Google Maps 4.3 Fix for Droid Froyo Users

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Instructions…

*Note 1* – If you don’t have Terminal Emulator, download it from the market.
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1. Open Terminal Emulator and type in the follow commands:

For JRummy ROMs:
su
mountsys
rm system/app/Maps.apk
cd system/bin
sh pm uninstall com.google.android.apps.maps
unmountsys

For all other ROMs:
su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 dev/block/mtdblock4 system
busybox rm system/app/Maps.apk
cd system/bin
sh pm uninstall com.google.android.apps.maps
cd ..
cd ..
mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 dev/block/mtdblock4 system
sync
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2. You can now attempt to install the Google Maps update.
3. If it fails the first time, just cancel the download and try again. If it fails again, reboot and try.
4. Done!


source: Google Maps 4.3 Fix for Droid Froyo Users | Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog

Nevermind I did the one for ALL ROMS and it worked fine it allowed me to re-install maps from the Market and i didn't even have to reboot.

Thank you!

 

[furbearingmammal]

Thanks for posting. Less than ten minutes in and I got it working fine -- with a brief layover in Make a Nandroid Backup Land -- using the instructions for "all other roms". "Stock" FRF57 with Black Glass theme.

 

[Johnly]

FYI, I got the update pushed today on froyo without doing any of that : ) I just installed the update normally.

 

[jefbystereo]

RW-1, thanks for the tip about omitting the busybox text from the line. That really confused me. Got it installed now

 

[lilhill]

Should be llike this:

For all other ROMs:
su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 dev/block/mtdblock4 system
busybox rm system/app/Maps.apk
cd system/bin
sh pm uninstall com.google.android.apps.maps
cd ..
cd ..
mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 dev/block/mtdblock4 system
sync
2. You can now attempt to install the Google Maps update.
3. If it fails the first time, just cancel the download and try again. If it fails again, reboot and try.
4. Done!

OK, I've followed all of this exactly, and

sh pm uninstall com.google.android.apps.maps

still fails no matter what

I get failure right there as well. Trying to figure out a workaround.

Reboot and try again! That did it for me...

 

[alm0614]

mine says no busybox found..any fix?

 

[kristoff125]

ignore the busybox line since you don't hate it?

 

[furbearingmammal]

Install busybox installer from the market and then install busybox and then try it again.

Or just leave busybox out of the input text when you try it again like Kristoff125 said.

 

[fantastictee]

awesome, worked like a charm.

Froyo Kangerade V1.1

 

[fantastictee]

Thanks , this worked like a charm.

Froyo Kangerade V1.1

 

[alm0614]

Worked great, just skipped the busybox line, I am just running the straight Froyo leak, no ROM...

 

[RW-1]

RW-1, thanks for the tip about omitting the busybox text from the line. That really confused me. Got it installed now

You're welcome!

We got hookbill installed and running 4.3 too.

And now ...

For those fully fed up with command lines, P3 has made an update.zip for those of you who are inclined to do it that way:

Easy Fix for Froyo Google Maps Update Problem

Ignore the posts about it not working, he re-uploaded, and it should be working now.

 

[Vulcan1600]

RW-1, thanks for the tip about omitting the busybox text from the line. That really confused me. Got it installed now

You're welcome!

We got hookbill installed and running 4.3 too.

And now ...

For those fully fed up with command lines, P3 has made an update.zip for those of you who are inclined to do it that way:

Easy Fix for Froyo Google Maps Update Problem

Ignore the posts about it not working, he re-uploaded, and it should be working now.

If you could get something working for Hookbill, anyone can do it then.

I was able to do the terminal emulator method and worked great. Glad P3 got an update.zip for us now too. That should really help out Froyo users still having issues.

Does anyone know if the next Maps update (whenever that happens) will automatically update or will we be going through the same hoops again?

 

[compywiz]

BB 0.2.1 - First try no problem, only read the first post and swapped your mount cmds for sysrw and ro.

Thanks a lot man.

 

[RW-1]

Vulcan ... Hehehe ... I just told hooky that if I could do it thru terminal emulator, that he had no excuse at that point.

I hope the update.zip works for everyone who tries it, glad to have found it this morning for you guys.

Good question on future updates, but we may just have the official froyo before that occurs. None the less, if we removed and updated the packages.xml so that it now updates in 2.2, I would tend to think that we would/should be good for the next one...

My other related thought is what if you have an app and you don't want to update it? How to mark it so it doesn't sit in downloads flagging you to manually update?
That could be a new thing to code into gingerbread perhaps?