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[Q] Updating built in apps (unrooted)

Hey,
I'm running the HTC sense UI, that came with my phone, which I haven't rooted.. And I would like to know if anyone could tell me how can I update programs that came preinstalled..? Because they don't show up in the market, and I would like the new updated google maps, that just came out.. in settings->about->system software update I've tried checking for updates, but still nothing..
Thanks for any help you can provide me

Yeah sometimes the market doesn't detect the apps that are already installed on my phone. I usually just click install even if it doesn't say update. Have you tried just installing the Google Maps application from the market? I believe the updated version came out yesterday.
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Sometimes the market doesn't detect all of my apps as well... The fix is to clear the market cache!

clearing market cache didn't do it.. and oh well.. now i can't even find the maps on the market anymore.. so who knows what's going on ..

This happens to me too on every single ROM I've tried (stock, Cyanogen, Virtuous). There's always several apps that the market doesn't detect me as having, but the one that always seems consistent is Maps. I generally just install Maps from the market manually. This puts an extra Maps applicaton in the /data folder even though Maps already exists in the /system folder. Since I have a rooted device, I then manually delete the maps apk from the system folder.

Super simply fix. Just download aTrackdog by a0soft. It will detect every app you have installed and check to see if there are any updates. If there are you can download them either from the market or the developers website (if one exists). It will even track apps that aren't on the market, like Wireless Tether. And you don't need root for it. Should do the trick, hope it helps.

Android Market Unsuccessful, indefinite download bar help

Hello Everyone,
I'm Perm rooted using Flippy125's Kernal update and CyanogenMOD 6.1.1 ROM with google apps. Despite this, my Android Market has an infinite download bar when I try to download an app for like 10 seconds, then download icon automatically disappears, while the app itself remains on the market without a status (instead of saying INSTALLED or DOWNLOADED, it shows "Free") like it's never been bothered with...could anyone know what the cause of this is?

Have you tried clearing Market's cache? I've had this experience before on my G1, running CM6 before. It seemed to have solved the problem for me. You might want to do that as well.
(Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Market)

bananaclawz said:
Hello Everyone,
I'm Perm rooted using Flippy125's Kernal update and CyanogenMOD 6.1.1 ROM with google apps. Despite this, my Android Market has an infinite download bar when I try to download an app for like 10 seconds, then download icon automatically disappears, while the app itself remains on the market without a status (instead of saying INSTALLED or DOWNLOADED, it shows "Free") like it's never been bothered with...could anyone know what the cause of this is?
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Did you try again today? The Market was down last night while Google was tooling with it for todays press event
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Market Updater Question

I recently froze the Market updater because the newest version of flash isn't working on my phone and everytime I revert to the previous version it's automatically updated in the Market.
I realize that freezing the Market updater app will stop the Market from automatically updating, but is the same true with the apps in there as well? This was the only way I could figure out how to solve my problem after research but if anyone knows a better way, please let me know.
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try going into the market and wait till you see the update happening tap it and hit cancel, that will force stop the update, at least that did the trick on mine my market version is 2.2.6

Thanks for the suggestion. I've actually tried that a few times but the Market still periodically starts automatically updating it again so I think I will try keeping the updater app frozen.
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Can you not uncheck the automatic updates option? Sorry, it has been a while since I've used Sense/a rom that came with Flash preinstalled. There's also an app that allows you to manage which apps update automatically... I think.
If Flash doesn't show as downloaded from the market, go into Titanium Backup, long press on the app, and choose "attach to market (forced)". Then you should be able to uncheck automatic updates for Flash.
My Evo + xda Premium App = This post.

I removed my market updater with titanium. That is first thing I always do after flashing

Superuser auto-update? WTF? WHY? Now my Rom is F'd

I'm running CM7 #211 and yesterday my SUperuser app decided to RANDOMLY auto update itself. I didnt even know you could download the superuser app from the Market. Now all my apps are force closing. I uninstalled the update but my ROM is still F'd force closing on everything. I've tried clearing both caches and fixing permissions and it's still messed up. Any ideas? HOW DO I GET SUPERUSER TO NOT AUTO UPDATE?

I wiped my phone and restored to a backup last week and everything seems fine for the moment.... I just need to figure out how to force the market not to auto update any of my apps.

