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Hi all,
Love my HTC Desire so much i bought a Witstech A81E Android 2.2 Tablet. Which is pretty buggy to say the least though on the whole works well.
The one thing that is driving me crazy is a number of apps dont install with the logcat error:
"packagename.apk requires unavailable shared library com.google.android.maps"
Now from what i have read apparently this device does not come with Google Maps API so my question is how do i add it?
Can it be done? Do i need to modify a ROM to do it? can i push it via adb or apk?
A little help would be greatly appreciated.

It would need to have google apps installed to be able to access the libraries. Best bet is to find out if it has been rooted yet and try to install the proprietary applications they can't ship the device with.

appreciate the help mate. i've rooted the device though where can i find google maps api?
the unit already has google maps 5.0 installed but apparently doesnt have the API's.
Any idea what im looking for? will it be an APK or just some files i need to put in a system folder?
i think im over my head

additionally i have searched for any com.google.android.maps related data on my desire and have found the following:
/system/framework/com.google.android.maps.jar
/system/etc/permissions/com.google.android.maps.xml
/etc/permissions/com.google.android.maps.xml
/data/dalvik-cache/[email protected]@[email protected]
could it be as easy as copying this over to my tablet?
Ill try it out tonight.

If the application is installed correctly it should work because the api is stored in the data. Is the application on the tablet installed to the /system/ or /data/ partition. It might be looking for the data in /system/

not sure what you mean about where the application resides? you mean the app i am trying to install? The app i am trying to install is Tasker.
i have been doing some googling and saw someone else have the same problem and he managed to fix it:
When trying to install some apps, I would see this error message in logcat:
requires unavailable shared library com.google.android.maps
I had the Google Maps app installed and working, but that didn’t fix the issue. It turns out, I had to add two other files and restart the phone. I found those files in the google zip from Cyanogenmod. It took a little fiddling, but I was able to use these instructions to remount /system in write mode. First step was to take the following two files from the google apps zip (gapps-hdpi-20101114-signed.zip) and put them onto my sd card.
/system/etc/permissions/com.google.android.maps.xml
/system/framework/com.google.android.maps.jar
Then to load them onto the phone, I opened the terminal emulator and ran:
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cp /mnt/sdcard/com.google.android.maps.xml /system/etc/permissions/
cp /mnt/sdcard/com.google.android.maps.jar /system/framework/
Then after I rebooted the phone, I was able to install apps that depend on Google Maps. I can now check bus and train times, and do all kinds of other cool stuff with maps!
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i simply used root explorer to copy it across though still not working. surely someone smarter than me can tell me what i am doing wrong.
is copying with root explorer essentially the same as above?

damn i could have sworn someone here would have been switched on enough to help me on this
oh well back to random googling for me.

Well did you try using terminal emulator? And do what he did? B/c that looks like a remount to system to me easy as pie just do what he did you can find the files with root explorer or do it on your pc doesnt really matter. You can Not achieve what he did just using root explorer you need terminal emulator!

Sage said:
damn i could have sworn someone here would have been switched on enough to help me on this
oh well back to random googling for me.
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I don't know how much it will help (or if its 100 percent true) but I was just told recently that moving a file via root explorer is the same as pushing it via adb.
sent from gv1.5 on g2

^correct
Sent from Enrique Iglesias.

now i am confused. can i use root explorer or not? i used root explorer and then reset the correct permissions on the files though its still not working.
I take it i can get a terminal emulator that runs on the device itself yeah?
Ill try that next.
If that fails i am going to try my first attempt at cooking a ROM
Appreciate all the help!

no more love for Sage?
i dont know why its so hard..
I did try to cook the original ROM though unyaffs couldnt extract the img.
looks like i might have to boot up a Virtual nix box.. damn this is so much harder than it should be.

[Q] host file reset

I have a quick question I was wondering if someone could answer.
I updated my Atrix but forgot to reset my host file from within Adfree and now I get some ad errors from sites and games that I play. (I did remember to remove root so I wouldn't have a superuser icon floating around.) I would like to reset my host file and I believe my only option would be to flash the original SBF, root, install adfree and reset my host file.
If I don't feel like doing the above and I just wait it out and Moto/ATT releases Gingerbread, will this overwrite/reset my host file?
Hope I made sense and any help or tips would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,
/etc actually points to /osh/etc, /osh is a partition mounted read / write, so something like echo "127.0.0.1 localhost" >/etc/hosts from an adb shell or from a software terminal on your phone would probably do the trick.
Cheers!

Thanks for the response!
I'm not sure if that tip will save me to many steps though since I already ran the latest update I don't have root so I'd still have to flash the stock SBF, re-root, and then use terminal.
If I'm missing something please let me know, I'm still new to this whole thing. The ad errors aren't making my phone unusable so I was hoping by waiting for Gingerbread it would fix my host file once I upgraded to it. Any thoughts if that would work?

I flashed with the stock SBF file and all is fixed.

[Q] Here is a good one for ya. Yes, I need some help

Ok. So I bricked my Kindle Fire. Could not access it through ADB. Nothing. So, I followed the unbricking method with fastboot. Got me access to ADB into the kindle again.
So now, one click will not root the device to allow me to put the other images onto the device. Nor will windows 7 mount it.
One click shows that no files or folders exist for the kindle and asks me if I am sure I am running 2.0 or higher.
I can adb into it, but without root I cannot copy files into the needed directories to get it back to stock, or put CM7 on it.
When I boot, i get the kindle fire words, then a black screen. It just stays black. Its better now because at least I can ADB into it, but without root I am hosed, and one click is not working.
I turn myself over to the mercy of the Kindle gods. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
added info:
To be clear. Windows recognizes it, and ADB can connect to it and I can navigate the file structure, but it will not let me root to copy things to the file system.
When I try to use the command prompt to get to e:, a window pops up and tells me there is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \device\Harddisk1\DR52. Then the command prompt says, The device is not ready.

With all the knowledge and information going through this forum, not even a suggestion. Pretty please......

I'm no expert sadly but do you need to root to copy over a system file? If not you could push the stockrecovery.img that you can find here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1390773), that may be why your device isnt booting.

Where do I push that to? What location on the device? I have downloaded the image, just not sure where to put it to get it going again.

just google it how to put android etc....

I would not say I am a noob. My question is this. It will not let me mount my sdcard. So when I push update.zip to the sdcard and then try to run it from the sdcard with twrp, I get an error message saying that it cannot mount /sdcard/update.zip, so can I put update.zip somewhere else, lets say in the system folder, and run the update from there?

Not to mention, its kind of messed up that you call me a noob and point me to a video basically telling me to search the forums. Here is the problem with that. I cannot start a thread in the dev forums for the kindle fire until I post 10 times. So while you are calling me a noob and pretty much insulting me and my intelligence, I am far from a noob, I simply could not post my question in the dev forums.

lonelliott said:
Not to mention, its kind of messed up that you call me a noob and point me to a video basically telling me to search the forums. Here is the problem with that. I cannot start a thread in the dev forums for the kindle fire until I post 10 times. So while you are calling me a noob and pretty much insulting me and my intelligence, I am far from a noob, I simply could not post my question in the dev forums.
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When you do get 10 posts and post in the Dev forum they will just tell you that you posted in the wrong forum.
Your problem has been covered many times on here if you just browse around or search you will find it.

My problem is that the sdcard will not mount, nor will it hold information. I can copy a file to it, and as soon as I reboot, it will erase that file. I have searched for ways to format the sdcard, or format everything and partition but have found no answers yet.

Just for safe measure, I did another search just now in all the kindle fire forums for "mount sdcard" and "format sdcard" and I could find no answers.
Again, when I put a file onto the sdcard, like update.zip, as soon as I run it from twrp, or even fastboot, it tells me that it cannot mount the /sdcard/update.zip file.
On top of that, when I reboot it will not keep the file, it erases it, except the twrp folder, it stays after a reboot.
I can access the system through adb, fastboot and now twrp, but cannot get it to take an update.zip file to restore it. Even though I can access it through adb and fastboot, it does not show up in my explorer window and I cannot browse the device from either a windows 7 machine or a ubuntu 11.10 machine. When I plug it in, the machine recognizes it and charges it, but wont mount it to view files.
It also returned an error saying there is no listing for the sdcard in /etc/fstab.
Not sure what to try next. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Then you must not have read and write privlage
Sent from my Kindle Fire using Tapatalk

I dont know if it will work but it fixed mine
download this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1348782
and flash it with fastboot
fastboot flash system path\to\system.img
and you may also have to get and flash boot.img from an amazon update

asb, I do have read write, tried and verified. It is failing to mount the sdcard. Thanks Kaw. I will give that a try with fastboot.
I have twrp as the boot image. If I reflash from an update will it remove the twrp? I think it would write over it, which, if it worked, would be ok with me. I am going to try both.

When I try to flash the system.img, it tells me the remote image is to large and exits.

Help Flashing modified 3e recovery via wirelesss ADB

I am getting the e-signature verification error when trying to re-install package from stock recovery. I need clockwork recovery so i can install ROM's. I have a HW issue with my USB which prevents me from connecting to my PC. I have installed wireless ADB so i can flash a modified 3e version of the recovery manager to bypass the e-signature verification. I have a file attached with the modified 3e recovery. The install.bat file is set up for a usb connection with debugging enabled. Is there any way i can modify this batch file so i can use wireless ADB.
Sorry i did not post under development, i am under 10 posts. Every question i have ever had has been already posted until now
Thanks in advance

Having trouble with the USB on your phone? Getting the "This device has malfuctioned" error in Windows? My phone does that too, but I found that when I connect through a USB hub instead of directly to the computer, I can get my phone to work properly about one time in ten. You might also want to daisy chain hubs to get the phone further away from the computer, electronically speaking. It's worth a shot.
I just found this out the other day, and the first thing I did was to flash the modified 3e recovery, then replace it with ClockworkMod However, if I read the thread correctly, you can do it without using USB. If you open up the 3e_recovery_installer zip, you can see that there's really only one important file in there, and that's called "recovery". All the other files are just helpers. The install.bat (which you can edit in notepad) to coordinate the programs, TempRoot.exe to gain root access, adb.exe to install the "recovery" file, and two helper dll files for adb. That's it.
If I read post 9 from the original thread correctly, you can adb into your phone, get root access, then remount your /system partition as read/write with the command "mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/stl9 /system". Once you've done that, you can copy the "recovery" file from the 3e_recovery_installer zip to /system/bin. If you read through the install.bat file, you can see that's mostly all it does, anyway.
The author of post 9 mentions copying keys to /efs, but I can't find anything in the zip file or in the install.bat file about keys, so I'd probably ignore it.
Okay, so I've maybe pointed you in the right direction, now I'll give you some warning. Read everything you can. Read the original post in it's entirety, even though it's boring. Research until you know that you understand everything in that thread. Read through the install.bat file, and research until you're sure you understand everything in the batch file. Your phone's USB doesn't work correctly. You may not be able to flash back to stock. If you screw this up, mistype a command, or miss a step, you might screw up your phone to the point where you can't recover from it without a JTAG flash. Be very, very careful. Understand everything that you do, every command you type, and why you're typing it. Good luck.

[Q] Rooting the Streak 5 without USB connection

Is there a way to root the Streak 5 or install custom recovery without using USB connection? The USB charger port is broken so I am unable to connect through USB. I´ve tried to root the phone with GingerBreak and Z4Root without success. Maybe it´s possible to root the phone or flash recovery with Flash_image in Terminal Emulator but I am unable to find a guide to do so. Any help would be apreciated, I´ve searched the forums here but am unable to find the answer I´m looking for.
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I´m on Android 2.2.2, 360 stock ROM, build 17397.

Well, if the answer you were looking for is "yes it can be done", then it's obvious why you haven't found the answer you were looking for.
You have to have a working port on the Streak to install CWM since installing a custom recovery requires being in the Streak's Fastboot mode. Rooting may be possible, but unlikely since you have to copy files to the \system directory, which isn't writable unless you've rooted using CWM to install the files or ADB to push them.

Short of finding an exploit to root with, he might(?) be able to by disassembling it and pushing root to /data/local and setting permissions with a pc.

TheManii said:
Short of finding an exploit to root with, he might(?) be able to by disassembling it and pushing root to /data/local and setting permissions with a pc.
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ah.. i see... by taking out innerSD and manually push root into it.. it seems possible that way...

Rooting is ultimately getting SU somewhere runnable and changing it's permissions to 06755.
It just makes the most sense to place it in /system/xbin 99.95% of the time.

it seems the guy doesnt read the forum thorough enough.. because there is solution to it already..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29190631&postcount=12

Dont recall gingerbreak working on 350+ as dell pretty much patched everything.
I believe it works on 318 or thereabouts, but OP is on 360 he already stated it didnt work (but not which exact version of gingerbreak)

well.. at least he can try first... but it seems not possible is it?

Gingerbreak version 1.2 works on stock 351 but not on stock 360.
Sent from my Dell Streak using xda premium

TheManii said:
Short of finding an exploit to root with, he might(?) be able to by disassembling it and pushing root to /data/local and setting permissions with a pc.
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That sounds like a good idea since I have already cutted out for access to the internal SD card. What would be the best program for Windows 7 to push root to the SD card and change the permissions?

You would need to be able to read ext3 partitions and modify the file permissions.
I've never bothered trying under windows, the simplest way is to do it under linux.
You can install it in a VM if you wish, or you can try and figure out how to do it with additional software under windows.
Regardless you should try pushing su to /data/local/ and setting it's permissions to 06755 (rws--r-s-r-x).
If you get that far we'll continue from there

Would it be possible to get a repacked 360 stock ROM (apk or zip package) that is already rooted, and then install it on the Streak using the 360 stock recovery? Maybe that´s not possible because of the signature verification but I wonder if it would be possible. Then I would have to find someone with a rooted 360 ROM to make the package for me.

TheManii said:
Regardless you should try pushing su to /data/local/ and setting it's permissions to 06755 (rws--r-s-r-x).
If you get that far we'll continue from there
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sorry to bust in. /data is mounted nosuid for a reason. Don't know whether this is so on the 360, but at least check ($ mount |grep /data) before you open your device and risk hardware damage.