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Google Play Sore Error (-505) -- Lollipop

After updating to Lollipop on my Nexus 5, it restored all of my apps except for about 10. One of them is a widget that I use everyday called Simple Calendar Widget by MYCOLORSCREEN. When trying to download the app, it gives me the message "Unknown error code during application install: -505". It seems to download fine, but the message pops up during the install process. Anybody know about this issue or experiencing the same thing if you try to download this application? I also tried downloading the apk file online but that also fails to install. I can't find any info regarding this issue. Thanks.

I had this issue on certain apps as well. The dev of those apps needed to change something for it to work on Lollipop.

RoomTenONine said:
I had this issue on certain apps as well. The dev of those apps needed to change something for it to work on Lollipop.
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I've had this problem. Did a search with Google and it seems others are having this issue. Hopefully Google will have an update to fix.

Do a search in this forum. I replied with the cause and solutions. Was posted last week.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

nikon120 said:
Do a search in this forum. I replied with the cause and solutions. Was posted last week.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
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Code 505 is a permissions code. This typically means that the APK file already exists in your /data/app folder. You'll need to locate the APK files in question in the /data/app folder and remove them. You will need root to perform this action.
You came across this problem because you didn't do a wipe of your userdata partition when you jumped from Kitkat to Lollipop. I encountered the same issue because of that reason. I just ended up wiping and starting fresh as my phone hadn't been wiped since I got the device last November.
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Are you sure? I flashed the factory image of Lollipop on my phone and it wiped everything. Afterwards, I had to also do a factory reset of my phone from the settings due to a storage issue. Why would that get left behind?
Edit: I checked (phone is rooted) and the app isn't in the /data/app folder

PMamba said:
Are you sure? I flashed the factory image of Lollipop on my phone and it wiped everything. Afterwards, I had to also do a factory reset of my phone from the settings due to a storage issue. Why would that get left behind?
Edit: I checked (phone is rooted) and the app isn't in the /data/app folder
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I spent an hour combing through Google group threads trying to get a real answer to this outstanding question. I was perplexed that only two applications of mine refused to install due to this error. The consensus was that the APK file was still there, or some remnants of data related to the application remained on the device that the Play Store service didn't like.
I ended up wiping my device twice:
Once by flashing both the userdata.img and cache.img files, which ended up giving me the storage issue bug on Lollipop. (Showing 16GB instead of 32GB)
Second by performing a factory reset from within the booted OS, which resolved the storage issue.
After that, everything was good to go. Have yet to encounter this error code again.

PMamba said:
After updating to Lollipop on my Nexus 5, it restored all of my apps except for about 10. One of them is a widget that I use everyday called Simple Calendar Widget by MYCOLORSCREEN. When trying to download the app, it gives me the message "Unknown error code during application install: -505". It seems to download fine, but the message pops up during the install process. Anybody know about this issue or experiencing the same thing if you try to download this application? I also tried downloading the apk file online but that also fails to install. I can't find any info regarding this issue. Thanks.
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I just had to click install again after the error and it worked for me. It was a PITA.

sigh, I've had this issue with terminal emulator
C:\>adb install Term.apk
3966 KB/s (515876 bytes in 0.127s)
pkg: /data/local/tmp/Term.apk
Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_DUPLICATE_PERMISSION perm=jackpal.androidterm.permission
.PREPEND_TO_PATH pkg=com.jrummy.liberty.toolbox]
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So yeah...duplicate permissions, in this case i had ROM Toolbox Lite installed which had the same permission sooooo it's one or the other at the moment

bleets said:
sigh, I've had this issue with terminal emulator
So yeah...duplicate permissions, in this case i had ROM Toolbox Lite installed which had the same permission sooooo it's one or the other at the moment
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Hm alright. Where does the apk file need to be in order to use the adb install command? I want to see which app is conflicting with.

PMamba said:
Hm alright. Where does the apk file need to be in order to use the adb install command? I want to see which app is conflicting with.
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as long as you have adb working it can be anywhere as long as you know the path
so adb install c:\path\to\file.apk
as it happens with terminal emulator i could download the apk seperately, with other apps i'd probably download on my tablet and pull it off that

bleets said:
as long as you have adb working it can be anywhere as long as you know the path
so adb install c:\path\to\file.apk
as it happens with terminal emulator i could download the apk seperately, with other apps i'd probably download on my tablet and pull it off that
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Wow it looks like GTasks is conflicting. Without GTasks this app is useless. :crying:
Thanks though.

PMamba said:
Wow it looks like GTasks is conflicting. Without GTasks this app is useless. :crying:
Thanks though.
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https://code.google.com/p/android-developer-preview/issues/detail?id=1668
hopefully it'll get sorted...
You'd have thought people testing would have installed enough apps to come across it and if google knew about it in october why not fix it

I had this issue trying to install Rom Toolbox. I uninstalled Terminal Emulator and the issue went away, probably because Terminal Emulator is included in Rom Toolbox.

