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I've wiped and installed a lot of roms lately, and generally when I go to 'my downloads' in the market, only my paid apps are there. So, I have to go though the process of searching the installing each app again. It's just easier when they are all in a list.
I figured it would be a good idea to backup all my apps and then reinstall them afterward with adb in linux as such:
for a in `ls *.apk`; do adb install $a; done
this works, but of course they don't show up under 'my downloads' and I don't get update notifications.
Is there a way around this?
gsgleason said:
I've wiped and installed a lot of roms lately, and generally when I go to 'my downloads' in the market, only my paid apps are there. So, I have to go though the process of searching the installing each app again. It's just easier when they are all in a list.
I figured it would be a good idea to backup all my apps and then reinstall them afterward with adb in linux as such:
for a in `ls *.apk`; do adb install $a; done
this works, but of course they don't show up under 'my downloads' and I don't get update notifications.
Is there a way around this?
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You need to backup and restore the database file located in the market folder....it should be here...
Code:
/data/data/com.android.vending/databases
I'm assuming since you can backup and restore your apps thru adb then you can figure out how to pull and push this to your phone
I assume you would want to do this to get update notifications. If so you can grab "aTrackDog" from the market. It will list all you apps and when you refresh it will tell you when updates are available and give you a link to get the update from the market.
AdrianK said:
I assume you would want to do this to get update notifications. If so you can grab "aTrackDog" from the market. It will list all you apps and when you refresh it will tell you when updates are available and give you a link to get the update from the market.
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will it only work for software installed through the market or will manually installed software show up as well?
DirectMatrix said:
You need to backup and restore the database file located in the market folder....it should be here...
Code:
/data/data/com.android.vending/databases
I'm assuming since you can backup and restore your apps thru adb then you can figure out how to pull and push this to your phone
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Awesome. I'll do this next time I wipe and reflash with the latest coolest rom. =)
gsgleason said:
will it only work for software installed through the market or will manually installed software show up as well?
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nope, works for the apps on my ext3 even after switching builds several times, works great.
DirectMatrix said:
You need to backup and restore the database file located in the market folder....it should be here...
Code:
/data/data/com.android.vending/databases
I'm assuming since you can backup and restore your apps thru adb then you can figure out how to pull and push this to your phone
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For those of us who are not that familiar with adb, can you give a short tutorial on how to pull and then push that database folder?
well i just wiped and installed the latest cyanogen mod and when i went to the "my downloads" section of the store all the apps i had downloaded before were all there (paid and free)
I also thought it didnt do that, apperently it does
Gilliland12 said:
For those of us who are not that familiar with adb, can you give a short tutorial on how to pull and then push that database folder?
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You don't need ADB, you can use the terminal emulator from the market or the recovery console.
To pull the database, open terminal or recovery and type:
Code:
su
cd /data/data/com.android.vending/
cp databases /sdcard
that will copy that database file to the root of your sdcard.
When pushing it back it is probably best to do it while the phone isn't running, so only use the recovery console:
Code:
cd sdcard
cp databases /data/data/com.android.vending/
reboot
I haven't tested this, but it will have the same results as the ADB method.
AdrianK said:
You don't need ADB, you can use the terminal emulator from the market or the recovery console.
To pull the database, open terminal or recovery and type:
Code:
su
cd /data/data/com.android.vending/
cp databases /sdcard
that will copy that database file to the root of your sdcard.
When pushing it back it is probably best to do it while the phone isn't running, so only use the recovery console:
Code:
cd sdcard
cp databases /data/data/com.android.vending/
reboot
I haven't tested this, but it will have the same results as the ADB method.
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Many thanks.
Backup for Root works perfectly for me
if you got a paid app through adb and got a refund, can you still get updates for that app if you have it installed?
opasha said:
if you got a paid app through adb and got a refund, can you still get updates for that app if you have it installed?