Since froyo rolled out, you have an option in the market to auto update. The part that sucks is this is within each app so if you have thirty apps, then you have to go into all thirty apps in the market and de-select the auto update option.
And yes, SU has been available for some months in the market as well as in XDA.

cowman4000 said:
I'm running CM7 #211 and yesterday my SUperuser app decided to RANDOMLY auto update itself. I didnt even know you could download the superuser app from the Market. Now all my apps are force closing. I uninstalled the update but my ROM is still F'd force closing on everything. I've tried clearing both caches and fixing permissions and it's still messed up. Any ideas? HOW DO I GET SUPERUSER TO NOT AUTO UPDATE?
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im running CM7 nightly 211 with the newest SU and it works just fine. if you go to the SU app and update the binary it will fix all the FC.
The latest night will have the updated binary and SU in the zip.

Update the binary? Is that done from within the superuser app?

cowman4000 said:
Update the binary? Is that done from within the superuser app?
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yep go to the app. click menu button then preferences.
at the bottom you will see "tap to check for updates"
that way you can enjoy the new app and have the new binary's. without breaking CM7

Thanks I'll try that.

In TB you can disassociate apps from the market which is very handy so those you don't ever want to update such as themed or custom.

SlimSnoopOS said:
Since froyo rolled out, you have an option in the market to auto update. The part that sucks is this is within each app so if you have thirty apps, then you have to go into all thirty apps in the market and de-select the auto update option.
And yes, SU has been available for some months in the market as well as in XDA.
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My superuser app was also auto-updated contrary to my will, i feel raped
First i need to say that everything in the update went fine, updated superuser app and binary are up and working OK.
But regarding what you said, i have eclair 2.1 and so i have the old Market 2.3.6. I also have the option "Allow automatic updating" present in all of my apps, so i can use it or not, it is up to me.
BUT the problem is that in Superuser app this option is not available. See pics:
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PS:
Add the "h" to "ttp" to get "http" and complete image link.
The XDA forum board don't let me put images, it says"to prevent spam new users cant post links..." or something That's okay but, in my opinion, links inserted in between [image] should be permitted.
EDIT: ALL OK NOW. When version 3.04 appear in Market, it also appears the option "Allow automatic updating", so know i can uncheck it if i want, and i did...

BenHolliday said:
In TB you can disassociate apps from the market which is very handy so those you don't ever want to update such as themed or custom.
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On my phone superuser doesn't show up in titanium backup. While other system apps show up in red. If anyone knows a way to make superuser show up in titanium please post it.

Guys, stop freaking out about the SU update. Just do like Synisterwolf said. You'll be fine.

Getting constant f/c on mine, even get them after clicking to update the binary.
Looking over the reviews for SU in the Market many are running into this problem with the latest update.

I had no issues with the update in CM7 but updating past SU app 3.0.2 and binary v2.3.2 running McSense 2.4 was a whole 'nother story. Basically locked down every root permissions app on my phone. Was able to nandroid back to 3.0.2 and disable updating in the market for that ROM. I'll just ignore the nag until the next update.
daj

BTW how are more people not talkign about this? Just about every review across many different roms and phones says the same thing:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/superuser/com.noshufou.android.su

I have no idea if this will help anyone with the SU program or not, or what effects it might have on certain roms.
So after hearing about the force closing on SU I grabbed my phone which I had just updated the binarys on the other day, and today installed a SU update. FC's all over the place as been described. No way to uninstall it from the market, (didn't try the main applications app) so I went to my astro program and from there I was able to uninstall it....well not the entire thing I guess but just the latest updates.
I can now enter back into it without it FC on me. I went to market and made sure auto update was now off and didn't update it when prompted as you open the app.
Seems to work now but I honestly never use it per se unless it prompts me to grant SU permissions when doing something else, so ymmv if doing as I did.
Just thought I'd put it out there in case it helped some folks.

Updated the app to 3.0.5. As long as I don't update the binary past 2.3.2, I'm good running McSense 2.4.
daj

wildstang83 said:
Guys, stop freaking out about the SU update. Just do like Synisterwolf said. You'll be fine.
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It's very likely that you won't. For me, 3.0.4 worked for the most part, but it never worked with adbWireless. I updated to 3.0.5 and started getting very frequent force closes. Superuser 3 is not ready for prime time. I'm back to superuser 2.3.6.3 su binary 2.3.2 and will stay there for a while.

Ok people this will fix the FC on superuser 3.0.5 with binary 3.0!!!!!
1. Go setting/application/manage applications and clear data on superuser
2. Go to market and install update
3. open superuser and preferences change automatic response to "allow"
The list will not show apps but log will and the first time the app accesses little lag but no FC.
Not sure if you already installed 3.0.5 if will fix... Can try clearing data and then change automatic response.

Tanks RL.
I read something like that lastt night and changing it to "allow" fixed the f/c for me.
But this whole thing is so stupid. So many times someone takes something that is perfectly fine and updates it till it is broken. If it's not broke don't fix it. Especially something as important as this.

rlacrossjr said:
Ok people this will fix the FC on superuser 3.0.5 with binary 3.0!!!!!
1. Go setting/application/manage applications and clear data on superuser
2. Go to market and install update
3. open superuser and preferences change automatic response to "allow"
The list will not show apps but log will and the first time the app accesses little lag but no FC.
Not sure if you already installed 3.0.5 if will fix... Can try clearing data and then change automatic response.
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Tried again using this except I uninstalled all updates first. Everything looked OK at first but I started getting FCs when opening TiBU. Cleared data for both SU and TiBU and tried again and it worked fine but as I started opening other root apps, the FCs came back. YMMV
daj

Market issues

Hi I'm running juggernaut 5.0 and I have this problem where my market will downgrade to an older version and then update to the new version. Anyway I can keep it updated?

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Hi I'm running juggernaut 5.0 and I have this problem where my market will downgrade to an older version and then update to the new version. Anyway I can keep it updated?
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Yea use Titanium back up and freeze the market updater app. After that reboot device and problem should be fixed! Good luck!
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"Not Supported" message
I'm having an issue with the Market (Google Play): About 70% of the apps I look at in the Market tell me "Your device isn't compatible with this item".
At first I thought it was a botched ROM flash (tuesday -new beggining) so I did a full wipe & reloaded the same ROM; same issue (about 90% of apps gave that error).
I recently loaded Paradox II (the 3/05 release) and did a full wipe as directed (flashed the wipe util's that were posted). Before restoring any of my apps I checked the market for the paid ones I use that were installed while on the rooted factory ROM (like MyBackup Pro) and got the same message. Some of the apps that "weren't supported" when on the Tuesday ROM were all the sudden supported & downloadable.
I had all apps backed up with MyBackup Pro and installed just the apps (no settings) using the BusyBox option. Every app worked just fine & market links restored but when going to market to update one of the installed & working apps, it'd say not compatible.
Thinking this was a market issue, I uninstalled the updates, cleared data/cache, and installed various versions of Market (including the new one) that were talked about in other threads about Market errors... did not fix it.
When going to the Market on my computer and looking at apps that are installed or were installed pre-custom ROM, it has my SGH-T989 grayed out. I checked build.prop and couldn't see anything with the device identification that looked wrong.
This is preventing a lot of my installed apps to not be able to be updated... Any ideas as to what is causing this? Did I fubar something when doing the first custom ROM flash?
Here are some of the major apps that are saying they are incompatible:
Adobe Flash Player
Astrid Task
Documents to Go
Dolphin Browser HD
DropBox
MyBackupPro
SuperUser

Take out all the market related files by using root explorer or something similar hen find a new market .apk
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born2gethard said:
Take out all the market related files by using root explorer or something similar hen find a new market .apk
Sent from my SGH-T989 using XDA
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Is there a list of these files anywhere that you know of? I ran in to an issue a while back on my G2x when doing something similar to this after a failed theme flash.
Under system/app I have marketupdater.apk but nothing else...

/data/app. Mine is called com.android.vending
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Update on this issue...
I cleared the cache/data for Play Store, uninstalled updates, turned off data, cleared cache/data for Market, went through and deleted all Market related apps/folders:
data/data/com.android.vending (folder)
data/data/com.android.vending.updater (folder)
data/app/com.android.vending.apk
system/app/MarketUpdater.apk
system/app/vending.apk
- I reinstalled the last version of Market that was posted on goo then let it update to Play Store. This resulted in more apps being "compatible" but still had quite a few coming up as "incompatible" (that I had installed & knew worked on the GS2). After further research I found a scenario on another Samsung phone that the lowering the LCD Density caused this same issue. After setting it back to 240 & reinstalling the Market again, the issue was resolved...
I would love to lower the density again but don't want to mess up the Market. Does anyone know of a tweak that will allow this (I'm thinking a build.prop mod)?