Some APK files do not install....why?

[mikekoz]

I currently own several Android devices. I just purchased and installed iBird pro from the Market and installed it on my Motorola Xoom. No problems there. I also own a Coby 7015a and an Elocity A7 tablet. The Coby is on Android 2.1, and the Elocity 2.2. This app will not install on either device. I was able to backup the .apk file for ibird pro on the Xoom, then used this to try to install on the other two tablets. Both the Elocity and Coby have permissions enabled to install 3rd party apps, and both devices are rooted. The Coby has the Android Market installed (had to root to install), but ibird does not show on it when you do a search. It does on the Xoom. When the app fails to install, there is no error message or explanation why, it just says "App not installed". Does anybody have any ideas??. Thanks!

 

[stouttablet]

might be the vibrate function. vibrate requirement is what disallowed me from getting idealyizer pro (which is free), got idealyzer's developer to re-release the old idealyzer (lite) which didn't require vibrate. (knew it wasn't an android version thing, i'm running 2.1 & those apps only needed 1.6) I wish google would have more verbose error explanations (at least on the web interface) to let us know what requirement our devices fail re: compatibility. Sure, we couldn't do anything about it (other than petition developer), but at least we'd be less perturbed. drawback of running hacked phone OS on unapproved cheap tablets, I guess.