I can not install google apps on my rooted MTK6575 i9250 fom fanscoo
When i try to copy and paste google aps apk to system/app in R/O mode, no error shown but no resault of copy, i can not see and copied file in app folder
When i try to install gapps.zip in recovery there is an error
Invalif OTA package
update.zip is not correct
Installition aborted
Please help me i need google apps(play store, gmail, talk, also google account sync) on phone
(Preface for noobs : /system and /data are two different partitions. Freeying up /system won't get you more intrenal memory, but /data does. Old apks rest in /system and updated versions placed in /data. You can replace the old apks using newer versions)
I heared Titanium Backup PRO does something like, but you can do this with any File Explorer with ROOT access. Its works 100% for Android Gingerbread 2.3.x , try on other versions.
### Do it on your own risk, I am not responsible for anything ###
1. Update the desired app to the latest version from Google Play Store
2. Open File Manager, Enable ROOT_ACCESS, remount /System as writable
3. Goto /system/app and backup the desired apk to sdcard
4. Goto /data/app and copy updated apk
5. Paste into /System/app
6. Note down the filename of old apk and delete the old apk
7. Rename the new apk into the old filename
8. You may encounter a FORCE CLOSE if the app was running in background
9. The updated apk in /data/app will be removed automatically
10.Restart your device, Done!
I replaced Playstore, Maps, Google Search ect..
Example: For PlayStore, updated apk will be com.android.vending-1.apk, and old apk is vending.apk
Hit thanks it it works, Thanks
thanks, nice guide! All is ok (PlayStore, Terminal Emulator), but if I merge last version of "Google Play Service", then Gmail or Maps shows the message "Unknown issue with Google Play services" when I open them... do you know how to solve? thanks in advance
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Better use Link2SD. It makes the integration of updates into system seamless. Rebooting the device is optional (restart only if you encounter errors).
thank you for your suggestion! I tried TitaniumBackup but it gives me the same error, then now I'm trying with Link2sd and it works well, BUT the new apk file is in system/app instead of system/priv-app, and its name is "com.google.android.gms-1.apk" instead of "PrebuiltGmsCore.apk"... can this create some problems in future?
EDIT: I tried moving to the priv-app folder and renaming the apk to be identical as before and it seems to work... for now...
It's the package name, it won't create any problems. There is no need to rename the app to match the old one. Default location when converting to system app is in /system/app. I don't know if you can change the location, but you can move it manually to /system/priv-app thru root explorer. Just restart the device afterwards to eliminate FC errors.
So, I was looking around my ROM and I discovered this neat little trick.
You know when you power on the device after a factory reset, and that setup comes up? When it says it is communicating with the server, it is actually getting the features of your device and sending it to Google Play.
How does it get the features of the device you may be asking. Well, it parses the XML files located in the /system/etc/permissions directory!
So, how can we use this to our advantage? Well, we can add features to our device/ROM!
How to do this? Simple!
Step 1: Copy a file in that directory and paste it in the same directory. I recommend you use the Root Explorer app.
Step 2: Rename the new file with the feature you want - if you want the android.hardware.telephony feature, rename the file to android.hardware.telephony.xml
Step 3: Open the file in a text editor. Remove the <text> part of the name="<text>" tags, and replace the <text> with the feature name (the same as the file name, without the .xml extension)
Step 4: Save the file!
Step 4.5: Delete the backup file if using Root Explorer
Step 5: Open your System Settings menu and clear the app data and cache for the following apps:
Google Play Store
Google Services Framework
Package Installer
Setup Wizard
com.android.provision
Step 6: Reboot the device:
Step 7: Open the Google Talk app, and sign in to your account(s), sign out, then sign in again. Open Google Play, and see if you can install an app that needs the feature you just added!
List Of Features
No matter how hard you try, this wont add telephony to your wifi only tablet It only spoofs the features for Google Play - it doesn't actually add them, and some apps will force close if they really did need the feature you 'added'!
I want to install Google Play on my Chinese restricted (Google free) Android OS - just installing googleplay.apk causes it to close
Which other apk files need to be added/removed from/to the system\apps folder to allow me to install Google play apk
You need root for this guide and some root file manager like root explorer, es file explorer, fx file manager...
As you can see in title, we will uninstall system apps to free some memory and increase performance.
We can delete apps from /system/app and /system/priv-app
This is the list of apps that can be safely deleted from /system.
/system/app
Chrome
Duo
PinyinIME
ZhuyinIME
HindiIME
HandwritingIME
Keep
YouTube
Photos
Videos
Books
Music (Google Play Music)
Drive (Google Drive)
DM Policy (Google Apps Device Policy)
/system/priv-app
Velvet (Google) (you can't use Assistant when Google is uninstalled)
Comment if you see some other system app that can be safely deleted.