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Google PLAY / Android Market Modded & Themed

This was sent me from a friend... I do not know who made this modded and themed market and I am not taking any credit for it, just thought it was cool and wanted to share.]
ROOT IS REQUIRED
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Mod version features:
Unlimited access to apps in Google Play Store
Removed countries restriction in Google Play Store - NOT COMPLETELY WORKING, some apps still DO NOT show up
Fixed the issue which your device is not compatible with this item in Google Play Store
This is my friends thread, I have used this themed and modded Google PLAY and it is awesome.
*********DOWNLOAD LINK AT THIS THREAD*************
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24021523#post24021523
A VIDEO I MADE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=PaH_25J3NAQ#t=9s
If you like this please hit the "THANKS" button on this thread and the link above to my friend bradman117
Instructions (theme):
1. Download InvertedPhonesky and InvertedVending.
2. Flash both files
3. reboot
4.open market and there is your black theme!
OR
extract zip copy Vending.apk / Phonesky.apk Into system/app and set permision rw-r--r--
Downloads:
Black theme:
InvertedPhonesky
InvertedVending
Original market theme:
Vending.apk

Can you post the apk? lol

jgregoryj1 said:
This was sent me from a friend... I do not know who made this modded and themed market and I am not taking any credit for it, just thought it was cool and wanted to share.
Mod version features:
Unlimited access to apps in Google Play Store
Removed countries restriction in Google Play Store
Fixed the issue which your device is not compatible with this item in Google Play Store
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This one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24021523#post24021523

shocito said:
This one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24021523#post24021523
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Sorry, yes that link has the download link.... I finished the post and saved it before giving the link to my friends thread, but its there now ..... enjoy as this Black themed Market is sweet plus it also unlocks regions checks on it, so that apps that normally wouldnt show up in your country will show up now in search results. Doesnt mean apps are free, it just simply lets you view items on the market you would not be able to view unless on your PC, MAKING THAT VERY CLEAR......

This looks REALLY nice! Matches my phone more too!
Let's see what Xperia Play optimized games were added!

Selim873 said:
This looks REALLY nice! Matches my phone more too!
Let's see what Xperia Play optimized games were added!
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Several.... mostly I like it becuase I can find other games from other countries on it whereas before I would scour the Google play via my PC to see all the games.... thats how I found several Japanese RPG's and King of Fighters 3 weeks ago...

Wow, it looks very cool. Thanks for the tip.

Can we download with this games from Japan? I mean games like Ridge Racer

shocito said:
Wow, it looks very cool. Thanks for the tip.
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Your welcome, enjoy the black themed market.....

evo_racer said:
Can we download with this games from Japan? I mean games like Ridge Racer
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No it will let you see the apps but unless your phone is supported it will NOT let you download the app, plus i have already tried to install the Ridge Racer apk and it will not work as it is on our phones, as its for a Sharp Aquos 3D phone from Japanese carrier Docomo..

jgregoryj1 said:
No it will let you see the apps but unless your phone is supported it will NOT let you download the app, plus i have already tried to install the Ridge Racer apk and it will not work as it is on our phones, as its for a Sharp Aquos 3D phone from Japanese carrier Docomo..
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How about the carrier check (the one thing preventing us Verizon users from buying the Playstation games that are on there)?
For example:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...NvbS5zb255LnBsYXlzdGF0aW9uLk5DVUE5NDMwMV8wIl0.

Rogue Leader said:
How about the carrier check (the one thing preventing us Verizon users from buying the Playstation games that are on there)?
For example:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...NvbS5zb255LnBsYXlzdGF0aW9uLk5DVUE5NDMwMV8wIl0.
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DANG..... well guess not, I tried your link above on it and it still says not available...... I'm begining to question to what extent the modded markets removal of region restriction is....... I have seen some japanese korean apps that show up on it but didnt show up before.... but the ps1 games do not allow....hmmmmmmm ... sorry ya'll dont know what gives...

