The sync works again! Market also became accessible! WoooW~~ YEAH! I just discovered this morning. Everything looks fine~ Hope this sort of blocking wont happen again.
"Free the Internet! Lame China gov!" On Nov 18, 9:22 am, shimsim <[email protected]> wrote: > As you mentioned siuying, its thesyncservices that are getting > blocked. westmeadboy, that is why everything else works fine, but if > you need to collect gmail or download a market app or sign in to your > account again, its not going to work. > > Whilst I am opposed toChinablocking facebook, twitter and anything > politically sensitive, I understand their opposition to it but what is > the logic of blockingAndroid. > What I am also trying to understand is WHY and if this is going to be > an ongoing issue or something that Google is working on resolving with > the government here so that users can at least have a phone that > works, even if lets say market apps are censored. > > Can anyone from the officialAndroidteam or Google shed some light on > this subject. I appreciate more people inChinaposting their > experience of this problem but more importantly I want the above > questions answered. > > Thanks! > > On Nov 17, 9:03 pm, westmeadboy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I've been using my HTC Hero in mainlandChinanow 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 > > > >Chinagovernment blocked Googlesyncservices inChina. Google > > > probably aware, but I dont think they can help. Note this is not only > > > affectingAndroidbut almost affect every similar services. This may > > > or may not be official, government canblockany 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 inChina. 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 effectAndroidin > > > > the long term inChina. > > > > > 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
