Android market is acting very strange..

[ShadowDK]

Hi,

I just got a Samsung Galaxy S2 yesterday, but today Android Market is acting strange.

When I open the app it says "No matching content in Android Market", and when I tap on Apps > All aplications it sits with "Loading..." like forever, however, when I rotate the phone and go in landscape mode some apps pop up. If I try install one I get this message:

Attention
A server error has occurred. Retry or cancel and return to the previous screen.

Despite this it managed to install an app - if I go search for an app I get this message instantly before seeing the search results.

Can anyone help me?

This is my first android phone and definitely not a good start I tried go to settings > applications > manage applications > market > clear cache, delete data and uninstall updates but that didn't help.

It was working fine yesterday and I installed a couple of small apps.

 

[Saltine713]

Is this on your carrier's network or Wifi?

 

[ShadowDK]

I'm on Wifi, I don't have a sim-card for it yet

Was the same Wifi network last night where I did not have any issues.

 

[ShadowDK]

This is driving me nuts as its a brand new phone

No one able to help?

 

[chanchan05]

Have you tried rebooting? Just turn it off for a couple of minutes.

 

[ninja_reject]

If it is brand new, then factory reset shouldn't be too traumatizing.

 

[lunatic59]

Check your router's firewall and make sure port 5228 is open. Some routers open all outgoing and block all incoming traffic, but others will open only common ports for outgoing traffic. 5228 is the port the Market uses over wifi.

 

[ShadowDK]

I tried rebooting it, didnt let it stay turned off for more than 10-20 seconds or so though.

Regarding factory reset it just feels very silly if that's really needed? I literally didn't do anything except installing skype, pubtrans (a public transport app for London), and google googles..

And it browses the internet just fine too, so it's only in market where it acts up.

 

[chanchan05]

I'd say leave it off for about 5min, and pull the battery out. Let the CMOS battery drain a bit to empty cache..

 

[ShadowDK]

lunatic: Im not so familiar with router settings and stuff, but I can see I need to fill in "From port" and "To port" and also "Redirection port" - what do I need to fill in here? Based on the documentation from my isp regarding port opening, I think I need to type in 5228 in both "from" and "to" port, but what about redirection port?

chanhan: Just took out the battery, so I'll try boot it up in 5 minutes again, fingers crossed

And thanks for your replies

edit: Had the battery out for 10 minutes or so, didnt help

 

[lunatic59]

lunatic: Im not so familiar with router settings and stuff, but I can see I need to fill in "From port" and "To port" and also "Redirection port" - what do I need to fill in here? Based on the documentation from my isp regarding port opening, I think I need to type in 5228 in both "from" and "to" port, but what about redirection port?

chanhan: Just took out the battery, so I'll try boot it up in 5 minutes again, fingers crossed

And thanks for your replies

"To" is outgoing and "from" is incoming. Redirection is if you want to point a single instance of an open port to a specific ip on your LAN. For example if you had a Web server at 10.1.26.3 on your lan with a public facing IP of 155.266.23.4 (just made them up, if they are actually a valid IP, please don't blame me if they link to porn ) you'd redirect port 80 to 10.1.26.3 and if you had an ftp server at 10.1.26.5 you'd redirect port 21 there.

As far as I know there should be no incoming traffic on that port, you just have to open it to get out to the market.

 

[ShadowDK]

In the "port opening" help page it tells me to go to "port redirection" and type in the same "From" and "To" port if I only want to open one port, I guess its meant to make it easier to open a whole range of ports? However, I can't just leave the redirection port field empty.

It's probably too much to ask of you but here is a link to the google translated documentation (Google Translate) - where "port omdirigeringsregel" means "port redirection rule". If you are really bored you could maybe take a quick look

 

[lunatic59]

In the "port opening" help page it tells me to go to "port redirection" and type in the same "From" and "To" port if I only want to open one port, I guess its meant to make it easier to open a whole range of ports? However, I can't just leave the redirection port field empty.

It's probably too much to ask of you but here is a link to the google translated documentation (Google Translate) - where "port omdirigeringsregel" means "port redirection rule". If you are really bored you could maybe take a quick look

To forward the port to the entire subnet the IP address in the forward to ends in "0" (192.168.1.0)

 

[ShadowDK]

To forward the port to the entire subnet the IP address in the forward to ends in "0" (192.168.1.0)

Not sure if I'm understanding you correctly - should I type in as follows?

Port in: 5228
Port out: 5228
Redirect to: 192.168.1.0

Or how? Sorry if I misunderstood you

 

[lunatic59]

If your subnet is 192.168.1.x then yes, just what you typed.

 

[ShadowDK]

It wants a numeric value between 0 and 65535 in the redirection port field - do you know what I should pick then? 0?

However, I tried something else too. I tried to use my mobile internet dongle on my laptop and shared the internet connection, connected on my phone and then market worked! I think that clearly shows it is indeed something with my other internet connection, but I'd still like to have that working too.

 

[lunatic59]

It wants a numeric value between 0 and 65535 in the redirection port field - do you know what I should pick then? 0?

Then it's looking for a port number. Put in 5228 since you are just forwarding it and not redirecting to a different port.

However, I tried something else too. I tried to use my mobile internet dongle on my laptop and shared the internet connection, connected on my phone and then market worked! I think that clearly shows it is indeed something with my other internet connection, but I'd still like to have that working too.

Some of the newer routers have wacky firewall rules. I'll bet that's what causing you problems.

 

[ShadowDK]

I just tried that and it still doesn't work on that network

Do you have any other ideas?

 

[lunatic59]

Refresh my memory ... are you able to connect to any data when using that wifi connection?? Internet? email?

If not try going to menu>settings>wireless & networks>Wifi settings and look for the ssid of your wifi connection. Click on it and chose forget network, then reboot your phone and try and reconnect.

 

[ShadowDK]

Internet, email etc works just fine. I can even install apps at the moment from market (sometimes I get the error message though). However, when I try do a search for something in market, I get the error message instantly..

 

[chanchan05]

Are you on the new market? If not, try installing an update.

 

[ShadowDK]

I am using Market 2.3.4.

How do i update it?

 

[chanchan05]

You can find an APK somewhere in the web nowadays. I installed mine through an APK.

 

[ShadowDK]

There's no way inside the market app itself to update it? Or some kind of automatic update of the phone?

 

[lunatic59]

I generally don't like posting links to sharing sites for the obvious reasons, but this article includes one and may offer you the new market app.