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Market apps downloads unsuccessful

Hi,is anyone else having problem downloading apps via Market?I've got an unbranded,unrooted Froyo Desire and downloads were fine yesterday but for some reason unknown,Google Market has refuse to complete downloads.Is this issue general?Cheers
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It is driving me crazy all day as well! I got the impression that it was because I installed a new ROM or because I added an EXT partition in Clockworkmod recovery. This was the first time I wanted to try A2SD and it drove me crazy all day not being able to download apps anymore...
Not over Wifi, not over 3G...
And now I have to conclude more people are having this problem today haha
OMG

Yer its killing me,
I need to download My Backup Pro
Just flashed rom and cannot restore nothing.

Just noticed the same issue, was trying to update the YouTube app and download failed. Have tried a factory reset and this hasn't worked. There is a list of possible fixes on the Google support forum, just search for marketplace fix.
Seems odd that several people are having the same issue on the same day, perhaps its a marketplace fault?

Yeah the market is not working properly at the moment.
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Damn I need my apps!

Alright so it's not just me going nuts...

same for me. been all night. driving me mad.

Someone from an android forum website suggested the following quote and guess what?,it worked! :-
"I know its going to sound daft, but load up Google talk, sign in, and then retry. I had a problem with my Hero back in the day and that worked. My downloads are going through fine atm"
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Market working again
Had the same issue all day yesterday. The Market is working again this morning.

Had the same problem last night. It seems to be working fine today.

Working for me too this morning, tired the Google Talk tip along with many others re: clearing out various caches but none seemed to work. Obviously a fault with the market place than our actual phones.

So is this a common problem then, as I've just recently flashed my phone to 2.2 on the JPM firmware. I was beginning to think it was this, but after I thought about it, it happened to me this morning while I was still running 2.1.
How annoying!

hmm it diden't work yesterday for me but this morning it worked. but now it dosen't :S

I was having the same problem and tried the talk app logging in method which had worked previously in similar circumstances, but this time didn't work yesterday. Later I cleared the cache for the market app via the settings menu and it worked immediately, but was slower than usual.

my unrooted 2.2 desire will not update or download new apps from the market either.
i was thinking it was a memory issue.... had some issues on ota rom upgrade recently and i needed to uninstall 'Google earth' to get it to work despite phone showing ample memory free.
Also I have had the problem since downloading 'voice search' or this could be a coincidence.
So my phone or marketplace fault?
Is everyone else able to download/install again now?

[SOLVED] This is not a market / memory / phone issue
Guys,
I was having this exact same problem and after doing a bit of searching on the internet I found a solution:
It's something to do with internal phone cookies / tokens. The market depends on two sets of data - the market app and "download manager".
You can fix this problem easily in the future if you force close both, and then clear the cache and the data from both from settings -> applications -> manage apps
The reasons signing into google talk would have worked is that it updated the internal token
It seems the time out is very brief - but this is indeed the issue and its fixed every time using this method.
As far as I can tell there is a bug on Android developers already registered.

Sorry Mate ... doesen't fix the problem for me

make sure you force close the apps, market and download manager. then clear the data.
click on your market download list to rebuild it too. then it should work

I had same problem on my desire, and I looked the way to fix it. On phones memory was just 8% of free space, and I erased some apps. On the end I concluded that phone can't download or update anything if it has less than 10% free memory space. After I erased some apps and on that way make more free space on phones memory I was easy downloaded and updated apps from market. I must say that I have non rooted phone.
I hope so that I help with my thread.

Market downloads not working?

Anyone else getting this or just me.
When i tried today to update one of my apps, i hit update and it brings the download progress bar with starting download written underneath and the arrow appears in the notifications bar, but it just stays at starting download? And once i leave the market the download notification disapears from the notification bar, i go back into my downloads section in the market and its still there stuck at starting download?
Ive tried restarting my phone, canceling and restarting the download, downloading a totallly new app, nothing seems to download, ive tried over wifi and 3g?
Help.
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I think it's the same for everyone, maybe they are preparing the market for Gingerbread.

