Okay so I've went ahead and flashed Darky's 10.2 Resurrection edition on my sgs i9000m. It's amazingly fast! Got a Quad score of 1975 and no more weird colours, and I can get into cwm recovery . However there are a few problems that I would really like to fix!
1- I can't get into the darky's launcher. It would constantly force close, so I went ahead and deleted it. Is there some way I can get it back and actually be able to go on it?
2- Speaking of force close, A LOT of my apps won't open and end up being force closed. What's up with that exactly?
3- Speaking again of apps, A LOT of my apps got uninstalled, most of which were very useful like Allshare and Swype. I'd like to get them back. I noticed in my files that most of them are sitting in the "uninstalled" folder in Darky, but everytime i try and reinstall them, they say "Application not installed." Please help
4- I cannot connect my phone to my computer, the computer will not recognize it for some reason and neither will kies (i need to sync my contacts).
For now these are the major problems I've encountered. Will someone please be kind enough to help me fix at least some of them?
Many thanks!
-Roma
you should flash Darky's 10.2 Extreme Edition over your 10.2 RE. Brings you back what you are missing right now.
k1ngbee said:
you should flash Darky's 10.2 Extreme Edition over your 10.2 RE. Brings you back what you are missing right now.
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okay if you're sure
k1ngbee said:
you should flash Darky's 10.2 Extreme Edition over your 10.2 RE. Brings you back what you are missing right now.
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question: Exactly how do I do that now that my computer won't recognize my phone (drivers) ?
you can try to reinstall kies to your pc which automatically installs the necessary drivers.
roma17 said:
Okay so I've went ahead and flashed Darky's 10.2 Resurrection edition on my sgs i9000m. It's amazingly fast! Got a Quad score of 1975 and no more weird colours, and I can get into cwm recovery . However there are a few problems that I would really like to fix!
1- I can't get into the darky's launcher. It would constantly force close, so I went ahead and deleted it. Is there some way I can get it back and actually be able to go on it?
2- Speaking of force close, A LOT of my apps won't open and end up being force closed. What's up with that exactly?
3- Speaking again of apps, A LOT of my apps got uninstalled, most of which were very useful like Allshare and Swype. I'd like to get them back. I noticed in my files that most of them are sitting in the "uninstalled" folder in Darky, but everytime i try and reinstall them, they say "Application not installed." Please help
4- I cannot connect my phone to my computer, the computer will not recognize it for some reason and neither will kies (i need to sync my contacts).
For now these are the major problems I've encountered. Will someone please be kind enough to help me fix at least some of them?
Many thanks!
-Roma
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1. Reflash usually helps, or you can flash Extreme Edition as pointed out by another user. If you are not really familiar with the Resurrection edition, I suggest you stick to the standard Extreme Editions which has everything.
2. Reflash usually solves this
3. Those apps are purposely taken out of the Resurrection Edition because Ficeto wants the ROM to be as light as possible, and he only keeps apps that he uses on them. You can, however, get them all back using Nitrality from the market.
4. KIES won't connect because you don't have MTP installed. Get this from the Nitrality app from the Market.
If you wanna flash EE over RE, you can simply download EE and transfer to your phone via usb mass storage mode, (first time run it''ll automatically install the drivers) or via KIES Air. After that, flash via CWM
Hope that helps!
I had the same #4 problem: MTP Application missing.
After using Nitrality, I check Mtp Application, select "apply changes".
It asks me to confirm installing MTP App
I push "yes continue"
It says performing operations...
After 3 seconds it says "Batch operation completed"
But nothing changes, since Kies doesn't find the phone and if I restart Nitrality, I find that MTP App is not checked as if it has been installed...
I found even the MTPApplication.apk but when I try to install it, it says "app not installed"
(my system comes from a darky 9.4 >> wipe all with a dark 10.2 resurrection)
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I found even the MTPApplication.apk but when I try to install it, it says "app not installed"
(my system comes from a darky 9.4 >> wipe all with a dark 10.2 resurrection)
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You are not supposed to install it but move it to /system/app folder.
sorry for the question, but where is that folder?
I don't have a system folder and don't have a App folder in /sdcard
where should I put the MTPApplication.apk?
Having the same problem.
I also moved MTP Application to sdcard/system/app and still doesn't work ..
Step 1: Download root explorer
Step 2: Open root explorer
Step 3: Copy the mtp apk
Step 4: Navigate to /system/app (not /sdcard/system/app, not /sdcard/app)
Step 5: Paste the mtp app
Step 6: profit
Worst case scenario:
Step 1: Get a $20 micro sd. Put it in your Pc's card reader and copy Darky's Extreme Edition file there
Step 2: Put the card in your phone
Step 3: using any file manager copy the Darky EE zip onto the root dir of you *internal sdcard*
Step 4: Flash
Step 5: profit
Easy enough you just need to read the instructions a bit more.
I did that. Still not working.
On the phone I see MTP application on screen and notification "Connected"
On Samsung Kies it's not connected. It keeps showing "Connecting..." for few minutes and after that I get error message "Cannot start service on the device. Please disconnect then reconnect the device."
I did that, but .. still not working.
Try putting the phone in USB debug mode. That will give you access to normal USB mass storage mode (meaning you don't need MTP, your computer will see the phone like a normal USB stick), and then you can copy over Darky EE Edition and flash it.
If nothing else works, start over from a stable stock GB ROM or Froyo ROM.
EDIT: oh and why don't you try syncing your contacts to gmail? Makes getting your phone up and running a breeze and they're always backed up to Google's Servers. You'd need a DOUBLE failure to ever lose your contacts (Google failing AND your phone failing at the same time, which is very very unprobable). If you got em on Kies, just export them to csv and then import them to gmail. Every time I flash, I just enter my google account and wham, 2 minutes later all my mail and contacts are already on the phone.
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Guys,
After a failure to get my phone to connect to odin-3 when it was in download mode, I took out the battery (since I did not know how to get it "out" of download mode) just to get it to boot up again.
No harm, as odin did not start to copy the firmware to the phone (since it could not communicate with it), the phone was working and all my apps were there, however, when I plugged my phone into my laptop the PC Kies application would start but my phone to attempt to load "MTP Appliation", however it would just flip back to the touchwiz screen and back to MTP Application then back to touchwiz again (non-stop).
Not sure why this is happening, or what I broke ?
I have since (using Odin) flashed my phone with the latest (European) firmware but the problem is still there, MTP mode just restarting all the time and kies never connecting (I also tried reinstalled the Desktop Kies app).
Anyone know how I can get this working again?
On a related note, i also installed doubletwist (before the steps above) and had to turn on usb debug mode.
I have since turned it off when not syncing with dkubletwist but noticed sometimes the music player saying mass storage device mode is on?
I wonder if some "state/lock" file is left behind somewhere on the phone?
Could the use of doubletwist be related to my problem?
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As per my post in the other thread, this method seemed to sort the problem when I had a similar issue. Not sure if you're using a different launcher, but that is what caused the problem for me. Changing to TW didn't help even after killing the other launcher (ADW or Pro). However, once set to default (TW), I could reboot the phone and it would connect fine (without flicking on and off). There's no real need to Keis though if all your contacts are with Google as USB storage mode is more convenient.
I had this problem too. It was caused because only in idle mode of the Samsung home launcher can keis connect. You may have installed a different launcher. Try the following:
Put usb to keis mode in settings
download home switcher from the market
run home switcher an set touchwiz as default home
Reboot phone (task killing other launchers don't work for me.)
make you phone is in the home screen - press home to get there
now connect the cable with keis running on pc
sync everything you need to
In future I suggest you move all contact to Google so they sync over the air and you'll no longer need keis. crappy software!
Thanks so much.
I got launcher switcher and it listed my launcher as unknown. I just switched it to touchwiz and set that as default.
Once i get home i will restart the phone and test connecting with kies.
Thanks for the QUICK reply.
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So your recommendation did not work for me.
What did work is actually unmounting the internal sd card and formatting it.
Unfortunately My camera is crashing when i open it.
Funny thing is that my phone sseems so fast now (no lag).
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No harm, as odin did not start to copy the firmware to the phone (since it could not communicate with it), the phone was working and all my apps were there, however, when I plugged my phone into my laptop the PC Kies application would start but my phone to attempt to load "MTP Appliation", however it would just flip back to the touchwiz screen and back to MTP Application then back to touchwiz again (non-stop).
Not sure why this is happening, or what I broke ?
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Same problem here and I never used Odin. Must be something different ... any ideas are welcome.
BTW: which latest firmware did you install?
Has anyone of you for whom formating the internal SD card solves the problem installed SoundHound? I spent the last hours with formating the SD card and then copying back my data piece by piece and by this I found out that the "soundhound" folder is the thing which leads to the problem. I have all my data back on the internal SD card except for the "soundhound" folder and the connection works! If I now copy this folder back the problem of the restarting "MTP Application" returns. If I now delete the folder again it is working again! So at least for me SoundHound or furthermore it's folder on the internal SD clearly is the problem! Also if I copy the folder to the external SD card instead of the internal one, the MTP connection does not work and if I delete it again it works!
Can anyone confirm/reproduce this?
//edit: After looking to the content of the folder I would assume that the problem is that the MTP Application has a problem with specific file extensions since the folder only includes files with no or extreme long file extensions.
Thanks! same here, soundhound is the problem.
I must say that Soundhound itself is not the problem. The long file extensions of the saved files are the problem. They're more apps which use such files like e.g. the skyfire browser. Just delete them and it will work again.
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I must say that Soundhound itself is not the problem. The long file extensions of the saved files are the problem. They're more apps which use such files like e.g. the skyfire browser. Just delete them and it will work again.
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Thanks a TON. I mounted my card in the data storage mode, opened the internal card in my computer and did a search for *.*, switched to detail view, sorted by file type. There were several files with long extensions in the folder "TunnyBrowser" which is created by DolphinBrowser HD. I uninstalled it, deleted the folder and now it connects fine again!
SoundHound + Kies issue fixed
Hi guys,
I am a developer at SoundHound and am responsible for our Android app. Sorry to hear about the problem you've been having with our app and the Samsung Kies software.
Just wanted to let you know that we've updated our app to be compatible with the Samsung Kies MTP sync software. As has been mentioned in this post, the problem is caused by files on the SD card with long or missing file extensions.
So please upgrade to the latest version of SoundHound on the Android Market. If you uninstalled SoundHound because of this issue, I hope you'll give us another shot!
Naturally, we can't do anything about other apps that generate these offending filenames.
If you continue to have any problems, please feel free to respond to this post or PM me.
Thanks!
Rico
hi, i installed mdeejays android version succesfully, however some apps fail to install via market.
for example angry birds and the latest facebook app. the smaller apps will install without any problem. but the important apps wont. what can i do about this?
i read something about unmounting SD card. i tried that. But still got the problem.
What should i do?
I really want the facebook 1.5.0 app
tnx
Do you get an error or do they just stuck on 100% after downloading?
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Do you get an error or do they just stuck on 100% after downloading?
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I get an error. But sometimes the download just cancels itself.
however, the main problem is the error. because i could download the apk file via rapidshare etc.
But the problem is the error. the error says after the install bar runs:
Application did not install. (in dutch)
The other problem, with the download cancelling is like this:
when selecting an app for download, the download bar starts running.
But after a few seconds the download bar disappears by itself. so eventually, the app never reaches my phone. in fact the download never completes.
so there are 2 problems. but the first problem is worse than the second.
However, it would be great if you could help me to solve them both.
First problem: i get an error when installing certain apps.
second: My downloads from the market wont complete.
sorry for any weird sentences, english is not my first language.
Kinda glad to know that I'm not the only one with the same problem... still trying to figure out what happened.
I know a clean install will fix the problem but I don't want to go through that again...
My phone is a Motorola Milestone running CM6 10.12.22
i just did a clean install from the latest android out there (darkstone superram 0.1) with the dutch vodafone data mod and i cannot download a single byte from the market. the market itself works fine over wifi or G3, but all files refuse to download.
thing that sucks as well is that i have the apk for applanet on the sd card but a cannot get to it as the darkstone lacks a sd card explorer app....
When that happened to me, Market reported an error -18. An online search recommended deleting a hidden directory ".android_secure" on the SD card. I'm running CM6.1 on a CDMA Hero with most of my apps running from the SD. From what I found online, that secure stuff is for Froyo apps2sd... which is why some apps downloaded and installed okay, and why some apps downloaded, but failed to install.
You can also try some cache dumps including Dalvik. Run "Fix Permissions" in ROM Manager. Then try the downloads again. If that still doesn't work, you might want to delete the ".android_secure" hidden directory.
Make sure to do a Nand backup and copy the contents of the SD card onto your computer before attempting any fix. Play it safe.
Good luck.
New Member here,
I tried to root without success. Downloaded file, placed in sd card directory, successfully rebooted into recovery and launched file. Was notified it was a success and phone rebooted properly.
