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This is really simple, and I really shouldn't have even started the thread name with "HOW-TO." But anyway, as some of you may know, Gameloft doesn't officially support the DROID Charge for whatever reason(s). However, they make some of the best games around for Android and I felt like testing some things on my own.
So after about 5 minutes (when the extra game files were done downloading), I was able to find my solution: any version of the games that you download will work, as long as they're a Galaxy __ version. For me, I used some Galaxy S-version downloads and they all worked great.
Hope this helped
hey so you all know you can actually edit your build.prop to play all the gameloft games in your build.prop you can edit your model brand name device and board to the following
ro.product.model=SCH-I500
ro.product.brand=verizon
ro.product.name=SCH-I500
ro.product.device=SCH-I500
ro.product.board=aries
so far i have tested with order and chaos and 2 other games
this will also allow you to access the gameloft store and see gameloft games in the marketplace
CranberryJeus said:
hey so you all know you can actually edit your build.prop to play all the gameloft games in your build.prop you can edit your model brand name device and board to the following
ro.product.model=SCH-I500
ro.product.brand=verizon
ro.product.name=SCH-I500
ro.product.device=SCH-I500
ro.product.board=aries
so far i have tested with order and chaos and 2 other games
this will also allow you to access the gameloft store and see gameloft games in the marketplace
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i500 is the Fascinate. i510 is the Charge. So change the above from i510 to i500.
yep i was trying to keep in the same line of phones to avoid getting some weird incompatible versions but so far the fascinate/galaxy s versions work great
The game got updated but I can't see it after searching for it in market. its under my Apps but not showing up after searching order and chaos nor is it letting me update
Edit: seems like everyone is having the same problem. It's a gameloft issue.
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Moving from X to Charge
Ok, I am moving from a Droid X and had a question. I currently have about 12 Gameloft games I purchased from their onine store. What is the best way to transfer those to the Charge? I'm assuming the X apk's I have will not work. Do I just email Gameloft and tell them I switched to an i500? Thanks in advance for any advice.
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Ok, I am moving from a Droid X and had a question. I currently have about 12 Gameloft games I purchased from their onine store. What is the best way to transfer those to the Charge? I'm assuming the X apk's I have will not work. Do I just email Gameloft and tell them I switched to an i500? Thanks in advance for any advice.
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Until they support this device use the method as stated above.
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I have Black Pegasus that I bought on my Fascinate. If I load it on the Charge, it tells me it is not an original copy of the game.
Can this be fixed?
be aware there is a time limit on how long your gameloft games are available for download again from gameloft....i bought Lets Golf a long time ago, wiped my phone and didnt bother putting it back on for a couple months, then went to put it on and they say i no longer have access to that game because it had been over 60 days(i think that was how long it said)
from what i can tell there is no way to transfer games from one device to another so if you bought on a non fascinate/charge you are SOL, you may be able to get specific support but they have no transfer procedure on their website
Going from a Fascinate to a Charge though, do you have to edit the build.prop file?
I believe that some games are compatible without a build prop but most games need an edit to appear as a fascinate
I've tried 4 different games and they all worked without me changing build.prop.
I installed Modern Combat 2 and it just tells me that is is not an original copy. I did buy in for the Fascinate. Would editing the build.prop cause any other issues? Would this keep me from seeing things in the market?
Sorry for the noob questions.
Thanks
I had to change my build.prop to play order and chaos I'm not sure about others though, yes editing your build.prop will alter what you see in the market so if any development does kick up for the droid charge that is not compatible with the fascinate you won't see it in the market
WELL,
I jumped onto the marketplace this morning to find that order & chaos online is now officially supported on the TF101. So I download it but on bootup it still says the device is unsupported... WHAT GIVES?
I went to get a refund but the app didnt show in 'my apps'.. grrrrr
Ive sent an email to android marketplace but no response yet. I called Gameloft who confirmed that there is still no support for this device.
