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[solved] Google Apps to Data Solution

Hello everyone:
I have a really weird bug in my Google Apps to Data zip: http://teamuscellular.com/downloads/gapps-ennonedit.zip (no it's not signed, sorry)
I have an HTC Desire (CDMA), which this is being tested on with CyanogenMod 6.1 RC & Nightlies.
What I did with this zip is simply moved the updatable gapps from system to data (so they don't take up additional space when updated), and thus slimming down the system partition for use with Firerat's cMTD (with settings of 110 5 (110 for system, 5 for cache), so that the data partition is a whopping 320MB).
Problem is: After flashing my edited gapps.zip, I cannot install any additional applications (via Market downloading, via RootExplorer installing an apk I have on my SD card, etc.). What happens is the installation process starts, but then the phone immediately reboots and I'm stuck in a bootloop.
I have no idea what the problem would be. I was wondering if maybe somebody here knew?
I'm working on a better solution that doesn't require a customized gapps.zip file, but a solution that redirects the installation process. I would like to know if there is a specific app that is causing the odd bootloop so that I don't include it in future versions.
Thanks!
~Ennon

Nobody can take a look at this and suggest what may be wrong?

Alright whatever, I figured it out.
The end result is Ennon's FSO for Gapps: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=854459

[Q] cant add google add-on after installing cm7.HELP!

Im a noob.
I have just upgraded my orange san francisco to gen2 and installed cm7 2.3.5 (cm_blade_full-179.zip ) to it.
But no matter i add
gapps-gb-20110815-signed.zip
or
gapps-gb-20110613-signed.zip
or
gapp-market-3-0-27-signed.zip
still nothing comes out in the menu..why??
Pls help me
Thanks=]

How did you install the google add-on? What menu are you referring to?

I am using the same rom with gapps-gb-20110613-signed.zip, installed through recovery, and it's working fine. try to install it from root of SD card

Add google account through Settings/Accounts & Sync/
And then u can access those.

I'm having the issue that when i try to add an account, it says unable to open connection to server. So i can't access Google Play at all

This will help"""""
If ur using Rom manager, then go to cwm(clockworkmod), and wipe all data and cache and also dalvik cache..... then restart and then install the gapps , you mentioned through clockworkmod...
still have problem,,,
try this,,,,,gapps......
blade.az.pl/index.php/tools/7-tools-zte-blade
let me know if u face anything....

Ok I got it now. I hadn't downloaded the gapp zip, stupid on my part. Phone is running greatttt now though! So glad I rooted

CM9.... What did I do???

I have a question for some of you. I had been doing some research on CM9 for NC. I found a download, ( Though not on this site) along with some additional help from this website.
I installed everything to my NC and low and behold, it all works!! It looks just like my Toshiba Thrive tablet, except it's showing that its running Android 4.0 version.
Now for the drawbacks.... it has NO sound, NO Market, etc... Is there any way to install those? Or has this been the problem all along??
Thanks!

What links you got the CM9 from?
I got CM9 running with sound and market is working just fine.

I knew better than to trust another site, but ... I went to androidfamily.net. It had a "how to" to install CM9 ...
Could you give me downloads you used?
Thanks alot!!!

Check out the Samiam nightly builds in the development forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1444943
You basically need to flash three files that are available from there. Latest nightly main CM9 ROM, Google Apps (Gapps) and the telephony-permissions fix.
That will give you market, working sound and best CM9 for Nook at the moment.

bobtidey said:
Check out the Samiam nightly builds in the development forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1444943
You basically need to flash three files that are available from there. Latest nightly main CM9 ROM, Google Apps (Gapps) and the telephony-permissions fix.
That will give you market, working sound and best CM9 for Nook at the moment.
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I see the Gapps file, and the telephony-permissions fix file, but where is the CM9 main file you mentioned? Am I overlooking it?
I tried again, using the same CM9 file, and then installed the Gapps file you mentioned along with the telephony permissions fix. Still no market. Everything else worked fine!

