yahoo2008

I hard reset my phone a couple days ago and now whenever i try to download a .apk file it says "the content is not supported on the phone. no applcatin can be found to open this files. do you still want to download it?" before the hard reset i was able to download and open apk files with ease. any suggestion?

akazabam

1) Do you have a file manager on your phone such as Astro?
2) Where are you downloading them from? Are you sure they have an .apk extension?

yahoo2008

yes i have astro file manager and i am downloading it from 4shared.com. I have downloaded apps here without a problem before i reset my phone.

akazabam

Are you sure you're not getting .bin files. That seems to be happening to a lot of people lately.

yahoo2008

actually when i do download it they do come as .bin files. what does this mean?

akazabam

Try renaming the extension to .apk.

yahoo2008

that worked is there a way i can make it a .apk file or do i have to rename the extension every time?

akazabam

Reference thread: trying to download apk files

It doesn't look like it, unfortunately.