Trying to purchase Windows Phone 7 applications from Zune Marketplace and get an error with a link to: http://www.zune.net/en-US/support/w...help_originalid=C101C400&webhelp_locale=en-US
Anyone know what's up with that? Why won't it let me purchase the applications?
Also - is there no way to use Microsoft Points to purchase games?
Regards.
Salman Khalid.
Purchases through the Marketplace are $$$s only, no way to use MS Points.
As for the other issue, it's not something I've seen. If it's on the phone itself, I'd try a soft reset.
dgaust said:
Purchases through the Marketplace are $$$s only, no way to use MS Points.
As for the other issue, it's not something I've seen. If it's on the phone itself, I'd try a soft reset.
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Yeah... i figured about the $$$...
As for the error... it was when i try buying apps from marketplace within Zune desktop software. Of course, take into account the fact that i'm in Pakistan and using the Using store with a US CC... it's probably throwing that error due to my location when verifying to purchase. Though i am able to download Trial and Free apps without issues...
I did find a workaround for the time being though... turning off Wifi on my phone and using Edge to purchase the games using Marketplace on the device itself causes no problems!
TL;DR : Use Market Access and if Google won't accept your credit card due to the address not being from a "supported billing country", edit the card details in Google Wallet and use a US address. Thanks to Anomaly for sharing his method.
I cannot find a way to purchase apps on ICS. The Market Enabler method does not work, neither does it's Fake On Boot feature. But regardless, even if the Market is successfully spoofed by Market Enabler, I cannot get past the "Accept and Buy" page. I'm always hit with something like "The item could not be found" or "Your country does not support purchases". Market Enabler method used to work fine on Gingerbread.
Is there another way you guys in non-supported countries purchase apps? This is currently my biggest problem with ICS and no one seems to have any fixes.
Logcat of the problem: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vF6X4L99u7Yug96pZ0-iWLkAZ81SIg2zKiPDd_rQsFs/edit
try Getjar and or Appbrain, see if that helps.
I emailed the devs of the market enabler app, and they seemed to think I didn't know what I was doing when I told them it didn't work with the GN. Maybe someone else will have some luck, I would love to have access to the TMO-USA shop.
I did the same thing but, got no reply. I will try again. I'm pretty sure it's an ICS issue. Google has changed something. Market Enabler worked fine on Gingerbread but, I could never purchase apps when I used it with ICS on my Nexus S.
chadmd23 said:
I emailed the devs of the market enabler app, and they seemed to think I didn't know what I was doing when I told them it didn't work with the GN. Maybe someone else will have some luck, I would love to have access to the TMO-USA shop.
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Which Market Enabler did you use? The one by "rac" or the one by "Artou". Artou's won't even take root for me. rac's works fine and displays paid apps but, I can't purchase them.
Try MarketAccess, works great for me.
There is something strange with ME now, set on boot definitely does not work on ICS and most of the time doesn't work otherwise. I will try wiping data in the Market app and rebooting and 1 time in 10 it will stick and GoogleMaps will show up for me...but most of the time it doesn't work.
You need a USA card to purchase (which I have) but when not working not even free apps will show up.
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Market Access is the same app as Market Enabler but I gave it a shot, no go. Tried uninstalling updates too.
Last time I had to restore a nandroid backup just to get my market working. Currently not working, very frustrating!
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MarketAccess 1.0.6 have been setting US provider at every boot for me.
Market Enabler 1.8.1 from For2w does not, but it works when I set it manually.
And for the last 3 years or so, I have never had to use a US card, except for buying and renting music and movies.
Are you on a Galaxy Nexus? What ROM? What market version? Are you in the US?
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MarketAccess 1.0.6 have been setting US provider at every boot for me.
Market Enabler 1.8.1 from For2w does not, but it works when I set it manually.
And for the last 3 years or so, I have never had to use a US card, except for buying and renting music and movies.
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What do you know, Market Access set on auto change on boot worked. I notice that it calls for root very early after boot, so maybe the change gets in before the Market starts to run or something. Thanks, a lifesaver!
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Hmm, can't seem to find Market Access.
It's messed up. I've pulled out my SIM, spoofed it to Verizon, set up a US proxy, Cleared Market data and the Market still tells me purchases are not available in my country! This Market 3.4.4
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Its not in the market; a quick bing gives: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1272690
Didn't work until I set it for Emulate on Boot. Make sure your data APN is setup and working before you reboot and you should be ok, changing it with market spoofing enabled will not work. If your data gets messed up you have to disable emulate on boot, reboot, reset your APN settings, and go again.
deejaylobo said:
Hmm, can't seem to find Market Access.
It's messed up. I've pulled out my SIM, spoofed it to Verizon, set up a US proxy, Cleared Market data and the Market still tells me purchases are not available in my country! This Market 3.4.4
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Its not in the market; a quick bing gives: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1272690
Didn't work until I set it for Emulate on Boot. Make sure your data APN is setup and working before you reboot and you should be ok, changing it with market spoofing enabled will not work. If your data gets messed up you have to disable emulate on boot, reboot, reset your APN settings, and go again.
