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[Android Apps and Games] rollingdices:
AW: [APP] App Update Notifier: Crowd Edition

Installed. Could work, app finds now no update for my device nor for my android version.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Let's see how it continues when the index grows.
[Android Apps and Games] Sp1tfire:
Re: [APP] App Update Notifier: Crowd Edition

Installed, says all apps are up to date, although that's not accurate. At least Shazam and Soundhound are two versions behind, cause I bought them from Amazon and their update system sucks.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
AW: [APP] App Update Notifier: Crowd Edition

That's perfectly normal for now. There are only a couple of users using the test version and there is now a limit of 10 times that an app version has to be reported to be considered a real update. So in your case, those two apps simply haven't been reported by other users more then 10 times.
[Android Apps and Games] cmlx:
Good, this is a much better alternative to aTrackDog which is too out-of-date, but aTrackDog still has an SDCard version which can scan apk files on external storage, I often use it to check the apk files which I like to archive but not install currently. Would you please add a function switch to scan apk files on SDCard?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.a0soft.gphone.aWatchDog

Also, there are too many false update info now, maybe verify apk files signature too, rather than package name will help.

BTW, the name of "App Update Notifier - Crowd Edition" in launcher drawer is too long...
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
v1.0.4:

Based on the feedback in the XDA discussion thread: versions are now grouped by device model and grouped by Android version. Additionally other processes have been added to drastically reduce the number of false positives!

!!NOTE!! Please don't give bad ratings or send emails because updates are not found anymore, the index will have to adjust to that new logic, please give it some time :)
[Android Apps and Games] Sp1tfire:
Re: [APP] App Update Notifier: Crowd Edition

Hopefully more people will install it now it's in Google Play, cause the forum version never found any update. For now things seem to have gone the opposite way, from dozen of false positives to 0 updates be them false or real. Wonder if it really works the way you intended with this update.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
That was normal, since there only were a dozen testers. The test was mainly to see if there are any issues, FCs, etc... It should quickly get better as users update to the new version.

Quick statistics: Update was published ~2 hours ago, and the index is already at 4800 apps. It should rapidly begin to be working much much better.
[Android Apps and Games] Annita:
Goddchen, thanks for the update but it's not 100% working (at least for my N4)... There are some apps that have a newer version in the Play Store but are not showing in the App (they were before the update to 1.0.4)...
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
did you read the part where it sais !!NOTE!! ? ;)

The update is working on a new database/index. Now users need to update to the new version to fill the new database/index with data. The update will show up soon!

For everyone:

Here are the measurements that were added to reduce false positives:

Checking signing certificate signature to be able to ignore debug APKs and only use release-signed APKs

Save the number of reports for each version, and only take a version into account if a certain treshold is reached

Filter versions by device model and android version so that you won't see version of device models are android versions that don't even apply for your current device
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
6800 apps in the new index and counting :) updates should be popping up any time soon :)
[Android Apps and Games] Marx2:
Odp: [APP] App Update Notifier: Crowd Edition

I have kies air, ezpdf, busybox in older versions than playstore, yet it doesn't see any updates. Those are quite popular apps so I doubt nobody updated it yet. I suspect there is something wrong with your algorithm, but you can simply check it.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
reported version is 2.2.303041. But it hasn't been reported from enough users yet.
[Android Apps and Games] Annita:
Mmmmmm... let's say kind of, not until the end of it.... hehehehhehee didn't give bad ratings to the app, I just added a comment here :o

Thanks for your answer and App!!!
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
let's give it until tomorrow to settle things...

until then, if you want me to check any specific app's version info, just let me know and I will happily post it here to check things out :)
[Android Apps and Games] Marx2:
Odp: [APP] App Update Notifier: Crowd Edition

You could simply add an option to see versions "below threshold" - maybe as debug option or after selecting one app?

