I bought a Nexus 6 (XT1100) from my local PBTech store just over 3 months ago. I also bought a Nexus 7 2013 (LTE) from them about 18 months ago.

I have recently encountered an issue with "NZ Only" apps - a taxi one (which I can't currently remember the name of) and Lightbox - which has apparently recently been upgraded to work on more than just Samsung devices.

When I visit the Play Store via my PC browser and navigate to the app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nz.co.lightbox),a message is displayed "This app is incompatible with all of your devices."

When I visit the Play Store via my devices, the message displayed is "This app is not available in your country."

However I have no problem accessing the Kiwibank or 3NOW Ondemand or ANZ goMoney apps - and I assume that all these are regionally-locked apps.

Lightbox Support tell me it's because the devices were parallel-imported by PBTech and that I should approach PBTech for a solution. I suspect that their tech support will tell me, sorry, tough luck....

I can't be the only one in the country using a parallel-imported phone...

Is this just a case of deliberately narrow coding on behalf of Lightbox?

Is there any way that I can easily get rid of the regionalisation on these two devices - or, contrary to the underlying philosophy of vanilla Andrioid, can I make it a New Zealand flavoured phone?

Both devices are running Lollipop 5.1 and are NOT rooted (don't want to go down that path).