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[Pataar]

Some people may encounter problems downloading big apps from the market.
The download icon would appear and directly disappear from the status bar.

This is what i did, and it worked out pretty well:

1. Backup SD Card
2. Partition your SD Card with Rom Manager (I used 512mb/64mb swap)
3. Install Simple2Ext (You can find it in the Android Market)
4. Open Simple2Ext and toggle on 'Download Cache'.
5. Now, reboot your Desire and you should be able to install Angry Birds/Maps/Other big apps.

//For this method you dont need to reflash.

Edited by Pataar, 12 April 2011 - 08:47 PM.

[Pants Mahoney]

did you do anything in particular to back up the SD card, or just drag and drop it's contents into a folder on your PC desktop?

[Pataar]

 Pants Mahoney, on 11 April 2011 - 11:36 PM, said:

did you do anything in particular to back up the SD card, or just drag and drop it's contents into a folder on your PC desktop?

Yes, i used drag and drop.

[Pants Mahoney]

[EDIT: THIS METHOD DIDN'T SOLVE THE PROBLEM]

I've solved it without having to create a partition.

Somone suggested this in another one of these topic threads, but to save people the hassle i will post it here.

Basically, do a clean install of the CyanogenMod7. As though you were coming from stock.

Follow these instructions from the Wiki

DESIRE GSM UPDATE WIKI

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Second Method (via Recovery)
1. Download the latest version of CyanogenMod.
    Optional: Download the Google Apps for the device.
2. Place the CyanogenMod update.zip file on the root of the SD card.
    Optional: Place the Google Apps .zip on the root of the SD card also.
3. Boot into the ClockworkMod Recovery.
4. Once the device boots into the ClockworkMod Recovery, use the side volume buttons to move around, and either the power button or the trackball to select.
5. Select the option to Wipe data/factory reset.
6. Then select the option to Wipe cache partition.
7. Select Install zip from sdcard.
8. Select Choose zip from sdcard.
9. Select the CyanogenMod update.zip.
    Optional: Install the Google Apps by performing steps 7 - 9 again and choosing the Google Apps update.zip.

Once the installation has finished, select +++++Go Back+++++ to get back to the main menu, and select the Reboot system now option. The HTC Desire should now boot into CyanogenMod.

Obviously you want to do a NANDROID BACKUP before you do this.

What i'm going to try now is restoring only a few apps (opposed to all the apps like i did last time) from the Titanium Backups i made (Gun Bros and some other games) I will report back if anything goes wrong.

[EDIT] So far so good, I used my titanium backups of a few games that had data i didn't want to lose. I also did a test and downloaded a fresh copy of Cordy, and the 27mb downloaded as smoothly as always.

This issue is more or less solved between the two methods.

All the best fixing it.

Edited by Pants Mahoney, 12 April 2011 - 04:38 AM.

[Pants Mahoney]

False alarm, started happening as I reinstalled  more large apps. Looks like it's partition time

[Ar.B]

 Pataar, on 11 April 2011 - 11:21 PM, said:

Some people may encounter problems downloading big apps from the market.
The download icon would appear and directly disappear from the status bar.

This is what i did, and it worked out pretty well:

1. Backup SD Card
2. Partition your SD Card with Rom Manager (I used 512mb/64mb swap)
3. Install Simple2Ext (You can find it in the Android Market)
4. Open Simple2Ext and toggle on 'Download Cache'.
5. Now, reboot your Desire and you should be able to install Angry Birds/Maps/Other big apps.

thank u .. this worked for me..

[Teazgood]

I couldn't download maps etc until I wiped dalvik cache. It lives in the /cache folder same one used by downloads. It only has 40mb space and mine was 38mb loaded. You can wipe in recovery mode. Under the advanced.

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[Pants Mahoney]

 Teazgood, on 12 April 2011 - 11:17 AM, said:

I couldn't download maps etc until I wiped dalvik cache. It lives in the /cache folder same one used by downloads. It only has 40mb space and mine was 38mb loaded. You can wipe in recovery mode. Under the advanced.

Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk

Yeah that didn't work for me.

In the end i heeded Pataar's advice, partition, and then a fresh flash. working well now.

[AlexRobinson]

Are you able to put everything back on your sd card after you have done all of the steps?

Thanks, Alex.

[Pataar]

 AlexRobinson, on 12 April 2011 - 11:44 AM, said:

Are you able to put everything back on your sd card after you have done all of the steps?

Thanks, Alex.

If you have made a backup of your sd-card, you can ofcourse.

[Totor25]

Hi,

I had the same problem but i couldn't use Simple2Ext because it needs to have your sd card mounted on /sd-ext (mine is mounted on /sdcard).
I solved my problem by creating a hardlink of /cache/downloads to a folder in the sd card.

Perhaps it will help someone !

[Pataar]

 Totor25, on 12 April 2011 - 05:03 PM, said:

Hi,

I had the same problem but i couldn't use Simple2Ext because it needs to have your sd card mounted on /sd-ext (mine is mounted on /sdcard).
I solved my problem by creating a hardlink of /cache/downloads to a folder in the sd card.

Perhaps it will help someone !

Did you partition your SD-card? One partition(Ext4) will be created at /sd-ext the other (FAT32) on /sdcard.

[Mn3mic]

Hi!

I just flashed to CM7 and everything seems to be working well, except downloading big apps...
Now the thing is, is there any other way to get this working other then flashing again cause I partitioned my SD card 2 days ago?

Edited by Mn3mic, 12 April 2011 - 06:09 PM.

[Pataar]

 Mn3mic, on 12 April 2011 - 06:08 PM, said:

Hi!

I just flashed to CM7 and everything seems to be working well, except downloading big apps...
Now the thing is, is there any other way to get this working other then flashing again cause I partitioned my SD card 2 days ago?

Well if you have an partitioned SD-Card, you could download Simple2Ext and try to set the download-cache to use the SD-Card. You do not need to reflash.

Edited by Pataar, 12 April 2011 - 08:49 PM.

[benlea123]

I had to make an account on the forums just to thank you for this.  I've been having this problem for ages, to the point where I went back to a stock rom for the last month.  I thought I'd try the stable release of Cyanogenmod and see if the problem persisted, which it did.

Thank you so much for this fix!  I can now enjoy Cyanogenmod like I originally planned to!

Ben.

[Husk]

I made an account, to saying thank you, Pataar's solution works well, great work with this CM7, i can now fully enjoy this version.

sorry for my bad english, Husk

[johla]

I also couldn't download any apps from the market after installing CM7. However, doing a dalvik cache wipe in recovery mode solved it for me. Working great now!

[Mn3mic]

I've found a solution to the problem, I simply installed Applanet and from there I can download all the apps

[PlaKen]

When restoring the data from backup to sdcard, should it go to the ext4 partition or the FAT32 one?

[Pataar]

 PlaKen, on 18 April 2011 - 06:06 AM, said:

When restoring the data from backup to sdcard, should it go to the ext4 partition or the FAT32 one?

The FAT32 one, the ext4 is pure for the download cache.