Hello there, i have question, i would like to install few apps on my smartwatch, i have the custom ROM and i have the "Huami Amazfit Tool" that let's me install/uninstall apps, but i tried few and they wasnt working on the smartwatch. Where i can get some apps to install on the watch, or maybe theres diffrent way to install them?
I have not used the Stratos but I do have the Pace and it seems they are fairly similar software wise.
On the Pace, after installing apps you need to activate the app menu if you have not already (not sure how to do this on the Stratos), then you should be able to launch apps by going all the way to the right, past the built-in widgets.
If you have already done this and are just having trouble finding compatible apps have a look here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/smartwatch/amazfit/pace-app-collection-t3749904
The apps in that collection work on the Pace and I imagine that they should also work on the Stratos as well.
The Amazfit tool has an option to enable the app list (enable/disable applist), but the biggest issue is also that work on a small round screen and don't need Android Wear. A bonus is also if they don't bleed the battery dry.
seems like they have the same steps with the Amazfit Pace: see tutorial here https://www.smartwatchspecifications.com/install-android-apk-apps-amazfit-pace/
Hi there
I have a little problem with my Amazfit Pace: I would like to install Watchdroid Assistant on it, but my APK Installer doesn't find the device... The right driver is installed (ADB Driver) but my watch won't be found by the apk installer... I did multiple factory resets but nothing happens..
Hope you can help me!
thank you very much
mainimum said:
Hi there
I have a little problem with my Amazfit Pace: I would like to install Watchdroid Assistant on it, but my APK Installer doesn't find the device... The right driver is installed (ADB Driver) but my watch won't be found by the apk installer... I did multiple factory resets but nothing happens..
Hope you can help me!
thank you very much
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Well, pretty much any time I have had ADB problems it was either:
1: Still a wrong driver (just try some other drivers, maybe they work)
2: An old/too new version of ADB, or just a broken installation.
3: Another program using ADB/fastboot. Recently this happened with Sony Flashtool.
I hope you get it working, it's very fun to hack smartwatches and such
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I've been working at this for about 2 hours now. All I want is to update my phone to Android 2.
The situation is as follows:
I have an original HTC Hero, build 1.76.405.6 etc. I'm trying to install the ROM update to 2.73.405.5. I have to install it with HTCSync. Since I'm on Windows 7, the original HTCSync that came with the phone has issues with the drivers. I've tried several ways of installing those drivers manually, and eventually resorted to using the new all-purpose HTCSync from the HTC website. The program itself works, but, now, when I'm trying to sync, that action itself does not work. If I try to install the update, the connection turns off. If I try to sync the files, it fails to access the PIM. And I already made Outlook my default program on PC, which, according to sources, should have helped the issue.
Oh, and it seems I can't download apps through the marketplace at this time anymore either. I'm not sure if this is related or not, but better safe than sorry, right?
I can't find anything else on this in the archives, so I'm asking you all for help.
Oh, and my knowledge of these kinds of phones is barely above digibetic, so, please, I beg of you, no solutions that have me crack open the entire software shell, or something like that?
Thanks in forward, Sonto
Hello all,
let me present my self as a beginner in the world of Android.
It has come an Star A3 to my hands, with Android 4.0 and among all great things of IceCream, few Chinese apps I want to get rid of
the phone is rooted (well, one headache less)
I have flash the recovery 592zn.com_recovery_Star_A3_MT6573.img with Mobileuncle tools (included in the mobile originally) and done a Boot/System/Data/Cache Nandroid backup
Apps I want to eliminate :
Baidu input (and add the standard input keyboard)
own Chinese launcher (I have already install LauncherPro, but I would love to get rid of the Chinese one completely)
UC xxxxx (some Chinese browser)
Root Explorer (Chinese version, to be able to install the English one)
ICS 4.0 (also Chinese version)
a Chinese flash-light
a Chinese dark/light switch screen
a Chinese version of the configuration menu
so, basically to keep a clean Android
so, where I have to look for help on how to do that ??
what short of help / tutorial am I looking for ?
