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minusculeShield 1.0
So after some time, I decided that the 4.3 update is worth doing slight modifications, even without the native Shield Services and PC Streaming able to be done remotely. I have gotten used to using Limelight anyways, so I decided to update my basic modified stock Shield ROM
First, I updated to the latest OTA 68, then went from there, the features are as follows:
- Two versions of the ROM, one with OTA and one without
- Includes a alternative Calculator (RealCalc), Zeam Launcher, Adblock, Xposed Framework (Along with an Xposed Module for adding a Play Store link to App info, and GravityBox for various system tweaks), MX Player, and ES File Explorer
- All but the most essential "system" apps are removed
- All "Gapps" are using Slimroms 4.3 Minimal Gapps
- Koush's Superuser/Superuser Binaries pre-installed
Same installation process as 0.5, excluding need to select Advanced Restore, you can restore like a normal Nandroid without specifying partitions
As always, make sure you wipe System, Data, Cache, and Dalvik before installing
If you have problems with the OTA-exempt version trying to OTA, if it prompts you, it will do it once, and once you "apply" the update (which it will never actually apply) the notification will go away
minusculeShield 0.5[Nandroid-Backup]
So, this is not really a ROM, but a Nandroid backup of my system without any partition but "/system."
This is almost as stripped down as the stock Shield ROM you can get. I have removed all but literally the most essential apps, and also removed the OTA functionality.
The idea for making this was that I couldn't stream remotely anymore since OTA 63, which I promptly set out to fix. I soon realized it was a problem with the Android side of things, as using it on 4.1.2 or 4.2.2 with their respective apps for that release seemed to work fine. OTA 63 (and 64, which is basically the same release, just for those who couldn't install 63) made the local streaming much less productive, as I immediately noticed lagspikes and a load of other problems, which I had never encountered before.
So, in a basic sense, this backup after installed, keeps the ability to stream remotely without troubles of performance or re-connection problems, uses a much more lightweight version of Gapps (Slimrom's version to be exact). It is based on agrabren's TweakerROM 1.1.0, which is a 4.2.2 base, and uses the original TegraZone Dashboard. It again removes OTA, so updating is not an option.
So, when you do install this backup, your internal "/sdcard" storage should no longer need the "nvidia" and "shield" folder, and you can delete those. They will most likely be recreated by some Shield services.
So on to installing and basic rundown in-case you past the above message and just want a bulleted list:
Installation:
Assumes the following:
1. Unlocked Bootloader
2. CWM installed
Installation procedure:
1. Download attached ZIP, extract to your internal SD card ("/sdcard") using the folder structure of "/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/<extract contents of ZIP here>"
2. Boot into CWM and select backup and restore
3. Choose advanced restore
4. Choose minisculeShield, then "system"
5. Factory reset, wipe cache, data, and dalvik
6. Reboot and enjoy
Information on changes to original 4.2.2 ROM and other info:
- Removes OTA system
- Improves performance of streaming using original Dashboard, Shield Services, and Shield PC Streaming applications
- All but the most essential "system" apps are removed
- All "Gapps" are using Slimroms 4.2.2 Build 8 version
- Koush's Superuser/Superuser Binaries pre-installed
Download:
Version 0.5
Version 1.0 (OTA Enabled)
Version 1.0 (OTA Removed)
This is great. Will give this a shot today or tomorrow. Thanks!
themichael said:
This is great. Will give this a shot today or tomorrow. Thanks!
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I'm glad, I thought people would be trampling each other to get a hold of some sort of fix to the remote streaming issue. I guess not. I know I was SUPER disappointed by the latest update for that exact reason.
Let me know if you have any problems, questions, or concerns. I am very new here, but I have been working with Android for almost as long as it came into existence. I started with Android 2.1, so I have learned a lot. I'm also a Unix (mainly the Linux variety) guy, so that goes hand in hand with Android.
I still get notification prompts for ota.
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I still get notification prompts for ota.
