Trying to download apps from my ad card that was in my g2. The apps (they are no longer on the market) are from 4shared. I get to the point where it says "install" I touch it but.........nothing. no blink,vibration, no sound, nothing. I re download the app for 4shared and same thing hapless? Idk what I'm missing.
I do have unknown sources checked
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Bdix said:
Trying to download apps from my ad card that was in my g2. The apps (they are no longer on the market) are from 4shared. I get to the point where it says "install" I touch it but.........nothing. no blink,vibration, no sound, nothing. I re download the app for 4shared and same thing hapless? Idk what I'm missing.
I do have unknown sources checked
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The phone does not like warez. It probably thinks that it's pirated.
Bdix said:
Trying to download apps from my ad card that was in my g2. The apps (they are no longer on the market) are from 4shared. I get to the point where it says "install" I touch it but.........nothing. no blink,vibration, no sound, nothing. I re download the app for 4shared and same thing hapless? Idk what I'm missing.
I do have unknown sources checked
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Perhaps the files are corrupted. Also, because you are downloading apps from a reasonably different phone perhaps that's the reason for it not working. Try deleting the app's data or deleting the folder it created if it did create one and re-download the app.
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The phone does not like warez. It probably thinks that it's pirated.
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lol, I support developers, I pay for my apps, some of which includ: Titanium backup premium, rom manger premium widget locket, ADW ex, System panel, swiftkey x, long list!!! these developers keep up with their software. I just hate when I pay for something and the developer has not support or does not update their software in 2 years.
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lol, I support developers, I pay for my apps, some of which includ: Titanium backup premium, rom manger premium widget locket, ADW ex, System panel, swiftkey x, long list!!! these developers keep up with their software. I just hate when I pay for something and the developer has not support or does not update their software in 2 years.
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At least it's not like LogMeIn Ignition where it costs like $30 for the app.
Remember IAMRICH app? I would not even care if someone was to share that app in the forums when it was like $100 or whatever. Stupid.
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At least it's not like LogMeIn Ignition where it costs like $30 for the app.
Remember IAMRICH app? I would not even care if someone was to share that app in the forums when it was like $100 or whatever. Stupid.
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I remember that actually $1000. LogMeIn is over rated I use Splashtop HD for my tablet (just amazing) and splashtop on my phone. I purchased both on sale 5 bucks for hd and 99 cents for regular, then a day later it was free on amazon appstore lol!!! I have gotten a lot of 15 and 10 dollar apps on amazon from their one day free app, lots of word processing apps etc.
I pay for all of my apps, but some apps are no longer on the market.
I'll try deleting the file and redoing it all.
Also, just so I don't have to start a new topic, has anyone had a problem playing music through a USB on their car stereo?
Mine says either n/a usb or no music found
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Also, just so I don't have to start a new topic, has anyone had a problem playing music through a USB on their car stereo?
Mine says either n/a usb or no music found
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I played music through my car's stereo using Audio 3.5mm jack mostly but I never used USB port and never know that we can play music using USB/charging port ..
Bdix said:
I pay for all of my apps, but some apps are no longer on the market.
I'll try deleting the file and redoing it all.
Also, just so I don't have to start a new topic, has anyone had a problem playing music through a USB on their car stereo?
Mine says either n/a usb or no music found
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I can't mount my device as an external storage either.
I think it's because there are two in the phone and I would dare say that most stereo systems only support one at a time. Maybe if you were to remove one? I haven't tried though. I always use bluetooth anyway.
Well I loaded a song on my phone instead of the SD card. I could listen to the song but I notice that it unmounts my SD card.
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Bdix said:
I pay for all of my apps, but some apps are no longer on the market.
I'll try deleting the file and redoing it all.
Also, just so I don't have to start a new topic, has anyone had a problem playing music through a USB on their car stereo?
Mine says either n/a usb or no music found
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Not sure what car u have but in mine when u plug phone into USB in my car it asks me mount or charge only I hit charge only then it asks me again I hit USB storage the 1st time it asks Is for phone memory 2nd one is sd card
Try moving a song to internal memory n see if it works
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Yea I have mine set on **** drive. Ill change it to see if it works.
I have songs on both internal and external. I can listen to internal sings no problem
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I wanna download music on the go. What's a good app for that?
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I wanna download music on the go. What's a good app for that?
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Download music from where? Are you wanting to buy songs? Stream songs? Pirated songs? BitTorrent?
