What if you need to install an apk from sdcard but you don't have a file manager installed yet, and to make things worse you don't have internet access to download it from the market!
Well, there's a solution to that. Provided by every internet browser available.
(I suppose you have one installed
Here's what you need to do:
1. Put the apk file in the main directory of your sdcard. Rename it to something very short for easy typing. In this example, I will use "fm.apk".
2. Boot your device. Goto Security Settings and check "Unknown Sources".
3. Open your internet browser. In the address bar type "file:///sdcard/<filename>.apk".
In our example above it should look like this: file:///sdcard/fm.apk
4. Press "Go". That's it! Installation started!
hey guys, does anyone know how to install .gpk file on android?... please help...
.gpk file is not desinged for Android, I think.
^only .apk work with android
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use thumb play installer
hasan_shahrier said:
hey guys, does anyone know how to install .gpk file on android?... please help...
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If you mean .gpk, NO
If you want to install .apk then YES.
How?
1. Copy the apk files you want to install to your phone
2. On your phone, Goto Settings - Security - Enable unknown sources (under Device Administration)
3. open "My files" or any other file explorer you have previously installed. My files is pre-installed on your phone.
- browse to the folder where you copied those apk files to (in step 1.)
- open each apk file, one after the other to install.
Done
Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
Gpk files is something concered with audio files or something and has nothing to do with android http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/gpk
To install apk files u should check unkown sources in settings >> security ( ICS )
Or settings >> location and Security (GB)
actually there is some games that is formated to gpk the only diffrence is it has an installer that automatically put all the file in its destination like the sd files or data. thou you can you winzip or rar to extract it if you dont want to use the installer called 'thumb play installer'
another method - http://www.muzhiwan.com/
install the top right apk
hasan_shahrier said:
hey guys, does anyone know how to install .gpk file on android?... please help...
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from play store download any GPK installer
Let's say you don't have internet access at the moment.
Let's say all you have is fresh install of CyanogenMod 9, which for some reason, does not come with a File Manager :face palm:
Let's say you have an apk file on your SD card.
How would you install the apk file? Terminal emulator, using which commands or another way?
By the way, ASTRO File Manager vs. ES File Explorer, which one and why?
- Put your apk file to sdcard (ex: es.apk)
- open internet browser
- type "file:///sdcard/es.apk" then press Go
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I just figured this out on my own and it worked:
How to install app called Example Name.apk from Android phone's Terminal Emulator:
This shows you how to change directory to SD card ; list contents ; change directory to folder called Google Play which contains file to be installed called Example Name.apk
cd sdcard/
ls
cd "google play"/
ls
su
pm install "Example Name.apk"
Yep there are many way to install apks
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Wow...exactly what I wanted to know.
Thanks for this! :cyclops:
No Explorer/No Playstore
This is a shameful noob problem. Can someone help me please? :fingers-crossed:
I deleted my file explorer app so I can't execute apks from my SD. Also I can not download them from Play Store because it crashes (probably cuz I deleted this system file that has something to do with managing Google Accounts. Currently, I only have the following Google apps installed - Google Backup Transport, Google Contacts Sync, Google Play Store, Google Services Framework)
I rooted my Sony Xperia Arc with the brilliant, super easy rooting kit found here
Putting down my phone details in case they are required -
Model: LT15i
Android: 4.0.4
Kernel: 2.6.32.9
Build: 4.1.B.0.587
Should I just try installing a ROM otherwise?
Thank you so much for reading!
Just in case anyone else comes by here.
If I were you (months ago), I would have reinstalled the exact same ROM, directly over the ROM.
Or, I would have installed GAAPS. Or I would have connected a cable and dropped the files I needed, like a playstore.apk onto the phones internal memory, and then executed it through the browser. file:///path/*.apk
I was going over ADB from my PC, via usb debugging.
System app is just copy to your system/app folder.
and set permition to 644 (rw-r--r--)
Adb push *.apk /system/app
Normal apk is
Adb install *.apk
ZenInsight said:
Just in case anyone else comes by here.
