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[General Paranoid Android Discussion] TKruzze:
ES File Explorer? What does an error message in ES File Explorer have to do with these GApps?

It should be removing /system/app/ChromeBookmarksSyncAdapter.apk

I really don't remember what the error was since I never used the addon myself. I do recall that the problem had to do with edits that Omni was making to the manifest. If you look back around June 20, you should find the pertinent messages to what was happening.

It's really inappropriate for you to posts links without doing any testing yourself. Not only that, these links came from a well-known WAREZ site that distributes pirated apps. In the future, please share links that you have personally tested.

The Google Play Services link you posted is from the L Preview Factory Image. All of the library files have been removed. ANYONE who installs it will have problems. Please edit your post and remove this link.

Read the OP.

Try Micro GApps and GApps Remover.

The links he shared were posted on a well known WAREZ site (see note above). Flash the Google Play Services Updater and things should be okay, again. If not, flash as outlined in FAQ #6 and you should be fine.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Avi952:
Excuse me for my ignorance, but can you give me a link where excatly it is and which section?
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] zadigre:
there was no need to flash back...

I just uninstalled the Google Play Service update... reconfigured Google Now and position update... and that's it.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] JJGLive:
My first post : Please tell me if this is the completely wrong place?slash section to ask this.

I have two things bothering me:

1. Whenever trying to create the file ".gapps-stock" to prevent the to PREVENT the removal of the stock/AOSP Launcher, MMS App, Browser, or Pico TTS, I recieve an error message/popup. I have tried using ES file Explorer and using my Laptop running Ubuntu.

2. Whenever trying to open Google Play Newsstand after latest PA gapps update, it force closes. After the FC I can open it with no problem. As soon as clearing recents I get FC when trying to launch app. Newsstand widget also refuses to load. Please tell me if anybody has some more info on this problem eg. if it may be a problem with the app only and not PA gapps.

I am using a Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-i9505.

Liquidsmooth v3.2 ROM

Alucard kernel.

I have tried different ROMs and same problem.

My reply to your reply:

Originally Posted by JJGLive View Post

On ES file explorer it is more like a toast messege that states: "Operation failed! Please try a different name" and on my PC it says "internal error. Could not complete task".

Hope this clears things up.

This is about the prevention of removal op stock<insert app name here>
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] TKruzze:
To all who are expecting Hangouts to be updated with the next update, I'm sorry to report that Google has, once again, made the update incompatible for installation in the system partition. libcrashreporter.so conflicts with libcrashreporter.so from Maps and Google+ (current and older version from GApps). I'm really not sure why Google continues to allow this to happen. They'll either have to fix the issue before the next Factory Image update, or they'll have to include old versions of apps made prior to creatnig the problem.

NOTE: Updates will work fine if you update from the Play Store.

GApps Remover. Link is in my sig.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] zadigre:
will you eventually include the hangouts dialer also?
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Avi952:
Does that remove apps from the zip itself? I didn't mean removing apps after the gapps installation...
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] osm0sis:
His policy is to include whatever's in the factory images, so we'll have to wait on L to see for sure. :)
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] zadigre:
yeah... forgot that one...

it's perfect that way...
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Rodger_Rulez:
I think we should wait for global update of GMaps to fix this incompatibility...
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] wbagdon:
No it doesn't remove it from the zip, but they are removed prior to booting the device.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] hanschke:
there is no warez if you upload files to uploaded and if you find the links on such sites I dont know what you do there :p
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Avi952:
isn't there any other simplier way to do it, and before you flash the gapps?
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] alfonsojon:
Can't wait to see if the Hangouts Dialer will make it into the full package.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] TKruzze:
I still fail to see how an error message in ES File Explorer has anything to do with GApps. If you watch the video below, I have no issue creating the .gapps-remove file. There's obviously something else wrong with your device if it won't do the same.

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I don't know if it's simpler, but you could always create your own GApps.

Unfortunately, this is not just a Maps problem. The issue is that NONE of the apps are compatible with each other. Google+<>Hangouts, Hangouts<>Maps, Maps<>Google+. The concern I have is that Google keeps ADDING to the list of incompatibilities, not fixing the issue. The real concern is that they'll continue down this path and make it totally impossible for me to update anything going forward. The good news is that they'll eventually have to address this issue themselves or end up doing what I have to do - include old versions of apps in GApps and make the user update from the Play Store.

