[Solved] The Market issues on JH2

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I found a thread over in the I9000 section that may explain our problems with the Market on JH2.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=757461

This would seem to suggest that if you are running an unreleased firmware you need to replace the build.prop file from the released version in order to fix the market.
I have not tried this yet, I need to find the build.prop file from the original firmware first.

You need to be rooted and have busybox for this:

1. Extract the build.prop from the 7z file.
2. Connect the phone via USB, select mass storage mode if prompted, and copy the build.prop file to the sdcard (I am going to have to assume root of the internal sdcard for the sake of the commands below). Then disconnect USB storage so that your phone can see the file you just copied over.

3. Open a Terminal Emulator session or have the phone in debug mode, and start ADB shell, and do the following:

$ su
# mv /system/build.prop /system/build.prop.bak<- Or use rename in Root Explorer
# cp /sdcard/build.prop /system<- Or use copy in Root Explorer
# chmod 644 /system/build.prop<- Or fix permissions to rw-r--r-- in Root Explorer
# chown root.root /system/build.prop<- You have to do this in the Terminal or an ADB Shell. If you get an error about unknown user/group, try chown 0.0 instead of root.root.
# exit
$

Now close the Terminal Emulator session. Double check ownership to root.root, and permissions to rw-r--r-- in Root Explorer or using ls -l /system/build.prop first if you are paranoid. If you are really anal, open the build.prop file you just copied over in a text editor, and make sure it says I897UCJF6 instead of I897UCJH2.

4. Start a task manager and kill the market app (if running).

5. Press the menu key while on home screen and go to Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications. Hit the menu key again, and change filter to All Applications. Then select Market, and clear the cache. I also cleared the cache of AppBrain while here, not sure if it made any difference, but won't hurt to do it.

6. Reboot the phone and use the Market for a little while. Install and uninstall a couple of apps. Once the cache rebuilds, the formerly missing apps Market pages will be visible, and available for downloads and show updates. When I first went in the Market, the apps were not there, but it took a couple times hitting the google server to get it all sorted out.

I found this JF6 build.prop file in the stock system dump here. Let's see how this works:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730226

Uploaded the stock build.prop to /system. It seems to make no difference in terms of availibility of the missing apps (only tried Fandango, but still missing). Grrrrr...need solution.

This did work for me. Thanks for the JF6 build.prop file.
This requires a rooted phone. You can brick your phone messing around with root. Not my fault...
I shut down the Market app, cleared its cache in Settings/Applications/Market (Filter select All Files to show Market app).
I added the JF6 build.prop to /system, replacing the JH2 version. I use root explorer to move the file on and off the SD internal.
Changed the permissions back to rw-r-r, using root explorer permissions. When the file is transferred back to the phone from the SD, the permissions will be rw-rwx-rx. Changed ownership back to root.root on the phone using terminal emulator:
$ su
# chown root.root /system/build.prop
Rebooted the phone, uninstalled and re-installed an app.
Searched for previously missing app and found it.

Originally Posted by daverup

This did work for me. Thanks for the JF6 build.prop file.
I shut down the Market app, cleared its cache in Settings/Applications/Market.
I added the JF6 build.prop to /system, replacing the JH2 version.
Changed the permissions back to rw-r-r, and changed ownership back to root.root
Rebooted the phone, uninstalled and re-installed an app.
Searched for previously missing app and found it.

Trying to what you posted, but I don't see market listed under Settings/Applications or Settings/Applications/Manage Applications. How do I get to it, to clear cache?

Originally Posted by rajendra82

Trying to what you posted, but I don't see market listed under Settings/Applications or Settings/Applications/Manage Applications. How do I get to it, to clear cache?

Once you get to manage applications you need to change the filter to show all apps. Press the menu button > filter > all.

Originally Posted by dontshakepandas

Once you get to manage applications you need to change the filter to show all apps. Press the menu button > filter > all.

Working now. This is great. Now with the last issue resloved, I can keep the new firmware around. This needs a sticky, with all these weekly firmware releases from samsung-firmwares showing up.

Originally Posted by daverup

This did work for me. Thanks for the JF6 build.prop file.
I shut down the Market app, cleared its cache in Settings/Applications/Market.
I added the JF6 build.prop to /system, replacing the JH2 version.
Changed the permissions back to rw-r-r, and changed ownership back to root.root
Rebooted the phone, uninstalled and re-installed an app.
Searched for previously missing app and found it.

Can you post the commands used to do this for users who aren't as knowledgeable.

yes. walkthrough please?

would love to get this working, I don't want to have to flash back to original.