Root Ooops Markets Gone

[MikeC1408]

Oh dear, seems too much guinness removes the requirement to back up before making changes

Seems I have screwed my market up. Flashed the blacked out market, which didn't work but now I have the following problem.

In Settings Applications I can see the following

Market 1.25MB
Market Feedback Agent 117KB
Market Updater 4.00KB

Opening the market from here all the usual options (clear data, clear cache, uninstall updates etc are greyed out)

Opening the market from the icon in the app draw results in the following message

The Application Market (process com.android.vending) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.

There seems to be no way to update, uninstall or apply a simple fix.

Anyone got any ideas?

 

[anoniemouse]

Looks like you may have to reinstall your rom from scratch, but before you do try flashing your rom again with no wipes this can often fix the problem.

 

[CdTDroiD]

Just delete the .apk out of system/app and then reinstall. Get a copy out of the original one out of a ROM .zip

 

[shauny13]

this same thing happened to me. I managed to get market back by reflashing the gapps. Blacked out market didn't work for me either, even tho it said it had flashed successfully.

 

[Rastaman-FB]

boot to recovery
go to mounts and mount /system

open up cmd prompt and go you your sdk tools directory

adb shell
su
cd system/app
ls

you should see vending.apk and we want to delete it

rm Vending.apk
exit

next open up a the zip for redux in your computer and grab vending.apk from there and put it in your sdk tools folder

open a new command prompt and do the following

adb remount
adb push Vending.apk /system/app
adb shell reboot

 

[GingaB]

Ive installed blacked out market few times now so let me tell you what I did... Just bear in mind you have to be S-OFFed to attempt this! First of all. Check the market version on your current set up. Everybody should be on v2.3.6. Download the blacked out zip file v2.3.6 from here:

Inverted 2.3.6 Market - Droid Forum - Verizon Droid & the Motorola Droid Forum

But if you're on a previous v2.3.4 download the zip file from here:

RELEASE... Black Market 2.3.4.... - Droid Forum - Verizon Droid & the Motorola Droid Forum

Next, using root explorer delete the market updater and move the vending.apk to the sd card just in case it didnt work. Then go to recovery and flash the black themed zip file. You may have to toggle off verification. Reboot your phone, the Market (strange it doesnt say black market but Im not complaining!) icon should show on your homescreen...

 

[Rastaman-FB]

can only do that if you are s-off

 

[GingaB]

Oh they arent S-OFFed?? My bad!

 

[Rastaman-FB]

we dont know
its easy to assume as most people take the plunge now

 

[GingaB]

Yeah you're right. Ive edited my 1st post to warn people they have to be S-OFFed to do that...

 

[MikeC1408]

Not SOff'd might have to thunk about it.

Cheers Rasta will try this evening when I'm home.

 

[shauny13]

i tried all that before, GingaB, still couldn't get it to work, i can live with green tho. I'm s-off'd aswell by the way.

 

[GingaB]

Hmm guess its a bit of hit and miss. But those zips have worked for me everytime.

 

[MikeC1408]

Should have mentioned I'm on a Mac, nothing is ever that simple.

Anyway a full wipe and reflash has solved the issue.

Thanks Guys

 

[SUroot]

Hmm guess its a bit of hit and miss. But those zips have worked for me everytime.

Ive had the same exact issues previously. After perseverance, it eventually worked. I haad to reflash the rom and reflash the market a few times though.

 

[GingaB]

Strange that! Especially when you consider we all have the same phone but they all behave very differently.

 

[Hadron]

Should have mentioned I'm on a Mac, nothing is ever that simple.

I didn't see anything here that can't be done with a Mac?

 

[Rastaman-FB]

with a mac you may have to use ./adb shell

 

[Hadron]

Ah. On Mac & Linux I put the adb and fastboot commands in a directory that's in my $PATH, so I can run them from anywhere rather than having to be in a particular directory.

 

[Rastaman-FB]

thats what i do in windows

 

[SUroot]

Ditto. To both

 

[MikeC1408]

Can't find any instructions to S Off on a Mac, does this exist?

 

[Rastaman-FB]

Can't find any instructions to S Off on a Mac, does this exist?

dont think you can boot via usb on macs, you dont s-off in the os it launches its own skinny linux

might be wrong but if you can boot to usb then it should be finemayybe try bootcamp and do it as virtual as long as it goes to usb

 

[Hadron]

I did it from OSX by making a virtual machine using the alpharev iso. There's a thread in the desire android development forum at XDA about recipes for doing S-Off, and I just used the VirtualBox recipe from there.

 

[MikeC1408]

I'll give it a go in a VM using Fusion in the week.