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No, you will not get updates without re-purchasing the app. And talking about ripping off app developers on this forum is frowned up so please stop discussing it.
opasha said:
if you got a paid app through adb and got a refund, can you still get updates for that app if you have it installed?
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If you got a refund, then you shouldn't have the app. That's stealing and it's not nice. Most apps are cheap (a couple of bucks at most), stop being a cheapskate.
Originally Posted by AdrianK View Post
You don't need ADB, you can use the terminal emulator from the market or the recovery console.
To pull the database, open terminal or recovery and type:
Code:
su
cd /data/data/com.android.vending/
cp databases /sdcard
that will copy that database file to the root of your sdcard.
When pushing it back it is probably best to do it while the phone isn't running, so only use the recovery console:
Code:
cd sdcard
cp databases /data/data/com.android.vending/
reboot
I haven't tested this, but it will have the same results as the ADB method.
i tried this but it dodnt work.
when I did the first command it said ommiting databases. so I thought it worked.
flashed to the new cyanogen 4.0 rom (which is amazing btw!) did the second command and it said cannot stat file "databases" no such file or folder.
what gives??
Id say the databases were open and couldnt be backed up.
You should try to copy them from the recovery.
Also, after copying why didnt you check if the database files were in your sdcard (or the path you specified for the copy) before wiping? If the file is not there its obvious that it cant be restored after the wipe..
thought it might have been hidden or on my ext2 partition! never mind i got atrackdog!
addiosamigo said:
thought it might have been hidden or on my ext2 partition! never mind i got atrackdog!
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Seems you can only copy each of the four db files individually... but copying the entire folder doesn't work.
All that is needed is assets.db
Open the terminal and enter
$ su
# cp /data/data/com.android.vending/databases/assets.db /sdcard
Wipe, flash, reboot.
YOU MUST OPEN THE MARKET AND AGREE TO THE TOS BEFORE RESTORING!!!!
Open the market, agree to the TOS, and close the market. Open the terminal and enter
$ su
# cp /sdcard/assets.db /data/data/com.android.vending/databases/assets.db
# reboot
When i download and install an App from the Android Market where the Apk installation file is temporary placed? Which path?
tnx in advance
the apk's are stored at /data/app and /data/app-private after you installed the app and will be removed if you uninstall it.
Tnx for the answer mopodo, but if i hard reset the device, can i will use theese files to reinstall them?
i'm sorry for my bad english...
sidvizioso said:
Tnx for the answer mopodo, but if i hard reset the device, can i will use theese files to reinstall them?
i'm sorry for my bad english...
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No, you can make a backup to your SD card with apps like MyBackup or Backup For Root Users.
So which is the temp path of the downloaded apk from market?
i want to grab them...
Pinesal said:
No, you can make a backup to your SD card with apps like MyBackup or Backup For Root Users.
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of course you can.
you just have to copy them to your sdcard or pc an install them again, with «adb install something.apk» or «Astro File Manager» (or a similar file managerapp)
a hard reset will delete everything on «/data»
If you have root copy the contents of both folders to your SD card.
mkdir /sdcard/apps
cp /data/app/* /sdcard/apps
cp /data/app-private/* /sdcard/apps
Then after you wipe (I've never heard anyone call it a 'hard reset' before) you can use an app like Astore or ApkInstaller to reinstall them.
If you don't have root then not only will you not be able to read app-private, but your ROM wont have busybox so you wont be able to bash in those commands. In that case use an app like Astro or AppManager to copy non-private apks to the sdcard, but for private apps you'll have to redownload them (without being charged of course.)
Pinesal said:
No, you can make a backup to your SD card with apps like MyBackup or Backup For Root Users.
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Only if they're non-private (reside in /app, private being /app-private).
He's probably coming from WinMo. We called a factory reset/wipe a hard reset.
mopodo said:
the apk's are stored at /data/app and /data/app-private after you installed the app and will be removed if you uninstall it.