I did have issues, but it seems to be working again now.
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I'm still experiencing this problem. It tries to download and then says "Download unsuccessful".
I've tried clearing the Market cache. Tried on 3G and wifi. Tried CM6, deFROST and MCR9 ROMs.
It's been occurring for nearly 48 hours.
The Market forum shows lots of people experiencing the same issue. I guess it's best just to wait for Google to fix it. (I didn't notice the forum until AFTER I'd changed ROM's and done all my diagnostics! GRR!)

Yeah, its fixed now
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C_S_R said:
Yeah, its fixed now
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It's still not working for me...

r2b2 said:
I'm still experiencing this problem. It tries to download and then says "Download unsuccessful".
I've tried clearing the Market cache. Tried on 3G and wifi. Tried CM6, deFROST and MCR9 ROMs.
It's been occurring for nearly 48 hours.
The Market forum shows lots of people experiencing the same issue. I guess it's best just to wait for Google to fix it. (I didn't notice the forum until AFTER I'd changed ROM's and done all my diagnostics! GRR!)
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Lol, you're crazy for flipping out and start flashing roms like that.

It's still not working for me either.

Yeah I seem to be having problems with it again too.
Was working for me earlier.
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This worked for me:
Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> All ->
Market -> Stop and clear data
Download manager -> stop and clear data.
Boom! Working!

testies99 said:
This worked for me:
Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> All ->
Market -> Stop and clear data
Download manager -> stop and clear data.
Boom! Working!
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Thanks!
It worked!
Google has a tummy ache.
UPDATE:
Sorry to report, it did fix itself, but now it's not working again and this time, the above trick doesn't work!

@Testies199. Many thanks. Worked for me. What would we do without XDA and, of course, the members. Interesting name by the way.

testies99 said:
This worked for me:
Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> All ->
Market -> Stop and clear data
Download manager -> stop and clear data.
Boom! Working!
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Working too, but horribly slow, and now stopped again.

r2b2 said:
The Market forum shows lots of people experiencing the same issue. I guess it's best just to wait for Google to fix it. (I didn't notice the forum until AFTER I'd changed ROM's and done all my diagnostics! GRR!)
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Doesn't work for me also.
Where is market forum?

Looks like it is down again for sure!!
The Market forum is here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/label?lid=7dc8a5c590cd22ee&hl=en

StuMcBill said:
Looks like it is down again for sure!!
The Market forum is here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/label?lid=7dc8a5c590cd22ee&hl=en
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Thanx. For me it is working but extremely slow
Update: stopped again

Try Stop, Clear cache AND unistall Update
Afterwords the market will clear everything and update again.
Worked for me

There are a whole load of fixes out, all regarding Market cache and Download manager cache and uninstalling market updates, i have tryed them all and none of them work however it did work an hour or two ago while i was at work.
Tryed to Download via 3G and Wifi to no avail
Seems to be a Serverside error not a phone error !
EDIT : Its intermittently working here via wifi - i geuss the UK servers are a bit hit and miss ATM

Force stopping market and download manager worked for me too!
But not sure when It will stop again!
Edit, it has stopped working literally 5 seconds later!

Just wait. Usually you can fix stuck or pending market downloads (and cloud-to-device message like chrome-to-phone) by killing "Google-Services Framework" and thus killing your connection to the Google Talk servers (that's how the market works). No need to kill the market itself, it's just a plain user interface. Then sign back into Google Talk by starting the app.
However the current issue seems to be a server-side problem. Give it some time instead. It might be some Gingerbread goodness being rolled out, it might be yet another glitch in the market.

need help - android market not working

ok my proplem is i can't download from market on my data plan.
here is what I did :
tried with wifi : work correctly
re-connected to gmail + talk : still not working
did hard reset : still not working
flashed back 2.3.2 : still not working
sometimes it works with data plan, but for 1 app and I still can't update my apps with data plan.
what you guys think ? could it be with my network provider ?
It's a phone I bought from rogers, unlocked it and using it on telus network (in canada). When I first went with telus, everything was working perfect.
Last monday, I used root explorer to remove bloatware. I removed everything safe in the list from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1089470. But I removed an app called Telus Menu. I put it back when flashed again to get root, and still not working. Maybe I disconnected something at telus network ?
can you help me out ?

