Android Market Down??? - Android Apps and Games

Is it just ME... or is the Android Market down?
It was working for me late last night, but now acts as if I don't even have a data connection when I open it.
I tap my Market icon, it opens and then just sits there on a blank white screen with the loading icon...
3G indicators never flash...
My web browser is just as fast as it can be... WTF!!!???

Market working fine here

Driskol said:
Market working fine here
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yeah... Thanks for that enormous amount of assistance there. much appreciated!

Market screens have now re-appeared, but no downloads start (free or purchased).

the market is just a slow ass ***** lately...takes its time doing anything

Just like any online service, the market place will sometimes be down and or lag, its just something you have to put up with lol

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Is the HD2 Twitter client useless for everyone else too?

Hi all,
I got my HD2 yesterday and so far I am very happy with it, except for a few minor details. One of the biggest annoyances so far is the Twitter client (HTC Peep). It's useless! When I try to update the latest tweets the entire phone slows down and it takes ages before they are updated. Also, scrolling up and down is extremely slow, except for most of the times when Twitter isn't updating at all.
Are everyone else having this issue as well? Are there an alternative Twitter client that works fine with the HD2?
Thanks!
pcprono said:
Hi all,
I got my HD2 yesterday and so far I am very happy with it, except for a few minor details. One of the biggest annoyances so far is the Twitter client (HTC Peep). It's useless! When I try to update the latest tweets the entire phone slows down and it takes ages before they are updated. Also, scrolling up and down is extremely slow, except for most of the times when Twitter isn't updating at all.
Are everyone else having this issue as well? Are there an alternative Twitter client that works fine with the HD2?
Thanks!
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not at at all for me. The only gripe i have is when mine updates i have to scroll up a little.
mallman said:
not at at all for me. The only gripe i have is when mine updates i have to scroll up a little.
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Strange. Mine is extremely slow and actually completely useless.
mallman said:
not at at all for me. The only gripe i have is when mine updates i have to scroll up a little.
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Second that!
Im using it without problems, its fast..
Only auto update doesnt work...
Maybe you have conflict with any installed SW...What about to try hard reset...
Mine is useless. It takes ages to upload/update, and doesn't automatically move to the top. It looks lovely but, coming from twitterific on the iPhone, its pretty useless as it stands. Its all down to how slow it is. Is this a ROM issue?
Mine also can't "make contact with the service" most of the time. Wile pocket twit works al the time.
Same here, also when it refuses to update it slows down the phone and I have to wait for 5 minutes++ for it to go back to normal.
Does anyone know of an alternative/good Twitter client I can use instead of HTC Peep?
pcprono said:
Does anyone know of an alternative/good Twitter client I can use instead of HTC Peep?
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I couldn't recommend Panoramic MoTweets any higher. It's not free, but it's cheap.
Personally, I've not had even the slightest gripe with the twitter tab in Sense, so I'm gonna stick with that, but I used MoTweets for a long time on my HD. Give it a try.
http://www.panoramicsoft.com/mobileapps/motweets/moTweets.php
I'm not a big twitter user, but I've had no problems with mine. Speedy and never fails to update.
I just wish it had a time limit on the notifications (no, I don't want to be notified at 3am thanks), but I think I'll end up with a generic alert management system to cover that anyway.
johncmolyneux said:
I couldn't recommend Panoramic MoTweets any higher. It's not free, but it's cheap.
Personally, I've not had even the slightest gripe with the twitter tab in Sense, so I'm gonna stick with that, but I used MoTweets for a long time on my HD. Give it a try.
http://www.panoramicsoft.com/mobileapps/motweets/moTweets.php
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Didn't look as good as HTC Peep, but I will give it a try. Thanks!
useless for now :S if someone deletes a tweet you already seen, the changes does not happen on hd2 when you update.
Do they actually test the software before sending it to the masses ?.. darn thing..
Hi, trying to use HTC Peed on my HD2 is near impossible. It slows right down or crashes!
I downloaed moTweets from the Marketplace a few days ago and have to say it's amazing! The interface is beautiful and the screenshots don't do it justice. It alerts you on the notifications bar when new tweets or message arrive.
Plus it has everything you need to retweet, send location, pictures, videos, view links, shorten links. I can't believe they charge under £3 for this. I've removed Peep for my bar and put moTweets on my quick links.
pcprono said:
Didn't look as good as HTC Peep, but I will give it a try. Thanks!
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It's a million times better than Peep. Especially if you live on Twitter
gareth824 said:
Hi, trying to use HTC Peed on my HD2 is near impossible. It slows right down or crashes!
I downloaed moTweets from the Marketplace a few days ago and have to say it's amazing! The interface is beautiful and the screenshots don't do it justice. It alerts you on the notifications bar when new tweets or message arrive.
Plus it has everything you need to retweet, send location, pictures, videos, view links, shorten links. I can't believe they charge under £3 for this. I've removed Peep for my bar and put moTweets on my quick links.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one with the problem. Anyways, the Norwegian marketplace has 11 (!) apps. Totally useless so far.
Because my Twitter app also would'nt connect via GPRS, but did via WiFi, I contacted HTC NLD for a solution. Their reaction was that this might be a proxy problem.
So of your mobile provider uses proxy Twitter is next to useless. If not, it should work fine.
Check if this is the case by connecting your HD2 to WiFi and start twittering. If the lag or connection issues are gone you have a proxy! Check the provider settings if you're able to connect without a proxy.
Also third party twitter apps will prove to be useless because they use the same proxy. In that case the only option is to connect to internet and twitter on line.
pcprono said:
Same here, also when it refuses to update it slows down the phone and I have to wait for 5 minutes++ for it to go back to normal.
Does anyone know of an alternative/good Twitter client I can use instead of HTC Peep?
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http://www.trinketsoftware.com/Twikini/
Brilliant Twitter App. Very cheap, and rock solid. Gets updates often. . Well supported by developer and.....
Works like a charm when not connected to WiFi too.
I would have liked to use the built in twitter app, but I too can''t get it to work over a non wifi connection, I looked at removing my proxy info, but my proxy box was already unticked so made no difference to the problem.
Thankfully Twikini is supurb (and I had already purchased it previously) so I just use that. Its a much better twitter client all round.
Anyone interested in buying this App, might like to know that it is also available from the marketplace at a considerably cheaper price than direct from the developers website.
There is a free trial version, give it a go. It even comes with a HTC coloured theme so its all looks nice.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one with the problem. Anyways, the Norwegian marketplace has 11 (!) apps. Totally useless so far.
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yeah it's ****ing pathetic. I thought it was going to be at least a few hundred apps there.... Been checking there once in a while since I bought the HD2, but still no new apps. Maybe we'll get 1 or two more apps next year if we are lucky woohooo!!
Few things in the world can be more useless than Twitter itself, let alone Twitter clients.
It does the Twitter thing for me but doesn't make coffee, doesn't deliver or send any significant information anywhere and doesn't wake me up in the morning. So yes, it's predictably useless.
Another good Twitter client is PockeTwit: http://code.google.com/p/pocketwit/

