is there a way to get certain stock APKs from earlier versions of android on this device
Download a stock rom and pull it
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sizzack said:
is there a way to get certain stock APKs from earlier versions of android on this device
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Just remember, if you are running a custom rom, it's probably de-odexed, so the chances of running an odexed apk, may not be good.
And, if it's a stock rom, and you pull an earlier version apk, make sure you pull the matching odex file also.
Keep in mind, different versions of the stock apks may be a little different and not get along well with the others. Especially if they are dependent on each other.
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New to the whole tablet thing, picked up my acer 2 days ago, figured i'd get accustomed to 3.2 before i flashed anything, picked it up pretty quick since 4.0 pulled alot from 3.0. Figured i'd stop in say hello!
It may be a "noobish" question but was curious if any devs planned on porting CM9 or possibly miui 4.0 over to the a500? seeing as these roms will be based off 4.0 it "should" work on both smartphones and tablets alike. Just a thought.
There are already at least two ICS ports in progress, one of which you'll find in the Development section. Go take a look, there's an alpha you can download to try if you want.
You'll need to be rooted and have CWM installed first. The A500 does NOT use the generic CWM, you need the one available here.
Oh, and welcome.
yah already got that, sounded more complicated then it was, hell of a method though i might add. on my sgs i skip the rooting, by just applying cwr with an update.zip then flashing a rooted rom. well i may look into a cm9/miui port after we get official ics. would be easier if i had the tabs drivers all bundled up in a pretty package for me. I don't know we'll see the last time i cooked and played Dev was windows Mobile 5x (i've been on xda awhile lol)
but it brings me to the question would CM9/miui actually be wanted on this device?
i've read a few articles stating that acer is looking to push ics early 2012, has acer been reasonably fast with there prior updates? i'm enjoying the 3.0 ui but it seems as far as skinning and themes goes the OS leaves a bit to be desired when compared to it's phone variant.
Support and follow up from Acer is a case of mixed emotion, like when your mother-in-law drives off a cliff in your new car.
Once they come out with an update, usually after the "expected" date, the stock rom is pretty solid. It is also crammed full of bloatware, and, of course, difficult if not possible to root.
Thank goodness for all the developers here who find a way around it. I would play with what you have, and once you find out its shortcomings, try some of the great roms you will find here. There is no "best" rom until you find the one that does what you want and you can deal with its personality.
I would suggest getting Root Explorer from the market because you can take a given rom and remove what you want. Once you have that, do a backup with CWM and then you always have a restore point.
Welcome to the forum. This is a great tablet in spite of Acer.
yah already have a root explorer, i use Es file explorer, never failed me yet in terms of root access, editing, and deleting or even pushing files into system area's.
so Acer can be a alil slow on updates? I guess thats to be expected most hardware companies seem to take there time on pushing updates out. Yah i noticed the rooting process was alil ass backwards considering my iconia came with 3.2.1 stock out of the box and then i had to revert back to 3.0.1 lol. I'm keeping my rom pretty stock. i mainly just wanted root access to remove bloat and unwanted programs.
also curious here why on earth is Market pulling from 2 different programs?
I have both Vending.apk and finsky.apk both of which appear to be market.
anyway to get a newer version of market installed? I tried pulling the 3.3.11 from Thor's rom but installing .apk's lead to FCing even with proper permissions.
boystuff said:
yah already have a root explorer, i use Es file explorer, never failed me yet in terms of root access, editing, and deleting or even pushing files into system area's.
so Acer can be a alil slow on updates? I guess thats to be expected most hardware companies seem to take there time on pushing updates out. Yah i noticed the rooting process was alil ass backwards considering my iconia came with 3.2.1 stock out of the box and then i had to revert back to 3.0.1 lol. I'm keeping my rom pretty stock. i mainly just wanted root access to remove bloat and unwanted programs.
also curious here why on earth is Market pulling from 2 different programs?
I have both Vending.apk and finsky.apk both of which appear to be market.
anyway to get a newer version of market installed? I tried pulling the 3.3.11 from Thor's rom but installing .apk's lead to FCing even with proper permissions.
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You can try the new market.apk in the attachments on the OP of this thread. It works with stock based 3.2 ROMs.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1375091
Just download, and install
Hello,
It's been a while since I have played around with rooting and tinkering with my Evo 4G.
Right now I have it rooted and a few apps like ROM Manager, SuperUser and such installed. I'm currently running 2.2.
I would like to get updated with the newest rooted stock OS. I need this phone to work and would also like to maintain stability and improve battery life.
I found the details at: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790427 as how to 'After rooting, how do I install a ROM?'
Which ROM is recommended to keep as close to as stock while still giving me root capabilities and apps?
Is there a version I should avoid do to age / hardware of phone?
I was thinking of this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319881
or from this list:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Supersonic/ROMs#Stock_ROMs
#8, the OTA version.
