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Obtaining Incompatible APK's?

I've purchased a fair number of applications I'd like to use on my N7 that are listed by the Play Store as incompatible, particularly Machinarium (which I'd really hoped to get into).
Of course a simple Google search of [application name] + apk + [rar/zip/mediafire/other obvious piracy related search terms] will likely get me what I want, but I'd really prefer not to go that route due to providence and, frankly, the fact that I paid for this, I'll figure out if it work or not.
Definitely have the SDK installed, definitely not very great at using it. Any help is well appreciated by my rain drenched weknd.

Are you rooted on your other Android device? You can use root explorer to pull the apks, then just dropbox/email them to the Nexus.
So... Download the app to a compatible device, go into the folder where they keep the app data, copy the apk go your sd card, and then email it or upload to dropbox.
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Nice. I most definitely am. Cheers.
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No problem! You should find most apks in the/data/app folder.
Some are hidden other places, so you may need to "search" the file name.
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You don't even need to be rooted. You can backup apps with astro file manager and then find the apps in the backups folder and send them to dropbox or however else you wand to send them
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I ran airdroid on the phone and accessed it via chrome on the tablet to get a load of apps. Worked well just ticked the ones I wanted and downloaded a zip file.
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gbroon said:
I ran airdroid on the phone and accessed it via chrome on the tablet to get a load of apps. Worked well just ticked the ones I wanted and downloaded a zip file.
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Thats a great idea lol...
I have all different Android devices, but I keep one stock GB and ICS phone to download apps and send them to the others

[QUESTION] How to get Google Ears?

Probably a very silly question but yea when i got my nexus 7 i supposed i would find google ears in widgets section but no its not,
is there any way i could get it? help pls.

zevengfx said:
Probably a very silly question but yea when i got my nexus 7 i supposed i would find google ears in widgets section but no its not,
is there any way i could get it? help pls.
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What is/are Google Ears? I did a Google search and found nothing.
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Look in the last page of your widgets. Its called "Sound Search"
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Look in the last page of your widgets. Its called "Sound Search"
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Dont have that one
Is there any chance this happens because i'm not from the US? im from latin america
if so any way i could get it?

I doubt this will work in Latin America. I saw a pulled apk of this somewhere in the forums.
You could sideload it probably without issue but hen Google would see your IP and likely tell you it isn't supported.
Its no big deal anyway.
Sound hound , shazam, etc... same type.
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They've changed name. I remember downloading GoogleEars.apk few months back on here. When I googled it, I got sound search instead. It can't recognize humming or things that you sing to it. Still using SoundHound.

It's there but you need to use Titanium Backup to defrost it - and again after every reboot.

seems that i'll need to buy shazam, thanks anyways

nickles96 said:
I doubt this will work in Latin America. I saw a pulled apk of this somewhere in the forums.
You could sideload it probably without issue but hen Google would see your IP and likely tell you it isn't supported.
Its no big deal anyway.
Sound hound , shazam, etc... same type.
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I found Google Ears / Sound Search to be way quicker than Shazam.

Using Google Hangouts on One with Bloatware

I guess some of you noticed that google just updated Google Talk to replace it with Hangouts. A nice WhatsApp Clone with some beautiful features. I guess cross platform chat (Phone <> PC) is the most interesting part.
If you are an owner of an One which has Google Talk preinstalled as bloatware there is no chance to update this via Google Play unless HTC delivers an update. Too bad we're not able to uninstall bloatware / preinstalled stuff on non rooted devices...
But if you open the Play Store via browser on your computer to instruct it to install Hangouts on your phone, it will overwrite the Google Talk and you're able to use the new Hangouts app
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.talk&referrer=utm_source%3Dde-ALL-landingpage%26utm_medium%3DCTA%26utm_term%3D%26utm_campaign%3Dlandingpage
Regards from germany

That's what I did myself I wondered why it wouldn't update
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I really wish they integrated it with sms/mms app like Facebook Messaging can do... or just made it like iMessage. But I'm happy for the upgrade.
It might not be showing up for folks because it is probably still replicating across the Play servers.

