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Can't download apps from the Marketplace

Since I updated to the new Orange .66 ROM earlier today, I can't download any apps from the marketplace.
I try and then the download just hangs saying 'Starting download' as does nothing. I've left it 'downloading' for ages but it didn't do a thing.
I can search the marketplace etc but just can't download.
Any idea?
Checked all of my data connections, everything is fine, exchange emails are coming through. Even tried it with WiFi enabled and connected.
It's driving me mad as I updated the ROM using the RUU installer which wipes everything on your phone. I now can't download the apps I need.

Sorted. Everything suddenly came back to life without me doing anything. Must have just been a minor blip for a couple of hours

It's a quite normal problem many users are experiencing. The usual fix is in fact to log in on the Gtalk app (believe it or not)

I'm using stock rom and have the same problem.

shelnes said:
It's a quite normal problem many users are experiencing. The usual fix is in fact to log in on the Gtalk app (believe it or not)
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THIS WORKED GREAT!!!!
Thanks so much for this.
H8

shelnes said:
It's a quite normal problem many users are experiencing. The usual fix is in fact to log in on the Gtalk app (believe it or not)
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So you open Gtalk and then the downloads should start or do you have to stay in Gtalk until they're done downloading? I tried opening it and then going back to the Market Downloads and they hadn't started yet.

rpimps said:
So you open Gtalk and then the downloads should start or do you have to stay in Gtalk until they're done downloading? I tried opening it and then going back to the Market Downloads and they hadn't started yet.
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You have to log in to Gtalk - that's the thing to do

h8train said:
THIS WORKED GREAT!!!!
Thanks so much for this.
H8
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Good it worked out for you. Have fun downloading from market

cant download from market

For some reason I can no longer download anything from the market. I get an error that its unsuccessful. Anyone else have this problem

mkabwilliams said:
For some reason I can no longer download anything from the market. I get an error that its unsuccessful. Anyone else have this problem
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Post within the ROM thread you are running... This is going to be a specific issue with your custom ROM.

I'm running DamageControl v2.07.2
I just tried wiping and flashing and its still won't let me download.

Are you tryin to download something specific? Some apps in the market dont work. Like the htc battery widget and other htc apps.

No these are all apps I've downloaded before with this same ROM. Right now I'm trying for Google Voice

Try going to setting>applications>manage apps find Market.. Click on it.. Clear cache

Nope not working. The strange thing is I had just downloaded and installed Pandora just last night from the market. I'm trying to get it working through my wifi now to see if its a my cell network.

Nope that didn't work lol.

Try settings> wireless & networks> Mobile networks
If its on then turn it off and back on.. If it off, then turn it on
ALSO
setting> about phone> system update.. And update profile

mkabwilliams said:
Nope that didn't work lol.
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sign into gtalk. i know it sounds weird but it is a fix for downloads stalling or hanging at 0%

I just read some place about the gtalk but i can't get logged into it. Seems to just sit there trying for ever.

Did you update you profile?
Its not your market.. Its your internet, sounds like you cant use anything.

The profile update failed
I can get to webpages and get email and stuff.

Does it say evdo on your taskbar next to your signal bars?
Whats your prl and pri?

PRI Version is flipz_01 and PRL is 60664 and it does say EV

And you have tried wiping factory, dalvik, and ext partition. And then reflashing a clean rom???
Make nandroid backup before, so if it doesnt fix it, you can go back to your current rom.
Also i have read here, someone had to call sprint and have them reset there profile. Or something like that. Since you cant even update your profile in settings.
you would just have to wait till tom during business hours.

yup, i had the same problem, check ur system apps if u have gtalk.apk or gtalkservice or something similiar. If not, you gota somehow put them back on, i just did a reinstall using ur same rom.

I flashed to fresh 1.1 and did a MSL reset but still can't download from the market or connect to gtalk. I also had to drive about 30 miles today to another town and tried while i was there still nothing even did the PRL and Updated Profile.

Paid apps and free apps doing this?
I had a thought but lost it as I was typing the rest of this. Sorry, will post back later if it comes back.
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Oh yea!
Try to create a different google account and setup the phone with a whole new GMail account. I know its a hassle, but might work.

I've only tried free apps and pretty much everything under the popular free section.
I'll try the new account and see what happens.

Android market won't open

I rooted my new Epic last night using the one click root. I then deleted most of the bloatware and my phone was working fine. I may have deleted a couple of apps that I needed though accidentally. The two problems I am having are that my android market app won't open and whenever I do a hard restart of the phone my home screen apps get cleared. When I click on the Market app it flashes to a white screen for less than a second and goes to the home screen. I have tried downloading new vendor.apks and it still won't work. Any help for either of these two issues is greatly appreciated.

