Hello everyone,
I've been messing around with Android and I've come across a problem.
I'm trying to find out what the application's name is inside the /system/app folder.
Example:
Facebook = facebook.apk
Car Home = CarHomeLauncher.apk & odex, CarHomeGoogle.apk & odex
Now I want to delete the Navigation app but I can't find anything related to Navigation specific and I don't want to delete something and mess up the system (even though I made a Nandroid backup).
I also want to learn how I can tell what application uses what sub apps. Like I would assume that Car Home might be a frontend to the Navigation app and a few other options.
Thanks.
Any ideas?
One way is to read the android.manifest in each apk to get the application name.
I was doing some fooling around. I moved the maps.apk and navigation dissapeared along with maps.
Guess they're tied together.
Sent from my Nexus One
Boy, there are a lot of apps in the market we cannot download on the gTablet due to it not having GPS. CNN, USA Today, Wunder Radio, weather apps, etc... Some really do not need GPS and can be used. So is there a work around out there? don't really want to get them illegally either. Can we get these elsewhere or are we SOL on most?
yeah..you can sideload them. You can usually find the free ones with a little looking.
Search (google usually works!) for the app name + apk
so...something like "cnn android apk"
you will most likely have to go through a couple of results to find the actual file.
download it to PC, then USB it over to the tablet. I have a folder on my SD card I call installers where I dump all the apk's to. It has to be the .apk though - .zip or .rar won't work.
Once it's on the tablet, just use Iexplore of fileexplore to find the installer folder, and click on the apk. It'll install, then ask open or done. I usually open them to test, and then uninstall if they don't work and delete the apk.
I sideload about 95% of my software....
In fact, here's the cnn apk....
http://uploading.com/files/dacded7d/com.slackersoft.android.cnn-1.apk/
bnovak said:
In fact, here's the cnn apk....
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Not really. It's a CNN .apk, but not the CNN .apk. It's a 3rd-party application rather than the official CNN version.
I've installed "SayIt" app launcher which is a remarkably accurate and excellent voice-activated app launcher. However, there are certain app names that it dosen't recognise, for instance "K-9 Mail"; however I pronounce that it always opens Gmail, if I freeze Gmail and then try, it says "no application found". Can anyone tell me a way of renaming apps, at least from SayIt's point of view, in order to be able to have SayIt open them?
Renaming apps wont help, the launcher you are using needs to recognize what you say, cant be done so easily, if possible talk to the dev.
You can try renaming. There is a tool called apk edit v0.4. Download and it can be used to rename packages. But does not work on all apps. You will have to make a backup if the k9 mail using es file explorer or any other app. This will store it as an apk. Download that to pc and use the tool. Then install it back on system.
I've noticed people cannot port paid APKs (or haven't) to the Gear due to licensing, no internet, etc.
If you have purchased the app on your account, I recommend using 'APK Downloader', a Chrome extension that uses your Google Account to download the APK file directly from the play store through the browser. Then use Wondershare to install the paid APK to you Gear
Alternatively, you can download the paid APK to your phone and navigate to "/data/app" and copy it to your computer (using Wondershare) then porting it to the Gear again.
Obviously you need root, and these are the methods I've been using.
APK Downloader link: https://lekensteyn.nl/apk-downloader
I can confirm this works on apps such as Root Explorer, Nova, Apex, AlarmDroid, Emulators, UCCW, Widgets, and I'd imagine most, if not all paid APKs.
The issue isn't with getting the .apks over to the watch.
Any dev with half a brain knows that the only real paid-authorization methods all require a network connection,
which at this time, the watch doesn't have.
I'm sure the large majority of devs still don't use any sophisticated activation methods and probably just
assume that people don't know how to pull an .apk and upload it for everyone else, but I'd imagine
that at least a couple major apps use a method akin to what I've described.
Yep, most decent apps have built in license check which utilise google services framework which the watch doesn't have
I have an APK for Google Maps (6.14.4) that I want to install on my AT&T Note 3, but it won't install. It was somehow "signed" or otherwise modified to fool the Play Store into thinking it is the latest version or something, as the Play Store never offers to update it. I had trouble installing it (it just says app not installed when I try) when I first rooted my phone, but I somehow, after I froze some apps (but I can't remember which ones), got it to install before. However, I un-rooted my phone because it was defective, and I had to exchange it. That hasn't happened yet; long story, so I re-rooted and I'm again attempting to reinstall it.
Anybody know why it won't install?
All other APK's I try to install, including other Google Map 6.14.4 APK's, install fine, but I want this one so I can leave update all aps over Wi-Fi automatically selected, without worrying that Maps is going to be updated to that current HORRIBLE version!
Thanks,
Dennis
Buehler? Anyone? Class? Anyone?
