Hello,
For the Showtime and the Foxgo apps on the android TV the Charter (Spectrum) cable is not a listed option.
They are on the regular version of the phone apps.
Do I call Charter or the email the app providers?
The foxgo app even lets me select Charter as my provider based on my zip code and tells me to go back and select Charter as a provider.... and it not in the list .
thanks Kevin
You won't find Comcast/Xfinity on there either....
It's because they aren't getting paid by Google to be friendly to Android TV.
Same story with HBO Go etc.
Same issue with Bright House Networks and Fox Sports Go. Really sucks! Works fine on the phone, not on NP. Tried casting it from the phone but it looks terrible and hangs constantly.
Surely there is a way around this?
haeffnkr said:
Hello,
For the Showtime and the Foxgo apps on the android TV the Charter (Spectrum) cable is not a listed option.
They are on the regular version of the phone apps.
Do I call Charter or the email the app providers?
The foxgo app even lets me select Charter as my provider based on my zip code and tells me to go back and select Charter as a provider.... and it not in the list .
thanks Kevin
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I have the same issues, i have log ins to Time Warner and Comcast Xfinity, but for many of the apps, the option just isnt there on Android TV. The lack of support really cripples what is a superior service to Apple TV and Roku.
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Hi all,
Just wondering if there's any vpn client/software that I can download off marketplace in order to watch live stream/recorded video directly off the browser on the SGS. They aren't opening as I live outside of US....any suggestions?
Kind regards.
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No one knows or care???
VPN is built in already... Just need a US endpoint.
But most that rubbish you can get off Bittorrent anyway probably (not that there is much to watch on TV anyway these days)
I was also searching for a service which provides free streamlining, tried so many options and then one of my friend gave me back door access to see most popular US channels like hulu , netflix etc. etc.
Now when I changed my dns settings with the below open gateway of a vpn service, I can see unlimited channels so decided to share with all of my friends.
Try yourself, and change your dns address with the below settings to enable to watch US channels and refresh.
Primary DNS to 23.21.182.24
Secondry DNS to 184.169.139.227
Enjoy !! Do let me know if feels any trouble in launch.
I am going overseas for a military deployment in April. I will ask Sprint to suspend my account while I am gone, but I want to bring my Epic, as it is my primary e-reader, camera, etc.
Will I still be able to connect my phone to the internet if I find myself a wifi connection?
yes
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I can browse the internet, but my accounts do not connect/sync.
For example, Market does not connect, and Kindle For Android does not sync.
You must be in a country where the Android market is disabled, Google for market enabler then try again.
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Jayavarman said:
I can browse the internet, but my accounts do not connect/sync.
For example, Market does not connect, and Kindle For Android does not sync.
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Use proxy with US IP.
Yea bro, depending what AOR your at down range you may experience that.
But what I found that helped me in some cases was to log in to gtalk too while connected to the net on my Epic and then I even got market sync to work.
PM me if you need details
Whooa!
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There are two ways to do it without root. Both of them require US (or other paid-app-available area) VPN.
Solution 1:
1) Remove your Google account from your tab.
2) Connect to VPN on your tab.
3) Re-add the Google Account under VPN connecting.
4) Open the Market (if it's running, stop it first) and you'll be able to purchase paid app.
Solution 2:
This solution requires one wired and one wireless network adapter on you computer.
1) Set a hosted wireless network on your computer. This makes your computer as a WiFi hotspot. It's easy to do this on Windows 7, you will find tutorial on Google. Your will see a virtual WiFi adapter after setup done.
2) Setup VPN connection on your computer. Share it with the virtual WiFi adapter.
3) Connect to VPN on your computer.
4) Connect your tab to the wireless network hosted by your computer.
5) Open the Market (if it's running, stop it first) and you'll be able to purchase paid app.
The main idea is to make sure your tab sends out the very first byte of your Google account information with a US IP. That's how Google identify your location. Your won't do that if just simply connect yo VPN on your tab because a US IP always comes after your tab communicate with Google server.
Hi karlarso,
Forgive the newbie question - but is there an issue with Samsung Tab's installing purchased apps via android app store? I haven't come across this. I know Samsung has their own (lame) app store...is Samsung forcing people to use the Samsung App Store instead? Can you use Android app store or Amazon android app store if you wanted, without having to root?
coachclass said:
Hi karlarso,
Forgive the newbie question - but is there an issue with Samsung Tab's installing purchased apps via android app store? I haven't come across this. I know Samsung has their own (lame) app store...is Samsung forcing people to use the Samsung App Store instead? Can you use Android app store or Amazon android app store if you wanted, without having to root?
