Recently, I encountered several issue on play store
1. My app is suspended for deceptive behavior ==> appeal successful and reinstated the app.
2. The same app's updated rejected, because of I listed keyword in form of keywords: xxx, xxxx ,xxx
3. I submitted a new app, it is removed, also because of deceptive behavior ==> appeal successful and submit the app again.
Seems google is experiencing auto-review tools on the play store. Everyone, be careful.
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Amazon app store application is now saying I only have 17 apps to install.
Just few days ago, I remember seeing over 60!!
Now, on Amazon.com, my device used to show up as "Logic PD Zoom", now it says correctly "Barnes and Noble Nook Color" and most apps shows up as incompatible. (even though MOST - except couple) of apps that I have so far installed are working.
(I usually just get the free app of the day and don't download and install since I usually just like to play few games at a time).
Is there a way to get around this restriction and enable the app store application to have an option to download ALL apps?
Have you looked @ Amazon.com website
Under Account Settings / Digital Content / Your apps and devices. There's a page under your account - where you can activate / deactivate a device - and manage apps. I haven't had your problem - but that's the first place I'd look to resolve the issue.
i changed my hw version to the HTC vision when the netflix app first came out as a work around. maybe you can try that, and see it more apps show up
Hello All,
Apologies if this has been addressed already. I did try to search for the issue and have found various articles outside of XDA, but none internally. Yesterday, or perhaps the day before, I noticed I was unable to update any of my apps via the Google Play Store.
I tried the basic troubleshooting steps.
Reset mobile data.
Did a clear cache and data on the Play Store app, as well as Google Play Services (this also kicked me back to an older version of play, when I go to settings and click build, it says it will install a new version of Play, i.e. the one I had prior to a Data clear, but I never get it).
Removed and re-added my google account on my phone.
Stopped short of doing a factory reset, as I am not too keen on doing so just yet.
Called Google Support (or rather, used their callback feature built into the play store app), and they were absolutely clueless. The guy literally said, there is no solution to this problem and hung up on me, sounded like the gentlemen may have been from Africa, or the call center in Africa. Whatever the case, it was clear he had absolutely no technical knowledge or ability other than reading 3 lines from a script.
In any event, has anyone else been experiencing this issue, and is there a solution and/or any insight or updates regarding this?
Thanks in advance.
Do you get any errors from Play Store while trying to update apps?
No errors, whatsoever. Just stuck on downloading. Tried it over WI-FI and it still didn't work. Then went tried a different Wi-Fi and was able to download apps and update apps again, but I still can't download or update anything over my mobile network.
At one point, I got a timeout message coded (925). Searched around for that, and none of the fixes worked (I had already tried tjose fixes anyway).
MODERATOR, please move this to the T-Mobile Galaxy Note 5 forum. Apologies. I was at work when posting this, and didn't check which forum I was in when posting. This should be addressed in the T-Mobile Note 5 forum. Thanks!!
Clear data and cache of Play Store app, then connect to VPN (change your IP address to another country), and run Play Store, see if it works or not.
Ok TAEL, I will try this and get back to you.
Found the culprit. Apparently, on the Note 5, there are fine grained settings for restricting background data for certain apps and processes. I had restricted background data for "Media", and this was the issue. Thank you for your help!
You silly guy, you.
So in perusing my apps in the Play Store the other day, I noticed an app called SystemUpdates by chondong. I've never installed this app and there is no option to uninstall it.
It was created and forced into my phone on June 15.
I don't buy for one second that this is a system update app as the phone had the ability to search for and receive OTA updates prior to this being installed. The only description in English says "Update update the internal system of the application" (yes, it says update twice).
This is a Chinese phone and I'm very skeptical of what this app is.
Permissions are intrusive as well; see screenshots.
Any thoughts on this? Reading the feedback on the app, I'm not the only one concerned about this and it appears it doesn't only apply to ZTE, but other Chinese phones as well.
Let's keep this thread alive until someone can answer...