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Lol, this is ridiculous. My phone says it cannot open the file! This has never happened before! And sideloading other apps is working fine!
Anyway, I'm using Market Unlocker which seems to have the same options plus it let's you proxy the Market through a US proxy of your choosing (Nicer UI too!) https://market.android.com/details?id=com.evanhe.marketunlocker . Since, according to the developer, the new Market checks your IP address as well. I even put the Market through TOR and used My IP to make sure I come up as in the US. Still no go! I suspect Google has maybe blocked/flagged me or something. Can't find any other explanation for this. When I get to my CC, I'm going to try a last attempt to use a different Google account with the same spoofing methods.
Thank you for trying to help.
It won't open from the "Downloads" app, browse to downloads in a file explorer and open from there...
deejaylobo said:
Lol, this is ridiculous. My phone says it cannot open the file! This has never happened before! And sideloading other apps is working fine!
Thank you for trying to help.
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Its not in the market; a quick bing gives: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1272690
Didn't work until I set it for Emulate on Boot. Make sure your data APN is setup and working before you reboot and you should be ok, changing it with market spoofing enabled will not work. If your data gets messed up you have to disable emulate on boot, reboot, reset your APN settings, and go again.
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Thank you, Market Access did work.
Using Market Access now. No longer getting a "Purchases are not allowed in your country", now the message has changed to a consistent "The item you were attempting to purchase could not be found." or "An error occurred: Please try again."
So, I guess something's changed!
Try clearing your market data now that Market Access is installed and rebooting?
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Using Market Access now. No longer getting a "Purchases are not allowed in your country", now the message has changed to a consistent "The item you were attempting to purchase could not be found." or "An error occurred: Please try again."
So, I guess something's changed!
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First thing I tried. Repeatedly. No go! I'm so frustrated. I'm thinking of just going this route: http://www.usunlocked.com/
Getting a virtual card with a US billing address so that I can use it on the web market as well.
Figured it out. Just flashed a new rom and it wasn't working, moved from Bigxie 5 to 6... one of the changes was restore from market now works. So I setup and some apps were coming down but I stopped to restore from TB. And Market Enabler etc no longer worked. Rebooting and clearing did not help.
So I removed my Google account from Accounts and Sync and then cleared data and uninstalled updates for the Market. Set Market Access to emulate on boot and rebooted. Logged into the Market (it asked for credentials) and back working fine.
Think it remembered from first boot and set my Google account to the wrong market.
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Sorry for creating a thread just for a question, but I couldn’t find an answer elsewhere.
My Galaxy S3 is rooted and the Market Enabler worked in removing the country restrictions and showing the paid apps. But when I proceed to buy an app, the store suddenly closes and I get this message: “Unfortunately, Google Play Store has stopped”
Any ideas how to fix this?
Wahdan said:
Sorry for creating a thread just for a question, but I couldn’t find an answer elsewhere.
My Galaxy S3 is rooted and the Market Enabler worked in removing the country restrictions and showing the paid apps. But when I proceed to buy an app, the store suddenly closes and I get this message: “Unfortunately, Google Play Store has stopped”
Any ideas how to fix this?
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Market enabler and other variants never worked for me when trying to buy apps.
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Can be done but you have to be patient!
Wahdan said:
Sorry for creating a thread just for a question, but I couldn’t find an answer elsewhere.
My Galaxy S3 is rooted and the Market Enabler worked in removing the country restrictions and showing the paid apps. But when I proceed to buy an app, the store suddenly closes and I get this message: “Unfortunately, Google Play Store has stopped”
Any ideas how to fix this?
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First try to clear your Play Store cache. You need couple of more things to do in order to get the market working and buy apps.
Clear the cache of Google Transport Protocol (or something smilar - can't remember)
Clear the cache of Talk
Clear the cache for Market (just to be safe)
Turn on flight mode
Reboot
Now when your reboot is done make sure the phone is still in airplane mode. Next you have to fire the Market Enabler app, select your fake sim. After selecting the fake sim make sure you are still in airplane mode.
After completing these steps turn on your wifi (attn: WiFi). Log into Google Talk. Give it a couple f minutes to make sure it syncs with the server and lets it register the fake sim you have introduced. Open the Market and try to purchase something.
Google also does a check with credit cards billing address so you have to change the address of your credit card to a valid address from a country where market is open (ex: US, UK, DE)
Be nice and hit the thanks button :laugh:
Thanks a lot for the replies, guys!
Will try now!
Wahdan said:
Thanks a lot for the replies, guys!
Will try now!
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I tried the above before with a cpl diff enablers, it showed apps from verizon , but I couldn't even download free apps, much less paid, I'm overseas and have a US credit card. Hope you have better luck.
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That's because Market Enabler is outdated and not really optimised. Use Market Access instead (Google "Market Access apk" it's a free app). Tiny, nicely done and 100% working. I browse and buy in the Verizon market, because the user base is way better than the one in my country.
