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Uninstalled system program by mistake

Ooops. I uninstalled a system program by mistake using Titanium backup - "Accounts and synch settinngs". In order to fix it, I extracted the apk file from the system Captivate ROM, put it it back on my Captivate but am unable to install it. It says "install unsuccesful". Anybody know a trick to get that program back on my Captivate or do I have to flash again?

GermanGuy said:
Ooops. I uninstalled a system program by mistake using Titanium backup - "Accounts and synch settinngs". In order to fix it, I extracted the apk file from the system Captivate ROM, put it it back on my Captivate but am unable to install it. It says "install unsuccesful". Anybody know a trick to get that program back on my Captivate or do I have to flash again?
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How did you pull the APK out of the ROM?
As for installing, did you enable sideloading?

Yes, sideloading is enabled. There is a link on this forum to the System ROM for Captivate. Just unrar it and you find the system apps in the "apps folder"

GermanGuy said:
Yes, sideloading is enabled. There is a link on this forum to the System ROM for Captivate. Just unrar it and you find the system apps in the "apps folder"
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Thanks,
I unzipped some other roms and didn't find the whole OS ..... just a big BIN file. I guess that is the difference between flashing a ROM/PIT versus the one click restore.

[Q] Is there a way to "install" system apk's?

Let's say, for example, I uninstalled some apps in Titanium Backup. System apps such as MMS.apk or Contacts.apk, etc. How would I go about installing these apps back to my phone? I know that Titanium Backup does not restore them if you uninstall them. So is there another way? Because trying to install the normal way does not work.

Yes, use Root Explorer (or similar file manager app) to put them back in /system/app.
Alternatively, you can always use ADB to push the files back.
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kelmar13 said:
Yes, use Root Explorer (or similar file manager app) to put them back in /system/app.
Alternatively, you can always use ADB to push the files back.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using XDA App
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I tried this method and neither worked. I've literally tried everything. It's not that I can't flash any ROM I want to get it back its just that I'm trying to change up some of the theming of the stock apk's.

Syn Ack said:
I tried this method and neither worked. I've literally tried everything. It's not that I can't flash any ROM I want to get it back its just that I'm trying to change up some of the theming of the stock apk's.
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That's how you install them. Is /system mounted as RW when you're trying?

So is it safe to assume you deleted the backups in TiBu, then?

tcollum said:
So is it safe to assume you deleted the backups in TiBu, then?
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Right before I uninstalled MMS.apk, I backed it up with TiBu. When I tried restoring, it would just sit there "restoring" for several minutes and would never do anything. It never restored.

As funny as this thread is. Dude. go to your rom .zip and extract the files from the /system/app directory and reinstall them.

dragonstalker said:
As funny as this thread is. Dude. go to your rom .zip and extract the files from the /system/app directory and reinstall them.
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That's has been discussed already, no luck. Thanks though.

Syn Ack said:
That's has been discussed already, no luck. Thanks though.
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then extract the entire /system directory.
adb push /\system /system

dragonstalker said:
then extract the entire /system directory.
adb push /\system /system
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So you say I should pull /system then put in the MMS.apk and then push /system back with the MMS.apk in it?

Syn Ack said:
So you say I should pull /system then put in the MMS.apk and then push /system back with the MMS.apk in it?
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no. i'm saying take the /system from the .zip of whatever rom you have downloaded and push it to your phone.
It will overwrite whatever you screwed up. From what you are saying, you have done more then just delete some apk's. If all you did was delete them, then you should be able to put them back. The fact that you cannot tells me you have been doin more then what you are letting be known.
Alternate suggestion.
REFLASH YOUR PHONE.

kelmar13 said:
Yes, use Root Explorer (or similar file manager app) to put them back in /system/app.
Alternatively, you can always use ADB to push the files back.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using XDA App
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If you do the root explorer and it didnt work, you might have to go into the app's settings and give yourself permission to edit these directories......

dragonstalker said:
no. i'm saying take the /system from the .zip of whatever rom you have downloaded and push it to your phone.
It will overwrite whatever you screwed up. From what you are saying, you have done more then just delete some apk's. If all you did was delete them, then you should be able to put them back. The fact that you cannot tells me you have been doin more then what you are letting be known.
Alternate suggestion.
REFLASH YOUR PHONE.
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Yes I know of these ways, I was trying to figure out a way to do it for a single app as opposed to flashing the whole system back on. It's not that I have a problem and can't get these back. Thanks for your input.

