[Q] Downloads from market keep saying "download unsuccesful" - Acer Iconia A500

Any ideas? Was working fine yesterday.

I have been reloading apps all morning from the market, so I don't think it's a market issue. Have you made any changes to your a500? are you rooted or running stock? have you tried powering down fully and rebooting? Is your device full?
Just some quick questions that might help figure out what's going on.

Not rooted. Tried powering down several times. I haven't changed anything from lastnight. Device not full.

are you connected through a proxy server (e.g. at the office)? or are you at the same location that it worked last night?

same location. I tried clearing cache in market app but still nothing. Market opens and works fine but when I try to install its says unsuccesfull.

had to factory reset it. Works now. Pain in butt

I had the problem but I noticed it happened if there was less than a 1GB of internal space. When I zapped some files and apps, I could then install apps again. I tested this out again by filling to less than a GB left and it did the same thing. The space issue seems to be at least one way to get the error the OP mentions.
I wonder if this is the Iconia's version of the infamous "low on space" error due to the data/data folder on the Incredible. Not the same technical issue, but an error that prevents app installs, none the less.

See my thread below.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060282

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Interesting discovery after removing certain apps. (SU, swapper, speed, download app)

Hey all, just reporting a discovery I found. Last night I was annoyed my G1 was getting sluggish, not only that but it gave me that "Download unsuccessful" issue which most people do a wipe to fix that. Well What I did to get my market working again is I deleted the cache from the browser, (To free up internal space) but I think the key element that did it was deleting the cache from the "Download Manager" Which seemed to reset things back in motion. =)
Next up, I always hated that Toggle Settings would time out when the G1 booted.. I never really use it anyways. Maybe it doesnt like Power manager with it. Anyways I removed that, vola speed increase! Next one, I got TasKiller app to stop the stupid apps Tmobile has. The Hot spot one, the mobile sync and the my account. (It loads them on the G1 start auto like. zzz)
Now where it gets interesting is, I goto reboot my G1 and right after I loaded it, I went straight to swapper and hit on. Now for some reason along the way. It popped up with a SU Request. Now swapper was working before, but it always failed on the "Turn off Partition" stage, but didnt phase the end. Now it OKs them all. Set CPU also popped up with a request. These were apps I know were working with root, but somehow, based off what I just saw, it looks like it was a limited root access, odd as it sounds. Cause now its 100% functional and since then, my G1 has been fast. (Atm using proxoid to connect to ubuntu for tethering via usb heh)
So my thoughts? Could it be certain apps conflict with the startup or root process of the G1, making them timeout or so? I know shopsavvy and anetshare dont get along. Also I would say Tmobile apps suck.. visual voicemail keeps crashing on me, once I got rid of that I felt better.
also did a odex pass on my sd card to try that out. I havent rebooted my G1 yet to see if swapper now auto starts where before it didnt. But thats due to me using the g1 as a modem atm. =D
Anyways just a report for anyone who finds it useful. =)

[Q]Network connectivity & Dexter's mod 1.41

Hello,
I would have posted this under the development posts but the forum won't allow me to...grrrr.
Anyway, I am using Dexter's mod 1.41 with the display settings fix also installed. Everything works great.
Except...I keep getting network errors whenever I try to download an app from the official marketplace, I also get them when sync'ing my dropbox, trying to download from the appoke apps store, signing into twitter, and a number of other apps. My browser works fine. Sometimes I can reboot and it starts working fine and then a few hours later I start getting the "network connection error has occurred" message from various apps again.
I did try reinstalling 1.41 & doing a complete wipe/restore after & still had the same problem eventually. It worked fine for awhile as I was able to go to the marketplace and download all of my apps again.
Anyway any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
i might ask if your network problems occur after the tablet was recently asleep. it seems, at least latest stock, that the power profile is set to sleep wifi/network connections when the display is off.
you might want to wait 5-10 seconds after waking up, or i suggest putting the power control widget on your homescreen and tapping the wifi button twice to re establish your network connection if you're getting network errors.
worked for me when i had download/network errors.
Sent from my X10i using Tapatalk
Yeah Forgot to mention that, but no its random when it starts happening. But definitely not just when it has been just woken up.
Nevertheless I am going to try what you suggested. I couldn't at the time when I wrote the post as it wasn't working. I turned it off and removed the SD Card, mounted it over on my PC, then copied your recent ROM update as well as Elocity's most recent firmware update, put the SD card back in, tried to reboot into recovery mode but for some reason it went into a normal boot. When I unlocked it, for some reason was asking me to sign into Google just as if I has flashed it but I definitely didnt. I've done that a bunch of time, this was definitely a normal reboot with dexter's 1.41 mod still installed. I canceled out of the google login after waiting 10 min for it to connect to Google's servers. (it was connected to my wifi network or at least I had the icon with the bars indicating I was connected to wifi) When I got to the main screen it started working normally. I went onto the market and downloaded Angry Birds Rio. Plus there were a bunch of updates for my other apps. So it is almost acting like I was not previously signed in with my google account, except that I did not relogin since I canceled it before finishing. Also I dont imagine that Dropbox would have been affected as it has its own login. But that is working fine too once I re-logged in.
It does seem to be intermittent. If it were the "not connecting after coming out of sleep mode" issue wouldnt rebooting fix that when it happens? I try that everytime I get the network errors and it works maybe 25% of the time.
Thanks for the response!
Did the 1.41 install and three patches also. Display still FC all the time. other then that works OK!.

