yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
Faq / tips / notes

FAQ / TIPS / NOTES

You should install the zip file via CWM: Recovery > Install zip from SD Card. Wiping of Cache/Dalvik is automatically handled by the script, you don't need to do anything.

if you're trying to customize an already installed full gaps you should run the script twice. First uninstall everything then run it again and

install what you want. You don't need to reboot, just uncheck "Reboot now" when you finish uninstalling in the 1st step.

Google Ears seems to be locked for people outside the US. The only way I can get it to work is to "unfreeze" it with Titanium Backup but it only last till the next reboot.

I do not plan to integrate non-Google inverted apps (like messages, phone, etc)

If the touch screen doesn't work or works erratically: When you run the installer, press the Home button and a menu should popup, select Calibration Tools using the Vol + / Vol - keys and selecting with Power button (just like recovery). You will be able to recalibrate the screen from there.
[Defy Themes and Apps] niksy+:
Great work, mate! :) And a nice idea, as well.

Btw, do tell what Phonesky is? Googleears?

And definitely looking forward to future updates with inverted apps and all!
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
Phonesky = Google Play Store

Google Ears = Music recognition widget
[Defy Themes and Apps] jayanth1255:
Now Google Now is fast.. Thank you :):):)
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
I'm uploading 1.2b to fix a few things with 1.2.

Please note that if you're trying to customize an already installed full gaps you should run the script twice. First uninstall everything then run it again and install what you want. You don't need to reboot, just uncheck "Reboot now" when you finish uninstalling in the 1st step.
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
Version 1.3 with inverted gapps up and running!
[Defy Themes and Apps] veja_bmw_2010:
very goog

nice work
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
Thanks. Next plan is to add some other Google Apps.

Also, would be nice to get some feedback on Google Ears as it seems to be locked for people outside the US. The only way I can get it to work is to "unfreeze" it with Titanium Backup but it only lasts till the next reboot.
[Defy Themes and Apps] nhb13612:
[Noob Q] Hi, how do I do this? Should I install the zip file in Recovery? And, if so, is wiping cache and dalvik necessary? Or should I install Aroma Installer first? I have only 6mb left in my System ROM.
[Defy Themes and Apps] kazumisan:
Really awesome. I just want the messages app in black, and im happy haha :good:
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
You should install the zip file in Recovery > Install zip from SD Card. Wiping of Cache/Dalvik is automatically handled by the script, you don't need to do anything. Finally Aroma is not something that you install, is used to CREATE an install, so you don't have to worry about it. Just install the zip via Recovery and follow the instructions!
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
Glad you like it! Messages is not part of gapps but more a rom thing. I don't think I should be including it. Check the OP where I mention the post from TUN_SD to his inverted gapps. You can download that to have the full inverted gapps experience. Also, check the post by justin860 where he created an Aroma installation for that.
[Defy Themes and Apps] kazumisan:
Thanks again for your help!
[Defy Themes and Apps] sebx_g1:
@J_M_V_S --- I've installed v.1.3 over old gapps and I don't know if deleting apps and clearing cache and dalvik always work corectly - after first reboot nothing chanaged I still had system partition full , then I cleared cache and dalvik manualy from recovery rebooted and now occupied space on system was greatly reduced ? Thanks for your work .
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
Thanks for letting me know. Did you install normal gapps or inverted?
[Defy Themes and Apps] sebx_g1:
Normal ones .
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
Bug

I just wanted to let everybody know that I found a bug in v1.3. If you install this on a newly installed ROM the data/app directory will not exist and therefore all apps selected that install on /data will fail. Not much of a problem as you can get them from Play Store but I'm uploading a new version to fix this and I'll update the OP.
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
Thanks. I'll check and let you know. Probably I will have to add a delay in the installation script.
[Defy Themes and Apps] Justch:
good work
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
Version 1.3b up. Please report.

Any translators willing to translate to other languages?
[Defy Themes and Apps] veddandekar:
I installed 1.3 (not 1.3b) and I didnt get any aroma installer menu thing.... I flashed through cmw in Cm10.

It just installed it like normal gapps.... will try the new one now :)
[Defy Themes and Apps] sebx_g1:
Can do that for Polish language I think, need instructions.
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
Did you install through an app in CM10 that then entered into CWM automatically? If this is the case, the app probably skips AROMA installer and goes directly to the installation script. Try it by manually entering into CWM on boot and flashing the zip.
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
That's great! Thank you. You can start a translation by going here: http://www.getlocalization.com/CustomGoogleApps/ (you need to register for free). Then you create a new language (Polish in this case) and then you will see the screen split in two, on the left hand side the original file in English and on the right hand side the English file that you can translate to Polish. When you're done (you don't need to do the complete translation at once) press "Save & Go Next" (even though there's no next) and that's it!.
[Defy Themes and Apps] sebx_g1:
Ok. i'll check this asap . I have account ,added polish language - today evening I'll start to translate strings .
[Defy Themes and Apps] veddandekar:
Not exactly an app...

I pressed restart on cm10 and clicked recovery..
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
That's really strange. Does any gapp gets installed or uninstalled or the script didn't make any changes to your system?
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
Thank you. I saw you started a new translation. I did a few changes to make the maintenance of the languages far more easier but I had to start from stracth. I'm sorry if I deleted some of your work.
[Defy Themes and Apps] niksy+:
Serbian done! Although I need to test it in an actual installation to check if it all makes sense :D Then I could do a Croatian version. (It used to be the same language... Serbo-croatian... But then someone inducted hatred and war tore up Yugoslavia...)

Cheers! :)
[Defy Themes and Apps] veddandekar:
Gapps did get installed .......

All of them......

I'm retrying now...

EDIT: Same thing again.... but this time google voice also got installed ..

Last time it didnt :D
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
That's really really strange because Google Voice is not included! Are you sure about this? Can you give more details about your device?
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
Thank you very much! I've just downloaded it and I'm about to upload a new version :fingers-crossed:
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
Version 1.3c including Serbian translation uploaded. Check OP.
[Defy Themes and Apps] veddandekar:
By Google voice I meant Google now....

Well anyways I did a clean install and now its working....
[Defy Themes and Apps] niksy+:
Okay! Tested, it was pretty good, but I improved it a bit nonetheless :)

"Save logs" at the end of the installation can't be changed in the strings?

The pack installed completely fine! It's great :)
[Defy Themes and Apps] hunyadia:
I will make the Hungarian trans in the next few days for u. Cheers

defy green powered by jb
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
Too bad we couldn't figure out what was wrong! Anyway, I'm glad you were able to install now.

Great! Thank you very much for your effort. "Save logs" and "Installing:" (bottom left, when the script is actually installing) can't get translated (as far as I know)

Thank you. All translations are welcome.

Please, all translators be aware that I'm planning to introduce a new beta version with several changes. You might want to hold off until I release it so you don't have to re-translate things.

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[Defy Themes and Apps] hunyadia:
All right. Hold back the Hungarian trans till new release.

defy green powered by jb
[Defy Themes and Apps] trurl3:
Very interesting... today I have translated into polish. Will try when polish lang will be added to. Anyway not before next CM10 build from Quarx :)

Greets.
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
Thank you very much trurl3! I'm currently working in this version that you fully translated and it may take me a week or two before I release a beta version. Anyway, thanks again for your work!
[Defy Themes and Apps] trurl3:
Till today I was installing gapps without considering what exactly is inside of packet... Now I'm really interested and looking forward for possibility of choosing apps from whole bunch... so when you release beta there probably will be another nightly to install :) So this time I can conciously pick specific apps from Google to install. If you didn't mind I can post info about your app on polish Ipmart -forum, specially as if it will be translated to polish...
[Defy Themes and Apps] ramdak:
Something odd, the touchscreen is not responding when I load this on the recovery... so can't pass the first screen.

I'm on Defy redlens, Quarx's JB (lastest).

My bad, was another version!!!! Sry!

