Hi!
I have a couple of devices (f.ex. Harmony Link from Logitech) which needs an Android app which is only available in the US play store.
I found a link however, which directed me directly to the app in Play Store, where I could download the app.
I've also downloaded it through the APK-extension in chrome with my user and ID.
If I now want to share this app (which is marked as "private" on the phone), will it contain any of my information?
I mean the APK which I got from play store after using the APK-extension.
Also - can I rename the APK-file without causing any installing issues?
The APK doesn't contain any personal information. Anything that the app stores is most likely in the relevant folder in /data.
You can call the APK whatever you like. The app information won't be changed if you do that, so it will still install with its correct name.
Thanks!
Will I be violating anything on this forum if I share a free app?
Better to ask an admin or heads of these website.
I think you can share as long as you keep the credits. But i am not sure about it.
Hope i helped .
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Market believes that the free app AutomateIt is not compatible with my Nook, despite the fact that I'm running Froyo. I tried modifying the build prop but it still won't work. Could one of you post the apk for me, assuming that's not a no-no?
EDIT: This thread may be deleted. I figured out how to use the backup function in Astro's application manager to get a copy of the apk file off my un-rooted phone.
TJNooker said:
Market believes that the free app AutomateIt is not compatible with my Nook, despite the fact that I'm running Froyo. I tried modifying the build prop but it still won't work. Could one of you post the apk for me, assuming that's not a no-no?
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You might try using Appbrain's direct installer?
I tried doing that with fast web install through app brain. All it did was add the app to my list of apps to be installed on my device. I still had to hit install from within the app on my Nook. When did that, the install hangs for about 20secs and then quits.
I also tried direct installing it from the android market through the web browser. It refuses because it thinks my device is incompatible with the app.
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Does anybody have the apk for this app? Or would someone be willing to download it from the market and then attach it here? I edited the post title to clarify.
I was installing free apk's yesterday in CF-rooted Galaxy S3. Some I download directly from the Play Store in my device and some I get from the XDA forums (ike SuperSU), transfer it to the device and install the apk from there. With the first few programs, Google Play easily detects that it is INSTALLED but after I installed many programs it isn't able to detect them. Usually a status of "INSTALLED" is seen in Play Store or play.google.com (in the PC) for installed apps or games. But now there are some apps that aren't detected by it.
Also, the ones that are detected by google play but are non-updated (not latest version) have "INSTALLED" status instead of the usual "UPDATE".
What could be the issue here?
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I was installing free apk's yesterday in CF-rooted Galaxy S3. Some I download directly from the Play Store in my device and some I get from the XDA forums (ike SuperSU), transfer it to the device and install the apk from there. With the first few programs, Google Play easily detects that it is INSTALLED but after I installed many programs it isn't able to detect them. Usually a status of "INSTALLED" is seen in Play Store or play.google.com (in the PC) for installed apps or games. But now there are some apps that aren't detected by it.
Also, the ones that are detected by google play but are non-updated (not latest version) have "INSTALLED" status instead of the usual "UPDATE".
What could be the issue here?
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You can try using Market Doctor in Titanium Backup to see if it fixes it, otherwise they might not install with the right license for the Play Store in which case you generally have to keep getting them from where you get them, or buy from the market if you want it to update.
Market Doctor will only repair broken links, if it's not licensed to your account you can't do anything to update them with the store other than buying that way.
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You can try using Market Doctor in Titanium Backup to see if it fixes it, otherwise they might not install with the right license for the Play Store in which case you generally have to keep getting them from where you get them, or buy from the market if you want it to update.
Market Doctor will only repair broken links, if it's not licensed to your account you can't do anything to update them with the store other than buying that way.
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Ok. Well but why are the other apps detected properly even though I install them by their apk files?
BUMP!
Anyone? How can I use Market Doctor?
Try clear google play data in application manager 1st
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You can use market doctor by using Titanium and looking throug it's operations (afaik you need the paid version)
Free apps can be linked to the market, paid apps cannot.
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Arsaw said:
Try clear google play data in application manager 1st
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Didn't work
d4fseeker said:
You can use market doctor by using Titanium and looking throug it's operations (afaik you need the paid version)
Free apps can be linked to the market, paid apps cannot.
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Well, for example Mobile Odin is a paid app in the Market but I can get it free here at XDA as others have mentioned. Before, when I installed it it was linked right away to the Market as "Installed".
Oh by the way, when I search ALL my apps at Google Play Store in the S3 (not in the PC) it detects them as "installed", no problem with that BUT when I go to "My Apps", some aren't listed there and there goes my problem?
Just tried using Market Doctor of Titanium Backup and it found 26 recoverable links. I then went to Google Play Store and downloaded a free app to "refresh" the my apps list but unfortunately this whole process didn't work. So what else can I do then?
Btw, even free apps that I sideloaded aren't showing in the my apps list but are shown as installed when I search them in the store.
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Can anyone really help me here? This is getting very annoying. I did everything I could think of but to no avail. Please guys, I need your help here
How can I download apps from Google Play as apk files? I use custom ROM on my mobile phone, so I can not login into Play, so it is very important for me.
