[Q] Market Updater Gone? - Nook Color General

I just flashed nightly 173 over nightly 155...hadn't updated in a while. Because of the problems with the new market excluding apps for the Nook, I had previously renamed /system/app/Marketupdater.apk to /system/app/Marketupdater.BAK after uninstalling market updates to get back to the old market. This worked well as I kept the old market and my device no longer tried to update to the new market. I just tried to do the same thing with nightly 173, but cannot find the market updater app. Does anyone know if this has been excluded in the newer nightly builds to keep the old market and negate the need to 'freeze' or rename the app? Or am I just going senile and can't find the apk where I think it should be?

xdajunkman said:
I just flashed nightly 173 over nightly 155...hadn't updated in a while. Because of the problems with the new market excluding apps for the Nook, I had previously renamed /system/app/Marketupdater.apk to /system/app/Marketupdater.BAK after uninstalling market updates to get back to the old market. This worked well as I kept the old market and my device no longer tried to update to the new market. I just tried to do the same thing with nightly 173, but cannot find the market updater app. Does anyone know if this has been excluded in the newer nightly builds to keep the old market and negate the need to 'freeze' or rename the app? Or am I just going senile and can't find the apk where I think it should be?
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Unless you reflash GAPPS, you're not going to get Market anything changing, as that's all in the GAPPS zip.

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[Q] Updating Apps when Market Won't do it?

Am running Phiremod 5.1 and am able to use market to find and install apps, but updates are no longer happening. I tried Atrackdog and AppBrain, but which recognize when an app is out of date, but when they go to market to update, I get the "the requested item could not be found." If I manually go to market and search for the app, it will recognize that the desired app needs updating, and it will allow me to update it.
I've tried clearing the Market cache, but this doesn't change the behavior.
Am running market version 2.3.6.
I used to have Market issues on my Froyo ROM but I recently switched to CM7 and have had no issues. Have you tried wiping your Market Cache+Data? If you still can't get it to work PM me and I can get some of the updates for you and send you the APKs.
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Dual Boot both on emmc - new market issue

Have Nook Color setup to dual boot from emmc. Interesting experience.
Have the standard OS rooted, etc. Using CM7 nightly for regular boot.
Issue is this. On the standard (Nook) OS I can go into the market (older market) and install the Net Swiss Tool (Net Tools (AdS) in the market) and textwarrior without any problems.
When I am booted into latest CM7 nightly with the latest market I can search and select these two apps but I do not get the install button. Acts like it thinks that this app does not apply to this OS/device. When I ran from the SD card for CM7 nightly (139 level I think) I could install but this load had the older market app.
I thought of trying the older market but do not have the apk file. Looks like the latest CM7 nightlies includes the new market. I did not install the new market separately.
Am wondering if there is a way to grab say the apk file from the Nook standard load and copy to sd card then boot CM7 and install from there.
Suggestions are welcome.
--bill
The new market is device aware and usually will not allow you to install software on devices that don't meet requirements (needs GPS, etc).
I don't have my laptop handy at work, but is the old market able to be pulled from the older gapps zips?
biohazrd51 said:
The new market is device aware and usually will not allow you to install software on devices that don't meet requirements (needs GPS, etc).
I don't have my laptop handy at work, but is the old market able to be pulled from the older gapps zips?
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Looks like you were correct with the market being too smart.
Pulled the vending.apk from the old gapps zip. When I ran it asked if I wanted to remove and I said yes. What happened it looks like, is that the new market was removed but the old is now there and YES it sees the applications in question and allows installing.
THANKS for the suggestion. Just what I needed.
--bill
Just did a nightly update. The old market is still there. Yippy.
--bill

Market 3.0.27 Force Close

I went to CM7 this week (the nightly for the 22nd) and ever since then my Market will FC and crash within 10 seconds of opening it. I have tried reinstalling the Gapps zip, both the old Market (which updates itself) and the most recent one with 3.0.27 in it and it keeps crashing. I'm going to try and do a factory reset and freeze the Market updater and see if that will let me have Market access, but has anyone else figured out how to use 3.0.27 on CM7 without it crashing?

