So when I first received my phone, it had one of the new Play Store updates already installed (Metro UI). I had a couple of problems activating the phone, so I ended up doing factory reset. For some reason, that downgraded the Play Store version to build 4.9.13 but I don't understand why. Anyway, an easy way to update it (if there's an update available), it to simply open up the Play Store, go to Settings, then scroll down all the way to the Build Version. You simply tap the version number, and if there's an update available it downloads it and installs it. Otherwise, you just get a message that says it's up to date.
Well, my phone keeps saying that it's up to date, although my 1st gen Moto X has been upated to version 5.0.31. Does anyone know why my 2nd gen Moto X won't update the Play Store verion? I have already tire clearing cache and data, but that does nothing. I know I can manually download the apk, but I'm just curious as to why it won't update automatically especially since it already had the new version when I first received it.
Thanks
Mine is doing this too
There is a thread here with the latest apk. If that helps you.
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shamelin73 said:
Mine is doing this too
There is a thread here with the latest apk. If that helps you.
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I know I can just download the apk. Mainly wondering why it reverted to an old version when it was shipped with the new one, and why it keeps saying that it's up to date.
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Hi there, i bought a Nexus S to replace the Xperia X10, and i notice that i can not update the market, i am stuck at 2.3.6.
i went to apps managemet and uninstalled the "updates" and clear the data for the market app but it doesn't work, it keep downloading the 2.3 version instead of the 3.1 version.
In the X10 the market updates correctly so it is not a country related problem.
any ideas???
Download the apk yourself and install it
NYYFan325 said:
Download the apk yourself and install it
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yeah i can do that, but it suposed to get the latest updates with the nexus but even the x10 get more updates.... so what do i missed???
i don't undestand why i can't get the automatic updates, also the OTA for 2.3.4 dissapear, i am stuck at Android 2.3.3
any ideas??
fdlm82 said:
i don't undestand why i can't get the automatic updates, also the OTA for 2.3.4 dissapear, i am stuck at Android 2.3.3
any ideas??
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Are u rooted? If ur stock but rooted if u where to try to install the update it will abort and u wont get the ota anymore cuz u need stock recovery to install the ota
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I wish I could keep the old market. The new one is slow, laggy, having strange bug of it wanting to attach itself to another Gmail I have, and I have no need for books or movies.
If I pull the new out and install old, the new one updates all by itself. I don't know he it's possible to keep the market from updating itself.
Look under /system/app for MarketUpdater.apk and either delete it or change the permissions to 000.
Then go to manage applications and uninstall market update.
Your market will now stay the same
fdlm82 said:
Hi there, i bought a Nexus S to replace the Xperia X10, and i notice that i can not update the market, i am stuck at 2.3.6.
i went to apps managemet and uninstalled the "updates" and clear the data for the market app but it doesn't work, it keep downloading the 2.3 version instead of the 3.1 version.
In the X10 the market updates correctly so it is not a country related problem.
any ideas???
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As far as the market goes.....
Make sure you have the MarketUpdater.apk in /system/app. Also clear try clearing data for the market under settings-->applications-->manage applications
And for the software updates....
What version do you have? Because not all models and carriers are at the same software build number.
i haven't rooted the phone, and it is stock.
i am the only one with this problem???
my phone is factory unlocked and it is a i9020a phone.
Its not a "problem". The update isn't instantly pushed to all phones right away. It gets pushed in stages or something to that effect.
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http://lts.cr/xDH
Download it, put on SD card and install
NYYFan325 said:
Its not a "problem". The update isn't instantly pushed to all phones right away. It gets pushed in stages or something to that effect.
Edit:
http://lts.cr/xDH
Download it, put on SD card and install
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yes i undesrtand that, but there is a previus version i think is the 3.1.3, and i can't get that version too, and it's released months ago, the strange thing is that i can update to the green version 2.3.1 from the grey one (i don't remenber the version but it's one of the first market available).
3.1.3 was never released to our nexus s
Hi,
I had thesame problem as you are experiencing now. Tried the downloaded version but uninstalled it.
