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[General Questions and Answers] SHADOW-XIII:
Had this problem and I solved it, here's the steps:

- backup the problem app (app+data) with TB

- ensure account you bought app with is available on the phone (account has to be on the phone for apps to verify with Google that you bought them anyway)

- go into TB preferences, in the option that you can choose which account to restore it, set the account you bought the problematic app with

- disable "accurate" market check-in's (not sure how important is this step but that's how I did it)

- kill play store process, clear its cache

- restore the app+data that you just backed up

- start play store and go update the app - worked right away for me

ps. I keep sending Google Support a mail around twice a year complaining about not being able to move apps between accounts as I have loads of the apps on the old account I don't use, their last suggestion was hardly useful (no such functionality but I might be able to contact an app developer who could possibly give it to my other account .... yeah, awesome :rolleyes: ) .... it's even more annoying because old account doesn't have G+ so I cannot be part of testing process unless I setup G+ for old account I don't use

I suggest you all (those with old accounts) keep sending request to Google Support that you would like to move apps to new account and maybe someone will do something about it ....
[General Questions and Answers] bkjugg:
Would it help? I didn't pay for application, but it shows me that it has already been bought. So I get 403.
[General Questions and Answers] -Happy Feet-:
I have the same Error. I have paid some Apps with an old Account. This Account is deleted. With the New Account i can't install these Apps. Playstore say that the App is installed but isnt. Error 403. I have Reset my Phone. Cleared the App from "my Apps" List but error still present.

Google told my i must buy the Apps.. :laugh::laugh::laugh:

LG Lars
[General Questions and Answers] gypsy214:
I had this issue when a friend of mine put his email on my phone so I can have an app that he have purchased. And now I dont have his email. although that app I still want says purchased and i was getting error 403. I just purchased the app on another account of mine. And I couldnt download it. Clearing data of play store did the trick and now I can download the app on my other account.
[General Questions and Answers] maxdebesciak:
Similar problem for me here. Recently I bought a new phone. I've set up my google accounts, downloaded my paid apps from Play Store... so far so good, no problem.

I didn't download all paid apps, like Angry Birds Star Wars 2 (paid version) because I wanted to restore it from Titanium Backup to keep my game progress. So I restored my backup (app+data). Everything was fine until the update of ABSW2 has come to Play Store. Every time I tried to update it from Play Store app on my phone I ended with (403) error just the second after it tried to start downloading the update.

Today, after reading this thread I decided to try a simple trick.

Logged in to my Play Store account on my PC, searched for ABSW2. I clicked on "Installed" button (despite the fact I've already installed it on my phone via TB), the confirmation window appeared, I selected my new phone to install it to and accepted. But nothing happened at the moment. After a couple of minutes I looked into my phone and saw a notification, that ABSW2 is being updated.

Yay, it worked.

I wonder how it's gonna be with future updates - are they gonna work like always, or will I have to do the trick again.

Maybe the problem is with different device id (new phone but a backup from old one)?
[General Questions and Answers] X82X:
When I try that trick, all I get is

.

Is there a page/petition or something we can post to en mass to get Google to wake up? A lot of us here are experiencing the final stages of the problem where the solution is with Google and Google alone.
[General Questions and Answers] grusta:
Thanks to this thread, I was finaly able to resolve our problem, this f** 403 error. It just happened, it needs to be checked again.

1- Log in in Play Store app with the account used for purchased apps

2- kill the Play Store app in 'recents apps'.

3-

log in

in Hangouts, on the same account used before.

4-

log out

in Hangouts

5- On your computer, on Play Store, click on the app you want to install, with the same account used before. Install the app again.

6- On your phone,

log in

in Hangouts,

-> Launch Play Store.

On my phone, Beautiful Widgets and Light Flow were downloaded, solving a 5 months problem. Without clearing cache or deleting account. Hope it helped.
[General Questions and Answers] -Happy Feet-:
Okay.but my old Account there i have purchased Some Apps arrangieren deleted and dont exsist. That is my Problem

:(

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[General Questions and Answers] LoRDByRon83:
Just great... :crying: Brand new spanking Z1 Compact, coming from a BB Q5, google account inserted and boom: 403 error.

