So a few days ago I got an email concerning the HTC PDF viewer which apparently comes bundled with the HTC Sapphire. Saddly, there has not yet been a release of it for the HTC Dream. The original thread on xda-developers can be found here which essentially was what the person was directing me too. The problem with this apk seemed to be that it was “locked” to HTC only devices… But - the HTC Dream is an HTC device, right? Not according to this program…

Anyway - long story short, success! I’ve successfully patched the file so that it should be able to be loaded on any HTC Android device. Have a blast reading your pdfs now!

Required files for this to work;

libpdfreader.so
FilePicker.apk

libpdfreader.so must be pushed using adb (or shell) to /system/lib
FilePicker.apk must be pushed using adb (or shell) to /system/app

Note: To push the files to /system, you will need to remount it as rw with the following command:
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

Finally — download and install (either through adb or your favorite package installer) the patched apk! You can download that here, PDFViewer.apk. This was tested on JF 1.5 and 1.45 and seems to work perfect. Please post your programs if any should arise.

Enjoy! :)

Glad to see people are helping out for posting the values for other markets. This is post is essentially just a rehash of the values posted on xda for the German and Switzerland.

Posted by rac2030 on this thread.

Sunrise Switzerland // Market has not yet started but anyway

gsm.sim.operator.numeric         22802
gsm.operator.numeric             22802
gsm.sim.operator.iso-country     ch
gsm.operator.iso-country         ch
gsm.operator.alpha             sunrise
gsm.sim.operator.alpha             sunrise

o2 Germany - thanxs to t4c

[gsm.sim.operator.numeric]: [26207]
[gsm.operator.numeric]: [26207]
[gsm.sim.operator.iso-country]: [de]
[gsm.operator.iso-country]: [de]
[gsm.operator.alpha]: [o2 - de]
[gsm.sim.operator.alpha]: [o2 - de]

“It works, with the o2 values i have RadAlert in the market thats only available in german market and not in US ;-)”

So you can use these values and my previous post to manually change your market values to these.

I’ve noticed some people have been having trouble with Andrea’s program, the Market-Enabler - so prior to him launching his GPL’ed code for the program. I thought that I would explain what it is actually doing.

While I’m not 100% sure, I believe that the problems people are having are with the super-user whitelist application. So running these commands yourself via adb or the terminal on the phone should resolve any of the issues. Also, an obvious thing should be that, you DO need root! This method has been testing on 1.43 JF, 1.5 JF and theDUDE and has worked fine on all of them.

What to do
Simply fire up adb or the terminal on your phone, and type in “getprop”. This will return a large list of variables - you should either make a back up of these or write them down. Simply typing “getprop > prop.backup” will make a back up of these values and pipe them to the file named “prop.backup”. This will be needed incase you mess anything up.

To enable seeing of paid applications that are available to the US, the following commands must be run:

su
setprop	gsm.sim.operator.numeric	31026
setprop	gsm.operator.numeric	31026
setprop	gsm.sim.operator.iso-country	us
setprop	gsm.operator.iso-country	us
setprop	gsm.operator.alpha	T-Mobile
setprop	gsm.sim.operator.alpha	T-Mobile
kill $(ps | grep vending | tr -s ‘ ‘ | cut -d ‘ ‘ -f2)
rm -rf /data/data/com.android.vending/cache/*

Essentially you are setting the US standard values (for the T-Mobile Operator) on your phone, these values are the gsm.sim.operator.numeric, gsm.operator.numeric, gsm.sim.operator.iso-country, gsm.operator.alpha and gsm.sim.operator.alpha.

The next line simply looks for the vending application, and kills the process. The next time will remove the cache files you have stored from the vending application. These two lines essentially make sure your phone will regrab the values you have set, so you can properly view the market data.

What about other markets?
I’ve gotten quiet a few comments and questions regarding this. The same method used to set your phone to the US T-Mobile market could be used to set your phone to any other market. All you need to know is the values from that area. So get your friend to give you the values for their area and carrier and simply replace the values above with it.

Again… Yet another note
I did not make the program Market-Enabler, I only helped Andrea and have also translated his posted. Please when using this information quote your sources, both my site and Andrea’s Androidiani.com - it’s only fair to do so!

Enjoy :)