I have installed:
http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/#ImDisk
to be able to mount the nandroid img files in windows7-x64
but I can't see anything, it ask me to format the unit (?)
similar with Daemon Tools .
any help will be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance.
InTheater
My advice since you're rooted is install Titanium Backup and use it to uninstall everything you don't want. It's a root app that can get rid of virtually anything.
Seeing as you have a nandroid backup, in the unlikely case that the device won't boot at all without one or more of those apps, you can just restore the backup you have.
SifJar said:
My advice since you're rooted is install Titanium Backup and use it to uninstall everything you don't want. It's a root app that can get rid of virtually anything.
Seeing as you have a nandroid backup, in the unlikely case that the device won't boot at all without one or more of those apps, you can just restore the backup you have.
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Beautiful, it works like a charm !!
I have been able to get rid off all Chinese stuff
thanks
Star A3 for dummies
Hello
Ok I have searched for hours (as the video asked) and I cannot find an "android for dummies" guide. I dont know what a "root" is or what "titanium" is... so I may have found the correct forum - but I just don't understand it.
So the problem is this:
I bought a touch screen DualSim Android 2.3 GPS 3G MTK6573 Phone Star A3.
It arrived today BUT it has some chinese programmes on it (that I would like to clear) and I cannot seem to download any additional apps for it.
google.play wont work (apparently it doesnt support the device)
It has a few basic apps - but nothing wild or that I guess can't be re-downloaded again.
What would you recommend I do - do I wipe it and install something new or what. and if so please can someone explain it to me in small "for dummy" steps
I am not sure what else I need to tell you to give you abetter pic, but ideally I'd like this phone to work on the google apps system (or can you point me to where I can get similar apps)
On the "about phone" the
android version is 2.3.5
Kernel version is 2.6.35.7
I would really appreciate any help you can give me
Thanks
My first advice would be to try and achieve root on the phone. This should be relatively easy on a Chinese phone, most don't have great security.
Basically, "root" means to get increased permissions on the phone. There are certain files and actions on the phone that normally you can't do. With root, you can. Think of it as somewhat like logging into a computer as an Administrator rather than a standard user.
"getting root" basically means installing a hack to let apps on your phone do more than they could otherwise e.g. uninstall preinstalled apps.
To "root" your phone, you can use a tool like SuperOneClick or UnlockRoot. For both, you follow a few instructions, plug in your phone and click "Root" in the program, it'll work out the best way to do it for your phone and do it.
Once that is all done, there is a guide here for getting Google Apps (e.g. Play Store) working on unsupported devices: https://senk9.wordpress.com/2010/12...ogle-apps-gapps-on-your-android-device-phone/
Once you get Play Store working, Titanium Backup is an app you can install from there. Using root, it can uninstall any app you want.
Be careful with all this, if you're not you could break your phone.
educated dummy
Thank you so much! - and such a fast reply too!!!
I really apprecate your patience in explaining this all to me.
It sounds relatively straight forward - I will have a look at those progs and link you suggest tomorrow.
Obviously I dont want to break the phone either, then it would be more useless then it is already
Fingers crossed - will let you know how I get on.
Hi all,
Watched the video so I thought I would tag onto this thread instead of starting a new one.
Just bought a cheap star a3 dual sim android phone. This my foray into android phones and I am having some weird issues. Just a first note I have just rooted the phone but these issues where here before and after rooting. The A3 is a htc sensation clone i believe when my other half who has a htc desire tries to call the phone the phone goes straight into answer phone and rejects the call, she is on giff gaff in the uk and i have tried both a 3 network and orange sim and it happens on both. There is some weird chinese security software that I trying get remove but its seems very stubbon. Anyone any ideas. Ps battery life is awfull i only seem to get 6 hours from full to dead without hardly any use. Maybe I have loads running but unsure what I need to keep running.
Please help.
