Greetings,
I recently purchased the Nexus 9 and have setup two different users, one for me and one for my wife. I have my account setup with my Google account and her account setup with her Google account. We both use a recipe managing app that costs money for doing our shopping. I have paid for and installed the recipe manager app on my account, but when I switch to her account and go to the Play Store it's asking me to pay for the app again.
Does android provide a way around having to pay for this app twice? I'm sure I'm missing something here.
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I got a 10.1 tab last night and it's great. I have one issue maybe you can help me with regarding the market and apps. My wife and I both have android phones and we are sharing the tablet. When I set it up and put in our email addys I went into the market and it was downloading all of the app we have on our phones. Cool feature if I'm replacing my phone, but not for a shared device that I don't need to be identical to our phones. Is there a way to not make it do this? The thought I have is to create a dummy account for both of us but then it seems like it will be weird to use gmail app and stuff like that.
Thanks!
wait what?
Are both you using the same Google Account?
No shared accounts. I put in both of our gmails under, settings then accounts. Now we can switch between the 2 accounts in the gmail app but I hate that the market downloaded each of our phone apps.
It's because there is a setting when you first ran the market or setup your gmail on the tablet. It's the option where you allow Google to download previously purchased apps off the market and because your phone uses the same account, Google assumes you want the same apps, if the app is compatible with tablet. Remember purchase can be paid or free apps. It won't sync again like that after the first time unless you decide to reformat and you don't uncheck that box again.
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I paid for and downloaded TBP (Titanium Backup Pro) from online droid market to my phone.
I was going to pay for two more installs to wife and sons phone but came across Titanium Backup Wiki's Q&A on licensing:
Q. May I use the PRO license key on several phones ?
A. Yes, as long as these phones are linked to the Google account on which you purchased the PRO license key.
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Assuming "Google account" is synonymous with "gmail account", my wife, son and I have separate ones for personal contacts, emails, etc.
So won't my contacts, emails, etc. automatically synch to their phones once I link them to my Google account for TBP download and install? And if so, is their a way to prevent this?
Thanks for any guidance.
Anyone who can provide some guidance would be much appreciated.
Also, is this an appropriate question for this type of board, and have I posted in the appropriate forum?
You can add your acount to their devices and then in settings, go to accounts, and tap your email, and de-select the sync with contacts, mails, calendar, etc...
I dont know if it works, but let us now how it goes...
I agree with sotodebonk, that's probably the way to do it. Make sure you add your account first, for example on first boot or when market asks for it, then deselect all sync for your acc and then add theirs, and make sure all syncing is on for their accs
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Android devices support multiple Google account. Login on their devices as well and you can download the app on their devices.
Just for the hell of it though, you should make a family Google Account for Market purchases.
Hello community, I am facing big issues with my main account that I use to buy my applications on Google Play. Recently I had to open a second account because Google wasn't able to process my credit card using my first account.
I've been sending emails to the creators of the applications that I bought with my main account to see if we can make a transfer of the applications to my second account, the answer was that I could get a refund within my first account so I could buy again the application from my second account.
The issue I'm facing right now is that whenever I place a purchase from my second account and I reinstall the application my smartphone will try to get the license from my first account instead of getting the license for the application from my second account on Google Play.
how can I fix this?
I've erased all trace of the applications from my first account, and yet, despite the fact that I have been getting refunds from the creators, I can't get the new license from Google play within my second account.
Help me please!
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smartphone will try to get the license from my first account
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how do you know that?
I have two Google accounts that I use on my phone. One is just used for purchases and the other is for a personal email. So my issue is I bought this app to unlock the full version under one account, the one I use for my purchases, but to do this I had to remove my personal email account. After adding that account back, the app tries to use the Google play account I just use for email and says that I need to purchase the app to unlock the full version. Anybody have any idea how to fix this without permanently removing one account?
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I have two Google accounts that I use on my phone. One is just used for purchases and the other is for a personal email. So my issue is I bought this app to unlock the full version under one account, the one I use for my purchases, but to do this I had to remove my personal email account. After adding that account back, the app tries to use the Google play account I just use for email and says that I need to purchase the app to unlock the full version. Anybody have any idea how to fix this without permanently removing one account?
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Why not just remove the email account from the phone and use the paid account for your phone, launch the Gmail app and then add the email account. That will pretty much do what you're wanting.
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After readding the account it asks me to repurchase my iap. Somehow it defaults back to the other account as the default and since I purchased it on the other account it doesn't verify that I've bought it.
So far I've viewed a few threads with similar issues, but no solutions. I've found one, but it requires root. Remove the account, buy the app, make a tib, add the account, and then restore the tib
I don't use the Gmail app anyways, but I have had some past purchases on my other account that always end up having the apps trial period expire and say I don't own the app.
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After readding the account it asks me to repurchase my iap. Somehow it defaults back to the other account as the default and since I purchased it on the other account it doesn't verify that I've bought it.
So far I've viewed a few threads with similar issues, but no solutions. I've found one, but it requires root. Remove the account, buy the app, make a tib, add the account, and then restore the tib
I don't use the Gmail app anyways, but I have had some past purchases on my other account that always end up having the apps trial period expire and say I don't own the app.
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It sounds like you need to delete both accounts, along with the purchased apps and then only add the account you buy apps pin back to the phone and reinstall your apps. You should probably clear all Play Store and Google Services Framework data.
Then if you want the email back add it in only the Gmail app.
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Yeah, but like I said I keep having issues with power amp when I do it that way since I bought that a long time ago on my old DROID on that account. It keeps defaulting back to trial. I think this case is unique since it was an iap. Every time I add that account back it gets reattached since I initially downloaded off the dummy account. When I couldn't get the account to change for the purchase, I deleted my dummy Gmail account and bought it. I guess I could just cough up money and buy power amp again lol.
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Yeah, but like I said I keep having issues with power amp when I do it that way since I bought that a long time ago on my old DROID on that account. It keeps defaulting back to trial. I think this case is unique since it was an iap. Every time I add that account back it gets reattached since I initially downloaded off the dummy account. When I couldn't get the account to change for the purchase, I deleted my dummy Gmail account and bought it. I guess I could just cough up money and buy power amp again lol.
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Well the way I understand is you are adding them both to the phone instead of just adding one to the phone and then going in Gmail and adding the email account there.
If I am wrong maybe you need to contact Google and explain the issue and see if they have a fix.
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Yeah, but what I'm saying is I need both added otherwise power amp always results back to the trial app stating they can't verify my license. Anyways, the tib method worked for me.
Hi,
So I purchased a couple in app purchases (upgraded to premium/no ads) on my phone. I used one google account, let's call it google account A. When I go to the app again, the apps ask me to purchase yet again and when I press buy it sends me to google account B. The apps (Reddit now and Muslim pro) only become premium when I remove account B from my phone. Once I re-add B, they go back to their free versions. I have tried removing both Google accounts and then signing in with A and then signing in with B and it'll become free.
I'm not sure if I'm making sense, in short the apps are paid versions if only google account A is on my phone, if both accounts are on there the apps go back to the free version.
How do I fix this? I need both accounts on my phone!
Thanks