Re: Samsung account

On 3/13/2024 1:57 PM, Richmond wrote:

AJL <noemail@none.com> writes:
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On 3/13/2024 1:08 PM, Richmond wrote:
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Samsung should decide what they want to do, replace google or leave
it to google, it's a bit half-way house at the moment.

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I think competition is good. I'm glad to have 2 stores to pick from.
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The store quite often says there are updates and then says it cannot
update because the apps are from google. So why bother to notify?

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Yup. Things can get confusing. Just go to the Play Store and update
it.

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I can't because the playstore has an older version.

Ah. Try a force stop on the Samsung Store app. On my Samsung tablet you hold down the Store app icon, when the popup occurs tap the i in the circle (upper right), then tap Force Stop (lower right). Hopefully it won't revive or bother you again until you once again tap the Store's icon...
If that works you'll be back to the one Google store which I think is what you want?

I have another similar situation:

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I have several Amazon Fire tablets that I sideloaded the Google Play
Store on. And sometimes the Google Play Store wants to update the
Amazon AppStore apps and the Amazon AppStore wants to update the
Google Play Store apps. Complicated. I solved it by not allowing
either store to automatically update any apps and do just it manually
as needed.
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The Amazon Fire OS is an older forked version of Android and so its
AppStore apps are often older versions of the same apps the Play Store
has. Thus sometimes I don't want the newer version updates.
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IMO the Amazon tablets are the best in their price class and their
only fault was in lacking Google's facilities (like Gmail, the Chrome
browser, etc.).
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BTW If anyone is interested in the conversion, Google it (of course).
It's very easy to do, just downloading 4 files and installing them...

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I've been down that road and decided against it. You have to be very
trustful of those things you are downloading and installing, and you
have to include google play services or apps which use it will become
slow.

Google Play Services is one of the 4 files I mentioned above.
I've been using the hack for a few years now with no problems or complaints from Google (or Amazon). I'm kinda surprised that Amazon allows it on their tablets but I'm up to date on their latest OS updates and still no problems...