What phone do you have Dante?
Is it unlocked and do you have access to the recovery?

2 universal methods for installing apps in android

Method1 (fairly safe) apk:
Uninstall the playstore and reinstall it fresh: make sure sideloading of apk is allowed in settings menu.
Play store apk can be found here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996995

Method2 (riskier so back up your data) gapps via recovery menu:
Download the appropriate gapps package to your phone.
Make sure you download the right one depending on the soc architecture of your handset.
gapps (google apps) zip can be found here
http://opengapps.org/

Power down your phone and restart while holding down a button combo (usually power+vol.up) to enter the recovery menu. Navigate to 'install package' and look up the gapps package you just downloaded. Select and install it.
You may have to wipe data and wipe cache afterwards to be on the safe side. the phone might missbehave otherwise.
With data and cache cleared exit the recovery and reboot your phone.
You should now have a clean phone with gapps freshly installed.


Method3
Navigate to istalled apps> settings> play store
Clear cache and settings and try opening the app again

Aye, as with windows .exe files be very careful where you get your android .apk's from.
Malware is always lurking so make sure your download source is reliable.
The links I posted earlier are reputable and should be fine (opengapps.org and xda)

hunk wrote:

Method2 (riskier so back up your data) gapps via recovery menu:[/b] Download the appropriate gapps package to your phone. Make sure you download the right one depending on the soc architecture of your handset. gapps (google apps) zip can be found here http://opengapps.org/ Power down your phone and restart while holding down a button combo (usually power+vol.up) to enter the recovery menu. Navigate to 'install package' and look up the gapps package you just downloaded. Select and install it. You may have to wipe data and wipe cache afterwards to be on the safe side. the phone might missbehave otherwise. With data and cache cleared exit the recovery and reboot your phone. You should now have a clean phone with gapps freshly installed.

Can I do this without root?

I have a Lenovo Phab 2 Plus.

If possible, could someone resourceful find me an apk for a PDF and word doc viewer that'd work on an Android 2.2.1 Archos 101 Internet Tablet? Please and thanks.

I'll have a look but nothing seems to download from the market and anything I try to sideload gets a failed to parse message.

By the time they get here you won't be able to import them into the UK...

But I agree, my Redmi Note 3 is great. Would love a laptop.

Downloaded the Microsoft launcher last night. Seems nice,may replace Nova.

Ok, yet again, I can't remember where to turn off haptic feedback on keyboard touches. ffs.

Settings, sounds and stuff, other stuff

At least that's where I think it was on my sony(s)

It's what I thought too. Not sure what I've changed, I thought nothing. But it's working now.

Going back to this phone I realise how slow the htc was running, apart from other outright things not working at all.

Heh. Stamina mode is what turns it off. Just figured it out then.

She accidentally got the pixel 2 full size. It's still light as. Lovely phone. Transfer was as easy as any phone I've ever seen. Up and running in no time. Camera is ridiculous.

Add to that it came with a free home mini and I bit the bullet and bought a proper wifi extender, we now have cast ability all round the house. Poor man's sonos up in here. Lol.

Aye, the flagship galaxy phones have often been gooduns. The Galaxy Nexus was also a really nice phone, way back when.

Aye - others mileage may vary. The thing is, Samsung offered some pretty good bang for buck until the newer Chinese manufacturers, like Xiaomi and Huawei, turned up on the scene, and Samsung’s heavy system bloat actually went down pretty well in China, where the default google services were intermittent at best and unusable at worst.

Once google got blocked proper there really wasn’t any way I could justify using the Nexus phones, even though they were great. At that point it was a domestic phone, Samsung or Apple.

Just got a Pixel 2. Seems nice enough!