Android App Statistics: What does 'Others' mean under 'Total Installs by User' metric?

Question

In 'Google Play Developer Console', Under 'Statistics' tab, I chose 'Total installs by user' from the dropdown. In the bottom pane, i chose 'Device' to view 'TOTAL INSTALLS BY USER BY DEVICE'.

In the results, I see 'Others' as a category accounting for 33.33% installs. The same is totally missing in 'INSTALLS ON ACTIVE DEVICES BY DEVICE'.

What does the 'Others' mean? If those map to real users who later uninstalled the app, then it would be of great concern and I will spend effort in figuring out the root cause.

Answer 1

You can go to the top of the page and click Download and export the statistics to CSV. Then you are gonna be able to see the different devices.

Some might have some strange name :)

Answer 2

Usually other would be generic unregistered devices which run on third party OS versions. Such are mobile phones running on CyanogenMod or Oxygen OS. If you go to the top and download the CSV file, then you will be able to gather some information about these devices.

Hope this will help.

Answer 3

The number of total installs in this list is grouped by devices and sorted by the sum in descending order. As there are about 6000 different Android devices at the moment, this would be a very very long list. Thus, only the top 10 of that list are shown separately and all others are summed up under the label 'Others'.

For example there are probably also installs on Nexus 5 or Samsung Galaxy Note 7, but for each of them, there are less than the 5.56% of the Micromax Yunique, so they are not listed explicitly but added to the sum of others.