So i wrote a quick small app, a media player, real basic. It scans the internal and external storage for mp3s and you can click on an artist, then click an album, then click a track and then it plays. I was able to run the app in two different emulators, and then i was able to install and run it on my Huawei s7 tablet. I then gave a copy to my two friends to load onto their phones, but they won't play on the phones. One has a motorola droid and the other has a nexus 1. They install my app using 'apk installer' (downloaded from the market), and it seems to install fine, but it has to force close when they try to run it. The option on the phones to install non market apps is enabled. I am at a lose as to why it won't run on the phones but it will run on my tablet and emulators. My app needs to permission to the wake lock, i don't know if that has anything to do with it. My tablet does have z4root on it, but i only do temporary root sometimes. I hoping that the phones don't need to be rooted to run my app.
Anyone have any ideas or things for me to investigate to figure this out? I would appreciate any clues.
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So I rooted my Wi-Fi Xoom and well....now what?
I thought I would be able to use my MicroSD Card?
Can I add my Google account or will it black list my account or something?
How do I turn off automatic updates? (I assume this should be off for a rooted Xoom)
Is there any "fun" or amazing things you would recommend adding now that my Xoom is rooted?
I want to put some video files on my Xoom, Does is play MKV files well?
Is there any video file formats that play better than others?
Whats the best format, etc. to convert my video files for to play on the Xoom?
What are the top 5 or 10 apps that should be on every Xoom?
Thank you in advance!!
**New Android User**
jcornel7 said:
So I rooted my Wi-Fi Xoom and well....now what?
I thought I would be able to use my MicroSD Card?
Can I add my Google account or will it black list my account or something?
How do I turn off automatic updates? (I assume this should be off for a rooted Xoom)
Is there any "fun" or amazing things you would recommend adding now that my Xoom is rooted?
I want to put some video files on my Xoom, Does is play MKV files well?
Is there any video file formats that play better than others?
Whats the best format, etc. to convert my video files for to play on the Xoom?
What are the top 5 or 10 apps that should be on every Xoom?
Thank you in advance!!
**New Android User**
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The SD card won't be functional until we get an update from motorola, when this will happen no one knows, but I'd think this is on their list of priorities.
Sign into your google account. One of the best parts of android is total google integration. Google isn't apple, and really doesn't care what you do with your device. There are official apps on the market that require root to work.
Likewise, I don't know why you'd want to turn off automatic updates. Updates are usually a good thing. If you do, you can manually turn it off in settings/manage applications for each app, or use a program like titanium backup to freeze the system and market updater apks.
Now that you are rooted, you can install ad free to get rid of ads in apps, root explorer for file management, and titanium backup for app management (and backup that isn't very useful until SD card works). If you used one click, you already have the tiamat kernel, but if and when future kernels come out, you can install those. You can install setcpu to utilize the over clock capabilities of your new kernel. You can use root explorer to install custom themes and boot animations. Until the honeycomb source code comes out, the amount of fun stuff to do with root is very limited.
For video players, I use rockplayer and it plays all my files fine (mostly avi). Video conversion should not be necessary in most cases. If you have any problems, there are a few threads around the forums about alternate video players.
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So I believe this is the right place to post this.
I'm looking for an app that can save/sync games across devices. I lost my one phone and I had purchased some credits to support the game and when I lost is I lost all of the credits and I am playing a long RPG but there are times when I wish I could play it on my tablet instead of on my phone, but i dont want to play through it twice at the same time.
Does anyone know if there is an app that will allow me to back up and sync my application information across devices using something like drop box?
Titanium Backup does exactly that.
how does one do that, I'm trying to get a copy of spectral souls from my transformer over to my nexus S 4g, so i can be slightly more mobile and play?
I'm sure there is a more elegant way, but what I did to transfer my Battleheart save game to the phone was copy the TB properties and tar files for Battleheart from my Tab to my phone, then rename them so the filenames matched the phone app data filenames and replaced the phone's ones with them. I did this because both devices are currently in use, obviously between new devices you can just use TB like normal to restore the apps+data. Wouldn't be something I'd like to do a lot, I'm sure there must be a more elegant solution (probably TB does it natively and I just didn't see it...).
Hi,
Right so I've recently baught "gangstar Rio" from gameloft, brilliant game etc but one problem.. Its SOOO LAGGY. Like sometimes I'll be running along or driving and it will send me WAYYYYYY off course, or precede to turn way after I've needed to thus making the game almost impossible.
