So, I’ve heard about XManager for a little while and just finally decided to try it, and…

So just level with me, is this thing an advertising scam? When I tap on a version and choose download, an ad appears, I wait for it’s timer to finish, close it and… Nothing happens. It never downloads anything, just serves ad after ad.

Edit: So, after disabling ads and trying again several more times, I was able to download and install.

  • RagingToad@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    It’s always infuriating that the git repo is full of documentation but I cannot find an answer to the question: What Is It Exactly?

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      1 year ago

      If you mean what is Xmanager, it’s an app for downloading patched versions of the Spotify app to have premium features.

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        1 year ago

        It’s correct. I opened mine and tried to download something random and got your same error. Can confirm it’s not supposed to be like this.

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    1 year ago

    You can go to settings to disable adverts, I had system wide adblocking so never encountered any ad but it can be disable from settings. Also it is working on my end

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    1 year ago

    It’s not a scam. It just has issues compiling the APK on certain phones, like Xiaomi. They have a Telegram group to download precompiled APKs without the need for xManager.

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      1 year ago

      Xmanager doesn’t compile the apk. I downloads the same files you have on telegram.

      The main advantage of it over manually downloading the files is somewhat easier usage and update notifications.