I was so happy that OP finally released H2OS 2.5, this one is probably the best ROM with custom UI, unlike MIUI or Flyme, it is still in Material Language. However, after a clean flash, I found it is not pre-installed entire google service and it doesn't work well with OpenGapps. Here is the tutorial.
Before I start, make sure you have installed a custom recovery like TWRP. If not, go to twrp.me and flash the recovery via fastboot. And BTW, plz forgive my poor English, if there are any mistakes, leave the comments blow, Thank you!
1. Install H2OS 2.5(I believe you already did this) and Root package.
2. After the setup, reboot to Recovery, choose Mount - System. then flash OpenGapps, in this step, I suggest you guys choose Nano version, mini version will replace the stock calendar with Google Calendar and other variants of Gapps will replace more stock apps.
3. Go to Advanced - File Manager, delete /system/priv-app/SetupWizard/setupwizard.apk
DO THIS NO MATTER YOU CAN ACCESS GOOGLE OR NOT, OTHERWISE YOU WILL NOT ENTER LAUNCHER!
4. After the reboot, Install and Open Titanium Backup, Tap Backup/Restore and you will find several Google-related apps are frozen, tap those and defrost them.
5. Convert Google Contacts Sync into user-app, after that go to Settings - Apps - Google Contacts Sync - Permissions, grant the permission on read contacts.
6. Reboot and Enjoy, don't forget use a proxy if you are in China!
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To enable Screen Search (Google Now on Tap), go to Settings - Buttons - Home Button, Long Press Action - Search Assistant.
If your phone still can't work somehow, try following steps.
1. Install and Open Nova Launcher, long press screen - Widgets - Activities. Then choose Settings - Assist & Voice input
2. Open this shortcut, tap Assist app and choose None, after that tap Assist app again and switch back to Google app.
OP made their own Default App selection interface, so you can't go to Settings - Apps - Gear Icon - Default apps to select correct search assistant. That's why we need Nova Launcher to open this interface.
Screen Search should work then.
I already installed it using the Google Installer APK, so this method is of no use to me, but I sincerely hope it benefits several others.
Wow, you really seem to know your way around H2OS.
Could you help me with a problem I've been facing? I installed Pixel Launcher, and there's a hideous blue portion of the wallpaper that I can't remove. I understand you need to switch to the OnePlus Launcher to modify the wallpaper, so I switched to the OnePlus Launcher, changed the wallpaper, but the blue portion still persists.
Edit: http://imgur.com/a/IyixM (screenshot for better understanding of the issue)
Shanmukh1608 said:
I already installed it using the Google Installer APK, so this method is of no use to me, but I sincerely hope it benefits several others.
Wow, you really seem to know your way around H2OS.
Could you help me with a problem I've been facing? I installed Pixel Launcher, and there's a hideous blue portion of the wallpaper that I can't remove. I understand you need to switch to the OnePlus Launcher to modify the wallpaper, so I switched to the OnePlus Launcher, changed the wallpaper, but the blue portion still persists.
Edit: http://imgur.com/a/IyixM (screenshot for better understanding of the issue)
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There are additional options when changing wallpapers in the h2os launcher. I don't think you can entirely get rid of the colour blending at the bottom but you can change the colour and the area it covers. The one exception I have found is the Google wallpapers app, that is full screen.
My notifications don't sync with my android wear. Do you maybe have a fix for this, since this is the only reason I can't use H2os
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See here for Live Wallapers.
Not in Sense yet
Yoshiofthewire said:
As far as I can see, Live Wallpapers are not going to work until someone bakes a custom rom. The Live wallpaper picker just force closes on selection. So, unless I failed at installing the live wallpapers and the picker...
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What launcher are you using? Did you try ADW or Launcher Pro? did you also load livewallpapers.apk?
I loaded livewallpapers.apk and the livewallapaerspicker.apk
I tried with Sense and sweeterhome
But I think I need to load the .SO files from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=647837
But I have to find a different SD card because I can't get into recovery mode with my 8gb sd card.
