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Indycar Mobile APK for non verizon users?

as the tittle states im looking for the indycar mobile app, you can only find it on the market or have it texted to you but only if you have verizon. I do not so please help

bump... anyone?

Anyone with Verizon please help?
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Sprint User - Sucessfully downloaded Indycar App from Market
If you have root, Install Market Enabler: This will allow you to temporarily set your phone to appear as a Verizon phone and download the Indycar App. Just did it and it works.
Description of Market Enabler:
"A SIM Tool application to change the SIM issuer code in the running system (not permanent, will be original after reboot or flight mode)
This application is ad supported, please see my other applications to get a donate key that will remove the ads ;-)
Precondition to use this tool is
- Rooted phone
- su app
- busybox"

Works for download the app but after the app seeks for Verizon network to authenticate.

Yeah, I've got a rooted Cliq that I downloaded the IndyCar App with, but it needs a Verizon data connection to enable the app. I think this is probably a similar check as my girlfriends Evo3D's NASCAR app, which needed a Sprint connection.
1. Any way to fool the app into authenticating?
2. Any way to transfer an authenticated app?

Perhaps someone with a verizon connection could create a backup after it authenticates the first time so that others can restore?
Would that work?

aidanbree said:
Perhaps someone with a verizon connection could create a backup after it authenticates the first time so that others can restore?
Would that work?
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I did this by downloading and running the app on my Verizon Galaxy Nexus, then copying the backup to my Transformer Prime (non-Verizon). It bypassed the check, but alerted me that I was running a non-supported device and closed. I looks like not only does it do a network check, but also a device compatibility check. So no-go for me.

zulucap said:
I did this by downloading and running the app on my Verizon Galaxy Nexus, then copying the backup to my Transformer Prime (non-Verizon). It bypassed the check, but alerted me that I was running a non-supported device and closed. I looks like not only does it do a network check, but also a device compatibility check. So no-go for me.
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Hmm, that stinks. I 'downloaded' the app on my Dad's iPhone. It looks like it was just a web page that added an icon to his home screen. It was originally open in safari, and in the menu, there was an option to add the page to the homescreen. After that it seemed to work like a normal app. On the iPhone, it seems like it was just a link to a webpage.
I wonder how hard it'd be to decompile this thing and take out these checks?
Also, if you want to stream IMS radio from the webpage on an android, it looks like you need to set your useragent to the desktop. The streaming audio didn't work on racecontrol.indycar.com until I did that. I used Dolphin to change the user agent.

I would like to run it on my Galaxy nexus.
Zulucap - any chance you can share your backed-up app with me?

I have a backed up indycar mobile apk that installs gets threw the network check but fails because my device is not supported. If anyone has the knowledge to figure this out I would make it worth their while. Let me know and I can send the back up files.
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rwbrooks99 said:
I have a backed up indycar mobile apk that installs gets threw the network check but fails because my device is not supported. If anyone has the knowledge to figure this out I would make it worth their while. Let me know and I can send the back up files.
Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201 using XDA Premium HD app
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if you have root change the name in the build.prop. use adb or ROM toolbox pro app, there is a setting called build.prop editor. pm me if it works. i would do this with netflix app back in the day. you have the find the name of the phone the backup came from, and change yours to that. ---this is how devs change the device name when you see a crazy ass phone name ex DARKSIDE Galaxy it is cap sensitive. ex. to get netflix on my nexus i would change Samsung to samsung. hope this helps

Did anyone ever get this to work? Would be nice for the 500!

aidanbree said:
Did anyone ever get this to work? Would be nice for the 500!
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It's easy enough to get it installed on a non-Verizon phone, but when you open the app, it still complains about not being on a Verizon network. I'm wondering if the initial load has to happen over a Verizon IP connection to "verify" the app. If that's the case, I wonder if you could launch it with a data connection shared via a Verizon hotspot? I guess if it can force the initial connection via the cell radio, this wouldn't work.
To install it on a non-Verizon device, you can go to the webpage play store and push it to your device.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vzw.indycar

Sending phone back, best way to back things up?

After having nothing but trouble with my Sensation since June, I finally decided it needed to go back to Tmobile for a replacement. Thankfully I held off on rooting it since I know that can be a very hit or miss situation to fix prior to returning it. What is the best way to back up my apps and data so that I can get the new phone "looking" like this one? Clearly I can not root, so I need a solution that does not require tinkering. I have heard that all apps downloaded from the official Market should be available again (at no charge), can anyone confirm this? If so, how do I go about getting those apps? Also, will the same happen for free daily apps I downloaded from the Amazon App store?

Hi,
I'm also waiting for maturity and ease on rooting/unrooting this phone for the same reason you are
I had to do a factory reset on my Sensation after a couple of weeks and was pleasantly surpised to not only get my contacts back but all the apps I'd installed via Market.
Ensure both boxes are checked under "backup and restore" in Privacy settings and that you've been synchronizing with Google ok and you should get all the Market apps + your contacts and also your settings (like notification, ringtone etc) back
Sorry dunno about Amazon. Hope this helps.
Sent from my HTC Sensation using XDA App

RazyB said:
Hi,
I'm also waiting for maturity and ease on rooting/unrooting this phone for the same reason you are
I had to do a factory reset on my Sensation after a couple of weeks and was pleasantly surpised to not only get my contacts back but all the apps I'd installed via Market.
Ensure both boxes are checked under "backup and restore" in Privacy settings and that you've been synchronizing with Google ok and you should get all the Market apps + your contacts and also your settings (like notification, ringtone etc) back
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That is interesting. Now, the question is did that work because you were using the same device? I am wondering how it works once you switch to a totally new piece of hardware with a different ESN and so forth.

You will keep all your maket app. Also, your Amazon app store purchase will be there if you sign in with the same account. Just backup your contact info to google and that should be it. The only thing that you will lose is app settings and data.

gottabekin said:
You will keep all your maket app. Also, your Amazon app store purchase will be there if you sign in with the same account. Just backup your contact info to google and that should be it. The only thing that you will lose is app settings and data.
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+1. all i had to do was setup my account on my second Sensation and it was just like the first one.

DrBrick said:
+1. all i had to do was setup my account on my second Sensation and it was just like the first one.
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Will text messages be carried over to the new device as well?

webmaster said:
Will text messages be carried over to the new device as well?
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Use SMS Backup in the market, remember to keep your current SD csrd, the backup will be on it. Backup with Gmail works good too, both are available in the market.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using Tapatalk

Use MyBackup Root if you're rooted. It saves your stuff on your SD card and you can restore it on a new device.

webmaster said:
After having nothing but trouble with my Sensation since June, I finally decided it needed to go back to Tmobile for a replacement. Thankfully I held off on rooting it since I know that can be a very hit or miss situation to fix prior to returning it. What is the best way to back up my apps and data so that I can get the new phone "looking" like this one? Clearly I can not root, so I need a solution that does not require tinkering. I have heard that all apps downloaded from the official Market should be available again (at no charge), can anyone confirm this? If so, how do I go about getting those apps? Also, will the same happen for free daily apps I downloaded from the Amazon App store?
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You will be able to keep all of your amazon appstore and market purchases. You just have to redownload them while signed into the same gmail account that you made the original transaction. Be wary of some game apps however.. I remember there was a problem for some users using Gameloft apps where they were unable to redownload the games they had purchased and were told by the company that they had to repurchase them for use on their new device. I haven't had the problem since I back up with Titanium, but if root is not an option, then you've been warned

Rhiannon224 said:
Use SMS Backup in the market, remember to keep your current SD csrd, the backup will be on it. Backup with Gmail works good too, both are available in the market.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using Tapatalk
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Thanks, I will check those out.

