Despite all the advantages of the platform Android, which we will not enumerate here, this operating system has some flaws. Some of them - is the emergence of a number of mistakes when you try to download an application from the Google Play Store. We continue to consider options for addressing errors with different codes that pop up during boot and application updates. Error 101 in Google Play - a very old and pretty podnadoevshy bug to which experts from Google for some unknown reason his hands still had not arrived. The error is so ancient that appears on phones that were released a few years ago and are running older versions of the platform Android (4.0 and above). You can see it when you try to download applications such as Facebook, Viber, WhatsApp, Skype from Google Play. You get a message on the abolition download and comment: "Failed to download the application because of an error 101)."
It is an unfortunate misunderstanding can be resolved fairly easily, as well as other errors with the already known to us from the digital codes. If your Android-powered device "pleased" you 101 error message, try the following steps:
Method 1
1. Go to Menu -> Settings -> Applications -> Application Manager -> Google Play Market.
2. You'll see two fields - "Clear Cache" and "Clear Data". Select both alternately.
3. Return to the menu and reboot the device.
Now try again to download or update the application from the Google Play Store. Most likely. the problem of the error 101 is finished. If the bug is still here, and download the app again, you can not have to remove your account Google, as then add it back.
Method 2
1. Go to Menu -> Settings -> Account.
Error 101 at Google Play: «Unable to download the application because of an error 101"
2. Select a Google account and delete your account.
3. Re-enter your account information to Google.
Now try again to download the app or to get updates. Most probably you will not solve the problem with an error 101.