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App disappeared from market after failed attempt at purchase

So when I attempted to purchase any app on the market (that costs money), I would get an error stating that there was a problem processing the request and to see checkout.google.com to fix it.
Well I logged into my checkout.google.com account, using the same credentials that are present on my phone, and there is nothing. No attempts at purchases or anything.
1. Does anyone know why I can't purchase anything (i have set up a payment method on my checkout account and everything)
2. How do I get the market to show the apps that have disappeared. Namely Hello IM! and SnapPhoto Pro do not appear in the market at all.
I have deleted the cache for the market to see if that would help, but didn't.
Is there some sort of issue with JF ADP 1.1h that doesn't allow for purchasing apps?

Google is blocking protected apps (not just payed) in the market to adp's. Flash jfs rc33 is you want root and protected apps.

I have RC33 and root and can't see a lot of apps, prettysure it isn't just ADP phones getting blocked.

sinbot said:
I have RC33 and root and can't see a lot of apps, prettysure it isn't just ADP phones getting blocked.
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I have RC33 with root and I just bought an app ; )

It also has to deal with your sim card more than anything.

Google blocks paid apps for unlocked G1 users
by Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service
Interesting fact - I couldn't see any paid apps available in the market. But when I turned on Wifi and then looked at the market, the paid apps were there!

d00m said:
Google is blocking protected apps (not just payed) in the market to adp's. Flash jfs rc33 is you want root and protected apps.
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Well, that seemed to fix it...I still think it's weird that I could see the paid and protected apps, but could not buy them...I didn't even think of switching back to RC33 from ADP. Makes sense though, considering how horribly sad and pathetic DRM is on the market.

Yeah I had ADP1.1h and couldn't see most of the paid apps. So I switched back to RC33 and they were all there. I don't understand why Google is doing this. They say its to prevent piracy but by not offering paid apps to ADP users they are making worse since the only way to get the apps is through piracy.

It has nothing to do with paid apps... it is protected apps. The Developers are the ones that say an app is protected.

JLine05 said:
I have RC33 with root and I just bought an app ; )
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I can see paid apps, I just can't see all apps. Like Bettercut and Quick Office, they don't show up at all for me.

Android Market Questions

Hi, I have two questions. 1) When I access the market I only see the free apps. How do I access the paid apps? 2) I used a different app (I forget the name) to directly access the top paid apps, but when I try to buy anything I get a message saying that my Google acccount has problems. I have double checked all the account details, and everything is correct Any ideas? Thanks.

Please check that you set up your google account on your phone properly, and then take a look at the market ( with the original app)... there are free and there are paid apps listed there, you can list them as "most popular" or "most recent"..
The market always worked fine for me, I have to admit that I did not buy any app from the market until now...

xTuX said:
Please check that you set up your google account on your phone properly, and then take a look at the market ( with the original app)... there are free and there are paid apps listed there, you can list them as "most popular" or "most recent"..
The market always worked fine for me, I have to admit that I did not buy any app from the market until now...
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Thanks for your reply. I've set up my Gmail account for receiving Gmail using the Gmail app. Is this all I need to do, or are there additional settings I've missed? Thanks.

You can't access paid apps probably because Market is not available in your country. However, if you want to you can always use Market Enabler which is made available at http://code.google.com/p/market-enabler/

Geochelone said:
You can't access paid apps probably because Market is not available in your country. However, if you want to you can always use Market Enabler which is made available at http://code.google.com/p/market-enabler/
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I think you're probably right, as I'm based in Russia. I'm new to the Android platform, would you mind telling me how I install Market Enabler? Thanks again.

Or us unfortunate souls who do not want to root our beloved Heros will just have to wait for Android 1.6 (don't forget HTC has to make their Sense UI work for it too)...

Are purchased apps from appstore affected by reflashing?

If I root & reflash my CDMA Hero to 2.x, will I have any problems reinstalling the apps I've purchased through AppStore, or (god forbid) is it as easy as, "relaunch Appstore after reflashing, log in, then go to the list of installed apps & just tell it to download & reinstall them?"

You can download your purchased apps again and again regardless of how many times you flash or how many times you change your phone.

To a certain degree but not always. I just flashed my Droid from 2.0.1 to the Nexus One 2.1 ROM and I have a few apps that I purchased that will no longer show in the market like Pure Calendar and PicSay Pro. After contacting the developers I was told that the apps feature "Google Copy Protection" and basically Google does not recognize the ROM I am using.
http://koxx3.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/pure-calendar-invisible-on-the-market-for-some-users/

Is there any way to find out (before buying) whether or not an app is protected?

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Is there any way to find out (before buying) whether or not an app is protected?
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I don't know. To be honest I don't even know how to check the apps I already have for protection, other than the fact they arent available im the market anymore.

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Is there any way to find out (before buying) whether or not an app is protected?
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No, but when you have root you can pull /data/app-private where protected apps are stored...

what if you install them to your SD card using apps2sd; I think they will remain after reflashing. it happened to me a while ago.

GrandMasterB said:
To a certain degree but not always. I just flashed my Droid from 2.0.1 to the Nexus One 2.1 ROM and I have a few apps that I purchased that will no longer show in the market like Pure Calendar and PicSay Pro. After contacting the developers I was told that the apps feature "Google Copy Protection" and basically Google does not recognize the ROM I am using.
http://koxx3.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/pure-calendar-invisible-on-the-market-for-some-users/
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they probably arent showing up on the nexus 2.1 dump because they do not support 2.1...if you reflash back to stock they should show up again

Android Market paid apps

There's a couple of paid apps I wouldn't mind getting but the app store seems to work a little different than the WM one, I haven't signed up for a google checkout account as yet and that could be where I'm going wrong ..
So far Ive only downloaded freebees but when I dump a new build of Android on my phones SDcard all knowledge in the store of my downloads disappears, I assume this info is stored somehow on the SDcard. Is this the case with paid apps as well ??? or will google checkout keep a record of what Ive downloaded and let me download it as many times as I want, bit like the 'WM Market does after youve reflashed a ROM ..

Jezwick said:
or will google checkout keep a record of what Ive downloaded and let me download it as many times as I want, bit like the 'WM Market does after youve reflashed a ROM ..
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Just like you said, google check out keeps a record of your apps. In my case, in Portugal we dont have access to paid apps, so i have to use market enabler to be able to download paid apps i bought.

Dasf77 said:
Just like you said, google check out keeps a record of your apps. In my case, in Portugal we dont have access to paid apps, so i have to use market enabler to be able to download paid apps i bought.
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Excellent, I'll get the creditCard out then

yes, google saves all the apps you've previously purchased in your download history. i was able to redownload all the apps i had from my previous android phone into the new phone (weather widget, setcpu, etc..) you'll always have it as long as the devs continue to support it (for example, bloo, a facebook client stopped developing, i paid for it but really have no use now)

App to *possibly* fix the blank my apps list issue

Hi all,
I have a Bell Atrix and I always have the blank my apps list issue with any Blur based Gingerbread ROMs. I found that removing the Preset app fixed my problem. So I put a small app together to scan the market database to compare the list of market recognised installed apps to the available apps in the market. Users can then remove apps and the market association in the market database.
If possible, can I please have someone to help me test this app? Also, I'd imagine this app should work with any gingerbread running phones with the same problem.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.kstudio.marketfixer
Steps:
1) nandroid backup then start the app
2) Click on Load Market Data (and wait for it to finish)
3) If the app found anything, it will be added to the list
4) Select apps from the list and click on "Del Checked Entry" to delete them
5) Uninstall window will show for the selected apps, click on Uninstall
6) Open the market again, wait a bit and see if the list shows.
Thanks!!
Update1:
I found that Android Market, when starting from scratch (after deleting all the app data), downloads a list of all the apps you have ever associated to your account. If you have ever used TiBu (or the like) to associate apps you shouldn't have associated to the market, and still have the app installed, you will start to have the market problem after wipe.
Update2:
I believe the version 3.5.15 market has made this app obsolete. You can find the download link in the post below
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/download-google-play-store-apk-3-5-15/
Update3:
Uploaded version 2.0.0, for anyone still wanting to remove market links in the new market.

ken218 said:
Hi all,
I have a Bell Atrix and I always have the blank my apps list issue with any Blur based Gingerbread ROMs. I found that removing the Preset app fixed my problem. So I put a small app together to scan the market database to compare the list of market recognised installed apps to the available apps in the market. Users can then remove apps and the market association in the market database.
If possible, can I please have someone to help me test this app? Also, I'd imagine this app should work with any gingerbread running phones with the same problem.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.kstudio.marketfixer
Steps:
1) nandroid backup then start the app
2) Click on Load Market Data (and wait for it to finish)
3) If the app found anything, it will be added to the list
4) Select apps from the list and click on "Del Checked Entry" to delete them
5) Uninstall window will show for the selected apps, click on Uninstall
6) Open the market again, wait a bit and see if the list shows.
Thanks!!
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Worked as stated. Nice to have this feature back. Thank you for your work and sharing.

Glad to hear this is working! cheers!

Ken218, thank you for this app.
After I ran "Load market data," a bunch of apps (meaning way more than I'd like to count) showed in the list, but nothing was checked.
Expected?
If so, how do I identify troublemakers from the list?
This is on a Sprint Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch, running Calkulin's ROM, v2.8.1.
Thank you again.

