For some reason the Car Home app that ships with the phone doesn't let you customize it, and the market won't let you download the Google Car Home app from the Market. You can work around this by:
1) Go to http://goo-inside.me/google-apps/
2) Download the HDPI for Cyanogenmod 6 file
3) Extract the CarHomeGoogle.apk file from the ZIP files /system/app directory
4) Install the APK file to your phone
Optional: If you are rooted, you can use Titanium Backup to backup and uninstall the original Car Home app as well. There are two CAr Home apps you'll see in Titanium Backup; the first one is the launcher which you need to keep! The second one is the actual Car Home which can be uninstalled. Or you can leave it, it doesn't matter.
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Is it possible to save an app that i downloaded from the market to use at a later date?
Basically I downloaded and use MyBackup Root as my backing up app for my phone which is free from the market and i would like to have that apk on my phone so i can install after i flash a new rom rather than going into the market to have to do it all the time.
Create an update zip that you can flash from recovery, there should be "how-to's"
hanging around.
If not post up your apk and me or someone else will create one for you.
Hope this helps
I always use Titanium Backup to restore apps when I flash new roms. Works flawlessly.
If you have root you can copy the .apk to external memory. If your new rom comes with any kind of file explorer, you just open it and it will install.
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N1; CM7.0.nightlies
this is my first creation and upload
i was at work and i downloaded an app pack of about 800 apps and games, 1.45gb
i had not taken my cable with me and i could not be bothered using bluetooth, dropbox or someother wifi program to transer them one by one, then use an installer to install them one by one, and have to actually be sat at the computer the entire time and sat pressing install again and again i thought bollocks that idea entirely
so i made this
now all i have to do is put all my apks into on folder click a button and let the computer do the rest
you MUST transfer the apkinstall folder to the root of your c: drive or it will not work
put all your apks into the apk folder and run the script
enjoy !!!!!
follow link below as it will not let me post a direct link
fileycomputers.co.uk/apk.rar
I found out one easy way to upgrade touchwiz to touchwiz 4 or touchwiz 4.5 on your 4g--
1. Download Tw4launcher.apk --it's available on xda.
2. Put TW4launcher.apk on your sdcard.
3. Now use market to install a different launcher and an app called "home switcher."
4. Use home switcher to switch to the different launcher temporarily. If you don't do that first, tw4 will not install.
5. Using root explorer or something similar that allows you to install apps from the sdcard, browse to the sdcard, right click on TW4launcher.apk and install it.
6. Use home switcher to switch back to tw4.
If the rom you've just installed is trying out some funny kind launcher because the dev likes 'em, you don't have to install any second launcher, of course.
not so easy way with later gb builds
The first method used to work in froyo but not gb. Here is the alternate method for getting TW4 to work. Only tested in KH2 deodexed.
1. Make sure you have another launcher installed! The deodexed build has a generic launcher called “Launcher.”
2. Unzip ICBINB (for froyo, the later ones don’t have TW4.)
3. Copy TW4Launcher.apk from ICBINB\system\app to somewhere.
4. Rename TW4Launcher.apk to TouchWiz3.0Launcher.apk.
5. Copy it to sdcard
6. Using root explorer or something similar, copy and save Touchwiz3.0Launcher.apk from system/app to a folder on the sdcard called oldtw3 or something like that in case you screw up, so you can restore it. Don’t copy it to the root or you will erase the renamed TW4Launcher.apk you just put there.
7. Delete Touchwiz3.0Launcher.apk from system/apps.
8. Exit root explorer. The phone will jump to the other launcher.
9. start root explorer again.
10. Copy and paste the TW4Launcher.apk that you renamed TouchWiz3.0Launcher.apk from sdcard to system/apps.
11. Exit root explorer.
12. The phone may flash a dialog saying which launcher you want, if so, check “default” box choose TWLauncher.
13. If you don’t get the dialog, install home switcher from the market and use it to switch to TWLauncher.
When I copied TW4launcher.apk from the sdcard without renaming it and deleted TouchWiz3.0Launcher.apk, I only got to choose “Launcher”. “TWLauncher” wasn’t available. I think there may be something in KH2 deodexed that identifies the touchwiz launcher as TouchWiz3.0Launcher.apk.
I want to say thanks to everyone involved in this hobby. I want to try changing to the other launcher that comes in the Octaine rom, cant remember how to bring up the choices again on the home screen. any help would be great.
Download home switcher app from market
Sent from my SGH-T959V using xda premium
When you install a new launcher from the Android Market I think it will ask you which you want to use when you press the Home button.
If it has already asked you and you would like to change to another already installed launcher, you will need to go to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications then select the "All" tab. Scroll down to your launcher app in the list and select it. On this page, look for a button that says "Clear Defaults".
After that, you should be able to press the home button and get a list of launcher from which you can choose.
Thanks guys, didnt think it could be very difficult
download the launcher of your choice. use root explorer to go to your cache folder (immediately after you download it from the market). copy this apk to your sd card. rename download.apk to launcher.apk (or whatever you want). copy this to your computer. open the rom.zip. delete the current launchers in system/app. drag the launcher.apk that you got from your phone to the system/app in the rom.zip. flash rom.
I'm putting the swype installer up in case some has the same issue I had. After registering for the beta and receiving my email with the download link the installer error-ed out stating that it doesn't support my device.
So here is how to get around that.
Directions:
1. Register at swypes website for beta version.
2. Delete any backups you may have of it in Titanium Backup.
3. Get Titanium Backup if you don't already have it.
4. Download this file here: and unzip it, there will be 3 files in it.
5. Place all 3 files in the sdcard/TitaniumBackup folder
6. Launch Titanium Backup and restore the backup.
7. Enjoy?
thank you
WOrk great