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I've been reading up on this but I'm still left wondering about something. This phone is not rooted yet but do I need root to put a new ROM on it?
What does root let me do that cupcake doesn't already provide?
yeppity
yes. unless it's an update from t-mobile, which rogers isn't... unless you're a lucky owner of a rogers g1 already... are you?
if so, then still yes XD
XwXDv8XwX said:
I've been reading up on this but I'm still left wondering about something. This phone is not rooted yet but do I need root to put a new ROM on it?
What does root let me do that cupcake doesn't already provide?
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Among many others:
Tethering via WiFi or Bluetooth both require Root.
Terminal su permissions requires root.
Apps2SD requires root.
Ok cool. I'm hoping to see it get rooted soon so I can do some of that stuff. I'm not an owner quite yet but tomorrow I will be . I still can't seem to be able to find paid apps on the phone when I was playing around with his. Are paid apps not available in Canada or something? That doesn't make much sense to not allow this in Canada. Anyways..thanx for the info!
XwXDv8XwX said:
Ok cool. I'm hoping to see it get rooted soon so I can do some of that stuff. I'm not an owner quite yet but tomorrow I will be . I still can't seem to be able to find paid apps on the phone when I was playing around with his. Are paid apps not available in Canada or something? That doesn't make much sense to not allow this in Canada. Anyways..thanx for the info!
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That is correct, paid apps are not available for Canadians yet. That is another advantage of being able to load on another rom.
Anybody else noticed this? I have an unmodified Hero I got straight from Orange and the Market seems to be missing a lot of paid applications, the ones that use copy protection.
badgaz said:
Anybody else noticed this? I have an unmodified Hero I got straight from Orange and the Market seems to be missing a lot of paid applications, the ones that use copy protection.
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Yes its a known problem which has been talked about in other forums.
yep. this does suck. Its almost like they dnt want our money
It just gets worse. This all should have been sorted out
badgaz said:
Anybody else noticed this? I have an unmodified Hero I got straight from Orange and the Market seems to be missing a lot of paid applications, the ones that use copy protection.
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Can you give specific examples? Thus far, I've had no issues with paid apps with my Hero - had several on my G1 that I had to download again to my new phone.
Regards,
Dave
foxmeister said:
Can you give specific examples? Thus far, I've had no issues with paid apps with my Hero - had several on my G1 that I had to download again to my new phone.
Regards,
Dave
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Read:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=3529bae358433fcd&hl=en
Searching the Market for the apps mentioned on the earlier link, I can confirm that I can see some, but not all of them, an a T-Mobile G2.
I also noticed that I hadn't downloaded "DocumentsToGo" back onto my G1 (thought I had!) and when I tried it, I got the "Download Unsuccessful" message.
Regards,
Dave
I'm also missing apps on my T-Mobile G2. Can anyone else out there see the "Jack FM Live" app?
Nope I can't see that app.
The app I am missing is Battle for Mars. I have done the rounds ringing Orange and HTC to try and sort this out. Orange were fairly useless but finally just referred me over to HTC. HTC tried to claim there were different apps for different phones, but the example I gave them was Battle for Mars Lite was available, the paid for version was not available. They are meant to be ringing me back in 3-5 working days !?!! I will try and keep this thread posted. If anyone else has some news or can hassle Orange/HTC as well, I think that can only be a good thing and might push someone into sorting this mess out.
I can't find taskiller full - the free version is there but I want the one which has the full exclusion list. I've been in touch with the developer and he can see it in the market in France, although he thought that it may be due to waiting for google to review his account.
Guess it may actually be a similar problem to this. It's really frustrating because I would love to pay for the full version!
I've just got an unlocked hero that im using on o2. I can see the apps that others cannot, so maybe it's a network problem or related to the 'tinkering' networks like to do to phones before sending them.
trice1921 said:
I've just got an unlocked hero that im using on o2. I can see the apps that others cannot, so maybe it's a network problem or related to the 'tinkering' networks like to do to phones before sending them.
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Can you see taskiller full in the UK?
ewans said:
Can you see taskiller full in the UK?
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Just checked. The full version is there, priced 0.70 Euros.
trice1921 said:
Just checked. The full version is there, priced 0.70 Euros.
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That is really annoying - I can only see the free version using wireless or mobile data (standard T-Mobile G2 Touch, no root, not unlocked etc.). I'll let the developer know, it's really unfair that people who want to buy his app can't.
I can now see Taskiller full and Bluex which i havn't been able to see since i bought my hero, i have the Orange version of the phone.
checked earlier in the day and couldn't see taskiller full. I can now... I assume some back-end setting's been changed (whether it was a taskiller-full-specific thing the author did, or something google did centrally, I don't know)
Still can't see it on T-Mobile!
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Still can't see it on T-Mobile!
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Same problems here, its really annoying. I really want the Bloo facebook app. The new 1.3 version is meant to be good .
