[General Questions and Answers] gddeluca:
Frustration over. I have finally managed to re-root my Vox via ADB and SuperOneClick. I finally got the Google driver accepted by deleting the K080 in device manager and then doing a 'search for new hardware'. At that point, it all went just as advertised.

I can only assume the Device Manager was totally confused about the device and assumed the .INF file contained nothing appropriate. I did this on my 64 bit Win7 Netbook. On my 32 bit Win7 desktop, I can no longer even SEE the K080 device? Odd, just the normal Mass storage connections.

OK, first was turn off the Boot music, next is OogleVox, we'll see how that goes, hopefully better than this re-root.

Thanks to all who commented and tried to help.

George

Hi again,

Well it is sort of working and not working. I can browse and install Apps via the marketplace, both paid and free. But it is not showing me all the Apps, and is obviously filtering based on what device it 'sees'. If I go to my bank's web site, click on their mobile Android App, I'm taken to the marketplace and told it's not compatible with my K080 device. So what I have is still crippled and I can't even load the app for my own bank, which I'm sure would work if I could get a copy of the APK file, but I've been unable to track one down.

So all this work to get Marketplace going, and I still can't get a couple basic useful apps installed.

Does anyone have a solution to this? Or is this as good as it gets.

George

Continuation: I think maybe OogleVox is not cooperating either? ;-((

I installed it, run it and I get the message "Ooglevox has not made any systems modifications yet"; sounds right.

Pressed "Install Google Framework"; I get popups as it gets SuperUser status, and Spinning wheel boxes as it does something, then the boxes disappear and Ooglevox just sits there, no "I'm done messages, no error messages, - nothing"

So I do an add account to add my Google ID, and try out the Marketplace. I get the good old - you have no android devices associated with this account message.

Frustration resumes, what on earth else have I missed?

George

Followup:

I checked the \system\apps folder, and everything looks like it had been added and had the correct access flags (at least they matched what the manual marketplace install said to do) so it looks like OogleVox had indeed done it's thing. It sure would have been nice if some message had been issued that it had been successful.

So on a hunch, I went and hunted down an APK package for the actual Android Marketplace app, found one, installed it and lo and behold it seems to work just fine.

But I have to wonder why NO threads I've read about as to installing marketplace ever mention having to go out and locate the marketplace APK and install it manually. Foolishly maybe, but I THOUGHT that once Ooglevox had done it's thing, or having done it manually, that you could just go to the Marketplace web site and get the App from that location.

I'm now pretty sure that I've had all the pieces in place in the past, and gave up because of this missing piece of info.

I know spoon-feeding noobies is painful, I do it all the time supporting shareware I've written, but this could have been SO much simpler if someone, anyone had mentioned this fact. And why doesn't Ooglevox add this one small missing piece, it must be a trivial addition.

Sorry if this sounds very negative, I DO appreciate everything I've gained in these forums, and I hope my adding this last little piece of info helps someone else who's 'stuck' the way I was.

George