Android Market Clear History

[cmarkteach]

How can you clear the browsing history on the android market without starting from scratch and losing all the info. that is in the phone already? Sorry I'm not speaking the right lingo on this topic.

 

[natediddy1120]

I don't think this has been figured out yet unfortunately....it doesn't seem to be possible at the moment

 

[hookbill]

How can you clear the browsing history on the android market without starting from scratch and losing all the info. that is in the phone already? Sorry I'm not speaking the right lingo on this topic.

No your question is perfectly clear. I think the only way this can be done is with a factory wipe. I know that's not what you are looking for, maybe someone else knows a secret to this but I don't see anything.

 

[gdwyer22]

If you are rooted you can use CacheMate. The demo version I have has an option to clear market history. They say it is experimental but it has worked for me.

 

[yourhero88]

There is a way to do it. Are you rooted with busybox installed?

 

[krazykarl]

factory reset will do it too....other than that, i got nothin

 

[cmarkteach]

Wow, new lingo for me to learn. Thanks for your reply. What is rooted with cache mate mean? Any resources I can look up on this subject? Any drawbacks to doing what you have proposed?

 

[natediddy1120]

Cachemate is an app in the Market....

Rooted is a hack that can allow you to have "superuser" access to your phone....and Cachemate requires this

 

[taypotts]

I've got cachemate and it doesn't clear the market history

 

[gdwyer22]

Cachmate Demo v1.6.5.1 in settings it says Data (Experimental) if you choose that it gives you a box to check to clear Market History.

 

[Moondonkey]

Hehe... don't wont your parents/wife/girlfriend to see your porn app searches ehh?:icon_ devil:

 

[gatewayad]

It works... yea!

 

[AndroidAppCritic]

CacheMate dev here,

If you are rooted, CacheMate (including the demo) will clear your Market search history. As the instructions say, you may have to kill the Market app or even reboot after clearing the data but it will clear it. Again, you must be rooted.

 

[droidilac]

tried this app tonight... The Cachemate... It work perfectly... Just open it click on menu and the options are in there....:icon_ banana::icon_ banana::icon_ banana:

 

[stuhasdroid]

Market history

I'll have to look into this. Yesterday I saw a thread where someone was asking if the Droid leaves the likes of registry keys and folders, etc. lying around like apps often do on Windows.

I wouldn't think so, and that seems to be the consensus, Linux doesn't have the issues that Windows does in that regard.

However, I have noticed that some apps I have downloaded from the market, and later removed still prompt for updates available. So while this is a result of the market not the Droid's behavior necessarily it is sort of less than ideal.

Cachemate seems like a workaround. It is nice that the market keeps a download history, but the con of course is the scenario where the app has been subsequently uninstalled and w/o consulting the Droid this isn't known, so it continues to prompt for updates.