Root Android 4.4 kit kat ?

[Swainsmith82]

I did a while back and it got stuck on encrypting screen after I rebooted. I just don't trust it.

 

[johnnyl1111]

if you click send report then preview it, it says the quicksearchbox.apk is whats crashing. does anybody have this apk from kitkat?

 

[Swainsmith82]

I have the new one that is supposed to be from kit-kat. It works fine as a stand alone. I just can't get it to work with the launcher.

 

[Phubu]

its probably the velvet.apk which i think its google search, the google home launcher didnt work and crashed asking for it.

trying pushing it as well.

Zippyshare.com - Velvet.apk

 

[johnnyl1111]

quicksearchbox and velvet are different apk's

 

[Swainsmith82]

Here's the thing.. It is the velvet apk but when you install it like a regular app it shows as quicksearchbox in the data/app folder.

 

[Phubu]

well home launcher didn't want to work for until i installed the velvet.apk, just putting it out there in case.

 

[Phubu]

Here's the thing.. It is the velvet apk but when you install it like a regular app it shows as quicksearchbox in the data/app folder.

push it your self and reboot

 

[johnnyl1111]

i made a flashable of all the files. velvet,home,prebuiltgms,camera,gallery,hangouts and the lib file. camera and gallery and velvet work fine.

 

[johnnyl1111]

Here's the thing.. It is the velvet apk but when you install it like a regular app it shows as quicksearchbox in the data/app folder.

i have quicksearchbox in /system/app and /data/app

 

[johnnyl1111]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e5vb83r3ifj5yp9/kitkat.zip here's the flashable for anybody else that wants to mess with it.

 

[Swainsmith82]

I already replaced it into system/app as velvet and it doesn't show as quicksearchbox in data/app or at all anymore in data. When I installed it as a regular app it read as velvet in system (which is how it came stock) and quicksearchbox in data.

 

[johnnyl1111]

maybe kitkat puts search in a different folder. seems like nexus 4 uses a folder called priv-app for some system apps.

 

[Aniro]

Camera app works except for panorama and whatever the heck the fourth option is.

 

[PlayfulGod]

maybe kitkat puts search in a different folder. seems like nexus 4 uses a folder called priv-app for some system apps.

n5 does too

 

[johnnyl1111]

decompiled google home.apk, all that was in there was the wallpapers and a couple other png's so i guess the actual launcher is in the velvet.apk and i'm assuming were not putting it in the right place. later i'm going to look into the code on the home.apk and see if i can find out where it expects to find google search.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string name="main_launcher_component">com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox/com.google.android.launcher.GEL</string>
    <string name="launcher_name">Launcher</string>
    <string name="launcher_name_internal">GEL Stub</string>
</resources>

so maybe we should delete our quicksearch.apk before installing velvet so that it can create it's own or i hear it is working on spirit, maybe we should try to get the quicksearch from it after google home is installed and working.