Did you reboot after you put the apk(s) in /system/app so that they'd be re-populated in the list?

imnuts said:
Did you reboot after you put the apk(s) in /system/app so that they'd be re-populated in the list?
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Yeah. I've literally tried everything. Maybe my flash of the new leak, 2.3.4, was no good. Thanks for the help though. I'll reflash the full package and start fresh with someone elses EP1F, maybe the one I downloaded was a fail.

Just making sure... but you have removed the apps completely and are just trying to add the old backups back in, right?
Do you have the apps somewhere other than Titanium Backup?

kelmar13 said:
Just making sure... but you have removed the apps completely and are just trying to add the old backups back in, right?
Do you have the apps somewhere other than Titanium Backup?
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When I removed the apps, I uninstalled them completely, they were nonexistent in /system/app

Please keep the Thread Clean and on Topic or the Thread will get Deleted

I just tried doing this AGAIN with a legit stock Browser.apk. It did the same exact thing. Won't install after reboot. This seems to be a problem with the EP1F leak.

Syn Ack said:
I just tried doing this AGAIN with a legit stock Browser.apk. It did the same exact thing. Won't install after reboot. This seems to be a problem with the EP1F leak.
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if you have adb run a logfile while you are doin the install so i can see the error.

I lost original system app: text messaging app, can anyone email me the backup?

Hi all,
In order to show the SMS's sent timestamp, I replaced the system's messaging app with handcent message. I backup all the following apps with Titanium backup, and uninstall them by Titanium uninstalling function.
Conversations.apk
Messaging.apk
MessageWidget.apk
UniversalInbox.apk
But the Titanium backup failed to restore the system messaging app after experiment. When i want to restore the apps referred ahead, the Titanium frozen.
And I extract all the apps from a ROM, and want to restore them by "Systemapp Remover". The remover show success, and i reboot the phone, but nothing changed. and i found in the systemapp remover interface, all the 4 apps' status were "disabled".
I think a backup from a running Atrix 2 will help my restore all the apps.
so does anybody can backup all the four system apps by "Systemapp remover", zip the SD:\SystemAppBack folder, and email the zipped file to me. and i will try restore them.
Thank you in advanced, i do not want to reflash my phone. Thank you in advanced.
my email : [email protected] or [email protected]

First off, you should never uninstall or delete system apps, you should always freeze them, that way if you have a problem and need them later you can just defrost them.
Second, the core phone apps like messaging and dialer should never be frozen or removed, they are needed even by replacement apps such as Handcent.
Third, you can get those apps from any ROM that still has the stock apps such as SCv6 or better yet the Stock Monster which is in the Themes and Apps section. Just download, then unzip the ROM and go to the /system/app folder. If you get it from a de-odexed ROM just grab the apk files, if you get them from an odexed ROM (such as The Stock Monster) make sure you grab both the apk and the odex files for each app.
Lastly, please research before doing things to anything in the /system folder...messing up something there is a sure fire way to get stuck in a bootloop or softbrick.

