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INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK / INSTALL_FAILED_DEPRECATED_SDK_VERSION
Android · layer 1, On your device
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INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_NO_CERTIFICATES / App not installed as package appears to be invalid
The APK isn’t signed (or the signature is invalid for this Android version), so it can’t be installed.
INSTALL_FAILED_USER_RESTRICTED: Install canceled by user (Xiaomi/MIUI, Oppo, Vivo)
The phone’s manufacturer layer blocked installs over USB — Xiaomi/MIUI, Oppo/ColorOS and Vivo require extra developer settings.
INSTALL_FAILED_NO_MATCHING_ABIS: Failed to extract native libraries
The APK contains native (.so) libraries only for CPU architectures the device doesn’t support — e.g. x86 emulator with arm-only l…
Dependency 'androidx.x:1.y' requires libraries and applications that depend on it to compile against version 34 or later of the Android APIs
A library needs a higher compileSdk than your module uses (checkAarMetadata task).
Play Console: Your app currently targets API level 33 and must target at least API level 34
Google Play requires new apps and updates to target a recent Android API level (raised every year).
INSTALL_FAILED_TEST_ONLY: installPackageLI
The APK is marked testOnly (built by Android Studio’s Run button), so normal installs refuse it.
INSTALL_FAILED_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE: Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE]
The device or emulator doesn’t have enough free internal storage to install the APK.
Two steps away (17)
Android: INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE
An app with the same package name but a different signing key is already installed on the device.
AWS: SignatureDoesNotMatch / InvalidClientTokenId — the request signature we calculated does not match
AWS rejected the request signature — wrong secret key, wrong region, clock skew, or a presigned URL used differently from how it…
error: gpg failed to sign the data — fatal: failed to write commit object
Commit signing is enabled but GPG couldn’t sign — no TTY for the passphrase, wrong key, or agent not running.
adb: device unauthorized. This adb server's $ADB_VENDOR_KEYS is not set
The phone hasn’t accepted your computer’s RSA key for USB debugging yet.
adb: no devices/emulators found / error: device not found
adb can’t see any connected device or running emulator.
adb server version (41) doesn't match this client (39); killing...
Two different adb binaries are running — e.g. Android Studio’s SDK adb and another one on PATH (Homebrew, Genymotion, older SDK).
no matching manifest for linux/arm64/v8 in the manifest list entries
The image has no build for your CPU architecture — typically pulling an amd64-only image on an Apple Silicon Mac or ARM server.
AAPT: error: resource android:attr/lStar not found
A dependency (androidx.core 1.7+) uses an attribute from Android 12 (API 31), but your module compiles against an older compileSd…
npm ERR! code ERESOLVE — unable to resolve dependency tree
npm 7+ found conflicting peer dependency requirements and refuses to install a broken tree.
Error: Cannot find module 'x' (MODULE_NOT_FOUND)
Node can’t resolve the module path — the package isn’t installed, or a relative path/extension is wrong.
Gradle: Could not resolve all files for configuration / Could not resolve dependency
Gradle couldn’t download a dependency — wrong coordinates/version, missing repository, offline mode, or network/proxy issues.
Context.startForegroundService() did not then call Service.startForeground() / ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException
A foreground service didn’t call startForeground() within a few seconds, or the app tried to start one from the background where…
SecurityException: One of RECEIVER_EXPORTED or RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED should be specified when a receiver isn't being registered exclusively for system broadcasts
Apps targeting Android 14 must say whether a runtime-registered BroadcastReceiver is exported.
Play Console: You uploaded an APK or Android App Bundle that was signed in debug mode. You need to sign your APK or Android App Bundle in release mode
The bundle was signed with the debug keystore; Play only accepts release-signed uploads.
Azure Storage: AuthorizationPermissionMismatch (403) — This request is not authorized to perform this operation using this permission
You’re accessing blob/queue data with Microsoft Entra ID, but the identity has only management roles (Owner/Contributor) — not a…
QuotaExceededError: Failed to execute 'setItem' on 'Storage': Setting the value exceeded the quota
localStorage/sessionStorage is full (about 5 MB per origin) or storage is disabled.
MySQL ERROR 1114 (HY000): The table 'x' is full
MySQL couldn’t extend the table — disk full, a size limit, or a MEMORY table hitting max_heap_table_size.
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