Error 905 in the Play Market is not very common, and it appeared relatively recently. Some users, without understanding, blame their mobile gadgets for everything. However, failures when downloading or installing programs, games, etc. in most cases are associated with shortcomings in the service itself.
Error 905 on the Play Market: causes
Probably, many owners of smartphones and tablets running various versions of Android operating systems sometimes noticed that when trying to download and then install an application or game, crashes can occur.
At the same time, error 905 in the "Play Market", or rather the message about its appearance, states that this and that could not be downloaded or installed. But many users often connect to high-speed Internet. So what could happen?
First of all, no matter how trite it sounds, either on the internal flash drive or on a removable memory card there is simply not enough space for downloading and installing the program. Needless to say, it is advisable to see how much free space is required, and to remove all unnecessary in order to free it. We are not talking about communication disruptions at all.
On the other hand, an error 905 in the "Play Market" can occur with a sufficient amount of disk space, and with a normal high-speed connection. There may be several reasons for this, including a too short time to go into sleep mode, installed on the device itself. But most often, error 905 in the Play Market (aka Google Play) is associated with the functioning of the service itself, or rather, its automatic update (in some recent updates there were a lot of “bugs”). But first things first.
Error 905 in the Play Market: how to fix it in the simplest way?
So, as already mentioned, one of the reasons for “underloading” or the impossibility of installing the software can be the fast-turning on hibernation mode of a smartphone or tablet (sometimes this can also cause this error).
In such a situation, it is recommended to increase this gap by going to the settings section where the display parameters are selected. Here you can choose the longest period of time before going to sleep (usually 30 minutes). Now you can try to download and install the required application again.
Disabling active services and processes
If the failure appears again, you can apply another correction method. Often, error 905 by the Android is interpreted as a lack of RAM, which is associated with a large number of running processes and services.
In this case, it is recommended to terminate all currently active applications. Some of them can be closed manually, while background services will have to be disabled through the settings menu, where the application section is selected. We turn to the active ones, see which ones are the most "gluttonous", and turn off all unnecessary.
However, this method is quite time-consuming and unsafe (you never know what an inexperienced user will disable). The easiest way is to use special utilities like the CCleaner mobile version, which automatically scans the system and disables system processes that are not currently required (you will need to check the box next to the line “Processes” before cleaning). If this does not help, and error 905 in the Play Market occurs again, go to the next step.
Clearing the cache and data from the Play Market app
First you need to clean the cache of the service itself to remove all the “garbage” that has accumulated in the system. Again, this can be done using the CCleaner utility, but for complete certainty it is better to perform this process in the service itself.
To do this, go back to the settings, select the application section, tap on the display tab of all services and, scrolling through all the entries, find the Play Market. When entering the service, use the buttons "Clear Cache" and "Delete Data". But even this does not always work without some additional procedures.
Uninstall Play Market Updates
Error code 905 in the "Play Market" often indicates not only the impossibility of performing actions to download and install applications. As already mentioned, the service itself has its drawbacks.
Therefore, when entering the service, in addition to clearing the cache and deleting data, you must click on the button to delete updates. Nothing terrible will happen, but the service itself will return to its original factory state. When you reconnect to the Network, the service will be updated automatically, and the latest update will be installed, in which all the "jambs" are already fixed. It is this method that many experts regard as the most effective. After such procedures, error 905 in the Play Market, in theory, should no longer occur. But here, not everything is so smooth. There are situations in which drastic measures will have to be applied.
Delete active account
So, let's assume that all of the above methods do not help, and error 905 in the Play Market appears again with enviable regularity and consistency. What to do? Apply what many call a “control shot”.
Sometimes the problem may be incorrect identification of the user account. Therefore, as a last resort, you can try to remove it. But this is already connected with Android itself, especially if the user independently installed various updates or non-standard firmware.
Again, go to the settings section, where we go to the "Accounts" section. Here you need to find a Google account - we get rid of it by clicking the "Delete account" button. Just in case, we reboot the device, and then again go to the Google Play (Play Market) service and re-enter with the login (usually this is the registered gmail.com address) and password. Now certainly everything should work without fail.
In an extreme case, if nothing helps, you should completely reset the settings to the factory state. But, I think, this will not be required, because you can remove many necessary applications, for example, manually installed from an unofficial source. To protect yourself from this, you can first create a backup.
Conclusion
As you can see, the nature of the error is easy to understand. Just in case, here are a few standard situations that occur most often. It may well be that not all solutions are suitable for each specific user in this situation. However, the method of removing updates to the Google Play service, according to many experts in this field, is the most universal. However, before you perform this or that action, you need, as they say, to soberly assess the situation, and only then proceed to solve the problem.
Finally, it remains to add that in this case only solutions that could be used directly on a mobile gadget were considered. Sometimes, with additionally installed clients, something similar can be done on the computer. But why reinvent the wheel, if all this is elementary solved without connecting to computer systems?