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Root help!! ive crashed and i cant get up!

camo0xx

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So i have a kyocera hydro running 4.0.4 ics, just a few days ago i acheived root on it. So thinking i was thinking outside the box i proceeded to start uninstalling everything i thought was sage to getting ready for a sys wipe to put into place a new os. I want to know if there's anything out there besides google to play with so i uninstalled google and google playstore, yea big mistake, now not only have i lost sys access to my phone but i no longer have the capability to recieve downloads! No one happened to mention that removing google would make my phone just a simple phone, has anyone heard of or had this same problem if so what can i do to repair this issue? Grateful for any advise..
 
I don't quite understand everything thing you said OP. How do you uninstall an internet search engine? If you want the Play Store back, just flash gapps or find a Google Play .apk file.
 
Like Sulky above me said. You could potentially just flash gapps onto the device...

Otherwise if you did remove the system apps you will need to flash a new rom onto the device like Luna said.
 
So i have a kyocera hydro running 4.0.4 ics, just a few days ago i acheived root on it. So thinking i was thinking outside the box i proceeded to start uninstalling everything i thought was sage to getting ready for a sys wipe to put into place a new os. I want to know if there's anything out there besides google to play with so i uninstalled google and google playstore, yea big mistake, now not only have i lost sys access to my phone but i no longer have the capability to recieve downloads! No one happened to mention that removing google would make my phone just a simple phone, has anyone heard of or had this same problem if so what can i do to repair this issue? Grateful for any advise..

I did the same exact thing to a ZTE Warp. Installing play store apk, did not work neither did flashing gapps, I finally had to restore the phone with a custom Rom. That worked wonders!!
 
Thanks all for the input, the only problem with flashing new rom is that my phone is unable to accept downloads now since the playstore is uninstalled. Ive been trying to find a way to place titanium backup on my sdcard for a couple days now, every download link leads me to playstore, witch i cant use now just kicks me off to homescreen. Last night i installed android commander to pc and tried to "drop" vender.apk file to phone, not only did it not save to sd but i have no file manager on phone to open it with, it vanished from my drawer...at a loss as to next move. Maybe im using A com wrong im new to this program
 
It sounds like you've borked your phone beyond simple recovery.

Your best bet is to find a default rom, and install it to your device.

This is re-installing your factory ROM to your phone, not installing a .apk while the phone is running.

Here is a link to the sub forum for your device. Someone there may be able to help you get your phone running.

Kyocera Hydro - Android Forums

For future reference...

1. Always have a way to recover your device handy before you start messing with things. Trying to look for answers to your troubles, while angry/frustrated/scared, only makes it tougher to concentrate on the task at hand.

2. Never delete anything if your don't have a clue about what your doing or what it does.

3. If you find that your too impatient to find out what you can safely tinker around with, then try renaming the files instead of deleting them.

i.e..

vender.apk gets renamed to vender.bak

This will allow you to "test" what your tinkering is going to do, without permanently discarding the file. Although, this carries some risks itself, you at least have a shot at recovery.
 
Thanks all for the input, the only problem with flashing new rom is that my phone is unable to accept downloads now since the playstore is uninstalled. Ive been trying to find a way to place titanium backup on my sdcard for a couple days now, every download link leads me to playstore, witch i cant use now just kicks me off to homescreen. Last night i installed android commander to pc and tried to "drop" vender.apk file to phone, not only did it not save to sd but i have no file manager on phone to open it with, it vanished from my drawer...at a loss as to next move. Maybe im using A com wrong im new to this program

You may be able to remove the sd-card and put it in a reader. A usb reader, and just transfer any files that way. The card should show up on the PC as just another removable device, After that just drag and drop the files onto the sd-card.:)

If the card is removable, that is, I'm un-familiar with that part.:)
 
only problem is my file manager has vanished from my apps folder so no way to look at downloaded programs much less open and install them, i know a head scratcher right.. luckily its not my only phone i have the zte warp also, i been using the hydro to test out new things on and its been great so far but i think i got carried away uninstalling google... i just wanted to see if theres life beyond the world that google allows us, i guess i wasnt quite ready for the resounding NO... ha
 
cant he adb into the phone, then put google play etc back into /system/apps
set permissions accordingly?
cant flash a new rom, there are no other roms for the hydro yet.
 
Download and install the Android SDK from Google.
Download the needed apk files
write down the path to the apk
then type:
adb install /path/to/app.apk

If its a system app, you would have to use a different command
adb push /path/to/app.apk /system/app/app.apk
you will also need to push the corresponding .odex file
adb push /path/to/app.odex /system/app/app.odex

here is the system apps for the hydro:
Kyocera Hydro System Apps
 
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