[Q] Maket place not avail in your region

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2 Days old hd7. Bought from London 02 locked. Used imie unlocked website n got kt unlocked.

now I'm in India. When ever I try to access marketplace it says not available for ur region. is this normal or since its unlocked some features may not work?

Or it would only work with 02sim and in London only?

also has anyone been able to manage a file explorer ? I'd still need market place though

It's to do with the Live ID you used to sign in. It is most likely linked to India and because the marketplace isn't open to India yet you will not be able to access it.
IF you want to gain access you will need to setup a new Live ID with American / British addresses.
I'm not sure how payment will work though as you may need a Billing Address in the US /UK.

Okay this is what i tried.

I reset my HD7. Then when it started i didnt set up the live ID. i tried market place and it worked on my home WiFi. (i put my sin card off - flight mode)

Then i went on the computer and changed my hotmail id to united states. I entered my id on hD7 and again on WiFi tried market place and it worked.

BUT when i tried to purchase anything it says product not available on catlogue.

Then i started my simcard and tried market place again and it said itsnot available for this region.

So its the sim card thats creating the region.

Now with my ID set as USA, when im in london next i am going to try market place. I have a 3 service sim card there with internet on it.

Will then check and post again.

I tried to put my phone and flight mode and tried market place on WiFi and guess what now again it says not available for your region.

So until i had no sim activated inside i was good. but now somehow phone knows wether flight mode or no flight mode...my location is India

As far as I know, once a Live ID is created for a certain region, you cannot change the region.
You are able to change it for the individual services (Hotmail, etc) but the base ID remains attached to the country you registered it as. There were some problems experienced by UK residents where they had initially registered a US account for use with Zune marketplace and then changed it all to UK when they purchased a WP7 device but because it was still a US account they could not add their UK credit card for purchases in the MarketPlace.
So, it seems that you'll either need to create a new US ID but potentially have no access to your credit cards or you'll just have to wait till the WP7 launches in India.
Good luck and let me know what you try!