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Photoslide (and other) apps not downloading from Market

I see there is an update to Photoslide in the market but it's not downloading. It just says "starting to download" and sits there and never actually starts to transfer. Been almost 17 hours now. I've restarted several times... tried using 3G, 2G, wifi, etc...
I've read tons of people complaining about other apps doing this, and they say to remove the app and re-install the updated one --- but I don't even get an "uninstall" option --- just Install

Its doing the same thing for me with HelloIM and SnapPhoto Pro. I hope this isnt something permanent for root users. I'm definately going to need my refund if I can't update the apps that I've paid for.

Honestly, I can't see google doing that. Hell, they were posting the link to xda to let people know how to root their phone. Plus, (I hope) they're not (that) stupid.. if they make it so that rooted phones cant get apps going the legit route, they're pretty much forcing a pirate scene.

well over 35 hours and I still cant get the updated version of the photoslide app. I've managed to uninstall it and I can't even re-install it now. Of course, I can't find ANYONE to ask about this... I'm a little upset at the moment, really making me scared of shelling money out for anything else in this buggy market.

nolageek said:
well over 35 hours and I still cant get the updated version of the photoslide app. I've managed to uninstall it and I can't even re-install it now. Of course, I can't find ANYONE to ask about this... I'm a little upset at the moment, really making me scared of shelling money out for anything else in this buggy market.
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it must be due to the connection and market stuff
just give it time.

I had to update my credit card information on Google Checkout. I don't think they allow you to change it on the G1, so you have to change your info via PC.

All of a sudden, it downloaded. Took almost 40 hours of trying off and on. Removed the product, switched to 3G to 2G, wifi, let it run for hours, cancelled it for hours, rebooted a bunch of times.. just.. all of a sudden it worked.

How often do you soft reset your X1?

The poll is self explanatory.
I'm just curious. I more or less have to do mine daily. Sometimes I can go a day or so or more, but not often before something doesn't work properly.

about 2-3 times/day avarage .... im not sure if mine's the only one with problems like this but its hell ... changes with roms a bit but always has problems ...

Once a month about. Maybe once a 3 weeks.

I do it daily, because I want to. I feel compelled by my inner voice to do it.

daily...,,...

It depends on navigation use: Without daily navigation I can go more than a week without a softreset. But I guess Navigons MN7.x leaves something in the memory that causes problems afters some days -but only at the next start of MN7.x not at other software. But because I use MN7.x nearly daily, a softreset has to be done every 3-4 days.

i hardly ever do - except today when for some reason the vibrator was stuck on

Ooops. My mistake.
I actually misunderstood the question thinking of beeing forced to do.
Well I do it once a week basically...

once a week

It's done automatically every night with SPB Backup. But before I bought this software, I had to soft reset about once a week.

Trudi said:
It's done automatically every night with SPB Backup. But before I bought this software, I had to soft reset about once a week.
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Same as this guy

I soft-reset the X1 whenever I see a need to. Which is probably about once a week - as soon as I start to feel the device is slightly slower than normal.
Though there was once I was so bored in class I randomly went to soft-reset my X1 - and my friend was staring at me like I was crazy.

I have an external battery charger, and keep a spare charged battery with me. When the battery dies I exchange it, kind of like doing a rotating system with the battery. This shuts down the X1, does that count as a soft-reset? Hah
avariel said:
Though there was once I was so bored in class I randomly went to soft-reset my X1 - and my friend was staring at me like I was crazy.
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lol

I do it once a day withouth necessity rather it's just to kill those apps on the back

Resets Depend on what I'm Doing
The only time I have to reset my Xperia is when I'm messing with it and it hangs up. If I simply use it and the programs I've installed, it almost never needs to be reset. I'm hard on my device, as I supposed many of us are.
As a matter of procedure, I reset it once in the morning whether I need to or not.

Market downloading things I didn't ask for!

