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Android Market – Market needs Background Data to be enabled

Recently I came across an issue on my Android Market. When I went to the application, it had given me the following message: Market needs Background Data to be enabled.

After doing a little bit of research, I had figured out that the issue was caused by one of the power saving features on my phone. When power saver is activated, your phone switches off certain features on it - one of them is the elusive background data. Now this issue would not only cause problems with the Android Market, but many other applications which rely on Background Data to be enabled such as Whatsapp and other push notification type apps.

In order to turn Background Data back on, all you would need to do is the following:

• Go to Settings
• Click on "Account & sync"
• In here, disable and then re-enable "Background Data"

This will then resolve the issues and allow you to access your Background Data again.

If you would like to edit your "Power Saving" features to leave the Background Data on when it is trying to save power, here are the steps you need to take:

• Go to Settings
• Click on "Power"
• Click on "Power saver settings"
• Uncheck "Disable background data"

This will prevent your power saver to turn off that feature in the future.