UI Layour is quite nice, hope it gets popular, but i really wanted that it could send sms , like imessage , or sms atleast so i can use that app for all.
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Lmfao scud

I tried installing it from the website but it never appears on my phone

Rage1ofakind said:
I tried installing it from the website but it never appears on my phone
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Yep, but it is there don't worry. It launches when you start Google Talk

For me Talk was completely replaced after I started the remote Installation.
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Rage1ofakind said:
I tried installing it from the website but it never appears on my phone
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Reboot your phone.
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Hangouts is a seperate app from the store for me
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Won't work for me since it states that it's already installed but it just opens up as Google talk
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noneed2aim said:
Won't work for me since it states that it's already installed but it just opens up as Google talk
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Strange. I'm on an att HTC one and it installed as a seperate app. I'm guessing it has to do with being on a non stock rom
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I just got the phone today , it wouldnt let me install from Play store on the phone , it just gives me an option to open.
i went to play store on my pc and was able to install it from there on my phone and it replaced my talk app and it seems to work fine.

I opened a thread like this, Hangouts, with how to install and other stuff.
I saw this thread after.
Sorry

What I did was uninstall Google talk with titanium backup and then just install hangouts from the store later
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maverick1103 said:
Reboot your phone.
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listen to him, it works.

Seems if ur rooted than you can get it or if gtalk wasn't a system app bloatware, like on sprint so I suppose I just have to wait
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Since when is Google Talk "bloatware"
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Hoax87 said:
I guess some of you noticed that google just updated Google Talk to replace it with Hangouts. A nice WhatsApp Clone with some beautiful features. I guess cross platform chat (Phone <> PC) is the most interesting part.
If you are an owner of an One which has Google Talk preinstalled as bloatware there is no chance to update this via Google Play unless HTC delivers an update. Too bad we're not able to uninstall bloatware / preinstalled stuff on non rooted devices...
But if you open the Play Store via browser on your computer to instruct it to install Hangouts on your phone, it will overwrite the Google Talk and you're able to use the new Hangouts app
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.talk&referrer=utm_source%3Dde-ALL-landingpage%26utm_medium%3DCTA%26utm_term%3D%26utm_campaign%3Dlandingpage
Regards from germany
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I'm not sure if it works without root but titanium backup allows you to unistall bloatware but all my devices have been rooted so idk if it works without it honestly
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I just logged into google play on my PC and installed it on my phone and talk was replaced by hangouts. I am stock not rooted.

Already Installed Issue on Hangout..
Hi, i am from India and I am having an issue about installation of Hangout, The same issue occurs to my colleague also.
In Google Play it says already installed and no update option displayed but when i open it is the same GTalk UI and same icon.
Not able to update from Google Play ( WEB / Android Device). i am using Stock LG NEXUS 4.

[Q] Google Hangouts / talk

Howdy,
I'm wondering if anyone has been able to get the Hangouts app to work on their N4. I'm running the latest nightly of CM 10.1. I went to install Hangouts from the Play store and it says that I have it installed. However my app is still called Talk and has the Talk interface. Has anyone had luck getting this updated?

Nevermind heh. I just used CM File Manager to move the talk.apk from /system/app to a backup location. Then I went to the Play store and tried again. This time it installed the new version.

I had the same issue. My solution was to go onto the Web store and install it from there to my phone. Seemed to do the trick.
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Barguast said:
I had the same issue. My solution was to go onto the Web store and install it from there to my phone. Seemed to do the trick.
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Yeah I did the same , on my phone tho . I opened Google play on chrome browser not thru the app and installed it .
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Barguast said:
I had the same issue. My solution was to go onto the Web store and install it from there to my phone. Seemed to do the trick.
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g2uzer said:
Yeah I did the same , on my phone tho . I opened Google play on chrome browser not thru the app and installed it .
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Interesting, I tried that first but it didnt work for me.
I wish I could edit my title so it is more descriptive...

Just uninstall the original Talk app first (using Titanium or anything that's capable of remiving system app).

