Hi there, was just curious if anyone has figured out how to get Google Music on the KF, and if it would require rooting.
I have already uploaded ~50GB of music to google and really don't want to have to do the same to Amazon Cloud Drive, especially with the $20 fee.
Thanks!
Once i got working market, which yes requires root, I was able to pull down google music from the market and it works flawlessly.
I was able to get mine working after rooting, i installed market and google music, and the widget. works fine.
I got mine without rooting and just installing the APK's individually. You need a bunch of APK's to get it going right, including the Google framework, Books, and Gmail apps.
See the "side loading apps" thread for more.
I used the sideload thread to get google apps working (didn't do market as its more of a hassle). After that, installing google music is easy. I install on my phone, backup the apk and use dropbox to move to my device.
You can sideload it along with the google framework, and it works perfectly.
If you want to be able to buy music though, you need to load the market, you need to root and follow the insructions in the development forum, it takes like2 minutes...i then unrooted once i got it loaded and everything works awesome.
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I have a tf101, with AOKP build 28(1.6) and flashed gapps-ics-031712, and I also downloaded the 4.5.11 music apk, and it worked at first. Then i didnt use my tab for music for quite some time, and when i went to use it again, it said "Couldnt play requested track." I thought perhaps this was only my music that I had stored in the cloud, but it will not play anything I have on my SD card either. I have tried downloading and installing the 4.5.13 apk, both through downloading the apk straight to the tab, as well as using marketenabler to get it straight from market. I've rebooted and wiped cache, and dalvik cache. I am curious; Does anyone know if there is something I have not tried, or if there is some other method to get Google Music onto our beloved transformer?
I had that happened last month.
Look for an app call Dev Tools (might be in the market but i know it's part of CM9 ROM). Run the "media scanner" option. That fixed it for me. If you can't find the app let me know I'll post it for you.
I can't seem to find it in market, or an apk online, so if you've got it that'd be a great help
edit: found what you were talking about, shows up as "developer" tools in market, thanks!
I know this is probably not the best question, but I have no idea where my music player is. I flashed a Custom ROM of AOKP Milestone 5 on my i9023 Nexus S, after rooting successfully. I installed Gapps and no hope. Play Music is not here.
I know someone will say, download it from the play store you idiot, well the Google Play Music app that's on the Play Store isn't available in my area (Australia).
I have no idea if the app on the play store is the same as the one that comes pre-installed with Stock ROMs or not.
Can someone point out what's wrong and explain the difference between the two apps (Stock ROM pre-installed and Play Store versions).
Cheers
Also another question...
I know that a NANDroid backup backups everything on your device, INCLUDING the ROM. Is there a good software that backups up only the information and media on the device (ie. Contacts, Events, Alarms, Pictures, Videos, Apps, Settings) without backing up any system components such as the ROM?
andezzat said:
I know this is probably not the best question, but I have no idea where my music player is. I flashed a Custom ROM of AOKP Milestone 5 on my i9023 Nexus S, after rooting successfully. I installed Gapps and no hope. Play Music is not here.
I know someone will say, download it from the play store you idiot, well the Google Play Music app that's on the Play Store isn't available in my area (Australia).
I have no idea if the app on the play store is the same as the one that comes pre-installed with Stock ROMs or not.
Can someone point out what's wrong and explain the difference between the two apps (Stock ROM pre-installed and Play Store versions).
Cheers
Also another question...
I know that a NANDroid backup backups everything on your device, INCLUDING the ROM. Is there a good software that backups up only the information and media on the device (ie. Contacts, Events, Alarms, Pictures, Videos, Apps, Settings) without backing up any system components such as the ROM?
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Follow this link, it's the same as the stock one. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.music&hl=en
About the second question, contacts are synced with google, events are synced with google calendar, alarms are easy too set anyways, pictures and videos dont get wiped anyway, apps are backed up using titanium backup, really good app, and finally system settings differ in different roms, so i suggest you dont restore settings between different roms. hope this helps!
Oh my pictures and vids got wiped because I used Fastboot mmhm, ok.
You cleared up a lot for me, however that App is not available in Australia. I said that in the first post
"This app is incompatible with all of your devices."
From Description:
"* Available in the U.S. only."
You're from Australia you should know
http://awesomescreenshot.com/0859w9qc9
open the market link with ur phone and try, or get 'market unlocker'
the /sdcard partition only gets wiped when you unlock the bootloader, so next time you flash a rom, you dont have to wipe /sdcard, but you still have to wipe /cache and factory reset via recovery.
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andezzat said:
Oh my pictures and vids got wiped because I used Fastboot mmhm, ok.
You cleared up a lot for me, however that App is not available in Australia. I said that in the first post
"This app is incompatible with all of your devices."
From Description:
"* Available in the U.S. only."
You're from Australia you should know
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and also, the music app only plays local music, no online purchasing nor syncing, but since you store music on your /sdcard you dont have to worry about losing any songs
Thanks I already had market enabler, I thought I had to put a VPN because my VPN software DROIDvpn wasn't working.
Now I understand:
To install the app I just need Market Enabler, to fully sync music I need VPN
By the way, I don't care about syncing music, I wish I could thank you but I used up all my thanks.
Thank you man
andezzat said:
Thanks I already had market enabler, I thought I had to put a VPN because my VPN software DROIDvpn wasn't working.
Now I understand:
To install the app I just need Market Enabler, to fully sync music I need VPN
By the way, I don't care about syncing music, I wish I could thank you but I used up all my thanks.