Where is L.D.B.??
I would like to report this to him.
The mod is not working here. Still doesn't appear country restricted apps like Play Music (Google Music).
I'm outside US/Canada and I wish someone can mod Play Store so we (outside) can browse music, books and video stuff.
I can do this but I need to start WiFi hotspot on my laptop, through Hotspot Shield, clear Play Store data, and then access to full market.
Will be possible to mod this restrition?

Download Instructions?
---Instructions (theme):---
1. Download InvertedPhonesky and InvertedVending.
2. Flash both files
3. reboot
4.open market and there is your black theme!
OR
extract zip copy Vending.apk / Phonesky.apk Into system/app and set permision rw-r--r--
Umm, I was too scared to flash the zips (i usually get bootloops or problems even when others are successful,lol ) and Im used to manually copying system apps so I did the 2nd step from the thread. But Do we really need both apks (Vending.apk and Phonesky.apk to have this properly themed?) I only ask, because the Phonesky.apk is not originally in our system/app folder of our phone. I would think the Vending.apk is where the theming was done.
Edit** I do see the changes and its a nice look for the Play store.

Do you need root for this?
Sent from my R800i using XDA

KindaUndisputed said:
Do you need root for this?
Sent from my R800i using XDA
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Yes, root is necessary...this installs either via manually using root explorer to copy paste the files in the proper root only folders, or you install via Custom Recovery

I have modified Post 1 with the instructions and download links... before you had to go to my friends thread to get the files and info... but now its there on POST 1...... to fend off any confusion

Ever since I installed this market it always gives me an error when downloading anything! I don't know I've tried it on my other play too and the same thing its totally ****ed I'm not gonna bother with this until that **** is fixed or just not bother at all. And another thing when I flashed the invertedphonesky.zip it gave me bootloops
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thatsupnow said:
Ever since I installed this market it always gives me an error when downloading anything! I don't know I've tried it on my other play too and the same thing its totally ****ed I'm not gonna bother with this until that **** is fixed or just not bother at all. And another thing when I flashed the invertedphonesky.zip it gave me bootloops
Sent from my R800a using XDA App
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Thats why I manually replace system/app's instead of flashing in cwm. I get the bootloops a lot.lol. But about the "error downloading update" message I only got that error on one app that tried to update(apn backup+switch). It just updated google maps and Adobe flashplayer automatically and I didnt get errors.
*Edit* Just tried downloading a couple apps from Play Store, & all were fine except Facebook for Android app. For Facebook app I get "Error" Your order is processing. It will be available in a couple minutes."??? Is that just, because I deleted all Facebook bloat from my phone or what?
Ios suckkss.

fearbrain said:
Where is L.D.B.??
I would like to report this to him.
The mod is not working here. Still doesn't appear country restricted apps like Play Music (Google Music).
I'm outside US/Canada and I wish someone can mod Play Store so we (outside) can browse music, books and video stuff.
I can do this but I need to start WiFi hotspot on my laptop, through Hotspot Shield, clear Play Store data, and then access to full market.
Will be possible to mod this restrition?
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Did you try market unlocker... Download it choose a US carrier and then you can download google music, movies and all that

Google Play Music 4.3 Apk!

For those who can't use market enabler here is the apk for the Play Music 4.3
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?946dat81ujuqpnq

invisibleelvis said:
For those who can't use market enabler here is the apk for the Play Music 4.3
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?946dat81ujuqpnq
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Seems to be working fine with CM7.2 in my Motorola Milestone, Thanks!

Is there a way to change album covers?

Woah, I can actually download the app from the Play Store in Canada now
I wonder if this means Play Music is coming to Canada?

do you know any mobile apps that can edit ID3 tags?

invisibleelvis said:
For those who can't use market enabler here is the apk for the Play Music 4.3
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?946dat81ujuqpnq
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awesome, I was looking for this.
thanks!!

sluma said:
awesome, I was looking for this.
thanks!!
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Be aware! The app is NOT compatible with HTC One' serie because these phones used UMS and not MTP. When you unplugged (correctly ejected), all your music will be deleted and you'll have to resync everything :-/
I downgraded to the previous version of Play Music... I hope a fix rapidly!

qwerty2012 said:
do you know any mobile apps that can edit ID3 tags?
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yes, TTPOD doing this. Try it, a best player. (there is little bit chinese here & there)

OK any device?
Hi, I am in Canada and cannot get this app from the Play store.
However, I did activate my account while in the states traveling a while ago.
Can I install this APK on my HTC Amaze (rooted, super CID, custom ROM)?
So I put file in system/app folder, set permissions and reboot?
Thanks for help

From France
Merci !!!

windcan said:
Hi, I am in Canada and cannot get this app from the Play store.
However, I did activate my account while in the states traveling a while ago.
Can I install this APK on my HTC Amaze (rooted, super CID, custom ROM)?
So I put file in system/app folder, set permissions and reboot?
Thanks for help
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just install it like a normal apk...

windcan said:
Hi, I am in Canada and cannot get this app from the Play store.
However, I did activate my account while in the states traveling a while ago.
Can I install this APK on my HTC Amaze (rooted, super CID, custom ROM)?
So I put file in system/app folder, set permissions and reboot?
Thanks for help
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Yes you can. I did the same thing and it works perfectly

Hi,
in which directory are the offline-files stored? I couldn't find them on a Galaxy Nexus.
Thx
D.

Stock Keyboard Slow
Just to confirm, TouchPal Keyboard is MUCH faster that stock JellyTime keyboard! I'm sure Swiftkey is too...
Thanks for the advice!

not works in Russia

play music 4.4 is now out. Could someone please post the .apk for those of us in countries where we can't...
Cheers!

I've uploaded the apk and made a post.
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can finally download this from play store in Ireland hopefully this means play is coming here

Any ideas how to make the album art look better?
Looked 'ok' on my older, smaller phone.. now that I got a newer phone with a big screen it looks horrible.
EDIT:
Not sure how to delete my post, but I just noticed that its not all the songs. I guess I was just picking the wrong ones... ones with low res embedded album art. Other songs are good. So there is nothing wrong with the app

How to get all access Play Music
Hi,
i wanted to use the all access play to i downloaded tunnel bear and did everything that was required , all was going well until it asked for credit card information , now when i enter fake credit card number it detects it and won't let me register. Has anyone tried to register after Google IO 13? can anyone help me ?. Thanks

[GUIDE] Faking US Play Store without Market Unlocker or *ROOT*

Now before I begin, most of you had lost the ability to use Market Enabler/Unlocker due to the recent update on Google Servers which now upon purchase tracks down your actual location and ties down your account to your location.
So here's the deal on how to get it back. Without rooting. Without any Unlocker.
Requirements-
- 2 Android Phones.
- VPN (TunnelBear or HotspotShield)
- Patience
Now before you jump into conclusions, that "OH VPN" Just remember, that when you get off the VPN, Exit PlayStore and open it again, it re-asks you to "Accept" terms which brings you back to your local playstore. Boohoo. Here's proof on my side at the end of this post.
Instructions
Phone #1
- Open Play, Download the app called TunnelBear VPN
- Clear Market Cache/Data after Download
- Register with TunnelBear/Hotspot VPN and connect to it.
*Make sure you are connected and are receiving packets!*
- Open Play, Accept the terms and you will now be greeted with the ever so friendly US Play store as shown below. (Refer to Image #1)
- Once accepted, tab out and back in to make sure it sticks without exiting, do not exit the app via Multi window!
Phone #2
- Clear Cache/Data on Android phone #2
- Open Play *Without connecting to VPN*
*This time, it will ask you to accept terms, but lead you to the US Play Store*
Phone #1
- Disconnect from the VPN from Android #1 used and tab back to Play.
For those who doubt my location, refer to Image #2
Finally, to prove that this works, I have loaded Play on all my devices (Cleared Data/Cache for devices that were not used in this setup) and without the use of any VPN they all loaded Play US Store. (Refer to Image#3 and #4)
Explanation
If you own a device or more that share the same account such as, Phone#1 and Phone#2 share the account you use for Purchase (To share paid apps between devices) Google servers check with each device
eg: Phone #1 location = US, Proceed. Welcome to US Play. Disconnect VPN
Phone #2 location = <Your country>, Check Phone #1 <VPN Disconnected already>, Location ≠ US, resend Terms Policy. Reset.
And yes they can determine your carrier and location without you knowing, When you install an app via Play it shows under devices as
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
But if you had faked initial Device #1 and accepted, then accepted via Device #2, it check's back with Device #1, Since Device#1 says US, it proceeds with what permission was granted first to the gmail account <US Play Permission due to VPN>.
#1
#2
#3
#4

nice work bro ! this is awesome thanked u

shriom_manerker said:
nice work bro ! this is awesome thanked u
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Thanks bud hope it helps you bro!
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Ohh nice work fella
should try this some time

Nice one.. Gonna try it during the weekend..
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This didn't work for me. My one device was able to get the US store by connecting to a VPN, but me other device stubbornly shows the store available to users in China. Just SOL then?

Sv: [GUIDE] Faking US Play Store without Market Unlocker or *ROOT*
Can't get this to work. Even after clearing the data and cashed and connecting to vpn I still get the Danish app store
Sendt fra min Nexus 10 med Tapatalk2

Ah damn. Didn't work for me

mbeltoft said:
Can't get this to work. Even after clearing the data and cashed and connecting to vpn I still get the Danish app store
Sendt fra min Nexus 10 med Tapatalk2
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Make sure you're getting packets. You need to clear cache, connect to the vpn and then accept the terms. You'll be in the USA store.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

Sv: [GUIDE] Faking US Play Store without Market Unlocker or *ROOT*
Did it all in that order multiple times. Still no go.
Is there other ways of faking us market - with or without root?
Sendt fra min Nexus 10 med Tapatalk2

mbeltoft said:
Did it all in that order multiple times. Still no go.
Is there other ways of faking us market - with or without root?
Sendt fra min Nexus 10 med Tapatalk2
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They've patched every method I can think of
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

Misledz said:
Phone #1
- Open Play, Download the app called TunnelBear VPN
- Clear Market Cache/Data after Download
- Register with TunnelBear/Hotspot VPN and connect to it.
*Make sure you are connected and are receiving packets!*
- Open Play, Accept the terms and you will now be greeted with the ever so friendly US Play store as shown below. (Refer to Image #1)
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Doesn't work for me. The quote over is how far I get. Using a VPN application doesn't get me into the US Play Store anymore. Google has absolutely changed something since the Nexus 4 launch (which I bought using Tunnelbear on my PC).

jenskristian said:
Doesn't work for me. The quote over is how far I get. Using a VPN application doesn't get me into the US Play Store anymore. Google has absolutely changed something since the Nexus 4 launch (which I bought using Tunnelbear on my PC).
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I'm able to get into the play store just fine. Just clear cache and data, then connect into it with tunnelbear
Still works fine for me o___o just make sure your tunnelbear is receiving packets
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk HD

not working in any way... i guess they dont want us to. maybe i'll have to use a vpn all the time

I there seriously no way to do this?

Not working
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niyax said:
Not working
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Google patched it again with new play update
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

Here's something I tried that works.
1- Install Hotspotshield app or any other VPN
2- Open Play Store. Now you should be in U.S Store
3- Find an app you want to download / purchase
4- Start the download and just as it begins to download cancel it.
5- Now it should be in the 'My Apps' list under 'All' and you can download it without VPN at any time.
The benefit is that VPN can really slow down your connection especially when downloading bigger apps.

I used this VPN method several months.
But now it seems that Google bound my account to my REAL country. I can't make it work any more.
To show you that my account is bound I give you an example: accessing playstore my PC.
I activate my US VPN.
I browse to play.google.com. (not logged in in Google Account). I can see all US playstore content.
BUT: when I login into my account (with VPN activated) I only can see the playstore content of my REAL country.
I already delete all my billing addresses etc. Sadly this didn't help.
Any idea how to fix that?

+1
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New Google Play Store Sucks

Does anyone else think the new Google Play Store sucks?
It's a horrible use of space. It's bad enough that recently Google made it so that if you want to buy an app, you are forced to create a Google Wallet account that is tied to your mobile carrier.
Now, Google Play store has this big waste of space, and surprise, the tab to tell you the app's permissions is missing.
Where do I find an app's permissions?

