My Verizon Sony Xperia Play (R800x) mentions about twice a day how it wants to check for an update, and that it can only update over 3G, so it will now turn off Wifi, etc. Now, when it finally does check, it will either:
- Check forever, or
- Say that no update is available
The update history also shows that there has never been a software update done on the phone, and the Android version is still 2.3.2. What gives?
I have a verizon version. I'm getting the same notification, but no update available. I have tried to use sony update service and over the 3G still get no update available.
happened to me twice, turned off wifi went in and manually checked says no update and if u look at info says failed. but now i dont get the popup anymore..
Same here, I had assumed it was an update for vcast or one of the many apps that we can download games from updating the games that are available
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Just got the 2014 and have been hearing about an update right out of the box - but I haven't seen anything.
My build number is P600UEUAMIE
Any thoughts?
It is being rolled out now. I'm not sure of the selection process but you don't have to do anything. The device will notify you once it receives notice. After that, just accept or delay it.
There has been 2 updates now. Just make sure you're connected to the wifis and it should come to you. Also you can go to system settings and check for updates yourself.
Gasaraki- said:
There has been 2 updates now. Just make sure you're connected to the wifis and it should come to you. Also you can go to system settings and check for updates yourself.
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It's been connected to wifi since the moment I turned it on and I've checked for updates manually as well.
Is there something else I should do?
I have now for the second time the problem that I have many little data roaming connections while abroad, despite data roaming is deactivated in Android. They are so small (always exactly 30 kB, which seems to be the smallest quantity my provider is billing) that it's virtually impossible to produce them with normal traffic. I always have much larger data connections, even without using my phone (at least 100kB up to 1MB and even more if I use it, of course). In this case I had 9 of those connections while little more than 24h. Last time when I had this problem half a year ago, I had those connections for an entire week with the same frequency (~10 per day).
In both incidents there was an OTA update available for the Nexus 4. This time I received the update notification at some point during my stay abroad. I had wifi connection most of the time, so I assume the update was downloaded using the wifi connection (the roaming traffic is too small for the update by far). I did not install the update until I returned back home. Last time my phone wasn't able to download the OTA update, since I had a custom rom installed at that time. It is possible that it tried downloading the OTA update for the entire stay back then (and even before and after - I noticed increased traffic over normal mobile internet at home). I switched back to the stock rom a while ago and thus was now able again to receive official OTA updates.
This time I was staying for 8 days in Chile, last time was around one week of Italy. My provider is Orange Switzerland.
What can be the cause of this? I am absolutely certain that data roaming was disabled in Android both times. Could it be that Android somehow bypasses the disabled roaming when checking for OTA updates? But it would have to do it when already knowing there is an update, so what's the point of doing this? Or could it be a provider initiated connection to notify the phone of the update? What can I do to prevent this from happening in future?
Thanks for any input!
Martin
Are you disabling mobile data and roaming or just roaming?
You could also try deleting or changing your default apn to prevent this from happening.
When I travel outside of Canada, I do not incurr any roaming charges when I turn off mobile data and roaming,
Thanks for the reply. I just disabled data roaming. I am abroad quite a lot, apart from these two incidents I never had any unexpected roaming charges. It must be somehow connected to the OTA update.
I will try disabling mobile data next time, maybe also disabling updates. But I also would like to understand how this can happen. Would it actually be possible that my provider initiates data connections to push the update notification? On the other hand my phone doesn't make those connections all the time, so it cannot just be the regular checking for updates. If it just received the notification via wifi, it would have downloaded the update via wifi immediately. So there must be some kind of mechanism I do not understand.
I also noticed that some of those roaming data connections occurred during the night, when I actually had wifi in the hotel for sure. This doesn't make any sense to me at all...
I don't want to take a chance so I disable all data connections, including roaming, as well as sync, software and app updates, and anything else I can think of that might try to access the data network.