How I solved it
In bootloader mode I flash from the factory image userdata and cache, then I wipe Dalvik, data and cache in TWRP after the first boot I skip the setup just too full factory data reset, in the second boot, I set up everything normal, but instead of restoring from previous devices I set it up as a new device, then I manually download the app that was giving the error, it installed without a problem.
I know is a little too much for an app, but it works for me.

onetraakmind said:
I had this issue trying to install Rom Toolbox. I uninstalled Terminal Emulator and the issue went away, probably because Terminal Emulator is included in Rom Toolbox.
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Exactly.
Thank you very much for the tip.

onetraakmind said:
I had this issue trying to install Rom Toolbox. I uninstalled Terminal Emulator and the issue went away, probably because Terminal Emulator is included in Rom Toolbox.
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I'm currently having the issue everyone mentions, except I already have ROM Toolbox Pro and was trying to install Terminal Emulator. Terminal Emulator in ROM Toolbox currently FC's on Stock (rooted) 5.0.1. But I use other features, like the Rebooter that I don't wanna sacrifice for just Terminal Emulator haha. Wish they'd fix this issue permanently

Jleeblanch said:
I'm currently having the issue everyone mentions, except I already have ROM Toolbox Pro and was trying to install Terminal Emulator. Terminal Emulator in ROM Toolbox currently FC's on Stock (rooted) 5.0.1. But I use other features, like the Rebooter that I don't wanna sacrifice for just Terminal Emulator haha. Wish they'd fix this issue permanently
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Uninstall ROM toolbox, install terminal emulator, install ROM toolbox... Someone said that worked.

rootSU said:
Uninstall ROM toolbox, install terminal emulator, install ROM toolbox... Someone said that worked.
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You really should look in the rom toolbox pro app a little better. There is an emulator built in
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mattie_49 said:
You really should look in the rom toolbox pro app a little better. There is an emulator built in
Sent from my One M8 using Tapatalk
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I know, that's why you can't install jackpal terminal emulator if you have ROM toolbox installed as it uses the same permissions.
Although you should read up yourself because if you did, you'd know the terminal emulator in rom toolbox force closes on lollipop on the nexus 5.

I understand this is a old thread but I fixed it a way that wasn't mentioned in this thread. Just thought I'd share for anyone googling this issue and finding this. What I did was go into the guest account and uninstall the app that was causing the issue such as snapchat. The way I caused it in the first place was installing snapchat on aptoide which installed it on both my account and the guest account and I decided I didn't want snapchat anymore so I uninstalled it but it was still there on the guest account which caused the error 505 whenever I tried to reinstall snapchat.

[Completed] Lenovo s820 problem

hi guys ,
This is my first post in XDA. So please inform me if anything is wrong
I have a LENOVO s820 with android 4.4.2
This is the situation -
I rooted my phone. It worked perfectly fine .i installed many rooted apps and so on .i was into taking risk and i installed Xposed. Even it worked fine .Later ,i tried to update the busybox from busybox installer app from playstore. But then i by mistakely took advanced install .So i thought that would harm my device and i thought of uninstalling busybox and installing it again (just to make sure nothing happened after the advanced install) .They showed the warning message "its an advanced option , do you want to continue " , i didn't mind it and i pressed continue .Then i pressed install busybox (as i told earlier that i needed to reinstall busybox ). This was the time my phone did not work as expected .The busybox installer force closed everytime i opened. I installed many another busybox installer but none of them didn't work
Then to get things right , i did the following things-
1. I tried to unroot my phone (with Kingoroot) , it didnt work
2.I tried to unroot it with supersu , even it didn't work
3.After so many tries , to my luck , i unrooted my phone with supersu (i don't know how or why )
4.I tried to root it again , but never worked (i tried almost every option available in google).
5.Now as it wont root, i tried to use it as i used to use when i didn't know how to root. But when i installed SDmaid, it says " busybox error "
6.Then i knew there was something wrong with my phone .I googled and tried every method but none of them worked (this is my one last try ). I somehow used my phone till now. But day by day my phone is being worse .
(a)wifi connects to only some networks ,fortunately my home wifi is in whitelist (but when i go to guests house ,its like a virus to me
(b)i cant connect to vpn by any means
(c)the file manager wont copy ,paste , or delete files but fortunately third party apps work for this issue
(d)notification center force closes ,and i have to restart my phone
i hope someone has a way to fix my phone