EEngineer said:
Does anyone else think the new Google Play Store sucks?
It's a horrible use of space. It's bad enough that recently Google made it so that if you want to buy an app, you are forced to create a Google Wallet account that is tied to your mobile carrier.
Now, Google Play store has this big waste of space, and surprise, the tab to tell you the app's permissions is missing.
Where do I find an app's permissions?
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u can skip the wallet part
Sent from a potato oO

ccdreadcc said:
u can skip the wallet part
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How?

Plus you can't read the reviews sorted by most recent. This sucks really.

AppBrain to the Rescue!
I've started using AppBrain. Tells me permissions and it's a lot more user-friendly.
If you don't like the new crappy Google Play, call them and complain:
https://support.google.com/googleplay/?hl=en#contact=1

yeah
:good:

Ah, www.appbrain.com shows the app's permissions.

New layout sucks can't view installed apps only everything I've ever even looked at... Waste of time and space gonna try amazon now
Sent from my Skyrocket using Xparent BlueTapatalk

EEngineer said:
Where do I find an app's permissions?
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When you tap on Install, a confirmation screen appears, showing you the permissions.

Permissions are also shown in Settings>Apps>*App Name*. They are in the bottom.
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akhilranjan said:
Permissions are also shown in Settings>Apps>*App Name*. They are in the bottom.
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Most people like me want to know app permissions BEEFORE installing.
_______________________________________
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Jonny176 said:
New layout sucks can't view installed apps only everything I've ever even looked at... Waste of time and space gonna try amazon now
Sent from my Skyrocket using Xparent BlueTapatalk
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I agree, it's such a bad layout and the fact that you can't easliy remove multiple apps from your myapps list is an even greater frustration!!!
Really Google....!!!!

An alternative way of permission filter
EEngineer said:
Does anyone else think the new Google Play Store sucks?
It's a horrible use of space. It's bad enough that recently Google made it so that if you want to buy an app, you are forced to create a Google Wallet account that is tied to your mobile carrier.
Now, Google Play store has this big waste of space, and surprise, the tab to tell you the app's permissions is missing.
Where do I find an app's permissions?
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If you want t search by permissions, visit the appscrawler site (appscrawler.com). I do not have permission to enter an url. But you can Google it. There are lot of Android apps what are pointing to Play Store. One of the advantage of the site is the ability to search by permissions.

lia27 said:
i don't have much experience with google play store, since my friend reminded me not to use google play store.
His tablet was trapped by google play store, and then the tablet got into safe mode and never went out.
Every time when booted up the tablet, it went into safe mode directly.
He tried to flash the room, but in pain.
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{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

lia27 said:
i don't have much experience with google play store, since my friend reminded me not to use google play store.
His tablet was trapped by google play store, and then the tablet got into safe mode and never went out.
Every time when booted up the tablet, it went into safe mode directly.
He tried to flash the room, but in pain.
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Your friend is a true hero
Sent from my HTC One X

found this thread while searching for google play sucks
i too think it sucks and honestly lacks some serious functionality. all i have is a huge messy list of apps. no way to sort your apps, by either category, or even a simple search that will search your list of apps. the google play app for tablet (if it's a different build) is much worse.. lots of wasted screen space and the list of your apps is narrow and frustrating to navigate. i buy many apps and currently there is also no way to only see apps that i've bought.
maybe google doesn't feel it necessary to continue to improve and add features to it because they don't make much money off app sales? no idea, but it's pretty puzzling how long its been and again, it lacks basic functions to easy manage your apps. you should be able to manage your apps as if you were just browsing the app store. things sorted by category, title, size, date, last purchase,etc. maybe i am being unrealistic and asking for too much.. ?

I've stopped downloading new apps or updating my existing apps. Yes, to me the Google Play store sucks that bad!

