androidmaker

i only had my android phone a day its on t-mobile so i have the g1 but something i cant seem to work out is how do i clear searched history for apps in the android marketplace. if i have looks for an app with a keyword




glad to be one of the android owners i plan to write apps for the os so if people have any ideas please let me know

thank you for your help

noonehereyet

Welcome to the forums... and to clear the cache from the market simply go to settings > applications > manage applications > market and then click the clear cache button

androidmaker

ok where is the clear cache button i gone it to mange apps and even click home nothing came up about it

noonehereyet

settings > applications > manage applications > CLICK on market when it opens there will or should be a clear cache button....

androidmaker

great thank you for your help

androidmaker

but its still showing the keywords i have searched for ?

noonehereyet

then clear your browser

2 ways to do it...

1) settings> applications > manage applications > CLICK browser and clear

2) Open Browser click menu button then more > settings then clear specific things like data, cookies, passwords etc...

androidmaker

na that still dont work lol this is werid thank you again for your help

androidmaker

anyone have any other ideas

androidmaker

anyone have any other ideas

androidmaker

anymore ideas guys

ChilledMatt

AFAIK it cannot be done from phone settings. I believe it can be done if you have root and you delete the relevant file. I have seen a post on here before that names the file.

androidmaker

anyone have a link to that maybe i can write an app to do this if i know what file it is ?

justjimjpc

Any app that use cache can be cleared by the following method :

System settings > Applications > Manage Applications

Then search for That Application, long press it then hit clear cache

SO.....

System settings > Applications > Manage Applications

Then Find Market, LongPress Market then hit clear cache

Then Find Browser, LongPress Browser then hit clear cache

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androidmaker

yes but this dont work that is what i been saying :d ps i am talking about when you serch for somting on the marketplace you cant clean the serched text

ChilledMatt

The power of the search facility :-)

http://androidforums.com/support/4235-delete-search-history-market-new-post.html

justjimjpc

You DO need to be Rooted :

I understand what you mean now ... the link to that is

http://androidforums.com/support/4235-delete-search-history-market.html#post35774

eltimn

It looks like they may be working on this:

Issue 4566 - android - Ability to delete (all or some) of market search history - Project Hosting on Google Code

theartfullodger

On my N1, Settings=> Privacy => Factory Data Reset

- clears it, along with shed-loads of other stuff (like downloaded apps..).


Thankfully Google sync's back yr contacts & calendar & which APPs you'd purchased so you can download again for no-extra-charge....

Cheers!

Lodger

Last edited by theartfullodger; March 4th, 2010 at 02:46 AM.

F1NinjaTZS

HistoryEraser will do it. Installed and not tried yet, but the user reviews in the market are all good!

gonzo61

Just downloaded MarketSearchEraser and it worked awesome.

FINALLY.....after reading all the talk about rooting and of course the dreaded expert's feedback of "clearing cache" in manage application settings!!

theclarks1

MarketSearchEraser will not work on my incredible, however the History Eraser will work.

PGP_Protector

I just used the "File Manager- Apps Manager" selected Market, Uninstalled. It's in the firmware so it can't actually uninstall, it just resets the market, and History is gone.

Note This was on my Android Samsung captivate, YMMV

Learned Via this thread
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=079975a56ae55776&hl=en

bigsi5

Hi,
Had the same problm but if you go into Manage Apps and hit Clear Data and then Clear Cache, all is good!

bernell

Awsome it worked great,

Thanks much!

Azul

Dear fellow Droids,
I had been having this problem for about 2 months and today I managed to clear the Android Market Search history.

settings> applications > manage applications > CLICK Market,

Here I tried but could not 'clear cache' because it was already empty, so I reckoned that I probably should try the 'clear data' instead.

NOTE. For the record, I also tried going to 'settings> applications > manage applications >Internet' to clear cache but when that did not work, I went back to 'settings> applications > manage applications >Market', and when I checked again in the Android Market, it prompted me to 'Accept' and once inside market, I found that the Android Market search history was gone.

Best regards,
Azul

neweramaze

I used marketplaceeraser and it worked awesome. I have android 1.5 so not sure if it will work for you, but you can try.

euryale

just download market history eraser [azrael].. And delete all history,
u can even choose to automatically delete newly created history shortcuts.
i tried it and it worked. goodluck!

blikst

Do you have other versions of the market place than me (gingerbread 2.3.5)? Load android market, go to settings, press "Clear search history" and I'm done. Works like a charm, all search history in the market place is deleted. Or are you talking about something else? I never have to go into the phones settings.