Buying Premium on and old device (Android 4.4.4)

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Hi,
I fell in love with Automate Premium on my current phone. I also have an old Samsung Galaxy S+ (I-9001, with Android 4.4.4) for few automated tasks but I quickly run out of free 30 blocks limit – wanted to buy Premium and ended up with an error.
 When I click Menu > Buy premium a toast msg shows up after a few secs: "Google Play Store error: Timeout communicating with service."
 When I enter Settings and click "Buy premium" the same toast msg pops up and the button changes to "Premium error! Timeout communicating with service." Next click on the button opens up a composed email to in...@llamalab.com with text:


If you have problem with the app, please describe:

com.llamalab.automate.billing.BillingClientException[responseCode=-3]: Timeout communicating with service.
at com.llamalab.automate.billing.a$a.a()
at com.android.billingclient.api.d.E()
at com.android.billingclient.api.h0.run()
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:733)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5146)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:732)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:566)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Sklep Google Play v29.5.15-19 [0] [PR] 432257527


com.llamalab.automate v1.32.6 on GT-I9001
samsung/GT-I9001/GT-I9001:2.3.6/GINGERBREAD/XXKQN:user/release-keys

(I know there's Gingerbread in last row but the system is 4.4.4, last CyanogenMod from XDA Developers Team).

Phone is slow, that's a fact. Phone has Google Play Store and Automate is on the list of installed apps there (AFAIR I installed it from there, but not sure). I am able to run another device (or virtual one), log in with the same Google Account, install Automate, buy Premium and wish it would sync to my SGS+ – but I wonder if my SGS+ would recognize that I have Premium, as it now has problems connecting to some Automate-Premium-recognizing-Google-service. The last thing I dream of is fiddling, spending time, paying and resulting in still not having Premium at all xD

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

I've never received any prior reports of that particular error.

Maybe that low Android version is the issue, but according to Google their "billing library" should work on Android 4.0.1+.

If the device "fingerprint" say Android 2.3.6 then maybe so does the system Android version code, since they're both based on the same system property, anyhow the "billing library" probably also use it.

[tq_bt]

I also want to get the premium version of Automate, but I've a phone with all google apps removed using adb.

I will be happy to know if there is any other way to get Automate premium.

रविवार, 20 मार्च 2022 को 6:03:36 pm UTC+5:30 बजे Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist ने लिखा: