Problems with mobile gadgets are a fairly common occurrence. Despite the fact that the Android operating system has the overwhelming majority of positive reviews, it is also created by ordinary people, which means problems and errors cannot be avoided. Today we will talk about why applications are not downloaded from the Play Market and how to fix this annoying misunderstanding.
Memory
Often the solution to the problem lies on the surface. For example, on the Internet you can often find questions: “Why can’t applications download from the Play Market? It says “not enough memory.” Usually such questions are asked by users who are not at all versed in technology. If you encounter a similar error, there are two ways to solve it .
- Clear space in your phone memory. Perhaps the application size is too large for her.
- Check the application installation path and change it so that installation is performed on a removable memory card.
This way you can avoid problems with insufficient space on your device. But there are other reasons why applications are not downloaded from the Play Market.
Cleaning
If the Play Market produces an incomprehensible error, the user should follow the following instructions:
- Go to your phone settings.
- Select installed applications.
- We find three processes - Google Play Market, "Services for Google Play" and Google Services Framework.
- For all three, you need to perform three sequential operations - stop, clear the cache, delete data and delete updates.
- After that, go to your account settings and remove all the checkboxes next to synchronization.
- Reboot your device.
- Change back all the settings you changed before.
- Reboot again.
After completing these operations, your Play Market should restore its functionality.
Account
There is another reason why applications are not downloaded from the Play Market. This may be due to your account settings. In order to cope with the problem in this case, you must follow one of the following two recommendations.
- Add a second Google account and use it to try downloading what you wanted. If everything goes without problems, switch back to your old account and launch the desired application. The data in it will already be yours.
- Another option is to delete your account completely. After this, clear application data as indicated in the first paragraph of the article. Then we perform another reboot. And finally, create a new account. Now everything should work.
System
If you still don’t understand why applications from the Play Market are not downloaded to your phone, you may need to follow these recommendations. You can do one of two things.
- Check for updates to your system and upgrade it to a more recent one.
- Do a full hard reset of the device and return it to factory settings.
Both methods are based on the fact that many users, trying to find out why applications from PlayMarket are not downloading, errors began to appear after the device updated the operating system version. This happens especially often on Samsung devices. So either reflash your gadget, or wait for the manufacturers to release a fix or patch for your model.
Recently I encountered a problem that I urgently needed to update the application, but there was no available WI-FI network nearby. I decided to update using the mobile network, unchecked the box in the market, but the download still did not start, instead the play market wrote “Waiting for WI-FI network” and the process stopped. There is of course no option in the Play Store settings related to the cause of this problem.
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Why Xiaomi refuses to download applications and games using the mobile network
In fact, everything turned out to be very simple and clear, and the play market turned out to be not to blame for the current problem. My Xiaomi operating system, MIUI, has a feature called a built-in bootloader. He is responsible for downloads, updates, their speed, size - well, in general, for everything related to downloading data to a smartphone. In this case, all applications automatically pick up its settings. For example, if the downloader only downloads via WI-FI, then no matter how much you want, you won’t be able to download anything without it. This is exactly what happened, the Play Market simply could not update the application, since the file size when downloading was larger than the maximum allowed in the bootloader settings.To be able to download and update applications not only via WI-FI, but also via a mobile network, follow the instructions below.
Instructions for setting up the Xiaomi bootloader (MIUI)
First, go to “Tools” - Tools on the smartphone’s desktop. Here we select the “Downloads” icon - Downloads.
A window opens in front of us where we can view downloaded applications, games, pictures and everything like that. We are interested in settings, so we click on the button with three dots in the upper right corner.
Menu items pop up, one of which is called “Settings”. This is exactly what we need, so we click on it.
Now we are looking for the phrase “Download size limit” - a limitation of the mobile Internet. By default there is usually 1MB. We are not happy with this because we want to install applications with a large size. Let's tap on this point.
We select from the required options the one that suits us and click “Ok”.
That's all, now you can safely download and update applications using the mobile Internet.
Note: if you do not have unlimited Internet on your smartphone or you use up the allocated traffic very quickly, then it is best to choose small sizes for downloaded files, as this can hit your wallet.
Having downloaded a file to your smartphone or tablet for the first time, a novice user wonders where to find it now? After all, having just started using a mobile device, he still does not know where files are downloaded on Android. In this article we will try to find this place.
Where are the downloaded files located in Android?
In the Android operating system, files downloaded from the network use a folder named Download. The Download folder is usually located in the root directory of the user-accessible internal memory. If it is installed on a smartphone (tablet), then the system can also access downloaded files. The path for it can be specified in the settings of the application that downloads the files.
To find downloaded files, you need to install any file manager on your smartphone (tablet).
If you do not find an object downloaded from the network in the Download folder, then the application has probably created its own folder and saved the file to it. For example, the UC Browser downloads files to its own folder called UCDownloads.
You can change the location for downloaded files in your browser settings.
Open the application settings, select " " and specify the folder in which the files downloaded by the browser will be placed.
PlayMarket is considered a fairly reliable and stable program, but in some cases it can also fail in ways that are not entirely understandable to the average user. Moreover, restarting the application does not help - the user again returns to the screen with an error message or to the download status bar frozen in one place. If the PlayMarket installed on your device does not download applications, you should, which will not require much time and effort.
A simple solution
If the program that provides access to online storage does not download applications, you should start by restarting the device. In some cases, the reason is a lack of free RAM, which can be cleared in this way. If this does not help, try also connecting to another free Wi-Fi access point, or clearing the settings of the current one and joining it again. This will help you ensure unhindered access that may be blocked as a result of incorrectly entered settings or the presence of certain blockages.
In addition, check the clock and date - in some cases, Google online services do not want to work with a device that has these parameters set incorrectly. If GooglePlay does not download applications, then you should just use one of the online time servers. By the way, this problem is quite common - about a third of users encounter it.
If you download using and the device does not download applications, then it is worth checking that the settings are set correctly. For those who do not have extensive data in this area, it is better to immediately call the technical support service of your mobile operator and ask them to send the required parameters in a message - they will be applied automatically. In some cases, the solution may be hidden in the “flight mode” installed on the device. This problem is especially relevant for tablets, whose owners very rarely check communication settings.
If it doesn't help...
If the Play Store does not download applications, despite all the measures you have taken, it is worth trying by removing from it all information related to the Google software store. Going to settings, open the “Applications” section, and in it - the “All” tab. Now you will need to find two programs: PlayMarket and Google Services Framework. In both cases, you must use the “Erase data” menu item. In addition, in the case of PlayMarket, you also need to additionally click the “Clear cache” button. Also pay attention to the internal memory of the device, clearing it and ensuring space for downloading.
If Google Play does not load applications even after these steps, try rolling back to the previous version of the program. This will help eliminate possible errors related to its incompatibility with your device. Alternatively, you can try completely uninstalling PlayMarket and then installing it again, selecting the previous version. As a rule, this method helps even when all other actions were ineffective. Finally, you are left with the “final argument” -