Skyfire 2.0 on Xperia

http://get.skyfire.com/dl_android.php
Overall I'm impressed. Opera seems to work a bit faster, but this loads the page perfectly (unlike opera) Also, Opera tends to have issues with some links, not so on this. So perhaps this'll be my main browser.
For the video I've been seeing an issue where it'd load a video but midway the loading bar will still be there when the video plays in the background...
So- I'd have the video playing with the loading bar still in the way ^^;;
Anyone else having that issue?
I'm in Japan on wifi~
Here's a video of what I'm talking about ^^;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxHoqeMCyOo
Yep.. same problem here.. tried watching a video from the BBC website and it got to 71% before it started playing in the back... then stopped down loading and wouldn't let me control the playback.. all I could do was let it run.. or press back to exit the video player.
How did you install skyfire? I tried to download it from get.skyfire.com and i can't install it.
just search for it on the android app market, it installed fine for me from there
Partial flash support > no flash support i'm sure it'll get much better
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How did you install skyfire? I tried to download it from get.skyfire.com and i can't install it.
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connect your phone to the pc - place the file you downloaded from the skyfire.com site into it. Use an application that lets you see inside your SD card (try astro something or other program )
run it and install . (heading to bed at the moment if you still can't figure it out by the time i wake up, I'll go into more detail )
let's not forget that this app is still in beta so isn't going to work perfect all the time!
even in beta it works quite well! i like the flash support even though it has its problems atm
Hm, when comparing with Skyfire flash support on WM, there is still some long way to go. But great to see Skyfire on Android
Uninstalled it for now. It was causing random reboots on my device which were not present before the installation. Most of them from actually using the app. Probably just my device so no biggy. Hopefully the bugs are ironed out cause I actually like this better than the default
any solution for the 50% loading bar ?
Not seen any - eagerly awaiting for a fix!
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any solution for the 50% loading bar ?
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Tried some googling and coudn't find any info on it..?
Is this an x10 problem or is it common for all Androids?
I think it mainly x10 and maybe the droid also.
They released an update last week (I think!).. that seems to have fixed it for me.
Still having issues even after the update
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Still having issues even after the update
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Me too - video still plays behind 50% popup.
skyfire never worked once properly
Anyone hear of a fix for the loading window in the way of the video?
It is quite tantalizing to see the world cup game playing perfectly in the background but not be able to watch it due to the loading window being in the way and frozen at 50%.
I have seen it work perfectly on the droid which is running 2.1.
Is it a 1.6 or X10 issue?

