Yeah, ultimately i got it worked out, but unfortunately not from the awesome advice you guys gave. Just to recap what all i did, in hopes someone else having this issue will see this:
As it started, i had an issue with my camera rebooting itself while i was trying to take pics. On a call with verizon tech support, they had me wipe my phone clean and start over. So badaboom. Clean. Whatever conflict the camera app had in the system was gone. Gone. Perfect.
After a few seconds of being booted up in my name, the market automatically started downloading old apps. Awesome. Google's taking care of itself. My fingers can go do something else. Double awesome. I go nuke a hot pocket and come back and there's about 30 notifcations in my notification bar saying "download unsucessful, try again". After trying to redownload and getting the same message again, i'm off to google.
Now the problem with google is they really don't have a customer support number. (as you heard about when the nexus one launched) Sure they have numbers, but it's so much redtape to talk to a living person that most people quit. I tried this:
Google customer service phone numbers and support
Every number told me to go back online and seek self help. Ri-****ing-diculous. I troubleshot for a good 3 hours.
-cleared cache in market as well as uninstalling updates
-cleared other apps that might conflict (download manager too)
-rebooting
-removing battery and rebooting again
-wiping the phone again
-erasing what i thought might be corrupted files on sd card
-didn't work, so i erased everything on sd card
-logging into gtalk and gmail both online and on phone
Until finally i gave up. Emailed google support and told them what's up. Then went to the web based android market and found i could redownload some apps there. Apparently, if i do this shit remotely, it works. Why? Whyyyy?! Feeling like google is playing headgames with me, i download what apps i can remember remotely and call it a day.
I also noticed when i downloaded the apps, it gave me options what device to do it to. I had a bunch up there from my history. Droid eris, moto droid 2, droid x, thunderbolt. I suspect this could've created a conflict. Who knows
BUT, i wake up this morning and try downloading an app for old times' sake and wtf...it downloaded. I also received an email from google support (that was FAST) from someone recommending i do all the troubleshooting stuff i already did. Yeah. Big help. What i'm thinking though, is google had a market conflict and it couldn't deliver my shit to the right device, so it gave up. And maybe other confusing things. Or maybe the customer support person did something on their end to clear it up. I don't know. But i say for anyone that had this problem, the usual troubleshooting tips might not work. And in that case, harass the shit out of google to make it right.
And back up your apps or at least keep a list of what you got. When i went back to the market, only a couple apps i paid for showed up. My entire history of apps was gone. Funny. Google can remember what phones i've had, but not give me a detailed list of my apps. In my case anyway, the list was down to just a few. Lame. BACK EVERYTHING UP AND THEN BACK IT UP AGAIN
