[Q] In app purchases not staying on phone - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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

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Cannot access Market :: Google Hosted Apps Email account

Finally google has kicked in, now it doesnt allow people without gmail email address to access the market place. Probably this is due to updates that it brought arround to provide paid apps.
Why should one need to be google binded to use free andorid apps available on market place? For me as of now I cannot access the market place. It says i need to have gmail account. Where as I am using google hosted domain app services and using primary email as [email protected]
Any work arround?
Use gmail as secondary account....
Its googles market and google makes the terms. If you cant accept them, dont use it then. there is plenty of other ways to get apps
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Could you kindly suggest "plenty of other methods", I am dead stuck with dead market, no updates
Just Google it...
Irony as its best
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..::Viny::.. said:
Finally google has kicked in, now it doesnt allow people without gmail email address to access the market place. Probably this is due to updates that it brought arround to provide paid apps.
Why should one need to be google binded to use free andorid apps available on market place? For me as of now I cannot access the market place. It says i need to have gmail account. Where as I am using google hosted domain app services and using primary email as [email protected]
Any work arround?
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All Google apps accounts are being "upgraded" so that you can use them for things like Reader, Blogger, Youtube and of course Market.
If you are the apps administrator then you will have been sent am email by Google offering you the option of an early upgrade unless you have opted out of mailings!
If not, then sit tight and it will be with you soon. Failing that, just set up a secondary Google account for Market.
I am applied for transition, i hope this solves the issue.

Installing droid apps on multiple phones w/different google accts?

For example --
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.

[Q] Multiple Google accounts and Market issue!

I've always used a regular Google account (with Gmail) to setup my Android phone. Recently I've switched my private domain over to Google Apps, and since you cannot import a personal Google Account into Google Apps I had to create a new one and transfer all the stuff I needed to (calendar, mail, photo's, etc).
The only thing you cannot transfer are the apps you purchased (way to go Google!). So now I'm stuck with my new personal account with everything on it, and my old Google Account just for the apps I've purchased on the Android Market (Google Play). This causes really annoying issues!
I add both accounts to my phone and turn off sync for the old account. Then I open the Google Play app, hit the menu button and select acounts from which I'll select my old account with which I purchased all the apps. These apps wont show up under 'My Apps' and when I try to search and download it wants me to pay again.
I've tried all kinds of stuff like deleting the Google Play data, adding just one account at first and then the other but nothing seems to be working and it's really starting to piss me off. Any ideas?

Google play, wrong account.

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?
kimdoocheol said:
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.
kimdoocheol said:
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.
kimdoocheol said:
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.

[Problem Solved] Google Play using the Wrong Account for IAPs

Hey XDAers I had and solved a problem that I couldn't find an answer for on the forums so I decided to share.
I recently downloaded DynamicNotifications to try it out. I tried to buy the in-app premium features to support the dev. To my dismay the account it was trying to purchase the IAP on was not the one tied to my credit card and I had no way of changing this. My primary purchasing account is selected in the google play store. So I tried removing the other account from my device entirely and purchasing again. Correct account, payment went through.
So the features were working and so I re-added my secondary account to settings. The premium features I bought disappeared after a few minutes. If I click the upgrade button again it tries again to purchase the IAP with my secondary account.
So basically here's the tl;dr:
Bought an App with primary account w/ credit card tied
Attempted to buy IAP - play store tries to use secondary account (no credit card tied) to buy
Removed secondary account and purchased with primary
Re-added secondary account
Premium features disappear
Delete secondary account, premium features come back.
Re-add the secondary... features disappear again!
I look around and here is what I have tried:
Rebooting. - no luck
Clearing cache - no luck
Clearing play store, services, and google framework data. - no luck
Remove account, TiBu app, Add account, restore backup - IAP features come back... for a few minutes.
Remove account, remove app, reinstall app, launch app, re-add secondary account - This Worked
Weird Problem. Annoying problem. Solved.
solution:
1) uninstall the app
2) go to play store and switch to the account you want to use to pay from
3) find the app in play store and install again
4) make your in-app purchase
JGeigerM said:
Hey XDAers I had and solved a problem that I couldn't find an answer for on the forums so I decided to share.
I recently downloaded DynamicNotifications to try it out. I tried to buy the in-app premium features to support the dev. To my dismay the account it was trying to purchase the IAP on was not the one tied to my credit card and I had no way of changing this. My primary purchasing account is selected in the google play store. So I tried removing the other account from my device entirely and purchasing again. Correct account, payment went through.
So the features were working and so I re-added my secondary account to settings. The premium features I bought disappeared after a few minutes. If I click the upgrade button again it tries again to purchase the IAP with my secondary account.
So basically here's the tl;dr:
Bought an App with primary account w/ credit card tied
Attempted to buy IAP - play store tries to use secondary account (no credit card tied) to buy
Removed secondary account and purchased with primary
Re-added secondary account
Premium features disappear
Delete secondary account, premium features come back.
Re-add the secondary... features disappear again!
I look around and here is what I have tried:
Rebooting. - no luck
Clearing cache - no luck
Clearing play store, services, and google framework data. - no luck
Remove account, TiBu app, Add account, restore backup - IAP features come back... for a few minutes.
Remove account, remove app, reinstall app, launch app, re-add secondary account - This Worked
Weird Problem. Annoying problem. Solved.
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