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Is there any site or source on the web that provides downloads of old versions of Android Market apps? This would be for apps that are now updated or no longer available on the Market? I am looking for a site similar to "OldVersion.com" which has some old/classic PC software (but this would be something for android apps instead)?
Thanks if anyone knows of a source or sites.
CustomShortcut gone?
The app that I am looking for in the above post was a free one called CustomShortcut APK. I now have it on one of my two phones (the other phone had it but was lost and replaced). I have tried looking for a developer page for this app but no luck as everything seems to point back to android market as the source link for download.
Does anyone know of a way or source for me to get this APK back on my other phone? Is there a way to copy it from one phone to the other? I am assuming that it was removed from the market because it may not be compatible with ICS but I am not running ICS. The application was made by appli.club.
Are you rooted? If so use root explorer to look for the .apk in the /system/app folder and copy or email it to the other phone and install it.
85gallon said:
Are you rooted? If so use root explorer to look for the .apk in the /system/app folder and copy or email it to the other phone and install it.
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No sadly I am not rooted. Is that how this could be done? I have an HTC phone (Sensation) and I like my "sense" gui. Don't want to wipe it out by rooting (that is what would happen, right?) If access to the apk is possible with rooting, then I guess my question would be, does anyone else here have CustomCut on their rooted phone? (Or possibly know of any website that would have those apk's available for download). I would be willing to pay if someone would take the time to send me a replacement copy.
just google for any app you want like this:
"title" "versionnumber" "apk" "download"
for example:
android market 2.9 apk download
mojosingle said:
No sadly I am not rooted. Is that how this could be done? I have an HTC phone (Sensation) and I like my "sense" gui. Don't want to wipe it out by rooting (that is what would happen, right?) If access to the apk is possible with rooting, then I guess my question would be, does anyone else here have CustomCut on their rooted phone? (Or possibly know of any website that would have those apk's available for download). I would be willing to pay if someone would take the time to send me a replacement copy.
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Rooting will not wipe out your phone or change it other than giving you super user privileges. That way you will have access to get to the system apps folder.
I notice apktop keeps old versions around. But part of the reason I like Titanium backup is because I have a fail safe if a new update to an app is bad, as I can just restore from the last backup the older version.
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Rooting will not wipe out your phone or change it other than giving you super user privileges. That way you will have access to get to the system apps folder.
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Well I am not really too concerned about it wiping out my phone, but I thought I had read many posts here talking about once you root your phone the native skin from the manufacturer is eliminated (for HTC that would be the "Sense" user interface). Can you please confirm? Is this not true? HTC Sense will remain exactly the same after rooting my phone?
The other thing that has made me cautious is that my phone runs perfectly now and I see so many threads on the xda boards here and over at various android forums that start off with "My ____ app is not working right since I rooted...." Just a little daunting for a newbie like myself.
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I notice apktop keeps old versions around. But part of the reason I like Titanium backup is because I have a fail safe if a new update to an app is bad, as I can just restore from the last backup the older version.
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Thanks very much for the site suggestion. I have been trying to search for the CustomShortcut APK over there but no luck ...so far (the site search is not that easy to use). I have even tried to seach the site externally using google but, unfortunately, still no luck.
Wait for someone else to confirm on the htc, but nothing changed on my droidx. I just had superuser privs. All of the "this app quit working" is when people flash custom roms. You don't do that when you just root. But you have to be rooted in order to do things like that. Lol.
Rooting gives you the power to do that if you want to.
When I rooted my droidx, I did it just so I could have the power to do other things if I wanted. I am still on factory rom. But I am able to get to parts of the phone that are off limits if I wasnt rooted. I made it where I could tether, later I got rid of bloatware, etc.
85gallon said:
Wait for someone else to confirm on the htc, but nothing changed on my droidx. I just had superuser privs. All of the "this app quit working" is when people flash custom roms. You don't do that when you just root. But you have to be rooted in order to do things like that. Lol.
Rooting gives you the power to do that if you want to.
When I rooted my droidx, I did it just so I could have the power to do other things if I wanted. I am still on factory rom. But I am able to get to parts of the phone that are off limits if I wasnt rooted. I made it where I could tether, later I got rid of bloatware, etc.
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Thanks once again for the reply. Now that you mention it, I remember reading the terminology "flashed" rom and thought they were similar or the same thing as rooting. One other question, once a phone is in a rooted state, if I was to go in and copy the APK for my replacement phone and put it on there could I then "unroot" lol ...sorry if this is not a word... so that my phone was no longer open? I had read somewhere (perhaps I heard it on a TWIT or Android podcast) that when your phone is in root state that anyone (ie: potentially bad software) has easier access to your phone's vunerable areas.
mojosingle said:
Thanks once again for the reply. Now that you mention it, I remember reading the terminology "flashed" rom and thought they were similar or the same thing as rooting. One other question, once a phone is in a rooted state, if I was to go in and copy the APK for my replacement phone and put it on there could I then "unroot" lol ...sorry if this is not a word... so that my phone was no longer open? I had read somewhere (perhaps I heard it on a TWIT or Android podcast) that when your phone is in root state that anyone (ie: potentially bad software) has easier access to your phone's vunerable areas.