lilhaiti said:
First off, you should never uninstall or delete system apps, you should always freeze them, that way if you have a problem and need them later you can just defrost them.
Second, the core phone apps like messaging and dialer should never be frozen or removed, they are needed even by replacement apps such as Handcent.
Third, you can get those apps from any ROM that still has the stock apps such as SCv6 or better yet the Stock Monster which is in the Themes and Apps section. Just download, then unzip the ROM and go to the /system/app folder. If you get it from a de-odexed ROM just grab the apk files, if you get them from an odexed ROM (such as The Stock Monster) make sure you grab both the apk and the odex files for each app.
Lastly, please research before doing things to anything in the /system folder...messing up something there is a sure fire way to get stuck in a bootloop or softbrick.
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Wait! The (now defunct) Stock Monster doesn't have those apps... Try Romulus if you are still on stock odexed, or Remus if you are deodexed - they both have most of the stock apps.
Also, you need the classes.dex file in the deodexed apks, so you couldn't just grab the apks only from the Stock Monster anyway if you are deodexed.
In fact, are you odexed or deodexed? I could throw those apps in a CWM recovery zip real quick for you...

Hi alteredlikeness,
Thank you so much.
but i used systemapp remover instead of recovering the zip file sent by you. But the same, all the 4 apps restored, but status were "disabled" even if rebooting the phone.
I'm wondering whether there was a file recorded the system files' hashing key? so i restore the file with system app remover always fails.

gjgj said:
Hi alteredlikeness,
Thank you so much.
but i used systemapp remover instead of recovering the zip file sent by you. But the same, all the 4 apps restored, but status were "disabled" even if rebooting the phone.
I'm wondering whether there was a file recorded the system files' hashing key? so i restore the file with system app remover always fails.
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I have no experience with systemapp remover.. did you try to flash the zip through cwm recovery?
My thought is maybe the permissions are not correct.. you can check and change the permissions with root explorer, or use the "fix permissions" option in cwm recovery.
Sent from my phone's mind

alteredlikeness said:
I have no experience with systemapp remover.. did you try to flash the zip through cwm recovery?
My thought is maybe the permissions are not correct.. you can check and change the permissions with root explorer, or use the "fix permissions" option in cwm recovery.
Sent from my phone's mind
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Browse the /system/app/ directory with Root Explorer, all the 8 files permission were correct, and i reboot the phone, but all the apps were still disabled.

Thank all, i had recover all the files from a backup files from the same version. Maybe android will check the system apps' version or MD5 hash.

Deleted SystemUI by mistake

I've installed Titanium backup on my rooted galaxy s7562, I was trying to remove some unwanted stock apps but by mistake I deleted com.android.systemui.apk now I don't see status bar(notification bar), no wallpaper etc. can anyone please upload that apk from your phone or tell me the solution of this.

tapandesai89 said:
I've installed Titanium backup on my rooted galaxy s7562, I was trying to remove some unwanted stock apps but by mistake I deleted com.android.systemui.apk now I don't see status bar(notification bar), no wallpaper etc. can anyone please upload that apk from your phone or tell me the solution of this.
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Atleast tell which ROM were you using?

If u are using custom rom or have cwm backup in .tar format then extract the above file from rom or backup and place the file in system/app
Via aroma file manager

Default ROM
iamareebjamal said:
Atleast tell which ROM were you using?
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I am using the DEFAULT ROM, just rooted my phone using the method mentioned on this page.

Deodexed ROM: How to deinstall "DropBox"?

I have installed the "Deodexed Stock ROM (4.1.2)" from Darkman on my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. Went well, thanks! But now, how can I deinstall system apps like Dropbox or others? In the normal App-Manager, I dont have the button "Deinstall", only the buttom "Deinstall Updates".
Thanks!

Titanium backup or a file explorer..I use root explorer, but there are plenty others out there.

lowandbehold said:
Titanium backup or a file explorer..I use root explorer, but there are plenty others out there.
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Thanks for answering.That means just deleting the files/folder and rebooting? What is the path to the apps?

In a file explorer, it will be system/apps. Select the app and delete it. It has to be a file explorer that can get root priveleges. In titanium backup it just brings up a list of apps. You can use the free version to do what you need. I would suggest using Titanium Backup, as it is probably the easiest to use for what you want to do.

Thanks!