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I was wondering if anyone knew what the cause of the apps that don't appear in the market even w/ improved market fix.
I have been trying to see if I can find the common denominator with these apps and I am coming up empty. Trying to create a running thread and identify some apps that don't so I can email the dev to see if there are restrictions present that we can't see. A couple I have noticed that I use daily are.
ADW EX
Dolphin HD (dolphin mini shows up)
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Google has not officially certified the gtab for its use on the Android Market.
romanrish,
I know the feeling. I used to be able to see Launcherpro and even purchased it for my GTablet. Now with the new market (and all the fixes) I can't see it and have no way to tell when it gets an update other than going to the developers web site. BAH!
@Butch I am fully aware that Google has not certified the Gtablet for the market. This is more of a technical discussion. There are checks that are performed to identify what you should see in the market.
One of which is obviously looking at your build fingerprint. Since this action doesn't appear to have any consequences like changing you device ID probably would. I am trying to figure if there is a way to intercept these checks to display a different device w/out editing the build.prop which may cause instability or worse.
Any ideas?
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romanrish,
I know the feeling. I used to be able to see Launcherpro and even purchased it for my GTablet. Now with the new market (and all the fixes) I can't see it and have no way to tell when it gets an update other than going to the developers web site. BAH!
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FYI: I have the new market and had to do the "Market Fix" (stop Market service, stop Google Framework, clear data on Framework) several times before I could "see" Launcher Pro and ADW...
It eventually worked and I was able to install both via the Market -- and now they show up fine inc. updates...
What I can't see (yet) is the EA Games that were on sale for 99cents...I am only able to see two -- FIFA (bought) and Tetris -- but I'm guessing it is something to do with the rest of the games not being supported on tablets. (I think NFS Shift even states not supported on Samsung Galaxy Tab)
I just tried the build prop from my droid2 for shiggles. It is kinda ballsy, but root explorer backs up your old build prop so I figured what the heck and gave it a shot. It seems that everything is here I haven't found any side effects. This is working great. Any app I was looking for is there now. This is the build fingerprint I used
ro.build.fingerprint=verizon/droid2_vzw/ cdma_droid2/droid2:2.2/VZW/23.20:user/ota-rel-keys,release-keys
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romanrish: Did you have to do anything special post-mod of the build.prop when you changed it to your Droid2 string?
Market fix?
Using stock TnT and I'm still not see gtab show up on my market account, help
So you do not see your gtab at all in your settings like in the pic below?
i don't see mine either. i only see 1 device and it has all the apps from both my Droid 1 and gtab combined into 1 device.
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i don't see mine either. i only see 1 device and it has all the apps from both my Droid 1 and gtab combined into 1 device.
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same here.. actually i DID see my gtab on the web market but realized that i wasnt getting all the apps to show up in the market so i went ahead and redid the market fix on my tab and the gtab no longer showed up on the web market and it combined all the apps i had on both devices under my droid 1
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same here.. actually i DID see my gtab on the web market but realized that i wasnt getting all the apps to show up in the market so i went ahead and redid the market fix on my tab and the gtab no longer showed up on the web market and it combined all the apps i had on both devices under my droid 1
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I have my build.prop set up as a Galaxy tab and it doesnt show any devices in the market but everything works fine. hmmmmmm
ddarvish said:
same here.. actually i DID see my gtab on the web market but realized that i wasnt getting all the apps to show up in the market so i went ahead and redid the market fix on my tab and the gtab no longer showed up on the web market and it combined all the apps i had on both devices under my droid 1
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hmm i actually did the market fix too about 2 days ago. i reflashed to vegan b5.1 and i noticed that some apps weren't showing up on market so i did the fix. maybe thats what's causing the issue? i'm gonna change the build.prop back to what it was or maybe even reflash vegan again to see if it fixes it.
Mine has gone now. Perhaps the update to pershoot's kernel changed something. That or another attempt at the Market fix (to get My Apps) back.
My Gtab doesn't show up at all, but my rooted Droid 1 (I'm assuming) shows up three times! Unknown device from Verizon... 3 times over. So far I've sent apps to all three devices and received none.
