I've released an update to our app in the market but users are receiving an extra dialog warning stating that their previous version will be replaced. The upgrade happens successfully and data is retained but I'm at a loss as to why this dialog is coming up.
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Recently the Dev of the AWESOME app "Useful Switchers" made a change to his free app.If you update the app now through the marketplace, it will turn it in to a "trial version" which will expire Sept 14 2009. You will then have to get it for $0.99. Note that it won't be a better version, or a pro version, it will be the same thing. Here is what the Dev (turmeric on these forums I believe) says in the updated description in the marketplace:"Now I develop new version 2.0. If you donate, big thanks for support. I really need some money. I especially make smaller price ($0.99). This version is trial now (expired Sep 14 2009)."As you might imagine the reaction in the comments has been very harsh, and a lot of people are reducing their rating for the app.Before anyone attacks me (or others) with suggestions that we are freeloaders, pirates, or mean for trying to stop the Dev from profiting from his hard work, let me be clear; I _completely_ support any Dev's right to make money from their app. If it is valuable to me, I am even more than willing to pay for it. We aren't talking about a lot of money, it's only 99 cents, and useful switchers is a great app (I use it all the time, every day).
Most people in the MP comments are upset not that the Dev wants to make money, but that it seems like a tricky, underhanded way to do it. The app they have used will suddenly expire after an update. It seems almost like a bait and switch. Yes, the Dev does explain in the app description what will happen when you update, so users who updated without reading it really only have themselves to blame (Caveat Emptor after all). The Dev maybe could have gone about this better, perhaps making it clearer (large words in bold) that the app would change to trial software after the update, and maybe he could have extended the trial period (it ends VERY shortly), but still, it's there to read.
My_ problem with the Dev's actions are really more a problem with the Marketplace in general, and how Google and phone carriers are handling it. You see, I'm in Canada, and apparently in Canada we can't be trusted with our own money, so we can't have access to paid apps (yes, that's me being snarky). Many other countries are in the same boat.So, turmeric, I'm talking to you now (and all other Devs who might read this); Your app is great, and I would GLADLY pay for it... but I can't. Once it becomes a paid app I will not even be able to see it in the marketplace. Even if I were to send you a donation now, if I update the app it will stop working on Sept 14 and I will be screwed.
Some will argue that it's still the Dev's right to change it to a paid app, and boo hoo so sorry, too bad for me. Well, i agree 100%. I agree the dev has the right, but there is something else to consider... customer service and his reputation as a dev.There are LOTS of users who, if they update, will lose the app on Sept 14, and not be able to get the paid version because they can't access paid apps. These people are lost potential customers for _future_apps when they can eventually access paid apps. You will turn they away.So, what are the alternatives? Do what many other Devs have done. Make a free version and a paid "pro" version so those without access to paid apps can still get a very useful app. Or, if you don't like that, and insist on making the app a paid app only, surely there must be a way (as with software for computers) to use an unlock key to get the full version? that way users could download a free "locked" version from the store, and pay the dev separately through his web site for a key that could be typed manually into the app to unlock it.
Don't use bgill55 themes for your UD ROM, they're bricking your phones. ATTN mods: meant to post this in "All Things Root" subforum.
View 19 Replies View RelatedI think I've found quite a serious problem with the Google maps for Android update that just came out late last week.I have a Latitude account, but I havent signed it in on this phone as I don't want battery and data being wasted updating my location, plus most of the time the whole location tracker thing is a bit Big Brother for me anyway. But after the update, one of my friends warned me that i had appeared on Latitude, and it turns out that the update signed me in there and set itself to automatically update my location.If this is happening to others, this represents a serious lapse at Google - it should be up to me to switch on the service, it should not automatically sign in - let alone automatically update my location! This phone has never prompted me to switch it on, and that is not acceptable. My location is a private matter and my battery life and data are precious, goddamnit.
