Hey all, I've come here to ask these basic questions...since this is the place where gurus come.
I'm currently in possession of an a500 running stock 3.2 however I can not update it or even use the google play store to download apps as the a500 is no long supported. Are there any work arounds to get the play store to work on a stock rom (and how could I update it to ICS)? I think it's pretty ****ed up that by dropping support for it you can no longer download a thing from it.
I say this because the owner of this tablet is not at all good with technology and would greatly appreciate the vanilla experience of android compared to a custom rom.
And I'm not all that familiar with how the play store operates on custom roms so my next questions are:
1. If a custom rom was to be used which is the most stable?
2. If using a custom rom will the play store become usable again?
Thank you all!
strange
Play store, as far as I know should work fine on a stock install. It has worked for me in every single ROM I have ever used, including stock roms.
Since you got it used - the prior owner may have screwed something up. Done a factory reset yet?
Google play store has always worked on all my ROM's, sounds like something else is wrong.
Probably best to make a nandroid backup and change or reinstall a Custom ROM after the correct WIPE method of that ROM.
Google play store will automatically update to newest version 3.10.10 or you could download a newer version, but i'm sure that will not fix ur problem...
Best to restart with a ROM u know is new to your tablet...This will be easier to troubleshoot in future
and before your install ROM, wipe everything (except External SDCARD)
at this point all will be fresh and only problems will be with ROM (unless you have hardware isues), but you won't know until you change ROM
I recomend TWRP Recovery 2.3.3.1, not CWM
operatorplease said:
Hey all, I've come here to ask these basic questions...since this is the place where gurus come.
I'm currently in possession of an a500 running stock 3.2 however I can not update it or even use the google play store to download apps as the a500 is no long supported. Are there any work arounds to get the play store to work on a stock rom (and how could I update it to ICS)? I think it's pretty ****ed up that by dropping support for it you can no longer download a thing from it.
I say this because the owner of this tablet is not at all good with technology and would greatly appreciate the vanilla experience of android compared to a custom rom.
Thank you all!
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The play store works fine, you have something borked on your tablet.
Sounds like you prefer to return to Acer stock Rom. If so, go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1816560 and dowload the 3.01 EUU for the A500, (not for the A501), flash it in APX mode, go to Play store, update (like, at least 4 times) and you will be on stock Acer ICS 4.03.
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Hi guys
I'm getting rid of my hero and was just wondering should i leave it running villainRom 10.3 (after a full wipe) or put the offical rom back on?
Many thanks
Darren
probably best to use the RUU to make it official, thatway they cant have a go at you because they dont like the way it is, or, put it in your ebay listing saying when they buy it, do they want villain with the recovery or completely official
am i right in thinking that i need a 'windose' machine to use the ruu?
yes, i think so, if you have a mac you could use paralells desktop or bootcamp, and i think on linux it is called 'wine'
isn't there an almost offical 'update.zip' lurking about?
I would leave the stock rooted rom on. in my experience rooted phones sell for higher than non rooted IF you fully explain what root is and how it benifits the end user.
if you want to use an ruu I made an app called openruu (search for it in dev section) so you can flash on Linux or Mac.
If you are gonna sell it, upgrade to villain 12, and wipe. it is based on official release.
And rooted should fetch more money. Be clear in description that it is rooted and running whatever rom (maybe point to info on it) and they can't whine as it is as described.
I recently flashed the [ROM][0.0.7.3]ICS CM9 (Alpha) found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1580286
The CM9 port is a HUGE improvement over Honeycomb, but due to various reasons, including some apps becoming invisible in the Play Market, I would like to return to either the original stock OTA 2 or OTA 2.5 ROM and then update it to OTA 3 (ICS). However, Lenovo doesn't offer the ICS image directly from their servers; it must be downloaded within Honeycomb as an OTA update.
Being the idiot that I am, I failed to make a backup of my original ROM, so now I'm stuck with the CM9 Alpha.
Does anyone have a backup image of ANY version of Honeycomb (3.0, 3.1, 3.2, etc)? Your Thinkpad must be the same model as mine in order for the signature check to work.
I have a rooted Thinkpad Tablet 1838-22U 16GB WiFi (US).
same boat
i did the same thing as above, well i tried to do a backup but at the time i didnt have a big enough sd card around so i said "screw it, i wont want to come back to stock roms now that we have working customs" but custom updates never came and would just prefer to be back on stock so atleast everything works. but have no back up and have tried everything i can think of.
so if anyone out there with a 1838-22u 16gb wifi only us model would be willing to help that would be great, or if anyone knows a way to get around this struggle that would be super.
thanks
xrs
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Xrs,
A friend of mine just gave me copy of his Nandroid backup a few days ago. I flashed it, and it works flawlessly. It is the most recent version of the OTA, ver. 2.5 I think. I would send you a download link, but it is over 4 GB in size! I'll try to figure out a way for you to download it, but if you want to, you can send me $5 on Paypal and I'll ship you a DVD with the files.
Dave
stock rom
RamblinWreck1988 said:
Xrs,
A friend of mine just gave me copy of his Nandroid backup a few days ago. I flashed it, and it works flawlessly. It is the most recent version of the OTA, ver. 2.5 I think. I would send you a download link, but it is over 4 GB in size! I'll try to figure out a way for you to download it, but if you want to, you can send me $5 on Paypal and I'll ship you a DVD with the files.
Dave
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Is it still possible to download the backup? My backup doesn't work, and I am stuck. I would really like to go back to the stock ROM.
