As you mentioned siuying, its the sync services 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 to China blocking facebook, twitter and anything politically sensitive, I understand their opposition to it but what is the logic of blocking Android. 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 official Android team or Google shed some light on this subject. I appreciate more people in China posting their experience of this problem but more importantly I want the above questions answered. Thanks! On Nov 17, 9:03 pm, westmeadboy <westmead...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > 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 <siu.y...@gmail.com> 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 <shim....@gmail.com> 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
