On this post you will learn how to fix “app not installed” error while downloading FrostWire Plus from outside Google Play. FrostWire Basic and FrostWire Plus are based on the same code, but FrostWire Plus has the ability to download from YouTube and SoundCloud in addition to the BitTorrent Network.
Select the Android icon on the website and then click on the button “Get the APK”
Open your file manager (like File Commander) and go to the folder “Downloads”
Select the .apk file downloaded from frostwire.com/downloads (it should be frostwire-android-release-[versionNumber]-b[buildNumber]-plus.apk) and open it with the app “Package Installer”
Follow the instructions to install the app and let us know if you still get the message “Application not installed” at the end.
Street Art picture taken by @gubatron – 2017/10/19 in Denver, CO
About this release
Super excited to have a new release after over a month of non-stop coding.
We’ve been super busy with the Android client, which has now become the dominant client in our Network.
We estimate that now, over 75% of FrostWire Bittorrent nodes online at any given time are running on Android devices.
The cool thing about our development architecture is that whatever work we do under the hood is taken advantage by all the clients no matter the platform. We’ve had to optimize things to run efficiently to make the most of the limited hardware features in older mobile phones, therefore, the downloading experience on desktop is far superior than 6 years ago, it’s actually energy efficient in comparison to previous generations like FrostWire 4, or 5.
On this release we fixed a nasty UPnP bug that had been haunting us for months, which may have been related to possible shutdown issues in some instances of Windows 10 where FrostWire would just not shutdown, not anymore, at least we could not replicate it.
New VPN-Drop Guard
We’ve unveiled a feature that was available (since March) only to those curious and brave of you who had “alpha features” enabled, we’re talking about the new “VPN-Drop guard”. We’ve had this feature for quite a while on Android, but now it’s available for all on desktop.
Basically, if you don’t want to share files when you are not on an encrypted VPN connection, FrostWire will automatically stop all torrent transfers for you if it detects the connection is not going through an encrypted tunnel, thus preserving your privacy in front of nosy ISPs and nasty Internet trolls.
Send to Friend is back
We missed out on renewing a domain used for the “Send to Friend” feature, “maglnk.com”, our bad we hadn’t noticed this. We’ve fixed FrostWire for Desktop to now take you to “maglnk.xyz” when creating http:// links to share magnets in a guided-by-the-hand way.
Malaysian Translation Updated
On every release we try to bring the translations up, this release has a lot of love for our Malaysian brothers and sisters. If you see something wrongly translated, please don’t hesitate to let us know @frostwire on twitter, on our Facebook Page or better yet, you can Open a ticket on our GitHub repo to let us know how to fix it.
Full Changelog
frostwire (6.5.9) stable; urgency=high
* New VPN Drop Guard feature available in BitTorrent settings
* UX: Edit tracker dialog supports basic keyword shortcuts
* Networking: fixed issue listening on IPv6 and random port from settings
* New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.13-RC10
* Fixes 'Send to friend' broken feature, now points to maglnk.xyz domain
* Malay translation updated
-- FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Wed, 25 Oct 2017 09:44:07 -0600
The album “Computer Love” which was featured earlier in 2017 on FrostWire is now being considered for “Urban Contemporary Album” on the 60th Grammy Awards.
Melissa B. channels her inner “Girl-Geek” to create a virtual reality of love on her new album “Computer Love.”
Her lead single “MindFrame” takes artificial intelligence and seduction to the next level. Paralleling a sexier version of Joaquin Phoenix’s love interest in the movie “H.E.R.”, Melissa B. transforms herself into an enticing software application that possesses everything in her framework to stimulate her love interest’s operating system/(hard-drive?).
With a passion for integrating the sounds of today’s technology in her music, Melissa B. pushes the boundaries of connecting with her fans(aka G.E.M.S.) across the internet
With over 71,000 downloads of her album since it was released in June, Melissa B. has gained fans from people all over the world.
She is currently on Billboard for “Hot Singles Sales” for the past 5 weeks.
“Dancing in the Rain” currently at number 1 on the billboard charts!
Along with a sponsored filter of her song “Mindframe” on the SNOW APP.
Engineered & Mixed by Michael Ashby of Krematorium Studios.
The engineer who did “Bodak Yellow” for Cardi B.
Produced by B. Howard, multi-platinum producer, and Billboard charted artist,
K-Beatz producer who has worked with D-Pryde, Tinashe, Kevin McCall, Ryan Leslie. Frequency Beatz and The Geek Squad.
Also Featuring P.W. a talented upcoming rapper from the UK and Patrick Toussiant who is an artist from Swizz Beatz.
Happy Monday! Please download our latest release of FrostWire Plus for Android. It fixes an important bug which was causing crashes.
Changelog
FrostWire 1.9.9 build 459 – OCT/23/2017
– App Startup is faster
– Multiple freezes fixed, memory leaks fixed, crashes fixed
– Android Jelly-Bean (<4.4) support dropped, minSdkVersion=19
– Library updates: jlibtorrent 1.2.0.13-RC10, gms 11.4.2, mopub 4.17.0, flexbox 0.3.1, applovin 7.3.2, presage 2.2.2
– Image viewer can now go to next and previous pictures with fling gesture
– Update system refactor, cleanup, updates shown on nav menu
– New Afrikaans translation
– Transfer screen on rotation would not keep last tab selected
What is FrostWire?
