Since our Tabs never had an official tablet rom (either Honeycomb or ICS) Android Market dosen't know it as a tablet, so we can't download tablet apps from the market.
I wanted to know if we could change our tabs name or not, like by changing the build.prop.
It seems (as I googled it) changing build.prop works with the old market, but what about the new market?
Is this even possible?
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I changed my tab's name in build.prop to GT-P7500 and now on Android Market (web page) its written GT-P7500 as well, but still it says: "This app is incompatible with your device."
BTW, on Android Market (app), whatever I search, it says "No Result", although the app name is in the suggestion part in the search field.
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Changing build.prop works with the old market. This way I can see and search among tablet apps. I don't know if it works with the new market, because like I said before, no matter what I search it says "No Result", even with the original buil.prop
I use appbrain to search for apps, it finds the desired app.after clicking on the install button, it opens market app and then i can download and install. Works for me
I changed my LCD density to 120 (which is too small for some but perfect for me) and I can get all tablet apps from market 3.4.4
This is my GalaxyTab. There are many like it but this one is mine.
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Maybe this has nothing to do with the NC, not sure yet.
But I've noticed that some apps don't seem to show up in the Market on my Nook Color, but do on my Android phone and AppBrain.
For example EA Mobile has some 99 cent games on sale right now. I got Need for Speed for my phone. And it shows up in AppBrain on my NC, but in the Market it's not there.
I noticed some others missing too like Super Manager.
Are these apps not showing up because this Market apk came from the Galaxy Tab and they aren't supported on tablets (noticed one of the EA games did mention it wasn't supported on the Galaxy Tab)? Or is something else going on?
Ravynmagi said:
Maybe this has nothing to do with the NC, not sure yet.
But I've noticed that some apps don't seem to show up in the Market on my Nook Color, but do on my Android phone and AppBrain.
For example EA Mobile has some 99 cent games on sale right now. I got Need for Speed for my phone. And it shows up in AppBrain on my NC, but in the Market it's not there.
I noticed some others missing too like Super Manager.
Are these apps not showing up because this Market apk came from the Galaxy Tab and they aren't supported on tablets (noticed one of the EA games did mention it wasn't supported on the Galaxy Tab)? Or is something else going on?
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Market will not show apps that are deemed incompatible with your device. Since NC doesn't come with market, it will mainly show you generic apps. Other alternate market apps may show you apps that work or that don't and apps that require OS 2.2, since the NC is an unsupported device.
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I've had this same problem, specifically with Pocket Legends. I sideloaded an old .apk of it and booted it up. It works, but then tells me to upgrade and when I let it go to the market, the screen just flashes and goes back to the pocket legends app.
Ugh. Is this something that could be fixed in the future? I'm starting to get surprised at how many apps I can't download from the Market now. Can't even install Firefox.
I guess I can try side loading some of these thing from my Android phone.
Ravynmagi said:
Ugh. Is this something that could be fixed in the future? I'm starting to get surprised at how many apps I can't download from the Market now. Can't even install Firefox.
I guess I can try side loading some of these thing from my Android phone.
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Can't install Firefox? Shows in the market here for me.
Firefox Beta 3 showed up for me and installed fine.
Inconsistance
I've had to re-root my new nook color several times. The first time I did it the Market had a limited number of apps. Viewing the "Top Free" or "Top Paid" only had about 10 apps visible as opposed to a long ongoing list of apps.
After a factor reset and re-root the market was showed any and every app.
After a third factory reset and reroot the market was back to the original way with far fewer apps. (currently Firefox, Dolphin, Skyfire are NOT visible but Opera is)
So I can confirm "something" is problematic. I came to this forum hoping for an answer myself.
Running 1.0.1 and used auto-nooter each time.
This may not fix your problem, earlyhike - but it may help someone:
When viewing the market holding it as a portrait, only 10 apps show but if you rotate to landscape then you can scroll through the long list.
Hope this helps someone
I would very much appreciate if someone could upload the Firefox Beta 3 since I can't get it from Market. Thanks in advance.
chhaggerty said:
I would very much appreciate if someone could upload the Firefox Beta 3 since I can't get it from Market. Thanks in advance.
