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Unused/Deleted Apps - Google Play Store - Support Reply

This may be covered in another thread, but i just received this from google support regarding my continued ***** about not being able to delete unused, uninstalled, non working apps listed on the play store granted.. they still show up on the web but now its not on my GSIII any longer.. Thank god... it took google too long to address this issue: :good:
Thank you for contacting Google. At this time, there is no way to delete records of old apps from the Google Play website (play.google.com).
However, if you're running the latest version (3.9+) of the Google Play Store app on your device (to find out the version you're running, launch Google Play, then tap Settings > Build version), you have the ability to remove apps from your My Apps list. At this time, the latest version of the Google Play Store app is slowly being released to devices around the world.
To do so, open the Google Play Store app > My Apps > All, tap the gray circle on the app you want to remove, then tap OK to confirm. You can select multiple apps to remove from the list by long-pressing an app, then tapping more apps in the list.
Note that you will only see the gray circle for apps that are not installed on that device. Removing an app from your My Apps list will uninstall the app from any other devices associated with your account. To get an app back that you've removed from your My Apps list, you must re-download the item from Google Play. If you remove a purchased app, there's no need to re-purchase that app - simply visit the app's details page on Google Play and re-install it.
If you're still running a version of the Google Play Store app below 3.9, you will not be able to remove apps from your My Apps list.
Regards,
Danielle
The Google Play Support Team.

I wish every time you deleted an app the list didn't refresh all the way to the top.. Also after rom installs do they come back and show again?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747

grkmaster said:
I wish every time you deleted an app the list didn't refresh all the way to the top.. Also after rom installs do they come back and show again?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747
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No they do not. They are also removed from the PC version when you log on from there. It makes it so much easier to try and an app and then delete it for good out of your list.

Nice to be able to finally batch delete...now if only we could batch install...
Sent from my SGH-I747M using xda premium

Well..you can now...the downside? Batch remove isn't available anymore.

The list doesnt refresh anymore thank god. It was so irritating when each time you erase the app from the list you have to scroll again to the point where you stopped before removing the app from the list. And I just got to know that you can actually select multiple apps from that list and install them at once instead of going to each app and pressing intall. COOL!!!

Help!About Appstore

How can i make "Google Play" as a main store on the Fire phone instead of "Amazon Appstore" ?
When i download some application it offers me to download only with "amazon appstore". How can i change it if i want to download via "google play" ?
PS : i've already installed Google Play and it works

AnnA93 said:
How can i make "Google Play" as a main store on the Fire phone instead of "Amazon Appstore" ?
When i download some application it offers me to download only with "amazon appstore". How can i change it if i want to download via "google play" ?
PS : i've already installed Google Play and it works
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What do you mean? Just use google play to install apps. Amazon doesn't do a great job allowing you to pick which apps are defaults.

mstrblueskys said:
What do you mean? Just use google play to install apps. Amazon doesn't do a great job allowing you to pick which apps are defaults.
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i use google play, but in other apps when i click install it says "continue to amazon appstore? this app is trying to open a link with an external market that is not available on your device. would you like to open this link with the amazon appstore instead?" and i can't choose google play

Very simple my friend,all you have to do is disable the amazon app store and links will open in the play store.

Not working
kieranc88 said:
Very simple my friend,all you have to do is disable the amazon app store and links will open in the play store.
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Sorry, but I've tried the above solution. I have allow sources other than Amazon turned on and open external links with appstore off. When I do this, it gives me the error message, "External Market Links Disabled- You can choose to open external market links with the Amazon Appstore. Update this option in the External Market links section of the Appstore settings"- followed by OK.
Under external market links options
Open with Amazon store- blocks the external link
Don't open with Appstore - gives the above error
Ask before opening - gives message, "This app is trying to open a link with an external market that is not available on your device. Would you like to open this link with the Amazon Appstore instead?"
Any ideas?

I've got "don't open with appstore checked" and links now open to Google play in my browser but I use a Firefox extension to then open in the native Google app if I need to.

How did you set this up?
ratbags said:
I've got "don't open with appstore checked" and links now open to Google play in my browser but I use a Firefox extension to then open in the native Google app if I need to.
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Can you share all your settings and how you set up firefox?
Thanks,

I did as in post above. I switched to don't open with appstore. Then, with Firefox installed from play store, I click on an external link and I chose to open in Firefox. If you've got the 'open in native app' extension installed in Firefox you can click it's menu and be directed to the link in the actual play store app.

Any solution found here?
I am facing the same issue as the OP. Although, on my Fire Phone I don't seem to have any setting options related to external markets. I am thinking perhaps the update to 4.6.1 has eliminated such options.
Did any of the people participating in this discussion (those trying to resolve this issue on their phone) come to a valid solution?

AndroidWelcome said:
Did any of the people participating in this discussion come to a valid solution?
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I answered the question in your other post.

[Q] How to prevent Firephone to go to app store and go to google

When in my launcher (lightning) if I get " item is not installed .search Google play, or pick an other app if I click on play store I got "continue to Amazon appstore? This app is trying to open a link with an external market that is not available bla bla.."
is there a Xposed module to prevent this behavior and go direct to Google play? without his warning poping up and preventing to go to Google play

guliver365 said:
When in my launcher (lightning) if I get " item is not installed .search Google play, or pick an other app if I click on play store I got "continue to Amazon appstore? This app is trying to open a link with an external market that is not available bla bla.."
is there a Xposed module to prevent this behavior and go direct to Google play? without his warning poping up and preventing to go to Google play
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I think that is the same redirection problem that I am also having, because when I was using my Fire Phone with FireOS 3.6.8, all APPs like AppGratis AppsZoom, Always opened a litle floating window, and always gave me the option to select between "Google-Play-Store" and "Amazon APP Store"... But now after the FireOS 4.6.1, I only have the option to select, on the floating window, only the Amazon APP Store.
I hope that there is an APP that could redirect and enable to select and open other APP Stores, not only the Amazon APP Store..
I already post a question in the forum about the same problem, but never got any reply:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-phone/help/to-redirect-app-links-google-play-store-t3107671

guliver365 said:
When in my launcher (lightning) if I get " item is not installed .search Google play, or pick an other app if I click on play store I got "continue to Amazon appstore? This app is trying to open a link with an external market that is not available bla bla.."
is there a Xposed module to prevent this behavior and go direct to Google play? without his warning poping up and preventing to go to Google play
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This is being discussed in another thread that @ulises.rodriguez mentioned. So have a look there.
And also since this is a question it should be moved to the Q&A forum so if you don't mind I will ask a moderator to move it there. Your chances of getting an answer is better there anyway.

[FIX] [SOLVED] Google Play Store and Play Services in Amazon Fire Phone Not Working

