Changing play store location for good - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

How can I change the play store's location for good? A S4 purchased from Saudi Arabia has the whatsapp and viber apps blocked from downloading.
How do I go around this permanently, am astounded that I need to trick the phone for each time I need to access content. Surely there must be a simple change of setting somewhere.
Also, for a temporary solution, can I send the app apk via email to my friend, so he can install it with appinstaller or something similar? Bearing in mind I use a nexus and not a S4.

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app store question

Hi,
If I have downloaded some paid apps for the app store. Can I redownload them as many times i want or do I have to pay every single time?
Google keeps track of your purchased apps.so yes as long as they are current and supported by your os. Also a purchase number is in your Google checkout linked to market
so i will not be charged twice? can anyone else confirm that plz.
Only pay once...Never again.
you shouldn't have to pay as long as you are logging in to the same account they were purchased to or for. That is the way I understood from data viz.
If you setup your device with the same Google account you can download your purchased apps.
it is true. If you log in with the same google account they will show in the market under my apps where you can just install them again for free. Even on different devices, i can install apps on my phone i purchased for my tablet.
Is there a way to get an apk from thr market that supposedly doesn't work for your device? Market will not let me download the onstar app, but downloaded it on my phone, then tried to backup app & transfer to tab, but it wouldn't back up. Did the same thing with MyGMC app & that worked fine (Also runs with no issues on my tab)

google play store won't open

i know there has been a couple of threads concerning this problem. but i have already read all of the threads that i could find. nothing worked.
i live in china and the chinese version of note 3 doesnt have play store installed. so i had to download the apk from the internet. and installed on the phone. it flashes white and closes immediately. also google play services that i installed from the internet yesterday, failed to open. it flashes black for a while and then (unfortunately google play services has stopped). BTW, my weather widget shows a different city. a city which is a little far from where i live. i tried to let gps and map access my location to refresh my home city, but no success.
here are the solutions that i found online and have already tried with no success.
1.Set your correct date and time for the current location. Try this it will work out, and also try to inactivate your play store account and reactivate. (i failed to change my home city in weather widget. the date and time are correct though)
2-Find " Hideman VPN " and Install . you don't need Play Store you can download this from SAMSUNG Store. And Its Free.
Now Open Hideman VPN And Click Connect.
Onces Its Connected Open Internet Explorer And Check Your IP . It Will Be Changed
Now Open Google Play Store .. It Should work
3-clear cache and data, then reboot.
4-Try clearing the data and cache for " Google Services Framework" also (my phone has no google framerowk. no any google service)
5- Your downloads are probably disabled ...go into your settings then application manager scroll over to all. go all the way to bottom you should see downloads click enable. thats what i did works good now.
............none of the above has worked..................
is there anything else i could do? my doubt is that samsung china has disabled something about google or there is a built in app that keeps my home city incorrect. im not sure. i hope to get it to work. andriod is useless without google play.
thanks in advance
Isn't your government that won't alow google services in China?
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Play Store country restrictions

Hey guys! To start off, yes, I searched the forums and yes, I tried Google as well.
My problem is that I live in Austria, my Google account is set to Austria, I have an Austrian phone number... Yet when I try to download the mobile banking app of an Austrian bank in the play store, it shows it as not available in my country. I´ve tried all the methods like market enabler, vpn´s and like to make it work but without success. Also, most of these articles were written more than a year ago, so probably they are not really up to date with all the changes. So, could any of you give me an advice on how to download the app?
Thank you for your replies!

Change store location

Hi,
I have tried every method I could find (use a VPN, clear the playstore's data & cache, provide a UK address+credit card) but nothing worked. So is there a way to really change the country of the store regardless of where I am or is it locked to the country I am in.
Thanks for any help !
Van_Tastic said:
Hi,
I have tried every method I could find (use a VPN, clear the playstore's data & cache, provide a UK address+credit card) but nothing worked. So is there a way to really change the country of the store regardless of where I am or is it locked to the country I am in.
Thanks for any help !
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Have a look here it may help you Play Store
ag4751 said:
Have a look here it may help you Play Store
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Thanks for the link but I don't have another android device, everyone in my family is hooked on iPhones (as I was) :/
Van_Tastic said:
Thanks for the link but I don't have another android device, everyone in my family is hooked on iPhones (as I was) :/
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You need to have a payment method registered with a billing address located in that country in order to access that country's Play Store.
You could try this if you have not already done it search update google wallet it should be the top 1 or 2 returned results
1) Sign into your Google Wallet account and click payment methods
2) Add the new card and the UK billing address, change your default payment card to the new one save the changes and log out.
3) Open the Play Store App and go to any app that requires you to buy it
4) Install to begin download until you reach the "Accept and buy" screen but don’t complete the purchase at this point
5) Close the Play Store App and go to Settings > Applications > Application Manager and clear the data for the Google Play Store App
6) Re-open the Play Store,
You should now be in the Play Store that matches your default payment credit card country
ag4751 said:
You need to have a payment method registered with a billing address located in that country in order to access that country's Play Store.
You could try this if you have not already done it search update google wallet it should be the top 1 or 2 returned results
1) Sign into your Google Wallet account and click payment methods
2) Add the new card and the UK billing address, change your default payment card to the new one save the changes and log out.
3) Open the Play Store App and go to any app that requires you to buy it
4) Install to begin download until you reach the "Accept and buy" screen but don’t complete the purchase at this point
5) Close the Play Store App and go to Settings > Applications > Application Manager and clear the data for the Google Play Store App
6) Re-open the Play Store,
You should now be in the Play Store that matches your default payment credit card country
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Followed the steps but unfortunately this method didn't work either. I even went ahead and bought an app to see if that would change anything and even though the price of that app was sanctioned in £ the rest of the store and its content was still locked to the country I'm in (Morocco).
I think either google/samsung changed the way they locate the phone or the rom I'm using (XtreStoLite) changes something related to the store.

App cannot be installed in my country???

Hi all,
I've recently bought this gorgeous Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, and I'm using it on O2 (UK), and I have a good mobile plan (with international calls) from my wife's contract, but I can't find the app Talk2Go in playstore. If I look after it on google, I can access playstore (for that app, apart that it's working fine) but I'm getting the message "This item cannot be installed in your device's country". The same message I'm getting by accessing playstore from PC. How can I install it from playstore (in order to get usually updates of the app)?
I have installed the apk (which isn't the latest build, but it's working fine) though from google, but, like I said, I want the playstore version.
Same issue with O2 app. I'm guessing there's an issue on my phone somewhere but I can't realize where?
check your software version, if the phone was manufactured or bought outside of the UK . It has the wrong software on it.
It recognizes playstore from a different country. simply flash the latest O2 software and the problem should be corrected.
Some apps are only for certain countries..
Try to VPN it, if it doesnt work.. make a new account for that region just to download apps...
which version should be? I have now:
what do you mean by new account for that region?
So
did you previously use it outside the region that you reside in now....just make a new playstore confirm your bank acc make a small purchase and just refund it should change location to where u reside make sure the bank is from where u currently reside in and try again if not then you are gonna have to proxy your connection by an app
no, I bought it from a local guy, hard reset and added my sim, and with UK card in google wallet. I've called google 10 min ago reporting this issue, and it's on going.

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