Has the little green android inside my phone become self-aware?
{ First off, here's proof that I made some reasonable attempt to search the forum before starting a new thread: http://is.gd/2rVXx }
I know this is going to sound crazy, but it has happened twice now in the last week.
I'm on cyan 3.9.11.2, but I don't know if this is ROM-related as nobody else has reported it.
Here's what happened:
A few days ago I updated from 3.6.x to 3.9.11.2.
I was having some FCs, so I wiped and re-updated. I did not restore my market database (or any app data for that matter).
Shortly thereafter, I went to a meeting and left my phone at my desk. When I returned, I saw that about 6 applications were in various stages of download. A couple had failed ("exclamation point" icon in the task drawer), a couple had succeeded ("checkbox" icon in the task drawer) and a couple were stuck on "starting download..." in "my downloads."
All of these were apps that I'd previously downloaded at some point in my life, but again, I wiped the phone, so there shouldn't have been anything pending.
This is alarming in its own right, but especially so since it seems to have bypassed the screen where I would have had the opportunity to cancel a download based on the permissions an app was requesting. If this can happen, that's a big security issue.
At least I was notified that this had happened by way of the messages in the task drawer. But yikes! I chalked it up to some weirdness, canceled the pending downloads, uninstalled the apps that installed themselves and forgot about it. Again, they were all things I'd downloaded at one point or another, so I thought maybe they were things that had gotten "stuck" and I'd canceled and now they were coming back. With the wipe that seemed unlikely, but I know some market data lives server-side (it remembers what I've purchased in the past, for example).
A few days later (last night), it happened again. I awoke this morning and found that my phone had downloaded a few apps that I'd had installed in the past (pre-wipe). Whereas at my desk, I suppose it is possible that some co-worker messed with my phone, I'm pretty sure that this is not what happened last night. My wife was sleeping the whole time and my cats seem to be an unlikely possibility, so unless someone broke in and started some downloads, I have to assume that the phone started them itself.
So, um, wtf? Any ideas? This is really bizarre.

mlevin said:
Has the little green android inside my phone become self-aware?
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It's a not uncommon bug of the Android Market. Probably related to the backend. I've had it install apps unasked once on a reboot.

jashsu said:
It's a not uncommon bug of the Android Market. Probably related to the backend. I've had it install apps unasked once on a reboot.
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Woah, really? It is freaking me out. I follow the XDA forums pretty regularly and haven't heard anyone mention it so far.
I don't suppose you know of any threads where it is discussed, do you?
Anyway, I'm glad it is not just me. But it sure is weird.

Application Lockout - Zune, Xbox Live

There seems to be a problem with some applications on my HD7, specifically the Zune and Xbox Live. Sometimes when I try to start them there is a short delay and then I'm dumped back to the Start menu. It happens several times a day and the only cure is to restart the phone.
Today things moved on a bit, as my bought apps fail to start and tell me I have an invalid license before uninstalling.
Can't say that I'm overly impressed with the software reliability thus far... shame really as I'm blown away by pretty much everything else about the HD7...
Sent from my Dell Streak using XDA App

I have the same .
1 random phone crash
2 apps kicking back to start nenu
3 the screen that is flickering (looks like the phone is beyond repair)
I hope we don't have to wait till and of January for some bug fixes , because this phone is actually not usable for every day for me .

Things went from bad to worse yesterday after I'd posted - I lost access to my purchased apps, couldn't download or re-download anything and my Windows Live ID was no longer recognised. Eventually a hard reset cleared all the problems and also seems to have put a stop to the problems I was having with applications failing to start... Fingers crossed its a permanent fix.
Was quite impressed with the responsiveness of the @WinPhoneSupport twitter account... got to give Microsoft credit for that...

I've just had a similar experience. Phone seemed to completely hang, none of the buttons worked, so took the battery out, replaced it and booted up. All was good, but now every single 3rd party app claims to have no license.
I really don't want to have to reset the phone - it's taken me weeks to get to this point. Has anything changed in the last couple of weeks, making it fixable without losing all my data?

elbowz said:
Things went from bad to worse yesterday after I'd posted - I lost access to my purchased apps, couldn't download or re-download anything and my Windows Live ID was no longer recognised. Eventually a hard reset cleared all the problems and also seems to have put a stop to the problems I was having with applications failing to start... Fingers crossed its a permanent fix.
Was quite impressed with the responsiveness of the @WinPhoneSupport twitter account... got to give Microsoft credit for that...
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let me know how the Hard Reset goes for you. Many apps keep putting me back to the home screen. The Harvest being the worst of the bunch. This is extremely frustrating as I have had nothing but high hopes for WP7, I've been thinking about cancelling my contract with Sprint for my EVO. If this continues it'll be back to my Nexsus One.
I'm really feeling let down by Microsoft.

