So I was having lots of issues installing the latest unofficial cyanogenmod 4.4.4 to my Vibrant, due to the setup wizard force closing. I had made multiple attempts of installing various gapps prior, unsuccessfully, and restoring previous nandroids etc.
Anyways this last time, I installed only the rom, and no Gapps at all. I guarantee I had done a factory wipe, wiped the cache, and wiped the dalvik cache. Once I booted, and got through the setup wizard (which still gave problems, but made it through), to my surprise the play store was there, along with a could other gapps.
This is pretty much close to what I wanted, as I would prefer to have only the play store, and nothing else and then selectively install the others. but I'm just wondering how it happened? I was under the impression I should have no play store without gapps, and that I shouldn't have had any gapps after a fresh wipe and new rom install.
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Does anyone know how to make the transition from Alpha 3 to XRON? I already have Alpha 3 working and installed some apps.
Do we need to uninstall Alpha 3 or we can update to XRON directly? If its direct, what happens to the apps, games and data that exists in Alpha 3 that I installed from the Market. Would be wiped and I have to redo them all over again?
Thanks for your help.
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Does anyone know how to make the transition from Alpha 3 to XRON? I already have Alpha 3 working and installed some apps.
Do we need to uninstall Alpha 3 or we can update to XRON directly? If its direct, what happens to the apps, games and data that exists in Alpha 3 that I installed from the Market. Would be wiped and I have to redo them all over again?
Thanks for your help.
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Never done this before eh?
The only time that you wont lose your apps and previous settings is if you install over an existing installation, and that is a pretty rare occurrence. XRON requires a factory wipe before installation.
Just boot into CWM Recovery and flash the zip and do a factory wipe.
If you left the defaults alone when you installed CM7 originally, your apps will be backed up.
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Never done this before eh?
The only time that you wont lose your apps and previous settings is if you install over an existing installation, and that is a pretty rare occurrence. XRON requires a factory wipe before installation.
Just boot into CWM Recovery and flash the zip and do a factory wipe.
If you left the defaults alone when you installed CM7 originally, your apps will be backed up.
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Thanks Krunk_Kracker for your response. Sorry haven't done that.
Flash the zip and do a factory wipe? Didn't understand that.
Also when you say apps will be backed up that will be when we do a NANDROID backup but was hoping if we can flash XRON over Alpha 3 and still have my existing games retain the level/scores or some of my apps have the logins saved etc.
It looks like it won't and I have to wipe Alpha 3 and do XRON and start installing the apps all over again.
Krunk_Kracker said:
Never done this before eh?
The only time that you wont lose your apps and previous settings is if you install over an existing installation, and that is a pretty rare occurrence. XRON requires a factory wipe before installation.
Just boot into CWM Recovery and flash the zip and do a factory wipe.
If you left the defaults alone when you installed CM7 originally, your apps will be backed up.
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Contrary to popular teaching I have never done a factory wipe through all the CM versions and then all the XRON versions as well!
TP runs stable and solid with Regpon being the only "fix" applied to maintain WiFi.
I love this device!
PS I do a dalvic wipe and partion wipe.
Use Mybackuproot its a free app in the Market. It will backup all your current apps+data like saved games, call logs, text msgs etc...
Run it to save a backup to SD card, clean install XRON, go to the market to install MybackupRoot again, and then load up your backup from SD card. Has work great for me in the past on my ANdroid phones when trying out different Roms.
Had a bad USB connection in my old phone, so AT&T just swapped it for a new one.
I immediately flashed Clockwork recovery and tried installing SlimBeam ROM.
Noticed some weird problems:
the notification bar is blank (I've got the toggles, but nothing else)
the home button didn't work (does nothing)
maps and other location-services failed to work (no network location errors)
Calendar data gives errors trying to sync with my Google account,
Contacts not syncable at all (doesn't even show as an option in sync settings)
So booted back to recovery and:
did a factory reset
cleared cache
formatted /system
installed slim & slim gapps.
Didn't install any of my own apps, didn't restore anything from Titanium Backup.
Not only did the problems persist, but I got android keyboard (aosp) errors on all text entry fields.
I thought I'd try a different rom.
Trying to install Paranoid Android gave me an assert error, so I SWITCHED FROM CLOCKWORK RECOVERY TO TWRP.
In TWRP, I did a factory reset, wiped data, wiped cache, wiped dalvik cache, wiped system, then installed Paranoid Android and the latest Google Apps.
SAME PROBLEMS, including the keyboard issue.
And I get an error connecting to the Play Store.
Anybody ever hear of something like this before?
The problem can't be in /system or /data, since I have wiped those before reinstalling.
And they appear to be independent of ROM and recovery package.
