my phone. I'm able to download them, but once it tries to install its always unsuccessful. Don't get mad if this is the wrong thread. I'm new to this but usually find answers to my problems with someone else's topic. Except for this one here. Any help?
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Try clearing system cache, reboot into recovery and clear dalvik cache, then reboot.
How do you clear system cache? Searched under settings could not find anything.
I've has the same problem. Lasted about two days. The apps would download but would stick on installing forever and would eventually fail. My solution was logging into Google on the phones browser. It seems like my account timed out on my phone, and after logging out and then back in, my market began to work perfectly again. You can also try what was posted above. Are you rooted? Cause of you aren't, then you won't be able to do those things said above. Good luck, hope this helps.
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Tried clearing cache and signing in and out of Google. Neither worked. I have opera set up as default browser, tried with both opera & phones regular browser. Still nothing. Yes I'm rooted, running kaosfroyo v34.
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Try a factory/data reset. Sounds like your only option.
Reflash after that to make sure it loaded correctly.
A simple flash over to KaosFroyo V 37 fixed the problem. Thanks for the suggestions.
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Clear data for the market in settings. That usually works for me. If it doesn't, you can install the apps manually by using a file system manger (Linda File Manager, Root Explorer, etc.). The .apk should be in the download folder on the sd.
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Ok so I've tried all suggestions and nothing has seemed to work. I figured, why not try a new rom? So I flashed over to Vanilla Tazz. Seemed ok at first. Was able to update apps and download some new ones. Emphasis on SOME. Cannot for the life of me get back AndroZip which is my favorite file manager. Even backed it up with Titanium before all this started happening but still could not restore it. And now with Vanilla all you get is the crappy Android keyboard. So I download the HTC ime keypoard apk. Can't install that either. Try to download eoeAppInstaller to do so, can't install that. This is really, really, really pissing me off. Is a factory reset my only hope?
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Did you do a full wipe before installing the new rom? Try doing a dalvik wipe and rebooting. It shouldn't affect the current rom you're in.
Also, it sounds like whatever problem you had in the old rom was carried to the new one. Did you use titanium to restore any apps or settings? If so, you may have "restored" the problem.
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Have you messed with any system apps? Like moving the market to the sd card?
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I backed up my kaos rom and wiped all data and cache before flashing vanilla tazz. Just wiped dalvik but still no luck.
I used titanium to restore apps but no settings. And no I haven't messed with system apps. Should I try moving to sd?
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I had a problen with my FB not syncing with contacts (across several roms). Turns out something I was restoring with Titanium (not the FB app) was causing it. It'll be a pain in the rear, but you probably need to do a full wipe, flash a clean rom, and set everything up manually. OR you could probably nand restore to a rom BEFORE you were having this problem, create a Titanium back up, wipe, flash the new rom, and restore Titanium.
Hopefully, this will straighten things out for ya!
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Full wipe as in factory reset right? Will that unroot the phone as well, basically forcing me to start from scratch?
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Tried nand restore but kept getting an error and could not complete.
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Full wipe for "rooters" means wipe data, dalvik, and ext (if sd card is partitioned).
Have you renamed your nandroid? If so, remove any spaces and try again.
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It all started when I tried to update busybox and it told me that multiple versions were present. I reflashed KH3 (which brought me back to basic busybox) and the problem still persists. I can download FINE over 3G. Never had this problem before.
Factory reset the only solution? I've read online that it works, but I'd like to avoid it.
I've decided to go for the hard reset, but I'm worried that I won't clean everything that's necessary.
I think busybox may be installed in /sbin which is outside of /system. I was planning on flashing the leaked KH3 (NON FRANKENSTEIN), but doesn't that only wipe /system?
How can I restore the absolute root of my device to stock? By that I mean the parent "directory" (if you can call it that) of /system.
Thanks!
So I wiped absolutely everything, have basic busybox installed, and I'm still getting the issue. Sometimes I can get an app to install, but more often than not the download fails to start on wifi.
No one else experiences this? Anyone have any idea why this might be happening? I'm so frustrated!
I also think that the wipes may not have worked properly because somehow PowerAMP remembered my settings and Tasker didn't revert to the default notification icon. I can't figure out how this is possible if /system and /data were wiped.
Does flashing a stock ROM not wipe all of /system?
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Clean wipe via CWM recovery mounts and storage format system data and sd card .
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Aside from SD card and USB storage, doesn't all of that happen when flashing stock ROM?
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Hello? Someone confirm please.
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So I wanted to change my keyboard... In fact I *did* change my keyboard.
