Help Missing Android app

[pedja.m]

fastboot also needs the adb driver but sees it seperately as android 1.0
to check go into windows device manager and boot the device into fastboot. youll notice an exclamation mark. update that driver to the same adb driver that was used.
obviously youll need to be quick as you have 15 seconds to locate and install that driver
once installed reboot into fastboot again and run the command

I was trying with the NPS that came with the device and installed it. Yes it seems to be about adnroid 1.0 driver that is causing the fuss and i have a different one listed in ADB than before. However, when i am asked to point a location for the driver (android 1.0) it wont accept neither the ones from the link Kam posted in OP nor the ones from HDBlog....

 

[Rastaman-FB]

I was trying with the NPS that came with the device and installed it. Yes it seems to be about adnroid 1.0 driver that is causing the fuss and i have a different one listed in ADB than before. However, when i am asked to point a location for the driver (android 1.0) it wont accept neither the ones from the link Kam posted in OP nor the ones from HDBlog....

it should do but you have to do it a different way

right click device, update driver, choose from list, have disk, browse to exact location of the adb driver

 

[pedja.m]

it should do but you have to do it a different way

right click device, update driver, choose from list, have disk, browse to exact location of the adb driver

I just keep getting the "Cannot install this hardware"....

 

[pedja.m]

OK I succeeded...No offense but I think the guide is not that clear enough about the driver that needs to be installed for fastboot mode. You need not just to point a location, but select that it doesnt search for the driver but that you select it from a list, then choose All devices (or smth alike), then Have Disk, then point to the location where the driver is. Then you get a list, for me selecting "Samsung Galaxy Composite ADB interface worked". If you just mark "Search these locations" (you should choose the 2nd option instead aka "Don't search, I will select from the list") and point to the folder as I did at first you will get the "Cannot install this hardware" message most probably.

Thanks for your help guys, i can move on now, hope no more bumps. Rastamans last post when i read it carefully gave me an idea what I was doing wrong. Thanks

 

[Rastaman-FB]

i didnt make the guide but nearly everywhere this problem has been mentioned i have stated what you have just done.
the reason i have done this is because i had to do exactly the same.
i only rooted my phone and started playing with stuff 2 weeks ago however im extremely interested in it

 

[pedja.m]

Ok I installed the ROM and it seems fine. However when i went to see the baseband version it still shows G8. Can you help me with this ?

 

[Rastaman-FB]

Ok I installed the ROM and it seems fine. However when i went to see the baseband version it still shows G8. Can you help me with this ?

if you have installed the rom it wouldnt say g8

so you have flashed to ii5 with odin
installed recovery 4.2
renamed the i7500xxii5 tar to ii5.tar pushed it to /sdcard using ADB
done nandroid backup
wiped device using recovery
applied update.zip from recovery
restored gapps from recovery
rebooted from recovery
?


it should never say g8


i think youve only done the recovery part
you should have flashed to ii5 before doing this

 

[pedja.m]

if you have installed the rom it wouldnt say g8

so you have flashed to ii5 with odin
installed recovery 4.2
renamed the i7500xxii5 tar to ii5.tar pushed it to /sdcard using ADB
done nandroid backup
wiped device using recovery
applied update.zip from recovery
restored gapps from recovery
rebooted from recovery
?


it should never say g8

Eh i didnt do the 1st step , flashed with odin.....any hint you could give me although i think u are about to say i need to do everything again

 

[Rastaman-FB]

Eh i didnt do the 1st step , flashed with odin.....any hint you could give me although i think u are about to say i need to do everything again

exacly what youve quoted is what needs to be done otherwise the baseband does not get flashed

you need to flash ii5 firmware on the dvice using odin.
this flashes a recovery back on so youll need to reinstalled 4.2 recovery then go through the steps

 

[pedja.m]

exacly what youve quoted is what needs to be done otherwise the baseband does not get flashed

you need to flash ii5 firmware on the dvice using odin.
this flashes a recovery back on so youll need to reinstalled 4.2 recovery then go through the steps

Updated with Odin but after reboot it just hangs on Android logo screen

 

[kam187]

OK I succeeded...No offense but I think the guide is not that clear enough about the driver that needs to be installed for fastboot mode. You need not just to point a location, but select that it...