While it could be hardware related, in my gut I feel it must be something in the software.
Could there be a problem with files that ROMs and Recoveries don't touch? Something in the /dev, /efs, /sys, or some other folder?
I am curious to know what's going on, and am willing to do some troubleshooting and posting of logs.
But, more importantly, what can I do to get all this functionality working properly?
Hi, so I just recently dedicded to revert from the CM10.2 nightlies back to CM10.1.3. I did do "Wipe > System" on the romslot and then proceeded to installation with the cm-10.1.3.zip and gapps-jb-20130812.zip. However once I started up the phone I noticed that Google Play Store wasn't installed nor was there the normal prompt to log into my Google account.
Recheck your version of gapps whether compatible with 4.2 or not.
Also when migrating from one android version to another, always do a full wipe including /data.
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Thanks. I did try doing wiping everyone on that rom slot in Safestrap, ("Factory Reset, Cache, Dalvik Cache, System") and even deleted that particular slot and recreated it. The issue is still there. CM10.1.3 is an Android 4.2.2 ROM which GApps 20130812 is compatible with. I even double checked to make sure I wasn't accidentally using the 20130813 version for Android 4.3
So apparently things weren't wiping properly. I cleaned up everything more thoroughly and things seem to be working now. Thanks for your help anyway.
Hello people. I've always found everything I was looking for, here in XDA, but for my last problem I wasn't so lucky.
Two days ago I've flashed the new CM11 nightly for SGSII and (obviously) the corresponding gapps-kk. I've always used CWM for these operations, and it never let me down. The operation went fine, but, I found it too laggy for daily use. At first I thought it was because I didn't wipe data, but only cache/Dalvik cache (I know, I know, I should know better), so I wiped all and then installed them again.
Founding it still lagging, I wanted to go back to CM 10.1.3 stable. To do so, I wiped data/cache/Dalvik then flashed CM and finally gapps-jb. It seemed everything installed correctly (no errors on CWM), but when it boots up there is no Google Apps. I tried flashing gapps again, but to no results.
I then noticed that the flashing of the gapps takes too little time, like 3/4 seconds, although the file is almost 100MB. Then my guess was that there were some leftovers from the KitKat gapps that CWM didn't want to overwrite, so (as I also read on another thread) I tried formatting /system from CWM. Again, it didn't work.
The last thing I tried was to bypass gapps by copying GoogleServicesFramework and Google Play (Vending) apks to /system/app, set permissions to -rw-r--r-- and rebooted. It didn't work either.
What can I do now? What would the cause be?
(This is my first post, as I've always found everything here. If there's any error I'll correct it, please be kind ^_^)
Use GS2RomNuke from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2100558 , just flash it via cwm and flash your rom and gapps after that, it should solve the issue.
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Thanks for the quick response Dakura. But I guess I don't need to try your solution, as I've found what the issue was and I feel pretty ashamed of myself.
The cause was the zip file, it was corrupted... Guess that's what md5 is for lol.
So yeah, sorry admins/moderators. I ask politely to remove my own rubbish. Thanks.
First my setup: I've a RN3 SE (Kate) and I installed de developer MIUI, did an unofficial unlock, flashed twrp and installed lineageos (first official version), root package and pico gapps. That's it. I used Titanium backup to restore some of my apps data, but I installed every apk via the play store.
I started to notice that some apps were disappearing after a reboot. Everything I'll lose between 5-10 apps, mostly the apps that were updated very recently. After installing the missing apps back, I didn't loose anything, all settings of the app are intact. I've no idea if this happens because of the Google Backup and Restore function of Android itself, or because that app data never were missing.
I've installed every update of LineageOS, but no luck, every time it'll lose some apps. Even some apps stop working after a reboot until I reinstall them. It's getting annoying, therefore I start this thread.
Anyone faced this problem and has any idea what's happening?
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Try a fresh install
I'll try that in the coming days, but this is already the second clean install i did. Both with this issue.
Use this app and check your phone:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.vinagre.android.emmc_check&hl=en
If there are errors after a full scan, you have a problem with your flash memory.
Did you wipe and format internal storage through TWRP before installing LOS?
I think i just think that this is the begining symptoms of the emmc_brick bug i recommend u to check for any disk errors.
Thanks for the tips, luckily the test came out just fine ("Congratulations. Test Passed. 159s. 31268536320 bytes (29.1GB) 190.2MB/s"). No emmc errors and I didn't have any problems on 6.0.1, it started on 7.1.1. I think it has to do with the new ART and JIT compilers, as it only happens with apps that got updated recently.
Before installing LOS, I did a wipe of system, cache and data. I don't think I did a complete format of internal storage as well.