My wife is one suffering from the market access issues with her Nook Color (rooted 1.3).
I have a Transformer, unrooted stock. I was curious if there is a way I can download APK files off of it and place them on to her nook? I searched through the file folders, but all I seem to be able to find are the apk files for the apps that came standard with the unit. The ones I installed from the market aren't there with the rest of them.
Can anyone point me at what to do?
-Brian
You can, try to use RootExplorer. The file will be definitely on the system partition. But just search these forums. APKs of the Market are avilable for download.
bbasiaga said:
My wife is one suffering from the market access issues with her Nook Color (rooted 1.3).
I have a Transformer, unrooted stock. I was curious if there is a way I can download APK files off of it and place them on to her nook? I searched through the file folders, but all I seem to be able to find are the apk files for the apps that came standard with the unit. The ones I installed from the market aren't there with the rest of them.
Can anyone point me at what to do?
-Brian
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Apps download from market is store in data/app. You can't access those folder without being root.
You can try and pull them using ADB.
I'm not sure if it work for non root TF but try Astros file explorer.
There's an option to backup app. I use it on my phone to get apps not avaiable for the TF (My phone and TF is rooted however).
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Hey guys,
I stupidly removed the original com.amazon.mp3.apk from my /system/app back when I first rooted the phone as I never needed it.
Now when I try to update it with the latest 44meg FRF91 update, it gets as far as verifying then fails saying it cannot locate that amazon mp3 apk.
I did download it frmo the market, save the app with Astro and then copy it back into the original /system/app folder but it still doesnt like it.
Could anyone post the original one or give me a pointer on the easiest way to fix this?
dude! i am having the same problem. I can't install FRG83... damn it! any idea??
I just got my transformer today with keyboard (its so cool!) and I have a colelction of apps from my old android handsets on my laptop. Is there a way of sideloading these apps onto the tablet without rooting?
just copy the apk files to the transformer and then run them from file explorer.
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just copy the apk files to the transformer and then run them from file explorer.
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Ah awesome. Glad its that easy.
You have to check that box about loading apps from outside the market though, don't you?
Yes, you have to.
UPDATE: I was able to install the .apk by copying it to /system/app/ no fuss no muss. Once there it was ready to run without as much as a reboot required. Thanks to baseballfanz for the solution.
I am running gnufabio's Revolver 4.0.3 RC3 and downloaded the removed apps zip. I am trying to install the AsusReader.apk (MyLibrary), when I used my TF101 stock I liked this app for PDF viewing much better than Polaris Office.
When I try and install it says installation failed, do I need to flash this via recovery (a la gapps)?
(I would have posted this in the ROM thread, but I don't have a high enough post count to post in there yet.)
I've never run into this error otherwise, try flashing via cwm, I think that's what was intended being a 'system' app.
If there's a cwm flashable file try that, if not try manually moving it to system/app instead of installing it like a regular apk
Did you find a solution for this? I really liked the MyLibrary app, I have tried installing as a zip, manually putting in the zip folder etc. There seems to be a few of the Asus apps that won't install. Alternatively does anyone know of a good app that organises PDFs in a similar way to MyLibrary?
I haven't tried flashing via cwm yet, I need to get to my laptop so I can yank the stuff I don't want out of the zip.
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[edit]I just thought about what baseballfanz said and decided to give that a try. I used Root Explorer and moved the apk to /system/app and it was in my app list, no reboot needed.[/edit]
I tried moving the apk into the app folder but it didnt work. Are you using the apk from the revolver main post?
Yes, extract the apk and use a file explorer with root access. I used Root Explorer, find the extracted apk and long press on it select copy or move. Then navigate to /system/app and then touch paste.
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I tried the exact same thing about 10 times and eventually it worked by renaming the APK to MyLibrary.apk. Very odd!
It's definitely the best app for displaying groups of PDF in a library view that I've found
Thanks for your help
Glad you got it all sorted MrMuz.
I just went and double checked mine and it is still AsusReader.apk
AsusReader on Lenco TAB-9701
Hello MacFett,
I have tried to install the AsusReader.apk as both AsusReader.apk and MyLibrary.apk in the system/app folder, but it does not seem to work.
The icon shows up but when I tap it I get a message that the application has stopped (after 2-5 seconds). I'm using a Lenco TAB-9701 tablet.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I really like this app (I've used it on other tablets) and would very much like to get it working.
Furthermore, does anyone have information on how to root the 9701?
Thanks in advance for your help.
It maybe that it is fc'ing because these Asus stock apps for the transformer.
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I just installed the latest JB file from CM10, as announced on the site. The installation went smoothly, and without any problem. However, in the instructions provided, there was a link to the Google Apps for this version, named gapps-jb-20120717-signed.zip. I also downloaded the file, and it is also put under /sdcard on my tablet. But I can't install this zip file. I have CWM version 5.8.3.1 installed, which seemed to work fine with this CM JellyBean. I am getting an error message about the zip file when trying to install the Google Apps file mentionned above. On the announcement page with the links to download the files, they only give the links to the two -signed.zip files. I assumed that both zip files should be installed the same way, but it appears they are not. Can anyone help me ?
NB: I use the Samsung Docking station/keyboard. Anyone had any issue with this before ?
Thank
Extract the apk's from the zip folder and install them normally! Few apps won't install this way. Put those apk's in "system/app" and change the permission to rw-r--r--
Reboot your phone and the apps should be there!
Sent From My Galaxy SL Running CM9
Bad file
Although the file was pointed properly in the page, the actually downloaded file had a mad MD5 checksum, which was not displayed on the download link, only on the download page. I also noticed that after restarting, I had a strange display, where instead of having the default green wallpaper, I was having lines of random color bars. Another reboot, and it now seems to be fine again.
I also mentioned that I have this Samsung keyboard that attaches to the tablet, and has a replication port. The keys on the top, like Back, Home, etc, seem to work only half the time. More testing will be required on this.
Good Idea !
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Extract the apk's from the zip folder and install them normally! Few apps won't install this way. Put those apk's in "system/app" and change the permission to rw-r--r--
Reboot your phone and the apps should be there!
Sent From My Galaxy SL Running CM9
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That's an idea, and I will also look at this. I guess this is what will give me the Google Apps program so I can re-download and/or reinstall the programs that I used to have under HoneyComb 3.2.
Thanks. I will try this too. :
Stumped...want to put a rom on this phone but dunno how to get a file browser .apk on the phone to execute .apk cm recovery...please help me thanks!:crying:
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Stumped...want to put a rom on this phone but dunno how to get a file browser .apk on the phone to execute .apk cm recovery...please help me thanks!:crying:
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cant believe there is no stock way to view and execute files on the sd...damn!
yaya figured out
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cant believe there is no stock way to view and execute files on the sd...damn!
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So go to homescreen click left most bottom button which is settings then find applications then enable non market apps and you should see the right most tab is sd card rowser yay!:cyclops:
Snif I thought I had it all figured out apparently that sd slot was just for programs installed on the sd not to browse the sd for apk's to install, still need someway to execute .apk's without market/play playing around with the stock wifi I found out that it was not connecting and needed a push so eventually market worked and wallah problem solved! Imagine other peeps might not have this problem so anyone with a solution would be awesome still!!!