So I let my 7 year old son play some games on my Nexus 7.
Next thing I get a bunch of emails from Google Play: in-app purchase receipts!! Racked up quite a tidy sum on my credit card.
I have a PIN set in Play Store settings so figured he had managed to work it out. Went to change the PIN, only to find that no PIN was set at all.
I know for a fact I haven't disabled it so the only other thing I can think of is that the 4.2 update reset it.
If so, thanks for the warning Google!
It's quite possible. The Play Store PIN is NOT secure. All your kid needs to do is go to Settings / Apps and clear Play Store data, and the PIN goes away.
What they really need is a *server*-side enforced system, that you can set per-device or globally.
Related
Wondering if any of you guys can help with this. I'm in the USAF stationed overseas. I had a friend coming TDY here bring a Nexus 7 over with him for me. I absolutely love this tablet, but the region restrictions are causing me tons of headaches. I can finally get the Market to show me music, books, and movies when using an American VPN and then clearing market data/cache and force stopping it, but other issues still continue to nag me.
For one, I never received my $25 Google Play credit. This is really just an annoyance, I've put an email in to Google about it but it's not a deal breaker if I never get it. Also, was the pre-loaded content supposed to be installed from the start? I don't have any of that content on my device (example: Transformers movie, etc.)
The main issue is getting around region restrictions for apps. Perfect example of this is the Google Play Books app. If I go to the store page in the Play Store, I can bring it up, but there's no Install, Open, or Uninstall buttons listed. If I go to the Apps settings page, it's listed there. But it's not listed in my App drawer, and if I add the Library widget to a homescreen and try to set it up, it just points me to the store page that I can't do anything on. If I try to install it from the Play store from my desktop PC...it says Installed there, but errors out saying the application already exists.
Is there any way to get around this? I mean, ****, I'm trying to be a legitimate customer here. I'm American FFS. With South Korea's complete non-enforcement of copyright laws, I'm starting to wonder why I even bother.
http://google.com/search?q=google+play+market+enabler
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28259205
So, when I bought the N7 I started playing Dead Trigger immediately and I ended up using some of my Play Store credit for some in-app purchases within the game. Now I want to root and unlock the device so my question is:
If I do a wipe/factory reset, will the app remember my in-app purchases after I re-download the game from the market and start from scratch?
I know I can use their "back-up" service within the game but I'm always hesitant about setting up a lot of accounts and essentially "agreeing" to share my info. I've read about other apps cross referencing your email but I was just wondering if anyone has had experience with Dead Trigger (specifically) in this aspect. Thanks.
live4nyy said:
So, when I bought the N7 I started playing Dead Trigger immediately and I ended up using some of my Play Store credit for some in-app purchases within the game. Now I want to root and unlock the device so my question is:
If I do a wipe/factory reset, will the app remember my in-app purchases after I re-download the game from the market and start from scratch?
I know I can use their "back-up" service within the game but I'm always hesitant about setting up a lot of accounts and essentially "agreeing" to share my info. I've read about other apps cross referencing your email but I was just wondering if anyone has had experience with Dead Trigger (specifically) in this aspect. Thanks.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi
Just wondering if you ever solved this problem?
After a factory reset I have found I have lost all in-app purchases, despite doing a full backup before and restore after
Guys dead trigger has a cloud backup just backup your saves in the game do full wipe login in the game restore backup
Skydragon team
Hello,
I currently work for a market research company using Nexus 7 tablets to conduct surveys and questionnaires. We have a DP team which develop the apps for surveys which we put out on Google Play or can add manually. We currently have over 60 Nexus 7 tablets (2012 model) running Android 4.4.2. The current workaround securing the tablet is using Go Launcher, App Lock and WiFi Manager using a restricted account with Encryption on each device. This set up fine... however the two accounts setup is a hassle for the end users who are not technically proficient or use tablets or smartphones on a daily basis, so we need to down it one account. Also secondly, when we have new surveys and push them out, it does download to the main admin account of the tablet, but the hassle of, making it active for the restricted account is what the issue is because giving the end user access the main account defeats the whole purpose of what we are trying to do.