Right now, I'd just be happy to be able to include Hangouts. As [MENTION=4544860]osm0sis[/MENTION] pointed out, Hangouts Dialer wouldn't even qualify for inclusion based on what I state in the OP. This is also a feature that not everyone will want on their device. My feeling is that if Google wanted everyone to have the Hangouts Dialer installed with Hangouts, then they would have just built the functionality into Hangouts. Since they didn't, I'm guessing they'll leave it out of their Factory Images and I'll leave it out of GApps, accordingly, as well.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] CrashTestDroid:
Another vote for tinier GApps, not for the tinfoil goodness but because giant gapps are more work and really, only Play is needed for most of us. Maps, GEL, GTranslate, it's all available in Play. Cover all bases with a giant gapps and a tiny one. Thank you for your work and keeping us all in the loop :)
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] michelle316:
Gapps

Thank you
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Dirkenberg:
I had a systemui force close when I install the latest CM 11 build with the nano modular gapps in Nexus 5. Did everything in full wipe. Any advice please?

Thank you.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] JJGLive:
I understand what you mean. No I know it doesnt have anything to do with the gapps. Its just the error messege I recieve when trying to create the gappsstock file. But Thank you very much.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Rapper_skull:
Actually I think that Hangouts Dialer is a stub only needed to activate this function like Google Now Launcher.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Avi952:
Deleting the apk of the unwanted app can safely do it, or is there need to do anything further? If yes, can it be done via 7zip?
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] drive2droad:
Google TTS updated as of 11 September .
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] The_Steph:
Guys,

First of all thanks for making these packages and keeping them updated as good as you are doing.

I just faced an issue with Gapp remover when using TWRP 2.8.0.0. For some unknown reason yet (probably related to the fact that they added MTP support in this latest version), system partition is not kept mounted when having installed any Gapps package (I used mico and just moved to nano and the issue is still existing). This issue does not exist in TWRP 2.7.1.3 that I used previously (I just had to reflash it to have the issue gone).

As I don't know yet if this is an expected behaviour of if this is a bug to be fixed, AMHO there is a simple solution/workaround to not face this issue, mounting /system at the beginning of the remover script (and why not unmounting it at the end of the script as well). Could you think to add this trick in one of your next releases?
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] siealex:
Try to switch off MTP in TWRP settings.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] The_Steph:
siealex,

I obviously did it before writing this post, rebooting in recovery aftewards but still had the issue. I was meaning I guess they inserted a bug during the coding of this killer feature.

I am adding a post to TWRP thread as well so they could investigate the bug.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] MH-Droid:
Guys ive installed micro build of 20140818 on my september 5 cyanogenmod 11.. i usually install that and update apps seprately after rom installation complete.. But now i have problems..at first google plus gave me some errors related to sign in and now hangouts and maps stops working. What you suggest me to do??
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] alfonsojon:
Alright, thanks for the explanation as to why not :)
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] seschaum:
Hi [MENTION=2777334]TKruzze[/MENTION] - I think there might be an option to get around this weird GApps problem,

yesterday (it was Google-Update-Day I think..) I had to update my own compiled GApps and immediately ran into problems with the new Hangouts update...

I was short before tossing my project... as this is really getting on my nerves.. I decided to try something:

all affected packages share 1 library (libcrashreporter.so) - but all different versions.

So I simply removed it from my GApps and ROM packages to try - and as of now, no problems with system install of Maps & Hangouts (not tried with G+, but will do now)

Anybody else who might want to try?
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] poppito23:
nice gapps
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] osm0sis:
Yeah, I believe that's correct. I guess everyone who wants it can hope it's in the L factory image and everyone who doesn't can not. :p

The end result of that would be it using the versions of those files from PA GApps before they diverged. Using outdated libs will likely lead to trouble, if not obvious now, then down the road if Google doesn't unify them again and they grow farther apart.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] TKruzze:
What makes you think this is a GApps problem? For further assistance, please read FAQ #5.

I've spent a lot of time creating GApps Remover and other options to allow users to achieve exactly the package they want. Apparently, you have decided that GApps Remover is too complicated and would prefer to modify the GApps packages on your own. While that's perfectly fine, discussing it in this thread is not. GApps Remover works well because it not only deletes the apk, it also deletes the libs and any other remnants to insure as clean a removal as possible.

Not really sure what you're asking here, but the GApps scripts do Mount and Unmount the system partition.

Try with the latest version. You might even use the method in FAQ #6. If that doesn't work, read FAQ #5 for further assistance.

First of all, EXCELLENT IDEA! While your suggestions above did not work for me (when G+ was included), I did try something else that seems to be working fine. I'm going to test on all my devices for the rest if the day, but I think you may have led me to a solution!

What I did was install the latest versions of Google+, Hangouts, YouTube, and Maps. Then, I included libcronet.so and libcrashreporter.so from Google+ (latest version 4.5.0.72928916). Everything seems to be working fine. It's rather interesting as these versions are the oldest of the group.