Why should MarketEnabler (Jan 2012) be outdated?
According to the release date it's newer than MarketAccess (22 July, 2010).
Hello everyone.. I have recently installed cleanrom 2.6 on my Nexus 7 2013. I live in the UK and now I can't access UK apps or any paid apps. Can someone help me out here please...
Thanks in advance!
That's all controlled on your Google account. Sign into it and you'll have all your paid apps still, you just need to open Google play and install them.
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datallboy said:
That's all controlled on your Google account. Sign into it and you'll have all your paid apps still, you just need to open Google play and install them.
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I have signed into my Google account. All thats showing up when browsing the Play Store is free apps. Theres no sign of paid or UK apps. If I search all the popular apps nothing comes up. It's as if Google thinks I'm in a different country when I'm not. The same thing happened on my Neo x5 media box with a custom rom. When I use a VPN and select UK it will then bring up all the paid UK apps. As soon as I disconnect the VPN It goes back to free apps. Obviously I don't want to have to do this every time I use the Play Store, It's really fustrating..... So if anyone knows what the problem is please let me know!
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I have signed into my Google account. All thats showing up when browsing the Play Store is free apps. Theres no sign of paid or UK apps. If I search all the popular apps nothing comes up. It's as if Google thinks I'm in a different country when I'm not. The same thing happened on my Neo x5 media box with a custom rom. When I use a VPN and select UK it will then bring up all the paid UK apps. As soon as I disconnect the VPN It goes back to free apps. Obviously I don't want to have to do this every time I use the Play Store, It's really fustrating..... So if anyone knows what the problem is please let me know!
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I had the same problem a day or two ago, I rebooted my tablet and that seemed to fix it.
rob61280 said:
I had the same problem a day or two ago, I rebooted my tablet and that seemed to fix it.
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I've rebooted but it hasn't fixed it..Are you using a custom rom?
duckyfuzz0121 said:
I've rebooted but it hasn't fixed it..Are you using a custom rom?
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I'm running stock rooted, but have seen the same thing on my N4 with CM11, it will likely fix itself in a day or so.
The android play store is completely broken for me. It's been doing this for the last two weeks. Never had an issue before. I rarely post on XDA anymore because I never have problems with my phone and I'm tech savvy enough to troubleshoot my own stuff but I need help with this. The play store will only download apps and updates via wifi. After troubleshooting the app sometimes I can get it to work but most of the time it will be stuck at 99%, 49%, 36% downloaded or will just say "waiting for download" . I want to be able to use it without having to use wifi. I'm pretty sure it's a bug.
My play store settings:
App download preference: Over any network
Auto update apps: Dont auto update
Troubleshooting steps I took
1. Force close, clear cache
2. Force close, clear data
3. The above + restarting
4. Clear cache of play services and restart
5. Clear cache of download manager and restart
6. Full factory reset of my phone
7. Restarting mobile data, turning off/on wifi/Bluetooth
After the full restart I started to believe that an update somewhere broke the play store. I'm fully stock non rooted on Verizon. Every other app works just fine if it needs to use mobile data. I'm really frustrated and would like some assistance with this.
What email account is your playstore showing it is using? Is it a fully legitimate Gmail account? Or is it an email account that is a student account? Maybe business related?
And have you disabled any apps?
Possible fix...
I've been having the same issue on my rooted S8 since about a week after I bought it two years ago. I could never download new apps or do updates over the air. Now, I just in the last week bought a Note 10+ 5G and set it up with the second of the two Gmail accounts I have. I'm still using the same SIM card I've had for over a year. The Gmail account having issues with OTA updates is over 25 years old now, the newer one's about five years old. Now, as much as I'd like it to be the Note's not rooted, and if I'm logged into the newer Google account it's quite happily grabbing Play Store app. updates over the air.
You beauty!, you say. "Fixed it you have", would say Master Yoda.
Um, no.
If I switch back to the older Google account I instantly lose the ability to download anything over the air. Grabbing stuff while the device is connected to the internet via a wi-fi hotspot works like a charm, but I've tried every solution offered to me by Google technicians and Android experts alike and STILL can't get it download and install an app. when I'm anywhere other than hooked up to my home router. Go figure!
So yeh, just letting you know you're not the only one.
EDIT: Just had a play around (pardon the pun) with -> Settings -> Google Settings -> Google Account
Try this out and see how you go.
1. After you land in Google Settings, make sure the Google account you're having OTA dramas with is showing.
2. Tap on 'Data and Messaging'.
3. Tap on 'Data Management'.
4. Tap on 'Update Drive-enabled app. files'.
5. Tap on 'Over Wi-Fi or mobile data'
Back-arrow your way out, check that your handset is NOT connected to the internet via wi-fi, then go to Play Store, check for updates and they should download without issues over your mobile service provider's network connection. Please note that your mobile data allowance will be used, but you should also be able to wander the streets and grab new apps without needing to connect to a wi-fi hotspot.
Yippee! Oh, and don't applaud...
just throw money.