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Possible fix for download & installation unsuccessful Android Market issues

Andy Bird — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:27:49 +0000

There are a number of suggestions out there. I have successfully used the following two to allow the download and installation of apps from the Android market place after receiving the error “download unsuccessful”

1) Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Market >

Then try the following : clear cache and / or Unistall Updates.

2) As above but for the Market Updater app

Try clear data and / or clear cache

3) If the above do not work try the same for Google Apps.

4) I have not tried it but I have seen people report success clearing data for the Download manager.

How to fix Contact sync deletes new contacts and edits on my Xperia X10 / Mini Pro

Andy Bird — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:51:34 +0000

As you can see from other posts the X10 is giving me more grief than it rightly should. Still stuck at Android 1.6 the updates to 2.1 are starting to trickle in as most other phones are moving on 2.2

The symptoms:

Synching your phone to your google app account deletes all contects from you address book. A great feature is it not!

While some people are reporting that the followng has not worked I have tested it to death and it seems to be very reliable. One thing that is good about the X10 is the number of back up options. Far better than those offered by my Samsung Galaxy S. So before you attempt to do anything back up your contacts to your sim or SD card. (menu > more > backup)

The fix:

Enter settings > data synchronisation > Google synch> Group Synchronisation

Tick both options here. No, I have no idea what they do or why they work.

Activate Contact synch and watch those contacts flow.

Pull up your google contacts and make sure you test contacts both ways. eg create a new contact on the phone and synch again. make sure it appears in Google. Delete it in Google and make sure it goes off your phone.

Fingers crossed this helps.

Fix “SIM card unavailable” in Sony errikson X10 xperia

Andy Bird — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:58:35 +0000

The problem here is simple… The phone is look ing for a number on the sim. This is a special field which the phone expects to find. When it is not there it throws up an error. It appears that only sony phones use this field for any purpose and for reasons only known only to Sony you cannot edit this field with a 400 pound smart phone. The quick fix is to put the sim in an older phone and try to update the field. You are look ing for some reference to “your number” or “special number”. However it appears that only some phones will do the trick. People have reported success with other Sony phones and I can confirm that a Blackberry will do it. Goto settings>sim>advanced and you will see the blank number field. Fill this with your own number and save it. Put sim back into xperia and you should have got rid of the error. Sorted.