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yes you can unroot. As for easy access after you are rooted to vulnerable areas, they can only get access if you let them. If an app wants super user privileges, you will get a pop up from su(the super user apk) telling you that some app is wanting privileges. You can grant or deny access. The only things on my phone that have ever given me a pop up are things that i downloaded and know need su access. Wifi tether, root explorer, adfree, etc.
I have found a site that keeps older version of an android app. It's called Android Drawer.
Hope it helps
I don't know where to start so I'll just begin...
My Cube T9 is using the stock rom with the latest ota update, rooted with busybox and xposed. ( and I didn't backup anything :crying: )
I started having issues with low internal space so I installed link2sd pro. That seemed to work well enough but now I've noticed a few icons missing from my desktop and nav bar after rebooting. I figured this would probably would work better if I reset everything and stated fresh so I did. After reboot, I couldn't connect to the internet because of the dreaded nvram error which I found accompanying a missing imei and serial number. (can you say "schlep-rock"?)
Since I couldn't download from the play store, I tried pushing some files over to the /data/local/tmp and all was fine. I went to use chmod, ls and dir but they were not found.
Now, I just wanted to get it back to functional. Where do I begin?
no expert here but
As title states I am no expert but in my past experience with galaxy tab 1 2 3 and 4 and now t9 after root and using app2sd missing icons after reboots were a norm. For some reasons it seems like missing registries (not a clue was its called in android talk)
My t9 is still not rooted. Think I'll wait it out a bit. Reading too many horror stories.
Have you installed any root explorer?
If so, maybe this is the way? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2197378
Rabbat said:
As title states I am no expert but in my past experience with galaxy tab 1 2 3 and 4 and now t9 after root and using app2sd missing icons after reboots were a norm. For some reasons it seems like missing registries (not a clue was its called in android talk)
My t9 is still not rooted. Think I'll wait it out a bit. Reading too many horror stories.
Have you installed any root explorer?
If so, maybe this is the way? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2197378
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Thanks for the info.
I haven't installed anything else because now root seems to be no more and I get this parsing error when I try to install anything. I was trying the install-apk-from-google-drive but now that is a no go with no wifi.
Most issues resolved!
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Thanks for the info.
I haven't installed anything else because now root seems to be no more and I get this parsing error when I try to install anything. I was trying the install-apk-from-google-drive but now that is a no go with no wifi.
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I was able to get everything except the serial number fixed by flashing a v1.02 rom in sections (boot, system, userdata, etc). I've tried every version of flashtool and sp flashtool to no avail. I kept scouring the links of google that led me to a treasure trove of goodies. Down toward mid-page is what helped me. It's called the "Universal Android Flasher". The only thing I couldn't flash was the recovery.img but I'm not complaining.
All apps install and function fine. No permissions issues at all. Rooted with iRoot. I'm still looking for a serial number fix but I'm not to concerned about that either because wifi is working and my cell service. I'll update again when I figure out this serial fix.
Happy days are here again!
Does anyone know how to access the recovery partition through the adb shell? I've tried /recovery, /dev/recovery and /dev/block/mmcblkOp8 but I can't access. Is there an app that can show me all of the symbolic links?
Thanks
Hi, I would be grateful if someone could help me root and install a custom rom on this device. Please refer to the 3 images showing detailed information about my tablet.
Thank you very much for your help.
hey did you ever get this rooted?
Hi guys. I am also very much interested in root for this device. If we manage root on this it will become extremely useful. Please lets keep the thread active. II havent been in this forum for a while now as I didnt have an android device since I sold my Note 5.
I suggest we contact any of the forum members who are advanced in these matters to assist us with the root for Overdyve.
I'm Interested as Well
I'm going to try to dive in and see if I can figure out rooting my Overdryve. Since they don't seem to sell too many of these, I think we'll have to figure out how to do this without a nifty app. If anyone has any thoughts/pointers/useful articles, perhaps they'd share them.
TampaNomad said:
I'm going to try to dive in and see if I can figure out rooting my Overdryve. Since they don't seem to sell too many of these, I think we'll have to figure out how to do this without a nifty app. If anyone has any thoughts/pointers/useful articles, perhaps they'd share them.
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I agree with you 100%. We really need to stick together on this and help each other out noting that these devices are very few. In the event we are unable to root the device is there any other way of enabling Google Play Services without requiring root? If I can get support for the Google services I will be good to go. Currently most of Google apps are not supported. Thankfully Google Maps works as I absolutely needed this to work as the Rand navigation software is not located in my country. I bought this to use away from USA and so far the most disappointing issue is that Rand disabled support for Google apps.