Any suggestions or comments on either, others, my process?
Thanks.
Does it have to be a stock rom? If not, i suggest MikG or evolved recharged.
They're both pretty good roms
maxarbos said:
Hello,
It's been a while since I have played around with rooting and tinkering with my Evo 4G.
Right now I have it rooted and a few apps like ROM Manager, SuperUser and such installed. I'm currently running 2.2.
I would like to get updated with the newest rooted stock OS. I need this phone to work and would also like to maintain stability and improve battery life.
I found the details at: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790427 as how to 'After rooting, how do I install a ROM?'
Which ROM is recommended to keep as close to as stock while still giving me root capabilities and apps?
Is there a version I should avoid do to age / hardware of phone?
I was thinking of this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319881
or from this list:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Supersonic/ROMs#Stock_ROMs
#8, the OTA version.
Any suggestions or comments on either, others, my process?
Thanks.
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You're all good with hardware and such, just pick which ever rooted stock rom you like,wipe,flash and reboot.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/HTC_Supersonic/ROMs
Here's a list of some ROMs you could try out. Look under Custom ROMs.
Just make sure you have a backup of your current ROM just in case.
thanks for the replys.
Just so i have this right..
I am going to choose OTA-#8 from http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Supersonic/ROMs#Stock_ROMs
This looks like the newest stock rooted ROM, correct?
I have everything backed up and see the docs, but have one last quesiton:
How do I restore all my contacts, apps, configs, etc once I do this?
I rooted and did this when I got the phone and built on top of it, but from the description of the backups, it's backing up the entire config of the phone (like an image). I would imagine that I dont try to reinstall all my apps from that one, right?
Thanks.
maxarbos said:
thanks for the replys.
Just so i have this right..
I am going to choose OTA-#8 from http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Supersonic/ROMs#Stock_ROMs
This looks like the newest stock rooted ROM, correct?
I have everything backed up and see the docs, but have one last quesiton:
How do I restore all my contacts, apps, configs, etc once I do this?
I rooted and did this when I got the phone and built on top of it, but from the description of the backups, it's backing up the entire config of the phone (like an image). I would imagine that I dont try to reinstall all my apps from that one, right?
Thanks.
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According to that URL, OTA Update #11 is the newest OTA available. Before you switch back to stock though you should check out these ROMs by -TeamBlaze-.
I'm still on a stock rooted 4.2.2 Rom and I need to upgrade to 4.4
I've really had no issues with the touchwiz and I'm running the KM kernel, but from what I was told I need to unroot to get 4.4. I don't know if that's true or not, but seeing as you don't have that many touchwiz roms here maybe I should go with ASOP instead? I was looking at the master list of roms but are the roms carrier dependent?
but from what I was told I need to unroot to get 4.4.
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You can update your phone through settings (as long as you didn't mess with system files and apps) but you will definitely lose root and get knox.
I was looking at the master list of roms but are the roms carrier dependent?
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Yes, roms are carrier dependent (with the exception of CM11 nightly builds, which are now unified across all carriers, the rest provide separate builds for different carriers)
carefree12 said:
You can update your phone through settings (as long as you didn't mess with system files and apps) but you will definitely lose root and get knox.
Yes, roms are carrier dependent (with the exception of CM11 nightly builds, which are now unified across all carriers, the rest provide separate builds for different carriers)
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My phone is rooted but running the stock rom, when it came time to upgrade it would not upgrade at all, I forgot what it would hang at but it ended not doing anything, so getting tired of seeing the upgrade was ready to be installed I hid the message.
But now I need the upgrade because of Google Wallet and tap & pay.
So as far as getting another rom I assume I should be just looking under my carries forum here instead of the master list? Now having said that.. OK say I find a ASOP with 4.2 can I just use that instead of unrooting and then doing the update?
In other words installing a custom ASOP rom would still get me on 4.2 as well?
Samsungmobile said:
My phone is rooted but running the stock rom, when it came time to upgrade it would not upgrade at all, I forgot what it would hang at but it ended not doing anything, so getting tired of seeing the upgrade was ready to be installed I hid the message.
But now I need the upgrade because of Google Wallet and tap & pay.
So as far as getting another rom I assume I should be just looking under my carries forum here instead of the master list? Now having said that.. OK say I find a ASOP with 4.2 can I just use that instead of unrooting and then doing the update?
In other words installing a custom ASOP rom would still get me on 4.2 as well?
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It depends on what version of android the rom features. CM11 for example is a 4.4 KitKat rom so if you install CM11 you would have 4.4 AOSP rom that is close to the original AOSP rom you would find on Google devices.
For some reason I can't boot my phone into recovery.. I'm holding vol up, home and power and I see it saying booting recovery in the upper left but if I keep holding the buttons the screen and the phone just turns back off again.
