Then - the nuclear option - I wiped my HD and started from a blank slate. I cleared out all the stuff I could and tried again.
Then I thought I had something installed on the PS3 which was causing problems. But the fact it worked even once proved that it was not file corruption. My next attempt at a fix was to move to a different account on the PS3 and try from there. And why would all installs, no matter what size fail at the same point? CRC again? (But read on for reasons I believe this not to be the case.)Īn even more alarming suggestion you will find on the web is that it is due to faulty RAM and you need a hardware fix! But I think it is also extremely unlikely, as faulty RAM would cause much more system instability than a failed install.
The only plausibility I can see in this is if 14% just happen to be the point in the install process it does a CRC check. But everywhere you go you will see people touting this BS solution, to the point where it drowns out any discussion of a correct solution. Their solution was to move to a wired connection and try again.
From forum posts, they seem to give out this bogus advice a lot.
Now, this sounded extremely unlikely to me as it would be unheard of for a download service like this not to retry or fail an errored transfer or to checksum a download for errors at the end. I rang Sony customer support and they said that the file was corrupted, perhaps by a momentary dropping of the wireless connection. And those who have claimed to solve it have done it in different ways. A cursory internet search reveals that many, many people have had this problem but that few have solved it.
I am posting this here to share my experiences and fixes for this common problem. Once it hits 14% (always 14%), it errors out with 80029564 and leaves a "corrupted data" file in your games folder. The symptoms are this : download a demo or game file bigger than a certain size from the store and try to install. The most annoying I have found is the mysterious error 80029564. Much as I love it the PS3 has its quirks, that's for sure.
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