Rhonda19 said:
I see the Gapps file, and the telephony-permissions fix file, but where is the CM9 main file you mentioned? Am I overlooking it?
I tried again, using the same CM9 file, and then installed the Gapps file you mentioned along with the telephony permissions fix. Still no market. Everything else worked fine!
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The link that says Ice Cream Sandwich Nightly Builds in the download section.

biohazrd51 said:
The link that says Ice Cream Sandwich Nightly Builds in the download section.
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So do I just download the link that has today's date by it?? That's what I did, and no market. I went back re-read everything, and then downloaded everything all over again, and again... No Market. Everything else is working fine.

Are you connected to wifi? When loading a new rom, sometimes the market doesn't show up until hooked up to wife.
If this doesn't solve your problem, then I would start from scratch. Can you boot into CM recovery? If so, go into mounts and storage and format data, system and cache. Back into main screen and factory reset and wipe cache partition. (so many debates on if this is all totally necessary, but I have had glitches with installs when I have not done every one of these steps in this order).
Install CM9 (I do recommend samiam's build. It works flawlessly on my nook.)
Choose reboot option in recovery. Connect to a wireless network.
Samiam has included Rom Manager in his build. I use this to boot into recovery. Install Sam's gapps, telephony fix and boot animation fix. Reboot.
Hope this helps. Post if you need more detailed instructions.

I don't think you are flashing the right ones or are missing one of the 3. There is a patch that fixes market, boot animation and SOD issues. In unofficial cm9 forum.
Sent from my NookColor using xda premium

k8108 said:
Are you connected to wifi? When loading a new rom, sometimes the market doesn't show up until hooked up to wife.
If this doesn't solve your problem, then I would start from scratch. Can you boot into CM recovery? If so, go into mounts and storage and format data, system and cache. Back into main screen and factory reset and wipe cache partition. (so many debates on if this is all totally necessary, but I have had glitches with installs when I have not done every one of these steps in this order).
Install CM9 (I do recommend samiam's build. It works flawlessly on my nook.)
Choose reboot option in recovery. Connect to a wireless network.
Samiam has included Rom Manager in his build. I use this to boot into recovery. Install Sam's gapps, telephony fix and boot animation fix. Reboot.
Hope this helps. Post if you need more detailed ins
I am getting a little confused. When I clicked on the CM9 build....it shows parent directory and then all the nightlies. Which one do I use? I also tried to just wipe it and reinstall CM7... I did manage to get the market running the CM7. So, I think I must have just downloaded the wrong nightly??
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You can click on the latest one (Jan. 28.) and download. I always check the end of samiam's thread to see if there are any hiccups on the latest builds. I am running Jan.26 build (haven't updated yet) and it is running beautifully for me.
Sent from my NookColor using xda premium

k8108 said:
You can click on the latest one (Jan. 28.) and download. I always check the end of samiam's thread to see if there are any hiccups on the latest builds. I am running Jan.26 build (haven't updated yet) and it is running beautifully for me.
Sent from my NookColor using xda premium
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Thank you!

Rhonda19 said:
Thank you!
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I have tried everything! and still no market! I believe I'm doing everything correctly, because I downloaded CM7 again, and had the market.
Is there anyone out there with the same type problem that corrected it?
Thanks!

From Recovery you want to format cache and system (under mounts). Also format data unless you already have a good working set up and you want to preserve all your settings, apps etc.
Then you should be flashing 3 zips in this order
update-encore-2012xxxx.zip where xxxx is the latest
gapps-ics-4.0.3-sam-noinit.zip from the misc folder
telephony-permission-fix.zip from the misc folder
The gapps zip in particular has the google apps including the market. Note that if you are comparing with the CM7 MiRaGe ROM then that has the gapps in including the market already in whereas with CM9 you have to flash them in separately.
If you have formatted data then when you reboot it should take you straight into a setup where you set up wifi, then sign in to your google account. The market app then should work OK.

