On OOS 3.1.3 there has been some initial speculation about getting google play services to work correctly, but many have figured out how to work around this by just clearing data etc.
However, I believe I've found a bug when downloading apps which are deemed as "Large Apps", which prompts the box saying whether you would like to download over Wifi or not.
During the download, it will freeze, and if you wait long enough, a box will pop up stating that you have background data restricted for google play and it needs it to function.
For me, on smaller apps when downloading them this does not occur.
In the screenshot attached you can see I was trying to download an app, when it got to around 90% or so, this popped up.
In my data usage -> 3 dot menu -> restrict background data are both set to off on Mobile Data and Wifi. Likewise, google play store under data usage has no restrictions either.
I have made sure that sync is all configured correctly, cleared play store/services data and cache, and the whole cache in recovery but with no result.
Can anyone else relate to this? I'm unsure how to fix it/find a (temporary) work around
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So I cut off the wake up path for a few apps when they opened Google play store for inapp purchases.
I later realised this broke it for all apps and not just the apps I cut off the wake up path to. After doing this I can no longer access any kind of in app purchases in all apps.
I degreenified Google play store instead of reattaching the wake up path. That didn't fix it, I couldn't find Google play store in the hibernated apps or anywhere to reattach the paths.
I disabled the xposed module, uninstalled greenify and this still didn't fix it, none of the apps are able to open the in app purchase window.
I know this might be a strange problem but any help would be really appreciated since the only option I see now is to wipe/flash the Rom again.
Here's an example, not all apps show an error they just get stuck in the loading screen when accessing any in app option.
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Well, tried to reinstall greenify, doesn't work now, have the donation package installed, no network problem just the Same problem as all the other apps.
I think that the only option is to wipe and reinstall the ROM. I once had a similar issue where Play Store simply vanished and Google Play Services refused to function. I did a wipe and nandroid install which solved the issue. All other attempts failed.
Greenify should have re-attached all cut-off paths before de-greenify an app.
Try removing /data/system/packages.xml (backup first!) and reboot.
WARNING: To anyone coming here with a more recent version of Android (Android 11 in my case) -
DO NOT TRY TO DELETE /data/system/packages.xml
Will effectively reset the phone and remove ALL APPS on reboot!
DO NOT TRY TO RESTORE THE OLD PACKAGES.XML FILE EITHER! Everything including SystemUI will crash and you'll have no other option than factory reset!
Hello guys
I have an old pronlem -- all the gapps I have tried(slim, pico, delta) are eating too much at all the roms ive used(purity, sultan, orion os, aosparadox, exodus)
Even amplify does not help.
What can you reccomend?
To be precise, its Google Play Services that's eating away at your battery, the recent updates have increased this threshold even more so, I'm pretty blank on how to tackle this, maybe someone else can help.
Joshwin Aranha said:
To be precise, its Google Play Services that's eating away at your battery, the recent updates have increased this threshold even more so, I'm pretty blank on how to tackle this, maybe someone else can help.
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Well, I have tried almost everything and I can't blame anyone except google for this. Peculiar thing about this is that it happens on mobile data, almost never on wifi. Mobile Radio is active half of the times. You will see google play services, gmail, google app and other google apps in battery stat.
What I have tried so far: amplify, greenify, all possible location combo, blocking alarms, wakelocks, wiping google play services, google accounts, blocking permission to google apps. Most of these things broke functionality .
Solution: Just ignore. There are various threads on google forums,xda and not even a single working solution. If someone finds it, I am keen to try that (unless it asks for my credit card).
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Well, I have tried almost everything and I can't blame anyone except google for this. Peculiar thing about this is that it happens on mobile data, almost never on wifi. Mobile Radio is active half of the times. You will see google play services, gmail, google app and other google apps in battery stat.
What I have tried so far: amplify, greenify, all possible location combo, blocking alarms, wakelocks, wiping google play services, google accounts, blocking permission to google apps. Most of these things broke functionality .
Solution: Just ignore. There are various threads on google forums,xda and not even a single working solution. If someone finds it, I am keen to try that (unless it asks for my credit card).
