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[Q] About to throw this XOOM into the wall

Hi there,
I have a UK WiFI xoom, and everything was working fine. I installed the ICS AOSP rom, and no issues.
The problem started when I updated the AOSP ICS rom, and the gapps, Now I DONT HAVE MARKET access. The loading circle just goes round and round till it says 'connection timed out - retry'. The GTALK doesnt connect either, it just says 'signing in' till it goes 'offline'.
Right now, I am on the EOS Wifi ICS rom.
Here's what I HAVE done so far to fix it based on ideas in this forum and others (trust me, I search before I post:
- Factory reset, wipe cache, dalvik before every rom install
- Installed every single ICS rom there is, with the recommended google apps
- wiped data on the google services framework
- Installed different version of gapps
- Shut down the firewall on the HOME NETWORK.
It just doesnt work anymore. It used to connect fine to the home Wifi earlier but something just went wrong somewhere and i cant track it down.
Any help would be appreciated.

you have any more info like does your xoom show you are connected to your wifi? do you have any other wireless devices and are they accessing the internet fine? are you flashing the right gapps package?

yea, Wifi is connected fine. Alternate markets like 'slideme', and browser, gmail, maps app etc work fine without problems.
I have flashed the latest gapps package as recommended by EOS rom makers (v. 10 i believe)

after installing the eos mod, did u restart before installing the gaps?

load a stock backup then reinstall your current flavor and gapps

pr1vate piles said:
after installing the eos mod, did u restart before installing the gaps?
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No I Didn't restart.
load a stock backup then reinstall your current flavor and gapps
Unfortunately, I didnt make a backup. I am an idiot I know!

Just quickly, 10.4 is the latest Gapps to use with EOS.

TheStickMan said:
Just quickly, 10.4 is the latest Gapps to use with EOS.
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Yes, sorry for not clarifying. 10.4 (the latest as of yesterday) is the one I used

inshadesofgrey said:
Yes, sorry for not clarifying. 10.4 (the latest as of yesterday) is the one I used
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First, take a deep breath. It's probably something small that's causing the problem, no doubt.
Some of the EOS Nightly are more stable than others. I would recommend wingray nightly build #56 (very smooth and stable) with the 10.4 GAPPS flashed immediately afterward. First wipe cache partitions, then dalvik cache (in advanced) then flash the rom and the GAPPS, then reboot. This should work very well for you. If you feel the need to do another data wipe, do that before anything else.
IMHO, no need to flash stock images 1st. Just flash on top of your current rom.
Good luck!

ok- will try and respond with results. thanks for the patience/

okantomi said:
First, take a deep breath. It's probably something small that's causing the problem, no doubt.
Some of the EOS Nightly are more stable than others. I would recommend wingray nightly build #56 (very smooth and stable) with the 10.4 GAPPS flashed immediately afterward. First wipe cache partitions, then dalvik cache (in advanced) then flash the rom and the GAPPS, then reboot. This should work very well for you. If you feel the need to do another data wipe, do that before anything else.
IMHO, no need to flash stock images 1st. Just flash on top of your current rom.
Good luck!
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Hi - I did the steps exactly as you said (with a full data wipe). Still getting nowhere?
Any more ideas?

Go back to stock US recovery ROM. Start again.
Also no idea how to fix it (as nothing previously worked), but the symptoms seem similar to when you haven't accepted the agreement that pops up on new google framework (?) version. Won't let you use market or gtalk.. has happened to me before.

Before flashing, try an extra wipe: wipe system (in some recoveries also called "format system" ). I have been saved by this more than once.
Tapatalking

I always wipe dalvick and cache partition. Install ROM from SD card, followed by latest Gapps and then use the fix permissions in advanced settings before rebooting. I have never had a single problem and have been using EOS Wingray nightly since release 11. I am sure the fix permissions is the key to this. No need to do a full wipe if you are on the same ROM!
Sent from my ZTE-BLADE using Tapatalk

Krypt2Nyte said:
I always wipe dalvick and cache partition. Install ROM from SD card, followed by latest Gapps and then use the fix permissions in advanced settings before rebooting. I have never had a single problem and have been using EOS Wingray nightly since release 11. I am sure the fix permissions is the key to this. No need to do a full wipe if you are on the same ROM!
Sent from my ZTE-BLADE using Tapatalk
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i will try that now.
Also, if i should move back to stock - which rom should I go to? HC or ICS? any links would help. thx guys, for the patience.
j

