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[Q] Can't Download Marketplace Apps Over Wi-Fi

Hey all,
Ok, so here's the setup:
Bought a (supposedly) unlocked Samsung Focus from Expansys (AT&T Branded).
Don't have a SIM for Rogers yet, so just using it on my home wireless network. I can surf the web, access the marketplace, my XBOX Live account is linked up (my avatar is displayed), etc. All good.
UNTIL...I actually want to purchase or download an app/game from the marketplace! After I click Install, I get this message:
"This item is not available from the Marketplace catalog."
This happens for *every* application, paid or free. The only way I can get apps on to my phone is to get them through the Zune software and synch, and even then I have to go through the marketplace to the app where it tells me that its already installed (even though it shows up NOWHERE on my phone), and asks if I want to install it again...which it then lets me do and voila, app is visible.
This is *really* frustrating and I can't figure out what the issue could be. Any thoughts or has anyone else experienced this?!
Thanks,
DL

I just got my Focus today and I've got the EXACT same problem. I don't have it unlocked yet, so the only thing that is the same between our two cases is that we don't have a valid sim card.
Can anyone confirm this issue?

Issue Fixed...well more Issue Disappeared
My issue went away...literally...I don't really know what I did, or that I did anything. I blogged about it here (I'm still too new to post full url's here, so its broken up): geekswithblogs .net /dlussier /archive /2010/11/23/142839.aspx, but here's the update part:
So last night I plugged my phone into my pc to charge, which brought up the Zune software. I wanted a few more apps, so I downloaded them from there. Phone synched, and I went to try my apps. I thought “What the hell”, and tried to access an app on the marketplace. This time I didn’t get the “This item is not available from the Marketplace catalogue”, I got some message about an error and a hex value.
I tried to access an app again to see if I’d still get the error message and…*POOF*…I have full access to the marketplace over wi-fi!
I have *no* idea what caused the switch, it was nothing that I did intentionally! I did notice that the prices are now higher (BeJeweled was 4.99, now 5.49), and I’m assuming its because I’m hitting the Canadian marketplace and not the US one.
Weird, yes, but its working so…yay?

lol the EXACT same thing happened to me...it just....went away? lol I'm not complaining

wrong currency

I went into the play store today and found that everything is in pounds and magazines and shows are missing... I think my nexus 7 thinks I am in UK, but I am actually in USA. I phone (on the same gmail account) however displays the store correctly.
Anyway to fix this? Tnx

This problem gave me enough motivation to finally unlock and root my device. When that didn't work I downloaded the market unlocker app, which did its thing, and says that my market is set to usa(verizon), yet I still see pounds and no magazines or shows...
I am really lost now, I was sure that a reset would fix this

Check your Google account on the Internet and change the default language from there.
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Jamin13 said:
Check your Google account on the Internet and change the default language from there.
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The language is set to English (United States). But just to be sure I changed it and changed it back, the problem still persists (and as I said my phone still has the US market)
Before I did the reset I also checked all my location settings, they were all either automatic (in which case I tried manually changing to US), or set to US.

emreis said:
The language is set to English (United States). But just to be sure I changed it and changed it back, the problem still persists (and as I said my phone still has the US market)
Before I did the reset I also checked all my location settings, they were all either automatic (in which case I tried manually changing to US), or set to US.
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Odd. I'm not sure what could be causing that issue. I wonder if turning the GPS on would change anything. Maybe clear all data pertaining to the Play Store, disable the Play Store, reboot, enable the Play Store?
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Jamin13 said:
Odd. I'm not sure what could be causing that issue. I wonder if turning the GPS on would change anything. Maybe clear all data pertaining to the Play Store, disable the Play Store, reboot, enable the Play Store?
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Tried all that before
I just noticed, after reseting my time was automatically set to British Summer time (changed it but no effect on the store). How does this thing even determine that, GPS some WiFi way? The map app shows me correctly, in Florida...could it be that something went wrong with my router, and it now serves the queen?