View 24 Replies View Relatedi thought i would just put this out there since it hasn't really been talked about much and the new update is suppose to hit tomorrow. i know it buried in a couple threads but if you were using the Flash for 2.1 uninstall it before doing the update tomorrow.i had it on my phone and didn't uninstall it like i planed to and my browser would crash on any flash, i fixed it with the new 2.2 flash from xda but yeah once again just a heads up for people that didn't know.installing this on my phone fixed the problem and i didn't have to do a hard reset like some have had to do
View 25 Replies View RelatedI did an app called "Hello Yahoo" and today I made an update. But users said it can't be installed because the package is not signed correctly. And after that the old version can't even be uninstalled because the device thinks it is uninstalled already. I never experience that, but it is reported by many users. I do use a different keystore to sign it with the update. Is this the case? How can I fix this?
View 3 Replies View RelatedThere is a new update being pushed over the air to the Ally, the update fixes root so do not update if you want to keep velocity and/or root access!!!
View 37 Replies View RelatedI tried getting Kies to install the Froyo update on my Galaxy S (i live in the UK) using the registry hack that has been widely published. It didn't work and I ended up witha slightly newer version of 2.1 than I already had. Phone seemed to work fine, until I put my SIM card back in. It immediately restarted itself as soon as I tried to use 3G.
I went through all the settings, everything seemed to be the same as it was before the flash, but still it restarted everytime I connected to the 3G network.
Sooo, I decided to try and restore it to the previous firmware version again by changing the KIES regisrty values. Everything seemed to go well, phone downloaded the correct version, installed it fine etc and then KIES notified me that the firmware upgrade was succesful and the phone will now reboot.
Only it didnt.
It turned off and hasn't turned back on since
It doesn't get recognised when plugged into USB, it doesn't even show a charging logo when plugged into the mains. It does get VERY warm when I leave the battery in for 10 minutes or so though.
I've tried all the three button combos posted around, I've taken the battery out and in and out and in etc etc... nothing. It's a shiny 9mm thick brick now
Sprint just tweeted about a new update for Hero. It would come up under "HTC software" section of system updates. Doesn't seem like it does much at all, but reports are that it will kill root.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI don't have the Tmo data plan and I still have not got the update yet. Have anyone without the data plan received the update?
View 3 Replies View RelatedThe market is telling me that it has an "update available" for an app that I have uninstalled quite a while ago. How can I let the market know that this app is not installed?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a no-brand (full price, 499 €) X10 bought in Italy as soon as released on the market. I still have the old R1FA014 firmware, and both SEUS and the OTA application say that I already have the most recent firmware. However the rest of the world had R1FA016 and now some operator-branded phones are receiving R2BA020 firmware. How it is possible that branded phones are receiving the update before full price unbranded phones? I'm so dissatisfied with Sony Ericsson. I always had Ericsson phones, but now I'm really disappointed.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm getting a ServiceConnectionLeaked message that I don't understand.
There are 3 activities and a remote service, all the activities use the same remote service. The main window, activity 1, starts up, auto-starts the service and binds to it. The user then starts activity 2 to do something. The user now wants activity 3, so the code in activity 2 puts some data in an intent and starts activity 1 via startActivity (). When activity 1 is started, it reads the data in the intent and starts activity 3.
This all works as expected except that while activity 3 is starting I get the ServiceConnectionLeaked warning. This is odd because the code that unbinds from the service has never been called and the service connection continues to operate just fine. If the user backs out of the main window the service is unbound and everything shuts down correctly.
Because the UI design doesn't want activity 2 to stack on top of 3, or 3 on top of 2 I use a FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP flag when starting activity 1. (I tested with this flag removed and the leak warning goes away but I wind up with extra activities/windows in the stack).
To make it even a bit weirder, if I run through the same scenario again, e.g. close activity 3 to get back to activity 1, open 2, switch to 3 there is no leakage the second and successive times, only the first time (near as I can tell).
We are developing an application which uses the BufferedInputStream class several times, and we are getting an annoying message in the logcat:
I/global ( 749): Default buffer size used in BufferedInputStream constructor. It would be better to be explicit if an 8k buffer is required.
We cannot meet the suggestion all the times and it's very annoying and it doesn't make much sense. Is it possible to remove that warning message? Or to change the log level to fine instead of info or warning, for example, so that it doesn't appear in the logcat messages?
Before you download an App it gives you the warning about what the App has access to. I had a new one today, and I'm not sure of the implications.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have an app that receives and stores SMS messages. The main use is to run in the background, although it does have a full GUI when running in the foreground. I'm using a notification with the FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT flag so users can tell the application is running, even if it's in the background. However, the user could easily close the app by viewing the main screen and clicking the back button. The notification icon goes away, but I would like to be able to warn the user that closing the app would prevent it from capturing the SMS messages. Is there any way to prompt the user if they really want to exit the application when they hit the back button, and prevent the exit if they say no? Or should I take a different approach? And a bonus question: is there a way of receiving an SMS message, but prevent it from passing on to, say, the Messenging app?
View 5 Replies View RelatedDon't buy anything from Android Playground! They don't give you updates and because of that, you get stuck with old applications that taint your system and eventually makes your phone slower. Only buy apps through the market! Someone I met who works for Verizon informed me of this.
View 2 Replies View RelatedSince previous releases of android SDK (I think since version 0.9), I have a warning when I run a aplication from Eclipse.
"Warning once: This application, or a library it uses, is using NSQuickDrawView, which has been deprecated. Apps should cease use of QuickDraw and move to Quartz."
How I can solve this? I am running Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede) in Mac OS X 10.5.6.
WARNING: Back up your Astrid 2 before doing the Astrid 3 upgrade!I just updated to Astrid 3.0 ("Update Available"). Silly me, I didn't read the notes other than to see that Astrid 3 was "all new". My tasks vaporized! The I tried to "restore" and it said I had to buy an add-on pack to do that. No indication of whether the restore in V3 is compatible with saved tasklists from V2. The experience left me cold. I uninstalled Astrid 3 and reverted to V2 via the link http://bit.ly/oldastrid. Then I restored from the saved list on my SD card from the scheduled backup that Astrid did last night. I still lost some tasks I entered today.
View 22 Replies View RelatedA new line of apps has appeared that seem to offer quick access to all sorts of things such as Amazon, banks etc. The apps do nothing more than pass you on to the target organisation's website. The apps are chargeable. Does anybody have any further info?
View 7 Replies View RelatedHas anybody ever had a warning after rooting and going online with your phone? At my homepage (google) I got a warning saying the certificate could not be validated and asked me if i would like to continue, has this happened to anybody before?
View 5 Replies View RelatedAbout a week ago when I booted my phone everything forced closed while the desktop loaded up (phone, gps, settings, etc...) and nothing worked except third party apps (thank god.) Well I rebooted and everything worked fine after that... Fast forward to today and it started happening again except this time no matter what I did nothing would work. I even dropped the phone off with a Sprint service center (my device is a Sprint Hero) and they just ordered me a new phone because nothing they did worked. After I left Sprint I went out to eat and while eating I kept messing with my phone more and more until I admitted defeat and started backing up all my apps with Astro . Welllll apparently somewhere along the way I got this effing awesome idea to uninstall via Astro all the applications I've downloaded in the last week and freaking bam; phone works again. Here's a list of applications I deleted and I've starred the ones.
Audio Manager Widget
Smart Android Apps, LLC
My Coupons - Eat Free
Most Popular Download
3D Level
Igor Fischer
Icon Pack - Mario
Better Android
Calendar Widget 2
Bitartist
Minutes Widget (Miku Version)
Maya Takao
*Internal Memory Widget
G3
*SD Card Memory Widget
G3
S2 Calendar Widget
Futaba
*Powertime Widget
Weaverfish Designs
The starred ones raise more flags as I downloaded them before any of the others but not knowing which did this I figured I'd put all that I uninstalled to fix my phone.