I will read widely and support you where I can.
I bought the Overdryve 7 a few days ago and there is literally NOTHING out there to help Root it, install a custom recovery, or how to install Google Play Services. I have tried rooting it with KingoRoot and King Root but to no avail. I haven't resorted to such generic methods to root anything since Towel root. This is why TWRP is essential to have.
Bump :fingers-crossed:
Edit: Please delete. Wrong thread.
Still nothing new
I have the Overdryve 7, and 8 Pro... hoping that someone out there much smarter than I has been working on this. Eager to make these thing earn their cost back.
root overdryve 7and 8 pro tablet from mcnally
PlayStation said:
Hi guys. I am also very much interested in root for this device. If we manage root on this it will become extremely useful. Please lets keep the thread active. II havent been in this forum for a while now as I didnt have an android device since I sold my Note 5.
I suggest we contact any of the forum members who are advanced in these matters to assist us with the root for Overdyve.
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download dr.fone and you can root i did on mine it works if not first time keep doing it will root overdryve 7 or 8
overdryve 8 pro, been rooted for a while now, but Id like to get the OTA updates that ive missed over the last year, and i keep hitting a snag on the OTA verifier...
/system/bin/install-recovery.sh has ben modified... sha1 doesnt match...
there was another file too, but when I rooted, SU made a backup of the other file so i just switched it and it passed SHA1 check.... but SU didnt take a copy of this file for back up...
any ideas? ive tried changing it to a .bak but then fails becuase file is missing....
anyone have a stock 8 pro, unrooted ever, that they can turn on just USB debugging and try to copy the file original file out for me thru ADB debug if possible?
Or anyone know the ile contents for that file on Android 5.1.1 build LMY49I/N8_1_0_170516_275
I wanted up load more detailed specs.... I also have the new OTA update zip, like I said it just goes too error tho because the install-recovery.sh file sha1 doesn't match because I have rooted, and SU remove root and factory reset do not return the original file
Oops file is here
I just wanna be able to install Google play store. Anyone have any luck.
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Has anyone figured out how to install Google play services and play store. I got as far as getting an early version of Google store to work without crashing but now it says it can't connect to the Google servers. Oh well something's gotta work.
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Anyone able too get into Fastboot on this?
I can see the option and select it from the Engineering Menu, but the decice just sits on the RM logo then reboots normally.
There must be a key combo like too enter the Recovery Menu, but I cant figure it out.
Anyone?
Would someone be able to upload the stock launcher, please? I managed to root and build a custom recovery for my TND740, wanted to try it out.
ji have the OD7C was hoping xda had it all sorted out lol
So, apologies where due if I could have simply searched for this answer, but I can't seem to find it. If that makes me a big fat idiot for just not searching right, then I'll take my punishment and sit in the corner wearing the stupid hat.
Meanwhile, I'm getting somewhat desperate.
The scenario is this:
I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, running Android 6.0.1, which I rooted using ChainFire's CF-AutoRoot. I've enjoyed using the phone for about 6 months and life has been good. Yesterday, someone suggested I reboot it after I mentioned I thought the battery was starting to drain a bit faster than I liked, .... and lo and behold, having used that stupid biometrical fingerprint thing for about half a year, I just couldn't remember my password.
So yes, I'm an idiot. But it gets worse.
Having rooted my phone, I thought I could fix this! I found some guide which probably pertained more to CyanogenMod saying I might delete the *.key files in /data/system (specifically, there was gatekeeper.password.key and gatekeeper.pattern.key) So I did (well, I moved them away)! That didn't work very well, so I tried moving the files back, and that didn't help at all!
What I'm stuck with is a screen telling me I have to log on to the last Google account the phone was registered to before I'm able to use it. Not only has the phone never been used to connect to Google (yes, I'm weird and paranoid), but I don't even have the original Google Play stuff installed (I've been running microG GsmCore instead) I've thought about trying to reflash the stock firmware, but that would probably lead to me losing root, which at this point at least seems to grant me more options.
What is a way out of this predicament? I can still access my /data partition through adb, so I guess I could backup all of that prior to doing something invasive, but I just don't know what's the next step from here.
Also; I've seen videos mentioning some .apk to be downloaded from vnrom.net, but I'm skeptical of running a 3rd party .apk on my phone without someone vouching for it; it seems to me that the state of the phone, having not been logged in to a Google account ever, cannot truly be contingent on some online handshake; there's got to be something I can do locally, or so I hope.
I throw myself at your feet, XDA. Please help!
EDIT: (hah, I can edit! Wouldn't have replied to myself if I knew that!) Additionally, if this is the wrong place to ask for this kind of help, but another, better place exists; please, please, help guide me there. My phone is certainly not in actuality bricked, but for all intents and purposes, that's how it feels. Help right this ship, someone!