(I left my 2gb at home)
ADW gave me the same problem.
I was able to adb remount since I pushed your clean update
But now I am getting "out of memory" when I try to push the SO files.
So I guess I will have to do the push in restore mode.
Yoshiofthewire said:
I was able to adb remount since I pushed your clean update
But now I am getting "out of memory" when I try to push the SO files.
So I guess I will have to do the push in restore mode.
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Let me know if you can figure out a way to get it running in Sense. I still haven't gotten my Aria (due to show up on Monday), but the lack of wallpapers is the one thing I was disappointed with.
Well I have live wallpapers working on my aria right now in alternate launchers like adw and launcher pro.
Pulled the files from a custom rom that adds live wallpapers for legend then rebuilt them into a rom I'm working on stripped of at&t crap. Did not replace the rosie apk since at this time tha just crashed htc.launcher.
This is a fun little phone.
Sent from my HTC Liberty using XDA App
bobj said:
Well I have live wallpapers working on my aria right now in alternate launchers like adw and launcher pro.
Pulled the files from a custom rom that adds live wallpapers for legend then rebuilt them into a rom I'm working on stripped of at&t crap. Did not replace the rosie apk since at this time tha just crashed htc.launcher.
This is a fun little phone.
Sent from my HTC Liberty using XDA App
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Hey Bob, did you find a way to fix the non-market apps toggle in settings? I am working on a modified spare parts type deal to do that now, but if you already have a fix, I am all ears. Funny, AT&T didn't like the name Liberty. How fitting that they chose not to use it.
we really should open an IRC channel
The real question is there a way to do Live Wallpapers & Sense at the same time.
I know I am being picky, but I want my tech the way I want my tech.
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The real question is there a way to do Live Wallpapers & Sense at the same time.
I know I am being picky, but I want my tech the way I want my tech.
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There is a way since the rom i stole the stuff from was for the legend and Sense its just the version of sense that was in the rom is not compatible with our rom.
I havent even started looking into the Sense APK file yet but figure with live wallpapers working correctly i just got to figure out how to disable normal wallpapers in sense to make them work.
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Hey Bob, did you find a way to fix the non-market apps toggle in settings? I am working on a modified spare parts type deal to do that now, but if you already have a fix, I am all ears. Funny, AT&T didn't like the name Liberty. How fitting that they chose not to use it.
we really should open an IRC channel
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I havent worked at all on the market toggle, i figure since we can sideload the settings.db file and it works its very low on my care list. All i worked on today was stripping out what i didnt like and trying to make a nice clean rom that had all the default files i wanted in it (google voice, pandora, etc..). Just happened to also play with the live wallpapers and found it worked on the way home when i tried a new launcher.
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I havent worked at all on the market toggle, i figure since we can sideload the settings.db file and it works its very low on my care list. All i worked on today was stripping out what i didnt like and trying to make a nice clean rom that had all the default files i wanted in it (google voice, pandora, etc..). Just happened to also play with the live wallpapers and found it worked on the way home when i tried a new launcher.
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If you make a zipfile of the livewallpaper files and post them, I'd appreciate it.
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If you make a zipfile of the livewallpaper files and post them, I'd appreciate it.
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Yes, Please and Thank You
Yeah all the files are on my work machine so I will do that in a bit later. Will put it into a zip able to be recovered into an existing rooted aria so anyone can add them.
