market? noobie questions

[boztu]

I've just acquired an x10 and am unable to access the market, i go to settings>applications >manage applications and it just says 'you do not have any third-party applications installed'. i have wireless turned on and data transfer. can any one advise and help please?

 

[boztu]

I would really like to install some other apps but dont know how to get the 'market' up and running. I get the error message that I quoted earlier, and dont know how to proceed from there.

Any advice or help please folks?

 

[beau420]

I've just acquired an x10 and am unable to access the market, i go to settings>applications >manage applications and it just says 'you do not have any third-party applications installed'. i have wireless turned on and data transfer. can any one advise and help please?

So you are connected over wireless to your wifi network?

Open the Market App. Hit the Menu button and chose accounts. Make sure you have your gmail account selected. If you don't have the option for Account, then you have not setup a gmail account which is needed to access the store. Make sure you did select the right country (don't lie and say you are from Saudi Arabia where the Market is not allowed)

Open Settings->Applications->Manage Apps->Go to All Apps tab and select Market and Clear Cache and Clear Data and Force Stop it.

Then turn off the phone

Restart it and try again. That should fix most problems. Open the Market app and are you able to see apps and search for apps?

 

[boztu]

Thanks, that was the missing piece of the jigsaw, I didnt realise that 'market' was an app. But its now working and downloading a couple of apps. Thanks again

 

[beau420]

Thanks, that was the missing piece of the jigsaw, I didnt realise that 'market' was an app. But its now working and downloading a couple of apps. Thanks again

Sweet.

Yeah. Market lets you view all the apps that google has on their store online.

Any apps you buy are linked to your gmail email address...so if ever you have to get a new android and sign in with the same email address as you are using now, you can download the app you paid for free.

Most apps on the store are free.

Happy shopping/installing. There are so many apps I install that I can no longer work without.