[Q] Anything similar to Google Play Music in the U.K? - Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all,
Found this earlier whilst trawling the tinter web:
http://blog.laptopmag.com/how-to-add-your-own-music-to-the-google-play-music-cloud
Only available in the States at the moment though! :crying:
Is there anything similar for us Brits??
I know about Dropbox etc. but this service looks so cool!
Thanks for looking.

If you've got the patience, sign up for an IPv6 address here and connect to the servers in north America.
Google prefers IPv6 so they will think you're in America and will show you all of their services. This also enables Movies, Magazines etc.
The process is not so simple, so if you're not technically minded it might not be for you. However if you set it up you also get the bonus that you can buy apps in dollars, which means things are cheaper.
Perhaps there's a guide here on XDA but I haven't checked since I didn't need it. Its worth the hassle.

You could always use the program called tor on a pc there is plenty of guides floating about on here
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Readers Hub...finally!

Opened up the Readers Hub today, just to check if it was working yet, and was welcomed by two little green 'install' buttons on both the magazines and newspapers option. These buttons open up a Samsung modified app installer, and now...it's all working.
This is in Switzerland, running an unbranded unlocked 16GB SGT on Swisscom Liberty Grande contract.
EDIT: Ok, my excitement is growing less by the minute. While it works nicely, it seems there's no free content, neither in Newspapers nor in Zinio. Even the free papers that you can pick up at every bus stop around here (20Minuten) want to charge you. Not interested in paying for news when I can just use the the browser to read the online version for free.
EDIT 2: Right, it seems when you go through the Zinio website there's an option to search for free issues, and there's quite a few good ones there. No such option on PressDisplay however.
hm, still waitin...buy the way tnx for report
Just checked mine here in the UK and was greeted with the install buttons
Thanks for the heads up.
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Just showed up for me today in Australia too.
Installed and bought a few issues through Zinio already.
Running well so far except for one of my subscriptions having problems downloading.
Got to laugh, daily star which costs around 35 pence or maybe less for a hard copy is costing 99 pence per issue. Not tempted to go digital at that price, just going to do the usual and fire up the car on a morning and buy it
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Not working in the US t-mobile version. Bummer. Looking forward to zinio.
Please post a link to working aol if available.
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Zinio is great value, as a UK magazine reader being able to subscribe to US versions of magazines for around $10 for a years subscription is superb value to me! (They look great on my iPad, hoping they look just as good on my RoadWarrior SGT!)
With PressReader, if you have an online subscription to The Times (about £9 a month) you can download the Daily and Sunday editions (+All the extra magazines), perfect for my commute!
The readers hub was a huge deciding factor for me in buying a SGT, Im looking forward to trying it out once I get home today!
i have the tmobile tab and i don't even see the readers hub app. How can I get it?
too bad zinio is mostly usless for non-english ppl. I don't get why we get kobo and zinio but no media hub in europe.
ianford10 said:
Just checked mine here in the UK and was greeted with the install buttons
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Also in the UK. Works fine
PS: free samples can be added to your Zinio account via the web interface. Then use the app to read the content.
Note: By the way, my Galaxy Tab is flashed with the latest P1000XWJK1 firmware (November 2010). I don't think this would make a difference, as the Samsung App Market functions normally (I see 2 apps in there).
WTH? So I just lost access to my FHM subscription on the galaxy tab. Even the issue that I had downloaded earlier today had magically vanished.
Can't even see similar magazines through the tab any more.
I hope this is isn't some kind of iPad compatibility issue... What with it being two competing devices with different philosophical views on censorship.
can someone post the zinio apk. in my hub, i installed the kobo one
Here in Finland in Tab there is Readers hub with PressDisplay, Kobo and Zinio.
PressDisplay gave some freebies.
In Kobo there is about 200 free books to choose.
Zinio, no freebies.
About PressDisplay; the biggest newspaper in Finland, Helsingin Sanomat is missing, only 11 smaller ones available. And yes, those free trainstation-takeaway-b****-publications cost also 0,99€ -no thanks.
First I was exited, but not any more. Newsroom is still my killer app.
Greediness kills a lot good ideas.
PressDisplay and Zinio now online in the Philippines. Finally!!!!
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"Device authorization failed" when trying to launch PressDisplay. Product Code issue? SIM problem?
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will6316 said:
i have the tmobile tab and i don't even see the readers hub app. How can I get it?
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You will need the .apk files for those programs.
If the generous international users can dump their .apk files for us Americans, it would be greatly appreaciated. Sharing is caring.
ConceptVBS said:
You will need the .apk files for those programs.
If the generous international users can dump their .apk files for us Americans, it would be greatly appreaciated. Sharing is caring.
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+1 right here.
ConceptVBS said:
You will need the .apk files for those programs.
If the generous international users can dump their .apk files for us Americans, it would be greatly appreaciated. Sharing is caring.
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SolusCado said:
+1 right here.
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this worked for me on us tmobile tab you have to install all the apps
if you have any of these apps already instaled uninstall them and use these or else it wont work
Works great on an EVO. Thanks
maxtcee said:
this worked for me on us tmobile tab you have to install all the apps
if you have any of these apps already instaled uninstall them and use these or else it wont work
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[Q] Google Play Books/Magazines/Music Outside the US

anyone bring a nexus 7 outside the US yet? i have read that books/magazines/music dont work. but with the nexus 7 being wifi only... i have a few questions:
1. do these features disappear like they do on phones? i have a galaxy nexus. non-us apps disappear from the app launcher if you dont have a US sim card. can you at least access the free bundled content when it detects that you dont have a US ip?
2. can you connect to a wireless VPN service and access those blocked services? can you buy stuff with a non-US credit card? i was able to buy blocked content before with my non-US credit card... but through the play web version and a VPN service... i cant seem to buy books anymore. not sure if this is the same with the nexus 7
3. are there any non-root apps that allows the nexus 7 to get a US ip address just by connecting to any wifi hotspot?
im sure there are a lot more questions from non-US pre-orderers of the nexus 7. hope this thread helps us.
Wrong section, this belongs in the Questions section.
I'm wondering this too, except I am willing to root for for these features.
Yep, Questions go in the Q&A section
Yes , through vpn you can access the play store movies and magazine portion and they should also play fine. I used to do that on many of my previous android devices.
saadi703 said:
Yes , through vpn you can access the play store movies and magazine portion and they should also play fine. I used to do that on many of my previous android devices.
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Can anyone confirm this yet? Otherwise I need to invest time in setting up a VPN in the US
Play books works fine on my TP in the UK via wifi so I it should work on the N7, I can't see Google crippling their own hardware in that way.
locutus2000 said:
Can anyone confirm this yet? Otherwise I need to invest time in setting up a VPN in the US
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You should see blocked content via VPN, problem is you can't buy anything even the free ones if you don't put in a 'valid' authorized payment option.
Tried it and that's what I found out.
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antikryst said:
You should see blocked content via VPN, problem is you can't buy anything even the free ones if you don't put in a 'valid' authorized payment option.
Tried it and that's what I found out.
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In that case I'm very hopefull, with my own google account I managed to pay with my own creditcard with billing address in USA. My bank accepted it so there will be no issue for me.
locutus2000 said:
In that case I'm very hopefull, with my own google account I managed to pay with my own creditcard with billing address in USA. My bank accepted it so there will be no issue for me.
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so did you get it to work or do you think you can get it to work? sorry. im a bit confused.
getting my nexus 7 in a couple of days still so i cant really try it myself yet.
It works for magazines and music, but it doesn't seem to work for movies/tv shows. I can buy, for example a tv show, but can't download it even when I'm connected through VPN. FYI; using VyperVPN from giganews. Hope this helps
Paul
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antikryst said:
so did you get it to work or do you think you can get it to work? sorry. im a bit confused.
getting my nexus 7 in a couple of days still so i cant really try it myself yet.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28259205

$25 credit + transformers for unsupported countries

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.

How to get the US Play Store

Hello everybody, first post here but been a lurker here for the past few weeks with my new s3.
Ever since I moved overseas from the US their has been many limitations of the web, the play store in my country, i dont mean to be mean, is complete $%#@, most of the s3 owners are perverts, the most downloaded app is something about Naked Ladies. Anyway, I have a rooted phone and I really don't want to use any kind of VPN, their slow, unreilable, and make me put on a passcode which I don't want.
If their is any tweak or hack to get the US playstore that would be wonderful to share, plus I have a US credit card and make sure my phone doesn't use my location services.
Thanks for reading (=
slapflap said:
Hello everybody, first post here but been a lurker here for the past few weeks with my new s3.
Ever since I moved overseas from the US their has been many limitations of the web, the play store in my country, i dont mean to be mean, is complete $%#@, most of the s3 owners are perverts, the most downloaded app is something about Naked Ladies. Anyway, I have a rooted phone and I really don't want to use any kind of VPN, their slow, unreilable, and make me put on a passcode which I don't want.
If their is any tweak or hack to get the US playstore that would be wonderful to share, plus I have a US credit card and make sure my phone doesn't use my location services.
Thanks for reading (=
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Play store should use localization from the firmware, me thinks. Also, checks build.prop.
If you got a international SGS3 one easy solution would be to flash a European (UK could be best for you) firmware and CSC, then setting localisation to UK. Or, you can flash a AOSP firmware which should be location "free" (except for localisation in settings for UI/Keyboard etc). The AOSP/AOKP builds around are still not 100% perfect though, if you care about such things.
Google for market enabler...
it might give you the apps available in the US but not the services like books, music, movies...
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Daelyn said:
Play store should use localization from the firmware, me thinks. Also, checks build.prop.
If you got a international SGS3 one easy solution would be to flash a European (UK could be best for you) firmware and CSC, then setting localisation to UK. Or, you can flash a AOSP firmware which should be location "free" (except for localisation in settings for UI/Keyboard etc). The AOSP/AOKP builds around are still not 100% perfect though, if you care about such things.
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If you can, may please post a link of one?
And what if you already have a custom rom?
I used Market enabler but used a VPN to get free scrabble from US play store but uninstalled them after that, but can still see scrabble in account
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Market enabler is the way to go. The play store region is determined by a combination of carrier & country code from your SIM + geo-IP.
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Market Enabler PLUS DroidVPN .
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Here ya go... enjoy. BTW what country are you in?
http://db.tt/fAIzvXTc
I'm in China and I have the same problem. Market enabler allows you to SEE the apps from another country but you still can't buy them. So it's a little bit anoying. If you go on Google play from a computer you can see all the apps.
I've bought apps fine with the market enabler.

Best free VPN?

Hey all.. this may not be a 6P specific question but what is everyone using for VPN these days? I'm looking for a free, no registration needed, no logging, one touch, fast VPN, that is trustworthy. Anyone have any suggestions?
You're not going to find that for free. Even some paid vpns still log. They're cheap, though. The best bet you can get for free is try tunnelbear or zenmate or hola, the last two being chrome extensions.
I recommend going to cryptostorm.is they are cheap, and the most secure VPN with best tech, support crypto currencies, anonymous accounts done via tokens, no logs, and they have warrant canary incase they get seized.
Hope this helps, cheers.
notstevek said:
You're not going to find that for free. Even some paid vpns still log. They're cheap, though. The best bet you can get for free is try tunnelbear or zenmate or hola, the last two being chrome extensions.
I recommend going to cryptostorm.is they are cheap, and the most secure VPN with best tech, support crypto currencies, anonymous accounts done via tokens, no logs, and they have warrant canary incase they get seized.
Hope this helps, cheers.
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That sounds pretty intense. I wasn't actually looking for something that crazy.. mainly just something to add another layer of security on given the crap I've read about privacy lately. Is all that really needed or is one of the free options on the play store "good enough" for just app usage and web browsing? I don't do anything like torrents, etc.
jrg67 said:
That sounds pretty intense. I wasn't actually looking for something that crazy.. mainly just something to add another layer of security on given the crap I've read about privacy lately. Is all that really needed or is one of the free options on the play store "good enough" for just app usage and web browsing? I don't do anything like torrents, etc.
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Sorry for being over the top. If you aren't doing anything demanding (Netflix streaming, etc) and just want it for simple browser and app usage, then yeah, a free vpn will suffice. Try hola from the Google play store. It will do exactly what you need. You could always use Tor, download "Orbot" and "Orfox", which is free, and privades great privacy, but is pretty slow.
notstevek said:
Sorry for being over the top. If you aren't doing anything demanding (Netflix streaming, etc) and just want it for simple browser and app usage, then yeah, a free vpn will suffice. Try hola from the Google play store. It will do exactly what you need. You could always use Tor, download "Orbot" and "Orfox", which is free, and privades great privacy, but is pretty slow.
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Don't be sorry! I'm sure someone will find that info useful. I just tried hola and I'm not really a fan of it. Weird UI and not much explanation of the settings and what they are doing. I seem to recall there was a Dev on here that created a simple one touch VPN app but I can't find it anywhere. All I remember was that it was a red icon with the VPN key. Not sure if that was "good" or if the dev stopped development or changed it up. I see a lot of these VPN apps are based in China which I'm not so trusting of. Honestly been meaning to do this for a while now but I guess I didn't realize the amount of apps out there.
jrg67 said:
Don't be sorry! I'm sure someone will find that info useful. I just tried hola and I'm not really a fan of it. Weird UI and not much explanation of the settings and what they are doing. I seem to recall there was a Dev on here that created a simple one touch VPN app but I can't find it anywhere. All I remember was that it was a red icon with the VPN key. Not sure if that was "good" or if the dev stopped development or changed it up. I see a lot of these VPN apps are based in China which I'm not so trusting of. Honestly been meaning to do this for a while now but I guess I didn't realize the amount of apps out there.
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Best bet maybe just try out any you see in the play store until you find one you like that works and provides those features. Best bet is one that serves ads, if it sounds too good to be true for free, it means you're probably being datamined, at least if they serve ads you know they are getting some revenue, making their free claim understandable. I recommended hola because I've seen a friend use it, personally have a paid VPN. The one true free way to be anonymous is Tor and that's free, but it's slow. Good luck on the hunt.

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