Why are most Windows Phone 7.8 apps no longer published at the store?? - Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Just uninstalled a few apps (Official Aljazeera, E! Red Carper, etc) on my WP 7.8 and to my realization, some of these apps are no longer published at the store when I go into my purchase history and try to reinstall them.
Are they no longer available to WP 7.8 and available to only WP 8?
Why are they no longer published?
Is Microsoft removing them and Why?
Can anyone try to see if they are available in different regions? And if they are not, why is Microsoft limiting these general apps at the store? Are they prematurely forcing us to WP 8?
If you still use WP 7.x, try logging into windowsphone.com, go to your purchase history and see the number of apps that are no longer published (you can see these apps cuz they are directly indicated in orange ink as such and not finding the reinstall link beside these apps)
Please help, need more insights into this and now I better watch out for important apps before I uninstall them....might not have them again if you do....just like in my situation now. Regretted uninstalling these apps seriously and kinda sad now :'(
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It's not just WP7. A lot of developers have dropped support for the platform as a whole.

Well that's very bad for Windows Phone.
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The same issue i have. My country: Romania.

Wierd thing is apps like Kayak are ON THIER WEBSITE.. and I could download a XAP but not in the marketplace.
Seems 7.8 must have borken a lot of them or something.
I would love to know how to sideload Kayak with the XAP on to my DVP with the latest 7.8

I don't think you cab sideload the Xap files on WP 7.8. You'll need an SD Card to do that and legacy devices lack that. Too bad for WP 7.8
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You can sideload xaps on custom ROMS in WP7.8
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Windows Phone 7.8 and 8
Kenzibit said:
Just uninstalled a few apps (Official Aljazeera, E! Red Carper, etc) on my WP 7.8 and to my realization, some of these apps are no longer published at the store when I go into my purchase history and try to reinstall them.
Are they no longer available to WP 7.8 and available to only WP 8?
Why are they no longer published?
Is Microsoft removing them and Why?
Can anyone try to see if they are available in different regions? And if they are not, why is Microsoft limiting these general apps at the store? Are they prematurely forcing us to WP 8?
If you still use WP 7.x, try logging into windowsphone.com, go to your purchase history and see the number of apps that are no longer published (you can see these apps cuz they are directly indicated in orange ink as such and not finding the reinstall link beside these apps)
Please help, need more insights into this and now I better watch out for important apps before I uninstall them....might not have them again if you do....just like in my situation now. Regretted uninstalling these apps seriously and kinda sad now :'(
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Microsoft has marked a date when it will end support for windows phone 7.8 as well as windows phone 8, and the date is September 9, 2014

Hrishikesh Somchatwar said:
Microsoft has marked a date when it will end support for windows phone 7.8 as well as windows phone 8, and the date is September 9, 2014
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This post is to update Microsoft has extended WP8's EOL to 2016.

Windows 7 Apps
Kenzibit said:
Just uninstalled a few apps (Official Aljazeera, E! Red Carper, etc) on my WP 7.8 and to my realization, some of these apps are no longer published at the store when I go into my purchase history and try to reinstall them.
Are they no longer available to WP 7.8 and available to only WP 8?
Why are they no longer published?
Is Microsoft removing them and Why?
Can anyone try to see if they are available in different regions? And if they are not, why is Microsoft limiting these general apps at the store? Are they prematurely forcing us to WP 8?
If you still use WP 7.x, try logging into windowsphone.com, go to your purchase history and see the number of apps that are no longer published (you can see these apps cuz they are directly indicated in orange ink as such and not finding the reinstall link beside these apps)
Please help, need more insights into this and now I better watch out for important apps before I uninstall them....might not have them again if you do....just like in my situation now. Regretted uninstalling these apps seriously and kinda sad now :'(
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i Will better recommend you to move to Windows 8 Phones like Lumia series am using it and it's awesome.

