I get this on my own app, also having LVL. Quite embarrassing to try to demonstrate the app to a friend and then it occasionally says that my copy is not licensed - I have purchased it (since it was published using a different account.)
On Monday, May 7, 2012 9:07:23 PM UTC+8, Florin wrote: > > Hello, > > I have an Android developer account and a couple of paid apps > published on the Market since a while now. I have decided to use > Android LVL for copy protection from the start on all of my apps, I > found it pretty straightforward to use so I told myself why not? extra > security is better than no security, right? > > However, after almost one year since my apps have been out in the > wild, I keep getting from time to time unsatisfied customers which > after purchasing one app constantly get NOT_LICENSED replies from > Android licensing servers. And I'm not talking only about occasional > NOT_LICENSED caused either by lack of network coverage etc. but about > clients which try for days and days(yes, there are clients like this, > and they are right, since they paid for their apps!) and still get > NOT_LICENSED. > > Now, here goes my questions: > 1) For Android dev and apps publishers out there: have you noticed any > wave of false negatives complaints from your clients lately? The above- > mentioned symptom occurs in my case since the beginning, but since 2 > weeks now it happens at a much higher frequency. > 2) For any Google representative who might see this: are there any > kind of License Validation statistics on the Android Licensing server > side? Like for instance validation attempts per application, with > timestamp and Android Market client version and client ID(not email > for security reasons but "something")? And with some extra message > giving a reason for NOT_LICENSED?(apart the obvious didn't buy reason, > could there be others?) > I think this should be implemented at LVL level and not at app level > due to permissions requirement(an app implementing statistics would > definitely require network access which for some apps does not > justify). So, can we have access to these statistics? If not now, > maybe sometimes in the future? > > Florin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
