I have been attempting to dl apps that I've been purchasing only to have to get a refund before my money is lost. Everytime I try to install the app it just says installing forever and never starts the download. The strange thing is this only happens with apps I purchase. Free apps download just fine.
Has this happened to anyone else if so has anyone fixed this?
I've had the exact same thing happen to me. I just waited a bit and eventually it started to download. Took mine maybe 20-30 minutes.
This has been happening to me as well. I hit buy, get an email about my purchase and then it hangs. If i hit back, the button still says "buy", after a couple minutes it changes to "install". It has happened to me a few times with free apps also.
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try wlan on / off. i know this bug from my galaxy s.
This happens to me as well with free apps... I've found that whenever it happens to just exit out of the market & try again. Not the best solution, I know... but it's worked for me before. Gotta love those growing pains...
Could you guys please report this to the market? Happened to me and they're just like "hurr durr you're probably doing it wrong"
Anyway once it becomes a known issue I suppose we can expect them to fix it.
When I buy.
I tab [My Apps] in Android market. (I can see: Downloading then Instal).
But will not appear in notification bar (like reguler free application).
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i apologize if this has been posted before but i can't seem to find any information on it.
I just recently updated to 5.0.6. (yes i know 7.1. is out but iwant to wait for a black bar mod before i update)
And i started having some really assy issues with the market. all this is on wi-fi as well.
First off, is that it takes a long ass time to load. 20+ seconds where under wi-fi it normally takes maybe 2-3. Then sometimes it randomly reloads for no reason.
when i try to search for things it sometimes takes up to a minute to search
And when i go into downloads, it dosn't load or show anything. the one time it did it showed me as having all my apps, but not downloaded.
However, when i go to install something, it allows me to see my downloads but then it gets stuck on installing even though the statusbar shows it as being installed completely.
Anyone have any ideas of how to fix this? I already tried uninstalling the updates and cache. no change at all.
*EDIT* just updated to CM 5.0.7.1 and the same thing. any ideas?
Hi Everyone,
I'm just received my AT&T Nexus one last night. I'm upgrading from a Touch Pro 2 and was excited to try Android. However, I have already encountered a very troublesome and annoying issue with the phone. After setting the phone up with my Google account I proceeded to start to become familiar with the phone and programs on it. One of the applications I was interested in using was Google Maps and navigation. I opened the application and browsed around the map for about 30 seconds until the phone spontaneously rebooted - showing the 4 color X logo for about 2 minutes and then continuing to boot into the operating system. I wasn't sure what happened so I tried to continue using the phone as usual, but this quickly became rather frustrating.
I had been able to use all the other applications on the phone without any issues. However, any time I opened the Maps application for about 30 seconds or so the phone would reboot. Sometimes it would come back into the operating system but other times it would sit at the 4 color X screen for at least 5 minutes before I pulled the battery to reset the phone. After this happening a few times I decided to try a factory reset on the device. Again, after this had finished and I used the maps application the phone rebooted after about 30 seconds of use.
This morning I was hoping my luck had changed and I wanted to see how the navigation application worked. I set the phone up to navigate to my workplace and began my drive. However, as I feared, the phone promptly rebooted after about 30 seconds of use (those 30 seconds seemed promising, if I could actually use the phone). The operating system came back up and I decided to give it another shot. Unsurprisingly, the phone once again rebooted after about 30 seconds of maps/navigation use. Even more frustrating, upon reboot the connection to the cellular network does not always come back online. Sometimes turning off the phone and turning it back on again works but other times I have to power off the phone, pull the battery and SIM for at least a minute, and try again.
This problem is extremely frustrating since the rest of the phone seems to work properly. I can use all of the other applications, send email, SMS, make calls - all the other things I would want to do on the phone. However, the maps and navigation feature was a huge draw for me to this phone and I am very frustrated that it is not working properly. While trying to figure this issue out I have already done 4 factory resets and even tried using the maps application before setting up my Google account, but I have not been able to find anything to keep the phone stable while using maps/GPS.
As of right now the phone is sitting back in the box ready to be shipped to Google/HTC/whoever support (if they ever get back to me). This is one of the most frustrating experiences I've had with a phone, and coming from a Windows Mobile user that's saying something. I tried to do a lot of searching online but couldn't find anyone else who had the same kind of problem that I was reporting. I have two friends who also own N1's (on Tmobile) and they have had nothing but great experiences with them. Does anyone know of what could be causing this issue and any way to fix it?
Thanks in advance!
That is crazy! Sounds like a bad lemmon... more likely the maps program didn't install correctly when it was flashed at the factory... have you tried using it with GPS turned off? This would isolate the issue to whether it is the maps app, or the GPS unit itself.
In either case, I would have the phone warranty swapped. Even if you could just re-install Google Maps, and it would be fixed, I would still be worried it was something more substantial. If you wouldn't be worried, and a re-install of google maps fixes it and that is good for you, there are places to get the .apk for google maps. I am at work, so no link is possible to a download for the google maps app on my end right now.
I agree that there is probably something wrong with the hardware. I did notice that there was a maps update available in the marketplace (sometime between the 2nd and 4th factory resets) but upgrading didn't seem to make a difference. I have contacted both Google and HTC support hoping that they will offer me a replacement device. However, I'm worried that the US holiday on Monday may slow my progress on the issue.
Thanks for the tips anyway!
Welcome! I would just demand that they declare it Dead On Arrival... that way they will ship you a brand new unit, then you return yours in the pre-paid packaging they send you. You probably won't get it until Tuesday/Wednesday because of the holiday.
If I boot my phone up, go to the home screen, my phone will get the little soft popup s aying "Auto Update of Time/Date" and then everything pauses, and the phone "soft" reboots itself. Meaning it doesnt do a full reboot, but it comes back searching for a network, performing the media scan, etc.
I did a factory reset to get rid of this, and now it's back again. It's MAD annoying. Anyone else having this issue?
Yep I noticed the same thing with mine. I thought it was normal but I'm beginning to think otherwise. I'm getting some connecting to dm server thing as well.
Sucks, the phone's awesome but if it keeps doing this then it won't even matter.
One thing I noticed is if I let the phone sit, and load up it's usually okay. If I try to go into the phone settings while it's booting up, thats when I'll see the auto update note and bam, restart. It'll keep doing this until I either leave it alone or pull the battery.
Good to hear it's not something im doing.
deng this just started happening to me like 5 minutes ago
its getting a bit of annoyed
my phone was rooted and then i unrooted it and it still has the same problem
Do you folks have any Task-kill app running in the background?
I had the same issue as well when I had a Task Killer app running in the background. It seems the app is killing some service that is causing soft reset. I turned off the auto mode last week and this hasn't happened since then.
Hope this helps..
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if u download any gameloft games thats your problem my phone was doing that then i took the games from gameloft off and now it works great hope that helps
Certain apps can cause it, I also had a gameloft game cause it. If you need to get access to uninstall apps the phone should boot fine without a sim in it.
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I am having the same problem, The phone keeps doing a soft reset. I noticed this happening after I tried to download a song from an app I installed on my phone. I deleted the app, and the problem still exists, it is REALLY ANNOYING
I'm seeing a fairly consistent problem where I click to install an App, and it gets hung in "Waiting to install". Eventually it just stops trying.
Everything else on the pad works great. I've had no slowness issues, nothing at all wrong with the pad -- just randomly applications don't install. I've installed installing things from the web market because they always work there.
Yeah, that happens to me too. Its annoying to say the least.
Clearing the Market cache usually fixes it for me, at least for a while.
it does happen sometimes, just try a few times and it will eventually install..
Same here, sux yo
Yeah happens to me all the time. Super lame. I just try multiple times.
Ditto. Very annoying. I had hoped 3.1 would have fixed this, but it didn't.
same here .. sometimes i would get connection failure and to 'retry' or 'cancel'
i would turn off wifi and back on and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt. rebooting will make it work again but then the issue would occur at times. not all the time though.
or i would disconnct from my wifi and turn on wifi tethering on my phone and have it connect to their and market would load fine again. =/
happens to me too. I usually just back out to the previous screen and try to install it again.
I'm having the same problem. And sometimes pressing a button causes a switch to the recent app (like alt+tab on windows).
Make sure that Google Talk is running in the background and you are logged in. For some reason the Market and Talk are related and killing Talk will cause the Market to hang.
Happens to me too, and trying to install multiple times (while it usually works eventually) will also frequently result in the app not showing in Market's "My Apps" section once installed, or showing but not being able to be uninstalled from Market.
The workaround I've found that so far works 100% of the time is to power the tablet off completely when an app hangs up installing, then restart the tablet and enter market again. The app will then immediately and quickly install without issues.
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Happens to me too, and trying to install multiple times (while it usually works eventually) will also frequently result in the app not showing in Market's "My Apps" section once installed, or showing but not being able to be uninstalled from Market.
The workaround I've found that so far works 100% of the time is to power the tablet off completely when an app hangs up installing, then restart the tablet and enter market again. The app will then immediately and quickly install without issues.
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yea that usually works for me too but kinda annoying to have to keep rebooting just to get the market working. seems like the market will lose connection if the tablet is idle for a certain amount of time even though i have the wifi disconnect policy set to never. and even though market will have connection issue, i can browse the internet and everything perfectly fine when leaving hte tablet idle. hope this gets fix in 3.2!
I bought my Nexus 7 (16GB) just a week ago. It's been working fine up until today. I have installed a couple of apps so far. Today I heard about a new app I wanted to search for so I clicked on the shopping bag icon to go to Google Play. A message popped up asking if it was ok to do an update so I clicked on "install now". It took just a couple minutes then the nexus shut off and restarted itself.
I returned to Google Play and after searching for the particular app (without success) I returned to the main screen and tapped on the one game I had installed - and am now addicted to - Flow Free. I got a pop up message that said, "Unfortunately, Flow Free has stopped" and it gives me the option to click on "report" or "ok". It had been working perfectly every day for the last week so I couldn't imagine why it wasn't working now.
The first couple of tries to open it I clicked on "ok" thinking that it might just be slow to respond but the app never opened. I tried turning off the nexus, waiting a few minutes then turning it back on hoping that a re-boot would fix the issue. It didn't. I still got the same message. I tried uninstalling the app then re-installing it. Same issue. I tried uninstalling it, turning off the nexus then turning it back on and re-installing. Same issue.
Since "report" was one of the options I clicked on that and sent a report. But I have no idea how that works. Does someone actually read these and respond or does it just go on a list of complaints people have that go ignored?
All the other apps I had previously installed still worked ok. I installed a couple more just to make sure they work and they do.
So my questions are: Was it the update that caused this particular app to stop working or was that just a coincidence? Is there anything else I can do to get this app to work again?