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[APP] Google apps solution in progress help needed.

Hello all,
I am trying to make an application that will detect what actual hardware a user is using and then go out to google and download the official update for the device extract the google apps and install on the device. Right now I was wondering if someone could point me to an ota link for the MT3G and G1 for T-Mobile just for a starting purpose. I already found away to get hardware id and match so I am good there. Any help would be really appreciated.

I don't have them handy but I recommend you contact @wesgarner on here or Twitter and if I recall @Haykuro has them too. If @wesgarner doesn't hook you up right away let me know and I will look them up.

TheArtiszan said:
Hello all,
I am trying to make an application that will detect what actual hardware a user is using and then go out to google and download the official update for the device extract the google apps and install on the device. Right now I was wondering if someone could point me to an ota link for the MT3G and G1 for T-Mobile just for a starting purpose. I already found away to get hardware id and match so I am good there. Any help would be really appreciated.
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Hi TheArtiszan,
I can tell you that the "OTA" update links change and are (of course) specific to the carrier in question. So for G1 and MT3G, we're talking T-Mobile, in which case I can inform you that the links and locations of the OTA updates rotate and change. By any specific pattern ? That eludes me completely and I would suggest it could/would be hard to track.
Also (and possibly even more challenging to what you are trying to accomplish), the OTA updates typically provide "patch sets" instead of the full blown system image you seek to extract "pure" files.
I'm sure not the answer you wanted, but I hope it helps.
~enom~

yeh I am starting with just T-Mobile ones first since they are my carrier and go from there. even a basic one would be good. I already have an app that will extract files from a file downloaded from my site (minus progress bar still working on that part lol) and extracts files so i have a good start I think. Just stinks that is not in C# would be done already.

Didnt get a response yet from them for thefiles. got app semi working from a rom on a private server any one know about google hosted packages

TheArtiszan said:
Hello all,
I am trying to make an application that will detect what actual hardware a user is using and then go out to google and download the official update for the device extract the google apps and install on the device. Right now I was wondering if someone could point me to an ota link for the MT3G and G1 for T-Mobile just for a starting purpose. I already found away to get hardware id and match so I am good there. Any help would be really appreciated.
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I think you are taking the hard way to accomplish your goal. Farmatito has already developed a backup script that backs up the necessary files from your phone <HERE>. And redmdc already has a script that will take a backup file and insert the files into an update.zip file <HERE>. There is no need to go out to the providers to get these files. We all already have them.

[Q] Can't log into HBO GO on Gtab

My gtab won't let me login to HBO GO> I can login just fine on my Moto Droid 2. Any ideas?
Thanks

First off, HBO go app checks for a device IMEI number, out gtabs are wifi only and have no IMEI radio, so thats a no go.... and 2nd even iff you spoof the IMEI number like i have, the videos will not play on our gtabs :-(

Anyone know if one can get HBO Go to play thru one of the android browsers? I've tried several, setting the UI to desktop but it's a no go.

Thanks Johnny_5. I thought that may be the issue.

I use the HBO Go app on my GTab running VEGAN-Tab Ginger. I used the program listed in this post to add the IMEI number to the rom.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103766
SiriusXM and XfinityTV apps also work after adding IMEI to the rom.

Maelias, I am using Vegan tab Beta 5.1.1 w/suppliment. I checked out the post but couldn't see a link to the program. There was a lot of info that was over my head. (I am a bit if a noob).
Can you dumb down the info for me. I appreciate your help.

The standard disclaimers apply. Do this at your own risk.
The program was written by DizzyDen over in the Nook section but it does work for the VS Gtablet.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103766
Download the program from DizzyDen’s page
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=660636&d=1311188075
Unzip it on your computer.
Put a copy of the ROM that you are using into the same folder as the unzipped program file.
Run !IMEIme.exe
It will ask you some questions
“Do you want to use in place features?” answer “No”
“Are you planning to update a devs ROM zip file?” answer “Yes”
“ROM found” with name of rom it found. If it found the correct rom answer “Yes”
It will then give you an ADB error which is ok because we are not using the IN PLACE feature so click “OK”
It will then ask for a WIFI IP number also used for the IN PLACE feature. Click “Cancel”
You will get the message “You failed to enter an IP address” Click “OK”
It will then start doing some work on the file.
Then it will ask you to enter a seed for IMEI generator. To make sure it is unique to my tablet, I entered the serial number on the back of the tablet.
It will then start doing its work, which will take a few minutes.
When it is done it will tell you “New Update File Saved As” original file with IMEI added before the .zip.
Do a backup of your old rom (just in case) then flash the new rom file.
You should be good to go with HBOGo.

Did this last night and it works great. Thanks for the heads-up!

[Q] ASUS Transformer

Received an ASUS Transformer tablet for Xmas. So far only use it as large-screen book reader and checking eMail. AKA Not much knowledge, so if my questions are dumb then my apology.
Need to change or delete my google account to start over - anyone know how?
The author of ROM TOOLBOX told me that I need to ROOT my tablet first - what is this? What are the reasons, pros & cons? Will it involve my warranty? How to do?
Also; Want to delete a few default programs that came with the ASUS, or create & move them to another folder - is possible?
Have also been told by various others that I should install Android-4. Why? How-to?
Any help/suggestions will be seriously appreciated!

1. Need to change or delete my google account to start over - anyone know how?
Why do you want to change or delete your google account? i ask because depending on why, there may be an easy solution.
heres how to delete if thats your main goal http://tinyurl.com/7zurtj2
2. The author of ROM TOOLBOX told me that I need to ROOT my tablet first - what is this? What are the reasons, pros & cons? Will it involve my warranty? How to do?
What is Root http://youtu.be/NHDZ512o39g
Rooting your Transformer:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1185104
http://tinyurl.com/72dosfh
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/rooting-guide-for-asus-transformer/
3. Also; Want to delete a few default programs that came with the ASUS, or create & move them to another folder - is possible?
Once rooted, you will be able to remove any Bloatware apps that you may wish, just be careful not to delete system dependent apps.
4. Have also been told by various others that I should install Android-4. Why? How-to?
Android 4.0 IceCreamSandwich is the newest version of Android out right now and its simply Awesome.
I think its already available as an Over The Air upgrade for the Transformer
http://androidforums.com/transformer-all-things-root/448637-transformer-rooting-roms.html

Pay Accounts
Thank you for the reply and information!
Finally found on this site a "one-Click" Linux Live CD with script for the ASUS TF101 to automate the Rooting process, Ran that and came back with error 0x8 which the CD producer/author says means the device version can't be rooted yet (NvFlash can't connect).
Oh well!

[Q] Root Klu 7033

So I went bargain hunting and found this Klu 7033 ICS tablet. It's a decent tablet, I got it for my son. Contrary to some of the icons on the packaging, most of the g-apps don't come on the device and that includes Play Store. And since there is no Play Store, I have no way to put these g-apps on it. I was reading that it is possible to install the g-apps as the .zip from the bootloader. I have tried all the common button combinations to get into the bootloader but nothing ever happens; it simply boots into ICS. I have tried putting ROM Manager on it and reboot that way, but every time I try to install one of the downloaded .apk files it always says the package is corrupt.
So my end goal here is to install the g-apps on this tablet. If I don't have to root it I don't need to, but at this point in time that seems like the only option. I have tried to install the .apk for various versions of the Play Store and it always crashes as soon as its UI comes up. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

