Is there a way to install the stock browser on the black hole ROM?

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Loving the battery life on this bloatware free ROM but I also prefer the stock browser. Chrome doesn't support flash and I'm not crazy about the display of Firefox or skyfire. Also the stock browser has an exit option. Anyway, I tried pulling the apk from the stock rom, putting it in /system/apps, setting permissions and rebooting and it didn't work. Also I tried putting it in data/apps and that didn't work either. Does anyone know why this is happening and how to get it to work? Thanks for any help:)

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Did you tap on it, click install, then reboot? Try doing your first process again then installing before reboot.

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It does not install, parser error, system apps usually do that. I'm on ICS leak 232 if that matters.

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Have you tried dolphin browser? It has an exit option by holding down back key. And it is the easiest browser to use I think.
 

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I prefer Dolphin. But usually when I have to install a system app, I set permissions, install, then reboot. Like with the Play Store. I downloaded the latest one, moved, set, install, reboot. Voila. But I guess it's different in ICS, so idk.

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It feels kinda funny trying to help an SMod. They're supposed to know everything already. ;)

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It feels kinda funny trying to help an SMod. They're supposed to know everything already. ;)

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No that's rescue squad. ;)

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Yeah, I've tried dolphin as well. I wonder if someone could make a flashable zip. I have no idea why setting permissions doesn't work. Like you said, maybe ICS is different.

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No that's rescue squad. ;)

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Oh yeah! Lol

Yeah, I've tried dolphin as well. I wonder if someone could make a flashable zip. I have no idea why setting permissions doesn't work. Like you said, maybe ICS is different.

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You might be able to have davros make a .zip for you. I'm sure he wouldn't mind.



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You might be able to have davros make a .zip for you. I'm sure he wouldn't mind.



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I sent him a pm, hopefully he can help. One thing I did notice is that on the stock ROM, every apk file in /system/apps also has an odex file. So browser.apk would have browser.odex to go along with it. For the heck of it, I tried copying over the browser.odex file as well, setting permissions and rebooting but it didn't work. I might be wrong but I'm thinking the browser.apk has to be deodexed somehow since I'm trying to install it on a deodexed ROM. Gingerbread was so much easier to work with, lol.

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I sent him a pm, hopefully he can help. One thing I did notice is that on the stock ROM, every apk file in /system/apps also has an odex file. So browser.apk would have browser.odex to go along with it. For the heck of it, I tried copying over the browser.odex file as well, setting permissions and rebooting but it didn't work. I might be wrong but I'm thinking the browser.apk has to be deodexed somehow since I'm trying to install it on a deodexed ROM. Gingerbread was so much easier to work with, lol.

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Yes it is. :) It probably does have something to do with the odex file. But, I'm no dev so I'm not really sure. I hope dav can help.

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Have you tried pulling browser from a non stock ROM that has been Deodexed?

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Not yet but I will try, hopefully that will work.

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