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Does an update.zip exist for the incredible to add busybox to a stock rooted Rom? Or is there anyone willing to make one? I found one for the hero where they stripped down a rom and just left busybox, apps2sd, and Su. It would be greatly appreciated by many noobs like myself.
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I believe Stericson has an app out that installs busy box for you with a single click. Just search "Busy box" in the market and it should come up. Not sure as to whether or not it works on the Incredible, as I've an Evo, but it should.
I tried that but it failed saying either I it couldn't remount or I wasn't rooted.
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bradatz said:
Does an update.zip exist for the incredible to add busybox to a stock rooted Rom? Or is there anyone willing to make one? I found one for the hero where they stripped down a rom and just left busybox, apps2sd, and Su. It would be greatly appreciated by many noobs like myself.
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I think the unrevoked tool installs it for you.
I'll try that again, but I used 3.0 to root it. Maybe 3.1 will install it, I thought that was only windows fixes from 3.0
maybe
kind of a rookie here, but couldn't you just install titanium backup and then click the problems button. I think it downloads and install busybox??
Nice call!!! Worked like a charm. Thx.
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ejkeebler said:
kind of a rookie here, but couldn't you just install titanium backup and then click the problems button. I think it downloads and install busybox??
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Wouldn't be permenant since NAND is still locked. Would lose it after reboot and have to do same thing over and over after every reboot.
http://www.unrevoked.com/incredible/payload-update.zip
Apply this payload-update.zip and it will install busybox. Just go to recovery and choose install zip from SD card and then choose this one
Then to test
go to cmd prompt
type adb shell
then when in shell type
busybox and you will see its now installed.
If you want the latest busybox, I've attached 1.16.2 freshly compiled.
One issue I ran into was that all the info on the forums has busybox being installed in /system/xbin. The PATH variable has /system/bin before /system/xbin, so that means the original symlinks to "toolbox" are getting picked up first - I don't know if I'm the only one who was annoyed by ls -al returning "-al: No such file or directory"
I guess "toolbox" didn't support this, so you can either install busybox to /system/bin, or leave it in /system/xbin and create a symlink called toolbox in /system/bin that points to busybox in /system/xbin.
As usual, backup your "toolbox" binary first before removing it from /system/bin.
Now ls -al returns a correct listing and I see no app breakage by the symlink method - Ti Backup runs just fine without needing to install its own busybox.
*edit - I guess this doesn't really answer the OP, but I figured I would share this anyway.
ok so I found a side effect - WiFi doesnt work after this. There seems to be a problem with dhcpcd and the new busybox, even though external dhcp support was compiled in...guess I've got some digging to do...
http://codehydra.com/Dinc/RootStock/roto-rooter.zip
that is a busybox install I ripped out of a N1 froyo root update.zip Cyanogen did, modded for the D-Inc.
Seems to work well for me.
the easy way is just to install titanium backup from the market and then click problems and it will install busybox for you in like 5 seconds
Not Really
... but it does NOT install the newest busybox; just one which is compatible with Titanium Backup.
Busybox.net shows v1.17 is the latest (unstable) release, and v1.16.2 is the latest stable. Titanium Backup pushes something in the v1.15 area.
http://www.busybox.net/
Also when I did it through titanium and went to busybox to install latest it said my system had none.
I have a busybox 1.16.2 version that I ripped from one of the posted ROMs that I can attach. It works on the Inc, and I think the whole DHCP / resolv.conf thing works too. At least it's the only version I tried where I can get wget working properly. You may need to create /system/etc/resolv.conf with some valid nameservers first though. Let me know if you want me to post it.
Hmm, nevermind. I tried with the busybox version I have, and WiFi does not get an IP address. Seems to be the same problem.
If you track it down, when you compile your version check if wget works properly also. There were some issues with that and DNS lookups. Don't forget you may need a valid resolv.conf.
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the easy way is just to install titanium backup from the market and then click problems and it will install busybox for you in like 5 seconds
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I second this , I used ones off the rooting forums and it never quite worked right until I let titanium backup install it for me. Also its much easier than pushing files to your device if you are unfamiliar with doing it, because you can download tb from market and it does the work for you
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Easiest way to stay current is to install the Stericson app. It can't install it for you due to the NAND lock, but
1) It's trivial to extract it and install manually from the .apk file.