[Q] Applications keep freezing

I'm not sure it hasn't been asked before, but I couldn't find the topic so far (maybe I haven't searched thoroughly, in this case I apologize). I'm using a DesireHD NAND ROM. So the problem is:
After letting my battery drain to near empty, I tried to turn on my phone for a few times, but I didn't watch the whole boot sequence, I was just surprised to find it turned off again after a while. Then I figured I have very low battery, then i plugged on to the wall charger. Then everything went fine, the phone booted and Sense loaded. I got a few error messages, like: The application (<application name>) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. The only choice was to Force close the application. Then came the first strange things, namely:
- a few applications' icons are shown as stock android package files
- practically no application is functioning, apart from Contacts and some fundamental programs, they all give the error message like the one above.
I guess it has something to do with me letting the battery drain that low, but I don't have a clue how to fix it. I wouldn't like to hard reset my phone, if there is other way.
Thanks for any help in advance!
You should try to fix permissions. If that doesn't work, start to see whether your rom recognizes your sd card. If it does, I would recommend a total wipe and reinstall. Make sure to wipe cache, etc. This should be a last resort though, as you will have to reinstall everything and there is risk involved.
As a last *last* resort, task29. As with the reinstall, risk is involved. If you don't pay attention and do these correctly you may be phone shopping soon.
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App
I found the Fix Permissions option in the ROM Manager, ran it, and rebooted. Now background processes (Appkik, SetCPU) seem to be working fine, though the icon of Dolphin browser is still missing and some app icons are still shown as android package files, and are not working. This has happened before, don't remember exactly what made them go away, but they somehow disappeared. Thanks a lot!

[Q] Says Device Storage is full......

I installed Swype Beta last night before I went to bed last night. When I went to bed last night I had over 8gigs free on the device. This morning when I woke it up, there is a warning at the bottom of the screen that says the device is "Low on space". When going into the settings and looking at the storage settings, it now says that I have 14.83mb of free space left. Any idea what could have caused this? I have uninstalled the Beta of Swype and that has not done anything. I have looked through all the installed apps and there is nothing showing in the list that is that large.
It is running stock at this point. I have gotten the update to push it to 141.07.
Any ideas what this might be? Any ideas on how I can fix this?
Thank you in advance for any input provided.
I believe this has cropped up for a couple of other people as well; the only solution I recall from the top of my head is to do a factory reset, which loses user data so back up what you need to.
One thread suggested checking your tablet for a lot of media files first.
We figured out, that this problem is caused by a really big tombstone. But we still don't know, what created this tombstone...
Edit: If your tablet is rooted, you can search for the file under root:/data/tombstones and just delete it ^^
Had the same issue.. could not install anymore programs on the SD card, reporting it was full. Itried everything. I ended up doing a factory reset. My unit is not rooted.
-Mark

Sigh - having problem with the Market

This is one of the reasons that I hate installing new ROMs and restoring data, it never seems to work correctly. I just installed the newest CleanGB (which I love btw). I restored the data and the app "Point Inside" was showing that it needed to be updated, however it didn't have an update option when I went into it.
I tried clearing the Market cache but that option doesn't seem to exist any more (button is grayed out). I have rebooted my phone, uninstalled the app and reinstalled it, and it is still happening. The minute I reinstall it, it shows there is an update available, but there is none available.
Any ideas??? This is really getting to me now.
It will clear up in a day or two. I get that once in awhile on an app then the next day it's gone.

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