Just a quick question before i bite the bullet and get the HTC Hero. What happens if you change your phone to another android phone and you want to re download the apps you paid for on the Android market? Can you download them mulitple times once you have paid for them? I am specifically talking about Copilot but this would obviously apply to other paid apps.
I think, as long as you use the same Google log in then you should get access to the apps. They are tied to your Google account, not your handset.
Free apps are not remembered, but paid ones are in My Downloads in the Market app.
You can even delete/un-install paid apps to save space and then re-download them at another time or onto another device, as long as you use the same Google login.
(just checked the help pages in Market)
With respect to CoPilot, I could not reactivate it on my Hero until ALK had deactivated the licence on their servers. A quick email to support sorted this out.
http://support.alk.eu.com/cgi-bin/alk.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=959&p_created=1246798400&p_sid=c1MzUFGj&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9OSw5JnBfcHJvZHM9MTg5LDE5MyZwX2NhdHM9MCZwX3B2PTIuMTkzJnBfY3Y9JnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li=&p_topview=1
Regards,
Dave
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Hi everyone,
New to the forum... My Hero's on it's way so I've been reading about rooting, etc, on this great forum I found . Never had an HTC before so not sure I really know what rooting is, but I'll soon give it a go and bust the phone or end up being able to do bluetooth file transfer!
Now to my question! I have my email all through my own domain, but run by/hosted by Google using google apps.
So I use a Googlemail webmail interface to collect my emails, but access it through mail.mydomain.com and get emails to [email protected] . My calendar works similarly.
Will this work with all the built in functionality of the Hero that ties in to Gmail accounts? Do I need to do a hack to do this, or will it work out of the box?
Thanks,
James
I use apps for domains too. Works perfectly except for buying software from the Market - had to open another account for that annoyingly.
Well, I've just recieved my Hero, and under my Google account, I entered my Google apps details, eg,
[email protected] and my relevant password. No luck It didn't recognise it. Off to do a bit of googling on the subject now, but any help on how to get it to sync with a Google Apps for Domains account greatly appreciated...
I can definitely guarantee you that it works. I use my domain with Google Apps for Domains, and the only thing that didn't work was paid apps on the market - even then, it knew that this was because I had an apps account and it asked me for a "normal" gmail account and would allow me to buy apps.
I suggest a full reset may be in order.
Regards,
Dave
Cheers
I just tried a hard reset and this time it worked when I entered the details as I booted up
Not sure if it's relevant but this is the "brown" HTV Hero from www.mobiles.co.uk
Loving the phone so far, really pleased it works with domains as that would have been a deal breaker!
Did I understand right, that the Hero asked for a normal gMail-Account in addition to the gApps-Account, if you want to buy software from the marketplace?
Or do I have to completely change to a normal gMail-Account if I want to buy something?
I'd like to keep my gApps-Account and have no problem to open an additinal gMail-Acc just for Marketplace.
meatmaker said:
Did I understand right, that the Hero asked for a normal gMail-Account in addition to the gApps-Account, if you want to buy software from the marketplace?
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Yes, this is correct. You still sign into the market using your gApps-Account, but you can't link a credit card to that account in the Market. In this case, all it does is asks you to authenticate yourself with a regular gMail account when checking out - all your apps are still linked in the Market to your regular gApps account.
Regards,
Dave
Hy,
I can buy apps from Android Market on a PC and push it to my phone but I cannot directly pay on my SGS2.
I have already try several times and try to clear datas of Market app.
History :
I use a google app account (ie a google account but not finishing by gmail.com)
First setting with an operator stock ROM
Then flash to XXKG1 and set the phone with my email
Connect my google app account on checkout
Now I cannot buy on my phone but I can on PC and that can cause problem when I try to purchase some tegra games.
Warning it may be due to the fact that I use a google app.
Do anyone knows a workaround solution to transfer app from a google account to another? To add false devises on the web android market?
Thanks for help.and warning to user of google app acvounts.
After moving from XXKG1 to WWKH3 with full wipe, market is OK
After going on on restauring my datas, Android market still does not allow me to buy apps.
I have made a factory reset and installed step by step. The problem was on restaurong the accouts with Titanium backup. It seems it generate some problems with Android market at least for me!
I got a 10.1 tab last night and it's great. I have one issue maybe you can help me with regarding the market and apps. My wife and I both have android phones and we are sharing the tablet. When I set it up and put in our email addys I went into the market and it was downloading all of the app we have on our phones. Cool feature if I'm replacing my phone, but not for a shared device that I don't need to be identical to our phones. Is there a way to not make it do this? The thought I have is to create a dummy account for both of us but then it seems like it will be weird to use gmail app and stuff like that.
Thanks!
wait what?
Are both you using the same Google Account?
No shared accounts. I put in both of our gmails under, settings then accounts. Now we can switch between the 2 accounts in the gmail app but I hate that the market downloaded each of our phone apps.
It's because there is a setting when you first ran the market or setup your gmail on the tablet. It's the option where you allow Google to download previously purchased apps off the market and because your phone uses the same account, Google assumes you want the same apps, if the app is compatible with tablet. Remember purchase can be paid or free apps. It won't sync again like that after the first time unless you decide to reformat and you don't uncheck that box again.
Hello,
When I initially set up my Captivate, I accidentally set my work email account as my primary account. Thus, all of my installs during that time have been associated with that account. I'd like to switch my apps to my personal account. I'm slowly working through my paid apps, buying and getting refunds to switch those over. Now, I want to fix up my free apps.
Today, I tried to uninstall/reinstall my free apps to make the switch but it didn't seem to work for many of the apps despite all of the effort involved to give it a try. I have Titanium Backup with a Pro key. Is there any way to use that or something else to relink my *free* apps to a different account without uninstall/reinstall?
Thanks,
Craig
Maybe the advice in this thread will help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=909864
Unfortunately, I don't think that will help. I tried to relink with Titanium yesterday through the obvious options, but it never prompted me for which market account to use. I don't know if it is maybe using the default Google account?
Don't know if this will work but I read it here.
1. Download Root Explorer from Android Market
2. Explore to /data/system/ and find this file : accounts.db
3. Delete that file (accounts.db)
4. Reboot your Android device.
5. Walla…you can register another account
I actually found another way to handle this. It turns out that the mapping is held in a SQLite database at:
/dbdata/databases/com.android.vending/market_assets.db
There is a column there that maps to the Google account. I was able to pull that file off my phone, alter it with a bit of SQL and put it back in place on the device. This fixed most of the applications. There are still some that I'm having trouble getting control over (a couple Google apps and one paid app that I have paid for on both accounts). However, that cleaned up pretty much everything.
After I did all of this, I did find a setting in Titanium to control the market account. It *may* have been possible to use that to do the same thing. I didn't try it, so I can't say.
Craig
Hi,
So I purchased a couple in app purchases (upgraded to premium/no ads) on my phone. I used one google account, let's call it google account A. When I go to the app again, the apps ask me to purchase yet again and when I press buy it sends me to google account B. The apps (Reddit now and Muslim pro) only become premium when I remove account B from my phone. Once I re-add B, they go back to their free versions. I have tried removing both Google accounts and then signing in with A and then signing in with B and it'll become free.
I'm not sure if I'm making sense, in short the apps are paid versions if only google account A is on my phone, if both accounts are on there the apps go back to the free version.
How do I fix this? I need both accounts on my phone!
Thanks