And it would be nice to see how many people have latest version. First I was thinking (my mistake) that number in brackets says just it - how many people have this version :)
[Android Apps and Games] Sp1tfire:
Re: [APP] App Update Notifier: Crowd Edition

Maybe you can check what's the reported versions for Soundhound and Shazam, the paid versions, not the free ones. Mine are at least 2 versions behind the latest, because are bought from Amazon.
[Android Apps and Games] milos.macedoljan:
Re: [APP] App Update Notifier: Crowd Edition

Can you again post download link of apk?
[Android Apps and Games] cmlx:
Re: [APP] App Update Notifier: Crowd Edition

The latest version seems too strict. I think check updates based on Android OS version is smart and quite enough, but based on device model is a bad idea, there are too many models in Android world, if not use a common one, just like me, will not get any updates notification, because I am the only database source of this rare device model.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Re: [APP] App Update Notifier: Crowd Edition

Latest version of this APP FC's when trying to search for updates.. I sent already 3 reports. Hope it helps but just in case here is a logcat:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/05fiphtjna9y7ru/2013-03-15-04-26-56.txt
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Good point on showing the number of reports, it's on the ToDo list :)

Already fixed in my dev version :) Update will be released today :)

Well, then the model filter section just isn't for you. But it might be very well suited for those with a common device model :) Maybe it's a good idea to add a setting for hiding the sections. It's on the ToDo list :)

For Soundhound pro that would be 5.2.7 and for Shazam pro that would be 3.14.0-JB78058

Both have been reported more times then the treshold, so they should show up as updates.

Can you verify?
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Updated the OP with a Drive link to a folder with the APKs.
[Android Apps and Games] Sp1tfire:
Re: [APP] App Update Notifier: Crowd Edition

5.2.5 and 3.13.1, see attached screenshot. Something must be wrong, either for all phones or just for my model. Phone is Galaxy S2 with official 4.1.2
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Please check again, shazam just cracked the treshold exactly when I just check it now.

not sure about soundhound though. 5.2.7 has a high amount of reports for your device, you have a GT-I9100, right?
[Android Apps and Games] Sp1tfire:
Re: [APP] App Update Notifier: Crowd Edition

Yes, GT-I9100, same thing, no updates for any of my apps. I'm sure the Google Play ones are up yo date, but Amazon ones are far behind. Latest versions for Shazam and Soundhound are compatible with my phone, cause I can buy them from Google Play if I wanted to.
[Android Apps and Games] Marx2:
Odp: [APP] App Update Notifier: Crowd Edition

Does anybody see any update in any section for any app?
[Android Apps and Games] Sp1tfire:
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Probably not. At least I didn't get updates anymore since phone model and android version were added.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
The new index is still building up. But it should be showing at least some updates by now. Could you point me to some updates that it doesn't show? Then I can check it manually :)

That's really odd. Are you sure that you are not on the GT-I9100G or something? :( Plus: have you updated to 1.0.4.1 already?
[Android Apps and Games] Sp1tfire:
Re: [APP] App Update Notifier: Crowd Edition

I'm pretty sure it's straight up international version, no G, P, T or any other variant :D It appears no one else gets updates as I haven't seen any reports in this thread about updates after you added phone and Android version. I have installed the latest version of your app from Google Play.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
well that is quite normal... Only people who do have issues will go and visit a forum and post about about. the same goes with Play Store comments sometimes :(

It is working perfectly for me and some friends that help testing. Updates are reported correctly and no (zero!) false positives so far :)

Not sure what the problem is with your device. We are talking about the pro versions of the apps, right? Meaning: com.shazam.encore.android and com.melodis.midomiMusicIdentifier, correct?
[Android Apps and Games] Sp1tfire:
Re: [APP] App Update Notifier: Crowd Edition

Yes, those are the names of the processes for the paid versions. Your first version of the app identified the udates for these 2 apps.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
can I possibly reach you via gtalk or something? Of course only if you want to work with me to solve this :)
[Android Apps and Games] Sp1tfire:
Re: [APP] App Update Notifier: Crowd Edition

