easy step to install Gapps

Eldon_Solorio

@jonas7782 said:
maybe it can help to install Gapps (play store) on Emteria.OS

you need :

usb stick format fat32

first :

download gapps here : http://opengapps.org/
i used ARM 7.1 Pico. its the smalest version of gapps, it only install play store.
Put the .zip file you just download on your usb stick.

second :
start the Pi3 with Emteria.OS, when it's start plug your usb.
open the usb via the upper side of you screen.
press a long time on the gapps.zip file and copy past to Download folder.
eject your usb.

third :
Use the Shutdown preinstalled app and go to RECOVERY.
in the recovery menu , use "install" an go to the download folder. select your gapps.zip file.
and clic on install from zip.
select reboot after install.
wait and

enjoy play store 😉

Thanks for sharing us its really helpful. :-)

alezz

Hi to all,
as for today the Recovery menu of the latest Emteria for RPI4 doesn't have the "Install" option anymore.
Please, can someone give me some advice on what to do to install GApps?
Thanks a lot!

ZoSo

@alezz said:
Hi to all,
as for today the Recovery menu of the latest Emteria for RPI4 doesn't have the "Install" option anymore.
Please, can someone give me some advice on what to do to install GApps?
Thanks a lot!

(Below comments are regarding a Raspberry Pi 4b, with a physical keyboard + mouse)

Same..

I have successfully used ADB over "Ethernet" (although, it's really WiFi), but I am unable to sideload any zip files. I can do a normal adb install of an .apk, but to sideload you need to be in the recovery menu, when you enter that menu, you can no longer connect/talk to the Pi through ADB (I have tried Wifi, Direct USB connection and Ethernet cable)

Note: I am using Platform Tools R32.0.0 and Emteria v11.30, issuing ADB commands over an elevated privilege terminal in W11.

I really don't understand why it is this difficult to install GApps. I know Emteria support won't tell us a thing, because of the legal issues of supporting the GApps module.

In other words, we need someone outside of Emteria to lay this out. Is there a custom recovery available for Emteria that will get around these limitations? Or what version of Emteria should I install so I can actually do something with GApps?

If I can't install GApps, I can't do anything that I need to with this OS.

EDIT:

Emteria support revealed to me that TWRP is still present on the OS, it's just not set as the default recovery module to load.

It's not totally clear what they mean, but this is what support told me

"You would have to switch the names of these two files (ramdisk-recovery.uimg / ramdisk-recovery.uimg.twrp), and boot into recovery mode. TWRP should then be activated."

I'm not sure if they mean there are two files and you swap the names, or if they just mean to rename ramdisk-recovery.uimg to ramdisk-recovery.uimg.twrp

I'll try it soon and report back.

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