Little help here, please?!
By the way, I took that PIECE OF JUNK Note 3 (I had MEGA problems with it!) back to AT&T and exchanged it for an LG Optimus G Pro (and, so far, I really like that phone).
My "re-signed" Google Maps 6.14.4 STILL won't install on my new Optimus G Pro, but another version of Google Maps 6.14.4 DOES install without any problem.
I want to use the "re-signed" version of Maps so I can allow all my apps to auto-update when I'm home and on my Wi-Fi connection, and not have to worry about Maps being updated to that new, horrible version!
Anyone know why this is?
Never mind. I figured it out & got it installed.
Can you post the apk. I can't stand the new version either. Slower, less clear, missing features etc... What was once my mot important app is now something I don't like to use or trust.
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I'd like to second that request for the magic maps APK that has the old version of maps but doesn't prompt to update... The new maps app is so hard to work with.
Also, what was your solution for how to install it correctly?
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I'd like to second that request for the magic maps APK that has the old version of maps but doesn't prompt to update... The new maps app is so hard to work with.
Also, what was your solution for how to install it correctly?
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O.K., I'm going to try to do this; I've never uploaded & posted a file to the forums here. If all goes well, it should appear below, I guess. You'll need to un-zip or un-pack it and get the apk out of it; I used 7-Zip to create it.
Here are the steps I followed to finally get it to install (I think you're going to need to be rooted in order to do this, and you'll need Titanium Backup downloaded and installed from the Market):
1. In Titanium Backup, select Maps and make a backup.
2. Select Maps and wipe data, then uninstall.
3. Select Street View and wipe data, then uninstall.
4. Install Google Maps 6.14.4.apk (I just e-mailed the apk to myself, opened the e-mail, clicked on the attachment, it fetched the attachment and then started the install automatically).
5. Go to market, and reinstall street view (if you want Street View).
If, after successfully installing it, you keep getting a "login failed" message when opening maps, just go into Titanium Backup, select maps, and choose restore data only (from the backup you made of the previous version, which you deleted; your backup will still be there). At least, that's what I did to solve that problem.
After you install this version, you can leave "Auto-update apps" checked in Google Play, and it'll never update maps!
By the way, I noticed a week or two ago that the maps look slightly different than they used to; main streets are no longer colored in yellow (I kinda wish they still were; Interstate highways now seem to be the only roads colored, in orange), and the view seems zoomed in slightly, with much more detail (more secondary roads showing on the map). Google must've updated their map data. All in all, it's a pretty good update (I just wish main, non-highway roads were still highlighted in yellow), and this version is still WAY better than the current version (which BLOWS BIG TIME!!)!
Any questions/problems, feel free to ask.
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O.K., I'm going to try to do this; I've never uploaded & posted a file to the forums here. If all goes well, it should appear below, I guess. You'll need to un-zip or un-pack it and get the apk out of it; I used 7-Zip to create it.
Here are the steps I followed to finally get it to install (I think you're going to need to be rooted in order to do this, and you'll need Titanium Backup downloaded and installed from the Market):
1. In Titanium Backup, select Maps and make a backup.
2. Select Maps and wipe data, then uninstall.
3. Select Street View and wipe data, then uninstall.
4. Install Google Maps 6.14.4.apk (I just e-mailed the apk to myself, opened the e-mail, clicked on the attachment, it fetched the attachment and then started the install automatically).
5. Go to market, and reinstall street view (if you want Street View).
If, after successfully installing it, you keep getting a "login failed" message when opening maps, just go into Titanium Backup, select maps, and choose restore data only (from the backup you made of the previous version, which you deleted; your backup will still be there). At least, that's what I did to solve that problem.
After you install this version, you can leave "Auto-update apps" checked in Google Play, and it'll never update maps!
By the way, I noticed a week or two ago that the maps look slightly different than they used to; main streets are no longer colored in yellow (I kinda wish they still were; Interstate highways now seem to be the only roads colored, in orange), and the view seems zoomed in slightly, with much more detail (more secondary roads showing on the map). Google must've updated their map data. All in all, it's a pretty good update (I just wish main, non-highway roads were still highlighted in yellow), and this version is still WAY better than the current version (which BLOWS BIG TIME!!)!
Any questions/problems, feel free to ask.
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It didn't work for me, I think you zipped it up wrong. All you have to do is right click on the file and send it to a compressed (zipped) folder then link that to zipped folder on here. Thanks for the attemp though :good:
Quickvic30 said:
It didn't work for me, I think you zipped it up wrong. All you have to do is right click on the file and send it to a compressed (zipped) folder then link that to zipped folder on here. Thanks for the attemp though :good:
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Here, try this. If it still doesn't work, just PM me with your e-mail address, and I'll e-mail it to you.