Comments on: Google Fixes “Purchased App” Issue for Sideloaded or Third Party Installed Apps

By: Kurtis Whittington

Kurtis Whittington — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:24:00 +0000

You could try clearing your settings for the Google Play Market application (settings-manage applications-click on Play Market-clear data). You will need to sign back in with your account, but everything else should re-populate automagically. Hopefully with their new update, it should also fix your double-install issue (unless you did buy the ad-free version from both places).

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:31:00 +0000

I have that problem with Angry Birds Rio. I got the Ad-free version from Amazon App Store back when it was the Free App of the Day. Even though I now have the latest Google Play Store, Angry Birds Rii keeps showing up in the updates available list.

By: Noyfb

Noyfb — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:22:00 +0000

My problem is the few .99 apps i got from amazon, which are ad free versions that play doesn’t have, now says i have to update once from amazon and once from play store. Or the keep notifying me of updates. So I have to double update four apps.

By: George264

George264 — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:03:00 +0000

FINALLY

By: Tom Burke

Tom Burke — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:58:00 +0000

All of them are gone on mine, except for one and I don’t know why it just left one. Ugh

By: Joe12304

Joe12304 — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:53:00 +0000

THANK YOU GOOGLE! So damn annoying to buy sn app from Amazon, then be unable to rebuy it for newer versions from Play. Wasn’t even possible from a PC browser. Only fix was to dl an old Market .apk and buy through it.

By: TheOiulkj

TheOiulkj — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:52:00 +0000

Sweet, just in time for me to take advantage of a sale for one of the apps that was affected by this issue.

By: DeeMat

DeeMat — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:11:00 +0000

Finally! This used to bug me since I have several Amazon appstore apps.

By: Caleb Martin

Caleb Martin — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:46:00 +0000

I noticed that this morning when I had app updates and it no longer listed Osmos (which I got from the Humble Bundle) as having an update. It was getting annoying to receive update notifications for apps that couldn’t be updated through the store.

By: Bret

Bret — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:44:00 +0000

Not quite fixed! I got TuneIn Radio Pro from an Amazon Free app of the day, and its always telling me it needs to be updated through the play store (and the previous store name too). I’m on version 3.5.15 and TuneIn Radio Pro is listed as needing an update.

By: ChristopherCorpening

ChristopherCorpening — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:35:00 +0000

Now if only there were a way to be able to get the updates for apps from the Google Play Store that are newer for apps that we downloaded from the Amazon App store.

By: Stephen Perkins

Stephen Perkins — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:30:00 +0000

Yay! I have like 50 apps purchased from the Amazon Appstore from the free app of the day. Had this same issue from the Android Market at the time and Play Store as of current. But now with this fix, it’s all good! I can now manage them from the Play Store finally!

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:50:00 +0000

Yea, I was worried about the google wallet issue to, but Google Wallet also appears to have a way to receive updates via the Settings of the app. I have an entry that’s grayed out and says “Updates: Google Wallet is up-to-date”. Hopefully, this button becomes activated as updates are pushed out to the Market

By: Bigsike

Bigsike — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:42:00 +0000

I got an email from the this morning saying this is now fixed it really the only thing bugging me in my life lol

By: QtDL

QtDL — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:25:00 +0000

I’m hoping the sneaky browser trick will still work for updating the app. I did that last time and it worked.