Android Forums - View Single Post - Orange Customers: Restore your Google applications

WilfMoralee · November 17th, 2009, 02:18 AM

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Originally Posted by terranim

These are instructions for how to restore your GMail, GoogleTalk and YouTube applications on the Orange (UK) Tattoo. The GoogleTalk and YouTube apps appear to function normally, but there are issues you need to be aware of with GMail which I will explain at the end. These instructions are for linux users, but should be possible to do on other platforms too.

1. Download a standard HTC image for the Tattoo:

HTC Click 1.65.405.1 WWE

2. Extract it to a folder which should contain mostly img files. Then use the unyaffs application (see link below) to extract the system image:
$ unyaffs system.img

Downloads - unyaffs - Project Hosting on Google Code

3. There should now be an app folder containing lots of package files. Connect your phone to your PC and mount the SD card. Copy across the Gmail.apk, GmailProvider.apk, Talk.apk and YouTube.apk files.

4. Unmount the phone and then using a file manager, such as Ghost Commander, browse to the packages you just copied. Select each one to install using the standard package manager.

Ghost Commander | SlideME

5. Because the Gmail stuff hooks into the data synchronisation I generally find it a good idea to reboot the phone at this point.

Congratulations, you should now find you have working GMail, GoogleTalk and YouTube applications!

PLEASE NOTE: There is a major problem with the GMail application. Because it has been pulled out of a different Tattoo image it is neither signed correctly for your phone nor installed to the system partition. It does not, therefore, have permission to access the download manager. If you attempt to view/download any images/files from within the GMail application it will crash (due to lack of permission), unfortunately this has the effect of leaving its database in a locked state and so GMail will stop working completely. The only way I know to remedy this situation is to uninstall the Google Mail and Google Mail Storage applications and then reinstall them from the Gmail and GmailProvider package files. This forces the database to be deleted and re-created!

Hi

These steps above have obviously been carried out by yourself. To save going through them all, and having to sign up to HTCpaedia, can you please upload the extracted apk's for gmail, gtalk and youtube?

Many thanks