Think it may be a market or app problem rather than the phone I have been having problems for the last few days and nothing in my set up has changed recently
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Well thats what I'm hoping it is anyway ;-)
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Yeah market problems too. So it's there issue, not our phones.
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you are having same problems as me ?
I'm glad to ear that, no offense. I'm not alone having problems.

Curious how it is affecting some but not others. Wonder if its account specific or phone specific. I assume if someone did a flash it must be account specific... Odd thing to screw up either way.
Can you go to the android.com market on your PC and have it show up on your phone that way?

for me older market seems work fine. this new 3.1.5 seems to be buggy for me.

For me some apps can't be downloaded/updated. For example I had 5 updates yesterday and 4 updated with out issue but one couldn't update.

I've had some issues with the latest Market as well. What I've had to do several times is:
- make sure "update automatically" is NOT set for any apps
- go to My Apps and for any that show updates available select and try to update manually. If that fails, press the back button and now check the "update automatically" box.
- Exit from Market (kill the Market app if you have task killer or something similar so it is really and truly gone otherwise you will have to restart the phone)
- Now go back into Market and try to update the same app again

Verizon Nexus issues

For some reason my GN doesn't wan to download any apps from the market over mobile network, 4g or 3g. I can't even download small apps, 30-35kb size. Download starts then it says "downloading" for about 5 min and then message pops up " download failed" or "Error downloading. There is insufficient space on the device". I have 27 GB available and Wifi downloads work perfect.
Any pointers? Should I change some kind of settings?

Open the Menu -> Settings in the marketplace and see if "Update over Wi-Fi only" is turned on.

Try going to settings and apps and delete cache/data for market
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I thought it was the ticket but it doesn't change with ""Update over Wi-Fi only" on or off

joshnichols189 said:
Try going to settings and apps and delete cache/data for market
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I can't find this option. If I go under settings in the market and it gives me only "clear search history"

settings/apps/all/market/clear data

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settings/apps/all/market/clear data
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This
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cleared cache, restarted the phone (just in case) but still no go. I just think its strange that wifi has no issues and mobile does. As soon as I connect to wifi it's working properly

any other ideas? This is so freaking frustrating.

Are you able to browse the Internet fine over 3G/4G?
I would do a Factory Reset, if still no go contact VZW for an exchange.

I will try factory reset. Something just weird happened. My phone received and answered automatically a call from *22899. After a few sec it just ended by itself. WTF is going on

zaqnexus said:
I will try factory reset. Something just weird happened. My phone received and answered automatically a call from *22899. After a few sec it just ended by itself. WTF is going on
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Its updating the PRL I believe. Chill.

trying ClockWorkMod (Hold Vol- and Power button at reboot then choose RECOVERY). See it it works

alright progress: now it doesn't say "not enough space", download just simply never goes through and shows "downloading" for 15 min now. Have anyone tried to microwave GN?

Flash stock images..

I have a stock Verizon CDMA GNex, and started running into this after downloading apps without incident for the first couple of weeks after getting the phone. What I noticed is that when I initiate the download of an app from a PC web browser -- it USED to work flawlessly -- and I thought it was pretty cool that I could be on a web browser on any PC, and if logged into my Google account I could initiate a download on my GNex as long as it was online, somewhere. Anyway - this worked fine at first.
Then, after downloading half a dozen or so apps, I started getting the "error downloading" / "insufficient space" error on the device any time I initiated the download from a PC. However - I could still do the download from the App Market if I initiated it from the GNex itself (not the PC). This has been consistent for the last week or so, until I finally got to the point where even starting the download from the GNex wouldn't work.
What fixed things for me (at least temporarily): clearing data and cache for both the App Market app and the Download Manager. No need to reboot, etc. Just clearing the data and cache from the Market and download manager seems to let things work again - from either the device itself or a remote PC running the web version of the Market.
Pretty weird though. When I google this, it appears this is a known issue going back something like 3 months. I'd think it could be pretty easy to address, and have the download manager and the Market clean up after themselves, and also check before attempting a new download and do the clean up then if needed. We shouldn't have to do this manually!

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jonstrong said:
I have a stock Verizon CDMA GNex, and started running into this after downloading apps without incident for the first couple of weeks after getting the phone. What I noticed is that when I initiate the download of an app from a PC web browser -- it USED to work flawlessly -- and I thought it was pretty cool that I could be on a web browser on any PC, and if logged into my Google account I could initiate a download on my GNex as long as it was online, somewhere. Anyway - this worked fine at first.
Then, after downloading half a dozen or so apps, I started getting the "error downloading" / "insufficient space" error on the device any time I initiated the download from a PC. However - I could still do the download from the App Market if I initiated it from the GNex itself (not the PC). This has been consistent for the last week or so, until I finally got to the point where even starting the download from the GNex wouldn't work.
What fixed things for me (at least temporarily): clearing data and cache for both the App Market app and the Download Manager. No need to reboot, etc. Just clearing the data and cache from the Market and download manager seems to let things work again - from either the device itself or a remote PC running the web version of the Market.
Pretty weird though. When I google this, it appears this is a known issue going back something like 3 months. I'd think it could be pretty easy to address, and have the download manager and the Market clean up after themselves, and also check before attempting a new download and do the clean up then if needed. We shouldn't have to do this manually!
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I had the same problem a couple of times. The easiest way to solve it is to run Lucky Patcher and you'll see a toast notification that unused data/odex has been removed. That should solve the problem.
You'll probably have to be rooted though. Not sure if Lucky Patcher works on non-rooted GNs.
Hit 'Thanks' if I helped. Cheers!

AndIKnow said:
I had the same problem a couple of times. The easiest way to solve it is to run Lucky Patcher and you'll see a toast notification that unused data/odex has been removed. That should solve the problem.
You'll probably have to be rooted though. Not sure if Lucky Patcher works on non-rooted GNs.
Hit 'Thanks' if I helped. Cheers!
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Thanks! For whatever reason, I haven't run into this in at least a couple of months...actually forgot about it...

Yes I'm Back! - Apps only use Wifi, Not Data

Ok so I've come from a Note10+ with Pie, now kinda dead, to a Note 10+ with 11 (whatever they call that).
Play Store, Ebay and others will not connect over data, they insist on the Wifi network or there's no network according to them.
Of course Data is on etc, etc.
You would thnk by the 11th try at a mobile O/S they might have got it right by now....but then Microsoft...well I won't go there.
Any idea's why they are ignoring a perfectly good data connection that Opera is fine with and others?
Thank you.

NoteTaker said:
Ok so I've come from a Note10+ with Pie, now kinda dead, to a Note 10+ with 11 (whatever they call that).
Play Store, Ebay and others will not connect over data, they insist on the Wifi network or there's no network according to them.
Of course Data is on etc, etc.
You would thnk by the 11th try at a mobile O/S they might have got it right by now....but then Microsoft...well I won't go there.
Any idea's why they are ignoring a perfectly good data connection that Opera is fine with and others?
Thank you.
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Is this happening after upgrading?
In playstore setting check the app download is enabled only mobile data or not, if it set to wifi only, set it for mobile data and wifi{similar options}, try clearing app data
Settings/applications/playstore/storage or data, clear it

Suji2k said:
Is this happening after upgrading?
In playstore setting check the app download is enabled only mobile data or not, if it set to wifi only, set it for mobile data and wifi{similar options}, try clearing app data
Settings/applications/playstore/storage or data, clear it
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Nope, won't play the game.
I noticed that the setting "Mobile data only apps" is greyed out for some reason, it will not let me tell it to allow apps to use data.
Why on earth would it be greyed out?
Of course it is set to off.
Any idea's about that?
Thank you.

