I have a rooted stock LG G2 and every time I try to open the built-in Verizon voicemail app, it acts like it is going to open but immediately closes. I've never been able to open it successfully. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? My VVM.apk file located in system/app is 9.14MB and the VVM.odex file is 2.01MB. Not sure if these files could be corrupt or if it could be something else... If someone could pull these files and up them to me, maybe I could try to replace them and see if that get it working?
All that I've done to the phone since I got it was to root using ioroot and installed TWRP. I'm stumped so any help would be much appreciated.
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Hey all -- so i flashed back to JH6 with ODIN, got the JH7 update through Kies Mini, and then rooted. I also decided to use Launcher Pro as my default homescreen launcher.
Now i'm trying to use SWM to sideload some apps, but I always get the error (something like this) FAILED INSTALL PARSE UNKNOWN EXCEPTION ... the program recognizes my device just fine and loads up the .apk just fine but fails on trying to install it onto my phone.
anyone have an idea of what might be going on
SWM is unnecessary after root isn't it
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Tchem said:
SWM is unnecessary after root isn't it
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The 2 are not related. You do NOT need to root to use Sideload. The SWM just uses the ADB command from the SDK. You can do this all day long without root.
If you want to install apps from your phone (not your PC) then you need to root and then you need to edit the settings.db file to allow sideload on the phone. You can't get to settings.db without rooting your phone.
Does that help?
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The 2 are not related. You do NOT need to root to use Sideload. The SWM just uses the ADB command from the SDK. You can do this all day long without root.
If you want to install apps from your phone (not your PC) then you need to root and then you need to edit the settings.db file to allow sideload on the phone. You can't get to settings.db without rooting your phone.
Does that help?
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sort of not really, as i'm trying to upload apps/widgets from my pc. i want to hold off buying Root Explorer, and apparently Droid Explorer doesnt work on win7 64-bit systems yet ... just kind of odd that SWM can't load to my phone. i either get the INSTALL PARSE FAILURE UNKNOWN EXCEPTION or INSUFFICIENT SPACE or OLDER SDK errors. doesn't make sense to me...
turn debugging on ,
don't put the .apk files in the sideloader folder at all. caused the whole no space avaliable for me when i did that
try that... works for me.
updated with the ota an i'm rooted.
yeah i had debugging on, left the apks in a completely separate folder (didnt put them in the payload folder). the main failure i get is the install parse unknown exception one
im thinking it might actually be the apks i'm trying to upload. i got one apk to upload successfully, so maybe the other ones have some bad code in them. *shrug*
specifically i've been trying to upload the REVOlution transparent apps. all of them fail for me. then i uploaded minimal icons apk just fine.
There is not much that i miss about the stock apps on the Fascinate. However, I must say that I do miss the awesome music widget that you can pull down the CD (with album art on it) from the top of the screen. Do you think it's possible to port this over to use?
I have tried taking the apk and odex files from the stock rom and placing them into /system/app but it does not work. I'm not sure if voodoo's new ext4 file format is causing permission issues or what, but either way i haven't been able to get it working. Anyone have any ideas on this? If not, anyone up for porting over the app
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There is not much that i miss about the stock apps on the Fascinate. However, I must say that I do miss the awesome music widget that you can pull down the CD (with album art on it) from the top of the screen. Do you think it's possible to port this over to use?
I have tried taking the apk and odex files from the stock rom and placing them into /system/app but it does not work. I'm not sure if voodoo's new ext4 file format is causing permission issues or what, but either way i haven't been able to get it working. Anyone have any ideas on this? If not, anyone up for porting over the app
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Are you on JT's rom? if so don't use an apk with an odex, his system is deodex'ed.
Try the following apk, it should work.
I get "application not installed" when I try to install it. Could it be because there is already a Music app called "Music" on Jt's rom?
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I get "application not installed" when I try to install it. Could it be because there is already a Music app called "Music" on Jt's rom?
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That is a system file. You can't just install it. You need to replace the original file with that one with adb or root explorer (or something similar).
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That is a system file. You can't just install it. You need to replace the original file with that one with adb or root explorer (or something similar).
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adb pull /system/apps/musicplayer.apk
backup that version, copy new version into its place.
adb push musicplayer.apk /system/apps/
?? is that how you would do it? or is that even where it is?
I think it's /system/app
regardless, i have tried this and every time i do it my phone goes to black screen after the VZW screen. It will just sit there. Then when I go back and put the original .apk back in place...it boots right up and works. I have a friend trying to go back to the touchwiz calendar who has the exact same problem. Neither of us can figure it out.
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I think it's /system/app
regardless, i have tried this and every time i do it my phone goes to black screen after the VZW screen. It will just sit there. Then when I go back and put the original .apk back in place...it boots right up and works. I have a friend trying to go back to the touchwiz calendar who has the exact same problem. Neither of us can figure it out.
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Here flash this through CW and see if it still gives you a black screen.
that worked can you make one for the touchwiz calendar apk too? I'd love to know what you did to make it and what the difference is so i can do it myself.
The one part that stinks is that the widget on the lockscreen is a feature of TouchWiz lockscreen, as it's not work on stock. Once I flashed the puzzle lock it worked.
I am trying to back up all of my apps using titanium back up, but after running into multiple problems on TBU people have said that i need to enable side loading, i am trying to do that and everything goes well till i need to find settings.db and then i get lost, cuz i can't find that anywhere on my captivate or my laptop. please help me!! if you know of a much easier way to do the whole thing...then please let me know...thank you!!
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I am trying to back up all of my apps using titanium back up, but after running into multiple problems on TBU people have said that i need to enable side loading, i am trying to do that and everything goes well till i need to find settings.db and then i get lost, cuz i can't find that anywhere on my captivate or my laptop. please help me!! if you know of a much easier way to do the whole thing...then please let me know...thank you!!
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What program are you using to find it? You need something like root explorer which is a file system available on the market which gives you access to files you can not see with my files. It us not free but is very useful.
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i am not using any program. i am just connecting my phone to the computer and going into the command prompt...and then it tells me to pull settings.db i can't find it anywhere.
Do you have your phone rooted?
yes i do justmde
To use that command you need adb google it and will tell you how to install. Or you can use super manger from the market its free to get to the file. Be careful if you don't know what your doing you. I would read up om odin. One click and make sure you have the bottom combos just in case.
I am not too familiar with the command approach, but if you have root explorer you can navigate to your dbdata, darabases, com.android.providers.settings. Inside there us the file you are looking for. You can copy and paste it to you're internal sd. Then hook up to your computer and transfer the file to your pc. I believe you have to open some table and change a zero to a one. Save then drag back into your phone. Copy, paste back into the original directory where you found it. Over write, reboot.
Or you may consider a custom rom, all have this enabled, and have additional perks. Just saying, it is only a matter of time.
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the main point that i wanna do..is i wanna go back to 2.1 and just save all of my apps and the progress in my apps. can somebody please message me or AIM me and walk me through???
I am completely new to this too man. I just rooted and enabled sideloading in about 10 minutes without even connecting my phone to a comp.
I'm not sure if it will work without installing the unleashthebeast thing, but to enable sideloading i just downloaded android terminal emulator from the market, opened it, typed in su, hit enter, then typed "sideloading". phone rebooted and now i can sideload.
It updated on my G2, but on my Nexus S it still hasn't.
Is the Nexus S going to get it?
Or would the only way be if I install it myself?
Grab the APK from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877328
Then install it like a normal apk via Astro or AndExplorer or whatever.
It kept reverting on reboot, but after I adb pushed it to /system/app it stuck for me. I didn't have to delete anything, either.
The apk didn't work for me, kept crashing after I rebooted. So I found a flashable zip for it, it's been working fine ever since.
how do I get adb?
link?
how do I get adb?
link?
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You have to either download/setup the android sdk or google app inventor. You can do this on windows, mac, or linux.
Hope this helps.
Mind posting the flashable zip please?
Ok, I dun goofed. Phone was working fine but I tried to add a line to build.prop and now the phone will show the boot logo but then goes black. I made a copy of the file first and tried putting the old one back with the TWRP file manager, but it's still doing the same thing.
I need help with this fast, my gf is going to kill me if I don't get he phone working again soon. :/
Can someone post a flashable zip of the 5.1 build.prop please. I'm just assuming this will fix it. I've tried extracting the system.img to get it but I obviously don't know what I'm doing.
Thanks
PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!!!
After sitting here with high blood pressure for 45 minutes I fixed it. I just pulled and pushed the files with ADB. I guess using ES file explorer to play with system files is a big NO. Lesson learned. :/