Hello.
If a user tries to install an application, then you sometimes get a message:
Rarely, it will give the user a reason for the installation failure. It's annoying and disappointing to recieve the message with the word „NOT“.
This did happen frequently but since Android 3.2, there is a new (and annoying) restriction.
If the User tries to install an Android Application with a lower version number than the one, which is already installed a system, Andriod restricts the user from doing that, so the user is unable to downgrade apps.
The only workaround is, to do an App-Backup with a computer and root-toolkit like SkipSoft or WugFresh. Then uninstall the application, install the APK with the lower version, and load the application data.
I do already know, that there is an app, called AppDowner, which can override this restriction without needing a computer, but this app needs root access to do that.
With a Galaxy Pocket S5300 with Android 2.3, it's easy to downgrade the application by installing the older APK, because the system does not restrict you from doing that. But with a new high-tech-flagship, that's not so easy, because the user can not install apps with a lower version number.
One of my classmates with a Galaxy S3 GT-i9305 (4.0.4) and a Galaxy S2 (4.1.2) played Hill Climb Racing on his Galaxy S2. She knows the bug of all versions until 1.6.1.
My classmate wanted to downgrade, earn 200 Million Coins with this bug, and upgrade that again. She expected this to be simple.
She downloaded the old APK-Version (HCR 1.6.1 or 1.6.2) from ApkDAD and tried to install it. After she realized, that she is unable to downgrade the application, she was really disappointed.
It would be better if Android would just warn the user, if the user is downgrading an app, instead of restricting the user from downgrading completely. Nobody needs those restrictions.
If a user tries to install an application, then you sometimes get a message:
Quote:
× App NOT installed. |
This did happen frequently but since Android 3.2, there is a new (and annoying) restriction.
If the User tries to install an Android Application with a lower version number than the one, which is already installed a system, Andriod restricts the user from doing that, so the user is unable to downgrade apps.
The only workaround is, to do an App-Backup with a computer and root-toolkit like SkipSoft or WugFresh. Then uninstall the application, install the APK with the lower version, and load the application data.
I do already know, that there is an app, called AppDowner, which can override this restriction without needing a computer, but this app needs root access to do that.
With a Galaxy Pocket S5300 with Android 2.3, it's easy to downgrade the application by installing the older APK, because the system does not restrict you from doing that. But with a new high-tech-flagship, that's not so easy, because the user can not install apps with a lower version number.
One of my classmates with a Galaxy S3 GT-i9305 (4.0.4) and a Galaxy S2 (4.1.2) played Hill Climb Racing on his Galaxy S2. She knows the bug of all versions until 1.6.1.
My classmate wanted to downgrade, earn 200 Million Coins with this bug, and upgrade that again. She expected this to be simple.
She downloaded the old APK-Version (HCR 1.6.1 or 1.6.2) from ApkDAD and tried to install it. After she realized, that she is unable to downgrade the application, she was really disappointed.
It would be better if Android would just warn the user, if the user is downgrading an app, instead of restricting the user from downgrading completely. Nobody needs those restrictions.
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