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Angry birds restore from AOSP to Sense

Or visa-versa.
I can never seem to get this to work. I back up angry birds with TB, but if I make the backup while running a AOSP rom and then try to restore it after switching to a sense rom, then angry birds FC's or refuses to run or other such nonsense. The reverse is also true, backups from sense rom's don't work on AOSP rom's.
Anyone else experience this? Is there a work around?

Never had that problem. Always works fine for me. Perhaps go into the preferences for TB and verify that the setting for migrating apps across different roms is checked.

Will check that out. Didn't gnow that setting existed.
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Ok, where is this setting? I can't find it!
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It's under Privacy in the Settings menu.
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Ok this is embarrassing. I still can't find it. Went through every setting I could find in TB and I don't see it. Can someone give me specific instructions please? Thanks.
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teookie said:
Or visa-versa.
I can never seem to get this to work. I back up angry birds with TB, but if I make the backup while running a AOSP rom and then try to restore it after switching to a sense rom, then angry birds FC's or refuses to run or other such nonsense. The reverse is also true, backups from sense rom's don't work on AOSP rom's.
Anyone else experience this? Is there a work around?
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Yeah that happened to me trying to go from CM7 to SkyRaider 4.0. I haven't looked for a solution yet...

Preferences>Migrate System Data
DINC|CM7|INCREDIKERNEL

I went from Virtuous to CM6 before and used TB to restore and had no problems.

wildstang83 said:
Preferences>Migrate System Data
DINC|CM7|INCREDIKERNEL
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Ok, that check box is greyed out for me. Is that because I have the free version?
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I found making a backup myself was best. If you copy and paste to your SD Card the following directories...
/data/data/com.rovio.angrybirds/
/data/data/com.rovio.angrybirdsrio/
/data/data/com.rovio.angrybirdsseasons/
You can paste them back later and get all your scores back.
NOTE: I strongly suggest making a new backup of these directories AFTER doing any upgrades to Angry Birds versions because I am sure the data has changed after the upgrade.
You must be rooted to make changes to those directories so if your not, I think there just might be some instructions here somewhere on how to root your device..
Last note: After pasting the directories back (Performing a RESTORE), you must modify the file permissions so Angry Birds can write do that DB file. Otherwise, as I learned the hard way, none of your new scores will get saved..
I am running Virtuous 3.2.0 but I do not think this effects where these folders are being stored.. (I think....)

Grrr. I'm having trouble with this too. I tried to do an adb pull on the data/data/com.rovio.angrybirds directory but it only pulled two files, and didn't preserve the folder structure.
I tried adb shell, and then
copy -r /data/data/com.rovio.angrybirds/* /sdcard/
but it says "can't create symlink..." ??? I don't know what this means
Any help copying these files/folders to my HDD or to the SD would be appreciated.
Yeah I'm rooted, and I did adb remount before trying the stuff above....

I used Root Explorer to copy the folders from /data/data to my SDCard/Angry Birds Backup. (I manually created that folder on my SDCard)
Beware that for some reason, Root Explorer kept building an extra sub folder when copying the files back (overwrite) to data/data/com.rovio.angrybirds... I ended up just copying the single file data/data/com.rovio.angrybirds/files/highscores.lua (for instance) over and that worked for me...
As to the symlink issue, I believe that is a permissions issue. Possibly that you do not either have permission to copy FROM the com.rovio.angrybirds directory or to your SDCard... (make sure you mounted your SDCard correctly) Not intended as a flame or derogatory remark about your skills..
(from searching xda-developers.com)
I KNOW you stated you did the adb remount but was it similar to this:??
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /data
when done, do
mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /data
I am close to the limit of my "experstease" here so I dont want to send you down the wrong path or make something worse happen.
I hope this helps.

THANK YOU!
Finally got it working. Ended up buying root explorer and copying over just the highscores file and it works! This has removed my one major frustration with rooting and flashing rom's.
Thanks again for the help!
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False alarm, didn't work. I have all my previouse scores and can play the game, but completing a level with a new high score causes it to crash. :-( almost like it can't write to the highscores file properly or something.
-sigh- back to square one.
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teookie said:
False alarm, didn't work. I have all my previouse scores and can play the game, but completing a level with a new high score causes it to crash. :-( almost like it can't write to the highscores file properly or something.
-sigh- back to square one.
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When you did the copy did you check permissions... sounds like you may not be allowed to write to file.
Just a suggestion.
SoBBie

Symlinking the CACHE partition for extra space.

