well... I'm stuck in the same place... after searching a lot I have discovered 2 things
1) it's a common problem affecting thousands of people, and has been for 2 years
2) google doesn't care
The fixes I have found listed are:
- sign in to google talk (I can't it just force-closes the app)
- clear the cache on various applications (doesn't help)
- roll-back the update to the market app (doesn't help)
- switch to "2g only" mode (there is no 2g coverage for TELUS phones in Canada)
- switch to wifi (doesn't help)
- toggle airplane mode (doesn't help)
- reboot phone (doesn't help)
- change google account password (doesn't help)
- switch to googlemail instead of gmail (google doesn't give me the option)
- factory reset phone (every single person who has reported trying this has been left with a wiped phone and the problem still there, so I won't risk my apps for this)
Anyone have a solution NOT on the list?
Hi, I too am having market app update or download problems. It says download, but nothing happens. I have tried some of the above remedies to the best of my ability, but others not tried are over my head to do. I have a 3G My Touch, T Mobile phone. It is an HTC Magic I think. T Mobile could not help.
I've signed out of Google talk, the next time I look at it, I'm signed in again, so that must happen automatically.
I've powered the phone off and on, Taken the battery out and reinstalled.
I've unmounted the SD card and taken it out. There are no directions to remount it, I just put it back in the phone. I've not Formatted the SD Card as it says it will erase everything.
I've not done a factory reset on the phone, as I am rooted and my WiFi running my computer comes from my phone, I bought the phone like that am afraid to loose that feature if a do a factory reset. My WiFi is not secure. I don't want to loose all other things that might be lost with a factory reset.
I have plenty MB and gig available.
I've uninstalled some apps giving more space for more apps if needed, that did not help.
I've deleted some contacts, even though I've not gotten a warning about having too many.
App downloads and updates worked fine till about a week ago. Don't know what I've done to cause this problem.
I've lost my anti virus protection as I was trying to update it, one of the suggestions was cancel downloads when logging out of Google talk and then starting them over. When I cancelled that update the app was erased.
I hope someone out there can help with this problem and maybe walk me through some of the remedies suggested that I was not able to do as they were over my head.
Have a great day and thank you ahead of time if anyone can help.