[APP] WiFi Keyboard

Keyboard for keyboard-less phones like Nexus One. Allow you to type on your phone using your computers browser and wifi.
Tested on Nexus One + Firefox or Google Chrome browser
dont forget to port fwd if needed to
this is in beta stage...
the looks need to be cleaned up and stuff
what you guys think
Nice!
I've been looking for something like this. It's very useful if the phone is in the docking station.
Thanks for the hint.
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Keyboard for keyboard-less phones like Nexus One. Allow you to type on your phone using your computers browser and wifi.
Tested on Nexus One + Firefox or Google Chrome browser
dont forget to port fwd if needed to
this is in beta stage...
the looks need to be cleaned up and stuff
what you guys think
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So where is the app? Ive been looking for something like this for quite some time. What about if we can also access the SDcard thru wifi on our browser like some of the apps in the market such as aFile....which the developers abandoned.
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Ive been looking for something like this for quite some time.
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Same here... this is a pretty sweet concept! It definitely looks like a draft, but works great. I've noticed that you can switch back to your normal input method from the WiFi Keyboard input method and still use the URL to type, indicating that the service is initiated by selected the keyboard but doesn't end when the keyboard is switched away from. (Sure enough, Linda Task Manager shows that it continues to run in the background until reboot.)
This will be great when the page gets polished, maybe gets an UI on the phone, or even just an on/off widget in the future! Are there any other programs like this, even VNC servers or programs like MyPhoneExplorer (which is for Sony Ericsson phones)?
EDIT: I take that back, the process continues but eventually does end itself (or at least stop functioning), but there are a few minutes where you can continue to use the browser input before it terminates.

Market app display

I am curious - why is the Android Market app display all wonky? The reviews and star ratings are truncated regardless of which orientation i hold the g-tab.
Most android apps deal fine with all the different screen sizes, but this one doesn't. Maybe this APK was pulled from a device with a fixed resolution?
I am running the TNT enhancement pack V3.
It is a known issue. Vegan does not have this problem, but it's most likely the market not liking that tnt bar up top....maybe
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My Market comes out okay. I'm running TNT-Lite and it works fine.
Except, that 1-half-star is there on all reviews and all apps. Makes it kind of hard to see what the ratings are like (but, AppBrain works fine for that).
Other than that, and sometimes the Market doesn't even load (doesn't make me do the fix again, it just comes up saying it couldn't load and then I hit the retry button and it works fine for the most time).
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My Market comes out okay. I'm running TNT-Lite and it works fine.
Except, that 1-half-star is there on all reviews and all apps. Makes it kind of hard to see what the ratings are like (but, AppBrain works fine for that).
Other than that, and sometimes the Market doesn't even load (doesn't make me do the fix again, it just comes up saying it couldn't load and then I hit the retry button and it works fine for the most time).
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I have never had the market not load - but the display of the 1/2 star and description formatting is what I was talking about - so you do have the display problem I started the thread about.
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I have never had the market not load - but the display of the 1/2 star and description formatting is what I was talking about - so you do have the display problem I started the thread about.
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Oh yeah. Well, I hope for a problem-solver to come in here and help us all out.
XANAVirus said:
My Market comes out okay. I'm running TNT-Lite and it works fine.
Except, that 1-half-star is there on all reviews and all apps. Makes it kind of hard to see what the ratings are like (but, AppBrain works fine for that).
Other than that, and sometimes the Market doesn't even load (doesn't make me do the fix again, it just comes up saying it couldn't load and then I hit the retry button and it works fine for the most time).
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I'm just confused, after now rooting & running TNT-Lite why the Market has virtually none of the apps I want/need. Titanium Back-up, Shop Savvy (really just want to scan barcodes for apps), other things like I have on my Nexus One phone.
Clearly it's better than the Market imposter that came on this tab....but doesn't seem right. Is it because tablets don't yet have the ability to have such apps? Or, is this Market also an imposter.
????
bigjsturm said:
I'm just confused, after now rooting & running TNT-Lite why the Market has virtually none of the apps I want/need. Titanium Back-up, Shop Savvy (really just want to scan barcodes for apps), other things like I have on my Nexus One phone.
Clearly it's better than the Market imposter that came on this tab....but doesn't seem right. Is it because tablets don't yet have the ability to have such apps? Or, is this Market also an imposter.
????
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Read This
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865245
The stars being cut off is a known issue in stock and tnt lite

