Failure INSTALL FAILED UPDATE INCOMPATIBLE even if app appears to not be installed

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When trying to deploy my app to the Android device I am getting the following error   Deployment failed because of an internal error  Failure  INSTALL FAILED UPDATE INCOMPATIBLE    I am aware of this question but the app is not installed  It has been removed partially removed by Visual Studio during the attempt to deploy    In the past I solved this by downloading the app from the google play store and then removing it from settings- Application manager  However  now i am getting the error  incompatible update  when it is trying to install it    I tried to remove it using Titanium Backup and few other things but no luck    EDIT 1  I realised  from  Motz  that I haven t mentioned that the obvious solution doesn t work  Namely  the app doesn t appear in Settings- Apps

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No need to do an adb uninstall  just go to your settings- gt apps and then do uninstall from there  You will see your application grayed out    The issues usually has to do with a release vs debug version such as  Kiliman noted here

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the first  you must uninstall your app in emulator or device  after that you can cd   android - gt    gradlew clean then build project again  run android or ios  - gt  solve

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Uninstalling the application would be enough to avoid this problem   INSTALL FAILED UPDATE INCOMPATIBLE   but sometimes even uninstalling the message is raised again  it occurs in Android OS 5 0    so this is the solution   Go to Settings   Apps and you will find your app with the message       Not installed for this user      we have to uninstall manually for all users with the option       Uninstall for all users

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I ve seen this several times  Usually  it s due to having a signed release version on my phone  then trying to deploy the debug version on top  It gets stuck in an invalid state where it s not fully uninstalled  The solution that works for me is to open a command prompt and type  adb uninstall my package id  That usually completes the uninstall in order for me to continue development

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If you are using Samsung Device and by any chance marked your app for Samsung Knox  then you need to uninstall it from My Knox app    Uninstalling just from General apps won t uninstall it from Knox App  It has to be done explicitly

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One simple way is rename your package name and run again

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I Hope this will help somebody in the future but simply go to you config xml  inside the widget tag  change the default id io ionic starter  to your own id  Have a look at this for android package naming

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Signature Mismatch your Previous Present APP and new APK   So Please uninstall the previous app and gradlew clean and again install apk  react-native run-android  react-native run-ios

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Ok uninstall the app  but we admit that the data not must be lost  This can be resolve  upgrading versionCode and versionName and try the application in  Release  mode   For example  this is important when we want to try the migration of our Database  We can compare the our application on play store with actual application not release yet

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In my case i was getting this when switched the Minimum target version of the android and when i changed back to original one  when i created project at first   So for that uninstalling worked  But when i changed my android version to latest i was getting it again  To fix that  i went to properties of android project and in Android manifest section  i added a package name e g com dotnetdreamer net  If you have already a package name then you can simply rename it to something else

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In my case  I installed the release-version app  And after uninstall the app from my device  Thing works fine

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I accidentally had two devices connected    After removing one device  INSTALL FAILED UPDATE INCOMPATIBLE error has gone

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You can just add a parameter to run  see   Run -- gt  Parameters   In field parameters add -cleaninstall  Now just run  they always will do a deep clean before install

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Using Ionic with Cordova via command line     ionic cordova run android --prod   I ran into this and found that I had deleted the release version from a previous test install  but had an old debug version that was hanging out in apps drawer that I missed  I unplugged my device from the computer  opened the app drawer and used  Search apps    to find all instances of the app to uninstall them  Then I re-plugged in the device to the computer and viola  it worked   Thanks for the help everyone

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Uninstall the apk app that you are working  from your android device and then run again

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Delete all app files from Phone  To automate the deletion of an app on your phone you can use the steps below  It can be very useful to delete your app and app data on a quick and clean way   Make a textfile with this code and save it as Uninstall sh  Go to the folder  where you ve put it  of this script in the terminal and do  sh Uninstall sh YOURNAMESPACE  Now your namespacefolder  including saved appfiles and database  will be deleted     echo  Going to platform tools  HOME Library Android sdk platform-tools    cd  HOME Library Android sdk platform-tools   echo  uninstalling app with packagae name  1      adb uninstall  1   Delete all app files from pc  Make a textfile with this code and save it as DeleteBinObj sh   find   -iname  bin  -o -iname  obj    xargs rm -rf   Go to the folder of your project where you place this script and do in the terminal  sh DeleteBinObj sh

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Uninstall your app from connected device emulator or mobile  got terminal into project folder cd android 3  next run   gradlew clean it clean your build 4  cd   and run below  5  react-native run-android

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In case this helps someone   I deployed my app to google play  when I uninstalled it and tried to run a debug on my device  new version  I was getting this failed update message   I couldn t see the app in my device  it was already uninstalled  so I   Installed the first version again from google play  Opened Settings App App name  Cleared the Data  Cleared the Cache  Uninstalled the app  Now you can deploy the debug version again to the device

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I usually face this issue on Android 5 0  version devices  Since it has multi-user profiles accounts on the same devices  Every app will install as a separate instance for all users  Make sure to uninstall for all the users as below screenshot

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You have to make sure the application is uninstalled    In your phone  try going to settings applications and show the list of all your installed applications  then make sure the application is uninstalled for all users  in my case I had uninstalled the application but still for others

[android] Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE] even if app appears to not be installed

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