I run my Xperia Play (r800i) at "On-Demand" and at 1.9GHz Maximum which could EASILY cope with this game but its as-if the touch-screen and the buttons dont like each other and from time to time ill get a "Application has crashed" force close message.
Now I'm taking my phone and my laptop with me on deployment to A'ghan; what I want to know is is there anyway to set my backed-up ROM from my phone as the rom on the android emulator so that I can get it and other xperia play optimised games to play smoothly (I also have the sixaxis mod) and use either a wired usb controller on my laptop or set so that my emulator allows me to set which keys are the controller of the xperia play?
You would somehow need to get your hands on a recovery app apk like CMW or xRecovery, then install the recovery apk on your emulator, then flash your backed up rom on your emulator with recovery.
This is just a theory. With a little luck and patience I think it's possible.
A way to install apk on emulator is through URLs. If you have access though FTP to some site, you upload to a directory the open that URL inside the emulator's browser. APK will prompt to install. Just remember allowing unkown sources from applications menu.
So, after countless hours of searching and trying many ways to install some of my favorite games from my bionic to my tab, I had found 0 luck. (Completely stock tab and phone, Free games just not compatible) I stumbled on something interesting though:
The ES FIle explorer allows you to back up apps on your phones sd card! So, with that said, I did that... plug my phone into my PC, copied the backup file, drag and droped onto my tab, and boom, it worked! No longer do I have to play my games in a foreign language! I have only tried 2, but had success with the game working and I have to head off to work...
The one down side is, the backup is for a phone sized GUI, so I did run into some control problems, but Im sure this could be remedied i *think* by using another compatible tab device, backing it up on that tab, then repeating the process! (IE.., Moto Xoom, w/e 10.1" tab) My wife just so happens to have a xoom, so I shall try it out and report back in a day or two!
Just wanted to share!
The backup isn't for a phone sized gui, the app is. Each app has settings for all the resolutions it supports...
I like to tinker with wearables like Pebbles,Sony Smartwatches, Android Wear Watches, Meta Watch, etc. I have purchased about 8 of these and have managed write apps to talk to the Pebbles via WP8 and Windows 7.
I have a Nexus 7 Kit Kat 4.4 tablet and have been able to download the official companion apps for some of the devices. Google Play will not let me download some of the APKs because they require a phone and a tablet isn't supported even though it usually works.
So what I would like to do is purchase a low cost, contract free, Android phone that has at least Kit Kat 4.4 on it and download the wearable companion app on it. Then use the Air Droid app to pull the companions wearable APK off the phone to the Nexus tablet.
The question is would I have to root the Android phone to be able to use Air Droid to pull a copy of th APK?
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I like to tinker with wearables like Pebbles,Sony Smartwatches, Android Wear Watches, Meta Watch, etc. I have purchased about 8 of these and have managed write apps to talk to the Pebbles via WP8 and Windows 7.
I have a Nexus 7 Kit Kat 4.4 tablet and have been able to download the official companion apps for some of the devices. Google Play will not let me download some of the APKs because they require a phone and a tablet isn't supported even though it usually works.
So what I would like to do is purchase a low cost, contract free, Android phone that has at least Kit Kat 4.4 on it and download the wearable companion app on it. Then use the Air Droid app to pull the companions wearable APK off the phone to the Nexus tablet.
The question is would I have to root the Android phone to be able to use Air Droid to pull a copy of th APK?
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Google has blocked write access to the external SD card on Android 4.4. If you want to move files to the external SD card on Kit Kat, the phone has to be rooted. If you just want to copy files from it, this is supported.
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Google has blocked write access to the external SD card on Android 4.4. If you want to move files to the external SD card on Kit Kat, the phone has to be rooted. If you just want to copy files from it, this is supported.
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That's not really true. Applications are not blocked from writing to the external SD card, they are just restricted to their own folder on the SD card. That said, it really has nothing to do with this topic since the OP did not mention using an SD card at all.
To answer your question, there are many applications that can backup APKs without using root like Astro, ES File Explorer, etc... I believe Airdroid is capable of doing so, but even if it's not there are other options. You could also definitely use Airdroid to get the APK off the device and onto your tablet once it is extracted using another application. Now, I can't answer the question of "will you be able to use the applications once you transfer them to your tablet?"
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To answer your question, there are many applications that can backup APKs without using root like Astro, ES File Explorer, etc... I believe Airdroid is capable of doing so, but even if it's not there are other options. You could also definitely use Airdroid to get the APK off the device and onto your tablet once it is extracted using another application. Now, I can't answer the question of "will you be able to use the applications once you transfer them to your tablet?"
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Thank you! That answers my question perfectly.