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Destron5683

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As you have already found out, an Android device is useless without the Android Market. Here is how you can get it working on your A7+.

First do a factory reset on your tablet.

Go to Settings>Privacy>Factory Data Reset

Once your tablet restart you will be ready to go.

Download this package here:

Dropbox: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/38313345/Elocity A7+ Market.rar
Filesonic: http://www.filesonic.com/file/u0jxLhN

and extract the contents to your micro sd card or USB stick. (I used a USB stick and it worked great). There is a folder and two files:

gapps folder
Amazon Marketplace.apk (optional - see below)
Z4Root.apk

You will also need to acquire a copy of root explorer. It's a paid app and well worth the $4. How YOU acquire it is entirely up to you, I will count on you to do the right thing. The Amazon marketplace DOES work on the Elocity A7 and you can buy Root Explorer from there. I personally installed Amazon MP and bought a copy, even though I already bought one from Android Marketplace. (You can use the Amazon MP on all devices and log in with the same credentials to install on multiple devices with one purchase.)

Insert your SD card or USB stick in to your tablet and wait for them to mount.

Open your app drawer and find OI File Manager that came pre-installed on your tabled and open it, and hit the HOME button icon in the upper left corner.

Now hit storage and scroll down and look for:

SDCARD - look for sdcard-disk
USB - look for usb0-disk

Find the appropriate folder and click it, then find the z4root.1.3.0.apk and click it and you will go to the installation screen. Click Install at the bottom. Once its done, open it.

You will be presented with two options, temporary root and permanent root. Click permanent root and let it do its thing. It will restart your tablet and it will be done. (if it fails - especially if it hangs on reboot, turn the tablet off and do it again).

Repeat the steps above to install the Amazon Market if you need to. Either way you do it at this point you need to install Root Explorer.

Once you have Root Explorer installed open it, you should get a prompt for Super User access. Make sure you choose to ALLOW.

With Root Explorer open you should see / in the upper left corner, if not hit the back button until you do.

scroll down and click find the system folder, open it, then find the bin folder and open it. Scroll all the way down and find the file

wpa_supplicant

long press on this file and choose COPY, and hit the back button twice so you are back at /.

At the top of the screen is a button that says Mount R/W - click it so that is says Mount R/O, then click the PASTE button at the bottom of the screen.

Long press on wpa_supplicant and choose rename - rename the file to wpa_supplicant_bk.

Now in this same folder find the Storage Folder and open it, and find the correct folder for your external storage method (same as above) and click it. Open the gapps folder, then system folder, then the app folder.

Hit the menu button, choose Multi Select, then click select all, then copy.

Now hit back again untill you are at the / directory, then go to the System folder, and open the app folder.

Click PASTE. (if you get an error hit the Mount R/W button again) when it asks if you want to over wright some apps, choose YES to all.

Your device will flash, and jump to the Elocity Boot screen, then it will make you go through the Android setup wizard.

At this point ensure WiFi is turned OFF.

Now open root explorer, browse back to your storage method, open gapps>System>bin and find the wpa_supplicant file. Long press it, and copy it.

Now browse back to the system folder, and open the bin folder, and click paste. It will ask to confirm over wright - choose YES. (Same as above if you get protected directory error).

Finally reboot one last time and you should now have a working market!
 
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frankwg83

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stuck at trying to paste into /system/app folder and can't seem to toggle Mount R/W there.

update: if this happens, apparently a reinstall from the amazon appstore fixes root explorer
 
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tmurphy2006

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Even with reinstalling the app I am unable to toggle the Mount R/W button at that same point.

Update: Installing BusyBox seemed to fix whatever was keeping the toggle from working. But once I go to paste the files, it tells me there isn't enough space.

Also, somewhere along the way I lost the keyboard software, and its not detected under settings either -.-
 
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mlk89119

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Hey, this worked! I didn't actually do a factory reset because I had a bunch of stuff I wanted to keep, so i thought I'd take a gamble.... My Elocity A4+ didn't restart automatically after copying the files, so I restarted it manually. I thought I might be in trouble when it brought up the "sign in to google" page over phone data. Of course that couldn't be done since I have no phone and the wireless authentication wouldn't work.

