When I open the play store app it goes straight to the apps section and not the home page. When in the apps section it only shows 5 tabs - Categories, Want Quick Suggestions, Top Free, Top New Free, and Trending. On top of that most of the apps shown on top of the respective tabs are worthless apps with fake reviews and download numbers. I think that this may be a fake play store, but I can't be sure. I tried uninstalling the updates and clearing the data, but the problem still persists. As of now this problem can be seen on my phone, and my dad's phone and tab. I also tried the Web interface but it's the same story, even in my laptop and my pc. I tried opening the link for the Nexus 5 on my pc and laptop, but it shows that 'Devices on play store are not available in your country' , even though the nexus devices and the android wear devices are available in India. Please Help Me.
Thanks in advance
P. S. : I reside in India and use the Indian Play Store.
Hi,
Have never seen this issue personally and indeed there could be a fake malicious play store out there, you will best off asking your question in the general q&a section found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help
There are lots of people from India on xda so you're bound to find an answer
Best of luck!
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Hi,
Have never seen this issue personally and indeed there could be a fake malicious play store out there, you will best off asking your question in the general q&a section found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help
There are lots of people from India on xda so you're bound to find an answer
Best of luck!
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Thank you very much for your time. I sure will.
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Hi all,
I had a few apps on the Play Store some months ago, which got removed after Google decided to ban me from the Play Store for who knows what reason. Apparently the cause was the "sexy" nature of the apps, which still doesn't explain why my app got kicked out and so many apps that are much worse than mine still live there.
Well, anyway, I've decided to put them all back online on a website for users to download, so if you're interested in them feel free to download them and give me some feedback! All the apps have a brief descriptions and screenshots:
drfeelgoodsw . appspot . com (sorry, being a newbie no link allowed...)
They're all apps to quickly access galleries of well known sexy and gossip websites (Front Magazine, The Sun Page 3, Egotastic and so on), and they all allow you to mark those galleries as favourites, save them on your SD card, etc. Nothing fancy but I hope you'll enjoy them nevertheless! If you have any suggestion on how to improve them, or just know some other website you'd like a similar app to be made for, I'd love to hear it from you
They must have been deleted again because nothing comes up in a search for them
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sixfearstheseven said:
They must have been deleted again because nothing comes up in a search for them
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Sorry, I should have been clearer... by "back online" I actually meant they were available again on the web page I created for the purpose, not on the Play Store. I tried publishing them on Android PIT after they were removed from the Play Store, but that only lasted a few weeks, as apparently Android PIT only hosts apps that are also on the Play Store (quite silly of them, considering they're supposed to be an alternative market, but anyway...). I'm looking for other markets to publish the apps on, but until then the apps are available for download on the page I linked in my previous post. Those apps automatically look for updates using a JSON string on the same page, so updates should be easy to keep track of even without a Market in place.
No feedback? Either the apps are perfect the way they are, or they really suck!!
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No feedback? Either the apps are perfect the way they are, or they really suck!!
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Also, I suspect that people are getting a bit wary of sideloading apks when they could be malware. That's unfortunately a level of trust you lost when you were banned from the play store.
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Also, I suspect that people are getting a bit wary of sideloading apks when they could be malware. That's unfortunately a level of trust you lost when you were banned from the play store.
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Oh, I hadn't thought about that...
Well, if that can help, I can post a screenshot of the mail from Google describing their exact reason why I got banned, which had nothing to do with malicious behaviour in my app. That said, anyone can just monitor the traffic my app generates, and see that, apart from an update check at the beginning (a GET to retrieve a JSON file), the only connections are towards the website each app is wrapping. I would be quite dumb to post malicious apps on an expert den of Androiders like XDA Developers anyway ehehe
Anyway, if that can help I ca post the complete source code of one of the apps to let people check that everything's fine. The core of the apps is mostly the same (activities, sqlite database, image cache, httpclient+jsoup), apart from differences related to their structure (e.g., Page3 has much more activities and choices than GQ), so that should help understand I'm not hijacking anything. Of course, you could object there is no guarantee the code I'm posting is exactly the one used to generate the APKs, as we'd be back to the trust issue at the beginning...
Well, if there's any way I convince those in doubt that I'm in good faith just let me know. About the Play Store, unfortunately there's no way I can get back there. In the mail I received, I was told I was banned and that I could not open a new account to publish the apps again, so that's out of the question. Android PIT only accepts apps that already are on the store, so no go either. I tried other markets like Androlib and SlideMe, but both failed to send me the confirmation mails I needed to confirm the account, so I'm wondering if they're even a viable solution for developers right now. I've already discarded the Amazon App Store option, as there's an annual fee the likes of which only Apple could conceive. Anyone knows more alternatives to publish apps?
Hi guys
I'm asking you for HELP because I lost hope how to fix my problem with my new Asus Zenfone 5 on my own. I bought phone from China - Spemall.com (good and safe website). Phone is brilliant and very well made all is perfect except one thing - it was no play store installed. All other phones and tablets from them had play store installed this is first time when I had device without it.
I have this phone for two days now I was trying almost everything (in my opinion everything) to install both first Google Play Services and after that Play Store.
I downloaded both latest versions apk and first installed services and after play store but when trying to tap in play store icon all what I getting is
---Unfortunately Google play services has stopped.
I was cleaning data, cache, reinstalling both apps and even I did few times factory reset but nothing. I was still getting famous massage --- Unfortunately Google play services has stopped. Whatever I press Google settings or play store it will always end up in this same way.
Phone is not rooted!!!
