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If we haven't already, we're about to start getting the Nexus 7 north of the border. For those that have already received it, I am curious about just how much is missing relative to what was demo'ed at Google IO. Do we have some Canadian magazines or none at all? Do we finally have access to Google Music? Is Google Now fully functional?
Another question I have is what can we use NFC for here in Canada? I've heard that some 7-11s in Vancouver support Google Wallet though I've never seen one. Do you use it for anything else?
Google Now should work great, I've been getting all the local cards just fine. I leave for the States on Tuesday, and I think I might start counting on the the Now cards for travel, it's that good!
Google Play Magazines is unavailable in Canada. Shame.
I installed the patched Google Wallet .apk from MoDaCo, courtesy of Paul O'Brien, and received a free $10 prepaid card. It should work at any Google Wallet terminal in the States, or any MasterCard PayPass terminal worldwide. I have yet to try it.
I somehow received free songs from the Play Music store, and they're in my library now. Chris Brown or whatever, I don't listen to that ****. There is no way to access the store, this is a confusing problem.
Hope I helped.
Asovse1 said:
Google Now should work great, I've been getting all the local cards just fine. I leave for the States on Tuesday, and I think I might start counting on the the Now cards for travel, it's that good!
Google Play Magazines is unavailable in Canada. Shame.
I installed the patched Google Wallet .apk from MoDaCo, courtesy of Paul O'Brien, and received a free $10 prepaid card. It should work at any Google Wallet terminal in the States, or any MasterCard PayPass terminal worldwide. I have yet to try it.
I somehow received free songs from the Play Music store, and they're in my library now. Chris Brown or whatever, I don't listen to that ****. There is no way to access the store, this is a confusing problem.
Hope I helped.
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In regards to having an unrestricted market, A guy over in the Galaxy S II section created a modified market apk. He's been updating it (last update in April though). Here's the LINK. I haven't tested this myself yet! I plan on doing it later today.
Can anyone tell me if there is a way, easy or hard, to get access to foreign markets' Google Play store content from a US Nexus 7? Specifically, my friend is trying to buy some music from the Japanese Google Play Music store, but the store is locked to the US market.
Is there a way to access the Japanese store from the US? If she visits Japan, will the Google Play Store switch over to the Japanese store?
ScaryBugThing said:
Can anyone tell me if there is a way, easy or hard, to get access to foreign markets' Google Play store content from a US Nexus 7? Specifically, my friend is trying to buy some music from the Japanese Google Play Music store, but the store is locked to the US market.
Is there a way to access the Japanese store from the US? If she visits Japan, will the Google Play Store switch over to the Japanese store?
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If nobody has any thoughts about how to get this working, can anyone recommend a better forum to ask?
Perhaps use a VPN service.
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try IMEI changer APP
ScaryBugThing said:
Can anyone tell me if there is a way, easy or hard, to get access to foreign markets' Google Play store content from a US Nexus 7? Specifically, my friend is trying to buy some music from the Japanese Google Play Music store, but the store is locked to the US market.
Is there a way to access the Japanese store from the US? If she visits Japan, will the Google Play Store switch over to the Japanese store?
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Market unlocker.
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kilometers4 said:
Market unlocker.
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Thanks for the suggestions. Re: Market Unlocker - I initially tried that, but the pre-included options only were for a few select countries, and none of the worked. I looked up some Japanese carriers' IDs and tried entering them, and that didn't work either. Not sure if there is a guide for this sort of thing, but I don't know how I could have messed up.
For the other suggestions: IMEI editing is beyond my expertise, and seems very serious in terms of hacking--does the Nexus 7 even have an IMEI as a non-cellular device?
I'm not sure how to set up a VPN on Android.
(Sorry if I sound like a beginner--in fact, I regularly root/customize my phones. But this process has all sorts of things I've never done before.)
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I'm not sure how to set up a VPN on Android.
(Sorry if I sound like a beginner--in fact, I regularly root/customize my phones. But this process has all sorts of things I've never done before.)
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Currently I'm using Google Play via OpenVPN option (with Japan IP), without root (on Nexus 7)
While it will unlock those region locked content for you, you are still going to encounter problem when purchasing goodies off Japan (region) only stuff, and which, is a much bigger issue IMO. I have yet to figure out how to get the Google Checkout/Wallet accepting my non-Japan credit / debit card. So basically you are going to have trouble on anything which isn't free (well sometimes even ¥0 JPY stuff, which is free IMO).
Does Visa/MC/etc. sell pre-paid gift cards in Japan and the UK? If so, could that be a work around for the foreign credit card problem?
use fakegps, enable mock location, use vpn, create japanese account,remember that its not permanent
I can't seem to find an answer for this in Google. Was wondering if anyone could help me figure it out.
My mother wants to buy a Nexus 10. She lives in Luxembourg, but spends about 2 months every year visiting us in the US. (She is here now, preparing to buy tablet). She wants to access the US Play Store, both here and at home in Lux. Is this possible? What would we need to do it set it up that way? Is using a US credit card enough or are we going to need some kind of Market Enabler app? VPN/Proxy?
Thanks!
KestrelX said:
I can't seem to find an answer for this in Google. Was wondering if anyone could help me figure it out.
My mother wants to buy a Nexus 10. She lives in Luxembourg, but spends about 2 months every year visiting us in the US. (She is here now, preparing to buy tablet). She wants to access the US Play Store, both here and at home in Lux. Is this possible? What would we need to do it set it up that way? Is using a US credit card enough or are we going to need some kind of Market Enabler app? VPN/Proxy?
Which makes me wonder, when I go to visit her in Lux, will I be able to use my Nexus 10 there and access the play store?
Thanks!
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You would be able to access the playstore from most countries. The country would remain the one to which your google account is linked and I guess so will the currency.
For example, google movies weren't available where I live around till a month ago. They wouldn't show up on my play store earlier. However, they would show up on my sister's playstore when she visited from London. In simple terms, she was accessing Playstore UK from New Delhi, India.
In answer to the question about the US playstore regarding your mum's tab, I guess you will have to buy a tablet preferably with a US credit card (though this might be overlooked) and definately register it to a US based gmail account. Be sure to register a credit card on the playstore and google account which works in the US.
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SacGuru said:
You would be able to access the playstore from most countries. The country would remain the one to which your google account is linked and I guess so will the currency.
For example, google movies weren't available where I live around till a month ago. They wouldn't show up on my play store earlier. However, they would show up on my sister's playstore when she visited from London. In simple terms, she was accessing Playstore UK from New Delhi, India.
In answer to the question about the US playstore regarding your mum's tab, I guess you will have to buy a tablet preferably with a US credit card (though this might be overlooked) and definately register it to a US based gmail account. Be sure to register a credit card on the playstore and google account which works in the US.
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Thank you
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I'm afraid the above answer may be wrong; it certainly is for Google Play Books. I live in the US, have an Android tablet (Asus TF101 running a Jellybean ROM, tested and working fine with Google Play and with numerous purchases in the US), and it was activated and regularly used for well over a year in the US. My Google account to which it is linked has been used regularly in the US for quite a few years. And to top it all off, the account is linked to a credit card issued in the US, by a US credit union.
Despite all of the above, when I went to purchase a book while travelling overseas on a two week vacation recently, the purchase was denied on the grounds that I was not in the US. It may work briefly, I don't know; I'd been overseas for maybe 9-10 days when I tried the purchase.
However, it was utter childs' play to circumvent this. All I had to do was buy VPN access (it so happens I already had it), go in through the VPN to get a US IP address, and hey presto... The Play store let me make the very same book purchase it had just refused me.
So yes, a VPN is the answer. I used WiTopia, which is US$50 annually or US$6 per month.
https://www.witopia.net/products/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1978281
This thread might make clearer which credit card to use. You can read the credit card related part.
As for the reply by the person above me, as he has tried purchasing from google playstore while travelling he might have a better idea about that, though I am sure US playstore, movies, music, books etc would be available to you abroad as UK playstore is for my sister. As per what he says, buying from them might be a problem.
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SacGuru said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1978281
This thread might make clearer which credit card to use. You can read the credit card related part.
As for the reply by the person above me, as he has tried purchasing from google playstore while travelling he might have a better idea about that, though I am sure US playstore, movies, music, books etc would be available to you abroad as UK playstore is for my sister. As per what he says, buying from them might be a problem.
Sent from my GT-N7100 or the Nexus 10, heaven knows.
Those who help noobs go to heaven. True story.
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Oh, yes. They're available abroad, they just don't let you buy (at least some) products.
Thanks again
When I travel led to Canada it showed me the Canadian play store and I could not access the US play store.
Got the S4 in the UK and the is no Visa paywave app. Thought it was been pushed as a major selling point of this phone?
I was expecting it too, oh well, will just have to root and then install Google Wallet.
Yes....I got my S4 on the 26th and couldn't find Visa Paywave in the Hub. Had to install GoogleWallet instead. I'm assuming that it will be added in the Hub in the future
Great. . . At first, I was dissappointed that my region gets the quad core version instead of the octacore. Now we don't even have a visa paywave app that samsung said to have preinstalled on the Galaxy S4. I wanted to use the visa paywave since I can't use google wallet on my region.
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Got the S4 in the UK and the is no Visa paywave app. Thought it was been pushed as a major selling point of this phone?
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Quite disappointing indeed not to be able to play around with NFC payments, I was looking forward to this but google wallet is not officially available where I live either.
Actually has anyone seen any recent news related to Paywave on the S4? All I seem to find on the web are articles dating back to late Feb / mid March.
matgiani said:
Quite disappointing indeed not to be able to play around with NFC payments, I was looking forward to this but google wallet is not officially available where I live either.
Actually has anyone seen any recent news related to Paywave on the S4? All I seem to find on the web are articles dating back to late Feb / mid March.
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Nope, nothing
I would surely buy more useless things... but they don't want my money...
Hi I live in Greece and in the tv they have a advertisement of visa paywave but I can't.find.anywhere how.to download the app
Does anyone know how to download it
From what I can make out paywave is a Developement kit for visa developer.visa.com/paywavemobile as for being pre-installed what the s4 has the Service Provider Trusted Service Manager built in to the phone instead of needing a sim with it on (this is only what I have found out from reading forums and talking to someone on the uk orange quicktap team. They are in development at the moment but only support s3 and have no idea if they will bring s4 into development or develop the paywave for there own use.
Just got my S7 edge Verizon version from Best Buy. Samsung Pay is not include as an app. I am not able to download from google play stating it is not compatible with my device. It's not even rooted yet LOL..., Samsung website clearly states that S7 and S7 edge are compatible with Verizon....
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
I'm trying to figure out the same. Someone told me to go to the Samsung Store, which I remember having on S6...but it's also not on the S7 Edge. Only thing I can think of now is to sideload the Samsung Pay apk from apkmirror?
Also interested. There aren't very many of the free wireless chargers being given away with this promotion.
th3taman said:
I'm trying to figure out the same. Someone told me to go to the Samsung Store, which I remember having on S6...but it's also not on the S7 Edge. Only thing I can think of now is to sideload the Samsung Pay apk from apkmirror?
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I am going to try the apk. I will let you know how it works.
Just picked up my S7 Edge from BB today, no Samsung Pay here either.
It is to be released on the 11th for the s7. Just after the charger promotion is over.
Go to the galaxy apps widget, sign in, go to my apps and there is a Samsung pay in there. It isn't the widget, but the framework. Download and update. Then the Samsung apk worked. You might want to see if the Play Store works after making the framework update, but if not the apk did for me.
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I am going to try the apk. I will let you know how it works.
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http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/samsun...se/samsung-pay-1-3-2116-android-apk-download/
Version: 1.3.2116 (132116) Works!
sideloading the APK worked for me! new wireless charger on the way!
twin001 said:
sideloading the APK worked for me! new wireless charger on the way!
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I got an automatic update and the app became non-functional. Contacted Samsung and received the following info...
Customer Support
• Here is the answer to your inquiry.
Dear Samsung Customer,
Thank you for contacting us. We appreciate the opportunity to assist you.
We really appreciate your interest in Samsung Pay. We always appreciate hearing from our customers. We will be glad to assist you with the required information.
Please try to perform the below steps on the Phone.
Please go to Main screen>>Apps>>Settings>>More>>Application Manager>>Swipe the screen from right to left till you see ALL option>>Scroll down for Play store option>>Tap on it>>Tap on clear cache and clear data. However, the device should be a U.S. model Phone to support the Samsung Pay app on the device.
If the issue persist, please try to write back to us with the below details.
1. Baseband version of the device
2. IMEI number of the device.
3. Model number of the device
4. Android version of the Phone
Please get back to us for any further questions.
You can reach us at Live chat support from link below
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/contact
You can also contact Samsung pay at 1-844-726-7297
I followed the instructions with no success. I will call...
Below is the chat I had with Samsung..... Short version....they will release the Samsung Pay for Verizon on 3/11/16. But I am not sure I believe that....
You are now chatting with 'Sameera V'. The reference number for this chat is 4305640821. There will be a brief survey at the end of our chat to share feedback on my performance today.
Sameera V: Hi, thank you for contacting Samsung Technical Support. How may I help you today?
Dredq: Hi I followed advice that I was emailed by Samsung and I still cannot download Samsung Pay
Dredq: I was told to erase data and cache from google play which I did
Sameera V: Hi Dredq, I will be glad to assist you with the issue you are facing.
Dredq: States that Samsung s7 edge Verizon USA model is not compatible with Samsung Play.
Sameera V: To assist you better, may I ask you a few questions?
Dredq: I have started a thread on XDA and multiple people are having the same issue
Dredq: All with Verizon phones
Sameera V: Okay. Thank You for the information.
Dredq: This will be a huge problem when phones are officially released on 3/11 by Verizon rather than being sold by Best Buy
Dredq: What info do you need
Sameera V: Have you contacted the carrier about this issue?
Dredq: No
Dredq: It seems like a Samsung Google play issue
Sameera V: Okay.
Dredq: I used an APK to download Pay and it functioned
Dredq: I got an update and the app crashed
Dredq: Update was for Samsung Pay
Sameera V: I should inform you that, Samsung Pay on S7 or S7 Edge with Verizon as their carrier, the Samsung Pay app will be available this Friday ie, 11th.March.
Dredq: I used 1.3 when using 1.6 it does not work
Dredq: So why would the new version of Pay not work on the VZ phone
Dredq: Are they releasing a new version just for VZ phones on Friday?
Sameera V: I do understand your concern. Please install the application and use it after 11th March.
Dredq: Let me try to explain
Sameera V: Sure.
Dredq: I downloaded and installed the latest APK of Samsung Pay. It did not work on the VZ phone. If I used the old 1.3 version it did work until I got an update for the new version of Pay.
Sameera V: Just to confirm, was it working on the same phone?
Dredq: The new version of Pay does not work on VZ phone unless there is a specific app for VZ phones being released on Friday. Is that the case? Or is it that Google play will determine that it is compatible? Yes it worked on the S7 edge, but only the 1.3 version
Sameera V: Thank You for the information.
Sameera V: Yes Dredq, it will be available on Friday.
Dredq: I am not the only person having this problem. If you look at XDA you can see others are having the same issue
Dredq: So are you saying on Friday there will be a new version specific for the VZ phones
Sameera V: I agree. However once the update release, the issue will be resolved.
Im able to install from the play store, but with the free wireless charger expired, I have no reason to. I'll likely be returning this phone anyway, I'm not at all impressed. Chrome especially performs poorly.
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/samsun...ease/samsung-pay-1-6-61-android-apk-download/
This APK is the newest Samsung Pay and will work with VZ S7 and S7 edge.
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I was able to download it from play store tonight after setting up my phone earlier.
Same hear.