Thanks
Drw
danrweaver said:
Is it still possible to download the backup? My backup doesn't work, and I am stuck. I would really like to go back to the stock ROM.
Thanks
Drw
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What is your TPT's region and are you looking for a Honeycomb or Ice Cream Sandwich ROM?
Hi all,
I noticed that the Google Edition Roms are starting to trickle in (Pulled from the Google Editions of our phone). Will we be able to flash it on our AT&T devices?
This will definitely make me flash instead of sticking with TW now. The Verge is reporting that they got a 3rd party remote app to work with their Google Edition S4!
Death&co said:
Hi all,
I noticed that the Google Edition Roms are starting to trickle in (Pulled from the Google Editions of our phone). Will we be able to flash it on our AT&T devices?
This will definitely make me flash instead of sticking with TW now. The Verge is reporting that they got a 3rd party remote app to work with their Google Edition S4!
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Yes you should, just be sure to flash the att kernel and superuser zip before exiting recovery. Also, double check, but I've read you need the touchwiz version of our kernel not the aosp version which seems odd to me. From the reports I've read though, the google edition rom is very much a work iin progress. It's probably better to just wait a few days for the major s4 rom developers to incorporate the goodies into their roms.
I used the ROM that's going around for the i377m does not flash the Modem so those are both stock and the ROM runs perfectly from what i can tell so far (only been a few hours, still need to test LTE properly).
I think that the touchwize framework is still integrated deep in the ROM, it's just all the top level stuff has been removed. I've even heard reports of the touchwize camera, dialer and such working on the google edition.
Edit:
The ROM does flash the kernel, I'm using the [email protected] kernel and the phone is functioning properly.
I'm trying to convert my SM-900F to the Google play vanilla android version, I've seen some old tutorials for loading an old Kit-Kat ROM onto the device, but I'm currently on Lollipop, so...
1. Would loading a 4.4 version ROM even work?
2. Would I then be able to OTA update to Lollipop?
3. Is there any other way to get a "clean" Google ROM?
(Yes, I know I can just install CM, but I do prefer stock google to CM)
boazarad said:
I'm trying to convert my SM-900F to the Google play vanilla android version, I've seen some old tutorials for loading an old Kit-Kat ROM onto the device, but I'm currently on Lollipop, so...
1. Would loading a 4.4 version ROM even work?
2. Would I then be able to OTA update to Lollipop?
3. Is there any other way to get a "clean" Google ROM?
(Yes, I know I can just install CM, but I do prefer stock google to CM)
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0. Try to post in the correct section next time, there is a Q&A subforum for the s5
1. Yes there is, get a stock rom from sammobile and flash it via odin. Make sure to wipe data first.
2. Yup, provided you don't make any modifications such as root or flash a custom recovery/rom/kernel.
3. Please specify what you mean by clean google rom.. do you mean a rom with only google apps?
Akalsemann said:
0. Try to post in the correct section next time, there is a Q&A subforum for the s5
1. Yes there is, get a stock rom from sammobile and flash it via odin. Make sure to wipe data first.
2. Yup, provided you don't make any modifications such as root or flash a custom recovery/rom/kernel.
3. Please specify what you mean by clean google rom.. do you mean a rom with only google apps?
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Thanks Akalsemann,
I'm new here so I wasn't sure where this thread should go
As for a "clean Google ROM", I meant a "Google play edition" ROM, i.e. no touchwiz or Samsung bloat. Googling around a bit more, it seems these never really existed for the S5, only the S4
(I'd link to an arstechnica article titled "Don’t cry for the Google Play edition program; it was already dead" but can't since I'm a new user)
I guess I'll install CM and be done with it, as the phone is painfully sluggish out of the box, often taking SECONDS to display the app-switcher screen.
Hi,
I really really want a stock rom on my samsung tab active lte sm-t365 but i cannot find one anywhere.
There is not even a section for it on XDA.
I have manged to get a recovery but not a rom.
I have posted it here becauses the hardware is pretty much identical to the tab 4 but mods please feel free to move it if there is a better place.
Please could someone assist me in finding a rom
Thanks
Jake
Hi,
I'm bringing this up again because it matches my question perfectly.
Im new to the Android-Family and want to flash my Active Tab SM-T365 with a Custom ROM to get rid of the hole Bloatware that came with it.
Anyone has any suggestions?
Regards Nic
deJung said:
Hi,
I'm bringing this up again because it matches my question perfectly.
Im new to the Android-Family and want to flash my Active Tab SM-T365 with a Custom ROM to get rid of the hole Bloatware that came with it.
Anyone has any suggestions?
Regards Nic
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In my experience, it's often more stable to root the stock firmware and then remove the bloatware (using Titanium Backup or Link2SD). That way you have a rom that's tailored for the device and you don't have issues like the camera not working on custom roms, certain video codecs that aren't supported, ...
Unless there's an official CyanogenMod or LineageOS for the device.
steeflemmens said:
In my experience, it's often more stable to root the stock firmware and then remove the bloatware (using Titanium Backup or Link2SD). That way you have a rom that's tailored for the device and you don't have issues like the camera not working on custom roms, certain video codecs that aren't supported, ...
Unless there's an official CyanogenMod or LineageOS for the device.
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That is what I want, but can't seem to get it done. The newest Magisk is not working. Older versions aren't. Anyone got it done? Just need root to get storage rights for external SD for Syncthing..
ok, got root working now. used the "old" way, supersu, for an old ROM..