I think Market Access will give you that option of seeing top paid apps. I get it on my SGS, so may be you can give that a try as well.
The other way of doing it is, using a US sim card which you might have got with your iPhone
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Yea it did when I had rooted 2.1 ..... now I am with 2.2 ...... waiting for it to be rooted ...
And I did get a sim with my iPhone, but I dont seem to remember what I did with it ...
Not necessarily. Sometime they download source code from AOSP project and compile for the target device. At least Cyanogen team does that. Also remember if you root your existing ROM. Any OTA update that HTC pushes will not work on your phone.
Download a nandroid backup tool (Amon_RA or Cyanogen) for Desire/Nexus One. Perform the backup of your existing OEM ROM. Save it safely somewhere. Flash the new ROM that you want to test. Flashing a new (XDA) ROM will automatically give you root access. If you like it stick with it or revert to your original ROM. Simple.
Yes I did that nandroid backup before trying out the customs and rooted 2.2 roms ...... in all the experiment my Stock official 2.1 ROM was always with me ...... that is why I was able to roll back and install OTA 2.2 ...... I love OTA 2.2, even more than rooted 2.2, simply because its the most stable rom, other sometime provided problems in few departments ........ The only thing I miss is the
MarketAccess, Titanium back up and AutoKiller, all these work on rooted phones .....
I hope they bring out the way to root OTA 2.2 with Bootloader 0.93,..... they should actually ....
Guys with Desire and OTA 2.2 ...... listen to this
Though 2.2 offeres to install the apps to SD card ... there are certain limitations.......like
1. The apps are not actually installed on SD, they are installed on internal mem and we have to manually go and move the app to SD card ..
2. Unlike apps2sd+ on rooted phone, the apps are not installed directly to the SD card as I said we have to move the apps from internal mem to SD card .....
3. And the most irritating NOT ALL apps can be moved to SD...... infact I'd say only 40% of current apps can be moved to SD ....
SOLUTION :::
1. Install an apps called
app 2 sd this application would list all the apps that can be moved to SD card and you can move them in one go ....
BUT
2. The best solution is through Android SDK. Script the OS to install the apps directly to SD card, this can be dont in the following manner ....
1. First enable USB debugging on your Android device from
Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging.
2. Now download and install the Android SDK on your computer from
Android SDK | Android Developers. Once you’ve downloaded and extracted the package to the folder of your choice, run SDK Setup.exe and click on
Available Packages to the left. If you get an error message at this point, enable
“Force *…” in the Settings and refresh the available package list. From the list, select “Usb Driver package”, click on the Install present at bottom right corner and complete the procedure.
FOR WINDOWS XP
3. Make sure you phone is set to "Charge Only" ....Connect your phone to your computer with a USB-cable. Your OS should prompt you to install new drivers. Choose to install them from the
android-sdk-windows/usb_driver folder, you will find this folder where you extracted SDK in step 2.
FOR WINDOWS 7/VISTA
3. Download and install HTC Sync from HTC India site. Make sure you phone is set to Sync via HTC Sync. Connect the phone to your computer with a USB cable.
4. Next, go to run and then type CMD to get the command prompt, navigate to the
Android-SDK-windows\tools folder. Thats the same location where you extracted the SDK in step 2.
5. In the Android-SDK-windows\tools folder, type the following commands ...
Assuming that you extracted the SDK in D: drive root
D:\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb devices
you will get a serial number starting with "H", then type
adb shell <<You will get the UNIX $ prompt>>
$ pm setInstallLocation 2
$exit
6. To switch back to storing software on the internal memory, enter adb shell pm setInstallLocation 0.
and thats it, from now what ever apps you install, it would go straight to SD card ......
PS :: It might be possible that some apps might still not be moved to SD, so its recommended from time to time to check and see if all the apps HAVE moved ...
Source :: How to Install Apps to the SD Card by Default on Android 2.2 Froyo | larsa | Androinica