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Nandroid Restore Now No Gapps

I am running Gigglebread 7.0.2 on my T-Mobile N1. I am getting ready to go to Italy for a few weeks and wanted to see what would happen to my phone with another carrier's SIM. So, I inserted the AT&T SIM from my work blackberry and had some issues, but got it working after the APN was sorted out.
When I swapped the T-Mobile SIM back, all of my Google accounts had forgotten their credentials. I rebooted once just to see and no change. So, I thought, easy, restore nandroid from earlier in the day. The restore went fine, no errors, no wipe of cache or dalvik only now I appear to have no gapps (no market, unable to add google accounts, shortcuts on desktop don't work). Again, no problem. I've seen this before so I wiped cache and dalvik from CW 2.5.x recovery and installed dta2sd (sometimes it helps) and then 20110307 gapps. Reboot and still no gapps functionality.
So, I brought out the bigger hammer (after a couple of tries at gapps install) and wiped data/factory, dalvik, cache partition, restored nandroid, reboot. Still no gapps. Repeated the same wipe, restore nandroid, install dta2sd, install gapps, reboot. Still no gapps.
Now I'm getting desperate. Less than 72 hours till plane leaves! I next changed to AmonRA recovery and wiped, various nandroid/gapps/dta2sd combinations and still no gapps functionality.
Switched to CW 3, yeah, I know... And wiped cache, dalvik, factory/data, and even formatted system. Various installations and it still refused to install gapps.
I next tried the CW 2.x factory/data wipe, dalvik, cache, and then installed Gigglebread 7.0.2, dta2sd beta4(like always), and gapps 20110307 and rebooted. As expected, sterile phone, touch android, and then I'm prompted for google account. I skip that and sure enough, market is back and I can add google accounts.
AUGH. Unless someone has a suggestion, I'm probably going to have to do a full reinstall tomorrow. I've been wanting to do it, but not this close to a trip.
On a side note, is it normal for a swap of the SIM card to wipe out my account settings? I will make sure from now on that my TI b/u is up to date.
Rick

Infuriating as it is, especially as you must have so much to do already, a re-install might be best at this point. Trying to troubleshoot and avoid doing this could just mean more wasted time in the long run.

DirkGently1 said:
Infuriating as it is, especially as you must have so much to do already, a re-install might be best at this point. Trying to troubleshoot and avoid doing this could just mean more wasted time in the long run.
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Yup, already on that path. I fell asleep last night or I would have finished. I did manage to get a TI backup of many of my apps (gmail especially) so hopefully I won't have to set those back up again since I'm using two-factor auth on all of them (10 accounts) and don't want to go through the process of invalidating and recreating the app specific passwords again.
Rick

I am also facing the same problem now.
I was on Cyanogen Mod 7.0.3 when some application weirdly started building up data on system storage. There was only 16 KB of space left and it became un-responsive. So I restarted it, only to find the looping Cyan logo.
Fortunately I had a backup from 15 days back, which was CM 7.0.2. So, I flashed that and I thought I am back. But, I found Market was not working, in fact it was not even showing up in the app list. Also, Contacts data was wiped out and when I tried to check out the account and settings, google account option itself was not showing up.
I tried flashing 7.0.3 + latest gapps package using Rom manager, that did not work. I tried a clean wipe and flashed 7.0.2 from my backup, no effect. Then flashed latest gapps again, no change.
It is frustrating now. It looks as if google is not supporting my device anymore.
Any suggestion is welcome.

Did you check md5 from your gapps package?
You said you were using ROM manager so I suppose you are on cwm but are you on cwm 3.x or are you on cwm 2.5.1.4? If your on 3.x then downgrade if not then maybe try Amon-RA with temasek system wipe maybe just making a clean install of your recovery might fix it.
Also you might want to try flashing from recovery instead of ROM manager. Just for the fun of it.

Might also need to partition sd card again as CWM 3.0 probably fubar it.

[Q] Quick CM9 question

I want to start off by thanking everyone that's put time and effort into making CM9 and the different roms/kernels what they are today. I'm still fairly new to flashing roms and such, only been doing this since CM7 for the Touch Pad and I've got it down for the most part.
I've kept up with the CM9 nightly build and just yesterday I flashed the update-cm-9.0.0-tenderloid-20120320-0800-signed.zip build. I did so by downloading the zip, rebooting into clockworkmod, and installing the zip. I then wiped the Dalvik and rebooted. All works fine with that.
I used the same process to install gapps-ice-20120317-signed.zip and all works well. Finally I tried to flash the update-lcd_density_120-nightly-eyeballer.zip and it flashes just fine but my app store stops working after that.
Am I doing the process in the wrong order or am I using a wrong build file somewhere? Any help is appreciated.

The app store (Play Store, Market, whatever we call it now haha) won't recognize the device if you change the dpi. There are a few workarounds you can find on rootzwiki. I'm not exactly sure what to do since I've never changed my dpi, but I know I've seen a lot of talk about the workarounds there.

There shouldn't be a problem using 120 dpi. Try clearing cache and dalvik-cache in recovery, and also remove data for the play store app.

jwonlineuk said:
There shouldn't be a problem using 120 dpi. Try clearing cache and dalvik-cache in recovery, and also remove data for the play store app.
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I'm at a loss for words. I went ahead and did as you suggested and that had no affect, the play store still just flashes up real quick and closes out. I reflashed the 3/20 build without flashing the dpi update and the play store isn't working in there. Perhaps I need to start fresh by wiping the entire thing?

If you have a nandroid, you should be ok. You can always go back to it.
Try wipe/delete factory reset, wipe dalvik cache, then flash the Rom and the gapps. I also flash the gapps fixer, just in case. Once you're up and running, you should have market again. I use a dpi changing app (free in market) to adjust it. This worked for me, I hope it works for you.

chicle_11 said:
If you have a nandroid, you should be ok. You can always go back to it.
Try wipe/delete factory reset, wipe dalvik cache, then flash the Rom and the gapps. I also flash the gapps fixer, just in case. Once you're up and running, you should have market again. I use a dpi changing app (free in market) to adjust it. This worked for me, I hope it works for you.
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Is it ideal to wipe dalvik cache between each Rom flashed?

chicle_11 said:
Try wipe/delete factory reset, wipe dalvik cache, then flash the Rom and the gapps. I also flash the gapps fixer, just in case. Once you're up and running, you should have market again. I use a dpi changing app (free in market) to adjust it. This worked for me, I hope it works for you.
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This worked out perfectly. Thank you friend!

market wont launch

i am just updated to the newest nightly and the newest gapps from A2. now the market wont launch. nothing happens when i press the button. everything else works A ok. help.

anyone?

pizdun69 said:
i am just updated to the newest nightly and the newest gapps from A2. now the market wont launch. nothing happens when i press the button. everything else works A ok. help.
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Market is now google play. Look for the play icon and use that. Here's the link to the Gapps :
http://goo.im/gapps
Install it again if you still have problems.

Yes I am aware that Google play is now the market. When I press it, screen kinda flashes and that is all. I have the 0429 gapps, and have tried to use older gapps also with the same result.

pizdun69 said:
Yes I am aware that Google play is now the market. When I press it, screen kinda flashes and that is all. I have the 0429 gapps, and have tried to use older gapps also with the same result.
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Try unistalling then installing it again. If that doesn't work, wipe/delete factory reset, wipe dalvik cache and install the rom again. You can restore your data using titanium or cwm. Of course, make a nandroid backup, just in case.

chicle_11 said:
Try unistalling then installing it again. If that doesn't work, wipe/delete factory reset, wipe dalvik cache and install the rom again. You can restore your data using titanium or cwm. Of course, make a nandroid backup, just in case.
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I had the same problem with aokpcb, but nothing worked so I just nuked everything, and did a fresh install.

I believe on the rootzwiki thread for the official nightlys there is a link to a flashable "gapps fixer" that might be able to help you if reflashing the rom and gapps doesn't work.

[Q] Deleted Google play services (via Rootking), Bricked phone?

I'd appreciate if you could help a fella here.
So I did something stupid today, first off wiped data/cache and restored phone to factory settings. That's all good.
Then I opened Rootking and thought, hey let's see what I could delete to ez the battery life, seen someone here having bare essentials. So deleted all google play, google + etc. stuff.
Then phone started displaying ton of google related errors, some apps weren't working etc.
So I thought, hmm wipe data/cache again... FML didn't work. Phone turns on, works "normally". ROM Manager doesn't work. ROM Installer Works.
Downloading as I type "ROM 5 - P7 L10 Unicom B126" stock rom from needrom.com/download/ascend-p7/
ROM Installer has the "Install ROM File" and options "
-backup current ROM
- Wipe Data & Cache
- Wipe dalvik-cache
What can I do?

GoranH said:
I'd appreciate if you could help a fella here.
So I did something stupid today, first off wiped data/cache and restored phone to factory settings. That's all good.
Then I opened Rootking and thought, hey let's see what I could delete to ez the battery life, seen someone here having bare essentials. So deleted all google play, google + etc. stuff.
Then phone started displaying ton of google related errors, some apps weren't working etc.
So I thought, hmm wipe data/cache again... FML didn't work. Phone turns on, works "normally". ROM Manager doesn't work. ROM Installer Works.
Downloading as I type "ROM 5 - P7 L10 Unicom B126" stock rom from needrom.com/download/ascend-p7/
ROM Installer has the "Install ROM File" and options "
-backup current ROM
- Wipe Data & Cache
- Wipe dalvik-cache
What can I do?
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You can either flash the original firmware again with the three button method or from the phone's updater or you could install the Google Play Services apk from here.

Flashed stock rom via Local Update Future... got it all back. DL'd service did nothing.
Thx for help again.

Always cannot boot in to system normally after update a third party ROM like CM.

Here is the problem that I've never met on my previous Nexus 4 devices.
I was trying to update my Nexus6 to the latest CM12.1 nightly today(my Nexus6 already runs on CM12.1).
Then I downloaded the zip from cyanogenmod.org, and flashed it without clean cache or wipe, because I'm updating within the version 12.1.
I always updating system on my N4 this way, it never fails.
But on my N6, when it finishing Optimizing Apps, it will restart immediately, and start optimize apps again, then start over.
I had the same problem before when I was using Chroma rom, and that's why I switch to CM(always had to re-install all my apps after updating).
Is there anybody know what causing this problem and how to solve it? So that I can update ROM normally.

May be it's sometime essential to wipe data/ factory cache before installing another ROM.
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raikecody said:
Here is the problem that I've never met on my previous Nexus 4 devices.
I was trying to update my Nexus6 to the latest CM12.1 nightly today(my Nexus6 already runs on CM12.1).
Then I downloaded the zip from cyanogenmod.org, and flashed it without clean cache or wipe, because I'm updating within the version 12.1.
I always updating system on my N4 this way, it never fails.
But on my N6, when it finishing Optimizing Apps, it will restart immediately, and start optimize apps again, then start over.
I had the same problem before when I was using Chroma rom, and that's why I switch to CM(always had to re-install all my apps after updating).
Is there anybody know what causing this problem and how to solve it? So that I can update ROM normally.
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You have to wipe. From TWRP, wipe dalvik, cache, system, and data.