Updated to 1.0.4.2 after my last post. Seems to be working now. Although it still shows false positives, but less than the first version.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
well at least some good news :) can you post some of the false positives so that I can investigate those? :)
[Android Apps and Games] Sp1tfire:
Re: [APP] App Update Notifier: Crowd Edition

Yeah, will make a screenshot in a few seconds. I think info doesn't always reach your server, cause sometimes it shows no updates at all. More often it shows no updates than working. I'll test more at home where wi-fi is better than at the office, to see if the wi-fi connection is to blame.

WhatsApp, Zedge, Facebook and ES are false positives. Dead Trigger might be the Tegra 3 version.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Well that would definitely suck. And I'll have to think about moving to another hoster (again!). Didn't have any connection issues myself...

Anyway, I'll add some better error handling and feedback!
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
if quickly checked the ES explorer. In fact there are enough reports of that new version, and it is release signed, so they are legit. You will even find the APK when you use the Google Search button from the choices popup... It's just not in the Play Store (for whatever reason).
[Android Apps and Games] Marx2:
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There is new evernote, very popular app, and google shows 15 others app to update, yet not even one is shown by this app as possible to update. Because nobody see any updates I think this app for now is useless.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Have you updated to the latest version of the app? works pretty fine for me and many friends. If you are at the latest version and still don't see any updates, a logcat would help!
[Android Apps and Games] fozzie:
Re: [APP] App Update Notifier: Crowd Edition

Speak for yourself! I'm setting plenty of updates, thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
this forum needs a +1 button! :)
[Android Apps and Games] Spec-Chum:
Just installed :D

Kindle showing a weird version number. It says I have 3.8.2.4 installed and 6.3_1169943010 is available :eek:

Nothing on Play Store to indicate I'm still on the "dark ages" edition lol

edit: meant Kindle not Amazon!
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Hey, in those cases, please use the last choice on the choices dialog, the google search, using the google search, the first result is http://katchiopine.store.aptoide.com/app/market/com.amazon.kindle/1169943010/2658653/Kindle where you can obviously get an APK with that 6.3... version. (whatever that might be...).
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Here are some insight stats for you :)

Total number of tracked apps: ~37.000

Total number of tracked device models: 383

Total number of tracked app versions (this is app x model and app x android-version): ~205.000

Filtered debug app reports (device sending a debug certificate signature): ~1.100

Top10 device models:

m0 10518

GT-I9100 8502

t03g 8133

grouper 5051

GT-N7000 4933

mako 4549

maguro 3230

d2vzw 3001

t0ltevzw 2350

d2spr 2227

Top android versions:

16 34352

17 18361

15 17943

10 13265

8 1183

7 309

13 193

12 56

9 26
[Android Apps and Games] famewolf:
device model: grouper

android version: 4.1.1_Generick_V6_by_darkrickpr

It claims I have no updates....but play store shows ebay app and "smart stock" app as updates.

ebay - My Version - 2.1.2.15(29)

google play - 2.1.3

Smart Stock - My Version - 4.1.3(54)

google play - 4.1.4

I'm sure some of my xda non google play apps are also out of date.
[Android Apps and Games] fozzie:
Is it possible that different country's Play stores have different versions? Perhaps that accounts for some people having updates reported but not available when they check the store?
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
The update is very recent (just some minutes), give it some time to appear in the index :)

Sorry, you seems to be the only user using this app. There are no other reports from any other user...
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Country restrictions are possible indeed. But in this case, the AppBrain and Google Search choices are your friend :)
[Android Apps and Games] famewolf:
In the case of low or no previous reports perhaps it could "fallback" to the api lookups on google play as a last resort? Have you considered publishing some sort of "Most popular apps by # of reports" to identify "favorites" that would be certain to get the fastest updates? ie if I'm the only one using smart stock widget then I'm NEVER going to see updates but if there is a more popular stock widget I'm unaware of it.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Well that is basically a good idea, but that is also exactly the reason why this new edition was created. All of the available APIs and stuff are way outdated and therefore nearly useless... :(
[Android Apps and Games] Marx2:
Odp: [APP] App Update Notifier: Crowd Edition

After last update at last I see updates. Good work!
[Android Apps and Games] cmlx:
Re: [APP] App Update Notifier: Crowd Edition

Request: Store the latest search result on device, then I can ignore some false update info but don't effect the future update info.