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Well the thing is, Google Play Services (GPS from here on out), handles literally everything that Google Apps do on your device, from Geo-Positioning (Maps) to Sync (SyncAdapter) to Emails (Gmail/Exchange) to everything. To put in view, apps that crash on our devices, give a pop up, saying "XYZ apps has stopped working" and gives us 2 options "OK" & "Report", now if you "Report" the error, you'd think the report (and device logs!) go to the developer of the app, Yes ? NO! These are sent to the Almighty Overlords at Google, aside from the data-mining issue here, this just astonished me beyond belief. So that being said, what my personal view is, Google is, like every new Android Iteration, upgrading the old apps to use the Android N-ish architecture & stuff, and maybe, just maybe that this new stuff that's being implemented is better off in Android N, and not in LP or MM. But then again, I might be horribly wrong about all of this
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Well the thing is, Google Play Services (GPS from here on out), handles literally everything that Google Apps do on your device, from Geo-Positioning (Maps) to Sync (SyncAdapter) to Emails (Gmail/Exchange) to everything. To put in view, apps that crash on our devices, give a pop up, saying "XYZ apps has stopped working" and gives us 2 options "OK" & "Report", now if you "Report" the error, you'd think the report (and device logs!) go to the developer of the app, Yes ? NO! These are sent to the Almighty Overlords at Google, aside from the data-mining issue here, this just astonished me beyond belief. So that being said, what my personal view is, Google is, like every new Android Iteration, upgrading the old apps to use the Android N-ish architecture & stuff, and maybe, just maybe that this new stuff that's being implemented is better off in Android N, and not in LP or MM. But then again, I might be horribly wrong about all of this
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Though you are right about first half (can't say much about later part, as I don't understand why it should make google services go crazy )
This problem traces back to Kitkat and probably jell bean but only thing which I do not understand is why only in mobile data ?? I don't see any of them popping up in wifi .
Just when I thought I could ignore it, it started non stop feast on mobile data. I had to stop background data for this. Damn you google.
try A-gapps, it allows battery optimization for google play services (open-gapps etc don't allow this)
it helped me to have less battery drain by google play services
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/gapps-gapps-6-0-1-minimal-t3276606
Yeah... Mine are pretty obese too
Some very weird things started happening on my phone earlier today. It's a Nexus 5X, running 8.0 Oreo, with the October security patch. I'm not rooted and I'm careful about what I install. The phone is fairly new, from this summer.
I will begin with describing what I did in the hours before this started. I can think of two things that possibly could have started it:
1) Two of my Facebook contacts sent malicious links to me an hour before. It looked like Youtube videos but was not. I did NOT open any of these links, knowing directly they were harmful (not sure if you can be affected by just receiving them, not clicking on them?). I received them in the Messenger Lite application (an official app from Facebook with scaled-down functionality).
2) A few hours before the Facebook links, I sideloaded an APK containing the new Pixel Launcher. I got the APK from Android Police/APK Mirror.
Can't attach links, but Google for: Hands-on with the updated Pixel Launcher, including the new Pixel 2 features [APK Download]
The APK was working fine and nothing seemed odd with it (I used the launcher for a few hours). As long as Android Police know what they uploaded, this shouldn't be the cause for my problems. I bet on Facebook Messenger instead. (People that click such malware links typically get their Facebook accounts hacked, however my account seems fine and my account didn't spam others with the same link. I did not change password or did anything else to "recover" my account yet).
So what happened after this on my phone?
Here is the first thing I noticed. I open Play Store to install updates. It turns out I have one update pending, it's called BankID. This is a major Swedish app used by nearly every smartphone user in the country, and it's for signing into government websites, bank websites, insurance company websites, and much more. When I click update in Play Store two things happen almost instantly:
1) Six pictures are downloaded from Messenger Lite to my phone. That makes no sense, how could clicking a button in Google Play trigger something to happen in Messenger Lite? In fact I tried it three times, with the same behavior every time. (Well, actually opening the Messenger Lite photo album, there are only photos there I already downloaded, so nothing new seems to be added there - but the photos were probably re-downloaded I believe).
2) The BankID update downloads to 100 % (the downloading takes a little longer than expected), then it halts and does nothing, i.e. it's not installing. No error message, it just stops there. I can choose to abort and try again, which I do three times or more, with exactly the same behavior.
Also, I now notice Play Protect hasn't run for two days, but when I try to run it, it seems to be down. After ~30 seconds of scanning it says "App verification temporarily down". "App verification temporarily down" could very well be connected with the halted update I just described? It still says it hasn't run for two days after this.
When I experiment, I notice other things that are very weird indeed.
1) Notifications in Gmail, Snapchat and possibly other apps aren't coming through. By opening the apps, I can sync manually.
2) When I move a file to a new folder using the Downloads app (Files app, stock one) I get a error message saying the move operation failed. This also triggered the photo notifications from Messenger Lite (same behavior as described above, with six photos). However, after a while the moved pictures are indeed in the right folder, even though the error message saying otherwise.
3) After some time I remove "app data" for the Google Play app. When I open it after that, there are now three app updates pending (e.g. Google Wifi also). But the same behavior occurs, when I try to download one or all of them, I get the Messenger photo notifications and the updates halt at 100 % without installing. So the BankID app - which could be targeted by attackers for obvious reasons - could just be a coincidence. It could have happened with any app I suppose, this was the only one pending right then. But still, why couldn't Play Store detect other pending app updates until I refreshed it the way I did? Was Play Store blocked from connecting to Google (or forced to connect to some other server, perhaps?).