[APP] APK Downloader Extension - download apks without play store

Quick backstory - tired of Google knowing everything about me and seeing targetted adverts everywhere i go, I've bought a little Moto G as a project and decided not to install google play services on it, and use open source alternatives to google's apps.
While alternative stores like F-Droid are great, there are certain apps that are only on the play store, which I can no longer download since I don't have the play store installed. This is where apk downloader comes in. You do still need a google account to authenticate with, and a google services framework ID from a device that has been activated with google play services (you can ignore this if you have play services installed, you can find your gsfid using my app or an app called "Android ID" in the market), but after that you're free from google!
The app adds a "share" button to app pages in browsers, so you can search for apps using your browser and then click share to download, completely bypassing google play.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
I've spent a lot of time trying to get requests and responses to work using protobuf (the system the play store uses) but have been unable to do so since it's just guesswork really, so it's constructing requests manually, the same way as the chrome extension which does this very same thing.
It's nowhere near finished, but I just thought I'd share this in case anyone finds it useful. You can also use this app to download apks that the play store may have blocked from your device, for example.
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE PLAY SERVICES INSTALLED:
Use an app like this to get your google services framework ID, and enter it in the settings.
Source: https://github.com/jackpf/ApkDownloader
Download: https://github.com/jackpf/ApkDownloader/blob/release/bin/ApkDownloader.apk?raw=true (Ad free)
Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jackpf.apkdownloader

While I like the idea very much it doesn't work for me.
I'm trying to download an app and I get an error message: "API exception: protocol message contained an invalid tag (zero)"
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pemell said:
While I like the idea very much it doesn't work for me.
I'm trying to download an app and I get an error message: "API exception: protocol message contained an invalid tag (zero)"
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Whoops my bad, I committed a test version of the app. It should work fine now.

Nope. Now I get the error: API exception: app not found.
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pemell said:
Nope. Now I get the error: API exception: app not found.
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Hmm, what are you entering? If you go to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=*the id you're entering* does it exist?

jackpf said:
Hmm, what are you entering? If you go to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=*the id you're entering* does it exist?
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This is how I try to do it: APK Downloader: http://youtu.be/WRBZ9Ms16xc
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Thank you, very useful tool!
Working in Genesis GP-353 ics.

pemell said:
This is how I try to do it: APK Downloader: http://youtu.be/WRBZ9Ms16xc
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Strange, i just tried the same thing and it worked. I'll have to look into this

working great..!

It looks like this can only download apps that are compatible with the device you got the device ID from. I kept getting the "App not found", but only for apps that weren't normally compatible with my HTC One (M7). Once I searched for a regular app like Nova everything went fine. Is there any work around for this?

Andrew3k said:
It looks like this can only download apps that are compatible with the device you got the device ID from. I kept getting the "App not found", but only for apps that weren't normally compatible with my HTC One (M7). Once I searched for a regular app like Nova everything went fine. Is there any work around for this?
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Yeah it uses nexus 4 info for its device ID. Hopefully I can add in some options where you can choose different devices to spoof when you download

AWESOME app :good:

This is awesome!!! Been trying to get an app that was not available in my country for the longest time now and this worked like a charm! Thank you so much!!

this is how i do it usually on pc, but works on phone browser too
http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/

Youre a dawm god tooo bad 95% of xda has no clue what you have avhived thank you
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I don't really like entering my google account email and password into an app.
Is there a way to replace this with OAuth?

FSN said:
I don't really like entering my google account email and password into an app.
Is there a way to replace this with OAuth?
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For now I've not got round to implementing oauth, it is something that could potentially be done in the future though.
If you're worried, the full source code is available and you can compile the app yourself.

Andrew3k said:
It looks like this can only download apps that are compatible with the device you got the device ID from. I kept getting the "App not found", but only for apps that weren't normally compatible with my HTC One (M7). Once I searched for a regular app like Nova everything went fine. Is there any work around for this?
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I've just added device parameters in settings so you can choose what info is sent with the request for the download. By default it's a Nexus 4, but you should be able to play around and see what settings allow you to download the apps you want.

First i want to say thanks, great idea. But i have problem with app downloading, i get error message: "API exception: Server responded with status code 400". What did i do wrong ?

qwerty2653 said:
First i want to say thanks, great idea. But i have problem with app downloading, i get error message: "API exception: Server responded with status code 400". What did i do wrong ?
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My fault, I uploaded a test build by accident. It should work now if you download it again or use the link to the one on google play.