How to install, sideload, and use the Amazon Appstore for Android on non-rooted Atrix

[jstafford1]

You do need a method of payment on file with amazon. Its a recorded transaction with them.

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[RobKort]

Is there a true value on sideloading? Just saying...

Sent from my stock Atrix using Tapa

[domeshm]

i dont get it .. all the apps dont detect my phone... usb debugging is enabled.. drivers are installed.. motolink etc everything works fine ... still no cigar :/
hate the damn thing and at n t

[das8nt]

i dont get it .. all the apps dont detect my phone... usb debugging is enabled.. drivers are installed.. motolink etc everything works fine ... still no cigar :/
hate the damn thing and at n t

It will only be a matter of a few days or at most a week and you won't have to worry about sideloading...

(my prediction)

[arcturuszer0]

i dont get it .. all the apps dont detect my phone... usb debugging is enabled.. drivers are installed.. motolink etc everything works fine ... still no cigar :/
hate the damn thing and at n t

hey I have the same problem and this is what brought me here..the sideloader app by the OP doesnt detect my phone...can any1 plz help!

EDIT: I can install all the apps..just turned on the USB debugging mode...but can some just tell me, off the hand, how risky is all this??

I am a little confused about this entire thing when it says on the phone, USB can now be mounted and unmounted or whatever...

[das8nt]

hey I have the same problem and this is what brought me here..the sideloader app by the OP doesnt detect my phone...can any1 plz help!

Hi and welcome to the site!

This app hasn't been updated in quite a while. You might have better luck with the ACSWM found here: Android Central Sideload Wonder Machine v. 1.2 - Android Forums at AndroidCentral.com

[arcturuszer0]

Hi and welcome to the site!

This app hasn't been updated in quite a while. You might have better luck with the ACSWM found here: Android Central Sideload Wonder Machine v. 1.2 - Android Forums at AndroidCentral.com

Thanx...

EDIT: I can install all the apps..just turned on the USB debugging mode...but can some just tell me, off the hand, how risky is all this??

I am a little confused about this entire thing when it says on the phone, USB can now be mounted and unmounted or whatever...

[das8nt]

Thanx...

EDIT: I can install all the apps..just turned on the USB debugging mode...but can some just tell me, off the hand, how risky is all this??

I am a little confused about this entire thing when it says on the phone, USB can now be mounted and unmounted or whatever...

USB debugging is really only meant for development purposes, but as in this case, users have found other uses for it. Technically, a hacker, or malicious software, could gain access to your phone via USB while it's enabled, but the chances are very very slim that it would ever happen. Your phone would have to be targeted.

If the statement worries you, the best practice would be to turn it on only when you want to do something with it, like sideloading, and then turn it back off again.

I, myself, haven't turned it off in the year that I've owned the phone.

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[MJPollard]

I'm curious: with Gingerbread, enabling the "Unknown sources" flag should allow the Amazon App Store or any other non-Market app to be installed on an unrooted, locked phone. So why is anyone even bothering with this? Are there really still people out there who haven't made the move from Froyo? Color me confused.

[arcturuszer0]

I'm curious: with Gingerbread, enabling the "Unknown sources" flag should allow the Amazon App Store or any other non-Market app to be installed on an unrooted, locked phone. So why is anyone even bothering with this? Are there really still people out there who haven't made the move from Froyo? Color me confused.

Hi...

I am still on 2.2.2 as I just got the phone yesterday...I even have some questions regarding the same...could you be kind enough to have a look at the thread section and reply..thanx!