I download the above from the 3 mobile site, they install, but nowhere to be seen! Any ideas?

Does it come up in your list of installed apps in the settings menu?

If not it hasn't installed properly. You might have to check the option in settings to allow apps not downloaded from the Marketplace. If it is there, try uninstalling and reinstalling.

Check really carefully - perhaps they are called something strange so aren't appearing on your list of installed apps where you might expect them to?

I've looked everywhere and it isn't there. i have non market apps enabled.

Go to market place and you can start it/remove it from there.

If not, install it from there!

The OP needs the 3 version which allows unlimited use not out of their data plan.

The one from the market would use data out of their allowance.

frailfury, I thought you decided you wanted to buy direct from 3? I'm surprised they don't come pre-installed. Have you checked with 3 they are compatible with this phone and OS version?

I haven't checked no but bearing in mind my old Nokia 5230 was, I don't see why Skype and MSN wouldn't be.

I did buy it direct from 3, but they wern't installed when I got it.

That means nothing though... the iPhone isn't! Have to use the generic ones and it comes out of data allowance.

I'd call 3 and make sure you are trying to use the correct apk.

3 keep telling me to download it from their site, which I do but it's nowhere to be seen once downloaded.

It will go in a download folder somewhere on the SD card. Have you tried a folder called 'download' in the root of the SD card?

If you can't locate it, perhaps download it on your computer then transfer to you phone using USB (you will know where it is then!).

Then use something like Astro to locate and install the apks.

Thanks, I opened 'free office' which was already installed on the phone, and then located the skype and msn and it allowed me to installed them from there They are now showing as installed. Thanks.

-Edit- MSN doesnt work - says it cannot get access to the service, but Skype works fine.

What I don't get, is how to control what is installed on the phone and on the card. Most of the apps seem to be installed on the phone and only some to the SD Card, wheres I'd rather all apps go to the SD card. Any ideas?

This has long been a limitation of Android unfortunately. Until 2.2, you couldn't install apps on the SD card at all (officially). Google then added support for it. Unfortunately, for reasons of compatibility, reliability or maybe just laziness, many apps do not allow themselves to be installed on the SD card.

There is a way of forcing pretty much any installed app to the SD card, but it does require a bit of modding unfortunately.

This article pretty much tells the story:

Android 2.2 Apps2SD: Not what you were expecting
File under: News
By: Joe Levi |12:00 PM 25-May-10 |- Comments


Now that Froyo is here (sortof) we're starting to get a look at all the goodies that Google has put into Android 2.2 (aka "Froyo"), and Apps2SD is one of them.

"Apps2SD" is the ability to install downloaded apps to the sdcard, thus freeing up phone storage (which we're going to need more of now that we can run Flash and Air apps). Of course, Cyanogen and his colleagues have enabled installing (or moving) apps to the sdcard through varied methods for some time now, but nothing "official" was available before Froyo.

The "problem" with the way Google implemented Apps2SD in Froyo that it's up to the developer to toggle the switch to allow the app to be installed externally. Translated: not a single app of the 50,000+ in the Market today can be installed to the sdcard!

I would have preferred the opposite: for the user to select the preferred installation location (internal vs. external) and have all apps abide by that except where a developer specified otherwise.

Source:
http://pocketnow.com/tech-news/andro...were-expecting



Google 'apps2sd' for more info.

Ah ok thanks. Any idea when this LG will get 2.3?

Also, I got MSN to work - I had to turn 3G on as it won't work with wi-fi.

Sometime this year apparently (which is about as vague as you can get I know!)

It's a weird one as LG announced it wouldn't be getting the upgrade initially and they then backtracked.

Suffice to say, 2.3 will probably be well out of date before you get the update!