Root Ics Keyboard to /system/app? help!

[HaTrEd360]

How would I download the ICS key board from the Play Store, and convert it to a system app, and continuing to get the updates to it? Do I just move it from /data/app/ to system/app? Where does the /data/data/ go then? And how would I remove the stock android keyboard after converting the ICS one to system? I used Hashtags theme chooser to get ICS Elite framework and statusbar, and the stock keyboard looks like crap with it lol.

 

[landonh12]

Try /system/app mover on the play store. Use root uninstaller for android keyboard.

 

[Hashtag]

Idk if it would work at all, considering that gingerbread is a lower sdk than ics. You might find somebody that's ported the ics keyboard to one of their devices, especially if it's a gingerbread, and then give that one a go.

 

[Artine]

I've actually tried this before, and both with a system app mover and trying to install it as part of a ROM, both times post-move/install all I would get is an infinite loop of force closes. To the point where I couldn't do anything but take the battery out.

And as a rule of thumb, if it's a paid-for app, don't make paid-for apps system apps. They don't play nice with the play store.

 

[HaTrEd360]

Yeah it didn't work so I gave up. But thanks for the help, I just went back to the regular android keyboard.