[Q] Any Vibrant Experts Around?

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My Vibrant is having some serious issues. I've only found one other person that seems to have my issues and that thread went out of control so I'm starting another.

Symptom:

• Within 5ish (if that) minutes of a factory reset, the market will get stuck on Starting Download... for any application. Nothing fixes it. I can download 10ish applications but that's all.

Attempted Fixes:

• Factory Reset
• Various ROMs via Odin
• Flash JFD ROM with "repartition" option selected, then flash another ROM over that without repartition
• Factory Reset and different Gmail account to set up the phone
• "Easy Fixes" like logging in to GTalk, resetting Market cache, switching networks and over to wifi in any combination and every other suggestion that doesn't work.

Notes:

• Everything was working fine until that OTA update came in and I opted to install it without checking online to see if there were any issues. Of course, the update froze halfway through and I used Odin to install JI6, then all these issues started.
• This is my first phone and it used to work perfectly well in any number of locations around where I live. Now it doesn't work anywhere.
• I periodically get spammed with a lot of application downloads that I didn't initiate and they all turn up unsuccessful (since the problems started).
• I tried using the Appbrain quick web installer feature which may or may not have caused the problem.
• I am currently using Bionix 1.8 with VOODOO.
• My wife's phone has the same set up and works. I tried her Gmail account on mine after a factory reset and I had the same issues.

Any suggestions?

When you flashed JI6 did you use the pit file?

are you restoring any backups after you flash?

I posted this in another thread. Someone did this with success and it worked for me too. The key thing "AND Uninstall updated"

I have managed to sort this now - here's what I did:
Go into settings - applications - manage applications- scroll down to market & long touch to open. Clear cache AND Uninstall updated. It will ask for confirmation and then uninstall. I then went back to market and Bluetooth file transfer downloaded and installed with no probs. Hope this helps anyone else with same problem.

Originally Posted by m509272

I posted this in another thread. Someone did this with success and it worked for me too. The key thing "AND Uninstall updated"

I have managed to sort this now - here's what I did:
Go into settings - applications - manage applications- scroll down to market & long touch to open. Clear cache AND Uninstall updated. It will ask for confirmation and then uninstall. I then went back to market and Bluetooth file transfer downloaded and installed with no probs. Hope this helps anyone else with same problem.

Also have you ran a "Fix permissions" from RomManager? It seems to help with a lot of these strange errors ....

Sorry for not responding... work is keeping me busy.

Anyway, when I go Manage Applications, select Filter~>All and go down to Market there is nothing to do with Uninstall. I tried long clicking and that did nothing. When I click on Market, the only buttons are Clear Cache, Clear Defaults, and Force Stop. Am I missing something?

To answer other questions, both the JI6 and JFD .tar files I used (found on xda) came with their own .pit files and I did use the respective .pit files when flashing. After the flash, all I do is install Appbrain and start loading my applications again (no other restoration methods). I've run fix_permissions and that didn't help when I ran it though I've only done it once or twice in the whole process.


Note - I have Market 1714.

Cleared the download manager cache?

+1 on Fix Permissions in ROM Manager. This has fixed many market issues.

The TMo Android customer service folk had me try clearing the Download Manager's cache (and I tried again just for laughs) with no results. Tried fix permissions again with no luck. My replacement (refurbished? from TMo) should show up today.

Got the new phone (with JI6 on it and the new market that keeps applications up-to-date), flashed Bionix Fusion 1.1 and things look to be working pretty well. My signal is noticeably better than it was before (it used to be good then got worse for some reason so I guess it's back to what it used to be).

I paid $10 for 7-10 business day shipping or something like that but I got a text about it shipping on the 25th and it got here today (after being back-ordered) so I'm relatively satisfied. Sure would like to know what's wrong with the other phone and how to fix it if need be in the future but I'll just avoid accepting any OTA updates in the future.