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Skype?

hi I am new to the forum and just left the iPhone game.
I was a little surprised to find no Skype app available. I know there is fring but its no where near as good. is there any way to load Skype not from the app store? will this work? any other suggestions much appreciated.
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Hi,
there are some problems with some of the market applications not showing up (BarCode Scanner, Google Googles...), and i guess Skype is in this group. It seems that this problem is present on all 2.1 systems. There was a rumor on google groups regarding this issue, that HTC will be releasing an update for legend (although that should resolve problems with Layar).
You can always search for Skype APK file and try if it works.

Market no showing a lot of apps

Hey guys all of a sudden the app marker is not showing a lot of apps. I search for apps I know that are there like Rom manager but the search comes up empty.
Any help? I think this happened around the time the new market was released and my phone updated to it.
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Ya i hear you, i can't for the life of me figure out what it is, but ever since my brother and i bought the vibrant at the same time he had google earth in the market an i don't... Anyways, my workaround has been if i can't find an app i need i ask for help here. But a more self sustaning method is to search android apps on a torrent website like pirate bay . org or bt junkie. If you have anything specific in mind i could probably help ya

get appbrain, then search for apps there, and it'll redirect you to the market, which it SHOULD be in there.

I managed to fix it. I installed the new market app and force stopped it in the manage applications settings and cleared the cached data amd rebooted.
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My phone is grayed out on android web market

When I select a paid app, my phone is grayed out, but my Desire is not. Desire is currently running stock ROM but Nexus S is on MIUI.
I tried my friend's Desire running the same version of MIUI and he can also download paid apps. So why is my phone grayed out??

ammarmalik said:
When I select a paid app, my phone is grayed out, but my Desire is not. Desire is currently running stock ROM but Nexus S is on MIUI.
I tried my friend's Desire running the same version of MIUI and he can also download paid apps. So why is my phone grayed out??
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hover your mouse over the phone that is greyed out and it will tell you why it's greyed out.

It says the item cannot be installed for this device. I know for a fact thats not true. It's saying that for all paid apps. Ninja Kaka, launcher pro etc etc

Hrmm this has happened to me many times before. Once I even lost a paid app (Bartender Buddy). Funnily enough also happened when I was on MIUI on my Motorola Milestone. Have seen it a couple of times on the Nexus S... I think it has something to do with permissions that developers or google set...
Notably the Car Home app. Found that I had to use a workaround on XDA forums to install that on MIUI. So it may depend on the ROM or the Device. Maybe contact the developer of the app you're trying to install? I've had good experiences with their replies. The dev of bartender buddy even refunded me.

I ask because i had a few applications that where not rated "Compatible" with android 2.3 or the phone model, so they would not install properly. I had to use TI to restore the app on my phone, it then re-created the market link and everything was fine from there.

I want to bump this because I have this problem on Miui and ZuluZulu, but not CyanogenMod. I made the app so I know it is compatible with 2.3.4, but the market shows it as incompatible. I'm convinced this is a problem with the market app in these roms.
Here is the app just looking to see if those using these roms show it as compatible:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.DRE.j0hnZ&feature=search_result
Aha! Seems the new market apps have copy protection deprecated already.

Important possible malware

I recently installed gingerblur 4.5 and i also saw this https://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=302378e07351576f&hl=e
and each time i star the music app under music i get a "downloadmanager$download" which according to google is a malware called droiddream.
now i must stress that i did a completely clean install of SBF 1.26 and i checked if it ran first and nothing then ran gladroot checked it if ran again and still nothing.
afterwards i did the OTA update to 1.83 and nothing still(installed no apps from the market by the way) . Then i installed Gingerblur v4.5 and it the process started running. The only reason why i went to all that trouble was to see what the cause was the first time since i was running gingerblur v3.5 before and the process was there. now i dont know if what might be the cause could be the honeycomb player infected but you guys should check too.
and if i'm wrong (hope i am) i would like to be corrected

