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[MARKET WORKAROUND] Market 3.xx access to apps not available to your country

There are those lucky users who are able to fake a carrier and install apps not available in their country with Android Market 3.xx. I am but possibly the lesser ones who though managed to fake carriers using Market Enabler / Market Acess but still unable to search for apps which are not available to my country.
Now this is a working workaround method that I've tried using 2 types of Market Enabler available in the Market and also Market Access.
Who should be using this workaround?
Users who successfully faked a carrier using Market Access / Market Enabler with Android Market 3.xx but still unable to find certain apps within the new market 3.xx.
Tested Working with the following
Market Access
http://amip.tools-for.net/wiki/android/marketaccess
Market Enabler
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.notenking.mf&hl=en
Market Enabler
https://market.android.com/details?id=ch.racic.android.marketenabler&hl=en
1. Install Market Enabler or Market Access
2. Run Market Enabler / Market Access
3. Fake a carrier from within Market Enabler / Market Access
4. Open your browser
5. Search using keywords like "Google Earth Android Market"
6. Click on the searched results and select to open with "Market"
7. You will be re-directed to Android Market
8. Once market opens, you will see your desired app and will now be able to install.
9. Once you installed, I recommend you select "Allow automatic updating".
10. You may restore your value back to your original carrier.
11. From now onwards, if there is any updates (even though it is not available in your country) it will be automatically updated when available.
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Just my little experience: Pandora does not update if you don't fake the carrier, so auto update would fail.
Don't know but suppose this is valid for other apps too.
Sent from my LG-P990 using XDA App

erups said:
Just my little experience: Pandora does not update if you don't fake the carrier, so auto update would fail.
Don't know but suppose this is valid for other apps too.
Sent from my LG-P990 using XDA App
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I got books updated automatically without faking carrier.
But that's not my point of this post actually. The point is even with faked carrier I can't find the apps. So thru browser it actually finds it.

Nice find. Previously I had to revert to Market 2.x and install a paid app. It works through browser. Tnx

You're not allowed Google Earth? Wow, your country sucks
Good advice though, and I was able to update Google Books and Google Music automatically without faking, just needed it to install as you say.

Rusty! said:
You're not allowed Google Earth? Wow, your country sucks
Good advice though, and I was able to update Google Books and Google Music automatically without faking, just needed it to install as you say.
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Lolz I suppose u can say that. Quite a number of apps unavailable in my country (Singapore), though tiny island but famous around the world. Kinda contradicts ...
I got my N1 with Market 2.3.6. Easy to update with fake carrier but the new market on my O2x I can't find any. ..... till I use this workaround.
Guess it worked.

thx.......nice trick

Rusty! said:
You're not allowed Google Earth? Wow, your country sucks
Good advice though, and I was able to update Google Books and Google Music automatically without faking, just needed it to install as you say.
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Does this mean you can use your account to buy music and books even if you're not supposed to???

Well you can't buy any music with Google Music, so I doubt it. Can't say about books any more though, as it is now officially available in the UK.
Unless you use Market Enabler though, the books option wont appear in the Market, but with it you should be able to.

Rusty! said:
Well you can't buy any music with Google Music
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Yeah, my bad. Too excited

[Q] Trusted Places not working with 5.1

So after updating to 5.1, I'm finding Trusted Places isn't working in Smart Lock. Prior to this update it worked fine, although refused to recognize my Home and Work locations, forcing me to add them manually as new addresses. But now it actually shows my Home perfectly in a new, better interface, but no amount of turning my phone off and on, rebooting, or confirming my location with Google Maps will get it to not lock itself when I turn off the screen.
Now initially it would also crash Google Play Services when I'd go into the Trusted Devices screen or tap on my Home address, so then I updated to the latest Play Services and restarted. That seemed to resolve that, but it's since resulted in still usually crashing when it tries to pull my home address. I finally disabled Home, then added it manually, like I had to do int he past. It accepted it, but unlike in the past, it still won't work. Phone locks when I power it off, despite sitting right in the epicenter of that feature.
Anyone else seeing this? Anyone else manage to resolve this?

I haven't upgraded, but trusted places stopped working for me yesterday. I think it might have something to do with google play services.

Still on 5.0.1 myself and I ended up just turning the locking off because it was screwing up so much. So not sure it's a 5.1 thing.
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Trusted places not working here either. Still on 5.0.1 stock. This just started two days ago.

Trusted Places was working fine on 5.0.1. After upgrading to 5.1 I have the following happening
Trusted Places through Google Maps (Home, Work) Do not work
Trusted Places Manually added do work

Same here. Sideloaded OTA yesterday and TP fails. If you revert Play Services back to 6+ (5.1 takes it to 7+) it works fine, so a Google Play Services issue.
Also for me, I have a pin to start the phone. IT used to boot to the pin then stop there forever until you entered the pin. Now, it continues to booth "through" the pin screen and will take you to the (locked) main home screen. When you swipe up to unlock, the phone hangs and has to be hard rebooted - every time. They only way past this is to immediately enter your unlock pin when it first appears during the boot process, before the full system is up.

this happened to me as well but not from 5.1 from the Google Play Services update. And yes it seems to be more of a problem with your Google Maps places vs custom set ones. A temp fix i found was to turn it off and back on (along with trusted agents) but it doesn't stick forever.

GMoGoody said:
Trusted Places was working fine on 5.0.1. After upgrading to 5.1 I have the following happening
Trusted Places through Google Maps (Home, Work) Do not work
Trusted Places Manually added do work
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+1 Thanks! This got it working. I turned off the previous place and added new and all good.

My trusted places seem to be working after the 5.1 upgrade, BUT it only seems to want to automatically pull my home address now. It used to allow me to use home and work. I can't seem to get work to show up unless I manually add it. I think my OCD is just bothering me about it more than anything.

5.1 on AT&T.
Both the built-in (Home, Work) and custome locations are failing for me.

Mine works better than it did on 5.01.

Update:
4 hours later and stopped working again.

Another play services update is coming out. Can't tell if it works yet. Still only gives the option for home.

y2whisper said:
Another play services update is coming out. Can't tell if it works yet. Still only gives the option for home.
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Whats the version number?

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Thanks. I just grabbed it, but it didn't seem to fix my issue with smartlock.

sabbotage said:
Thanks. I just grabbed it, but it didn't seem to fix my issue with smartlock.
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I was having this same problem myself and I have finally fixed it. For me, it looks like it may be caused by street names in the smart lock address mismatching with what Google Maps has. In Google Maps my street name changed from two words to one (from River Creek to Rivercreek) and once I updated my Home location in the "My Places" section of Google Maps the smart lock worked for that location correctly. When I did all of this I was running Google Play Services 6.7.74. I just upgraded to 7.0.96 and the smart lock function has stuck (although it didn't seem to stick initially after the upgrade until after I manually went to Maps and pressed the location target).
I have no idea why my street name was changed from two words to one in Google Maps. I listed a complaint with Google. I am wondering if they somehow knew the name of my home street changed before I did. Google knows best I suppose.

Mine works, then doesn't, all without leaving my house. Borked.
Nexus 6

I have the same issue on my Nexus 5 with 5.1.
Trusted devices and trusted faces do work.
Trusted places do not work, even adding an address manually.

n80k said:
I was having this same problem myself and I have finally fixed it. For me, it looks like it may be caused by street names
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Trusted places are based on Location Service objects like longitude and latitude. Not labels (names). You can pick any spot on the map. They don't work in 5.1 with Google Play Services 6.5 or 7.0 (as of 7.0.96).
Before testing make sure any Trusted Devices are off.

Google Assistant 'OK Google' voice detection

I currently have Nougat 7.0 running on my OnePlus 3T, the phone is rooted and now I've activated Google Assistant via build.prop tweaks. The Google Assistant works just fine on home button long press. I'm trying to enable "OK Google" hotword detection from any screen. Must be too much to ask at this phase, but gotta show off to my rivalry friend who owns an iPhone.
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I also havet this problem. I havet tröst both Google App 3.36 and 3.37 but Still not working :/

I am also having this problem with Google app..I think you should check that you gave Google app a permission for microphone..I know there is problem for detection of voice I think it is a software problem but after giving the permission and lots of try it's work fine with me now..... Microphone is recognised our "ok Google "voice that's the problem but after many try it will recognised my voice .After that ok Google function working fine with me ..Try this if worked give

Naitik527 said:
I am also having this problem with Google app..I think you should check that you gave Google app a permission for microphone..I know there is problem for detection of voice I think it is a software problem but after giving the permission and lots of try it's work fine with me now..... Microphone is recognised our "ok Google "voice that's the problem but after many try it will recognised my voice .After that ok Google function working fine with me ..Try this if worked give
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For me Google assistans pops upp egen I say "Ok Google" but it wants me to say it 3 times every time. It is as if it doesn't save it. I have tried switching the microphone permission on and off again multiple times but nothing yet.
What version of Google App are you running Naitik527?

utjduo said:
For me Google assistans pops upp egen I say "Ok Google" but it wants me to say it 3 times every time. It is as if it doesn't save it. I have tried switching the microphone permission on and off again multiple times but nothing yet.
What version of Google App are you running Naitik527?
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6.9.36.21.arm64

Has anyone gotten this successfully working? I had same problem and ended up factory resetting and now I can't even get Assistant to install.

i got it working by setting the default language to English (India), you can try by setting the default language to your region instead of default English (US).
note: it will only work as long as the screen is on or the phone is charging.

Also using Nova Launcher you can enable ok google from anywhere in settings, then it will react even when the screen is off. ?

Since Google Assistant was officially released, you can now call upon it anywhere including when the screen is off.

Even with google now I had issues with getting the hot words to work. I am in the US, but I switched from English (US) to English (XA) and it seems to work now. Though I'm not sure what region XA stands for. I'm going to leave it for a day and switch back to see if it stays working.
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Even though voice response worked, it appears it convert back to google now from google assistant. Google assistant is still gone after converting back. Hopefully it will activate again soon. So I don't recommend changing the voice region if you already have assistant.

Google Play Services for Instant Apps > Microphone. permission toggle ON.
Assistant hands free Hotword now works. Running stock unrooted OnePlus 3t Android 7.1.1

johnnyfaire said:
Google Play Services for Instant Apps > Microphone. permission toggle ON.
Assistant hands free Hotword now works. Running stock unrooted OnePlus 3t Android 7.1.1
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Really?! When the screen is off (but phone charging?) I haven't gotten it to work, even doing what you said.
The assistant works fine when screen is on for me, even before turning on Play Services for Instant Apps and toggling on the microphone permission.
Any clarity you can provide will be very much appreciated.

johnnyfaire said:
Google Play Services for Instant Apps > Microphone. permission toggle ON.
Assistant hands free Hotword now works. Running stock unrooted OnePlus 3t Android 7.1.1
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I tried that and voice detection still doesn't work. For me it works on OOS but not on any custom ROMS, currently on LineageOS

Question Google Pay on X90 pro+

Was about to pull the trigger on the Vivo when I saw this on Wondamobile.
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I use gpay for all my card transactions - do I understand it correctly that it will not work on the pro+ and thus won't be able to use the phone for transactions?
That would be a total deal-breaker for me!

It does work, however google play itself will not update itself, so then google wallet stops working and you need to get google play from a third party website to update it. For wallet to work play services and play store need to be on same update level.
There's plenty of small google problems usually not mentioned, and then no one can guarantee that google doesn't require wallet to be a system app in future..
Google likely will go harder on this as many governments require them to make apps optional from Android and they could avoid it by just making them working as a system app forcing manufacturers to include them. It's a strategy google has clearly added to lately due to court decisions in various countries.
So right now it works, but with any google service on Chinese phones future versions full working gets less likely.
You can see on older vivo phones it often stopped working for some days to weeks too. Cannot count on it working though so far it mainly did.

I have Google Wallet (Google Pay) working fine for me once I enabled Google services.
Haven't had an issue with it (I'm in Australia).

br3tty said:
I have Google Wallet (Google Pay) working fine for me once I enabled Google services.
Haven't had an issue with it (I'm in Australia).
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Works for me too (Netherlands)

thanks. I'm in the UK. Perhaps they just forgot to update their page after Vivo firmware fixed the issue

Haskren said:
thanks. I'm in the UK. Perhaps they just forgot to update their page after Vivo firmware fixed the issue
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It never was an issue. I guess it's just a standard text they copied.

Google pay works fine for me in the uk

Google pay works fine for me in FR

No Google Pay issues for me in Singapore ( Vivo X90 Pro + (V2227A 12GB/512GB)

No problem to Greece too..i think they put it on Wonda just to be safe if its not working on someone.

is there a way to quick access the gpay screen from the phone being off(not off but locked etc)..and does one need that to be on it to make a payment? or just keep NFC on?

rudabb said:
is there a way to quick access the gpay screen from the phone being off(not off but locked etc)..and does one need that to be on it to make a payment? or just keep NFC on?
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Did you find a way to get a quick access when the phone is locked?

I have not been able to add my bank card to Google wallet on this phone - no issues on the old phone.
This is the answer from the bank
So - is this a UK issue or just my bank picking up on issues with the phone?

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Did you find a way to get a quick access when the phone is locked?
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No..but I realized that if my phone is unlocked through smart unlocked(while on me) all I have to do is tap the device on the machine and it works.I don't need to be in the app...
If you want to be in the app,I think there is an off screen shortcut where you can assign the app for it. It's the volume down button

Haskren said:
I have not been able to add my bank card to Google wallet on this phone - no issues on the old phone.
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So - is this a UK issue or just my bank picking up on issues with the phone?
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Can you add your card on other phones? It sounds more like your bank doesn't support google wallet. There are plenty who don't. Nothing to do with the phone! If you can add the card to other google wallets, then the problem is with your phone.

rudabb said:
No..but I realized that if my phone is unlocked through smart unlocked(while on me) all I have to do is tap the device on the machine and it works.I don't need to be in the app...
If you want to be in the app,I think there is an off screen shortcut where you can assign the app for it. It's the volume down button
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Yeah I did assign the volume down botton for it, thank you

welcome.

extremecarver said:
Can you add your card on other phones? It sounds more like your bank doesn't support google wallet. There are plenty who don't. Nothing to do with the phone! If you can add the card to other google wallets, then the problem is with your phone.
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Yes, Starling bank supports Google Wallet - I used same card and GW on my old phone

I had similar issue.maybebsimilar. I kind of changed the google play services file ..and I think the google Play store ..I went back to this forum and saw what they were using and used them. And then my card worked .

I think people having problems should throw down all google programs including play store and services from the phone and install them from scratch because it's likely due to the broken versions on vivo appstore.
Likely trading Shenzhen already installed some broke. Stuff. It just doesn't make sense otherwise. Everyone uses the same OS and hardware should not be different either except different batches.
In general don't install anything from vivo appstore to save yourself problems. Especially not Chinese apps as they are add infected from the vivo store.

Question Google play store on chinese rom

How can I install the play store on the Chinese rom? I've tried downloading it from APK mirror and it says "Couldn't sign in There was a problem communicating with Google servers. Try again later." I've tried clearing the cache and no help.
Solved! "Google basic services" has to be enabled. It's found in the drop down menu within apps management in settings.

Just install it from the ZUI Store app on the tablet. You might need to use a phone camera to help translate..

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Just install it from the ZUI Store app on the tablet. You might need to use a phone camera to help translate..
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I tried that and it I get connection errors.

Which ROM are you on? Zui 14 (14.0.255) allows you to login to Google, and Play Store works

farieeez said:
Which ROM are you on? Zui 14 (14.0.255) allows you to login to Google, and Play Store works
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I just flashed the stock chinese rom from the global rom. I actually figured it out. There's a setting in the app management tab in the settings where you have to enable google services. I had installed play services, google play store, chrome, etc... Factory reset a few times too. But I was poking around the app management and was looking at system apps to see if something was disabled that I needed and saw "google basic services" as an option and I was able to turn that on, and everything works now. So I hope if anyone else has that issue they come across this thread.
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I used APKMirror installer. downloaded the play store APKM for arm64-v8a (nodpi). For google services framework i used the 190400 variant.

I just flashed the stock chinese rom from the global rom. I actually figured it out. There's a setting in the app management tab in the settings where you have to enable google services. I had installed play services, google play store, chrome, etc... Factory reset a few times too. But I was poking around the app management and was looking at system apps to see if something was disabled that I needed and saw "google basic services" as an option and I was able to turn that on, and everything works now. So I hope if anyone else has that issue they come across this thread.
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Toggling this on and off seemed to fix an issue for me where I couldn't push the "Sign In" button to log into Google Services on the first Play Store run.

Does the stock Chinese rom have L1 Widevine for HD streaming playback?

JonW434 said:
Does the stock Chinese rom have L1 Widevine for HD streaming playback?
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Yes, it does.

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Yes, it does.
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It was late at night, I meant to say Amazon Prime. I assume it works but I thought I read on some Chinese roms that Netflix works but Prime Video doesn't. Hopefully I'm wrong, it's annoying if a device has Widevine L1 but some apps still don't work.

JonW434 said:
It was late at night, I meant to say Amazon Prime. I assume it works but I thought I read on some Chinese roms that Netflix works but Prime Video doesn't. Hopefully I'm wrong, it's annoying if a device has Widevine L1 but some apps still don't work.
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I am getting 1080P with Prime.

Great, thanks..