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From: AJL <noemail@none.com>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Samsung account
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 14:24:34 -0700
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On 3/13/2024 1:57 PM, Richmond wrote:
> AJL <noemail@none.com> writes:
>
>> On 3/13/2024 1:08 PM, Richmond wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> I think competition is good. I'm glad to have 2 stores to pick from.
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> Yup. Things can get confusing. Just go to the Play Store and update
>> it.
>
> 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:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.).
>>
>> 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...
>
> 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...