I forgot to mention, although I don't know if it's any help, that I've got TWRP installed. So any tricks to be done via a custom recovery might be available to me, if I just knew what they were!
Tangib1e said:
So, apologies where due if I could have simply searched for this answer, but I can't seem to find it. If that makes me a big fat idiot for just not searching right, then I'll take my punishment and sit in the corner wearing the stupid hat.
Meanwhile, I'm getting somewhat desperate.
The scenario is this:
I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, running Android 6.0.1, which I rooted using ChainFire's CF-AutoRoot. I've enjoyed using the phone for about 6 months and life has been good. Yesterday, someone suggested I reboot it after I mentioned I thought the battery was starting to drain a bit faster than I liked, .... and lo and behold, having used that stupid biometrical fingerprint thing for about half a year, I just couldn't remember my password.
So yes, I'm an idiot. But it gets worse.
Having rooted my phone, I thought I could fix this! I found some guide which probably pertained more to CyanogenMod saying I might delete the *.key files in /data/system (specifically, there was gatekeeper.password.key and gatekeeper.pattern.key) So I did (well, I moved them away)! That didn't work very well, so I tried moving the files back, and that didn't help at all!
What I'm stuck with is a screen telling me I have to log on to the last Google account the phone was registered to before I'm able to use it. Not only has the phone never been used to connect to Google (yes, I'm weird and paranoid), but I don't even have the original Google Play stuff installed (I've been running microG GsmCore instead) I've thought about trying to reflash the stock firmware, but that would probably lead to me losing root, which at this point at least seems to grant me more options.
What is a way out of this predicament? I can still access my /data partition through adb, so I guess I could backup all of that prior to doing something invasive, but I just don't know what's the next step from here.
Also; I've seen videos mentioning some .apk to be downloaded from vnrom.net, but I'm skeptical of running a 3rd party .apk on my phone without someone vouching for it; it seems to me that the state of the phone, having not been logged in to a Google account ever, cannot truly be contingent on some online handshake; there's got to be something I can do locally, or so I hope.
I throw myself at your feet, XDA. Please help!
EDIT: (hah, I can edit! Wouldn't have replied to myself if I knew that!) Additionally, if this is the wrong place to ask for this kind of help, but another, better place exists; please, please, help guide me there. My phone is certainly not in actuality bricked, but for all intents and purposes, that's how it feels. Help right this ship, someone!
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You should hard reset
Hi chap
God don't you just hate password, I am always for getting mine.
I would Setup a google account on a computer to start with at most you will have a google account that you are being asked for?
Its what I would try any way
log on to google from your computer, and ask to reset your password?
use the same email address you use to setup google account and you can reset your password.
You will have a password the one you have just setup?
I think it should work, and trying it your not changing any thing on the phone only setting up a google account to get a password.
get the password log on then reset password you the have old and new password.
Like I have said I only think this may work.
hope you get it working
Go to /data/system in TWRP and delete all .key and also all files of the type locksettings.db.
If that does not help flash this zip in TWRP, all it does is delete all those files automatically and a few more related to fingerprint, found it on XDA but I do not remember the thread.
Hi folks! Thanks so much for replying to me.
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You should hard reset
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Now, my concern is, the phone seems to think this has already happened. Are you certain that a "factory reset" is going to solve my problems? (please note, I didn't actually perform one yet, I just deleted /data/system/*.key and then rebooted, and now my phone doesn't want to be friends)
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Go to /data/system in TWRP and delete all .key and also all files of the type locksettings.db.
If that does not help flash this zip in TWRP, all it does is delete all those files automatically and a few more related to fingerprint, found it on XDA but I do not remember the thread.
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Thanks for the tip! I found and deleted /data/system/locksettings.db, but apparently, no dice, upon rebooting, I'm faced with the very same thing.
Tangib1e said:
I found and deleted /data/system/locksettings.db, but apparently, no dice, upon rebooting, I'm faced with the very same thing.
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Flash that resetscreenlock zip in TWRP
Make sure you're deleting all these
Hello folks,
do you have experience with the root of the A72? I can hardly find any information about it. There seems to be no custom-rom for the A72. Background is, from the A72 all Google Apps and services should be taken down. Is that possible?
Do you have tips or links for me?
The last rooting and flashing of a custom-rom was a few years ago (Nexus 4 ;o) )
Thank you...
Soon
Hello, hopefully soon, having same issue ...
You can use Multi-Tool for huawei. Tab: Modifications. Using adb method, can easly remove any app via name of package. For google play store is: com.android.vending. For example use link2sd to find package name for apps
Hello, I have forgot the pattern lock and dunno how to hard reset it. Opened the ColorOS recovery but when I want to wipe pattern is asked. There is a way to do that? thanks