Hi all!!
Not been on XDA in a while, and only popped back on the other day and noticed there is now a Windows 8 section!
Been using Windows 8 since the Developer preview and moved onto the Consumer Preview the second it was released...
At the moment, im loving it, even on a Desktop im finding it easy to use with pretty much just the Metro interface.
My only problem is the following...
"Sorry, sign-in isn't supported in your region at this time"
I hate having things that dont work on my computer >.< haha
Is there any way to get around this at all??
I have done a big of searching but have not found anything about this anywhere, maybe in just a crap searcher! haha
Any help would be appreciated
Might be worth telling us what your region is
I am in Singapore, although I have a UK based Live account (with UK credit card).
I get the same error message...for instance on the Videos page, I guess because the videos for sale/download are simply not available in my region (guess it does IP region check?)
You might try connecting via a VPN to the USA? Can't say I bothered so much.
Im in the UK using a UK based hotmail account.
Bothers me as I cant see why they dont work, like the Xbox live section etc?
Well this pearl of wisdom was the first hit when I Bing'd your query...
Should answer your question
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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???"
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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.
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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.
Not sure how to sort this.
I just tried to install tvcatchup but whenever I try to play anything it just says "non-UK"
It recognised my ISP as a UK one alright.
Really frustrating as skyfire doesn't seem to be working properly on my phone for some reason at the moment [I even uninstalled and reinstalled it] which is a bummer for beeb and itv websites for world cup!
Similarly right from the start I noticed that whenever I do a search for anything from opera/google for some some reason it gives me search results in german?!?!?!
that will be opera 10 you're using then lol beta version is it by any chance?? and there is a couple of threads for tvcatchup in the themes and apps section i pretty sure someone found a fix for this mate
Nope it is the default internet tab on Sense.
I will look in the other thread for tvcatchup.
Appreciate the help mate!
try to disable my location, perhaps?
I thought It was time I spent some time enjoying android instead of just tweaking constantly. So I installed some games; one of them being iMobster.
I open the game app and it says I need to sign in with my Storm8 Account, (which I dont have yet)... there is no option on the app's signing page to register a new account.
So I googled storm8 and went to their site.... again there is no signup link. So I go to the storm8 forums and see a register link ("Don't have a Storm8 Account yet?").... but that just says that you register through the games settings menu....I CANT GET TO THE SETTINGS MENU WITHOUT SIGNING IN! Doh!!
Is it just Android versions of Storm8 Games that dont allow new users? Or are signups closed full stop? Or is This some form of 'attempted copy protection' caused by the HD2 not being a 'native' Android device?
I searched the storm8 forums for an hour and found nothing useful and I cant ask a question there as I dont have an account lol
Can anyone shed any light on this?
If there is NO WAY to sign up for us HD2 Android owners, does anyone have an old unused account that they want to donate? (Not looking to take a 'good' account here, would rather sign up myself if at all possible).
Anyone managed to signup using their HD2?
(PS I have installed 2 other storm8 games and they behave the same way...no signup )
I have no idea.
As this is not at all specific to the hd2 port of Linux (and android) I suggest moving this thread to the general XDA android section.
cheers
dcordes said:
I have no idea.
As this is not at all specific to the hd2 port of Linux (and android) I suggest moving this thread to the general XDA android section.
cheers
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yeah, your right. sorry, my mistake.
mods...could you please move the thread to the appropriate forum? thanks...and sorry
I had the same dilemma, I have tried many builds and it seems to only occur with FROYO builds, if you go back to Eclair you will be able to play your game, so I just use 2 sd cards one with Eclair and the other with Froyo.
Storm8 games are currently not compatible with froyo... many people on froyo are complaining about the interface glitches due to upgrading to froyo
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Storm8 games are currently not compatible with froyo... many people on froyo are complaining about the interface glitches due to upgrading to froyo
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ahhh that might be it then....maybe storm it disabled the signup option when one of their apps detects froyo?
thanks for the info
Is the solution still to use Eclair or did they update the game to work with Froyo?
Glad its just not me. Might just have my moms download it on her iPhone and then give me her username and password. I really want to play Zombies and Vampires Live.
you could try android 2.1 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734350 to sign up and return to 2.2 to play
i am trying it now and reporting back
EDIT: on android 2.2 all worked fine. i created an acount and went back to 2.2 to see that all storm8 games don;t recognize the login, they say the username and pass are incorect so maybe we just have to wait for and update,
hey, it could be worst http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-games/49726-storm8-games-reset-froyo-install.html
Unique Device ID is needed *#*#4636#*#* should show it
if not get Android ID from market
If you downgrade you should be able to create an online account thru the game then transfer this to the upgraded phone via the username / password login method ( can only be done once storm8 account is made from device ID )
or downgrade and create and acount and just use s8onpc ... ( yet to see if you can just create an new account knowing an ID number as all my phones are used atm ...)
Can you please eleborate how to use Android id to login??
vamp live on hd2
hi,
I ve installed it on hd2 with MDJ_FroYo_HD_v._4..... running on it and it worked fine. I ve played 2 days now and after the second day my account got banned unknown reason... and by the way I read this application is able to read your sms and phone number out of your phone, not cool if its true.
