Re: A good thing or a bad thing

On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 02:20:57 -0000 (UTC), AJL wrote :

But what's SHOCKING different is the Google Play Store update mechanism is
shocking deficient. It's so bad I'd assess it at almost totally worthless.

 
I'm satisfied with how the Play Store updates this Amazon tablet considering
 that Google is a trespasser. When I check every few days (because
 auto-update is off) there usually are apps wanting update so it's working,
 perhaps not to your standards, but good enough for me (YMMV). And some apps
 wanting update in the Play Store were originally installed from the Amazon
 Appstore. Apparently Amazon uses older app versions that Google wants to
 update which I suppose is logical since the Fire OS is based on an earlier
 Android version.

If it's working for you, that's all that matters. I don't do Amazon or
Samsung stores, but I often have an app that I don't remember if it came
from F-Droid, Google Play, GitHub, or what, but the "signatures" get in the
way of updating it. I never bothered to figure out a real solution.

So I just uninstall it completely.
And re-install the update.

That always works.

You'll be shocked at the differences (hundreds of updates are missing!).
Not to give you too much information, but there are updaters and there are
updaters, where some updaters actually look at other repositories, while
other updaters only look at the Google Play Store repository.

 
Thanks for the info but I think I'd be pushing things trying to mod this
 tablet any more. It works as well as some much higher priced Android
 tablets I've had in the past. And it's light and very comfortable to hold.
 Amazon still updates the tablet OS from time to time and I do worry that
 one day it will kick Google out...  8-O

Personally, I think Android has matured, so the version isn't all that
important. Same with iOS and Windows. Linux too but I haven't used Ubuntu
or CentOS in a long time so I'm out of that arena lately.

BTW, For anyone reading this and thinking of trying the same Amazon/Google
 mod there is another benefit. Amazon Fire tablets come with ads on the
 lockscreen. For $30US Amazon will remove the ads. But with this Google mod
 the lockscreen ads go away, no 30 bucks needed. Take that Amazon...

Good for you that you found a way around the ads. I don't think I've seen
an ad in a while, although I did see one in the cartoonify apps so about
once every few months I see an ad (but only in apps like the cartooning).

With over 900 apps on my phone, only 1 or 2 have ads, so that's not too
shabby either. We both found a way to remove them - and that's good.