[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
That is correct. I already saw that too. It was said to be published next week. So I think it has never been online in the first place. I think it doesn't have anything to do with branding.

I wanted to test something. I wanted to see if I can load the Samsung Diagnosis App from the marketplace. That one is hidden, just like the Nokia Connection Setup. This is the link to the hidden Samsung Diagnosis app: zune://navigate/?phoneAppID=D881566C-F6AE-DF11-8A2F-00237DE2DB9E. This is what I did (IT DOESN'T WORK, BY THE WAY):

I sent a mail to myself with the zune-link (it doesn't work if you paste the link in IE, you have to tap the link in IE or in a mail to let it open the marketplace).

Start Http Fiddler 2. This will start a http proxy on port 8888 on my laptop.

In fiddler set "automatic breakpoints" rule to "after responses" and check "remove all encodings".

Open wifi setting on the phone, tap and hold the connected wifi, enable proxy, enter wifi address of my laptop and port 8888.

Make sure phone is disconnected from computer and disable 3G. You can now see all http trafic of the phone in fiddler. You have to resume every session in order to let the traffic continue.

Let all traffic continue, until you see a request to catalog.zune.net.

Select that packet and on the right pane click "Text view". You can see the xml.

In the text locate this:

<visibilityStatus>Unpublished</visibilityStatus>

Replace it with this:

<visibilityStatus>Live</visibilityStatus>

The text ends with this:

</a:feed>

Right before that closing tag I inserted this. I copied the "offers" from another free Samsung app:

<offers><offer><offerId>urn:uuid:ef393246-eb9d-40d7-85b8-82bf69555fc5</offerId><mediaInstanceId>urn:uuid:12d9f0a0-45ae-43fb-8b0f-0f33887cba2f</mediaInstanceId><clientTypes><clientType>WinMobile 7.1</clientType></clientTypes><paymentTypes><paymentType>Credit Card</paymentType><paymentType>Mobile Operator</paymentType></paymentTypes><store>SAMSUNG</store><price>0</price><displayPrice>$0.00</displayPrice><priceCurrencyCode>USD</priceCurrencyCode><licenseRight>Purchase</licenseRight><expiration>2099-01-01T00:00:00Z</expiration></offer><offer><offerId>urn:uuid:ffe621a0-f2d7-4252-847c-8f681dfd7e00</offerId><mediaInstanceId>urn:uuid:12d9f0a0-45ae-43fb-8b0f-0f33887cba2f</mediaInstanceId><clientTypes><clientType>WinMobile 7.1</clientType></clientTypes><paymentTypes><paymentType>Credit Card</paymentType><paymentType>Mobile Operator</paymentType></paymentTypes><store>SAMSUNG</store><price>0</price><displayPrice>$0.00</displayPrice><priceCurrencyCode>USD</priceCurrencyCode><licenseRight>Trial</licenseRight><expiration>2099-01-01T00:00:00Z</expiration></offer></offers>

Set the "automatic breakpoints" rule back to "Disabled" and click "Resume".

You can now actually start downloading the app! Yay!

Laughing too soon :( At 50%, when the download is finished and the install would start, it quits with error 8000ffff. Probably because the offerid's don't match the DRM of the app. This checked over another secure https connection.

So the app is still unpublished! I guess we can only wait for it to get published and then see if the Interop Unlock works.

Ciao,

Heathcliff74