wxpwzrd

How convenient.

Damn man, that sucks. Wish you the best ridding your place of these

The web site needs work,especially on updating the weather radars,they are often hours old,or even days old,compare this to the Australian met site,were the radar is in real time.

This and they just don't work. The eastern coverage sucks. Rayong radar is always broken, Hua Hin is off a lot and at the moment, while it shows as operational, for the last few days has been clear even when overlapping BKK radar shows strong storms.

As for the forecasts, they change constantly from day to day, So while he 'claims' other sites are using misinformation, they may just be using information that was current at the moment they copied it.

Personally, I don't think the people at the Thai meteorological department has a clue.

Basically: 1 criminal is complaining about the other one. To bribe the police is ok as long as its not too much. The irony.

Pretty much what I thought. Sounds like "pot calling kettle..."

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Some you can find at http://www.yifysubtitles.com/

Guessing unless that guy goes through a checkpoint with attentive police that search won't go far.

I am in the same boat with my existing True contract & have been gearing up over the past couple of months to go over to IPTV with no monthly payments and same programes available. You only need to make sure that you have good strong download internet speed.

Now THERE is the secret to crap Internet in Thailand. A conspiracy to keep the majority on Thai-supplied cable/sat.

LOL "Full speed"

I am sure most of us are just "playing the odds" on that one.

...also, once the Google Play Store "Clear Data", "Force Close", start VPN, open Google Play Store and accept TOS was completed, I was able to use the PC/VPN to successfully select and queue apps to be downloaded and installed to the phone from there. Nice.

I did run into an odd issue. After sucessfully locating and installing the Fidelity Investments app, I uninstalled it and tried to duplicate the process but couldn't locate the app via Google Play Store SEARCH. It displays instantly in my Google Play Store account "My Apps/ALL" list, and displayed instantly via the google.play.com Fidelity Mobile link on the Fidelity Investments website. Sometimes Google Play Store can be frustrating.

//EDIT: Oh, and I ran into another add issue where the google playstore on the phone only displayed Free apps. Disabling the VPN and repeating the "Clear Data", "Force Close" allowed the phone to see the paid apps and Thai pricing once again.

That store is temperamental. Sometimes I have to repeat the process. It is very precise. I close the store fully, clear the data the run the VPN, open the store. Sometimes I even check to see the store isn't running after I have cleared the data (get a little OCD sometimes) before I run the VPN. As long as the store is opened with the cleared data, it almost always works. There have been a few burps that I account to Google/maintenance/Internet/ghosts/etc.

Hmm might have to snoop around a bit to see how it affects those paid apps.

Rats. Thanks for tracking that down. The Fidelity app works just fine with a Thai SIM in my iPhone, but that may well be because I downloaded it a couple years ago, perhaps before they app checked for a US carrier.

^^ ^^

wxpwzrd

Posted Today, 14:23

I can verify that the process wxpwzrd outlined works.

On the Android mobile phone

Download a VPN. (In my example I use Hola! VPN)

Press HOME to return to Desktop/Home Screen

Do a one-time "Clear Data" + "Force Close" of Google Play Store...

System Settings > Apps > Google Play Store -- press "Clear Data", press "Force Close"

Press HOME to return to Desktop/Home Screen

Open Hola! VPN and select the top menu item " v My Apps "

Find "Google Play Store" and press the OPEN button (this will launch Google Play Store via the US VPN settings)

Accept the Google Play Terms of Service (accept)

Search for "Fidelity Investments"

* at this point, alternatively, you can tap the PlayStore ICON menu (top left) and select "My Wishlist" to locate items pre-placed there.

Looking for and verifying the white-on-green 'pyramid/sun logo' (It displayed first off for me)

Select the app and press INSTALL

That should do it, now just open the Fidelity app (shouldn't need VPN), just as wxpzzrd wrote. The government needs to put that man on a watch list for not following instructions.

Thanks for cleaning it up and making it clearer. I was time-challenged when I wrote it. Had a few different things going.

And again, just repeat the process to check for those elusive updates to the geo-restricted apps. The same way Google blocks your access to the apps, you won't see subsequent updates either. Don't worry. Clearing the data does nothing to your actual Store account (that I know of) - just clears the written back data on your phone.

Also, this is not an exclusive deal. You can still use the store as normal from Thailand for regular apps. This just gets you to those geo locked ones.

Chris

Actually, you can download US-only apps via a VPN (connected to a US endpoint). Before you run the play store app, go into your settings>>app list. On my LG it is settings>> general>> apps. There you can find the Google Play Store... This is where the APP Info is. Under the storage section you should find a button to clear data... Don't disable, uninstall anything... Just clear the data. Then make sure the play store is closed... There is usually a button or sequence somewhere that will allow you to close an app or close them all. Then start your VPN. After it is connected, then start the play store. The store will give you a dialog box and ask you if you want updates via email... blah blah. Just accept it. It is the same as your first visit to the store on that phone. Then you should be able to get US apps. Haven't tried it with paid apps, but my bank and broker apps were US only and getting them was no problem. Whenever you want to check for US app updates, or get new US apps, just repeat the clear data, close, VPN, store process...

Never had a problem. Do it on this LG and did it on two previous Samsungs.

LOL "Pay up" - two of the most frequently used words by government and law enforcement.

You can just imagine the sticker set that could come with this one...

I'm keeping True Platinum package until the outcome of the next EPL aucyion/ bidding process is known. I've got both True and CTH and if CTH win the next EPL bid I'll ditch True because I'm fed up with the vast number of 'repeats' they show. Also, for a scheduled 1 hour programme on any documentary eg History, the actual programme viewing time usually amounts to no more than about 35 -40 minutes, because of all the advertising interruptions. To make matters worse, on these documentary programmes I keep getting a 1 - 2 second break in the sound commentary. This happens about every 10 -15 seconds and is most frustrating! Has anyone else got this sound commentary problem, or is it just happening to me?

Audio loss and sometimes, the switch to Thai, if the channel has a secondary audio channel for Thai. Toss in the video drop and that is True at its best.

Now if True could just figure out how to properly handle an HD source inside of an SD channel. This does not mean squeezing the HD source horizontally until it fits.

You may be able to adjust the settings through your tv set. There are usually three or four you can scroll through, some will zoom in and fill the screen , but you'll lose part of the picture, and others will zoom all the way out to get the entire shot, but there will be a lot of black above and below.

Yeah I know about that. On my set it is wide zoom. That is not my job. And HD should be HD, not True cutting bandwidth. True should have a clue. The HD sources are broadcast with the intent that SD conversions will appropriately crop the signal for broadcast. It is Thai mentality. Before they even broadcast HD source in Thailand, people with wide aspect screens simply did a zoom on the SD signal - making the people look short(er) and fat(ter).

Now if True could just figure out how to properly handle an HD source inside of an SD channel. This does not mean squeezing the HD source horizontally until it fits.