soooo...

I recently got my first smartphone (galaxy S3) and I figured Id download some of those android games I got from humble bundle.
now i'm not new to android, just smart phones, and to my great surprise...

The humble app immediately fails to download anything, pressing the download button initiates a download, the little arrow in the top left of the phone starts filling downward, and there is a progress bar with a % on the humble app. Shortly afterwards (still at 0%) the phone comes up with a notification about the download failing, that's all it says, no error code.

shortly afterwards, i tried the amazon app store app, and that does the exact same thing. the only app store that works is the fucking Google play store.

--now don't get too excited here, I have already checked the box in settings that allows me to install apps from third party sources.

am I doing something wrong here? I mean I've installed the app on my tablet and downloaded shit all the time.
I've searched and searched about this and haven't turned up anything so, I humbly ask the masses of steamgifts if they have heard of, encountered, or had this problem before?

anything?

no?....
...
...

fuck this phone thing, and fuck google. :(

thanks for taking the time to read my rant/plea

9 years ago*

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I formatted my phone yesterday and downloaded a few games, worked flawless

9 years ago
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mm that was as I had feared, an idea why they wouldnt be downloading on the phone? some setting I have overlooked?

its not as important for the humble store, more so amazon since I can install .APKs on the phone without a problem

9 years ago
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I don't know, the only thing I can think of is the "Unknown Sources" checkbox

9 years ago
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that's alot of fucking.

instead of panicking, take a breath, relax and uhm maybe tried upgrading your firmware?

9 years ago
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I had earlier (just checked again and no firmware update availible) and then I tried a factory reset no such luck :*(

9 years ago
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Update software? I don't know, sorry. My smarty works flawlessly.

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Try to go to the app thing inside phone settings and try to delete cache from there.

9 years ago
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clear cache from the app manager? tried that unfortunately, something is dicked hard here :/

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http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=33372770

some people talk of having something similar, maybe if you read further someone gives some kind of solution.

9 years ago
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hey thanks, will read through this!

9 years ago
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I don't know much about these things, but since the phone is new, did you try going to the store you bought it from and asking for help there? They should have somebody that knows their way around android and bottom line is if it doesn't work you can ask for a new one, i'm not sure if it could be a problem with your phone in particular or is that a (more or less) common problem. I didn't use humble bundle app but i successfully downloaded stuff from Amazon app and from what i've understood it also worked for you on a tablet so it should work properly on a phone as well.

The thing that comes to mind is maybe trying to download a few different games from humble bundle app to see if maybe you don't have enough space or they might be tablet only or something, i'm sure there is also some way to contact humble bundle support and ask for help there if everything else fails.

Also, as far as humble bundle goes you can download binaries and install games from that, i'm not sure you can do that will all humble bundle android apps, but i'd imagine you can

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Never had a problem with the amazon app but I couldn't get almost anything to download/install with the humble app. I just download the .apk directly from my humble library for those, so try if that works.

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Closed 9 years ago by Sickfarts.