Installing 3rd Party Apps

[KB Smoka]

Here is how to install 3rd party applications. I'm not going to go into detail for every step so a little more research may be required if you don't understand all the terms. Search around, it's how I learned.

1. Download and extract the Android SDK. Once it is extracted copy it to the root of your C drive and to make your life easier rename it to sdk. So in the end it should be C:\sdk.

2. Download and install HTC Sync.

3. After the install of HTC Sync is complete connect your phone to the computer and select the HTC Sync option for the connection type on your phone. It doesn't matter if it fails to connect or gives you any error. When I did it the phone told me it couldn't find HTC Sync on my PC but I just hit OK and moved on.

5. Copy whatever 3rd party apps you are looking to install to the tools folder. (C:\sdk\tools). DO NOT rename the files, I had problems after doing that.

6. Open up a command prompt on your PC (In windows it's start, run, cmd) and change to the tools directory.

cd\
cd sdk\tools

After you change to that directory the prompt should say: c:\sdk\tools.

7. Type adb devices to verify that your computer can see the phone. If everything is working you should get a response that looks something like this:

List of devices attached
HTxxxxxxxxx device

8. Once you verify that the computer and phone are connected type the following:

adb install nameofapp.apk (obviously changing the nameofapp part to whatever the file is named).

You should see it copy the app then install and at the end it will say successful. All done!

Feel free to add to this if I missed anything....

KB

 

[shark0807]

Thanks KB for the update, an easy workaround that I don't mind performing at all. Now if only we can remove those pesky AT&T bloatware they slapped on it, and get a nice Root going, we'll be in business!

 

[thejrah]

Heck, I'd be willing to buy an extra Aria for someone around here if they could get a quick root/2.2 update going for this thing.

 

[howl87]

trying to install swype on my aria. please help

hello, please help with step 6. i dont know what i need to do. can some one please reply really quick. all i need is to do is install swype. how do i find swype anyways

 

[shark0807]

hello, please help with step 6. i dont know what i need to do. can some one please reply really quick. all i need is to do is install swype. how do i find swype anyways

Step 6 may seem a little unwieldy, but here is a trick I learned.

1) Create a shortcut for CMD.exe on your desktop.

2) Right click the CMD.exe shortcut and go to Properties.

3) In the Start in: bar, type in the directory for the android SDK tools folder you put on your computer. For example, my start in address is:

"I:\HTC Hero\android-sdk-windows\tools"

Now everytime you open this CMD.exe shortcut, it will start in the correct folder to perform adb commands.

As far as Swype goes, you can get an e-mail for the installer through here.

I did run into a problem, since Swype will not install correctly because it needs to download and apply another .apk, which AT&T's blocks will not allow. Swype really isn't important enough to me to get it otherwise, as I'm happy installing the other apps I've been missing out on.

Hope that helps!

 

[ko0ky]

Here is how to install 3rd party applications. I'm not going to go into detail for every step so a little more research may be required if you don't understand all the terms. Search around, it's how I learned.

1. Download and extract the Android SDK. Once it is extracted copy it to the root of your C drive and to make your life easier rename it to sdk. So in the end it should be C:\sdk.

2. Download and install HTC Sync.

3. After the install of HTC Sync is complete connect your phone to the computer and select the HTC Sync option for the connection type on your phone. It doesn't matter if it fails to connect or gives you any error. When I did it the phone told me it couldn't find HTC Sync on my PC but I just hit OK and moved on.

5. Copy whatever 3rd party apps you are looking to install to the tools folder. (C:\sdk\tools). DO NOT rename the files, I had problems after doing that.

6. Open up a command prompt on your PC (In windows it's start, run, cmd) and change to the tools directory.

cd\
cd sdk
cd tools

After you change to that directory the prompt should say: c:\sdk\tools.

7. Type adb devices to verify that your computer can see the phone. If everything is working you should get a response that looks something like this:

List of devices attached
HTxxxxxxxxx device

8. Once you verify that the computer and phone are connected type the following:

adb install nameofapp.apk (obviously changing the nameofapp part to whatever the file is named).

You should see it copy the app then install and at the end it will say successful. All done!

Feel free to add to this if I missed anything....