What did I do after all of this?
I uninstalled three apps:
-Facebook Lite
-Facebook Messenger Lite
-Pixel Launcher APK
However the uninstall process was very odd. A process called "Package Installer" had a notification saying "Uninstalling Lite" and "Uninstalling Messenger Lite". It didn't seem to be working, it was stuck after some time. I restarted my phone and the apps seem to be gone now, at least they aren't listed in Settings --> Apps. So the uninstall process was successful I suppose, even though it didn't seem to work.
After I restarted my phone I also noticed:
-When I install Messenger Lite from Play Store now, it's easy to uninstall it the way it should be - in mere seconds.
-When I open Play Store, updates are now installing fine. Play Protect is also scanning fine now.
Everything looks back to normal now. But I'm not trusting my device. I'm gonna factory reset it. Before I do, I wonder:
-Can I feel safe the wipe would erase whatever malware I might have had on the phone?
-Is there something I could do to let us know what caused this? Upload a log here somehow?
The only piece of advice I have received as of now is: "Try restarting in safe mode, installing some AV software, and generally looking for suspicious processes." I haven't done that yet, would it still be a good thing to do? Must I install AV software before rebooting into safe mode, or could I install it directly from safe mode? (App suggestions, AV software?).
Usually I'm very careful and security-minded. I haven't had something like this happen before. So I'm very intrigued and mad about this. I'm gonna change my Google account and Facebook account passwords later on I think (I already have 2-factor authentication enabled).
One last thing: When I install Pixel Launcher on my non-rooted phone, it's not running as a system app if my understanding is correct. (At least it shouldn't be). But none the less, when I wanted to uninstall it I had to go into Settings --> Apps and tap "Show system apps" to find it in the list. Is that normal? Perhaps it doesn't mean anything, I just want to know.
Thanks for your advice in advance. Anything else to add? What should I do know? All you might have to say is appreciated.
Come on now guys, someone must be able to help?
If I factory reset the device, will it be clean? I didn't mess with custom ROMs, root, the bootloader or something else. (I suppose the bootloader is locked).
As I understand, several apps and services will "hide" their data usage under Adnroid OS. I need a way to see what exactly is using the data.
Same thing with Play services. I dont want to disable play services all together because then I lose email and find my phone functions, but.. what the heck is it doing in the background?
Surely there is an app or xposed module or something to see whats what, isnt there?
Before you say: I already have firewall installed and data permissions limited for everything I dont want running and also background data is disabled for most apps with the Marshmallow built in settings. (although some apps still report using few kilobytes leaking trough firewall and built in permission manager.. what gives?)
Sync is on, yes, but I only have google and watsapp in there + I checked it by manually syncing everything and comparing used data before and after - it was like 6kb, not megabytes.
Its not necessarily a huge data consumption from those two anyway, but I have a small data plan so every MB counts. And besides, even if my mobile data plan wasnt a problem - I still want to know whats going on.
I remember I had an old nokia with symbian OS and i got all the notifications from email, watsapp and skype and everything worked (albeit slowly becasue it wasnt a fast phone) with no phantom data usage in the background.. now if I disable background access for play services, I lose everything.
Urgent help needed adds are popping up, first shows google logo then random add pops up everywhere haven't installed any new apps like wtf what it making it show up?
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Urgent help needed adds are popping up, first shows google logo then random add pops up everywhere haven't installed any new apps like wtf what it making it show up?
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Is it by chance Google Assistant or just the Google App? Can you post a screenshot of the advertisement your seeing?
If in doubt try factory data resetting the phone. I would suggest this combined with an antivirus/malware scanner (at the very least the latter if you don't plan on factory resetting the phone). A factory data reset basically resets everything back to default and removes all your apps. Set your phone backup, install some sort of antimalware/antivirus app and then pay particular attention to what apps you install. If the issue happens again take note of what apps you installed last/recently (cuz they might be the cause).
Don't do factory reset,download Malwarebytes eecurity,u will get 1 month free,then choose "use deep scanner during full scan" from the settings,it will detect and kill the malware nd adware
Chack the apps with an "overlay permisson"
Got it fixed had running Malwarebytes and Samsung owns antivirus both got nothing, i cleaned Google cache, reset their app data, removed few apps and its gone thankfully, have no idea where it would come.
The picture attached is "Estonian language" but yeah it would close my apps and show the add when I click show recent apps shows "Google play services" and then it immediately deletes itself.