irfumafazath said:
hi guys ,
This is my first post in XDA. So please inform me if anything is wrong
I have a LENOVO s820 with android 4.4.2
This is the situation -
I rooted my phone. It worked perfectly fine .i installed many rooted apps and so on .i was into taking risk and i installed Xposed. Even it worked fine .Later ,i tried to update the busybox from busybox installer app from playstore. But then i by mistakely took advanced install .So i thought that would harm my device and i thought of uninstalling busybox and installing it again (just to make sure nothing happened after the advanced install) .They showed the warning message "its an advanced option , do you want to continue " , i didn't mind it and i pressed continue .Then i pressed install busybox (as i told earlier that i needed to reinstall busybox ). This was the time my phone did not work as expected .The busybox installer force closed everytime i opened. I installed many another busybox installer but none of them didn't work
Then to get things right , i did the following things-
1. I tried to unroot my phone (with Kingoroot) , it didnt work
2.I tried to unroot it with supersu , even it didn't work
3.After so many tries , to my luck , i unrooted my phone with supersu (i don't know how or why )
4.I tried to root it again , but never worked (i tried almost every option available in google).
5.Now as it wont root, i tried to use it as i used to use when i didn't know how to root. But when i installed SDmaid, it says " busybox error "
6.Then i knew there was something wrong with my phone .I googled and tried every method but none of them worked (this is my one last try ). I somehow used my phone till now. But day by day my phone is being worse .
(a)wifi connects to only some networks ,fortunately my home wifi is in whitelist (but when i go to guests house ,its like a virus to me
(b)i cant connect to vpn by any means
(c)the file manager wont copy ,paste , or delete files but fortunately third party apps work for this issue
(d)notification center force closes ,and i have to restart my phone
i hope someone has a way to fix my phone
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Hi and thank you for using XDA Assist
My guess is that you completely messed up your device..
But my guess is that you absolutely need to flash back your stock ROM so i came up with this.
For futher questions head over here > Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting.
Good luck!

X2 GEM-701 Autostart

Hello,
I have the problem, that apps like Adblock Plus or Avast Mobile Security do not start automatically after booting the device.
Does anybody know the reason or what to do?
Thank you in advance.
Horst

Horst0113 said:
Hello,
I have the problem, that apps like Adblock Plus or Avast Mobile Security do not start automatically after booting the device.
Does anybody know the reason or what to do?
Thank you in advance.
Horst
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Go into settings then Startup Manager and enable the apps you want to allow at startup. Then go to permissions manager and select the apps you want to trust.

Hi Horst
where did you buy your GEM-701L?
Thanks. Ralph

ralphrmartin said:
where did you buy your GEM-701L?
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I bought it from Innova in Germany.
Horst

ajsmsg78 said:
Go into settings then Startup Manager and enable the apps you want to allow at startup. Then go to permissions manager and select the apps you want to trust.
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Sorry, I don't have the Startup Manager.

Look in GooglePlay for "PM Plus" from Huawei - it's the Permission- and Startup Manager you need.
I have no idea why it isn't as default on the X2

Hi everybody !!
Got my X2 701 today.
After bootloader unlock/recovery&root everything works like a charm,but one thing doesnt...and this is THE KILLER for me.. NO APPS ARE AUTOSTARTING AFTER a reboot.
I have also installed PM plus as I read here ,but no matter what I try.. no apps are autostarting

justin22 said:
Hi everybody !!
Got my X2 701 today.
After bootloader unlock/recovery&root everything works like a charm,but one thing doesnt...and this is THE KILLER for me.. NO APPS ARE AUTOSTARTING AFTER a reboot.
I have also installed PM plus as I read here ,but no matter what I try.. no apps are autostarting
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Flash it to a 703L B111. B111 fixed a lot of issues and I mean a LOT.

can I flash the 701 to a 703 without troubles/drawbacks ???

justin22 said:
can I flash the 701 to a 703 without troubles/drawbacks ???
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If you follow the guide you will be able to upgrade with no problems.

I spend the morning reading all there is about 701 to 703.. and its dangerous,and not 100% documented,so I dont dare to do that.
I restored the stock recovery on my 701,I removed su,I wiped the whole thing a few times,and no matter what I do... NO APPS ARE STARTING AFTER A REBOOT...
everything works like a charm,no fc,no errors at ALL,just... when I reboot/turn the thing on.. its loading googleplay/services/gmail/... whatever it came with,but NO 3rd party apps from the store are loading on boot.
I enabled ALL apps in the startup/permission manager... but still they wont load.
WHAT ELSE is there to check/click/switch/do ??(
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I restored my X2 today ,so no SU/TWRP/... did a full wipe with stock recovery,still the same... I suspect,this isnt a bug... but more a feature.
No matter what I try.. NO APPS are autostarting...
(just the whole system crap like playstore/gmail/google services/bla blabla)
Cant be that Im the ONLY one with this (unsolvable ???) problem ?????