Some other "id" or identifier would be helpful for identifying which devices it thinks I have.
It's also weird that the phones seem to be showing up with no make or model -- likely because everyone I've talked to has it rooted and non-stock ROM'd
The Market seems to "inventory" your apps every so often -- but I'm not sure what the frequency is...
After re-doing the Market fix, the entire "My Apps" section is empty except for purchased apps...often stays that way for a while, then mysteriously everything pops up and works fine...
Sometimes, installing a free app seems to kick start it -- but not always...
I am also observing this issue.
So I gather the problem is that the Market Fix+build.prop fixes we use to get our 95% market apps do their job well, but seem to screw up Google's ability to identify our tablets?
Maybe that's why the Market Fix works in the first place - Google no longer knows exactly what device we have, so it just sends us everything.
Has anybody gotten a Market Fixed tablet to consistently show up in the Android Market web list?
I can't wait for CM7 to mature a bit more and to get some good driver support - no Market Fix required means all this stuff should just work...
Anyone not seeing their device on market.android.com, have you tried flushing your browsers cache?
I can see the emulator "device" I did the Market hack on and push apps to it (although only the very very few apps the device itself can see on the Market app).
I'm curious if flushing the cache of your browse would help. I had to reinstall VEGAn on my tablet yesterday morning.....and the evening before I was able to see it on the web portal to the Market and push apps down. After reinstalling VEGAn it was missing. I tried logging out, logging in on the web, tried downloading a few things from the Market on the tablet...etc....still couldn't see it.
I fired up a different browser on my PC and had to login to the Market with that one and my tablet was listed. After that...going back in on my regular browser I saw my tablet listed. I'm wondering now if I flushed the cache of my regular browser and then tried logging in if that would have shown it.
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Anyone not seeing their device on market.android.com, have you tried flushing your browsers cache?
I can see the emulator "device" I did the Market hack on and push apps to it (although only the very very few apps the device itself can see on the Market app).
I'm curious if flushing the cache of your browse would help. I had to reinstall VEGAn on my tablet yesterday morning.....and the evening before I was able to see it on the web portal to the Market and push apps down. After reinstalling VEGAn it was missing. I tried logging out, logging in on the web, tried downloading a few things from the Market on the tablet...etc....still couldn't see it.
I fired up a different browser on my PC and had to login to the Market with that one and my tablet was listed. After that...going back in on my regular browser I saw my tablet listed. I'm wondering now if I flushed the cache of my regular browser and then tried logging in if that would have shown it.
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I have tried a different browser. tried the market fix two more times and still not showing up. not a really big deal for me but it would be cool if this was working.
I tried clearing cache and no luck, stock gtab still not showing up, not up on Android enough to install custom rom's, hope we can get honeycomb upgrade soon...looks awesome.
I think the answer ha been posted elsewhere, but just go into the Android Market app and download an app. Then check the settings app on the web store again. That worked like a dream for me.
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Still showing as no android devices associated with this account.
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I think the answer ha been posted elsewhere, but just go into the Android Market app and download an app. Then check the settings app on the web store again. That worked like a dream for me.
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That suggestion doesn't seem to work for most people. Definitely doesn't work for me, I tried it several times.
Well, lo and behold, my tablet shows up in the market again!!!!
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Mine too now. Looks like Google fixed whatever issue was causing our "market fixed" G Tablets from not showing up.
Must be something I'm doing wrong cause I'm still not able to download, just say's no android phones associated... Hope everyone enjoys the market.
Mine just disappeared. Was listed for the last few days. I just bought something too and it still not showing up as associated on the web market.
Weird..
Transformer just arrived. All set up and using my existing Google Account.
However, if i click on any paid apps in the market it states 'Sorry, details page for the requested item could not be found' ....
Its let me sync all my other apps, including paid ones, and it recognised my ID ...
what am i missing ??
There are a couple of other threads open on this, it seems that from yesterday some users are starting to experience the same market issues. I have the same problem and it started this morning, i don't think its a problem with your account or set up. I have emailed Google apps, awaiting their reply or a fix from other users.
