Root Market f/c

[cashmere_cat]

The battery usage on Cyanogen finally became more than I could deal with, so I am trying GingerVillan 3.3.
Have just flashed it after a full wipe and wanted to run terminal emulator for the a2sd part before restoring apps. However TE keeps force closing. So thinking maybe the version was out of date, went to the market to check for updates -- but that keeps force closing too :-( Its version 3.2.0.
Previously when I've had a market problem, I could uninstall updates and revert back to a previous version, but that option is not available.
I know I've read it a million times, but can't seem to find the information now that I need it -- maybe some kind soul knows off the top of their head: what version of the market is stable?
Thanks
cc

 

[shauny13]

i have the older market 2.3.3 running on dgb rom, which is stable for me

 

[cashmere_cat]

Seems there is an app in this rom called Villain setup, and in the Tools menu there is the option to update stuff, such as “GingerVillain 3.3.11 Market update. But when I click to Install it tells me “To install you need to download a recovery image”. Don’t I need to be S-off to flash recovery images? Or am I confused on terminology......

 

[SUroot]

Ironically you can fix the market issue in terminal emulator. But better as an init.d script.

The recovery.img in GV is not flashed.

If you know how to use adb (or willing to read my faq) I can write and upload you the script which you'd need to adb push to system/etc/init.d


Edit, script...

http://mattman.org/rootsu/rootSU/not_for_download/87marketFC

Right click, save as

 

[cashmere_cat]

I've never used adb, although I think I have it installed on my pc from back when I set up the 'manual' unrooted way for taking a screen shot.
I'll take a browse through your FAQs and see what I can find how to do this..

 

[cashmere_cat]

In the past I have connected my phone to the pc, and copied an apk to SD card, and then installed it via a file manager. I get the impression from reading the adb stuff that is not correct? ...but it worked....?

 

[SUroot]

That's fine for an application but this is a script and it goes into the write protected (because you're not s-off) /system partition so you'll have to hook up phone in recovery, mount /system and adb push.

You would do that with /system/app too, but /data/app you can obviously install however

 

[cashmere_cat]

What is the cause of force close? I got the market sorted out, but am coming across other apps that are force closing. Is it due to a bad ROM flash? a bad back up?

 

[SUroot]

Force close is an app crash. It can happen for a million reasons. The new market force closes due to permissions on the /cache partition (its download location). Thats what the script I typed up addresses.