I've been using my HTC Hero in mainland China now for three months. Up until about one week ago, whenever I tried to download an app from the Market there was about a 50-50 chance it would work. When it didnt work there would almost immediately be a notification message saying unable to download, please try later etc. Retrying immediately almost never worked. Some random point later in the day, it would work.
However, one week (or maybe 10 days) ago things got much much worse. Its been virtually impossible to download anything. I must have tried over a hundred times. There was one exception 3 days ago where there was a small time window of less than an hour where I managed to download a couple of apps. It was like winning the lottery :) What's worse, a couple of days ago I started getting a message saying I needed to log in to my google account (whenever I opened the Market app). But logging in never succeeds. The internet connection is fine (I can browse the internet over EDGE), but for some reason, a connection cannot be made to the google servers to do account access... On Nov 17, 6:44 pm, siuying <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > China government blocked Google sync services in China. Google > probably aware, but I dont think they can help. Note this is not only > affecting Android but almost affect every similar services. This may > or may not be official, government can block any service without prior > notification! > > Regards > siuying > > On 11月17日, 上午11時13分, shimsim <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > For well over 1 month now my ADP G1 has been experiencing connectivity > > issues in China. Both the market place and gmail are affected by this > > problem (actually anything requiring account authorization from what i > > can tell) during which time they are both unaccessible. On average the > > blocking is in effect 90% of the time but at random periods during the > > day/night will start to work again. > > > I have ruled out any issues with my phone and judging by the number of > > other users that are experiencing this problem it seems fairly > > widespread. > > > My questions are as follows: > > > 1. Is Google aware of this problem? > > 2. What is the reason for the blocking? > > 3. Will it continue in the long term? > > > I am really hoping to get an official statement on what is really > > going on. > > I would prefer if people didn't jump in and start suggesting VPN > > options, whilst I am familiar with some workarounds, I would prefer to > > understand the root of the problem and how it will effect Android in > > the long term in China. > > > Thank you! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
