So I live in Lebanon, and have had to live with the dissapointment of not having any access to any books or music from google play. I thought that that is how everyone over here had things.. until I had to borrow my brother's nexus today and noticed that his playstore, despite having been registered under the same country as mine, had clearly all the content available from the us. His homepage in Play store had apps and as you would scroll down there were book suggestions, music suggestions, and even movie suggestion. He even said that he has bought books on it without any problems. Ive been using ebook reader to buy books so far but have noticed that many books arent there. Why is the content available on his device and not mine? We both use the nexus 7, though admittedly the only difference is that he hasn't rooted any of his devices whereas all of mine ( my phone and tablet) are rooted..... the content didnt come up on my device even after I added his account on my nexus. The versions for the playstore are the same as well. Anyone know why this may be and if there is any for me to get access to books and music on the playstore?
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So I live in Lebanon, and have had to live with the dissapointment of not having any access to any books or music from google play. I thought that that is how everyone over here had things.. until I had to borrow my brother's nexus today and noticed that his playstore, despite having been registered under the same country as mine, had clearly all the content available from the us. His homepage in Play store had apps and as you would scroll down there were book suggestions, music suggestions, and even movie suggestion. He even said that he has bought books on it without any problems. Ive been using ebook reader to buy books so far but have noticed that many books arent there. Why is the content available on his device and not mine? We both use the nexus 7, though admittedly the only difference is that he hasn't rooted any of his devices whereas all of mine ( my phone and tablet) are rooted..... the content didnt come up on my device even after I added his account on my nexus. The versions for the playstore are the same as well. Anyone know why this may be and if there is any for me to get access to books and music on the playstore?
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Where'd he buy his N7?
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Where'd he buy his N7?
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He bought his phone ( GS3) from lebanon a few months ago and his nexus about a month ago from the states. I bought my phone (Inspire 4G= desire hd from the states about 2 years ago, and my nexus 7 from Lebanon about 4 months ago. Both his devices show the books and music, and both my devices do not.
Do you think the area he bought his nexus from has anything to do with it? why then does he also have the options on his phone??
Does Play Store display any error, like "No Connection" or "Connection Timed Out"?
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Does Play Store display any error, like "No Connection" or "Connection Timed Out"?
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Nope. Its working perfectly fine for both of us. Im wondering now, If maybe he just happened to update his google play while he was in the US and whether that couldve been the reason? That he happened to update it when he was there as opposed to updating it when he is in Lebanon? But if that were the reason then it should be enough for someone to use a VPN or tunnel while updating the app and he should get the content he wants which Im pretty sure people would have figured out a long time ago and not now :S so im confused. Maybe he just has a lucky bug or something?
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Nope. Its working perfectly fine for both of us. Im wondering now, If maybe he just happened to update his google play while he was in the US and whether that couldve been the reason? That he happened to update it when he was there as opposed to updating it when he is in Lebanon? But if that were the reason then it should be enough for someone to use a VPN or tunnel while updating the app and he should get the content he wants which Im pretty sure people would have figured out a long time ago and not now :S so im confused. Maybe he just has a lucky bug or something?
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Good to know! Congrats!
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Good to know! Congrats!
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NO ... its working fine in that it lets me buy apps but it still doesnt show me any books or any of the US content. My brother can see the US content even though he lives in Lebanon. Thats the problem that I want to know if I can get the same content as him. When I said it works perfectly I meant that it would open I can browse through apps and buy them, but not that I managed to get the same content as my brother.
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These are two things I could never do on my vibrant, so I'm always taking my wifes iphone to do to do them. Will the s2 be capable of this. Dont want an iphone but these are pretty big for me.
My galaxy s could open pdf just fine using think free office, (which came pre installed from samsung) but was also freely available in the market.
The sgs2 comes with polaris office, which works just as well.
Hmmm my problem was emails mostly, I could never open the attachments, does it work for that
Automatically, I click on preview attachment button, it downloads it and then up pops think free to view the attachment.
mikedfromaz said:
Hmmm my problem was emails mostly, I could never open the attachments, does it work for that
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you click the attachment, it downloads and opens with your pdf viewing app. You can do that with any android phone that supports to app to my knowledge
No Netflix I'm afraid and I doubt it'll be coming any time soon as Qualcomm have it as an exclusive for their snapdragon handsets which is allegedly because of DRM.
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No Netflix I'm afraid and I doubt it'll be coming any time soon as Qualcomm have it as an exclusive for their snapdragon handsets which is allegedly because of DRM.
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why would netflix do that.. right now the only thing stopping me from getting a netflix account is that i cant use it on my phone..isnt there some sort of port for it to work on regular phones?
