[Q] Google Talk issue since Synergy r169 (jan 10) - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

Hey folks! After years of using xda as a resource tinkering with my OG Droid back in the day, I've finally joined the community.
As it turns out, I flashed the latest release of Synergy on my Verizon GS3, and I love it. However, since doing that I cannot log into Google Talk. It acts as if it's logging in and then my name remains grey, my chat contacts don't appear, and I'm stuck with nothing
When I flashed Synergy I wiped cache, dalvik cache, it was a clean install. The app appears to be working in every way except for logging in, it doesn't even give the error that it cannot connect with the server. Also, I've tried wiping the data from the app, nothing. I unregistered my google account from the phone then added it back, and nothing changed.
Any ideas?

Attached a screenshot. It just sits on that screen.

Usually happens when you flash a modded version of Talk. Once you delete parts of it it won't flash. Reflash the rom with no mods then install any Talk as a data/app by clicking on it. Whatever app is in data/app will override the one in system app.

prdog1 said:
Usually happens when you flash a modded version of Talk. Once you delete parts of it it won't flash. Reflash the rom with no mods then install any Talk as a data/app by clicking on it. Whatever app is in data/app will override the one in system app.
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This led me to the solution. Thanks! Turns out my titanium backup messed with the gapps bundled with the rom. Had to start over fresh, so here I am with a seemingly brand new device.

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WiFi Tether stoped working!!!

WiFi tether was working a few days ago before I had to run the Sprint RUU. I went to use it today and it keeps force closing when I touch "Start Tethering"
I have re-rooted since I loaded the RUU.
Loaded Amon RA 1.5.1 Recovery Rom
I loaded Fresh 1.0 (I think it maybe a problem here)
Any Ideas from anyone?
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I had the same issue with Fresh 1.0. Just google search Wireless Tether, and download v1.70 from the website, and reinstall. Have you had any voicemail issues since fresh 1.0? I no longer have a voicemail app...?
Voice mail works fine for me.
Are you sure it is missing or just doesn't have an Icon???
Nope...It is gone...No .apk, nothing...and the phone no longer prompts when new voicemails come in..as in I checked yesterday and had 16 new voicemails! Haha.
Wow. I will post my APK later and see if it will install back on yours.
Thanks bro
I can't find an APK clearly called voicemail... if anyone knows where/what this thing is called I will pull it. Otherwise I am lost. I've looked all over the phone.
Found it!!
Let me know how this works. Not sure what all Spint_Core has in it...
That is the voice mail app alright...Problem is..I get this,
What program are you using to install it? I was having the same problem and was trying to install it with app manager through astro and it wasnt working. I did it a couple times and then i found tje vm app in the /system/app folder and i tried installing it from there and astro gave me the option of using package installer and it finally installed. I still didnt get vm notifications for a couplu days but then all of a sudden it starded working yesterday
Did you do a full wipe before installing Fresh? I kept having apps missing, force close issues; everytime I changed ROMS. I narrowed in down to apps2sd. If the apps were on my phone went I added the new rom, everything went smooth, the rom would move them after boot. But if they were already there, the rom would boot up, and not seem to find the programs. The only other workaround was using astrofilemanager and doing a apk backup and restore. Now if I switch, I do a full wipe and then restore all my settings/apps. Seems to work seamless that way.
I do not have apps2SD enabled (no ext part.) because I like to help test new roms...and things can get nasty. Yes, I did a full wipe when I did 1.0...No luck..It was like one day with 1.0 it was there, then poof...no dice. I even wiped and reinstalled 1.0 and no dice.
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I do not have apps2SD enabled (no ext part.) because I like to help test new roms...and things can get nasty. Yes, I did a full wipe when I did 1.0...No luck..It was like one day with 1.0 it was there, then poof...no dice. I even wiped and reinstalled 1.0 and no dice.
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Maybe we can direct Flipz this way, its his rom maybe he knows of something.