NoteTaker said:
Nope, won't play the game.
I noticed that the setting "Mobile data only apps" is greyed out for some reason, it will not let me tell it to allow apps to use data.
Why on earth would it be greyed out?
Of course it is set to off.
Any idea's about that?
Thank you.
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check in setting data permissions to app, if internet data is enabled for google play service and play store then it should work on internet data, try clearing app data in settings

Suji2k said:
check in setting data permissions to app, if internet data is enabled for google play service and play store then it should work on internet data, try clearing app data in settings
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I did try as you suggested but it hasn't helped unfortunately.
I really don't feel like resetting the phone, its only new and I just finished setting it up!
But it is starting to annoy me now.

check under settings/connections/data usage that data saver is off

Lol, I stayed on Pie... no issues.
Android 11 is known to be a pain.
If you have unlimited an data plan, disable wifi.
Clear system cache and do a network reset.
Factory reset...
If you didn't do a factory reset after upgrading to 11 or if you used SmartSwitch, factory reset.
If you can't find the cause of this issue suspect malware... factory reset.
Rootkit infections are very rare unless you do something stupid but they can happen.
Android 9 and above are not susceptible to the "immortal" rootkits, a factory reset will purge any infection on the internal memory.
If doubt, factory reset asap... it's the only way to be sure. Shotgun get it done.

Phone is brand new, my Pie one is dead.
This new Note came with 11 on it.
I do not know if it was from Samsung like this or if the seller upgraded it hoping to help sell his stock, make it seem more appealling?
Anyway I'm doing a factory reset on the weekend and see what happens.
Thanks for all your help.
I'll let you know how it goes.

NoteTaker said:
Phone is brand new, my Pie one is dead.
This new Note came with 11 on it.
I do not know if it was from Samsung like this or if the seller upgraded it hoping to help sell his stock, make it seem more appealling?
Anyway I'm doing a factory reset on the weekend and see what happens.
Thanks for all your help.
I'll let you know how it goes.
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The 10+ all were loaded with Pie for the whole product run as far as I know.
Keep an eye on it... see is the reset gets it.

So it turns out its my firewall. In Pie if I allowed an app internet access in the firewall everything was all good.
For some reason (I have emailed the Dev) in Android 11 allowing an app internet access is not working correctly, internet via WiFI works but cellular data does not, even though it should, data is available for use and app has permission to use it. The firewall is still blocking somehow. Turning the firewall off immediately restores internet via cell data.
I would presume the firewall app only needs an update for Android 11 or I may have to get a new firewall if that does not happen.
Cheers for all the help everyone.

Hi again, more about this issue.
It seems my problem is caused by Google with Android 11. It appears they changed something to mess up firewalls because they stop their ads getting through (1 of the reasons why I use one).
I have started using a new firewall - Netguard, so far it seems to be doing what it should be doing and I have cell data back for allowed programs and its blocking disallowed apps correctly.
Hope this helps somebody along the way.

NoteTaker said:
Hi again, more about this issue.
It seems my problem is caused by Google with Android 11. It appears they changed something to mess up firewalls because they stop their ads getting through (1 of the reasons why I use one).
I have started using a new firewall - Netguard, so far it seems to be doing what it should be doing and I have cell data back for allowed programs and its blocking disallowed apps correctly.
Hope this helps somebody along the way.
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Global ad blocking? Try this mod...

blackhawk said:
Global ad blocking? Try this mod...
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Thank you, I will give that a go!