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    Transfer a paid app to another phone

    Can you transfer an app that you have and paid and all to a friends phone??? will it work?
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    If I'm understanding this correctly you want to basically pirate some paid apps to your friend's phone for free?
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    Paid apps are tied to your gmail account. Unless you're willing to share/give up your email account, only your phone gets the app. Of course there's piracy, but we don't go there.

    I do have a follow-up question.... If you have multiple droids, and all of them access the same gmail account, do you get the app on all of your phones after buying it once?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hiroller173 View Post
    Paid apps are tied to your gmail account. Unless you're willing to share/give up your email account, only your phone gets the app. Of course there's piracy, but we don't go there.

    I do have a follow-up question.... If you have multiple droids, and all of them access the same gmail account, do you get the app on all of your phones after buying it once?
    Yes. I had a TMobile G1 like a year and half ago and I still had my paid apps available to me when I got the Droid.
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    Quote Originally Posted by chapaboy View Post
    Can you transfer an app that you have and paid and all to a friends phone??? will it work?
    it is highly immoral and wrong to not just pay the buck or two the app costs. these guys work day and night making the apps for android and if they start gettting pirated...it will shut down the android market. are you willing to settle for what's there now? or encourage the android market development by paying the lousy buck? either way we don't condone app swapping/stealing in this forum.

    Quote Originally Posted by Hiroller173 View Post
    Paid apps are tied to your gmail account. Unless you're willing to share/give up your email account, only your phone gets the app. Of course there's piracy, but we don't go there.

    I do have a follow-up question.... If you have multiple droids, and all of them access the same gmail account, do you get the app on all of your phones after buying it once?
    No. Unless you mean for each phone YOU personally own because of a swap. i could be wrong but....
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    well first. I Haven't done anything wrong or immoral with asking as far as I know this space is for asking about your droid capabilities.
    Second, I am talking about a $30+ app that I don't want to lose.
    obviously if i have 2 phones and pay insurance for both of them.... I don't really care much about buying or donating for a 2 dollar app.
    I own 2 droids and I pay the insurance and that is why I am asking if I could transfer an app to another droid. I wanted to know if i could transfer an app from my main phone and use it on the second one.
    I don't want to pay another 30 bucks if i don't really have to. ( they have 2 different accounts) and I did not want to explain all this to formulate a question, but apparently some people like to point fingers before listening the whole thing
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    If they're both your phone, then share the Google account. If it's a friend's phone, then bite the bullet and buy the app again.
    Last edited by LtKen; 02-16-2010 at 02:09 PM.
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    If your gmail account is on that phone, you'll have it, period.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kwmayo View Post
    If they're both your phone, then share the Google account. If it's a friend's phone, then bite the bullet and buy the app again.
    can you use the same account on 2 different phones? I did not even thought of that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by chapaboy View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by kwmayo View Post
    If they're both your phone, then share the Google account. If it's a friend's phone, then bite the bullet and buy the app again.
    can you use the same account on 2 different phones? I did not even thought of that.
    Absolutely -- Google doesnt know the difference -- everything will sync up.

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