FAO stratosk and others.
I was not permitted to reply in the main dev thread, but I thought I'd share what I found that works for my Galaxy S.
Your original script worked perfectly apart from the changing ownership / group. For some reason on my rom, system.cache does not resolve into the correct UID / GID - which makes /cache eventually have a 'root' ownership and thus the market cannot access it.
The solution is to use
chown 1000:2001 /cache
chown -h 1000:2001 /cache
The second one changes the symlink as well as the target.
This has already been pointed out in a reply but it may have got lost amongst the others!
Will.
original thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1188972

torrentship said:
FAO stratosk and others.
I was not permitted to reply in the main dev thread, but I thought I'd share what I found that works for my Galaxy S.
Your original script worked perfectly apart from the changing ownership / group. For some reason on my rom, system.cache does not resolve into the correct UID / GID - which makes /cache eventually have a 'root' ownership and thus the market cannot access it.
The solution is to use
chown 1000:2001 /cache
chown -h 1000:2001 /cache
The second one changes the symlink as well as the target.
This has already been pointed out in a reply but it may have got lost amongst the others!
Will.
original thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1188972
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Yeah, I had the same issue. Was surprised how it worked for others without changing the ownership.. I guess you were referring to my reply? ..
Btw, may I know why you can't post in the dev thread?

Hi,
I had seen someone make the same observation I did but I wondered if people had noticed because they were still saying the same thing; I thought it'd help saying it again but I get a feeling a lot of people probably don't know what symlinking is!
I'm surprised though as more and more games are over 30mb now. maybe done custom roms do this automatically?
I can't post in the dev forum because I would guess I don't have a high enough overall post-count.
will.
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I wonder how the "old" Market can download files larger then /cache partition, but the new one doesn't (version 3.0.27)? So Google could fix this using some other download location, if cache is small.

[Q] programmer>> new to Android, Q's to get running

Cheers Everyone,
First off, thanks for opening this thread.
I've recently rooted my kindle and was very pleasantly surprised when I noticed a very familiar linux-like file system underneath. Now I'm eager to learn more.
Let me start from what I know (or think I know )
For custom bootloaders, the goto seems to be firefirefire
for recovery mini-os which is recommended? CWMR or TWRP
I hate to ask because I see it all over the forums, but the responses are all over the place. It looks like TWRP had a gui, and easier for backup/restore, but maybe CWMR... performs better?
Ok, let me get to the main questions, understanding android itself.
this all started when I discovered $adb shell
ok, when you install a new ROM it wipes /system from the devise and copies the /system from the zip, also it seems to append to the /data (assuming your rom zip came with applications). Does installing a rom do anything else? I see this file in my zip /META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script and update-binary. Does one of those automatically get run when you use the recovery loader to install a new ROM? Ok, looking at the contents of the file, it seems like it is the script run to install the ROM, it does lots of things like sets up simlinks, and sets permissions.
$ df
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/dev 223M 32K 223M 4096
/mnt/asec 223M 0K 223M 4096
/mnt/obb 223M 0K 223M 4096
/system 503M 296M 207M 4096
/data 1G 76M 1G 4096
/dropbox 4M 1M 3M 1024
/cache 251M 4M 247M 4096
/mnt/sdcard 5G 15M 4G 4096
/mnt/secure/asec: Permission denied
$ echo $PATH
/sbin:/vendor/bin:/system/sbin:/system/bin:/system/xbin
Now for some questions:
using adb shell, how do I get root permissions? Infact, what user am I when first start it? what editors are available? (vi?pico?ed? where?)
I looked around after installing modaco rom and I'm surprised to see some files like: TICameraCameraProperties.xml in /system/etc. it's full of camera stuff, i'm surprised to find that on my kindle since there is no camera on the devise. So my question is, with these custom rooms, are extra files littered all about, assuming they were used for other devices and just never removed when ported for the kindle? I'm surprised since modaco is based on stock 6.3.... maybe amazon added it in preparation for the next kindle?
Help me understand what's in the partitions
first, why don't I see /boot or /recovery?
next,
/dev ok, this is for the hardware, but why so big? seems like we could get by with just a few megs
/mnt/asec secure files? any example of this being used? Again, that's alotta space...
/mnt/obb no idea what this is... luv to make it smaller
/system os
/data apps and user files
/dropbox dropbox for what?
/cache assuming swap and paging
Another question, I assume when switching roms from diff android versions, like GB, HC, ICS, you need to wipe and install/reinstall your apps (in /data) since they will need versions specific to the android version you are running? or is each future android version assumed to be backwards compatible...?
Anyone who's taken a look "under the covers" probably has similar questions and I hope one of our more experiences brothers can shed some light on the above questions.
Many thanks to everyone who contributes,
Paul