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Slightly off topic lol But i see you said Private does that mean you could manually back up Private apps you buy off market by just copying them /w root access?
When I run the following from an adb shell, with or without SU root:
cp /data/app/* <my location on sd>
I always get:
cp: permission denied
In fact, no matter how or where I cp from or to, and no matter what I am trying to copy, even if I leave all arguments blank, I still get "cp: permission denied" -- I have busybox installed in /system/xbin from /data/local and as far as I can tell it installed ok. Phone is a rooted Sprint hero 1.56.651.2 running stock ROM.
I have also tried to 'adb pull /data/app' and it always find 0 files. None of this is a big deal for me, however, as I am just trying to backup a bunch of apks for free apps in case versions change too much. Mostly just curious...
Any ideas?
EDIT: Both Astro and AppManager handled the (non-private) apk backups fine -- so I have no real need for the cp method to work, but I am still wondering why it will not -- is it the adb shell? must I use a terminal emulator from on the phone instead? something else? Anyways, if I really want to pursue it, perhaps I should take it to a busybox thread at this point...
EDIT2: It appears as if the 'cp' command as I was running it wasn't getting passed through busybox (not sure why). From what I can piece together reading other threads, it seems that if you have installed busybox on top of a ROM that doesn't already have it (like stock, after rooting and recovery setup) than you must prefix commands with 'busybox' when entered, as in 'busybox cp /data/app/* <my location>' and it does work for me that way. Still cannot seem to copy /data/app-private which I thought having root access would allow -- I guess I just don't understand nearly enough about busybox implementation, linux permissions, and, well, linux in general.
You could try an app manager and back 'em up from there.
Just try the following command.
busybox cp /data/app/* /sdcard/<your backup loc>
askwhy said:
When I run the following from an adb shell, with or without SU root:
cp /data/app/* <my location on sd>
I always get:
cp: permission denied
In fact, no matter how or where I cp from or to, and no matter what I am trying to copy, even if I leave all arguments blank, I still get "cp: permission denied" -- I have busybox installed in /system/xbin from /data/local and as far as I can tell it installed ok. Phone is a rooted Sprint hero 1.56.651.2 running stock ROM.
I have also tried to 'adb pull /data/app' and it always find 0 files. None of this is a big deal for me, however, as I am just trying to backup a bunch of apks for free apps in case versions change too much. Mostly just curious...
Any ideas?
EDIT: Both Astro and AppManager handled the (non-private) apk backups fine -- so I have no real need for the cp method to work, but I am still wondering why it will not -- is it the adb shell? must I use a terminal emulator from on the phone instead? something else? Anyways, if I really want to pursue it, perhaps I should take it to a busybox thread at this point...
EDIT2: It appears as if the 'cp' command as I was running it wasn't getting passed through busybox (not sure why). From what I can piece together reading other threads, it seems that if you have installed busybox on top of a ROM that doesn't already have it (like stock, after rooting and recovery setup) than you must prefix commands with 'busybox' when entered, as in 'busybox cp /data/app/* <my location>' and it does work for me that way. Still cannot seem to copy /data/app-private which I thought having root access would allow -- I guess I just don't understand nearly enough about busybox implementation, linux permissions, and, well, linux in general.
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Well in windows
'adb pull' is used if that helps
I can't seem to figure out how to remove stock apps using adb? Can anyone list the commands needed to do this?
adb remount
adb shell rm /system/app/YourApplicationHere.apk
cloudedice said:
adb remount
adb shell rm /system/app/YourApplicationHere.apk
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Does this completely remove the app? I mean in particular the listing in the app drawer, as well as in the "Manage Apps" section (if applicable). Also where will app data be stored, if used?
Thanks
yes, completely.
use "adb shell ls -1 /system/app/" to find out the exact name of the app you want to delete, it's caps sensitive.
you can try these 2 programs to remove apps
you should try using android commander or droid explorer. search for them in the forums. they are free and help out a lot.