You can obviously only download free apps since you can't log in, but here's just one method that Google turned up...
http://www.howtogeek.com/140239/how-to-download-apk-files-android-apps-from-google-play/
There's plenty of stuff on teh interwebz about this. Google is your friend
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You can obviously only download free apps since you can't log in, but here's just one method that Google turned up...
http://www.howtogeek.com/140239/how-to-download-apk-files-android-apps-from-google-play/
There's plenty of stuff on teh interwebz about this. Google is your friend
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I have tried this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3D4K4itxvO4#! But it is not working, error message:
error:cannot download this app
403 Forbidden
A custom ROM shouldn't stop you from accessing the Play Store.
You should have been directed to install a GAPPs zip if it didn't have them in the ROM package.
Far fewer people would use custom ROMs if you couldn't do this.
Just use a third party site like apk mania or something. Only legal stuff of course
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I have tried this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3D4K4itxvO4#! But it is not working, error message:
error:cannot download this app
403 Forbidden
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I think you have entered the android ID wrong
Android Device ID,
there are a couple of options available to
you. If you’re using a phone, bring up
your dialer and call *#*#8255#*#* . Scroll
down through the data that is shown and
beneath the JID entry which lists your
email address, you’ll find your Device ID
in hexadecimal format.Enter
the 16 characters that appear after
‘android-‘
It works. :beer:
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Or what you could so is Google the name of the app? Then find the apk. But make sure the versions are the same
I'm actually interested as well. Tell me if you are successful
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Hi xda, first post there. Someone know where is storing apk files of apps I had bought from GP?
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Hi xda, first post there. Someone know where is storing apk files of apps I had bought from GP?
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Hi, your paid Google Play Apps are saved on your Google Accout so you can reinstall them everytime you want, of course on a new Phone too if logg in with your Google Account.
If you want to download the APK files to your Computer you have to root your phone and save the apps with titanium backup as far as i know.
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Hi xda, first post there. Someone know where is storing apk files of apps I had bought from GP?
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Hi, I've never downloaded paid apps but all the apks of apps I downloaded from the play store are in the /system/app/ directory. I'm not sure if you need root access to get there. Hope this helps.
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Hi, your paid Google Play Apps are saved on your Google Accout so you can reinstall them everytime you want, of course on a new Phone too if logg in with your Google Account.
If you want to download the APK files to your Computer you have to root your phone and save the apps with titanium backup as far as i know.
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Hello,
Yes you need to be root to able to get aPKs from phone. Android tools, with adb, will helped. Just rembemr, APK you bougth is not yours, its illegal to give them to somebody else or try to reverse engenering them.
JHelp
Not /system/app as this is read only rather /data/app for many apps
Most paid apps go to
/data/app-asec
Unless you are running some real old android versions
And just so you know there is some trickery needed to copy them from here but being its not cool to do so and if distributed its called warez, I'm not going to explain how if that's what youre after
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I use root browser, I can copy my apks from /system/app
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Of course you can, you're rooted. I believe the op was curious where apps go when downloaded from play store and I was just saying that none of them go to /system/anything as this is 'normally' a read only partition. They go straight to /data/app most of the time and paid mostly goes to /data/app-asec
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Why is it that when downloading any apk from an unknown source (I do this for pro versions & apps not in Play Store) that those which are in Play Store I can't seem to update knowing that there is an update. In fact it won't show in the installed tab, you have to search the app and it won't say install (Open & Uninstall). I need to know how to make it possible to download pro apps for free but then update it and make it legit to the Play Store so that I can keep my apps up-to-date.
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Why is it that when downloading any apk from an unknown source (I do this for pro versions & apps not in Play Store) that those which are in Play Store I can't seem to update knowing that there is an update. In fact it won't show in the installed tab, you have to search the app and it won't say install (Open & Uninstall). I need to know how to make it possible to download pro apps for free but then update it and make it legit to the Play Store so that I can keep my apps up-to-date.
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Really? If you want the pro version I've heard you can pay for it and they'll update the app for you.
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I don't want to pay. That's the thing. Downloading off the net has free paid apps. But why can't I update those apps via play store
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Try another android market like Aptoide
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pinpopm5 said:
Why is it that when downloading any apk from an unknown source (I do this for pro versions & apps not in Play Store) that those which are in Play Store I can't seem to update knowing that there is an update. In fact it won't show in the installed tab, you have to search the app and it won't say install (Open & Uninstall). I need to know how to make it possible to download pro apps for free but then update it and make it legit to the Play Store so that I can keep my apps up-to-date.
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Because you didn't pay for it. Just because you have a paid app that you did not pay for on your phone, does not give you the right to download the legitimate copy from the play store. Either pay for the app or live with it.
It is against xda rules to discuss this. Read them!
Oh. But some crackers can do it I guess.
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6. Do not post or request warez.
If a piece of software requires you to pay to use it, then pay for it. We do not accept warez nor do we permit members to request, post, promote or describe ways in which warez, cracks, serial codes or other means of avoiding payment, can be obtained or used. This is a site of developers, i.e. the sort of people who create such software. When you cheat a software developer, you cheat us as a community.
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Enough said. Thread closed.