Yeah....that's what I'm planning on brother....saving a little for that
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I pay 2.60 euro for rowi four days before directly i see problems is happens to start application and one day after the application stop sale on store https://twitter.com/rowiapp

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[Q] Windows marketplace

Has Windows marketplace ceased for windows phones? and does this mean all the apps i had stored in marketplace are now out of reach?
Last time i checked i could still download purchased apps.
Whole day I can't sign in from the phone, but from the PC everything is OK. Strange
Hi,
The information from Microsoft was that MarketPLace on PC will stop in August, but MarketPlace from your Phone still continued and it still possible to buy and update applications without any end date at the moment.
Thougt, Microsoft MyPhone for Win 6.* will definitively stop in september I think.
yes the marketplace isn't available
After two days of no working, today is working again!
I grabbed a couple of apps I was looking for...
Are there some clear plans of Microsoft about the Marketplace for WM?

[Q] Marketplace won't update apps for Mango

Hi, I updated to official Mango yesterday, but Marketplace seems not to know about it. I'm still stuck with 7.0 apps, which I wasn't offered to update to their Mango versions. I'm not able to install Mango-only apps such as HTC Connected Media, I'm not getting HTC Attentive Phone update etc...
Is there any solution to force Marketplace to offer me Mango apps? THX
Look for the app in the marketplace, and you can update it there.
I hope marketplace will offer it automatically for all together soon, so i don't have to do it one by one.
Thank you, but that's pretty obious. But it's just a workaround, not a real solution, as I expect that auto-updating via Marketplace won't ever work in the future.
I even tried hr, but Zune did not installed my apps back. So I installed them manually and will wait for any updates - if they come or not.
I have the same issue, no notification for app updates are showing up after installing Mango (forced with the disconnect trick). I don't know if it's because of the forcing the update or just a general issue. But I definitely have apps installed that have a Mango version available.
What is also annoying & strange is that the Marketplace is still in French (I'm from Belgium) where it should have been in Dutch for me since Mango was released.
If anyone knows the cause / solution I would be very grateful.
Thanks !
Beberik said:
Hi, I updated to official Mango yesterday, but Marketplace seems not to know about it. I'm still stuck with 7.0 apps, which I wasn't offered to update to their Mango versions. I'm not able to install Mango-only apps such as HTC Connected Media, I'm not getting HTC Attentive Phone update etc...
Is there any solution to force Marketplace to offer me Mango apps? THX
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No one is able to install these updates, just wait.
I didn't see any update notifications until I enabled my data service on my phone. Then literally, seconds after. 9 new updates.
This happened while I was on vacation, had wifi on in many places, but when I got back home at the airport, data on. Found a bunch of updates waiting to be installed.
That's a serious problem.

I fand a Nokia app——Nokia Maps for wp7

I fand a Nokia app Nokia Maps for wp7, but it doesn't run on my Omnia7.
xap:View attachment 737496
via: wpxap.com
Nice find I'll try tomorrow.
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that isn't a app
it is just a dummy app (nothing in it )
HTC 7 Pro with Polish localization start but not update and not work
did any one try this ?
deployed, started... select "go to marketplace"
when opened, tried update but get error 80320011
Its not released yet, its a holding page.......
it's seems to be much better than bing maps
Its out now, I wonder if anyone already got he Nokia XAPs
^ that. wonder if Nokia is planning to release it to the Marketplace for a price though.
the application is not yet published to the markletplace.
this is only a link to the future release.
please stop saying this doesn't work
Actually the beta app should be available for the Lumia devices:
WPCentral article
andreacorti said:
the application is not yet published to the markletplace.
this is only a link to the future release.
please stop saying this doesn't work
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If you use the Nokia Apps.xap (HTC Interop Unlock) then you can download the Nokia Maps directly from MP. When I tried updating with this file I got the error. I just got it working on my HTC HD7. The app looks like it is still in Beta. Not many options & no turn by turn.
Just noticed that Nokia Maps is for maps only. Nokia Drive is the turn by turn app. I can download both but only maps work on my Phone. When launched, Drive says Nokia Drive is not supported on your device. :-( Any help? Maybe a registry hack?
Nokia Drive is for navigation, google it and you can find it.
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[Q] Paid apps on new phone