Adobe reader works just fine for PDF files. and its free. Download from the market place.
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why would netflix do that.. right now the only thing stopping me from getting a netflix account is that i cant use it on my phone..isnt there some sort of port for it to work on regular phones?
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This was working a while back but Netflix put a stop to it. The EVO is also a Snapdragon phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1005503
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Im prety sure thats thename, just like netflix but free for now and works on our phones
These two are my fav on ipad2, flipboard for social news and planetary for visualuzing music collection.
Do screened some in android market, none I found good enough to ....
Any app you found good?
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These two are my fav on ipad2, flipboard for social news and planetary for visualuzing music collection.
Do screened some in android market, none I found good enough to ....
Any app you found good?
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Whats social news ?
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Whats social news ?
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ah... it displays customerized news feed including updates from one's Facebook twitter etc in a very user-friendly 'magzine' way.
Pulse is sorta like flipboard
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Pulse is sorta like flipboard
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You may want to check out Taptu for Honeycomb
See here: http://t.co/1tE0RmR
thanks for these suggestions.. will try ..my tab is still on the way.
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Feedly
Check out Feedly too.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.devhd.feedly&feature=search_result
I would highly recommend pulse. I use that app more than anything else and on the tablet the split screen is really nice.
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Try the following:
Feedly
Newsr
News360 (still in Beta but quickly getting better)
Pulse
My favorites are Feedly and Newsr currently. Several more are in beta stages.
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thanks for these suggestions. i tried news 360. its user interface is nice .... and reminds me of flipboard somehow. before any updates from above apps mentioned , ifeel news 360 acts more reasonable for 10.1.
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I love pulse. A preinstalled app that doesn't suck is great.
Pulse is okay, I hope flipboard comes to android.
It would be nice but I recently took a survey with News360 and they're currently working on Twitter/Facebook integration. It could possibly help me forget about Flipboard.
Man...if only I could code, I would have started working on an app just like Flipboard called Scrapbook. LoL. I wouldn't be surprised to see Flipboard appear on Android sometime after Christmas. I still wonder if Apple doesn't pay some of these developers not to work on both.
It seems silly as anybody who can program, can just take your idea, change it a bit and put in on another marketplace.
with that being said , flipboard to me ,also is far more better in providing iformation than any apps i tried on android os.
just by searching word 'cancer' , in these apps vs flipboard , one can clearly see the difference ....
hope flipboard coming to android soon ...
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It would be nice but I recently took a survey with News360 and they're currently working on Twitter/Facebook integration. It could possibly help me forget about Flipboard.
Man...if only I could code, I would have started working on an app just like Flipboard called Scrapbook. LoL. I wouldn't be surprised to see Flipboard appear on Android sometime after Christmas. I still wonder if Apple doesn't pay some of these developers not to work on both.
It seems silly as anybody who can program, can just take your idea, change it a bit and put in on another marketplace.
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the same, hope it will be available for android soon.
Another thing is that they need to make the content more customizable and give more consideration to the individual preference.
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Another thing is that they need to make the content more customizable and give more consideration to the individual preference.
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That is true.
Apart from the tremendous claim for their attractive layout, this is a real problem.
There is not enough personal customization of content, and most often, the status updates chronologically.
Ive never had the chance to play with it but having seen reviews, I would really like to use planetary on android.
I would pay 4.99 on the market for that
What do you mean there is no Flipboard-like app? Theres Google Currents which is superior
I was currently searching for planetary. Only thing i found , was this thread.
Can someone port it for android? Or am i asking something incredible?
I have flipboard installed on my tab. In the play store says isn't compatible but you can instal it if you download the apk from other source. Once installed the app says in the first time open that is not made for this screen size but works perfectly!
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Hello all,
I have searched all the forum and also installed more than 10 different Netflix versions, but apparently none of them seems to work with the Sony S Tablet...
Does someone have installed and is currently running Netflix on the Sony S Tablet?
Thanks for help!
I want to install netflix as well.... but I cant
They install but video does not start. The only hope is Netflix app fix or rooting the device to add the required video library. Hope it helps
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You can watch Netflix (and Hulu) through PlayOn Mobile while you wait.
I have not tried it on tablet but find playon so slow to browse on everything and missing search. Maybe i shall give it another shot. Do they provide a free version allowing netflix or hulu? Thanks
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Please Test: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18086136&postcount=218
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Just tested on my Sony tab...no luck. The app launches, does everything it is supposed to other than stream video. When I try to watch a video, I get the can't connect to servers error (120001 or something like that).
