Android Market - Can I Access it Wifi Only? - Click Themes and Apps

I just got myself the HTC Tattoo and am a bit confused on the Android Market. From what I am reading, it appears that Android Market REQUIRES that your phone have a data plan or at least have it provisioned (pay per use). I am stuck because my sim chip has been locked from having any data use. I am on a business account so have no ability to call ATT and have them re-provision my sim.
I know my wifi works, and am able to download from other sites that provide apk's directly. But is there any wifi workaround so I can access Android market?
Lastly, I am not really all that interested in anything except this one program my brother uses on his iphone called "supercam." We have a q-see DVR system in our business and supercam is the only program available that can interface with it. This is freeware so if anyone has the apk available, I would love it if you could email it to me.
Or if someone can instruct me on a way to access Android Market via wifi only, that would also be supremely appreciated!

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Marketplace over Wifi works for me. Maybe your Phone is locked somehow by your vendor.

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I only use wifi to access Market.
You could search on google for supercam apk.
Did you even try to go to the market with wifi turned on?

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I have been able to access Market through Wi-Fi since day 1 without any problem. Don't see any reason why you can't.

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Hey - I just searched the andorid market via the tattoo for supercam and there is no such app - chances are even if you got into market place via wifi you still would not get hold of this app.
Try googling slideme on your PC - some marketplace programs there to download and transfer to your phone (the old fashioned way)

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This phone issue seems to be common. When I looked it up, a lot of people with the Tattoo said they had to do a hard reset because apparently, if you skip the initial boot screen asking you to enter your Google login information, you will not be able to set it up after. Just an infinite loop problem where it says "unable to establish reliable connection to server or your sim is not data provisioned. please call customer care if this persists."
I'd like to avoid a hard reset if possible. I have tried to access market using wifi only, have tried it with wifi on and no sim chip inserted, have disabled all default APN, and a few other things. My browser works fine in all instances - market just keeps giving me that same error message that I wrote above.
For reference, I am using an unlocked HTC Tattoo that was purchased retail box. This was not a carrier provided phone so there should be no issue with carrier locks and such.
For the time being, I have tried using the SDK as an emulator on my desktop to access Android Market directly but through that, I have not been able to figure out how to save the APK's onto my computer. At the same time, I too did try looking up Supercam and did not see it - I thought it had to do with my screen resolution incompatibility (I heard android market only shows apps compatible with your screen resolution and hardware requirements). But if you go to google and type in "android supercam" the first link is from androlib and is the program I am looking for. However, all the QR codes send me straight to Android Market - that's assuming I was able to even get the QR reader working the first time around.
Suggestions?

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I would suggest you to make Market work even if that means you need to reset your phone cos you might need some other apps in the future and that is the easiest way to install them as you see.
You could also use some other sim card, even prepaid that works with 3g to get smartcam from the market. But if people say that it is not available for Tattoo that won't help you. I was able to find smartcam with my rooted Tattoo but I also have hacked Marker app installed.
For now I think your only solution could be to find someone with some other Android phone to download it for you, then he should back it up with Astro file manager and transfer it to your phone. You could do the same thing with emulator.
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lukic said:
You could also use some other sim card, even prepaid that works with 3g to get smartcam from the market. But if people say that it is not available for Tattoo that won't help you. I was able to find smartcam with my rooted Tattoo but I also have hacked Marker app installed.
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Smartcam - is that a typo or a different app entirely? If that has support for the Q-See DVR's, that might work too. For now, I am waiting for my pre-paid 3G card. But then again, if my device still needs a hard reset, blah. But yeah, I do need access to the market. One of these days when I get my day off. Or maybe if and when 2.1 comes out for Tattoo. I heard that was announced a month ago but then heard it got retracted. Any news on that end?

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It was a typo. I was talking about supercam.
There were a lot of news about Android 2.1 on Tattoo, but I didn't see any in about a month now. Last thing I heard there won't be official 2.1 release for Tattoo. But we can definitely expect community release very soon.

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lukic said:
It was a typo. I was talking about supercam.
There were a lot of news about Android 2.1 on Tattoo, but I didn't see any in about a month now. Last thing I heard there won't be official 2.1 release for Tattoo. But we can definitely expect community release very soon.
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I've always done a lot of firmware updates with all my various devices but should there be a community release, what should I expect when I do the flash? Do I my sense UI or any other functionality for the original Android interface?

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dont rule out an official update yet - it has neither been confirmed or denied officially
I think there will be an update in the next 6 months

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roflmao 6 months thats like 5 years in the mobile space

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elmargol said:
roflmao 6 months thats like 5 years in the mobile space
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Ha ha - you are right - we will probably have new handets by then!

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FINALLY.
I got it working. What many of us seem to be missing is after setting up the APN, you have to restart the phone at least once so the sim is properly provisioned for data access. These are the correct settings for AT&T (gophone or postpaid):
Name: AT&T
APN: wap.cingular
proxy: none
port: none
username: [email protected]
password: CINGULAR1 (case sensitive)
Server: none
MMSC: mmsc . cingular . com
MMS Proxy: wireless . cingular . com (without the spaces - forum won't let me post links)
MMS Port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 410
APN Type: none
In addition, YES, a hard reset is necessary - the Tattoo only likes to take your google account information on that initial boot. I had to reset twice because the first time around, I skipped the account setup and could not get it working even with the 3G mobile network enabled. During the initial boot, I did not have time to setup the wifi so cannot confirm if you need to use the data line portion of your sim to initiate contact Android market to get your google account setup.
After getting things setup the first time around, it works flawlessly on wifi with my blocked GPRS sim card.
$10 for the sim + 1MB of data to get my access to android market - man. Anyway, if anyone can confirm that the hard reset trick with mobile network off and wifi will still allow you to setup your google account for android market, that would be great!

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Hi everyone ,
i'm glad to be here.
I had the same problem , my Tattoo can't connect to Google service , so i did a Hard Reset , and now everything work fine for me .