If I were you (months ago), I would have reinstalled the exact same ROM, directly over the ROM.
Or, I would have installed GAAPS. Or I would have connected a cable and dropped the files I needed, like a playstore.apk onto the phones internal memory, and then executed it through the browser. file:///path/*.apk
I was going over ADB from my PC, via usb debugging.
System app is just copy to your system/app folder.
and set permition to 644 (rw-r--r--)
Adb push *.apk /system/app
Normal apk is
Adb install *.apk
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Thanks for this, but my pc using win8 i can using adb, and file:///sdcard/ not apply with myphone.
I try terminal to mount sdcard, and it working
installing google play store
hungpd00532 said:
This is a shameful noob problem. Can someone help me please?
I deleted my file explorer app so I can't execute apks from my SD. Also I can not download them from Play Store because it crashes (probably cuz I deleted this system file that has something to do with managing Google Accounts. Currently, I only have the following Google apps installed - Google Backup Transport, Google Contacts Sync, Google Play Store, Google Services Framework)
I rooted my Sony Xperia Arc with the brilliant, super easy rooting kit found here
Putting down my phone details in case they are required -
Model: LT15i
Android: 4.0.4
Kernel: 2.6.32.9
Build: 4.1.B.0.587
Should I just try installing a ROM otherwise?
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I too experienced a similar problem.....but i have not installed a custom rom .....my sd card formatted unfortunately...
i have no play store and file manager...
i tried many alternatives
went to default internet application and install apps through playstore or some other android stores
tried adb bundle using windows
and finally WIPE DATA AND RESET from recovery mode in my rooted phone and got my playstore back
but be carefull every other apps,data in your phone will be erased(conntacts,call logs,messages)
Tried this method and it shows error
asdot said:
- Put your apk file to sdcard (ex: es.apk)
- open internet browser
- type "file:///sdcard/es.apk" then press Go
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Hello,
I tried your browser method and it gives me the following error-
net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
What shall I do? I have no wifi connection and I installed Android 5.0.2 GAAPS iso on my Samsung NC10 netbook
help me to install app.
i had rooted my device and deleted all the system apps like google play store, default browser, file manager, default launcher and used third party application. But when i reset my device everything is gone and i can't access play store, default browser, file manager, default launcher to install other apps. No please help me to install apps. (i can access to setting,alarm, galary, youtube and superuser using google search):
my device is Samsung galaxy tab 2
android version 4.2.
please help.
I tried to use wondershare mobile go app installer but my usb is not working.
Gapps
http://opengapps.org/
You need to select the correct platform, ARM, and correct Android version and variant, I prefer micro, definitely not full.
You need to know how to install this from your sdcard before booting in.
Hello I'm trying to fix my phone because I was deleting the junk from T-Mobile but it seems that i deleted something important so I don't have Launcher.
I tried to open the browser, download Go Launcher ex.apk and install it but my phone says the file cannot be open, so my 2nd plan was to download it direct from Play, so I open the browser and want to install but it says I need to open the Play app, anyone know if its posible to open an app from a link or install and apk from the computer to the phone like on Nokia Ovi Suite?
Any help would be appreciated
You need to enable non-market sources in the system settings.
If you do not have a file manager, you can install an .apk 2 ways
In browser, type "file:///path-to-file/file.apk"
Through adb "adb install path-to-apk"
This is probably a stupid question, but I'm wondering where the actual folder location for the Downloads app/button that is in the app drawer is. Well, it shows up in the app drawer but I'm sure it's not an app. I'm running 4.4.2. Nothing I've ever downloaded goes there. It always ends up on the sd card in the download folder.
So what is the app/button good for? And is there a way to redirect downloads to go there? Seems like an easy way to check what you downloaded without using a file manager. If it only worked.
Downloads app is a download manager. You can see your current downloads and the finished ones there (not every download though...Chrome downloads appear there, for example), install or delete downloaded apps. But your files still go to sdcard download folder.