Pirate
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Pirate
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Well, that's the one area I wouldn't know but you can have a look at this:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.cinderella.music&feature=search_result
Music box pro
Best in my opinion & it's free
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I wanna download music on the go. What's a good app for that?
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My God, it's not that hard to find one yourself. Just go to the Market and type in "mp3 download" and tons of nice apps that do pretty much the same thing will come up. I don't think you should ask unless you've looked and didn't find anything that worked.
I don't think jumping on him helped much here. If he is new to Android sometimes when you look for a particular type of app several pop up and you never know which one actually works best or has issues. Sometimes it's nice hearing from people that have tried apps before you download and waste time.
gtunes is pretty good
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I don't think jumping on him helped much here. If he is new to Android sometimes when you look for a particular type of app several pop up and you never know which one actually works best or has issues. Sometimes it's nice hearing from people that have tried apps before you download and waste time.
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It's just like searching Google, or anything else. It's not hard and it doesn't matter if you are "new to Android" or not I don't think. If you type 'mp3 download' (a pretty common thing you would think to type if you want to download mp3s) on the Market, I literally just now did it, the first 8 things that come up will all work fine. It's just a matter of which one you like the best. It's an opinion and everyone has their own. For example: the guy above likes Gtunes while I hate it, and use MP3 Music Download Super. You have to learn to form your own opinions...so anyways, it has nothing to do with being new to Android, you just search like you do anything else, and LEARN on your own.
Im not new to android and I did search those up, however, I have no clue what else is on their servers where they get their music. Things could be infected, that's why I asked what you guys recommend.
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Ok now that you put it that way I see your point lol.
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Im not new to android and I did search those up, however, I have no clue what else is on their servers where they get their music. Things could be infected, that's why I asked what you guys recommend.
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Ahh...yea I don't get what the whole deal is with the whole Android getting viruses and everything...they aren't like computers, and the only way something could get on your phone and do something you don't want is through installing an apk file that you give the permissions to. No file other than .apk can be twined with a "virus" and "infect" your phone....I don't know why so many people think that.
Music Junk is the best....imho
http://www.androidfreeware.net/get-music-junk.html
As we all know Amazon has a App of the day going on. This is the official thread for us to post, talk about, and broadcast these applications. How ever it can get extremely sticky. They are only free for 24hrs and since it is Amazon's choice to eat the cost for these please do not post links to any .apks, including sites to where the .apks can be found. you may only post links to the Amazon site and/or the Google Market site. I did talk to the local mod before posting this and according to them posting links to the .apks or source of .apk will be treated as warez and punished accordingly.
Mod edit: Any links anywhere outside of the OP will be removed, and if they are links to the apks or other sites hosting the apks they will be treated as warez.
as of 4/28/11 i will not longer updating this daily.
im loving the Amazon app store, so far ive gotten 3 paid apps for free. first it was world series of poker 4.99, doodle jump .99, and shazam 4.99.
kitchencop said:
im loving the Amazon app store, so far ive gotten 3 paid apps for free. first it was world series of poker 4.99, doodle jump .99, and shazam 4.99.
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Yea its awesome, can't wait to see what the future days will bring us, what a way to start it off
Anyone else have the app store working great, update the app and now it keeps asking for me to associate a credit card with my 1-click settings? Why do I need to keep my card on their servers for some hacker to compromise just to buy a free app?
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Anyone else have the app store working great, update the app and now it keeps asking for me to associate a credit card with my 1-click settings? Why do I need to keep my card on their servers for some hacker to compromise just to buy a free app?
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The reason they do that is so if you want to buy an application it the price will be applied directly to the card on file.
glad someone started this...i think i suggested this after the third or fourth day due to the inflood of free app threads (didnt start it myself because i do not have the time to maintain it)
On another note...this is the first thing i do every morning..check the free app
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glad someone started this...i think i suggested this after the third or fourth day due to the inflood of free app threads (didnt start it myself because i do not have the time to maintain it)
On another note...this is the first thing i do every morning..check the free app
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I just wanted to start it so we could have a common place to talk about the Deal of the Day. I know they'll be a massive flood of people talking about stuff. I'm going to be whoring the apps. The games i'm letting slide under the radar.
You can select install on the app of the day, let it authenticate and download, then choose not to install and it's considered purchased. Just so everyone knows. That way you can get all of the apps they offer even if they don't sound appealing or useful atm. Never know, once the day is up you'll not have that chance again...
