Okay brief background:
Originally stock VFAU supplied Legend, updated to the stock Froyo. Rooted by (roughly) following the steps outlined in the How to root HBoot 1.01 thread and am now happily able to flash roms using ClockworkMod 3.0.0.6 "fake flash" update.zip
Was keen to try out CM7RC2 on this phone so I have downloaded the update and Gapps .zips from the Cyanogenmod wiki page.
Tried multiple times now to flash the CM7 update and the relevent Gapps, always formatting user data / cache / dalvik before hand. After the process, I am always able to boot into CM7 on the device, but it appears the Gapps update hasn't been applied properly / at all. For example - on initial boot, I don't get the google android setup wizard, so no way to link the phone to my gmail account. Gmail app isn't installed, and when I try to launch Market it just goes to a white screen for a second, and then back to the launcher.
I'm wondering if this is related to the fact that the phone is on HBOOT 1.01, and S-ON? or is there another explaination? eg, a specific kernel, or radio that I should be flashing before I try to flash CM7 (nothing is mentioned in the install guide over at CM wiki).
Thanks in advance.
are you shure ou downloaded the right gapps
the one touse is "gapps-mdpi-20101020-signed"
karlanal said:
are you shure ou downloaded the right gapps
the one touse is "gapps-mdpi-20101020-signed"
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Hey mate, thanks for the quick reply! Just to clarify - are you sure this is the right version of Gapps for CM7 on the Legend?? Looking here under the "Google Apps Version" section it appears that the correct version for all devices running CM7 should be Gapps-gb-20110307-signed.zip and that gapps-mdpi is for CM6??
I tried your suggestion nontheless, and with that version of Gapps flashed - I'm now getting a boot-loop of the cyanogen boot animation
I'm on HBOOT 1.01 (Vodafone Legend) and CM7 was the first I tried, though it was back around the nightly build 31. I didn't have any issues and CM7 started up straight away. I realised I was missing all the Google stuff so did a separate flash, maybe you could try this. I'm yet to try the RC version hopefully no issues here...
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I'm on HBOOT 1.01 (Vodafone Legend) and CM7 was the first I tried, though it was back around the nightly build 31. I didn't have any issues and CM7 started up straight away. I realised I was missing all the Google stuff so did a separate flash, maybe you could try this. I'm yet to try the RC version hopefully no issues here...
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I have tried flashing the gapps package as a separate flash (after the intial flash to CM7, booting into CM7, then reboot into recovery to flash Gapps), and the result has been the same as when I flash them together.
I had wondered about trying a nightly, but being new to CM roms please forgive my next question. To flash a nightly, do I first have to flash CM7 RC2, then flash the nightly, or can you just flash the nightly by itself, then Gapps over the top??
I'm definitely willing to give it a try at this stage.
Flashing the nightly won't need a prior RC2 flash, its a self contained package so you shouldn't have any problems. Hopefully the Gapps flash works this time.
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Hey mate, thanks for the quick reply! Just to clarify - are you sure this is the right version of Gapps for CM7 on the Legend?? Looking here under the "Google Apps Version" section it appears that the correct version for all devices running CM7 should be Gapps-gb-20110307-signed.zip and that gapps-mdpi is for CM6??
I tried your suggestion nontheless, and with that version of Gapps flashed - I'm now getting a boot-loop of the cyanogen boot animation
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yes i was wrong, gave you the wrong gapps suggestion
i was allways using "gapps-gb-20110120-signed" and all was working great
EpicSauce said:
Flashing the nightly won't need a prior RC2 flash, its a self contained package so you shouldn't have any problems. Hopefully the Gapps flash works this time.
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Well tried flashing the latest nightly last night, full wipe, then flash, then reboot, then reboot into recovery and flash the Gapps and it worked!! Don't really understand why something like that wouldn't work with the RC
karlanal said:
yes i was wrong, gave you the wrong gapps suggestion
i was allways using "gapps-gb-20110120-signed" and all was working great
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Thats cool mate - made me recheck myself anyway
I just installed CM7 stable using eyeballer's guide but can't get gapps to work. When I installed everything from the bootable CWM it all seemed to work fine. CM7, gapps, the OC kernel, and CWM all said they installed correctly in CWM. I booted into CM7 just fine and it seems that everything is working, except there aren't any gapps. I tried reinstalling them several times with no luck. I saw in another thread that "fixing permissions" in CWM worked for someone, but it didn't for me. I did some more searching but didn't find anything else that seemed to help in my situation. I'm sure I missed something in my search, but it's late and I need to get to bed.
