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[SOLVED] Fast Web Installer not working on Droid 2

I cannot get Fast Web Installer to work on my Droid 2. It worked fine on my Droid Eris until I rooted it and put a 2.2 ROM on it. Then I just recently upgraded to the Droid 2 and am having the same issue. When I am viewing an app on the Appbrain webpage and click on Install, instead of getting the permissions pop-up where I would just click OK and the app would be begin downloading to my phone, instead it just says "Added ______ " (see attached screenshot) and the app never downloads.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled both the Appbrain app and the Fast Web Installer, and have "enabled" Fast Web Installer several times. Nothing seems to help.
Any ideas?

wecramer said:
I cannot get Fast Web Installer to work on my Droid 2. It worked fine on my Droid Eris until I rooted it and put a 2.2 ROM on it. Then I just recently upgraded to the Droid 2 and am having the same issue. When I am viewing an app on the Appbrain webpage and click on Install, instead of getting the permissions pop-up where I would just click OK and the app would be begin downloading to my phone, instead it just says "Added ______ " (see attached screenshot) and the app never downloads.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled both the Appbrain app and the Fast Web Installer, and have "enabled" Fast Web Installer several times. Nothing seems to help.
Any ideas?
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Has NO ONE else had this problem?

What is Fast Web Installer? Never used it so I haven't had a problem. lol
But seriously what is it? is it in the Market?

I have the same problem now, I"m on ATT Captivate, when on Eclair 2.1 it worked great, I love the app.
Now I installed Froyo and when I choose install nothing happens, but when I cancel on web, a pop up comes up:
Application not found
The application was not found in the list of installed applications
So the installer never happens.

The Fast Web Installer is apparently tied to the ANDROID_ID of the phone. There's a bug affecting a bunch of phones, especially the Droid 2, that prevents the device from properly generating a unique ANDROID_ID. Some value unique to each device was not set, or something, and the ANDROID_ID is supposed to be a hash of that value.
Consequently, there are a ton of phones floating around with the ANDROID_ID set to the same value as (I think) an emulated Android device: 9774d56d682e549c.
Also, it seems that some custom ROMs are subject to the same bug, or have copied the same ANDROID_ID. So phones that used to have a unique value may have lost it.
A lot of developers tailored their apps to use the ANDROID_ID as a unique identifier, so this bug is screwing with a lot of people.
My Droid 2 had this ANDROID_ID from the time I bought it, and through several ROMs I put on. I edited a database and manually changed the ANDROID_ID to what I hope is a truly random value, and now Fast Web Installer works properly.
I don't know if I have set myself up for future conflicts by editing my ANDROID_ID, but so far everything is working.

Can you give some instructions for how to do that?
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SUCCESS!!!
I got Fast Web Installer to work!! Here's what I did:
I had to be rooted and have BusyBox installed first
1. Downloaded & installed Android ID Changer: http://adaptiveeng.blogspot.com/
2. Changed my Android_ID to a random 16 character ID (Hex)
3. Re-installed AppBrain and Fast Web and BAM! It works!!

Sounds like a solid solution. You could add [SOLVED] to your thread title if you don't have anymore problems with it.

Can I close this?

theimpaler747 said:
Can I close this?
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Sounds good to me.
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newk8600 said:
Sounds good to me.
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Cool will do

Is there any way to get flash or something like it

Sucks I can't watch videos. Anyone have an alternative?
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feelinfroggy23 said:
Sucks I can't watch videos. Anyone have an alternative?
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first step would be using the search function on these forums...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28734102&postcount=5 download the apk here...
then just use any browser other than chrome.
alternatively, if you're using youtube website, just go to www.youtube.com/html5 and enable html5. that will allow your device to use html5 for any webpages that use embedded youtube videos.

Thank you very much guy. I don't know why didn't think about a different browser. Again thank you
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I am running FireFox (google Mozilla APK) and Flash APK and using a FireFox addon called 'Full Screen'. It gets rid of the URL part so u can zoom in and get as close to 'full screen'; if u try to use the regular full screen, most of the time the browsers crash.
At first I thought 'Full Screen' sucked b/c of the ratings but its not as bad, actually its pretty good b/c it seems to work perfect for tablet (seems like phones its not so good since smaller screen). Just make sure u know that u have to turn it on thru the menu (no quick hotkey/gesture) and to turn it off to get back URL bar, u hold down on a page till popup comes on asking to turn it off or not. Overall its pretty good on the Nexus 7, only wish is to have a quick gesture/hotkey to turn it on.

IamPro said:
I am running FireFox (google Mozilla APK) and Flash APK and using a FireFox addon called 'Full Screen'. It gets rid of the URL part so u can zoom in and get as close to 'full screen'; if u try to use the regular full screen, most of the time the browsers crash.
At first I thought 'Full Screen' sucked b/c of the ratings but its not as bad, actually its pretty good b/c it seems to work perfect for tablet (seems like phones its not so good since smaller screen). Just make sure u know that u have to turn it on thru the menu (no quick hotkey/gesture) and to turn it off to get back URL bar, u hold down on a page till popup comes on asking to turn it off or not. Overall its pretty good on the Nexus 7, only wish is to have a quick gesture/hotkey to turn it on.
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Is this still working for you because I tried doing it and despite engaging full screen my Firefox crashes as soon as I enable the flash video by tapping it.
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I just installed MX Player from the Store. Copy/Paste the url and it plays. Stupid that Adobe hasn't released a patched version yet.

Any way of closing multiple tabs in Chrome?

Anyone know a quick way of deleting multiple tabs in Chrome on the Nexus 7 rather than deleting them all individually?

