I can’t promise that I have the solutions for all, but hopefully others can chip in with their tricks, workarounds and hopefully positive results.
So, for the past few months, I have struggled when trying to download apps from Android Market.
I had no problems downloading apps at work, and it also worked over 3G (but as I don’t have an unlimited data plan, it’s not preferred…).
At the same time, logging into Gtalk is impossible.
I found several threads online discussing the problem – even an “official” thread started by a Google employee, which unfortunately has been closed without offering a definite solution, at least not for me – but you can still read it here.
So that leads me to the two solution suggestions I have to offer, but if anyone have other suggestions please add them as comments.
- If you are a Google user in UK, and have been using @googlemail.com as your email address and Google login name, try to replace @googlemail.com with @gmail.com, and if that doesn’t solve it, follow this how-to to clear caches etc (see the comments below the article)
- If you’re not a UK Google user, but still face problems like I described, try what solved it for me – access your firewall (either a standalone box or typically integrated in your DSL modem, your wifi access point, or similar), and open up for traffic on TCP and UDP ports 5228. That’s all I had to do, and I hope this will solve it for others as well.
Please add comments if none of these suggestions are helping, or if you have other solutions to this problem.
You, Sir, are a positive lifesaver!! TCP and UDP 5228 it was!
I’ve searched for hours for a solution and this works a treat. Many many thanks to you.