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It looks like the amazon app store is not compatible with att devices... Any ideas on a workaround?

I have successfully used the amazon store. The apk is available on androidforums. I downloaded it, sent it to myself via email and installed it.
My phone is rooted and has side loading enabled.
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lasersocks said:
It looks like the amazon app store is not compatible with att devices... Any ideas on a workaround?
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I just downloaded Angry Birds Rios. I think it works.

Also does not work in Canada. Damn you geographical restrictions.

The incompatibility lies in that ATT has disabled 3rd party applications. If our phones had the "unknown sources" checkbox in settings this would not be a problem. The simple solution is to root and enable sideloading.

You can also use AC Sideload Wonder or adb.

bumoftheday31 said:
You can also use AC Sideload Wonder or adb.
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You can do that to install the Market itself, but when you try to install something from the market you need the root/sideloading enabled cause you don't get the apk file (that i'm aware of) to use Ac Sideload to push it.

joelszs said:
I have successfully used the amazon store. The apk is available on androidforums. I downloaded it, sent it to myself via email and installed it.
My phone is rooted and has side loading enabled.
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Do you have the Link?

Seach in this forum for SuperOneclick root.
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I would go with aRoot found HERE over SuperOneClick. That will give you root plus sideloading and it is a cleaner install then SuperOneClick.

Mav3481 said:
Do you have the Link?
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Here's a link below to the '.apk' file for the Amazon App Store.
com.amazon.venezia.apk

smsparks said:
Here's a link below to the '.apk' file for the Amazon App Store.
Amazon_Appstore-release.apk
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The APK from amazon themselves:
http://amzn.to/getappstore

If you are not root you can still download the app from the appstore. It will fail to install. Then go to the files app and internal sd card. The actual apk that you downloaded that failed to install is saved in the cache directory of the appstore which is in the data folder on the internal sd card. Copy this apk to your PC then sideload it with adb and you will have the file installed and still linked to your appstore.

Just ran aRoot (took several tries on my XP laptop) and installed the Amazon App Store succesfully. Angry Birds Rio is up and running too. My 4 yr old son will be pleased .
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I had an Inspire 4G which I sent back and I am waiting now for my Atrix to come. the Inspire had the sideload blocked by ATT but a work around was to put the phone in Airplane mode and use wifi when going into the ApStore. This opened up all the apps that ATT had blocked and could be then sideloaded. I don't know if it will work on the Atrix though.

Just tried using airplane mode with wifi and it does indeed show the blocked att apps in the market. I have sideloading enabled so I am not sure whether or not someone could install them w/o sideloading
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Mustang302LX said:
I would go with aRoot found HERE over SuperOneClick. That will give you root plus sideloading and it is a cleaner install then SuperOneClick.
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Aroot is much nicer and requires less work.

after installing the amazon app store the apps downloaded through it go to
internal phone storage/Android/data/com.amazon.venezia/cache
installing those apps through adb works perfectly

google people app

When I first rooted my nexus 7 I deleted the google people app because I didnt have a need for it. I recently installed tablet talk and have realised that to get the names of my contacts to syc with the texts I will need to reinstall the app. Does anyone have an apk that will install? Ive been unable to find anything on the web so far.
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krish811 said:
When I first rooted my nexus 7 I deleted the google people app because I didnt have a need for it. I recently installed tablet talk and have realised that to get the names of my contacts to syc with the texts I will need to reinstall the app. Does anyone have an apk that will install? Ive been unable to find anything on the web so far.
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On the Nexus 7, there are three apps that do that... Contacts, Contacts storage and Google contacts sync. There is no people app.
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Did you not do a nandroid backup before messing around removing stuff? You could use TB to extract out of that or use other methods.
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krelvinaz said:
On the Nexus 7, there are three apps that do that... Contacts, Contacts storage and Google contacts sync. There is no people app.
Did you not do a nandroid backup before messing around removing stuff? You could use TB to extract out of that or use other methods.
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There definitely is a peoples app...
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brianjr1 said:
There definitely is a peoples app...
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You are just looking at the App Drawer... Many times what you see is not what you got...
Now take a file manager and go find that People app... you won't find it.

krelvinaz said:
You are just looking at the App Drawer... Many times what you see is not what you got...
Now take a file manager and go find that People app... you won't find it.
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that still leaves him without his "people" app, me too for that sake and would love to find a way to get it back
-deco