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This prompt is a one-time thing, if you attempt the install it will fail and never prompt again. I attribute this to a probably data not being cleared for the actual OTA I removed before doing the Nandroid, but I assure you, I have never gotten it again, and never had to install it past that. Basically, if you attempt the install, it will not restart, but rather just disappear, and even upon restart will just boot normally. Let me know if you've tried that what happens, as I still am using this Nandroid, and since I did indeed attempt (and fail) installing that OTA, it has never prompted again, and stayed where it was during Nandroid in terms of system apps and such
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This prompt is a one-time thing, if you attempt the install it will fail and never prompt again. I attribute this to a probably data not being cleared for the actual OTA I removed before doing the Nandroid, but I assure you, I have never gotten it again, and never had to install it past that. Basically, if you attempt the install, it will not restart, but rather just disappear, and even upon restart will just boot normally. Let me know if you've tried that what happens, as I still am using this Nandroid, and since I did indeed attempt (and fail) installing that OTA, it has never prompted again, and stayed where it was during Nandroid in terms of system apps and such
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Seemed to work. I'll let you know if anything changes.
same here , ive been on the evo 3d for a long time and learned alot , ill keep you posted as much as i can
milk070 said:
same here , ive been on the evo 3d for a long time and learned alot , ill keep you posted as much as i can
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Is it me, or does the new GFE render the PC running it as "Busy" regardless of the version of the Android side? It was working prior to the GFE update 1.7.1.0, I just had to use the version of the PC Streaming, Dashboard, and Nvidia Shield Services apps in this Nandroid. It seems Nvidia has found a way to render it "Busy" the same problem I had before, no matter what ROM you use
Please test, and let me know, as I will have to find another way
Hello, I'm running the cm12.1 nightly which is up to date, while restoring backed up apps via titanium backup a few 3-4 failed. After finishing the rest I tried to download those apps from the playstore and they failed again. It's not giving any error codes or anything just says "app not installed".
Any thoughts?
I had this happen once before...I think it was "Sky Baron: War of Planes" full version from Amazon (even though other Amazon apps loaded fine, since "Other Sources" was enabled). I still have no idea why it doesn't install...
topshot17 said:
Hello, I'm running the cm12.1 nightly which is up to date, while restoring backed up apps via titanium backup a few 3-4 failed. After finishing the rest I tried to download those apps from the playstore and they failed again. It's not giving any error codes or anything just says "app not installed".
Any thoughts?
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GeodudeFFP said:
I had this happen once before...I think it was "Sky Baron: War of Planes" full version from Amazon (even though other Amazon apps loaded fine, since "Other Sources" was enabled). I still have no idea why it doesn't install...
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Steps:
1- install terminal emulator from playstore
2- type su and grant su permission
3- su -shell
4- pm set-install-location 1
5- enjoy
This happened to me as well when I first flashed RR and tried to restore all of my apps through Titanium backup. I think it has something to do with your amazon and Google account, it fails to recognize them and thinks your installing them without either account.
I figured out that its best to just start fresh. The apps you've installed before on any device are tied to your Google account, so you should have no trouble remembering them. Then you can restore the data on Titanium backup if you choose to.
Hello World,
before I explain my problem, I am most humbly asking for one small favour:
Please(!!) nobody give me any advice along the line of: Just do a factory reset and start from scratch
I've got almost a thousand apps installed on my system and I'm in no mood to even try to reconfigure it all over again.
Some time ago I installed the latest beta of Cyanogenmod on my Samsung Galaxy Note Tablet SM-P900.
After some time I encountered so many quirks with it, that I decided to flash back to the latest stable build 12.1-20151029 (Android v5.1.1).
Since I was always able to upgrade w/o wiping data, I did the same here, but right after the downgrade the system started misbehaving.
Matter of fact, I could only boot through to the desktop, once I had removed some google.* related dirs from the data/data location. Right afterwards I reinstalled the affected apps from backup and that fixed that.
Unfortunately during the proces of peeking and poking in data/data I messed up some ownership/permission settings.
I also managed to fix those via an old backup (via: chmod/chown --reference), *but* now I am getting a popup message telling me:
"There is something wrong with your data partition..." everytime I reboot the system.
Afterwards I can work just fine with the tablet, but every 3rd or 4th day it suddenly reboots - then being stable again for another couple of days.
If I could only find out what fault this messages refers to, I could fix it manually - but I couldn't find anything useful by reviewing the logcat info.
DESCRIPTION
If you have the Pixel Experience module installed on your phone and installed Google Phone from the Play Store or ever tried to use a patched Google Phone version (such as this one), you may have noticed that Google Phone force closes when you try to search for a contact or while opening the keypad. This Magisk module attempts to fix that and it works by replacing your non-AOSP contacts storage with Google's own version, the one supported by Google Phone.
IMPORTANT NOTES
Supports Android versions from Android 7 (Nougat) to Android P.
It will remove any phone/dialer/contacts/people applications from your phone (if supported) because they are incompatible with Google's Contacts Storage.
You should only install this module if you want/need to use Google Phone and Google Contacts.
TESTED/SUPPORTED DEVICES
HTC 10 (Sense based ROMs).
Note: It should work with other devices but I have no means no test them myself, I can only rely on the community to test this for me.
