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Zune Pass & Marketplace US - Accessing from UK

Hi all,
Got a question that I'd like some guidance on.
Got a Lumia 710 the other week - great phone - and recently signed up for a trial period of Zune Pass (where you can download tracks and such for "free")
However - I had to reset my phone a couple of days ago and set it to link to a US Live Account I used to have by mistake.
As a result of this I got the extra Zune Music features in the player such as Artist Bios, Album Reviews, Smart DJ, etc.
I noticed that once I re-hard reset my phone back to the UK those features have disappeared.
So the question I have is - is there any way to either unlock these features under my UK phone setup (via a hack or other method) - or is there a way to be able to access them via the US setup, but still be able to purchase apps and music. Or is there a third way (the best of both worlds) to be able to have the phone setup in US mode, but be able to purchase items with a UK card (be it directly out of Microsoft or via a third party selling "giftcards" - as you can do with the iPhone)

They're tied to the Live ID. It may be possible using some high-privilege hacks (on a Lumia 710, this would require intalling a custom ROM) to change that region your phone things it's in, but I don't promise that will help with getting the services from the server.
I find the whole regional thing incredibly annoying, but apparently the world has a surplus of lawyers and some of them decided that more money could be made if contracts for such services were written with stupid regional restrictions in place.

WCR46 said:
Hi all,
Got a question that I'd like some guidance on.
Got a Lumia 710 the other week - great phone - and recently signed up for a trial period of Zune Pass (where you can download tracks and such for "free")
However - I had to reset my phone a couple of days ago and set it to link to a US Live Account I used to have by mistake.
As a result of this I got the extra Zune Music features in the player such as Artist Bios, Album Reviews, Smart DJ, etc.
I noticed that once I re-hard reset my phone back to the UK those features have disappeared.
So the question I have is - is there any way to either unlock these features under my UK phone setup (via a hack or other method) - or is there a way to be able to access them via the US setup, but still be able to purchase apps and music. Or is there a third way (the best of both worlds) to be able to have the phone setup in US mode, but be able to purchase items with a UK card (be it directly out of Microsoft or via a third party selling "giftcards" - as you can do with the iPhone)
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Hi,
I have a UK Zune pass, tied to a UK Hotmail I.D. and a UK debit card, and whilst Album reviews and Artist Bios are not available, the Smart DJ feature is.
Hope that helps.
Regards
Garrickus

Set it up like mine. We're kinda in the same boat but I'm in NZ and we DO NOT have Zune Pass.
I have mine set up with a US account, I use a legal US address with permission from the owner, and a valid US number. Although I use an NZ visa debit card, only it charges me after the currency has been converted from USD to NZD. All works ok, but in Xbox I cannot purchase MS points as the address I have in my account, and the address on my debit card are different, hence verification fails. But this can be solved by purchasing prepaid cards or via zune software so not really a big deal for me.
And regarding to your post, the features are tied to the country of your account is set to. Not Live ID but Zune Account and Xbox Live share the same information. You can change the country of your Live ID but this WILL NOT change the country of your Zune or Xbox Live account. So if you want a full-pledged windows phone, you're better off with a US account, but if you want your phone to go local and loyal to your country, then set it up as UK. In my case, NZ has barely any features, its like having a stripped down version of windows phone - no zune pass and those other zune features, no bing music, no IE tap-to-call, no US apps like iheartradio or netflix.

[Q] Phone model gets carrier prefix

Hi.
I'm running the latest cm10.1 nightly (120110).
In the google play store it says my phone model is "Telenor Samsung Nexus S" (Telenor is my carrier).
It also says that many apps aren't compatible with my phone.
I've looked around in the build.prop but can't find anything with my carrier there.
Anyone got a tip how I can change this and be able to download these apps?
Regards Robin Hansson

obyn said:
Hi.
I'm running the latest cm10.1 nightly (120110).
In the google play store it says my phone model is "Telenor Samsung Nexus S" (Telenor is my carrier).
It also says that many apps aren't compatible with my phone.
I've looked around in the build.prop but can't find anything with my carrier there.
Anyone got a tip how I can change this and be able to download these apps?
Regards Robin Hansson
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Has nothing to do with your carrier prefixing your model. Mine says my carrier too, and everything is compatible, doesn't change the "real" model from Nexus S.
Most incompatibilities are related either to DPI (did you change yours?), changing the model and brand in build.prop, which I imagine you didn't do, or your country of origin.

