Re: Jolla Phone and Google Play Store
 

Any idea on how to solve the problem reported in this thread on a non-Android phone? I'm having it after a purchase, and got no occasion to install the app.

Re: Jolla Phone and Google Play Store
 

Today I found an interesting mistake and got paid app issue solved. I simply deleted google service setting and just leave play store alone and after restart the "can't retrieve information" error has gone, I can purchase and download as usual. Still have the installation bug, have to use Manatus' method mentioned before. But at least I don't need to login to web play store and "push" the app any more. (referring to #1)

Re: Jolla Phone and Google Play Store
 

chenliangchen, did you (or anyone else) tried Blackmart already?
This could be a workaround for the Play Store

Re: Jolla Phone and Google Play Store
 

Is there any way to fully remove google play and restore the /opt/alien/system folder, as i forgot to backup before installing...

Re: Jolla Phone and Google Play Store
 

The advantage about Play store is some paid content which may not be popular and not listed in other stores. Also Play store receives updates on the first place (usually). As Google left business in China, there are hundreds of 3rd party app stores such as hiapk or anzhi etc. most of them has more than 300000 apps but still, all free stuff. There is even a store called wandoujia in Chinese which combines dozens of 3rd party stores into one and has more than a million apps lol. I don't really trust blackmarts as malware can be easily implemented and they do lack some good proper stuff ;)

Re: Jolla Phone and Google Play Store
 

First, I ran rsync through SSH, and SSH lost connection immediately after pressing enter, Google Services installed OK, also Google Play installed OK, but crashed immediately after start.

I repeated the rsync process through the phone's terminal, no errors were reported, Google Services showed a couple more configurable items than before, Google Play was missing. Installed Google Play again, and it started OK.

Conclusion: try using the phone's terminal instead of SSH although it is a pain to type with.

Re: Jolla Phone and Google Play Store
 

uninstall android support, delete /opt , reboot, reinstall android support

Re: Jolla Phone and Google Play Store
 

Everytime i got some updates from the Play store and install it. App will work, but i lost desktop icon everytime (so remove install needed everytime). Does someone else has this problem?

Re: Jolla Phone and Google Play Store
 

I keep losing Play Store icon too, although not updates for me as I haven't done any for a while, auto-updates disabled too. I also get frequent pop-ups referencing something like google.apps not responding. Although first few times I lost Play icon I never received these pop-ups.

May be something to do with conflicts between the older files installed to enable Play and Alien Dalvik. Interesting you mention updates though, as I previously did have the My O2 app installed, but now refuses to install, returning "Incompatible update."

Re: Jolla Phone and Google Play Store
 

Yes, it seems to be a bug that the Jolla menu thinks an app is uninstalling when really it's just upgrading. If you reboot your phone, it notices the app is still there and restores the icon.
If you install an Android launcher (Go Launcher has been suggested round here, works ok, but does occasionally pester you to buy extra features) then all the icons are present and correct in there.