Error 492 when downloading from the Market: the reasons for the appearance and the simplest methods of elimination

Quite often, if not all, a lot of Android device owners are faced with the problem of not being able to download an application or a game from the Play Market service. Not for nothing, on the screen suddenly appears error 492. When downloading from the "Market", by the way, this is equally true of attempts to manually or automatically update the programs. Let's see how to get rid of such misfortune.

What does error 492 mean when downloading from the "Market" and the reasons for its appearance

First, let's look at the nature of the failure itself. To be objective, it can be noted that error type 492 applies to almost the same category as failure 905.

However, the 905-error, so to speak, is the result of the incorrect operation of the service itself, and the error 492 when downloading from the Market on a tablet or a smartphone can mainly mean problems associated with the use of corrupted memory cards, but, most importantly, with so Called overflow of the cache. In this case, we mean the cache of the Play Market application, not the cache of the default browser.

Error 492 when downloading from the Market: what to do first

If such a situation has arisen, you can even not reload the device (with a full-fledged service cache folder, this in most cases does not help).

It will require manual intervention, produced directly on the mobile gadget. Clearing the cache is done from the settings menu, where the section of installed applications is selected. It is desirable to display all that is (the "All" tab). Here you need to find the desired Play Market service and tap on it to go to the options menu.

The screen will show the buttons for clearing the cache and deleting data. As a rule, you can only use them without having to use the update deletion. As you know, they only affect the operation of the service and do not concern our problem at all.

If the standard method did not help

However, in some cases, error 492 when downloading from the "Market" may occur when the user authentication fails. And most of all, this manifests itself on devices where non-standard firmware has been installed, because of which the "operating system" itself starts to malfunction.

There is nothing easier than deleting your "accounting", and after rebooting the system log in to the account again or create a new record.

So, in this case we need the same section of settings, where you should select the account item and find the corresponding section. Then, when you enter the email address of Gmail, which is the login, you just need to click the delete button "Accounting", located below.

Now we are overloading the device and trying to enter the service. The system will offer two options: use an existing record or create a new one. We select the first item and enter our registration data (mail and password). As practice shows, thereafter error 492 will not appear when downloading from Market. True, it is desirable to perform such operations only after you make sure that the first method did not have any effect.

Other possible situations and methods for their correction

It goes without saying that no one is immune from the occurrence of such failures when using damaged memory cards. In this case, you will have to apply cardinal methods to restore the card's performance.

Without going into technical details, we note that basically the problem lies in the malfunction of the microcontroller. In this case, when error 492 appears when downloading from the Market, 4PDA (known Internet resource) recommends first to find out the controller labeling (special values VID and PID), or by disassembling the card, or by using special utilities. After that, you will need to find the program on the Internet for formatting and start it to restore the memory card.

Here it is necessary to take into account the fact that all these operations are performed only when the card is connected via an adapter or card reader to the computer and only when downloading content from the Play Market service is made directly to a removable medium. By default, the download is performed on the internal drive, so if this option is set, the card recovery is not necessary.

Conclusion

As can be seen from all of the above, the error itself is somehow not a critical failure in the work of the device, or in the functioning of the Play Market service, is not. Actually, and this problem is fixed quite simply on the gadget itself without using additional actions connected with connecting to a computer or using additional third-party utilities.