2) It will give you an easy notification via the marketplace that a new version is available.
I saw that ADW 1,01 is out and i want it...
So how do i instal/update it to v1.01? [and will all my preferences and settings,apps,etc be usable once i put on the 1.01?]
and plz be datailed about it,since ima noob with the android.ty
aca85 said:
I saw that ADW 1,01 is out and i want it...
So how do i instal/update it to v1.01? [and will all my preferences and settings,apps,etc be usable once i put on the 1.01?]
and plz be datailed about it,since ima noob with the android.ty
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What version do you currently have?
Did it come with your rom or did you download it?
You can backup your settings (export) to your sdcard and restore (import) with the new version if by chance your settings are not preserved.
Im using CM 5.0.8 ,and it came with 0.8.9.
And how do i go about doing that export/import?
Either download link from your phone and install or download on PC put on SD card open file manager and install are easiest. Put it on a friends phone. Looks good. Backup and restore are in settings adw.
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Do a search for ADW.Launcher in the Market, it's there. Just make sure you have a period in between "ADW" and "Launcher."
Hey,
I'm interested in updating the ADW.Launcher version that came with my CM5.0.8 rom, but I don't know if it's OK to update through market or get the apk file and use "adb install" or find a zip file to flash...
Could anyone make some light in here pls?
Thanks!
I have tried downloading the apk file for my CM5x and MDPI device from Anderweb's page but when I tried to "adb install" I get...
INSTALL_FAILED_ALREADY_EXISTS
Can someone shed some light? Is there a way to update the ADW.Launcher that comes with a specific ROM version?
Tried using android commander?
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Since I'm new to this scene, what is the difference between the "adb install" method and using the Android Commander (which I need install)?
Would Astro help in this case, because I remember reading that has support for installing apk files?
I'd like to do this update as clean as possible.
Thank you for the reply!
PS: I have actually installed Android Commander and installed the ADW.Launcher apk for CM5x MDPI as an Update (wasn't sure what to chose between Private, Application or Update) and the installer said it was successful but after reboot I still have the old version 0.8.6
Any ideas?
U can download it put it on your sdcard and install with a file manager. Doesn't matter which way u go. Should work. Done it both ways
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I did it somewhat the way you said and installed it with Android Explorer as an update because the regular installation would fail with the error that the application already exists.
The problem is that the new version gets copied into /data/apps/ and I can start using it but after the first reboot it's not there anymore and I get back to the one that came with my CM5.0.8 rom which is in /system/apps/
I would really like to get a solution that would update the one in /system/apps/ which might be harder because it's a memory mapped version of the ROM and changes get lost after reboot.
Please correct me where I am wrong...
Have u tried goin to the market and installing it from there? It's like version 1.4.1 or something now
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place the file on your /sd.
adb push /sdcard/filename.apk /system/app
restart home or reboot phone.
I ended up installing the one from Market and making that the default launcher, but I would really like to just replace the one in the system folder - no need to keep 2 versions of the same app
I'll try the method NetrixTardis was suggesting.
U can do it through the terminal as well. Maybe removing the old one will solve it. Use the rm command in the terminal and see if u can do it that way. Ex.
$su (enter after each line)
#rm /system/app/(name of app.apk)
Then u can use cp command to copy the one from your sdcard.
Cp /sdcard/(app.apk) /system/app/
Someone correct me if I'm wrong in the lines
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hey johnson8cyl
I'll try that and let you know if it worked, should I copy it to the same name?
like /system/app/adwlauncher.apk is the name for the system app, while the Market installed one is org.adwlauncher....apk
do you guys know a good keyboard replacement and a way to configure the vibration alarm on my CM5.0.8? these are mostly the things I miss from my stock ROM
oh...forgot to mention the CM5.0.8 default camera does not have all the setting (like I can't set the ISO), is there one that does that trick?
thanks!
I'll answer the keyboard part. I've got Smart Keyboard installed and its a lot better than the stock Android one.
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U have to use the names exactly the one your removing and one your copying. Names have to be what u want to remove or copy. That make sense?
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Makes total sense to keep the same names only that I have this problem...
any ideas? kinda makes sense because that comes from the ROM and is mounted as read-only
# su
su
# pwd
pwd
/system/app
# rm -f ADWLauncher.apk
rm -f ADWLauncher.apk
rm: can't remove 'ADWLauncher.apk': Read-only file system
ps: I actually managed to fix this what was missing is "adb remount" to mount system partition read-write
So you figured it out? Were you able to get it removed and replaced?
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Okay, I rooted my N1 with Universal Androot and removed the stock Froyo Twitter app without backing it up. (Shame on me.) Now, I can't update to 2.2.1 because of it (a status 7 error complaining about not finding /system/app/Twitter.apk)
I have, at the advice of some other forum posts I've read, installed Twitter from Android Market and backed it up to the sd. Renamed it Twitter.apk and used the Terminal Emulator to copy it to /system/app. That worked and the file is there, but the update still will not apply. Do I also need a .odex file? Is there any way to update at this point?
Any help would be super appreciated. THANKS!
if this is the new twitter app would you be kindly enough to share it..lol
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grab it from an older update like from frf91 update.. then do adb push /system/app
if you cant do that...
put the twitter app in sdcard then go to terminal and do
cp /sdcard/twitter /system/app
reboot then apply it.. i had trouble with amazon and i did it that way and it worked well
ilostchild said:
put the twitter app in sdcard then go to terminal and do
cp /sdcard/twitter /system/app
reboot then apply it.. i had trouble with amazon and i did it that way and it worked well
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That's exactly what I did. It didn't work.
I'd love to pull the app from a FRF91 build but I have no idea how that's done.
Flash a GAPPS update (try the on listed with CM6)
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danger-rat said:
Flash a GAPPS update (try the on listed with CM6)
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It looks as though I can't flash the GAPPS without unlocking the bootloader and installing a new recovery, correct? I'm really not that motivated if that's the case. I appreciate the information.
OK, just download the GAPPS, then use something like estrongs file manager to unzip to a folder of choice (with estrongs, longpress and select extract).
The Twitter apk will be in the extract folder/system/app. Just click the apk to install...
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BTW, if you have root, you may as well install a custom recovery (without touching the bootloader).
Easy way with ROM Manager (has Clockworkmod and Amon-Ra), or use adb if you wanna learn something...
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Thanks for the tips. I'll check it out tomorrow when I can make a data transfer. I am doubtful that installing from the zip will solve much since I already loaded the app and its already in the system folder.
could someone verify whether or not the Twitter app has a corresponding odex file that I might need?
I ran into the same problem when I removed Amazon Mp3, but I was impatient so I ended up reflashing the stock rom and then updating.
There is a thread that has all n1 updates look for it and download froyo fr91 update then unzip it go to system app and look for twitter apk then put in sdcard and do commands again .. I tried to do with market twitter and it failed so I did it the way I'm explained andnworkd
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ilostchild said:
There is a thread that has all n1 updates look for it and download froyo fr91 update then unzip it go to system app and look for twitter apk then put in sdcard and do commands again .. I tried to do with market twitter and it failed so I did it the way I'm explained andnworkd
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You sir, have saved my life. I swear I used that same exact Twitter.apk but I must not have. I used 3 different apks all with the same result but the one in the zip I found somewhere in this forum worked perfectly. I appreciate all the help and feel like such a 'tard for not trying something so seemingly simple earlier.
68pontiac said:
You sir, have saved my life. I swear I used that same exact Twitter.apk but I must not have. I used 3 different apks all with the same result but the one in the zip I found somewhere in this forum worked perfectly. I appreciate all the help and feel like such a 'tard for not trying something so seemingly simple earlier.
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No problem man.. glad you got it working.. now reroot the phone and back up all the apps from then phone.. doin adb pull /system/app
So I gave this a shot and it worked perfectly.
1. Root your Kindle Fire HD
2. Downloaded and install the GoogleServicesFramework.apk
3. Download Vending.apk
4. Using a file explorer app on the Fire with superuser permissions AND the system file permissions set to Read-Write, move Vending.apk to /system/app.
5. Change the permissions of Vending.apk to User - Read/Write, Group - Read, Others - Read
6. Install Vending.apk
7. The Android Market should show up in your Kindle Fire HD apps. Tap on it and follow the steps.
8. Download and install the Play.apk to upgrade the the android market to the current Play market.
9. Enjoy!
GoogleServicesFramework.apk - mediafire.com/?zaumfwhraxcifqf
Vending.apk - mediafire.com/?31bn3e258jjpj8d
Play.apk - mediafire.com/?wwcqrlfwt8o1gnv
how about attaching said apks?
or at least which ones?
i'm going to guess it's the latest gapps for ICS though?
less then a week and its already been rooted and got the play store damn.
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stopxwatch said:
So I gave this a shot and it worked perfectly.
1. Root your Kindle Fire HD
2. Downloaded and install the GoogleServicesFramework.apk
3. Download Vending.apk
4. Using a file explorer app on the Fire with superuser permissions AND the system file permissions set to Read-Write, move Vending.apk to /system/app.
5. Change the permissions of Vending.apk to User - Read/Write, Group - Read, Others - Read
6. Install Vending.apk
7. The Android Market should show up in your Kindle Fire HD apps. Tap on it and follow the steps.
8. Download and install the Play.apk to upgrade the the android market to the current Play market.
9. Enjoy!
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Keep in mind that we have no way of restoring the system folder yet, so if anything goes wrong with this process, you may end up bricking your tablet. Just a warning.
so, i'm getting application not installed errors when trying to do this.
adiliyo said:
how about attaching said apks?
or at least which ones?
i'm going to guess it's the latest gapps for ICS though?
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GoogleServicesFramework.apk - mediafire.com/?zaumfwhraxcifqf
Vending.apk - mediafire.com/?31bn3e258jjpj8d
Play.apk - mediafire.com/?wwcqrlfwt8o1gnv
can you install different launcher now?
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has anyone got this to work completely? i got the market to install along with the framework services, but i can't log into my account, it tries and then times out after a while.
am i missing something?
try rebooting the fire.
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Try adw launcher. Works for me. If you hit the home button it brings you back to the amazon launcher though. Adw gives you an app icon so you can always launch into it or add it to your favorites.
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stopxwatch said:
try rebooting the fire.
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okay, so what worked for me was reinstalling the framework services and rebooting right after, now i am signed in thanks!!
awesome! Thanks for sharing!
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stopxwatch said:
Try adw launcher. Works for me. If you hit the home button it brings you back to the amazon launcher though. Adw gives you an app icon so you can always launch into it or add it to your favorites.
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Worked for me as well and I'm not rooted! This is going to put big smiles on lots of folks' faces since many don't root. So this is what ICS really looks like on the KFHD! Time to personalize with widgets and themes!
robertc88 said:
Worked for me as well and I'm not rooted! This is going to put big smiles on lots of folks' faces since many don't root. So this is what ICS really looks like on the KFHD! Time to personalize with widgets and themes!
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How does performance feel with the launcher?
Google Movies Issues
Can't seem to get Google Play Movies to work. It hangs at sync. Any ideas as to how to fix this? Would love to access both Amazon Instant Video and Google Movie accounts.
babblin5 said:
Can't seem to get Google Play Movies to work. It hangs at sync. Any ideas as to how to fix this? Would love to access both Amazon Instant Video and Google Movie accounts.
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Does Amazon Instant video still work after rooting? A bunch of people keep asking this.
reverendkjr said:
Does Amazon Instant video still work after rooting? A bunch of people keep asking this.
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Yeah works fine after root.
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babblin5 said:
Yeah works fine after root.
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I figured out how to get Google Play Movies to work as well. Place in system/app folder. set permissions to rw r r. reboot. install from file explorer launcher. If it doesn't work, reinstall again. Youtube signs in now as well using the same method!!!
YEAH BABY!
Thanks for your sharing!
It's almost the same with the method for Kindle Fire 1st gen.
Which file explorer app would you recommend to do this correctly?
HtGemini said:
Which file explorer app would you recommend to do this correctly?
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i used root explorer, any app that can change permissions and mount /system rw should work fine
if you install as system app and then install a later version of google play as an update, this works with kindle fire, thats how people were able to get google play working this may work if you uninstall newer vending apk/ remove it from the gapps zip.
www(dot)dropbox(dot)com/s/mcqeqb51t1m6jgi/Vending.apk
qwerty790 said:
if you install as system app and then install a later version of google play as an update, this works with kindle fire, thats how people were able to get google play working this may work if you uninstall newer vending apk/ remove it from the gapps zip.
www(dot)dropbox(dot)com/s/mcqeqb51t1m6jgi/Vending.apk
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trying it now...
*edit: no luck... posting logcat's for attempts here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41832156#post41832156
professorpoptart said:
trying it now...
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Okay.
My instructions were a little unclear in case youre having trouble (I'm waiting for mybook to upload the latest cwm before I try)
(needs googleservicesframework)
1. install as system app
2. click on in using a file manger or whatever to install as regular app as well
3. run and sign in
4. upgrade to newer version
qwerty790 said:
Okay.
My instructions were a little unclear in case youre having trouble (I'm waiting for mybook to upload the latest cwm before I try)
(needs googleservicesframework)
1. install as system app
2. click on in using a file manger or whatever to install as regular app as well
3. run and sign in
4. upgrade to newer version
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adb push vending.apk /sdcard/vending.apk
adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount /system
cat /sdcard/vending.apk > /system/app/vending.apk
chmod 6755 /system/app/vending.apk
adb reboot
launch market... accept terms... crash...
professorpoptart said:
adb push vending.apk /sdcard/vending.apk
adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount /system
cat /sdcard/vending.apk > /system/app/vending.apk
chmod 6755 /system/app/vending.apk
adb reboot
launch market... accept terms... crash...
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Did you try installing it in /data/app/ as well and /system/app/ ?
qwerty790 said:
Did you try installing it in /data/app/ as well and /system/app/ ?
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same logcat...
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same logcat...
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Crap .. ill keep looking around and trying to think of a solution and will start messing around later when I get home.
This is the google services framework that was packaged with the vending.apk : https://www.dropbox.com/s/2rgpp75p60dl5ls/GoogleServicesFramework.apk
I dont know if its modified or an old version or whatever but might work (I just don't know if it will mess up other gapps) Its worth a try but I'm not too optimistic
You need to install the GoogleServicesFramework and reboot the device before attempting vending.apk.
SixSixSevenSeven said:
You need to install the GoogleServicesFramework and reboot the device before attempting vending.apk.
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He already had a copy of the GoogleServicesFramework installed from when he flashed the gapps zip I dont know if its a diffrent version. Also restarting after installing vending.apk might help but that would be too easy
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He already had a copy of the GoogleServicesFramework installed from when he flashed the gapps zip I dont know if its a diffrent version. Also restarting after installing vending.apk might help but that would be too easy
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Right google music works fine... trying that old framework now...
edit: same...
edit surprisingly though Google music still works with the old framework!
Am I the only one who can't even log into my google account?
I keep getting connection errors, though I did manage to log in with the YouTube app (it only uses the YouTube account though)
r_idn said:
Am I the only one who can't even log into my google account?
I keep getting connection errors, though I did manage to log in with the YouTube app (it only uses the YouTube account though)
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I had the connection issue when I tried to log in through the vending app. I was able to get past it by using a network cable. Previous to using the vending.apk though I added the account in regular android setting settings with no issue.
professorpoptart said:
I had the connection issue when I tried to log in through the vending app. I was able to get past it by using a network cable. Previous to using the vending.apk though I added the account in regular android setting settings with no issue.
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managed to login actual account through the Youtube app and ended up having to remove the youtube one (which you apparently can no longer use to sign in) still couldn't manage to login through settings, though my play store crashes now like everybody else's