Has anyone else come across this?
NOVA 2 is also listed as supported but not game to try !!!
dont see it in the marketplace
Not listed here either
Strange. Mine shows on the app and online marketplaces???
It's turned into an interesting fight between google and gameloft in that one suggests the other should provide a refund. Gameloft maintain that their apps are unsold to google thus it becomes their responsibility. Google state that the apps are maintained by gameloft and the marketplace is used more as a vehicle rather than a retailing. Im tending towards googles take.
Anyway, they both suck !!!
I'm not quite sure that it's all about a fight between gameloft and google, because, apps like order & chaos or available for other devices then the TF101.
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I'm not quite sure that it's all about a fight between gameloft and google, because, apps like order & chaos or available for other devices then the TF101.
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Whatever do you mean?
I get unsupported as well for my TF and cappy. I had an i9000 rom before on it and that is supported. Its the same hardware as the cappy. I finally got 1.02 installed and its pulling the data to my cappy right now. Once i get it working i am goign to try the apk on my TF and see what happens. I'll keep you posted when i get home. If it works i am going to be happy happy happy!
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I get unsupported as well for my TF and cappy. I had an i9000 rom before on it and that is supported. Its the same hardware as the cappy. I finally got 1.02 installed and its pulling the data to my cappy right now. Once i get it working i am goign to try the apk on my TF and see what happens. I'll keep you posted when i get home. If it works i am going to be happy happy happy!
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You're a legend, keep us posted !
a work around maybe?
Might try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1202235
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Might try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1202235
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Good luck but doesn't work, freakn GAYmeloft !!!
Yeah it's ridiculous. App works fine on the tf. I don't understand why is no available for us. And trying to contact gameloft is a waste of time. It's ridiculous.
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Order and Chaos can be made to work by using a Titanium backup from another device.
The game runs fine, except once it see's you are on a Transformer it doesn't even try.
The Titanium backup has all of the files needed to run and places them in proper folders and skips the device check.
I have Order and Chaos on my TF and am like a level 6 now (I haven't played in a while because my internet at the hotel is balls)
O&Ch workong on TF =
= Backup of ex. SGS version - Titanium Backup -> Copy 3 files (backup) to TF -> Copy SD cache for ex. SGS version to TF -> Restore backup of O&Ch on TF -> Play the game....
No support for dock...only writting, low preformance on 1,5Ghz ......I deleted this game ...and i'm waiting for version that is optimalizet for tablets with honeycomb.
yeah. Shouldn't have to jump through hoops.
If someone can help me solve this problem http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1216779 we should be able to buy it directly from market + get updates/etc and buy other gameloft games too. (As long as they don't check for IMEI number, which we don't have for obvious reasons)
samsung GT-I9100 has Geforce GPU module inside it's CPU that is same(similar/compatible ?) to the one we have in our tegra cpus.
has anyone got this to work on the transformer?
saw it on the iPad and it looked awesome.
i have it running on my vibrant but i want to take advantage of the Tegra 2 on this larger screen.
every time i start it it just close. no force close, no error that my device isnt supported, just closes.
very unfortunate.
That's probably because the version released to the market is not compatible....
Go to The Market on your Transformer and it's not listed.
Go to The Market on your PC and your Transformer is not listed as compatible.
So, I don't know how you even managed to download it, let alone install it in the first place?
i downloaded it since its a free app on my samsung vibrant and then grabbed the APK and side loaded it onto the transformer. you can also download the free APK using google as well.
there are a lot of games that are not listed as :compatible: but still work on the tablets and transformer as well but for many reaons are not in the market for the device.
thats why i decided to try this game on the tablet but now see it really doesnt work.
i figured other people are working hard to get other games to work on the trnsformer such as the spider man game etc so why not ask about this one?
looks like i got my answer though, thanks
nextelbuddy said:
i downloaded it since its a free app on my samsung vibrant and then grabbed the APK and side loaded it onto the transformer. you can also download the free APK using google as well.
there are a lot of games that are not listed as :compatible: but still work on the tablets and transformer as well but for many reaons are not in the market for the device.
thats why i decided to try this game on the tablet but now see it really doesnt work.
i figured other people are working hard to get other games to work on the trnsformer such as the spider man game etc so why not ask about this one?
looks like i got my answer though, thanks
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No problem... Shame as it looks a nice game.