KB

I'm sorry I can't be more technical, but I use an easier way to install 3rd party apps, even multiple installs at once. Everything above is the same except AFTER step 3.. go to http://de.codeplex.com/ and download droidexplorer, once you have it, connect your phone to the pc, execute droidexplorer (droid explorer can take up to 2 mins (or maybe longer) to load so be patient), select drop down menu tools either addons (-batch install) to install multiple apps.. or Manage Packages to install single app. There are lots of other functions using droidexplorer but I think most of them need the device to be root.

(it's been a while since I first installed droidexplorer, so I'm not 100% certain if I even needed the android sdk, but HTC SYNC is definitely needed, if someone wants to give it a shot without installing android sdk to verify, that would be great, let me know and I'll fix up this post.)

THIS HAS BEEN VERIFIED TO WORK ON THE STOCK ATT ARIA by myself, as I just purchased the aria on sunday and already installed over 30 apps.

hope this helps someone.. post any replies if you need help, I'll try to help in any way I can.

 

[glitterbug]

thanks for the instructions KB. Getting my aria soon and can't wait to ditch the iPhone

 

[hocplyr98]

Anyone know if/how you can delete the built in AT&T apps?

 

[apewall]

Anyone know if/how you can delete the built in AT&T apps?

I'd suspect you would need root access and then you could simply use shell rm /system/app/attbullshit.apk

 

[KB Smoka]

Yup....Same thing I did with my Incredible..

 

[Boneshark]

Ok, I got the Swype installer onto my phone, but then it stops me again. Thoughts?

 

[Boneshark]

Ok, I got the Swype installer onto my phone, but then it stops me again. Thoughts?

To elaborate. did "install adb swype-installer.apk" Got the success message. Tried to run swype installer on my phone and it got blocked as a third party app.

 

[hocplyr98]

So, you can just use the Incredible root and it'll work for the Aria?

 

[shark0807]

So, you can just use the Incredible root and it'll work for the Aria?

No no, he was saying he was able to remove the Verizon bloatware from his Incredible after rooting the phone. DO NOT use the Incredible method for rooting on your Aria, as you will possibly brick your phone.

 

[KB Smoka]

To elaborate. did "install adb swype-installer.apk" Got the success message. Tried to run swype installer on my phone and it got blocked as a third party app.

Are you sure you have the right apk? If you got success it should already be installed. Check it by going to settings then language and keyboard. You should see Swype as an option.

 

[KB Smoka]

No no, he was saying he was able to remove the Verizon bloatware from his Incredible after rooting the phone. DO NOT use the Incredible method for rooting on your Aria, as you will possibly brick your phone.

Thanks for clarifying....That could have ended badly.

 

[Boneshark]

Are you sure you have the right apk? If you got success it should already be installed. Check it by going to settings then language and keyboard. You should see Swype as an option.

yep did "adb install swype-installer.apk" Got the "success" - nothing there. The swype installer is now on my phone. Click on it, log in to it, click download - third party deny message.

 

[Boneshark]

Also there's no swype on my phone in the downloads, only the swype installer. I figured I might have to do the same thing for the swype installer and swype, but the file isn't there. What exactly does running "install swype-installer.apk" accomplish? I figured it would allow me to download the actual Swype program, and not just the installer.

Tried again in CMD "Install_failed_already_exists"

 

[saint168]

Also there's no swype on my phone in the downloads, only the swype installer. I figured I might have to do the same thing for the swype installer and swype, but the file isn't there. What exactly does running "install swype-installer.apk" accomplish? I figured it would allow me to download the actual Swype program, and not just the installer.

Tried again in CMD "Install_failed_already_exists"

I tried this too. Apparently Swype-installer.apk is an Android program for you to download and install the REAL Swype software. I was able to install the swype-installer but the next step fail since it's trying to install Swype directly. Does any have the actual swype apk file? Do you know where I can find it?

 

[saint168]

I tried this too. Apparently Swype-installer.apk is an Android program for you to download and install the REAL Swype software. I was able to install the swype-installer but the next step fail since it's trying to install Swype directly. Does any have the actual swype apk file? Do you know where I can find it?

Found it here: http://ip208-100-42-21.static.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=699705&page=2