You can only go back to 3.0 or whatever it is. t will update to 3.2, and then hopefully ICS.
On tablet, so can't quickly find original motorola dev website - try Googling. Here is link to post with hosted firmwares anyway..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1049485
Also check second post there, for using fast boot to install.

inshadesofgrey said:
i will try that now.
Also, if i should move back to stock - which rom should I go to? HC or ICS? any links would help. thx guys, for the patience.
j
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yea it didnt work. I guess i have to flash back honeycomb. Funny thing is, after I tried this - the GTALK staed working!!! just not the market. Its just hat i can't get to the user agreement page the first time we open the market.

inshadesofgrey said:
yea it didnt work. I guess i have to flash back honeycomb. Funny thing is, after I tried this - the GTALK staed working!!! just not the market. Its just hat i can't get to the user agreement page the first time we open the market.
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Have you tried accessing the market through the browser? You will need to sign in...that may reestablish your link. I can't see why you need to go back to stock Honeycomb. It gets complicated getting cwm recovery back on (to stick).

I had a similar issue on my DHD. It turned out that your language needs to be US English.
Hope this helps

okantomi said:
Have you tried accessing the market through the browser? You will need to sign in...that may reestablish your link. I can't see why you need to go back to stock Honeycomb. It gets complicated getting cwm recovery back on (to stick).
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this is very very strange. I can open all other google services and sign in from the browser but not the market.android.com, its just NOT opening the signin page

GApps not working with CM7 ROM

I installed the CM7 port and the GApps, but my Google apps don't show up. I've tried reflashing the ROM and the GApps package over and over and clearing all the caches to no avail. Help?

you have to flash GAPPS separately. refer original post of CM7 thread and you will find the link

That's what I did. I flashed the ROM then I flashed the GApps, but they're still not showing up.

Ok that's weird. Can you pinpoint the exact steps you performed from download to copying to erasing to booting up? Each and every step please.

Sure thing.
I downloaded the ROM and the GApps package from the ROM's thread and stored the files on my desktop. While the downloads were going, I booted my phone into recovery and mounted the USB storage. I then plugged the phone into my computer and copied the files over before ejecting the USB device and unplugging the phone. I then wiped the user data, the cache, and the Dalvik cache and flashed the ROM, then, straight after, the GApps. I wiped the user data again just to be safe then rebooted back into the OS.
After it didn't work the first time, I downloaded the GApps again and copied them to my phone again, this time within the OS instead of the recovery. Rebooted, wiped user data, cache, and Dalvik cache, flashed the GApps, and nothing.
Not being sure if it was the ROM or the GApps package, I flashed the MIUI beta then flashed the GApps (using the same sequence of steps mentioned above) and it still didn't work, so it doesn't seem to be specific to CM7.

Ok try these steps:
1. Download the ROM
2. Download GApps from here: http://cmw.22aaf3.com/gapps/gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip
3. Wipe the big 3's (user data, cache and dalvik-cache).
4. Flash the ROM.
5. Flash Gapps.
6. Boot without erasing anything.

I followed your instructions exactly but I still have the same problem.
Interestingly, if I go into the list of installed applications in the settings, Market (but no other Google apps) shows up but it's greyed out and I don't have any options to run it or anything.

dftba said:
I followed your instructions exactly but I still have the same problem.
Interestingly, if I go into the list of installed applications in the settings, Market (but no other Google apps) shows up but it's greyed out and I don't have any options to run it or anything.
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Crap. Something's really not right. Can you give it a try with the SuperOSR ROM? Need to see if it's specific to the CM build.
EDIT: Can you try searching for the Market .apk file around the forum and install it manually? It should be somewhere in Themes&Apps section. Give that a try before trying with the SuperOSR ROM. Wipe, re-flash ROM, flash Market.apk, reboot.
Reason: the gapps provided by CM team are old (v2 market) and it might be that Google does not support v2 anymore since they've switched to Play Store. (not sure).