fnordelus said:
let me know how the Hard Reset goes for you. Many apps keep putting me back to the home screen. The Harvest being the worst of the bunch. This is extremely frustrating as I have had nothing but high hopes for WP7, I've been thinking about cancelling my contract with Sprint for my EVO. If this continues it'll be back to my Nexsus One.
I'm really feeling let down by Microsoft.
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I've had the problem with the harvest but had read about it on here and was hoping for an update. Other than that, my phone has been really smooth.

[Q] No input after store reset

Hiya. I have a Kyocera Zio with Cricket. Last week at some point, I got a text message saying that an update was available. So I went through the settings and checked for an update and it asked me if I wanted to begin download (I was on WiFi). I did so, less than a minute later, it asked me if I wanted to reboot. I did so, remembering that there are supposed to be three parts to the update. It told me there was an update, I accepted, it asked again to reboot, so I did. The third time, it told me there was an update, I accepted and waited.
It was taking a while, so I left it plugged in to do as it would. I came back later to find it continuously rebooting. It would show the Kyocera screen, the Cricket screen, and finally the Android screen, but then it would reboot. I left it again just in case. Close to an hour later, it was doing the same, so I took out the battery, put it back in and tried again. The same series of continuous rebooting happened. I tried on and off for a few days and only once got something different - at some point, having done nothing differently, it got to the 1.6 lock screen, but was frozen there.
Yesterday, I took it to a corporate store and asked them to reset it. They did so. It got to the screen where it tells you to touch the android (sounds dirty, really) and the animated hand - which was animated - but it didn't react to my touch. I also couldn't turn it off. Figuring I'd be waiting another hour if I put my name in the machine to get in line again, I took the battery out and left, hoping I could figure it out when I got home.
Now, the "end call" button does indeed work, because it will turn the phone on. The "volume up", "start call", trackball, and "end call" work because the reset combination works (though it gets stuck with text on the Kyocera screen). However, when the phone is turned on normally, it gets to the "touch the android" screen with the animated hand, but doesn't accept any input, whether button or touch screen.
Is this phone bricked?

Take it back to the cricket store that reset it. Its now their liability. If your phone is borked, they may be liable to give you a new one.

Spz0 said:
Take it back to the cricket store that reset it. Its now their liability. If your phone is borked, they may be liable to give you a new one.
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I would have to concur. Anything we can help you do would put the liability back into your hands. We can offer advice on how to fix your problem but it should be used as a "last resort" if the store simply cannot help you.
Feel free to come back, should you need to.

My orginal zio did the same thing on march 4th.
Did everything to a t and all it kept doing was a constant rebooting loop my 1.6 desktop came up but my screen would not respond to my touches just kept rebooting after 2 or 3 minutes.
Took it to the corp store and the women who works there told me on march 6th that the update is not sopossed to be released to the public yet and that i shouldnt have installed it and accused me of using a pirated version of the 2.2 and that is why my phone is bricked.
I told her no i didn't that i had a check mark on the task bar (i call it a task bar cause it looks like windows a bit) and when i pulled it down it said a kyocera update is avalible and i had to use my wifi to get it.
She was like well we don't have the stuff here to reflash it yet and she was still insisting that i was using a pirated version so she went in the back and asked someone else and then came back out and had a new boxed zio in her hand she was like the update was released and i did not know that i asked her how long you worked here and she was like over 2 yrs (she must not pay attention at the meetings) so she gave me a new phone but charged me 20 dollars to replace the phone cause she was like it was over 30 days or 30 minutes i was madder then a bull with his balls tied up she didn't even give me an apology.
Went to mcdonalds down the road cause they got free wifi and did the update again and it went thru 100% this time.
Now i can't root my phone to get my boot screen back on androot and root explorer don't want to play nice together.