So I have managed to get hold of 2 tablets for testing, unlocked and rooted them both using the handy Nexus Root Toolkit. On one device, I created a main account, with Nova Launcher (instead of go launcher), App Lock and WiFi Manager. I have not put any encryption yet that will come after. I then created a nandroid backup of the tablet in which I restored it to the other device. The restore was perfect and at this point I thought that it's managed what we needed to do. However, on the two devices, we have two separate Google accounts, we have done this to spread out the devices across different accounts due to the amount of tablets we have. Upon pushing out an app to one device from Google Play, it would for some strange reason try to download on the other device and throw up an error message saying "could not download", even though the tablets have two separate google play accounts.
I made another nandroid back up, but this time without any google play/account information stored on the tablet but this to no avail did help. I even tried changing the device ID from Titanium Backup on both devices and still did not work and Google Play seems to think both devices are the same.
So my question is, what do I need to do in order to remove any Google Play info from the devices so google play doesn't recognize them both as the same device.
Everything else works perfectly fine so far and still are testing this out.
Thank you in advance
Irfan
Any one got a solution for this?
..
JJ-KwiK said:
I have a Nvidia Shield 16gb Android TV Console. Every time I try to sign in to Google Play Games, it tells me to create a Google+ public profile on another device and then to come back. I then have two options, proceed or cancel.
As far as I can tell I already have done what it's asking. Google play games works on my phone and my tablet.
Things I've tried:
- Created a G+ profile (PC browser a long time ago)
- Enabled public sharing
- I have an android phone, in which I have google play games installed. I've played a few games via my google play games account, to track my scores vs my friends. (works fine on my phone)
- Cleared the app's cache on the shield
- Cleared the app's data on the shield
Still a no-go. I've read, on the geforce forums, that doing a factory reset has fixed the problem for a very few, but I don't want to go through all that effort for nothing... I also read somewhere, again on the geforce forums, that manually updating the google play app has fixed the problem for some as well.
I'm not sure how to proceed. I'm a trophy/achievement whore on my oher consoles/steam, so this is bugging me. lulz..
Any thoughts?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I had this problem and was only able to fix by installing google play games on my phone and going through the whole process of that there and then removing my account from the settings area and re-logging in. Once I did all that it saw that my profile had been activated correctly.
..
..
Extra step
I following the directions to clear the data and cache, as well as to log out of my google account; but it did not fix the problem. The notification that I need to have a public google plus profile still appeared.
To fix the problem, I had to access google play games from my android phone, and click accept on the license agreement. I was unable to find out how to bypass this with only the pc.
SOLVED: Figured out that if you press and hold the message that comes up you get a menu in which you can choose to no longer receive notifications from that particular app. So, not an elegant solution but it works for now. Not that anyone else is crazy enough to want to delete everything Google on their Google OS Android phone. But hey.
So, I have a Moto G4 XT1625 off of Amazon (no-ads) that I've unlocked the bootloader and rooted (Android 7.0 oem through the updater before root). I don't want any Google apps or services or my Google account on the phone, so I used Titanium Backup to freeze all of it, including Google Playstore, Google Play Services and Google Play Framework. All other obvious Google apps have been frozen or uninstalled. I've used as many open source apps off repositories like F-Droid as I can and the phone runs super fast, no ads (Adaway, ofcourse) and the battery lasts noticeably much longer with no Google crapware churning in the background.
My problem is that when starting some apps, the phone complains:
"Enable Google Play services
__________ won't work unless you enable Google Play services."
The blank space is the name of whichever app I'm trying to open that supposedly requires Google PS, which is a lie because they all work perfectly fine. The nag message is just annoying and I'd like to know what I need to freeze to get rid of this. Any help would be appreciated.
Quite a few years later, and your solution has helped me get rid of that annoyance. You're not the only crazy, there's at least two of us. The only thing I want to give to google is the finger
Thanks again mate.