Google account (Gmail...) on 2.3.5 Gingerbread

[Goudie]

Hi !

Today I am trying Android x86 Gingerbread on my EeePC 900. It works
very, very, very well !

I have notice that Google Account is not present in Accounts settings,
and I suppose is it normal ?

My question is : is there a solution to install it ?

Thanks

[Goudie]

Hum, file not longer available.

But, forget that ! I MADE IT !

I confess that I am proud that I'm not used to hack a lot, it's a
great victory.

Even stronger than I expected, now I can access to Android Market! I
do not even ask much ...

What I did:

> Download the zip Shady (big big big thank you!)
http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://download829.mediafire.com/fcz2k768g5dg/rf9d93k90x83x6n/gapps-gb-full-20110527-signed.zip&usg=AFQjCNHacCRJyJ22a55yw-VZ7vfJzgK2Yw


> Unzip and copy both files to the root of the SD card


> Using the method of Christopher 2, slightly modified (thank you! Http://www.ceh-photo.de/blog/?p=383 )

ALT+F1
cp /mnt/sdcard/system / -rf
reboot


> VERY IMPORTANT for those who do NOT have touch screen: on reboot, use this code BEFORE handling something (very important to do before you get to the screen in Android, otherwise we can not never start!) :

ALT+F1
start faketsd
ALT+F7

(Thank you 0xlab, and again at Shady big boss and Chih-Wei Huang)


> Now press the Droid :-) and skip account procedure. Connect the wireless (or Ethernet ...) and go to Account Settings and finally add your Google Account!


> Fantastic! Gmail sync, Market works, life is beautiful. :-)


I hope this will help others!

Note that the Market is not fully unlocked, but Shady (again!) has a
solution in the first link I gave.


I will soon do an awesome video to show what we can do with an old
EeePC 900 with Android x86 and a few clever applications.

Thank you!



On 30 août, 22:09, tabletsx86 <rbg.tablets...@gmail.com> wrote:
> you could try here:
>
> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T5IYICCD

[Shady Rasheed]

Glad to hear u got it working.
I noticed Faketsd is no longer required in the latest gingerbread build. I believe it loads automatically if u don't have a touch screen device. It was required, but Chih-wei mentioned in a previous post that they will add this functionality, and now we have it.

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[Goudie]

So the auto detection did not work on my EeePC 900 because I got
trapped first before restarting my entire installation (I specify,
with the latest release).

On 31 août, 02:21, Shady Rasheed <rasheedsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Glad to hear u got it working.
> I noticed Faketsd is no longer required in the latest gingerbread build. I
> believe it loads automatically if u don't have a touch screen device. It was
> required, but Chih-wei mentioned in a previous post that they will add this
> functionality, and now we have it.

> On Aug 31, 2011 9:05 AM, "Goudie" <goudi...@gmail.com> wrote:> Hum, file not longer available.

>
> > But, forget that ! I MADE IT !
>
> > I confess that I am proud that I'm not used to hack a lot, it's a
> > great victory.
>
> > Even stronger than I expected, now I can access to Android Market! I
> > do not even ask much ...
>
> > What I did:
>
> >> Download the zip Shady (big big big thank you!)
>

> http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://download829.mediafire.com/fcz...

[Tony G.]

Goudie, with the Google Apps installed as you described, can you sync
contacts to your EeePC as on an Android phone?

[Goudie]

Yes of course, contacts are synchronized as well as Gmail (even if
Gmail app bug often ...) and Calendar, Picasa photos in the 3D gallery
(which is now super smooth OpenGL implementation whooho!) and Google
Music, Docs, Books, Google + ...

[Tony G.]

Awesome!
I had Picasa, Music, and Google+ working already and used Google Voice
to text and call,
I think I'm going to buy a Nettop now.

[suoko]

Are you using unstable release from this site http://www.android-x86.org/download
or a nightly build ?

On Aug 31, 7:05 am, Goudie <goudi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hum, file not longer available.
>
> But, forget that ! I MADE IT !
>
> I confess that I am proud that I'm not used to hack a lot, it's a
> great victory.
>
> Even stronger than I expected, now I can access to Android Market! I
> do not even ask much ...
>
> What I did:
>
> > Download the zip Shady (big big big thank you!)
>

> http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://download829.mediafire.com/fcz...

[suoko]

snappz market works great.

[kjoetom]

Hi Goudie,

thank you for sharing the information on how you got things going.
Despite having tried it several times I was not able to do so on my
EeePC 901. I have been using various releases and nightly builds that
can be downloaded from android-x86.org, and I also combined with
several gapps (among them also Shady's version).

When booting, I get informed that some applications (like market,
framework, partener setup) have stopped and have to be force closed.
So I cannot enter the market.

What am I doing wrong? Could you please specify which version from
android.org you used ?

Thank you,

kjoe

On 31 Aug., 07:05, Goudie <goudi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hum, file not longer available.
>
> But, forget that ! I MADE IT !
>
> I confess that I am proud that I'm not used to hack a lot, it's a
> great victory.
>
> Even stronger than I expected, now I can access to Android Market! I
> do not even ask much ...
>
> What I did:
>
> > Download the zip Shady (big big big thank you!)
>

> http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://download829.mediafire.com/fcz...

[Tony G.]

Kjoetom,

Go here (http://goo-inside.me/gapps/latest/)
And select the correct zip for the correct Android version that you
have (Android-x86 2.2 RC1 & RC2 you would download 'CyanogenMod 6
(Android 2.2, Froyo)', Android-x86 2.3 RC1 you would download
'CyanogenMod 7 (Android 2.3, Gingerbread)')

Then extract the zip folder and copy the 'system' folder onto the root
of an SD card and go into terminal by pressing Alt+F1 and type


cp /mnt/sdcard/system /system -rf

Then type

reboot

Your machine will reboot and go into the SetupWizard.
From my findings and testing, delete the SetupWizard.apk from the
system/app folder, it won't exit once you're finished cause it thinks
the slideup keyboard is open when there isn't one.

[kjoetom]

Tony G.,

thank you so much for your help. This time I was successful. I did all
the following steps under Ubuntu 11.04.

(1) I downloaded the "android-x86-2.3-RC1-eeepc.iso" (http://
www.android-x86.org/download) and "gapps-gb-20110828-
signed.zip" (http://goo-inside.me/gapps/latest/).

(2) started the iso within Virtualbox and installed to an USB stick
(when asked I chose the read/write mode for /system). Closed
Virtualbox.

(3) mounted the USB device in Ubuntu
(4) created a new subfolder "sdcard" within the 'android-xxxxx'
directory
(5) unzipped the gapps and copied (as root) the 'system' folder to the
subfolder "sdcard'
(6) removed the SetupWizard.apk from the 'app' folder
(7) added 'SDCARD=premount' to the /grub/menu.lst

title Android-x86 2.3-RC1 (MDPI)
kernel /android-2.3-RC1/kernel quiet root=/dev/ram0
androidboot_hardware=eeepc acpi_sleep=s3_bios,s3_mode DPI=160 SRC=/
android-2.3-RC1 SDCARD=premount
initrd /android-2.3-RC1/initrd.img

(8) plugged the USB stick to the EeePc 901 and started from USB stick
(until unlock screen showed up)
(9) went into terminal by pressing Alt+F1, and typed
cp /mnt/sdcard/system /system -rf

(10) waited until USB device stopped flashing (this seemed to be one
of my possible mistakes in earlier days)
(11) then typed
reboot

(12) after rebooting I created a google account using settings >
accounts & sync (for that the LAN must be plugged in)

(13) at first the Market did not show up. I had to install the
"Vending.apk" manually from /sdcard/system/app/ using the OI File
Explorer

After a reboot I finally could access the Market.

Thanks again and good luck for everyone who is going to try this
procedure.

kjoe

[Muldy]

Hi!

Thanks!

Worked for me, had to switch to vending.apk from froyo the new on keeped crashing 

:)

[Muldy]

Can't get market to list all apps though :(

The old method that overwrites the permissions files does not work.

[ryanswj]

Hello there! Have not been able to get Google Accounts to work on android-x86-2.3-RC1-eeepc.iso.

When running the Live CD, I can create google accounts as per normal. After installation to the hard disk, that option magically disappears.

When I try to add an account, I am limited to Exchange only.

I have tried the above methods (download gapps zip and extract), but nothing works.

Please help!

Thanks! :)

[Iggy Budiman]

Same here.

Got the apps already on the drawer, but still can't add google account on account setting. Only exchange account.

Already copy those files on system folder. I'm using gingerbread rc-1 and nightly build on eeepc 701.

salam

-iggy