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[Q] Downloading from the market on a PC

A friend of mine wants to buy a Desire S. He won't have 3G in his subscription for the mobile phone. In other words: the phone could only have an internet-connection by using WiFi.
Unfortunately, he doesn't have a WiFi access point in his house, because his father can not stand the radiation. All the internet-connections in his house are wired, and none of the neighbours have an unsecured WiFi access point.
So, this would mean he can't use the market, because the phone can't be connected to internet at his house. Ofcourse, he could download apps at school or at one of his friend's houses, but this is a bit unpractical.
In other words; I am looking for a certain app on the PC or a website, which can browse through the Market, and download the APKs, so he can install them manually (only the free ones ofcourse).
I already checked AndroLib and Cyrket, but none of them provides a downloadlink, only a QR-code.
Is there any alternative, or is the only way of downloading apps at his house searching APKs manually by using Google?
Thanks in advance.

That's a tough one. You can browse the market from any browser. You just need to go to https://market.android.com/.
However, when you "purchase" an app, it will only send via cellular, not internet.
I wish you luck on this.

Well, you could do that on Nokia phones by accessing the 'ovi' site and using some parameters to make the site "think" you were accessing using a mobile phone. In Android Market I don't think you can do that... But there's a way to get the programs needed: with YOUR help !!!
If you have an Android phone, you can download the apps he needs and then backup them using Titanium Backup or App Backup and Reinstall. The 'apk' files will be saved in a directory and you can send them to your friend by bluetooth, or put then on a usb pen...
But... let me tell you this: the Android phone relies SO MUCH in internet data that not having wifi nor 3g subscription is almost a crime, specially having a Desire S !!!

Thanks for the help guys!
Guess I'll have to help him whenever he wants new apps, but that isn't a big deal.
At least there is another one who switched to Android

just google the file and youll get the app.

Browsers not working."internal error"

I'm connected with a phone company called "simple mobile" . When i try to use internet with default "browser" or "dolphin" it says
" internal error Access is not allowed for this user agent in WWW.******.com" the "*" are whatever site I'm trying to go to. The only browser that works is "puffin"... all other apps that use internet work fine...
Anybody have any ideas how i can fix?
I Have a AT&T inspire.
Sent from my Desire HD using xda premium

Android Malvertising/Browser Hijack?

Sometimes when surfing the web on my phone I end up either having the play store open with a suggested app or have the page I was starting to read redirected to another site informing me that my device is slow or a similar message.
I'm increasingly seeing these on different Android devices: My Nexus 5, my mothers S4 Mini and even my father owning a S3 sees these kind of adverts every now and again.
Tonight while browsing an XDA article, I was redirected to another page telling me that my phone was running slow. So I closed the tab, and tried to go read XDA once again, and again I'm redirected to this dodgy page asking me to download software. It appeared to do this until I cleared my cache, cookies etc. Was this a browser hijack!? I have scanned my N5 with Malwarebytes to be sure nothing was actually saved to my device and it came up clean.
I am using Stock 4.4.2, not even rooted. I was using Dolphin browser while browsing XDA when this occurred. My question is: how can I prevent this from occurring again? I am fairly sure my phone isn't home to any malware as I always scrutinise apps and their permissions prior to installation.
Sent from my Nexus 5

Hmm. I have no idea what Dolphin does as far keeping up with browser exploits and how well it does as far as security related stuff.
What I use is Firefox with http://noscript.net/nsa/ and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/ (but mobile version).
Once when I was malware hunting shady sites I did get a different result when checking said sites with my phone (they have some malware distribution sites smart enough to check the browser's User Agent to see what the person is using). Basically it started showing me a scare-ware sort of "Scan now to fix virus!" sort of app, which I then just uploaded to VirusTotal (they share the findings with AV providers).

Specially when im on XDA Developer with Boat Browser sometimes automatic open PlayStoreApp with Cleanmaster or something.
Often popup like Whatsapps beeing expired,
u got virus popup !!??
some strange behavior !!
only on XDA Developer Side !?
Any solution !?

[Q] Keep getting ad ware/browser redirected

I keep getting pop ups in apps (IGN, TMZ,) and the web browsers (dolphin, Chrome,) that say Phone infected, internet to slow, out of date software, Etc.
On the web browser it keeps directing me to adcash websites and the app store to download "APPs".
I have tried different roms and started from scratch and keep getting these messages. I can look at a web page in the browser with out it sending me to some spam page.
Any way to fix this?

If you're rooted, try using some sort of Ad Blocker. Also, don't ever click on those things that say you have a virus, those are phishing attempts.
Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Tapatalk

I know not to click on them but ive had this issue since my Note 3. I will try add blocker, thanks.

HELP! Android Blu R1 HD Tether blocking Chrome !

I'm using the Blu R1 HD released on Amazon this prime day .
I'm using Foxfi/PDA+ to tether, and no matter what, most sites other than google and facebook are blocked or not serving on Google Chrome on Mac.
Safari is the only workaround where everything is serving just fine.
Anyone know how I can bypass what's blocking Chrome from serving pages through tethering on this phone?
Carrier is SimpleMobile which is a network using Tmobile as the backbone.
Perhaps its not a phone issue, but a carrier issue thats blocking Chrome. Anyone have any advice on how to get Chrome to serve the pages?
Thanks a million!

use a user agent switcher there is quite a few available in the chrome extension store
set it to a mobile browser or safari