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[Q] Good for Enterprise on custom Android ROMs

Has anyone had a problem with the intial setup for Good for Enterprise on custom Android ROMs? I installed it (using an issued PIN) on stock eclair on my Captivate and it worked fine. I then rooted, backed it up via TIBU and restored on Froyo and it still worked fine. The same process worked recently on Gingerbread. However, I have tried multiple custom Froyo ROMs and 1 GB recently and if I try the initial setup (with a new PIN) on anything other than stock eclair (even rooted), it will stop at "retrieving policies" and never complete. I then have to ask for a new PIN from my IT support and revert to eclair and finish the setup, backup, and restore on the later custom ROMs. Has anyone seen this and have any idea why? My IT support has no idea. I am not in a policy checking for root access and it does continue to work with root.
EDIT: I wonder if it is that the device name used in build properties is referenced during that step and it fails due to an unknown device...
Also, I have found that after I have it working after a certain PIN used, if I ever restore to an ealier point (due to a theme gone wrong, etc) then it stops syncing even if the restore point is AFTER I had it working with that PIN. It seems like the local software either is exchanging a dynamic password with the server or there is a message index, etc that has to be in sync. Any thoughts?

When in the Good setup screen, go to Menu>Device Info. Does the Phone number appear? I've been using CM7 just fine with Good but after the last few nightlies, Good no longer works. The phone number doesn't appear in the device info. Good thinks there is no phone network present.

I am a heavy Good user, unfortunately also addicted to changing ROMs on a frequent basis. I have never had an issue with Good running on any ROM, just on restoring from TiBu. I can flash new kernels, themes, etc, and Good works just fine. If I re-flash the same ROM, it resides and works just fine. It is only when flashing a new ROM I have problems. Good appears to restore OK, but won't pull new emails to the inbox. I ave to get a new PIN and re-install.

Same here.. i am addicted to flashing as well.
I tried Titanium backup to backup and restore to new ROM, but somehow Good just keep crashing after i put in my password.
I am sure I can ask for new pin, reinstall and what not.. but how often can we ask IT people (for my company at least) for new pins, until one day they may say, bugger off you ROM addict!

Finally figured it out, I think. The trick is to NOT have Good running in persistent mode when you do the backup with TiBu. IOW, reboot and backup with TiBu before you start Good and log in. I did that the last couple of new ROMs and it restored and worked just fine.
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GOOD for Enterprise on Imito AM801 Tablet
I am also getting the Phone network is off. This is a tablet and does not have any phone piece or sim card installed. No hardware is even inside the tablet. Has anyone ran accross this issue on tablets?

This works for me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35263313#post35263313

Good with custom roms
Just to share a recent experience on that topic:
I wanted to have a custom rom but need GFE for my work which of course has a policy of no root with GFE.
So after a little research and useful info from this forum I figured a very simple way to do it, as long as you don't consider root as critical for your day-to-day stuff
1. Install your custom rom which most likely requires rooting
2. Install SuperSU from the Play Store and use it to remove root completely
3. Install and activate GFE
That's it!
Hoope this helps someone else how got a little scared to have to go through scripts and stuff to do this
Using a Galaxy S4 with Carbon Rom

Anteus20 said:
Just to share a recent experience on that topic:
I wanted to have a custom rom but need GFE for my work which of course has a policy of no root with GFE.
So after a little research and useful info from this forum I figured a very simple way to do it, as long as you don't consider root as critical for your day-to-day stuff
1. Install your custom rom which most likely requires rooting
2. Install SuperSU from the Play Store and use it to remove root completely
3. Install and activate GFE
That's it!
Hoope this helps someone else how got a little scared to have to go through scripts and stuff to do this
Using a Galaxy S4 with Carbon Rom
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Does this still work?
I too need GFE on my Galaxy S4 but am sick of the poor battery life. I tried SlimKat and Google Play Edition roms, and removed root using Super SU in both cases. But GFE gives a message "Not supported for this type of Handheld". . Not sure if GFE is looking for a TW based ROM.
I will give it another go using Carbon ROM. Still, any other advice / experience on getting GFE working on a custom ROM would be much appreciated.
Thanks.

joshic75 said:
Does this still work?
I too need GFE on my Galaxy S4 but am sick of the poor battery life. I tried SlimKat and Google Play Edition roms, and removed root using Super SU in both cases. But GFE gives a message "Not supported for this type of Handheld". . Not sure if GFE is looking for a TW based ROM.
I will give it another go using Carbon ROM. Still, any other advice / experience on getting GFE working on a custom ROM would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
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You quoted a 1 year old post, might be hard to get a reply. Also this is for the S1, while the app (GFE) might be the same, the ROMs definitely aren't.
That being said, chances are that the app was updated to prevent that workaround. You could flash a TW based ROM and test it though.