To get root permissions for adb, type "adb root". If you're in adb shell just type "su". As far as editors go, none that I'm aware of. For that, your best bet would be to get the source. If it's just Android you are interested in then you can get the source from the Android website. If it's the Kindle Fire specifically then you should check out JackpotClavin's tutorial for building cm9 from source. Get your build environment set up, download the source, and then you'll have free reign to edit a huge majority of the files. Just be sure to have +-40Gb to use as your workspace.
The tutorial can be found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20844007
Depending on your level of programming experience, the rest should be easy to figure out on your own.
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Thanks, I appreciate it! I'll take a look at tutorial in the morning.
Any word on those partition sizes? Seems like lots of wasted space, probably could shave off a half gig to add to /mnt/sdcard... Do you know if those partitions I mention ever fill up?

I don't mess with partitions at all. I've had bad experiences with it in the past so I tend to stay at a safe distance.
User eldarerathis has modded the bootloader to support dual-boot on the Fire so I would check with his thread first. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23634393
He seems to have a pretty good understanding of the separate partitions. You'll need a few more posts before you can post in that thread though.
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[FIX][ROOT REQUIRED] Insufficient storage error on app update/install in play store

For those getting an insufficient storage error in the Google play store or when side loading, which only affects specific apps (not all apps, which has been discussed elsewhere) the following may work for you.
The error is caused by application data folders, which you will have to delete and then reinstall the app. Steps to fix are below:
1) Uninstall the app in the app manager
2) Using your favorite file explorer with root access navigate to /Data/app-lib/
3) Find the folder, which corresponds to the package you have having issues with (for instance com.adobe.reader-1 for adobe reader) and delete it
4) Reinstall from the android market
5) OPTIONAL - restore backup of your data from titanium backup.
Hopefully this will prevent you needing to reflash the ROM and format storage, which i was about to do before rooting around in the app-lib folder and noticing the folders for uninstalled apps that I could not re-install were still there.

Dav_prime said:
For those getting an insufficient storage error in the Google play store or when side loading, which only affects specific apps (not all apps, which has been discussed elsewhere) the following may work for you.
The error is caused by application data folders, which you will have to delete and then reinstall the app. Steps to fix are below:
1) Uninstall the app in the app manager
2) Using your favorite file explorer with root access navigate to /Data/app-lib/
3) Find the folder, which corresponds to the package you have having issues with (for instance com.adobe.reader-1 for adobe reader) and delete it
4) Reinstall from the android market
5) OPTIONAL - restore backup of your data from titanium backup.
Hopefully this will prevent you needing to reflash the ROM and format storage, which i was about to do before rooting around in the app-lib folder and noticing the folders for uninstalled apps that I could not re-install were still there.
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Many thanks , cause i,ve tried everyhting, lucky patcher, clear devil-cache, system-cache, clear market , everything, but this solutions was the only one that works. Now i can install the app

The real problem is a permissions issue. There's a more elegant solution which doesn't involve deleting a folder nor deinstalling an app.
a) With your favorite terminal program navigate to /data/app-lib (/data, not /Data, case is very important). I do this from my Linux box, accessing the phone remotely with the help of SSHDroid.
b) Then, do an "ls -la" to see the files inside this directory along with their permissions. In my case, I see this:
Code:
/data/data/berserker.android.apps.sshdroid/home # cd /data/app-lib
/data/app-lib # ls -la
total 1089
drwxrwx--x 135 system system 8192 Mar 26 17:11 .
drwxrwx--x 25 system system 4096 Mar 26 22:55 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 system system 4096 Feb 18 17:28 ND.filter-1
drwxr-xr-x 2 system system 4096 Mar 4 17:20 aolmo.WifiCrackWLAN-1
drwxr-xr-x 2 system system 4096 Mar 26 08:06 at.sapps.applauncherdashclockextension-1
drwxr-xr-x 2 system system 4096 Feb 26 19:18 berserker.android.apps.ftpdroid-1
drwxr-xr-x 2 system system 4096 Mar 10 08:25 berserker.android.apps.sshdroid-1
drwxr-xr-x 2 system system 4096 Mar 10 08:26 berserker.android.apps.webdroid-1
...
drwxr-xr-x 2 system system 4096 Mar 21 22:55 pl.baggus.barometr-1
drwxr-xr-x 2 system system 4096 Mar 16 21:08 robj.any.dash-1
drwxr-xr-x 2 system system 4096 Mar 8 16:21 ru.gloom.SMSExtension-1
drwxr-xr-x 2 system system 4096 Mar 2 19:10 stericson.busybox-2
As you can see, every folder belongs to system:system and has the "drwxr-xr-x" permissions. If, for whatever reason, the folder corresponding to the non-working app looked different, the fix is easy:
1) If it had a different user or group, run this command:
Code:
chown -R system:system [I]name.of.the.folder[/I]
2) If it had different permissions, run this command:
Code:
chmod -R 755 [I]name.of.the.folder[/I]
That's it!
Of course, if the problem lies inside a folder other than /data/app-lib, just navigate to the corresponding folder

