[Android 14] [GApps] NikGapps [ARM64]

[AhmedRehan98]

Flashed Los20 the core gapps, everything is fine except google photos edit doesn't work. Tried flashing the addon, didn't make a difference. Do I have to flash a larger gapp package for the edit to work?

 

[Nikhil]

Flashed Los20 the core gapps, everything is fine except google photos edit doesn't work. Tried flashing the addon, didn't make a difference. Do I have to flash a larger gapp package for the edit to work?

Did you install Google Photos from Playstore? I suggest you try flashing the addon.

 

[AhmedRehan98]

Flashed Los20 the core gapps, everything is fine except google photos edit doesn't work. Tried flashing the addon, didn't make a difference. Do I have to flash a larger gapp package for the edit to work?

Did you install Google Photos from Playstore? I suggest you try flashing the addon.

I did flash the addon (after booting and using the rom, but the core gapps were flashed before booting into the rom). I've also flashed the google markup addon

 

[osm0sis]

Hey just a heads up: Feb 01 Full build adds Pixel Launcher back on 12L (awesome work!), but unfortunately appears to break QuickSwitch, so no way to set Lawnchair as Recents anymore. Hopefully can be fixed?

 

[Nikhil]

Flashed Los20 the core gapps, everything is fine except google photos edit doesn't work. Tried flashing the addon, didn't make a difference. Do I have to flash a larger gapp package for the edit to work?


I did flash the addon (after booting and using the rom, but the core gapps were flashed before booting into the rom). I've also flashed the google markup addon

So what is happening? Are you facing a crash? And can you try wiping /data - that make it as good as clean flash. It is not advised to flash the addons after first boot

 

[Nikhil]

Feb 01 Full build adds Pixel Launcher back on 12L, but unfortunately appears to break QuickSwitch, so no way to set Lawnchair as Recents anymore. Hopefully can be fixed?

Oh! Yes, definitely, I'll take a look at it.

Edit: btw, if you're not using Pixel Launcher and use Lawnchair like me, you can skip installing it by updating nikgapps.config

Or very easily create your own custom gapps build within minutes with exactly the apps you use. Check this out - https://github.com/nikgapps/config

Regardless, I'll investigate it and see where the problem is. Must be the overlays.

 

[AhmedRehan98]

So what is happening? Are you facing a crash? And can you try wiping /data - that make it as good as clean flash. It is not advised to flash the addons after first boot

After trying again (still without clean flashes)

Installing google photos from playstore: can't edit photos, gphotos says updating photos editor for a bit then goes away. Pressing edit just gives me an infinite loading circle animation.

Flashing the google photos addon for a13: I can edit photos but syncing/backup doesn't work. The app can't seem to connect to the internet and says it's offline and can't sync, waiting for connection to backup, etc

 

[osm0sis]

After trying again (still without clean flashes)

Installing google photos from playstore: can't edit photos, gphotos says updating photos editor for a bit then goes away. Pressing edit just gives me an infinite loading circle animation.

Flashing the google photos addon for a13: I can edit photos but syncing/backup doesn't work. The app can't seem to connect to the internet and says it's offline and can't sync, waiting for connection to backup, etc

Make sure you've gone into App info for Photos, then tap Mobile data & Wi-Fi and Allow network access. Things installed from Play Store or sideloaded can end up with this disabled initially on LOS at times.

 

[AhmedRehan98]

Make sure you've gone into App info for Photos, then tap Mobile data & Wi-Fi and Allow network access. Things installed from Play Store or sideloaded can end up with this disabled initially on LOS at times.

that did it. thanks mister for your time <3.

 

[ew]

If I am upgrading LineageOS from 19.1 to 20, what is the recomended method for me to upgrade the NIkGapps? I have the full version of NikGapps (12) currently installed - and I want to upgrade without re-installing.

My device is a Moto G100 which is an A/B type device. There is no TWRP, I have to use the LineageOS recovery.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

 

[Nikhil]

If I am upgrading LineageOS from 19.1 to 20, what is the recomended method for me to upgrade the NIkGapps? I have the full version of NikGapps (12) currently installed - and I want to upgrade without re-installing.

My device is a Moto G100 which is an A/B type device. There is no TWRP, I have to use the LineageOS recovery.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

https://xdaforums.com/t/android-13-gapps-nikgapps-arm64.3915866/post-87936009

Read a few posts above this one.

 

[ew]

https://xdaforums.com/t/android-13-gapps-nikgapps-arm64.3915866/post-87936009

Read a few posts above this one.

Thank you for your quick assistance. One question (after reading through that section)

2. Delete /data/misc_de/*/apexdata/com.android.permission/runtime_permissions.xml from recovery or file explorer or debloater whichever approach is convenient to you.

Can I remove this file prior to beginning the installation process? The LineageOS recovery doesn't have any option to remove files.

 

[Nikhil]

Thank you for your quick assistance. One question (after reading through that section)


Can I remove this file prior to beginning the installation process? The LineageOS recovery doesn't have any option to remove files.