Hello All,
Fellas (many many many fellas) like me are out there who have installed Google Account Manager, Google Play Services, Google Services Framework, and Google Play Store in order to enjoy all the Gapps and other apps that use Play Services and the apps that are not available in Amazon appstore. I am pretty sure, many of us would already have come across the issue mentioned in title, including myself. Google Play Store stops responding (only settings in Play Store app is accessible, but content of Play Store don't show up), many apps that use Play Services stop working (Hangout, Duo, Maps, Tweeter, etc.). That, is, not a happy day, when you find this out first thing on a sunny morning.
Please note that the Amazon Fire Phone that I have is a factory unlocked and I only had above 4 apks installed to be able to enjoy Google's facilities. I was on Fire OS 4.6.6.1 (466001420) when I faced the issue.
Anyways, I decided to play with Play Store and Play Services a bit to see if I can get things to work.
Since you all (most, but I will take the liberty to say "all" ) have Google Account Manager, Google Play Services, Google Services Framework, and Google Play Store in your phone, I assume you are aware of the process that is most of us used to get these Google goodies in first place. They are all over the forums. A few examples are:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-phone/help/guide-fire-phone-fireos-google-apps-t3206603
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-phone/general/fire-phone-how-to-install-google-play-t2977237
http://spinyourfire.com/fire-phone-tips-and-tricks/amazon-fire-phone-google-play/
Basically, you just install apk files of Google Account Manager, Google Play Services, Google Service Framework, and Google Play Store in your Fire phone (in that specific order).
When the issue occurred, I had Google Play Store 7.1.15 and Google Services Framework 4.0.4-338691 on my Fire phone. I am not sure about Google Account Manager and Google Play Services. You may have different versions.
Here is what led me to success. Hope that helps some of ya'll out there, too!
I just downloaded the newer version of above 4 apk files from apkmirror. However, here is the catch: Not all of the most recent versions of 4 files work. I started with the most recent versions of 4 apk files available today (20 Nov, 2016) and started working my way backward to check which files were able to be installed on Fire phone. Go ahead and download below four files and install them in below mentioned order:
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-account-manager/google-account-manager-4-4-4-1227136-release/google-account-manager-4-4-4-1227136-android-apk-download/
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-services/google-play-services-10-0-84-release/google-play-services-10-0-84-030-137749526-android-apk-download/
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-services-framework/google-services-framework-4-4-4-1227136-release/google-services-framework-4-4-4-1227136-android-apk-download/
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-store/google-play-store-7-1-25-i-all-0-pr-137772785-release/google-play-store-7-1-25-i-all-0-pr-137772785-android-apk-download/
Above files are Google Account Manager 4.4.4-1227136 no dpi, Google Play Services 10.0.84 (030-137749526), Google Services Framework 4.4.4-1227136 and Google Play Store 7.1.25.I-all.
Steps:
Download above for files to your Fire phone in Download folder (or any other folder that your prefer).
Uninstall previously installed Google Account Manager, Google Play Services, Google Services Framework, and Google Play Store from Fire Phone.
Restart the Fire phone.
Install the newly downloaded files in this order (Uninstall Google Account Manager, Google Play Services, Google Services Framework, and Google Play Store from Fire Phone.).
Open Google Play Store. It should now ask for your Google Account ID and PW, indicating that the Google goodies are back, to serve you. Upon logging in, your apps will show up and "Installed" apps and they will begin auto-updating (if you allowed such in settings and if updates are available). Other apps in your Fire phone that use Goole Play Services will also start behaving normal.
I came across this solution as trial and error. During the process, If you come across any observation that may be useful to others and myself, don't hesitate to voice yourself; post what you see and help all!
Also share if you were able to find any other (and possibly easier) solution to this issue.
Till then, Enjoy!

Thanks. Those apks worked for me.

This works; but My Cloud stored personal music tracks are not showing up any more.
yugz5 said:
Hello All,
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http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-store/google-play-store-7-1-25-i-all-0-pr-137772785-release/google-play-store-7-1-25-i-all-0-pr-137772785-android-apk-download/
Above files are Google Account Manager 4.4.4-1227136 no dpi, Google Play Services 10.0.84 (030-137749526), Google Services Framework 4.4.4-1227136 and Google Play Store 7.1.25.I-all.
Steps:
Download above for files to your Fire phone in Download folder (or any other folder that your prefer).
Uninstall previously installed Google Account Manager, Google Play Services, Google Services Framework, and Google Play Store from Fire Phone.
Restart the Fire phone.
Install the newly downloaded files in this order (Uninstall Google Account Manager, Google Play Services, Google Services Framework, and Google Play Store from Fire Phone.).
Open Google Play Store. It should now ask for your Google Account ID and PW, indicating that the Google goodies are back, to serve you. Upon logging in, your apps will show up and "Installed" apps and they will begin auto-updating (if you allowed such in settings and if updates are available). Other apps in your Fire phone that use Goole Play Services will also start behaving normal.
I came across this solution as trial and error. During the process, If you come across any observation that may be useful to others and myself, don't hesitate to voice yourself; post what you see and help all!
Also share if you were able to find any other (and possibly easier) solution to this issue.
Till then, Enjoy!
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This works.. but My Google Play personal tracks from the cloud (uploaded using Music Manager) are not showing up.
In a twist, very curiously those show up and work perfectly when I do the same things on my Kindle HD6; I use the exact same hack that I use for my fire phone. Both used to work perfectly. After this Play service Issue, and the subsequent fix, both are back again with the exception of the personal tracks issue only on the fire phone.