At first whenever I wanted to use the keyboard (for notepad for example) it would say something like "Unable to reach" but after a while the keyboard just started working.
Then I switched on wifi and everything started crashing with the usual "Unfortunately (insert every task) has stopped working".
I know I can probably solve this by doing a factory wipe... but I also know that there MUST be a better way to solve this problem.
I have adb installed. I have Siyah kernel.
I can access the whole damned phone from my laptop in or out of recovery mode. I just don't know where to look to fix the problem.
A possible clue:
I tried flashing Keyboard-Blau.zip when my keyboard wasn't working. But CWM aborted the flash with an unknown error.
This is very similar to what happened the last time I had this problem. The only thing in the zip anyway was AXT9IME.apk in the system/app folder.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
P.S. I have also wiped cache and davlak cache AND attempted to install a rom. All permissions in system/app seem fine.
Could it be that system is mounted as r/w somehow?
EDIT2: Just now when I tried to to wipe dalvik (sp) cache it said something about:
"Unknown volume for path sd-ext"
Just a note.
Also I have erased /system then installed the rom again and it's still acting up.
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So I wanted to change my keyboard... In fact I *did* change my keyboard.
At first whenever I wanted to use the keyboard (for notepad for example) it would say something like "Unable to reach" but after a while the keyboard just started working.
Then I switched on wifi and everything started crashing with the usual "Unfortunately (insert every task) has stopped working".
I know I can probably solve this by doing a factory wipe... but I also know that there MUST be a better way to solve this problem.
I have adb installed. I have Siyah kernel.
I can access the whole damned phone from my laptop in or out of recovery mode. I just don't know where to look to fix the problem.
A possible clue:
I tried flashing Keyboard-Blau.zip when my keyboard wasn't working. But CWM aborted the flash with an unknown error.
This is very similar to what happened the last time I had this problem. The only thing in the zip anyway was AXT9IME.apk in the system/app folder.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
P.S. I have also wiped cache and davlak cache AND attempted to install a rom. All permissions in system/app seem fine.
Could it be that system is mounted as r/w somehow?
EDIT2: Just now when I tried to to wipe dalvik (sp) cache it said something about:
"Unknown volume for path sd-ext"
Just a note.
Also I have erased /system then installed the rom again and it's still acting up.
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What rom are you on? Did you do a full wipe when you flashed it?
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What rom are you on? Did you do a full wipe when you flashed it?
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Wanamlite. Latest version. And I sure did...
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Wanamlite. Latest version. And I sure did...
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What keyboard did you choose? One from the play store?
Edit : have you tried to flash the rom over what you have now, with no wipe?
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What keyboard did you choose? One from the play store?
Edit : have you tried to flash the rom over what you have now, with no wipe?
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Yes I tried it.
And somebody had uploaded the stock, touchwiz keyboard. So I copyed it over and set the permissions correctly.
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Yes I tried it.
And somebody had uploaded the stock, touchwiz keyboard. So I copyed it over and set the permissions correctly.
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Hmm.. The only thing I can think of is wiping cache, dalvik one more time EDIT: and try to fix permissions from cwmr. If that doesn't work I would make a nandroid backup and flash your rom with a full wipe again to see if that fixes it. At least you can restore the backup if it doesn't
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Hmm.. The only thing I can think of is wiping cache, dalvik one more time EDIT: and try to fix permissions from cwmr. If that doesn't work I would make a nandroid backup and flash your rom with a full wipe again to see if that fixes it. At least you can restore the backup if it doesn't
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Yeah I know a full wipe will fix it. I've already done that and screwed it up again a few more times for testing purposes.
My point is that there SHOULD be a way to fix it without a full wipe.
I mean if you've got root access, CWM recovery, AND you can actually boot the phone and access adb at the home screen... Then it should be possible to fix the problem.
It's a shame android dosnt return an error telling you WHY something is crashing. Then it would be a cinch.
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Yeah I know a full wipe will fix it. I've already done that and screwed it up again a few more times for testing purposes.
My point is that there SHOULD be a way to fix it without a full wipe.
I mean if you've got root access, CWM recovery, AND you can actually boot the phone and access adb at the home screen... Then it should be possible to fix the problem.
It's a shame android dosnt return an error telling you WHY something is crashing. Then it would be a cinch.
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What keyboard are you trying?
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What keyboard are you trying?
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This one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1483428
...from post #2. Then I tried the zip in post 3 and four. (If you'd like to replicate the error just backup your /data then you can do whatever the hell you want and just restore /data and you'll have everything.) Then I tried flashing the zip from post 3 or 4... which didn't work. Followed the directions for changing permissions on the keyboard.
