Google Apps issues

[ffxx68]

Google Voice Search doesn't work on current package build. 
When trying to use it you can get the on-screen error:

 "Unfortunately, Voice Search has stopped"

In logcat this reflects to:

...
W/dalvikvm( 1376): No implementation found for native Lcom/google/android/voicesearch/endpointer/ResampleInputStream;.fir21:([BI[BII)V
W/dalvikvm( 1376): threadid=16: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40a46300)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1376): FATAL EXCEPTION: Thread-122
E/AndroidRuntime( 1376): java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Native method not found: com.google.android.voicesearch.endpointer.ResampleInputStream.fir21:([BI[BII)V
...

or similar ones, all poining to some missing android libraries.

I found out the issue was due to an incomplete setup of the Google Apps and I managed to fix it by uploading into device/renesas/emev/gapps the complete package (4.1.2 - 20121011) from:

 http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/Google_Apps

and rebuilding. 

But I haven't pushed the new package on DropBox yet, for two reasons mainly:

1) GApps are not for free, so using what's found on the Internet is a "formally" illegal thing...

2) With the full GApps included, the Android file system doesn't fin into current partitioning. So, to make the install complete succesfully, on my device I had first to re-format the NAND, allowing 500 Mb (instead of 256 Mb) to the android system partition.
I did this by using the "install3.sh" setup script (see here: https://github.com/Renesas-EMEV2/Bootloader/blob/emev-4.1/fwupd/files/install3.sh), putting it into the SD card home, renaming it to "install.sh" and then removing (renaming) "ff4" from the same dir.
This way, the flashing procedure will use the script, in place of the interactive program and will reformat the NAND.
Let it go, as it takes time... until you get a final confirmation message on screen.
Once this is done, I can provide (on request) the new package.

Fabio

[marshel]

Fabio, there are packages like Gapps Mini that take less space.

Is there a way to flash these packages via our R4 recovery?

If so, I believe that your ROM should abandon Google Apps due it´s licensing issues. ( I will be sad, but thats ok )

Google apps package are nice and play store is great but there are other alternatives that are easy to install like amazon app store, aptoide, and others.

I also Believe the system partition should be 512 or 768, as the data should be 1.5GB or 2GB and the NAND/SDCARD should be the rest of the internal memmory.

Also, there are this scripts apps2sd, link2sd, that could solve the issues with space, allowing the apks to be moved to extsd and linked after installation, but they require init.d on power on, root and partitioned external sdcard. It´s not the best solution, but is one.

Marcel

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