Fireinthebelly said:
This works.. but My Google Play personal tracks from the cloud (uploaded using Music Manager) are not showing up.
In a twist, very curiously those show up and work perfectly when I do the same things on my Kindle HD6; I use the exact same hack that I use for my fire phone. Both used to work perfectly. After this Play service Issue, and the subsequent fix, both are back again with the exception of the personal tracks issue only on the fire phone.
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I wonder if you uninstall Play Music, restart the phone, and reinstall Play Music from Play Store, and see if that gets you fixed up. Another thing you might try is somehow trigger the Media re-scan.
Just some thoughts.. Disregard if you've already tried or post your findings if you end up trying...

Thanks.. That didn't do it.
yugz5 said:
I wonder if you uninstall Play Music, restart the phone, and reinstall Play Music from Play Store, and see if that gets you fixed up. Another thing you might try is somehow trigger the Media re-scan.
Just some thoughts.. Disregard if you've already tried or post your findings if you end up trying...
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Yugz5.. Thanks. I'd done the re-install, but not power down. I tried it with powering down after re-install. Same result.
I can't find any option for media re-scan by itself. But switching accounts should do pretty much the same. Switching between my accounts where I have some tracks saved all give the same "null" result. The tracks themselves are there and safe as I can access them from non-fire devices, browsers on the PC's, and even from an Amazon kindle tablet (Play app) as I mentioned before.

Fireinthebelly said:
Yugz5.. Thanks. I'd done the re-install, but not power down. I tried it with powering down after re-install. Same result.
I can't find any option for media re-scan by itself. But switching accounts should do pretty much the same. Switching between my accounts where I have some tracks saved all give the same "null" result. The tracks themselves are there and safe as I can access them from non-fire devices, browsers on the PC's, and even from an Amazon kindle tablet (Play app) as I mentioned before.
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Yea, I guess, switching between the account should have the same effect as Media re-scan. I suggested that coz in android, some players were used to non-recognize the files and clearing the cache of media scanner was a known fix..
As far as powering it down, you said you did the restart, but that was after the reinstallation. I meant to say, perform a restart "between" uninstallation and reinstallation.

yugz5 said:
Yea, I guess, switching between the account should have the same effect as Media re-scan. I suggested that coz in android, some players were used to non-recognize the files and clearing the cache of media scanner was a known fix..
As far as powering it down, you said you did the restart, but that was after the reinstallation. I meant to say, perform a restart "between" uninstallation and reinstallation.
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Yes, I understood your intent. That's exactly what I'd done -- i.e. power down between uninstallation and re-installation. But I'd mis-typed it in my last post. Didn't solve it.
Anyways.. this gets me 99.9% of the ways there for me, and this minor irritation I can live with.
It is nice to know that the same fix -- the same files -- work for HD 6 and the new HD 8 also. I am not sure how many people know this. After self-updating, Google slaps some minor variants of the same version files that are different than the ones for the fire phone -- presumably because of the hardware variation.