Seriously i rated this with 1 STAR.
It must say: "Replaces Talk AND REMOVE THE F$$$ING VOICE-CALL FEATURE FROM YOU Talk".

Its best to remove Talk and then install Hangouts.

Does anyone know how to get this working with the N4 if it's not rooted?

Vitamin_D said:
Does anyone know how to get this working with the N4 if it's not rooted?
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?????
Just install it
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chrisrozon said:
?????
Just install it
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Nope - I have two stock, unmodified, new Nexus 4's... one upgraded no problem with the new Google Hangouts that properly replaced Google Talk... and the other, upgrades with Google Hangout but in the app list and everywhere else, still shows Google Talk but no Google Hangout. Under all apps, Google Talk is still shown. If you open it from there, the old Talk launches. If you search Google Play for Google Hangouts, it shows 'Installed' and if you open Google Hangouts from there, it launches the old Google Talk.
Very strange.... gonna try clearing some app data and what not to see if it resolves.

chrisrozon said:
?????
Just install it
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Should I also unplug it and wait 30 seconds?
I have the same issue as OP. I can't uninstall Talk (no root) and the play store is showing that hangout is installed. I open it and Talk comes up.
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Walter2011 said:
Nope - I have two stock, unmodified, new Nexus 4's... one upgraded no problem with the new Google Hangouts that properly replaced Google Talk... and the other, upgrades with Google Hangout but in the app list and everywhere else, still shows Google Talk but no Google Hangout. Under all apps, Google Talk is still shown. If you open it from there, the old Talk launches. If you search Google Play for Google Hangouts, it shows 'Installed' and if you open Google Hangouts from there, it launches the old Google Talk.
Very strange.... gonna try clearing some app data and what not to see if it resolves.
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Please let us know if you figure anything out. I'm on stock as well and I'm starting to regret it because of updates like this. I bought this phone for updates but so far, it seems to be behind on that(4.2 OTA took a week). I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling google+ and that didn't work. I thought it might be tied to g+ since Google is trying to make it more involved with Android. I might root this weekend if I don't get it soon.

Vitamin_D said:
Should I also unplug it and wait 30 seconds?
I have the same issue as OP. I can't uninstall Talk (no root) and the play store is showing that hangout is installed. I open it and Talk comes up.
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Please let us know if you figure anything out. I'm on stock as well and I'm starting to regret it because of updates like this. I bought this phone for updates but so far, it seems to be behind on that(4.2 OTA took a week). I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling google+ and that didn't work. I thought it might be tied to g+ since Google is trying to make it more involved with Android. I might root this weekend if I don't get it soon.
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I had the same problem earlier trying to download it from the play store app, so I went to the desktop play store site and remotely installed it from there and it worked.
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Vitamin_D said:
Should I also unplug it and wait 30 seconds?
I have the same issue as OP. I can't uninstall Talk (no root) and the play store is showing that hangout is installed. I open it and Talk comes up.
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Google have addressed this as follows:
Google said:
NOTE: If you aren't yet able to install Hangouts on your phone or tablet, or the Play Store "Open" button takes you to the old Talk app, hang tight, we are rolling out Hangouts to everyone over the course of several days. Rest assured Hangouts will be available soon for all Android 2.3+ devices, tablets included!
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I was having the same issue as others. It shows as installed on the phone (v 1.0.0.1) and via Play Store in a browser.
I was able to use a browser and install it to my wife's Nexus S though.
Here is the APK for v 1.0.0.678017 which I was able to side load and works fine on my N4.
Due to APK file size, I had to upload it in a ZIP archive.

Thanks mate, I had the same issue on my JB Xperia. Your APK worked.
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for me updating without uninstall talk works fine!
N4!

Didnt work for me at first. Then i went to the web app store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5nb29nbGUuYW5kcm9pZC50YWxrIl0.) and pressed install. Installation was pushed to my device and now it works great!

