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From: Marion <marion@facts.com>
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Subject: Re: A good thing or a bad thing
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2025 04:51:55 -0000 (UTC)
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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.