For the last hour or two, it seems like no one in the WHOLE WORLD has been able to download and install apps from the Android Market. This is a shame, as we were looking forward to having a play with Five’o tonight – an app which lets you listen in on police radio broadcasts from Norway.
Basically all download attempts from the Market are stalling before they even start, then timing out, with “Download unsuccessful” appearing if you stare at it for long enough. So don’t worry, it’s not you, your phone, or your wi-fi or your internet. It’s the Market.
It’ll probably be back again by the time this post uploads…
HTC’s 4.3″ dual-core Android model, powered by Qualcomm’s all-new S4 processor. It’s smaller than the enormous One X, but is it as nice as its bigger brother? (SPOILER: Yes it is).
HTC is very much B-A-C-K at the top of the Android world with this, its quad-core flagship for 2012. Great camera, huge 4.7″ display and Android 4.0 running beautifully well.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
MarkG
/ October 28, 2010I had this, restarted the phone (HTC Legend Android 2.1 Update1) and then it worked. Not sure if it was the restart or Google that fixed it.
Buy hey, the huge Android growth, I wouldn’t be suprised to see at least occasional growing pains in the Android marketplace.
rsaustria
/ November 4, 2010Try this….
Settings>Applications>Manage Applications and click Market, Clear Cache and Uninstall Updates then try again
Anonymous
/ November 8, 2010thank you it works fine on my xperia now
david
/ October 28, 2010I’m downloading with no problems…
word
/ October 29, 2010Today I had serious problems downloading stuff over my mobile connection (full bars, network was up – surfing & such worked OK), tried several times over a period of 2-3 hours. Restart didn’t help. Downloading apps over my WiFi network worked fine, though.
aaron
/ October 29, 2010I think it may have been to do with the maps update. The market has started working for me again and the Google maps update has disappeared from my downloads section.
Trilby
/ October 29, 2010Those sneaky Norwegians could be getting away with literally anything :(
deadite66
/ October 29, 2010you appear to have missed 2 days earlier in the week when market downloads refused to work.
Rik
/ October 29, 2010The market hadn’t worked for 2 days for me and my Desire but it seems to be up and running this morning.
edhe
/ October 29, 2010Had me flummoxed last night – tried this morning and all ok.
Evert
/ October 29, 2010Tried Five’O. Doesn’t seem to work?
SN
/ October 31, 2010Today 31:st of October still problems. Yesterday evening I managed to get some updates but one app I purchased (a Swedish one) still is impossible to get. I first tried to get the free version one week ago. The developers said that the server was down (market server). At least one week later I still can’t get neither the paid version nor the free one. Could it be caused by enabling new countries for paid apps?
Peter
/ October 31, 2010If it was some random startup I could buy it being related to the extra countries but this is Google.
I was really annoyed about the limited range of countries that had paid apps but now that I have them available to me I’m not sure I’d buy anything. Why risk paying for something that might never download. I’m not sure you can get a refund until you install so you could get stuck in limbo having paid but not being able to refund.
Paul
/ October 31, 2010Arghh! Market downloads broken this evening (Sun). Took my payment without problem though!!! Give me my app!!!
k0zmic
/ October 31, 2010It’s broken again! http://www.dustypixels.com/blog/2010/10/31/android-market-completely-broken-again/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter