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Great! So is there any problem that you think is within the control of the programmers, or is it just OS stuff?
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#83 |
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![]() Great! So is there any problem that you think is within the control of the programmers, or is it just OS stuff?
![]() However, most if not all Android users are not used to this method and is not my preferred way either, but to access the settings from within Live Wallpapers when you click on SYSTEM SETTINGS DISPLAY WALLPAPER LIVE WALLPAPERS Then select Marine Aquarium and there should be two options, ie SETTINGS and SET AS WALLPAPER. At the moment only SET AS WALLPAPER is there (see my screen shot a few posts back) There are other ways to get to LIVE WALLAPERS, eg on my Nexus 7 hold your finger on the screen for a few seconds and the wallpaper options appear. Either way, the SETTINGS are never visible which is confusing everyone.
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#84 |
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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Thanks, I'll forward your whole post to Acrodea.
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Principal Engineer as SDET
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Was in Auckland, New Zealand, Now in Taipei, Taiwan
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MA3 lite on Android is unavailable for Taiwan user
I wish to try this on my HTC Butterfly (HTC DROID DNA variant in Asia) and HTC M7 (code name), but I can't install it at all!
Does the app set to available for particular country only? I know Taiwan's Google Play is unable to make any purchase due to lawsuit, but free apps are still available for download. However, I found both paid version and lite(free) version of MA3 on Play are both unavailable to me, since lite version is free, it should be able to download for Taiwan user. I presume that ACRODEA, Inc. probably set the app setting on Play wrongly so that it's being categorized into paid version category even it's labeled as Free. I wish ACRODEA, Inc. could fix this to have more exposure of MA3 in Taiwan's market. I know I can use proxy to connect to Play to bypass Taiwan's IP range, but I don't wanna use the trick as I when I turn off proxy and Play may block me from using apps anymroe Please refer to the attached screenshots
James C Chen
Principal Engineer as SDET, Connected Services HTC Corporation 88 Section 3. Zhongxing Road Xindian District, New Taipei City 231, Taiwan www.htc.com ![]() |
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#86 |
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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Looking good James! How's life treating you? I hope all is well. We miss you around here. You should check in more often.
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Was in Auckland, New Zealand, Now in Taipei, Taiwan
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![]() Looking good James! How's life treating you? I hope all is well. We miss you around here. You should check in more often.
![]() I'm still testing all the time as QA Enginner, I was super busy on testing the "M7"'s FULL HD, and then suddenly MA3 came cross my mind so here I am. Too bad I can't test it. btw, I miss all you guys here too ![]()
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#88 |
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![]() Too bad I can't test it.
![]() 1. If your phone is rooted then you can use a market Changer/unlocker app on your phone. Select the market yo wish to pretend you want and then download the app. 2. Some kind person in that area it's available (UK/USA etc), download it and use Titanium Backup to backup the APK and upload it somewhere like DropBox etc. Unfortunately, I can't attach it directly to the forum for others to test as well. A Zip file can be only a maximum of 5Mb.
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![]() There is a way round it,
1. If your phone is rooted then you can use a market Changer/unlocker app on your phone. Select the market yo wish to pretend you want and then download the app. 2. Some kind person in that area it's available (UK/USA etc), download it and use Titanium Backup to backup the APK and upload it somewhere like DropBox etc. Unfortunately, I can't attach it directly to the forum for others to test as well. A Zip file can be only a maximum of 5Mb. ![]() ![]() But I do really wanna raise this issue about that even the free trial version is also blocked seems not very practical when it come marketing and ask for max product exposure.
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#90 |
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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OK, I've got both version downloaded/purchased and tested, so far so good
![]() I didn't go for purchase the premium fish as they are so expensive if I buy them all. And I can't access the the premium fish Play download link on my device, if someone could post the Play store's direct link of those premium fish, I could consider buy a one or two, I need the link to make the purchase since I done it on PC but not my phone
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![]() I didn't go for purchase the premium fish as they are so expensive if I buy them all.
![]() I agree, the price of the fish are ridiculous. 17 extra fish at a $1.00 each? Why do we have to pay more money when you buy the FULL PAID version? Why not make a PREMIUM version and set price as $X.XX for everything? Also SimAquarium, allows me to have all full version features by entering my Serial from my PC version for I get it for FREE on the Android platform.
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Fish pricing is an on-going discussion between Prolific and Acrodea. Their argument is that it's much easier to decrease the price than increase it, so they started high.
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I kind of think astronomical is more the altitude.
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![]() Fish pricing is an on-going discussion between Prolific and Acrodea. Their argument is that it's much easier to decrease the price than increase it, so they started high.
![]() I'm not criticising the product, but the way it's being marketed. Also, If I were to buy the additional 17 fish, personally I would like to pay a one off payment as a 17 PREMIUM fish pack, again I'd suggest make it cheaper than buying the fish individually. But again, it looks like your creating 3 products instead of LITE and FULL.
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I totally agree, and have made these points to Acrodea. However, it's not my call since they paid me up front for the Droid rights (which is unprecedented for me). As long as the quality is up to my standards, it's their baby.
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![]() I totally agree, and have made these points to Acrodea. However, it's not my call since they paid me up front for the Droid rights (which is unprecedented for me). As long as the quality is up to my standards, it's their baby.
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In the product description (last updated December 15, 2012, according to Google), I find two instances of the word 'full': "full 3D" and "full acess [sic] for 24 hours". Otherwise, it is called the "standard" version.
It is however true that the product description is somewhat misleading, if you don't read it carefully. And I don't like the giant, unrealistic bubbles in the "Screenshots" -- looks like soap bubbles to me. But then again, I am not an Android user. |
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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$54 bucks, wow. I thought prices were outrageous here.
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I have just tried the Lite version and although it looks nice and is quite smooth on my Huawei Ascend G300 (which is rather a low-end device), the Live Wallpaper mode does not work at all - when I enable it, the application stops working immediately and the live wallpaper is replaced by a standard picture - it even replaced my previous background image with another, possibly the default one.
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#100 |
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Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Southern Oregon
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Acrodea is making some changes to the interfaces which should fix problems like this. A lot of the problems seem to be with the documentation - just explaining what can and can't be done with the Lite version, and how to do it.
I don't have an Android device, but Reichart showed me MA3 on his Droid phone when we met in L.A. a couple of weeks ago. I was very impressed - Acrodea had done a beautiful and accurate port of my program. Since there are so many versions of the Android Operating System out there, I'm actually surprised at how well it works on most devices.
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