Fail to install chrome and other apps

[MrGoodKat47]

Hi,

I have this very strange problem installing some apps, like chrome, android system webview and almost quicklyrics (in the end that worked) on my xiaomi redmi note 3 hennessy (mediatek).

Since the march updates, those apps stuck on "installing" for a while then give me an error (or keep going until reboot). Both from play store and apk package installer. I've tried more than deleting the cache: I've done complete factory resets, and even changing rom.

I tried like 7 different roms, all with the same problem (all lollipop5 miui7/8/9 though, the others don't have fingerprints support). Now I'm using epicrom.

There is a way to find out what exactly is the problem? Sometimes it gave me error 500, others 400 now just "can't install". Is there a way to force install these apps?

Edit: other than february version of chrome, last version of chrome dev seems to work... Does this make any sense?

 

[ocnbrze]

welcome to AF!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so is the phone rooted?

 

[MrGoodKat47]

Hi ocnbrze!

Yeah right now it's rooted, EpicRom has root integrated.

But I tried even official eu and official china miui, among other similar ones, and had the same problem... But now that I think about it, I may mave accepted for twrt to apply the root patch while installing

Should I try reinstalling a rom without root? Could it be a protection?

I used opengapps, are they ok?

Thanks for your attention! I find this an interesting problem anyway, could be useful to debug maybe. In case I could try other kind of roms

 

[ocnbrze]

do you have trwp recovery installed?

 

[MrGoodKat47]

Yes I do

 

[ocnbrze]

Ok, did you make a nandroid backup? Can you just restore one back?

And I see that some rooms might be aosp roms. You need to flash gaps as well.

 

[MrGoodKat47]

Unfortunately, I have no backup of the first rom

For Gapps I used OpenGapps nano 5.0

 

[Bene Robert]

Hi. I have exactly the same problem on same hardware. At the moment running original chinese latest rom with gapps sideloaded. Except google chrome or webview everything works perfect. I can install chrome by interrupting installation at 1 minute in the install proces by restarting phone. Chrome will install and appear in apps list but boot time of phone increases to 10 minutes. I read on miui forums, redmi note 2 mtk (same chipset as rmn3 mtk) that they found a workaround by editing build.prop file and adding 2 lines to it. Unfortunately i can't do that because i am not rooted :-(.and have no knowledge how to edit build.prop witjout root

 

[Bene Robert]

Found the solution on rmn2.

Quote:
Originally Posted by utlex
On (MIUI forum), user artek242 proposed workaround (which I believe comes from this thread) - disable Ahead of Time compilation, go with JIT.

Those two entries need to be inserted into build.prop file:
dalvik.vm.image-dex2oat-filter=speed
dalvik.vm.dex2oat-filter=interpret-only

Hopefully someone skilled enough (from XDA or Xiaomi/MIUI) will look further into that and try to fix dex2oat so we wouldn't need to disable AOT.
End quote

Maybe somebody rooted can try it.