I restarted again and noticed that the google authentication had a "later" option, which I selected. That took me into my tablet like it had been before. I disabled the wireless, copied the wpa_supplicant file provided, restarted again and ... viola! It worked. Reenabled wifi, went into the market and updated a bunch of apps through appbrain. I thought this tablet was good before (able to sideload most apps I needed) ... I love this tablet a lot more now. Thanks again for the info.
 
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wormsleg

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Got Android Market working on Elocity A7+

I also was getting the message that there was not enough space to copy the files, so I deleted some the apps that were on the Elocity A7+, like Fring. It gave me an error when deleting Fring but I did a reboot and it was gone. Android Market is now on my tablet. So far so good.
 
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MyClothesOn

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Thank you! This worked for me.
(I'd click the Thanks button but I don't have one, maybe I'm too new?)

I didn't do the factory reset either.
Had to manually reboot.
Didn't have any space problems but I uninstalled some stuff anyway.
 
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androidnewbyman

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Very Grateful

Hey Destron5683,

As someone who is not particularly well versed with Android I am super grateful for this step by step fix you've provided.

I got the A7+ yesterday and found it to be quite a deal. I was unpleasantly surprised however to discover this whole no android market none-sense. Your fix worked flawlessly, I now have the market app an have downloaded a bunch of apps that have worked great.

Skype is the 1 app I have had no luck with. I've installed it but when I try to sign in it reads an error message like:
"Skype has stopped working. Would you like to sign in again or exit Skype?"

I can't get passed that error loop. Reading around, I get the sense that Skype detects whether or not the device is compatible and blocks you from successful log in.

If by chance you now of a way to get around this, please do tell!

Again, thanks so much for posting this useful step by step guide and for going through the trouble of creating this well needed fix.
 
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JohnnyCrash

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I followed these instructions to a T but after copying the app files the tab did not switch to the splash screen, so I rebooted and the "Click the android" came up but I could not click the android to continue the setup, it just got stuck there.
 
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cdr services

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Android market working

Followed the instructions and it worked like a charm if you get the not enough space error delete the video trailers and try again!!
 
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bostoi

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Jun 3, 2012
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android market

Great post. I have been looking for this since getting my A7+ passed over to me. One problem, I cannot get the file from the Filesonic site. They have changed policy and only the user can download his files. Is it possible to send another link to access this file?
 
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Ryan_D

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Dec 28, 2011
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The instructions are very helpfull and greatly appreciated
I got everything working fairly easily with the exception
of having to reboot it myself, as others have noted it didn't
auto reboot.

Still in process of trying to find a google play apk as the
old market app from this thread while functional, it really
sucks compared to play on my infuse.

via rooted/hacked A7+ with xda app
 
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Ryan_D

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Dec 28, 2011
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updated market app or play store?

only problem with this hack or mod is the included market app while functional it really does suck, anyone have a line on an apk for an updated market or play app?

update
ok I'm a Tool, I asked first rather than work for it... I dug around a bit and found exactly what I needed, installed and tested, then wrote a quick set of destructions.

my following post answers the question...
 
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Ryan_D

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Elocity A7+ working market / play store

I followed the destructions provided here (use at own risk, worked perfect for me)

Thank you Destron5683

with a few exceptions, as noted in previous reply's most people had to manually reboot

I bought root explorer on amazon market, required for getting base market working.

Once you get that up and running it's fairly straight forward to install
play Vending-3.5.16.apk (destructions below) which is available from this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1582422

scroll to bottom of first post and look for the attached files, I used the non mod version, save this file to root of an sd card

Thank you Deeco7

Again follow at your own risk, this process worked for me, it may not work for you...

I kept an sd card in so I could backup the file in a place that won't get overwritten/deleted if I have to factory reset at some point

open root explorer, make sure your at / in upper left corner, next navigate to /system/app scroll down list to Vending.apk
, long press, copy, hit back twice so your at / again, navigate to /storage/sdcard-disk0 (or wherever you prefer to save backup)

press paste, now rename file to Vending.bak (or whatever you will remember)
rename the Vending-3.5.16.apk to Vending.apk
long press it and select copy, navigate back to /system/app , hit Mount R/W , delete Vending.apk , then paste your new Vending.apk into folder.

hit back button untill root explorer exits, then shut off and restart

you should have Play Store icon in app bin, press it and enjoy.

not sure if it was my router or isp or tablet, apps didn't want to start downloading in play store,
as soon as I exited from play store it had downloaded 1 app and was getting the second one,
they installed fine, hope this helps people (next time I ran play it worked fine so likely isp)

fixxed link
 
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Z4 seems to punish you when you uninstall it or turn off root. After uninstalling, my Bluetooth , Google Maps, Youtube and Foursquare no longer work properly on my A7+ Reinstall it and they all come back !

Dan
 
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elocityuser74

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Google play

Ryan_D said:
I followed the destructions provided here (use at own risk, worked perfect for me)

Thank you Destron5683

with a few exceptions, as noted in previous reply's most people had to manually reboot

I bought root explorer on amazon market, required for getting base market working.

Once you get that up and running it's fairly straight forward to install
play Vending-3.5.16.apk (destructions below) which is available from this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1582422

scroll to bottom of first post and look for the attached files, I used the non mod version, save this file to root of an sd card

Thank you Deeco7

Again follow at your own risk, this process worked for me, it may not work for you...

I kept an sd card in so I could backup the file in a place that won't get overwritten/deleted if I have to factory reset at some point

open root explorer, make sure your at / in upper left corner, next navigate to /system/app scroll down list to Vending.apk
, long press, copy, hit back twice so your at / again, navigate to /storage/sdcard-disk0 (or wherever you prefer to save backup)

press paste, now rename file to Vending.bak (or whatever you will remember)
rename the Vending-3.5.16.apk to Vending.apk
long press it and select copy, navigate back to /system/app , hit Mount R/W , delete Vending.apk , then paste your new Vending.apk into folder.

hit back button untill root explorer exits, then shut off and restart

you should have Play Store icon in app bin, press it and enjoy.

not sure if it was my router or isp or tablet, apps didn't want to start downloading in play store,
as soon as I exited from play store it had downloaded 1 app and was getting the second one,
they installed fine, hope this helps people (next time I ran play it worked fine so likely isp)

fixxed link
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

When you do this on Elocity A7+ does it allow you to use apps that would normally not work on the system?
 
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thrash_metash

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Sep 8, 2012
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filesonic link not working

Thanks for the great step by step! I just need the filesonic file(s) but the link does not seem to be working.
I would be most grateful if someone would host the file.
Thanks in advance.
 
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Cretin1

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thrash_metash said:
Thanks for the great step by step! I just need the filesonic file(s) but the link does not seem to be working.
I would be most grateful if someone would host the file.
Thanks in advance.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

goto http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1582422

and if you click on the attached files you should be able to directly download the file that way.. its just under the meadiafire links i used the non mod after the modded version wouldnt let me download anything to my A7+
 
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    Destron5683
    As you have already found out, an Android device is useless without the Android Market. Here is how you can get it working on your A7+.

    First do a factory reset on your tablet.

    Go to Settings>Privacy>Factory Data Reset

    Once your tablet restart you will be ready to go.

    Download this package here:

    Dropbox: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/38313345/Elocity A7+ Market.rar
    Filesonic: http://www.filesonic.com/file/u0jxLhN

    and extract the contents to your micro sd card or USB stick. (I used a USB stick and it worked great). There is a folder and two files:

    gapps folder
    Amazon Marketplace.apk (optional - see below)
    Z4Root.apk

    You will also need to acquire a copy of root explorer. It's a paid app and well worth the $4. How YOU acquire it is entirely up to you, I will count on you to do the right thing. The Amazon marketplace DOES work on the Elocity A7 and you can buy Root Explorer from there. I personally installed Amazon MP and bought a copy, even though I already bought one from Android Marketplace. (You can use the Amazon MP on all devices and log in with the same credentials to install on multiple devices with one purchase.)