Since this morning i have the official market app.
This is how i got it, maybe it has nothing to do with it but its worth a try.
- go to settings and enable location via.Wifi and cellular
- go to app management and remove cache, app data and the market updates you might have
- in the launcher open market app, accept terms and let it load to home screen
- push home button
- lock your phone for about 15minutes
You should have the new market now. I tried this twice and both times it worked then i disabled the location setting and it didnt work.
Hope this helps you.
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@p.pavljasevic, your method confirmed working, I just did mine and got 3.1.5 now.
I stop trying long time ago thinking it might've been not pushed to the phone yet, I just tried it and it worked.
p.pavljasevic said:
Hi,
I had thesame problem as you are experiencing now. Tried the downloaded version but uninstalled it.
Since this morning i have the official market app.
This is how i got it, maybe it has nothing to do with it but its worth a try.
- go to settings and enable location via.Wifi and cellular
- go to app management and remove cache, app data and the market updates you might have
- in the launcher open market app, accept terms and let it load to home screen
- push home button
- lock your phone for about 15minutes
You should have the new market now. I tried this twice and both times it worked then i disabled the location setting and it didnt work.
Hope this helps you.
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Ok, the wifi and gps location was activated, i uninstalled the market updates and clead data and i went back to 2.13 version (the grey one), wait a few minutes and the 2.3.6 version was installed (the green one). I also tried turning wifi and gps off and no luck
someone says that the 3.1.3 version was never pushed to nexus, anyone else experienced that??
I am glad that it worked for at least one more person, hope it can help more people.
I dont know if and when 3.1.3 was released but i am on 3.1.5 now.
btw, i am on i9023 version.
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Recently bought my wife a droid on Ebay, it is not rooted and functions fine with 1 exception it will not update to current software
Firmware 2.0
Kernel 2.6.29
Build # ESD20
My wife would like to down load certain apps but she is stuck with Android MArket and they are only offered on Google Playstore, any way I can force an update or install it myself? When I check the phone says it is up to date, My sone has a droid as well and it is current.
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Recently bought my wife a droid on Ebay, it is not rooted and functions fine with 1 exception it will not update to current software
Firmware 2.0
Kernel 2.6.29
Build # ESD20
My wife would like to down load certain apps but she is stuck with Android MArket and they are only offered on Google Playstore, any way I can force an update or install it myself? When I check the phone says it is up to date, My sone has a droid as well and it is current.
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You need android 2.2 or above to use the playstore. The Droid has gotten officially updates up to 2.2.3, so I'm surprised it says your phone is up to date. If you are not able to get the OTA, you can download the update (2.2.3) from here: http://www.droid-life.com/2011/11/21/download-frk76-update-for-the-original-motorola-droid/ or another option is to install a custom rom.
It Does Not Appear in 2.2.3 Either
I just got a Motorola Droid to play with. After resetting and updating it, I was expecting to find a notification for the Play Store, but there wasn't any. I looked through the Google Market on the phone to see if the Play Store was in the Market, but it wasn't.
I downloaded the update and renamed it update.zip booted to recovery did a factory and cache wipe then selected install update.zip from sd card but it failed to open no such file, so i rebooted used astro file manager and I see it plain as day, what am i doing wrong
I am getting a strange error on my phone. Until a week ago Google play store was working perfectly on my phone but now suddenly whenever I try to use it, it says unfortunately stopped all the time.
The only way I can use it by uninstalling updates but whenever I do that, the play store automatically updates, I have performed a clean wipe and reinstalled the rom, still no luck.
I am using chroma rom, 5.0.2 build, the final version
Any help is appreciated.
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I am getting a strange error on my phone. Until a week ago Google play store was working perfectly on my phone but now suddenly whenever I try to use it, it says unfortunately stopped all the time.
The only way I can use it by uninstalling updates but whenever I do that, the play store automatically updates, I have performed a clean wipe and reinstalled the rom, still no luck.
I am using chroma rom, 5.0.2 build, the final version
Any help is appreciated.