Fireinthebelly said:
Yes, I understood your intent. That's exactly what I'd done -- i.e. power down between uninstallation and re-installation. But I'd mis-typed it in my last post. Didn't solve it.
Anyways.. this gets me 99.9% of the ways there for me, and this minor irritation I can live with.
It is nice to know that the same fix -- the same files -- work for HD 6 and the new HD 8 also. I am not sure how many people know this. After self-updating, Google slaps some minor variants of the same version files that are different than the ones for the fire phone -- presumably because of the hardware variation.
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I assume so, too...

yugz5 said:
Yea, I guess, switching between the account should have the same effect as Media re-scan. I suggested that coz in android, some players were used to non-recognize the files and clearing the cache of media scanner was a known fix..
As far as powering it down, you said you did the restart, but that was after the reinstallation. I meant to say, perform a restart "between" uninstallation and reinstallation.
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I am happy... I am happy... I am happy...
When I subscribed to the Google Play Music 4 months free offer, it went through some machinations, complained about something not being right, and when I logged out and logged back in.. voila.. all the tracks are back. When I checked the versions of the 4 files, they were all the same. So I thought this should be something fixable.. and sure enough.. now I see the "Refresh" option under setting. Not sure how I missed that or if I missed that.
Any way, all engines go now.
Thanks for all the brainiacs on the thread here.

Fireinthebelly said:
I am happy... I am happy... I am happy...
When I subscribed to the Google Play Music 4 months free offer, it went through some machinations, complained about something not being right, and when I logged out and logged back in.. voila.. all the tracks are back. When I checked the versions of the 4 files, they were all the same. So I thought this should be something fixable.. and sure enough.. now I see the "Refresh" option under setting. Not sure how I missed that or if I missed that.
Any way, all engines go now.
Thanks for all the brainiacs on the thread here.
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I have download Google account manager APK Version : 7.1 (25) but have issue
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Any idea what I could do now?

Thank you it still works

Can you tell me how to Uninstall previously installed Google Account Manager, Google Play Services, Google Services Framework, and Google Play Store from Fire Phone.

[APP] Yalp Store - Install all your AndroidTV app on the FireTv painless

¡¡IMPORTANT!! -I'm not the developer of this app, or affiliated with the devs. Just want to share my experience
Hi everyone,
One of my biggest problem with the fire tv stick was to find the apks of the android tv version of an app, which usually isn't the same apk that you have installed on your phone (and are impossible to find ). I found this app called YalpStore that basically lets you download apps from the play store as an android tv device and doesn't require Google play services.
How to use:
-Download the app from xda labs and sideload it on your fire tv
-Open the app, click on the menu button on your remote and select "search"
-if asked, select "log in without google account"(experimental)
-to navigate inside the app, you may need the "mouse toggle" app to emulate a mouse pointer (or a Bluetooth mouse)
Install the apps and enjoy
Link from xda labs:
https://labs.xda-developers.com/store/app/com.github.yeriomin.yalpstore
Hope it is useful

I just found this app too. Using my google account I was able to download apps that I have paid for and directly load the and install the app. There is a tutorial https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidGaming/comments/7il7qx/tutorial_how_to_download_any_android_tv_game/ You can download the Yalp app https://labs.xda-developers.com/store/app/com.github.yeriomin.yalpstorehttp://
I don't believe you need to be rooted to use this Yalp.
Within Yalp are some options to blacklist andn whitelest apps but I have not experimented to see if that has any validity on my Firstick 1, x5.2.6.0, rooted.

nice

Search bug in android kitkat
Hi, thanks for this so useful app,
But the search return always nothing,
Although the apps appears in the categories menu, but the search doesn't work at all...
Perhaps only on kitkat ? I have a Samung S4 android kitkat
Hope you will fix it soon :good:

freeman2019 said:
Hi, thanks for this so useful app,
But the search return always nothing,
Although the apps appears in the categories menu, but the search doesn't work at all...
Perhaps only on kitkat ? I have a Samung S4 android kitkat
Hope you will fix it soon :good:
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Seems like developer just abandoned this project. And based on commit history He's missing himself since October 2018.
I'd recommend Yalp's fork - AuroraStore. Though didn't use it myself, it's at least have active commits...
gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore