Speaking of drivers... does anyone know if they are necessarily
different from brand to brand and phone to phone, or is it just that
the SDK ones only know about the VID/PID's of a few early phones?

On Oct 1, 1:43 pm, Phil Nickinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yeah, the drivers can be pretty big pain.
>
> And, yes, this is just a little adb trick. Jerry released the source code
> for it (the link is in the post), so have at it!
>
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Olivier Guilyardi <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the tip.
>
> > Is this just plain adb? If yes then I even could make a custom installer I
> > guess.
>
> > The only difficult part I see here is the USB driver. Some user wanted to
> > try
> > adb and had a very bad time finding a driver for his "LG Eve". Okay, maybe
> > that
> > this is not the most wide-spread phone around, but still.. I'm expecting an
> > increase in direct downloads and I wouldn't like to spend hours debugging
> > USB
> > thingies with users.
>
> > One thing, I'm french, and I don't really know what happens with AT&T,
> > Verizon,
> > etc.. in the US.
>
> > Which carrier is most popular amongst Android users?
>
> > Thanks
>
> > Olivier
>
> > On 10/01/2010 06:45 PM, Phil Nickinson wrote:
> > > Yeah, that's the way AT&T's doing things. But we worked up an easy way
> > > around it. Sideloading via the desktop. Completely Kosher.
>
> >http://forum.androidcentral.com/android-applications/23940-android-ce...
>
> > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Olivier Guilyardi <[email protected]
> > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> > >     Hi,
>
> > >     I am distributing an app outside of the market, directly from my
> > >     website.
>
> > >     A Samsung Captivate user reported that he couldn't install it, and
> > >     that he had
> > >     no Settings/Applications/Unknown Sources option.
>
> > >     Then I found that this seems to be AT&T specific:
>
> >http://www.droid-life.com/2010/07/01/att-hates-supporting-the-android...
>
> > >     Is this correct? Are all AT&T Android devices "market-locked"?
>
> > >     If yes, how do alternative stores deal with this issue?
>
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