I'm a US based Nexus user, with a US credit card and US based Google Checkout account, but I'm currently overseas (in Thailand) for a while, and just discovered that the Android Market wont sell me paid apps while I'm here, because Thailand isn't on Google's list of countries, or whatever.
Is there any way for me to get around this? It's really annoying.
You could setup a vpn tunnel back to the U.S. via your pc assuming you can use the pc as a wifi access point. This would trick the market into thinking are in the U.S.
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Or you could simply use this application to change where the Market thinks you are. Enjoy. http://www.deathpotion.com/apk/MarketEnabler_3.0.4.apk
Are you using your US-sim card, that should work?
I'm living in Indonesia and couldn't access the paid apps with my nexus one. Thankfully had and old dutch sim-card laying around, popped that in and voila, paid apps available.
PISSANDVINEGAR said:
Or you could simply use this application to change where the Market thinks you are. Enjoy. http://www.deathpotion.com/apk/MarketEnabler_3.0.4.apk
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Brilliant! Works perfectly. Thanks for the tip!
PISSANDVINEGAR said:
Or you could simply use this application to change where the Market thinks you are. Enjoy. http://www.deathpotion.com/apk/MarketEnabler_3.0.4.apk
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That solution about 10000x simpler thanks P.V. :-D
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Plugging in US (or any country with market) sim + wifi works with unrooted phones. Marketenabler requires root but you don't need to change sim cards.
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Plugging in US (or any country with market) sim + wifi works with unrooted phones. Marketenabler requires root but you don't need to change sim cards.
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Right so that's why it crashes when I try to launch it!
Lokks like I'll need to root then. Thanks
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strazzere said:
Just a heads up that later on tomorrow an application will be released to help people outside of "authorized" areas purchase applications for the G1 on the market. More information can be found at http://strazzere.com/blog/?p=249 or the italian version at http://www.androidiani.com/applicazioni/applicazioni-a-pagamento-sul-market-da-ora-si-puo-2169.
Basically it ended up being easier than we originally thought, though Andrea threw together an application to make it easier for people to do.
The program should be released early tomorrow with the source and an explanation of how it works and what not.
Enjoy! Ciao!
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I think is interesting for everyone here
Bye Andrea
bump!
i've installed the app and its working!!
but i don't have a billing address in US...
its now working!!
market apps available on ADP1.5 outside US
the app can be found here, look for the link "QUI"
http://www.androidiani.com/applicaz...he-in-italia-con-marketenabler-2177#more-2177
you might need to make a google checkout account from your computer if you are not in one of the market enabled countries... use the same gmail account
I wonder what Google thinks of this...
It works perfect, to bad google only works with creditcards :S ?
winbet this app enable only the purchasing process. We did not made nothing bad...
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its now working!!
market apps available on ADP1.5 outside US
the app can be found here, look for the link "QUI"
http://www.androidiani.com/applicaz...he-in-italia-con-marketenabler-2177#more-2177
you might need to make a google checkout account from your computer if you are not in one of the market enabled countries... use the same gmail account
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The proper translated version is here, http://strazzere.com/blog/?p=255
got the app- pity for some reason superuser doesnt want to play with it- funny cos SU plys ok with everything else....eg. advanced task manager etc.... am running 1.5 ADPHr1
is superuser not playing nice with it?
i use JF 1.5, i have to say allow a million times, but it works!
Amazing job!
Well I just want to thank the team that made this possible, it works just perfect on my JF 1.5 ADP, bought a few apps already!!!
Cheers
I'm pleased that you are happy of our work
Yes, thanks very much Andrea and Tim!
my SU is working ok with it now- for some reason it was hanging up- so i opened SU before opening this app..... i now have paid apps in Australia!!
Any requirements to install this program?
I cant seem to install it, keep getting " the install is unsuccessful" error.
Works GREAT!
It really works! Thank you so much. I felt disappointed when I learned google was not allowing ADP1 users to even see the non-free applications. Now I can see everything. I haven't tried to buy anything yet. I'm in Spain and we are not supposed to have paid applications, so I don't want to rise any suspicions.
Edit 1:
If you want to see the apps, you have to run the enabler and then (immediately after) go to the market. Or, to put it in a different way, it only allows this access for a (very) limited amount of time.
Edit 2:
I was finally able to see a free but protected app (NBA Game Time) from my ADP1, and it downloaded and installed successfully, but it doesn't run at all (force closes every time). If it's of any help, I'm running JF 1.5 on an ADP1.
I'm using JF 1.5ADP with no further mods (apps2sd etc.) and the SU request is freezing, tried a reboot but no joy, any ideas?
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This is a JF 1.5 issue, USB debugging must be enabled for the SU Whitelist to work (reboot not necessary).
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I'm using JF 1.5ADP with no further mods (apps2sd etc.) and the SU request is freezing, tried a reboot but no joy, any ideas?
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I also have the JF 1.5ADP, but I do have the apps on the SD (I did it manually following instructions on JF's web). But it did asked me for root access like a million times (ok, a little exaggeration here, but it was like 6 or 7 times). And it takes a while (like a minute or so).
would it be easy to do the same hack for german market?
Would be cool to change between the different markets...
rac2030 said:
would it be easy to do the same hack for german market?
Would be cool to change between the different markets...
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Switching between the different markets would be rather easy, you just need someone from that area to tell you what the numerical operator number and the operator name is.
I'll be posting soon how to do this process without the program install for people having trouble using market-enabler
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Try this information if you have trouble installing it: http://strazzere.com/blog/?p=260
Thanks, this is awesome! One thing I've noticed though, when viewing by popularity in uk it only shows free apps - paid aren't showing. They show normally in 'date added view though'.
Since I have upgraded to cyanogens 4.19 and later builds using the new market, It seems that 95% of my downloads are unsuccessfull. I am living in China and love my phone but can only deduce that China is blocking downloads. This occurs over both wifi and edge connections.
Any ideas how to get around this??????
Is this because of the new radio required by google? Is this because of the new market? Is this simple a flat out great firewall of china block? Are there any proxies available for the market? Any alternative to market? SSlide is very limited. Thanks
I can synch, but even that is not very stable.
I have used my phone since the dudes long ago and no problems through all roms until the 4.19 series...
Currently on c 4.21 stable... dream G1
Have you tried a different ROM perhaps? Or at the very least wiped/cleared ext3 and put CM back on?
edited your hosts with:
74.125.93.113 android.clients.google.com
203.208.39.104 www.youtube.com
203.208.33.100 gdata.youtube.com
128.121.146.228 twitter.com
168.143.162.101 assets1.twitter.com
168.143.162.101 static.twitter.com
168.143.162.101 assets0.twitter.com
168.143.162.101 assets2.twitter.com
168.143.162.101 assets3.twitter.com
168.143.162.101 assets4.twitter.com
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74.125.93.113 android.clients.google.com
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this is real necessary for login google account & market due to damn&f**k GFW of china
I have tried the last 2 or three cyanogen roms. Also I have tried the stock google 1.6 dev rom. I have reformatted my partitions, and wiped several times. Thanks for your reply. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Doesn't China sensor certain things because it's an communist country? I'm not trying to be an ass, but that might be the reason. I think google sensors webpages and searches because of government regulations.
Ayerwin said:
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this is real necessary for login google account & market due to damn&f**k GFW of china
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Great! Can you tell me how to do this! It is so annoying! I am having a problem even using gmail.
It has been a long time since china blocked something.
you can replace your hosts file.
Since you live in china,why not go to
www.androidin.net & www.hiapk.com
I know about these sites... the only problem is I can speak some Chinese, but not read or write it .... I hardly have time to learn so I came here!
Thanks for any ideas.. any one know how to edit the hosts as the posster a couple of posts up described?
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Great! Can you tell me how to do this! It is so annoying! I am having a problem even using gmail.
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upzip attached and copy to /system/etc with SUFBS or RootExplorer.
or use below in windows "CMD"
adb remount
adb push "path of hosts file" /system/etc
try this
extract the 2 files to 1 folder,connect your G1 with your PC
than run push.bat and enjoy it.
You need android usb drivers&adb before doing this.
If mine doesn't work,try Ayerwin's hosts file.
replace mine hosts with his,than run push.bat.
mine method is simpler ^_^
I used the abd method from aryewin first , rebooted and tried to install the speech synthesis files from the market...It is downloading as I type this. Thank you. It is hard to say if it worked yet because 5% of the time downloads work. I will test it using the new hosts file today and report back as soon as I get some time. Thank you so much for your quick help there are so many things I use from the market this can really help if it is successfull.
i am also in china now, if you do a logcat you see that the market cannot estabilish an ssl connection
for me, a reboot (or using wifi with china unicom) fixes the problem
are you on china mobile (edge) or china unicom (umts)?
i think it is just temporary, as for me 90% of download works, and also i managed to buy 5 paid apps using market enabler
edit: putting youtube.com in the hosts file will make youtube work?? it sounds strange, che GFC is so strict in its checks (lol try to go on wikipedia to take a look for freegate, and see the epic fail, the page will load and then "magically" return an error)
i tried on my pc and i get
很抱歉，在 www.google.cn 上没找到您要访问的网页
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(cannot find google.cn)
this is because google tried to do the smart guy, and put youtube and google on the same ip address (to avoid ip blacklisting)
unfortunately the gfc is not stupid and will do DNS poisoning on some domains...
btw i can do everything with my g1 in china, everything works, gtalk, maps, push gmail, market (except youtube, twitter, facebook, and nimbuzz)
i am using china mobile (cmnet), maybe is that you are using cmwrap+cmwap? it is no wonder that it will fail to connect if you do so...
