HOW TO: Get flawlessly working Gallery with Picasa sync in Smoothrom

RealCaracas

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Jan 13, 2013
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Hi! I found a way to make Gallery to work flawlessly with Picasa sync in Smoothrom (should work in other roms)....:laugh:

I did research but this solution posted in [APP][MOD][addon.d] Stock Gallery w/ Picasa Sync by mkilc when you try to share or edit the images the app crash or it tells you that it cant use the image.

The steps:

1) Download Stock rom, I downloaded Grouper-JDQ39_4.2.2-Deodex_Rooted-02-14-13-teshxx.zip from goo.im
2) OF COURSE Download SmoothRom (5.1 in my case)
3) Extract content of stock rom to a folder
4) Open Smoothrom using 7-zip or whatever you like
5) Go to system/app and delete Gallery2.apk
6) Find in the extracted stock files system/app/GalleryGoogle.apk and rename it to Gallery2.apk
7) Copy the renamed file into the open folder in 7-zip of Smoothrom (system/app)
8) Now you can install the ROM as you would normally do: BACKUP WIPE INSTAL ZIP......
9) DONE!! Now you can edit and share Picasa images without any problems.

I know there must be a way doing this without having to wipe and install but i did this because I needed to reinstall the rom after messing up without backup.

It should be something like this: Force Aplication shutdown, delete Gallery2.apk from system/app / copy the renamed file from the stock rom / reboot in recovery / wipe dalvik cache and reboot.... CORRECT ME IF IAM WRONG, Im not an expert....

I hope you found this usefull