So, I've switched back to a stock-based version of ICS after bit rot got the better of my CM10 runs. Simply puterformance worsened after the installation of my hundreds of apps and games.
Specifically, I'm running black star. What I know is as follows:
Games that were available--as well as apps that were available....games that I know are compatible with our device-monster Life, to name one--give us the "this app is incompatible with your device" tag on the play store when in a UCLF6 ROM, but are perfectly compatible. The apps and games install and run perfectly when side loaded, or when running a CM or other AOSP based build, and I'm able to install them from the Play Store, and update them without error.
Apps which require a up-to-date client, are virtually impossible o play with consistency, which is a issue worthy of research and fixing on its own. But it also means that I have to find APKs through many sites which may, or may not be unscrupulous.
So...why is this? I've searched the build.prop, looking for a case where the dev might have miss typed something, but I see no errors. I also remember a thread from way-back-when ago, that proved worthy of a sticky....the "change your XXX to XXX and be able to install many more apps and games" deal. I'm not sure, but I think it was a build.prop edit.
Does anyone have/remember a solution to/for this? Being as it is, XDA search either didn't like my truncated searches and methods, or read them too literally. Either way, the results either weren't there, or they were, buried on page three-thousand-two-hundred-and-forty-six-point-three-one-four, or the were invisible results under page 4 of 4 in my more specific searches, which applied a more fine-toothed comb.
I apologize for the format, as I'm typing this on my tablet, from the XDA HD app.
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Ok, I have applied the market fix. Even went as far as editing the build line. While my market has expanded, I still can't bring up torque by Ian Hawkins. If I use the web service it shows but says it is not compatible with my device /gtablet/. I even copied the APk from my phone over to my tablet, while it does load it crashes within seconds. Can anyone help me?
I have searched the forum to no avail.
What rom are You using?
rom
I'm using the factory version
Hmm.. haven't ever seen it run on that. I have only seen it running on cm7 and vegan 5.1.
Have you looked into editing your build.prop file to expand market?
I edited the build prop with the mahimahi edit from the forum.
This should be the free apk
http://megaupload.com/?d=B07WAF8Y
I definitely wanted to purchase the app to show support for the developer. But all things considered, I will check out that link. I just wish the andriod market would work properly on my device. The market just recognizes my gtablet as "phone" and constantly says the apps I look at aren't compatible. Seems like my money isn't good enough for Google.
Ive read many posts and cant find a solid solution regarding why I cannot see all the apps on the market place that would be for other phones/tabs. Also why certain games wont work on the nook... i've tried work arounds like changing the build prop to nexus , and galaxy s which just caused crashes on the nook. im running 7.1.0 rc1. any advice would help ( i want to run game loft games, etc)
The reason why we are not able to see all of the apps on the market is because the nook color was not given an imei number by b&n. This situation leaves the market guessing as to what/who your device is, and exactly what apps it should see. Unfortunately this leaves us few courses of action other than google searching "<name of app> +.apk". you'll find pretty much anything paid/free. Though I would suggest then buying any paid app you find via the markets web interface.
As far as gameloft games go, I've gotten most of them to work by finding the galaxy s or power-vr sgx installation file and matching SD files. I will admit though that it will take some fudging and messing around to get them to work properly. Again please support the developers.
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I appreciate your reply. If you mind explaining what you mean by "ower-vr sgx installation file and matching SD files. " I don't mind fudging around and getting the games to work by trial and error.
The nook's gpu is a power-vr sgx, it's just the name given to the hardware line. only some games will have the option for that particular install file. For everything else, use the galaxy S or galaxy tab version.
Almost all gamesloft games require a hefty amount of storage on your sd card. 500+ megs. you'll either find said files on the net, or download it from within the game.
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Hey folks, I have two general questions.
Ill start with the first easy question.
I would like to get the dock app that comes in the stock rom in an apk that will work with other roms. The dock I am referring to is the one that shows the weather and news and other various information in a sort of gigantic widget and you can scroll thru the different screens in the dock for different information (and at the bottom is a list of all the installed apps). And I would like all of the apks that this dock app uses as well.
I have tried just pulling out the dock.apk file out of the stock image file and sideloading it, but the problem is, it crashes the tab on bootup with every rom I have tried.
This second question is a bit more tricky because every rom has different apps they decide to include that are simply not necessary. If an app is available on the Google Market, I dont want it preinstalled with the rom, I will install it manually myself. If an app is installed that does not make use of the hardware (see the Phone apk), this app is using resources for absolutely no reason I can see and should not be included with the rom.