[ROM]FRF91 AOSP Fission - Beta II

RC 1 can now be found HERE
Here is a mirror
How to get back to stock if you are having issues:
1. You will need to flash a sbf, you can find guides here for Windows and here for Linux.
2. Reboot recovery by pressing X on the keyboard and turning it on
3. Press the search key so a menu pops up
4. Navigate to wipe data with the volume keys. Select with the camera button.
5. Then navigate to reboot with the volume keys and select with the camera key.
You are back to stock and you can root!
The File Manager was included in this rom so you are able to install the Bootstrap application so you can restore a back up or flash a different rom. Wipe your data after this.
Bugs
Bugs go here
Sweet, i am so excited for this. Gonna install it as soon as I get a chance, downloading now. I can't wait to see if you guys figure out custom kernels
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I'm real curious to hear what you guys found that will allow custom kernels on this phone. I already read over what birdman and nenolod were trying and it seems they threw in the towel. I read some other posts on droidforums about initiating essentially a second boot second to trick the phone into loading a custom kernel, but nothing more on that topic. Really curious to see how you might be able to implement this
Nice work guys. I will probably give this a try this weekend.
I too would like to hear your theory on how to get a new kernel on the phone. Not in a hurry to see it happen, but just curious to hear the underlying theory.
Though, I do understand if you are waiting to get it released before sharing. Just don't forget to let the community know when/if you get it worked out. It will open a lot of doors for some of these rom cookers around here, and rom cookers of the future.
and just installed it, sans computer intervention (thank god nothing went wrong or I'd be SOL for 5 hours lol, im at work)
mounted, wiped cache/data, remounted, installed, remounted, and wiped cache/data again just to be safe
now I'm waiting for it to restore all my apps and stuff so I can get everything reconfigured and have a glorious blur free phone! thank you so much devs, this is fantastic
Hey guys, awesome ROM! Very stable so far!
One thing I noticed: The "Car Home" application shows up in Android Market, but the update fails when attempting to apply it. Not sure what the cause of this is just yet. If I can glean more information from my own testing, will let you know.
Thanks again for the work you've put into this!
- Andy
AndyRoss said:
Hey guys, awesome ROM! Very stable so far!
One thing I noticed: The "Car Home" application shows up in Android Market, but the update fails when attempting to apply it. Not sure what the cause of this is just yet. If I can glean more information from my own testing, will let you know.
Thanks again for the work you've put into this!
- Andy
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I am not sure why that happens, but if you really want the new one from market, you can just remove it from /system/app and then it will install fine from market. I have had that issue with other apps before. Honestly, with a lot of these apps in the market now, there really isn't much need to include them in the rom.
Seems to work pretty well. Got stuck in a boot loop because I didn't wipe my data, so I rebooted recovery and wiped it. Problem solved.
The only problem I'm having is that I can't get Backup Assistant to work, so I can't restore my phone numbers.
I downloaded the stock app rar, and tried doing an ADB install for BackupAssistanceClient and BuaContactAdapter, but I get "Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_DEXOPT]".
I tried copying over BuaContactAdapter.apk and BackupAssistanceClient.apk manually (to /system/app) and setting permissions, but that doesn't seem to do anything.
Any ideas?
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Any ideas?
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Export your contacts from the verizon website and then take that file and import it into gmail and sync your contatcs with gmail. Then, it doesn't matter which rom you install you'll have your contacts.
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Phoible said:
Seems to work pretty well. Got stuck in a boot loop because I didn't wipe my data, so I rebooted recovery and wiped it. Problem solved.
The only problem I'm having is that I can't get Backup Assistant to work, so I can't restore my phone numbers.
I downloaded the stock app rar, and tried doing an ADB install for BackupAssistanceClient and BuaContactAdapter, but I get "Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_DEXOPT]".
I tried copying over BuaContactAdapter.apk and BackupAssistanceClient.apk manually (to /system/app) and setting permissions, but that doesn't seem to do anything.
Any ideas?
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Here's what I did with another ROM. Go to VZW with your pc. Navigate to contacts. Export contact list as Outlook CSV. Go to your gmail acct and import the CSV. Sync phone contacts to gmail. Important to do the outlook export though. Regular CSV doesn't populate gmail contacts properly.
Just a quick question. If and when we flash this, are we still rooted? If so, can I just install bootstrap and reboot recovery and restore? Or do i have to do the whole root process again like if it was an original phone from store?
one thing with the bootloader i remember when i first got my eris was people on the fourms would keep emailing htc for the bootloader keys because it was hard to crack and htc gave them up ... maybe if we flood moto with emails and stuff they'll loosen up like htc
DL'ing now. If you guys want another mirror let me know.
When I get a phone call the sliders are messed up
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When I get a phone call the sliders are messed up
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x2 with this. If I'm not mistaken you already knew about that in the alpha build thread...but just saying.
also, still not getting the touchscreen dialer on the activation page.
Coderedpl said:
Just a quick question. If and when we flash this, are we still rooted? If so, can I just install bootstrap and reboot recovery and restore? Or do i have to do the whole root process again like if it was an original phone from store?
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Yes, it comes with root. No, you do not want to restore. Restoring will bring you back to the backup you created. This rom comes with Superuser.apk (root) no need to re-root.
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I seem to remember the alpha thread saying not to flash themes over this....but don't think it was mentioned this go round....still the case? (assume so). Figured it was worth noting in the first post if that's the case.
Also....I just installed this, and am also stuck unable to get it programmed.
First time it started the music and then got a failed message. Since then I don't even get the music, and after 20 seconds or so I just get a "Please enter the # you're calling about" message and if entered, it just tries to transfer me to cust service.
one. said:
I seem to remember the alpha thread saying not to flash themes over this....but don't think it was mentioned this go round....still the case? (assume so). Figured it was worth noting in the first post if that's the case.
Also....I just installed this, and am also stuck unable to get it programmed.
First time it started the music and then got a failed message. Since then I don't even get the music, and after 20 seconds or so I just get a "Please enter the # you're calling about" message and if entered, it just tries to transfer me to cust service.
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Have you tried *22899 send? Should go straight into programing the phone