I just noticed the same app on my Axon A1R. One difference though - mine says it is produced by ZZte.
I have no idea when the app was installed (for sure less than 3 weeks ago - I know I went though all my apps because I was having WiFi issues and wanted to make sure it wasn't caused by a random app I'd downloaded). There is no way to uninstall it. I managed to disable it - but that just made the 'System updates' section disappear in the Settings>About Phone menu.
I'm starting to think that installing a mod OS published by some random person might be safer than using the Google approved, ZTE modified and FIDO distributed OS.
TX-Brad said:
So in perusing my apps in the Play Store the other day, I noticed an app called SystemUpdates by chondong. I've never installed this app and there is no option to uninstall it.
It was created and forced into my phone on June 15.
I don't buy for one second that this is a system update app as the phone had the ability to search for and receive OTA updates prior to this being installed. The only description in English says "Update update the internal system of the application" (yes, it says update twice).
This is a Chinese phone and I'm very skeptical of what this app is.
Permissions are intrusive as well; see screenshots.
Any thoughts on this? Reading the feedback on the app, I'm not the only one concerned about this and it appears it doesn't only apply to ZTE, but other Chinese phones as well.
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It looks to me that you need to do a factory reset, and discontinue installing non-play store apps.
If you did indeed get it from the Play Store, then report it to Google, so it won't be there anymore.
But I find it really hard to believe it came from the Play Store, as Google does a lot of testing of new apps.
Earlier today, Google Play suddenly removed our app, claiming it was disabling SELinux, but looking at the code and checking on a device it doesn't disable SELinux, but has other SELinux interactions to remain working when SELinux is enforcing.
As I am trying to figure out a way forward, I wonder if anyone else has experience with what tests and rule interpretations they use to trigger this forced app removal.
We had a strike earlier because we had an option to download additional APKs from our own webserver (only for APKs that could not be uploaded to play store due to conflicting policies), we got past that by removing that code from the Play store version of our APK, but this means we now need to be careful not to gather too many strikes from policy misunderstandings.
Hey everyone!
I am getting a few strange crash reports for my application in the Google Play Console. The stacktrace is provided at the bottom of this post.
When I apply the filter "Installation Source = Google Play" in the console, I can see that every single crash of that kind is coming from a device that DID NOT install the application via Google Play.
However, I yesterday pushed a new version of the app to the Play Store (5% staged rollout), and I already got a crash report for this version only four hours after the update came available. Still, the Play Console states that this installation was not done using Google Play, which would indicate that somebody scraped the app bundle from the newest app version from Google Play pretty immediately, and manually installed it somewhere. I do not offer this newest version on any other app store yet.
My questions are as follows:
Do you have experiences with such random crash reports only from app installations that were not made with Google Play?
Is there a probable explanation for the crash with the newest version appearing only after four hours from a non-Google-Play installation?
Do you have any idea what could be causing this exact crash and stacktrace only on few devices and non-Google-Play installations?
Thanks a lot for your thoughts and expertise.
Exception java.lang.RuntimeException:
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity (ActivityThread.java:4166)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity (ActivityThread.java:4312)
at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute (LaunchActivityItem.java:101)
at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks (TransactionExecutor.java:135)
at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute (TransactionExecutor.java:95)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage (ActivityThread.java:2571)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage (Handler.java:106)
at android.os.Looper.loopOnce (Looper.java:226)
at android.os.Looper.loop (Looper.java:313)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main (ActivityThread.java:8741)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Method.java)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run (RuntimeInit.java:571)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main (ZygoteInit.java:1067)
I often get such crash reports that are hidden by the "Installed from = Google Play" filter from my own testing (installing the app from Android Studio on my test devices), but I suppose you have excluded that possibility?
I'm not sure if crashes in Google's automatic pre-launch report test appear as "installed from Google Play" (this is done in the first few minutes after you submit an update).
I don't recognise that exact stack trace.