Windows Mobile Marketplace on a custom ROM

As you may recall in my last post I was using a Touch Diamond to grab screenshots of the marketplace. Why wasn't I using my Touch Pro?

Well the Diamond was running a stock ROM, on my phone however typically I flash a custom ROM after a while. With this ROM the Marketplace application would simply fail when checking for updates, stating it was unable to connect with an error something like this:

Marketplace could not connect to the server. Please check your connection and try again.

One of the checks the Marketplace application seems to make us having a look at your version information. A lot of custom ROMs put thier own string in, which seems to be upsetting it. To check, open up your favourite registry editor and make your way to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Versions and change Aku to .5.3.00

And then soft reset and give it a go.

9 comments

Comment from: Touchigor [Visitor]

Works great!

9th October 2009 @ 20:57

Comment from: HAZE [Visitor]

It seems like my "aku" is correct. What should be the value of "(Default)"? Mine says "(value not set)".

12th October 2009 @ 19:29

Comment from: will [Visitor]

excellent! this did the trick

22nd November 2009 @ 02:57

Comment from: Francesco Murru [Visitor]

Unfortunately for me it didn't work. It's strange because on my Sony Xperia X1 updated with W.M 6.5 I can connect with MarketPlace without any problems whatsoever, but with the Htc Diamond 2 also updated I can't...I changed the registry in AKU :5.3.0 but I could not solve the problem, instead seems bit faster...which is good and few nice icons as utilities appear from nowwhere..which is good too. A part of that MarketPlace on my Htc diamond 2 still a dream yet.Does anyone have another solution?.francomur99@yahoo.it
Thanks

20th December 2009 @ 12:24

Comment from: Xerx [Visitor]

I have a HTC Diamond2 and same problem as Francesco Murru.
Marketplace does not work on it. When starting it looks for a newer version but then it fails.
I could use Marketplace the first weeks after I installed W6.5.

23rd December 2009 @ 08:41

Comment from: Ricky [Visitor]

HTC Fuze using NRG WM 6.5 Rom from xda-developers. This fix worked PERFECTLY!

5th March 2010 @ 20:04

Comment from: Morgan [Visitor] · http://www.myspace.com/the_guitar_dude_

Worked like a charm!

3rd May 2010 @ 04:02

Comment from: Petr [Visitor]

HTC kaiser - Cooked Rom from Xda-dev... - worked great, even without softreset. Thanks :)

17th May 2010 @ 21:21

Comment from: Andre [Visitor]

Thanks! That works in my Kaiser with 6.5.3.00 ROM!