RealDeco said:
that still leaves him without his "people" app, me too for that sake and would love to find a way to get it back
-deco
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I ended up just having to upload a custom rom

krish811 said:
I ended up just having to upload a custom rom
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thats what i did, installed custom rom (paranoid) and also gapps (for 4.1.2) but no sign of "people" or google contacts i can find something in a nandroid backup using titanium backup, but not sure how much i need to restore to get a fully working "people"
i see these:
contacts
contacts storage
google contact sync
google acount manager
not sure if all are needed..
-Deco

RealDeco said:
thats what i did, installed custom rom (paranoid) and also gapps (for 4.1.2) but no sign of "people" or google contacts i can find something in a nandroid backup using titanium backup, but not sure how much i need to restore to get a fully working "people"
i see these:
contacts
contacts storage
google contact sync
google acount manager
not sure if all are needed..
-Deco
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"People" is the display name of contacts - there is no people.apk.
If you use Google to store your contacts, then you'll need Google contact sync. If you have a Google account, then you need Google account manager. But I'm guessing that that it's already installed or you wouldn't be able to access Play store.
TB does not backup system apps, only their data. You will need to manually copy the contact apks. Then, on your ROM where you don't have people, copy the apks to /system/data, boot into recovery and wipe cache and Dalvik, and reboot. You should have people back again.
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Google Talk instead of Hangouts?

Anyone know how to get google talk on these tablets instead of Hangouts? It sounds like it might have to be a root thing, since it doesn't look like you can uninstall Hangouts by default. I imagine the process would involve rooting, removing Hangouts, and then finding the Google Talk apk and installing that.
On my phone, I was able to "uninstall updates" from Hangouts when it replaced Talk and that restored Talk on my phone. However, since Talk was never installed on the Nexus 7 in the first place, there's nothing to roll back to.

Google Talk was replaced by Hangouts, so I'm not really sure what you're trying to do...or at least WHY you're trying to do it.

I'm not even sure if removing hangouts and downloading Talk will work or not. I have a feeling it'll just auto-update to Hangouts anyway.
If you do try it though, I've already got the Talk apk on my dev-host. Even though I've got Hangouts on my original N7, luckily I've still got Talk on my HTC so I'm fine either way
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sfreemanoh said:
Google Talk was replaced by Hangouts, so I'm not really sure what you're trying to do...or at least WHY you're trying to do it.
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Hangouts is pretty garbage, I preferred being able to see whether people were online/away so I knew if I would get a response if I msged them or not.

Google Framework Services may not support Talk. When I uninstalled the updates to GFS Hangouts forced me to update GFS.

If you have root you can install it with a root explorer. Delete the hangouts apk from system/app and put the talk.apk in that same directory. It worked perfectly when I tried it. I recommend using es file explorer.
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It's doable. I have talk 4.2.2 running. For the person who asked why: hangouts is useless, talk was so much better.

I also installed Talk 4.2.2 and it worked fine. I did not have to install any accompanying libraries.
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I find Hangouts painfully slow. They didn't improve Talk, they just made it worse

blackhand1001 said:
If you have root you can install it with a root explorer. Delete the hangouts apk from system/app and put the talk.apk in that same directory. It worked perfectly when I tried it. I recommend using es file explorer.
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I tried to do what you said, but when I run Talk.apk (the one someone posted above) it just said App not installed. Any idea why? I have root, I already removed Hangouts.apk from system/app.
Also, I noticed that even though I deleted the Hangouts apk from system/app, the app is still in my app drawer and I can run it as if nothing has changed.

I also removed hangout (have cleanrom, chose not to install hangouts) but when I try to install the talk.apk, I get a message saying "App not installed." The only thing you can do is click "done" button. Any help appreciated.

You can't just install the talk.apk file, you need to flash it through recovery

I think you should get used to Hangouts, because they are encouraging all users to use G+. Talk is not being developed and it will remain unsupported.

Ah, recovery. Where is a recovery flashable talk? I downloaded the apk linked earlier in this thread, but didn't see the recovery formatted one.

changes13 said:
Ah, recovery. Where is a recovery flashable talk? I downloaded the apk linked earlier in this thread, but didn't see the recovery formatted one.
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I would like to know the same. Any of you guys who said you got it working mind chiming in?

Look in my post history for the zip, make sure to read the whole post tho. I don't know if Google search & Gmail disappeared due to the flash or not.

SubMatrix said:
I tried to do what you said, but when I run Talk.apk (the one someone posted above) it just said App not installed. Any idea why? I have root, I already removed Hangouts.apk from system/app.
Also, I noticed that even though I deleted the Hangouts apk from system/app, the app is still in my app drawer and I can run it as if nothing has changed.
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You do know that you'll need to reboot for anything you shove into /system/app to show up, right? That might be what you missed.

You don't need to flash it in recovery. Just mount system as read write and copy it into system/app with es file manager. Then reboot.
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It's really easy if you have Titanium Backup.
Find Hangouts in TB, touch and hold on Hangouts until menu appears.
Select Convert to user app.
Now Hangouts can be uninstalled since you just converted it from a system app to a user app...
Tap on Hangouts and then on uninstall.
Now exit and install Talk.apk
You are done.
Edit: Don't forget to turn off auto updates in the Google Play Store settings

blackhand1001 said:
You don't need to flash it in recovery. Just mount system as read write and copy it into system/app with es file manager. Then reboot.
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I removed Hangouts.apk from system/app, and placed Talk.apk there. I rebooted, and nothing has changed. Hangouts still works and there is no Talk app in my app drawer... What gives?
Edit: After another reboot, Hangouts is now gone. However, Talk still doesn't show up as an app, despite it being in system/app. I've also tried just running the apk but I still get the "App not installed" message.

Google Play no connection error

hi guyz
After rooting using CWM Based Recovery now having trouble with google play. After rooting google play was working fine. Suddenly now my google play shows No Connection error message. I'm using 4G also tried wifi. I dont use any firewall apps.
So far tried -
Rebooting
Uninstalling Updates
Clear Cache / Clear Data. Still its not loading
Anyone?
Thanks

sam20e said:
hi guyz
After rooting using CWM Based Recovery now having trouble with google play. After rooting google play was working fine. Suddenly now my google play shows No Connection error message. I'm using 4G also tried wifi. I dont use any firewall apps. I even uninstalled the google play update. Still no luck
Anyone?
Thanks
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I'm not getting that issue, I'm also rooted and using the cwm recovery. Try removing your Google account restart your phone, then re-add it, see if it works
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Is your device time set correctly? Mine does this whenever I fiddle with the clock and the time ends up not matching that of the Gplay server...

ShadowLea said:
Is your device time set correctly? Mine does this whenever I fiddle with the clock and the time ends up not matching that of the Gplay server...
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Good call, I totally forgot about the time problem..... Looking at the screen cap time and the posting time.... Looks like his AM and PM is mixed up... Or he's 24 hours off.
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Thanks guys for the reply but I resolved this issue by tampering the hosts file.
OP and credit goes to : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2273994
1. Download Total Commander from Play Store.
2. Install it in your Device.
3. Open Total Commander and goto Root of System. (/ )
4. Open the etc folder.
5. Find the file named "hosts", and hold it for 3 seconds. Choose edit file, and choose Total Commander Text Editor if prompted.
6. Delete everything and paste this at the first line: " 127.0.0.1 localhost". Copy it exactly, dont modify anything.
7. Save the file and overwrite if needed.

lennie said:
Good call, I totally forgot about the time problem..... Looking at the screen cap time and the posting time.... Looks like his AM and PM is mixed up... Or he's 24 hours off.
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No, he's in GMT+8, that much is correct. (The forum displays your own timezone as the posting time.) But it does appear to be off by about 10 minutes.
sam20e said:
Thanks guys for the reply but I resolved this issue by tampering the hosts file.
OP and credit goes to : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2273994
1. Download Total Commander from Play Store.
2. Install it in your Device.
3. Open Total Commander and goto Root of System. (/ )
4. Open the etc folder.
5. Find the file named "hosts", and hold it for 3 seconds. Choose edit file, and choose Total Commander Text Editor if prompted.
6. Delete everything and paste this at the first line: " 127.0.0.1 localhost". Copy it exactly, dont modify anything.
7. Save the file and overwrite if needed.
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Eh... Why would blocking your own local device help fix Google Play? Last time I set that on my laptop, my entire internet rolled over and died...

ShadowLea said:
No, he's in GMT+8, that much is correct. (The forum displays your own timezone as the posting time.) But it does appear to be off by about 10 minutes.
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Ah silly me. I guess I haven't fully awaken yet , it's earlier morning here. Smh.
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Eh... Why would blocking your own local device help fix Google Play? Last time I set that on my laptop, my entire internet rolled over and died...
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I never block, there was an entry added there automatically. No idea. So I removed and left only localhost then relaunched google play and everything worked smoothly

sam20e said:
I never block, there was an entry added there automatically. No idea. So I removed and left only localhost then relaunched google play and everything worked smoothly
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Yeah, that's what your host file should have in it. Not sure why there was something else there. My only guess is that you installed a none Google play app that messed with it (I would say don't use that app, it's up to no good).
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[HOW TO] Fix Dropbox on Android L Developer Preview

HOW-TO FIX DROPBOX on ANDROID L DEVELOPER PREVIEW​
This method worked for me, so hopefully it'll do the same for you as well.​
1. Download Root Explorer from the Play Store.
2. In Root Explorer navigate to:
Code:
sdcard/Android/data/
3. Delete the com.dropbox.android folder.
4. Next go to your device's root directory (/) and go to:
Code:
/data/system/
5. Delete the dropbox folder.
Just for safe keeping I booted into recovery and to wipe dalvik and cache, rebooted, reinstalled Dropbox and it's been working smoothly ever since.
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I basically summed up my blog post and posted it here.

I actually just managed to get it to work by only deleting sdcard/Android/data/com.dropbox.android
didn't need root, didn't need to do anything in /data/system
Also didn't need to reinstall Dropbox either, it just worked first time after deleting that one folder

chaosdefinesorder said:
I actually just managed to get it to work by only deleting sdcard/Android/data/com.dropbox.android
didn't need root, didn't need to do anything in /data/system
Also didn't need to reinstall Dropbox either, it just worked first time after deleting that one folder
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Hmm, that didn't work for me. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact I always check to enable early releases?

chaosdefinesorder said:
I actually just managed to get it to work by only deleting sdcard/Android/data/com.dropbox.android
didn't need root, didn't need to do anything in /data/system
Also didn't need to reinstall Dropbox either, it just worked first time after deleting that one folder
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delete Dropbox.apk in PlayStore....without Root and download this apk here.
LINK: DOWNLOAD
https://mega.co.nz/#!N0QTnJxT!slKC0eSNT6gGCAY-oskpnaTxXo2JBcbbIiL2uyZtAzM
and work fine...Please do not update the app from PlayStore!!!!!

Deleting /data/system/dropbox fixed it for me. Thanks!
Edit: actually it's force closing again. It did work once though

I'm on a Nexus 7 2013 with Android L and so far none of these solutions have worked The dropbox team really just needs to update their app.

drdoulittle said:
delete Dropbox.apk in PlayStore....without Root and download this apk here.
LINK: DOWNLOAD
https://mega.co.nz/#!N0QTnJxT!slKC0eSNT6gGCAY-oskpnaTxXo2JBcbbIiL2uyZtAzM
and work fine...Please do not update the app from PlayStore!!!!!
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Could you please reupload that apk? It's down...

Greg11784 said:
Deleting /data/system/dropbox fixed it for me. Thanks!
Edit: actually it's force closing again. It did work once though
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Works for me until now

drdoulittle said:
delete Dropbox.apk in PlayStore....without Root and download this apk here.
LINK: DOWNLOAD
https://mega.co.nz/#!N0QTnJxT!slKC0eSNT6gGCAY-oskpnaTxXo2JBcbbIiL2uyZtAzM
and work fine...Please do not update the app from PlayStore!!!!!
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Please reup this apk.

I tried the method in the OP a few times, but it didnt seem to work at first. Then I used QuickPic to upload some photos to dropbox, which worked like a charm. Now for some reason I am able to directly use the dropbox app itself with no problems. Not sure exactly what fixed it though. Kind of weird.

uodii said:
I tried the method in the OP a few times, but it didnt seem to work at first. Then I used QuickPic to upload some photos to dropbox, which worked like a charm. Now for some reason I am able to directly use the dropbox app itself with no problems. Not sure exactly what fixed it though. Kind of weird.
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Accepted. It works

Sadly this tutorial didn't work for me.
Still gettin force close every time.
I tried QuickPic and i can access Dropbox with it, but even after that the normal app still crashes

Start QuickPic, send file and then run Dropbox. QuickPic let the background.

Doesn't work either..

tatinek2 said:
Start QuickPic, send file and then run Dropbox. QuickPic let the background.
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I tried this... didn't work It's weird because it had worked once and now it doesn't, I wonder why.

not work on everytime, that wired
for now
i use solid explorer to access my dropbox files

None of the methods above worked for me. So I restored an old Dropbox apk from a backup and it works very well.

fripp63 said:
None of the methods above worked for me. So I restored an old Dropbox apk from a backup and it works very well.
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I was finding the same, nothing was working to get it fixed, but I could still access files in dropbox from other apps like ES File Explorer. However I really wanted the camera upload feature. I installed this old apk and it appears to be working, but I haven't tested to see if the camera upload is working. Hopefully it is... Thanks for sharing the apk.

fripp63 said:
None of the methods above worked for me. So I restored an old Dropbox apk from a backup and it works very well.
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Now that works!

fripp63 said:
None of the methods above worked for me. So I restored an old Dropbox apk from a backup and it works very well.
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That apk works for me too. Thanks