For example, I got an update info about X.apk from 111 to 222, and I know this result is wrong, so I ignore this update, but when X.apk will have version 333 in the future, I still want to be notified.
[Android Apps and Games] Lilith_v2:
Many thanks man,

very useful :)
[Android Apps and Games] famewolf:
How long is "some time" as it's been over 24 hours and ebay still isn't showing as an update. I have to think plenty of people use the ebay app.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
ebay should be reported just fine by now. Version 2.1.3.1 has been reported 12 times by now for your model.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Btw for everyone to know. My hoster had some connectivity issues last night. It should be working again.
[Android Apps and Games] famewolf:
I've seen no updates since I started the app 2 days ago....I can install a screenshot app and attach some if you think that will help.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
A better help would be an example of an app that has updates available but the app doesn't show the updates :)
[Android Apps and Games] famewolf:
I already gave you one...ebay app...I also gave you my device and rom. If you are lumping mine under version then it's gonna be an issue as it's a custom rom and no one else is going to be reporting the same.

device model: grouper

android version: 4.1.1_Generick_V6_by_darkrickpr
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
the internal android version code (15,16,17,...) is reported instead of the version name to work around that custom rom issue. So that shouldn't be a problem.

what is the version (version code and name) that is reported for the ebay app for you?
[Android Apps and Games] famewolf:
2.1.2.15 (29) for both me and your server.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
really strange, both, your model and your android version, should report the latest ebay version correctly.

could you please send me a logcat of an update check process? there has to be some error...
[Android Apps and Games] famewolf:
Attached is a logcat where I did an update check.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
got it, look at the very end of the log. You are accessing a URL that isn't even available anymore. It should use a url hosted at goddchen.de.

What version of the update notifier app do you have installed?
[Android Apps and Games] famewolf:
I'm running 1.0.4.2 which was the latest version at the time I installed and neither your app or google play has notified me of any updates to your app even though 1.0.4.4 is what is showing now.

I'll upgrade the app. I suggest you put an error msg for when the database cannot be reached as opposed to just having it looks like no updates are available.
[Android Apps and Games] famewolf:
Installed v1.0.4.4 and rebooted the tablet. Previous version was one from post 1 of this thread. Attempted to do an update...had to click that I didn't want to remove the ads...attempted to check for updates...waited a while....was asked AGAIN if I wanted to remove the ads...said no again and was back on the front screen. Attempting to run the update check again results in identical results.

New logcat attached.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Well, the dialogs are based on the Random class of Java. So you just were unlucky to get it multiple times in a row. When I remember correctly, it should be displaying every 10% or 5% of cases...

For the error. It is really strange that this keeps happening repeatedly for you. It might be happening from time to time, but very rarely. The error for you is that the connection to the MySQL database is broken.

Can you verify that this happens EVERY time you try to check for updates?
[Android Apps and Games] famewolf:
I rebooted the tablet again...ran the update checker again and this time it produced results. It filled the screen with updates. I still think an error dialog when it can't connect to the database makes the most sense as opposed to nothing and letting the user guess what is happening. As for the ad dialog showing up over and over...I think because the database error occurred it kept resetting to front page and acting like first run...and I assume the dialog ALWAYS appears the very first time you run the program? It was remarkably consistent until it got a successful update check.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
First: glad that it is working now.

Second: It really should have displayed an error Toast (not a Dialog though) when it failed. But I think I had added this error dialog in the latest version or the one before. Which is the reason why you didn't see it. You should now see it when something fails.

Third: I'll check again on the popup logic, thanks for the hints!
[Android Apps and Games] dabenaute:
Hello,

Good app,thx
[Android Apps and Games] cracktech:
Not Good db base is bad

Please see attached screen capture on my installed version and on-line version which only shows "---(-1) through out my 150++ installed apps.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
That's odd. A logcat would help really much in this case! :)
[Android Apps and Games] xinfinityoO:
does this still work ?? is it worked on ?? is theer any alternatives to this
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Yes, Yes and I'm not sure :)
[Android Apps and Games] rht_sg:
hmm, same happened to me today.

few days back when i checked, it showed me many apps with updates.

now it just shows (-1) in front of all of them, with no data on server versions.

will try to get the crowd version and see if that is different.
[Android Apps and Games] famewolf:
Does your app handle apps installed from f-droid.org, amazon appstore or locally installed apps? I'm assuming since it get's it's info from the crowd it would still notify of updates.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Yes, that should work just fine. It's basically one of the main reasons why I created this app :)
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Thanks for letting me know. I'm currently searching for the cause...
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
okay, looks like I did have an issue with my memcache yesterday. Resulting und half a million calls to the 42matters API... I simply hit their quota... I'll check out if the are willing to reset the quota.
[Android Apps and Games] rht_sg:
the crowd version works fine though !!

thanks for the great app.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Yes it does :) One of the main reasons why I created the crowd version. No 3rd-party API to rely on :)
[Android Apps and Games] famewolf:
What happens if you are literally the only one who runs a given app and the crowd edition? Does it make a last ditch api call or does it just mirror your own version info back as the "latest?"
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Well, if you are literally the only one using the app, then the crowd edition will not find any updates, since there will be nobody with a newer version then you.
[Android Apps and Games] n_boy86:
Thank u To bad it not worked many updates on notification :(

could be awesome cheers
[Android Apps and Games] mistermojorizin:
been using this awesome app for a long time. it stopped working a couple of weeks ago. getting some weird error in a toast message.
[Android Apps and Games] Goddchen:
Hi! The app was actually removed from the Play Store many many months (I think more then a year or two) ago. Because Google decided to suspend my dev account (long story). Just recently I moved over from a server that I rented 11 years ago to a new one with double the power that costs only 25% of the old one. The backend for this app was not part of my migration since I abandoned it a long time ago. Analytics show that there are only very very few users remaining. So I don't think it is worth to give it an update and migrate the backend to the new server.

Sorry.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] UknownUser:
I have (rooted) GT-P6200 and i just finished download Modern Combat 4 but it has error when loading opening game it just force close and I uninstall and install again when i want to install again it said "Out of space, Unable to install MC4. Delete some items and try again" but my internal storage is free for 5,7 gigas ? it so confused, GTA Vice city, GTA III and my Asphalt 7 is not got trouble just Modern Combat 4 this. anybody know how to fix this :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] Graffiti Exploit:
You have to delete the odex file with Root Explorer. It's somewhere in data/app and its icon is some kind of driver mechanism. It's easy to spot. It should then let you install it again. The odex file is named like the app, well somewhat. Hit thanks if it helped. :))
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] UknownUser:
thank you very much man it's work :D done :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] Redtabs:
Do everyone know how to make modern combat 4 full effect on our tab?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] doomerz06:
okay, thats work, thanks anyway :D

but, the problem that i faced now is, after install, it go black screen with mark apkmania.com

and then, boom, go to home screen again

any solutions?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] theimran313:
Me too I got the Same error it get grey the andropalace logo and comes again & again the force close
[Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus] zelixx:
same cases on xperia Z

same problem. i thought they said once force close, the obb file will deleted itself. but in my case, the obb file still there. i also moved to android>data too but nothing happens. may i know the obb files should be on internal or sd card storage ??:rolleyes: