Hi all
My main phone is my new HTC Sensation, and I have all my regular apps installed on there (via the Android market, using my Google account).
My old phone - Rooted HTC Hero - I keep as a spare, and use only when I am travelling overseas, to put a local SIM Card into.
My question is, can I install apps on the spare phone on an ad-hoc basis, without using my regular Google account?
Ideally, downloading .apk files for Android market apps?
As it's only a spare, and mainly used for voice not data, i don't really want all the same apps as on my main phone, just some of them -things like Go SMS, JuiceDefender, etc
Also currently, the plan I have with the local SIM card I'm currently using has no data - only voice. So apart from connecting it via my laptop, I could only install apps using free wifi.
Thanks in advance!
Chikara71 said:
My question is, can I install apps on the spare phone on an ad-hoc basis, without using my regular Google account?
Ideally, downloading .apk files for Android market apps?
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No. You need to use a Google Account to download any app from the android market. You don't need to use your regular one, but you still need to use one to download the apps. So, it would make more sense to just use your regular account to do it.
You could just download the apps apk transfer them to your memory card then install via a app like astro file manager that way u would have the apps backed up on the card
Sent from my HTC Desire arcxgen rom using XDA App
Theonew said:
No. You need to use a Google Account to download any app from the android market. You don't need to use your regular one, but you still need to use one to download the apps. So, it would make more sense to just use your regular account to do it.
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Thanks... if I use my same Google account on the spare phone though, will it recognise all the apps I have downloaded to my main phone, and try to download them all again??
What about if I remove any, will it try to remove them from the main phone also?
For example - on my main phone I have maps and IM apps, but I don't want or need those on my spare phone...
Or in other words - are the apps downloaded and removed, device specific? Or syched the same between devices on the one Google account?
dtronics said:
You could just download the apps apk transfer them to your memory card then install via a app like astro file manager that way u would have the apps backed up on the card
Sent from my HTC Desire arcxgen rom using XDA App
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Thanks, but how is it possible to download the .apk files? I can't do it via the Android market...the only other way I can see, is just via searching the web for the specific files?
If i'm not wrong, you can download titanium backup...
Backup apps on 1st device and transfer them over to 2nd device
Chikara71 said:
Thanks... if I use my same Google account on the spare phone though, will it recognise all the apps I have downloaded to my main phone, and try to download them all again??
What about if I remove any, will it try to remove them from the main phone also?
For example - on my main phone I have maps and IM apps, but I don't want or need those on my spare phone...
Or in other words - are the apps downloaded and removed, device specific? Or syched the same between devices on the one Google account?
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Am not sure about what will happen to already downloaded apps but your other device will add as a new device and the apps you install from now forward will be separate. If installing from Web, you will be prompted to choose a device. In mobile, the app will be downloaded to the phone you use to download. The market can distinguish between two different devices unless they are of the same model.
Chikara71 said:
Thanks, but how is it possible to download the .apk files? I can't do it via the Android market...the only other way I can see, is just via searching the web for the specific files?
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He's saying that you download and install the apps normally to your main device, the use an app to back them up to your sd card, then you can send them to your secondary device (either via bluetooth, or send them to your pc and transfer them to your other device).
seeking Spare Phone apk
trying to download the Spare Phone apk.
Can some one please post the apk or email to me? Please?
Got no American credit card for my Google account.
Google Spare Phone apk only show many links of scam downloads.
thanks a bunch in advance
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Hi.
I have Chinese Star A5000 phone running Android 2.2.1 Froyo.
The SD card reader is broken, so I don't have external memory.
Is it possible to install .apk applications on it, and how ?
Thanks.
The market doesn't require external storage, but some apps do. You shouldn't have a problem downloading straight from the Market.
Sent from my Evo + MIUI using Tapatalk!
I'm using the Market without problem.
The app I'm trying to install is not in the Market, I only have the .apk file.
use adb from a PC & a usb cable
google install apk with adb if you dont know the code to type, you should find so good info if you read a little
good luck
psylightxplosion said:
I'm using the Market without problem.
The app I'm trying to install is not in the Market, I only have the .apk file.
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You could sideload it (install it straight from your pc). It can be done easily with this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1063073. Just make sure the drivers for your device are installed on your PC.
I've been busy for the past few days, and now finally found some time to try the program.
Thanks, it worked .
I rooted my nook tablet with the SnowballMod root and everything is working fine, but some of the apps in the android market are missing. I have tried editing the build.prop file and clearing the market data and cache to spoof the market, but it still wont work. does anybody have ANY ideas?
theres not some, more like a lot and thats normal cuz its happening to everyone. apps that dont appear on the market have to be downloaded as .apk files and then transferred to your nooks sd card i use drop box and es file explorer for this procedure
how would i do this? how close are the people to fixing this and being able to install custom roms? i need facebook.
sideloading if it is not working from market.
Tcollins412 said:
how would i do this?
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Copy the .apk to the device and select it in a file explorer program.
Tcollins412 said:
how close are the people to fixing this and being able to install custom roms?
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It's not technically broken. The market should not show you apps for which your device does not meet the requirements. That doesn't meet they don't work, but that you have to install them another way. After updating my phone to ICS, I had to sideload Tapatalk, since it is not "technically" compatible with ICS, even though it does work.
Tcollins412 said:
i need facebook.
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1) Use the web app (it's pretty good, and doesn't have any background processes)
2) Look for the thread in the App section titled "[download] Facebook, Twitter and Google+ apk"
recently my android phone automatically installs apps i dont even recognize example "enginee" and "info provider" their all apps installed when i go online either wifi or data, i dont think its the playstore, my device is not rooted
Lutzkhie_15 said:
recently my android phone automatically installs apps i dont even recognize example "enginee" and "info provider" their all apps installed when i go online either wifi or data, i dont think its the playstore, my device is not rooted
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I think they are system app and auto updated when u connect to wifi. So dont need to worry.
i dont think so, infoprovided installed again and cleanmaster says its virus
also malwarebytes finds system upgrade app as a malware
Lutzkhie_15 said:
recently my android phone automatically installs apps i dont even recognize example "enginee" and "info provider" their all apps installed when i go online either wifi or data, i dont think its the playstore, my device is not rooted
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Before you noticed the apps installed, had you installed any other apps from google play or from apk files?
I've had apps in past that showed ads and when i tried to click out of them they auto installed other apps in background.
Just out of curiosity, have you tried uninstalling them? and if yes did they come back?
And I maybe wrong on this but I think google play checks the apps on it's store for virus's, so see if the apps you mentioned are on the play store, if they are not, then it being downloaded from another source.
If thats the case, you really need to backtrack to when you first noticed them and what you had installed up to 3 or more days before you noticed them.
its not from playstore, its from a diffrent source, i uninstalled infoprovided before and return after a few days
and i found the culprit, its the FWupgradeprovider, it can install or update app without the users consent, but my device is not rooted so i cant remove it. maybe there is another way to remove it?
I recently upgraded from an Android 7 phone (Moto G5) to an Android 9 phone (Moto G7). I like to back up all of my apps that I plan on using in the future, using a backup app like ML Manager, and installing them locally with a file browser, like FX. On my new phone, there are some APK backups that I can't install from a file browser; even if I actually download them though the Google Play Store, back them up, uninstall them, and then try to install that backup on the same phone, it won't work. Not every app does this, and at first, I thought it was only paid apps that were giving me problems, so I chalked it up to DRM, but a bunch of free apps won't work, either.
I've tried alternate methods of installation, too, like using a terminal emulator (see the screenshot, using the app Manual Camera as an example), and ADB on a PC, which results in an INSTALL_FAILED_VERIFICATION_FAILURE error. I've searched for this error and followed directions, like disabling Play Protect (which I never enabled on this phone, anyway), but nothing works. Is this just how Android is now? Did something change so that it's harder to install backups? I tried all of this on my wife's phone, too, which also runs Android 9, and I got the same errors. Any help would be appreciated, because I'm out of ideas. Thanks in advance!
pedrovay2003 said:
I recently upgraded from an Android 7 phone (Moto G5) to an Android 9 phone (Moto G7). I like to back up all of my apps that I plan on using in the future, using a backup app like ML Manager, and installing them locally with a file browser, like FX. On my new phone, there are some APK backups that I can't install from a file browser; even if I actually download them though the Google Play Store, back them up, uninstall them, and then try to install that backup on the same phone, it won't work. Not every app does this, and at first, I thought it was only paid apps that were giving me problems, so I chalked it up to DRM, but a bunch of free apps won't work, either.