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS
Install the Magisk module as usual but DO NOT reboot your device just yet.
Go into "Settings » Accounts & Sync" and disable "Automatically sync data".
Go into "Settings » Apps" a, look for "Contacts Storage" (it's a system app) and clear application data.
Reboot your device now!
Go into "Settings » Accounts & Sync" and enable "Automatically sync data".
Google Phone should now work without force closing, hopefully.
Note: If you ever want/need to disable this module, you should also follow the procedure above (disable module, disable data synchronization, clear contacts storage data, reboot, and re-enable contacts synchronization).
DISCLAIMER
Install this module at your own risk.
Developer is not responsible for what you do on your device.
Please take all necessary precautions (like a nandroid backup) before installing this module.
DOWNLOADS
Google-Contacts-Storage-v0.0.0-TESTING.4.zip
XDA:DevDB Information
Google Contacts Storage, Tool/Utility for the XDA Community Apps
Contributors
rfgamaral
Version Information
Status: Testing
Current Beta Version: v0.0.0-TESTING.4
Beta Release Date: 2018-08-02
Created 2018-08-01
Last Updated 2018-08-02
@rfgamaral after installing magisk module and rebooting i keep getting android.process.acore has stopped.
I cannot get rid of it. By pressing ok all the time i managed to arrive to Apps but there is no Contact Storage app to clear data/cache after the reboot.
stathis95194 said:
@rfgamaral after installing magisk module and rebooting i keep getting android.process.acore has stopped.
I cannot get rid of it. By pressing ok all the time i managed to arrive to Apps but there is no Contact Storage app to clear data/cache after the reboot.
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I also got that error when developing this module but I never got it after installing/enabling it, only after disabling it.
For some reason, the system does not recognize the /system/priv-app/ContactsProvider/ContactsProvider.apk (although the file is there). I'm not sure how to fix this to be honest, so I recommend you restore your backup to get you back to a working state. Maybe try the whole process again (makre sure you follow every single step) and instead of rebooting the system after installing the module, reboot to recovery and wipe dalvik/ART and cache. If that doesn't help, restore the device again until a solution for this problem is found.
Like I said, I also had this problem and because I live on the edge, I didn't make a backup of my system (idiot me). I had to make the system recognize the ContactsProvider.apk file and wen into recovery, deleted, copied it back from my ROM, set proper folder/file permissions, wiped dalvik/ART and cache and rebooted, the problem was gone. I installed my module again and it worked. But I'm honestly afraid to disable it and get that error back.
Which is weird because I'm replacing this file systemlessly, that's the whole point of Magisk. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, I'm no expert... We'll probably need help from someone with more knowledge on the whole Android system. But for the record, I currently have the version available on this thread installed on my phone. I have the Pixel Experience module installed and installed Google Phone from the store, it doesn't force close and all features seem to be working. I just need to get this module stable.
@stathis95194 Were you able to restore your device? I hope so... I've uploaded a new test version, didn't change much, not sure if it fixes anything.
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@stathis95194 Were you able to restore your device? I hope so... I've uploaded a new test version, didn't change much, not sure if it fixes anything.
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Yeap I always take a nandroid before messing with the phone. Let me try the new version and report
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@rfgamaral soooo after flashing 0.0.4 i faced the same issue with android.process.acore has stopped popping all the time.
This time i took a different approach and didn't restore my nandroid. Instead i dirty flashed my LeeDroid rom.
Rebooted and lo and behold, stock dialer and contacts were missing and google phone was working perfectly. No crashing on searching (nearby places is working)
Now i need to test caller id and spam filter
I will keep testing and let you know.
stathis95194 said:
@rfgamaral soooo after flashing 0.0.4 i faced the same issue with android.process.acore has stopped popping all the time.
This time i took a different approach and didn't restore my nandroid. Instead i dirty flashed my LeeDroid rom.
Rebooted and lo and behold, stock dialer and contacts were missing and google phone was working perfectly. No crashing on searching (nearby places is working)
Now i need to test caller id and spam filter
I will keep testing and let you know.
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Awesome, glad you got it working.
Now I just need to understand why installing this module crashes android.process.acore... But it's a bummer that this is happening, a little price to pay, I guess? At least until a fix is found... That and that whole install procedure which is required to avoid other different crashes because of incompatible storages.
Hi
I'm running 2.42.400.3 on U11.
I installed this and google phone from
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-google-phone-v14-0-175904292-bubble-t3708218
Dialer kept crashing so I installed your mod.
After that,com.android .phone keeps crashing.
I unistalled it and then I got acore crashing.
