{"id":5075,"date":"2018-03-04T21:52:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T20:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2020-12-13T08:27:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T07:27:01","slug":"windows-phone-8-1-app-download-store-error-0x80070020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2018\/03\/04\/windows-phone-8-1-app-download-store-error-0x80070020\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Phone 8.1: App download store error 0x80070020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/winPhone8.jpg\" width=\"80\" align=\"left\" height=\"62\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/04\/windows-phone-8-1-app-download-probleme-im-store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>]It seems that users of a Windows Phone 8.1 device are facing again a Microsoft store issue. It's not possible to downloads apps, because this fails with error 0x80070020.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mainstream support for Windows Phone 8.1 has expired six months ago.&nbsp; But apps should still be downloaded from the store. But users are facing error 0x80070020, when downloading apps from Microsoft store. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Windows Phone\" alt=\"Windows Phone\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180705043502\/https:\/\/s55.imgup.net\/Phone0197c6.jpg\" width=\"237\" height=\"461\">(Source: Microsoft) <\/p>\n<p>At reddit.com a user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/windowsphone\/comments\/81t4y8\/has_the_windows_store_81_been_discontinued\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> this issue a few hours ago. He tried to download apps from Microsoft store with a Lumia 925: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\"There is a problem completing your request. Please try again later. Inquiring minds might find this error code helpful: 80070020\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Resetting the device doesn't helped. Within the reddit.com thread, there is a suggestion to set the date to December 3, 2017. This may re-enable app downloades from store. Also in Microsoft Answers has <a href=\"https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/mobiledevices\/forum\/mdlumia-mdapps-mdlumia600\/windows-phone-81-lumia-640-microsoft-store-error\/82e7b0cd-0991-4b3b-bf3b-621b5911b882\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this long thread<\/a> dealing this this issue. Neowin.net referes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/windows-phone-81-users-are-having-trouble-downloading-apps-from-the-store\">here<\/a> to a private Facebook group, where this topic is also under discussion. Are you affected?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]It seems that users of a Windows Phone 8.1 device are facing again a Microsoft store issue. It's not possible to downloads apps, because this fails with error 0x80070020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,2],"tags":[1293,78,4,131,658],"class_list":["post-5075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue","category-windows","tag-0x80070020","tag-app","tag-error","tag-store","tag-windows-phone-8-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}