Side-loading on an LG phone?

[Alex Ethridge]

I have a tech-challenged friend who owns a very recent LG phone. The exact model I do not know at present. I know he got it from a Verizon store less than a year ago. I have tried several times to get an account set up for him with Google Play without any success. So here's my question:

I have the APK file I want to load and tried to side load on the phone yesterday by connecting the phone to his desktop computer via a USB cable but had no success. So how can I get this APK onto his phone and run the installation?

 

[ocnbrze]

I have a tech-challenged friend who owns a very recent LG phone. The exact model I do not know at present. I know he got it from a Verizon store less than a year ago. I have tried several times to get an account set up for him with Google Play without any success. So here's my question:

I have the APK file I want to load and tried to side load on the phone yesterday by connecting the phone to his desktop computer via a USB cable but had no success. So how can I get this APK onto his phone and run the installation?

why did you not have success when you connected the phone to pc? what happened? error? pc does not see the phone? does the phone have a sd card?

 

[svim]

Try copying the APK file to his Google Drive using a computer browser
https://drive.google.com
Then just use the Google Drive app on his phone to download it. Or whichever other online storage service.
Or send it as an email attachment.
Or if this LG phone has a microSD card, remove it, mount it on a computer, transfer the APK file, and side-load it from the card.

 

[Dannydet]

Yeah put the apk file onto a SD card off your phone, then insert the SD card into his phone, install from there....

 

[Alex Ethridge]

why did you not have success when you connected the phone to pc? what happened? error? pc does not see the phone? does the phone have a sd card?

It's been too long since I tried that I don't remember. I'm helping him move into his new office and I will try again next week.

 

[Alex Ethridge]

Try copying the APK file to his Google Drive using a computer browser
https://drive.google.com
Then just use the Google Drive app on his phone to download it. Or whichever other online storage service.
Or send it as an email attachment.
Or if this LG phone has a microSD card, remove it, mount it on a computer, transfer the APK file, and side-load it from the card.

Your suggestion assumes he has Google Drive. I've heard the term but don't know exactly what it is and he wouldn't understand what it is if an expert spent an hour explaining it to him. To him, it's a phone and almost nothing else.

It's too big for an e-mail attachment and he doesn't do e-mail on his phone.

 

[Alex Ethridge]

Yeah put the apk file onto a SD card off your phone, then insert the SD card into his phone, install from there....

Good idea. I'll put it on my phone's SD Card now and hope he has an SD Card slot on his phone.