Application download from Market stuck at Installing

[cowboyzx6]

Trying to install Live Scores by Sportacular from the Market. It downloaded and shows Installing but it just sits there. I have tried rebooting. I don't see it in Android System Info so I can't delete it. I can't figure out a way to re-download? Any ideas??

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[s197]

Happens sometimes for reasons I can't figure out. Check your "download" folder on your SD Card using an app like Astro. Sometimes there's a file named download in there that you can manually install.

[enlightened]

Happened to me last night. Using Astro to check the SD card's download folder did the trick. It was named Download _ (insert # here) so just look at the time stamp of the file and you should find it without a problem.

[Marcismo55]

Will it hurt if you delete the items remaining in that folder if you are no longer updating apps?

[enlightened]

The downloaded items on your SD card? As long as it's not a system file (for example, the tethering bin file if you didn't put it in a separate folder) it shouldn't matter. I just deleted a few apk's with no bad effects that I notice.

[Marcismo55]

The downloaded items on your SD card? As long as it's not a system file (for example, the tethering bin file if you didn't put it in a separate folder) it shouldn't matter. I just deleted a few apk's with no bad effects that I notice.

Cool...thanks!

[tweebee]

I would cancel the download and then try installing again and it would go through. Though, this has been happening a lot lately! It's been pretty much every manual update.

[cowboyzx6]

Any other suggestions? Nothing in my downloads folder. Assuming I am looking in correct directory: /mnt/sdcard/download

[enlightened]

Can you go directly to the dev's website and download from there (if it's a free app)?

[cowboyzx6]

found a solution: In Settings/Applications/Manage, open the Market app and then clear cache and uninstall updates.