Hi guys
So a while back in March I got a new phone from Virgin (Canada). It's a Motorola Razr V (XT885). And a few months later I found out that I can't simply download .apks from the net, and transfer them to my phone via microsd. Even Motorola themselves told me this via email.
I browsed around, and I found this site. And I rooted the phone, and I was able to get apps like Plants vs Zombies, Runtastic Pro, and Vector Pro running all without a hitch. Then I think I unrooted my phone, and now I can't figure out how to get apks to install properly anymore.
I plug my phone into the computer and all that shows is what's on my MicroSD, music, camera. Apps can't be run from the MicroSD. I've tried a bunch but for example, Plants VS Zombies 2 says "This download is paused because you may not have purchased this app".
So I'm just wondering what am I doing wrong? This is really bugging me.
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ShadowSoldier said:
Hi guys
So a while back in March I got a new phone from Virgin (Canada). It's a Motorola Razr V (XT885). And a few months later I found out that I can't simply download .apks from the net, and transfer them to my phone via microsd. Even Motorola themselves told me this via email.
I browsed around, and I found this site. And I rooted the phone, and I was able to get apps like Plants vs Zombies, Runtastic Pro, and Vector Pro running all without a hitch. Then I think I unrooted my phone, and now I can't figure out how to get apks to install properly anymore.
I plug my phone into the computer and all that shows is what's on my MicroSD, music, camera. Apps can't be run from the MicroSD. I've tried a bunch but for example, Plants VS Zombies 2 says "This download is paused because you may not have purchased this app".
So I'm just wondering what am I doing wrong? This is really bugging me.
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Are you login same google account?
Some apps check with the server while downloading and throw the purchase error..
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Are you login same google account?
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Same account I've always used.
I had apps like Runtastic Pro and all that running no problem. But then for some reason I unrooted my phone, and now I can't figure out how to get any of the apps to work again.
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I am trying to figure out the best way to transfer apps from my rooted Captivate to the Atrix. Titanium backup would be the natural choice, but it only works on a rooted phone which the Atrix isn't, at least for now. I could go to the android web page https://market.android.com/ and tell it to download each app separately. But I am wondering if there is a non rooted backup/restore app that will let me selectively backup/restore?? I say selectively because I do not want to restore those apps that require a rooted phone.
Then there is the question of the market place which saves your downloaded app list linked to your gmail account. I do not want market place to remember those apps I don't want on the Atrix. So the question is how do you instruct the market place to "forget" installed apps? The only way I know of would be to install ALL the apps via either a backup program or thru the web client, then de-install those from the phone I don't want which would then wipe them out from market place account so they will not keep re-appearing in my app list.
I should have my Atrix in my hands this Monday!
I would too like to know this. Thanks to anyone who knows the answer!
Try AppMonster.....there's a pro version as well
I would suggest App Brain personally...That's what I've been using during my time with my EVO.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.appspot.swisscodemonkeys.apps&feature=search_result
App brain, a trackdog, and appbak
Captivate 2.2.1 Paragon
Actually, AppBrain and all those "add-on Markets" won't work with the Atrix out of the box. AT&T disallowed sideloading and that counts apps like that.
On the plus side, the Atrix has already been rooted (read the first topic in the Dev section of the Atrix forum)...so it lets you do anything you want.
Check the Atrix dev sub forum - They have root!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=960336
GREAT
OK looks like we are going to have our Atrix rooted and Titanium backup working but there is still the problem of the market links. There is some reference to market links in Titanium backup but not sure if that works to enable updates and there's still the issue of un-installed not wanted apps getting unregistered with market place. I had lost some apps and reinstalled with Titanium backup and I am not sure if I regained the market links or not. I am certainly not complaining and expect to spend many hours setting up the phone...thats part of the fun. Until a solution appears the best way to handle this may be to install the apps separately from the market place or via the web. I will try other programs others have suggested and post a solution here if found.