Vitamin_D said:
I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling google+ and that didn't work. I thought it might be tied to g+ since Google is trying to make it more involved with Android.
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I made the same mistake. I removed the update "3.6.1.44747389", but now the market pushes "3.6.0.44338848" instead. Not sure what the difference is, but I side loaded a backup of the newer version.

The apk SpookyTunes posted worked for me, I have it on my Galaxy tab 2.

[REQUEST] Tapatalk version before the major change

As many of you probably know, the new version of Tapatalk is a hot mess. I wish I've read the comments before upgrading.
Anyone happen to have the apk of the version prior to the major change in the UI and functionality?

I'll dig around in all my backups.
There are so many issues with the update:
1. The app is now ad-supported, but it's free! I paid for the app so I wouldn't see ads.
2. Forum navigation is cumbersome. Why would you force users to tap the most difficult spot to navigate?
3. Everything I load XDA, the "failed to connect to forum" toast pops up. I believe that renders the mark forum as read button useless.
4. 2 start new topic buttons while the mark as read button is hidden in a menu.
5. Color scheme.
6. There's no way to sort your subscribed subforums.
7. What's with the collage at the top once you connect to a forum? All that does is force users to scroll just to see what they want.
8. I could go on by I've got better things to do.

Yeah, it's a complete disaster. Check the attachment, that's version 4.9.5, right before the major UI redesign.
Anyway it just got updated to version 4.10.1.

^ Thanks!
I also paid for the Pro version. The strange thing is that out of the blue (about 2 weeks ago), the Pro version won't allow attachment uploads. It displayed a message to download the version from the Play Store and logging in with a Tapatalk ID to have that functionality and also (coincidentally?) the app force closes every time it's opened shortly after.
That pretty much made me install the version from the Play Store. I smell something is going on to force the current users to download the current ad version. I don't think it is fair for the ones that paid to get rid of the ads.

anewday said:
^ Thanks!
I also paid for the Pro version. The strange thing is that out of the blue (about 2 weeks ago), the Pro version won't allow attachment uploads. It displayed a message to download the version from the Play Store and logging in with a Tapatalk ID to have that functionality and also (coincidentally?) the app force closes every time it's opened shortly after.
That pretty much made me install the version from the Play Store. I smell something is going on to force the current users to download the current ad version. I don't think it is fair for the ones that paid to get rid of the ads.
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AFAIK there's no pro version anymore. The one attached is the free version, the one and only version of Tapatalk that's in the play store.
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Reinkaos said:
AFAIK there's no pro version anymore. The one attached is the free version, the one and only version of Tapatalk that's in the play store.
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I know, haven't updated the app in over a year. It worked fine which is why I never upgraded.

I downloaded the apk but it won't let me install. When I tap on "Install" nothing happens, I could only tap on "Cancel"

anewday said:
I know, haven't updated the app in over a year. It worked fine which is why I never upgraded.
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A year lol. I just upgraded to 4.10.1. It's still sucks, I think I'm gonna go back to 4.9.5.
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Either I'm really dumb and blind, or there is no option to mark a forum as read.

anewday said:
I downloaded the apk but it won't let me install. When I tap on "Install" nothing happens, I could only tap on "Cancel"
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Are you using Lux? Or other screen dimmer app?
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Reinkaos said:
Are you using Lux? Or other screen dimmer app?
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I'm using Lux.

anewday said:
I'm using Lux.
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Try disabling Lux first before you install.
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Reinkaos said:
Try disabling Lux first before you install.
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Thanks, that was it.

Reinkaos said:
Yeah, it's a complete disaster. Check the attachment, that's version 4.9.5, right before the major UI redesign.
Anyway it just got updated to version 4.10.1.
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Thanks, I've been looking around for this. Today is only the second time I've felt hosed by an app update, but woooo this is a doosey.
nhizzat said:
Either I'm really dumb and blind, or there is no option to mark a forum as read.
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I believe I saw it in a drop-down menu somewhere. But I'd gone back to Tapatalk Pro temporarily so I don't have it handy to check.

I've also gone back to the Pro version. It is so much better without all the unnecessary bloat.