Workaround to get to Android Marketplace on unmodded Scroll

[nickmooney]

Good evening.

Just bought this 7" Android 2.1 tablet today which came pre-installed with the 1.02s baseband with no apparent access to the Android Marketplace.

I seem to have come up with a workaround to access the Android Marketplace. Can someone else confirm that this works for them on 1.02s?

Make sure Wi-Fi is on and connected.
Open Quick System Info.
Select the Applications tab.
Scroll down to "Browser" (Version 2.1-update 1) and press it.
Select "Search in Market"
After a short delay a screen pops up saying:
"There are no matches in Android Market for the search: pname:com.android.browser"

You're now in the Android Marketplace! Hit the magnifying glass in the top right and search for any apps and they can be installed, I searched for facebook and installed the updated app from there and it works and even shows the Twitter client there waiting for an Update.

Hope this is helpful to someone?

Regards,
--Nick.

[woldsend]

I have 1.02s can you expand on your instructions, what is quick system info.

[nickmooney]

If you go to the area with the applications there's one called "Scroll Apps" - this appears to be stuff that's included with your device, install the app called "Quick System Info" from there and then run it.

Note: If the Applications tab within Quick System Info lists com.blah stuff tap the Basic Info tab, then after that's loaded hit Applications again and then you can see the friendly name of the applications and you can see Browser there.

[woldsend]

I definately don't have this app in my app drawer.

[nickmooney]

You don't have the "Scroll Apps" app?

[Fonefixer]

Me neither

[Hodge8]

I tried your method, nickmooney. Result: "download unsuccessful" - as usual.

My advise: make the most of market while you have access, because I do not think you will have it for long !

[nickmooney]

That's a shame. There seems to be quite a lot of fragmentation within the product configuration too.

[bounty]

this worked for me, many thanks!

[gazzy21uk]

quick system info it's in the scroll apps for mine but I had to install it, market works for a while on mine after a factory reset then packs in download unsuccessful
System info also has a task killer and a handy widget you can add to home pretty usefull app
My market works but just can't get it to download
Also got skype to work finally put on skype lite beta
to get that to work went to gmail account edit acount entered a telephone number my ol nokia phone it sent a text to my phone with a number which I had to enter into my gmail account then I could log into skype using that telephone number ? don't know what gmail has to do with skype but I notice now google knows my location
also port forward on my router listen at port 5228 don't know whether i needed this but it works now only took two weeks to suss it lol

Model Number: Scroll(SCR051624)
Firmware Version: v1.02s
Kernal Version: 2.6.29
Build Num: Android 2.1