Hi Guys,
Been having this problem with my Xperia Z Ultra shod with CandyKat ROM (4.4.4) ver 1.5.8 Official with inbuilt kernel.
Overall, the phone works smoothly albeit with reduced battery time. The problem that I have been facing is thus:
- From the past 2 weeks, Play Store (ver. 5.0.37, this also occurs on other lower versions too) crashes, displaying the message - Unfortunately, Google Play Store has stopped, which means I essentially cant use the Play Store.
- I go to Apps ---> Play Store ----> & Check Clear Cache & Clear Data parameters. When I click on the Play Store, everything is working well. That is... UNTIL... I update my apps, that's when the dreaded message pops up again & the Play Store refuses to start.
- Mind you, not all apps though. Some of them update but two - The Walking Dead & The Wolf Among Us, when prompted to update & which I do dutifully, the dreaded message pops up & Play Store goes comatose.
- A bit of a backgrounder on this though - I am using the awesome Xposed Framework app & I did download two modules:
KitKat SD Card Full Access: For apps to look & access external SD Card as part of the local memory.
Obb on SD: Apps that use OBB files can detect OBB files in the external SD Card. Ergo, for The Walking Dead series (S1 & S2) & The Wolf Among Us, I have transferred the Obb files to my external 64 GB SD Card & the work like a charm. Except for updating. I understand this unorthodox method from my end may be playing havoc with the Play Store update process
Play Store Fixes: I use a non-standard 292 pixels resolution, ergo this is for forcing the Play Store to perforce show all compatible apps for the Xperia Z Ultra.
Play Permissions Exposed: To check what app has access to what permissions.
Note:
The Obb on SD module has been a Godsend simply because I now have decent space in my Z Ultra's internal 12 GB memory to install more apps, which was not the case in normal scheme of things.
An interesting thing - When I reset the Play Store cache & data parameters & restart the app, all is fine. In fact when I start The Wolf Among Us & proceed to purchase the other episodes via in-app billing, I get the Play Store pop-up & purchase is successful. Of course this is not possible when the Play Store crashes.
I have reset my phone, reinstalled the CandyKat ROM from scratch, installed the apps all over & I still have this problem of Play Store crashing. Of course I am using the Xposed Installer so that could be the reason why the Play Store is going wonky. But then again the supremely awesome Xposed Installer has become something of an integral function for my phone.
Any help in solving this infernal problem is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time,
Aaron
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My phone got hang and it rebooted itself. After that, I found some of my apps are gone even it's system apps like gmail and google play! Then the internal memory suddenly become full left only few kbs.
What's goin on? Anybody can help?
I've tried to download manual these apps but when i wanted to install it, it says apps was not installed.
I am suddenly missing apps that are actually already installed in the Play Store. For instance, I have Rdio that I installed from the Play Store several weeks ago. Now, when I go to the Play Store, it doesn't show up under installed apps. In fact, it shows that I only have 20 apps installed, though when I go back to my app drawer, it shows over 150! To add, if I do a search on the app that is installed, it doesn't even show up on the search within the Play Store. It's as if the app isn't available anymore.
This is a problem because I can't get any updates on apps. It has been like this for a few days.
Help is much appreciated.
did you recently change dpi or anything? Maybe try to clear the google services and see if it resets your play store? If you did change dpi the google play store only recognizes certain DPI's its 160 for full tablet mode, 213 Phablet mode and 320 for phone mode. If im mistaken im sure someone will supplement me but ive had it where I couldnt find certain apps and either the dpi change or clearing the google services worked.
Thanks for your suggestions.
I have changed my DPI, but that was a while back--and I was able to see the apps that are now missing in the "INSTALLED" section of the Play Store. So I changed my DPI back to stock, and they are still missing.
I also did try to clear the Google Service Framework, cleared the cache in CWM, and even reflashed the ROM--still no joy.
Here's a small part of the applications missing from the Play Store (just from the first page of my app drawer):
Adobe Reader
After Focus Pro
Amazon
Amazon MP3
Amex
Amazon Appstore
Asphalt 6
Asphalt 7
Barcode Scanner
Bejeweled 2
Capital One
Chrome
Dead Trigger
Any other ideas? I'm wondering if it's thinking I'm geographically in a different place that these apps aren't available--though I'm in the US. I'm at the point where I'm pondering another ROM (I'm currently using the xXx).
test another rom, or restore a backup and test it...
although, it would be nice if the backup was a different OS version...like GB...
then you know its rom related...
good luck Sir...g
Use a file explorer/manager and go to data apps and see if the apps are still installed or listed. I am still confused myself on apps that are moved to the internal sd card as they cannot be moved to the external sd card. But if you installed the apps with an external sd card in and you have since removed the card then the apps fail to show as installed.
So basically what I am trying to say is if you switched or formatted your external sd card then the apps will disappear even though they are not physically on the external sd card.
Does any app you previously installed from the store show up in the installed apps list?
Either go to my apps in play store and uninstall and reinstall or go through root explorer or some file manager and unistall then reinstall.
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The latest release of the xXx ROM (yesterday's) seems to have fixed the issue.
UPDATE: I guess not. Same issue as before.
Anyone else been using Aptoid? I've been using it for a coupld days now and it seems to be awesome.
My only problem is it seems to have updates even when google play store doesnt. Sometimes these updates worka nd sometimes it says
"App not installed an existing package by the smae name witha conflictin signare is already installed"
I use AppMonsterPro. It saves your sd card, not the cloud, but I have a 64gb card so I always have everything on there in case I can't access cloud or play store.
So the thing is that 2 days back I transferred Asphalt 8 obb file from Sony Xperia L to my Moto E into the folder Android/obb. Everything was working fine, game was running smoothly etc etc. Now today when I tried to open the game, it said that I don't have enough space left(1.92 gb) full. I was wondering why it needs more space!
Then I tried looking into apps space and every other place but couldn't find where the damn obb file went and yet space was full. I tried deleting obb folder but it kept saying operation failed. My data was taking up only 1 mb of all storage space.
Finally, in the end I had to factory reset and then the storage became normal once again.
So can anybody tell me what might be the cause of it? Only 2 apps were installed- Superbeam and Asphalt 8.
Also, anyway not to reproduce this problem again?
If you are rooted, next time you can use TricksterMod to rescan your media:
Trickster MOD-->Tools-->Media Scanner
If you don't have root and rebooting does not helps, there are many alternatives available on play store. Though I have not tried them.
Shivam Kuchhal said:
So the thing is that 2 days back I transferred Asphalt 8 obb file from Sony Xperia L to my Moto E into the folder Android/obb. Everything was working fine, game was running smoothly etc etc. Now today when I tried to open the game, it said that I don't have enough space left(1.92 gb) full. I was wondering why it needs more space!
Then I tried looking into apps space and every other place but couldn't find where the damn obb file went and yet space was full. I tried deleting obb folder but it kept saying operation failed. My data was taking up only 1 mb of all storage space.
Finally, in the end I had to factory reset and then the storage became normal once again.
So can anybody tell me what might be the cause of it? Only 2 apps were installed- Superbeam and Asphalt 8.
Also, anyway not to reproduce this problem again?
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Not sure but it seems relevant to the game data. 'Cause you were unable to delete it. IMHO, transferring game files from one device to another is not a sure shot process. I've experienced many issues with that. It is time and bandwidth consuming but you should prefer to re-downloading the game data.
If this isn't the right place - please move the message. I figured it's a more general topic.
To summarize: games which I previously installed "unofficially", liked, decided to buy and support the devs - don't install from the Play Store.
There are two games which I downloaded from third-party sites to try out, loved them and decided to buy them.
Both of them - whenever I try to install them, the download seemingly goes through, reaches 100%, I get a popup saying "Can't install X, Try again and if it still doesn't work, see common...".
The games do appear on the phone and I can run them, but they both getting stuck at loading.
Researching some more, I found out that their OBB's are missing, which I know they should have since I installed them manually before.
I obviously tried uninstalling and reinstalling (both in the refund period and after it passed), clearing the phone's caches using TWRP and SDMaid, clearing Play Store's data, searching my entire phone (including root sections) for leftover files - still can't resolve it.
Other games install and run correctly, OBBs are downloaded - just not for these two.
I also tried different networks (4g as well as WiFi), installing using the Play Games app, and the games do appear and install on other devices with Family Library.
First time I meet this behavior, thought I'd ask.
Morally speaking, yeah, I gave the games a go, was impressed, bought them, supported devs, waited out the refund period - so yeah, I'm left with a technical, not a moral issue.
EDIT: I was able to get both running by installing them on another device I own, sending the OBB file to myself, backing up the game files and data using TiBa and restoring them on my device.
No idea if the game will update, but the same error appears when I try to uninstall and reinstall via Play Store.
@munky-head
All apps (root or not) have a default data directory, which is /data/data/<package_name>
That's how I would do it - in order to not lose app's data
Save data related to apps in question to PC or phone's external sd-card
Uninstall the apps in question
Clear Android's system cache
Clear Google Play Store's cache
Install the apps in questions from Google Play Store
Restore the apps' related data
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@munky-head
All apps (root or not) have a default data directory, which is /data/data/<package_name>
That's how I would do it - in order to not lose app's data
Save data related to apps in question to PC or phone's external sd-card
Uninstall the apps in question
Clear Android's system cache
Clear Google Play Store's cache
Install the apps in questions from Google Play Store
Restore the apps' related data
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Thanks for replying.
Basically, I did the said process, just using TiBa.
Installing from the Store still fails, which is weird, and slightly worrying.
Either way, I paid for both, and own them both on PC, so developers weren't wronged ?