Is there any way to receive an automatic notification of what the free app is each day? I know one of these days I'm going to forget to check...
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Is there any way to receive an automatic notification of what the free app is each day? I know one of these days I'm going to forget to check...
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The only way possible would be for you to subscribe to this thread, and when i update it should notify you.
But keep in mind i'm only doing apps, not games.
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Is there any way to receive an automatic notification of what the free app is each day? I know one of these days I'm going to forget to check...
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you could set a daily alarm for a time that is convenient for you with a note saying "check amazon for free app"
Its Angry Birds Rio again .. Hmmm but yeah I did download quite a few paid apps for free and I am enjoying this...
Zenonia 2! I already paid for it.....
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Looks like they stopped giving out free apps.
Also if you delete the Amazon App Store from your phone you will not be able to open any of the Apps you downloaded through it.
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Looks like they stopped giving out free apps.
Also if you delete the Amazon App Store from your phone you will not be able to open any of the Apps you downloaded through it.
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do you have links to your source?
Chilled26 said:
Zenonia 2! I already paid for it.....
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looks like a Zelda Knock Off, is that correct?
neidlinger said:
do you have links to your source?
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Nevermind I was wrong. I looked last night at a time when they should have had another free app up and the space was completely blank. I searched online and found a thread on another site that said they were stopping the free app a day giveaway. However I just looked and they have a new one up.
what if you download the app of the day and save it to sd card and uninstall the amazon app store...will the app/game still play after cause its now on ur sdcard...
So is this not being updated or what?
BTW, Today's free app is PhotoVault.
GazaIan said:
So is this not being updated or what?
BTW, Today's free app is PhotoVault.
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Anyone is allowed to add to the list.... just make sure links go back to Amazon or the Android Web Market.
I found this app on another forum. It's nice because they post a handful of premium apps you can legally get for free.
GetJar
I came across it in my search to find a way to browse Rootzwiki w/o going through my browser. Rootzwiki now wants you to pay for their app and I don't want to spend even just a few dollars for the one thread I'm temporarily watching. Anyways, someone posted that you can get Tapatalk for free through GetJar. Many of you are already using Tapatalk but for those that don't know it allows you to browse and favorite hundreds of various forums. I never had the need for TappaTalk before and would have gotten it, but it's nice now that I could find it for free.
So through your phone's browser, you need to go to the http://www.getjar.com. Download their .apk and install.
Anyways, Beautiful Widgets is also on there for free and you can browse some of the other premium apps they'll find and post.
Nice find. Will head over there and check it out.
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Free is always good..works very well
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Downloaded and installed. I just found a couple apps for free that i paid for on the market lol. Oh well. I have been trying out some of the other apps on it. Thanks for the tip!
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I snagged a few of the Gold apps a week or so back, including Tapatalk, and haven't had any issues with any of them. About once a month, I tend to install their market, check to see if they've added any good ones, then uninstall the market again. Unlike Amazon, you don't have to have it installed to have the apps.
Very nice find I payed for a few of these paid apps lol thanks.
U can also get free apps threw 4 shared there is a YouTube video on how too
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U can also get free apps threw 4 shared there is a YouTube video on how too
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Yes you can but isn't 4 shared cracked apps? I had some at first when I did not know better. Then deleted via root explorer and bought it through the market.
This getjar seems more legit and legal I hope.
Where did you find the apk file? Thanks.
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Where did you find the apk file? Thanks.
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You need to go to the website getjar.com and download the app first. I hope you are not asking about the 4 shared apk files. Warning I believe they are cracked apps on 4 shared unless someone corrects me?
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You need to go to the website getjar.com and download the app first. I hope you are not asking about the 4 shared apk files. Warning I believe they are cracked apps on 4 shared unless someone corrects me?
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I dont know what 4 shared means, and i dont see an apk for dnld at getjar.com. guess nook is not recognized. Thanks.
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Not if you are downloading free ones. Nothing to crack. You can find old versions of apps if you don't like the update in market. Sometimes updated get rid of exploits
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Does this app register the downloads with the Android Market? Or is this app similar to the Amazon App that gives away apps for free each day but in order to re-download them you have to have their app installed.
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Does this app register the downloads with the Android Market? Or is this app similar to the Amazon App that gives away apps for free each day but in order to re-download them you have to have their app installed.
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They don't. GetJar has their own market, so any updating would need to be done through it.
I do believe 4shared is not legal do not use it! Let's be moral and support our devs. We should also probably not continue speaking of it for the sake of the thread.