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How about your google play services, does that need to be updated? My version is 7.0.99 and I am on version 5.4.10 of the play store
Maybe try a different gapps zip?
BladeRunner said:
How about your google play services, does that need to be updated? My version is 7.0.99 and I am on version 5.4.10 of the play store
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Play services is upated, still I am encountering the isssue
brando56894 said:
Maybe try a different gapps zip?
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Done, but still no use
therazrguy said:
I am getting a strange error on my phone. Until a week ago Google play store was working perfectly on my phone but now suddenly whenever I try to use it, it says unfortunately stopped all the time.
The only way I can use it by uninstalling updates but whenever I do that, the play store automatically updates, I have performed a clean wipe and reinstalled the rom, still no luck.
I am using chroma rom, 5.0.2 build, the final version
Any help is appreciated.
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Have you tried a different rom/gapps combo? It may make sense to do a nandroid backup and then try a different 5.0.x rom/gapps. If that helps you can probably narrow it down to which software is causing the error.
Thanks for the help guys, I solved the issue, it turned out a layer was causing the problem, I removed it and everything is back to normal.
therazrguy said:
Thanks for the help guys, I solved the issue, it turned out a layer was causing the problem, I removed it and everything is back to normal.
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Great news. Would you mind using a more descriptive thread title next time please? As this is a Q&A forum, "help" is implied
I bought this for my mom and I was wondering if the tablet did regular updates, would it lose google play? What would an OTA take out other than root?
I'm currently on 5.1.1(got mine the day the update was released and updated without knowing) and I was able to install google play and services and haven't had any problems with either. As far as OTA updates, I doubt it will prevent it from working but can't say for sure because we don't know what Amazon will do.
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I'm currently on 5.1.1(got mine the day the update was released and updated without knowing) and I was able to install google play and services and haven't had any problems with either. As far as OTA updates, I doubt it will prevent it from working but can't say for sure because we don't know what Amazon will do.
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Others have mentioned that the Amazon updates are full images, so I would speculate that if you had root and installed to system it would probably be wiped out. If you used the script, it just installs like a regular app and should be retained through an OTA like all the other apps. That's not to say that an OS change couldn't cause the frameworks or app to crash\stop functioning.
Didn't some others say they couldn't install Play store completely on 5.1.1 ?
[PSA] Information Regarding Firmware Version 5.1.1
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List of things you can't do:
Remove Amazon Bloatware
Boot a .img from Fastboot
Downgrade to an earlier release
Root
Install Custom ROMS
Remove Lockscreen Ads
List of things you can do:
Install and use the Google Play Framework and Services
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The current update may not break google play but at any time in the future a update may come out that does indeed break it. Why risk it? Just disable OTA.
It seems a bunch of people got screwed because they failed to kill OTA & got hit by 5.1.1. It's just foolish to leave OTA enabled. You can always apply a new update manually or even temporarily re-enable OTA if a new update proves safe & you want it.
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[PSA] Information Regarding Firmware Version 5.1.1
It's just foolish to leave OTA enabled. You can always apply a new update manually or even temporarily re-enable OTA if a new update proves safe & you want it.
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This. Completely automatic updates are for the elderly that have to call their children to be reminded how to cut/paste in Excel.
julianpaul said:
Didn't some others say they couldn't install Play store completely on 5.1.1 ?
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The Google Play script from 5.0.1 works just the same in 5.1.1 without issue.
I know we are still waiting on a potential root update for the 5.1.1 firmware, which is how my black friday fire was shipped, unfortunately. However, I have sideloaded google play and google frameworks successfully (I think) via rootjunky's zip. The problem is, I cannot update google play services (Fire tells me it is out of date) without logging into the Play store, but I cannot log into the play store. Whenever I put in my credentials, I get an error that says "There was a problem communicating with Google Servers, please try again later".
If I cant update the framework through Play, or log into play at all, I'm pretty sunk. I have noticed some people referencing the ability to use the Play store on 5.1.1. so somebody must have gotten in successfully. Anybody have any ideas on how to fix, or get this error and find a solution?