If I change my windows phone with another one, will my paid apps be available on the new phone to download without paying again?
p0pa_24 said:
If I change my windows phone with another one, will my paid apps be available on the new phone to download without paying again?
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Your apps are associated to your windows live account. So changing phone should not be a problem.
p0pa_24 said:
If I change my windows phone with another one, will my paid apps be available on the new phone to download without paying again?
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As long as you use the same Live ID, you will get them again without paying. When you go to Marketplace, go to your purchased app, click buy, it will verify that you bought it and say 'You've already purchased this app, do you want to reinstall it?' - say yes!
You can also see a list of your purchased apps (and reinstall them) using the Marketplace website.
You dont have to pay for the apps you already bought if you use the same Live id. To make it easy, use the Reinstaller app for Windows Phone http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/b9d1115b-2c0d-4e5d-afc6-fa6dcd84dda4
Well..i never bought the paid apps, there were some deals with free for 2 days and i purchased them then. Now, they cost, i thought i could reinstall them on my new phone but it says i have to buy..
Apps are purchased by their ID, a GUID that every app has. It's possible that the free apps you "bought" were using different GUIDs than the normal Marketplace ones. In that case, you can try checking the Marketplace website for the list of apps that you previously installed and try reinstalling the free ones, but if they've taken the copies with the other GUID off of the Marketplace, you won't be able to get them again.
It sucks, I know. The backup/migrate/restore story on WP7 is really bad. I actually raised this issue with Microsoft several times (both as "we need this" and as "this is a reason to no block high-privilege homebrew code; we could do this for you" and received no meaningful response except for one guy I know who works there saying "yeah, this is an issue, but it's not in my area; I sent it on to the right people."

[fix] how to install Mytube! after you bought it from the windows store

I have not test this on windows 10 rt, only on windows 8.1rt.
MyTube is the only youtube app that I know that still works in 2020 for our RT devices but when you buy it from the windows store it you get an error "this app is not compatible with your device".
Here is how you fix it....
1) buy it from the windows store (its only 0.99$!)
2) download the mytube-winrt.zip file at the end of this post.
3) apply the sideloadAppx.reg file in the zip file and reboot (it enables AllowAllTrustedApps so you can sideload windows store apps)
4) right click install.ps1 and hit run in power shell.
After that it should be installed!
Playback issues workarounds
Coming soon
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Hi i dont know that this app its work actually !!! very thanks you I install and I paid for it. I have windows 10 rt Iot core in my surface!
Now I need a browser that can I load google classroom nothing else.-
furiac3lta said:
Hi i dont know that this app its work actually !!! very thanks you I install and I paid for it. I have windows 10 rt Iot core in my surface!
Now I need a browser that can I load google classroom nothing else.-
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Do you have edge? Go to developer tools, and go to the emulation tap. Switch the user agent string to IE 9. That will load the old Google classroom site
Edge settings!
ANDROID2468 said:
Do you have edge? Go to developer tools, and go to the emulation tap. Switch the user agent string to IE 9. That will load the old Google classroom site
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Hi! this is great!! now I can load google classroom, thanks. Last question, Do you know how can I block
pop up in Edge?
Thank you so much, finally can watch YT outside that old slow version of IE
I assume every time MyTube updates, we'd have to sideload the updated appx and run the process again? Where can we find them from?
I got it straight from store. i have surface rt 8.1..
is this MyTube best youtube app for now?
Sorry to dig such old thread, is this still working?
I never had mytube on windows rt.
Installed it on my other windows 10 devices to see if it "synced" the installation to the store on my vivotab rt 8.1 but not. When I go to my apps on windows 8.1 rt store it is not there, even when I select "all apps".
Therefore, when I install it with the tutorial here, it opens and gives me an error.
Do you know a way to solve this?
edit: as I tried to install windows 10 on the vivotab, mytube appeared on the store and installed (v3.5.41.0), so far I was not able to watch any video, but windows just installed and it still installing office etc etc...
If any of you with 8.1 or 10 rt still manage to use this app in 2022 let us know

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