Need help installing an APK I bought..

[ptsenter]

Just wanted to give you some quick update:
bought the app for the sake of testing,
pulled it from an emulator,
as I suspected it had "preferExternal", switched to "internalOnly",
tried to install and got [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_NO_CERTIFICATES],
using SDK signed with my own cert,
installed.

BUT, when trying to run it recognized a wrong certificate and refused to run saying to download from Amazon again, which uninstalled my copy first and the failed to install.

As I promised I can force it to be installed, but running is completely different matter.

I don't know if I ever will be able to get around this problem which starts with eDGes not having devmapper to handle encryption-decryption.

The same applies to Everlands
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=146535

[garyhgaryh]

Originally Posted by ptsenter

Just wanted to give you some quick update:
bought the app for the sake of testing,
pulled it from an emulator,
as I suspected it had "preferExternal", switched to "internalOnly",
tried to install and got [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_NO_CERTIFICATES],
using SDK signed with my own cert,
installed.

BUT, when trying to run it recognized a wrong certificate and refused to run saying to download from Amazon again, which uninstalled my copy first and the failed to install.

As I promised I can force it to be installed, but running is completely different matter.

I don't know if I ever will be able to get around this problem which starts with eDGes not having devmapper to handle encryption-decryption.

The same applies to Everlands
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=146535

Thanks for looking into this.. I guess it's not the smdl2tmp1.asec file I had thought it was.
Gary

[ptsenter]

Originally Posted by garyhgaryh

Thanks for looking into this.. I guess it's not the smdl2tmp1.asec file I had thought it was.
Gary

Problem is with creating this file not its existence.

[Synergi]

Bummer, I guess I'll have to request a refund. It seemed like the perfect compliment to the eink side.

ptsenter thank you so much for your help and even going beyond that and buying the app to try for yourself. I've sent the dev's a note about it but I don't know if there is anything they can do about it with the Edge being a niche group.

I guess its back to ezpdf!

[Synergi]

Hey Ptsenter,
I was talking to Gregory (from Mantano team) in this thread. Anyway, he seemed to think it was because of the SD card or something so I past what you said. I'm still waiting for him to answer that one.. Anyway, this is what he said originally..

The eDGe problem is pretty tricky : the application is set to install on the sdcard if possible (and in the internal memory if needed). What's happening is that the Edge cannot (apparently) install application on the SDcard, but still tries to do it instead of installing on the internal memory...
One solution would be for us to recompile the application and have it install by default on the internal memory rather than the SDcard. We haven't done it yet as for most devices it's better to install on the SD.

There seems to be a solution have the SDcard working correctly on the eDGe, but I'm not sure how simple it is : https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=138124

I was wondering if using the steps to get apps onto the SD card would work. Just wondering what you thought about it since you are so knowledgable about this sort of stuff.

Thanks!

[ptsenter]

Originally Posted by Synergi

The eDGe problem is pretty tricky : the application is set to install on the sdcard if possible (and in the internal memory if needed). What's happening is that the Edge cannot (apparently) install application on the SDcard, but still tries to do it instead of installing on the internal memory...

eDGe doesn't try to install on internal card at all. It seems there are two problems mounted one on top of another. And it's not a problem of eDGe per se.
The first problem is with Ermine and that it's beta - it means some components missing or not working properly. Relevant component in this case is devmapper or, actually, lack of it. devmapper is included in Dingo. But Dingo based on Android 1.6, with does not understand android:install.
Android 2.2 is the first to understand it. Mandano assigned "preferExternal" to it. preferExternal in theory means try SD card, if not try internal. But installing on SD card requires encrypting the app, which is provided through devmapper. Since it's missing the installation on SD card fails. Again in theory Android has to switch to internal. But here we have
The second problem: Android fails properly to process such kind of error and crashes aborting the install process.

One solution would be for us to recompile the application and have it install by default on the internal memory rather than the SDcard. We haven't done it yet as for most devices it's better to install on the SD.

That definitely will help. Mandano could have used "internalOnly", but they don't like it. They could have used "auto" which also may install on SD card and doesn't fail on eDGe.

There seems to be a solution have the SDcard working correctly on the eDGe, but I'm not sure how simple it is : https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=138124

I was wondering if using the steps to get apps onto the SD card would work.

Not at all: those steps switch logically SD card and internal memory, but relationship remains intact. And the problems above remain.

[Synergi]

Thanks ptsenter, I'm going to paste this over there and see what he says. This App would be awesome on the Edge if they could get it working for us..