Help Is is possible to "ignore" an app update in the Market??

[scudder]

Hello...

Is there a way to temporarily "ignore" an update for an app in the Android Market?? I want to keep a version of an app I am using and NOT update to the one available in the Market but I keep getting notifications and prompts to update the app.

It's a pain because I would like to do the batch "update all" for the 2 or 3 or however many apps I DO want to update, however, the one app I don't want to update is in the "update all queue" so I can't just let the "update all" do its thing.

I didn't see a setting or option to ignore the app's update in the market. I would also like to ignore it only temporarily so I was hoping there was some sort of setting/option to do so. Thoughts??

THANKS!!

 

[Xyro]

You can use titanium backup to attach/detach apps from the market, although that may be a donate only option.

Or, you could use an app that doesn't backup market links to backup your app. Then uninstall it from the market and restore that backup that doesn't include the market link. Then when the time comes, just reinstall if from the market again.

 

[scudder]

You can use titanium backup to attach/detach apps from the market, although that may be a donate only option.

Or, you could use an app that doesn't backup market links to backup your app. Then uninstall it from the market and restore that backup that doesn't include the market link. Then when the time comes, just reinstall if from the market again.

I actually have the full/paid version of Titanium and didn't think to use that attach/detach links option for this purpose. Are you CERTAIN that that option will do what I am trying to accomplish?? I thought it was used more for backup purposes so that when you RESTORE your links are intact. I didn't think that that option in Titanium would then effect the update notifications for a totally separate app (the Market)??

I'll try it...but just wondering if you had any more thoughts/info regarding my questions above??

 

[Xyro]

I actually have the full/paid version of Titanium and didn't think to use that attach/detach links option for this purpose. Are you CERTAIN that that option will do what I am trying to accomplish?? I thought it was used more for backup purposes so that when you RESTORE your links are intact. I didn't think that that option in Titanium would then effect the update notifications for a totally separate app (the Market)??

I'll try it...but just wondering if you had any more thoughts/info regarding my questions above??

I was referring to the options you get when you long press an app in titanium backup. The attach/detach options there work separately to app backups/restores and won't affect your apps. I guess having root access gives it as much access to the market app as it needs.

I gave it a try with the Dolphin browser on my phone, which was showing as needing an update in the market. I detached it in TB and in the market it dropped to the bottom of the list and changed to 'Free', like an uninstalled app. I tried the browser and it was still installed. I didn't have any issues reattaching it to the market afterwards either.

 

[aburgthing]

I actually have the full/paid version of Titanium and didn't think to use that attach/detach links option for this purpose. Are you CERTAIN that that option will do what I am trying to accomplish?? I thought it was used more for backup purposes so that when you RESTORE your links are intact. I didn't think that that option in Titanium would then effect the update notifications for a totally separate app (the Market)??

I'll try it...but just wondering if you had any more thoughts/info regarding my questions above??

Thanks for that question. Let us know how it works for you. I too wasn't aware that you could unlink an app from Market updates. I'm trying to keep Flash from updating, which would ruin my Hulu hack so I've been doing the one by one upgrades.

 

[akazabam]

That's definitely a good way of doing it. Just to make sure to backup the current version of the app with titanium backup, first. That way, if a new version ever accidentally gets installed, just install it, then restore it with titanium backup. Then you'll have the version you meant to keep.

 

[scudder]

I was referring to the options you get when you long press an app in titanium backup. The attach/detach options there work separately to app backups/restores and won't affect your apps. I guess having root access gives it as much access to the market app as it needs.

Yes, yes...I knew where the options were. I have the full/paid version and root access.

I gave it a try with the Dolphin browser on my phone, which was showing as needing an update in the market. I detached it in TB and in the market it dropped to the bottom of the list and changed to 'Free', like an uninstalled app. I tried the browser and it was still installed. I didn't have any issues reattaching it to the market afterwards either.

Ha...I gave it a try too!! Launched the Market, chose "My Apps" then chose one that was ready for an update (ROM Manager), DETACHED using Titanium, back to Market and "My Apps" and ROM Manager wasn't there!! Reattached and ROM Manager was back ready to be updated.

So, that was what I was trying to accomplish! Didn't know that detaching in TITANIUM would ignore/pause the backup in the Market. Thanks for the info!!

 

[scudder]

Thanks for that question. Let us know how it works for you. I too wasn't aware that you could unlink an app from Market updates. I'm trying to keep Flash from updating, which would ruin my Hulu hack so I've been doing the one by one upgrades.

As you can see my my most recent post just above and Xyro as well, it appears, if it works they way it did for me, that this will also be VERY useful for your Flash issue and Hulu!

 

[aburgthing]

As you can see my my most recent post just above and Xyro as well, it appears, if it works they way it did for me, that this will also be VERY useful for your Flash issue and Hulu!

Yep tried it, when I went back to the Market though, Flash was updating itself even though I had automatic updates unchecked. Cancelled that and closed the Market. Went back to Market and it read "free" just like you said it would. Great trick and thanks for the information.

 

[dominicanyor]

what happend to the malibo ringtones in the market?????

 

[MonkeyBoy2000]

I was wondering this myself.
Rather than checking 'update all', I simply opened up 'my apps' and set the apps that I wanted to update to do so by clicking on " allow automatic updating ".

I have been wondering how to get around this, since I have an old version of Pandora that works better than the newer version.

 

[scudder]

I was wondering this myself.
Rather than checking 'update all', I simply opened up 'my apps' and set the apps that I wanted to update to do so by clicking on " allow automatic updating ".

I have been wondering how to get around this, since I have an old version of Pandora that works better than the newer version.

That "allow automatic updating" is definitely faster but since it is, as it says, automatic, is just flies through. I just often like to read through the "recent changes" and also like to give one last "confirmation" before I "update all." With the few apps that I do see updating automatically (Gmail and one or two others) the thing FLIES by with the download and install with NO change to stop and confirm whether I want it. Recently, I think, there was an issue with the latest Gmail (which was updated with a 3.x.x.1 version quickly soon after) which I could NOT have stopped with with "allow automatic update"

 

[sabooher]

One thing to keep in mind I have seen it on multiple occasions on my phone that every time the market forces a market version update that detached links somehow reattach themselves. Irritates me because I have a few apps that I never plan to update. Most of them the dev snuck ads in, etc. And didn't offer a paid version. Drocap2 is one of those and somehow it manages to reattach and then nag me to update. So lately with all the market version updates I'm frequently detaching it.