gregchak said:
So I went bargain hunting and found this Klu 7033 ICS tablet. It's a decent tablet, I got it for my son. Contrary to some of the icons on the packaging, most of the g-apps don't come on the device and that includes Play Store. And since there is no Play Store, I have no way to put these g-apps on it. I was reading that it is possible to install the g-apps as the .zip from the bootloader. I have tried all the common button combinations to get into the bootloader but nothing ever happens; it simply boots into ICS. I have tried putting ROM Manager on it and reboot that way, but every time I try to install one of the downloaded .apk files it always says the package is corrupt.
So my end goal here is to install the g-apps on this tablet. If I don't have to root it I don't need to, but at this point in time that seems like the only option. I have tried to install the .apk for various versions of the Play Store and it always crashes as soon as its UI comes up. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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I could use some help with this also.
I also tried Amazon AppStore.., but upon starting it, I just get a back/gray screen.
Thanks

gregchak said:
So I went bargain hunting and found this Klu 7033 ICS tablet. It's a decent tablet, I got it for my son. Contrary to some of the icons on the packaging, most of the g-apps don't come on the device and that includes Play Store. And since there is no Play Store, I have no way to put these g-apps on it. I was reading that it is possible to install the g-apps as the .zip from the bootloader. I have tried all the common button combinations to get into the bootloader but nothing ever happens; it simply boots into ICS. I have tried putting ROM Manager on it and reboot that way, but every time I try to install one of the downloaded .apk files it always says the package is corrupt.
So my end goal here is to install the g-apps on this tablet. If I don't have to root it I don't need to, but at this point in time that seems like the only option. I have tried to install the .apk for various versions of the Play Store and it always crashes as soon as its UI comes up. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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Okay, got ROM Manager installed manually. Unfortunately I don't have a clockworkmod recovery that will work with it. I can't Flash Clockworkmod Recovery and can't Reboot into Recovery. When I backup, it says it does but I don't see any backups. ADB Devices lists nothing attached.

Resolution
I found all my answers here:
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Okay, can't post a link. The resolution is over on androidForums.com. Search for "curtis klu lt7033" in the "General Tablet Talk" area. I got my Klu rooted and g-apps installed based on this thread.

anyone got any tips to try and get the computer to read this device at all, refereed to the android forum and i cant get the computer to recognize it at all and no one is responding on the other side

Jayster06 said:
anyone got any tips to try and get the computer to read this device at all, refereed to the android forum and i cant get the computer to recognize it at all and no one is responding on the other side
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I am using Windows 7 64 bit and the media drivers installed simply by plugging in the tablet to my computer. The drivers needed when USB debugging is installed are at the link I mentioned earlier in this thread. I can't post links yet or else I would send you directly there.

Can't find the thread on androidforums, can anyone post the link to that thread? Or post the root/gapps info here.

TurboB13 said:
Can't find the thread on androidforums, can anyone post the link to that thread? Or post the root/gapps info here.
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Here is the link. If you are trying to root from the beginning then start at post #104 on the 3rd page (although you are more than welcome to start at page one to get a feel for the process...and yes, it IS a process). Also, remember that when they say that you need to turn USB Mass Storage off, that it needs to be in the "Media Storage" setting. That caused me the biggest headache! HTH!
androidforums (dot com)/klu-lt7033-all-things-root/651880-how-get-google-play-lt7033-3 (dot) (html) <--don't forget to replace all of the words in the (parenthesis).

Nived32 said:
Here is the link. If you are trying to root from the beginning then start at post #104 on the 3rd page (although you are more than welcome to start at page one to get a feel for the process...and yes, it IS a process). Also, remember that when they say that you need to turn USB Mass Storage off, that it needs to be in the "Media Storage" setting. That caused me the biggest headache! HTH!
androidforums (dot com)/klu-lt7033-all-things-root/651880-how-get-google-play-lt7033-3 (dot) (html) <--don't forget to replace all of the words in the (parenthesis).
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thanks i will try this out. My brother in law bought one over today but it is the LT7052 4.0.3 hopefully this works.