[EPIC PROBLEM] New Market FORCED UPDATE to 3.1.5

The old market was super fine! Then lately they force-updated mine to 3.1.5.
Is it really that effin' SLOW!?!? With a fast Wi-Fi it takes one page 1-3 minutes to load, and My Apps takes 2-5 minutes to load!!!
Anyone having the same issue? And solutions please?
I also wanted the new update as it looks really sexy, but hell I don't it to be that super slow.
For now I have frozen Market Updater and reverted back to the old Market. It is really a lot FASTER!
Im on 3.1.5.
I just checked this out. it is a bit longer to load but still loads for me within about 5 seconds and when i go to "my apps" its almost instant.
Have you tried rebooting since the update?
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of course pal.. what's weird though is that it also happens on my sister's Galaxy Ace..
old market works better, it's really fast.. i still can live with the old market though.. i only wanted the new one's sexy looks..
I'm on 3.1.5, and I don't have the slowness you are talking about...in fact its pretty fast(on 3G).
you can find the old market APK,and delete the market updater APK.
yes i just did that cat that's why my market is running fine and super fast again.. but i cant live like this forever..
Weird, the new one works fine here.
Quite a lot of people are preferring the old to the new, mainly because of the speed, which for me is also visibly slower.
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Not only is it slower as in running less fluidly, it is so poorly designed with the whole tile crap and the million of different tabs (totally unsuited for a phone) that using it is less intuitive as well. I truly hope they update this away.
Yeah, new market is wank, i froze market updater too.
I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than use the update. Showed none of my apps.
Here is a wild, out of the blue idea. I didn't see anybody say (I might be blind though) to clear all of the Market data and caches from the app (using Titanium or even just the app management subsystem). Could clearing that after an upgrade, then re-attatching it to your Google account possibly fix your issue. First load would be slow then normal after that. Are you running the dalvik to /cache "fix"? That could also be affecting it.
The new market is actually _FASTER_ than the old market for me. However I'm in the US on the Verizon model (with VZW bloatware frozen or removed)
i'll keep experimenting though.. the problem seems to have become random now after many reboots and install/uninstall/reinstall of updates.. jeez what a mess..
though launching it became faster (maybe probably because of cache), bringing up the My Apps window still takes time..
i only have like 32 apps installed..
Just installed
Ooops sorry wrong thread. I also have slowness after the update on my SE Xperia Play. I've even tried the suggestion from the previous poster and power cycled the phone, cleared the cache, etc. Still slow.
yes i have had probs with the new market aswell
really slow at first to load,
then when i went into my apps in the menu to see if there were any updates
it takes ages sometimes,
then when i do update some apps later on inthe same day or then next day
i check for any updates and it says there some more updates for the apps i just updated i think great another update ... but its just the same one as i did before
but it thinks that i need to update still?
load of crap imo
additionally, just noticed the other day that simultaneous update on multiple apps seem to be impossible.. even after pressing UPDATE on the My Apps window, other apps won't be updating unless the first app is done updating..
That new market is a slow ugly huge pile of ****.
Even the green market was bad compared to the simple original market from the 1;x and early 2.x Android days.
Each new version is worse than the previous one.
These days it's much more comfortable to browse from the computer and have things installed remotely. The Web market works much better. If they made it a Chrome app I'd be all over it.

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