You can still sideload via ADB - so if you have the APK file it is simple to side load many.
How do you extract your own apk's? Been wondering this for a while now
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You can use adb to pull them off your phone...
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I'm coming from an Evo so not familiar with this sideloading business - is there a primer someplace?
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hotleadsingerguy said:
Actually, AppBrain and all those "add-on Markets" won't work with the Atrix out of the box. AT&T disallowed sideloading and that counts apps like that.
On the plus side, the Atrix has already been rooted (read the first topic in the Dev section of the Atrix forum)...so it lets you do anything you want.
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App brain only side loads? I though by synching my account, it would allow me to re download all applications from the market that is how it checks for upgrades anyway.
I use.app brain to actually check for updates to apparently o had installed through Titanium, apparently that do NOT have market links.
Captivate 2.2.1 Paragon
MyAppList
The free program MyAppList will make a text file of all the apps installed on your phone. I am going to un-install any apps i do not want installed on the Atrix. Then print out MyAppList. Then go to the market place on my Captivate and goto "my apps" so that the market updates what I do and do not have on the phone. When the Atrix arrives, I will register with my same email. Then on the Atrix i will go to the market place so it will update the installed list. Then I will go market place on the PC and install all of my listed apps, checking off each one on MyAppList as I go. The advantages are I will be sure to get all the apps, there will be no question as to what is or is not installed, the Atrix will automatically install the apps and the apps will get updates thru the market. I have 397 apps installed on the phone, maybe 225 of them are 3rd party apps so it may take a couple of hours to download and install them all but since the Atrix runs so quickly it may go a lot faster.
My Captivate is maxed out. I have a lot of widgets running and am constantly running out of memory. And then there is the lag problem which gets worse when you are running out of memory. With 1 gig of ram there is plently of memory with room to spare. This is going to be a very welcomed upgrade.
I am wondering exactly when the phones will arrive at the AT&T store. Are there Sunday deliveries? Monday is Presidents Day. I am going to the store tomorrow (Sunday) to see if they arrived and see if they will give it to me.....
First of all, my Photon is rooted and I used a couple of the updates from the photon android development forums.
It is getting to where there are just too many market apps that I can not download. Some come up as not compatable (while I'm 100% sure they are compatable) and others just straight up don't show. It gets real interesting when I go to the android market on the web and try to get the apps.
The android market thinks that I have 2 Moto photons. One of the 2 photons, it will in fact allow me to send some of these incompatable apps to and the one that google SEES me on is "not compatable". I guess the market thinks my phone became a new phone when I did one of the updates. But yet this new photon is not compatable with many apps.
I was using my Acer Iconia tab to help me get some of these apps to my Photon, especially some of the ones I purchased. But now, I have 2 Iconia tabs too (even though the second one is again, the same device.)
Is there anything I can do? I loved Android since the day it came out. But it's getting to where I almost don't want it. I need an outlet to get apps but I don't want to ask people to upload apks. I know about the amazon market but not every app is there.
Is this a brand based problem? Cause though I love the Photon, I would switch in a minute if this wasn't the case. But it's also happening on my Iconia tab and it's happening more and more and one thing I just won't do is start asking if anyone has apks.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
OK, this will take me a minute (if you want a real explantion, or just skip to bottom where I talk about App Brain). I am sorta like you, I'm well over 100 Apps and use SPB 3D Shell to keep them orgainzed.
As for usage:
My Music
My Radio
Pandora
YouTube
Work Adobe
Work Excel
Work PPP
Adobe (Work, IBM, Personal)
10 years of tax returns
Military Documents
Collget transcripts
High School Documents
Stocks
Investments...............
I use my phones and like to keep them tight. I had and Evo and co-worker turned me on to App Brain.When I got Photon, I was in your position. I went to Market and more or less, installed everything I got individually.
You Sync App Brain, and when you get new phone, like I just did, tell it to put it all back (You still have to go to SPB 3D Shell and orgainze it, but it give you a start!)