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google...es-8-4-89-2428711-230-2-android-apk-download/
sideload this apk. this is the latest play services for our device. it's signed so it should install right over the old version.
hp420 said:
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google...es-8-4-89-2428711-230-2-android-apk-download/
sideload this apk. this is the latest play services for our device. it's signed so it should install right over the old version.
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Well they solved the problem elsewhere but left this thread hanging
http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/help/apps-dont-google-play-t3270128
New to this and looking for clarification
I just received my Fire today which promptly upgraded itself to 5.1.1. All I want to do right now is install Google Play Store. I've downloaded the GAPPS file linked below (8.4.89), but now I'm hoping for a link for the RootJunky sideloader to complete the process. I'm a super newbie, so any instructions past just a simple link would be much appreciated.
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Solved
hp420 said:
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google...es-8-4-89-2428711-230-2-android-apk-download/
sideload this apk. this is the latest play services for our device. it's signed so it should install right over the old version.
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Thanks for the link! Probably what I was looking for, however, issue was solved by running the batch file in the rootjunky ADB zip a second time which probably gave me the same result.
khult said:
I just received my Fire today which promptly upgraded itself to 5.1.1. All I want to do right now is install Google Play Store. I've downloaded the GAPPS file linked below (8.4.89), but now I'm hoping for a link for the RootJunky sideloader to complete the process. I'm a super newbie, so any instructions past just a simple link would be much appreciated.
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If you haven't found your solution yet, here is the rootjunky link: http://rootjunkysdl.com/?device=Amazon Fire 5th gen
You download and extract the amazon fire 5th gen zip to a folder, connect your fire (make sure to have the necessary device/adb drivers installed), and follow the promps. FYI I had to run it twice to get Play to work properly, but I'm all set up now, don't even need root really (Although, a replacement launcher would be nice, I think the fire home launcher is a piece of crap).
The ad-removal didn't work with the Rootjunky script, but a separate ADB command got rid of them.
khult said:
I just received my Fire today which promptly upgraded itself to 5.1.1. All I want to do right now is install Google Play Store. I've downloaded the GAPPS file linked below (8.4.89), but now I'm hoping for a link for the RootJunky sideloader to complete the process. I'm a super newbie, so any instructions past just a simple link would be much appreciated.
Thanks
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Install the drivers from Amazon here https://developer.amazon.com/appsan...etting-up-your-kindle-fire-tablet-for-testing
On tablet
We need to enable Developer Options
Go to Settings>Device Options>Tap on Serial Numbers seven times it'll say "You are now Developer"
This puts new category underneath Serial Number, Developer options so go into that
Toggle Enable ADB to the on position
Then plug the tablet in to pc
Then visit the thread here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/installing-google-framework-playstore-t3216122
Download the file in one, and unzip it.
Ignore it's drivers (many seem to have had difficulties with them) and you won't get any joy from the parts of the Batch file that block ads or updates, they won't do any harm, but they won't do anything well at all really so don't worry about them.
run 1-Install-Play-Store.bat
You can check the drivers you have installed work as it loads up, if it has you'll see your serial number on the left of the screen
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
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List of devices attached
Gxxxserialxnumberxxxxxxxx device
If it shows, all well and good, run option 2 on menu screen and should be good to go.
It'll say it's blocked the ads, it hasn't.
Thank you guys. Can't believe how easy that was. One thing though - I downloaded the newer GAPPS file, but then the batch file never asked me for its location and therefore installed the default older one. It seems to work perfectly, and asked me to update Play Services first thing, which I suppose gave me the exact same result.
I appreciate the help very much.
I had same problem and used an apk. Loader got google play services and games but when I went to login to google play it just says checking info. I let it run for hours and nothing. It's been a week. No option of plugging into a PC please help I am up for any fresh ideas
Frogsmash said:
I had same problem and used an apk. Loader got google play services and games but when I went to login to google play it just says checking info. I let it run for hours and nothing. It's been a week. No option of plugging into a PC please help I am up for any fresh ideas
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Try this thread.