Problems with Titanium Backup's "Integrate system app updates into ROM" feature.

Problems with Titanium Backup's "Integrate system app updates into ROM" feature.
I searched, but didn't find any documentation on this feature, so I did the adventurous thing and tried it out. It's supposed to replace the system apps in the ROM with the updated apk, therefore saving space in the system memory. But after the batch finished, all of the updated apps were completely gone...the originals AND the updates were deleted. Since there isn't a way to "undo" this function, I had to reflash the ROM. Does anyone know more about this option? Does it work with any ROM?
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I searched, but didn't find any documentation on this feature, so I did the adventurous thing and tried it out. It's supposed to replace the system apps in the ROM with the updated apk, therefore saving space in the system memory. But after the batch finished, all of the updated apps were completely gone...the originals AND the updates were deleted. Since there isn't a way to "undo" this function, I had to reflash the ROM. Does anyone know more about this option? Does it work with any ROM?
Sent from my Evo with the xda app
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If your rooted you can replace them yourself.
deafcon5 said:
I searched, but didn't find any documentation on this feature, so I did the adventurous thing and tried it out. It's supposed to replace the system apps in the ROM with the updated apk, therefore saving space in the system memory. But after the batch finished, all of the updated apps were completely gone...the originals AND the updates were deleted. Since there isn't a way to "undo" this function, I had to reflash the ROM. Does anyone know more about this option? Does it work with any ROM?
Sent from my Evo with the xda app
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I faced the same probs. But here is a few tips to get back your app:
1. Use titanium backup, run Batch, uninstall those apps that you have moved to ROM (which already highlighted in Red)
2. Find install apks for those apps in Google, reinstall it
3. Reboot your device
4. All app icons have back
Have fun, mate!!
winbytrick said:
I faced the same probs. But here is a few tips to get back your app:
1. Use titanium backup, run Batch, uninstall those apps that you have moved to ROM (which already highlighted in Red)
2. Find install apks for those apps in Google, reinstall it
3. Reboot your device
4. All app icons have back
Have fun, mate!!
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I had the same problem; with the Android Market app disappeared. I have tried to re-install it the way you suggest, but the app stops working when I start any download from the market. Even reset the phone to factory settings, but I have the same problem. Any clue?
Thanks!!!
I just did a hot restart and it was fine for me.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA on Fresh 4.3.3
deafcon5 said:
I searched, but didn't find any documentation on this feature, so I did the adventurous thing and tried it out. It's supposed to replace the system apps in the ROM with the updated apk, therefore saving space in the system memory. But after the batch finished, all of the updated apps were completely gone...the originals AND the updates were deleted. Since there isn't a way to "undo" this function, I had to reflash the ROM. Does anyone know more about this option? Does it work with any ROM?
Sent from my Evo with the xda app
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I was having a similar problem with my Galaxy Note on ICS 4.04.
Whenever I tried to integrate the Play Store it would delete both the update and the old app and I would have to reinstall the APK.
I also noticed recently that a few other updates that appeared to be integrated successfully reappeared in the list of available updates to integrate, like they reverted to user apps after a reboot?
What finally fixed it for me was selecting the option in Titanium Backup Pro *Menu; Preferences; Advanced Settings; Check the box "Auto-integrate sys Dalvik into"
I then did a backup of my launcher app, long pressed on the backup and selected "Convert to System App", then single pressed on the app backup, selected restore then selected app data only"
It prompted me to reboot, after reboot when I checked the"batch, integrate updates into system ROM" all the apps which I was having problems with had disappeared from the list, and appear to be integrated now.
I don't know if it was the reboot or enabling the option in Titanium Backup, but something changed.
I have some problems also
I used Titanium mainly to integrate the updates into rom in my previous htc sensation and in my galaxy s3 and it worked fine with them. Now it does not work properly with my galaxy s4. After the integration some apps crash, Chrome, Dropbox. Some of them only delete the update and leave the old one in rom. If I go to google play the update is there to be installed again or some apps just prompt for the update when opened. I sent an email to the developer but I have not response. I have used it successfully in my previous phones but it is not working in this one. Any help is appreciated.
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I used Titanium mainly to integrate the updates into rom in my previous htc sensation and in my galaxy s3 and it worked fine with them. Now it does not work properly with my galaxy s4. After the integration some apps crash, Chrome, Dropbox. Some of them only delete the update and leave the old one in rom. If I go to google play the update is there to be installed again or some apps just prompt for the update when opened. I sent an email to the developer but I have not response. I have used it successfully in my previous phones but it is not working in this one. Any help is appreciated.
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Yep, I'm having this exact problem. First the apps didn't show up, so I performed a hot restart. They're all back now, but Dropbox, Chrome, G+ and others that were integrated are all crashing now.
I imagine it's mostly to so with new security features with the S4. If you're using an S4 please stay away from this feature until it's officially recognised as an issue by the TitaniumBackup developer. I'll reflash PDA shortly and report back if that resolves the problem.
chrisfu said:
Yep, I'm having this exact problem. First the apps didn't show up, so I performed a hot restart. They're all back now, but Dropbox, Chrome, G+ and others that were integrated are all crashing now.
I imagine it's mostly to so with new security features with the S4. If you're using an S4 please stay away from this feature until it's officially recognised as an issue by the TitaniumBackup developer. I'll reflash PDA shortly and report back if that resolves the problem.
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I did reflash the phone with the stock firmware and everithing is good. I have tried some apps but it did not work. I just leave them there until titanium backup is updated. This is the most used feature for me and now is not working.
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I used Titanium mainly to integrate the updates into rom in my previous htc sensation and in my galaxy s3 and it worked fine with them. Now it does not work properly with my galaxy s4. After the integration some apps crash, Chrome, Dropbox. Some of them only delete the update and leave the old one in rom. If I go to google play the update is there to be installed again or some apps just prompt for the update when opened. I sent an email to the developer but I have not response. I have used it successfully in my previous phones but it is not working in this one. Any help is appreciated.
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Titanium Backup's update this week supposedly fixed integrating on Android 4.2. Who's up to try it out?
M3wThr33 said:
Titanium Backup's update this week supposedly fixed integrating on Android 4.2. Who's up to try it out?
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I will try one of the apps that did not work for me, when I get home. I already updated it today. Thanks
rdefranx said:
I will try one of the apps that did not work for me, when I get home. I already updated it today. Thanks
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It's been a week. Tried it yet?
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It's been a week. Tried it yet?
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Sorry, I have been busy to come back. Well, some work, others no. Chrome did not work but I did google Maps, google play, and several other updates. I did not mess with ChatOn since if something goes wrong it could break S voice and S translator. I just did now Google music and Flipboard. Usually I have to reboot in order to have the shortcut in the apps or to fix the name of them. For example, after integrate flipboard is in the drawer with the name and no icon, it launched fine, google music was fine and worked fine. After reboot the icon came back. The only problem is that if does not work then I have to convert the system app to user in order to make it work. Yesterday I converted the jelly bean photosphere camera to system and it was converted but did not work. It force close, then I tried to converted to user app and it took a long time and just was frozen there. I stopped TB but the camera disapear from the drawer, since rebooting fix the icon or name problem, I did it. My phone did not pass the samsung galaxy logo on boot. It was just a black screen after the logo and pressing the power button did not power on or off when I pressed, only when I released. Lucky me that I did a NAND backup before this process and still I could access download mode and the CWM which I used to restore my phone with the backup in my external card. After everything was as before I started. Now I will be more careful when I do this doing a backup before starting.
Samsung Link update integration did not work, force close. Samsung Hub worked but when press the back button to close then force close. Group play seems to work since it opens and go to the start page and no problem when I press the back button.
Still having same problem
Several programs quit working after converting apps to rom. I couldn't get them to work and finally put the locked rom back in, then unlocked it again. I have a verizon galaxy s4 me7 sch-I545 and the update didn't help here.
i want to know if i do this method, does the phone memory will get smaller if i do this again if the system apps getting new update?
hey there,
i have to grab out this thread because i have problems too. almost every app i integrate into system rom force closes, when i try to start it.
even chmod a+x didn't make it better (but the other apps in /system/app are not executable, so this had no sense).
i'm using the latest cm11 nightly for the motorola photon q. is there a known solution?
I have the same issue with this function as rdefranx.
After the integrate process, all updates are fine and i have the old versions again which i have to update. Repeated the process with single apps with showing same results again.
I also sent an so to the developer, but that's a shame: You never ever get an answer if you have a problem with titanium backup.
The app is good and helped me a lot. But shame on the non existing support. Really disappointing and unprofessional. Oh yes: i paid for the app. Thank you.
Hi, I just quit using his feature. I don't know if will work with my note 3 because I don't want to have problems. I will be subscribing to this thread in case a solution is found.
Also happened to me 4 days ago using a Moto X. Except for me it also deleted the Google keyboard & play store among others.
So I was left with no keyboard to type with and no play store to download from. After a factory rest it meant that by having no keyboard I couldn't even type anything on my phone to create a google account to restore the aps & Keyboard with. I had to reflash the whole rom again, and will stay clear of integrating the apks. I did this 4 days ago, so i'm not sure if titanium has updated since then.
Same problem with me. LG G2 Mini Official KK4.4.2 rooted, after Integrating system apps in ROM almost all of them crashing. Don't think that has to do with titanium, but with the android version. I used tha feature on my old LG P350 (stock rom+cm) and worked perfectly. But now in kitkat is messing up. Btw i'm using the latest version of titanium pro

Factory Reset - Not very happy - No Market :-(

Hi - I have the stock rooted EE4 ROM, and I needed to do a factory reset this afternoon. Before the reset, I backed up all my apps with MyBackup Pro.
While it restored mostly OK, I seem to be stuck now.
A number of my apps show that they need to be updated.
However, my Market app is the old one (probably the one that was embedded in the ROM). Now, whenever I try to update (or, install) any of my apps, the download just seems to abort after a second, and none of my apps are getting updated/installed.
It doesn't matter if it is a new or old app - nothing gets downloaded. I do have 3G/4G data available, since I can browse OK, and the Market does show apps in its GUI.
How do I fix this?
Thanks ...
¿GotJazz? said:
Hi - I have the stock rooted EE4 ROM, and I needed to do a factory reset this afternoon. Before the reset, I backed up all my apps with MyBackup Pro.
While it restored mostly OK, I seem to be stuck now.
A number of my apps show that they need to be updated.
However, my Market app is the old one (probably the one that was embedded in the ROM). Now, whenever I try to update (or, install) any of my apps, the download just seems to abort after a second, and none of my apps are getting updated/installed.
It doesn't matter if it is a new or old app - nothing gets downloaded. I do have 3G/4G data available, since I can browse OK, and the Market does show apps in its GUI.
How do I fix this?
Thanks ...
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Go settings=>applications=>manage applications=>all applications=>market and clear data on the market. Also if you used the factory reset through settings=>privacy, you should never do this from a custom ROM. You should only use that option from a stock ROM.
Awesome, Landshark! That worked!
If I could "thank" you 5 times, I would!
Cheers!