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No, the Android market is completely open and available to Tab users, rooted or unrooted. Samsung does not force anything.
I have absolutely no idea what the OP is about or why anyone would ever need to use that procedure. Maybe it's something to do with non-US devices; its impossible to tell from the post.
Berner said:
No, the Android market is completely open and available to Tab users, rooted or unrooted. Samsung does not force anything.
I have absolutely no idea what the OP is about or why anyone would ever need to use that procedure. Maybe it's something to do with non-US devices; its impossible to tell from the post.
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Yes, it would have been nice if the OP elaborated on what it was for... I believe it's for those who imported the Tab and live in a country where access to paid apps is not available from the Market.
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BlackOtaku said:
Yes, it would have been nice if the OP elaborated on what it was for... I believe it's for those who imported the Tab and live in a country where access to paid apps is not available from the Market.
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For example, China.
Great hint
Thank you so much, this worked perfectly!
I am an American living in China and I have not been able to get to many apps that were blocked and have not been able to pay for any app even if it did happen to show up in the Market. I had researched and tried many different things. For others that may be following in my footsteps, it seemed that an app called Market Enabler was specifically designed for this but it does not work on wifi only devices.
I tried what the original poster suggested (Option 1) and have now been able to see some apps that I could not before and have already purchased some that I could not.
Thank you very much.
Another work around
You can view paid apps in the market once you add a credit card to your Google checkout account. (the same Google account you are using on your phone).
I happened to make a payment through Google checkout and the next time I went to the android market on my phone it was showing me paid apps.
Hope this helps!
There are two other (similar) scenarios where you need this:
1) You want to buy a movie/book from google (service is only enabled for US)
2) You want to watch movies on Hulu/netflix
Further more for option two, I do think that an US socks proxy would do (or a spam sling - proxy with all ports open).
I don't think that it's transparent for the Xoom on the PC AP in which way the PC makes the connection to US.
My 6 year old son threw a tantrum today and destroyed my SGH-1337m's LCD. I'd like to replace it with a Google Edition S4, but I'm having a hell of a time getting to the US google play devices website. I live in Canada and somehow Google manages to detect that I'm not from the US. I have a US credit card available and I can get it shipped to a US address - I just need to be able to order the damn thing and for that I need the US Play store to think I'm in the US. But I'm having a hell of a time tricking it into believing that.
First, I tried signing out of my gmail/google account and creating a new one with 'US' as the country. No good. I still get the "Unavailable in your country" web page.
Fair enough - they're doing IP tracking, I guess, right? So I tried connecting to play.google.com through a VPN into San Francisco. This is a VPN connection that has never failed to spoof a service or website into thinking that I'm in the US. Hulu, Netflix, whatever. And yet Google still tells me that the site is "Unavailable in your country".
Someone suggested that it might be that Chrome itself is somehow tipping play.google.com off, so I tried Safari and I tried Chrome in incognito mode. No good. The GE S4 is still "Unavailable in your country".
I think to myself that this is getting kind of crazy and I look around the net for more suggestions. Someone in a stackexchange post suggests that Google is figuring this out by IP-locating not just the request that your https request came in over, but also the DNS request for play.google.com itself?
I noticed that play.google.com is just a CNAME for www3.l.google.com. When I dig for the IP address in Canada, I get play.google.com resolved to a range of addresses from 74.125.225.193 - 74.125.225.206. When I look up the DNS from the US using a website DNS lookup tool, however, play.google.com resolves to a range of addresses from 173.194.46.0 - 173.194.46.14. AHA!
So I edit my /etc/hosts file so that play.google.com always resolves to 173.194.46.0. And yet somehow, the US Google Play devices store and in it the Google Edition Galaxy S4 is still "Unavailable in your country".
Does anyone have anymore ideas?
If you can get it shipped to an address in the US, have that person order it?
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If you can get it shipped to an address in the US, have that person order it?
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Alas, I'm ordering it myself. I'm getting it shipped to Hagen's of Blaine (which is a shipping company). I live in Vancouver so I can drive over to pick it up when it arrives. And for the credit card I'm using entropay.
At this point I could probably just order a vm on a hosting service like Azure and pay from an RDP session to the VM - that would be fool-proof. But I'm really interested now in how Google is figuring out that I'm not in the U.S. Accessing their US IP addresses from an incognito window going through a VPN that's spilling my packets into the internet in San Fran should really be sufficient. But somehow they're still catching me.
I guess this is why they get paid the big bucks.
tedmm said:
Alas, I'm ordering it myself. I'm getting it shipped to Hagen's of Blaine (which is a shipping company). I live in Vancouver so I can drive over to pick it up when it arrives. And for the credit card I'm using entropay.
At this point I could probably just order a vm on a hosting service like Azure and pay from an RDP session to the VM - that would be fool-proof. But I'm really interested now in how Google is figuring out that I'm not in the U.S. Accessing their US IP addresses from an incognito window going through a VPN that's spilling my packets into the internet in San Fran should really be sufficient. But somehow they're still catching me.
I guess this is why they get paid the big bucks.
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I access the US Play Store while using UnblockUS service. I use the service mainly for Netflix and other television streaming sites, not specifically for the US Play Store of course
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I access the US Play Store while using UnblockUS service. I use the service mainly for Netflix and other television streaming sites, not specifically for the US Play Store of course
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Yeah - I'm using StrongVPN. I thought about trying UnblockUS, but I saw some complaints on their forums saying that Google made some sort of a change and now UnblockUS can't be used to get to the play store. The UnblockUS req said, and I'm paraphrasing here, that "accessing the Google Play Store from UblockUS isn't supported."
aichteeteepee://support.unblock-us.com/customer/portal/questions/1190342-google-play-store
So unblockus works for you? Can you access the Devices part of the Google Play store with it?
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Yeah - I'm using StrongVPN. I thought about trying UnblockUS, but I saw some complaints on their forums saying that Google made some sort of a change and now UnblockUS can't be used to get to the play store. The UnblockUS req said, and I'm paraphrasing here, that "accessing the Google Play Store from UblockUS isn't supported."
aichteeteepee://support.unblock-us.com/customer/portal/questions/1190342-google-play-store
So unblockus works for you? Can you access the Devices part of the Google Play store with it?
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The last time I attempted to access the Play Store Devices was about 3 weeks ago with UnblockUS region settings set to USA. It worked then, I'm working and won't be able to test from home again for a couple weeks though. However UnblockUS does have a free trial
I searched briefly & had no luck, but this was a pretty simple find, so I am sure many have already worked this out...
At any rate, we all know that Amazon says "coming soon" on using networks that require a web page sign in for internet access, like you find in many hotels & other establishments that require you consent or a password to be entered via a network sign in page...
As a frequent traveler, one of the reasons I have both the Fire TV & the Stick, was to be able to take my show with me. Well, I was not happy to find this as the case on an updated unrootable device while on the road. I didn't have ADB to push any apps on my device, but wanted to buy the latest Hobbit movie, so I found a work around that was simple & required no laptop, no usb, just an initial network you can access, like from home or work, or any open network.
At any rate, all you need to do is install the HTML5 App Tester apk, found here: http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Digital-Services-Inc-Tester/dp/B00DZ3I1W8
Once installed (which requires an open or secure access point without a required web sign in (I used tethering from my mobile device), you then go to the web page launch & set up anything as an address, since those hotel access points redirect you anyway. I set up www.google.com.
The you just select the hotel or other log in/accept terms/enter password on web page as your network in settings & once it connects, go to settings, Applications, Manage All Application, scroll to the Web App Tester & launch it from the menu & then launch the web page from the Web App Tester application. It will then redirect you to the sign in page on whatever network you are connected to & voila, you are now connected to the Internet & can steam your heart out, unless they have firewall restrictions of course... So far, it has worked on every hotel network I have tried. All Hilton & Sheraton families of hotels, DoubleTree & numerous botique or one off hotels B&B & other chains.
You're in luck. Amazon is pushing an update that lets you the Fire TV connect to public networks with login pages such as hotels or dorm rooms: Amazon Media Room: Press Releases
Beforei the update couldn't you simply do it by sideloading a web browser so that fire can open links, then sign-in in a web browser.. of course you would need a mouse and keboard,but like the other guy mentioned a nice OTA is incoming!
patt2k said:
Beforei the update couldn't you simply do it by sideloading a web browser so that fire can open links, then sign-in in a web browser.. of course you would need a mouse and keboard,but like the other guy mentioned a nice OTA is incoming!
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Another easy thing to do is to solve the issue externally. Check out getting a HooToo Tripmate.. It will let you start up an authenticated wireless hotspot and you can connect to it with anything you want - roku, firetv, tablet etc. It works for networks that require web page login, or WIFI password authentication. It has other advantages as well you might like - usb battery pack etc.. Depending on the model, they start at $20.. I never take a trip without mine.. It has become a priceless addition to my equipment..
Just my $.02