Thank you man
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don't worry, i'm not here just to earn thanks, although i do appreciate them. Good for you to get the music working, i was gonna give you the apk if market enabler doesn't work i personally dont sync the music anyway,
You have been thanked
I was reading some stuff over at the Nvidia forums and someone mentioned that they were able to install apps from the web play store onto their Shield, that wouldn't show up in the Leanback Play store. I gave it a try and sure enough I could install a bunch of apps, I even tried completely random ones like catlog and facebook, both installed!
Some things will probably still have to be sideloaded but this is an easy alternative.
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I was reading some stuff over at the Nvidia forums and someone mentioned that they were able to install apps from the web play store onto their Shield, that wouldn't show up in the Leanback Play store. I gave it a try and sure enough I could install a bunch of apps, I even tried completely random ones like catlog and facebook, both installed!
Some things will probably still have to be sideloaded but this is an easy alternative.
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Not all apps allow you to do that.
Yea, but it's a step in the right direction.
So, I have a TF101 that I had rooted and played around with.. tried kitkat, ICS, etc... Now I have something else, and I want to give this tablet to someone else.. but I want it to be unrooted, stock rom. So, I flashed it back to factory and reset it. The needs of the next user are extremely simple, so stock should work fine...
...however, I can't get Google Play Store to work at all. I've done much research, and some say to just wait 3+ days for google play services to update itself, etc. no dice... I left it plugged in and running, checking each day to ensure it was still connected to wifi so that it could do whatever it needed to do. Nope. I found a thread on another webforum where someone described the exact problem, then at the end he said "problem solved, thank you" without actually describing what happened. Sad. sigh.
I've noticed that google play services isn't even on the stock firmware. instead, it's called google play framework. Perhaps that's part of the problem? I dunno.
I tried downloading the most recent version of google play services and manually installing the APK, but that didn't work either, google play store keeps crashing. Perhaps I need to also download a few more APK's go go along with it, but I need help identifying what is current.. or at least, I need to identify one recent enough that it can then update it self to current.
So.. I'm stuck. Can someone point me in the right direction to try to bring this fully STOCK TF101 up to at LEAST a version of google play store that works? APKs? tweaks?
Flashing to a custom rom is my LAST resort. I don't need any help doing that.. but I want to try to make Stock work again first.
BTW, that original Youtube app from stock all those years ago... it was pretty cool looking now I'm stuck with it.
Use Easyflasher:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1688012
This will put it back to factory new condition and remove Root.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I have successfully flashed the unit back to stock rom and completely wiped and reset to factory. then I turned it on, and google play store won't run. I want to install apps normally.
Trimbleepic said:
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I have successfully flashed the unit back to stock rom and completely wiped and reset to factory. then I turned it on, and google play store won't run. I want to install apps normally.
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I had the same problem.
I found the newest playstore on internet and installed it.
Then I had no problems anymore.
That seems to have worked! I had assumed I would need to update google play services first, but apparely I just needed a new Google Play Store APK. I found one that works here: http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google...google-play-store-6-0-7-android-apk-download/
I downloaded the APK and ran it, and the play store now runs and is updating all other apps on the old TF101. Sweet.
Dunno if Google Play Framework will automatically replace itself with Google Play Services or what, but I'll keep an eye out for that.
Just to followup and close this topic... The tablet is now up and running with multiple apps from the play store, and my wife is now using it to read kindle books and mess with her nursing app. I was planning to give it to her mother, but she intercepted it when it started working
So, basically - if you want to go back to stock firmware - flash to stock, factory reset, then download and install current playstore (as per link above) and don't worry about Google Play Services, it will sort itself out.
Yeah, so after breaking my head trying to upgrade I finally did it via Dload. Gapps were lost so I decided to give it a try without them.
For YouTube I use Youtube Vanced, just install Micro G from their website and Login, then install YT vanced and you are good to go.
Maps work without login in, Gmail you can access it via the stock email.
So I really don't need any Google services more.
For downloading apps I'm using Aurora Store which is very very good and all apps are there.
I'm now on. 176 Oct security patch with no Gapps. Amd I'm doing incredibly well. Maybe you guys can too.
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Yeah, so after breaking my head trying to upgrade I finally did it via Dload. Gapps were lost so I decided to give it a try without them.
For YouTube I use Youtube Vanced, just install Micro G from their website and Login, then install YT vanced and you are good to go.
Maps work without login in, Gmail you can access it via the stock email.
So I really don't need any Google services more.
For downloading apps I'm using Aurora Store which is very very good and all apps are there.
I'm now on. 176 Oct security patch with no Gapps. Amd I'm doing incredibly well. Maybe you guys can too.
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@atrix_noob you are absolutely right I recommend the same because 1- and to install them after a lot of effort something will not work properly and you do not know how much it will work! 2- since everything is done with the above that you mention and 70% of the applications go through and are installed just fine in the system and everything works properly. In fact, there is life without Google play
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@atrix_noob you are absolutely right I recommend the same because 1- and to install them after a lot of effort something will not work properly and you do not know how much it will work! 2- since everything is done with the above that you mention and 70% of the applications go through and are installed just fine in the system and everything works properly. In fact, there is life without Google play
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Agree, I'm using my phone the way I use it every day even wihtout gapps so it's very normal.
Im using it that way since day one. If u need some apps that require gms install VMOS Pro.