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Help Market not downloading/installing apps

papermonkey01

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Jun 22, 2010
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Not sure if there's a thread about this or not. Lately I've been having some trouble downloading/installing apps from the market. Its random and frustrating. Basically I click buy or install or download and it looks like its trying to start the download but just sits there instead. Sometimes backing out and trying again works, sometimes stopping download manager and clearing the cash works, but not consistantly. Any ideas?
 
not sure what you mean by unsuccessful updates?

are they timing out?

are you on wifi? 3g?

did you clear cache to the market app, reboot the device?

did you attempt install from the android market from, say, a desktop computer?

Meaning I would attempt to update (or even install new apps) and it would download, start to install, then come up with the little triangle that says "update/install was unsucessful".

I figured it out... apparently according to a Moto tech, this thing is designed to prevent you from installing apps unless you have 2 GB or more of data free. Lame.
 
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