[Q] Apps marked not compatible in market

[wintermute000]

Anyone else getting large numbers of apps (esp games) not showing as compatible in market?

e.g. ADW EX, Cut the Rope.

At first I thought it was just me, but I had a chat with another XDA member, who sent me a screenshot of the android market saying his tablet S was compatible with ADW. On mine, its clearly greyed out. So I'm thinking there's something wrong with my tablet or google account?

Any hints appreciated

 

[CHRIS-AUDIO]

Hello,

Just because you mentioned about cut the rope game, i installed it and it plays OK (sony s 16gb).

Chris

 

[wintermute000]

sh-t that confirms it. Theres something wrong with my market account.
I've written to several app devs and they all say their app is marked compatible.

The two 'test' cases I'm using is cut the rope and ADW EX. Both are greyed out in web market, and just do not appear in tablet market.

I've tried clearing the cache and force stopping, no dice.

Anybody seen this before?

 

[kryddan]

I just looked at market to see if I could find "cut the rope" and it shows up, and is compatible with my sony tablet s. It shows on my tablet market as well.
ADW EX also shows up here. no problems with them what so ever. I got the sgpt111us/s model.

 

[arw01]

There are a lot of Gameloft games that you have to sideload. And Gameloft does not bother to answer their support emails.

I had to side load the tivo application from my rooted OG to my tablet, but it works fine. Someday I will buy a premier so i can actually use it though!

 

[Overdosser]

Hello

I have this problem too.

I asked Sony support (Russia) about this problem.
They said that I could:
1. Clear market cache. It doesn't work.
2. Clear data. It doesn't work.
3. Delete update for market. It doesn't work.
4. update information about tablet from web android market. Here I have question :how could I do this?

 

[wintermute000]

I suspect its something to do with regions and region locking for certain apps, tablets and user accounts.

e.g. I am accessing market from Hong Kong location, but I'm normally based in Australia, and my google account/credit card etc. is all Aussie. I'll wait to see what happens when I get back to australia.

If there are region restrictions based on app, user account etc. IT SHOULD BE MADE CLEAR. google support fail (again....) its enough to make you consider a fricking fruit machine some times

 

[unclespoon]

http://mashable.com/2012/01/03/android-fragmentation/

it's good information to know and very helpful, albeit discouraging