No apps, no updates, it's seems nothing is working in regards of downloads through the Play Store.

Tried several solutions presented and none worked so far. Even downloaded an updated apk of the Play Store but that didn't work either.

And I have only one account, all the apps were used/download in previous Galaxy S2, all apps were free (no paid apps) and not a single one can be downloaded now.
[General Questions and Answers] ady702:
Got my moto g today and same problem, 403 cannot download apps!

Im not signing into a new account and buying my apps again F that!
[General Questions and Answers] booyak:
Hey guys!

My girlfriend got her new Wiko Darkmoon today. Exact same problem. Brand new phone and 403 error (Wifi or 3G, both did not work). Nothing that I have found helped until I tried this:

1. Remove Google Account

2. Get into Apps Settings and Force Stop all of the following apps: Google Play Store, Google Service Framework and Download Manager. After force-stopping each of these apps clear their data.

3. Reboot phone

4. Create new Google Account

5. Open Play Store and it worked!

I hope I could help someone out.

*edit: Forgot to include step 4. And why do you need to wait 5 minutes for editing your post? For a new post, I understand. But just editing?
[General Questions and Answers] k198556:
What worked for me:

If you have a new device and want to link your account, which was previously used on a rooted device, this is what worked for me:

Factory Reset your new device and when restarting and logging in, DO NOT CHECK THE BACKUP&RESTORE OPTION. This worked for me.
[General Questions and Answers] ady702:
I did the same but did not create a new account, logged back into my account with my paid apps and started downloading the apps :)

Followed method 1:

http://appslova.com/android-fix-app-could-not-be-downloaded-due-to-an-error-403/
[General Questions and Answers] oguzhayne:
I remove my credit card on Google Wallet.And Problem solved
[General Questions and Answers] harithalam:
This worked for me

I recently bought a Z1 and had to return it to the shop today because of faulty speaker function. No problems with apps on that one however...

The new Z1's speaker works but all the apps fail to download just like other recent posters today. I tried force stopping and clearing data and changing settings on Google play online on my computer - none of them worked.

Even though the last phone wasn't rooted, as soon as I unchecked the google backup option after factory reset, the downloads and updates that were already failing started to work again!

It must be some error in Google backup

Oh and just in case, I've deleted the credit card, which I only just installed today - maybe that was the difference and explains why it started playing up today of all days....

Thanks for the advice :laugh:
[General Questions and Answers] -Happy Feet-:
I have delete my Google account, i delete my Creditcard from Google Wallet cleard Data/Cache from all Play Services but it won't work.

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[General Questions and Answers] gsmhackerns:
resolve easy

to Settings>Wireless and Network settings>Mobile Networks>Access Point Names.

Now open* whichever access point you use to browse on your phone (the one which is currently selected). In it, if there is a set of number in the PROXY, remove it and click Ok. You will notice that it will be written*after you do it.

NOW, go download apps !!!
[General Questions and Answers] ucel:
Didn't work for me :(. Just today bought new galaxy tab 3 7.0 and cannot do anything. Updates on my HTC One X work without any problems.
[General Questions and Answers] ibrahimnie:
Worked for me
[General Questions and Answers] haker307:
Same thing happened to me I just stopped auto syncing and forced stopped Google pay store and play services rebooted the device.

After that no more errors.
[General Questions and Answers] LoRDByRon83:
Just a quick update, all is working now...

After doing a million things, I just "quitted" fooling around and all of a sudden all was good and running again. Maybe because it's a new phone, the Google Account didn't update properly, don't know, but coincidently it was after midnight it started working, maybe a new day is all it takes...
[General Questions and Answers] Wezi:
If you're still getting 403 errors, try this:

Remove your google account; Setting --> Accounts --> Google --> Select it --> click on the ellipsis (3 dots in top right corner) --> Remove account

You'll be prompted to create a new account, or go back to settings Account and choose add account.

Sign back into your google account, but this time when you're asked to keep your data backed up with google, UNCHECK that box. The second checkbox regarding receiving emails and communications from google is fine. Finish the set up process.

Open Playstore, download your app :)

You can turn the back up feature back on after you've confirmed your playstore is working by going to Settings and Backup (or something like that)

Let me know if this has helped anyone (hit Thanks)
[General Questions and Answers] xdadaddy:
it is intentional

Nope it is intentional. it is about control exertion on their users. they wanna know all your details and be able to track all your other email and identity totally before thry give access . they know thats how they can get you to agree on everything that compromises your privacy and thats the whole point of android,google store, google plus,gmail acc linkage and mandatory and clandestine access (basically blackmailing for gps,location etc.) that android applications force on their users. thats why its the no.1 weapon for the us shadow govt fed cabal.
[General Questions and Answers] paradoxiumwind:
Are you serious?

By the way, still getting this bull**** issue. No update on their ticket they made for me:

https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/4430885
[General Questions and Answers] bkjugg:
Same. I'm still gettin' that issue.

But I didn't buy an application, but it shows like it was bought. Someone had such problem like me?

The problem is only with ONE application. Other are downloading like a charm.
[General Questions and Answers] -Happy Feet-:
Didn't work for me..:'( Google Support don't write back anymore.... They said my phone was rooted but it isn't.

I see that the phone was listed with Vodafone Branding, but I have already flashed a stock unbranded firmware, without root. Maybe that is the problem. I try it and go back to the Vodafone firmware.

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[General Questions and Answers] paradoxiumwind:
Doubtful. The error is on google servers end, we need to wait for them to fix it.
[General Questions and Answers] -Happy Feet-:
Okay thx

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[General Questions and Answers] Seasid3:
error 403 on my device is solved by CLEAR DATA on GOOGLE PLAY STORE apps and then REMOVED value under PROXY setting and PORT setting in Access Point (make it NOT SET)
[General Questions and Answers] unbreakable360:
Been having the same problem for the longest, Here's my solution search for the updated apk... Seriously this issue is so frustrating that I now just search for the app and download it about to do it now for my SwiftKey
[General Questions and Answers] Thorrium:
403 Downloading Error Solution

Solution : Get Titanium Backup installed somehow , press "Menu" > "Market Doctor"> "User&System APP"> Check all of them,then press the " V " button on the right top corner . Check the market,it should work. worked for me 5 mins ago. Cheers.:good:
[General Questions and Answers] Zaron DarkStar:
My Solution

This two account thing seems to be the crux of this problem. I also have 2 accounts, a primary with paid apps, and a secondary for alternative purposes and as a backup, but with no paid apps tied to it. I also was getting a 403 unable to download error for the paid apps. I was able to fix the problem and download the apps.

Solution: I went into the phone settings -> accounts, and I temporarily removed my secondary account. The phone complained about not having a backup, but I ignored that and went to the Play Store. I was able to download the apps no problem. I then went back to settings -> accounts and re-added my secondary account.

I suggest you temporarily re-add that account you abandoned with all your paid apps, and remove all other accounts, then download your apps. From there, try re-adding the account you want to keep and try to maybe sync over the app purchases. If that is not possible you may be stuck with forever using that one account to download those apps you paid for.

I would guess this issue is caused by some sort of cross account conflict or glitch, where the phone sees that you have already paid for an app and wants to let you download it, but then tries to download it with the account that hasn't actually paid for the app, thus the error. The boundaries between accounts in the Play Store really should be more clearly defined.
[General Questions and Answers] luttmann440:
was having is problem, all i did was sigh out of my google accounts reboot the phone then sign into the one i with all my paid apps, installed and no issues
[General Questions and Answers] metalgearhathaway:
Solved if you have a PC!

I get the 403 issue a lot, there is a really simple way around the update issue! Consider this SOLVED!

Go to the playstore, find the app that you want to update, it will show as installed, but just click it and select your device and your phone will magically start updating!

Easy :)
[General Questions and Answers] maxdebesciak:
[MENTION=2069027]metalgearhathaway[/MENTION]

Oh rly? Look at post #32 of this thread. Solution discovered long time ago.

Tapatalked
[General Questions and Answers] Mixy:
People!

Please stop assuming this Error 403 is a single issue. It is not. I think the code is for some sort of "authentication" issue with paid apps. Read OP, that is the issue for this thread. Not Error 403 in general.
[General Questions and Answers] jtshiv:
I've had this issue for so long and I finally fixed it!

Back story of my 403 issue:

I purchased Pocket Casts on my old email address from middle school (bleh) and wanted it on my new email so I could finally burn the old one in fire. Unfortunately Google Play thought I purchased it (which I hadn't on my new email address). Today I noticed something while I was flashing a new rom. If I clean flashed a new rom and signed into Google and went IMMEDIATELY to the app on the Play Store, it didn't register that I had purchased it. I quickly hit purchase and paid before it could sync fully with Google's purchase history server and it let me buy it! It finally works!

Previously both the website and all my devices would say the app had been purchased previously and wouldn't let me and no amount of resetting my phone fixed it. Just remember you have like, maybe 30 seconds after you hit the home screen to get in Google Play and find the app.

Hopefully this works for someone else!
[General Questions and Answers] -Happy Feet-:
Hello I have the same problem, I have buy an App with an old Account. Temporary 2 accounts was configured at the Smartphone. Then I delete the old emailadress without deleting this App. Now on the new account it shows me installed, but isn't installed at my smartphone. I try to delete all Google Account data, make an factory reset from my smartphone but nothing works. Also your method won't work. :( I wrote with Google but they say again and again is an user related problem...

That's sh**

I don't know what can I do.
[General Questions and Answers] rattu93:
I had the same problem but I figured out how to fix. Its because you have your other email selected that is not the one with which you downloaded the apps with I will show you in the pictures on how to change your emails so you can download the apps
[General Questions and Answers] paradoxiumwind:
We know this.

The issue is more complicated and deeper than that.

Let me try to explain:

On my old phone I used GoogleAccount1 (GA1), I bought a few apps on it.

I decided to make a new Google account (GA2), and added it to my old phone.

I bought a new phone, and added only GA2 to it.

Apps that I bought on GA1 show up as paid for on GA2. I can neither download them on GA2, or update them, or somehow buy the app properly on GA2.

So far I've just been using my old phone to download these paid apps, backup the .apk files and send them to my new phone, and install them that way. Thankfully they don't seem to have any license checks in place when you run them (but it says they do - Swiftkey??) and I am able to run them fine.

One app that this doesn't seem to work with is MX Player Pro, it has a license check when you run it, so even though GA2 shows it as 'paid for', it won't let me run it because really only GA1 has access to it.

The issue is somewhere on googles account end that they need to fix. If you solved this problem any other way, then it wasn't this problem - I'm guessing that error 403 might be used for a number of errors relating to paid app licences, despite being cause by different things.
[General Questions and Answers] MrTequila:
This error is big ****.

My next phone will be an iPhone again!

Anyone here who wants to exchange his iPhone 5S with my HTC One M7???
[General Questions and Answers] Hakaslak:
Bump for the dumbest problem ever. We can't even just throw more money at the problem and re-buy apps.

Google Play issue #4430885 has not been updated in months.
[General Questions and Answers] Layman76:
Do you really think anyone *here* is dumb enough to trade a 5S for an M7?
[General Questions and Answers] bkjugg:
So, I had this trouble for a year and finally it has been fixed by itself. I didn't do anything, but now, I can buy it freely without any 403, I was crazy surprised. Check your apps, guys, maybe it was fixed for you too.

