[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Solange82200:
How to install Google wallet on rooted s4active (dont say I didn't warn you about it being tedious):

I basically started with the instructions in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2310733

But had to modify them to account for

the fact that we don't have custom recovery, and at the end I did some weird crap that undid some of what is in those directions, so I have no idea why it worked but that's what I did. Here we go:

1. Using Root Explorer, go to System, click on the file called build.prop, make a backup of it, and then using the text editor change these entries:

ro.product.model=SAMSUNG-SGH-I537

ro.product.name=jactivelteuc

ro.product.device=jactivelteatt

To this:

ro.product.model=Galaxy Nexus

ro.product.name=yakju

ro.product.device=maguro

Using a file explorer or root explorer go into your files and delete these specific files if you find them (first back them up somewhere else, just in case) :

/system/app/Wallet.apk

/system/app/Wallet.odex

/system/app/NfcNci.apk

/system/app/NfcNci.odex

/system/app/NfcTest.apk

/system/app/NfcTest.odex

/system/app/XposedInstaller_2.1.3.apk

Download this file:

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2006809&d=1370008832

Extract the contents onto your phone and delete the meta-inf folder, just keep the folder called "system". Open this system folder, open App folder, and transfer all the files in there to your phone's system/app folder. It will ask you to overwrite, do so. As a precaution I backed up the original versions of all these files before overwriting them, you may want to do the same. Go back to the System folder you downloaded, open the Etc folder, and copy all the files in there and move them to your phone's System/Etc folder, overwrite just like before. Go to the downloaded system folder again, open Lib folder, and take the two files you see (not the hw folder yet) and copy them over to your phone's System/Lib folder, overwriting the files again. Go back to the downloaded System folder, Open Lib Folder, Open HW folder, take the file in there and copy over to your phone's System/Lib/Hw folder, overwriting.

Now we need to go back to all those files we just overwrote in System/App, System/Etc, System/Lib and System/Lib/Hw, and change the permissions on them. Using Root Explorer (or something similar), find each file individually, select it, in the menu choose Permissions, and change the permissions to this:

Owner: check off both read and write

Group: check off only read

Others: check off only read

Remember, do this for each of those files that we overwrote, individually. Once finished, reboot phone.

Once rebooted open Xposed Installer app (should be installed now) and select "Install/Update" and allow root access if it asks.

Reboot your device.

Download and install this file:

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2005356&d=1369960291

Launch Xposed Installer app again and go to the "Modules" tab

Enable the module for Google wallet by checking the checkbox for it.

Reboot your device again, open the Google Wallet app that's installed now. It should get hung up at the beginning set up, where it says it takes five minutes but really nothing happens.

At this point I gave up and went back into my System folder using Root Explorer, and changed the build.prop file back to the original version that I had saved, the one that said this:

ro.product.model=SAMSUNG-SGH-I537

ro.product.name=jactivelteuc

ro.product.device=jactivelteatt

Then I opened xposed installer app, unchecked the checkbox next to Google wallet, and rebooted. At that point I opened Google wallet again, and it let me set up. It does say unsupported device at the top, but still seems to work. I don't know exactly whether not changing the build.prop file to begin with, and not checking Google wallet in Xposed Installer would have made Google wallet work right away, so I just listed all the steps exactly as I did them. Someone smarter than me I'm sure can figure it out and let us know.

---------- Post added at 04:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:20 AM ----------

By the way, the instructions in this thread for how to use multi window with ANY app work great on our rooted S4Actives:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2341971