Your best bet is to find the lost keystore.  It's a binary file, but it does
contain some info in plain text, such as the name of the developer and the
company as well as the name of the key itself.  Try greping for this data
throughout your hard drives and archives.
On Feb 7, 2011 8:42 PM, "Xavier Ducrohet" <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you cannot sign the key with the same key/certificate then all you
> can do is publish it as brand new app under a different package name
> with a different signature.
>
> There's no workaround for this.
>
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:36 PM, subhashini alaguchokku
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> This app has been already developed and approved by Android market. This
is
>> the second version of the app. The previous app was done by another
>> developer whom i cannot contact.
>>
>> Need to make ready the second version build for upload to Android market.
>>
>> I have made changes in the code with regards to version name and version
>> code.
>>
>> I have backup of only the debug keystore. Previously the app had been
signed
>> for release using a release keystore, but I  am not able to locate the
>> release keystore.So what can be done now as I urgently need to get this
app
>> ready.
>>
>> I know that I need to sign the app using the existing keystore, but I am
not
>> able to locate the release keystore. So please input your  thoughts asap
>> ...Thanks
>>
>> Suba
>>
>>
>> We need to use the release keystore right for publishing the app in
andorid?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Brill Pappin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> If you don't have it backed up, you can *not* recover it.
>>> Thats kind of the point of a secure key.
>>>
>>> - Brill Pappin
>>>
>>> On Feb 7, 8:16 am, subhashini alaguchokku
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > Hi!
>>> >
>>> > I forget my existing keystore, How to retreive my existing keystore
>>> > value?
>>> > bcas now i want to update my new version of android app.so i need old
>>> > keystore. any alternative ways available?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > A.Subha
>>>
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