Removed Google Maps

[Guest Christian Jensen]

Hi,

I followed a guide on how to update the Google Maps on my phone the other day. I did however find a guide that kinda took me a bit in the wrong direction.

I have rebooted to Clockwork recovery and removed Maps.apk and Streetview.apk and rebooted back to normal mode where I tried to install the maps. Then tried to install them using adb shell commands, through the market. Tried to extract it from the modaco image present on my phone and then copy pushing it back on the system partition just have something working but none of this worked.

I then read in another forum that I should have uninstalled it using Titanium Backup before deleting it from the system backup.

I have rebooted a billion times now and tried formatting the cache partition and do all sorts of steps in different ways but nothing works.

Reading around it appears that some data is left on the phone that makes the phone deny the package as it sees it's already present in some sort of internal database. I can't get past this and I would very much like to avoid putting a new ROM on top of the one I have now.

Does anyone have any advice on how to get an updatable Google Maps application on my phone ?

/C

[Guest bpivk]

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I had a similar problem with removing maps. First use the same rom that you have on your device (the one you've flashed) and then copy the files you've deleted to the same directory where you've removed it from (I guess it was /system/app). That should at least recover the old maps back. Then search this forum for "update maps" and you'll find a few topics with great instructions that will help you update it.

[Guest Christian Jensen]

I had a similar problem with removing maps. First use the same rom that you have on your device (the one you've flashed) and then copy the files you've deleted to the same directory where you've removed it from (I guess it was /system/app). That should at least recover the old maps back. Then search this forum for "update maps" and you'll find a few topics with great instructions that will help you update it.

I think I've already tried this without much success but I will give it a go once more and see what happens.

Thanks

/C

[Guest bpivk]

I think I've already tried this without much success but I will give it a go once more and see what happens.

Thanks

/C

You could try freezing the app (via Titanium Backup) when you get it to run and then removing it from /system/app

But check the forum a little because there were some posts from people that successfully updated their maps. My only experience with Maps was with removing the blasted thing from my phone. ;)