I did try with the MIUI ROM and the same thing happened, I don't think it's specific to your ROM build. Perhaps my phone just doesn't like Cyanogen's GApps package? No idea why that would be though.
Anyway, I did as you suggested and installed an APK and it worked! I found this one on Redmond Pie and put in the SD and installed it with the file browser on the phone. Seems to work fine so far

dftba said:
I did try with the MIUI ROM and the same thing happened, I don't think it's specific to your ROM build. Perhaps my phone just doesn't like Cyanogen's GApps package? No idea why that would be though.
Anyway, I did as you suggested and installed an APK and it worked! I found this one on Redmond Pie and put in the SD and installed it with the file browser on the phone. Seems to work fine so far
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Awesome!

While you're here, a bug I've noticed that's only popped up on your ROM is that, when I turn the phone off, sometimes the orange light stays on and the phone's completely frozen up until I pull the battery. It's only happened twice but I thought it might be something to look into.
Other than that, it's very good! I'm enjoying it, keep up the good work

dftba said:
While you're here, a bug I've noticed that's only popped up on your ROM is that, when I turn the phone off, sometimes the orange light stays on and the phone's completely frozen up until I pull the battery. It's only happened twice but I thought it might be something to look into.
Other than that, it's very good! I'm enjoying it, keep up the good work
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It's a CWM based problem. Update your CWM recovery to the latest one from the CWM thread in the Dev section and you are good to go.
Way too many CWM's in two sentences..

I'll do that now, cheers

Glad to know you are up and running, but it's still quite strange. Every time I flashed CM7.2 (it it was quite a lot of times GApps were there, Market included. Just running the Market app would actualize it to Play Store automagically.
Of course, as Alex says, it may not be supported by Google anymore, but still you should have gmail, etc from the zip file even without a working Play Store...
The issue was probably related to CWM, if you have an old enough version it could be messing up with the zip internals, but sometimes it's just anything else... (I installed the first CM9 alpha rom w/o problem, the second one wouldn't install, one week later, doing exactly the same with the same zip file, it installed flawlessly)
It may also be related to the specific terminal, I have noticed that depending on the device type (country of release, free or network operator locked, and so on) terminals behave a little bit different in some aspects (e.g. my GPS stopped working after unlocking the bootloader and was only fixed when I reflashed the radio firmware after getting S-OFF; and now, with the CM9 alpha, my keyboard won't get backlight while it's dark outside but adxl's is working fine, which is bad for debugging purposes, of course )
If you could make a backup and install SuperOSR and see if everything works fine the first time (even if you go back to CM afterwards, as I did) it may help to understand the issue better... Or maybe just posting your phone's specific data (model, build, country, etc) may give us a hint.
We know that free UK terminals are somewhat different to Spain free terminals, and those are a bit different from Orange or Yoigo locked terminals... It may be related to hardware batches out fro the factory, who knows?
Enjoy your ChaChaCha!

I think the problem was my CWM in the end. After I upgraded it (that alone included some trial and error, eventually the fastboot method worked) the GApps zips worked fine.
So if anyone else has this problem, check your CWM version and upgrade it if you need to

Can i Upgrade CWM without any change of my current OS ?
i actually couldnt go to Market after i flashed GServices. I downloaded newest Google Play in HTC Chacha apps, installed it and it work until now (of course wit GService flashed before).
Btw, how can i check my current CWM. Thanks!

Similar problem...
dftba said:
I installed the CM7 port and the GApps, but my Google apps don't show up. I've tried reflashing the ROM and the GApps package over and over and clearing all the caches to no avail. Help?
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Hello there!
I've came by to add my issue, similar to yours.
I was on CM7 too and wanted to try the SuperOSR ROM. I used the common steps for flash it (all cache Wiping and factory reseting, ROM installing, Gapps installing), rebooting my phone, connect it with a Google account, launched Gmail and then when I've arrived at a certain level of my mails, the app crash...
For the Google Play app, I've got a server connexion error...
It's like if all the Google's framework was here but totally not stable...
I've tried with an another ROM, the MUI ROM and everything works...
Like I said, I came from the CM7 ROM wich was working...
Alex C. said:
Ok try these steps:
1. Download the ROM
2. Download GApps from here: http://cmw.22aaf3.com/gapps/gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip
3. Wipe the big 3's (user data, cache and dalvik-cache).
4. Flash the ROM.
5. Flash Gapps.
6. Boot without erasing anything.
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I thinks I will try to do those steps and if it does not work...
dftba said:
I did try with the MIUI ROM and the same thing happened, I don't think it's specific to your ROM build. Perhaps my phone just doesn't like Cyanogen's GApps package? No idea why that would be though.
Anyway, I did as you suggested and installed an APK and it worked! I found this one on Redmond Pie and put in the SD and installed it with the file browser on the phone. Seems to work fine so far
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... this one.