Thanks for the reply. I will try posting a fresh question in the Q&A thread in case anyone has more recent experience with GFE. Cheers.

joshic75 said:
Thanks for the reply. I will try posting a fresh question in the Q&A thread in case anyone has more recent experience with GFE. Cheers.
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There is an xposed module for this.

Hi, are you referring to Wanam Xposed which has a "fake official system status" functionality?
As I understand, Xposed needs root, but Good for enterprise doesn't work on a rooted handset. Can Xposed work without root?
Also Wanam Xposed is meant to work with TW based ROMs whereas I don't want to go back to TW based ROM unless it is extremely light.

joshic75 said:
Hi, are you referring to Wanam Xposed which has a "fake official system status" functionality?
As I understand, Xposed needs root, but Good for enterprise doesn't work on a rooted handset. Can Xposed work without root?
Also Wanam Xposed is meant to work with TW based ROMs whereas I don't want to go back to TW based ROM unless it is extremely light.
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I'm a bit confused here, Custom ROMs are pre-rooted. Therefor, if you're not on TW, you're rooted.
And yes, Xposed does require root. As for Wanam, I duno if it works on AOSP but best way to know is you try

Thanks for replying.
Supersu has a Full Unroot functionality which removes root.
Yes I will try, but every failed attempt sends an email to office admin so I have to be prudent.
http://www.gogadgetx.com/xposed-framework-install-use-best-modules-list/
The link above mentions that root is required while installing XPosed, but later it can perform without root. Is this correct or not?

joshic75 said:
Thanks for replying.
Supersu has a Full Unroot functionality which removes root.
Yes I will try, but every failed attempt sends an email to office admin so I have to be prudent.
http://www.gogadgetx.com/xposed-framework-install-use-best-modules-list/
The link above mentions that root is required while installing XPosed, but later it can perform without root. Is this correct or not?
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I have never personally tried it without root but you can test that fairly easily. I expect it would depend on the module you're using, some require more permissions than others.

I tried it out but it didn't work.
I have to go back to stock ROM

[Q] Full settings apk

Hi!
Does anybody know if it would be possible to install the 'settings.apk' from any android ROM to the Gear using a stock ROM?
I've seen some custom ROMs have already included it (like Null ROM) but I don't really need a full custom ROM for the moment, just that little piece of software... So, would it be possible to take the deodexed apk file from one of those and install it directly to the Gear?
I tried this naive idea and extracted the .apk from the Null ROM, I tried to install it using ADB but unfortunately it didn't work (I would had been so lucky :silly: ). I got this message:
Code:
Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_SHARED_USER_INCOMPATIBLE]
I hope there's some easy way to achieve this :fingers-crossed:
Thank you!

The stock gear rom is a stripped down version of the samsung TW 4.2.2 rom, which has a lot of the dependencies in the setting removed already. If you tried to install any settings.apk, it will not work as it cannot find the dependencies that is required to run.
If you want to get into a new stock rom without pairing first, there is a way to do that. You will need to install the mk7 stock rom (via odin), and then install twrp recovery (via odin), then go into twrp recovery, mount system folder, then delete the secsetupwizard.apk, reboot, then you are at the clock, and can go into settings.

So, mk7 stock ROM is the stripped down version TW 4.2.2 ROM used in our Galaxy Gear by default, right?
Following your instructions I would get the stock ROM, a custom recovery and I would skip the initial pairing with mobile configuration but I wouldn't get the full settings application.
From what I have understood, the only way to get full settings in our watch is by installing a full custom ROM, right?
Thanks for answering quickly

yup, thats my understanding.