I was using guides from you tube because that was easy start and you must start somewhere and sometimes when problem is little you are able to fix it but this time is different and my knowledge and you tube is not enough that's why I asking you guys to help me in this difficult moment.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Best regards
Kabak
I can completely understand your frustration. Since we don't have a forum for your device, may I suggest posting your query in
Android Development and Hacking > Android General ? One of the Experts there will love to help you. Make sure to include your android version when you do so.
You can most certainly get Amazon Appstore installed on the tablet to get you going.
Thank you very much
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I can completely understand your frustration. Since we don't have a forum for your device, may I suggest posting your query in
Android Development and Hacking > Android General ? One of the Experts there will love to help you. Make sure to include your android version when you do so.
You can most certainly get Amazon Appstore installed on the tablet to get you going.
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Hello
I will try to do that now once again Thank you so much at least I will go somewhere
Regards
kabak
Hi to all,
I just landed at the Android world. The phone I got is a really really Chinese "Huaexl" (at least the name reminding the better known Huawei XL) not including Google Play as defaut app store. Since I did not find a reliable way to get the Google Play app (Google website does not allow to download it) I tried to install Google Play Service which does nothing else but crash.
Google Play has a certain credibility in my opinion. My problem now is that I want to find a "reliable" way to download apps in case there is no reliable way to install it.
At the moment I'm using 1Mobile Market and Aptoide just to download some utility (such as some hardware monitor or QR code scanner and other basic app) but I would never use such stores for example when it comes to install some banking app
So, to make it short:
would you suggest any "reliable" way to install Google Play or any "reliable" alteriative?
would you suggest me to replace the current Android version and istall another one including Google Play by default?
Thank you in advance for your comments and suggestions.
PD: what about replacing Android with Ubuntu Touch?
PD2: according to the hardware monitor apps that I installed, such phone should be an optacore, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of ROM
PD3: dispite the camera options get till 13Mpx mode, the quality of the pictures is quite bad
You can download Google Play Store from Android Police
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23578570567716666
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redndian said:
You can download Google Play Store from Android Police
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Thanks a lot. However, since I'm new in the Android world, I have never heard of Android Police. Could you please tell me more about them? I've been googling but found nothing about Android Police except what they themselves publish (blog, website, podcasts and so on).
Could you clean my doubts about their "realiability" ?
Sorry for insisting about this topic.
Thanks.
Regards.
Link already given for download. Android police is reliable source
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maccabbeo said:
Thanks a lot. However, since I'm new in the Android world, I have never heard of Android Police. Could you please tell me more about them? I've been googling but found nothing about Android Police except what they themselves publish (blog, website, podcasts and so on).
Could you clean my doubts about their "realiability" ?
Sorry for insisting about this topic.
Thanks.
Regards.
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Android Police is a well known blog and info site, loads of new info that's initially start off there and get spread. I can assure you that the website is very reliable. Nothing to worry about.
TheArc said:
Android Police is a well known blog and info site, loads of new info that's initially start off there and get spread. I can assure you that the website is very reliable. Nothing to worry about.
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Ok, now I got your own opinion about it. Thanks a lot, that's a great start!
Is there any other reliable source talking about Android Police. For example any well known online newspaper or something?
Please try to understand my feelings. I want to be straight. Your feedback about your own personal feelings is important for me since I just don't know this world. My dubts will be completely cleaned (well, never be sure 100%) when I could see for example (just a stupid and unreal example) the New York Times telling about Android Police.
I mean, I wish a reliable source may have talked about it. Please tell me if any, I would really really appreciate it.
Thank you so much for your understanding and your patience.
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You can download Google Play Store from Android Police
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Unfortunately Google Play just crashes less than 1 second after launching it. Is there anything I could do?
Or shoud I just give up since it is impossible to install on phones not coming with it already installed by default, as I've been reading somewhere?
Thanks,
regards.
I dedoxed my Galaxy Tab 4 as described in this thread and it worked great (I used the version for SM-T535). But now I have a strange a strange App named Žmonės that wasn't there before and you can only find it in the settings, not the general applist. Even though I found it (or a look a like ) in Google Play Store and it looks like a harmless Russian magazine I am uncertain how to proceed. Should I simple uninstall it? Is it some adware?
If this tread belongs in Device specif forum, feel free to move it if you can.
I'm new here so I'm sorry if there is a thread about this or if I'm doing it wrong. But I haven't been able to find anyone on any internet forums with my issue. Google now doesn't display any cards except for weather and parking location, but only on my phone. On my nexus 7 I get weather plus all of my cards from websites and about certain topics. The only time my phone gives me anything else in Google now is telling me an update about a football game I don't really care about every 5 minutes. I don't understand why it doesn't give me stories on my phone but it does on my tablet. Both have the same version of Android and Google. Both are signed in to the same Google account. And up until they updated Google both of !y devices gave identical cards. I don't really know what to do.
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I'm new here so I'm sorry if there is a thread about this or if I'm doing it wrong. But I haven't been able to find anyone on any internet forums with my issue. Google now doesn't display any cards except for weather and parking location, but only on my phone. On my nexus 7 I get weather plus all of my cards from websites and about certain topics. The only time my phone gives me anything else in Google now is telling me an update about a football game I don't really care about every 5 minutes. I don't understand why it doesn't give me stories on my phone but it does on my tablet. Both have the same version of Android and Google. Both are signed in to the same Google account. And up until they updated Google both of !y devices gave identical cards. I don't really know what to do.
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Hello there! Welcome to XDA!
First register an XDA account (so you can ask in the proper forum)
then, you may ask for help here: (see below)
If your Device is a Nexus 7 with Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core chip go here -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-7
if it is the Google Nexus 7 (2013) -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-7-2013
Good Luck!