Android Market Force Closing Fix

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After playing with my phone a bit and installing / uninstalling apps and games I noticed that the Google Android Market started force closing every time I opened it.  This is a common issue with android devices in general but the fix is very easy.  Follow the steps below and everything should be fine again.

  1. Open Settings.
  2. Select Applications.
  3. Select Manage Applications.
  4. Select Market
  5. Select Clear cache.
  6. Back out of the screen and select Download Manager.
  7. Select Clear data.
  8. If your market still isn’t working clear data for Google AppsGoogle Talk, and Checkin Service. These generally aren’t the issue but in some cases they can be as they are associated with the market as well.

The Android Market should now work again (you will have to re enter your credentials so be sure you know what they are.

Please keep in mind that there are occasional updates by Google that causes issues with certain devices but they tend to fix these issues within a few days.  There was one recently that lasted only a few days and there was absolutely nothing you could do to get it to stop besides waiting patiently.

UPDATE: August 2013 (6th-13th) The Google Play store was giving people the dreaded “Market Force Closing” message and this is one of those cases where the process above will not fix it as its not a device issue but a Play Store issue.  This was one of the longer outages I have seen with this error although it was fixed just the same.

In most cases the methods above will fix your issue although you should look around and see if many others are having the issue before doing something drastic like wiping your device.

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