From the release of the Infinity, there has been low compatibility with apps and especially games. Some have said it is related to lack of developer support for the high res screen. Others have suggested the Nexus 10 will force developers into support for the new generation of where's-those-pixels tablets.
Both Skype and Rock star announced tablet optimised app releases in the coming fortnight (the latter for Vice City). The TF201 is on both compatibility lists but no Infinity. Is this deliberate? Or did hardly any Infinities sell and hence support for it make no business sense? In addition I don't see many EA or Gameloft releases, both old and new, supporting our machine.
Perhaps I'm being impatient and this is just the early adopter first world problem. Or maybe it's another reason to jump ship to the N10.
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Not just the TF700. The Note 10.1 has the same issue. As does pretty much every other HD tablet.
They work fine. I've got nearly every supposedly 'not-compatible' game running, no issues...
The thing is this. Devs made their games in a low res. They're too lazy to re-release the games with a higher resolution. (adding the infinity to the list won't change the ingame res, it'll still be upscaled.)
All they have to do is update the texture packs, but they simply won't. Of course not,
EA has always been too arrogant for customer support. (Don't believe me? The EA Master Server was dead every day in BF2, and they haven't changed anything, not even a cable, 8 years, 7 Triple-A games and 9 expansions later. The Master server still erases profiles&progress nearly once a day, fails twice a week completely and crapped out on the release night of BF3 and stayed down for almost 3 days...)
Gameloft is Ubisoft's mobile section, so that speaks for itself in terms of a completely non-existent customer support.
To be fair, though, Gameloft has a decent amount. EA is just an arse:
Gameloft:
Nova 3: This app is compatible with your ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T.
Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation: This app is compatible with your ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T.
The Amazing Spider-Man: This app is compatible with your ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T.
Men in Black 3: This app is compatible with your ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T.
Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation: This app is compatible with your ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T.
The Amazing Spider-Man: This app is compatible with your ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T.
Riptide GP: This app is compatible with your ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T.
EA:
Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit: This app is compatible with your ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T.
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Riptide GP: This app is compatible with your ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T.
EA:
Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit: This app is compatible with your ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T.
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Riptide is by vector unit, not Gameloft.
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t3ej4y said:
Riptide is by vector unit, not Gameloft.
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Hm... Yes, I see it. Odd, I typed in Gameloft and that one rolled out... Google managed to do something seriously wrong with their Playstore search bar.. Irony at it's finest. xD
Too bad on need for speed hot pursuit that we CAN'T DOWNLOAD THE ADDITIONAL FILES NEEDED TO PLAY. I called ea about it and they never called back, I knew they wouldn't becuase its an ongoing problem.
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Too bad on need for speed hot pursuit that we CAN'T DOWNLOAD THE ADDITIONAL FILES NEEDED TO PLAY. I called ea about it and they never called back, I knew they wouldn't becuase its an ongoing problem.
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I play hot pursuit daily, and most wanted?
Ready2Mosh said:
Too bad on need for speed hot pursuit that we CAN'T DOWNLOAD THE ADDITIONAL FILES NEEDED TO PLAY. I called ea about it and they never called back, I knew they wouldn't becuase its an ongoing problem.
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Please clarify. There's a hundred ways in which you 'can't download'. Error? Doesn't start? What?
I side loaded most of my gameloft games that's not available on the market and they work fine. Some games however will have smaller menu screens or smaller on screen buttons. An example is wild blood. Come to think of it's that the only one I recall right now. EA games however, you get a server error when games open. With the exception of NFS Most Wanted. It can open but plays slow. Like playing in slow motion. Theres a mod to make it faster though. Glu games are all available. Most other apps are too.
On nexus 10 almost all the games for gameloft, EA are available from the market and all work without issues. Once exception is wild blood is not available but can be side loaded but buttons are even smaller and menus are blank. So really not playable. Most other apps are available too.
It maybe a matter of not being able to test their apps so they dont make it in the compatibility list? But it does suck that tf700 out of the box is not supported by most. Seems like its the misfit of all the devices due to its unique screen resolution.
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EA has always been too arrogant for customer support. (Don't believe me? The EA Master Server was dead every day in BF2, and they haven't changed anything, not even a cable, 8 years, 7 Triple-A games and 9 expansions later. The Master server still erases profiles&progress nearly once a day, fails twice a week completely and crapped out on the release night of BF3 and stayed down for almost 3 days...)
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Never knew you were a gaming grrrrrl. (I know, never asked either. )
MartyHulskemper said:
Never knew you were a gaming grrrrrl. (I know, never asked either. )
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Yup. Pretty serious, too xD. Used to be in a clan (before we all parted ways), was clanleader for almost a year, as well as led several division. Even played in the ESL and Clanbase finals for SWBF2, BF2142 and FEAR. (we won swbf2 several times :highfive: )
Been out of it all for a while now, though. Too little free time, and the games are too bloody expensive (And there's no fun in it anymore, all those kids and aim assist.. (we used to call it aimbots, and they got you permbanned..... now it's part of the game )
Aaaand we're off topic again xD Oops...
With the increase of 1080p phones in the next year being announced, I would expect that app developers would start to catch up with high resolutions. It's always been a matter of time.
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ShadowLea said:
Please clarify. There's a hundred ways in which you 'can't download'. Error? Doesn't start? What?
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When you launch the game it needs to download additional files, when you click to do so you get error 5002, I called EA about it and they never called back, just look at the reviews for the game filter to tf700 and you'll see what I'm talking about.
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When you launch the game it needs to download additional files, when you click to do so you get error 5002, I called EA about it and they never called back, just look at the reviews for the game filter to tf700 and you'll see what I'm talking about.
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That's a resolution-not-found error.
Basically, it means the installer can't find the files related to the device's resolution. (Evidently, as they don't exist.) You can call them until hell freezes over, it's not going to be resolved.
There's only one way around that, and that is to download and install the SDdata manually. There's plenty of sites that offer them. I don't think it counts as illegal to manually download the data if you already paid for the .apk in the playstore.
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That's a resolution-not-found error.
Basically, it means the installer can't find the files related to the device's resolution. (Evidently, as they don't exist.) You can call them until hell freezes over, it's not going to be resolved.
There's only one way around that, and that is to download and install the SDdata manually. There's plenty of sites that offer them. I don't think it counts as illegal to manually download the data if you already paid for the .apk in the playstore.
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I think I remember this work around a while back. I will transfer the data from my prime to the tf700 and see how it goes. Thanks for bringing this up.
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ShadowLea said:
That's a resolution-not-found error.
Basically, it means the installer can't find the files related to the device's resolution. (Evidently, as they don't exist.) You can call them until hell freezes over, it's not going to be resolved.
There's only one way around that, and that is to download and install the SDdata manually. There's plenty of sites that offer them. I don't think it counts as illegal to manually download the data if you already paid for the .apk in the playstore.
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I redownloaded nfsmw to my htc one s, tried moving the sd data over via copy and paste and that didn't work, if you could pm me the work around that would be awesome. TIA
Ready2Mosh said:
I redownloaded nfsmw to my htc one s, tried moving the sd data over via copy and paste and that didn't work, if you could pm me the work around that would be awesome. TIA
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Same issue, same result. Not able to copy data from my S3 for this. Any solution?
My result with NFS most wanted is sideloading the apk from my s3 worked fine and it downloaded the data when I opened the game. Game is in slow motion however.
For NBA jam or Mass Effect when I transfer the apks and open the game I get an error. I copied the SD data also but same error on Mass Effect and on NBA jam the screen just flickers with the NBA jam logo.
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aznmode said:
My result with NFS most wanted is sideloading the apk from my s3 worked fine and it downloaded the data when I opened the game. Game is in slow motion however.
For NBA jam or Mass Effect when I transfer the apks and open the game I get an error. I copied the SD data also but same error on Mass Effect and on NBA jam the screen just flickers with the NBA jam logo.
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I have nba jam on my tf700 and I downloaded it directly from the market when it came out, works fine too.
Edit: Oh F Me, I must've not downloaded the extra files, now I get the server error 5002 crap. I am just about done with this, either google steps up, takes a hit to make customers happy and apply some rules to the market, or people are going to start to leave the android tablet market and seek refuge with apple, at least we know they have rules for supporting their devices. I know, I know- itunes, evil apple and closed system, but I am willing to live with that but I would be able to download and play every game on their market without worries that my device would be incompatible for years to come.
GOOGLE GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER AND FIX THIS, IT'S BEEN AND IS GETTING WORSE, NOT BETTER!
I wouldnt necessarily blame google though. They have set of guidelines that if followed, apps should upscale correctly to fit larger resolution screen. Devs are just lazy and unfortunately some of them don't support tf700.
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aznmode said:
I wouldnt necessarily blame google though. They have set of guidelines that if followed, apps should upscale correctly to fit larger resolution screen. Devs are just lazy and unfortunately some of them don't support tf700.
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I do blame google, they allow the apps on the market without trying to hold the devs accountable to following the rules. why have guidelines if they aren't going to be enforced in any fashion. Sure, our devices were the first to hit the 1080p resolution in the Android market, but **** none of the big players are interested in supporting it. Even if they say they support it they really don't. As an example, you can buy need for speed for the infinity, it says it's compatible in the market, you can download the base files, but your f'd trying to download the additional files needed to play. ow whos fault is that? Google for allowing it to happen or EA for even allowing the base file to be downloaded? In this case, it's both parties, but when it comes to overall compatibility it's on googles shoulders for not enforcing some sort penalty.
It really doesn't matter what I think, they got my money and I'll make sure I don't fall in the shame on me catagory.
Oh and the Zen pinball not compatible issue, they turned it back on for the tf700 after I had a nice conversation with them about it not working. I will cut and paste my emails and their responses. BTW it all happened in a 30-45 minute window.
This is how devs should respond to issues with their apps.
This is me emailing them about the problem with Zen Pinball after the latest update.
"Hi,
I am a little more than frustrated with your company right now. I had this game running perfectly fine before the latest update, which broke portrait mode, so I figured I would un-install it then re-install it to see if that would fix the issue. Low and behold my device is NOW INCOMPATIBLE, which is a crock of you know what, it worked great before this last update. My device is a tegra 3 device, this game is marketed as a tegra 3 game with enhanced visuals, my daughters FUHU NABI 2 is compatible, a friggin kids tablet is compatible but my $600 Infinity isn't? Pleae send me the old apk so I can play one of my favorite games again.
Thank You".
Their response,
"Hi Cris,
Thank you for your email. We are aware of the issue with portrait mode, and will be issuing a fix shortly.
I am not sure why your device is now listed as incompatible, but I will look into this right away.
These updates are tricky, there always seems to be issues that we could not test for, or weird settings that we need to look at in the Google Store."
My response back,
"I appreciate your timely response to this problem, I contacted google play and they looked on the blacklist and the infinity is listed on that, just an FYI. Once this issue is resolved can you please email me and let me know because it really was my favorite game on the market.
Thank You."
And their response,
"We are turning the device back on momentarily. Portrait mode will not work yet, but should work soon as well. Apologies for the inconvenience."
Talk about easy, I mean they gave personal responses, not canned, looked into the problem and made available again in less then an hour. This is great customer service and in turn make me want to buy more of their games.
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More information from Zen Studios
Hi Cris,
The device was turned on about an hour ago, but could take up to an hour longer to reinstate. Please let me know if things continue to not work for you a few hours from now.
I had been looking into running certain applications that for some reason only run on other devices I do not have onto my own set of devices, such as my primary, the note 3 from Verizon. I had successfully been able to achieve root and have safestrap with a partition of hyperdrive so I can test apps on there without ruining my default rom. First, I had seen that a file called, "build.prop" was accessible after root to mess around with to achieve running "non-compatible" apps on my note 3. While this did seem like a good method to attempt to get apps I could not get originally from the play store, a problem struck (well actually a few more than one). I needed to know multiple pieces of info from the device that was compatible with the app I wanted to use in the first place such as model number etc. I thought at first that I would have been able to get that info off the Nvidia Shield by searching it up online. That however was a failure since I could note find anything. My main point is that I would like to know if there is a way of flashing or installing the nvidia grid app to my note 3 after having succeeded to root the device.
This has been talked about before, a guy attepted to get it too work on another device but failed.
Grid is mean't only for the shield, no offense but we also don't need people from other devices sucking up grids connections anyway.
Also if I remember right, on nvidia's forums nvidia tried to make it in a way to only work on the shield.
If you really want to play pc games on it, use splashtop thd and stream games from your pc too your device.
try this
if you have a rooted ouya, and know how to extract an appstore apk, then try the amazing frog on the shield, it has full controller support for shield and is pretty fun, especially if you want the experience on the go
LiveMChief said:
This has been talked about before, a guy attepted to get it too work on another device but failed.
Grid is mean't only for the shield, no offense but we also don't need people from other devices sucking up grids connections anyway.
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It must be more than just build.prop, more on system files. Like an assert check.
The closest I got was just changing the build.prop, just to download the damn app.
Nvidia is a large company anyway, they can handle it, they let Ouya on it.
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Also if I remember right, on nvidia's forums nvidia tried to make it in a way to only work on the shield.
If you really want to play pc games on it, use splashtop thd and stream games from your pc too your device.
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You forget that Ouya has it, and it's Tegra 3 (Not 4), plus 1GB of Ram. This app is worth cracking down.
(Something Wikipad Inc. has very similar specs to and definitely what I'm looking into)
Don't use Splashtop THD, little to no controller support and forces resolution.
Use Kainy, for now...
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It must be more than just build.prop, more on system files. Like an assert check.
The closest I got was just changing the build.prop, just to download the damn app.
Nvidia is a large company anyway, they can handle it, they let Ouya on it.
You forget that Ouya has it, and it's Tegra 3 (Not 4), plus 1GB of Ram. This app is worth cracking down.
(Something Wikipad Inc. has very similar specs to and definitely what I'm looking into)
Don't use Splashtop THD, little to no controller support and forces resolution.
Use Kainy, for now...
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Hello, I actually own a wikipad, in which you were talking about, and it is somewhat similar to the shield. I rooted it and I'm trying to get the grid beta app. I read a thing saying that it was only for people living in California because their towers signal doesn't go everywhere. I managed to download the app from apptoide but when you try to open it it tells you that your device isn't supported and I guess editing the build.prop to the shields doesn't work. Once the app is off the beta version someone will probably crack it.
No offense but I hope GRID sticks to SHIELD. If others start hogging up the servers we'll never get to enjoy the games on the device they are meant for.
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leolawliet said:
No offense but I hope GRID sticks to SHIELD. If others start hogging up the servers we'll never get to enjoy the games on the device they are meant for.
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The games are meant for PC so your statement contradicts itself..