FrostWire is a free, open source BitTorrent client first released in September 2004, as a fork of LimeWire. It was initially very similar to LimeWire in appearance and functionality, but over time developers added more features, including support for the BitTorrent protocol and a full blown media player.
A new build of FrostWire Plus 1.9.9. is available for download! Please install it since it includes multiple freezes fixed, memory leaks fixed, crashes fixed.
Changelog
FrostWire 1.9.9 build 457 – OCT/16/2017
– App Startup is faster
– Multiple freezes fixed, memory leaks fixed, crashes fixed
– Android Jelly-Bean (<4.4) support dropped, minSdkVersion=19
– Library updates: jlibtorrent 1.2.0.13-RC7, gms 11.4.2, mopub 4.17.0, flexbox 0.3.1, applovin 7.3.2, presage 2.2.2
– Image viewer can now go to next and previous pictures with fling gesture
– Update system refactor, cleanup, updates shown on nav menu
– New Afrikaans translation
– Transfer screen on rotation would not keep last tab selected
What is FrostWire?
FrostWire is a free, open source BitTorrent client first released in September 2004, as a fork of LimeWire. It was initially very similar to LimeWire in appearance and functionality, but over time developers added more features, including support for the BitTorrent protocol and a full blown media player.
Happy Sunday! As you probably know, we are working so hard on FrostWire Plus 1.9.9. Now, we released a new build of this version with more updates and changes. We’re still improving FrostWire 1.9.9 before entering the FrostWire 2.0 era. On the other hand, it’s important to know that support for Android 4.1, 4.2, 4.2, 4.3 has been dropped on this release.
Changelog
FrostWire 1.9.9 build 456 – OCT/14/2017
– App Startup is faster
– Multiple freezes fixed, memory leaks fixed, crashes fixed
– Android Jelly-Bean (<4.4) support dropped, minSdkVersion=19
– Library updates: jlibtorrent 1.2.0.13-RC7, gms 11.4.2, mopub 4.17.0, flexbox 0.3.1, applovin 7.3.2
– Image viewer can now go to next and previous pictures with fling gesture
– Update system refactor, cleanup, updates shown on nav menu
– New Afrikaans translation
What is FrostWire?
FrostWire is a free, open source BitTorrent client first released in September 2004, as a fork of LimeWire. It was initially very similar to LimeWire in appearance and functionality, but over time developers added more features, including support for the BitTorrent protocol and a full blown media player.
Melissa B’s (Melissa Bailey) “Computer Love”, A free music album licensed under Creative Commons, which was promoted earlier this year on FrostWire as a torrent bundle is now being considered for a Grammy Nomination.
Support her by downloading it, sharing it and seeding it! Get her album on FrostClick!
On FrostWire for Android (Basic and Plus) there is a really important Privacy Protection feature for VPN users.
FrostWire will detect if your VPN connection drops and if you have this setting activated FrostWire will automatically stop all BitTorrent transfers to protect your privacy.
This is a really important setting if you want to protect your privacy on the Internet as you won’t accidentally be transferring or sharing files using your local IP address.
As of FrostWire for Android 1.9.9 build 453 (not yet released as of this writing), devices running anything below Android 4.4 will not be receiving further updates.
The number of devices running Android 4.1 is now below 1.3%, Android 4.2 1.3% and Android 4.3 just 0.8%, which is way below our minimum threshold of 5%. It’s too hard to offer a great experience to these users, as much as we try to stabilize and optimize the app, legacy android bugs will continue to haunt these users which are long due for a hardware update (since 2012)
For those curious, as of October 2017, our Android breakdown right now looks like this:
* enable full SSL support in libtorrent
* compiling with -fvisibility=hidden and -Os
* compiling for android arm and x86 with -fvisibility=hidden and
debug information in a separated file
* using android NDK r16 beta1
* updated to boost 1.65.1
* internal session in SessionManager blocks privileged ports and
only allows 80 and 443 for possible web seeds connections
* lt:more strict filename sanitation
* lt:improve handling of case where a torrent file has no files in it
* lt:clean up and fix edge cases in update_path_index
* lt:fix issue with the name in single file torrents being sanitized away
* lt:make the chunk header parser a bit more strict and accurate
* lt:fix integer overflow in torrent_info
* lt:fix windows file preallocation issue
* lt:fix integer overflow in whole_pieces_threshold logic
* lt:DHT nodes should only handle requests on their socket
* lt:bump priority of storage_moved_alert and storage_moved_failed_alert
* lt:deprecate lock_files settings
* lt:fix uTP path MTU discovery issue on windows, DF bit was not set
correctly
* lt:select which DHT port to report based on the connection’s local
endpoint
* lt:avoid port mapping of local IPv6 addresses
* lt:include endpoint in tracker alerts
* lt:hold an owning reference to storage objects in try_flush_write_blocks
* lt:read_piece: handle failure to allocate piece buffer
* lt:treat unique local IPv6 addresses as local
* lt:source code cleanup, performance and stability
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