Any ideas? Sorry I couldn't find the answer on my own.
Thanks!
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I just installed CM7 stable using eyeballer's guide but can't get gapps to work. When I installed everything from the bootable CWM it all seemed to work fine. CM7, gapps, the OC kernel, and CWM all said they installed correctly in CWM. I booted into CM7 just fine and it seems that everything is working, except there aren't any gapps. I tried reinstalling them several times with no luck. I saw in another thread that "fixing permissions" in CWM worked for someone, but it didn't for me. I did some more searching but didn't find anything else that seemed to help in my situation. I'm sure I missed something in my search, but it's late and I need to get to bed.
Any ideas? Sorry I couldn't find the answer on my own.
Thanks!
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Did you actually look to see if they are there in /system/app? Did you try reinstalling them, maybe gapps didn't actually install?
connect to wifi after flashing gaaps
I never checked the systzem/apps folder. I just assumed they'd be in the launchers app tray that shows all your apps. Each time I installed gapps in CWR it looked like it installed just fine. There was never an error message. Ill check that directory when I get home.
I've been connected to wifi since I installed CM7 so I wouldn't think that was the problem. Should I disconnect wifi, reinstall gapps through CWR, boot into CM7, turn on wifi, and gapps should show up?
Thanks guys!!!!
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I never checked the systzem/apps folder. I just assumed they'd be in the launchers app tray that shows all your apps. Each time I installed gapps in CWR it looked like it installed just fine. There was never an error message. Ill check that directory when I get home.
I've been connected to wifi since I installed CM7 so I wouldn't think that was the problem. Should I disconnect wifi, reinstall gapps through CWR, boot into CM7, turn on wifi, and gapps should show up?
Thanks guys!!!!
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Honestly I know it sounds weird but its been confirmed from several people that if after flashing GAAPS you dont see the market icon, then connect to wifi. I can also confirm that it was hidden for me after flashing. Then wifi connect, then then icon shows up on the home screen....weird.
colbur87 said:
Honestly I know it sounds weird but its been confirmed from several people that if after flashing GAAPS you dont see the market icon, then connect to wifi. I can also confirm that it was hidden for me after flashing. Then wifi connect, then then icon shows up on the home screen....weird.
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Just got home from lunch and booted it up. I turned off wifi, rebooted and turned it back on and there was the Market app. Everything's working great now. I'm still an idiot
Thanks again you guys!
yeah it wont show up right away after first installing - after you activate a WiFi connection then market shows up. click on market and it will ask you if you want to download the rest of the apps
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I just installed CM7 stable using eyeballer's guide but can't get gapps to work. When I installed everything from the bootable CWM it all seemed to work fine. CM7, gapps, the OC kernel, and CWM all said they installed correctly in CWM. I booted into CM7 just fine and it seems that everything is working, except there aren't any gapps. I tried reinstalling them several times with no luck. I saw in another thread that "fixing permissions" in CWM worked for someone, but it didn't for me. I did some more searching but didn't find anything else that seemed to help in my situation. I'm sure I missed something in my search, but it's late and I need to get to bed.
Any ideas? Sorry I couldn't find the answer on my own.
Thanks!
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Thank you very much colbur87 for this information! I was going crazy trying to figure out where those apps went after this same process.
Gapps Still Not Working
I have installed CM7 and Gapps on a Samsung Fascinate via this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116424
After it didn't work the first time, I started digging for a solution. Following the advise in this current thread I reinstalled Gapps, booted up and started WiFi. Still no market icon on the home page. So I disabled WiFi, rebooted for good measure, and re-enabled WiFi. Still no market icon.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
I figured out the issue! This is VERY IMPORTANT and I couldn't really find it spelled out anywhere. You cannot boot into recovery mode via the 3 finger method when installing the Gapps. You must use the menu within Cyanogen (reboot -> recovery) to get into recovery mode. Then everything works as expected.
Had same problem with ZTE v9 tablet, had to add my Google account in settings -> accounts & sync while having a decent data connection (wifi / good 3g) and then market app and associated apps installed automatically.
hey there.
i flashed cm7 on my sgs2. and with it the latest version of gapps. i had the market from the beginning. but no other google apps. i tried everything you posted here. but it did not work.
since i had access to the market i now installed maps (and along with it latitude and navigation). but there is no gmail-app on the market. so i do not have that. any other idea to get it?
tyvm
kws
I have this exact same problem. I have just installed CM7 on my samsung galaxy pop/mini. I installed the gapps zip file through CWM. Installation finished just fine without any errors. Reboot done. No market icon or any other gapp icon shows up on the homescreen on the app drawer. So I started wifi. Connected. Still no icon. So I installed just the market apk from the internet. The apk installed fine but it asks me to add an account. So I click on yes and it takes me back to home screen. I went to Settings>Accounts and Sync. Clicked on Add account but it doesn't give me an option to select the type of a/c(Eg. Google, FB, Twitter, Etc.). The wizard that I get says Add an Exchange a/c. It just simply doesn't allow me to add a google a/c. Please help guys.