So, what I am looking for is, a list of all apps that normally come on a stock Google phone (in other words, apks that are included with the Android stock rom BEFORE manufacturers add their usual crap to it) that can be safely removed from all roms for the Gtab because the Gtab does not have the hardware to utilize said app (I would think anything like messaging, the phone, or the gps).
I am not looking for guesses here, I am looking for someone who knows a bit about Android and can safely determine what can be removed that is COMPLETELY useless regarding the GTab because of its hardware.
If you are still completely confused, here is a link to a website where someone has done something similar to what I am talking about with Windows. Read the paragraph or two at the top and then click a link below the paragraph based on the version of Windows you have. This will tell you services you can safely disable. I am looking for the same thing for the Gtab.
http://www.blackviper.com/wiki/Main_Page
Hey guys, so me and my best friend bought Nook Tablets yesterday after seeing all the cool things that the rooted Color could do. Weve been playing around with it, and with the help of some threads here have gotten Go Launcher and all those basic apps to work like the Amazon Store and file managers and such.
Ive also got a fun game called Zombieville USA working after many attempts. However, for some reason not every apk i try installing works, and i was wondering why that is. For example, i tried for a while to get GameBoid working so i could play GBA games. It would install, then ask me to locate a bios file, which i then downloaded and got it to recognize, but after i open the actual Rom, it would run for a second and then stop.
Other apks give parsing errors, others just dont work. My friend just successfully got Fruit Ninja to work, and thats pretty much been our achievement of the hour. Were new to android and the tablet scene for that matter, but very well acquainted with jailbroken iPod Touches.
tl;dr why cant i get every app to work? Thanks for taking the time to help
Apps that don't work
One of the reasons might be that the Nook Tablet has only a subset of the hardware the typical Android Smartphone has.
No GPS, no accelerometer, etc.
Even some of the hardware it does have, like blue tooth, has no software drivers in the stock Nook operating system.
If the application you are trying to run is dependent on one of those missing resources, it may well fail. Missing libraries might be downloadable.
Your best bet will be applications known to run on the Amazon Fire, which has a comparable feature set. Rest will be try it and see.
Alright that makes sense, thanks. Ill go look around that forum then and see what i can dig up
Am I missing something here? App is not compatible with some of your devices.
Htc Evo- check
Transformer Tablet- no check
I need to understand the developer side of this coin. I have been trying to persuade Jawbone to update their android app "Jawbone Companion" to support my tablet. I don't know, but I assume their would be a publisher option in Google Play to add or delete supported devices so that they cannot be installed on those from the Play store. For example, I had to go to the website to find the app because search shows no results on the tablet.
It's a bluetooth headset. It supports 2.1+edr. App supported on Android OS 4.0, OS 2.3 and select OS 2.2 phones. Transformer tf300 has bluetooth. It supports 3.0+edr. It has ICS and is certainly more capable than a 2.2 phone.
Sooo the only difference I see from this side is a bigger screen. I have emailed at least 3 app makers that I use frequently and they just keep saying it's not tablet supported. So do they just have to add devices to some file that cross checks with Google Play or is the code for my tablet so drastically different that they would have to write a whole new app for tablets?
A technical explanation link of the whole developer process regarding this would be nice.
Update to OP
I have found a method of downloading apk files in the Chrome browser with the APK Downloader extension. It only works with Chrome and I logged into my wife's account, did a quick search for my apps in question, then proceeded to download them to pc by making play think it was sending the apk to my wife's "supported" phone. Then I manually transferred the apks to my "unsupported" tablet where they are now running fine, no errors and no resolution problems.
I have emailed the developers of these apps and they have blown me off by saying that tablets in general are not supported, I emailed them all back telling them their apps were working fine and I didn't understand why they couldn't have allowed me to just download it the easy way.
So are they just being lazy? This just reinforces my reasoning that the phone and tablet are about the same and don't require any more coding than any other app that has problems on certain phones. Seems to me as long as the resolution is high enough and it allows auto rotation that any phone app should run on a tablet, and I don't see why they all keep telling me apps are not supported.
Until then I guess I'll just get my apps the way I described.
yap the apkdownloader would be the way i recomended to you =)
dunno why they dont support tablets
in some cases u dont have to understand them
feel lucky u find a way to make it work