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[dakelei]

This might seem like an odd question but I�ll toss it out there anyway because I�m getting nowhere searching the net and I figure other folks here in China might know something. I�m somewhat new to this whole Android �smart phone� thing. I�m not the techie type and am not up on most of the jargon associated with it. This week I bought the second Android smart phone that I�ve ever owned. It�s a Samsung mini Galaxy model, specifically a GT-S6500D. My first smart phone was simply too big and looked more like a small tablet than a phone. I got tired very quickly of lugging it around. My girlfriend inherited that. Anyway�I wanted to �register� my new phone with my Google account and discovered I can�t do it. Yes, I�m an idiot for not realizing this before I left the store but, well, this is all pretty new to me. I had no trouble at all doing it with the first smart phone I bought. Went to settings/accounts and was presented with the choice of adding a Google account, which I did. Took 3 minutes. The Chinese staff at the store walked me through the process. My new phone, however, did not offer Google as a choice. (But it did offer �Renren� and QQ. ) Because I can�t register the phone with my Google account I can�t use the �Play Store� to get apps to download to it. I used the phone�s generic �Email� app and managed to add my Gmail to it and am using �AppChina� the best I can to find apps but it�s sort of a pain in the posterior because my ability to read Chinese is �lower intermediate� at best. I�m curious if anyone else out there has ever encountered this problem and, if so, what you did about it. Just to let you know, I already tried setting the phone back to �factory settings� and that didn�t work.

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[Javelin of Radiance]

Dakelei posted in the non job related forum, and acknowledged his error there.