Note: I never got any option to sign in with my google a/c at first boot..
I'm also having problems with installing gapps downloaded at http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Gapps#Google_Apps.
I try to reboot to recovery, but the blue text just says that "gapps was not found".
Is there a specific place that the gapps zip file needs to be saved? I downloaded it via the Nook and it got saved to the sdcard's "download" folder. I've read that I need to save it under the "boot" partition... how do I do that? Can I do this through the terminal emulator?
Thanks!
switch81 said:
I'm also having problems with installing gapps downloaded at http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Gapps#Google_Apps.
I try to reboot to recovery, but the blue text just says that "gapps was not found".
Is there a specific place that the gapps zip file needs to be saved? I downloaded it via the Nook and it got saved to the sdcard's "download" folder. I've read that I need to save it under the "boot" partition... how do I do that? Can I do this through the terminal emulator?
Thanks!
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Yes... in T.E.:
mkdir /sdcard/boot
mount /dev/block/mmcbkl1p1 /sdcard/temp
cp /sdcard/download/GAPPS FILE.zip /sdcard/boot
For some reason "mount" was a not a valid command line operation... so I got off my lazy ass and moved the file over to the boot partition using a linux box that I had. Problem solved!
A couple of tips if you are installing the gapps. zip through CWR yet still find no google apis upon booting up.
1) wipe data and partition in CWR like usual, but also wipe DAVLIK cache before installing encore and gapps zip. you will find the wipe DAVLIK option in the advanced menu in CWR. I know that this step is omitted in many of the how-to's, because it is not always necessary. If you are having trouble with installed gapps not showing up, try this.
2) Pay attention to the version number of CWR! When I wrote the clockwork image to my SD card, I must have followed an old link. I didn't notice until much later that the clockwork that booted off mt SD card was 3.005. this caused major issues once I flashed a current version of CWR through the ROM manager (3.023). I encountered missing md5 sums in my back ups, and would get error messages "cannot mount system". Additionally, when I would attempt to reflash my zips, the google apis would not appear, and the only way to get them was to reinstall them through titanium backup.
I believe this wad because I wad using two incompatible versions of CWR. if I rebooted to recovery through the ROM Manager instead of simply loading from the SD card, I would be in the current version, where I wiped the data and partition like usual, wiped the DAVLIK to be sure, and then boom, the setup for google loaded upon boot.
Slip the registration process until you are connected to wifi. that is why some of the above users did not see the market until they connected to a network.
Hope this helps some people, it drove me crazy until I figures it out.
switch81 said:
For some reason "mount" was a not a valid command line operation... so I got off my lazy ass and moved the file over to the boot partition using a linux box that I had. Problem solved!
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In this case... you can use:
busybox mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /sdcard/boot
Sometimes busybox commands are not symlinked but are available by specifying "busybox" command
Google Apps google market no install cwm wifi on off register gmail wont install
Google Apps google market no install, wont install, not install= cwm install zip from sd....On boot up wifi on off - on... market icon will then show up then register gmail... wont install...Was searching for this tread then came across when I was about to post...Thought I'd add some keywords lol
vizionforever said:
Google Apps google market no install, wont install, not install= cwm install zip from sd....On boot up wifi on off - on... market icon will then show up then register gmail... wont install...Was searching for this tread then came across when I was about to post...Thought I'd add some keywords lol
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lol, whatever helps others out there!