EDIT: Apparently, Maps doesn't like this method. Back to the drawing board.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] :
Someone get this man RC. :)
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] xanthrax:
I will !

Sent from my Darkside of LG G2
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] :
We have to bombard the committee to except him. It is silly that lesser contributing people get it, but the more contributing people don't. :/
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] apatal:
My plan exactly! But you guys might want to search a few pages back and see his reply to my suggestion. :)
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] :
I know. Just had to get that off my mind. lol
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Trotto@81:
I've performed a clean install of Paranoid 4.5 beta 4 with last gapps version and i don't see hotword enabled in home screen. No problem with version of 2014/08/11 on Paranoid 4.4 stable. It's normal? My phone is Nexus 4.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] xDroidZz:
OFF TOPIC:Thanks for all your work on Gapps BaNks. i always recommended your gapps if people asked me what gapps i use :laugh: (Said it here cuz coudnt tell it in your thread since its closed. I love u with homo :D)

I will use Nano Gapps for now then :D Thanks [MENTION=2777334]TKruzze[/MENTION] :good: :p
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Avaso:
I've problem. I want to delete few GApps from my phone. I don't know what type of file I've to make. I tried *.txt but it didn't worked. How to do it?

#down

thx, it worked :)
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] sidneyk:
It is a text file, but without the .txt extension, made on the device or in a non-Windows text editor.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Avaso:
Almost everything OK. Several applications don't want to delete:

GPlus

Music

PlayGames

Movies

GGallery
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] janres155:
I don't know if EOL is an issue here. What did you used to creatw the file .gapps-remove?
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] sidneyk:
You need to read the original post regarding .gapps-remove or whatever it's called and see that it only works for certain gapps. If you're trying to remove any that aren't in that list it won't work, unless I missed something.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] drewski_1:
Those look like valid options
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] donnabelmartie:
I'm getting "failed to initialize camera" with it draining my battery. Experienced it on purity+ and mahdi rom. I always flash Google stock package. I'm using 9/6.

A known issue of the latest Google camera. Saw bad reviews on play store.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] d1n0x:
Never ever had this... Are you using Snapchat?
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] donnabelmartie:
Nope. It's a Google camera app issue. Bad reviews were up on the play store since the 3 Sept update. Hope they'll release a new one soon.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] enapah:
That would be the "holy grail" of GApps, the "be-all end-all" package that covers all possible permutations.

What will be left to moan about when that package is released? The weather?
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] alb3rtt:
Not the weather, people then will start moaning about when the gapps will be updated.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] michelsberg:
And the download size... ;)
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Hidari:
I can moan about that right now :P

It would probably be the same size as the stock package, the whole logic is in shell scripts. Also, I really hope it's not aroma... I don't think I've ever hated so much anything that appeared to be so useful. tkruzze hit the mark with the config files. Although, may I suggest changing the naming from a dotfile to maybe conf extension, or ini? So that Windows users don't have the same problem again and again? Or even maybe ".gapps.conf" so it stays hidden?
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] TKruzze:
I've been caught up with personal stuff the past couple days and haven't had a chance to work on this week's GApps update. I'll try and have something out in the next 24 hours.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] 123SIT:
Your work and time are greatly appreciated. Explanations for life occurring are not necessary :)
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] donnabelmartie:
Hope Google camera issue will be fixed in the next update :)
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] ignitionnight:
It's been 9 days you've put up an update, I've resorted to turning tricks in an alley way for gapps!
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] MikeRL100:
Yeah I had to buy some magic potion from a dark alley (the seller promised it'd update them), and it made my privates fall off!
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] wbagdon:
Wipe System per FAQ #6.

This could also happen if you had applied updated from the Play Store, you may need to manually uninstall them in Android.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] sidneyk:
I hope also that this gapps never goes exclusively aroma, as I'm currently using them on a non-neon device. Aroma will not work in my recovery. Thanks for a great job maintaining these tkruzze.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] osm0sis:
It won't go AROMA, don't worry. It'll be the text config files as mentioned in the post you quoted.