I have the star a3
Google play works perfectly. If you PM me, I am happy to send you the apk file for google play.
since you are rooted, I strongly suggest you get root explorer installed so you can go through and remove all the chinese apps.
Make sure you remove "himarket" its a big battery hog.
To the person who says their calls go straight to voicemail, remember this is a dual sim dual *standby* if you are using 2g or 3g cell data on one sim then the other sim cannot make or receive calls.
Also, there is no ICS for the Star A3, its just a skin on top of Gingerbread to make it look like ICS, if you go to settings, about phone and look, the version number will be 2.3.4 or 2.3.5 which means its gingerbread (if you really do have 4.0.1 ICS I would love to get a copy of the ROM for it!)
First of all say Hello to every one cuz i'm new on this forum.
Second: I'm here cause i have a problem with my phone, it's a lenovo s860i chinese (fake,no lenovo). The phone started to be slow and install apps for itself, avg antivirus told me to uninstall some apps, so i rooted it cuz that apps were on system. Then i uninstalled some apps, one of them the app "themes"" with king root (Not a good idea). Since that moment i can only see the notification bar, no more. I tried to do a recovery but doesn't works (but i can start the recovery menu). ¿Can some1 help me?
I'd like to install Cyanogenmod 12 too, may be this possible?
Thanks for reading and sorry for my english, i'm not good with it.
Hi guys,
I got this chineese phone meitu t8 running Nougat and it is a great selfie phone but the thing is it has push notification problem. Whatsapp, messenger and instagram's push notification only works when they are running in the background for a brief time, the OS running is very strict in keeping memory clean and kills apps in background.
So, I have been thinking to maybe root the device and fix it by making those apps into system apps.
I tried kingroot it didn't work. I am thinking to try rootkhp, but is it going to be safe?
Please let me know. This is my first post here hope i am posting this in the right place
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Hi guys,
I got this chineese phone meitu t8 running Nougat and it is a great selfie phone but the thing is it has push notification problem. Whatsapp, messenger and instagram's push notification only works when they are running in the background for a brief time, the OS running is very strict in keeping memory clean and kills apps in background.
So, I have been thinking to maybe root the device and fix it by making those apps into system apps.
I tried kingroot it didn't work. I am thinking to try rootkhp, but is it going to be safe?
Please let me know. This is my first post here hope i am posting this in the right place
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Ok so I have found a method but haven't tried.
For those who are looking to root their Meitu
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/guide-root-mt6735-medion-life-p5006-t3713947
And google search "root mt67xx" you will find many methods.
If anyone tries let me know here.
Were you able to achieve root on this device? I was able to use "mtk-su" at least. But haven't tried to install anything afraid of bricking the device. So far I haven't found a way to flash anything on this device.
This might not be the right place to ask this question but I have been lurking here for a bit and am hoping someone can help me out.
A quick bit of background. I just recently started using Android Tablets. So far all I do with them is to read ebooks, browse the web in an emergency, and, wirelessly access my Xfinity live TV and Peacock streaming service. I have 3 Onn tablets (7", 8" and 10") one of which is Android 10 and the other two are Android 11.
I have absolutely no interest in anything Google and have disabled pretty much all the pre-installed apps based on guides I found here. The only pre-installed apps I use are Files-by-google and Gboard. I use the Nova7 launcher. I do have a google account and access to the google play store but only use it in the extremely rare case I want a purchased app, otherwise I download APK's from sites like APKMirror and APKPure to my PC, validate them using MetaDefend and VirusTotal and then load to the device via usb.
I also have no interest in any cloud based storage.
In general I have all goggle apps disabled. In the rare case I do use the play store I have to first enable Google Play Services and Google Play Store and then once the specific app is installed I re-disable Google Play Services and Store. Also I only go online to use the Xfinity and Peacock apps, everything else I do offline.
So everything worked as I wanted it until at some point I allowed an Android 11 "security patch" to install on one of my Android 11 devices. Immediately I could no longer install any APK file on that device (see attached). Note that previously I could install apps with the Nova7 launcher, the Files app, the Files-by-google app and Firefox, all of which are enabled to install unknown apps. Now all of these methods result in the same error message (see attached). Still no problem installing on the Android 10 device or the other Android 11 device that I've kept from updating.
