[Think Tank] Modifying G1 to enable Navigation - THUNK!

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esmith972

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Mar 17, 2009
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Odd, paid apps on the market are gone now. :(

EDIT: Nevermind, forgot to sign into Google.
 
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jokersax11

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everyone please remember some of us have special voodoo power that let us command technology. not everyone has that. sorry. on a softer note i is driving with google nav.
 

dhendrix11

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Aug 19, 2009
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oops, sorry about that. I did make a mistake. here is the proper commands

adb push build.prop /system
adb push build.trout.prop /system
adb push build.trout.prop /system/build.sapphire.prop
adb shell
cd /system/app
rm *Maps*
cd /system/sd/app
rm *maps*
rm *Maps*
cd /system/sd/dalvik-cache
rm *maps*
rm *Maps*
reboot

After it rebooted, adb install Maps.apk

Varified navigation worked. Then I pushed the .prop files from the 4.2.3.1.zip

adb push build.prop /system
adb push build.sapphire.prop /system
adb push build.trout.prop /system
adb shell reboot

For those still getting the INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE error... Instead of adb install Maps.apk, try adb push Maps.apk /system and then install the apk from the phone. Worked perfect for me installing from the phone when I kept getting the error installing through adb. All the other directions were followed exactly as above and my MT3G is back to normal + navigation.
 

tee aiy emm

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Feb 27, 2009
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For those still getting the INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE error... Instead of adb install Maps.apk, try adb push Maps.apk /system and then install the apk from the phone. Worked perfect for me installing from the phone when I kept getting the error installing through adb. All the other directions were followed exactly as above and my MT3G is back to normal + navigation.

What do you mean install the apk from the phone? I got the install failed error so I copied the Maps.apk to my sdcard and tried installing it through a file manager. That still didn't work though. :(
 

esmith972

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Mar 17, 2009
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Here guys, all wrapped up.

Make sure you have CyanogenMod 4.2.3.1, by the way.

1) Unzip zip to desktop
2) Run Part 1.bat
3) When prompted to press any key, do so; the phone will reboot
4) When your phone is running again, run Part 2.bat
5) When prompted to press any key, the installation process is done.
6) Make sure GPS is enabled
7) Open Maps and press OK
8) Press Menu
9) Press Directions
10) Enter an end point
11) Click Go
12) Just under "Show on map", click Navigate.
13) When prompted to install the voice codec, do so.
14) Enjoy. :)

http://www.mediafire.com/?lioyoy2ydzu
 

JAguirre1231

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Here guys, all wrapped up.

Make sure you have CyanogenMod 4.2.3.1, by the way.

1) Unzip zip to desktop
2) Run Part 1.bat
3) When prompted to press any key, do so; the phone will reboot
4) When your phone is running again, run Part 2.bat
5) When prompted to press any key, the installation process is done.
6) Make sure GPS is enabled
7) Open Maps and press OK
8) Press Menu
9) Press Directions
10) Enter an end point
11) Click Go
12) Just under "Show on map", click Navigate.
13) When prompted to install the voice codec, do so.
14) Enjoy. :)

http://www.mediafire.com/?lioyoy2ydzu

To think I spent 10 min. on something that you cut down to about a minute of work
 

dhendrix11

Senior Member
Aug 19, 2009
52
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What do you mean install the apk from the phone? I got the install failed error so I copied the Maps.apk to my sdcard and tried installing it through a file manager. That still didn't work though. :(

Maybe you need to push directly to the /system/app folder an install from there rather than just copying to SD, since the install process would still need to copy the apk to /system/app. You have to remount as r/w in order to push to /system/app, so maybe that's what missing. I'm sure there are much more knowledgeable people to could say whether I'm way off base, just wanted to point out the difference between what I did and what you did.
 

da0ne

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May 26, 2009
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New York
Here guys, all wrapped up.

Make sure you have CyanogenMod 4.2.3.1, by the way.

1) Unzip zip to desktop
2) Run Part 1.bat
3) When prompted to press any key, do so; the phone will reboot
4) When your phone is running again, run Part 2.bat
5) When prompted to press any key, the installation process is done.
6) Make sure GPS is enabled
7) Open Maps and press OK
8) Press Menu
9) Press Directions
10) Enter an end point
11) Click Go
12) Just under "Show on map", click Navigate.
13) When prompted to install the voice codec, do so.
14) Enjoy. :)

http://www.mediafire.com/?lioyoy2ydzu

worked for me thanks
 

blueheeler

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Nov 7, 2008
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Alright... i've yet to be able to identify the specific lines yet... but here you go.

I was able to get navigation using the 2 build props attached.

I used SU File Browser and adb to do this. You can do it all with adb but between the 2 i was able to do things faster.

Mount system as rw
delete build.prop and build.trout.prop
(or you may modify yours to match, and skip the next step)
push the new build.prop and build.trout.prop to /system/
delete /system/app/Maps.apk
delete /system/sd/app/com.google.android.maps.apk if present
delete /system/sd/dalvik-cache/data@app@com.google.android.apps.maps.apk@classes.dex
REBOOT you have to reboot for the phone to re-read the build props
install the new maps.apk --- i did adb install <path-to-Maps.apk>
if you do not get Success then you missed something.

update: after all is working.. you may put your old build props back


SUCCESS !
Using Dwang's latest rom


If you follow these directions to the t, and use Maps.apk from the Droid GMS dump, you should have no problem at all. It worked perfectly.
 

oldsk00lz

Senior Member
Nov 14, 2008
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Hey all,

If you are still getting the "INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE" then you will need to do this extra step:

<snip>
Finally, remove the <package></package> section for com.google.android.apps.maps by editing /data/system/packages.xml.

That will clear up the INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE.
<snip>

You will need to reboot after this update to packages.xml.

After I did this step, I was able to install successfully! Not sure why only some people need to do this.

-oldsk00lz
(cyanogen 4.2.3.1)
 

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