If I were a betting person I'd say we're not far off an update of the market that will add a proper tablet specific section, just like itunes has for iphone/ipad apps, as any time an app is reported a few times that it's crashing/FC'ing in honeycomb, it seems to get blocked for tablet installations. So maybe it has something to do with a google reshuffle of the way apps are viewed.
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If I were a betting person I'd say we're not far off an update of the market that will add a proper tablet specific section, just like itunes has for iphone/ipad apps, as any time an app is reported a few times that it's crashing/FC'ing in honeycomb, it seems to get blocked for tablet installations. So maybe it has something to do with a google reshuffle of the way apps are viewed.
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You could be right but it is not affecting incompatible apps, it is any paid app, i have installed a few from your thread prior to this issue and now cannot install new ones you have added as compatible e.g. backup pro.
HasC said:
You could be right but it is not affecting incompatible apps, it is any paid app, i have installed a few from your thread prior to this issue and now cannot install new ones you have added as compatible e.g. backup pro.
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Yeah but I'd assume paid apps were on different servers, as they would have more encrypted data, so possibly one section could be affected while the other remains untouched during an upgrade.
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Yeah but I'd assume paid apps were on different servers, as they would have more encrypted data, so possibly one section could be affected while the other remains untouched during an upgrade.
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Mmm... possibly, will have to wait and see, hopefully sooner rather than later.
Just started getting this today too :-(
I was getting this quite a bit last night, but it wasn't only for paid apps. Some free ones had the problem as well. My workaround for a paid app that I hadn't yet purchased was to buy it on my computer and it was automatically sent to my device.
I got it only once today, don't remember which app. But it has worked fine generally.
I got this message on a few different apps last night. I was able to get around it by either hitting the back button instead of OK in the popup. Or by going to the market through the browser and pushing the app to my device. The market app for HC is really lacking at this point. You can't even review apps. Hopefully they will update soon.
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I'm getting this too.
Temporary solution is to download any app from market.android.com and have it manually download from your browser to your tablet.
I can't install from the market web app - get a notice that I "have not opened the market recently on this device" (which I have - I'm in it now..)
Ok, I understand this probably doesn't pertain to many other Fire users, but maybe it can help a few of you in the same situation as me.
I have my own Amazon account, but my wife and I share kindle and mp3 since buying books and music twice is just dumb. On our phones this is fine because each app allows you to log in as anyone you want. The Kindle Fire combines log ins for all Amazon services, and even puts your name up in the corner. This sucks because I would rather use Joe's Kindle, not Heidi's, and I shop Amazon a lot, but we use my Wife's accounts for books and music. So I was having to live without my music while having my wife lend me books over and over, which then stopped them from being available on my phone... I know, first world problems. Anyway, after rooting (not necessary for this, though, you can just side load) I noticed there was an update in the Android Market for the Kindle app, which I instinctively downloaded. It allowed me to install it over the system app and log in as my wife, without affecting the rest of the accounts on my Fire. Only down side is I no longer have access to the books tab (its empty), and have to use an alternate launcher to use the kindle app now since it doesn't show up in the native app list. Oh well.
After that worked, I decided to try it with the mp3 app, which I pulled from my phone and side loaded, since the one on my Fire didn't show as needing an update in the market. This time, the native tab didn't go dead at least.
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Edit: After a reboot the music tab works again, updated post.
I have been working on this for a while and just figured out that if you rename the system app com.amazon.dcp.apk to com.amazon.dcp.apk.bak it will essentially seperate the amazon apps from the device allowing different logins for the apps.
Edit: Here's a link for anyone not familiar with renaming apps http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1385301
Sounds good, my mp3 player app reverted back to linked after a second reboot. Just one question, does this kill the tabs in the native launcher? No big deal if it does since I've switched to ADW, just curious. Probably going to reroot my Fire tomorrow and use your suggestion, and disable the Amazon Appstore redirect, too.