Use the step by step guide its more up to date.
Copy and paste the following into your search bar...
A Step by Step Guide to getting Amazon Appstore, & Google Play on a Curtis Klu LT7033 Android forums
(the guide will come up as the 1st or 2nd result using google, yahoo, or bing)
While it is true that post 104 listed above is where the original guide was born,
The step by step represents all the lessons learned to date.
The LT7052 requires a different ADB (android debug bridge) driver for your PC than the LT7033
There is a different guide at Android forums for the LT7052 entitled...
Getting Amazon Appstore & Google Play on Klu LT7052 Step by Step
See ya there;
SuperNoober

Are the Klu 7033 and the klu 7035 the same in any way?
Sent from my LG-E739

Broke my New phone Installing Gapps??

I just bought a Chinese phablet and was excited about the good deal I got for $250. The phone (Ginwave G503) arrived on Monday and I was disappointed to learn that the retailer did not install google apps as they do for some of their chinese phones. I figured I would just look around the internet and just install them myself. This proved to be much harder than I thought. I came across a German forum for Chinese phones and installed the google apps package that one user had uploaded to my system/app/ folder and it didn't work. I was told in the forum that It might not fork because I used some old files for Android 2.3. So they pointed me to a thread with a newer version and I deleted everything I had copied into the system/app/ folder and then replaced them with the new files. Then even less worked. My phone didn't ring anymore, sound didnt work, and the play store wouldn't even start at all anymore (it gave me a download manager stopped error or something like that). So then I figured out that those files were probably for Android 4.1 and my phone has Android 4.0.4. So then I found a package on rootzwiki for 4.0.4. I again deleted all the stuff i had put in the system/app/ folder and did a factory reset.
When I restarted the phone I was not able to install my ES File Explorer from my SD Card again. When I click on it it asked me if I want to install to phone or SD card, no matter what i select it says "X Application not installed". So I went into the chinese app store that was on the phone (called 360 followed by some chinese symbols) and actually found ES File Explorer on there. But when I tried to install it from ther, it downloaded and then gave me the same error. No matter what apps I try to install, I get this error now. What can I do? Did I break my phone?

If I did end up breaking the Rom and can't find a replacement rom for this phone online is there like a universal android version that can be installed on any phone? Would there be any way I could somehow play a new Android on my phone without having to know how to program something

Wow.. This forum is extraordinarily worthless

u should think before bought a phone/tablet from china,dude...

agstwn21 said:
u should think before bought a phone/tablet from china,dude...
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At this point, it's not where he bought it from, it's what he did to it. Sorry to say OP, but you're very far up ****'s creek.
If you can't get ahold of the factory ROM and no one has made an aftermarket ROM for your device, you're going to have to learn to compile yourself. I wouldn't advise you do that, however. Based on your original post, you don't do any research before mindlessly flashing any old thing from the internet to your device.
If I'm coming off as a ****, that's because you want to call xda worthless when you clearly have your head up your ass. Someone might've tried helping you before you insulted the forums.
The only thing I can suggest now is using recovery mode to factory reset your device. This might only work if you still have your factory recovery; you never mentioned that you flashed a new one and I can't imagine you flashed anything to your phone without a custom one... But again, reading your OP it sounds like you just flash things all willy-nilly.
BTW, your device didn't have gapps because it's probably not approved by Google to access the play store. No access to play store = no gapps.

