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Missing Market Apps

Is anyone else unable to get certain apps from the Android Market on their Vibrant?
Search www dot cyrket dot com for anifree (the author of a Live wall paper I want). See all the apps/wallpapers? Now take your Vibrant to the market and search for the same thing (anifree). You'll find their Agenda and their Funny Pic apps. Not a single wall paper.
Shooting the barcode in Google Goggles or Barcode Scanner returns the same result. App not found.
Anyone have any advice?

I have experienced this issue as well, not sure how to fix it or what it's caused by. Let me guess your looking for the koi pond wallpaper? In the theme section there's a thread titled live wallpapers, and you'll find it in there.
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I'm having this issue with my new vibrant also. My phone is rooted and I thought that might have something to do with it, but I checked on a family member's new vibrant and the anipet live wallpapers also don't show for them with a market search or using the qr code on cryket. I installed the koi wallpaper on my phone from the live wallpapers thread, and the atrackdog app showed it has an update available, but it's link can't access the app from the market either. There were a few other live wallpapers I've been unable to access thru the market or cryket, starfield and panoplanet are a couple that come to mind.

I'm unable to some apps in the market either... I haven't rooted or anything yet. Anyone figure out how to fix this phone so that we can see all apps in the market?

Apparently there are different versions of the market, I only got mine to work after applying metamorphs that had the adverse effect of changing the version I had.
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What happens is this, as I've read from another thread: when a company launches a new phone, they tell google about it. Google then updates the market so that if your phone's specs (what version of android it is running, mainly) are capable of running the app you're trying to find, it shows it to you. If Google knows your phone can't run it, it won't let you see the app in the market to avoid you downloading something that you cannot run.
Sometimes Google updates their market database quickly, or sometimes it takes them a long time.... like it apparently is taking for the Vibrant. So it currently doesn't know that the Vibrant is an Eclair 2.1 phone, which supports live wallpapers (some phones running 2.1 don't). It thinks the Vibrant can't use them, so it blocks them.
If there are apps you want, I would suggest getting the APK from a reliable source elsewhere and installing it. For example, last I checked Angry Birds wasn't available on the market, but someone posted a link so that you may download it from elsewhere.
It is kind of strange though because some live wallpapers do show up, and some don't. Apparently though it is all up to Google. There might be a way to modify the identity of your phone to the market so it thinks it is one of the phones that is currently recognized as a phone that can run anything, but I don't know of it, I'm new to the whole mod/root scene.

The application manifest file for an android app can specify all of the supported hardware combinations.
Generally android will refuse to load an app if it can't find a hardware configuration that matches the device.
For example: if all of the configurations listed in the applications manifest file require a d-pad, android will refuse to install it on any device lacking that feature.
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Android Market - Keywords.. ?

Hi,
I published my app in the Android Market today and it showed up on websites like AppBrain that pull content from the Android Market. However, I cannot find it on the Android Market. Also, how do you add keywords??

I have seen some developers are adding keywords:.....
at the end of the description, but i also read that some one got removed after doing this. So my suggestion is to add some keywords like this but just a few.

The Android Market seems to be slower than AppBrain, I don't know why but my app had the same bahaviour. You should just wait some minute more and you'll see it on the Market.
For the keywords: you'd better put all the keywords you have in mind to describe your app. It's important to spread your app together with others similar.
Don't add fake keywords and you'll be happy.

missing games in market

ok i've found a game i realy want on the android market (stupid zombies) did a search but no luck.
so i use the online market https://market.android.com/ and found it however can not install as my phone is not reconized.
so search here on xda and found
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=983853
Try'd to install but half way through the phone reset
Next thought was to update the market got an APK file from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=869964 but aways came up with an error
so now i ask for a helping hand
and ideas would be appreciated

so i played with another phone today (desire HD) and found that are beloved phones are missing quite a few games/apps
i held both phones side by side scrolling though the market and noticed that 1 in 8 were missing
still unsure if it has enything to do the market update or a phone compatibility issue

i believe results are filtered for device compatibility. like on windows mobile marketplace, where you'd receive more results with an old blueangel than with a blackstone, as there were more qvga apps and ones that require a physical keyboard.
when it comes to the desire hd vs. the blackstone, the issue could be the blackstone's lack of multi touch for example. maybe there are some exclusive apps, that wouldn't work without it and to minimize the risk of people buying an incompatible app, they get filtered out in advance.

Titanium Backup -Market Doctor

Some apps i have on my phone i haven't got via the Android Market, lots ive got have been apk's ive got on XDA,etc,etc, what im wondering is, seen as i didn't get these apps from the market if i linked the selected apps to the market through the market doctor what is that supposed to do?
I have the Paddy Power app and Betfair app which were were initially on the Android market but for some bizzare reason Android market decided no betting apps were to be allowed to took them off the market so i went elsewhere and downloaded them and installed via root explorer, there are a couple of paid apps i also downloaded for free not something i usually do but whoever created these apps was taking the p*ss with the price they were charging so i refuse to pay over the odds for an app, taking all this into consideration what (if any) advantage would i have by linking these to the market and more's to the point considering i didn't get any of these particular apps from the market would the apps in question still link to the market?

anyone any ideas?

I would like to know how this goes too since I use SlideME Marketplace for some of my apps, it would be handy if it could all go under the Android marketplace for updating.

Isn't there anyone else with apps on their GS2 that they didn't get from the Android market that they might want to link to the market but are wondering the same?

[Q] How to show all downloadable apps in Google Play

When navigating through google play, you can view top free, new top free, top paid, new top paid, grossing and separate categories.
Google play has hundreds of thousands of apps.
Through navigation, you can only see probably under 500 total apps. Something like top free only displaying up to 90 results, new top free 80 results (most are even the same as in top free), etc.
Some apps are really good even if theyre not popular. How can I get to browse through those apps? Basically, the only way I know that you can find all the apps in google play is searching for them by tags, but thats not good if you just want to browse and have no idea of what app youre looking for.

glennlevi said:
When navigating through google play, you can view top free, new top free, top paid, new top paid, grossing and separate categories.
Google play has hundreds of thousands of apps.
Through navigation, you can only see probably under 500 total apps. Something like top free only displaying up to 90 results, new top free 80 results (most are even the same as in top free), etc.
Some apps are really good even if theyre not popular. How can I get to browse through those apps? Basically, the only way I know that you can find all the apps in google play is searching for them by tags, but thats not good if you just want to browse and have no idea of what app youre looking for.
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theres an app called appreciate in google play which helps you discover new apps and it even learns what you like and show apps which may be interesting to you:laugh:

So basically I have to download another app to be able to browse more apps? I've tried that before, but the problem is, those apps dont know whats compatible with SGY. It just shows all the apps, which are mostly incompatible with our phone