Holy s***! This works! Thank you!!
There were three apps found, none were checked, so checked them and uninstalled them, market working perfect now! You rock!
Oh and this works on stock ICS 4.0.2 (galaxy nexus gsm) so you can add this to your compatibility list.
Need to sticky this in every device forum.
Thanks again!!

holy sheep **** you are a mad genius this worked for me i have a rooted unlocked motorola photon running rocko rom joker kernel and a fistful of tweaks and my apps are listed again in the market major thanks for this

you will need to manually check every app... I will add a "select all" to the list when I update the app.

Genius........that works perfect on ICS 4.0.3 rooted Iconia 500.
I then reinstall the delete apps.
Thank you so much

I had com.motorola.contacts.preloaded as faulty app. Maybe market acts sensitively when using AT&T-Rom on INT'L Atrix in non-default locale.

Wow, thank you very much. I had tried everything before this to fix this problem, and had given up on seeing it working again.
Well done.
Fixed on my Galaxy SII

sxg75 said:
I had com.motorola.contacts.preloaded as faulty app. Maybe market acts sensitively when using AT&T-Rom on INT'L Atrix in non-default locale.
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I tried the UK retail sbf and still had the same problem on com.motorola.contacts.preloaded...

Thank you so much for this! This has annoyed me to no end for months and it's finally fixed!
On more thing. Is there any way to get the market to stop showing apps from Amazon's AppStore as "Purchased" in the market? There's a few I've gotten from the Free App of the Day that I'd like to purchase on the Android Market but am unable to because it says "Install" instead of "Purchase". When I go to install them it says something like "Cannot install because you haven't purchased it." Thanks again!

sanitarium09 said:
Thank you so much for this! This has annoyed me to no end for months and it's finally fixed!
On more thing. Is there any way to get the market to stop showing apps from Amazon's AppStore as "Purchased" in the market? There's a few I've gotten from the Free App of the Day that I'd like to purchase on the Android Market but am unable to because it says "Install" instead of "Purchase". When I go to install them it says something like "Cannot install because you haven't purchased it." Thanks again!
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Uninstall the app
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Uninstall the app
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That doesn't work. It registers the app as purchased. Same thing happens with cracked apps. If you installed one and upgraded to the latest market, you'll never be able to purchase the app again off the android market.
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sanitarium09 said:
Thank you so much for this! This has annoyed me to no end for months and it's finally fixed!
On more thing. Is there any way to get the market to stop showing apps from Amazon's AppStore as "Purchased" in the market? There's a few I've gotten from the Free App of the Day that I'd like to purchase on the Android Market but am unable to because it says "Install" instead of "Purchase". When I go to install them it says something like "Cannot install because you haven't purchased it." Thanks again!
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There is a workaround, but it involves some messing around:
1) Uninstall targetted app
2) Freeze market auto-upater
3) Downgrade your market to 2.2.6, run market
4) search for chosen app (Don't go to my apps, that doesn't seem to work anymore)
5) buy app
6) restore new market...
7) ???????
8) Profit!

Ken you should add some cache feature.
I've deleted apps one by one to find the trobulemaker, but after every uninstall I've had to rescan again - with <10 apps it doesn't take too much time, but if search results can be stored within MarketFixer it'd speed up the whole process
EDIT: Thank You very much, market fixed (at least for a while )

ken218 said:
you will need to manually check every app...
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There are a lot of things in my list which are part of my ROM (Keis Air, for example).
There are also many Android Market apps for which a Market Search turns up no hits (Super Froggy and Twidroyd Pro). I guess these apps have been retired....?
At any rate there are probably 4 dozen things in my scanned list, and I'm nervous about whacking them. Any advice, sir?

xpanmanx said:
There are a lot of things in my list which are part of my ROM (Keis Air, for example).
There are also many Android Market apps for which a Market Search turns up no hits (Super Froggy and Twidroyd Pro). I guess these apps have been retired....?
At any rate there are probably 4 dozen things in my scanned list, and I'm nervous about whacking them. Any advice, sir?
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I'd assume you used TiBu to fix market link? Because components formed part of the ROM (Certificate Installer, Cell broadcast, etc) won't be attached to the market.
I'd say wipe the market and let it rebuild its database first (by starting the market app and let it sync/download all the things automatically).
Like you said, it is possible that some of the apps you have are retired. Also, during my tests, I found some apps where the developer decided to change the package name (xe currency) so the market became broken (doesn't cause the blank market problem though).
In the case of Atrix (and possibly other motorola devices), removing "Preset" is all its needed to fix the market.

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Ken you should add some cache feature.
I've deleted apps one by one to find the trobulemaker, but after every uninstall I've had to rescan again - with <10 apps it doesn't take too much time, but if search results can be stored within MarketFixer it'd speed up the whole process
EDIT: Thank You very much, market fixed (at least for a while )
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Hi metk, Thanks for the advice, will retain the initial search result in the next version glad this works for you.

Holy ****, i could kiss you. In a totally heterosexual way.

Excellent work my friend! This has been bugging the hell put of me for days! Thanks pal.
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