[Q] Installing an apk w/out market

In the ongoing battle to not have the market crash on launch (rooted stock 1.3 running 4.6.16 and I fixed permissions with ROM manager) I've noticed that titanium backup seems to be a start for a few potential fixes. That said - I have to actually install the bloody thing and w/out market access that's proving tough.
I d'loaded the apk via. the built-in browser. It's on my SD card. But I can't seem to find any way for the built-in app-laucher to....well, launch. When I run the apk's from the browser I get 2 options:
Complete action (running apk) using:
* App Installer (which when clicked says it's unable to install and that I should archive then unarchive the app and try again)
* Package installer (which says there's a prob. parsing the package).
I've got what I assume to be non-market app's checked off in NC Tools (it's the blank box in NC Tools with nothing next to it that people talk about).
Any suggestions to get the bloody apk working?
Sounds like a badly packaged .apk. It also has that error whenever I try to install Honeycomb specific apps.
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Did you enable non-market installs?
Do as Dizzy said or find another apk to install, if it keep crashing then try install some another ROM like CM7.
DizzyDen said:
Did you enable non-market installs?
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In the NC tools I do have what is supposed to be the non-market installs checked off (but with it being a blank box of text next to it, I'm not positive).
I guess it might be a bad apk, but I got it from the TB site directly. I tried ES File Explorer too. It would seem all apk's I'ev tried give the same error. I'm not sure if maybe B&N somehow hobbled the ability to install apk's with their 1.3 update.
hwangjini said:
Do as Dizzy said or find another apk to install, if it keep crashing then try install some another ROM like CM7.
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I had CM7 on for a few days, but with the market not working well on it (market determined that the nook wasn't compatible with any of the apps, even with the LCD resize), and with a subscription to PC mag via. B&N I went back to stock rooted 1.3.
Any other suggestions? I was thinknig of trying MIUI if things in CM7 or the Nootered stock don't resolve themselves.
jnmoriginpoint said:
I had CM7 on for a few days, but with the market not working well on it (market determined that the nook wasn't compatible with any of the apps, even with the LCD resize), and with a subscription to PC mag via. B&N I went back to stock rooted 1.3.
Any other suggestions? I was thinknig of trying MIUI if things in CM7 or the Nootered stock don't resolve themselves.
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MIUI is just a themed outdated cm7. I don't see how that would help.
Can you get any .apks to install?
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I just finished the Android SDK/Java route to push apk's to the NC. I've successfully installed Titanium, ES File explorer, Opera Mobile and SwiFTP to my NC via the SDK route. While I don't have market access, I guess it will be ok for now....I sure wish the Market worked properly though....nice 'n convenient. Ah well.
[EDIT] One thing I did try to get the market to work was uninstall Flash 10.3. I put on 10.2 & reset permissions. No dice for what it's worth....if somebody's keeping a list of things that don't work.
koopakid08 said:
MIUI is just a themed outdated cm7. I don't see how that would help.
Can you get any .apks to install?
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Interestingly, if I try to use the default browser to install appbrain (www.appbrain.com/install), or even Opera mobile to install it, .... it results in a flash screen (rotating flash dots in the middle) that crashes after a second....just like when I (attempt to) launch the Market.

[Q] GenieWidget (News & Weather)

Is there a version that I can successfully sideload onto a stock Nook HD? I use ADB to sideload.
What I've tried: the last available Market version (found from another source). A slightly earlier version (2.0). The last version available from the Market before it disappeared installed OK but was unstable. Version 2.0 and others I've tried fail to install, complaining about signatures. I'm guessing this is because GenieWidget is actually a system app (although it will run outside the system/app folder) and so its signature has to match the rest of the Google system?
Any thoughts or success stories?
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Is there a version that I can successfully sideload onto a stock Nook HD? I use ADB to sideload.
What I've tried: the last available Market version (found from another source). A slightly earlier version (2.0). The last version available from the Market before it disappeared installed OK but was unstable. Version 2.0 and others I've tried fail to install, complaining about signatures. I'm guessing this is because GenieWidget is actually a system app (although it will run outside the system/app folder) and so its signature has to match the rest of the Google system?
Any thoughts or success stories?
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It's not gone. It ... evolved. Anyway, I used the attached until I got tired of Google nagging me. If you can't sideload it, you should be able to just drag-n-drop it from your PC.

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