Each time i closed the application the profile was gone, so i decided to import it back using the settings menu , which worked well. .. until I got banned
I play all 8 storm8 games on my myTouch 3G with Froyo 2.2
On any game that you play, go to the main game page, you'll see a "gear" or "gog" icon near the bottom, select that icon. This brings you to another screen with 3 tabs, choose the tab labeled "Storm8". On this screen, mine account is already setup so it shows my information but if you haven't setup an account yet it will let you create one here or give you a web link to the Storm8 page.
Enjoy!
Hey Guys
Woke up this morning to an email from Google saying my invite for Google Music beta has been accepted! In the process of uploading all my tracks now..
Thing is... I'm in New Zealand. I did request an invite with a proxy browser but I never expected to actually get an invite as it's currently closed to US only right?
Unless they've broadened their reach in response to iCloud, otherwise the proxy was all I needed...
I should note that I have a Google voice account by the same means (proxy browser), maybe that helped trick them.
Either way I thought I'd post to see if anyone else has gotten access besides our American ...friends.
So far it works great, but all my album art is the same image, and it's taking a very long time to upload, also the upload program has skipped 4000 songs due to an error.....
And what happens if I change the filename or meta data of a song, does it upload it again as another song? I'd also really love the ability to delete a song from my harddrive if I delete it from the cloud, as I have a lot of music that I haven't yet decided if its worthy to keep or not.
This is really great because I have unlimited 3G access with my employee plan @ vodafone
I got the invite too this morning and I have access to google music without a proxy. I'm in Romania. Still, because of this, I can't download the music app from the market.
Try this m8...
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.notenking.mf
Or rather this one: https://market.android.com/details?id=ch.racic.android.marketenabler
I got mine last night too. But I am beginning to question how much I'll use it as I don't have an unlimited download plan...oh well, it's always nice to have
I did the same thing from the UK, got an invite a few days ago, have uploaded some music but not quite sure yet on their policy of making sure it's all legally acquired....
Streaming seems to work well though
The client works fine in linux using wine 1.3.
Gosh...... after uploading 400 songs I realised they all had the same lame album art image because of a stupid JPG in a root folder.... I've now spent the better half of my day off trying to get album art for all my songs @[email protected]". Discovered the hard way it's best to just put all ur music into album folders and update with WMP...
I got one too. And I am from China.
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Just to clarify, you guys all used a proxy server to do this, right? I'm going to try this at home tonight. I don't know how to set up a proxy/VPN so if someone can kindly post a link to a very simple instruction it would be great. Otherwise I can do a Google Search I guess. Thanks!
And I'm from Canada. Yesterday the new Music app update shows up on the Android Market. I didn't use market enabler or anything. It just showed up. I updated and this new music app replaced the stock one.
Just requested an invitation via VPN, hope I get it
How long it take to response after the request send? I requested 2 weeks ago, but no response from google yet. i m from Malaysia, i used proxy to request.
I requested about 2 weeks ago using hidemyass and haven't heard anything either, so you're not alone.
According to Paul @ MoDaCo you can speed things up by editing your build.prop so it looks like you're using a 3.0.1 Xoom.
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Just to clarify, you guys all used a proxy server to do this, right? I'm going to try this at home tonight. I don't know how to set up a proxy/VPN so if someone can kindly post a link to a very simple instruction it would be great. Otherwise I can do a Google Search I guess. Thanks!
And I'm from Canada. Yesterday the new Music app update shows up on the Android Market. I didn't use market enabler or anything. It just showed up. I updated and this new music app replaced the stock one.
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I used the HideMyAss extension to the Chrome browser (probably also available for FF) to request an invite. I'm based in Ireland and got an invite after a couple of weeks after signing up. Started uploading my 5000+ songs yesterday and so far about 650 are done. The upload speed on my internet connection is rather slow.
Hidemyass.com worked for me I think, if that fails and you need software I recommend Hotspot shield.
Here's my blog for initial experience, if you're wanting to make sure your music collection is tidy before committing it to the Cloud, check out http://jamesyb0i.blogspot.com/2011/06/album-where-art-thou.html
Thanks! I also came across hidemyass.com after some Googling but wasn't sure how reliable it is. Since a couple of you have tried it, I think it should be safe
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Thanks! I also came across hidemyass.com after some Googling but wasn't sure how reliable it is. Since a couple of you have tried it, I think it should be safe
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Doesn't really matter how reliable it is, just that it thinks you're in the US
I got the invitation several days ago. I only use proxy to request the invitation. After I agreed the term and conditions, I can access my music account without any proxy.
Same goes to my gv too
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hmm..... I've uploaded about 4k songs so far but now the program just keeps crashing
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Doesn't really matter how reliable it is, just that it thinks you're in the US
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no I mean, logging in with my username and password through a proxy. Is it possible for the proxy to eavesdrop? But either way, I used it to request an invite
Got my invite today, it's a great service... shame about the upload time mind.
I managed to navigate to www dot bbc dot com/future on my Nexus. I tried to access this page from a PC, but it said not available in my country. This started ringing alarm bells, but didnt really think anything of it.
I went on laterooms earlier and everything came up in dollars. I thought this was a bit strange and had to change the default on the page.
I just went on another website and it asked if I was shopping from the USA and if I wanted to convert everything to dollars.
Any ideas if I can change this?
Do you use this new feature in chrome for bandwidth saving? (US proxy)
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Do you use this new feature in chrome for bandwidth saving? (US proxy)
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It was turned on, yes. I turned it off to test and unable to get to BBC future page.
Is there not a UK proxy?
Thank you