Cant download large apps from Android Market

Posted on 31/08/2011 by Tor Henning Ueland

If you are running a rooted Android phone and have problems with downloading large apps from the Android market, one fix can be to move the market download folder over to the SD-card, install a terminal emulator and perform the following (on your own risk of course):

mkdir /mnt/sdcard/market-download-cache
su
cd /cache
mv download download.bak
ln -s /mnt/sdcard/market-download-cache download
ls -ahl

Then try again and see if it wont work better to download large apps, like Google Maps :)

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3 Responses to Cant download large apps from Android Market

  1. Tommy says:
    14/09/2011 at 20:58

    WOW!

    I dont know what I just did, but it worked!

    Thanks m8

  2. Sapbe says:
    27/09/2011 at 19:12

    How do you move the market download folder over to the SD-card?

    I have a Galaxy 5830 running on Gingerbread
    Thanks

  3. Sapbe says:
    27/09/2011 at 20:56

    Theres no download.bak file on my /cache folder!

    Only downloadfile.apk Any thoughts on this??

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