[jmills8]

LOL and we now have full google services and playstore.

How

 

[Nayparm]

How

i'll have to wipe mine and do it again to note the steps. You need to root it first though.

 

[Nayparm]

UAPP

 

[ScubadudeSA]

Been using the M-2 for almost a year and simply love it! However an opportunity came up to buy a Lotoo PAW 6000 and I can't keep them both. Tough decision but the M-2 needs a new home. See my ad here https://www.avforums.co.za/index.php/topic,84968.0.html

 

[Madcat207]

Huge thanks on the root guide. Rooted with everything installed.. can't wait to get to tweaking. Abs if you do find these steps for Google, that makes you even more awesome!

 

[Nayparm]

Been using the M-2 for almost a year and simply love it! However an opportunity came up to buy a Lotoo PAW 6000 and I can't keep them both. Tough decision but the M-2 needs a new home. See my ad here https://www.avforums.co.za/index.php/topic,84968.0.html

Nah sell the 6000, I did.

 

[Nayparm]

Huge thanks on the root guide. Rooted with everything installed.. can't wait to get to tweaking. Abs if you do find these steps for Google, that makes you even more awesome!

Will do, need to wipe mine or setup another to note the steps. I might do a modified rom.

 

[Nayparm]

We can now have keylock when the screen is off. Use the following xposed module.
Set Prev/Play/Next to disabled when screen is off. Also I've mapped these 3 to android volume up/mute/down when the screen is on as I use the screen for navigating tracks.

https://dl-xda.xposed.info/modules/com.spazedog.xposed.additionsgb_v75_03be42.apk

 

[fishda30]

Thank you. Please post the steps to follow. Does Usb otg audio work with uapp?

 

[fishda30]

I was able to root my m20. How to install google play store and uapp?

 

[Nayparm]

I'll post something when I get free time guys I want to find an easier way for everyone, same as i did with rooting, i don't get much free time though. I'd hate to post a load of commandline stuff and be on here supporting it

 

[fishda30]

I'll post something when I get free time guys I want to find an easier way for everyone, same as i did with rooting, i don't get much free time though. I'd hate to post a load of commandline stuff and be on here supporting it

We'll wait for it. Does the usb audio out work?

 

[Nayparm]

Friday Treat...

Quick links for a simple install of Google Apps on the AR-M2 and M20

First off make sure you followed my rooting steps posted earlier.
You must have at least gained root and installed busybox before attempting the below.

As we don't have a custom recovery we can't flash zips from recovery.
FlashGordan saves the day (i did it command line manually first time round :/)

Install this apk
https://forum.xda-developers.com/at...02db07e2f7d&attachmentid=2366442&d=1383402896

Link to latest Google Apps (core) for Jellybean 4.3
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=23060877490001123

Save the zip to the internal sdcard (not external)

Run FlashGordan,
Click Select Zip and navigate to where you saved gapps-jb-20130821-core.zip
You can leave Safe Mode Ticked or Untick it, it will probably say it' not a valid flashable zip (just ignore it)
Tick Wipe Cache and Tick Dalvik-Cache (Don't tick Wipe/data)

Press Flash Now (even though it looks greyed out)

Off it goes, it will say when it's done and ask you to restart. FlashGordan doesn't reboot itself even though it prompts.
Just reboot as you would normally.
You will probably notice apps force closing before and after rebooting.

Now you can go into Play Store and sign in, it should log in but on an old playstore & services so will show errors here and there.
These 2 apps should automatically update. and your google play icon will change from a white bag to the triangle shape.
If it's taking it's time you can install aptoide https://aptoide.en.aptoide.com/amp and in it's settings select system apps.
It will show you google play store and services can be updated, if not then they have already updated automatically

From here you should be good to go, the first time I did this manually, Google Play wasn't showing my already paid for apps as paid. The day after it was fine though and I installed UAPP and Neutron from Playstore.

Doing it this time round it was there straight away but I guess google already had my ARM2 device listed already.

Note: don't try using FlashGordon on all sorts of zips you can stop your ARM2 working unless your confident in what you are doing.
(if you do trash it, you will need to send to me to clone the EMMC ram from a full dump I made)

I will post from time to time working zips that are benificial like Xperia Keyboard I installed.

Next posts will probably be performance tweaking, deleting /freezing unnecessary system apps (about 60%) modifying recievers to stop apps auto starting and removing all the bloat of widgets they all advertise, taking up resources.

 

[captblaze]

Friday Treat...

Quick links for a simple install of Google Apps on the AR-M2 and M20

First off make sure you followed my rooting steps posted earlier.
You must have at least gained root and installed busybox before attempting the below.

As we don't have a custom recovery we can't flash zips from recovery.
FlashGordan saves the day (i did it command line manually first time round :/)

Install this apk
https://forum.xda-developers.com/at...02db07e2f7d&attachmentid=2366442&d=1383402896

Link to latest Google Apps (core) for Jellybean 4.3
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=23060877490001123

Save the zip to the internal sdcard (not external)

Run FlashGordan,
Click Select Zip and navigate to where you saved gapps-jb-20130821-core.zip
You can leave Safe Mode Ticked or Untick it, it will probably say it' not a valid flashable zip (just ignore it)
Tick Wipe Cache and Tick Dalvik-Cache (Don't tick Wipe/data)

Press Flash Now (even though it looks greyed out)

Off it goes, it will say when it's done and ask you to restart. FlashGordan doesn't reboot itself even though it prompts.
Just reboot as you would normally.
You will probably notice apps force closing before and after rebooting.

Now you can go into Play Store and sign in, it should log in but on an old playstore & services so will show errors here and there.
These 2 apps should automatically update. and your google play icon will change from a white bag to the triangle shape.
If it's taking it's time you can install aptoide https://aptoide.en.aptoide.com/amp and in it's settings select system apps.
It will show you google play store and services can be updated, if not then they have already updated automatically

From here you should be good to go, the first time I did this manually, Google Play wasn't showing my already paid for apps as paid. The day after it was fine though and I installed UAPP and Neutron from Playstore.

Doing it this time round it was there straight away but I guess google already had my ARM2 device listed already.

Note: don't try using FlashGordon on all sorts of zips you can stop your ARM2 working unless your confident in what you are doing.
(if you do trash it, you will need to send to me to clone the EMMC ram from a full dump I made)

I will post from time to time working zips that are benificial like Xperia Keyboard I installed.

Next posts will probably be performance tweaking, deleting /freezing unnecessary system apps (about 60%) modifying recievers to stop apps auto starting and removing all the bloat of widgets they all advertise, taking up resources.

thanks

gonna sacrifice my unit in the name of science. will report back with my results

Update

SUCCESS!!!

Quick, easy and painless

Many thanks

 

[Nayparm]

thanks

gonna sacrifice my unit in the name of science. will report back with my results

Update

SUCCESS!!!

Quick, easy and painless

Many thanks

Thanks for testing, glad its working