So my phone keeps telling me i have a text from my sister, but when i go to the inbox there is nothing there, so i will clear the notification from the dropdown menu. but every time i get another text say from one of my friends, the one i cleared from my sister will show back up again, but once again its not in the inbox, and its been doing this for about a week now. has anyone else had a problem like this?
Try this, go into your messaging app and delete the whole thread with your sister. See if that gets rid of the notification reapearing. If not, reboot the phone. And if that doesnt fix it either call tmob (if that is your cell provider) or try a factory reset (this will erase all the programs you have installed and settings so do as a last resort unless you like setting up your phone again).
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Try this, go into your messaging app and delete the whole thread with your sister. See if that gets rid of the notification reapearing. If not, reboot the phone. And if that doesnt fix it either call tmob (if that is your cell provider) or try a factory reset (this will erase all the programs you have installed and settings so do as a last resort unless you like setting up your phone again).
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yeah i have deleted the whole thread, that didn't work. and it only shows up if i have chomp installed? i have uninstalled it and re-installed it but it keeps showing up.
Hmm, you have another phone you can put your sim in? If so try that, see if you get the sms on that phone. If so delete it. Reboot the secondary phone and see if it shows up again. If not, put the sim back in the G1 and see if it comes back. Otherwise Im thinking a factory reset is in order.
Maybe its saved on the sim. Go to setting on the messaging app and check your saved sim messages.
Please help, I was trying out a program called Toggle Data Widget, and I noticed that it wasn't working, so I uninstalled it. Now when I turned my phone on the data connection is gone. I tried reinstalling the app, and nothing happens. I don't know what to do, and I don't want to restore, because I haven't had a chance to back it up yet. Please help. Thanks a lot.
What do you mean the data connection is gone? Which icon would that be?
I mean the little 3G symbol is gone, nothing is there anymore, and when I try connecting, I get an error saying, "a network error has occurred."
Try reinstalling it, set the widget to where it is turned on, then just reboot the phone. I had it mess up a few times when I was trying that one out. I downloaded one called GT-Widget Data that works quite a bit better.
Thanks a lot, it seems to be working now. I wonder if I should try uninstalling it again.
You should be able to uninstall it safely now.
Most of the utilities to turn off 3G data mangle the access point settings that is stored in a database. When you uninstall the utilties with data disabled, they remain mangled.
Another way to fix it quickly btw is to just use Reset Default in the Captivate's Settings.
Preface: Yes, I've read a bunch of the other threads on this forum about this problem, but I've tried all the advice I've seen and this *still* isn't working.
So, I bought the Widgetlocker Lockscreen app from Market, and paid for it on my credit card. In Market, in 'My apps', it lists Widgetlocker Lockscreen, with 'Purchased' next to it. All the other (free) apps I have successfully downloaded and installed are listed there with 'Installed' next to them.
When I touch Widgetlocker Lockscreen, I get the Personalization screen. I press the 'Purchased' button, then the 'OK' button. This should cause the app to be downloaded and installed. When I press it, a message flashes up saying 'Your item will be downloaded.' Quite soon, in the notifications area, I see a progress bar with the text 'WidgetLocker Lockscreen' below, but this progress bar quickly disappears, apparently without the download having taken place. Just before it disappears, I see the text 'Download unsuccessful' for a split second below the progress bar. The app doesn't appear to be installed and is still listed as 'Purchased' rather than 'Installed' in the 'My apps' section.
I can still install other apps OK; I tried installing some free ones and they install fine. I tried clearing Market's cache (the clear data button is greyed out). I tried unmounting/mounting the SD card. I tried rebooting the phone. This problem still occurs.
Anyone have any idea what else I could do? This is still running on the stock firmware; I haven't rooted it or anything.
UPDATE: I retried the download & install a few days later and... it just worked! Glad I didn't perform a factory reset!
The moral seems to be that sometimes, Android Market screws up on Google's end and they forbid you to download certain apps. This is sucky, but it's not going to be fixed by your doing anything on your phone.
Have you tried downloading it on 2G mode, 3G mode, and WiFi mode? Failing all three, try installing it using the Android Market website on your PC.
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Have you tried downloading it on 2G mode, 3G mode, and WiFi mode?
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What do you mean by 2G mode, and how do I put the phone into 2G mode?
Failing all three, try installing it using the Android Market website on your PC.
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Tried doing that too. It said it would be installed onto my phone but it wasn't.
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What do you mean by 2G mode, and how do I put the phone into 2G mode?
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Like GSM (E/G) and WCDMA (3G/H) and WiFi. Sometimes I find if a download doesn't work on 3G mode, I flip it over to GSM and it works, or WiFi etc. If not, since you just bought it, can you not refund the app and try from scratch?
How do you flip over to GSM?
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How do you flip over to GSM?
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scroll down and "Set preferred network type", "GSM only"
Heh... that just kills off any connection whatsoever.
Does nobody have any idea how to solve this (or at least diagnose why on Earth the download is failing?!) I'm going to withhold payment for this app on my credit card if Google don't sort it out.
Have you tried new market and/or factory reset?
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I don't understand what you mean by 'new market', and factory reset seems seriously drastic to fix this darn problem!
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I don't understand what you mean by 'new market', and factory reset seems seriously drastic to fix this darn problem!
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Before any resets try this;
Go into settings, then manage applications, then find the Market app on the list. Open it, force stop it, then clear cache, then clear data.
Go back to the marketplace. You'll have to accept the terms and conditions again, but see if that helps.
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I don't understand what you mean by 'new market', and factory reset seems seriously drastic to fix this darn problem!
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I'm guessing that you've re-started your device? EDIT: just re-read post #1
If advice from @wnp_79 above doesn't work...then
factory reset? - is unfortunately the next step as the Market is linked to your Google account which can only be removed and then re-added via a factory reset.
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I'm guessing that you've re-started your device? EDIT: just re-read post #1
If advice from @wnp_79 above doesn't work...then
factory reset? - is unfortunately the next step as the Market is linked to your Google account which can only be removed and then re-added via a factory reset.
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Isn't there some log I can use to get more detailed info on why the download was unsuccessful? I can't believe they don't log it somewhere for more useful analysis!
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Isn't there some log I can use to get more detailed info on why the download was unsuccessful? I can't believe they don't log it somewhere for more useful analysis!
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there may well be but i don't know it...I'm afraid.
How about installing appbrain application and installing that and then try downloading the problem application through that...all though I suspect that it will use the same mechanism....but worth a try.
Google have come back to me and told me to do a factory reset as well. This is infuriating, and I really don't want to do it because of a bug in ONE application - Google Market. It's not like there's widespread filesystem corruption or something, which in my mind would justify a factory reset.
I did some more investigation and installed (successfully! other apps install successfully!) the 'aLogcat' app. This gave me quite a bit of useful debug info when I tried to install Widgetlocker Lockscreen. I have the output saved to my SD card and will paste here when I get home from work, but basically it's very similar to the output listed here:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android%20Market/thread?tid=0ffa4f4e6cedcfb8&hl=en
Seems like I'm not the only one having this problem. That was posted in 2010. Now seriously guys, are we still talking about a factory reset for a somewhat common bug in Android Market that has been known about for quite some time? I want to try and figure out what's going wrong here and FIX it instead. It looks like h ttps://android.clients.google.com/market/download/... is returning a 403 forbidden, which causes the main Android UI to display 'download unsuccessful'. Why is the download being forbidden?
Have you tried clearing market data yet?
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Have you tried clearing market data yet?
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For the Market app, the 'clear data' button is greyed out. It's always been greyed out whenever I've looked there.
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For the Market app, the 'clear data' button is greyed out. It's always been greyed out whenever I've looked there.
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try what @wnp_79 suggested in his original post, force close the application then you should be able to clear data and cache (at least that what I can do).
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Preface: Yes, I've read a bunch of the other threads on this forum about this problem, but I've tried all the advice I've seen and this *still* isn't working.
So, I bought the Widgetlocker Lockscreen app from Market, and paid for it on my credit card. In Market, in 'My apps', it lists Widgetlocker Lockscreen, with 'Purchased' next to it. All the other (free) apps I have successfully downloaded and installed are listed there with 'Installed' next to them.
When I touch Widgetlocker Lockscreen, I get the Personalization screen. I press the 'Purchased' button, then the 'OK' button. This should cause the app to be downloaded and installed. When I press it, a message flashes up saying 'Your item will be downloaded.' Quite soon, in the notifications area, I see a progress bar with the text 'WidgetLocker Lockscreen' below, but this progress bar quickly disappears, apparently without the download having taken place. Just before it disappears, I see the text 'Download unsuccessful' for a split second below the progress bar. The app doesn't appear to be installed and is still listed as 'Purchased' rather than 'Installed' in the 'My apps' section.
I can still install other apps OK; I tried installing some free ones and they install fine. I tried clearing Market's cache (the clear data button is greyed out). I tried unmounting/mounting the SD card. I tried rebooting the phone. This problem still occurs.
Anyone have any idea what else I could do? This is still running on the stock firmware; I haven't rooted it or anything.
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I think there's a problem market side so sit tight for now and don't fiddle. I also have a problem with an app (Titanium Back Up) refusing to update.
Try restart your phone. Maybe, that you have new market update waiting for installation.
Hello,
First time posting here. Feel free to move this post if it isn't in the correct place. Anyway, I hope you can help me out!
I bought a triple sim android phone in Singapore. It is based on a HTC Butterfly. I only really started using it back in Europe and everything works perfectly, except that I can't get a data connection via the sim card I want to use (Vodafone Netherlands).
While trying to figure out what the problem was, I used another sim card (Hi, also from the Netherlands), and this worked without any problem.
I contacted Vodafone and they told me it could be because Hi doesn't have a set user name and password on their APN settings and Vodafone does, and maybe my phone was struggling with that for some reason. They said I could remove the user name and password from the APN settings and it should be ok.
I first tested this on another phone and it worked, but the problem is that on the phone I bought the APN menu on the settings is blocked. I can't edit, add or reset settings. Nothing happens when I press the options. I have no idea why this is happening.
I went around it by doing the following:
- Rooted the phone using Framaroot-1.6.1.
- Backed up the APN settings using the app "APN Backup and Restore".
- Manually edited the settings for the APN I want to use, removing the username and password.
- Restored the APN settings. For this I had to make "APN Backup and Restore" a system app. I did so using the app "/system/app mover".
At this point the network icon showed a data connection! I thought I had solved it but although there was a connection there was no data transfer at all. I couldn't load websites, google maps, etc.
I tried other apps that should allow editing of APN settings and I might have done some damage, because now not even the Hi sim card data connection is working...
That's about it. I am not an expert on these things, but if anyone has any suggestions and explains what I need to do I will give it a go! Just let me know what other information you need.
Thanks (and sorry for the long post!),
F.
Hi everyone. A friend of mine has got a problem with his samsung phone running android 4.4.2. His device never goes in deep sleep. I found out it is due to "messages" stock app. If he deactivates it, here we go! deep sleep again.
There's one messages service always running and it's called "transactionservice", I believe it's the culprit, but there's no way to stop it, it always restarts itself.
I sent him an MMS, he received it but he can't download it, it gets stuck at download process (with data enabled, we haven't tried wifi still but I expect he will report results shortly)
reboot doesn't work
deactivate and reactivate "messages" doesn't work
changing default sms app doesn't work
clearing data and cache of "messages" doesn't work
unchecking "receive push messages" and "auto retrieve mms" on messages settings doesn't work
he doesn't want to do a full factory reset, let alone flash the whole firmware with odin
His carrier is TIM (Italy), his MMS apn is configurated correctly. What else can we try?