has anyone booted up a new nexus on an unsupported country? what i mean is for countries where there is no play movies, books, and magazines.
just curious if i will get it.
someone is bringing me a nexus from the US to Asia.
I would assume that seeing how your Play Store doesn't support it, you won't get it. The credit I'm not sure about though.
That is, unless you use a proxy or some other means to enable it so that you can get it. You may need to permanently use the VPN/proxy to watch the movies or read the magazines though. However once Play Music is enabled, you can use it anywhere without a proxy/VPN, you can't buy songs though.
Play music isn't supported too. But since I was in the US when it launched ..I can access it here.
So I'm thinking it may work but I won't be able to buy other content.
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In the UK we can't get them but, a little fix is out there to allow you to get them all.
I tried it on my GS2 and it works.
Here is the link DroidVPN
Enjoy
antikryst said:
Play music isn't supported too. But since I was in the US when it launched ..I can access it here.
So I'm thinking it may work but I won't be able to buy other content.
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Hmm, perhaps though I don't believe this works for Play Movies, Books, Magazines, TV Shows etc. but I may be wrong.
Could also just use Titanium Backup to defrost apps that are built-in (Wallet, Play Magazines, etc.) and use them. Thats' what I did.
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I was just thinking about the whole movie rental thing not being available to root users because they are lumping us all in with thieves. How's this for a solution?
Instead of making it where we can't rent movies, can't they just make it where we aren't able to download them to the device (in other words, no pinning.) and only make them streamable? I would be happy with that. I mean, it would suck for flights and stuff where you don't have a connection, but It'd be better than the solution that they've currently got going.
Thoughts?
screw that they get no money
the movie industry can continue to screw themselves over
Yeah I dont understand... it just gives people a REASON to Pirate movies.
"oh I cant rent this movie on my tablet? Fine then I'll just hit up a torrent site"
Expecting the media copyright holders to be reasonable might be a bit naive
Google has to go along with whatever crazy **** they demand to license their content.
I have no problem whatsoever paying for a rental. I pay for netflix, hulu and frequently comcast on-demand stuff already. If I want to watch a movie on my tablet though, and the easiest thing to do is hit up usenet, then so be it. It usually downloads faster that way anyway.
If they want my money, they just have to make it convenient or at the very least not annoying...
Botero said:
I have no problem whatsoever paying for a rental. I pay for netflix, hulu and frequently comcast on-demand stuff already. If I want to watch a movie on my tablet though, and the easiest thing to do is hit up usenet, then so be it. It usually downloads faster that way anyway.
If they want my money, they just have to make it convenient or at the very least not annoying...
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My sentiment exactly!
th0r615 said:
Yeah I dont understand... it just gives people a REASON to Pirate movies.
"oh I cant rent this movie on my tablet? Fine then I'll just hit up a torrent site"
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Amen, brother.
Has anyone tried Amazon's video service? Not sure if it works on the Xoom / if it uses a special player.
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On another thread someone said that rooted Xooms could rent Google movies, just rent them through the web-based market. I haven't tried it yet.
web market works
Web market works for movie rentals through the native browser, helps to be logged into YouTube with the purchasing account through the browser as well. Also u have to set the quality lower if u didn't purchase the HD version. Works fine on my rooted 3.1 xoom. I have the hulu 10.3 and I believe the root 3.1 included the ua-string. I get errors trying to watch it through the native video app and I can't figure out how to open it in the native YouTube app, but full screen works fine through the browser streaming.
Same applies to watching it through browser on any computer too, we should get more then a day to watch it through...
Just purchase mega viewer pro... problem solved lol
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bored369 said:
Web market works for movie rentals through the native browser, helps to be logged into YouTube with the purchasing account through the browser as well. Also u have to set the quality lower if u didn't purchase the HD version. Works fine on my rooted 3.1 xoom. I have the hulu 10.3 and I believe the root 3.1 included the ua-string. I get errors trying to watch it through the native video app and I can't figure out how to open it in the native YouTube app, but full screen works fine through the browser streaming.
Same applies to watching it through browser on any computer too, we should get more then a day to watch it through...
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Does it allowed to be downloaded/pinned? I'd like to find a solution for watching offline as I travel often.
All this is going to do is make people want to pirate movies. If it isn't easy to just purchase the movie than people are just going to go through other routes to get it on their device.
They are targeting root users, root users are the ones that know how to get stuff on the device without having to go through the market. In my opinion they will for sure lose more money by doing this.
Nexus 7 is just been released in Singapore, and I'm wondering whether it is worth to buy it without access to Google Play Music, Play Movies and Play Books.
Yes... U can still use vpn to make believe ur n7 is in usa or else.... Like this u can download what u want....
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Nexus 7 is just been released in Singapore, and I'm wondering whether it is worth to buy it without access to Google Play Music, Play Movies and Play Books.
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Yes, the Play Store's apps make it amazing by itself.
Let alone the ability to side-load things anyway, so this doesn't effect you.
Also like the above poster, there are VPN tunnels etc so you can make it think your US.
I've tried VPN in my SGS3,but not sure if they're safe. What vpn do you guys use?
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Has anyone elses movies box in the play store dissappeared? mine has. but i can still access it on my phone.
in fact books has gone too
I still have movies in Google play actually everything is there. Is your nexus rooted?
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Has anyone elses movies box in the play store dissappeared? mine has. but i can still access it on my phone.
in fact books has gone too
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Are you abroad at the moment? If you have a wifi only nexus 7 device, market is tailored to each specific country you are accessing the play store through. That could be the reason why you can access it on your phone because you are using a provider from a country that has access to those google features. Not all countries have access to movies or books from the google market.
I am in the UK. i havent changed anything afaik. and the fact that certain things are one phone but not tablet. im rooted and bootloader unlocked using the latest stock build
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I am in the UK. i havent changed anything afaik. and the fact that certain things are one phone but not tablet. im rooted and bootloader unlocked using the latest stock build
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Odd then. Well if you are up for it, a possible solution to dance around the problem (although it doesn't necessarily solve it...) would be to follow this guide to gain access to those services again: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28259205#post28259205
Your device is already rooted so that saves you one big step. It's simply a way to get around Play store blocks on its features, so it will *maybe* fix your problem since its the Play store that is preventing your device from accessing google movies and books.
Hi guys! i'm new to this forums, and almost complete noob with everything which has mobile usage, mobile - smart phones, tablets...more of a desktop guy.
Recently i discovered the N7 and i heard, you can watch movies in clood, even without internet connection, that sound impossible to me but anyway, i decided to ask is that possible and how do you guys do it? do i need to have the movies on my pc? how do you get connected with the N7 to your pc if your lets say out? i'm really confused and i need some help, thanks.
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Hi guys! i'm new to this forums, and almost complete noob with everything which has mobile usage, mobile - smart phones, tablets...more of a desktop guy.
Recently i discovered the N7 and i heard, you can watch movies in clood, even without internet connection, that sound impossible to me but anyway, i decided to ask is that possible and how do you guys do it? do i need to have the movies on my pc? how do you get connected with the N7 to your pc if your lets say out? i'm really confused and i need some help, thanks.
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Where are you getting the movies from?
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Well, cant you upload your own movies to google drive and later watch them?
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Well, cant you upload your own movies to google drive and later watch them?
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You could, but you would still have to put the file on the device offline to watch it offline.
BSPlayer is one of many great media players that can open just about any file format. It can also stream on your home wi-fi from desktop machines on the same network. If you have downloaded AVI or MKV movies you can transfer them by USB cable for offline viewing later, much faster than wireless.
If you purchase or rent from Google Play Movies, you can pin the movie for later offline viewing and it will download the whole thing. However services like Netflix do not offer offline caching.
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You could, but you would still have to put the file on the device offline to watch it offline.
BSPlayer is one of many great media players that can open just about any file format. It can also stream on your home wi-fi from desktop machines on the same network. If you have downloaded AVI or MKV movies you can transfer them by USB cable for offline viewing later, much faster than wireless.
If you purchase or rent from Google Play Movies, you can pin the movie for later offline viewing and it will download the whole thing. However services like Netflix do not offer offline caching.
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Eh, the point is to keep storage free (on your Nexus 7) and to not be forced to get 3/4G version of Nexus 7, as far i can see there will be no 4G version on launch, (i would get one otherwise) which is very bad for me, don't know why they do this delayed launch of 4G version.....if you got any info on the 4G version, please share it, thanks for your help :good:
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Eh, the point is to keep storage free (on your Nexus 7) and to not be forced to get 3/4G version of Nexus 7, as far i can see there will be no 4G version on launch, (i would get one otherwise) which is very bad for me, don't know why they do this delayed launch of 4G version.....if you got any info on the 4G version, please share it, thanks for your help :good:
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But which do you want? To save storage or to avoid data usage? You can't watch movies offline without using device storage.
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But which do you want? To save storage or to avoid data usage? You can't watch movies offline without using device storage.
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Yea, i understand now, thanks. I wanted to save storage.
I can't overstate how impressed with this little box I am. I picked one up last month on a trip to the US (I'm from Canada) and thought I would play around with it and see how it would work in Canada. With Unblock US and an Amazon account with prime I have been able to access all my prime amazon content on it. As well as US Netflix, Hulu, ETC.
XBMC is very easily sideloaded onto it as well, with or without being rooted which opens up a whole new world of content and goodies.
And once rooted you can do even more cool stuff. I followed guides to add the google app store, remove unwanted menu options, change the launchers, add game controllers, move apps to external drive, and much more. I just installed Google Play Music and now I have complete access to my google music account on the FireTV which is very cool. I'm sure there are tons of awesome apps that work on the FTV. Another favorite is Droidmote Server so I don't keep having to unplug my external drive to use a mouse or keyboard (which many google apps need)
I sold my 2 Apple TV 2's for a very nice profit and I'm going all Fire TV. The only advantage I think to the Apple TV's is if you have itunes and are invested in the Apple Ecosystem which I was not. The menus and everything are much speedier and my ATV2's were prone to random crashes while in XBMC which drove me crazy.
I'm really looking forward to playing around more with this unit and seeing what all the development community can do with it. I think its already awesome and it has a ton of more potential.
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I am in Canada also and use unblock us. Have you tried using the A&E, Lifetime or History Channel apps? For whatever reason they wont work and I am wondering if somehow they realize that you are not in the US. I have no problem with any other apps. Trying to figure out if its a Canada issue or maybe an issue with the app's of fire tv.
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I can't overstate how impressed with this little box I am. I picked one up last month on a trip to the US (I'm from Canada) and thought I would play around with it and see how it would work in Canada. With Unblock US and an Amazon account with prime I have been able to access all my prime amazon content on it. As well as US Netflix, Hulu, ETC.
XBMC is very easily sideloaded onto it as well, with or without being rooted which opens up a whole new world of content and goodies.
And once rooted you can do even more cool stuff. I followed guides to add the google app store, remove unwanted menu options, change the launchers, add game controllers, move apps to external drive, and much more. I just installed Google Play Music and now I have complete access to my google music account on the FireTV which is very cool. I'm sure there are tons of awesome apps that work on the FTV. Another favorite is Droidmote Server so I don't keep having to unplug my external drive to use a mouse or keyboard (which many google apps need)
I sold my 2 Apple TV 2's for a very nice profit and I'm going all Fire TV. The only advantage I think to the Apple TV's is if you have itunes and are invested in the Apple Ecosystem which I was not. The menus and everything are much speedier and my ATV2's were prone to random crashes while in XBMC which drove me crazy.
I'm really looking forward to playing around more with this unit and seeing what all the development community can do with it. I think its already awesome and it has a ton of more potential.
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teryaki said:
I am in Canada also and use unblock us. Have you tried using the A&E, Lifetime or History Channel apps? For whatever reason they wont work and I am wondering if somehow they realize that you are not in the US. I have no problem with any other apps. Trying to figure out if its a Canada issue or maybe an issue with the app's of fire tv.
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don't you still need a US credit card address for Unblock???? if not how did u set it up??
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You don't need a us credit card address for unblock us, it's a Canadian service from a Canadian company. You need a US credit card for the amazon service.
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don't you still need a US credit card address for Unblock???? if not how did u set it up??
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You don't need a us credit card address for unblock us, it's a Canadian service from a Canadian company. You need a US credit card for the amazon service.
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ahh got ya.....was thinking of amazon,tanks...dill
was just on unblock us there's no info on the AFT, says there still testing.?
Yes they are still testing I guess, but rest assured it works...I use it everyday.
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was just on unblock us there's no info on the AFT, says there still testing.?
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teryaki said:
I am in Canada also and use unblock us. Have you tried using the A&E, Lifetime or History Channel apps? For whatever reason they wont work and I am wondering if somehow they realize that you are not in the US. I have no problem with any other apps. Trying to figure out if its a Canada issue or maybe an issue with the app's of fire tv.
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Those particular apps aren't working for me either. They just crash back to the home screen. I think its a Canada thing as unblock.us does not officially support Fire TV yet. If you get yours working let me know and I'll do the same.
Ok that sounds great, thx.
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Those particular apps aren't working for me either. They just crash back to the home screen. I think its a Canada thing as unblock.us does not officially support Fire TV yet. If you get yours working let me know and I'll do the same.
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