    Insert your SD card or USB stick in to your tablet and wait for them to mount.

    Open your app drawer and find OI File Manager that came pre-installed on your tabled and open it, and hit the HOME button icon in the upper left corner.

    Now hit storage and scroll down and look for:

    SDCARD - look for sdcard-disk
    USB - look for usb0-disk

    Find the appropriate folder and click it, then find the z4root.1.3.0.apk and click it and you will go to the installation screen. Click Install at the bottom. Once its done, open it.

    You will be presented with two options, temporary root and permanent root. Click permanent root and let it do its thing. It will restart your tablet and it will be done. (if it fails - especially if it hangs on reboot, turn the tablet off and do it again).

    Repeat the steps above to install the Amazon Market if you need to. Either way you do it at this point you need to install Root Explorer.

    Once you have Root Explorer installed open it, you should get a prompt for Super User access. Make sure you choose to ALLOW.

    With Root Explorer open you should see / in the upper left corner, if not hit the back button until you do.

    scroll down and click find the system folder, open it, then find the bin folder and open it. Scroll all the way down and find the file

    wpa_supplicant

    long press on this file and choose COPY, and hit the back button twice so you are back at /.

    At the top of the screen is a button that says Mount R/W - click it so that is says Mount R/O, then click the PASTE button at the bottom of the screen.

    Long press on wpa_supplicant and choose rename - rename the file to wpa_supplicant_bk.

    Now in this same folder find the Storage Folder and open it, and find the correct folder for your external storage method (same as above) and click it. Open the gapps folder, then system folder, then the app folder.

    Hit the menu button, choose Multi Select, then click select all, then copy.

    Now hit back again untill you are at the / directory, then go to the System folder, and open the app folder.

    Click PASTE. (if you get an error hit the Mount R/W button again) when it asks if you want to over wright some apps, choose YES to all.

    Your device will flash, and jump to the Elocity Boot screen, then it will make you go through the Android setup wizard.

    At this point ensure WiFi is turned OFF.

    Now open root explorer, browse back to your storage method, open gapps>System>bin and find the wpa_supplicant file. Long press it, and copy it.

    Now browse back to the system folder, and open the bin folder, and click paste. It will ask to confirm over wright - choose YES. (Same as above if you get protected directory error).

    Finally reboot one last time and you should now have a working market!
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    Ryan_D
    Elocity A7+ working market / play store

    I followed the destructions provided here (use at own risk, worked perfect for me)

    Thank you Destron5683

    with a few exceptions, as noted in previous reply's most people had to manually reboot

    I bought root explorer on amazon market, required for getting base market working.

    Once you get that up and running it's fairly straight forward to install
    play Vending-3.5.16.apk (destructions below) which is available from this thread

    http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1582422

    scroll to bottom of first post and look for the attached files, I used the non mod version, save this file to root of an sd card

    Thank you Deeco7

    Again follow at your own risk, this process worked for me, it may not work for you...

    I kept an sd card in so I could backup the file in a place that won't get overwritten/deleted if I have to factory reset at some point

    open root explorer, make sure your at / in upper left corner, next navigate to /system/app scroll down list to Vending.apk
    , long press, copy, hit back twice so your at / again, navigate to /storage/sdcard-disk0 (or wherever you prefer to save backup)

    press paste, now rename file to Vending.bak (or whatever you will remember)
    rename the Vending-3.5.16.apk to Vending.apk
    long press it and select copy, navigate back to /system/app , hit Mount R/W , delete Vending.apk , then paste your new Vending.apk into folder.

    hit back button untill root explorer exits, then shut off and restart

    you should have Play Store icon in app bin, press it and enjoy.

    not sure if it was my router or isp or tablet, apps didn't want to start downloading in play store,
    as soon as I exited from play store it had downloaded 1 app and was getting the second one,
    they installed fine, hope this helps people (next time I ran play it worked fine so likely isp)

    fixxed link
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