First of all, congratulations with your Droid/Milestone. Secondly, no you are doing nothing wrong.
What you can see on the marked, depends on the APN settings as well as the gsm.sim.operator.numeric system property. This is apparently done so that each carrier can customize the marked. I never had the problem you describe with any of my devices, however a colleague of mine had a similar issue when he got his Milestone. What happens is probably that it needs to, at least once, get on the marked with a SIM inserted so that it can cache "which network it is on". So my guess is that if you continue to fiddle a bit with it, it will eventually work. If it is rooted, it may also help to simply install "MarkedEnabler" which allows you to fake the GSM network you are on. This is how I and many others, currently access paid applications since Google is proving tremendously slow at opening this up to the world. The Marked is the most flaky part of Android at the moment, as proven by this petition from today: http://www.androidspin.com/2010/03/08/petition-to-improve-the-android-market-sign-it-today/ /Casper On Mar 8, 10:17 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all. > > I've got a Motorola Droid a few days ago and started playing with it. > Being at home, I supposed to be able to do everything I needed with my > WiFi, to avoid wasting memory with the mobile connection provider. > Actually, the first piece of software that I installed is APNDroid, > that allows to disable the mobile connection. But when it's active - > and even before installing it, when I did a couple of tests by just > removing the SIM card - I am completely unable to download > applications from the Market, or to install the system update from > Motorola. In both cases, the progress bars that say "downloading" are > just stuck at the beginning, with no signs of activity. I left the > phone for a couple of hours in this state, and no progress. At the > same time, the internet browser perfectly worked, as well as Google > Maps: thus, the WiFi connection was working. > > Then I re-enabled the mobile connection, disabled the WiFi, and after > a short while the applications from the market were downloaded. Today > I was also able to get the 2.1 update from Motorola. Now, the question: > > 1) am I doing something wrong? > 2) is my Droid broken? > 3) does the market only work through the mobile phone connection? > > In the last case, I'd be seriously annoyed. > > - -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkuVaXQACgkQeDweFqgUGxdmVwCbBWKlFKN+k89dXUpt68UfDqIE > SHAAn18MQKXGzTgNT9UesgQOVmT9hXGL > =SKWX > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
