[Ruskin]

The Eon next app will not update, i tried to remove & re-install the app but inow will not install any ideas

[Andy65]

Hi @Ruskin

I believe that they are aware of the issue, all you can do is to keep checking your app store for an update.

[Indyk_EONNext]

Hey @Ruskin 👋

How are you?

Welcome to our Eon Next Community 😊

As @Andy65 has advised the team are aware of the app issues and are working on a fix as soon as possible, once resolved all the features should be available.

If there is anything in particular you would like to check on your account you can drop us a dm with your account details and we can surely take a look. 💜

[geoffers]

Originally Posted by Ruskin

The Eon next app will not update, i tried to remove & re-install the app but inow will not install any ideas

@ruskin plus @Tinylewis , @Fuisdale , @JerryFr , @Liverpool22

One thing you can do with apps which are a bit flakey, is to make a backup of the working app’s APK (install) file.

Then if you get an update which fails you can reload the version which was OK – you’ll probably need to change the file manager permission allowing installation of apps from unknown sources.

If your phone’s file manager doesn’t let you do this I can recommend the excellent “File Manager Plus” by alphainventor which can create app backups. And as well as easy access to local files has lots of other excellent facilities including easy access to files on other devices/PC/ cloud locations etc

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...hl=en_GB&pli=1

[meldrewreborn]

@geoffers

the problem is that more and more software is being designed expressly to keep users from the underlying code, which then makes it vital that developers get it right every time. But while perfection is the ideal and expected norm for users, evidence suggests that reality j is a something different. I sit firmly in the camp that can sit back and wait for glitches to be resolved by others because I’m confident that it’s not me or my devices that are at fault.

[geoffers]

@meldrewreborn - it's not good that, of all the apps I use, EOn Next is the only one I've ever experienced issues with.

Strikes me that they release with minimal testing, expecting us (the users) to do the testing for them.

In fact I was actually PMed a while back to ask if I would be a beta tester 😵‍💫

[geoffers]

@Ruskin , @Tinylewis , @Fuisdale , @JerryFr , @Liverpool22
Chaps - Have a look at this post where I've uploaded the previous working APK to Dropbox, so you can pick it up and install from there

https://community.eonnext.com/thread...ll=1#post59647

[geoffers]

Originally Posted by meldrewreborn

....the problem is that more and more software is being designed expressly to keep users from the underlying code...

I'm not sure what your point is here. How many organisations actually publish their source code, allowing user access? Problems with loss of intellectual property (IP) and vulnerability to hacking immediately spring to mind.

However there are plenty of open source projects, where the code is available from repositories like GitHub, Bitbucket etc

One such is the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) https://source.android.com/docs/setup/about taking the source code out of the hands of the proprietary Android version developed by Google, giving users the ability to install alternatives to Google with versions such as LineageOS etc https://lineageos.org/

[meldrewreborn]

@geoffers

I’m primarily a windows man on my PC & laptop, and IOS on my phone. To me the way software presents to users makes many functions that used to be open to use now invisible. I didn’t mean the machine code. That’s how it appears to me, and I’ve been using a PC for about 40 years.

perhaps it’s so that users ( who are often not fully conversant with the products they utilise) can’t muck things up so easily. Back in the day you used to get manuals with software, some of us actually used them!

[geoffers]

Originally Posted by meldrewreborn

@geoffers

I’m primarily a windows man on my PC & laptop, and IOS on my phone. To me the way software presents to users makes many functions that used to be open to use now invisible. I didn’t mean the machine code. That’s how it appears to me, and I’ve been using a PC for about 40 years.

perhaps it’s so that users ( who are often not fully conversant with the products they utilise) can’t muck things up so easily. Back in the day you used to get manuals with software, some of us actually used them!

Ahh - I think I see what you mean, ie in Windows there are lots of things you can click on to do stuff, without knowing what the stuff is actually doing in the background. To me the OS has very much been "dumbed down" to suit the majority of users who are non technical, and I find this particularly frustrating as I like to know what's happening in the background, though there are many ways of circumventing this dumbing down.

That's why so many people do like Unix/Linux etc based systems which although they can have GUI interfaces, a lot of what can you do is terminal based, issuing commands at the command-prompt (often very complex with multiple parameters as optional input) and can be very satisfying as you feel fully in control and can achieve a lot with a few commands