At best, I'd like to see a separate AROMA zip to help create that config file, for those who are able to use it and aren't enough of a "power user" to find /sdcard and create a text file there. ;)
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] MikeRL100:
Word of advice when updating this time around for the OP - do not try to update Play Services just yet. I sideloaded the latest version and it causes YouTube to crash constantly unless you remove Play Services and all it's traces and reflash your ROM and GAPPs. Not a bad copy, but it seems everyone has this issue with 5.0.28. Await for a good version. It's not worth it, trust me. I thought it was YouTube. Nope, it's Play Services. I suggest you hold off on defective updates until Google gets things working. Staged rollouts are like public soak tests at times.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Wechy77:
If you mean 5.2.08, than it's from L preview image. That's why it causes fc. And if you would use the search button you could find that most of us, who reads this thread regularly, knows it.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] MikeRL100:
Well I'm sorry. But does this warrant a smart response? Sorry I was busy this weekend visiting a family member's grave. Guess mistakes aren't tolerated once in a while.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Nydalxy:
How dare you have any form of life outside of reading android forums all day! Tisk Tisk. You're a terrible person, especially because you were trying to give good advice.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Wechy77:
I do not meant it as hurtful comment. I always google it, or search on XDA if something new (play store, play service) is out, or someone linked it. You can save a lot of time. Better search as try. And if you try blind, do a backup...
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] MH-Droid:
If i install micro or nano version, is it possible to install Google apps separately from Google play? I wanna know if lib files in the nano or micro versions are complete??
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] zadigre:
Yes you can install from the play Store. .. Libs are included in the apk that will be installed.

Envoyé de mon SM-N900W8 en utilisant Tapatalk
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] bgiesing:
I would be willing to help make the AROMA zip as I used to make an AROMA GApps package.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] tvisforme:
Google Play Games just updated to 2.0.13 (1404932-036) via the Market, no new changelog
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] hlxanthus:
I would as well. I created the OctOS aroma gapps but stopped maintaining it as I felt these pa gapps were a better way to go. I like the idea of a user interface to create the config files.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] osm0sis:
Hell yeah, guys! :D

If you guys want to collaborate that'd be great, or however you want to work it, I'll leave that up to you.

I'd say the best way to get started would be to take the Remover zip and use the list for that as your base for what should be in the .gapps-config created by the AROMA zip, but basically in the end it'll be that every single app is a choice, so be prepared for that once we go beta. :)
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] hlxanthus:
I assume there will also be options to keep or replace stock MMS with hangouts, keep or replace launcher etc . . I will see what I can come up with tomorrow and we can expand from there.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] chenshaoju:
Thank you so much,The Nano-Modular GApps Package is Best!!! :victory:

But if can remove Google Search ( because it can download in Google Play Store ),well more better :P
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] F-L-Y-E-R:
Will the new update include latest version of hangouts and hangouts dialer? Because at the moment in the play store it says "this app is incompatible with your device" :confused: so I can't use hangouts dialer as well because it requires latest hangouts
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] siealex:
Hangouts Dialer is available only in USA. Are you in another country?
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] tool_king:
That's not right any longer. It is available outside the US as well.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] carlese:
[MENTION=2777334]TKruzze[/MENTION] can I delete velvet.apk from the nano package? Should I delete something else like the string in the gapps-list.txt?
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] freinet:
Hangout dialer?

In Germany it works. For tab2 and g2.

freinet
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] motisu:
Incorrect, I am in Israel and it was available to me. I installed it on my Nexus 4 with no special tweaks to the standard Play store.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] enapah:
I do understand how the suggestion I am about to make gives much (MUCH) more work than allowing the configuration of the same script via a file, still..

If we are going to make a new app, then why not make one that downloads just the selected components from a repository and makes a customized ZIP on the spot?

That would take care of any BW criticism and would be a very neat solution to maintain/keep updated. One could even deploy the existing PA packages through that application (via predefined selections).

In this scenario I would say the priority ISN'T to make an Android APK but rather a "desktop" Java app (Java because it works without any modification outside of Windows).

That way we can build those ZIPs even when the Android device is already erased/unavailable for whatever reason.

PS: I do understand that when I say "If we are going to make a new app" it's really a "you" and not a "we", since it's the "you" and not to the "we" that will be having the daunting task of making it work.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] geekynoob:
Your smallest gapps sixze is twice that of [MENTION=2915683]BaNkS[/MENTION].. How can we trim it.. :)

Or can you help us with it??

I in no way condemn you work its just that i am curious to know.. How to trim it down..! :)

Thanks
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] kalpik:
Bank's Gapps was only for Nexus 5. These are for all Nexus devices.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] geekynoob:
I used them on my note 2..! :)
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] kalpik:
You used them on Note 2 doesn't mean they were made for it. Every nexus device has different versions of APKs for a lot of things. These gapps have all those versions in the zip, and only the correct one gets installed. Check out any of the zip and the updater-script, and you'll understand what I'm saying :)
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] rhen84:
You can try the one I made based on the nano package. (Can't link outside but you can find the link on my profile page)

Basically it is the same as nano except it doesn't include Google search and the offline speech recognition files.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] tool_king:
There you go!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2779598