well.. turns out.. nothing is unsolveable.. besides curing human stupidity.. and NO.. Im not talking about myself
If you want an app to be 100% sure its loading when you turn on your phone or reboot it => you have to convert the app with Titanium Backup to a SYSTEM APP.
(so basically TiB just moves the .apk into system/app).
Be sure to reboot afterwards,as otherwise the app is gone from your launcher.
I tested this with 3 apps (afWALL+/allinONEgestures/wifiONoff) and all three NEVER started after a cold/warm/lukeWarm(re)BOOT,and after converting them with TiB,all 3 start now everytime.
so maybe I was/am the only one who was annoyed by this BOOTloadingBUG,but with this workaround its solved for me !

justin22 said:
well.. turns out.. nothing is unsolveable.. besides curing human stupidity.. and NO.. Im not talking about myself
If you want an app to be 100% sure its loading when you turn on your phone or reboot it => you have to convert the app with Titanium Backup to a SYSTEM APP.
(so basically TiB just moves the .apk into system/app).
Be sure to reboot afterwards,as otherwise the app is gone from your launcher.
I tested this with 3 apps (afWALL+/allinONEgestures/wifiONoff) and all three NEVER started after a cold/warm/lukeWarm(re)BOOT,and after converting them with TiB,all 3 start now everytime.
so maybe I was/am the only one who was annoyed by this BOOTloadingBUG,but with this workaround its solved for me !
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That explain a lot of the trouble I experienced with my X2 device.
And, yes, I agree with you about human stupidity (growing more and more around us).
Thanks for your explanation of this BUG !.

Many apps have stopped after Android 6.0 update - any global way to fix?

Hi all,
A few months ago I've installed a Developer Preview of Android 6.0 on my Nexus 5. It has worked surprisingly well and today I've updated manually to the latest build (MRA58N). So no root, official recovery...
Android itself works well, but many apps from the Play Store stop with the famous "Unfortunately [App name] has stopped" message. Virtually half of them.
I've tried the usual ways to fix the problem like the cache cleaning and so on, but nothing works. The only way is to uninstall the app and to install it again. Of course, every one needs to be configured next.
What can I do? Of course, I can reinstall and reconfigure every single app, but maybe there is a global fix already available?
[Update]: I continue to investigate the issue because my other Nexus 5 has been updated perfectly. It seems the problem is related to the app permissions as some of them can't access the files, other launch, but can't open any file. Any way to repair the permissions?
Thanks in advance.

[Completed] Cannot connect to VPN with any app

Hello, I am using a sharp Aquos crystal(306sh) with root, xposed, and BusyBox all installed. Recently I have been faced with a problem that is quite annoying. Whenever I try to use a VPN app it will give me some sort of error. The main app I use is Betternet and when I tap connect it gives me a toast notification as follows: "Unfortunately, your Android does not support vpn, but you can still try restarting your device to use Betternet." This has become a real problem and has evolved from when it first began happening. when this first started happening it would just tell me to grant permission to Betternet on the prompt I was given, but that prompt would never show up. Thank you in advance to anyone who helps me and note that I would be happy to give any additional information on my problem, device, etc.

Hi !
Was this app ever working ? What android version do you have ? Have you purchased it from Google play or downloaded apk ?

xanthrax said:
Hi !
Was this app ever working ? What android version do you have ? Have you purchased it from Google play or downloaded apk ?
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Hi, Betternet was downloaded directly from Google play and I am on Android 4.4.2 KitKat. It was working before and I am not sure what could have caused the issue.

I've tried myself that app, it's working fine on nougat, uninstal it, reboot, do it again

xanthrax said:
I've tried myself that app, it's working fine on nougat, uninstal it, reboot, do it again
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Thanks, but I have already tried that. I don't think it is a problem with the app, but rather a problem with the system or maybe a conflicting app I have installed. The reason I am asking for help is because I DON'T want to factory reset and I don't want to accidentally make things worse. Do you have any ideas on what may be causing the issue? I would try to find out myself, but I just don't know where to start.

Do you have the VPN settings in network settings?
Try to set up from there
Try a different free VPN to see if it's app or system issue
Try to Google for kitkat vpn issues, apparently there were some reports
Xposed may have something to say, remove what you can until step by step you can identify the culprit
Sent from my Darkside of Oneplus 3T

xanthrax said:
Do you have the VPN settings in network settings?
Try to set up from there
Try a different free VPN to see if it's app or system issue
Try to Google for kitkat vpn issues, apparently there were some reports
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Yes, I do have VPN settings, but I don't know how to connect to Betternet through there. Also, I had googled this for a couple hours before posting and everyone seemed to have a different issue, but I will look again.
Finally, I have tried other apps and they all have the same problem. The problem seems not to be with connecting, but rather getting permission from the system to connect.