Mine says that too but it installs most of the apps from play store (all the compatible apps) .. maybe u r trying to install apps that arent compatible with the Nexus S

Pixel 2 eSIM is available for any carrier .. with a big caveat

I've been poking with Android studio to see if my Pixel 2 has support for eSIM outside Project Fi and the answer seems to be affirmative. The following code when run on a Pixel 2 on Pie returns 'enabled'
Code:
EuiccManager mgr = (EuiccManager) context.getSystemService(Context.EUICC_SERVICE);
boolean isEnabled = mgr.isEnabled();
// isEnabled = true on Pixel 2
// eUICC Android 9 APIs claim this means eSIM support is available for apps
Seems that carriers should be able to create their eSIM apps for Android and it will work in Pixel 2. Google Fi app must do exactly this.
Sadly, there are lots of security restrictions around these APIs and it doesn't seem possible to create a 3rd party app that can read QR codes and download profiles into eSIM without rooting. It seems likely one can easily create a system app to download eSIMs from QR codes after root. But this was obviously Google's job with eSIM manager, who has inexplicably reserved this feature for Pixel 3, and has locked the app on Pixel 2 to a version from 2017 that can't do QR codes.
TLDR
Pixel 2 supports eSIM for any carrier, but only if carrier provides app for eSIM provisioning. QR code eSIMs won't work unless Google updates eSIM manager.

bartolo5 said:
QR code eSIMs won't work unless Google updates eSIM manager.
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It is possible to install a newer version of SIM Manager which does support QR code scanning during eSIM provisioning. However, at least from my experience, it still would not help as the process is unable to finish successfully due to some exceptions. It seems like the updated SIM Manager is unable to obtain the eSIM metadata. Some logs are mentioned in this post.

Is Hong-Kong/China version of Note 10 (SM-N9700) include Google Serivces?

Hello,
I just got from eBay Hong-Kong/China version of Galaxy Note 10 (SM-N9700).
I bought this version because it was at a big discount.
I checked the frequencies and channels and it suits the carriers I'm using.
Also, it includes the same CPU and RAM
But a minute before I opened the box I notice some article online that describe this version as one that doesn't have Google services support because in China it's not allowed.
I love Google apps and services and use them all the time.
Before I open the box I really want to know if I can install and use google apps without any issues?
I prefer to avoid any root hacking or install new firmware.
Also in website, it was signed with "/DS" suffix which means it's dual-sim
But when I looked on the box it was with this suffix and I use two different carriers, one local and one international
Should I open the box to check if it's actually dual sim?
My carriers are:
* T-Mobile in USA
* Cellcom in Israel
Thank you ,
Or hirshfeld

orhirshfeld said:
Hello,
I just got from eBay Hong-Kong/China version of Galaxy Note 10 (SM-N9700).
I bought this version because it was at a big discount.
I checked the frequencies and channels and it suits the carriers I'm using.
Also, it includes the same CPU and RAM
But a minute before I opened the box I notice some article online that describe this version as one that doesn't have Google services support because in China it's not allowed.
I love Google apps and services and use them all the time.
Before I open the box I really want to know if I can install and use google apps without any issues?
I prefer to avoid any root hacking or install new firmware.
Also in website, it was signed with "/DS" suffix which means it's dual-sim
But when I looked on the box it was with this suffix and I use two different carriers, one local and one international
Should I open the box to check if it's actually dual sim?
My carriers are:
* T-Mobile in USA
* Cellcom in Israel
Thank you ,
Or hirshfeld
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Yes, HK version is the international firmware with all google services and apps (I know I answer a bit late for you but maybe some people are still interested)

Question Google Wallet Tap to pay not working on Rog Phone 7 - ASUS_AI2205_E Model

I just received my ROG phone 7. I ordered it from the rog.asus.phone/us site directly, so I assume it is legit.
The model number on the box says : ASUS_AI2205_E
I am not able to set up Tap to pay (google pay / wallet) on my phone. I get the message "This phone can't be set up to tap to pay". Not sure what the problem is. According to google play, my device is "Play Protect Certified". I also see on the Google Wallet "Tap to Pay setup" that "Phone does not meet security requirements". Not sure what the issue is. Anyone tried setting this up on a US version of the ROG phone ?
Note : I phone has been updated to the latest security patch (May 1 2023) and running the latest firmware (WW_33.0820.0810.188)

Seeing the same on mine. US version as well, purchased from the Asus store.

I contacted both Google and ASUS support. They were passing the buck back and forth. Finally the ASUS tech support said they will escalate this and get back to me in a day.
Anyway, It would be nice if everyone else with the US model of the phone contact ASUS tech support as well. This can only be fixed if Google is notified by ASUS of the complete list of phone models.

Having the same issue and Asus support is being useless.

Same issue as well, can't connect my chase card to the app

That's crazy I have gotten mine off AliExpress with global rom and it works fine.

Johnnysausage said:
That's crazy I have gotten mine off AliExpress with global rom and it works fine.
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I found this list, of google play supported devices : https://storage.googleapis.com/play_public/supported_devices.html
It includes only ASUS_AI2205_A and ASUS_AI2205_C , which are the global versions I presume. The US versions end with _E and _F (I see _B and _D on geekbench as well).

Unfortunately, the only way is to get ASUS to report the complete list of devices to google.