Help Does anyone with root still have stock apps?

kehkou · Mar 24, 2016

Hello fellow vibe users! Here is my predicament: when I first rooted I uninstalled some stock apps and moved the apk's to my computer. Then my computer went kaput.

I also tried to fix the Google play bug using the fix posted here, following to a t, but it did not work. I then chatted online with Kyocera (I don't use Twitter) and asked if the official update was available, and they invited me to be a tester (try it!). But, due to missing apps, I am unable to apply the update that they pushed to the phone. On top of that my CU is about to implement android pay, so I will need the update to run it.

So I ask if anyone with a rooted 4.4 vibe with stock apps or backed up would be kind enough to provide me with some of the stock apps for the vibe? Any help would be extremely appreciated.
So far I think I need:

Magazines
Videos & tv
News stand
Hangouts
Google+
Talk (I think)
Email
Chrome
Lumen
Flashlight
Whatever other non Google apps it came with except that magnifier app

For the Google apps at least, just the correct stock version numbers would suffice since they are widely available. For the flashlight and lumen and other non Google ones I just need the apks. Also, of I'm missing the odex files, will I need to acquire those as well?

Thank you for hearing my plea.

Batman202012 · Jul 28, 2016

Bump, looking for them too

Batman202012 · Jul 29, 2016

If you have root you can get these apps by using es file explorer and going to /system/apps and copying the missing apks. (Possibly all of them just for the future people who accidentally lose their backups)

Edit: I actually don't know if this would require root because you can access the folder without root but that doesn't mean you'll have copy permission.

TroyFoxxin · Aug 1, 2016

If this is realted to google play services issues.. I posted this on another thread. hope it helps.

TroyFoxxin said:
I know I been out of the wood work lately. I pretty much stop using this phone. But in case i missed it on one of the threads or here. If someone ran into not being able to upgrade there phones to fix this issue due to a error even if you unroot. I found I didnt have to follow some of the crazy guides out there that patch this or suppose too. Also seen some scary bricking stories of people that messed up in the self patching attempt.

I got around this issue when it finally started to effect me by just not allow auto update from play store. Some phones may get slight different revision or whole versions of apps . So To ignore this i just kept the version of Android I had, and installed aptoide which ignore that feature of Google Play and just grabs the latest and greatest based on android version alone. I noticed this when I even update all google apps using play store to start with and aptoide would still tell me there was a update for the apps even know play store says there latest.

I updated all google apps using aptoide alone. And the issue is no where to be seen what so ever. But I only figured this out because its the best phone I own for some games I started playing (so I pulled it out of my draw after little over 7 months and it still had over 50% battery, bitchen battery.. lol) which work best on it and not so well on my Moto E . I miss my vibe but cant use it on the same plan as my Moto E. Would liked to put my vibe on Freedompop but there little but of asswipes about adding other Sprint MVNO phones. Least I could activate it on a free ringplus plan which has shitty offerings then freedompop but its something, and a backup free phone which spends most its time tethered to my Moto E.

But hope this help someone thats too scared to do the long winded manual patch, and cant install the OTA update.

Cheers

Batman202012 · Aug 1, 2016

TroyFoxxin said:
If this is realted to google play services issues.. I posted this on another thread. hope it helps.

Thank you for the reply, I'm going to run my phone by a virgin mobile store to see if I can explain my problem vaguely enough to get them to do a full flash of the Rom.

TroyFoxxin · Aug 1, 2016

Batman202012 said:
Thank you for the reply, I'm going to run my phone by a virgin mobile store to see if I can explain my problem vaguely enough to get them to do a full flash of the Rom.

I dont know if there anything they can do directly other then replace the phone the phone with another vibe. if there willing to do that. depends when you bought it. and if u mention root, or apps missing from /system/app they may think it was rooted for themselves. thats if u run into a smart rep. lol

Batman202012 · Aug 2, 2016

They refused to flash it suggesting I buy a new phone (typical salesman) and said that the ota updates are Kyocera's territory. Anyway I fixed the Google play services error using this fix: http://androidforums.com/threads/google-play-services-google-apps-crash-fix.965434/

Batman202012 · Aug 5, 2016

These are all the system apps I have (I don't have some of them because I uninstalled them too). Don't overwrite the ones you already have.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3hGiqMugN8dUFppZm02S3JiQW8/view?usp=drivesdk

TroyFoxxin · Aug 16, 2016

Sorry didn't get back to this thread. I think long as the phone boots into android, makes more sence to just leave it on the current version and just self patch it ether updating all the Google apps via Aptoide or just restoring the libpredtm.so (As talked about here) file and run Google play apps normally even updating them. Using the guide to just restore libpredtm.so has its benfits as it also replaces kingroot with supersu which I like better then leaving the kingroot stuff on the phone.

Then can just say screw the OTA update. I mean hell I just removed the crap that checks for OTA updates. Less of a pain in the ass that way. With the google crap fixed the phones just fine to me as is.

Cheers.

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