I hadn't realized you could backup everything from CWM Recovery. And hadn't even considered that just restoring /data would work without screwing everything up again... but work it did! Wish I had realized that a couple of weeks ago... but I didn't really want that data anyway.
Basically I just want the touchwiz keyboard because the standard android one is too small for my hands.
But I can't quite figure out how changing two files... and even changing them back later... could crash the whole damned OS beyond repair.
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This one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1483428
...from post #2. Then I tried the zip in post 3 and four. (If you'd like to replicate the error just backup your /data then you can do whatever the hell you want and just restore /data and you'll have everything.) Then I tried flashing the zip from post 3 or 4... which didn't work. Followed the directions for changing permissions on the keyboard.
I hadn't realized you could backup everything from CWM Recovery. And hadn't even considered that just restoring /data would work without screwing everything up again... but work it did! Wish I had realized that a couple of weeks ago... but I didn't really want that data anyway.
Basically I just want the touchwiz keyboard because the standard android one is too small for my hands.
But I can't quite figure out how changing two files... and even changing them back later... could crash the whole damned OS beyond repair.
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It might be a bad zip/apk file
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It might be a bad zip/apk file
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It absolutely was. But what did it do and how could I fix it?
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I have flashed a few ROMs and before I do, I backup my apps with app2zip or titanium backup. After a flash, I restore the apps without issues, but when running them some do run fine others just crash. If you run into the same thing, here is what I have done.
Step 1:
Download ROM Manager->Run it->and look for "Fix Permissions"->Run it & wait...After it is done, run the apps you had issues with.
*You can reboot to CWM recovery->advance->Fix Permissions.
Step 2:
If that doesn't work, unfortunately you are going to have to install them again from Play Store.
Hope this helps.
A standard method for badly behaving apps is to go to settings, manage apps, then delete cache or delete data for each app.
Or just don't use add2zip, it doesn't set permissions. Stick with tbu, never an issue and allot faster.
Again, do everything right and there won't be any issues and you shouldn't have to fix permissions
Twrp works the best for wiping cache and delvik. Doing it the other way mention, you're going to have to reboot anyway, might as well do it the right way. Plus with 76 apps, that would take forever
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A standard method for badly behaving apps is to go to settings, manage apps, then delete cache or delete data for each app.
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I wish that would've worked, but it didn't.
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Or just don't use add2zip, it doesn't set permissions. Stick with tbu, never an issue and allot faster.
Again, do everything right and there won't be any issues and you shouldn't have to fix permissions
Twrp works the best for wiping cache and delvik. Doing it the other way mention, you're going to have to reboot anyway, might as well do it the right way. Plus with 76 apps, that would take forever
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Everyone experiences a different thing with backup apps, I've seen some that had issues using tbu. I did use Wipe Cache/Dalvik methods multiple times and didn't solve the issue. The above methods worked for me.
I know what you might be thinking, he is asking a dumb question. Just hear me out. I obtained root using superoneclick 2.2. I then flashed the terra silent kernal to get CWM, I rebooted through CWM without backing anything up, yeah I know I made a mistake and I am upset about it, but to add insult to injury I preformed factory reset out of panic after that. Fortunately my device did not brick, but all the apps that were not bloatware were gone, some that were bloatware were gone like google play. I lost superuser as well. I thought that I would have to reroot, I tried that, but superoneclick said I was already rooted, I continued with the root anyways, it made no signifigant difference, I then found a way to download the superuser apk off of the internet, but it would not install. I then downloaded romtoolbox lite and ran root browser, I then came across the superuser apk and install in successfully and thus have superuser permissions. I had backed up my nand through CWM before successfully reinstalling superuser. But after I reinstalled it successfully and obtained root, I backed it up again. My question is, is it safe to flash custom roms like CM7 onto my device? As far as I know everything that I have reinstalled that were bloatware seem to be working ok. The only thing that does not work is the sound (not the speakers or the audio jack, the sound that can go into silent mode.) although I think that it may be due to the voodoo sound files that come with the terra silent kernel. If you need me to give you more information, I will try my best to provide it, but I am quite new to this sort of thing and I would rather just have my friend who has more expirience than I do at this look over it for me and what not, however he has only worked with htc as far as I know and it has been a while since he has done that. So, I will be more than happy to try and provide more info if needed. I am just skeptical on the matter since my device has been through alot.
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Which player do you have? But yeah you can flash custom Roms on you player with CWM.