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I do believe 4shared is not legal do not use it! Let's be moral and support our devs. We should also probably not continue speaking of it for the sake of the thread.
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For the record, I was referring to GetJar, which is legal. I don't condone the use of illegal apps, via 4shared/wherever.
It wasn't aimed at you or anyone really, I just kept seeing it mentioned. No worries.
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With the getjar, I heard people started having ads popping up when it was installed. Is this true? Is that why people install it to get the app then uninstall it?
BTW, even though they are free (I see things like Fruit Ninja FREE, etc), are these still add-supported apps? Or, is the free Fruit Ninja and Angry Birds add-free?
Thanks!
Maybe that's how they support putting paid apps for free on their website. The adds pay for the apps.
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I will say that I've had ONE ad randomly appear in my notification bar (saying I'd won an iPhone/iPad/etc), but a friend (on a different network, on a different, non-rooted/modified phone) that I know for a fact has no apps from Get Jar installed got the same thing an hour or two before me (he even called to ask me about it, since I'm his "android guy" lol). Still not sure what caused that.
(Sorry about all the stuff in parenthesis)
I've searched for days whether anyone else had experienced this problem regarding play store but couldn't find proper solution!
The problem is, whenever i download large apps from play store (say, 50+ MB), the download suddenly stops. the play store app says its downloading but not a single byte is being downloaded. And the other problem is, i cannot resume downloads. What can i do to fix it?
I thought this would have occurred coz of flashing excessive ROMs so i flashed back to stock but even this didn't solve this problem! this is very frustrating as i am trying to download an app ( of about 800+ MB) for days but couldn't finish downloading it! any suggestion would be appreciable! T
AmG77 said:
I've searched for days whether anyone else had experienced this problem regarding play store but couldn't find proper solution!
The problem is, whenever i download large apps from play store (say, 50+ MB), the download suddenly stops. the play store app says its downloading but not a single byte is being downloaded. And the other problem is, i cannot resume downloads. What can i do to fix it?
I thought this would have occurred coz of flashing excessive ROMs so i flashed back to stock but even this didn't solve this problem! this is very frustrating as i am trying to download an app ( of about 800+ MB) for days but couldn't finish downloading it! any suggestion would be appreciable! T
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Its yo internet dude
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But my brother doesn't have any problem i mentioned. He owns a xperia x8. We use the same internet connection. Are you sure its my internet??
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What Device are you on? Are you trying to Download over WiFi, or Network? If it's over WiFi , have you checked your settings? Does it happen on all Roms?
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What Device are you on? Are you trying to Download over WiFi, or Network? If it's over WiFi , have you checked your settings? Does it happen on all Roms?
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I have a xperia x10. I am trying to download over WiFi. And what settings are you talking about?? Yea this happens over every rom.
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I have a xperia x10. I am trying to download over WiFi. And what settings are you talking about?? Yea this happens over every rom.
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Menu-Settings-WiFi-Menu-Advanced. Make sure it's not set to time out after a while. Also make sure that you actually are connecting to the router, with permission. I know that my router here at home you connect to it, and see it. But you cannot actually use it till you enter the password.
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AmG77 said:
I've searched for days whether anyone else had experienced this problem regarding play store but couldn't find proper solution!
The problem is, whenever i download large apps from play store (say, 50+ MB), the download suddenly stops. the play store app says its downloading but not a single byte is being downloaded. And the other problem is, i cannot resume downloads. What can i do to fix it?
I thought this would have occurred coz of flashing excessive ROMs so i flashed back to stock but even this didn't solve this problem! this is very frustrating as i am trying to download an app ( of about 800+ MB) for days but couldn't finish downloading it! any suggestion would be appreciable! T
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Do you have enough free space (free memory) in your phone?
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Do you have enough free space (free memory) in your phone?
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Yea i do. The app downloads but stops downloading after certain time. It gets stuck ( let's say at 70%)
The "downloading" notification on the notification bar also gets stuck. I have to restart my phone to remove it.
P.S. Sorry for late reply.
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Menu-Settings-WiFi-Menu-Advanced. Make sure it's not set to time out after a while. Also make sure that you actually are connecting to the router, with permission. I know that my router here at home you connect to it, and see it. But you cannot actually use it till you enter the password.
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Checked everything. Everything set like you mentioned.
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If the available space in the folder /cache on your phone storage is smaller than 50MB, then you can't download apps larger than 50MB coz /cache is the place to save temporary app files you download from google play. But you can try Java-based Real APK Leecher on your PC to download large apks directly from the store.
Are you on the latest version of the Play Store?
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Kou Dou said:
If the available space in the folder /cache on your phone storage is smaller than 50MB, then you can't download apps larger than 50MB coz /cache is the place to save temporary app files you download from google play. But you can try Java-based Real APK Leecher on your PC to download large apks directly from the store.
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I guess this is my problem. Coz my phone storage is low; which means /cache is of low storage too right??
Edit: is there any way i can download apps straight from play store to my sd card without using play store.??
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Are you on the latest version of the Play Store?
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Yes i am!
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AmG77 said:
I guess this is my problem. Coz my phone storage is low; which means /cache is of low storage too right??
Edit: is there any way i can download apps straight from play store to my sd card without using play store.??
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That's the point. The most important defect of android is that the manufacturers paid too much attention on how to adapt the OS for various devices and ignored the actual user experience. As for your question, I searched around and get no answer.
Yet I can give you two suggestions:
1. Download apps from some third-party app download sites which allow you to get apks and bypass play store.
http://www.tipsotricks.com/2012/07/top-10-sites-to-download-free-android-apps.html
Pick up one in this link.
2. Repartition your phone storage. I'm not sure about how to do it coz I haven't tried that before. But I know there are many idle space in other partition like /system which you will never use. So, distribute them wisely.
Good luck!
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That's the point. The most important defect of android is that the manufacturers paid too much attention on how to adapt the OS for various devices and ignored the actual user experience. As for your question, I searched around and get no answer.
Yet I can give you two suggestions:
1. Download apps from some third-party app download sites which allow you to get apks and bypass play store.
http://www.tipsotricks.com/2012/07/top-10-sites-to-download-free-android-apps.html
Pick up one in this link.
2. Repartition your phone storage. I'm not sure about how to do it coz I haven't tried that before. But I know there are many idle space in other partition like /system which you will never use. So, distribute them wisely.
Good luck!
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I really appreciate your research! Thanks a lot! I'll check out the link you gave and also searchhow to re-partion my storage! Thanks a lot again!!
Edit: downloading apps from third party sources won't let me update via playstore so any suggestions on how to stay upto date??
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AmG77 said:
I really appreciate your research! Thanks a lot! I'll check out the link you gave and also searchhow to re-partion my storage! Thanks a lot again!!
Edit: downloading apps from third party sources won't let me update via playstore so any suggestions on how to stay upto date??
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You're welcome.
You can download not only the apks, but the client of those third-party markets. For instance, here's a link introducing 1mobile.com's client: http://www.1mobile.com/app/market/?cid=9
Directly download link: http://f.1mobile.com/mobile_software/channel/1MobileMarket_c.apk
It's similar to play store and may notify you if there's an update of one of your installed apps. Try app clients made by various websites repeatedly to find out the best.
Also, try some android PC suites which let you to update android apps via PC.
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You're welcome.
You can download not only the apks, but the client of those third-party markets. For instance, here's a link introducing 1mobile.com's client: http://www.1mobile.com/app/market/?cid=9
Directly download link: http://f.1mobile.com/mobile_software/channel/1MobileMarket_c.apk
It's similar to play store and may notify you if there's an update of one of your installed apps. Try app clients made by various websites repeatedly to find out the best.
Also, try some android PC suites which let you to update android apps via PC.
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Thanks a lot brother!! :beer:
I'll check it out right now!
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Hi guys,
I'm having problem getting music that I downloaded from play store to show up on walkman.
I tried a suggestion from a post I found on google, opt to download music to external sd card. I can actually find the file I downloaded from play store on sd card under android/com.google.android.music/files/music, but it just won't show up on walkman's library.
Does anyone have an idea about what might be wrong? Thanks!
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Its hidden, under a .nomedia file, only play music can see it.
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Its hidden, under a .nomedia file, only play music can see it.
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Oh.. Does that mean if I delete the .nomedia file in the folder the walkman will work?
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Oh.. Does that mean if I delete the .nomedia file in the folder the walkman will work?
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Well it's hidden so you shouldn't be able to delete it. You could potentially delete it by using a file manager but it could cause issues with play music. Also play music doesn't download the files with conventional file names. The metadata is not stored with the song so in any other music app such as Walkman all the music will look completely wrong such as wrong title album, art etc.
nintendolinky said:
Well it's hidden so you shouldn't be able to delete it. You could potentially delete it by using a file manager but it could cause issues with play music. Also play music doesn't download the files with conventional file names. The metadata is not stored with the song so in any other music app such as Walkman all the music will look completely wrong such as wrong title album, art etc.
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I found it with file manager...after deleting it I'm still not seeing that song... Oh well. I guess I won't buy any song from play store again. Thanks for the help!
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jeremy.shi said:
I found it with file manager...after deleting it I'm still not seeing that song... Oh well. I guess I won't buy any song from play store again. Thanks for the help!
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You can try Play Music Exporter if you have root.
If you have root then use GMusicFS
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Just download the song to your pc and then drag it into the music folder on the Z2. Walkman will then see it.
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Thanks guys! Unfortunately my phone is not rooted and I'm not really willing to do that.
And, yes, I know I can just download it from a computer and put it on my phone, but I don't understand why would Google want to make things complicated like that. It's just really annoying! Just switched from an iPhone to Xperia not long ago. I must say I really miss 'everything just works' on my iPhone.
Yes the limited features of an iPhone do just work. The same features just work on Android. What you're requiring is user preference. Just use play music its a great app especially when used with all access
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Yes the limited features of an iPhone do just work. The same features just work on Android. What you're requiring is user preference. Just use play music its a great app especially when used with all access
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Actually, I'm not just referring to this. There have been a lot of problems with the phone since I got it. Luckily, there is no gap or anything physical like some other people are experiencing with their phones.
The screen is way too sensitive, hovering my fingers on the screen can even be registered as a touch. it was annoying at the beginning but now I'm getting used to it.
I got the Australian version of Xperia Z2. While a lot of countries have already got updated to 17.1.1, mine is still sitting at 17.1. I had to backup the phone and then flash the German firmware myself. I could not understand why don't Sony just simply release the update worldwide at once and everyone will be happy!
I backed up the phone via Sony companion. However, when I tried to restore all my contents...Guess what? First try, it stuck in the middle and progress indicator did not move for hours. Second time, I had to untick the 'others' to let it at least finish the restore, which means all my app data could not be restored. Even after that, it still couldn't get the job done properly. After the restore was finished, the app was telling me my contacts and settings cannot be restored. Third time, messages restore was successful, but settings and messages cannot be restored...the funny thing is, messages were successfully restored during the second time, but failed in the third time...I just...grrrrrrrr! Finally I gave up and decided to set up every thing on my phone manually after wasting my whole day on this. (If you know any backup app that works well, please let me know. the Sony one is absolutely pathetic!)
Also, I cannot seem to get the MP4 files to play properly on my phone, they have no sound for whatever reason.
While I enjoy the active noise cancelling without dragging an extra brick around, I don't really think I will get another Sony or any android phone when I upgrade next time.
To be fair, it was just you being inpatient that started that ball rolling. The ota won't be long, and then all the backup restore problems wouldn't be needed. I never backup anything, I just set it up again when needed, mostly it is in the cloud anyways. Not sure about the mp4s, everything thrown at it so far has been fine
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To be fair, it was just you being inpatient that started that ball rolling. The ota won't be long, and then all the backup restore problems wouldn't be needed. I never backup anything, I just set it up again when needed, mostly it is in the cloud anyways. Not sure about the mp4s, everything thrown at it so far has been fine
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Yes I was inpatient, because I thought the new update would fix the screen issue and it did. The Australian version wasn't even getting the .69 update, so I assumed this one would take a long time to get released as well.
Even without this whole update thing, I would still want a functional backup/restore system in place. The reason why I would want to backup my phone is that I like carrying all the app data to my new phone or keeping data when I have to restore the phone for whatever reason. Google's app data sync doesn't work for me at all. It doesn't seem to restore anything but reinstalling app I installed before. All my progress in games, messages in whatsapp and viber are all gone.
My friend had the same problem with his account not syncing with Google also, he lost his contacts every time he flashed. I've never had that problem with android ever. It might be worth looking into why it's not working, it's android/google not Sony tho. I always used titanium backup, but I'm not looking to root this phone, just because it already works exactly as I want straight out the box, from battery life to battery%. Have a look on google play, there will be other backup solutions that may work better for you.
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Yea I tried some of them and none of those seem to work like the iTunes. Oh well.. I will just live with it for now.
Btw, under google account it says app data is being synced...hopefully it's actually working now.
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