I am looking for a way to download device apps such as the Kreyos phone app ( these are all free apps) from Google Play store and be able to get those apk's off of the phone and on to my Android tablet.
I have been using a Nexus 7 which has worked well but the last couple of devices I have purchased, Google Play will not allow me to download the apk because my Nexus 7 is not a phone. So the question is what would be the recommended pre-owned device I should get that will still allow me to download apps meant for an Android phone but still allow me to get to both Google Play and the apk when downloaded.
I realize it is probably a stupid question but I do not know if any Android phone would work like a Galaxy or only a Nexus would work. Would it have to be unlocked?
If it makes a difference, I use Verizon but if a suitable phone was not available or too expensive, I would be willing to go with a phone I could not use on Verizon but still use Google Play on.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Root the Nexus and change the build.prop to say, a Nexus 5, so the Play Store thinks it's a phone.
This article is a bit older, but explains what doing this means and how to do so. http://muzso.hu/2012/10/01/how-to-g...compatible-with-your-...-message-in-google-pl
Just plug in an appropriate newer phone for the settings.
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I travel a lot, but I want to access the US Android Market, Pay in USD, etc.
There are a lot of apps I can find on other android devices in have without issue, but don't come up on my SII or when I do find them I'm told my phone is from the wrong Country!? Google Voice not loading seems almost insulting.
I guess I can backup and restore from one device to another, but I'm thinking I'm just missing something. Why would Google make users life this hard over something so basic?
At this point I'm ready to format the phone and rebuild it, or whatever it takes to set it up as a US domiciled phone. How can I do this?
I tried flashing a new ROM, but it remembered everything afterwards.
Try the Market Enabler app. It allows you to spoof different phone models and locations.
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I tried the market app. It doesn't seem to work.
Hey guys
Since Honeycomb Android is able to restore previously purchased app (free and paid). So when you restore to stock as soon as your Android device is linked to your Google account it put back the apps on the device.
That's cool....but not all the way....
I have a Xoom and a Galaxy Nexus. Both have their specific apps on it. On my xoom it's more games, on galaxy nexus it's more on the go apps like Pulse.
If I flash a rom or return to stock, when cloud come in I get ALL apps. From the xoom and the nexus plus those purchased in the past and don't want on the device anymore.
Now my question is: Is there a way to configure google to tell my account that this apps can go on that device but not on the other one....If Android TV come in canada I guess i'll get 200 apps that i don't want on it......
If i select to not backup/restore It is gonna take time to remember all the apps i had and if i use astro to backup it Google ay will not recognize them and will not auto-update them so that's not better.
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None that 'm aware of... I agree with you though, it would be extremely useful to have control of that. Of course, the average user only has at most 1 or 2 android devices, and don't spend a lot of time changing ROMS, so the need for device specific app assignments/settings may not really be on Google's radar.
i have brought numerous apps for my mobile phone, and now have a tablet, yet a lot of the apps seem to stretch , or their is a tablet version - is there any way to use the phone licence to get the tablet version free? or do you have to buy it again?
You will have to buy new licence for each device you put an app on.
I've Rom Manager on 3 devices but I had to buy each time
If you register both devices to the same Google Play account, you can download apps you purchased before on the new device without being charged again. If that app has a separate tablet edition, then you would be forced to purchase it again. Although nothing is stopping you from running the phone version on your tablet except that it may not have as good of a UI on a tablet as the tablet edition.
I know the answer is most likely no but I figured asking won't hurt. I have a few apps from the Samsung app store and wondered if I can get them somehow to my Nexus 10. (they are paid apps not available on the Google store). I got a Tb copy of the. Apk straight from my phone but it checks the license on my Tab and fails (of course).
So can I activate Samsung apps on the Nexus 10?
Well figured I'd rather post this in the Nexus forum. Any who if you got an idea let me know.
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I know the answer is most likely no but I figured asking won't hurt. I have a few apps from the Samsung app store and wondered if I can get them somehow to my Nexus 10. (they are paid apps not available on the Google store). I got a Tb copy of the. Apk straight from my phone but it checks the license on my Tab and fails (of course).
So can I activate Samsung apps on the Nexus 10?
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I tried this once as well with a AOSP/AOKP rom and it didn't work because (1) the Samsung App Store didn't work without Samsung framework and (2) the apk didn't install as you mentioned. Hence I guess you need the Samsung framework to run it, but maybe someone with more experience can give his point of view.
It won't work unfortunately, due to not having the TouchWiz framework. If you could put a ROM on your tablet that features touchwiz then you should be able to install the app with no issues.
Oh well thanks for the answers though. Maybe it arrives on the play store some day.
Hey guys,
Long term LG user here, wanting to stick with my good ole G5 despite the age starting to show. As far as I understand, the latest official version of Android that supported the G5 was 8.0, and that's the latest my phone will let me go ofc. Now, the problem is, a bunch of apps no longer work, and Google Play is being weird even after a factory reset, so I can't find a whole bunch of apps such as BlaBlaCar, for example. Like, I know they are there... if I go on another phone they will be too (or through my PC) but if it detects LG G5, it pretends the apps don't exist. Long story short, I'm thinking some of these apps just don't work on older Android versions anymore. That being said, what would you guys suggest? There are hundreds of custom roms out there (or so it seems anyway), but which one works provenly well and offers apps from GStore (or another place, I'm good with that too if there's a reliable store) that actually work? I am a total newbie when it comes to custom roms, so far I've heard about Lineage, but really not sure about anything else. Any tips?
Hi, I would remove the play store and play services, replacing Play services with microg. Microg is an open source reimplementation of Play Services. It is very light, but it's not compatible with apps like Meet and Duo.
Instrad of the play store you can use Aurora Store, you can find it here on XDA. It is an unofficial client for the Play Store that works both with an anonymous account or with your own google account. It can also spoof the phone make and model, so you can be sure you will find all the apps. I'm using Oreo as well, and it still works perfectly with almost any app.
Edit: I tried to download BlaBlaCar on my G5 using Aurora store, it works as expected.
Ah, I see. So what you're saying is don't mess with custom roms at all? But how do I get rid of Play Services if I don't get a custom version of Android working, and to do that I probably need to unlock my phone/boot loader, right? Or do you just mean .. just... don't use Play Store and use Aurora Store instead? Tried the latter, and it definitely works. Now I just need to get rid of Play Store and all that, any recommendations on what to use to do that?
Although custom roms are great because they let you use the newest version of android, unfortunately there are some functions that are not supported, most notably the IR led to use the phone as a remote. Moreover in my opinion the LG camera app, supported only by LG roms, is the best camera app I've ever tried. You can flash TWRP or OrangeFox as recovery, and then remove the play store and play services from there. OrangeFox in particular has a specific 'app uninstall' function that makes very easy to remove apps. That is possible if you can unlock the bootloader. If your phone does not support bootloader unlocking, you can disable the play store from settings->applications or using adb command pm disable. In this case by the way I wouldn't suggest to disable play services, as there would be no way to replace them with microg.
Ah, right, thanks man! I'll give it a shot and see what I can do