T-mobile One S Bloatware Removal

I will list the Apps I felt were bloat and subsequently either disabled or removed all together.
I will also discuss how I got Mobile Life Contacts to go "EFF" itself (in other words, I actually disabled it). Anybody that owns the phone should know how hard this is.
I'm interested in finding out how T-Mobile Name ID can be removed and or disabled. If anybody knows how to disable the POS that is T-Mobile Name ID please share the solution.
Blatant Bloat:
1) 411 & More
2) Bonus Apps
3) Game Base
4) HTCDB-XXX (languages for keyboard)
5) Mobile Hotspot (I realize this app is for tethering but it's bloat because this should be free)
8) MobileLife Contacts *** More on this below
9) More for Me
10) My T-Mobile (talk about worthless, this kind of stuff should be removable!)
11) T-Mobile Mall
12) T-Mobile TV
13) Visual Voicemail (thanks but NO THANKS T-Mobile, Google offers this for free)
14) Watch
15) Zinio (UTTER GARBAGE)
Potential Bloat:
1) Facebook
2) Flickr
3) Google Play Movies
4) Google+
5) Slacker
6) Twitter
While I can appreciate T-Mobile having initiative, not everybody has accounts or is interested in using these social networks or services. It would be nice if the phone allowed us to simply REMOVE what we do not wish to use.
***Mobile Life Contacts***
The phone normally tells you this app is being used by other apps and as such a factory reset is required. I PERSONALLY reset my device about 5 freaking times today and each time the app would tell me I need to do a factory reset. After that I decided to disable (not REMOVE) all messaging and contacts app to see if it would then budge. It didn't. I got EXTREMELY upset and decided I would apply a "scorched earth method". I disabled EVERY SINGLE thing that I could from the As down to the Ms until I got to MobileLife contacts. At which point I checked the app and the "Disable" button was no longer grayed out.
I realize this is tedious, but I'm pretty sure you don't have to scorch the Earth as I did. Just disable stuff alphabetically starting from the As and keep checking to see if the app can be disabled. Also I'm pretty sure you don't have to disable the HTCDB-XXX stuff as I did.

Don't forget Where's My Water. That's a bloat game they installed.

Have you noticed any adverse effects on the phone's behavior?
I just went and disabled most of these myself, but for me it's too soon to tell.

horatiopositronic said:
Have you noticed any adverse effects on the phone's behavior?
I just went and disabled most of these myself, but for me it's too soon to tell.
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There is no adverse effect unless you actually use the services.

I just removed every single Sense widget and app out there (and all entries associated with them) + all bloat etc....so far so good...1st boot was on "Updating" OS screen for a while....

kolyan said:
I just removed every single Sense widget and app out there (and all entries associated with them) + all bloat etc....so far so good...1st boot was on "Updating" OS screen for a while....
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The updating OS screen is just the system rebuilding caches for apps. Nothing to worry about.

Man! I can't stand bloatware on T-Mobile ver. Thanks for the list. I uninstalled some of them.
Sent from my HTC VLE_U using XDA

joshnichols189 said:
There is no adverse effect unless you actually use the services.
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My service kept cutting out while I had these apps disabled. I had to bring them back from the grave.
Edit: My problem is just the damn phone itself. It loses connection like crazy! However, removing T-Mobile Highlight seems to make it worse!
Sent from my HTC VLE_U using xda premium

jonathan3579 said:
My service kept cutting out while I had these apps disabled. I had to bring them back from the grave.
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do you have more info regarding this? there're no side effects as far as i can see.

This is one of the first things I did once I was rooted. I noticed that If you freeze/uninstall the visual voicemail. you will get a error when you receive a voicemail.

Where is the disable function ? I always used tb to remove bloat.
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Go to manage apps, then look up each individual app and most will allow you to disable. It's a (much appreciated) feature of Sense 4.
I don't mind Sense and one of the two reasons I'd ever want to root this phone would be to remove all this crap. thankfully that's not necessary like it used to be.
For Mobile Life contacts all you have to do is log in to tmobile.com, delete all your contacts from the website, then tell the phone to quit syncing. viola.

nvillamob said:
Go to manage apps, then look up each individual app and most will allow you to disable. It's a (much appreciated) feature of Sense 4.
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It's an ICS feature, not a Sense 4 feature..

zylith said:
This is one of the first things I did once I was rooted. I noticed that If you freeze/uninstall the visual voicemail. you will get a error when you receive a voicemail.
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i dont get any errors
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I removed EVERYTHING (Spy soft, Sense apps and widgets that I dont use, and all bloat), my side effect are (or maybe it was like that before)
International Youtube subscriptions not showing up in youtube app (most likely Youtube and ICS issue), Geniewidget when check hourly forecast it FCs, and last issue is Picasa "share" doesnt work (this is also probably some screw up by HTC or Tmobile though)
^ would be great if people could test those 3 bugs

joshnichols189 said:
It's an ICS feature, not a Sense 4 feature..
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oh ok, I thought it was just a Sense thing.
Honestly i'm surprised that TMO didn't remove this feature so that we couldn't disable all that junk.

nvillamob said:
oh ok, I thought it was just a Sense thing.
Honestly i'm surprised that TMO didn't remove this feature so that we couldn't disable all that junk.
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Not even Verizon has removed it as far as I know Most people won't know about it so I would assume they don't care too much.
That said, not EVERYTHING can be disabled. I don't remember what since I rooted and removed them that way, but there was one or two things that I couldn't disable.

I removed everything on the list using root explorer..rebooted and worked fine with no issues. I even removed the Tmo IQ file from the apps in system. Still no issues in signal strength. Also after your done try wiping cache/dalvik and fixing permissions.
Sent from my HTC VLE_U using xda premium

Any one knows what TMO app preventing tethering on rooted phone?

mannequin said:
do you have more info regarding this? there're no side effects as far as i can see.
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I actually think it might just be the phone itself. (Whether it's software or hardware, I'm not sure yet.) I still believe that T-Mobile Highlight being disabled made the problem much worse though.
Sent from my HTC VLE_U using xda premium

Ysleiro said:
I will list the Apps I felt were bloat and subsequently either disabled or removed all together.
I will also discuss how I got Mobile Life Contacts to go "EFF" itself (in other words, I actually disabled it). Anybody that owns the phone should know how hard this is.
I'm interested in finding out how T-Mobile Name ID can be removed and or disabled. If anybody knows how to disable the POS that is T-Mobile Name ID please share the solution.
Blatant Bloat:
1) 411 & More
2) Bonus Apps
3) Game Base
4) HTCDB-XXX (languages for keyboard)
5) Mobile Hotspot (I realize this app is for tethering but it's bloat because this should be free)
8) MobileLife Contacts *** More on this below
9) More for Me
10) My T-Mobile (talk about worthless, this kind of stuff should be removable!)
11) T-Mobile Mall
12) T-Mobile TV
13) Visual Voicemail (thanks but NO THANKS T-Mobile, Google offers this for free)
14) Watch
15) Zinio (UTTER GARBAGE)
Potential Bloat:
1) Facebook
2) Flickr
3) Google Play Movies
4) Google+
5) Slacker
6) Twitter
While I can appreciate T-Mobile having initiative, not everybody has accounts or is interested in using these social networks or services. It would be nice if the phone allowed us to simply REMOVE what we do not wish to use.
***Mobile Life Contacts***
The phone normally tells you this app is being used by other apps and as such a factory reset is required. I PERSONALLY reset my device about 5 freaking times today and each time the app would tell me I need to do a factory reset. After that I decided to disable (not REMOVE) all messaging and contacts app to see if it would then budge. It didn't. I got EXTREMELY upset and decided I would apply a "scorched earth method". I disabled EVERY SINGLE thing that I could from the As down to the Ms until I got to MobileLife contacts. At which point I checked the app and the "Disable" button was no longer grayed out.
I realize this is tedious, but I'm pretty sure you don't have to scorch the Earth as I did. Just disable stuff alphabetically starting from the As and keep checking to see if the app can be disabled. Also I'm pretty sure you don't have to disable the HTCDB-XXX stuff as I did.
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I managed to disable the following:
411 & More
Access T-Mobile** - uninstall updates became My t-Mobile, disabled
Bonus Apps*
Game Base
Highlight
More for Me
Slacker*
TMo TV*
TMo Mall*
Where's My Water*
Zinio*
* these apps I had to uninstall the updates before the option to disable appeared
** for this app, when I uninstalled the updates, it became "My T-Mobile" and then I disabled it.
I didn't do much else, rebooted and all seems well.
This shouldn't affect getting any kind of updates/patches from T-Mobile, right?
Thanks for the tip!

