I bought a Motorola XT300 a couple of days while on a trip to China. I started looking at migrating to this new phone from my current windows mobile. I was perplexed initially when I realised that I kept getting the message that my google account is not associated with an Android device.
I then realised that XT300 did not have all the google apps preinstalled and it didn't have the market app (or vending.apk) in particular. I initially tried to download a couple of vending.apk (for Android 2.1 or below) and none of them could be launched (while they all have been installed successfully). I then tried to install various versions of cyongenmod's gapps. Not all attempts were successful but one version (cyangenmod5 tiny specifically) got me further than any other versions. I was able to install market and various google apps. However, at the time of setting up the google account, I keep getting the message that android was not able to keep a consistent connection to google. (Some other versions resulted in phone having to be reset to factory default.)
I have also tried tying in an emulator to my google account yet I get the dreaded "you have not recently opened Android Market on this device" message when I attempt to download any app from web market.
Is there a way to download any app (the ones I am after are free ones anyway) somehow?
Thanks
[update]
I managed to track down the problem to SetupWizard.apk rather than vending.apk. Market actually calls Setup Wizard in order to register a google account. I presume I am either not installing SetupWizard.apk correctly or I am using the wrong SetupWizard.apk. I could never get past contacting google without getting inconsistent connection or no data service error. If I hit skip button on the setup wizard (set up an account later), I would get com.android.setupwizard has stopped unexpectedly error. Since then, I have tried a couple of other SetupWizard.apk versions but none could be even installed let alone run.
[update 2]
I managed to obtain a ROM dump for XT300 Latin American version (SESLA_U3_01.53.1_R01). I then attempted to install all of the google apps from this rom dump (including setupwizard.apk and vending.apk). This time, every single app installs successfully. Unfortunately, setup wizard still crashes and on top of that, com.process.google.gapps also crashes.
I then realised that XT300 did not have all the google apps preinstalled and it didn't have the market app (or vending.apk) in particular. I initially tried to download a couple of vending.apk (for Android 2.1 or below) and none of them could be launched (while they all have been installed successfully). I then tried to install various versions of cyongenmod's gapps. Not all attempts were successful but one version (cyangenmod5 tiny specifically) got me further than any other versions. I was able to install market and various google apps. However, at the time of setting up the google account, I keep getting the message that android was not able to keep a consistent connection to google. (Some other versions resulted in phone having to be reset to factory default.)
I have also tried tying in an emulator to my google account yet I get the dreaded "you have not recently opened Android Market on this device" message when I attempt to download any app from web market.
Is there a way to download any app (the ones I am after are free ones anyway) somehow?
Thanks
[update]
I managed to track down the problem to SetupWizard.apk rather than vending.apk. Market actually calls Setup Wizard in order to register a google account. I presume I am either not installing SetupWizard.apk correctly or I am using the wrong SetupWizard.apk. I could never get past contacting google without getting inconsistent connection or no data service error. If I hit skip button on the setup wizard (set up an account later), I would get com.android.setupwizard has stopped unexpectedly error. Since then, I have tried a couple of other SetupWizard.apk versions but none could be even installed let alone run.
[update 2]
I managed to obtain a ROM dump for XT300 Latin American version (SESLA_U3_01.53.1_R01). I then attempted to install all of the google apps from this rom dump (including setupwizard.apk and vending.apk). This time, every single app installs successfully. Unfortunately, setup wizard still crashes and on top of that, com.process.google.gapps also crashes.