bobtidey said:
From Recovery you want to format cache and system (under mounts). Also format data unless you already have a good working set up and you want to preserve all your settings, apps etc.
Then you should be flashing 3 zips in this order
update-encore-2012xxxx.zip where xxxx is the latest
gapps-ics-4.0.3-sam-noinit.zip from the misc folder
telephony-permission-fix.zip from the misc folder
The gapps zip in particular has the google apps including the market. Note that if you are comparing with the CM7 MiRaGe ROM then that has the gapps in including the market already in whereas with CM9 you have to flash them in separately.
If you have formatted data then when you reboot it should take you straight into a setup where you set up wifi, then sign in to your google account. The market app then should work OK.
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Went to CWM and did the above ..went to mounts and storage..format cache and system, and data. After I did this, I hit the power button, once to go back to the screen to install the zips. Now, when I hit that power button, the following message came up 4 times... E: can't mount/cache/recovery.log. Could this have something to do with it??
I tried your instructions again, and No Market. You said that it would take me to a screen to set up wi fi ..but it doesn't. My screen is black, with a clock, a picture of a camera, and box that says gallery.
I am just going to have to go back to CM7!

I think I finally thought it out. For whatever reason when I put the gapp file in my NC it shows installing..but I don't think it worked. CM7...No problems! Have installed twice today and both times had the Market.
CM9... runs great...but no market!

Strange. The only thing that I can think of at the moment is that you have a bad download of the gapps file.
If you haven't tried it before then I'd suggest downloading it again. You should then just be able to flash that one on its own.
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As a double check the zip should be 16,874,937 and you should be able to open it on PC and see the apps files in the system/app folder with vending.apk

bobtidey said:
Strange. The only thing that I can think of at the moment is that you have a bad download of the gapps file.
If you haven't tried it before then I'd suggest downloading it again. You should then just be able to flash that one on its own.
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As a double check the zip should be 16,874,937 and you should be able to open it on PC and see the apps files in the system/app folder with vending.apk
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I checked, and BTW I'm using gapps-ics-4.0.3 -sam noinit ......my download is 18,275 KB ? and when I clicked on it to check the apps files as you suggested this is what it showed... 3 folder icons with MACOSX, META-INF, system. And then directly underneath the folders were 3 other things with the same words as the top 3 ... NO vending.apk ?? I clicked on the one that had system, and all the apps are there. I just don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Would you tell me which gapp file your using?
Thanks for helping me!!!

I go the Gapps I use from the link
http://sphsolutions.net/android/Encore/Nightlies/Misc/
However, it looks like I got a slightly earlier one (probably 1 day before). I retrieved the current one to compare them. The later one has the YouTube app in which explains the difference in size. All the Google apps are exactly the same as in the one I use and the Vending app is there as well under system/app
If you can't see that folder then there is something wrong with your zip download.
The other difference from the earlier one I had is that it looks like the later one had been put together on a Mac system as it has the extra __MACOSX folder and a few .DS_Store folders which are not really part of the required zip but should be harmless.
Just to check I just tried installing with the latest nightly 20120128 and the later gapps version and I got the market OK.
So two thoughts: either your download is still bad or maybe you have signature verification turned on in your clockwork and that is causing this gapps install to fail whereas the main ROM is passing and also the gapps when you do CM7. I have signature verification disabled (which I think is the default). Try toggling the signature verification menu item and get it set to disabled.

What and where is the signature verification? And..... how do I get there?

[Q] Gapps error on CM10.2

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Gotta loved when you reply to your own posts. Solved this by as a last resort install the 20130301 version of gapps. So it looks like there is a bug in the latest version
Hi,
I installed CM10.2 nightly (the 2nd boot nightly of July 3rd and normal 17 Sept). CM10.2 installs fine. However, when I install gapps, sync errors out, com.google.process.gaps stops working and I cannot run the Play store (no connection) and messages that G+ has crashed
Tried all the tricks: enable download, clear data for all google apps, wiped, reinstalled, removed Google account and added it again. Nothing works. Some Google apps work OK (Gmail, browser) but G+ and store don't work, and I get a sync error with the calendar.
I'm out of ideas. Back to CM7

Hi Ksiniks,
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Ksiniks said:
EDIT
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Gotta loved when you reply to your own posts. Solved this by as a last resort install the 20130301 version of gapps. So it looks like there is a bug in the latest version
Hi,
I installed CM10.2 nightly (the 2nd boot nightly of July 3rd and normal 17 Sept). CM10.2 installs fine. However, when I install gapps, sync errors out, com.google.process.gaps stops working and I cannot run the Play store (no connection) and messages that G+ has crashed
Tried all the tricks: enable download, clear data for all google apps, wiped, reinstalled, removed Google account and added it again. Nothing works. Some Google apps work OK (Gmail, browser) but G+ and store don't work, and I get a sync error with the calendar.
I'm out of ideas. Back to CM7
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Try to install Gapps for CDM ("GAPPS para ROM CDM" - In portuguese)...
It won't have any problems with the CM...
:fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:

that's probably because you ran out of space on /system partition and gapps weren't fully extracted. for cm10.2 delete videos & some ringtones you don't need under system/media/ and some apps you don't use in system/app. you might delete them straight in flashable zips as well then flash minimal gapps again & wipe cache. defy's /system partition is only 325Mb big while unedited CM10.2 build itself fills ~290Mb of it. add the size of gapps to it and there we are

[Q] Insufficient storage space in /system partition

I was trying to flash GApps (Paranoid Android GApps) Google Stock Package, but got 'insufficient storage space in \system partition' instead. I tried formatting, wiping the system partition, and some other stuff. Could someone tell me how to fix this? I did a complete return to stock and tried flashing from there, but the error still came. The ROM that I'm installing this with is Euphoria-OS 1.0. I know it is possible because I was using this setup earlier, before I managed to break it. How do I install the GApps package without compromising and using a smaller package instead (maybe wipe/format \system partition in some particular order?). Using a Nexus 4, 16GB variant.

Dont install full GAPPS. Install mini or mudular GAPPS. Then install whatever you need from playstore like calendar, maps, google+, TTS, GMAIL, etc

amarprat87 said:
Dont install full GAPPS. Install mini or mudular GAPPS. Then install whatever you need from playstore like calendar, maps, google+, TTS, GMAIL, etc
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I guess that would work, but that's not really 'solving' the problem, more like brushing it under the carpet.

El-Kago said:
I guess that would work, but that's not really 'solving' the problem, more like brushing it under the carpet.
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Have you used something like Titanium Backup to go in and remove the apps installed on /system you do not need? (additional language keyboards etc.)? I have not run into this on the N4, but have on other phones (try getting 4.4.4 KitKat on the Samsung Galaxy S 4G, I did ) , I would go in, remove the unneeded apps to free up space, and then reflash Gapps again.

I'm running into the same problem with my Nexus 5.
Even choosing the "mini" GApps there is not enough space to install.
This is really weird.
Would say this is a general problem with LineageOS

I only use Pico open gapps for all the roms I use and have tried so far that way you never have to worry about the insufficient storage space error

I've been fighting with this error and finally solved it... the system partition was not getting mounted.
It was expected to be here: /dev/block/platform/soc.0/by-name/system
.. but looking at the filesystem we see: /dev/block/platform/soc.0/{random}.sdhci/by-name
To resolve:
adb shell
cd /dev/block/platform/soc.0/
ln -s {random}.sdhci/by-name ./
cheers
kbp

kbpower said:
I've been fighting with this error and finally solved it... the system partition was not getting mounted.
It was expected to be here: /dev/block/platform/soc.0/by-name/system
.. but looking at the filesystem we see: /dev/block/platform/soc.0/{random}.sdhci/by-name
To resolve:
adb shell
cd /dev/block/platform/soc.0/
ln -s {random}.sdhci/by-name ./
cheers
kbp
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Could you possibly explain the steps a bit better because I am having trouble with it?

He is talking about symbolic link
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2808394/hard-link-and-symbolic-links-in-unix
But I fail to see how symlink would increase a partition size ?

I managed to get a 1 GB system partition with TWRP BIGSYS, as described here :
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