Hi,
I recently migrated to Nexus devices. I have a Nexus 5 and a Nexus 7 2013 WiFi only. Recently, while I am working with my phone/tablet, the play store suddenly opens to a randon (usually Korean) app. I say Korean because the dev's website ends with'.kr' and the language looks like one of the East Asian languages (I am sorry but I cannot differentiate the very well).
I notice this happens when I am back to my home screen.
I suspected Ads and I have downloaded Ad Away and made sure I am running the most recent updates. I even installed Ad Network Detector by Lookout and even uninstalled some apps I suspected. But it still pops up.
This issue happens on both my Nexus devices. Now there is an overlap of apps but they are not exactly the same.
Please note that I am running rooted stock 4.4 and stock kernel on the Nexus 7 2013 WiFi only (Dalvik runtime) and I am running rooted stock 4.4 with custom kernel on my Nexus 5 (ART runtime). I have not updated play store manually. Everything is as is from Google. And the play store version is 4.4.22.
One last thing, yesterday, I noticed the same type of "ads" on my wife's galaxy s2 running Jelly Bam v10. There is very little overlap in terms of apps.
This is a very annoying form of ads. Anyone experienced this?
I appreciate your help.
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This weekend, I flashed the 4.2.2 factory images onto my Nexus 7 and Nexus 4 devices. I am currently in China, and I likely won't return to the States until this summer. After flashing the images, I got some pages in Chinese that I skipped through without reading, then I had to check a box and click a button. I assumed it was a terms of service agreement. After completing the initial setup, I installed my apps using a web browser on my laptop since I was installing so many on both devices. It just seemed more efficient to go through my list of apps, click install, and click on both devices.
Everything went well, and I got both devices set up the way I like, and I thought I was in good shape. Then I saw one of the developers I follow mention that he had updated his app. I hadn't been prompted to update, so I opened the Play Store. The app wasn't there. It is on my N4 and on my N7, but it isn't showing up in either Play Store app.
On the N4, I have a list of installed apps, but it is not a comprehensive list. Many, many apps are missing. On the N7 it's even worse. I just have "Categories" when I open the app. If I click on the "Installed Apps" button, I get a blank page.
I do have a VPN with a server in San Francisco, and I set it up on both devices. I can connect on the N7. Once connected, I cleared the cache and data of the Play Store and forced it closed. Then I reopened, re-accepted the terms, and let it load (all with the VPN still connected). Same thing as before. On the N4, I can't even get the VPN to connect. That might be a completely separate issue, but it's keeping me from seeing if I can get the Play Store to improve.
Anyone have any ideas about what specifically (not "you're in China") might be causing this problem or how I might be able to fix it? I have flashed many roms with complete wipes since being in China, but I'm thinking this is probably my first time flashing a complete factory image. Both factory images were downloaded from Google's developer site. I don't recall if my VPN was connected when I downloaded those files or not.
Bumping to hopefully get some help.
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On my previous Galaxy S3 with Android 4.1.2 (I can't remember the exact build), I had the new v7.x Google Maps. I had to get this replaced with another Galaxy S3 which has the current latest release build of 4.1.2, XXEMG4.
When I try to update Google Maps with Google Play, it's now only giving me version 6.14.4. I've tried uninstalling it, uninstalling the Play Store, clearing data from both apps, but I still end up with 6.14.4
If it's relevant, I have Play Store 4.3.11 and Play Services 3.2.25 (761454-36).
Is there any way to force the latest maps update through the Play store? I don't really want to install an APK directly, as it means I probably won't get the next release either.
Thanks.
Edit: My issue seems to have resolved itself with the recently released Maps update, which appeared in the Play store.