emreis said:
Tried all that before
I just noticed, after reseting my time was automatically set to British Summer time (changed it but no effect on the store). How does this thing even determine that, GPS some WiFi way? The map app shows me correctly, in Florida...could it be that something went wrong with my router, and it now serves the queen?
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That's crazy. Support email to Google?
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I purchased a nexus 7 today at an Office Depot in the USA and have the same problem. Were you able to get this resolved?
I contacted Google support and awaiting to hear back.

wrong currency in google play
emreis said:
I went into the play store today and found that everything is in pounds and magazines and shows are missing... I think my nexus 7 thinks I am in UK, but I am actually in USA. I phone (on the same gmail account) however displays the store correctly.
Anyway to fix this? Tnx
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I also have the same problem, i have my overseas sim card attched to my tablet and the currency is based on the sim card that I used overseas, check your sim or if you're still in roaming. i changed my sim to the country where im now and the currency changed.
Cheers!

I had this same issue and figured out that it only occurs when I am connected to my company WiFi. Apparently we are routing through the UK for some reason, from AZ! Both my tablets have this issue as they are on the company WifFi and when I connect my phone to the WiFi it gets changed as well. Very odd.

Thank You!!!!!!
gbatt said:
I had this same issue and figured out that it only occurs when I am connected to my company WiFi. Apparently we are routing through the UK for some reason, from AZ! Both my tablets have this issue as they are on the company WifFi and when I connect my phone to the WiFi it gets changed as well. Very odd.
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After spending some uncomfortable hours very early this mourning thinking that both my phone and tablet had been breached, I found your post. Thank you for sharing.... kept me from hitting the panic button full-on since I had also checked Google Play via the web browser on my tablet and there the currency was correct. (Sidebar: Husband had been having issues a few hours earlier accessing WSJ and Linked in on his computer as well.) Took my phone off WiFi and put it on 4G and voila! - Google Play returned to normal with the correct currency and offerings. A call to our ISP during biz hours confirmed that they has made a switch due to their own server issues and once their servers were back up, we'd be back to normal.
Who'd have thought it could be something like where the router is looking at for data?! Thanks again!
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BethersJR said:
After spending some uncomfortable hours very early this mourning thinking that both my phone and tablet had been breached, I found your post. Thank you for sharing.... kept me from hitting the panic button full-on since I had also checked Google Play via the web browser on my tablet and there the currency was correct. (Sidebar: Husband had been having issues a few hours earlier accessing WSJ and Linked in on his computer as well.) Took my phone off WiFi and put it on 4G and voila! - Google Play returned to normal with the correct currency and offerings. A call to our ISP during biz hours confirmed that they has made a switch due to their own server issues and once their servers were back up, we'd be back to normal.
Who'd have thought it could be something like where the router is looking at for data?! Thanks again!
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[Q] Google Now no connection !! Plz help

Hello, I am running the stock firmware on my nexus 4. I am not even rooted. I am connected to WiFi and my google now says no connection.
Normally I live in the UK, but now I am residing in Bangladesh due to work reasons. MY google now was working perfectly as in showing me cards on local time, currency rates and all the other stuffs.
But this morning when I wake up, google now is not working. it says no connection but i can surf the net, download apps from the market and do everything.
So I master reset the the phone. then set up everything from the beginning, after all these hassles my google now was working. Now the next morning i wake up and its the same. No connection error on google now.
So can anyone tell me whats going on and how do I fix it.

LikwidGaming said:
Hello, I am running the stock firmware on my nexus 4. I am not even rooted. I am connected to WiFi and my google now says no connection.
Normally I live in the UK, but now I am residing in Bangladesh due to work reasons. MY google now was working perfectly as in showing me cards on local time, currency rates and all the other stuffs.
But this morning when I wake up, google now is not working. it says no connection but i can surf the net, download apps from the market and do everything.
So I master reset the the phone. then set up everything from the beginning, after all these hassles my google now was working. Now the next morning i wake up and its the same. No connection error on google now.
So can anyone tell me whats going on and how do I fix it.
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I have pretty much the same problem!

I just realized mine isnt either. Stock Rom, Rooted, TWRP and just flashed franco M1 yesterday. Hmmmmm

Having this issue for months now. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Had gone through many forums and no solution yet. Counting days when I get back to England because I believe it has something to do with my ISP.
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LikwidGaming said:
Having this issue for months now. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Had gone through many forums and no solution yet. Counting days when I get back to England because I believe it has something to do with my ISP.
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Just go to Settings-App search for "google search" and delete cache/data, you should be ready to go

[Q] Mobile Network within applications

Hello everyone,
I recently purchased the Nexus 4 directly from the Google website, had it shipped to Romania and here I bought a prepaid card and went away and activated it.
Everything works perfect, except I just noticed that some applications can't log on to the mobile network.
I installed Triple Town and since I already bought the item "Unlimited turns" on another device I wanted to Restore my purchases and have it on the Nexus 4 as well. I get some sort of "Network unavailable" error and I can't restore my purchases. Buying "turns" via the Play Store works, however.
I thought it was an application-only error until I downloaded Iron Man 3 via WiFi. When I try to launch it I get "A network error has occured. Do you want to try again?", even though I'm online.
Does any of you know what the issue might be here?
Thanks in advance,
Rob

NFC Google Pay Inconsistent

Anyone facing this problem? My google pay is inconsistent when on public transport and in retail stores.
Could it be software issue?

Can you type Oxygen version, root or no? And can you find in Google play settings certification of you device?

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Can you type Oxygen version, root or no? And can you find in Google play settings certification of you device?
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Also having problem with my NFC with public transport.
Never work for public transport before, but ok with retail payment
my is Oxygen OS 10.5.10.IN11AA, no root.
not sure if this is the Google Play Cert
Version 20.6.19-all [0] [PR] 316598174

OOS 10.5.10.IN11AA
Google Play Services Version 20.21.17
Google Pay Version 2.111.306
I tried toggling on the '' non standard NFC tag support '' in developers option. Doesnt work as well.
Many op8p users also faced the same problem in my country.
Tried re-adding my cards several times, cleared cache of google pay,google play services,google framework.
Downgrading app versions.
On public transport, my phone just vibrates and will prompt " does not work " or " move closer ". Never worked, receiver receive nothing.
In retail payment, it worked about 90% of the time with 10% requiring to tap twice.

I have similar issue.
- I use polish banking application that uses NFC for contactless payment.
- In retail payment, 90% of the time is successful, 10% requires to tap again.
- In vending machine almost every payment is rejected (I got 1 successful payment but I can't reproduce it again). I used same banking application on my xiaomi mi8 with same vending machine and worked good.
- I tried google pay and it doesn't work too (at least it shows some error on screen)
- no root, oxygenos 10.5.9.IN11BA
In conclusion it's not a problem with google pay but with nfc as other payment apps have same problem.

IIRC on the teardown video, the NFC chip is in behind the camera. It's maybe in too deep inside the phone for it to work correctly everytime.
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Came looking to see if I was the only one with an NFC issue
Mine has been working perfectly since I got the phone, then yesterday I went to use it at a POS in a shop and it wouldn't work......move closer/slower etc. so I used my bank card itself.
I got the train and said I had low balance when I got off so went to top up my leap card (Irish transport card) and it fails the second it tried to read the card.
FYI I have sucessfully topped up my leap card dozens of times on the phone.
Next I went to get something to eat. I tried using it at the restaurant POS and worked first time, no problem.
Then this morning I just tried using it in shop POS and everytime it pinged and gave me a tick mark and showed the card as if it completed OK but the shop unit did not register anything (I also know the transaction did not go through as revolut did not show the transaction). I used my bank card and it worked.
I have just tried my leap card again and it is still not working.
This is very frustrating as I use NFC payment everywhere.
Anyone know if I can see logs for the NFC chip?
Why did it suddenly just stop working, I haven't had any updates.
Running Oxygen OS 10.5.12.IN11BA
Play services Version 20.33.14(120400-327249014)
Google Pay Version 2.116.328438545

Not had this problem before, could your case be the cause? Or anything else in your hand?
The range has impressed me with mine.
Currently rooted and using xXx and Gpay is still good.

It looks the oneplus 8 pro nfc chip is very weak. For me the strongest signal is under oneplus logo on the back. I found out the nfc chip is under the keypad at vending machine (not under display). Now to make it work I must keep my phone very closely to the terminal.

I need to get close on a number of NFC readers...no biggie.