Trying this one now!
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
Strange...try this: when you're running the installer, press the Home button and a menu should popup, select Calibration Tools using the Vol + / Vol - keys and selecting with Power button (just like recovery). You will be able to recalibrate the screen from there. Let me know how it goes.
[Defy Themes and Apps] ramdak:
Now it works, I got another version... this went flawlesly!! :good:
[Defy Themes and Apps] Lord_Flaya:
Anyone know why this dl is so big? 107mb :)
[Defy Themes and Apps] niksy+:
Well, the official gapps pack is ~85mb and this one has got some more optional apps added... Like YouTube, gMail and Google Music... It's still a very good pack, even though it's a bit big :)
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
Great! I'm glad is working now.

If you care to read the whole OP you'll see that this pack also includes the inverted versions. Please read the OP carefully before posting.

And it's going to get a lot bigger with all the gapps and inverted! I'm actually going to post a new thread for this new pack. Care to translate the missing strings for this new pack?:D
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
The more you get into the roms, gapps, installers, etc the more you want to learn and know what is exactly going on. The beta is going to be ready soon (I'm waiting mostly for some translations to be finished). I don't mind at all you posting about this app on other forums. In fact, I encourage that! The only thing I ask is for you to link to the original post. :cool:
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
Beta version frozen

To all willing translators: I'm not making any new changes for the upcoming beta version.

Anyone interested in getting the lang file included in the beta please try to translate missing strings ASAP. Thank you! :good:
[Defy Themes and Apps] castillo11:
Thanks a lot! :highfive:
[Defy Themes and Apps] hunyadia:
I've finished hungarian trans. Cheers

defy green powered by jb
[Defy Themes and Apps] J_M_V_S:
Bug fixes only

Hi Everyone!

I just wanted to let you know that Custom GAPPS+ seems to be working fairly good for everyone so I will no be adding any new features. I will try to fix any possible bugs if someone reports a problem. I'm now fully working on gExperience. Join the ride! :D
[Defy Themes and Apps] jayanth1255:
I think its taking more ram, google backup transport taking 66mb of ram, is that normal?? With normal gapps(85 mb) i could increase more ram??
[Defy Themes and Apps] :
Thanks for this one, managed to free up a good deal of /system partition. :good:
[Defy Themes and Apps] tcat:
Amazing

I loved your work, man. Respect!
[Defy Themes and Apps] switch_0n:
excellent

i love your work. thank you:good:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sensamic:
Hey

This last weekend I rooted and installed different roms to try. Most of them still have poor wifi performance, just like stock.

Is there a way to make wifi better? Maybe flashing a new kernel, a new modem or something?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saywhatt:
Modems/Radios are meant for Service network provider thingies, like your signal. Whereas, Kernels are for more "internal" things, they affect battery life and WIFI.

so i suggest you flash a custom kernel that best suits you :)

I hope this helps!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sensamic:
Thanks!

I was thinking of trying siyah kernel. Is it the best one for Wi-Fi performance or is there another one better?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dantheman122:
If you're on ICS, Siyah and Franco both worked well for me, if you're on JB, Siyah alpha/beta builds are the only option until the i9300 sources are released.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dmstar:
Despite Siyah is on beta build for jb, it's very stable...

:)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saywhatt:
I cant quite tell cause it's a matter of how you set it.. but imo, siyah is the bomb:)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sensamic:
I flashed siyah 1.5.3 with CM10 teamasek rom but wifi still doesnt work. I dont options for wifi inside Stweaks.

I will keep trying with other roms.

What I want is the best combo for the best wifi performance. Best combo rom - kernel - whatever. I really need to improve my wifi performance at home.
[XPERIA X10 General] macuclass:
Recently I installed the ROM DarkEditionHD_V1.3 in my X10, everything is ok except 3g connection, can somebody help me please?

Regards
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Faysal21:
I'm a little bothered by the 6-7 second delay by the accelerometer when I rotate my phone between portrait and landscape orientations. My HTC HD2 has the NAND DFT Android 2.2 OS featuring the HTC Sense UI. I've rooted it with the z4root app and am trying to figure out what can be done to improve the accelerometer's performance. Prior to Android, I had the stock Windows Phone 6.5 and later, installing WP7. Both operating systems seemed to have handled the accelerometer very well, so I hope to kill the problem with Android 2.2.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
You're using the very first "proof of concept" rom, I suggest the easiest way to solve your issue is flash a more up to date rom.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Faysal21:
Do you have an HD2 with a flashed ROM ? I'm looking at some NAND roms with Jelly Bean, but I want something as fully functional as possible. Just looking for some suggestions right now before I flash this one
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
the jb and ics roms are about 95%+ functional, , ive been using jb for weeks with only slight annoyances (low ring volume, no notification volume - workaround available) but if you want a 100% working rom go for a gb rom.

No, i wont recommend any one over another, , they're ALL 'the best most stable rom'.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pyropup55:
I rebooted my phone this afternoon. It stayed at the Google screen. I tried to do another reboot. Same issue. I booted in to recovery to try to just load a backup and it's saying there is no /sd. I tried to mount /sd and keep getting an error that said there wasn't one found. I have the Crespo4g currently running AOKP milestone 6, I've had that on since it released and never had this issue. Any ideas what could be going on?

**edit** well the phone finally mounted the /sd I was able to do a restore and got it back up and running.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ken3669:
when distenti

glad to hear your up n running
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamyab.heydari:
me too i fix it to day

hey bro is tow day i am try to fix it and i did it you have to flash rcw recovery-twrp-2.2.0-crespo i dont now how to fin it i fount it a long ego afthr you flash with fastboot i will makit right (at lees it did for me):confused::cowboy:
[HTC Rezound] haliwa04:
Delete
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garryknight:
Not only will My Galaxy S2 not let me install new apps (trying to install VX Connectbot at a little over 800K) although it has 1.97 GB of internal storage space free, it won't let me update four apps either. They were sitting there trying to update for about half an hour before I gave up.

There's nothing wrong with the (Wifi) Internet Connection, as proved by other apps on the phone as well as by the Google Play Store updater.

If I go into Settings, Apps to look at the Play Store entry, it never finishes updating the Cache and Data storage figures, so the 'Clear Data' button is greyed out. If it wasn't I could clear the data and force the app to re-download it from Google's server. I've also tried rebooting but this makes no difference.

I really don't want to have to do a factory reset to fix this so I'd be grateful for any ideas. The phone is running stock Jelly Bean supplied by Samsung.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acekay:
I don't think Stock JB is rolled out yet by Samsung. But anyways try to clear cache and dalvik cache from recovery. This mostly resolves issues in any ROM.

Secondly, what are you referring to when you mention internal storage? If it's data partition then 1.97 is total size and not free. So please check that.

Lastly what ROM are you coming from? If its ICS then a factory reset is strongly recommended.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garryknight:
Sorry for the confusion. I'm trying to handle a million things at the same time, which is always when something else goes wrong. :( It is, of course, running ICS 4.0.4. I thought about clearing the cache via recovery and I'll do that if I don't find another solution. The phone won't be out of action for too long.

Ooops! Quoted the wrong figure. There's 834 MB free.

It was running Gingerbread when I got it but I did the factory reset before doing an OTA update to ICS.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acekay:
No issues :)

Since you are now on 4.0.4 do not do a factory reset since your kernel might have the Brick bug.

There are threads that provide steps on re flashing ROM over 4.0.4. You will need to first flash a custom kernel that does not have this bug like Siyah or cf-root and then flash a ROM.

Just ensure that you follow the steps properly to get a clean install.

Edit: Check below thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1756242
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garryknight:
I powered down and booted into Recovery, wiped the cache, and rebooted. It only took about 40 seconds to reboot which seems strange to me as under 2.2 and, I think, 2.3, it took a few minutes to rebuild the cache. Then the first thing that happens on keying in my pin and reaching the home page, I get the message, "Unfortunately, eBay has stopped." Maybe this has something to do with the problem, maybe it doesn't.

One other thing I noticed earlier but didn't mention as it didn't seem relevant is that some apps have changed their name in Settings, Applications. For example, Picshop Lite is now listed as air.ca.esdot.PicShop.Lite.

Anyway, it has made no difference. I look at any app in the list and it sits there saying "Computing...". I can force-stop running apps but I can't install apps, uninstall apps, or update apps. I'm going to leave this overnight (it's late here) and if I can't think of anything else before tomorrow I'll have to do a factory reset and reinstall everything.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garryknight:
Thanks, acekay, your post appeared while I was still editing mine. I knew absolutely nothing about this bug so you might have saved me from bricking the phone. The page you linked to mentions CWM. Since mine is a Samsung stock ROM it would be the stock recovery I'd be using. Is this likely to brick the phone? I guess it's better to be on the safe side and follow the instructions.

I'm also wondering about my legal position here. I got the phone from Virgin Mobile (UK) on a monthly plan. It was running Gingerbread before I did the OTA update to ICS and the update went OK. If the phone messes up and I do a factory reset and that bricks the phone, who is responsible, I wonder, Virgin Mobile or Samsung...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garryknight:
It took some lateral thinking but I think I've solved it. I powered down the phone, took out the micro-SD card, and powered up again. I went into Settings, Applications, Google Play Store and cleared the Data. I then ran the Play Store app and ran the four updates that were pending and everything went OK, so I tried installing VX Connectbot and that went OK, too, as did uninstalling the original Connectbot. As a precaution I uninstalled the eBay app just in case that was causing the problem. It's possible that somehow the eBay app got installed onto the SD card in error and that might have something to do with it stopping with an error every time I rebooted the phone.

I've noticed that the names in Settings, Applications are all now back to normal so I'm guessing that in fact it was something in Play Store's data that was messed up. Of course, that might have been caused by the eBay app. <Sarah Connor> God, a person could go crazy thinking about this. </Sarah Connor>

Anyway, thanks again, acekay. Working through my problem and your responses led to a solution. :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acekay:
Good to know its solved. So the issue was with moving the apps to SD :). Better still that you tried this before a reset.

In case you plan on playing with custom ROMs in future just keep this bug in mind. Better to be cautious than sorry.

Cheers...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garryknight:
Well, I can't be sure. I'm nowhere near needing to move apps to the card yet, and since I've uninstalled the eBay app I've no way of knowing if that's where it was. Or if it was causing the problem. But I do know that I won't be staying on ICS forever. If Samsung ever get round to giving us JB, I'll update to that. If they don't I'll look for a non-stock (and non-Touchwiz, thankfully) ROM. So thanks for telling me about the bug.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sercherry:
Same problem with SGS2 4.1.2, stock rooted rom. No external SD card.

I noticed one thing. When I do the following:

Settings->Application manager->All

it displays about 200M free and 1.7GB used, but after few seconds it changes to about 450M free and 1.5G used.

At the same time it (long pressing home button and select memory usage->storage) shows 1.77GB/1.97GB free memory of system storage. So only about 200M is free. The same result is obtained in Teminal Emulator by inputting DF command. So it is very strange that in Application manager the free system memory is increased from 200M to 450M but in terminal and memory manager system manager is constant 200M.

So what the algorithm to solve the problem of install or update apps from market?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] king_below_my_lord:
Try clearing cache using some application like ES Task Manager, I had useless cache data of about 400Mb once and the biggest contributor was chrome at 100Mb.. And try using apps like SD Maid which will help you clean out clutter.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sfetaz:
I visit a lot of Web pages sometimes and this ends up using a lot of my battery life. I have tried chrome, dolphin and CM10 stock so far, but I was wondering which browser would be able to give me the best battery life, either just by itself or thru setting changes. Currently on Paranoid Android.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ddurandSGS3:
using data uses battery. it just part of the troubles of owning a smart phone.

ive heard people suggest boat browser before, but ive never tried it. i use chrome.