Is there any way to get a paid app on google play to my FiretTV? I tried getting google play working on the ftv, but I guess that was too much to hope for. And I looked for a way to remove the signing on the app, but that seems a little troublesome.
Yes you can download any of your paid apps and install them to your fire tv. I have been using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1563894 . All the directions are rite there in the thread .
{ParanoiA} said:
Yes you can download any of your paid apps and install them to your fire tv. I have been using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1563894 . All the directions are rite there in the thread .
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The only thing I can't find is the device id. Tried a device id-app.. but it just says not found. Do I need some.. google service installed, or something?
I was able to install the Google services framework, maps, youtube, google play services, the Play store and gmail (meaning, adb install ran without error.)
The combination gave me enough of google that I can sideload paid apps from the Play store and they run fine. The store itself is installed, knows who I am, but cannot see the network. This is apparently a typical state for the store on Amazon hardware.
roustabout said:
I was able to install the Google services framework, maps, youtube, google play services, the Play store and gmail (meaning, adb install ran without error.)
The combination gave me enough of google that I can sideload paid apps from the Play store and they run fine. The store itself is installed, knows who I am, but cannot see the network. This is apparently a typical state for the store on Amazon hardware.
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Yeah, I've installed most of these myself. But to begin to sideload a paid app, I need to be able to sign it with an id.. so I'm obviously missing something. I got service framework, google play services and gmail. Are you using the device id from your firetv, or a different device?
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I was able to install the Google services framework, maps, youtube, google play services, the Play store and gmail (meaning, adb install ran without error.)
The combination gave me enough of google that I can sideload paid apps from the Play store and they run fine. The store itself is installed, knows who I am, but cannot see the network. This is apparently a typical state for the store on Amazon hardware.
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Do you see the "No connection" message with a "Retry" button when you launch the Play Store?
@ treqie I just grab the APK from the /data/app directory on a device it's installed on, and sideload that. There may be apps that doesn't work with, but the ones I'm using, it's worked on.
@ deanemj Yes, that's exactly what I see - but it also knows what account name it can't connect to.
{ParanoiA} said:
Yes you can download any of your paid apps and install them to your fire tv. I have been using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1563894 . All the directions are rite there in the thread .
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Does Google Play Music work?
@treqie the device id is found on your phone or any other device that you have the Google play store WORKING on. Apk leecher "spoofs" as that device in order to download the apps. Then you side load them to the fire tv. I have it set up with my phone id to download my apps. Forget about the fire tv until you are able to download apps.
roustabout said:
I was able to install the Google services framework, maps, youtube, google play services, the Play store and gmail (meaning, adb install ran without error.)
The combination gave me enough of google that I can sideload paid apps from the Play store and they run fine. The store itself is installed, knows who I am, but cannot see the network. This is apparently a typical state for the store on Amazon hardware.
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Have you tried installing Xposed and the Play Fix module? BTW I haven't tried this myself since I usually won't install Play but it was suggested before.
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@treqie the device id is found on your phone or any other device that you have the Google play store WORKING on. Apk leecher "spoofs" as that device in order to download the apps. Then you side load them to the fire tv. I have it set up with my phone id to download my apps. Forget about the fire tv until you are able to download apps.
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I get a install fail, saying that the UID changed?
roustabout said:
@ treqie I just grab the APK from the /data/app directory on a device it's installed on, and sideload that. There may be apps that doesn't work with, but the ones I'm using, it's worked on.
@ deanemj Yes, that's exactly what I see - but it also knows what account name it can't connect to.
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Yep, that's exactly what I see, too. I'm not sure if it's a permission issue or if we're missing something else.
I'm not exactly sure what isn't working for you guys. I don't have play store installed on my fire tv. I just use apk leecher (which is associated with my phone ID) to download (example: root explorer from play store) that I side loaded to my fire tv.
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I'm not exactly sure what isn't working for you guys. I don't have play store installed on my fire tv. I just use apk leecher (which is associated with my phone ID) to download (example: root explorer from play store) that I side loaded to my fire tv.
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Oh, yeah, grabbing APKs that way from the play Store isn't a problem. We're just trying to get the store itself working on the AFTV.
There is one risky way of using the Play Store through a web browser,but I don't know if it will even work on Amazon devices.
You could change your device name inside the build.prop file to match a Google Play based device and register yourself on the site.
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Oh, yeah, grabbing APKs that way from the play Store isn't a problem. We're just trying to get the store itself working on the AFTV.
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Well, what I need is to be able to install my apps and have my subscriptions recognized. So for me, at least, the fact that Gmail knew what account it tied to, and Youtube, and the Play Store - these things mean that Play is working on my fire tv.
I don't use it in the car or at the office, so I know I can always load an APK to it if I need to.
I know there are apps that are registered not just to an account but to a device, and for those you'd need to extract a device ID - but I haven't yet encountered one of those apps. (I actually only know about them because Titanium mentions them to me when it offers to restore my device ID so they'll keep running.)
After I tried installing the play store on my fire tv I used firefox beta to open the play store web site to try and sign in that way and clicked on settings cog on top right. It showed my phone as a device and the fire tv as a device but had missing info compared to my phone. There has to be some trick to getting it to work. Unless it is hard coded by amazon to block it.
I just got my Fire TV yesterday and unfortunately it was not able to be rooted out of the box due to its software version. I was able to side load google play store, framework, account manager, and the proper google play services (7.0.99). Apparently this is the last version of play services that will properly function with the fire TV, anything beyond will not work.
First off play store never connects, it always says no connection. So then I side loaded some games to try. They launch but then tell me play services needs to be updated. I have tried side loading the most up to date play services just to give it what it wants and still have no success because the install fails, saying "failed, older SDK".
I simply want to play the games that I already own from the Google play store. Is there any way to do this?
***UPDATE***
I was able to side load over the apks for the updated google play services. And then use es file explorer on the fire tv to install the updated services. It allowed an install and the game launches as normal, it just sits there for 3 seconds and then crashes back to home screen. Tried another game and it just says a network error has occurred and all I can do is retry or cancel.
Just tried another game and it seems to function as normal but at the home screen the game says invalid license. It's a paid app so I'm guessing it can't validate that I paid for it since the play store isn't working. Trying another app now, it's free. Waiting for side load. I'm guessing the play store will never work without root. Anyway to get a new fire TV that ships with older software?
Got a bunch of games to work. It appears that some will work and others just... won't. Some of them are heavily dependent on the play store or something and without my ability to get that working because I can't root, I will have to stick with what I can do. Also some of the games that I can get going have absolutely no controller support and I cant even get passed the title screen. Ill play what I can from the Amazon store I guess.
Hi friends...
I just got my Fire Phone I think is amazing phone, I just updated to Fire OS 4.6.3 and installed the google service, playstore, etc
and everything works perfect, youtube, google maps, facebook, etc it's really amazing this device I like it
The only problem is that I can not use the Periscope App (that's the reason I bought the phone as a secondary device,
and I want it to watch streamings in this device)
When I want to watch a live streaming or a replay
always says "trying to connect" just 1 or 3 seconds playing and then stop saying "trying to connect"
And also I can stream my self , but I can not watch streamings from others
Somebody has periscope App running? can you please tell me what version of the app, and google services, you have?
I really appreciate your help!
I'm using
Fire OS: 4.6.3
Google Play Services version 7.8.99
Google Play Store version 5.7.10
Chema
chemabarboza said:
Hi friends...
I just got my Fire Phone I think is amazing phone, I just updated to Fire OS 4.6.3 and installed the google service, playstore, etc
and everything works perfect, youtube, google maps, facebook, etc it's really amazing this device I like it
The only problem is that I can not use the Periscope App (that's the reason I bought the phone as a secondary device,
and I want it to watch streamings in this device)
When I want to watch a live streaming or a replay
always says "trying to connect" just 1 or 3 seconds playing and then stop saying "trying to connect"
And also I can stream my self , but I can not watch streamings from others
Somebody has periscope App running? can you please tell me what version of the app, and google services, you have?
I really appreciate your help!
I'm using
Fire OS: 4.6.3
Google Play Services version 7.8.99
Google Play Store version 5.7.10
Chema
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I have the same problem. I wrote many many times to periscope's support and last time they said me they're still working on it (a month ago).
There's surely something with the streaming protocol, cause I've noticed that Twitch has exactly the same behavior.
So if you take the periscope App .apk and upload it to amazon developer app checker here is what it says about the app:
Areas of app optimization
Amazon Phone and Tablet Devices
1 Caution(s)
Caution : Google Cloud Messaging Detected
Your APK includes a manifest declaration or an API invocation referring to Google Cloud Messaging.
Other Android Devices
No Issues Found
I certainly do not know what this means exactly, but maybe thats the reason the persicope app does not work properly.
I have rooted Kindle Fire's in my classroom (because it was the cheapest way to get devices in the hands of my students!) but at school I cannot download apps from the Google Play Store (Appstore works fine). I used Root Junky's Super Tool and I'm wondering if there's something with how it's running that is causing a security issue with the school's wifi, as I can download the apps at home and I can use the school's wifi to download apps from my phone.
If so, how would I work around this? Since most of the apps I use are from the Play Store and it's really cumbersome to have to bring them home for installs/updates, etc. And now the school is purchasing a ton more and I'm in charge of helping set them up... I don't want to have to bring home 100 devices to update/download apps. Please help!
I rooted them myself but am generally clueless about how things work. I'd appreciate any suggestions!
I am new to Firestick. I downloaded the Bein Sport Network Streaming app for legal streaming but it doesn't seam to work properly on my firestick. In addition to it requesting Google Play Services and Store, it doesn't seam to be aligned correctly on the screen.
I did some search then I found someone posting the Bein Sports Connect app for a different region which surprisingly ran properly but my credentials didn't work because I am from a different region. It also sent the same message regarding Google Play services, but it worked regardless.
My question is. Is there a possibility to get my region's APK running on Firestick, or is it because its made for phones only it wouldn't work?