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Droidificator said:
Sounds good, my mp3 player app reverted back to linked after a second reboot. Just one question, doors this kill the tabs in the native launcher? No big deal if our does since I've switched to ADW, just curious. Probably going to reroot my Fire tomorrow and use your suggestion, and disable the Amazon Appstore redirect, too.
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I just checked and all the tabs seem to be working fine.
Ok, that works, but it stops you from registering your Kindle. Don't know exactly what that means, but it's a little concerning since I dropped $45 on the warranty. Does yours just say "My Kindle" in the corner? I tried registering it in settings and it won't go through. Oh well. Think I'm just going to copy all the music over to my account.
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Ok, that works, but it stops you from registering your Kindle. Don'tknow exactly what that means, but it's a little concerning since I dropped $45 on the warranty. Does yours just say "My Kindle" in the corner? I tried registering it inn strings and it won't go through. Oh well. Think I'm just going to copy all the music over to my account, too.
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Unfortunately I bought mine used and have been having trouble trying to get it registered so mine has always just been "My kindle", that was my driving force behind trying to figure this out. Sorry I was unaware of that issue.
I have a (4GB) Tronsmart TS7 (some times known as a Alps Glacier TS7). It's a Chinese MTK6589 based phone running Android 4.2 purchased from geekbuying.
For the most part the device is stock, there are next to no pre-installed apps apart from the usual, and the only additional apps I have installed are: Playstation, Steam, ColorNote, Shuttle+, Root Explorer DI Radio, Chrome & Gmail
The problem I have is that there are apps appearing on the device that I am not installing. So far it has been the same set of apps that appear:
Mobo Market
UC Browser
TrustGo Security
DU Battery Saver
337 Game Master
GameCenter
(there may be more)
These apps don't start appearing right after a factory reset, but start to arrive 1-2weeks later. They also seem to be packaged similarly; when I say packaged I mean opening them seems to prompt with the same menu & style (accept licence etc) before it gets to the main app. Also, after you open the app from the app drawer it then creates an icon on the desktop. Maybe opening it actually does the installing?
The apps themselves seem to be legit.
I have factory reset the device (twice), and changed my Google password but they are still appearing. They don't show up in my Play store history so they must be coming from elsewhere.
My main concern is that if it is downloading things without my permission, what might it be uploading ? Not to mention wasting my 3g data etc.
So I have a few questions:
Should I be (really) worried?
Is there a way to monitor this? eg connect to a wifi hotspot and packet capture the network traffic? or maybe use a process monitor (the ones I've tried so far haven't shown anything) to see if there is some sort of script in the background?
Can it be stopped?
Thanks in advance, I would be interested to know if anyone else has/had this problem?
I have the same problem.
I haven't tried flashing some other ROM yet, but I guess that is the only way to get it to stop installing those things.
Have you actually found any other roms to install?
For anybody's information:
You may have noticed how you always end up with a 'Tronsmart.mp4' video file appearing in your gallery app. This is damn annoying since it appears twice, once on the internal and once on the external SD card. There is an '\system\app\CopyTest.apk' file which creates both of these. Should be safe to delete it and thus prevent the file(s) appearing
I have actually decompiled this apk. It works as a service that runs when MEDIA_UNMOUNTED or MEDIA_MOUNTED is invoked, and does absolutely nothing else.
I have the same problem, those random apps installing and the video always in my gallery. I have managed to stop tge apps by using a firewall and allowing only my apps that i want to use the internet. I havent found a solution though to fix the problem. Probably tronsmart is spamming its customers...
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I have managed to stop tge apps by using a firewall and allowing only my apps that i want to use the internet.
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What Firewall did you use? I might be able to use something like that to pinpoint the app that's causing this.
Sory for the late reply. I am usin "android firewall" free from google play store.
USB debugging disabled stopped it on mine
edit: not that easy, wasn't enough. made some cleanup by disabing/removing some system apps. seems to work so far although there are still some strange events like superuser crashing and right after that system downloader.apk reappearing. haven't seen any other junk coming back
these are the apk's i removed:
systemupdateassistant
systemdownloader
omacp
mtkbt
midtest
galaxy4
fusedlocation
engineermode
engineermodesim
cds_info
basicdreams.