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I just noticed I use TWRP Recovery so I think I have to start it from the phone being on.
Well this is odd.. OK so I moved the zip file to the root of the SD card and looking at the recovery and it's not listed under the root of the SD card.. I don't get it.
Oh never mind forgot the setting to switch to SD card
So I'm one of the poor saps that has a locked 9.30.1 phone. I'd like to run KitKat, but need root. I can install SafeStrap find on this, and waste a ton of space to run a second ROM - but it is unclear what roms are available for safestrap installation. I don't need anything fancy, just an AOSP rooted kitkat running from safestrap - if that's even possible/available.
Any pointers?
You can only use ROMs that work with the stock kernel that your system ROM is running. KitKat's would be a different version, so that rules it out.
Unfortunately, your options are pretty limited. Try Nexesque if you want something stable with all the bloat removed.
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You can only use ROMs that work with the stock kernel that your system ROM is running. KitKat's would be a different version, so that rules it out.
Unfortunately, your options are pretty limited. Try Nexesque if you want something stable with all the bloat removed.
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Not really all that critical then. Not a ton of KitKat features I really need, the better memory management would be nice, but not that necessary. I'll be fine hanging out on rooted 9.30.1 for now.
1) Is there a list of available Roms for this tablet?
2) If there isn't a list of roms, perhaps people could post the ones they have and I can make a new post containing links to roms that I will maintain as long as people let me know when/if links die.
*Old roms are just fine, just as long as they are unique.
3) Are there any amazon stock roms available I can flash with TWRP?
*I didn't know if you can somehow flash an amazon stock rom with it and then just customize it, pre root it? then make an image of it myself with TWRP.
Wishful thinking, is it that simple?
Also if there are any knowlageble people on any of this subject we should make an IRC channel on libera.chat.. I can start if if there is interest.
Thanks,
likwidchz said:
1) Is there a list of available Roms for this tablet?
2) If there isn't a list of roms, perhaps people could post the ones they have and I can make a new post containing links to roms that I will maintain as long as people let me know when/if links die.
*Old roms are just fine, just as long as they are unique.
3) Are there any amazon stock roms available I can flash with TWRP?
*I didn't know if you can somehow flash an amazon stock rom with it and then just customize it, pre root it? then make an image of it myself with TWRP.
Wishful thinking, is it that simple?
Also if there are any knowlageble people on any of this subject we should make an IRC channel on libera.chat.. I can start if if there is interest.
Thanks,
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1. return to stock recovery
2. and flash it from adb sideload ( stockrom )
789mod said:
1. return to stock recovery
2. and flash it from adb sideload ( stockrom )
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Thanks, yeah... I was looking more for a method to flash via twrp and not use anything stock other than the OS image. There were a couple releases of two different roms that were pre rooted stock. I didn't know how popular those were.
I'm just running into weird issues. I have an app I'm writing in processing.org for andriod and the frame rates I'm getting varies so much on different roms. The rom i'm using is one of these
lineage-12.1-20200505-UNOFFICIAL-suez
lineage-14.1-20190926-UNOFFICIAL-suez
Super old, but honestly if that's what I get, that's what I get.
I tried this too
5620_Fire_HD_10_pre_rooted_optimized_stock_rom-signed
Based on how all this stuff works, I didn't know if I had the ability to download the latest amazon image and make my own flashable rom to "try out" vs be in a situation where I would update it all and then not able to go back. I'd rather not.
Thanks for the response.
likwidchz said:
Thanks, yeah... I was looking more for a method to flash via twrp and not use anything stock other than the OS image. There were a couple releases of two different roms that were pre rooted stock. I didn't know how popular those were.
I'm just running into weird issues. I have an app I'm writing in processing.org for andriod and the frame rates I'm getting varies so much on different roms. The rom i'm using is one of these
lineage-12.1-20200505-UNOFFICIAL-suez
lineage-14.1-20190926-UNOFFICIAL-suez
Super old, but honestly if that's what I get, that's what I get.
I tried this too
5620_Fire_HD_10_pre_rooted_optimized_stock_rom-signed
Based on how all this stuff works, I didn't know if I had the ability to download the latest amazon image and make my own flashable rom to "try out" vs be in a situation where I would update it all and then not able to go back. I'd rather not.
Thanks for the response.
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are you want stock rom and root it or what ?
try stock rom and root it mgisk from twrp
I would like to try all the available roms to figure out which one works the best with the app I'm writing.
But I only want to try roms flashable with TWRP.
Best rom for this device is
5.1.1
789mod said:
Best rom for this device is
5.1.1
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Have a file name of that rom so I can google sleuth and give that a try?
You know I was tempted to make a post that just has a link to all the roms available.
Is found here 12.1 Cyanogen
Is that this one? lineage-12.1-20200505-UNOFFICIAL-suez.zip