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Help App update constantly downloading and can't cancel

I downloaded Laputa (ebook reader) a month or two ago and recently received an update, which I accepted. The download was unsuccessful, yet it keeps trying to force the d/l and kills my battery in a couple hours. I've tried cancelling the download, but Market force closes. I even uninstalled Laputa, but it's still trying to download. It seems I have no way of cancelling it. I'm assuming I can't uninstall Market. Any other thoughts? Anyone else seen an issue like this?

Thanks in advance.
 
Try clearing Market Data cache and Market Updater cache. Menu > Settings > Applications> filter all > then click both programs and clear the data. It seems odd that an update would be stuck for so long, but there are also a lot of programs that I have no inclination to download based on the comments of others regarding problems.

You, sir, are a genius. Thanks so much! Hopefully battery life will improve from 2 hours tomorrow (this had to be the issue).
 
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The download was unsuccessful, yet it keeps trying to force the d/l and kills my battery in a couple hours. I've tried cancelling the download, but Market force closes.
Instead of going "into" the menu for that app to cancel the download (which causes the market to FC) long-press on the app from the download list and select cancel download.
 
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Instant heart rate is constantly downloading 24/7. Tried clearing cashe, tried downloading directly from apps website. Nothing works. App works OK. Wait, I think I fixed it by clearing market cashe and market updater cashe. But it was odd that after clearing the cashes 8 programs showed they needed updating. Before clearing cashes there were no programs needing updating. Why did this happen?
 
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Try clearing Market Data cache and Market Updater cache. Menu > Settings > Applications> filter all > then click both programs and clear the data. It seems odd that an update would be stuck for so long, but there are also a lot of programs that I have no inclination to download based on the comments of others regarding problems.

i want to try this but i only have menu/settings/ applications (then either unknown sources, manage applications, running services, devolpment or samsung apps)


any help?
 
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i want to try this but i only have menu/settings/ applications (then either unknown sources, manage applications, running services, devolpment or samsung apps)


any help?

I had the same problem and the same menu selections. I tried clearing the market cache but it didn't work until I cleared the "Download Manager" data.
Menu > Settings > Applications> Manage applications > Menu > Filter > All > Download Manager > Clear Data.
This stopped the continuous "Starting Download" loop. But, it then tried downloading the App, got to 100% and said unsuccessful. At least the loop has stopped. I had a queu of 55 downloads and I couldn't update any other apps.
 
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For some reason this is taking a really long time to download a English US language dictionary or keyboard data package, that is only 21MB. I noticed, just before I cleared the download manager cache, that it was at 16 MB. I should have waited another 10 or 20 minutes, and it would have downloaded the whole thing. I just hit clear download cache too soon, and stopped the download app. This means that it will probably restart at some point in the future. It's bad that it takes so long to download, it must be coming from a mirror that is super slow someplace, unfortunately Android doesn't tell you much about where your download is coming from, as far as I can tell.
 
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