It's an extension, but not available yet for chrome on nexus 7
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Thanks for reply.
I find it quite annoying that even after shutting down it remembers all the tabs and opens them up again when you restart, I take it that you can't disable that until this extension either?
It doesn't do that on the desktop version so not sure why it does it on Jellybean.

Anyone know if there is any way of doing this yet via a plug in?
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Can i have both internet explorer and crome browser in win 8 full screen mode ?

When I set one of theme as default browser, it has the option to work in full win 8 mode. But at the same time the other one opens in desktop mode.. Is there a solution?

sosimple said:
When I set one of theme as default browser, it has the option to work in full win 8 mode. But at the same time the other one opens in desktop mode.. Is there a solution?
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Unfortunatly no, the way that Microsoft decided to implement it is that the browsers have to be at as the default for it to open fullscreen. Would be awesome though If a dev can figure out a hack to bypass this but to my knowledge it hasnt been done yet.
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What's actually the most infuriating about the whole default browser thing is that, the Modern version of IE is actually pretty decent for use on touch, really simple things such as the zooming and the keyboard coming up soon as you click a text box... it is a really good browser however... for some reason they remove access to it from your start screen if you install another browser and make it your default... I mean wth! lol...
I'm assuming you're not using Chrome on a tablet?

This is something I would find quite useful personally, I haven't found a way to do it though.
Chrome being treated as a modern app in fullscreen mode should do the automatic keyboard though

death_entry said:
I'm assuming you're not using Chrome on a tablet?
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Actually I do use chrome on a clover trail tablet in full screen mode. But ie10 is much faster and better in this slow cpu. But I need folders for my favorites which it doesn't have (it will be added in ie11 by the way). Anyway I wanted to use both of them..

I would love to do that too. IE10 is the best browser in windows 8 mode. However the desktop version is not good enough...
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What is the adblocking method you're using ?

A quick poll to see what users of one prefer using ..

I wish I could still use ad blocking but I started to notice on a few web sites I frequent, the back button would not go back to the previous page and the current page would just reload. I noticed this on my GS3 and the One. Took me a while to figure out it was ad blocking that was interfering with the proper loading and back function of these web sites for some reason. I don't have any such problems on my desktop PC, presumably because the ad blocking usually works differently on a PC. On mobile phones, it's usually just a freaking huge host file that black holes known ad urls to 127.0.0.1 or equivalent.

henrybravo said:
I wish I could still use ad blocking but I started to notice on a few web sites I frequent, the back button would not go back to the previous page and the current page would just reload. I noticed this on my GS3 and the One. Took me a while to figure out it was ad blocking that was interfering with the proper loading and back function of these web sites for some reason. I don't have any such problems on my desktop PC, presumably because the ad blocking works differently on most PC ad blocking software. On mobile phones, it's just a freaking huge host file that redirects known ad urls to 127.0.0.1 or equivalent.
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Might wanna try adblock plus, it works differently I guess, I indeed noticed some websites not working properly when using adfree or adaway or through the host file .. weird thing is I don't remember that on my jailbroken IPhone or GS3/Galaxy Nexus ..

Fatelord said:
Might wanna try adblock plus, it works differently I guess, I indeed noticed some websites not working properly when using adfree or adaway or through the host file .. weird thing is I don't remember that on my jailbroken IPhone or GS3/Galaxy Nexus ..
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You probably don't remember it because it only happens on some sites. Just so happens some sites I frequented had the back button problem, I don't remember the specific ones. Maybe huffpo.com or something like that.
I will try Adblock Plus, thanks for the suggestion. I use it with Firefox on my PC and I love it.

Adaway. Installs as an .apk, and works in the background. Even updates in the background.
Ad-Block plus requires that an icon be in the Notification area, which I don't like.
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VacTacks11 said:
Adaway. Installs as an .apk, and works in the background. Even updates in the background.
Ad-Block plus requires that an icon be in the Notification area, which I don't like.
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It can be hidden, and in apps menu notifications can be disabled, this used to be an issue in the early builds.

Adfree android works well, plus it's the only one to work on android 4.3. As for the back button, I always found pressing the back button twice worked for me.
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Interesting, I had no idea the back button problem was caused by my ad blocker. I just thought the websites have really stupid developers. I wonder if they do this on purpose to punish users of ad blockers...
Still worth it to me. I haven't seen an online ad in years, besides the odd one that slips through

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Adfree android works well, plus it's the only one to work on android 4.3. As for the back button, I always found pressing the back button twice worked for me.
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Tried all three (Adfree, Adaway and Mother of all Adblock). Found Adfree gives best zapping of ads, has the largest hostfile size (more ad & tracker sites blocked) and has the most personalised white/blacklist. Why am I on the HTC 1 thread? Researching to shift from the XZ to the HTC1 dual-sim or the Butterfly S.
Dead Cookies leave mo trails...

AdAway, for the web.
If I really like a app I buy the donate/pro version so I can support development.

Using a host file with rom but I also have that website problem on websites like Engadget. But I just press back multiple times... the real issue is that I can't access websites through the slick deals app because clicking them just takes to a 404.
Not sure if there's a fix for this but I'm thinking of getting rid of the adblock
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Adaway since first day and working like a charm

Been using Adblock plus and are very happy with it. Have some problems in a few News apps, but I'll guess it's ok.

Aren't apps like adaway etc blocked from the play store? How are you finding the apps?

Yes, these apps were available @ Play Store but Google removed them.
You can search for them on the net, download the apk file and then install it on your device.
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Have been using Adaway for a couple of weeks ....Seemless :fingers-crossed:

Workaround for the page reloading issue when hitting back button is to enable webserver and set it on boot.

dayloon said:
Aren't apps like adaway etc blocked from the play store? How are you finding the apps?
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Some roms like android revolution use the host file from them. The option is there when you are flashing in recovery.
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