Then I suppose I'll have to consider that

You won't regret it. I am running null_23 now. With everything installed, I am getting about 3-4 days battery life. Though I am just using it as a notification unit, no internet(I find it too slow on the watch), no phone calls, and maybe some spy pictures , but to me I think this little watch is perfect for my needs.
Good luck.

I'll give it a try.
Btw, are you using Gear Manager for the notifications? I've noticed some trouble having installed apps on stock ROM and using Gear Manager on its lastest version (apps kept disappearing from the launcher, although were still installed).

Right now I am using ATN manager for notifications. Yes The latest gear manager does sort of "uninstall" the 3rd party apps. I have read in one of the other threads here that earlier versions of GM does not do this. So you may want to download one of the earlier GM versions and give it a try.

Trying to better understand the Backup and Restore feature

I just got my phone back from Motorola for warranty work. When I first got it I knew that I was going to be rooting it and loading a custom ROM but I decided to just install my sim and use it just to make calls for the time being. When I went through the initial setup and asked me if I want to restore my backup from previous backups. To my surprise I had a whole list of backups from when I first got my old phone a OnePlus and I was able to choose which apps I wanted to install. Well today I loaded Benzo ROM but after the initial setup it never asked me to restore a backup. Is there still a way I can restore one of my old backups or is this not a feature with Benzo ROM?
Am I missing something?

It could be that the gapps pack you installed didn't include Google's Setup wizard, if it didn't then the restore feature introduced in lollipop won't be available. Though I've noticed with that type of situation that opening the google play store will trigger it to download all the apps you used to have out of the blue for seemingly no reason. (like it did pre-lollipop)

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It could be that the gapps pack you installed didn't include Google's Setup wizard, if it didn't then the restore feature introduced in lollipop won't be available. Though I've noticed with that type of situation that opening the google play store will trigger it to download all the apps you used to have out of the blue for seemingly no reason. (like it did pre-lollipop)
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So is there a solution to this? I always use the gapps provided on the ROM's thread page, is that always necessary?
Before I sent my Nexus back for warranty, I flashed CM 12.1 and it was able to restore a old backup. So where's the difference?

Using rom specific gapps are not required unless otherwise stated, I usually use Open-Gapps since I like their full Nexus pack and also their Aroma installer pack which allows you to set exactly what you want to install. Also if benzo rom has a feature request section you could ask them to include the feature in a future release.
The difference would probably be that CM 12.1 probably includes the setup wizard apk from google where benzo probably uses the aosp setup wizard which looks almost identical but is missing some "Google specific" features. This is my guess btw I'm not familiar with either gapps pack but I've noticed that not installing a gapps pack and setting up the phone on any rom aside from stock will result with it not giving the restore option.

StykerB said:
Using rom specific gapps are not required unless otherwise stated, I usually use Open-Gapps since I like their full Nexus pack and also their Aroma installer pack which allows you to set exactly what you want to install. Also if benzo rom has a feature request section you could ask them to include the feature in a future release.
The difference would probably be that CM 12.1 probably includes the setup wizard apk from google where benzo probably uses the aosp setup wizard which looks almost identical but is missing some "Google specific" features. This is my guess btw I'm not familiar with either gapps pack but I've noticed that not installing a gapps pack and setting up the phone on any rom aside from stock will result with it not giving the restore option.
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Thanks. I'm not sure how long I'm going to run this rom I keep on getting app crashes. I just did the OTA update and installed the latest gapps and I'm still getting random crashes.

Stock [ROM] debloated and Pre-root stock MM MOB31E [Sept16]

Nothing is more stable than Stock ROM with Stock kernel. so I've debloated stock ROM (Sept 2016 Updates) and added SuperSu to it. Result is stable and faster 295mb ROM
Changes made to MOB31E:
1. Removed Google Apps; for more space and less RAM usage.
2. @Chainfire's SuperSu added; No need to root; just flash the ROM.
3. Added Amaze file manager; Preloaded with root browser. Thanks to https://github.com/arpitkh96/AmazeFileManager
4. Added android browser (2mb); works like charm
5. Added E-mail app replacing G-mail; Gmail still works.
6. Replaced prebuilt keyboard app with another; No need to download language after fresh install.
see Screenshots attached;
Thanks to @Ali_Hasan, Pakistan for guidance ! :good:
Thanks to https://plus.google.com/+JosephGodslave for Stock ROM Zips.
Hope this will be useful
Link for Download:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzM_54MLRSxkdDM3RHg1cGFNcUk/view?usp=sharing

Wew, Nice. :good:

Old debloated thread did not had September, thanks a lot (with thanks pressed too)

hp5942 said:
Old debloated thread did not had September, thanks a lot (with thanks pressed too)
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I'm glad you liked it.

this rom is sprout 4 or sprout 8 ??
i flashing the rom, but error popup always appear in setup wizard. how to resorve it?

You replaced the default keyboard with what keyboard?
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svckid said:
this rom is sprout 4 or sprout 8 ??
i flashing the rom, but error popup always appear in setup wizard. how to resorve it?
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Which language do you use ? I think it's because I've deleted prebuilt Korean and hindi keyboard apps. I'll try to fix this. :good:

I replaced Google keyboard with Google keyboard. Different version. Old app needed to download language pack every time after reset or fresh install.:laugh:

I tried your rom, it's clean and faster, thank you. But though you say supersu is included, still it says not rooted (supersu launcher is not present). I had to install supersu zip from the recovery. It worked
A stock rom without google play & google apps (Including google launcher, use CM launcher instead) and other apps or with pico gapps without any apps would be more leaner and faster, Let the user install the apps from the play store. I would appreciate if you try to make a barebone version with the above requirements
thank you

DNA_Uncut said:
I tried your rom, it's clean and faster, thank you. But though you say supersu is included, still it says not rooted (supersu launcher is not present). I had to install supersu zip from the recovery. It worked
A stock rom without google play & google apps (Including google launcher, use CM launcher instead) and other apps or with pico gapps without any apps would be more leaner and faster, Let the user install the apps from the play store. I would appreciate if you try to make a barebone version with the above requirements
thank you
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Very nice of you to reply. Good suggestions. I would like to work on that. Currently caught up in preparation on exams. Very tight schedule.

How's the battery life in this rom?

kushal9968 said:
How's the battery life in this rom?
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Haven't tried it yet, but it's safe to assume that this rom as same as stock rom, Cuz he removed the bloatware and its pre-rooted.
Flash a custom kernel and tweak it

sachin n said:
Haven't tried it yet, but it's safe to assume that this rom as same as stock rom, Cuz he removed the bloatware and its pre-rooted.
Flash a custom kernel and tweak it
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I tried this, it was working fine, but once I rebooted it was not booting into system and it was a bootloop. I tried rebooting many times but still it remains the same. What must have happened? Pls help.

kushal9968 said:
I tried this, it was working fine, but once I rebooted it was not booting into system and it was a bootloop. I tried rebooting many times but still it remains the same. What must have happened? Pls help.
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Working fine with others and me.

kushal9968 said:
I tried this, it was working fine, but once I rebooted it was not booting into system and it was a bootloop. I tried rebooting many times but still it remains the same. What must have happened? Pls help.
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Eww.
Just turn off your device and enter into recovery mode, wipe data / system /cache /dalvik cache except SD card & flash a rom.
That's the step to get rid off bootloop.
Or only wipe dalvik / Cache and try booting your device, if it's boots then you're good.

after I plug stock rom debloated why internal memory and sd card is unreadable please help me

rom not installing on spice dream uno ..stuck on installing in recovery

Hi
can you add galery apps in this debloated stock rom?
btw nice rom. thanks

Good try to present here this debloated rom, earlier i used almost all roms after then i was on snapshot for two months...but after flashing this i must say ..very smooth..

Just checked download link... So this won't work for sprout8?

Debloat Xiaomi.eu of Google

Trying to get rid of Google stuff and install MicroG but once I remove them (store, services, etc) the rom no longer starts up. Anyone successfully debloated and still have a booting rom ?

I think you can build a rom here (https://mi-globe.com/miui-firmware-rom-builder/) without gapps

Have you looked into this?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/k20-pro/themes/magisk-aosp-gapps-debloater-t4011167/post81040695
I've never tried it, but at looks like it should work.