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This may work for some people, usually when there is a .odex file left over from some previous processes. For me it did not work, which is why I had to do it the way I posted in the OP.

Just clear data
None of the above worked for me. I saw on another site to go in the App Manager (Settings > Apps) and "clear data" for the troubled app(s). This worked for me.

Dav_prime said:
For those getting an insufficient storage error in the Google play store or when side loading, which only affects specific apps (not all apps, which has been discussed elsewhere) the following may work for you.
The error is caused by application data folders, which you will have to delete and then reinstall the app. Steps to fix are below:
1) Uninstall the app in the app manager
2) Using your favorite file explorer with root access navigate to /Data/app-lib/
3) Find the folder, which corresponds to the package you have having issues with (for instance com.adobe.reader-1 for adobe reader) and delete it
4) Reinstall from the android market
5) OPTIONAL - restore backup of your data from titanium backup.
Hopefully this will prevent you needing to reflash the ROM and format storage, which i was about to do before rooting around in the app-lib folder and noticing the folders for uninstalled apps that I could not re-install were still there.
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well.... there's a problem for me, i open up /data, but /app-lib is missing

terrybear2k said:
well.... there's a problem for me, i open up /data, but /app-lib is missing
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Which /data directory are you in? Did you navigate up to root first?

Good looks! Gonna try this next time I get a 'insufficient storage' message.

Dav_prime said:
Which /data directory are you in? Did you navigate up to root first?
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i guess its root, the content is different from my sdcard's, (eg. acct, app-cache, cache, config, data, dev) with es file explorer. but then i use sd-maid, i can see the contents inside "data". guess es stopped 1/2 of the support for browsing root folders?? weird... but still, when using sd-maid the app-lib still missing. i can see "anr, app, app-asec, app-private, audio"

Dav_prime said:
Which /data directory are you in? Did you navigate up to root first?
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I also do not have /data/app-lib, and I'm certain I nav'd up to root first. any suggestions would be most welcome. I'm unable to install *any* new app, either from Play, or as a side-load.
tia, RA

rrtid54 said:
I also do not have /data/app-lib, and I'm certain I nav'd up to root first. any suggestions would be most welcome. I'm unable to install *any* new app, either from Play, or as a side-load.
tia, RA
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found a fix that worked for me, and others here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32155340&postcount=12

Yeah there are a lot of causes for these errors so this may not be the fix you need.
I have the app-lib folder on my nexus4 running stock 4.4.
What devices and roms are you running?

Dav_prime said:
Yeah there are a lot of causes for these errors so this may not be the fix you need.
I have the app-lib folder on my nexus4 running stock 4.4.
What devices and roms are you running?
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thanks for the reply. device is a VZW Galaxy S3, rooted but stock ROM, 4.1.2. 'link2sd' worked to correct the problem.
be well, RA

I recently started having this problem with hangouts and Google drive, and I can't find the corresponding folders in my app-lib folder. Anyone know where google stores those files?

cliffyb said:
I recently started having this problem with hangouts and Google drive, and I can't find the corresponding folders in my app-lib folder. Anyone know where google stores those files?
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Look in /system/app
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jd1639 said:
Look in /system/app
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I found the hangouts apk in /system/app/ but deleting that just uninstalls hangouts, and attempting to reinstall just gives me the insufficient space message again

