Don't know if anyone has noticed but the play store has been updated, not the app but the website version.
The reason i mention it is because if you go to the play store and click the "My Android Apps" tab it shows you all the apps you have installed and used to have installed(Which is nothing new), but the feature i have noticed which may come in handy for many is you can now update your apps from this tab when there is an update available, the reason this would come in handy for me is like many ppl i have modified my DPI and as most know doing so make some apps incompatible for your phone and unable to update from the play store app.
Well not any more as you can now update them from the play store even those ones that show up in your app store as not being compatible but you already have them installed.
Sorry if this is been covered before or is old news i done a quick search and had a quick look but never found anything..
I don't use my A700 all that much but I have noticed recently that none of my downloaded apps from the play store are automatically updating as they used to do. I have done a search of the internet and found others that have had a similar problem but none of the fixes have worked for me.
I am using Adroid 4.1.1, kernel version 3.1.10+ and build number Acer_AV051_A700_1.052.00_PA_CUS1. I have checked for updates but the tablet says none are available.
jfail said:
I don't use my A700 all that much but I have noticed recently that none of my downloaded apps from the play store are automatically updating as they used to do. I have done a search of the internet and found others that have had a similar problem but none of the fixes have worked for me.
I am using Adroid 4.1.1, kernel version 3.1.10+ and build number Acer_AV051_A700_1.052.00_PA_CUS1. I have checked for updates but the tablet says none are available.
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First off, I moved your post to Q & A forum.
As with your issue, going to Settings and checking for updates, is only for the Operating System, Not for apps.
Several changes to the Play Store in updating things. You can open your Play Store (old Market) and select your Installed Apps icon. This will tell you what apps need updated, and you can d it from there (best to have a good Wifi connection as I think you have many updates).
As with Auto-Updating, I believe each app you have installed has this available as an option. Normally, I select it when I install an app from the Play Store. So check your Play store options.
MD
Moscow Desire said:
First off, I moved your post to Q & A forum.
As with your issue, going to Settings and checking for updates, is only for the Operating System, Not for apps.
Several changes to the Play Store in updating things. You can open your Play Store (old Market) and select your Installed Apps icon. This will tell you what apps need updated, and you can d it from there (best to have a good Wifi connection as I think you have many updates).
As with Auto-Updating, I believe each app you have installed has this available as an option. Normally, I select it when I install an app from the Play Store. So check your Play store options.
MD
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Thanks MD
I guess that is where the problem lies. I go to Play Store but I cannot find a Installed Apps icon.
I went to settings and see "Auto-update apps" under the General category does not have a check mark next to it. I tapped it and made sure that "Auto-update apps at any time. Data charges may apply" is checked. Still no updates.
Thanks for your help
I´m not quite sure but I think I have a similar problem: Each time I want to install/update an app I have to kill all Google tasks in settings. I am on stock 4.1.1 rooted.
jfail said:
Thanks MD
I guess that is where the problem lies. I go to Play Store but I cannot find a Installed Apps icon.
I went to settings and see "Auto-update apps" under the General category does not have a check mark next to it. I tapped it and made sure that "Auto-update apps at any time. Data charges may apply" is checked. Still no updates.
Thanks for your help
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With Play Store, select the "down arrow" in the upper right corner. This takes you to "installed apps" and "All apps you have downloaded. Go to Installed Apps, and you can manually update them. Also, if you select an app, you can select auto updating. :good:
MD
EndOfDays-Wildfire said:
I´m not quite sure but I think I have a similar problem: Each time I want to install/update an app I have to kill all Google tasks in settings. I am on stock 4.1.1 rooted.
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Don't have an answer for that one. However, you can kill the auto sync in quick settings rather than going directly into settings.
Moscow Desire said:
With Play Store, select the "down arrow" in the upper right corner. This takes you to "installed apps" and "All apps you have downloaded. Go to Installed Apps, and you can manually update them. Also, if you select an app, you can select auto updating. :good:
MD
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Thanks MD, that helped things along. I completely missed the "INSTALLED" at the top of the screen which does not surprise me in my advanced age.