I am using MediaPlayer to play background music and SoundPool to play sound effects. All Audio data is stored in .ogg file format. Sometimes it happens that the MediaPlayer playback is interrupted for a fraction of a second if SoundPool.play() is called. Whenever this happens, the following two warnings are printed to logcat:
11-04 01:49:05.113: WARN/AudioTrack(51): obtainBuffer timed out (is the CPU pegged?) 0x2b6e8 user=000cc520, server=000cb710 11-04 01:49:05.113: WARN/AudioTrack(51): *** SERIOUS WARNING *** obtainBuffer() timed out but didn't need to be locked. We recovered, but this shouldn't happen (user=000cc520, server=000cb710)
Do you have any ideas what could cause the warning messages and/or how to avoid them? I.e. how to prevent SoundPool.play() from interrupting MediaPlayer playback?
An other warning that's sometimes appearing is: 11-04 01:55:49.793: WARN/AudioFlinger(51): write blocked for 89 msecs There seems to be no connection to the above messages, but do you have any ideas what causes this message and/or how to avoid it?
Here's some more detailed background information, maybe they are useful: My OpenGL powered game is split into three threads: One for rendering, one to take care about the game logic and the main thread to process user input. All Audio data is accessed through a central AudioManager class, which is only used in the game logic thread. (So this does not seem like a threading issue. Needless to say that synchronizing all methods has not solved the problem). The game runs smoothly at ~60 frames per second. According to DDMS the game causes ~33% system load (~10% in kernel space and ~23% in user space) on a G1. Even the idle task gets ~24% CPU time assigned while the game is running and input happens through the touch screen! (So it does not look like a performance problem) The MediaPlayer playback interruption always happens if SoundPool.play () is called in response of a touch screen input. Although touch screen input and SoundPool.play() happen in different threads. I've tried suspending the UI thread for various different delays between 8 and 32 msec after a MotionEvent has been processed, but again, without success...
A phone with a clean ESN that has been activated on your account can still be rendered useless and placed on the blacklist if someone decides to report it stolen! CAVEAT EMPTOR!
If you are buying a used phone, have the seller put it IN WRITING that the phone is legit, just calling Verizon to check on the ESN is not enough. If they arent willing, find someone who is.
I uninstalled toggle settings and I had turned off APN data (GSM) and 3G network on it before I uninstalled. This meant that I couldn't connect to the internet I think it was the APN that was the killer luckily after trying a bunch of stuff I found a copy of toggle settings on the internet and sent it via bluetooth installed it and then turned on the settings again and now it's fixed.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWarning : Your installing software that contains unsigned content. The authenticity and validity of this software can't be established.Do you want to continue with the installation.I tried the by downloading ADT plug in as zip file even i am getting same error.How can i solve this issue?I installed eclipse 3.5.2 j2ee version
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm using Intrumentation to invoke keystrokes and mouse events, but I have a problem when trying to do so on the virtual keyboard. If the virtual keyboard pops up and I want to send a mouse event to click on a character of the keyboard, I get that error/warning in the console:
W/WindowManager( 586): Permission denied: injecting pointer event from pid 1580 uid 10020 to window Window{437522d0 InputMethod paused=false} owned by uid 10003
Is there a way to make it work? I know I can't do instrumentation on native activites, does the native keyboard acts like a native activity?
Got a Samsung Moment a couple of weeks ago. Last night starting using Astrid (Task/ToDo app), which came pre-installed on my phone. When I launched Astrid for the first time, I got a warning message -- something about making sure Sprint Update or Sprint Updater doesn't kill Astrid, or ruin it, or something. Clearly, I didn't understand the message. But I clicked "Okay" anyway, and started using Astrid. But I'm worried that a Sprint Update could erase all my Astrid data -- my To Do's. I'm reluctant to create many Astrid tasks until I know how to prevent them from being unexpectedly erased. My questions: Can anyone explain the situation to me? (e.g., I have no idea who/when/how/where/what Sprint updates). Can anyone explain what I need to do to prevent the catastrophe about which Astrid was warning me?
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Checking my bank account (Halifax), I seem to have been charged a transaction fee for apps that I have bought on the market, about �1 each time, can any one else confirm they also get an extra charge for purchasing apps? In the UK, would be good to see if this is country specific!
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