Root CM6 stuck with broken "market" (no "play store")

Thanks Sherri and Gregs887, I've now successfully updated to CWM 5.0.2.0, so I expect that it's capable of installing that stock gingerbread zip now. Can y'all think of any reason why I wouldn't be able to install stock gingerbread over CM6 ? If that would be a problem, I'll go for CM7 instead, or just download GAPPS (which would hopefully fix my market/play-store issue) and stick with CM6. As I said, I really don't care which I have. As long as it's something based on Android >= 2.2 so it has tethering.

sherri said:

Depends on the phone you have. Stock Gingerbread will never be available to me, so I use Steel Droid. Used CM7. And yes, GAPPS will fix market. (It IS the market...)

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Slightly confused. I only see old (2010) gapps shown here Latest Version/Google Apps - CyanogenMod Wiki for cm6 on nexus. Can you explain how that would fix my market. My understanding is that I need play store, not market. It wouldn't be in such an old gapps file.

sherri said:

If you have ROM Manager on phone, open it. Go to "download ROM". Choose GAPPS. Choose the latest from the list for your version of CM. Download and install. When you go to log on to market, you should see it change...

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The problem is that if I select "Download ROM" in ROM Manager, it says "You must upgrade your ROM Manager to the latest version", and it then takes me into the broken market where I can't ugprade to the latest version. It also shows (before I choose download ROM) that I should upgrade to ROM Manager premium to access the full list of ROMs, which of course I also can't do.

I think my only option is to install gapps from a manually downloaded zip that I get via my computer and copy to the SD card. So, looking here, I think I just need to download the HDPI one for CM6 for my Nexus One phone. I would just go ahead and do it, but I'm not in such a hurry that I can't wait for extra confirmation first

Well, I've updated the gapps successfully using ROM Manager and the CM6/Nexus One/HDPI zip. What I kind of expected would happen actually happened. It didn't make a difference. The market app is still there, it wasn't replaced with play store app, and when I run it, instead of successfully updating the 30+ apps, they all fail to update. Plus, whenever you try and find out more information in the market, you just get "item could not be found". The market app lives, and it will even search for apps. It just can't do anything with them, because it shouldn't even be around anymore. I should have play store.

I'm thinking that now I have clockworkmod 5, that should be able to understand the file format of the gingerbread zip I downloaded. It maybe time to go back to stock rom. Even though that also won't have play store (because 2.3.3 pre-dates play store), it would successfully update itself to play store probably.

It's a risk of bricking my phone, but one I'm prepared to take now.

sherri said:

What about using the apk for the play store? Could you delete gapps altogether and install the apk as a system app? Many rom's based on CM have stopped using GAPPS and use the vending apk ....

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That early on, it was one of the first things I tried. It kept failing to install.

I've got things all working now though

I had a failure first though. I installed CM7 rom over my CM6, which seemed to go well, but then when I installed CM7's GAPPS file, I got stuck on the setup step that says "Touch the android to continue". It seemed that I should have wiped data first. So that's what I did.

I did a wipe data, then installed CM7 again, and that time I got the "touch the android to continue" and this time it did work. A quick login, restore of my contacts, and restore my installed apps and all is well now. The market started out as still "market", but I saw it at one point say "market needs to update, it's now called play store, do you agree to use it" (or something like that), and now I'm finally on play store properly.

One thing I didn't do on the second (post-wipe) attempt, is re-install GAPPS. I'm not sure which apps I wouldn't have by being gapp-less, or maybe they somehow stayed from the earlier gapps install. Here's the sequence I did:

- Installed CM7 ROM over my CM6
- After boot, all was working fine
- Installed CM7 GAPPS
- After boot, stuck on "Touch the Android to continue"
- Wiped data
- Installed CM7 ROM again (this time over my broken CM7 with GAPPS)
- After boot, I got to "Touch the Android to continue" but this time it worked
- Went through setup steps, logged in, market upgraded etc.
- Downloaded all the apps I wanted

So that's where I am now. It's a stable CM7 with my apps. The only thing I'm unsure of, is whether I have the google apps. Which apps should I look for ? I don't want to risk just re-installing it, because that's what caused me to get a frozen CM7 that couldn't get past "Touch the Android to continue". In theory, I already got past that step this time, but I don't want to risk breaking a working system. I wouldn't be surprised if I don't use any of the GAPPS anyway.