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Old Oct 17, 2011 | 8:10 am
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Android update apps broken

I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing this situation.

A week or so ago, my "update apps" alert seems to have become broken.

In the past I'd get the alert that there were apps with updates, I'd hit the message and a list of the apps with updates would come up. I'd hit update and all would be fine.

Now, I get the same notification, but when I hit the message it takes me to a list that begins with all my "installed" apps, followed by a list of "uninstalled apps" (all of which are installed.) With no indication of which have updates.

I can't find a way in the market to search for updates either.

This is on the HTC G2 running 2.3.4 build 2.15.531.3
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Old Oct 17, 2011 | 8:19 am
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Not seeing this issue *yet*. Then again I don't have any stock, non-rooted devices
AFAIK you don't 'search' for updates. You open the market, go to your 'My Apps' and see if they show up as needing an update. You can also select a individual app and it will show if there is an update available also.

Some apps don't update for months at a time others seem to update weekly. I generally check an app for an update when some buzz about it hits the web.

*EDIT*
Phone one with out issues is a Original Droid on Verizon with Cyanogen Mod 7x
Phone two with out issues is a HTC DESIRE HD on AT&T with Cyanogen Mod 7x

Carriers can and do dink with the market so it is possible that T-Mo is doing something?
Do you recall which app/s didn't update?
Also possible that memory corruption is in play...

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Old Oct 17, 2011 | 8:19 am
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Twice recently the Market application lost track of which applications are installed on my phone (T-Mobile HTC G2) with the result that I was not aware of several updates. Fixed by using Home > Menu > Manage Apps > Market > Clear data. This forced the Market application to rebuild the database.
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Old Oct 17, 2011 | 8:26 am
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Originally Posted by Flahusky
AFAIK you don't 'search' for updates. You open the market, go to your 'My Apps' and see if they show up as needing an update. You can also select a individual app and it will show if there is an update available also.
I think that in the past the display in the market would indicate which had updates, but I'm not 100% sure I'm remembering correctly.

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Twice recently the Market application lost track of which applications are installed on my phone (T-Mobile HTC G2) with the result that I was not aware of several updates. Fixed by using Home > Menu > Manage Apps > Market > Clear data. This forced the Market application to rebuild the database.
I read this option elsewhere, and was going to try it, but when I hit "clear data" I got a rather scary dialog box saying I'd:

delete permanencty all my application's data, including 'all files, settings, accounts, databases and so on.'

What's the translation on this, does this mean that I'll need to reenter all the accound information all all my apps, or does this just affect the market app?
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Old Oct 17, 2011 | 8:55 am
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About a month ago, Google acknowledged there was some kind of issue with Android Market whereby installed apps weren't being listed in the My Apps section, which prevented users from determining what apps needed to be updated. Not sure if it has been resolved so far.

I had been running Royal Ginger 3.0, which had been working fine; but I decided to switch to CM7.1, and that's when my issues started appearing (only half my installed apps were showing up under My Apps.

As soon as I restored Royal Ginger, everything was back to normal.

In the meantime, you can use AppBrain to determine what you have installed and what apps need to be updated. The problem is that you cannot do batch updates, and it also picks up paid apps that you get from Amazon's Free App of the Day (whereby updating in Android Market will incur a charge).
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Old Oct 17, 2011 | 9:17 am
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Originally Posted by pseudoswede
About a month ago, Google acknowledged there was some kind of issue with Android Market whereby installed apps weren't being listed in the My Apps section, which prevented users from determining what apps needed to be updated. Not sure if it has been resolved so far.

I had been running Royal Ginger 3.0, which had been working fine; but I decided to switch to CM7.1, and that's when my issues started appearing (only half my installed apps were showing up under My Apps.

As soon as I restored Royal Ginger, everything was back to normal.

In the meantime, you can use AppBrain to determine what you have installed and what apps need to be updated. The problem is that you cannot do batch updates, and it also picks up paid apps that you get from Amazon's Free App of the Day (whereby updating in Android Market will incur a charge).
Thanks for suggesting AppBrain. It's finding everything with updates for me.

Who "owns" the Market? Google, right? Have they so lost interest that they allow this major part of Android to stay broken for months and months??

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Old Oct 23, 2011 | 5:06 pm
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Some pre-installed apps (like Amazon MP3) show up in the "uninstalled" category, even though they're installed. If an update is released for one of them, it doesn't move into the "updates available" category.

I found that there was an update for Amazon MP3. Once I applied it, it quit bugging me about an update being available.
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Old Oct 24, 2011 | 7:52 am
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And now my My Apps is screwed up (again).
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Old Oct 24, 2011 | 9:17 am
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Here is the thread on Google...

http://www.google.com/support/forum/...86ec8682&hl=en

I have a gmail account and two gapps accounts. The two gapps accounts also show up under the Accounts section of the Market. I wish I could remove them from showing up under Market.
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I used MIA's fix, ignored warning, updates work much better!

Thanks.


Originally Posted by milepig
I think that in the past the display in the market would indicate which had updates, but I'm not 100% sure I'm remembering correctly.



I read this option elsewhere, and was going to try it, but when I hit "clear data" I got a rather scary dialog box saying I'd:

delete permanencty all my application's data, including 'all files, settings, accounts, databases and so on.'

What's the translation on this, does this mean that I'll need to reenter all the accound information all all my apps, or does this just affect the market app?
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Old Nov 30, 2011 | 9:39 am
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And, out of the blue last week or the week before that, everything is normal again. How strange.
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