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Reinstalling Vending.apk (Market) on Android By Radu Motisan Posted on November 8th, 2010 , 3517 Views (Rate 3.79)

For some reason I am unable to find the Market app after the last ROM Upgrade (on rooted G1 Android ).

To fix this I needed the vending.apk file, which is the installer for the Android Market. You can find it easily over the Internet.

You can't install the Market app as a regular android apk (adb install vending.apk), instead you will need to copy it to /system/app on the device, and do a restart.

Step 1. Make the /system partition writable . See this article on how to remount, or do the following:
d:\>adb shell
# mount
(note: you will see a list of partitions, locate the /system one)
# mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3
(note: mtdblock3 is /system on my device)
# chmod 777 /system

Step 2. Copy the Vendink.apk
d:\>adb push vendink.apk /system/app/

Step 3. Reboot
d:\> adb shell
# reboot

It's easy. And here is the Market app back on my Android:

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November 8th, 2010 | Tags: Android, market, reinstall, vending.apk | Category: Android, Software |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL

7 Responses to “Reinstalling Vending.apk (Market) on Android”

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   Luis V:
   December 6th, 2010 at 2:12 am

   im trying to follow ur steps on how to install market into the phone, but im lost, my problem is that i rooted my phone, then i used a rom to make it look kool but now my market is gone and so is rom manager which i need to change my roms. so i dont know what to do, im using the sprint htc hero, pls if u get this i can use some help. thx

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   Radu Motisan:
   December 7th, 2010 at 12:56 pm

   Hi Luis, Did you try my suggestion above?

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   Roelf Renkema:
   December 17th, 2010 at 11:42 am

   If your rooted your phone just copy the darn apk.

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   Dani:
   December 26th, 2010 at 1:37 pm

   hey thanks for your time to make this!
   only i have question (im a noob, so bare with me) when i do -o rw,remount etc. command it responds with permision deniend!

   info
   -temprooted with visionary
   -bugybox installed

   what am i missing?
   thanks

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   Chris Olstrom:
   January 23rd, 2011 at 7:08 am

   Re: Dani

   It sounds like you don’t have root permissions. Try typing ‘su’ beforehand. Your prompt should look like ‘#’ if you have root, or ‘$’ if you do not.

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   wahyudiansyah:
   May 16th, 2011 at 11:55 am

   http://download-apk.blogspot.com/2011/05/download-vendingapk-free.html

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   Bogaz Uygulamaları:
   March 29th, 2012 at 1:06 am

   Thank you bro. It’s useful for me. I’m gonna use it with my Android phone.

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