Download of "insert app name here" unsuccessful

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Hi all,

I've been having a problem since about 6pm yesterday where any app i try to download from the Android Market, seems to fail, I'm using an x10. I googled the problem and;

What i've tried so far:

Clear Cache in Android market
Clear Cache in Download manager

Turned on Gtalk,
cleared cache in gtalk

turned off wifi
turned back on wifi

tried to manually sync with googlesync

I had unknown sources option ticked, changed this but made no difference.

Rebooted a number of times, toggled between airplane mode and sim.

I've 273mb of storage on the phone and 6.52gb on the sd card.

Is anyone else having this issue. none of the above worked has worked for me. Getting a bit annoyed by this issue now, also a little ticked off that the issue seems to be one popping up for a number of months now with no definitive answer.

28064212

Some of those things work sometimes, but the most reliable way of doing it typically seems to be waiting for a day and trying again. It can be very frustrating, but just seems to crop up randomly on occasion, and you can't do anything about it

Bob the Builder

One of my customers had a similar issue. The only way I managed to get it working was by backing everything up to memory card, wiping the whole phone through settings menu, and then restoring everything back to the card. Risky operation but it paid off nicely in the end.

pawrick

I had the same problem with the same phone since yesterday but this seemed to have fixed it.

Go to Manage applications
find Market and clear all the cache and updates to market

market is working fine now for me again and noting stuck in the loading screen

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pawrick wrote: »

I had the same problem with the same phone since yesterday but this seemed to have fixed it.

Go to Manage applications
find Market and clear all the cache and updates to market

market is working fine now for me again and noting stuck in the loading screen

You absolute legend, I uninstalled the market updates and hey presto, it works again.

TerryTibbs!

Factory reset is the only way in most cases

Dave147

TerryTibbs! wrote: »

Factory reset is the only way in most cases

No it isn't. Don't be giving completely useless and possibly harmful information.

Pawrick is correct, when applications are hanging in the market like that you simply force stop in 'Manage Applications' - clear data and cache and you'll be good as gold.

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Dave147 wrote: »

No it isn't. Don't be giving completely useless and possibly harmful information.

Pawrick is correct, when applications are hanging in the market like that you simply force stop in 'Manage Applications' - clear data and cache and you'll be good as gold.

had to do a little bit more than that, it was an uninstall of the most recent update on the android market that did the trick.

TerryTibbs!

Dave147 wrote: »

No it isn't. Don't be giving completely useless and possibly harmful information.

Pawrick is correct, when applications are hanging in the market like that you simply force stop in 'Manage Applications' - clear data and cache and you'll be good as gold.

BS

I am right.

28064212

TerryTibbs! wrote: »

BS

I am right.

Lol. You wanted the OP to do a factory reset and wipe all his data (which is a royal pain in the ass), when all he needed to do was uninstall a market update, which took 30 seconds. Factory reset is almost never needed to fix a "download unsuccessful" error

TerryTibbs!

28064212 wrote: »

Lol. You wanted the OP to do a factory reset and wipe all his data (which is a royal pain in the ass), when all he needed to do was uninstall a market update, which took 30 seconds. Factory reset is almost never needed to fix a "download unsuccessful" error

In alot of cases factory reset is the only way. This is fact, do your research. Try other methods first but alot of people have to factory reset.

So, lol at you.

28064212

TerryTibbs! wrote: »

In alot of cases factory reset is the only way. This is fact, do your research. Try other methods first but alot of people have to factory reset.

So, lol at you.

No, just no. There might be a handful of situations where a factory reset is required. 90% of them can be fixed by trying the (much easier) suggestions in this thread. In your original post, you wanted the OP to just go ahead and do a completely unnecessary reset