Disabling sync etc. is not an option, since I want to use it via wifi. Besides, this must be either a bug in the Android update mechanism (which is persistent over some versions apparently) or my provider is doing something stupid. In the first case I would like to inform the devs, in the second case I won't pay for the data roaming, since I wouldn't be responsible for it.
Any ideas how to find out which one is true? Is here by chance anyone who either
a) has received a bill with many very small data roaming connections despite roaming was disabled while an OTA update was rolled out, or
b) was on the contrary abroad while the OTA update was rolled out and received the update notification via wifi, and has not seen any such roaming connections on the bill?
Thank you very much!
Wow, I can't even imagine worrying about overages and roaming charges... T-Mobile FTW!
Which custom ROM are you running? If it's not stock, there shouldn't be anything that has to do with an OTA, unless that functionality is not removed for some odd reason. Does the data usage utility show any useful information?
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Which custom ROM are you running?
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I am on stock right now. During the first incident I ran some stock ROM, but I no longer remember which one. The data usage shows me Android OS would have transferred a 15.65 KB.
Edit: T-Mobile has no roaming charges if you are outside the US?
Have the same problem. Just one week ago I was on holiday. They also charged me twice for a 30 KB connection on different days (Orange Swizerland). I first thought it's maybe because I installed a custom rom but it also happened to my brother whose phone is 100% stock.
Did you found a solution?
Regards
Interesting. So it is an Orange problem after all...
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Did you found a solution?
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Not really. I now disabled the OTA update service (using the disable service app), so this cannot happen any more (I believe). Also I will switch to another provider at the end of this month, so if Orange is doing something strange, I will no longer be affected.
Same thing happened to me this month on my Nexus 6P on android 7.1
It used between 0.00mb and 0.04 mb (according to my data usage logs from the telephone company) (Telus)
Any other person figured out how this could happen and what's the solution?
had this last month. On Oreo 8.1 Stock + root Essential Phone (see here for details) https://forum.xda-developers.com/essential-phone/help/data-roaming-charges-despite-disabled-t3796715
Anybody has an idea?
Hi, I am not sure if that's mean my tablet has problem, I keep getting the message "Network coverage is currently poor. Please move to a location with better coverage to continue." even when I am standing right next to the wifi router. I understand that there is currently no update, but before the message that says no update will pop up, not the one I am having now.
Thanks
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Hi, I am not sure if that's mean my tablet has problem, I keep getting the message "Network coverage is currently poor. Please move to a location with better coverage to continue." even when I am standing right next to the wifi router. I understand that there is currently no update, but before the message that says no update will pop up, not the one I am having now.
Thanks
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Tablet is fine.
Acer closed down their update servers several months ago. Depending on what version operating system you have, depends on what silly message you receive.
Acer didn't just close down their update servers for the 500, but for all tablets it seems.
Hello! My model # is SM-G935V running Android 6.0.1 on VZW. Security patch is July 1st, 2016
For a while now, I've had issues with internet connectivity. I'll be connected to a wifi network or mobile data with a very strong connection and I'll get the Google blurb at the bottom of the screen saying "no internet connection".
In addition to this, Facebook (running the latest version of the app) often gives me a "can't connect right now" in the same case, and this happens often.
Now lately, when I say "OK Google" and ask it a question, it also says I'm offline.
In addition to this, (Not sure if unrelated or not) Spotify often doesn't play the next song without me going back to the app or pressing pause/play. I'm running the latest edition of everything.
This is very frustrating and I feel like I can hardly use my phone to the best of its ability.
Thanks!
sometimes I have the same problem, I think it´s problem from my brand, I´ll go there today to see what´s going on with there signal if they are the problem...
Do You use any build.prop tweaks? I used to and had same problems. If You don't then maybe try to backup Your data and reflash a stock rom with odin from sammobile. Oh. And every time You flash a new rom through odin, to make sure that it will do a clean flash, factory reset Your device and then flash it. This way it will be clean.