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[General Questions and Answers] zjed:
Thanks, that worked for me. Just restored the app from TB using the correct account in TB preferences, then updates work
[General Questions and Answers] Mixy:
Just bumping this thread as the issue has yet to be fixed. For some of us, the problem is obviously not connected to the phones, rather than our Google accounts (probably with Wallet accounts aswell). Found this post that I imagine would have helped:

Unfortunately this code has been changed during an update of the play store, and I cant find any other way to "force purchase" an app that has been wrongly listed as purchased with this error.
[General Questions and Answers] Lodion:
Confirming what Mixy said: Play Store HTML has changed, can no longer force the option to purchase apps that are incorrectly flaged as purchased.
[General Questions and Answers] sriss:
Delete and reinstall

Hey !!!!

I had the same problem. I rooted the phone, i uninstalled the play store (you can do that with root apps which can delete system apps) and reinstalled it.

This fixed the problem :good:

cheers and hope you find this useful :D
[General Questions and Answers] Mixy:
Yes, this fix has been mentioned several times in this thread. For many it helps, but me and OP (and a few others) have a different problem.It has nothing to do with our phones, it is in our Google Accounts.

Meanwhile, I've been in contact with Google Play support, and after a few rounds I got a helpful specialist who could confirm my issue as known. It is "tracked" on this page. She says she can see the app as "purchased for free" on my account, and unfortunately cant seem to work out a fix for it other than getting a new Google account and buying the app there.

I showed her this workaround that used to work before they updated the play store online, but she couldnt assist with anything about that fix as its not official from Google.
[General Questions and Answers] firedragon64:
Situation at last

Finally found a complete solution to my 403 error. I used titanium backup to destroy all market links, did not repair, and it worked immediately.
[General Questions and Answers] globalgpj:
Thanks for the tip. I've tried everything else without success. This worked. Kudos ?
[General Questions and Answers] icesteve:
Nice, worked after a reboot. Thanks, that has been driving me nuts.
[General Questions and Answers] Hakaslak:
I'm lost on how this helps - I've had clean installs of the OS with just my new Google account that still shows apps from my old account as purchased when they have not - you guys must be experiencing a different problem?
[General Questions and Answers] XsceneXhippieX:
so ive tried all the fixes noted in this thread other than the breaking market links one in TiBu but the issue im dealing with is regardless of anything on this HTC one x+ (AT&T america) every rom, every time, i get 403 error upon downloading things like DraStic DS emulator and Swiftkey (i had purchased it before it went free once upon a time) and even TiBu PRO gives me the error, essentially no matter what i try i get the 403 error and when i try to install it to the HTC device from the play store on a PC it just says an error has occured try again later, which i have tried repeatedly for about 3 months now with no avail, will try the breaking play store links fix in here mentioned and report back but i think this is strange because i have no issues with this same play store account on 3 other devices

any further insight would be appreciated, i havent been able to figure it out, i mena i am only using AOSP roms and it seems to work fine on the stock rom i still have a backup of but that makes no sense that every single rom breaks my play store regardless of what version i use on any rom and nobody else on the forum knows what im talking about except on this thread
[General Questions and Answers] Schultz.y:
Solved

I know this thread is way old, but I google'd my issue and found this thread. I found a solution, and lucky for me it was a simple solution:

From within Play Store on the device, switch to your second account! Simply open the Play Store, expand full menu, tap on your account name, then select the second account (or which ever account the paid app was originally purchased in).

After switching to a different ROM's and adding my 2 gmail accounts (both with different purchases on each), I was having Error 403 while trying to download previously purchased Titanium Backup Pro.
[General Questions and Answers] abooazoz:
Fixed

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-note-3/general/google-play-error-updating-apps-fix-t2874203

the problem solved for good and no need to root your device check the link
[General Questions and Answers] Hakaslak:
...fixed...???

I think it's finally fixed for me.

When I was reinstalling my apps today on my phone (went back to stock for various reasons), I noticed that some of the troublesome paid apps were listed with prices.

I confirmed after repurchasing a known broken app that I could buy apps that were purchased on my old account!

At least for me, this issue is fixed.