Market broken after tether hack

Running updated, rooted, stock. Performed entitlement check hack for tethering. Tether works great. But now a number of things are happening.
1) error "process com.motorola.service.main" fc
2) error "process com.motorola.socialservice" fc
3) play store cannot download
4) screenlock not there
multiple other fc's
Have reverted entitlement check back to 1 and still happening.
Any ideas?

Screen lock not there? Like a blank screen?
And a quick google search from my end is not showing this hack for atrix 2. I'm only seeing it for OG atrix and bionic.
Little more info? The more you give the better we can help you. A link to the thread where you got the "hack" would be helpful as well. It helps to know what the mod actually modifies.

Hack came from xda atrix2 dev forum.
When I press the power button to wake device, it goes straight to home screen. No "Slide to unlock" screen.
Sent from my MB865 using xda premium

ok, have you tried to set the settings back to what they were originally?
Sent from my MB865 using xda premium

Its a very common issue with google play store, what you have to do is go to manage app/all apps/google play store and uninstall updates
Now your old market will be restored launch it accept anything it says after it loads everything close it go again to all apps and to market this time and clear data and cache and perform a reboot.
After reboot launch market and hit my apps you should see your preinstalled apps in the list.
Now download 2-3 apps from market and in 10 mins it will be automatically updated to google play and you'll be able to download apps from Google play.
This method was assisted by Google support team to me when i had this problem so give it a try.

First thing I did was revert to original.
Uninstalled Play Store updates. Stopped the install crashes but installs start and just stop with no message. All other errors still happening. Seems to be something to do with google log in( I'm guessing). I'm reluctant to remove the google account because I don't want to lose all the work I've put in so far.
Any other ideas?

Might be time to flash the fxz, if you didn't make CWM backup.
Sent from my MB865 using xda premium

After much deliberation (and frustration) I have rolled back to 2.3.5. I've decided to wait for ICS. Thanks to Jim and the device team. For the work they are doing.
Sent from my A500 using xda premium

wait... were you on ICS? And you were able to FXZ back to 2.3.5? Or you were on 2.3.6?
I have the entitlement check disabled on ICS for tethering and haven't had any new problems introduced. Have a feeling maybe something else happened here.

how to side load apps to this tablet

I just received my tablet, and I was wondering how to side load apps to the tablet. I usually use handcent for texting, it's incompatible with this tablet. Using a tablet is awesome, but it is going to take some getting used to. Thanks

hi, if you want to install aps form MSD card (for xmpl) you need to:
settings > security > unknown sources > allow installation of non-market apps

Yah, I did check that, It seems that not many apps are compatible with tablets. Thanks for the reply

Isn't handcent a messaging app?
Why would you like to install it on the tablet. Don't see any practical reason. And with this in mind, of course is not compatible

handcent wont get your text messages from your phone. you need something like Table Talk or SyncSMS

If you have a Google voice account, you can use grooveip to make and receive calls, and gvoice Google app for texts. Of course you need a Wi-Fi connection, or Wi-Fi hotspot like I have on my sensation will work too.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using xda premium

SurferLTU said:
hi, if you want to install aps form MSD card (for xmpl) you need to:
settings > security > unknown sources > allow installation of non-market apps
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wily5150 said:
Yah, I did check that, It seems that not many apps are compatible with tablets. Thanks for the reply
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after you checked that, just get the apk file you need to sideload, then use any file manager to run that file, install.