Yes, you can remove that prior to beginning the installation process.

 

[choratiu]

Hello,

I am running Lineage OS 20 with Nikgapps on a OnePlus 7T and I am very pleased with the setup with one exception: Google Speech Services.

If I go to Settings - ... - Languages & input - .. - Text to speech, it crashes my Setting app.

Is this an LOS issue or a Nikgapps one? Can someone help me to fix it?

Best Regards,
Horatiu

 

[Nikhil]

Hello,

I am running Lineage OS 20 with Nikgapps on a OnePlus 7T and I am very pleased with the setup with one exception: Google Speech Services.

If I go to Settings - ... - Languages & input - .. - Text to speech, it crashes my Setting app.

Is this an LOS issue or a Nikgapps one? Can someone help me to fix it?

Best Regards,
Horatiu

Can you provide more details about the nikgapps build you flashed and the steps you followed?

 

[choratiu]

Can you provide more details about the nikgapps build you flashed and the steps you followed?

I installed the Full version of NikGapps from 8-Sep-2022 and installed it from Recovery using adb sideload immediately after installing LOS (before first boot).

 

[osm0sis]

For updating LOS from 19 to 20, do I have to follow these steps for NikGapps?

• Step 1: Uninstall Playstore updates of Google Apps
• Step 2: Go to /system/addon.d folder and delete all the scripts that starts with "51-"
• Step 3: Dirty flash Rom
• Step 4: Flash newer version of NikGapps

Or can I just sideload the new nikgapps that supports new android without all the extra steps? I do not intend to wipe data. This will be a dirty flash to update LOS to 20. If it makes any diff, I use the NikGapps core package.

small correction, it's now "10-" and not "51-" but if you're on older build which has "51-" then yes.

it logically makes sense to uninstall gapps so those are removed, upgrate the rom so you are on newer version and then flash gapps so you then have gapps too.

only problem is, you will then have flashed the gapps dirty (after first boot) so I'd suggest you to delete the runtime permissions and you should be good to go.

do take nandroid backup, in case something goes wrong and you have to revert back!

1. Majorly Google Play Services and Google Play Store, rest 'should' work fine, if not you can remove it later too if you experience any crashes. Core adds the applications and necessary files to run gapps, not the updates.
2. Delete /data/misc_de/*/apexdata/com.android.permission/runtime_permissions.xml from recovery or file explorer or debloater whichever approach is convenient to you.

Would be great to have this automated into a script zip to simplify the LOS+GApps upgrade process for people. Could even support all GApps by removing the common addon.d filenames for them all.

 

[Nikhil]

Hey just a heads up: Feb 01 Full build adds Pixel Launcher back on 12L (awesome work!), but unfortunately appears to break QuickSwitch, so no way to set Lawnchair as Recents anymore. Hopefully can be fixed?

okay so we have an overlay config_recentsComponentName which defines the recents provider without which Pixel launcher crashes.

Apprently, for Lawnchair to work with QuickSwitch (QS), config_recentsComponentName needs to be set under Lawnchair package name (which is what QS does behind the scenes when Lawnchair is selected).

Unfortunately, this is one of the config that can only exist for 1 app at a time (like we can have only one setup wizard). Due to this, Pixel Launcher being itself, it crashes when config_recentsComponentName is set to Lawnchair.

I've tried a workaround here hoping it helps. Attached two flashable zips that are interchangeable. so if you want Lawnchair to be the recents provider with QS, flash the lawnchair zip and you will lose Pixel Launcher, same goes with Pixel Launcher - flashing it will get you Pixel Launcher and you will lose Lawnchair. Only one can exist at a time.

P.S. Lawnchair also comes with Lawnfeed and Lawnicons which are not part of the attached flashable zip, I can easily add those if you prefer, let me know.

Edit: when you set lawnchair as recents through QS, it installs lawnchair as a module and flashing Pixel Launcher will not remove that module, which means you will have PL and Lawnchair installed at the same time, but like I said before, only one can work at a time. I hope I haven't confused you

 

[Nikhil]

Would be great to have this automated into a script zip to simplify the LOS+GApps upgrade process for people. Could even support all GApps by removing the common addon.d filenames for them all.

yes, that is a great idea. it can be achieved by following below steps
- uninstall playstore updates (wiping /data/app/<googleapppackagename> and /data/data/<googleapppackagename>
- removing addon.d scripts
- installing newer gapps replacing the existing gapps

I could make it so that users just by renaming the file to upgrade.zip, can perform all these operations and the gapps zip could actually perform an upgrade.

 

[retry0001-coffee]

Nikhil,

I was contemplating doing the LOS upgrade this weekend (tomorrow). If you do this upgrade thing for the core package, I will test it out for you. I have a OnePlus 6T (fajita) running LOS 19.1 with nikgapps core and no other extras (nice and vanilla). I also have a Moto G7 plus (lake) in the same situation. Let me know if you can have that ready any time soon.