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I had to install it on my Android phone, then just copied the APK file over to my Nook and installed it that way. I put a copy here of Firefox 4 beta 3.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15926256/org.mozilla.firefox-1.apk
Now I'm curious what is going on.
Those of you that found Firefox, were you using the new Market or the old market?
I'm using the New Market and not seeing Firefox (and some other things). I wonder if this new Market apk is the issue.
I was scouring the forums and found the build.prop for the xoom. I haven't tried it yet but I'm planning on replacing the ID with the nook honeycomb v4 with the xoom id and seeing what I find on the market. For those that are interested here is the relevant sectino of build.prop
ro.build.fingerprint=verizon/trygon/stingray:3.0/HRI39/101999:user/release-keys
Wonder if we can get those sweet honeycomb apps.....
GK
Funny you should ask, I just tried it - didn't work.
What's more - the "Top Paid" Apps have disappeared???
I also just tried spoofing as a Nexus S. That didn't work either. Again Top Paid have disappeared.
I think I did everything right - cleared Market cache, force closed, and reboot after saving build.prop
I use WeatherBug as a test case, because it installed fine from the Market on my Autonooted Stock ROM. Can't even see it in HC 0.4
In addition to my previous - when I attempt to install software (that I cannot see on the NC) from the web Market,I get an error message "Unknown PDLogic Zoom2". So even though I think it is properly spoofed in build.prop, apparently it is still seen as something else.
Market fingerprint
I've tried loading both fingerprints on the nook devs site but neither of them are working.
I didn't get any error messages in adb so i assumed it went through.
Also, "My apps" in Market shows "No downloads from Android Market" even though I've downloaded and purchased a few apps.
Is there any other tutorial on how to change the build.prop correctly?
Its the sdk version thats the issue... dont change it in the build prop either, it non-boots
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Hi All,
I don't seem to be able to find Dolphin HD in Google Market. Does anyone else experience this? I'm funning TnTLite 4.3.2 with the market fix.
Thanks.
It shows up in my market. I'm also running TnT 4.32 with market fix. May want to try the fix again and see if that helps.
If you check the web market, you'll see that the application is shown as not compatible with our tablets. It's probably the browser's requirement of fine gps location, something our tablets don't feature.
However, while I haven't tried it, if you have another Android device, you can most likely download it there and then sideload it on your tablet.
Another option (though it doesn't work for this app, since it's not listed on Amazon's market) is to check Amazon's market. In some cases, programs that are listed in Google's market as incompatible show up as perfectly compatible in Amazon's market.
Do a Google search for the apk. Its out there and I know you can find it.
Happy hunthunting
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If you check the web market, you'll see that the application is shown as not compatible with our tablets. It's probably the browser's requirement of fine gps location, something our tablets don't feature.
However, while I haven't tried it, if you have another Android device, you can most likely download it there and then sideload it on your tablet.
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this is what I did, and it works fine on the tablet, though I still prefer opera...
I did the market fix on my GTab, the same way I did it on my Archos 70.
I have Dolphin Browser HD on my Archos, but not the Market for the GTab. Strange.
Perhaps on another cache clear and reboot, it will come back.
In the meantime, I know that if you have a Usenet account and provider, you can go to NZBMatrix.com and search for just about any Android APK you want.... Just saying....
i can fix market on tnt lite but it doesn't work with vegan
I looked and looked last night, did the market fix several times. This morning I just just installed it on my phone, then used Astro to back up the APK, mailed it to myself, then side loaded it onto my GTAB.
Is there a way to download apps directly to my PC, instead of the Nook?
There are some apps that are "not compatible" in the market, but several times when I get them as standalone apk, I can install them and get them to run on the nook!
hello
i have some thing like that problem i download app from internet like acrobat reader for android and this app is in my download but when i hit it say error and didnt install
can any body help me?
http://tinyurl.com/3gnvuzq
or even EzPDF or mantano cuz it is way better.
http://tinyurl.com/4xqlw6x i know it is a bit "warezzy" but comparing to other it really doesn't have many of these illegal apps (not even 1% of their huge database). It is better than amazon appstore, because it both downloads and installs apps, instead of just downloading (root needed).
