Why is my market not downloading anything?

AndroidUser12 · April 6th, 2010, 10:19 AM

Ive been trying to download a few applications on my t-mobile pulse recently and nothing seems to work

ive cleared the market cache and rebooted the phone and yet nothing seems to work?

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening?!! It sooo annoying!

Please Help!!

brykins · April 6th, 2010, 10:35 AM

What's happening when you try and download? Are you getting the "download unsuccessful" message?

If so, then there's a couple of things you can try, but in my experience (this has happened twice with my son's Pulse) they don't work and you end up with the last option:

Clear Market Cache
Force Close Market
Re-Boot

Remove SD Card
Force Close Market
Re-Boot
Re-install SD Card

Set Auto-Update of Time/Date to OFF
Force Close Market
Re-Boot

Set Auto-Update of Time/Date to ON
Force Close Market
Re-Boot

Last option: Factory Wipe/Reset the handset (this will lose everything on the phone - SD card will be safe, contacts and calendar are safe in sync'd to either Google or desktop)

As I said, we have had to do that twice with son's phone. One point there - when you factory reset phone, the FIRST time you go into the "My Downloads" section of the Market it'll list ALL your previously downloaded apps (free and paid for). Should you then exit the Market and go back in, you'll find it only lists the paid for apps. Good idea to write down your apps BEFORE resetting cos you're bound to forget something!

AndroidUser12 · April 6th, 2010, 10:42 AM

nothing i seem to do makes it work

its beginning to really piss me off!!
i think ill have to go to the last resort of resetting the phone and see if that works!

i hope it does or ill be seriously annoyed and t-mobile can have the damn phone back!!

brykins · April 6th, 2010, 02:20 PM

If you want a laugh, go and have a look at this forum thread. Started by a Google employee in May last year asking for people's experience with the "Download Unsuccessful" issue. At the time of writing, 419 responses and not one acknowledgment from Google.

Download issues: Download Unsuccessful - Android Market Help

It's not confirmed if it's a handset, network or Market problem but considering it's happening to all kinds of people all over the world on different networks and handsets, it's a fair bet that it's a Google problem.

But they HAVE given us animated wallpapers, remember!

helikopter · April 7th, 2010, 03:28 AM

there's a solution written on the google discussion thread mentioned above which works for me very well: if you can't download from the market, start the google talk application and check if you're signed in. if not, sign in manually, then downloads will start instantly. i think the reason for that is that the market uses google talk to authenticate your account so you have to be signed in to download from it.

brykins · April 7th, 2010, 04:55 AM

Google Talk sign-in has been mentioned in various places as a solution - didn't work for my son's Pulse. Signed out, back in, etc, made no difference.

AndroidUser12 · April 7th, 2010, 10:52 AM

i couldnt even sign out of google talk, it didnt work

but i reset my phone and now it works.. i just hope it doesnt do it again

brykins · April 7th, 2010, 10:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndroidUser12

i just hope it doesnt do it again

It will....eventually.

AndroidUser12 · April 8th, 2010, 12:03 PM

well i DO NOT look forward to that day

chaeMil · June 14th, 2010, 03:59 PM

sometimes it's bcs of wifi you are connceted to bcs android market using other ports than80 and you eventualy didn't opened them... or it's a t-mobile rom bug bcs it's often doing me the same. i reboot and then its wrking...

sry for my english

kirkykirkham · June 15th, 2010, 06:23 AM

Iv been having the same problem ever since i upgraded 2.1 the market lets me download but it takes forever i have to turn my wifi off then on again and even then it takes forever i get the notification saying its downloading but it can take hourse for it to download.

any one els having the same problem i tryed re installiing the 2.1 update and when the phone booted for the first time it dowloaded everythn fine i downloaded about 7 apps at the same time and it took no time but as soon as i tun off the wifi it began playing up again.

brammers83 · August 19th, 2010, 03:02 PM

There's a really easy way to get the market working again (worked for me anyway)

Open the TALK app, and hit menu, then sign out

Then go to the settings and uncheck the auto sign-in option

Close talk, and go back to the market app and should work fine.

Hope this helps someone, as it really frustrated me for a few days when it happened to my Desire

Atariwarrior · August 22nd, 2010, 01:08 PM

Thanks for the tips!!

Removing the SD card, downloading the app(s), and re-installing the SD worked for me.

Quote:

Originally Posted by brykins

What's happening when you try and download? Are you getting the "download unsuccessful" message?

If so, then there's a couple of things you can try, but in my experience (this has happened twice with my son's Pulse) they don't work and you end up with the last option:

Clear Market Cache
Force Close Market
Re-Boot

Remove SD Card
Force Close Market
Re-Boot
Re-install SD Card

Set Auto-Update of Time/Date to OFF
Force Close Market
Re-Boot

Set Auto-Update of Time/Date to ON
Force Close Market
Re-Boot

Last option: Factory Wipe/Reset the handset (this will lose everything on the phone - SD card will be safe, contacts and calendar are safe in sync'd to either Google or desktop)

As I said, we have had to do that twice with son's phone. One point there - when you factory reset phone, the FIRST time you go into the "My Downloads" section of the Market it'll list ALL your previously downloaded apps (free and paid for). Should you then exit the Market and go back in, you'll find it only lists the paid for apps. Good idea to write down your apps BEFORE resetting cos you're bound to forget something!

Jack.Droid · October 25th, 2010, 05:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brammers83

There's a really easy way to get the market working again (worked for me anyway)

Open the TALK app, and hit menu, then sign out

Then go to the settings and uncheck the auto sign-in option

Close talk, and go back to the market app and should work fine.

Hope this helps someone, as it really frustrated me for a few days when it happened to my Desire

Thanks dude worked

Jpr1d3 · November 7th, 2010, 12:24 PM

Guys my xperia x10 used to have the same problems that download was unsuccessful error.
try this methond before try to factory reset. it works for me on my x10
How to fix Samsung Galaxy S Unsuccessful Android Market Download and System Restore Issue