Well, i'm on 4.3 and the version from play store that i installed was v7, if you're not getting it automatically, and you're cleaning the Maps app cache, data and all and still don't get it, try installing the apk, it's not the latest version it's v7.0.0, so install it and try to update to version 7.1.0
Link: http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23032113221600616
The extracted apk is usually in Themes and Apps .
jje
It seems they pulled the update for me as well. Not that I'm complaining. I hated The New maps
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Same here, guess they have pulled the update for Galaxy S3. Guess it may have something to do with my (and of course others) complaints and feedbacks sent.
do u already have the update? play store still won't give me the v7.1.
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Seems like the problem is not really a problem, they disabled updating to v7 for devices running Android 4.1.2. Happens on my other Samsung galaxy device too. This doesn't seem to be occurring for 4.2.2 and above.
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The "rollout" delay is extremely slow to be accepted since the 16th of August that 7.1 was announced...
I am also betting on an update being pulled for some reason because I am getting all other recent Gapps updated from the Play store in the usual timely manner - 1 or 2 days post announcement maximum.
So, whoever got it at first got it, if uninstalled for any reason, will be stuck at 6.14.4 until.....
P.S: Samsung galaxy s2 here on stock JB 4.1.2
PS2: As for not updating if u install the apk, I can confirm that its not valid since I ve updated many gapps in the recent past that I couldnt wait for and got all the subsequent updates from Play on time. Latest example being Google+
That's why today, tired of digging an explanation in the Maps issue, I directly installed 7 from the XDA thread
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My issue seems to have resolved itself with the recently released Maps update, which appeared in the Play store.
Same happened here. Seems that the 7.2 update resolved the unknown issue. It came 1-2 days later after its initial release as a Play store update, over the 7.1 version which was APK installed
So. case closed
Hello XDA!
I'm in possession of two devices: The Nexus 5 w/4.4.2, and a Kindle Fire HD running CM10.2 (latest build) (Thanks Hashcode!)
When I got the n5, I also got Gplay credit, and bought some apps.
Note that the Kindle has nearly no bugs that I can notice and operates fairly smoothly under normal circumstances.
But when installing a select few of those paid apps on my Kindle, they always force close upon opening.
The weird parts are that 1. it's only two of the apps I paid for, 4 others work fine and 2. the apps that are broken are nowhere to be found within /data/app. however, they show up as installed in the Store, under the Apps tab in Settings, and even in Clean Master.
The apps currently in question are Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, and Bloons Tower Defense 5.
So is the Play Store screwing up, or are the apps trying to install themselves in the wrong place, or what?
Hello.
First of all, sorry if the thread title isn't super descriptive.
OK, so I haven't had any problems with downloading apps because of region restrictions or such until now.
Today, I discovered that Play Store wouldn't show Instagram or Swiftkey keyboard on a new GT-i9505 (totally stock) and an Xperia Z (totally stock). I can easily find the same apps in the Play Store on my rooted GT-i9300 running 5.0.2 BlissPop.
Now, since I can see both these apps on my S3, I guess that rules out my network as being the root of the issue.
EDIT: And since these are pretty popular apps as well, and the other devices that I'm trying to find these apps on are widely-used devices as well, I find it unlikely that it's a compatibility issue either.
If anybody could help me find out why I can't see certain apps on my GT-i9505 or Xperia Z, I'd really appreciate it.
Whoops... Even though I'd tried it before, after rebooting my modem and router again a couple of times, it seems the issue is resolved.
Hello. I'm currently having a problem with my work tablet as it's been installing random Chinese apps itself.
I believe the problem started occurring on Sunday when my son was downloading and installing games to play. However i deleted all the games he downloaded and though it fixed my problem but it didn't.
Factory reset and disabling google play installs didn't seem to help anything either. I tried running an virus scan with app called "Malwarebytes Security" but it picked up nothing so i'm guessing it's not an malware?
I'm currently on a work trip in Germany till 14th of December so i don't have access to my computer during the time i'm in here.
The phone model is Samsung galaxy tab s 10.5 SM-T805
I'd be very grateful for any help with my problem as i'm running out of ideas.