I've tried alternate methods of installation, too, like using a terminal emulator (see the screenshot, using the app Manual Camera as an example), and ADB on a PC, which results in an INSTALL_FAILED_VERIFICATION_FAILURE error. I've searched for this error and followed directions, like disabling Play Protect (which I never enabled on this phone, anyway), but nothing works. Is this just how Android is now? Did something change so that it's harder to install backups? I tried all of this on my wife's phone, too, which also runs Android 9, and I got the same errors. Any help would be appreciated, because I'm out of ideas. Thanks in advance!
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Some apps are different for noghat and pie Android
So there is no grantee that you can install all APK that you backed up on noghat for pie
Download them from Google
It should completely work
Make sure that you have free space on internal storage and when you wanna download them make sure that download arm/arm64 version
amirizad_7436 said:
Some apps are different for noghat and pie Android
So there is no grantee that you can install all APK that you backed up on noghat for pie
Download them from Google
It should completely work
Make sure that you have free space on internal storage and when you wanna download them make sure that download arm/arm64 version
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Yeah, downloading from the Play Store definitely works, I'm just curious as to why backing up an app downloaded from the Play Store won't install from the APK *on the exact same device.* I'm a stickler for keeping local backups of everything, but I'm more curious than anything at this point.
pedrovay2003 said:
Yeah, downloading from the Play Store definitely works, I'm just curious as to why backing up an app downloaded from the Play Store won't install from the APK *on the exact same device.* I'm a stickler for keeping local backups of everything, but I'm more curious than anything at this point.
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Well there is a another reason
That is some app install with APK
And other one install with APKS
which you should install them with SAI and have two or three file to install (even more)
And when you backup from apks apps it doesn't backup all files to install it again
But at play store it install automatically
amirizad_7436 said:
Well there is a another reason
That is some app install with APK
And other one install with APKS
which you should install them with SAI and have two or three file to install (even more)
And when you backup from apks apps it doesn't backup all files to install it again
But at play store it install automatically
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Holy crap, dude, I had NO idea that split APKs were a thing. I downloaded Split APK Installer from the Play Store, and I can make and restore local backups again. Thank you so much for the info, it was exactly what I needed!
pedrovay2003 said:
Holy crap, dude, I had NO idea that split APKs were a thing. I downloaded Split APK Installer from the Play Store, and I can make and restore local backups again. Thank you so much for the info, it was exactly what I needed!
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Happy that it helped
I hope somebody read this, I got a some specific trouble with my phone, I got a Samsung Galaxy A5, with Android 4.4.4 KitKat ( I know it's too old), I can't use Google play store anymore, so I must to look and download APK files from the web (APKpure, APKmirror, etc,). The trouble I got it's not exactly with my phone, it's with some app I downloaded from the web, the app is WaveEditor it's an audio editing app (The app is Pro Unlocked). I downloaded the file and I uploaded to virustotal.com, to know if the file had a virus, 60 antivirus told me the file is clean, so I installed in my phone and everything was alright, I use the app and any trouble, but some days after using the app I saw the info app, and I surprised myself, the app told me the space occupied was 512GB, (I couldn't taked a screenshot) it is ridiculous because of my phone got 16GB and 2GB the SD card, so after to see that I tryed to deleted the data of the app but no happens anything I tryed to uninstall the app but the phone restartg one's own. I don't open the app again. So I want to know if the app is the trouble or it's a trouble of my phone.
Go into safe mode and uninstall app. Is it set as a system Administrator?
If that fails, factory reset.
If that fails it may need to be reflashed.
Just because an app is clean when you install it doesn't prevent it from downloading its payload latter. Kitkat is vulnerable to some nasty rootkits that can worm their way out of the user partition ie Xhelper. Best to firewall block apps that don't need internet access and don't allow them to update. Karma Firewall works very well doing this.