However, Titanium is telling my phone is not rooted and I cannot seem to mount my phone anymore to re-try the process. (deleted the file and need to replace it)
Any thoughts would be appreciated. The phone seems to be fine otherwise.
Lordjish said:
New Member here,
I tried to root without success. Downloaded file, placed in sd card directory, successfully rebooted into recovery and launched file. Was notified it was a success and phone rebooted properly.
However, Titanium is telling my phone is not rooted and I cannot seem to mount my phone anymore to re-try the process. (deleted the file and need to replace it)
Any thoughts would be appreciated. The phone seems to be fine otherwise.
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Downloaded what file?
update.zip.
Titanium seems to be working now (despite telling me over and over that debugging isn't enabled for development while it is : /)
Mounting still isn't working...not sure what to do about that. Are we unable to mount while USB debugging is enabled?
To root my phone I downloaded "One Click Root" to my PC. Put the contents in to a folder and then click the .exe file. Make sure your Vibrant is plugged in and then click the one click root button.
You need to make sure you have the latest Samsung driver installed and Microsoft .NET Framework 4 before you try to root.
It's as if my computer cannot see the phone anymore because it's rooted? I connected it to the computer and it thought it needed to install drivers...which of course there are none. I've used the computer numerous times to mount, so this is bizarre.
Lordjish said:
It's as if my computer cannot see the phone anymore because it's rooted? I connected it to the computer and it thought it needed to install drivers...which of course there are none. I've used the computer numerous times to mount, so this is bizarre.
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Make sure debugging mode is not selected and when you plug your phone in to the pc does your phone give you an option on how to connect to your pc?
Yeah thanks ....Through trial and error ...and a usb driver reset program...something made it work again.
Now dare I try and install ROM? : D
Lordjish said:
Yeah thanks ....Through trial and error ...and a usb driver reset program...something made it work again.
Now dare I try and install ROM? : D
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Sure. Make sure you are rooted by downloading OCLF from the market. This will let you know if you are rooted or not. Make sure you have clockworkmod "rom manager" installed. Put the rom on the root of your phone (do not unzip it) and use rom manager to install it. Do a backup of your phone first. Should be good to go.
Thanks Lethal....
This is going smoothly and am now making a back up of my phone
Let us know what ROM you decide to go with. Nero v3 is the new hotness.
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Thanks Lethal....
This is going smoothly and am now making a back up of my phone
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Hey no problem. I am happy I was able to help you out.
I chose Axura. I've successfully installed but I have no widgets besides messaging, market & maps.
How do I restore Dialer, Contact, etc widgets?
How do I access an applications list besides the manager?
How do I restore my apps that I backed up through titanium...do I reboot? I just don't want to screw it up
I chose ADW if that makes any difference
It's already amazing how much faster and responsive the phone is!
UPDATE: I've switched to Launcher Pro...and things look better. So basically I just need to know to restore contacts, apps, etc
Lordjish said:
UPDATE: I've switched to Launcher Pro...and things look better. So basically I just need to know to restore contacts, apps, etc
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AND............. there you have it ......... With a the new joy of discovery..........
........... A new ROM addict...........
All thanks to the generous people of this forum I went from rooting to ROM installation in a few hours. Thank you!
(For those hesitating to mess with these things it's very easy!)
Lordjish said:
UPDATE: I've switched to Launcher Pro...and things look better. So basically I just need to know to restore contacts, apps, etc
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When you download all your widgets and apps you want, you will want to download Titanium Backup which is great for backing up everything. If you decide to flash to a new rom or an updated rom you can simply restore all of your apps and widgets easily. Contacts as well if you chose not to store them to your sim card.
Lordjish said:
It's as if my computer cannot see the phone anymore because it's rooted? I connected it to the computer and it thought it needed to install drivers...which of course there are none. I've used the computer numerous times to mount, so this is bizarre.
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Im experiencing the same problem. The only difference is that Im not yet Rooted. My computer isn't detecting my phone.
Hi,
First post so please be gentle. I've got a Lg GT540 running 1.6 and wanted to install a couple of apps onto the phone internal memory, so I got the apk files onto my desktop and connected the phone up via usb and could not and have not been able to copy these files onto the internal memory. In fact the phone does not come up as a drive or anything and copying the files onto the sd card leaves them stuck there and not being installed.( Mainly the astro file manger app.)