Even a completely clean install of 1.26 doesn't clean off any SD cards. I've run just about every version of Gingerblur, and I've never seen the problem you describe. I don't think Gingerblur is to blame.
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lauterm said:
Even a completely clean install of 1.26 doesn't clean off any SD cards. I've run just about every version of Gingerblur, and I've never seen the problem you describe. I don't think Gingerblur is to blame.
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I agree, I did erase both my memory cards and then did the clean install. Never saw this issue..
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Hey op I have the same process "downloadmanager$download" running this is the process of the beta music app from google, downloaded off of the market. This has nothing to do with ginger blur I am running stock. It is just a service running from the new music app. The app is an official google app I really doubt that's malware.
Did you by any chance get the music beta invite ?
UPDATE:
I finally received a response from my email to google about this and "downloadmanager$download" is a legitimate running process for the Music Beta App from google.

so then it must be from the included music player?
cuz when i run the music player then chech its there under music

xepter said:
so then it must be from the included music player?
cuz when i run the music player then chech its there under music
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Yes it's the service running from the new music player. It syncs to the new Google music service. The malware alert you saw earlier is for apps that are syncing wirelessly that shouldn't be syncing anything.
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UPDATE:
I finally received a response from my email to google about this and "downloadmanager$download" is a legitimate running process for the Music Beta App from google.

[Q] New Market and FC

Hello!
New Market on motorola Xoom Wi-fi every time I want to upgrade giving me FC. I don't know how to fix it. Tried to delete upgrade install on the Application but it is upgrading by itself. Tried to clear the cash, clear data.
Nothing helps.
Please, who know how to fix this problem? Looks like new Market doesn't work on Honeycomb.
Guys, help me, please? I really need your advice?
Thank you!

What market version do you have?
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If you have Documents to Go installed, remove it. It has a problem with the manifest and Dataviz needs to update it, you can use the version from their website in the interim.
Or grab today's free Amazon Apps, Quick Office and Quick Office HD.

Tried everything. Market. 3.1.6, market 3.3.1.1 or something like that, all of them giving me fc.
Guys, please, I need a solution. Can somebody give some advice, please? Or maybe somebody have old mafket app flashable trough cwm? Because google doing nothing for honeycomb.
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The problem is almost certainly related to an installed app, if you don't have Documents to Go installed, started removing apps one at a time until the market begins working properly and report back when you identify the offending app.

I had a thread for the same thing a page or so back.
documents to go didnt seem to cause me much grief (but i removed it anyway), but i did have a problem with Enhanced Email FCing the market (which i also ended up removing on the xoom, working fine on the desire).
noticed my market updated itself to 3.3.1.1 (or similar) the other night too - same problems as the last version.
just waiting for ICS update now and will see if that fixes stuff - I imagine it will and/or devs will update their apps to ICS

Do you have apps that you side loaded that the market reported as not compatible? I get the market FC any time one of my side loaded apps tries to update.

I found that it was a certain alternative market that caused me to "loose" all of my apps... I thought that it was the new market and even went back to the moray 2.2.1 to have the old market.
I figured out it was that other market because I uninstalled it and bingo, I had my apps...
I was pretty stupid and used titanium backup to "force" the market links and ended up with one heck of a messed up android market.... Now I am working through that..

Uninstalled the app called "Download all files" and sims like everything working for now.
Thank you very much!
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actually i think i had getjar on there... that's missing from the supermarché now - I wonder if that was the issue
i was also guessing that by the time ICS hits the xoom - and all the devs update their apps for that most of this issue should go away

FWIW, I had the exact same problem I uninstalled Enhanced Email and the problem went away. Too bad, I really like Enhanced Email!

ebamit said:
FWIW, I had the exact same problem I uninstalled Enhanced Email and the problem went away. Too bad, I really like Enhanced Email!
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I'm sure it'll be fixed soon . Dev is good at updates
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