When I first installed CM 11 M1 from stock kitkat, I didn't have the playstore, so I had to download the gapps package.
Ever since CM 11 M1, I've tried different custom roms, but everytime I flashed them from the custom recovery, they all came with the playstore.
Should I be installing the gapps from the package?? Or can I just install the apps from the playstore??
Either way works. From the play store you can pick and choose what you install and can be uninstalled without jumping through hoops because they install as user apps. When you flash gapps, they typically go in as system apps and are a bit more troublesome to get rid of if you don't want everything in the package.
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Addition to what said above, just open the gapps package ade delete which ever apks you don't need. This way you can get rid of the apps you don't want to install as system app. To me, modular PA gapps or banks core gapps is enough. You don't need to flash full package gapps.
ankuzero said:
When I first installed CM 11 M1 from stock kitkat, I didn't have the playstore, so I had to download the gapps package.
Ever since CM 11 M1, I've tried different custom roms, but everytime I flashed them from the custom recovery, they all came with the playstore.
Should I be installing the gapps from the package?? Or can I just install the apps from the playstore??
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This is because gapps has updater script and as long as you won't manually format system your previously installed gapps will remain in a new rom. (including play store)
Installing apps from gapps package via recovery will install the apps to system partition.
Installing apps from play store will install them to user data partition.
In order to save space in user data I recommend installing the gapps you need to system partition via recovery.
Thanks for info guys :good::laugh:
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I installed CyanogenMod 7.2 on my Samsung Galaxy Y GT-S5360 (this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2537457).
When I first installed it, I also installed Gapps. However, as I do not want to use Gapps anymore (like Gmail, GMaps, Googlesearch etc.), I want to get rid of them - but I am unable to do so.
I did a complete wipe in the Clockwork Recovery, meaning: wiped cache, wiped, wiped batt stats, formated sytem, data and cache and did factory reset. After that, I reinstalled CyanogenMod 7.2 again, this time without installing Gapps.... BUT: Gapps are nevertheless included.
What did I do wrong? How can I can a Cynanogenmod now on my Galaxy Y GT-S5360 without Gapps?
(Forgive me if I used wrong terminology etc., as I a new to this. I did, however, spent a lot of time searching this forum and others to find a solution before I came bothering you with my question. Thanks in advance!)
if you look at the features of that rom it says gapps are included so I dont know why you flashed it seperatly
anyway
if you want to remove any system apps install link2sd from the playstore then you can use it to uninstall any system app you want
Thanks for your answer. I just realized that Gapps are already included. As I am new, I used another, more detailled, step-by-step guide, which used the Percy Rom (with the above link), in that guide, I was told to separately install Gapps... :silly: Thanks for the other hint, too. :good:
Try to uninstall it after you flash CM 7.2
I decided to multiboot my device with CyanogenMod 10.2.1 and after realising it didn't come with the google play app I did my research and found out how to go about installing it.
I booted into recovery mode and installed the Gapps.zip from SD but it still doesn't show up at all in CyanogenMod.
I multibooted using Patcher App.
With CyanogenMod Nightly 10.2.1 into the first multiboot slot.
The gapps i tried to install should be the correct version for the cyanogenMod - Gapps.
and i'm using the ClockworkMod recovery to install gapps.
I believe it is probably installing it for my main OS.
Any ideas on what I can do to get the Google play store onto the OS?
I'm having the same problem, after updating my S4 I9505 to the latest stock Samsung 4.4.2 ROM, I installed the CM11 with the appropriate Gapps, but the apps are not working, after installing the Gapps only Gmail appears, and it doesn't even open the app, and also no option to add a Google account.... tried several different CM versions and several different Gapps version also.
Hi, for testing purposes i installed the lastest omnirom on my device (jflte).
In the installation guide it says that the gapps are installed seperately with a zip after installing omnirom (similar to cyanogenmod).
But after starting my device i noticed that gapps are actually already on my device, same for the jflte rom of cyanogenmod. In TWRP i made a complete wipe just to be sure. Did i do something wrong? I'd rather choose the gapps package i want to install or not instead having them preinstalled on my device.
So, are the gapps are really prebuilt in the custom rom i loaded? Or are there any other i missed? Anyway, is there a way for me to remove it, either removing the whole package after installation or by building a custom rom, and is there a common and safe way to do that, or is it even enough to remove only the apks.
nftsc said:
Hi, for testing purposes i installed the lastest omnirom on my device (jflte).
In the installation guide it says that the gapps are installed seperately with a zip after installing omnirom (similar to cyanogenmod).
But after starting my device i noticed that gapps are actually already on my device, same for the jflte rom of cyanogenmod. In TWRP i made a complete wipe just to be sure. Did i do something wrong? I'd rather choose the gapps package i want to install or not instead having them preinstalled on my device.
So, are the gapps are really prebuilt in the custom rom i loaded? Or are there any other i missed? Anyway, is there a way for me to remove it, either removing the whole package after installation or by building a custom rom, and is there a common and safe way to do that, or is it even enough to remove only the apks.
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Wipe the /system partition to remove Gapps - Omni doesn't include Gapps. Neither does CM. But both have a script that will restore your old ones from previously. Just use TWRP to wipe /system and you can do it. Or remove /system/etc/addon.d and they will be gone after a reflash
I had CM13 on my Nexus 4, which worked ok.
I updated my Nexus 4 from CM 13 to CM 14.1 ( Google 7.1 base)., an overwrite update. The phone is sane but not surprising the Google Apps including the playstore are dying. I assume I need to update the exisiting Gapps to 7.1 and further assume the OpenGapps 7.1 arm stock is the right one.
The Gapps 7.1 installer terminates for insufficient space. The Nexus 4 has a 828MB system partition with 237MB availalble. Although the log shows no existing Gapps, it finds about 180MB of items to remove but is still 481MB short of being able to do the installs.
I've tried excluding as much as I can in the Gapps flash, but I'm still about 280MB short. Is there anything I can do other than wiping the phone, repartitioning and starting CM14.1 from scratch?
OpenGApps Stock package is way too big for a successful install, use Pico one. Restore your CM13 backup (assuming you made one) and flash CM14.1 nightly and Gapps both at the same go without rebooting the device. In case you didn't made the backup, factory reset is needed before flashing.
n0b0dy666 said:
OpenGApps Stock package is way too big for a successful install, use Pico one. Restore your CM13 backup (assuming you made one) and flash CM14.1 nightly and Gapps both at the same go without rebooting the device. In case you didn't made the backup, factory reset is needed before flashing.
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Thanks!
Actually since I didn't have a CM13 backup I just went and flashed pico on my CM14.1. It seems to have worked and solved the problem.
I also added GEL via the play store and have OK GOOGLE working too., as well as Google Calender and Youtube. I don't know what else I use that pico left out. I don't use the Google branded media and game apps.
hello guys
i installed gapps and no error aEverything is normal and reboot system and Goes up rom but problem (I see a message all the time feedback )And I can not work with anything
my rom eui 5.9.26 stock ,, i installed gapps ARM64 pico
md5 not found TWRP
I think it's a problem here (md5 not fount) I see this
hellp me guys
You can also download sevices store ect from apkmirror or similar websites. If you have dirty ROM, just install again ROM and do wipe to make sure that is clean
Question: why even flash GApps when you can install the APKs manually. Don't tell me... does eUI prevent installing GApps through the ROM, thus forcing you to flash them?