Want more protection? Root it and get Titaniaum Backup, paid version!!! Backup all your crap each monday at 3:00AM (you know my schedule now), hook the phone up to computer as HD and move backup to your computer or USB drive (its not small!). If something ever happens to your phone, get titaniaum from market and use THAT backup to restore. The good thing about the paid version, not only will it put your app's back, it puts them back with the last configuration!!! Done!!!
Thank you for responding. But I do not believe that this helps. I already use Titanium Backup of course. But App Brain is just a market browser that still ultimately takes you to the market to download apps does it not? And the market will still list them as incompatable.
This is not going to let me download new versions of, for example, Swiftkey X, LCD Density, and even the ChaCha app. I would have to go find a friend who has a phone that's listed as compatible (even though the Photon IS compatible) and then back it up and transfer it. This makes for licensing problems for apps that I have purchased and I'm certain are compatable.
Because I can get many apps but there are many that I can not get, there is something that many developers do that apparently makes it compable with SOME Motorola Photons as far as the market goes. This is why I could easily download Titanium Backup but I can not download SwiftKey X which I paid for even though it IS compatable.
Can anybody help? I need a way to get apps that are compatible to the photon like swiftkey x onto my photon and the ability to keep them UPDATED. What I do not want is a way to keep them backed up, I already have that. I will switch phone brands if I need to but I absolutely require a phone or a fix for this phone on which this problem does not exist. Otherwise, it's useless to me as apps are updated often sometimes and I want those updates without running onto the net and asking people to please post an apk. Please reply if you have a solution. I am going to scream if I see that banner that says this app is not compatable with your phone again when market.android.com will send it to my older photon (which does not exist by the way. The market just recognizes my photon as a second photon after an update I did from the developer forums). Grrr, don't even want my photon now that the droid razor is out.
have you tried going into manage applications and clearing the data and cache from market. I had some problems with apps that were bought on both amazon and google and this allowed the apps to update from google.
Yes. I have cleared data from the market under manage applications. This does not do it. There are still apps that the android market refuses to let me install. Any such apps do not have an install or download button. Instead, there is just that banner on the very top that says "Your device is not compatible with this item." for many apps ever since I installed one of the updates and since then, I have 2 Photons listed when I look online. One of them, the android market will send these "incompatible apps" to and the other, it won't. Unfortunately, the device that android market will send the apps to is the same device as the one that the market sees as incompatible. It's like after one of the updates, the market reregistered my phone as a different phone. Same thing happened with my Iconia tab.
Does anybody have any ideas?
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Does anybody have any ideas?
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You try going online and deleting the phones from your google account then log back into the app market and download a simple app so it can register
I've tried. As far as I know, you can't delete devices from your account on the market. You can only hide them from showing up on the menus. But yes, I've done that. It doesn't help.
never mind, i see now'
So is there anything that can be done?
First of all what ROM are you on, what mods(build.prop), and have you wiped google services data?
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found this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1388070
balinger16 said:
found this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1388070
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Oh thank you thank you thank you! (and thank clicked as well!) It was awesome of you to find that. Just to reiterate in case somebody else finds themselves having the same problem, to reiterate so it might come up in a google search for someone:
If you have a Motorola Photon (or many other phones), and over time, you notice that something isn't right with the market and some apps that you always ran are suddenly not compatible any more and perhaps the Android market sees you having several phones, if you changed your screen density with a program such as LCD Density Changer, the android market now will see you coming in with a different phone. For example, according to the Android market, I have a Moto Photon with a density of 240 and a Moto Photon with a density of 280. Perhaps because of the criteria that some app makers chose, some of their apps (like Messagease for instance) may be compatible with a Photon with a density of 240 but not a Photon with the density of 280 (even though they do in fact work just fine).
So, the solution is this. Change your density if you like. But, to get those programs that may become "incompatible", switch the density back to the way that it was out of the box.