I restored feom nandroid but for some reason kept getting the acore crash, so I completely uninstalled magisk.
Now.... everything works. Even the dialer.
I'm really not sure what happened but.... thanks
gunnerhk said:
Hi
I'm running 2.42.400.3 on U11.
I installed this and google phone from
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-google-phone-v14-0-175904292-bubble-t3708218
Dialer kept crashing so I installed your mod.
After that,com.android .phone keeps crashing.
I unistalled it and then I got acore crashing.
I restored feom nandroid but for some reason kept getting the acore crash, so I completely uninstalled magisk.
Now.... everything works. Even the dialer.
I'm really not sure what happened but.... thanks
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That's really weird, on so many levels... :/
Screenshot as proof :laugh:
Hi, I'm having issues while syncing my Google account during the Setup Wizard's process, after choosing to restore data from a previous backup.
What happens?
(Tried several times on ArrowOS 12.1 20220808 and on crDroid 8.7 20220801 with either NikGapps 20220709):
- I connect to any type of network (both mobile data and Wi-Fi give the same result);
- the setup wizard asks to "Copy apps & data", but I "can't use old device";
- I apparently successfully log in to my account by solving the 2FA;
- I enter the PIN of the old backup and I choose what to restore everything already selected (Apps, Contacts, SMS and MMS messages, Device Settings and Call History);
- the setup wizard shows the agreement screen where you can toggle stuff (Location and Device maintenance) for a second with a disclaimer explaining how data is used;
- THE WHOLE SCREEN DISAPPEARS;
- a new "loading, please wait" screen appears for less then second;
- the agreement screen shows up again (without the how-data-is-used disclaimer), letting me toggling stuff (but there's no "Back up to Google Drive" option);
- completing the setup wizard, I have to log in again as it looks like the device has never had a Google account linked (even though there's a notification saying it's restoring apps and related data, but it's stuck on 0 over X apps to install);
- logging in again lets me restore apps data but not device settings and it also lets me choose to back up to Google Drive;
What doesn't solve this problem?
- changing ROM version
- factory resetting the phone or any sort of clean flash
How did this problem came up?
I flashed ArrowOS vanilla over the GApps build for error, then I dirty flashed the GApps build and some errors came up, therefore I clean flashed and started having issues.
I have no clue on how to solve this and on why this happens either, and I found no one facing the same issue on the net. I don't think it's a ROM-related issue (since changing ROM doesn't solve the problem), this is why I'm asking here.
How can I solve this?
Can you use another device to login to your google account via a web browser and check there is a backup in existence ?
dst212 said:
Hi, I'm having issues while syncing my Google account during the Setup Wizard's process, after choosing to restore data from a previous backup.
What happens?
(Tried several times on ArrowOS 12.1 20220808 and on crDroid 8.7 20220801 with either NikGapps 20220709):
- I connect to any type of network (both mobile data and Wi-Fi give the same result);
- the setup wizard asks to "Copy apps & data", but I "can't use old device";
- I apparently successfully log in to my account by solving the 2FA;
- I enter the PIN of the old backup and I choose what to restore everything already selected (Apps, Contacts, SMS and MMS messages, Device Settings and Call History);
- the setup wizard shows the agreement screen where you can toggle stuff (Location and Device maintenance) for a second with a disclaimer explaining how data is used;
- THE WHOLE SCREEN DISAPPEARS;
- a new "loading, please wait" screen appears for less then second;
- the agreement screen shows up again (without the how-data-is-used disclaimer), letting me toggling stuff (but there's no "Back up to Google Drive" option);
- completing the setup wizard, I have to log in again as it looks like the device has never had a Google account linked (even though there's a notification saying it's restoring apps and related data, but it's stuck on 0 over X apps to install);
- logging in again lets me restore apps data but not device settings and it also lets me choose to back up to Google Drive;
What doesn't solve this problem?
- changing ROM version
- factory resetting the phone or any sort of clean flash
How did this problem came up?
I flashed ArrowOS vanilla over the GApps build for error, then I dirty flashed the GApps build and some errors came up, therefore I clean flashed and started having issues.
I have no clue on how to solve this and on why this happens either, and I found no one facing the same issue on the net. I don't think it's a ROM-related issue (since changing ROM doesn't solve the problem), this is why I'm asking here.
How can I solve this?
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hello mate
could you solve it? something similar is happening to me
diegots said:
hello mate
could you solve it? something similar is happening to me
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Hi there. Now I'm running a different ROM, tho, PixelOS. I just clean flashed it. Also, it might be the old backup that caused the problem with those ROMs, while the newer backup I used (created on ArrowOS) didn't cause any.