After that you can install from market any google app you want (talk, search, etc.).

Alex C. said:
After that you can install from market any google app you want (talk, search, etc.).
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Strange... Was not working when I flashed the Gapps but worked when I've only flashed the ROM...

Alex C. said:
Ok try these steps:
1. Download the ROM
2. Download GApps (your link)
3. Wipe the big 3's (user data, cache and dalvik-cache).
4. Flash the ROM.
5. Flash Gapps.
6. Boot without erasing anything.
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Hi, I registered in this forum just to say THANK YOU SO MUCH! I was searching for that appropriate GApps for the CM7 I installed previously with the GApps for Ginger Bread (not the same with this link you posted) and it gave me a headache too. I tried flashing for 3x & the Gapps were not working. Then I tried this link and VOILA! Now my smile is from ear to ear.. so SALAMAT! (Tagalog word for THANK YOU). I'm from Philippines anyway. I bookmarked this page for future reference. A million thanks to XDA Developers and it's helpful members & thanks for welcoming me even I'm a noob.. :laugh::laugh:

Freezing Pico TTS Causes Home Screen tio Stop Working

When I use Titanium backup to freeze Pico TTS, upon reboot my home screen freezes for about a minute.
Anyone know what this app is??
James

JamesJoey said:
When I use Titanium backup to freeze Pico TTS, upon reboot my home screen freezes for about a minute.
Anyone know what this app is??
James
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I've uninsalled it now every time I start I am unable to anything for about a minute. No I made no backup.

It's Text To Speech app, I never had any problems removing it on CM7 and CM9
Sent from my LG-P999

I unfroze/froze it several times before I uninstalled it. Every time I froze it and boted up I was unable to anything in the home screen for nearly a minute... nothing when I tap an icon... nothing except the volume control and I was able to open the notification screen.
I also found that if I tap the hard 'Back' button when I first go to my Home screen this everything works ok.
I wonder if I can download the app form the internet. Problem is a search brings up "Pico" instead of "Pica".
James

JamesJoey said:
I unfroze/froze it several times before I uninstalled it. Every time I froze it and boted up I was unable to anything in the home screen for nearly a minute... nothing when I tap an icon... nothing except the volume control and I was able to open the notification screen.
I also found that if I tap the hard 'Back' button when I first go to my Home screen this everything works ok.
I wonder if I can download the app form the internet. Problem is a search brings up "Pico" instead of "Pica".
James
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No idea why it would do that, I've always removed it and haven't had any issues :|
What ROM did you remove it from you could just pull it from a zip and reinstall it

xBkKx said:
No idea why it would do that, I've always removed it and haven't had any issues :|
What ROM did you remove it from you could just pull it from a zip and reinstall it
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The factory ROM

JamesJoey said:
The factory ROM
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Which one, have you tried fixing permissions and wiping dalvik cache in CWM after deleting it?
Here is each of the app pulled from the Factory ROMs, you should just be able to flash the according zip through CWM.
Pico Tts Android 2.2.2
Pico Tts Android 2.3.3
Pico Tts Android 2.3.4

xBkKx said:
Which one, have you tried fixing permissions and wiping dalvik cache in CWM after deleting it?
Here is each of the app pulled from the Factory ROMs, you should just be able to flash the according zip through CWM.
Pico Tts Android 2.2.2
Pico Tts Android 2.3.3
Pico Tts Android 2.3.4
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First, I would like to try to reinstall it.
Second, how to fix permissions and wipe dalvik cach in CWM? Oh yeah, what is CW?

xBkKx said:
Which one, have you tried fixing permissions and wiping dalvik cache in CWM after deleting it?
Here is each of the app pulled from the Factory ROMs, you should just be able to flash the according zip through CWM.
Pico Tts Android 2.2.2
Pico Tts Android 2.3.3
Pico Tts Android 2.3.4
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I installed the newest Pico and the phone is working fine now! I don't know what it is about that but I couldn't do anything unless I tapped the Back button.
And where the heck did you find these links. I've been googling all night ring to find this. I even searched in Google Store and couldn't find it.
Anyway, It';s now doing it anymore.
Thanks much for providing me with the links to the apps.
James

CWM is ClockWorkMod, you can NvFlash it to your phone so you can backup/restore/install other ROMs: NvFlash CWM Guide
I got the apps from my backups of my phone
Sent from my LG-P999

xBkKx said:
CWM is ClockWorkMod, you can NvFlash it to your phone so you can backup/restore/install other ROMs: NvFlash CWM Guide
I got the apps from my backups of my phone
Sent from my LG-P999
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Oh yeah. The last time I did that I bricked my phone.
Now I'm a bit gun-shy.