Here's a quick video on it around the 2 min mark http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aajKlCbemAs
Doing a factory reset erases all apps you've downloaded and not bloatware. That's why you back up before so you can restore your apps or settings later I use Titanium Back up https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup&hl=en with the key. It's definetly worth it and normally the backups are a lot smaller and you get to choose what you want to back up and restore.
Also, if you want Superuser, you can get it on the playstore.
I have superuser, but I did not backup tgrough CWM before I rebooted through CWM. My friend I mentioned in my earlier posts saud that it would work. I have a 4.0 US and I think when I preformed factory reset, it only got what was on the custom kernel I had on instead of the stock. I got superuser through blackmart alpha b/c google play was removed from my device.
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well yeah, as long as the ROM is for 4.0 you should be good.
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You can get playstore here http://goo.im/gapps/
You sure? Because I rebooted through cwm without backing up my nandvthe first time I opened it, will that cause problems even though I gained root and have superuser working? I also preformed factiry reset with terra silent kernel installed. What will that do?
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Also google search box bloatware keeps failing (I think trying to root when my device was already rooted did that. How do I get rid of it?
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You sure? Because I rebooted through cwm without backing up my nandvthe first time I opened it, will that cause problems even though I gained root and have superuser working? I also preformed factiry reset with terra silent kernel installed. What will that do?
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Here's a video that talks about roms and kernels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF01lhfUwfk&feature=youtube_gdata_player but really kernels aren't bad only if you flashed one that isn't compatible to your player which.if you do it could brick it.
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So it should be ok to install custom roms even though I rebooted w/o backing up my nand and then preforming factory reset with a custom kernel installed? I will probably have my friend show me how to flash custom roms, but is there a stock kernel I could flash back to through odin? Also does the kernel reponsible for managing bloatware? Because that would explain why some of my apps like google play were gone. I just do not want to make anymore stupid errors that could ruin my player, as I worked for every penny to buy it.
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So it should be ok to install custom roms even though I rebooted w/o backing up my nand and then preforming factory reset with a custom kernel installed? I will probably have my friend show me how to flash custom roms, but is there a stock kernel I could flash back to through odin? Also does the kernel reponsible for managing bloatware? Because that would explain why some of my apps like google play were gone. I just do not want to make anymore stupid errors that could ruin my player, as I worked for every penny to buy it.
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You should be ok even if you don't do a back up. Stock kernel and rom should be around the forums and bloatware is affected by the rom. Maybe you erased a system app and didn't reboot? that's usually why I get those messages. But seriously its hard to brick your player it could happen but as long as your careful you should be good. If your friends how to do it then he should show you that way you have a better understanding. And doing backups are mainly for after you flash something because you're most likely going to do a factory reset (erase user apps not preinatalled apps from rom) and so you can restore user apps with saved settings and progress. You could go without, but you're going to have to start from scratch which sucks! Byt good luck!
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My friend looked my device over and told me that I would be ok. And that rebooting unistalls all google based app or something like that (He also told me that he should have told me that before I even accessed CWM. My googlesearchbox app kept failing and since I just use google as my browser homepage, I just deleted it using a no bloatware app. My friend said that rebooting through CWM without backing anything up and then preforming factory reset with a custom kernel installed would not do anything that could potentially ruin my player, I will soon have him show me how to use CWM to flash a custom rom and all that jazz
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Haha ok if anything Google and this forum can most likely solve your problems! Good luck
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I all that happened when I rebooted through CWM without backing up my nand and then rebooting and then after that did was delete all of my google based apps (including bloatwarle) as well as all the apps I installed myself?
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Yeah that's what factory reset does
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I backed up my system and my apps through titanium, does that mean that everything (including all the data on my sdcard) is backed up?
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I also deleted the googlesearchbox apk.
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It's saved on your internal memory which wont be erased but yeah once it's backed up as long as you backed up both apps with data you're fullyy backed up. your sd card is only touched to read and install you rom anything there is no touched.
So if I was to flash a custom rom, all the stuff on my sd card would be safe? And is it ok that I deleted the googlesearchbox apk?
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Everything on your micro sd are safe. And it's ok to erase google search, I erase it too
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Ok, so I tried to install google Play again by installing the apk, but it needed something else too, since the app was crashing alot, I could not get rid of it, I then saw that my internet browser was gone off of the bottom bar, I then tried to preform factory reset, I was terrified, but but I restored a backup nand through CWM. My question is, since I restored a backup, everything should be ok? And how do I get Google Play back?
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The link for google apps from the link should be like your android version so if you have gingerbread look for the ones with GB. When you restore it will put it back to the state it was when you backed it up.
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