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[Q] Rooted Samsung Fascinate v. Google talk service

So yes, Titanium Backup and the deletion of google talk are at it again. This time I actually knew I shouldn't delete then brain farted and did it anyway. So here lies my marketless and FC gapps everytime I pull the market app up.
For the record I searched as best as possible for a solution and the closest I got was a link for gtalk and the Evo 4G, and needless to say it still doesn't work, the market and the force close gapps.service still happens after re install
A solution without a flash and re-root is preferred, please educate the new guy! Thanks for the record I know I'm a jack wagon lol.

Search these forums (or Google) for Fascinate System Dump. It will have whatever files you deleted.

So dump files obtained. Is this is simple drag and drop to the OS or do I need a program on the computer to be able to interface with the filesystem on the Fascinate?
Bare with me guys, while I bring myself up to speed on tearing through the Andriod OS, hacking windows is one thing - tearing apart my phone for the first time - thats a whole nother ball game for me.

DeezNotes said:
Search these forums (or Google) for Fascinate System Dump. It will have whatever files you deleted.
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So I did that, finally got the files onto my phone and reinstalled all the google.apks including ones that were already existing on the phone.
To no avail I still get the gapps Force close and I'm still unable to download from market after restoring Google Talk Service.
Any help or a simple suggestion would be appreciated - been trying this all day with no success.

I'm not sure if you "installed" the apps or if you placed them back in their proper folder(s), but my guess is that any app you had pre-installed which you deleted was previously in the /system/app folder. The dump has all the files in this folder. You don't need to re-install these files, you need to just copy them back to the /system/app folder.
When you download and install an app, it will install to /data/app. If you "installed" the files rather than copying them back to /system/app, that may be the problem.
On a side-note, this is why I like to move files from one folder to another rather than use Titanium Backup to delete apps/files.

Don't forget to reboot your phone after you copy the files back to /system/app.
Lastly, I'm not responsible for what you break.

DeezNotes said:
I'm not sure if you "installed" the apps or if you placed them back in their proper folder(s), but my guess is that any app you had pre-installed which you deleted was previously in the /system/app folder. The dump has all the files in this folder. You don't need to re-install these files, you need to just copy them back to the /system/app folder.
When you download and install an app, it will install to /data/app. If you "installed" the files rather than copying them back to /system/app, that may be the problem.
On a side-note, this is why I like to move files from one folder to another rather than use Titanium Backup to delete apps/files.
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Roger that side note - that will be my new policy when managing files.
As far as the clarification - I have been indeed installing the apps instead of moving them to the appropriate location - I guess the difference in installation location never occurred to me. Thank you in advance for the heads up and I'll report my success or failure, hopefully success after i get out of work this evening.
Don't worry if I brick I won't hold you accountable - after all I'm the one who deleted Google apps from the Andriod phone. LOL, In hindsight it was a terrible Idea.

[Q] 2.1 System/app dump from Bravo?

A while back when I didn't know what I was doing, I downloaded Root Explorer and went into /system/app to delete some At&t bloatware. I was dumb not to rename the extension or 'freeze' them, so now when I update it gets stuck on error AttMusic40.apk (which is one of several At&t apps I removed). So anyways, I need the original Bravo apps so I can move them back over to /system/app, that way the update can complete it's self.
Thanks in advanced
NVM. Found HERE: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=955075&page=13
That BDX is already on it (thanks)
Sorry for the n00b behavior.

I also did something quite stupid. I changed my boot animation without saving a back up. If someone can give me the original to animation. Or just the sound file that goes with it? I would really appreciate it. thanks

Ok guys here you go. This is from a system dump someone linked me to a while back of 2.1. It looks good and legit so I am posting it up on a server and giving you the ability to grab whatever you need AND see how it supposed to be stock.
enjoy.
http://46.4.232.120/bravo/
(if you find this useful consider buying my donation version of my app

Any chance you could zip the apps, taking forever to download them one at a time

this is where I am stuck, I went and looked at that guys linked dump, but can't find attmusic40.apk or any of the other bloatware apps that I deleted.

I tried the factory reinstall, but it didnt restore the att bloatware I deleted, how can I get a hold of those files?
is there an image of the 2.1, or a work around the file check to install 2.2
edit: nm, I used the 2.2 stock sbf.

Evo 4g stock files?

I deleted a few of my stock files with titanium backup pro. When I try to restore them, TBP just keeps saying restoring app+data & the status icon keeps spinning.
Is there a place I can download the stock apps I removed?
Thanks

You could probably find a stock ROM that matches your version in the development forum that you could get the apps from. It does not matter if you get a rooted version of the ROM. You just want to get the odexed stock ROM that you can get the apx and odex files to replace the ones that you have removed.

You are not supposed to remove stock system files, you are supposed to freeze them. You will probably have to reflash the rom to get those files back.

You can remove the system files if you are sure that you will never need them again. Freezing them is a way of preventing them from running without actually removing them... useful for testing to see if removing the program causes any unforeseen problems.
If you have removed a file and now have changed your mind about not wanting it (i.e. Now that it is football season you find that you really do want Sprint NFL back) it is also possible to get it back without reflashing. You can extract the apk and odex (if any) out of the stock ROM and place them back in system\app. I have done this with Root Explorer. Make sure that you set the permissions back (to 644) after copying the files.

og style said:
I deleted a few of my stock files with titanium backup pro. When I try to restore them, TBP just keeps saying restoring app+data & the status icon keeps spinning.
Is there a place I can download the stock apps I removed?
Thanks
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Which stock are you running? 4.53, 4.24, 4.22, 3.70?
And which apps?

[Q] Removing bloatware from Razr M?

I put the new root on my M the other day. I went into ES File Explorer and found the system apps folder and deleted everything I didn't want (didn't delete anything important). But after that I noticed that some of the apps I deleted were still on the phone. I realized that I forgot to look in the vendor apps folder. IT ISN'T THERE! lol! Can anyone tell me where I can find the vendor apps folder? If there even is one?

lol honestly safest thing would have been to remove via titanium backup.. I just froze everything. I'm sure you could remove that way too and make sure all the other files attached would have been removed.

[Q] Derp Newb Move

I don't need to do back ups I said. I'm not gonna mess around that much I said...
So to spare you the details, I accidentally deleted my Contacts and Contacts storage apks on my phone. Bad times are being had. I was looking into android data recovery programs, but I can't seem to get the programs to recognize my phone. I'm about to just revert to OG stock and start from scratch. Will this get me these apps back? Is there another option? Any advice you guys could give me would be great. Sorry for being such a Newb :-\

Hi,
Yes if you return to stock you will have all your system apps...
What is exactly the name of the apps you deleted?
In case I'm right (I see only three) , see in attachment... Extract the three apk's, with a file explorer and move them to /system/app then set the correct permissions like the other apps here and reboot...