Help Updating apps on Desire that's not been used for 18 months

[GrenW]

My Desire has lain in a drawer for the past 18 months since I got my Galaxy Nexus (soon to be replaced) and I've just dusted it off to use as an mp3 player and alarm clock when I go on holiday.

I've cleared down almost all of the apps and want to update the remaining ones but nothing seems to be compatible. It's still on 'Market' rather than Play Store and everything says 'Your device isn't compatible with this item' when I go to the app screen in the market to update. I'm using wifi as there's no SIM in the phone.

I'm running Redux 2 rom on Gingerbread 2.3.5 so that may be the problem but I'm certainly not going to go to ICS/JB just to have the latest version of the apps I use.

Any thoughts?

 

[Hadron]

That's very strange. I was using a Desire on Gingerbread until the end of June, and had no problems of that sort. Market vs Play Store shouldn't matter for this.

Can you give some examples of apps that are not updating?

 

[GrenW]

GMail, Maps, Poweramp

Also when I search for Google apps to select them that way - the only ones I can see are MyTracks and Google Finance. When I scroll through the apps in the store I only get a handful - 6 in 'top paid', 3 in 'top free' etc

Tempted to do a factory reset but worried in case I won't be able to install anything then

Would flashing a new Gapps package work? I think they were always included in the roms I flashed but assume there are separate one around?

 

[Hadron]

The latest Maps (v7) may be ICS/JB only, but v6 updates should be fine.

I just pulled my Desire out of the drawer, booted it up (so slow after the One!), uninstalled the Play Store update so that it reverted to the Market app that comes with dGB, then updated PowerAmp. All worked fine. So I don't think it's instrinsically 2.3.5 or Market rather than Play Store that's the problem, and I also didn't have a SIM in the phone.

You could try flashing a newer (Gingerbread) gapps file. Other ideas: try clearing data for the Market - you'll have to sign in and agree to conditions, but that should be all you lose. If not, wipe cache and dalvik. In the limit, why not a factory reset? At worst you end up reflashing the ROM, flashing a new ROM, or just restoring everything from Titanium or a nandroid.

But there is something odd here - I can't think why it should be doing this.

 

[GrenW]

Sorted : Clear data in 'Google Services Framework'. Had tried clearing market data and uninstalling updates then came across this solution

Seems like I'd lost a link with Google somehow. Gmail was working but not much else. I now have a green wifi symbol as well. lol, it's been so long I forgot it did that!


It's now putting Play store on etc...