+ For Droid Explorer: http://de.codeplex.com/ I use this and it is pretty handy. Though you can just be lazy like I usually am and just uninstall apps via Titanium Backup. I haven't tried Android Commander (yet, but maybe I should...) but in interest of being fair, you can find it here: http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-and-Shell/Windows/Android-Commander-93099.shtml and the official site is here, but didn't find it very well laid out (no offense PanPiotr...): http://androidcommander.com/
One other thing if you want to backup the app to your sd use cp /system/apps/appnname /sdcard/backup/appname
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Sorry to ask such a noob question, but I just ran Unrevoked 3 and unrevoked forever. Everything seemed to work correctly, but when I try and run androind commander to delete files it says I need root permissions. I saw the superuser permissions icon in my app list, but when I click it nothing happens. Did I miss something?
ryanmc2033 said:
Sorry to ask such a noob question, but I just ran Unrevoked 3 and unrevoked forever. Everything seemed to work correctly, but when I try and run androind commander to delete files it says I need root permissions. I saw the superuser permissions icon in my app list, but when I click it nothing happens. Did I miss something?
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do you use other apps (setcpu, etc) that require Superuser permissions? any issues with those? if you do have other apps that have SU permissions, then uninstall/reinstall Android Commander... it should then request permission again.
if neither situation applies... use the directions above to remove the Superuser.apk file from /system/app and then go to this thread and download the new Superuser app
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=682828
hey guys,
how would i go about removing apps from an installed custom rom?
ive tried titanium back... doesnt work, tried pulling the apps from the pack nothing,
ive tried root exploits and it just sends your phone into an almost
"paperweight"
like state,
any further moves i can do to remove various bits ? there as some things i just genuinely dont want.
Telling which rom and which apps might help
[ROM] Pays-ROM HD SPARTA v1.0 [ULTRA LIGHT] [19/NOV/10]
[ROM] Pays-ROM HD SPARTA v1.0 [ULTRA LIGHT]
i cant list the apps i want to remove as im off to work, but can you do some background work into it for me??
fkofilee said:
[ROM] Pays-ROM HD SPARTA v1.0 [ULTRA LIGHT]
i cant list the apps i want to remove as im off to work, but can you do some background work into it for me??
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Have you tried doing it from terminal?
Code:
adb remount
adb shell
su
cd /system/app
ls *
rm INSERTANNOYINGAPPNAMEHERE
reboot
adb pull is not for deleting apps. It is for copying the app to your computer.
when i say pull... lol. i mean removing them from the system completely
fkofilee said:
when i say pull... lol. i mean removing them from the system completely
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I've just discovered there are issues where /system isn't getting wiped correctly prior to a new rom being flashed. Keep getting apps from other roms and such sitting in my /system folder even after a wipe and flash - at this stage I assume CWM is bugged? Could be your issue is related.
nope the ADB coding doesnt work as its almost like there is a PERMANENT R/w lock on the section i need to remove apps from
unfortunately the issues AERNT related, as ive wiped everything before, these apps are pre installed on the ROM. What does me with this is that the root exploit to remove these apps as in Titanium backup ... just turns the phone into a very expensive paperweight till the battery is remove
weather apps (widgets etc,)
Twitter apps , teet and various other bits i want to remove
fkofilee said:
unfortunately the issues AERNT related, as ive wiped everything before, these apps are pre installed on the ROM. What does me with this is that the root exploit to remove these apps as in Titanium backup ... just turns the phone into a very expensive paperweight till the battery is remove
weather apps (widgets etc,)
Twitter apps , teet and various other bits i want to remove
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Get a new rom ???
hmm flash a new rom??this is the most refined rom i can find for DHD.
for that reason its more of a hassle to flash new roms
I would rather crack it, mind you i might be really thick asking this. that code you gave me have i got to get the adb.exe from android SDK and do this via a cmd.exe window on my pc or have i got to do it on my phone via termnial emulator.
how weird!!!... i used to terminal emulator to allow su (I.E to give system SU Permissions and now i can remove the apps ) haha
Shocked!!
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fkofilee said:
hmm flash a new rom??this is the most refined rom i can find for DHD.
for that reason its more of a hassle to flash new roms
I would rather crack it, mind you i might be really thick asking this. that code you gave me have i got to get the adb.exe from android SDK and do this via a cmd.exe window on my pc or have i got to do it on my phone via termnial emulator.
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Yes from the android sdk. It *should* work from a terminal emulator as well if you run these commands first to mount the /system/app directory as read/write:
Code:
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
chmod 777 /system/app
Other option would be to use the root explorer app, it is a paid app though well worth it.
dr.m0x said:
Yes from the android sdk. It *should* work from a terminal emulator as well if you run these commands first to mount the /system/app directory as read/write:
Code:
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
chmod 777 /system/app
Other option would be to use the root explorer app, it is a paid app though well worth it.
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Weird thing is i tried root explorer , and it still wouldnt R/W the app folder... but as i said now solved... slightly weird though that i completely missed that lil bit on the su permissions for the system directly.
fkofilee said:
Weird thing is i tried root explorer , and it still wouldnt R/W the app folder... but as i said now solved... slightly weird though that i completely missed that lil bit on the su permissions for the system directly.
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Yeah you ninja'd my last post
Glad to hear you're gtg now.
but mind you the mount script i ran and it didnt work lol.... maybe i did them the wrong way round, (Raise SU first then do mount cmd??)
dr.m0x said:
Have you tried doing it from terminal?
Code:
adb remount
adb shell
su
cd /system/app
ls *
rm INSERTANNOYINGAPPNAMEHERE
reboot
adb pull is not for deleting apps. It is for copying the app to your computer.
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Works. Thanks!
I can't speak for all GT 10.1s, but the one I received at Google I/O certainly does not have Google Books installed and it's not available in the Market. It comes with Kindle pre-installed, so I'm guessing Samsung has inked a deal with Amazon, but uhh... what about choice? I have several books from both Amazon and Google and use both applications on my Xoom, but now I'm curious why I can't use Google Books on my new tablet. Do I need to try to get the Google Books APK off my Xoom or what? Anyone else found a solution, besides reading their purchases online?
EDIT: The attached file is what finally worked for me. Thanks to smaskell for the link.
Books works fine on the 10.1. Just grab it off another device. My guess is that the market may not know the 10.1 yet as it is not really released now aside from IO.
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I wasn't able to install the tablet version but I did manage to push it to /system/app/ and it works.
1. get root access
2. download busybox
3. adb push busybox /sdcard
4. adb push BooksTablet.apk /sdcard
5. adb shell
6. cd /sdcard
7. su
8. mount -o remount,rw /system
9. ./busybox cp busybox /system/bin - yes, I'm using busybox to copy itself
10. busybox cp /sdcard/BooksTablet/apk /system/app
and you're good to go!
I'm still struggling with this and I've tried installing (via adb, adb shell, and via Astro / app manager) both a BooksTablet.apk (with and without BooksTablet.odex) from a stock Xoom dump and with a copy from my Honeycomb 3.1 Xoom. Am I missing something? Installing always fails and simply putting the files in place does nothing as well (with a reboot). Anyone have any more ideas? I'm out at this point and it seems as if it should be so simple from what you guys are saying! Thanks for the help!
have you tried a deodexed version of the apk?
I have not and cannot seem to find these files anywhere and am not sure how to deodex the files I have. I tried the 1.2.7-dev version of baksmali with no luck. Any other thoughts or perhaps a link to the files you used that seemed to work? Thanks!
I used the one from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1071047
works like a charm
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Perfect! Thanks for the link, one of the two files in that thread worked like a charm! In case anyone else is looking for it, I've attached the file that worked for me.