Checking back in I can say the new hosts file made the market run great the last three hours. Its great to have unlimited access again.
Yes, I am too using cmnet. Its too bad we cant use Chinese 3g with our g1. My phone has also worked great since I got it. The best phone in the world I have ever had.
It has been my experiance that China blocks sites differently in different regions and cities. Using China Mobile here.
If you are having a problem, I would suggest you using the host file in this thread. Has worked so far for me.
cyanogen 4.21
Thanks for everyones help.
(except youtube, twitter, facebook, and nimbuzz)
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I heard you can access twitter by android platform frome China and have seen people tweet from China using twidroid. I'm not sure if which service provider they use. But this may suggest something else wrong there.
Moreover, try to set your google service as .com instead of .cn. That one's totally useless. Massive amount of keywords are filtered out.
Good luck bro. It's really sad they are doing this do mobile network. Dunno what would happen to the iPhone network tho.
yes, it looks the market it is working good with the new hosts, but i cant tell for sure
adding youtube/twitter on the hosts file has no effect
the GFW does packet sniffing imho, it detects i am going on blogspot even if i am using a proxy!
btw, for the filtered sites, on the pc i don't care, i've setup a VPN from europe for that
you can replace google.cn with google.com, but it is not the same. you can use the automated translator, and the cached page feature only of the chinese website
and the result is the same
if you search for "freegate" on google.cn you get a warning "illegal search"
if you search for that on google.com you get a DNS error that will "kick you out" from all google-owned servers unless you do ipconfig /flushdns
btw there is a chance to use the 3g on the g1 in china, with china unicom (umts)
too bad, i went to 8 different china unicom reseller and none of them were speaking english, so i was "forced" to use china mobile (edge)
the china mobile agent insisted to give me the 30mb/month flat, as 2gb "is too much", and insisted to come back when the limit was reached
she was shocked when i come back the day after "how did you use all of the 30mb in a single day???"
wngmv said:
I heard you can access twitter by android platform frome China and have seen people tweet from China using twidroid. I'm not sure if which service provider they use. But this may suggest something else wrong there.
Moreover, try to set your google service as .com instead of .cn. That one's totally useless. Massive amount of keywords are filtered out.
Good luck bro. It's really sad they are doing this do mobile network. Dunno what would happen to the iPhone network tho.
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I'm in beijing, people in china must use proxy to visit twitter, like dabr. Market works for me without hosts change on cm4.2.1 and KiNgxKx ROM 2.0. Thanks for these great roms.
I can use china unicom 3g, it's works ok.
Just a the title states. I tried going through setup with no sim card, using only wifi. When I do it that way, it shows "download" instead of "t-mobile". But once I power off the phone, insert sim card, and power it back up, the t-mobile tab returns. I never had this problem with the Nexus One.
I hope there's a solution, but if there's not, I'll live with it.
does it only show when you put a T-mobile sim in?
Yes. I tried removing the sim card afterwards and loaded up the market, and the t-mobile tab is replaced with the download tab.
It's weird. When I first played with my phone it said T-Mobile. Then, for about an hour it said downloads, and now it's back to T-Mobile.
Having to press menu then download is just another extra step I would like to avoid. I guess there's no way around this for now until maybe a custom rom...
I'd like to get rid of this too, I don't care what t-mobile thinks of apps, i find myself hitting it out of reflex since it used to be the downloads tab.
it used to bother me now im just used to it.
I know there is a way to do this... I'll try to figure out once the new market gets officially pushed to the Nexus S, and fix it on that version. There should be a variable somewhere where you can force it to show downloads instead of T-Mobile.
He Went Thatta Way >>>>
I wondered what happened to the downloads tab.
I thought its was just Alzheimers kicking in .
i use market access to emulate the att market place so i always see the download tab.
any update on how to remove this tab?
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any update on how to remove this tab?
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Dump T-Mobile?
Isn't Market open source? Just edit the source and recompile.
Root your phone and install Market Enabler, then select an operator to fake your phone's network provider.
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Hello,
I know there is tones of topics about it, but i really cant find any solution about it.
The most annoying problem is the not compatible apps, that should be compatible. I use the market on my computer which show paid apps (my phone doesnt show it). And normal apps like Vlingo are shown not compatible.
Worst some app i installed before are now shown not compatible anymore.
I changed room from lightning to Revolution (2.7.1), but still get the same probleme.
Anyway, how can it be from my phone if my account on computer show it not compatible. It must be from my account right ?
Im in china now, (bought the phone in France) and my google account is French. Can it be a problem with the localisation ?
