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Any way to fake location?

I'm just wondering if there's any way to make my phone think I'm at a different location than I am. Specifically I'm wondering about the NBA League Pass app which blacks out all the games for users outside the United States, is there any way to trick my phone into thinking I'm somewhere else?

I think your post should be in the general area. Look for a proxy program on the market and use a USA proxy. Many free proxy's out there.

proxies are useless
i tried
app checks some other way

daandman said:
I'm just wondering if there's any way to make my phone think I'm at a different location than I am. Specifically I'm wondering about the NBA League Pass app which blacks out all the games for users outside the United States, is there any way to trick my phone into thinking I'm somewhere else?
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Maybe you can leave your phone at home while you leave the country?
LOL! Sorry... I couldn't help it.
I think that you can enable Mock Location but I'm not sure and what that does or how to take advantage of the feature.
try this maybe?
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/location/index.html

The mock location is removed once you exit that app... its been tried... cant seem to find a way to get it to work.
And how would leaving your phone at home work?
A) Were I don't live in the US
B) ... no point even putting the reason here....
lol...
anyways no idea how to get it done, but playoffs today!!!

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The Name of the Apk is Market Access.
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[Q] Korean Galaxy Tab has no games in market!

I've had my Tab for 3 days now and the market place just comes up blank in the games section. No listing for any games at all. SlideMarket has some games, and all the games I have came from there, but even those seem to be limited.
Has anyone heard anything about a limitation on the games?
Thanks!

Get market enabler and switch over to another country.
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samspunker said:
Has anyone heard anything about a limitation on the games?
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Yes.
http://phandroid.com/2010/04/06/all-games-to-be-removed-from-south-korean-android-market/
Root your phone, install MarketEnabler or MarketAccess, set it to another country, enjoy.
This is what i do to access paid apps (they are not available in my country).

Check out this thread. Allows you to change your CSC region and enable Samsung Apps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=868711

No offense Beerkan, but he talks about Android Market, not Samsung apps, and considering Samsung apps has next to nothing in it, it's not even worth the work.

none taken. Mate.

Thanks!
Thanks to all of you!!
Only problem now is that I don't think I have an IMEI !
I looked on the back of the unit, and there is a serial number, on the box and the serial number, dialed the numbers for the IMEI and get a not valid number. Also checked the phone info and etc. Nothing.
The phone system here is different, so maybe there is no such thing as an IMEI here?
I had heard somewhere earlier this summer that the games for the iPhone were being restricted some because of the rating issue, but I thought that the Tab would at least have some since the Galaxy S has been out so long. Oh well! I'll just have to wait some.
Thanks again to all for your help!

Android has same restrictions, it's a legal problem. All you need to do is root (use z4root), then install MarketAccess, use MarketAccess to fake your "location" (in other words, it will say to Market that you are for example using a USA or German SIM card), so it will show you a market for another country. And other countries have the games.

Well, I kinda solved this problem, lol!
My friend gave me a 16gb micro sd card with 4 gig of apps he downloaded from somewhere. some of them work, and some don't.
So I'm a happy camper now!!
but still no Angry Birds

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.

[Q] Anything similar to Google Play Music in the U.K?

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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[Q] wrong location

Hello. This is the first time im dealing with such problem in Android and thats why i am in panic mode on.
While i was on vacation still in Greece my location started behaving strange. I was chatting on fb when a girl told me that underneath my message it said location : Beijing, China. I didnt pay attention as i thought it might be a malfunction in the location system. From that day and for 15 days my telephone insisted that i was on Thailand so i managed to check my location history on Google. And that was a shock actually. I was supposed to be in greece, Istanbul and Thailand EVERY DAY. i searched the history to find when this started and it was the day i downloaded a file from Piratebay.se . I immediately wet my pants and i had my phone restored in its factory statem i kept it that way without even installing apps for 2 days. The location history was finally accurate when i decided to reinstall my apps from Google Play store. 2 days have past and today someone told me that i am again showing my location in Thailand (on fb chat). So Since i reinstalled the apps this thing keeps happening. My phone is the International version bought from an official store brand new last year and it hasnt been rooted or flashed. Sorry for the long post but i feel horrified. Thanks in advance.

Mine always thinks I'm in place I'm not. Today I am aparently somewhere in Siberia. (I've not yet decided if that is an improvement from the arse end of Serbia or not.)
If you suspect it's an app, do another reset. Then MANUALLY reinstall all your apps one by one over time (or in batches of a few.) You should be able to find the culprit that way.
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ShadowLea said:
Mine always thinks I'm in place I'm not. Today I am aparently somewhere in Siberia. (I've not yet decided if that is an improvement from the arse end of Serbia or not.)
If you suspect it's an app, do another reset. Then MANUALLY reinstall all your apps one by one over time (or in batches of a few.) You should be able to find the culprit that way.
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Dont you afraid for viruses? My mind nearly exploaded cause i work through my phone and i have so many data, bank stuff, etc Siberia though sounds cool ! :silly:

Julmaggot said:
Dont you afraid for viruses? My mind nearly exploaded cause i work through my phone and i have so many data, bank stuff, etc Siberia though sounds cool ! :silly:
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Bank stuff and piratebay should be kept a long way from each other. Just one bad file from any filesharing site is all it takes. If you're afraid of viruses, piratebay ain't gonna cure you.
I was in France for 3 weeks a couple of years back, and throughout my trip my location was invariably Guadalajara, Mexico, a place I was last in in 1986. Even Google couldn't have known that Or could they...

Julmaggot said:
Dont you afraid for viruses? My mind nearly exploaded cause i work through my phone and i have so many data, bank stuff, etc Siberia though sounds cool ! :silly:
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No.
I've been a pirate all my life. I download about 2TB a month from Usenet and Piratebay.
Have had a total of 4 virusses, and none of those came from those sources. Two were from websites that were infected (avg caught them) and two were from infected USB pendrives. (avg caught those too, bit I did need to do some manual cleanin.) Never had any on my Android devices.
(it was even legal here until mid2014, and they still don't enforce it.)
But I always pay attention to what I'm downloading; no books or music as executable files, no films of 30MB, etc. Those are all fake and usually contain malware.
There are no virusses for Android. Android is linux-based. Just like iOS. The only thing there is is malware.
And the chance of getting Android-based malware out of a torrentfile is incredibly small. Nonexistent if you know what you're doing.
If there is a virus in it, it's usually in a .exe or .dll, both of which are unreadable by Android. A windows-based virus, malware or spyware can't do anything to your Android device. (you can still infect your pc if you manually transfer the file to it)
The only time you run a risk is when you install a cracked .apk from an unreliable cracker or site. (yes, there are reliable ones.) if you haven't done that, there's very little chance it came from the torrent.
More likely it's some other app from the appstore.
There are more malware infected and dangerous apps on Google Play than there are on The PirateBay.
You can always have MalwareBytes and AVG or AVAST scan your phone. They're free on the Play Store and the best in terms of dealing with malware.
Now, I know this discussion is starting to approach the edge of the site's rules on warez. (If not already leaning across) But I think it's still staying on the side of troubleshooting, as he's not asking for help downloading, and we're not telling others how to.
Well, I've decided I prefer Siberia over Serbia (my last visit wasn't exactly a holiday...) so yea, sort of cool it is Bit nippy though.
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you should install avast and do a full scan to sdcard and internal....

Yeap nothing has been detected. I've tried 3 antimalware softwares
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