stefan0325 said:
I just bought a Chinese phablet and was excited about the good deal I got for $250. The phone (Ginwave G503) arrived on Monday and I was disappointed to learn that the retailer did not install google apps as they do for some of their chinese phones. I figured I would just look around the internet and just install them myself. This proved to be much harder than I thought. I came across a German forum for Chinese phones and installed the google apps package that one user had uploaded to my system/app/ folder and it didn't work. I was told in the forum that It might not fork because I used some old files for Android 2.3. So they pointed me to a thread with a newer version and I deleted everything I had copied into the system/app/ folder and then replaced them with the new files. Then even less worked. My phone didn't ring anymore, sound didnt work, and the play store wouldn't even start at all anymore (it gave me a download manager stopped error or something like that). So then I figured out that those files were probably for Android 4.1 and my phone has Android 4.0.4. So then I found a package on rootzwiki for 4.0.4. I again deleted all the stuff i had put in the system/app/ folder and did a factory reset.
When I restarted the phone I was not able to install my ES File Explorer from my SD Card again. When I click on it it asked me if I want to install to phone or SD card, no matter what i select it says "X Application not installed". So I went into the chinese app store that was on the phone (called 360 followed by some chinese symbols) and actually found ES File Explorer on there. But when I tried to install it from ther, it downloaded and then gave me the same error. No matter what apps I try to install, I get this error now. What can I do? Did I break my phone?
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Before anyone ever uses a new device thee shall make a Rom Backup; just in case... (at least i would do this).
Anyway; i don't understand why you've put the *.apk file inside the \System\apps folder...
You should try (have tried) to install Android SDK (If you've not installed already); and install the *.apk through adb.
Check these:
http://www.xda-developers.com/xda-tv-2/pro-tip-number-4-installing-applications-using-adb-xda-tv/
[and]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=879701
I don't believe that the operating system blocks "Google Apps / Play Store". Either way i'm not going to say that it is impossible. But it doesn't make much sense.
But like "rockingondrums" said; If your device doesn't have have "gapps"; it's probably because it's not approved by Google to access the play store.
No access to Play Store = No "gapps"...
(Never seen that happening though)
Also you didn't need to root your device for that. "Play Store" doesn't require Root Permissions...
In order to help you (and help yourself up); I've done research for you (just because i understand your situation).
1st of all you shouldn't insult XDA Forum. This Forum has loads of information scattered around. Just dig like everyone else... There's probably the info you need. Yes it may take hours, day or months if you have no idea of what you're messing with. If the info is there, just don't expect people to do the research for you...
But, XDA is far from being "worthless". I've lost the count of how many times it helped me; and what i've learned is priceless. (And i still don't know everything i want to know ^^)
2nd; [Get your Device Working]
If you haven't messed up much... (Like flashing a wrong Rom)
Use "Recovery Mode" to "Factory Reset" your device.
I'm not sure if the method i'm about to show, works for every device or for your device; but it's a good example.
On my device i would do:
- Turn off the device;
- Press and hold in the following order: Camera Button; Then Volume - and then Power Button; let it vibrate 3 times; and then release the buttons.
In other words; this will "Reinstall / Reset" your system. You'll see in your screen if it works. Just dont turn off your device in any way while it's executing that operation.
Note: It may be different on your device. If it is... You have to search for a different method that will work for you.
Search this forum, Google, or Ginwave Website (if it has one...)
After this; i recommend you to do some search and learn on how to backup & restore your device.
Search XDA Forum. Grab some examples, compare the info you've got; then backup that device.
3rd; If you've flashed a wrong Rom; then you really have to compile your own, as i also couldn't find a Stock or Custom Rom for your device.
Note: If you (ever) find a Rom for your device; remember that it has to be A ROM FOR YOUR DEVICE! AND NOT SOME OTHER. Otherwise you'll probably end with a dead device...
And that would be sad and wasted money.
Here's a good example on how to flash a Rom and a good place to start with:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Flashing_Guide_-_Android
Do some more reasearch; and now don't ever say that XDA is worthless.
P.S - Experienced People aren't here every day and every hour just for you... Sometimes you've got to wait and pray for a god answer (lol - so true...).
I hope this helps solving your problem.
Best Regards;

stefan0325 said:
If I did end up breaking the Rom and can't find a replacement rom for this phone online is there like a universal android version that can be installed on any phone? Would there be any way I could somehow play a new Android on my phone without having to know how to program something
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Hi,Did you have chance to find ROM-replacement? D you have any ROM image for this Ginwave GnoteM?