Some PS4 users have been complaining about the PS4 Safe Mode loop problem where the PS4 system gets stuck in Safe mode and the users cannot get it back to normal mode. Here we will discuss about how to fix PS4 Safe Mode loop issue. When ever i try to download certain games or updates on my ps4, the downloads get stuck at 'Preparing to download.(0%) and then eventually time out. When it times it out says 'Cannot Connect to the server within the time limit' (NW-31456).
Does 'preparing to download' on the PS4 take too long for you to actually start downloading?
When my PS4 has some updates for some games, sometimes it takes ages for it to start downloading, and just says preparing to download, and slowly gets to 100%. Does that happen to you too? and if so, isn't that annoying? why can't the downloads start faster? feels like I'm on a really slow machine or something. Not to mention sometimes when you pause the updates, and then resume it goes back to saying 'Preparing to download' again... It's really frustrating.
The bigger the overall patch, the longer it takes to prepare for download. Destiny, for example, has 20+GBs in patches because you download the expansions that way. So when a new patch is released, it has to comb through all that data before it begins the download. Jan 24, 2019 PS4 Stuck On Preparing To Download SOLVED 10%,5% and 3% The soloution to an issue that many of you have been through Join our discord: https://discord.gg/wGr. Hi there, The servers are back up now. If you are still receiving the 'Servers are down for maintenance' messages when attempting to log in,. Mine was stuck at 0% then jumped to 85% and it's been going up bit by bit. It still says preparing to download though and hasn't given me a file size yet. Comment Reply Start Topic.