Try to use odin to flash a fresh di18. Search around for a thread with a tutorial (there are a lot of the, just search epic 4g back to stock or fix brick (I know your not bricked)) If this helped please hit the thanks button! Please post problems with fixing in the return to stock tread .
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App

Thanks for the tip. I might try this if I can't figure it out soon. The only downside about this is it will wipe my contacts out right?

Jwolfer said:
Thanks for the tip. I might try this if I can't figure it out soon. The only downside about this is it will wipe my contacts out right?
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Your contacts should be synchronized with Google. Unless they're stored on the phone itself, they should be fine.

The New Web-based Market!!

Freaking Awesome:
http://market.android.com
IT'S LIVE NOW!!
Below are some possible download issues/solutions. These are from their troubleshooting site.
If a download you requested from the Android Market website never started on your device, please try the following troubleshooting steps:
Confirm that there is connectivity on your device (contact your mobile service provider if you aren't connected)
If downloading a paid application, confirm that your credit card information is up to date by logging in your Google Checkout account
Make sure that your phone is logged into Google Talk by following these steps:
Go to your phone’s app launcher, and press the Talk app
If you’re already logged into Talk, press Menu, and then touch Sign out
Launch Talk again to sign in
Make sure that your phone has enough available space to install the app. If necessary, try uninstalling some existing applications or moving them to your SD card.
Try requesting the download again using Android Market from your device.
If unsuccessful after attempting these steps, let us know and we'll be happy to investigate further.
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If your application is stalled at "Starting download", please use a few of the following troubleshooting steps to help your download to completion:
Confirm that there is connectivity on your device (contact your mobile service provider if you aren't connected)
If downloading a paid application, confirm that your credit card information is up to date by logging in your Google Checkout account
Make sure that your phone is logged into Google Talk by following these steps:
Go to your phone’s app launcher, and press the Talk app
If you’re already logged into Talk, press Menu, and then touch Sign out
Launch Talk again to sign in
If unsuccessful after attempting these steps, let us know and we'll be happy to investigate further.
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If you receive a "Download unsuccessful" message when attempting to download an app, try the following troubleshooting steps to resolve the issue:
Restart your phone then try downloading the app again.
Confirm that there is connectivity on your device (contact your mobile service provider if you aren't connected).
Wait 10 minutes and try your download again.
If you're still unsuccessful, let us know and we'll be happy to investigate further.
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s15274n strikes again with the goods...i would hit the thanks button but it says i'm limited to 5....
but thanks for the head up
EDIT: is it even ready yet?? will it let you sign in...cuz it wont let me

Ikr lol i love it
And yeah signing in a problem too it says invalid something

It will go live very soon. Some can, some can't.
Beautiful though. Good sign of things to come.

Anyone else get "Invalid Request" after trying to sign in? It looks like a site error rather than a browser one. I get the same message from multiple browsers.

epakrat75 said:
Anyone else get "Invalid Request" after trying to sign in? It looks like a site error rather than a browser one. I get the same message from multiple browsers.
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i got that from the main page, but then i clicked on an app to dl and it sent me to an actual login page. i didn't login cause i didn't actually want to dl the app, i was just checking, so it might work that way.

This is nice!

good find had no trouble signing in.

Very exciting!!
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Tried again. Working now. Might have been the traffic / popularity of the site.

Not sure if you guys watched the honeycomb announcement, but it was amazing. Made me want a tablet, and donkey punch an ipad user.

Forgive my ignorance, but what is exciting about web access to the market? Is it supposed to be better than our regular market app?

The Hotness! Logged in. See all of my apps. Can download apps from the website will sync immediately into your phone!
Way to step up android!!

You can browse on your computer, then install the apps OTA, so to speak. Easier to link to apps you like, install them without taking the phone out of your pocket, for example, that kind of stuff. It's just more convenient in some situations.

Well, I just thought of something.... does it work with custom ROM's? I just downloaded something on the net, and it hasn't really downloaded on Bionix V. Maybe I should go on over to the Bionix V thread and ask.

Unfortunately, it is so pointless right now because it can't function correctly over wifi only* connection. It just lists it in my market place under "My Downloads" and not actually installing the application.
I am using wifi only, because 3g is cut off in my office building.
*NOT on wifi but WIFI ONLY

s15274n said:
Not sure if you guys watched the honeycomb announcement, but it was amazing. Made me want a tablet, and donkey punch an ipad user.
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i was watching it too and was extremely jealous. i NEED a honeycomb tablet now!