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Update file for adding LWP to Aria
6/28/10 - Updated to allow LWP in the Sense UI
* This assumes you have your phone rooted and have access to the Clockwork Mod to allow updating your phone with unsigned zip files *
1.) Put the file onto your SD Card in the root directory
2.) Access the Clockwork Mod
4.) install zip from sdcard (option 5)
5.) choose zip from sdcard (option 2)
6.) Click on the file you downloaded and put on your sdcard
6a.) If you run into an error when installing shut off your phone,, unplug it from the USB cable, then reboot it back into Clockwork Mod and start again from step 2
7.) Once done installing, go back one menu and reboot system
8.) Upon reboot you can now choose Live Wallpaper in the wallpaper options
*Issues*
The only issue that I know of at this time is you have to use the settings/personalize/lock screen wallpaper option in order to change the lockscreen wallpaper
If you have any issues let me know, I tested this on a fresh clean stock rom flash then updated to add in the LWP.
*Files*
Clean install of the LWP packages
Select this if you want to install the LWP on a clean install or install without any LWP
Update install of the LWP packages
Select this if you used the previous version with LauncherPro and Home Switcher. This will remove those packages and update to the Sense Enabled LWP.
Thanks! I just flashed it and it works great. There's Absolutely no loss with performance with it either.
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Wasting my battery has never looked so good.
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http://www.mediafire.com/?jomudztojwe
* if this file downloads under a different name just rename it to aria-lwp.zip, first time using Mediafire *
Ok lets see if this works =)
1.) Put the aria-lwp.zip file onto your SD Card in the root directory
2.) Access the Clockwork Mod using the rooting methods in the how to root your aria thread
3.) Go to the Partitions Menu and select the first option (mount /system)
4.) Go back to the main menu and choose to install a zip file
5.) Choose the option to install a zip from the SD Card
6.) Click on the aria-lwp.zip file
7.) Once done installing, go back one menu and reboot system.
8.) Upon reboot the home menu should pop up asking you to choose which home menu to launch. Choose the LauncherPro option.
9.) Go into the wallpaper options and choose your live wallpaper, it should work with no issues.
10.) Set up your new launcher, refer to any Launcher Pro threads for more info on this nice replacement launcher.
At anytime you can use the home switcher program to go back to the HTC Sense launcher if you want to use that instead. Same with setting up which launcher is used by default when you press the home button.
If you have any issues let me know, I tested this on a fresh clean stock rom flash then updated to add in the LWP.
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Any chance we'll ever get this working in Sense?
Well, that didn't work.
I am still getting force quit
I might needs to do a clean flash.
Ok, I got stock to run, but I also want to get rid of the lockscreen and make it default as well. Any ideas?
Ok, reflashed with the clean install and it worked.
hello ,
can somebody please help ..I am using CM7 AmeriCanAndroid 051211 build and it happened may be due to my fault that i used the old data.img from the previous version. i set my launcher pro as default and it started crashing . I need to set it back to AWD Laucher so that i can atleast get the options to work on the problem.
The launcher pro is crashing but I am sure AWD launcher will work fine .. Please let me know a way to either go the the settings menu or any way where i can atleast start my phone.
download this
install it with droid exploer
press your home buttom
select awd
update it.
done.
thank-you much...
for future reference when something like this happens, you go into settings/applications/manage applications and search for the app you set to default, or the launcher app, open it and clear defaults, then in your case you press the home button and it will ask you again which launcher you want to use, and you could've selected AWD launcher.
so what if you can't access the phon's settings sincs everything just keeps crashing?
as a last ditch, you can boot to recovery and format the data partition. that has all of your settings so, you will have to go through the first run setup, but that should fix your problem if it's just a setting issue.
good luck.
... A space where app should be on front screen and when clicking on play button from other Google apps, its asking if I'd like to open chrome etc.
Can someone plrease point me in the right direction to reinstall? Searched on here and Google but no luck.
Thank you.
Try installing the apk again, here's a link.
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Try installing the apk again, here's a link.
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Dinjin, managed to install that but no reappearance of the icon nor automatic launching of Play from in-app buttons in Google apps.
The only change is that I can adjust , within settings, a new app called Google Play Services. Is this what Play normally show as in the settings?
Install gapps from goo http://goo-inside.me/gapps#table
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... A space where app should be on front screen and when clicking on play button from other Google apps, its asking if I'd like to open chrome etc.