Thank you very much for finding this information! It helped a lot!
Glad to help
Hey All:
Bought PvZ during today's sale on my Nexus S. Play Store claims that it's not compatible with my Tablet S (though the thread in this forum claims that it is). Canadian Tab running American ICS 4.0.3 rooted with Condi.
I've used Titanium Backup on my Nexus, and tried to restore that backup on my Tablet, and also tried to extract the APK and install. No luck so far. PvZ downloads the additional 80mb, restarts, shows an hourglass, and then goes back to menu before the PopCap logo (no FC notification).
Can anybody help me get this running on my tablet? Thanks!
--Databoy2k
I've been seeing this BS more and more that certain devices are banned from getting updates and others aren't. I have a few different devices on difference version of Android and what i've found myself doing is backing up the apps on a supported device using appmonster free and then uploading it to my dropbox and installing it on the "unsupported" device
Hello all
I bought the Xperia Z Ultra a few days ago, and it's a brilliant phone. I reset it earlier due to the screen not responding very well. I have re-installed my apps, but the Xperia Privilege app is having problems. I had an activation code that came with the phone, which I used when I first set it up. I downloaded the free movies that the code allowed me to have, but now that I have reset the phone, I cannot re-download the movies or play them. They appear in the account as purchased films, and they are listed in the movies app, but cannot be played. My phone is completely stock and has not been rooted or modded in any way.
I sorted it, and it was easier than it appeared to be. I simply had to uninstall/remove each movie in turn, then re-install them, one by one. It took a while to re-install them, as they can only be downloaded via wifi, and my wifi is a lot slower than my 3g (my wifi is 3mbps at best, and my 3g is between 10 and 20mbps). Still, they have been re-installed and they are all working well now.
Do you have a link to the Privilege Movies APK? I just got the redemption coupon but Play days that the app isn't available to download in my country
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I haven't used any apk's as I have never rooted my phone. You may need to search for an ip spoofing app, such as hidemyass, to trick the Google servers into thinking your device is located elsewhere. It's not my area of expertise unfortunately.
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Good morning gents.
Rooted my wifes Kindle Fire HDX and installed superSU, other than the slight modification to disable the pesky lockscreen ads nothing else has been done to it.
Prior to the christmas update for Line Pop and Line Dozer, the games would work, first launch would say that because the device was rooted i would need to confirm if i would let the game monitor for cheat tools, which is fine with me so clicking ok would result in the game working perfectly fine.
Line Pop and Line Dozer have received christmas updates and this is where the problem starts, both games update just fine and launch just fine but on the loading screens they hang and give a connection failed error, from my brief investigations it seems that Naver have implemented a new apk security check to make sure the apk has not been tampered with but other than that ive no idea why theyre currently not working.
The APK's for the latest versions were downloaded through the 1Market store front, but even if i uninstall and use the APK from google play store i get the same issues.
Anyone willing to test these two games on their rooted kindle and confirm if they have the same issues?
Or someone with an unrooted 7" HDX see if the game works without root? As i imagine the entire suite of naver games are going to stop working for the kindle hdx when they get around to updating them to this new security routine.
Ironically, the latest updates work fine on my rooted galaxy s4 SC-04E.
Thanks!
You could try voodoo ota root keeper or something similar to to get rid of root temporarily to test on your own...
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_Alex_ said:
You could try voodoo ota root keeper or something similar to to get rid of root temporarily to test on your own...
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Yeah ive tried a couple root hiders, doesnt seem to help, not sure if the root-hiders are at fault or if the games are just litterally, broken for kindle now.
naoneo said:
Yeah ive tried a couple root hiders, doesnt seem to help, not sure if the root-hiders are at fault or if the games are just litterally, broken for kindle now.
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Do the apps come from the Google Play Store? If so, particularly if they have in-app purchase options, you will have issues unless your google account is added & framework is installed. Even then, sometimes you will have connection issues, but usually repeated starting will eventually connect & launch.