New method available to install Google Play and Services without requiring rooting or flashing.
This should work, provided your PC/Windows has connected to your Neptune Pine and installed the drivers. Pine not connecting via your PC? Try this first
Instructions:
- Download to your PC: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yx1509kcvt2jgjk/Gapps-Sideloader.zip
- Unzip
- Connect your Pine in “Connect to PC” usb mode.
- Double-Click on Gapps-Sideloader.bat
- Enjoy. Reboot option suggested. If you don’t, you will have to reboot manually.
How about installing google play using a mac? or rooting it using a mac? am I the only one?
It’s possible on macs. Takes some understanding of Terminal on the Mac. The main problem is most/many Android users are also PC users.
I can’t get the usb driver to work on my windows xp or windows 8 machine. very frustrating.
Yeah, its a very odd thing. There is a post on here about forcing googles adb drivers, might want to give that a shot. Some people have reported success when you switch to Mass Storage mode instead of Connect to PC..
It was worth a try. I tried “Mass Storage mode” and windows did find drivers for the neptune but the rooting windows application did not find it.
Doing this on a Mac or Linux box would be fairly straight forward. Just modify the GApps-Sideloader.bat file to be bash friendly and use the appropriate version of adb for your OS. Easier yet, open the bat file and run each command from the terminal individually. I can confirm it works on both OS X and Linux (Ubuntu).
Ok. It worked this time. I tried this before but the “adb remount” failed last time.
thanks.
Here is a bash script that does pretty much the same thing as the batch script. It assumes dab is on your path, but other than that, should run on both Mac and Linux.
#!/bin/bash
echo “Remounting system.”
adb remount
echo “Pushing Gapps to system.”
sleep 2
adb push ./system/app /system/app
sleep 2
echo “Fixing permissions.”
sleep 2
adb shell chmod -R 0644 /system/app/*.*
echo “Rebooting…”
sleep 2
adb reboot
echo “Thank you for using Gapps Sideloader for Neptune Pine.”
perfect -thanks a lot – now my pine has playstore
Pine not connecting via your PC? Try this first, the link directs to a could not find page, do you have a correct link?
Sorry, fixed the link. http://neptuneninja.com/windows-driver-troubleshooting/
What is the difference of sideloading the Google apps and installing the Google apps one after another manually from Google Play?
Using the sideloading script is easier and more complete, basically.
how to put moto 360 and other watch faces on neptune pine home screen.. i have used uccw to use analog clock widgets on home screen.. but how to get facer app watch face on neptune pine.. thank u
Facer is made for Android Wear, not possible.