Help Constant "Download Unsuccessful"

This worked perfectly. My daughter's Sony Xperia 10 has had this problem twice. First time they replaced her sim card. I followed all the steps as outlined and it started downloading immediately.

ZeBadger said:

That didn't work for me as I don't have a Market Updater. I did try Market and clearing the cache, this didn't help.

Then I tried Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Download Manager, and selected Clear Data.

This sorted the problem out Must have been a partially downloaded file that was breaking things eh?

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This worked for me, too!! Go figure!]
Thanks much!

hmm I had this problem on my phone for hours... I tried EVERYTHING and nothing worked... well I turned the wifi on and then back off and now it works again

I was having the "download unsuccessful" for about 3 days. Turned out to be my wireless router setup. I disabled the wireless on the phone and was able to download with 3g.

Hi guys, take a look here:

This solved the "download unsuccessful" problem in my Samsung Galaxy Mini

"Many people have figured out that there is a compatibility issue between regular gmail accounts, googlemail accounts and google apps accounts (exchange). For google apps accounts, the marketplace only half-works. You can access it, but depending on the order in which you added your accounts and entered the marketplace for the first time, you will either get the download failed issue or stuck at starting download. My only theory is that android somehow gets confused when you have multiple google-centric accounts and doesn't know which one to use. After about 25 resets of my Samsung Captivate trying every combination to see what actually works consistently for me I found the following steps to work.

Reset device. Yes, it sucks, but I couldn't figure out a way to un-bind the accounts from the marketplace without doing it. You will find that when it's exhibiting the issue, you can't factory reset (at least on the captivate you can't) so you first need to run the clear user data procedure - hold volume key while powering on. Reset data then reboot. Your downloads will still be stuck, but at that point, the factory reset from software should work (Settings -> Privacy -> Factory data reset.

Once you have a fresh install, go to Settings -> Accounts and Sync and add your gmail account (NOT your google apps account). Order appears to be VERY important. Uncheck all the services you don't want to sync (everything for me is unchecked as this account is only there for the market place to work *shaking fist in Googles general direction*

Test the market, it should work now.

Go back to Settings -> Accounts and add your Google APPS Account as an Exchange connection (corporate) using your name@domain.com as login and m.google.com as server. I found that when I try to add it as a gmail account instead of exchange, it doesn't break the market, but you lose the ability to sync your calendar - but if you do it in the other order the calendar sync option is there, but then the market doesn't work *shaking other fist in Googles general direction*. Excahnge it is then...

Once done, you should have two accounts - gmail which the marketplace will use to auth downloads that can be relieved from all syncing duties, and an exchange account for your google apps account to get calendar, contacts and email.

Now off to address the issue with exchange not being able to see all the subscribed calendars like gmail setup does *shaking foot in Googles general direction - ran outta fists*

Hope this helps someone"

by: 2wheeltraveler

From: "Download unsuccessful" on all Market downloads. - Android Market Help

Hi I've had a t-mobile pulse for nearly a year and a half and lately I keep getting the download unsuccessful message too when trying to download an app, though occasionally the odd one will get through!

I thought that maybe it was my OS that was too old or something, as I haven't upgraded it since I bought it. Not sure what version I have but the firmware is 1.5 if that means anything...(sorry not a techie!). Anyway, could this be part of the problem? Will the newer apps work with older OS's?

I also can't seem to find any caches to clear on my phone, as suggested by people here - are there different types of t-mobile pulses then? I thought there was only two - the pulse and the pulse mini.

I've been thinking of upgrading my phone anyway, but it seems this download unsuccessful is a common problem across android phones? It's making me consider converting to other options such as blackberries (eep!) or even the iphone. But I do like androids so I don't want to have to change systems and lose what I have..

NYdroid33 said:

hmm I had this problem on my phone for hours... I tried EVERYTHING and nothing worked... well I turned the wifi on and then back off and now it works again

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This didn't work for me.

*I feel the need to repost my (the following) rant in applicable threads because nobody seems to have picked up on this and a lot of people have had this problem (I'm still suffering from it now.)*

I've been pouring over the various threads regarding this issue and am stunned by the incompetence of the internet. All this blah blah about clearing this or that cache and reformatting this or that sd card are nonsense. Want to know why? Because this can happen to two entirely different devices on your google account AT THE SAME TIME. My tablet and my phone (different carriers, same google account) both came down with this affliction simultaneously last night, so obviously it has nothing to do with all of these local fixes everyone is spewing. End of rant. Let's get this right, people.

Clear Android market and download agent cache, data and updates. Restart phone.

InstantKarma said:

Try this:

Go to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Market Updater, and select Clear Data. I had a similar problem about a month ago, and that solved it.

Let us know if that does it for you.

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This has done it on my Motorola XOOM tablet, after weeks of frustration on my and particularly my fiancees part. Thank you very much.

I wonder if anyone actually knows what causes this.

I just opened the web browser, went to any web page (couldn't access my settings from the Google search for some reason) then went to my settings and changed default storage from memory card to phone and that fixed it for me.

That worked for me as well. I do havve low storage on my phone so must have had part downloaded items stopping anything new You were a sanity saviour as i was getting really frustrated keep trying

i would try switching the default save location to internal storage and then transfer it to your sd card that is what worked for me

I too can confirm that setting time/timezone to auto (network provided) fixes the problem of getting "download unsuccessful" messages when downloading gmail attachments using chrome for android.