Another weired thing on my phone, Market 3.1.5, when i go to Filter app (sorry i dont know the name in english for the option) to choose what level we want to show.
I must select FOR ALL before select Level3 and next must select level 3 to select level2. Shouldn't it be the reverse ? I mean, first people would like to get the most safe app, Level 1 and after get less safe, Level 2 - 3.
Is it the same on your device ?
Thanks all, i'm very tired of it, and it ruin my android experience... got SGS2, and cant install regular apps...
digitalH said:
Hello,
Is it the same on your device ?
Thanks all, i'm very tired of it, and it ruin my android experience... got SGS2, and cant install regular apps...
Look for Market Enabler app .
jje
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I tried it, it doesnt change anything. I only have access to free apps and some random apps. I cant even install the update of the game Cut the Rope, that i could install before. Something must had changed...
Oh but one thing though, the paid apps are back with the Market enabler.
Bust still nothing for the not compatible apps.
shall i change something in build.prop ?
JJEgan said:
digitalH said:
Hello,
Is it the same on your device ?
Thanks all, i'm very tired of it, and it ruin my android experience... got SGS2, and cant install regular apps...
Look for Market Enabler app .
jje
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I also have encounter this problem. Same as you i also using S2, i didn't even root nor made any modificatioon on the rom yet. I assume its the S2 problem.
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NightFreaker said:
JJEgan said:
I also have encounter this problem. Same as you i also using S2, i didn't even root nor made any modificatioon on the rom yet. I assume its the S2 problem.
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Its insane that google don't make any fix for this, at least let people choose if they want to download the app even if its says its not compatible...
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digitalH said:
Its insane that google don't make any fix for this, at least let people choose if they want to download the app even if its says its not compatible...
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It's the creator of the app that decides which devices should be able to buy/download their app, if they have decided you can't have it or buy it that's their decision.
If you want an app to be available and wonder why it's not showing for SGS2 send the developer an e-mail and perhaps they'll tell you why it's not available.
Have you changed the LCD Density? I did and a load of my apps came up as not compatible until I reverted back to the standard DPI and rebooted.
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It's the creator of the app that decides which devices should be able to buy/download their app, if they have decided you can't have it or buy it that's their decision.
If you want an app to be available and wonder why it's not showing for SGS2 send the developer an e-mail and perhaps they'll tell you why it's not available.
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No its clearly not the problem, I see people commenting apps and sign SGS2, and mine is not compatible... Im sure those app should work on the SGS2 but not on mine...
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Have you changed the LCD Density? I did and a load of my apps came up as not compatible until I reverted back to the standard DPI and rebooted.
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I tried change it, the defaut was 240 and I read that it was actually the standard, so i tried to force it again to 240 but it didnt change. (or its not the right number ?)
If you're using a Chinese SIM card you will get the Chinese version of market which doesn't have paid apps. That's why they are shown as incompatible or not shown at all. You need to use your French SIM or use marketenabler with the old market if you want the paid apps.
tabelras said:
If you're using a Chinese SIM card you will get the Chinese version of market which doesn't have paid apps. That's why they are shown as incompatible or not shown at all. You need to use your French SIM or use marketenabler with the old market if you want the paid apps.
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Yep I figuered that out for the paid apps, but i still got uncompability with the marketenabler...
Anyway thanks for your answers
Marketenabler doesn't work properly with the new market. You have to downgrade to the old one.
tabelras said:
Marketenabler doesn't work properly with the new market. You have to downgrade to the old one.
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FINALLY ! you got the right answer ! the combo Marketenabler + Old market version works !! thank you so much !
Is it safe to try a Swedish Live account on my WP7 ROM yet?
Anyone tried it?
i'm not Swedish, but..i see no reason why it shouldn't be safe!?
sb2003 said:
i'm not Swedish, but..i see no reason why it shouldn't be safe!?
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When i started to use this ROM it did not work. I have to factory restore and reinstall everything again just to change the live address.
No one from Sweden that could confirm this?
yes, most things work with a swedish ID. two minutes of googling could have told you that also.
Hagenlund said:
yes, most things work with a swedish ID. two minutes of googling could have told you that also.
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I did and did not find anything NEW that told me so. Maybe i'm a ****ty Googler
By most things do so you meen?
No problem with Swedish live id. But you will loose the ability to buy Zune pass. (unfortunately not released in Sweden yet)
We have marketplace access, but lots of apps are only in the US version. No Zune Pass, Local Scout, Local search, etc. I prefer using a US account.
Hagenlund said:
We have marketplace access, but lots of apps are only in the US version. No Zune Pass, Local Scout, Local search, etc. I prefer using a US account.
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Thanks, i think i'll stick to the U.K Live for now.
If i had bought a WP7 device and had this limitations where i live i had sold it asap.