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Just tested on my Sony tab...no luck. The app launches, does everything it is supposed to other than stream video. When I try to watch a video, I get the can't connect to servers error (120001 or something like that).
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Thanks. I will keep trying.
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Thanks. I will keep trying.
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Thanks for trying and for being so helpful.
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Doesn't matter, cancelling my account after the rate hikes. Lets hope that Sony's video unlimited can compete.
Getting the same issue. Just got rid of my Dell Streak 7 which had Netflix working. I guess I'll just have to get my Netlix fix through my iphone until the app becomes available.
Is Netflix trying to put themselves out of business?
actually there is already a Netflix app working for the sony tablet.. it is just going through the corporate bullsh*ts for approvals.. if only they could leak the apk.. lol.. pretty sure it will be out soon..
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actually there is already a Netflix app working for the sony tablet.. it is just going through the corporate bullsh*ts for approvals.. if only they could leak the apk.. lol.. pretty sure it will be out soon..
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Let's hope so
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waiting ...
I called netflix to request it! You all should too!
pauLegend said:
I called netflix to request it! You all should too!
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You just called the regular customer service number and said what?
That you would like to request support for the sony tablet s for thier android app. They put galaxy s so why not this?
there's not even a canadian netflix app for android yet. netflix is giving canada a hard time.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.netflix.mediaclient&feature=search_result
they updated it, it works now!
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https://market.android.com/details?id=com.netflix.mediaclient&feature=search_result
they updated it, it works now!
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Please confirm.
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So, I bought I galaxy s3, a few days ago.... Im currently in Portugal....
I created the Samsung account has being in Italy....bla bla bla...all good...I even manage to open the video hub app, and received the voucher of 5 euros for free from Italy.....I made all this being in Portugal, im currently at work in hear...
in order to open the music hub app and the games hub, I had to change the country of the samsung account to Portugal.....Now I can open the music and games hub, but when I try to open thje video Hub app, it says:
Video Hub service is not available on your device in this country........!!!!
WTF!!!! What can I do? I root the stock room and installed market enabler and nothing changed........
Please How can I put the video hub to work?
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If they are doing a per-IP filtering for content distribution, there is very little you can do.
You could install Tor, but then your network would be crawling.
What do you mean by my network will be crawling ?
Thanks for the help
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What do you mean by my network will be crawling ?
Thanks for the help
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It means that your connection would be very slow.
Thor didn't work.....
Will see what I can do...the strange thing is that there is to little Intel about thisnom the web.....I'm probably not the only one with country restrictions on video hub...
Thanks
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Here in the US, i can't use Video Hub too!!
Yea i cant use it in US either
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Here in Romania it does not work either. pretty sad about this. maybe changing the samsung account country will do something? i will try later.
Doesn't work in Jersey, Channel Islands, either. Sounds like a bit of a con, not working in so many countries. The offer has timed-out now, so I'm not losing any more sleep over it.
I'm so frustrated. I've looked in all the 'similar threads'; looked on other websites. Tried a solution that supposedly worked for the S2 and S4...but no luck.
I've purchased music from google play store, I've "pinned it" to my device, aka downloaded it...but it's not in my com.data\android.music\cache file. I can play the songs without any sort of network connection so i know they're on my device. I want to play them in other music players but can't find them. Seems i'm not the only one having this problem. Is there any solution yet?
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I'm so frustrated. I've looked in all the 'similar threads'; looked on other websites. Tried a solution that supposedly worked for the S2 and S4...but no luck.
I've purchased music from google play store, I've "pinned it" to my device, aka downloaded it...but it's not in my com.data\android.music\cache file. I can play the songs without any sort of network connection so i know they're on my device. I want to play them in other music players but can't find them. Seems i'm not the only one having this problem. Is there any solution yet?
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Same problem, seriously annoyed with Google over this, I bought the music and I want to be able to play it on whatever player I choose, have emailed them over this
Hard to believe there is no solution out there... With all the people having the same problem...
You can access Google play from a computer and download the music you've purchased into a MP3 file. That's what I did.
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You can access Google play from a computer and download the music you've purchased into a MP3 file. That's what I did.
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Ha ha.....I never thought about checking the computer out
I was pissed that I couldn't actually have the file. Spent 30 mins looking for ways to do it. And that's the only way I found to be able to.
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I was pissed that I couldn't actually have the file. Spent 30 mins looking for ways to do it. And that's the only way I found to be able to.
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As long as I can do it somehow I don't mind.....but the fact we can't download it on the phone is pretty pathetic on Google's part, time to send an email I think!
Yeah. I'm glad we can own it for real lol
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