Verizon Galaxy S III (d2vzw): Persistent Google Wallet [ROOT]

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ATT seems to work
Sweet idea! Just tried this on an ATT GS3 and it seems fine. I did not test other apps. I do get an unsupported device tag at the top in the app but I don't think that impedes the function. When I use the Nexus device device, name and model (maguro, yakju and Galaxy Nexus) I don't get the warning but probably more likely to end up with incompatible apps.
Do you reset Google Wallet prior to flashing a new rom or do you just have the build.prop update before you run wallet?
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I'm confused. I have Wallet installed on my Verizon GS3 and I have no problems now. I am rooted and running Synergy ROM. When installed Wallet, I had to use a patched APK and edit my build.prop prior to installing Wallet to trick the phone similarly to what your script does (Galaxy Nexus, yakju, and maguro instead) After installing and setting up Wallet, I restored my original SCH-I535, d2vzw, d2vzw settings in build.prop and rebooted again. I am running Wallet no problems and it doesn't even tell me that I am using an unsupported device.
When I reboot my phone, it does not affect Wallet and my build.prop is not modified. I don't understand why someone would need your script to keep modifying the build.prop to say it is the pretend device? Please don't take my reply wrong, I'm simply trying to figure out what I am missing, not be a jerk.
I am always leary about leaving my build.prop modified because you trick other things into thinking your phone is something it is not. I feel this leaves you open to potential problems. I used Goo Manager the other day to see if there were any updates for my ROM and because of a modified build.prop it thought my phone was an AT&T GS3 and if I had downloaded and tried to flash an AT&T ROM I might have bricked it. I'm not sure, but I wouldn't want to take that chance. Also, isn't there a possibility of downloading an app from the Play Store that is only for the Sprint phone you're pretending to be and causing problems?
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Hi Jeremiah,
Thanks for the info. Just so you know, I used that Google installer few weeks ago and it worked fine. I changed to a new ROM last week and forgot to reset wallet before switching which caused bunch of problems. I was able to fix them but the installer did not work for me anymore. I was however able to get wallet working by manually editing build.prop and installing a patched apk of wallet. After wallet was up and running, I reverted back to the d2vzw and SCH-I535 version of build.prop. So you know, I have my correct build prop AND a working Google wallet. I can send you the link but its the Verizon Google wallet thread in the mods and app forum under Verizon GS3. I understand if you switch ROMs it would need to be reset and build prop edited again, but I don't think the is a need to keep your build prop edited unless you are using the play version of wallet. Perhaps the link could get you the patched version and that might help.
Take care,
Jim
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jeremiahmegel said:
As I recall, the patched APK isn't the newest version/update of Google Wallet, right? That's why I'm using the Play Store version: to receive updates to the app. If you don't care about updates, though, I suppose your way of doing things would be best. (I don't think it works throughout ROM updates, though. Let me know if I'm wrong about this.)
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Oh OK... I'm not sure but that makes sense... You would know more than me! Thanks... Again I was just looking for clarification. Thanks for your work. Good luck.
Jim
jeremiahmegel said:
The "Unsupported device." error only shows up if you're running Google Wallet on a rooted device (unsurprisingly); you're right that it doesn't impede the function. And you don't need to do anything as the user before or after flashing a new ROM; once you update the ROM, your phone should reboot automatically within a minute or two of starting up to put the new build.prop into effect! Simply install this once and don't worry about it again! (Unless, of course, you uninstall Tasker or wipe your phone or something.)
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So to clarify, when you say:
"And you don't need to do anything as the user before or after flashing a new ROM"
Do you really mean "you still have to reset Google Wallet before flashing a new ROM"?
Also, I'm wondering if it's possible that modifying build.prop might cause my Nfc.apk to stop functioning. I'm wondering this because it stopped functioning (after using 'Google Wallet Installer' - which does replace nfc.apk I believe, so that could be it, but not sure).
calaski8123 said:
Hi Jeremiah,
Thanks for the info. Just so you know, I used that Google installer few weeks ago and it worked fine. I changed to a new ROM last week and forgot to reset wallet before switching which caused bunch of problems. I was able to fix them but the installer did not work for me anymore. I was however able to get wallet working by manually editing build.prop and installing a patched apk of wallet. After wallet was up and running, I reverted back to the d2vzw and SCH-I535 version of build.prop. So you know, I have my correct build prop AND a working Google wallet. I can send you the link but its the Verizon Google wallet thread in the mods and app forum under Verizon GS3. I understand if you switch ROMs it would need to be reset and build prop edited again, but I don't think the is a need to keep your build prop edited unless you are using the play version of wallet. Perhaps the link could get you the patched version and that might help.
Take care,
Jim