Felt a bit retarded looking at the solution... :S
It is just a bit obnoxious to download all the free software by looking at google, but considering the solution of installing android SDK, emulator, a rom with market, etc. - as I've recently seen on the internet - in order to find the appropriate apk, I think it is way better to google or use the black-mart app - even though I'm looking more for a way to circumvent device compatibility...
Thanks, domi.nos
BTW, whenever you do a search for an apk, lots of time you get to market links, and takes you back to the old android market - which is more than 75% of the links I get to find...
For me, the easiest way to install apps is threw market.android.com . I haven't had the problems i ran into using the app on the nook itself. When you hit the "Send to" button it just says "Phone" and will push to your nook.
suddenly , when I try to update some FREE apps in Market, it says: "your device is not compatible with this item"??
What is wrong so sudden?
Some are for limited countrys, some are network provider limited, and some are model/android version/phone or tablet only.
No, it's not that....
Everything worked for me till yesterday, I had nomessages of that kind (for the same apps - Cool Reader etc.), but now....
go to market setting on the phone and enable all apps from maturity filter
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manosv said:
go to market setting on the phone and enable all apps from maturity filter
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this won't help
I e.g. get this error message with CyanogenMod 7 + auto memory manager afaik
it works on samsung stock roms & previously ALSO worked on CM7
dunno what changed (for the worse) with Market so that it pretends that that app doesn't work (or is incompatible) on same phone that worked fine with that very same app previously
New version of market does this (3.1.5). Previously I could get it to keep 3.0.26 installed and I wouldn't have these problems but now no matter what I do it automatically updates.
Do you have a higher LCD density setting? Try changing it back to the stock 240. If you don't have a higher LCD density setting, you should ... device is much more usable with the added real estate ...
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New version of market does this (3.1.5). Previously I could get it to keep 3.0.26 installed and I wouldn't have these problems but now no matter what I do it automatically updates.
Do you have a higher LCD density setting? Try changing it back to the stock 240. If you don't have a higher LCD density setting, you should ... device is much more usable with the added real estate ...
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Wow. That actually worked. Thanks mchud!
An elegant solution 4 "your device is not compatible with this item"
I don't want to change my lcd density.
I use s.u.r.f.a.c.e. rom with 182 dpi and I'm quite happy this way.
I don't want to change to 240 once in few days or few times a day.
So what I did was listen to this guy here:
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-downgrade-android-market-3-0-26-to-old-market-tip/
The solution:
I downgraded from 3.3.11 (I had "your device is not compatible with this item" too many times there - IMDB for example) to 3.0.27, and I tried "IMDB" - it was available!
Now I'm busting my head to remember what were the other apps I had to search on internet for APKs (freeapps, but with mentioned problem - so no downloadable), and check them out...
Lets see: QuickPic -working too!
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#$%/"##$!!*!!!
The Market is worse then Freddy Krueger!!
It keeps comming back, and comming back...
The Market update has to be blocked, cose in few minutes I was unwilingly updated back to 3.3.11 and of course was honored with "your device is not compatible with this item" once again...
So - keep Market from update, and you'll be fine.
for examle like this.
OK - I will snoop a bit more around, but this could be the painless way (I don't mind using an older version of Market. On contrary - under these circumstances... )
p.s. - Hope someone'll find this useful - I used this forum so much, it is nice to contribute...
Last week i had a same problem... i got that massage when i was trying to install facebook... So the problem was that i had change LCD Density to 200 using Rom Tollbox... so maybe just maybe you have the same problem!!!
Update:
I haven't been able to retain version 3.0.27 of market, as soon as I connect, it automatically updates to 3.1.3.
Despite I have tried most of mentioned methods to prevent market from upgrading.
I renamed updater to .bak - it updated afterwards.
When I tried terminal method, I got the
"unable to open log device '/dev/log/main': No such file or directory" error.
So I am trying to figure out where the problem is...
If I find out - I'll let you know...
Most often its the resolution that is the problem. Change it back to 240 and make sure to go to home screen -> settings -> applicationg -> manage applications -> click on all tab -> search for Market -> click on Market -> and clear data. When I first set to 240, it was still showing not compatible. Once I cleared data, I could install all the previously "incompatible" apps.