Sunday 27 March 2011

[How To] Make Windows Phone 7 market work in unsupported regions

Were you in for a rude shock when you gotten your new Windows 7 Phone only to be met by renting market is not supported in your region message? Zune Market place, supported in a handful of countries, much less than the number of countries where Windows 7 Phone is available. It is a very simple, but for some it can be very inconvenient, work around for this. When the phone for the first time, it asks for live ID. This is where the problem lies. If you live ID has some other countries that are stored in it, the market wont work. It's that simple. The solution is to create a new Live ID and select the country for the United States. Then the phone chose the U.S. as the region. Voila! You can now get access to the market. You will not be able to purchase any paid applications though, unless you have a credit card that works internationally. Some users have reported their credit card does not work. Since I do not own one I can not say for sure.
S Just change the country in the existing live account has not worked for many users.
But since you can add more live IDs to your Windows phone, you can still use the old ID and use the newer one as a primary one for the market.
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