Just put on your phone region to USA then in market search here drive and install.
After that if you wish you cna change yout region back to where you are.
enjoy
I believe you will encounter some issues if changing region back after install.
Specifically with app updates.
But just keep it to region USA, and this works very nicely.
thanks for tip in Slovakia Here Drive+ costs 40€ and after switching to US its Free then changed region back and app is still working
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Hi,
If someone can explain this to me ...
I found out that there is separation on Android Market, user from certain countries cannot purchase certain apps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6046360&postcount=4
Why is that?
So, if I am in the UK, I can only purchase apps that are available ONLY for UK market?
I could not think any single reason of this kind of decision will help the customers and the developers.
Why is it not just ONE SINGLE Android Market for EVERYONE?
Well. Nobody really knows. Its very annoying. Its the same story here in Denmark. No paid apps on non-rootet phones with Market enabler.
HTC and google can not give us an answer to why or when paid apps will be availble for us.
Indeed, this is very annoying and I could not think any benefit of it.
I am just wondering, is there anything like this on iPhone? There is in WM, but I believe Microsoft decided to change that on WP7.
I hope Google will change this decission to make Android more attractive to software developers.
I suspect that the country filtering is present for several reasons.
1. Country specific applications. There is no need for an app that only applies to i.e. the UK to be displayed in Asia or in the US.
2. Copyright and trademark issues. Arrangements needs to be done in each country as laws are different.
3. Localization. I assume that Google does not want to add paid apps support in countries not yet fully localized to the local language. This was the case when Android was initially released. The G1 was released in the UK and in the US, and paid apps did not become avaliable until Android had been localized to for example German or French. Once the translations were complete, paid apps followed shortly after.
While Android is currently localized to several other languages, Norwegian included, these translations are far from complete, and needs some additional work.
Hopefully it should not take so long, but hey, who knows.
I will download the localization strings in a short while, and try to perfect them a bit more. After all, Android is open source.
Actually it does make sense for some application to be available in only one country. To give you an example, why would someone in the UK be interested in an application about traffic in Copenhagen? When a developer publishes his app he can chose to make it available for all countries or just for specific countries. Blackberry App World has something like this and I'm not 100% sure but I think the iphone also.
And what if you want go to Copenhagen?
Are free aps also separated or is it just payed ones?
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And what if you want go to Copenhagen?
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Exactly! Also, I don't think copyright would have anything to do with it. AFAIK, it wouldn't matter which country you made your app available to. If it's copyrighted and you disctribute it, you're in trouble.
I can't imagine google getting involved in copyright issues for each and every app. Im pretty sure they would shift liability to the developer/provider in their terms and conditions.
Localisation exists for the following reasons.
1. Language. You can make 1 app that supports all languages, but if there is a lot of text this would cause the app to bloat with unnecessary stuff. simpler to make apps for each language/region.
2. Localisation. The dev may decide there is no point in his app being available outside his particular locale. The first App i noticed this with was to do with the American Presidential elections. Of course I can still see a lot of US specific Transport Apps here in the UK, because the dev has decided it would be worthwile people from other regions having them (holidaymakers for instance).
3. Payment. If you set up an app for worldwide distribution it is priced in your own local currency. If you price an App for a specific region it is priced in that regions currency. This means the price of an app will not fluctuate with exchange rates, which may make people more likely to buy.
I live in Denmark, and as i understand it, the reason why we cannot have the payed apps here are because Google and the telephone companies have not agreed about how the payment modells are to work.
-They both want to big a cut of the cake.
Heh, the funny thing is that Google owns Admob, and their own Adwords service. They essentially makes a lot of money regardless of whether the developer chooses to support it through ads or through direct sales.
I stumbled across this website last night which lists (what looks like) every app on the Android marketplace, along with a QR Code (3D Barcode).
http :// www . cyrket . com
Could this be a workaround to be able to get hold of applications not available in certain countries? It's just that I can't help but notice japanese titles on there with a Yen price next to them.
I've just ordered my Desire today, but have been trying to find out which apps are available - I'm a little annoyed you can't just browse them on the android marketplace website!
Usually the QR code is just for a marketplace search, if it isn't available in your location or phone then you still can't download it.
The only way to bypass this is direct purchase from the developer or downloading the apk to install with an apkinstaller.
Then why there is not any alternative market?
You know, just a website which developer can submit their app there ... accessible via special app from the phone ... do the transaction via web
Like download.com Or cydia for the iPhone?
Microsoft will do it (single unified app market place) with WP7, why not Google? Strange ...
Ah I see, bugger... That's a shame.
Surely it's down to the developer to make it a global rather than a regional app on publishing to the marketplace?
My mother purchased an HTC Desire in Korea on SK Telecom and unfortunately the android market is severely crippled. Only free Chinese and Korean apps can be downloaded. No games, paid apps, or foreign apps are available for download.
The reason there are no games is because the Korean government only allows the sale of games that are rated (ie. 12, 15, 18) which none of the apps in the android market are.
I was wondering if rooting and installing a different ROM would circumvent this issue and allow her to download other apps. Or if there is another way around this that would be great.
Also, will a different ROM cause problems such as no text messages or 3G service?
I know that all Windows Mobile phones in Korea have carrier specific ROMs that are different from foreign ROMs because the messaging/data service is different in Korea. Although this may not be the case with Android phones.
Thanks for all your help.
You need to root so you can use market enabler (app) then you can download from other countries markets. You don't need to flash another rom but you can do that if you want to, should not encounter any problems there.
Wow, thanks for the quick reply. I'll try it out and see how it goes.
Hey guys
Is there a way to see all the regional markets in my Desire? So I'll see all the applications from all the markets?
Thanks!
Go here:
www.appbrain.com
Great site, and can install directly to your phone from the website (getting around any region locks in the process =D)
Hi all,
Now that Amazon Fire TV is launching in the UK and Germany, I am very keen to be able to merge apps from different countries.
I guess to be able to do this, I would first have to either:
a) Switch the device to a different region and then install an app, then go back to my main region and somehow sideload it or install it in.
For example, if I choose the US version as my main hub, I would also like to copy UK apps and German apps across to the US hub (say Demand 5 from the UK, and Zattoo from Germany).
Would this be possible to sit side by side with the US apps then? (I am talking about official Fire TV apps, not standard Android versions designed for mobile phones).
or would I need someone who has the UK version to copy the app out and send it to me?
I guess many people may not have been able to test this yet since the German version will not launch until the 25th of this month, and the UK one next month, but perhaps people know already if apps can be saved and copied.
OVBG said:
Hi all,
Now that Amazon Fire TV is launching in the UK and Germany, I am very keen to be able to merge apps from different countries.
I guess to be able to do this, I would first have to either:
a) Switch the device to a different region and then install an app, then go back to my main region and somehow sideload it or install it in.
For example, if I choose the US version as my main hub, I would also like to copy UK apps and German apps across to the US hub (say Demand 5 from the UK, and Zattoo from Germany).
Would this be possible to sit side by side with the US apps then? (I am talking about official Fire TV apps, not standard Android versions designed for mobile phones).
or would I need someone who has the UK version to copy the app out and send it to me?
I guess many people may not have been able to test this yet since the German version will not launch until the 25th of this month, and the UK one next month, but perhaps people know already if apps can be saved and copied.
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I think another problem will be geo block, so even if we as a community share the apk's, they still might not work unless the connection is pushed through a proxy from that country.
What I would love to see is a addon where FireTV (or wider xbmc) users can allow to share their connection with the rest of the community as a proxy, this has to be under certain time and bandwidth parameters and only for known geo blocked URL's. (needs to be very clear what acces is given to other users using your IP)
This would allow world wide content for everybody, having a US IP myself, would love to have acces to the UK BBC media.
Some automated addon to select tor exit nodes might work too, but think the performance would be way better if this is done within the FireTV/XBMC community.
Hi Userr12,
The geo-blocking part should not be a problem. The key is using something like Smart DNS (google eyeondemand) which should work for most services.
The beauty about smart DNS is that unlike a VPN, it can unblock any country (A VPN will just work for one at a time), making this perfect for mix and matching apps on the Amazon Fire TV. So, you could switch say from Hulu to Demand 5 or Zattoo etc.
Never heard of that option before, that's great though, direct it on DNS level, will look into it.
OVBG said:
Hi Userr12,
The geo-blocking part should not be a problem. The key is using something like Smart DNS (google eyeondemand) which should work for most services.
The beauty about smart DNS is that unlike a VPN, it can unblock any country (A VPN will just work for one at a time), making this perfect for mix and matching apps on the Amazon Fire TV. So, you could switch say from Hulu to Demand 5 or Zattoo etc.
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Can you give me some more advice on how to do this, for a total n00b? My fire tv is coming shortly, and I'd like to access US Netflix but still have UK apps like Demand 5 and iPlayer. I was planning on buying unblock-us but I'd much rather get something like what you mentioned above.
As the title said I have a galaxy watch 46mm. IT hasR800xxu1dsl1 software with 4.0.0.7 tizen.
Are there any guides on how to make galaxy pay work on this one?
Found some tutorials but don't really know what firmware I need to use, or how to use via netOdin, so I would appreciate a little guide on how to change the firmware, and what firmware to use on my watch to make it work with galaxy pay.
Thanks all!
From what I read I need only the csc file for usa to allow me install samsung pay, but can't find it anywhere...
Update: Switched firmware to R800xxu1dtg1 still samsung pay is not working
Updated to this
When installing samsung pay apk watch plugin
With this version is the same
Actually, it is not because of Samsung rather then your bank credit card issuer.
So, you CAN NOT use SamsungPay because your country (Romania if I am correct) is not on the Samsung billing list of supported countries.
There are only very limited countries supported by SamsungPay...Even if you change CSC code, it will not work because your credit cards issued in your country are not recognized inside app. I tried here in Croatia myself, changing multiple CSC codes, but no success ,therefore, we need to wait from Samsung and our Banks to add our countries on their credit card billing supporting list.
So far, actual full country list with supported SamsungPay countries until now is here
https://www.samsung.com/ch/samsung-pay/support_en/
I also went through all this process and ended up succesfuly. I also live in Croatia where SPay is not officially supported nor we have supported bank cards.
Since I'm using Curve card (UK card) I had to switch my watch to BTU (UK) CSC. I said "I had" because Curve has limited SPay only to UK region**. This was long time ago and I can't help much because process was quite complex and I don't want to mess somebody's watch. I managed to downgrade GW46 to tizen 4.0 and change CSC, and then update it to newer BTU firmware.
I saved links I used so here they are, hope they help:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyWatc...ble_samsung_pay_on_watch_that_didnt/?sort=new
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyWatch/comments/euh9ih/change_csc_on_tizen_4007/
https://forum.xda-developers.com/smartwatch/gear-s3/guide-how-to-change-gear-s3-r760-csc-t3784226
https://shell.boxwares.com/default.aspx?DeviceModel=SM-R800&Type=All#fh5co-table
https://forum.xda-developers.com/smartwatch/galaxy-watch/update-firmware-netodin-t3895010
https://forum.xda-developers.com/smartwatch/galaxy-watch/help-firmware-r800-t4047813
http://www.forum.hr/showpost.php?p=77189941&postcount=598
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQNOaZ8-BTQ&feature=youtu.be
Since I have changed CSC, I also got SPay option in Wear app (right next to Bixby option) so I could proceed with adding a card to my watch
** I think later Curve has enabled SPay for other regions where SPay is supported because I managed to add this UK card to my canadian Note 9 (XAC). Teoretically, you could use other CSCs on your watch in order to add Curve card - NOT tested, cannot confirm 100%!
You have to have CARD supported by SPay + CSC REGION where SPay is officialy supported. If any of these two parameters are missing, process will fail. No need for VPNs, location spoofing etc.