Also on the topic of not being able to get stuff on this "open source OS".. WHERE is amazon mp3 uk . Can't take much for amazon/google to just shift the same program to access the uk mp3 store lol.
can confirm bloo 1.3a showing up for me(orange)
the guy who did http://www.cyrket.com/ mentioned apps appeared and disappeared due to sdk version checking. while i assume that isn't the issue here, maybe it's the same kind of thing? the hero's listed capabilities and the app's metadata are incompatible?
(tho why that would change just because it's sold by orange instead of t-mobile I don't know)
My Top Paid apps are missing in my android market, anyone got this or any idea why this could be happening?
Are they capatible with N1's V2.1? I C your in the LV hood!
galaxys said:
Are they capatible with N1's V2.1? I C your in the LV hood!
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are you having troubles with it too?
No, since I'm new to this market. But, I saw somewhere that apps not working (or just updated to work on the mkt) w/2.1 are not showing up for the N1...
happened to me when i first rooted my phone. note that i rooted it before i ever even put in my sim card, but i think it had to do with that.
fixed it by wiping/factory resetting with my sim card in.
How does it work in Nexus market place? If you've already paid for an application, and have uninstall it say temporarily, will you be charged again when you re-download it?
If you bought it from a different market place, how will it know that you're already a paying customer in Nexus market place?
Doesn't matter.. if you've bought an app you can download it again for free. Apps I paid for a year ago on my G1 show up.
Tony, thanks for your reply. Good to hear that info on ownership is shared across the various markets.
if you mean the top paid apps tab in the marketplace app i was missing that also. i had started using the phone without a sim in it, so i wiped everything and restarted with sim in it right away and the top paid tab was back
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Tony, thanks for your reply. Good to hear that info on ownership is shared across the various markets.
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That would be quite lame otherwise!
Paid apps tab
I had the paid app tab before. Today I just used the phone without a sim for the first time then put the sim back and now the paid app tab is not there anymore. Anyone having the same issue?
I am currently running HD2Froyo v1 and love it. There are a few apps that I am trying to find that aren't showing up in the market. One such app is the game Let's Golf by Gameloft. I read on Gamelofts website that it is for the Nexus One and EVO, does this mean that it won't show up in the market unless you are using one of those phones? Is there a way to trick the market into thinking that our phone is a Nexus One instead?
I see that there is the option to buy this game directly from Gameloft but I worry about knowing about updates to the app if purchased that way.
Thanks for the help.
PS I searched around and found that plenty of people have the game installed but didn't find anybody sharing any legitimate means of installing the game.
You have to edit the build.prop to have the same information as the Nexus Ones's build.prop, Darkstone's HD2Froyo is based off the Desire and not the Nexus, which imo kinda sucks.
But the build.prop is located in /system/build.prop
Sent from my HTC HD2 running DarkStone HD2Froyo v1
I had an app called market enabler in some build I had. Just launched it once to take a look at it, so I don't know if it will solve your problem. There you could change the country etc. so perhaps you should give it a go.
@mr_billionaire
How can noob edit build.prop? Can it be done via DroidExplorer? What plug-in is needed.
Will this also allow for device id to be changed from nexus one to T-Mobile_LEO? any links u can provide, would b greatly appreciated! Thnx!
If you use the shubcraft build your phone name will be HTC HD2 in the about page in settings.
i wondered the same thing.i figured a market is a market..no matter what phone name it may be..i figure android is still android..but a few builds ago i think one of them came with that super mario live wallpaper and when i downloaded another build,it didn't have the wallpaper but i found it in the market for free. now, i don't see it at all.did they discontinue it or something?
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i wondered the same thing.i figured a market is a market..no matter what phone name it may be..i figure android is still android..but a few builds ago i think one of them came with that super mario live wallpaper and when i downloaded another build,it didn't have the wallpaper but i found it in the market for free. now, i don't see it at all.did they discontinue it or something?
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yup for copy right infrigment
awww man..that was one of my favorite wallpapers to..i wonder if i still have a build saved on my computer that had that....
I got my original Samsung Epic 4G from Best Buy about a week ago when they were offering it for free. It had all up to date software and apps, it even had newer/different wallpaper than my friends epic which he had had a while. Unfortunately, it bricked on me and I had to get it replaced today from the Sprint store. The one I got today doesn't have the same wallpaper and updated apps, even the android market is way different and doesn't have the "my apps" section, so I can't re-download all the free apps I had from the android market. And I don't know how to update the market either, there's no link or button for it. I also don't know if there's a way to get those updated wallpapers...there was one in particular, with a waterfall/stream that was absolutely perfect and I loved dearly. I've searched this entire website and googled for an hour and I haven't found it yet. Is there any way to get those stock wallpapers from the updated Epic 4G that I used to have? Is there going to be any other apps/functions I'm going to miss/lose because this is obviously an older phone, even though it's still version 2.2.1 and Froyo.EC05???
Thanks.
~Z
I'm pretty sure the market updates itself on stock, and sorry I can't offer any help with the wallpaper, I've never had those at all
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This wallpaper?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kanemoto/sets/72157625338221683/