I then considered upgrading the phone to 2.1 via the LG site and downloaded LG suite etc and all was going well until the process stopped at 4% upgrade and requested I disconnect from pc, remove battery etc etc. I tried to follow that procedure 3 times and it still failed.
Not beaten I then found some stuff online to enable me to reflash to 2.2 (Modaco) and started that process. One of the first things it required me to do was start the phone in Fastboot mode by holding the camera button down whilst powering up. THe phone stubbornly refused to go into Fast boot.
Sooo, How do I get to copy Astro onto the internal memory so I can do what I want to and/or how can I upgrade to 2.2/
Firstly when you try to get into fastboot it wont work until you install a fastboot kdz.
This will allow you to flash roms onto ur phone.
I've made a video on a "how to" its in the general, look trought the pages or visit www.YouTube/user/tech2tuts
There's also a video on how to install android 2.3 swiftdroid. Its on the same channel in the favorites.
But beware u will lose all you apps unfortunately. Unless you get astro file manager or titanium back up which requires your phone to be rooted.
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Hi Chris, Thank you for the link to the demo and I will need to look at that with a view to implementing. No doubt I'll be asking for some assistance during the process.
However I'm still at a loss with not being able to install apps directly onto the phone memory and would appreciate some pointers on that. I have acess to a desktop running XP and a laptop running Windows 7.
Thanks in advance.
You probly cant install apps due to lack of internal memory. Bye install the Kdz it will enable over 230mb of internal , along with apps to sd, so no need for use of internal.
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Thanks again, but phone showing 3.6 gb avaiable on sd card and 120mb available on internal memory?
I really want to know why my pc connection only reads my sd card and not the internal memory. Is there an approved way of connection ie whether I need to use any LG software etc.
Hmm that's odd. When you connect to comp it should only show SD card, have u tried a factory reset?
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Hi again,
have made some progress and managed to update the os to 2.1 off the LG site.
When usb plugged into pc it does read the sd card and I am able to copy files inc apps to it but do not know how to run them!!! My belief is that I need to install apps to the phone memory???
Ohhh i think i see your problem now.
So uve downloaded apps from this website or other?
And you want to know how to install them?
Get astro file manager or any other ones the same,connect your phone, put the Downloaded file into a folder , like downloads in your SD card then disconnect your phone , open astro the go into SD card and downloads folder and press on the app, it will ask you to install and Bam your done.
Or if its saying that ur not able to install it, go settings>applications>development>usb debugging tick it and also allow installation or 3rd party apps tick that to.
I think that what you mean?
Hi Chris, I think you are close to understanding my problem, I have a apk file of astro pro on my pc but am not sure where to copy it to. I have tried copying it onto my sd card but am then not able to run it?
Do I need to have the phone rooted etc?
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Hi Chris, I think you are close to understanding my problem, I have a apk file of astro pro on my pc but am not sure where to copy it to. I have tried copying it onto my sd card but am then not able to run it?
Do I need to have the phone rooted etc?
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The first thing to do would be to downlaod Astro Free from the market and then navigate to the sd (home on astro) and select the apk, open app manager and install, install. Now it will be installed.
Tap here and then tap download directly from market to download from market.
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The first thing to do would be to downlaod Astro Free from the market and then navigate to the sd (home on astro) and select the apk, open app manager and install, install. Now it will be installed.
Tap here and then tap download directly from market to download from market.
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Yeah i understand. Follow these instructions. Astro is free on the market anyway. The pro version is no different.
A very big thank you to Chris and Quinney I actually had the Astro apk on my laptop and sent it across via Bluetooth and I'm now up and running, Only had bluetooth working since the update to 2.1
Wouldn't mind getting it to run a little faster though, I see people reporting 800mhz being smooth.
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Hi, thanks Chris and Quinney, Finally managed to send the Astro apk from my laptop via bluetooth and all my problems are behind me.
Thanks once again.
No problem.
So I am trying to load a couple of apks I have and it's been no go. On my Epic I usually just dropbox, open, and install. I tried that and initially got the security message. That is already taken care of via nookcolor tools. So that isn't the issue. My issue is every time I go to install I go to Astro, open the file via the "open app manager," it takes me to the info install page...I click install and it loads into the package installer, excellent...and then it just stalls and the progress bar runs and runs but never progresses. This has happened with every apk I have now tried.
Okay...so I figured I'd just go the little more involved (very little, no need to be that lazy, right) route and adb install. Well carp. All goes well, I adb install blahblah.apk and it starts rolling..."570kb blah..etc pkg /blah/temp/blah"...and just hangs there...never to give me the gratifying "success" message. Again, I have tried this with different apks that I know work and the same results. I restored to stock and rerooted, just in case. Same
I am running stock rooted (manualnooter) at this point, just got the nook day before yesterday (one of the many who jumped at the refurbs). Market apps download fine. I'm a blue dot, if that makes any diff. Likely not but meh.
I have searched and googled and not found the answers...but I know I am missing something elementally simple. My luck I'll look like an idiot and it will be a "did you check to see if you had any gas?" broken down car scenario. I'm okay with that, as long as I'm running again. I'm pretty sure I checked all the out of gas scenarios but I likely missed one or two so... any help is much appreciated. Thanks a ton...
I should know better than trying to write before coffee
Well, My answer is not a "check gas" answer. It's pretty dang weird.
1. Download ES Explorer from the market.
2. Start ES Explorer, hit Menu>Settings. Goto Root Options (NEW) and tick both check boxes. Hit allow when it asks you to.
3. Go back twice, until you see your sd card contents. Find the APK on there and select and hold. Hit copy and then hit the 1st button on the row of buttons (it's an icon of an sd card OR a Home icon) If you see a data folder, go in to it. If not, hit the 1st button again.
3. Once in the data folder, go into the app folder. Pull up the little white tab on the bottom. Tap the APK you wanted to install. It will copy. Once you see the APK's icon in the folder, hit the home button and restart. That should have installed it but it is a slow method. Note that you can Multi-Select APK's by pressing the Multi-select button and pasting them all in the /data/app/ folder.
are you sure you have side loading checked
Settings > applications should be the top box.
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So I am trying to load a couple of apks I have and it's been no go. On my Epic I usually just dropbox, open, and install. I tried that and initially got the security message. That is already taken care of via nookcolor tools. So that isn't the issue.
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I think he already took care of that. And he is on stock, so there is no Applications setting.
ikingblack, thank you, thank you!
Not sure why but by doing this it somehow unsnafued the package installer as well (fingers crossed). I went through your instructions with a known good apk that would not install for anything before. And there it was after the copy, paste reboot etc. Not too much to ask for...still was confused as to the why of the normal package installer method not working. So I decided to give it (package inst) a go with another known working apk (I had just tested it on my epic) that previously wouldn't install, repeatedly, and now it installed just like it should. Scratching my head in wonder. It shouldn't be the reboot, as I have do so many times...the only difference is the install instructions and adding ES (I'm leaving astro behind I think). All I know is it is working and I am a happy camper (tent is in the back yard...) Thanks again! cheers!
Sure. Also, you can select all the APK's using the 2-file icon at the top and tapping the APKs, then press-and hold on one of the APk's and then go to data app, and keep tapping the APK's you wanna copy. And then reboot. Enjoy your Nook!
Thanks for this, it fixed it, but I don't know why.
I suffered this issue on my dell streak.
It was working fine a couple of days ago when I installed GetJar.
Suddenly today for no reason I can determine:
All APK's I tried the install button in the package installer was not grayed out, but it would not respond when pressed.
I've just been setting up my streak again and installing a lot of software. I'm guessing something must of gone wrong.
Someone on another post suggested JuiceDefender may have caused it but I've not installed that recently.
In my case I did:
(1) Installed esFileExplorer
(2) Copied an apk to the folder /data/app/ as described above
(3) restarted the phone
This did not install the app for me.
(4) Tried running the apk file again. Suddenly the Install button is clickable again?! The app then installed just fine.
(5) Tried a different apk (without copying to /data/app/)
Now that will install fine?!
This is really weird. I can't replicate the issue now (which is good!)
but I also can't tell which action fixed it.
As said above it may have been installing esfileexplorer and giving it root access.
It may have been the act of copying the file that reset something.
It wasn't the reboot, at lease not on its own as i'd already tried it.
Regardless, thanks for the info.
If anyone sees this issue again you might want to just try installing esfileexplorer and see if apk's will then install.
This might help us identify which bit of the process is creating the fix.
Just found another suggestion if anyone is interested:
Some suggests using the 'Fix permissions' option of Titanium Backup. I have no way to test this.