[Q] Pac 4.3.0 Aosp Keyboard has stopped

Hello, I thought I'd try to post this here to see if any one else is experiencing this issue. I am running PAC 2.3.0, the 8/20/13 release. I have my tablet updated to the 4.2 boot loader via Version US_V10.6.1.15.3, and flashed this with TWRP 2.6 after wiping system, data cache and dalvik. After flashing the rom and the most current gapps (8/12/2013) every thing boots fine. Then I get to the setup screen and there is an error message displaying the AOSP keyboard has stopped.
I hit ok then try to enter my wifi password and some error just flickers too fast to see. I attach the keyboard dock and still no luck for typing. The home and other keys seem to function properly. After skipping through the setup I notice that the choose keyboard lay out notification in the status bar, but when choosing it the error message pops up that Settings has stopped. I have downloaded this twice onced on my pad and once from the pc. Nothing seems to be diffrent.
I know that this is still early in the game for 4.3 but, I can't be the only one experiencing this. I haven't seen any other posts on this, so if any of you out there have any ideas I am all ears. Thanks in advance.

It happened to be, but only when I tried swiping. What you are experiencing seems to be a bit more complex.
Are you able to install a different keyboard, like Go Keyboard?

I haven't tried that. I'll give it a shot.
Sent from my TF300T using XDA Premium HD

That happened to me as well but I flashed again,the rom and gapps and it worked fine

mikep2323 said:
That happened to me as well but I flashed again,the rom and gapps and it worked fine
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I will give it another try.
thanks!

JakaraRuus said:
I will give it another try.
thanks!
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I tried again last night. I did a dirty flash over 23 with a dalvik and cache wipe and a re-flash of the latest gapps. same deal. Then I tried with a full wipe and flash of the rc1 from 8/25 same thing except now it tells me who to blame when the keyboard stops. lol.
I have a d2vzw galaxy S III and it give the same keyboard error. So it isn't just our build.
*I found a solution a while ago, but have been too busy to post. I downloaded the official PA gApps for 4.3. Problem solved. The gApps on goo.im were form 4.2.2.*
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Blank screen after flashing new rom.!!?

Hi.!!
Did anyone encounter this blank/black home screen problem after flashing with 22/11/2013 or 24/11/2013 unofficial cyanogenmod 11 rom.!!?
Because I didn't have luck in using this nightly version of roms.!!
I flashed these 2 versions of roms and along with them flashed the latest pa gapps of 19/11/2013. Everything went fine, the flashing process, booting process and I even happen to enter my google account and then my home screen never came.!! I tried flashing a lot of times, wiping cache, format system but still the same.!!
The notification panel works fine and so do the apps/settings notification tray.!! After a long time of examination of where things went wrong, I found that google search did not get installed when I flashed the gapps which is a very essential app for launcher in kitkat.!! They did include this google search app in pa gapps but it didn't get installed.!!? How can this happen.!!
The only newest version am getting to use is 21/11/2013 version of this rom and google search gets installed on this rom no matter what.!!!
Some one can actually let me know why this app isn't getting installed.!!? Since am getting a complete blank home screen, I cannot access any apps. So no chance of downloading it through play store. Is there any other alternative to only flash a google search so that things start working.!!?
P.S: I did have the latest CWM version 6.0.4.3.!!

YES..
I flash another gaps..
this
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?a=show&w=files&flid=7993

htcmartin said:
YES..
I flash another gaps..
this
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?a=show&w=files&flid=7993
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Thanks mate.!! That indeed helped me.!!! But I wish I got the option of photosphere in camera as well.!!
Any idea why google search isn't getting installed with the complete gapps package.!!?
Is it only with nexus s or other mobiles too facing the same problem.!?