So does anyone know how I can get back to being able to install APK's? I've followed the standard recommendations of restarting the device, making sure install unknown apps is enabled and reset app preferences and the only thing that I see to do at this point is a factory reset. A factory reset would cause me a whole lot of pain to set things back up to how they were before and I'm not even sure that a factory reset is guaranteed to fix this.
Can anyone help me?
A factory reset won't undo the update.
If that is the cause and there's no work around you would need to reflash to the version without the update. System upgrades/updates tend to break things...
blackhawk said:
A factory reset won't undo the update.
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That's what I was afraid of.
At this point for $59 I can throw out the old one and buy another but that brings up the question of how to disable system updates.
Would rooting the device solve the problem?
So far I've been able to do everything I wanted to do using adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 <package_to_disable>.
But given I'm going to throw the device out if I can't fix this, it seems like the perfect candidate to risk trying to root.
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That's what I was afraid of.
At this point for $59 I can throw out the old one and buy another but that brings up the question of how to disable system updates.
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It looks something like this. I use Package Disabler to kill this parasite, it's the first apk I disabled... with extreme prejudice
A ADB edit will work too.
blackhawk said:
It looks something like this. I use Package Disabler to kill this parasite, it's the first apk I disabled... with extreme prejudice
A ADB edit will work too.
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The Package Disabler app that you showed in your screenshot looked like a better way to go that what I've been doing which is to use Application Inspector along with ADB but I've had some problems trying to install it.
For one thing they change a couple of things in MI settings and I don't have that category of setting. The bottom line is that I still haven't been able to get PD to work although the set-device-owner command did seem to work and resulted with the following:
C:\ADB>adb shell dumpsys device_policy
Current Device Policy Manager state:
Device Owner:
admin=ComponentInfo{com.pdp.deviceowner/com.pdp.deviceowner.receivers.AdminReceiver}
name=
package=com.pdp.deviceowner
isOrganizationOwnedDevice=true
User ID: 0
Enabled Device Admins (User 0, provisioningState: 3):
com.pdp.deviceowner/.receivers.AdminReceiver:
uid=10156
followed by a whole bunch of other stuff.
At this point it seems best to forget about Package Disabler and just continue with Application Inspector and ADB but I'm worried that the device owner change I made is going to screw me up sooner or later.
My question is do I have to do (yet another) factory reset and reinstall all my stuff or is there an easier way for me to undo this owner setting?
PS. I suddenly got a notification "this device belongs to your organization" This must have something to do with the owner thing.
Mumblefratz said:
The Package Disabler app that you showed in your screenshot looked like a better way to go that what I've been doing which is to use Application Inspector along with ADB but I've had some problems trying to install it.
For one thing they change a couple of things in MI settings and I don't have that category of setting. The bottom line is that I still haven't been able to get PD to work although the set-device-owner command did seem to work and resulted with the following:
C:\ADB>adb shell dumpsys device_policy
Current Device Policy Manager state:
Device Owner:
admin=ComponentInfo{com.pdp.deviceowner/com.pdp.deviceowner.receivers.AdminReceiver}
name=
package=com.pdp.deviceowner
isOrganizationOwnedDevice=true
User ID: 0
Enabled Device Admins (User 0, provisioningState: 3):
com.pdp.deviceowner/.receivers.AdminReceiver:
uid=10156
followed by a whole bunch of other stuff.
At this point it seems best to forget about Package Disabler and just continue with Application Inspector and ADB but I'm worried that the device owner change I made is going to screw me up sooner or later.
My question is do I have to do (yet another) factory reset and reinstall all my stuff or is there an easier way for me to undo this owner setting?
PS. I suddenly got a notification "this device belongs to your organization" This must have something to do with the owner thing.
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Not sure as I never used that approach. I use whatever comes in handy...