[help] Package File Invalid? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys, this is the first time I have seen this error from the play store (Latest update as of this post)
I have tried everything I can (Google search results from 100+ sources) besides getting a new phone.
I've tried going back to stock, I've tried CM10.1, I have tried Wiping and fixing permissions in every single menu on recovery AND in the phone.
I am running the USCC Variant of the SGS3 (Almost identical to the D2VZW) I even went as far as installing an older AND New CWM/TWRP recovery.
Is there a one tick fits all method to fixing this error?
"Package File Invalid" Only happens to a few applications (Whether it is Updating OR Downloading a new app altogether.)

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So after a botched Cyanogenmod install on my AT&T GS3, I am having some issues with the stock ROM. Here's what happened: I tried to install CM using the windows installer, everything went well until the end and then I got a prompt on the phone prior to it rebooting "Root access lost, fix? Yes/No". Regardless of choice, phone would always boot back to stock ROM. Asked for some advice on the CM forum and was told KNOX was the issue. I then rooted the phone using Towelroot, and then installed Super SU. Super SU when opened for the first time said KNOX was installed, did I want to disable it, I chose YES. Re-tried CM installer, same issue, just boots back to stock ROM.
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[Q] How to manually change the camera firmware version?

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I have finally signed up today, after reading numerous threads over the last few days. My problem is that a few days ago I changed ROMs from Omega to CW10.1. After the change the camera is black, clicks repeatedly and crashes after a short while. I therefore reinstalled the Omega ROM, however the problem remained. I next used Odin to flash to a stock Samsung JB ROM. The problem remains. I am now on the standard JB Rom with a Siyah Kernel. I have wiped cache, dalvik cache and perfomed factory reset several times, all to no avail.
Checking the phone/camera firmware reveals TBEC28 for both.
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Hi XDA,
first, I greatly appreciate all the effort you are putting into this. You have made using my age-old i9300 a blessing multiple times. So thank you for that!
Now on to my problem. I have recently wiped&clean-installed the CM-13.0-20151222-NIGHTLY build and appear to have lost root-access. I did enable it in the developer options (I have tried both app and adp and "just" app access) but rootChecker ist still returning a negative result and any app using root doesn't function (titanium back-up for example). Primarily I want to use it to stop some apps from auto-starting that I hardly ever use.
I had read that when updating the ClockWorkRecovery (latest verison.. 6.0.4.7) prompts you if you want to re-enable root access (like it did when I first auto-updated from CM11 to CM13 (which obviously didn't work which is when I wiped everything and flashed the CM-13.0-20151222-NIGHTLY)). Today a new nightly came out and I thought I'd give it a shot but the checksum constantly fails from within the updater and it won't allow me to flash it claiming the download is bad (multiple downloads tried, always same result).
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Tried two times downloading update and both times got checksum error, then downloaded manually and dirty flashed in TWRP, everything went fine.
Do an error test on your hdd and power cycle your router.
If the hdd is corrupt it will corrupt data. If the routers network address translator is borked it will corrupt data.
I wish I stole my HTC M9.
The issue has appears to have resolved itself. The Update went through fine after I had tried the next day.
Is there any fix for the converting the pseudo-root back to the full root you know of?
Best,
Kidd

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I recently decided to flash CM13 on my XT1524.
First, I've unlocked the bootloader, then I've flashed TWRP, I've flashed latest CM13 nightly and latest OpenGapps (nano). All goes fine, but Play Store is not able to install/update any apps under WiFi: a notification with a progress bar appears but this ends up with error 495. All seems to works pretty good under mobile data.
A strange error. Having no time to lose, I flashed back the original firmware.
Honestly, by restoring original MM firmware I thought that all problems gone but didn't. In fact I get exactly the same problem with original ROM.
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PS: I've already tried all known methods
1- reboot
2- clear data/cache of google play store, of download manager, of google play services, of google services framework
3- remove google account
4- factory reset
5- uninstall google play store update (in reality, I have no updates to uninstall, so...)

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