Awesome! I just browsed Gun Bros on the market, watched the Youtube video on it, and installed it without ever taking my phone out of my pocket.

Bernardos70 said:
Well, I just thought of something.... does it work with custom ROM's? I just downloaded something on the net, and it hasn't really downloaded on Bionix V. Maybe I should go on over to the Bionix V thread and ask.
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Hmm... I just got back to my pc and tried to install. I am on Flagship and it didnt give me a notification, and its not showing under My Apps.... maybe the developers need to modify the build.prop?

s15274n said:
Hmm... I just got back to my pc and tried to install. I am on Flagship and it didnt give me a notification, and its not showing under My Apps.... maybe the developers need to modify the build.prop?
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Well I'm pretty sure all developers keep the fingerprint as the old eclair build for proper regular market access. Obviously I have no idea if this website would react differently. Who's to say it's not just as problematic on stock builds though? It is a brand new site after all.
Edit: Well I tried it out for the fun of it. It shows the download trying to take place on my phone, but the progress bar does nothing. Then again, I get this fairly often with the regular market too.

EB13 Market Issues...missing apps

I loaded up EB13 last night and had no issues until I started downloading my apps. I have Slingplayer that I purchased to watch my Slingbox on my phone while on the go. If I search the Market it is missing. At first I thought it was something with paid apps, but I noticed my other bought apps were listed. I also noticed Ringlert was not listed in the market...a free app.
If I login into the Market on a PC web browser I can find those apps with no issues. But it says I have them installed on my phone already. Umm..no I don't!
Anyone else having issues like this?

There seem to be some people, myself included, that are having issues with protected apps. I noticed that NYTimes is not showing up and neither is TMZ. I need to try a clean install and see if I still have the problem, I cannot tell if this issue is happening after a data restore from CMW, or if its a real bug. Did you do any data restore?

The problem is the market does not recognize this release as a legitimate. It will take a few days before it does. There is a fix you can apply if you search for it in the device section.
Sent from an Epic I haven't bricked yet.

mattallica76 said:
The problem is the market does not recognize this release as a legitimate. It will take a few days before it does. There is a fix you can apply if you search for it in the device section.
Sent from an Epic I haven't bricked yet.
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Kinda figured something like that... think that's the i9000 fingerprint fix or something like that.

Also, try to contact the developer of the app. They might be able to change something that might make it work.

Just for the Record, I'm having the same problem as well. I Installed the EB13 and Slingplayer isn't listed in the Market, I'll wait a few days to see what happens. Hopefully it's back in there cause I really don't feel like screwing around with crap.

Im having the same problem .... cant find Slingplayer in market after EB13 ... Does anyone have the fix??????????

betulike2know said:
Im having the same problem .... cant find Slingplayer in market after EB13 ... Does anyone have the fix??????????
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metallica said in a previous post that there is a fix somewhere the development section. it has to do with the i9000 fingerprint. search for it.

I can not find it. I wish someone could post a link to it. And do I have to root the phone to use the this FIX?

betulike2know said:
I can not find it. I wish someone could post a link to it. And do I have to root the phone to use the this FIX?
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I'm not sure about the i9000 fingerprint, but here is the Nexus One fingerprint.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848778
And yes, you must be root to use this fix as you will be editing a system file (/system/build.prop).

betulike2know said:
I can not find it. I wish someone could post a link to it. And do I have to root the phone to use the this FIX?
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This is the old fix here

Same problem. I have eight or so apps that I used to have that either can't see in the market after applying EB13, or that come up as "not found" on AppBrain now. Google customer service suggests that I reboot my phone. *sigh*

From Google:
Hello Rob,
Thanks for writing in. We believe we have identified the cause of this issue and should be able to resolve this within next seven business days.
Regards,
The Android Market Team
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I had the same problem. Try clearing the cache and data in the market app.
Settings-applications-manage applications
I hope this helps.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App

serrada36 said:
I had the same problem. Try clearing the cache and data in the market app.
Settings-applications-manage applications
I hope this helps.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
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Slingplayer still missing. Missing on another phone that isn't rooted. He refuses to root his phone.

Clearing the cache won't help with this problem. It's on Google's side.

If you are rooted, you can always backup the apk file while on the old 2.1 or DK28 build when it showed up in the market, then reinstall by hand after loading EB13

This is now resolved for me.

WATRD said:
This is now resolved for me.
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Same here, the app I couldn't find before today is showing up now.

Yep looks like Google fixed it...Slingplayer is now showing with an update to boot.