The most essential part of the Android OS in any smartphone is the Google Play Store and there is no doubt in that. If your device’s Google Play Store is suffering through some problems and it isn’t working, it will definitely give your smartphone a colorless life as you won’t be able to install cool applications nor you will be able to update the applications.
There isn’t a certain error that might occur and rip off your phone’s application installation and update capabilities, but there is a number of different errors and all of these errors have their very own cons and a specific treatment is required to fix it. Although there’s a way to install the applications without the Play Store using the APK files having the Play Store malfunctioned is just driving a car having one or two of its tires punctured.
These errors mainly include Google Play Store Not Working, that also known as Google Play Store Force Close error, sometimes you’re unable to install an application as some “Code Error” appears, sometimes the application keeps on downloading or updating and it doesn’t show any progress in percentage, in fact, the download/update status bar keeps on running.
t times, the Google Play Store opens up, but it doesn’t show anything keeping the screen blank. At times, the Play Store takes too long to load. Google Play force close error is the most frustrating one and that’s the only error that pops up most of the times. After having a detailed look into the Google Play Store errors and doing some research work over the web, I was able to compile up a guide explaining all the errors and also putting up their fixes that you may find in the proceeding post.
Let’s go through the errors that I’ve shortlisted below.
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Multiple errors can be fixed by applying each of the following fixes, and in some cases, multiple fixes will work for one issue/error. Wondering how to do all this now?
Well, here’s the guide to perform all the Google Play Store Error fixes
Sometimes when the Google Play Store is acting strangely, it’s not loading, not downloading the applications and giving the force close error, the easiest and the very first thing to try out is restarting your device. Restarting it will end all the processes in your device and help the Google Play Store to work again. If this doesn’t work, you may head towards the next solution.
Connection issues sometimes can be fixed using by removing and forgetting your WiFi connection from your Android device and then re-connecting it. To do so, go to Settings > Networks and Connections > WiFi > Long press your WiFi and forget it and then add it again.
Clearing the Google Play Store Cache can sometimes fix the errors with Google Play Store. This cache basically holds the temporary data from the Google Play Store that helps it to load quickly without taking any extra time. Clearing the cache will wipe all this data and result in fixing the loading issues with the Google Play.
To clear the Google Play Store Cache, go to Settings > Applications / Application Manager > All > Google Play Store > Clear Cache and also Clear Data.
Google Play Store also saves the necessary data on your Android device. This data may include your searches, information regarding the applications installed on your phone and other files. Clearing the data is proved as the best solution for fixing the “Google Play Store not responding” and the force close errors.
To clear the Google Play Store data, go to Settings > Applications / Application Manager > All > Google Play Store > Clear Data.
After you clear the data, you will find that the Play Store will start as giving you a pop up for accepting the terms and conditions and it will act as a fresh application. In short, it will refresh your Play Store.
Play Store update itself as soon as an update arrives. Sometimes a new update can result in causing some difficulties for your Play Store to work properly. To get rid of this problem, you can uninstall the updates. This will uninstall the most recent update and revert your Play Store back to its previous state that probably will be working.
To uninstall the Play Store updates, go to Settings > Applications / Application Manager > All > Google Play Store > Uninstall Updates.
In case you don’t know, Google Play Services is the essential part that keeps all the Google Apps running on your Android device. If your device is missing the Play Services or Play Services aren’t working properly, using any Google App will give you the Play Services error. When the Play Store is acting weird, clearing the cache of the Play Services can also act as a solution.
To clear the Google Play Services Cache, go to Settings > Applications / Application Manager > All > Google Play Services > Clear cache.
If your Google Play Store is having difficulties downloading an application, you need to check that your Android device’s download manager is working properly or not, and is it enabled or disabled. The error caused in this situation will keep the process bar for the app download running and it won’t show any progress.
To check that Download Manager is enabled or not, go to Settings > Applications / Application Manager > All > Download Manager > Enable it if it’s disabled. Also, consider clearing Download Manager cache and data.
Removing and putting the Gmail account again on your Android device can sometimes fix the issues you’re experiencing with the Android app store. To do so, Settings > Accounts > Google > Tap your current account > Remove account.
After removing the account, go to the same settings and add your account from scratch.
The Play Store problems do not entirely depend on the Google Play Store application or any other Google Application. The culprit may be your phone sometimes, there may be some processes or some applications store in the cache memory of your phone that are refraining the Play Store from working properly. Clearing your device’s cache can fix it in this case.
To do so, reboot your device into the recovery mode and clear its cache.
The last thing if all of the solutions listed above fail. Although it is not recommended, but there’s no other choice. You may simply backup each and everything on your Android device and perform a factory data reset using the recovery mode.
That’s all. I hope that this guide helps you to get rid of the issues with your Play Store. Let us know if there’s anything else we can help you with. Thank you.
This post was last modified on January 6, 2019 7:52 pm
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Even after factory reset my playstore isn't working plz help
it not work
@chplaya:disqus What issue are you facing? Can you please elaborate so that I can help you?
i have c7 how can get playstore on it Chines version
@aslambrohi:disqus Try this guide and let me know if this works for you: https://techbeasts.com/how-to-install-google-play-store-on-chinese-android-phones/
stumble to search on the net how to get rid of this kind of error, done with clearing cache play store, application specific cache.. reboot
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