Each time I try installing the BooksTablet.apk file provided above, it fails on the device. When I try installing it via "adb install BooksTablet.apk" it constantly fails with the error "INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_NO_CERTIFICATES"
I took a look at the logcat output and it seems to be having an issue finding the "fallback_covers.png" file in the assets folder.
I tried renaming the apk to .zip and poking around and I was not able to find this file.
Anyone else having this issue when installing the Google Books app?
I searched around regarding the error message on installation and the solution is to uninstall the app and reinstall it. But because I don't have the app installed to begin with then this isn't an option.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
yeah, I had the same problem. The only way I got it to work was by pushing it to /system/app. see my earlier post for details.
Ok so I tried following the same steps however, I was having some odd problems. I installed Titanium backup since it automatically installs busybox or so I've been told. When I actually try copying however, the adb shell throws an error saying busybox isn't installed which is odd.
Because of this the cp command also isn't available. Instead I copied over the BooksTablet.apk file from the sdcard to the system/app folder by using the following command:
dd if=/sdcard/Download/BooksTablet.apk of=/system/app/BooksTablet.apk
This command executes successfully however, the google books app still isn't available to launch from the app drawer. I verified that the BooksTablet.apk is actually in the system/app folder however, I still cannot launch it. Any other suggestions? Or did I just completely miss something. Thanks again for the help.
All the best,
Nader
nadewad said:
Ok so I tried following the same steps however, I was having some odd problems. I installed Titanium backup since it automatically installs busybox or so I've been told. When I actually try copying however, the adb shell throws an error saying busybox isn't installed which is odd.
Because of this the cp command also isn't available. Instead I copied over the BooksTablet.apk file from the sdcard to the system/app folder by using the following command:
dd if=/sdcard/Download/BooksTablet.apk of=/system/app/BooksTablet.apk
This command executes successfully however, the google books app still isn't available to launch from the app drawer. I verified that the BooksTablet.apk is actually in the system/app folder however, I still cannot launch it. Any other suggestions? Or did I just completely miss something. Thanks again for the help.
All the best,
Nader
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Did you try navigating to the apk and launching it?
nadewad said:
Ok so I tried following the same steps however, I was having some odd problems. I installed Titanium backup since it automatically installs busybox or so I've been told. When I actually try copying however, the adb shell throws an error saying busybox isn't installed which is odd.
Because of this the cp command also isn't available. Instead I copied over the BooksTablet.apk file from the sdcard to the system/app folder by using the following command:
dd if=/sdcard/Download/BooksTablet.apk of=/system/app/BooksTablet.apk
This command executes successfully however, the google books app still isn't available to launch from the app drawer. I verified that the BooksTablet.apk is actually in the system/app folder however, I still cannot launch it. Any other suggestions? Or did I just completely miss something. Thanks again for the help.
All the best,
Nader
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While I did have BusyBox installed, I can only vouch for the last thing I did that wound up working since I'd tried so many different things before getting the right APK. So once I had the file in the first post (and of course a rooted GT 10.1), I opened a shell, mounted the /system directory for read/write, chmod'd the app directory to 777, pushed the APK into the /system/app folder and then chmod'd the directory back to 644 (IIRC?). So the steps would have been:
1. adb shell
2. su
(if you get a permission denied error, make sure you leave your screen on and accept the prompt by Superuser Permissions, I forgot this on the freshly rooted tablet the first time)
3. mount -o rw,remount /system
4. chmod 777 /system/app
(now either exit the shell or open a new command prompt)
5. adb push BooksTablet.apk /system/app/BooksTablet.apk
(now back in your su'd adb shell)
6. chmod 644 /system/app
(you'll probably want to note what permissions were there previously as I'm going from memory)
There was no need to launch the APK or issue an install command (it fails anyway), the Books app appeared right away in my app drawer but got a FC after only a moment of it being opened the first time. After a reboot, everything has been working just like on the Xoom!