cliffyb said:
I found the hangouts apk in /system/app/ but deleting that just uninstalls hangouts, and attempting to reinstall just gives me the insufficient space message again
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I would try flashing the cache.img from the factory image in fastboot
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edmann
OK, thanks dav_prime. /data/app-lib worked like a charm. I used root explorer and instead of fishing through things I deleted the whole file. Reinstalled from play store no error message.
Dav_prime said:
For those getting an insufficient storage error in the Google play store or when side loading, which only affects specific apps (not all apps, which has been discussed elsewhere) the following may work for you.
The error is caused by application data folders, which you will have to delete and then reinstall the app. Steps to fix are below:
1) Uninstall the app in the app manager
2) Using your favorite file explorer with root access navigate to /Data/app-lib/
3) Find the folder, which corresponds to the package you have having issues with (for instance com.adobe.reader-1 for adobe reader) and delete it
4) Reinstall from the android market
5) OPTIONAL - restore backup of your data from titanium backup.
Hopefully this will prevent you needing to reflash the ROM and format storage, which i was about to do before rooting around in the app-lib folder and noticing the folders for uninstalled apps that I could not re-install were still there.
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Thanks!
Dav_prime said:
For those getting an insufficient storage error in the Google play store or when side loading, which only affects specific apps (not all apps, which has been discussed elsewhere) the following may work for you.
The error is caused by application data folders, which you will have to delete and then reinstall the app. Steps to fix are below:
1) Uninstall the app in the app manager
2) Using your favorite file explorer with root access navigate to /Data/app-lib/
3) Find the folder, which corresponds to the package you have having issues with (for instance com.adobe.reader-1 for adobe reader) and delete it
4) Reinstall from the android market
5) OPTIONAL - restore backup of your data from titanium backup.
Hopefully this will prevent you needing to reflash the ROM and format storage, which i was about to do before rooting around in the app-lib folder and noticing the folders for uninstalled apps that I could not re-install were still there.
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Very Helpful! Thanks a lot!
--Rafael

[Q] Why do some apps install in /data/app and some in /mnt/asec ??

I'm wondering why some apps are installed in standard /data/app (where I can take a backup of my data partition), and some in /mnt/asec (where they're not backup up)??
Furthermore, is there a way to force android to install apps to /data/app, which is where I would rather have them installed? And is there an easy way to move already installed apps from /mnt/asec to /data/app ??
Thanks in advance, I really hope someone can help me out here. When flashing a new rom, it would be so much easier if all apps were located in /data/app !! Thanks

ameinild said:
I'm wondering why some apps are installed in standard /data/app (where I can take a backup of my data partition), and some in /mnt/asec (where they're not backup up)??
Furthermore, is there a way to force android to install apps to /data/app, which is where I would rather have them installed? And is there an easy way to move already installed apps from /mnt/asec to /data/app ??
Thanks in advance, I really hope someone can help me out here. When flashing a new rom, it would be so much easier if all apps were located in /data/app !! Thanks
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So after looking around for a bit, I think that the /mnt/asec folder is related to apps with copy-protection/DRM. What I found in my /mnt/asec directory was folders of only my purchased games, which are most likely DRM protected. So the answer to your question is that the /mnt/asec folder is for copy-protection. I may be wrong though.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong

vorbatello said:
So after looking around for a bit, I think that the /mnt/asec folder is related to apps with copy-protection/DRM. What I found in my /mnt/asec directory was folders of only my purchased games, which are most likely DRM protected. So the answer to your question is that the /mnt/asec folder is for copy-protection. I may be wrong though.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong
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I think you're right. I also read somewhere that this is an encrypted volume for paid apps. Now, the interesting thing would be to find a way to circumvent this encryption to force all apps to the /data/app folder
I'm looking further into this...

ameinild said:
I think you're right. I also read somewhere that this is an encrypted volume for paid apps. Now, the interesting thing would be to find a way to circumvent this encryption to force all apps to the /data/app folder
I'm looking further into this...
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Paul O'Brien had already done this on the One so perhaps ask him...
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EddyOS said:
Paul O'Brien had already done this on the One so perhaps ask him...
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Thanks for the help and constructive dialogue everyone. Because of this, I actually found Paul O'Brien's Xposed module which disables Play Store encryption, here:
http://www.modaco.com/topic/361776-xmod-disable-play-store-encryption-mntasec/
And I can confirm that this works exactly as expected on the Nexus 4!
So now I'm in the process of reinstalling my paid apps to /data/app, which enables me to take a complete backup of my data partition and restore it to any freshly installed ROM, paid apps included! :good:
Thanks for this!

It's a Google Thing...
Hi; Just started happening again with Jellybean.
I just use LINK2SD to decrypt and move them to the /data/* directory.
From there I can move them to the internal SD card or link to an External SD/TF card second partition.
Cheers,
BuBu