No Migros app for Android 6.0.1

Keine Migros App für Android 6.0.1

I already bought a cheap Android cell phone last summer - in addition to my WP with a large display - just to finally get the Migros app.
But it had a display that was too small for my old eyes.
After months of avoiding Migros, I was given an Android phablet with a 6.44 display and Android 6.0.1 for Christmas. So I set out to download the Migros app. And what do I see/read???

"Your device is not compatible with this version" !!!!

Unbelievable but true! I finally have an Android cell phone that is also suitable for the visually impaired - but Migros lets me down with it too - just like with the WP!

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Ufo133

I would also be interested to know where there are supposed to be problems. It would be cool if someone could be more technical. But I'll be honest and try to understand the statement in the decompiled APK.

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Guest

@Ufo33 I would be very interested to know what you found in the APK.

I think Migros' behavior in this regard is slowly becoming a topic for the media. I'm sure that Kassensturz would be very interested. As a precaution, I have saved the entire chat history locally. The digital editorial team at Kassensturz can assess from a technical perspective whether Migros' statements are correct. I will also ask in an app developer forum what they think. That could create a lot of wind.

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lydia-sonja

@peteryahoo,

I would have liked to "knock on the door" of Kassensturz with this whole misery for a long time, but I don't have the technical knowledge to put it forward properly. If you, or one of you technical freaks, could do that for us, it would help us all a lot, because it can't go on like this.

@Tabita, yes you are right that statements like armchair f.. are insulting - but it is even more insulting when you (nota bene as a customer!!) are ignored for weeks (in the case of WP even for months)! Ignored by the people in these very chairs, by the people who(could) program this app
Although we asked them several times for a clear and unambiguous answer, we never once received a direct response from them!

Instead, employees like you constantly had to take the rap and comfort us with flimsy arguments.
Because even this (at least for the first time somewhat clearer) reason (the safety of the customer) is not valid, why - peteryahoo has already clearly explained that here.

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moscibroda

Maybe this info could be useful, try it out.
On my MI TAB 2 I was able to solve it like this:

1. download and install the APK from the following page:
https://apkpure.com/ (an alternative app store)

2. the Android phone may say that the security setting prevents the
does not allow the installation of external apps (sideloading), in this case
Allow under Settings and then install.

4. then start the app from the cell phone (icon is called Multiple Images)

5. in the app you can now search for Migros and install from there.

Note: I would only use APKPure for apps that cannot be installed via the regular App Store (specifically the Migros app in this case). I also had other apps that worked without any problems but simply could not be displayed in the normal Google Play Store. I cannot vouch for the security of alternative app stores. For my part, I would also never install an app from an alternative app store where, for example, a credit card number or similar has to be entered. The Migros app was ok for me, but in terms of bytes the APK was identical to the one on another cell phone where I had installed it via Google Play. Please note that nobody should get a Trojan on their cell phone just because of a fake app store.

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lydia-sonja

Dear Moscibroda
It would be better for me if someone more competent would finally turn to the Kassensturz or other media than such installation "gymnastics" - which may even damage your cell phone.

In addition to you, there are quite a few young men writing here who are technically extremely up to date, but unfortunately no one seems to have the courage to finally address this madness to the media.

@ Tabi
Before you threaten to block me again ;-) I - and I'm sure everyone else - would like an answer to Peteryahoo's extremely important question - why Migros Bank, of all banks, apparently doesn't care about the security of its customers, as there is strangely enough an app available for them on Xiaomi.
Not answering such an enormously important question is much worse than some of the comments that slipped out in our (justified!) anger.

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Guest

Hello everyone

Thank you very much for your active participation in the discussion. Migros Bank decides independently and is best placed to provide information directly in this case. Please address your questions regarding the Migrosbank app directly to medien@migrosbank.ch.

If there are any updates regarding the compatibility of the Migros app, we will report back here.

Best regards, Tabi

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lydia-sonja

Dear Tabi

No, the Migros IT specialists can't get out of the affair that easily (again).

Even if Migros Bank is to some extent independent, it is still part of Migros.

For me, the question(to your IT specialists) is still: "WHY can Migros Bank afford this app if - as is claimed here - it is not secure? !

So it's still about WHY we Xiaomi Android users 6.0.1 don't get an app for convenient shopping at Migros!

If Migros Bank has to be asked why - and how - they manage to offer their Xiaomi customers an app - then it is not the job of us Migros shopping customers to do this!
We don't sit in the offices of the app makers, we don't get paid for this work.
And above all, it would definitely not work if, for example, a simple grandma* like me were to write to the Migros Bank IT specialists to get expert information.

The only thing they would reply to us (if at all) would be: "Please contact Migros"!
And they would be right, because this is about your app and not the bank's.

Incidentally, I don't have a Migros Bank account myself
Nevertheless, even as a customer I wouldn't be afraid to use their app, because no reputable bank would offer its customers an app that would jeopardize their security.

On the contrary, this has proven to me that the inaccessibility of your app is NOT due to a security vulnerability at Xiaomi.

It would be wonderful if we were finally, finally informed openly and honestly - and directly by your app developers. Or are we worth so little that we are "only" "informed" via messengers like you?
This is bordering on discrimination - from higher-ups compared to ordinary Migros customers - and that just hurts :-(

* And the young writers in this forum unfortunately don't dare to complain elsewhere anyway.

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mawank

Hello Lydia, hello Tabi

As someone who is also affected, I think it's a bit "subtle" to immediately question the Migros Bank app and its security. I used to use the Migros Bank banking app very often and it always seemed very secure to me.

I think what we have here is probably more of a compatibility problem. Whether this is because the app only allows users with Samsung or iPhone phones is possible, but also strange. Migros spends so much money on advertising and then spurns customers who are about to benefit electronically? Or like Microsoft, which builds an ingenious network into the OS and then starts building walls until it no longer works?

It is also possible that the honorable Migi App programmers have not yet managed to solve the problem. Like the sorcerer's apprentice. "I can't get rid of the spirits I once conjured up"..... It's understandable that they don't want to make a big deal of this. Otherwise the other major distributor would benefit even more from the Migi app's malaise. And I don't think it's right that Tabi now has to pay for this.

As a Blackberry user, I have the same situation as many others who don't use an iphone or samsung: namely that the new app doesn't work on any of my devices, not even on the Priv, which has a pure Android OS.

However, as I have several cell phones, I have now found an older Migros app on one of them that has not undergone the update and it still works perfectly. Since it is an original Migros app, neither modified nor cracked nor anything else, it is not a crime to continue using it.

Lydia, if you want, you can have this app from me. Just don't update it, otherwise you'll be back to square one.

Migros - a M complicated...

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lydia-sonja

Hello mawank. Oh yes, I will gladly accept your kind offer for this older app. ☺How do we do that? I would rather not publish my e-mail address here? Is there any way to write to forum members privately? Best regards, Lydia

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Ufo133

I have already tried to install the akp, but some information, such as the activation of Cumulus vouchers and the request for cash register vouchers, does not work. The request sent via https (ssl encryption) simply does not get a response from the server, even though a valid session exists. I will try using curl to send another client in the header when I get the chance and will be curious to see if anything comes back. There are other things that could be tested with http get, e.g. a foreign Cumulus number with a foreign session, etc.

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