I was messing with all of the settings under adw launcher, zeam, and cm7 on my nook color. i suppose i messed around too much because i inadvertently set things to not show the status bar, menu bar, and to also have my nook start up on a "lock" screen to which i never set a "lock" to. My nook powered off due to low battery and when i start it up it goes to my home screen... i can see my status bar but i cant do anything with it...it just shows me the time and the battery meter and my background. i cant do ANYTHING on this screen.
i tried reinstalling cm7 and the gapps and all sorts of re-installs but they don't work at all... my nook refuses to remove the data portion. it just keeps saying error formatting/ data
wth do i do? >_<
Go to the link i provided to help with the data error CWM giving you, Also you probably not on the latest CWM, so install the latest CWM(3.2.0.1) Then reinstall root and you should be good to go!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094371
903tex said:
Go to the link i provided to help with the data error CWM giving you, Also you probably not on the latest CWM, so install the latest CWM(3.2.0.1) Then reinstall root and you should be good to go!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094371
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I went back to the most recent stable build of cm7 and was able to load back into my home screen just fine. I kept getting a popup stating that an unexpected error had occurred with my status bar and my menu bar item...
i follow your link and repartitioned and everything went by without any problems whatsoever. thing is... out of my own curiosity just to see if it was fixed i went back into CWR and tried format my data again and i STILL get that error.... how does that portion get fixed? or will i have to repartition the nook and re-root it each time i want to update my version now -_-
how will this effect things if i ever want to go back to stock?
That's what I did and then when I formatted my data didn't have the error anymore. But I switch my CWM to the latest one and then was able to flash CM7 from nooter without any problem. But I also went back to stock with 1.0.1, then 1.2, nooter root, then CM7.
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You can unlock your screen via adb.
tried to install the cm7 mod on nook color i have done this several times before for friend and had no problems it starts ok but just doesnt run right so i tried to restore to stock but when i try to format data in cwr it wont format any ideas
ericsename said:
tried to install the cm7 mod on nook color i have done this several times before for friend and had no problems it starts ok but just doesnt run right so i tried to restore to stock but when i try to format data in cwr it wont format any ideas
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More info? What CM version? What clockwork version? What instructions are you following? What the heck to you mean by it doesn't run right?
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Might want to check your partition sizes... if you have a newer or refurb... might have to modify them
Even with version 3.2.0.1 of CWR I have gotten that message. I then chose the restore to stock option that wipes data and system and it completed. But make sure you are at least using that version.....
Hello, my problems started when switching from CM10.2 to try out a CM7.2 based ROM that was a stripped down version of MokeeOS. I disliked it so I then flashed the original CM7.2 and everything seemed fine, however I missed the app support of Android 4.2.2+ and decided to go back to CM10.1.
For some reason my phone switched off during the flashing of CM10.1 (Quarx's 9th of July build) and was screwed. I pulled up RSD Lite and went to flash an SBF and start again. I used this SBF [DEFYPLUS_U3_4.5.1-134_DFP-231_AU_SIGN_UCADEFYEMARAB1B80AA004.0R_PDS03C_USAJRDNGIBRANZ_P021_A030_Service1FF.sbf] Everything was fine and everything worked. I then went on to root the device so I could install CM10.1 and noticed I had trouble rooting with SuperOneClick. It always hung step #7 which said something along the lines of "cannot mount, are you root?". I hesitantly tried an APK based root called Farmaroot which surprisingly worked which then allowed me to install 2nd init recovery. Here's where it gets weird. I flashed CM10.1 and the corresponding version of GApps and rebooted and everything seemed fine. However the first thing I noticed is that it only asked me for my Google Account, not the device language or which Network I should connect to, I thought nothing of it for some reason and continued thinking everything ok. However I then noticed that the notification slider and the quick settings menu were both inoperative, no notifications or tiles could be seen. Pressing the home button did not work, nor did long pressing it to show currently open apps.
I reflashed CM10.1 using TWR and had the same problem. I then flashed CM10.2 and another version of GApps and had the same problem.
Is this a problem originating from the fact I could not root the device to begin with? I am pretty sure I also tried this SBF
[DEFYPLUS_U3_4.5.1-134_DFP-1321_AU_SIGN_SIGNED_UCADEFYEMARAB1B80AA004.0R_PDS03C_USAJRDNGIBRANZ_P020_A026_HWp3_Service1FF.sbf]
Where should I go from here? I'm currently in exam period so I am unable to extensively search for answers or mess around. The device is currently wiped.
I'm using a Defy+ by the way.
Thanks.
Defy+ can't be rooted by SuperOneClick. And I had those issues earlier. I tried a different gapps and it worked. Search and use TJKV's minimal gapps (in the General section).
hotdog125 said:
Defy+ can't be rooted by SuperOneClick.
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Really? It's what I used to root it every time until now.
hotdog125 said:
I tried a different gapps and it worked. Search and use TJKV's minimal gapps (in the General section).
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Oh wow this actually worked. Thanks!
woofdog said:
Really? It's what I used to root it every time until now.
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That's not possible:laugh:
Framaroot method doesn't affect anything. Looks like some leftover data files to me
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