Can someone plrease point me in the right direction to reinstall? Searched on here and Google but no luck.
Thank you.
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Hi, sambaselect...
You don't specify if you're rooted, have an unlocked bootloader... or if you're running unrooted factory stock.
There is one thing you could try... Boot your Nexus 7 into safe mode - LONG PRESS the SHUTDOWN TABLET option in the POWERDOWN menu. (or the REBOOT option if you're running a custom ROM that supports an extended POWERDOWN menu).
You will be given the option to reboot the tablet with all user installed apps (ie, from PlayStore) temporarily suspended... and just the core Android apps (Gmail, Maps, etc).. and hopefully PlayStore will be available in the app drawer. If it is, 'drag' a shortcut to one of the home screens and reboot.
Sometimes, if you have a lot of apps installed, it's easy to 'lose' an app in the forest of of icons in the app drawer - you can't 'see the wood for the trees', to use a phrase.
Safe Mode is a good way of quickly seeing those apps installed to the folder /system/app and what might be missing.
Hope this helps....
Rgrds,
Ged.
PS., if you are rooted, you can use a rooted file manager like X-Plore File Manager (http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lonelycatgames.Xplore&hl=en) to check the contents of /system/app... you need to be looking for something called PHONESKY.APK - which is the PlayStore app.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pr...device-development/gsi-benzo-rom-9-0-t3837127
I KNOW I'M ASKING A LOT FROM YOU GUYS, BUT I CAN'T RISK LOOSING DATA AS THIS IS MY MAIN DEVICE.
I'm presently on PR1 rom which was ported to our devices by @GtrCraft which is crazy stable. Any minor bugs that exist can be overcome easily by a simple reboot!!
I really wanted to install this as this room is based on pr2.
Pls also tell if this rom has inbuilt pixel launcher integration for recents. Lack of it can be a deal breaker as this was the only reason I reverted from arrow rom. I need all the Google pixel features as I think I'm addicted to those.
THANKS AND SORRY FOR TROUBLING YOU GUYS!!!
Ok...you know you can just do a nandroid backup of your current ROM and be literally ironclad safe if anything goes wrong?
Just hit "Backup" in TWRP and backup System, System Image, Data (excl. storage), Cache, Boot, (and EFS and Persist just to be safe).
Then flash PR2 to your heart's content and test it out yourself. If it ****s up in any way, reboots randomly, texts your ex, begins running missile launch codes or anything else you don't like......go reboot back to TWRP, "Restore", and choose your backup. Back to how it was before like a time machine.
Why are you still using gsi when we have stable pie rom. You can install pixel launcher with piee recents and suggestion in any rom just so you know. Here are the screenshots from arrow 9.0
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Ok...you know you can just do a nandroid backup of your current ROM and be literally ironclad safe if anything goes wrong?
Just hit "Backup" in TWRP and backup System, System Image, Data (excl. storage), Cache, Boot, (and EFS and Persist just to be safe).
Then flash PR2 to your heart's content and test it out yourself. If it ****s up in any way, reboots randomly, texts your ex, begins running missile launch codes or anything else you don't like......go reboot back to TWRP, "Restore", and choose your backup. Back to how it was before like a time machine.
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It's just that I don't have sufficient space to finish backup!!
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Why are you still using gsi when we have stable pie rom. You can install pixel launcher with piee recents and suggestion in any rom just so you know. Here are the screenshots from arrow 9.0
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The last time I tried, the feature was missing!! Can you suggest the version of gapps that you're using? I used stock and the recents integration was not working!
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The last time I tried, the feature was missing!! Can you suggest the version of gapps that you're using? I used stock and the recents integration was not working!
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For the roms like Arrow Pie, you have to enable the pie recents (labled "swipe up from home button") somewhere in the settings. I think it's at the very bottom in System or something.
