Why does Android download pause, and only continue after restart? Sometimes when I download apps (from the market), the download gets paused. After the download gets paused, I am unable to continue the download. But after the restart my device and then retry downloading, it works fine. What could be the reason behind this?
It happens generally when Kernel discards Market from memory. In Android, there're many ways to achieve multi-tasking. Market app achieves it by running its service in background. This way Market app isn't killed. But, when kernel runs out of memory, it has no other choices. It kills other apps (even having running service) to reclaim memory, otherwise device would be crashed. Such power killing returns unstable &amp; unexpected results.

So, to prevent it lower down running app load from system. You can hunt down running apps from Settings ~> Applications ~> Running Services. Simply uninstall all unwanted always-running apps.

Plus, Market might have memory leaks etc. type bugs on your device. So, its better to contact Android support if previous step doesn't help. They really respond (don't think its Google).