Yeah you're right, i forgot to update the Pid's for the samsung fastbood. Oops! I'll do it tommorow if i remember and re-upload. Glad you got it working

 

[pedja.m]

Yeah you're right, i forgot to update the Pid's for the samsung fastbood. Oops! I'll do it tommorow if i remember and re-upload. Glad you got it working

Yea but if u read my rescent posts u will noticed i missed to update to ii5 first. Now after Rastaman's advice i am doing the proces again according to his list, however after using odin to update to ii5 i am stuck on android logo screen and in odin when i compare to other i am missing the "Disconnected!" line...the last one. Is it supposed to load up for ages on 1st boot or ? :S

 

[pedja.m]

Ok, for the sake of others if someone happens to get into same trouble as i did.

The solution is to reflash the DRAKAZ (galaxhero rom)recovery again and do a factory reset. After that the phone shows II5 as baseband and then you can continue with the rest of the process.

 

[TimK]

None of this is working for me.

I tried the first time, but missed two details:
- I didn't know that because I was using Recovery 4.2, I had to use II5.tar instead of backing up G.apps from Recovery (that isn't an option in 4.2).
- I forgot to wipe my phone before installing update.zip from Recovery.

The second time I fixed both of these problems. It didn't help.

The third time I renamed II5.tar to ii5.tar to see if that would make a difference. It didn't. (By the way, I'd like to know definitively whether or not this matters, especially in light of what happened on my fourth attempt; see below. Is the file name case-sensitive?)

Both the second and third times, the problem was that the Restore G.apps step failed immediately with the same uninformative message others have reported.

The fourth time, I tried Michael's suggestion of doing a nandroid backup after installing update.zip and before rebooting. This got me farther -- the Restore G.apps step appeared to work for about a minute and a half before it failed with the same message.

In all cases, the process ends with me trying to reboot the phone without success. I've waited at least 15 minutes each time; should I wait longer?

Is there anything else I can try? I'd really like to try out Galaxo, but at this point I'm just rather disgusted with the whole process.

Thanks,
Tim

 

[TimK]

Oh, and what's nicer: Now that I've restored the nandroid backup of my original setup (I flashed II5 again using Odin, mounted the SD card, found the backup I made during my fourth attempt and deleted it; then re-flashed recovery.img, booted into recovery mode and did a restore), every time the phone tries to play any sound, I get:

Sorry!
The process android.process.media has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.
Force close

As you might gather, trying again is useless.

I'm really, really unhappy right now. I guess I'll have to flash back to II5 and reinstall all my apps in order to get the phone to a usable state. *sigh*

 

[kam187]

Join the IRC channel for some live help

Or click live chat above. I'm a bit busy, but i'll try and help u in between what i'm doing

 

[TimK]

Just wanted to say that Kam187 has the patience of a saint.

He worked with me in AndroidForums' live chat to get this working. It took a few hours (!) to get past the problems I was having, but he got it done.

Basically, for reasons we never quite understood, my /sdcard was being mounted read-only, which was preventing several things from happening correctly; plus the Recovery4.2 software couldn't restore the Google apps from the II5 firmware .tar I loaded on /sdcard, and using the Recovery4.1 backup-and-restore didn't work for some reason (the Gfiles directories were there, but they were empty). I'm just detailing these symptoms so others can recognize what they may be up against.

Thanks,
Tim

 

[hippy]

Had you formatted your sdcard in the phone when you first got it?

This is the process I went through. Following kam187's and HDBlog's advice mostly:
Upgrading Samsung Galaxy i7500 to Galaxo ROM - hippy blog aussie in london rants on cycling techno bikes -

 

[TimK]

Had you formatted your sdcard in the phone when you first got it?

This is the process I went through. Following kam187's and HDBlog's advice mostly:
Upgrading Samsung Galaxy i7500 to Galaxo ROM - hippy blog aussie in london rants on cycling techno bikes -

No, it would never occur to me to format the SD card in the phone.