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Old 05-24-2011, 01:49 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by David Marseilles View Post
You can still sideload. There homegrown apps housed at xda-devs and probably ppcgeeks too. There are bound to be other sources as well.

Another alternative is to browse the market on your PC at market.android.com and select files to install there, then let them all download at mcdonalds or starbucks or wherever you get free public wifi.
The trouble with sideloading is that since Android doesn't have a native file manager there's no way to launch the Apks to install them.

I did manage to turn the WEP off long enough to get to the market and download Astro file manager, and then installed wifi-ace which supposedly allows wi-fi with wep to work, though I don't yet know how. I'm working on it.

Also, is there a way to cancel downloads? I set up a couple Angry Birds games and then found out they don't work very well. Now I can't find any way to cancel them. Selecting Cancel in the market doesn't seem to do anything.

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