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Jim will you please tell me how you fixed it? I did not reset Wallet before installing a new ROM a couple months ago and unfortunately all my nandroids are bad due to a CWM bug involving partitions (I didn't do anything to my partition structure manually...).
Thanks a lot!
Hi,
I'll tell you what I did, but I was just trying anything so I'm not sure if I got lucky or if you have to do everything I say... First I went into application manager and I cleared all data and updates from wallet. Then I rebooted into recovery and did full wipe 3x. Then I went onto Google on my laptop and logged in. Go to wallet and then to your activated devices. Not sure what they are called but you will see all your devices that have wallet. Some might day deactivated. If there are any active then disable or remove them. I don't remember what the term is Google uses to Deactivate. Once you have no active wallet applications left on Google go back to your phone. Install the working ROM or good backup. I had a good backup with wallet working...i was able to restore that nandroid and reset wallet from within the app so that i could then install the new ROM. then After setup, reboot again and wipe dalvic cache in recovery. Then try to install wallet again. Thats pretty much how I got it fixed... The key was getting it deactivated online.
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Oh and I uninstalled wallet after clearing the cache and updates.. Forgot that part sorry.
Jim
I followed the instructions to the T and it worked perfectly. Thank you. But my question is, what happens to the Tasker Profile? After, I went back in to check out what you did. I am a relatively new Tasker user and was curious about what all was intailed. But when I went back the profile was gone and the only sign that I had imported the xml file was two variables. Is it supposed to disapear?
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jeremiahmegel said:
As I recall, the patched APK isn't the newest version/update of Google Wallet, right? That's why I'm using the Play Store version: to receive updates to the app. If you don't care about updates, though, I suppose your way of doing things would be best. (I don't think it works throughout ROM updates, though. Let me know if I'm wrong about this.)
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Correct, the patches lag behind the updates somewhat. You can only use Play Store Wallet if you build.prop matches Play Store Wallet accepted devices (d2spr being one of them). For this reason, I prefer to wait for the updated patched version - if you do that, you can keep d2vzw or whatever you want in your build.prop
As far as resetting when changing ROMs, back when everything was stored on the secure element resetting was a big pain in the ass. I don't even bother anymore - there's a separate "reset wallet" option in the menu of the actual app (different than clearing app data), but you don't need to use it. I just keep a version of Wallet Installer V3 in TiBu, and restore it after installing a new rom. After restoring Wallet Installer, just run it once and then reset build.prop - the installer downloads the latest patched Wallet.apk.
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No, it is not supposed to disappear. Since Tasker updated its UI, Step 4 ("Tap the green check-mark at the bottom-left of the screen to save the profile.") is no longer available. Instead, press the back button or home button on your phone (or just switch to another app) to save the profile, then continue to Step 5. Let me know if this works. Nice to know that I could help you get Google Wallet up and running!
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I tried going through the steps again but I cant get Tasker to recognize the xml file when going through the import sequence. I downloaded and extracted (when extracrted its another file folder with the xml file in it), placed it on the root of my internal sd card. I go into tasker to import. It recognizes the file folder but when I select it, there isn't anything inside. Tasker wont recognize the basic xml file. I remeber when I first did this, the xml file was recognized without being in a folder. I can plainly see the xml file on the root of the sd card from Root Explorer in ROM toolbox. Would have it something to do with the permissions of the xml file? I show the permissions as rw-rw-r--.
I think I know why I am having to go this. I didn't follow the step to the T. I clicked "Run" before saving becasue I didn't see the green checkmark.
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jeremiahmegel said:
What is the file name of your XML file?
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I have the actually xml file on my sd card. It is named Replace_build.prop.prf.xml
When i go to the file through Root Browser in ROM Toolbox, its visible. I click it and it presents me with options to open it. I select Tasker and is says "Failed to move import to my sd directory"
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I have the actually xml file on my sd card. It is named Replace_build.prop.prf.xml
When i go to the file through Root Browser in ROM Toolbox, its visible. I click it and it presents me with options to open it. I select Tasker and is says "Failed to move import to my sd directory"
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I am not what was happening but I updated to CM10.1.0 RC2. I cleared anything I had tried previously with this tut. redownloaded the file and went though everthing again. It worked and the tasker profile stuck this time. Thanks for the help.
Great write up. Very simple to install. Google wallet was installed and running in less than 5 minutes. Thank you!
Galaxy S3 :good:
MOAR :BetteR:
Can anyone confirm this method works with 4.3? I made the jump to CM10.2 Nightly 8/27 (and tried 8/14, I think) and my phone goes into bootloop. It was working fine on CM10.1.2.
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