Autoupdate is enabled for all of my apps but I still don't see the downloading being displayed in the lower right corner as I used to see in the past and a notification that an update for an app had completed. Maybe I am being impatient.
Thanks again for your help.
Since the EE Galaxy S6 firmware upgrade to 5.1.1 I have not been able to install (or update) apps from "unknown sources".
I don't use the Play store at all - I use F-Droid - so this means I cannot use F-Droid as a package management tool!
The "allow unknown sources" setting still exists and is enabled, but all installs or updates just hang after confirming the requested permissions...
Has anyone else noticed this problem, or might know of a way to rectify this situation?
Thanks
im on the same firmware and have had no issues installing unkown sources so it should be working
I have indeed made the assumption that the firmware upgrade is the root cause of this problem ... could the upgrade be a pure co-incidence? Stranger things have happened!
I have no idea what else could be causing this, though.
geebotron said:
I have indeed made the assumption that the firmware upgrade is the root cause of this problem ... could the upgrade be a pure co-incidence? Stranger things have happened!
I have no idea what else could be causing this, though.
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I have finally got to the root of this! IT's a little obscure but I will document it here in case it helps anyone else.
Being an F-Droid user and not having a google account on my android phone I had disabled the Google Play Store app. Quite reasonably I thought, as not having a Google account means it isn't possible to use the Play store.
BUT ... when you set the flag to allow "non-market applications" (as you must to use F-Droid) whenever you install a (non-market) app a nag dialog box would pop up asking if I wanted Google to check the validity of these apps. If you choose "decline" the nag box appears on the next installation. Only if you accept does the nag box leave you alone.
I had previously caved in and allowed google to check the apps (annoyingly there was no "decline and never ask me again" option on the nag screen). After this, I had disabled the Play Store.
After the upgrade presumably the Play store stayed in a disabled state but the nag flag seemed to be reset.
So it wanted to nag me but the app that did the nagging was disabled, so it just hung at that point in the installation.
Re-enabling the Play Store allowed the nag screen again and thus the installation completed. :good:
Hello!!
I don't usually talk about this but I've seen the need to do it
I have a Shield K1 tablet and every time I install an update, I remove the preinstalled applications to lighten the storage and handling of the RAM but since the last update came out 5.1 when I re-delete the junk applications and restart my device I can not log in Google play and the following message "google play service has stopped working" appears.
I am looking for the application that creates this conflict and I am sure that many also wanted to create this thread to discard applications that are possibly causing the problem but if anyone knows of any solutions please comment it
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Hey all. Sysadmin here, no developer experience.
We have an app we received from our vendor and we have a strict release schedule, the app is also published in Google Play. In order to avoid the app from auto updating itself from Google Play we resigned the app with our own keystore.
We followed the following article among others:
https://www.xda-developers.com/stop-updates-android-application/
This worked fine earlier this year and the app was not recognized in google play. Today we received a new version for testing and I cant get this to work anymore. Ive resigned the app with a debug.keystore and a custom keystore but the app is still recognized in google play and displaying "updates available"
Anyone familiar with recent changes regarding app signing and debug keystores ? Or alternatively other ways to prevent an app from autoupdating ? We cannot disable store autoupdate because we still require other apps to be on the latest version at all times.
fliptrick said:
Hey all. Sysadmin here, no developer experience.
We have an app we received from our vendor and we have a strict release schedule, the app is also published in Google Play. In order to avoid the app from auto updating itself from Google Play we resigned the app with our own keystore.
We followed the following article among others:
https://www.xda-developers.com/stop-updates-android-application/
This worked fine earlier this year and the app was not recognized in google play. Today we received a new version for testing and I cant get this to work anymore. Ive resigned the app with a debug.keystore and a custom keystore but the app is still recognized in google play and displaying "updates available"
Anyone familiar with recent changes regarding app signing and debug keystores ? Or alternatively other ways to prevent an app from autoupdating ? We cannot disable store autoupdate because we still require other apps to be on the latest version at all times.
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You didnt even need to edit files, Google Play offers the ability to disable updates for a specific app all what you need to do is:
1. In google play go to the desired app you want to disable the updates for
2.will find a three dots option on the top right side of the screen
3.press it and then uncheck "Auto-updates"