Google Apps can't be reinstalled

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It would still be nice if you could give more information:

  • Did the update not work or can you just not reinstall the Google Apps? (in other words: if you open the updater app what does it say is your current OS version?)
  • Did you get any error messages? What did they say?
  • Do you have a unified storage?
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  • The update did not work since I am not able to reinstall the Google Apps.
  • Error message: “The application Android-keyboard (AOSP) has unfortunately stopped” (translated from Danish)
  • No.
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What I meant was if the update of the operating system work?

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No, the keyboard crashes, hence the error message.

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Ok let’s start from the beginning: Did this problem first occur when trying to update the operating system or out of the blue?

In the first case please go check if you are now actually running the new operating system (1.8.5) or if the update of the OS didn’t work. (The keyboard not working means that Google apps don’t work, not that the update didn’t)

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  • The problem occured after I tried to update from 1.6 Cherry to 1.8.5 Kola Nut
  • I am running FP 1.8.4 according to the Fairphone Updater (if I am looking in the right place).
  • Well, the keyboard actually crashed when set in the Danish language. I have now changed it to English and it works.
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Unfortunately, this has already taken far too much of my time, and I need to take a break to attend to things more important. My Fairphone is able to work, but Google Apps and Danish keyboard is out. I can live with that for now.

See you later.

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Like others in this thread I’m trying to install the gapps to a fairphone. How it’s gotten in this state:

  • it was running 1.8.5 just fine
  • storage space was running out, so I switched to unified partitioning (and lost all the Notebook notes, the recommended helium backup doesn’t include them)
  • it could be that in the end I had to do the switch manually, it’s a while ago and I remember it not going that fluently
  • either way, I’m now unable to install gapps. I’ve tried every fix I could find in this thread, none of them successful:

. Wiping the cache partition
. Clearing the data of the updater app
. Reinstalling the OS via the updater (fails with ‘error’)

Trying to install the gapps always gives the same md5 error and afterwards an error about the file on /cache.

Is there anything else I can try? I saw somebody who solved it by flashing with the spk tool, but that link is broken.

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md5 error??? I guess, this is new.

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Ah, I think that’s just the german translation for ‘signature verification failed’.

I tried using the SP Flash tool, but it doesn’t start the ‘download’. So I’m going to try the adb sideload option. (all this effort just to get the gapps back :confused: )

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This indicates that something is wrong. Did you use the right system image? After unifying the partitions, you have to use the images for the FP1U.

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I confused some steps and the way in which they fail. Reinstalling the OS via the updater works, it just doesn’t fix the gapps issue. Trying to re-apply the partition upgrade (via recovery mode) fails with ‘error!’.

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I fixed it! I didn’t think this would work, so I didn’t try it before, but resetting it to factory default worked! (still running 1.8.5, after the wipe I could finally install gapps. Now praying that titanium backup did backup all the things)

I’m thinking it might be that I broke being able to install gapps by restoring backups before (or probable while) installing the gapps.

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