For the space issue though, if you don't have an SD card I'd just back everything up to your computer via USB and then backup. Then you can pull the backup off (to your computer) and have that ready in case anything catastrophic happens.
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The last time I tried, the feature was missing!! Can you suggest the version of gapps that you're using? I used stock and the recents integration was not working!
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Gesture navigation are disabled by default you can enable it in system - gesture
But default launcher is quickstep if you want pixel launcher with working actions and search bar and apps suggestion in recent try either of the following ways.
I am using aroma gapps with arrow os 9.0 i flashed pixel launcher , action service and digital well-being through aroma installer after that you have to paste pixel framework file in vendor->overlay.
If you want a simple procedure there is a magisk module in telegram group that installs pixel launcher ,pixel sounds and pixel boot animations.
Both files can be found in arrow os telegram group. And don't use stock gapps they are not recommended they replace camera libs and camera give issue after flashing them use aroma instead
Thanks.. That'll do.. ??
sinchan_nohara said:
Gesture navigation are disabled by default you can enable it in system - gesture
But default launcher is quickstep if you want pixel launcher with working actions and search bar and apps suggestion in recent try either of the following ways.
I am using aroma gapps with arrow os 9.0 i flashed pixel launcher , action service and digital well-being through aroma installer after that you have to paste pixel framework file in vendor->overlay.
If you want a simple procedure there is a magisk module in telegram group that installs pixel launcher ,pixel sounds and pixel boot animations.
Both files can be found in arrow os telegram group. And don't use stock gapps they are not recommended they replace camera libs and camera give issue after flashing them use aroma instead
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So I installed arrow and checked the telegram group, but did not find a way to get recents integration working!! Pls help. Can you please provide the zip file of that magisk module??
S4xk said:
So I installed arrow and checked the telegram group, but did not find a way to get recents integration working!! Pls help. Can you please provide the zip file of that magisk module??
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Just type #goodies or search it and you will get the zip file
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Hi. I recently change my phone ROM to a custom one, after one year using the phone just as it came.
I installed Pixel Experience+, which its great, but there's two stock apps that I miss: Mi Screen Recorder and Mi security app.
Stock screen record was awesome: Just one touch on status bar to start recording, a floating button to start/stop and it let you record system audio and mic audio, choose 1080/720, 30/60 fps, etc. The Pixel experience+ one its just start/stop and nothing else, I don't even know if it's HD.
Security app was great too: Good trash cleaner, and a App Lock option by pin/fingerprint that it works great.
Is there a way to install those apps in Pixel Experience rom ? I tried to install apkmirror apks but it didn't work. Maybe it's something that it needs to be flashed. Or something that it just can't be done, that's why im asking.
Thanks!
ps: I just intalled the ROM, I didn't root the phone.
Some of them.
Short answer is NO at the moment there isnt any zip file that you flash it and boom Mi apps installed. (like the gapps) What you can do is to track & find which Mi-apps you want to install (manually).
What i had done in the past was to find the Mi Home launcher apk and the gallery i thing if you search you may find more apks but keep in mind that you can replace every single one app, just search for an alternative.
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Short answer is NO at the moment there isnt any zip file that you flash it and boom Mi apps installed. (like the gapps) What you can do is to track & find which Mi-apps you want to install (manually).
What i had done in the past was to find the Mi Home launcher apk and the gallery i thing if you search you may find more apks but keep in mind that you can replace every single one app, just search for an alternative.
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Thanks for the answer. That's bad new, I really liked those apps.
Yeah, I tried to download Screen Recorder and Mi Security apks from akpmirror and install it, but I couldn't.
I guess I'll have to try a third part app lock and screen recorder. Any suggestion?
uum... try to avoid 3rd party app lock (your custom rom may include that option already) as for screen recorder nop i dont have any suggestion. :|
**UPDATE 02/10/2020**
Im going to share with you what i found after some research on the web even tho i havent test anything yet from the sources that im going to link below. I hope it helps
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