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[Q] 4.2 - Installing & Updating Apps no longer works

I had a very demanding week at work and during a session of mental autopilot, I allowed a friend who had updated his Nexus 7 to 4.2 - talk me through updating MY Nexus 7 to 4.2 (kernel ver. 3.1.10-g22b4fcd). This is something I would never have done without a little checking to see what kinds of problems people were having, but I wasn't thinking clearly and gambled that it wouldn't cause any major problems.
The first thing I noticed was that none of my apps would update. Every time it reports an "Error retrieving information from server. [RPC:S - 5:AEC - 0]". I then tried installing an app from the Google Play Store, and got the exact same error. This happened with several apps.
I've had mixed results installing from the Amazon App Store, with a couple successes. However, it doesn't seem to log me in automatically like it used to. At least the installs were successful.
Next, I used Android Task Manager to Stop the Google Play Store app and Clear Cache and Clear Data and then cycled the power of the Nexus 7.
No Luck. I'm still getting the "Error retrieving information from server" message whenever I try to execute an update or downloading a new install.
I sure hope I don't have to revert back to 4.1.2 because I'm going to have a hard time getting everything setup and working the way I had it.
What should I try next? I greatly appreciate any help suggested. Thanks!

Solved
I created a new account and logged into it. Then I deleted my old account and re-booted the tablet. When restarted, I added my old account and logged into it. Now the updates are working without error.
I hope this helps someone.

I'm having the same issue on 4.1.2
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Just fixed the issue by deleting my Google account and adding it again.
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Reverting back to GOOGLE PLAY 3.9.17 works, too.
Yep, that worked - just download from here and install ---> http://www.mediafire.com/?zqzgh798ybzo8b7

networkdood said:
Reverting back to GOOGLE PLAY 3.9.17 works, too.
Yep, that worked - just download from here and install ---> http://www.mediafire.com/?zqzgh798ybzo8b7
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Tried this but unable to install it, likely because I uninstalled the Google Play Store updates and it rolled itself back to 3.9.17
Removing/re-adding account didn't work either, even w/ a reboot + clearing cache/data of the Google Play Store App.
4.2

networkdood said:
Reverting back to GOOGLE PLAY 3.9.17 works, too.
Yep, that worked - just download from here and install ---> http://www.mediafire.com/?zqzgh798ybzo8b7
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Had this prob. with my SXS, THANK U!!!!!

Android market error even after factory reset?

On my GF's MT4G, her Play store started acting up so she did a factory reset and her Market wont open up. It gives her an error code. A long time ago I rooted her phone and tried getting her the old Market when they made the switch to the Play store. Could that been there reason why its giving an error code? I thought if you do a factory reset it would wipe any everything done to the phone. Its still running the stock rom BTW.

gutted said:
On my GF's MT4G, her Play store started acting up so she did a factory reset and her Market wont open up. It gives her an error code. A long time ago I rooted her phone and tried getting her the old Market when they made the switch to the Play store. Could that been there reason why its giving an error code? I thought if you do a factory reset it would wipe any everything done to the phone. Its still running the stock rom BTW.
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you didnt mention what error you are having but i posted a fix a while back for a certain error fix for playstore.maybe try this and see if it works here it is http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1887550

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you didnt mention what error you are having but i posted a fix a while back for a certain error fix for playstore.maybe try this and see if it works here it is http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1887550
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When I click on the Market app i get the "Sorry! The application Market )process com.android.vending) has stopped unexpectedly Please try again" message.

Try flashing a newer GApps file.

Have you tried going to settings>apps> play store and clearing data and cache of the app, then reboot phone? Seeing as how you are on stock rom, don't worry about trying to flash gapps, that's for aosp based roms. You can also try to search for the latest play store app in the themes and apps forum and try to install it.

I've tried downloading and installing the Play Store but still nothing. I then tried flashing cm7.2.0 (what I'm running on my MT4G) and on the first boot it asks you if you have a Google account to sign into but it doesn't evenshow up. If you click on the Play Store if asks you "you must sign into Google" but after I click ok the app it shuts down.
I flashed Blackout ICS and finally have a working Play Store.
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[Q] unfortunately, Google play store stopped

I started having problem with my Google Play Store, when i click on Play Store i get this error showing "unfortunately, google play store stopped"
when i was running stock ROM, i never got any error. i flashed my nexus7 to CM10.1, everything went well beside the google play stopped working.
i have tried every trick people been attending such ass (clearing data, force stop, factory reset, removing and adding accounts, i even tried reflashing to stock Rom)
even after flashing to stock Rom i got same error. i tried installing apk file for Google Play store but still no luck with the error.
i even tried flashing down version gapps and still shows same error.
I am running CM10.1 nightly right now
i would really appreciate for any help, this is driving me nuts
i was also wondering if i should format my Nexus7 wifi

sykox2 said:
I started having problem with my Google Play Store, when i click on Play Store i get this error showing "unfortunately, google play store stopped"
when i was running stock ROM, i never got any error. i flashed my nexus7 to CM10.1, everything went well beside the google play stopped working.
i have tried every trick people been attending such ass (clearing data, force stop, factory reset, removing and adding accounts, i even tried reflashing to stock Rom)
even after flashing to stock Rom i got same error. i tried installing apk file for Google Play store but still no luck with the error.
i even tried flashing down version gapps and still shows same error.
I am running CM10.1 nightly right now
i would really appreciate for any help, this is driving me nuts
i was also wondering if i should format my Nexus7 wifi
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Have you tried going into recovery and fixing permissions?
Sent from my "Blue" One

bigdaddy619 said:
Have you tried going into recovery and fixing permissions?
Sent from my "Blue" One
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i tried fixing permissions, but it didn't solve the problem

Man, I know this is going to sound stupid but are you using the correct version of GApps? I flash numerous roms and have numerous versions of GApps. I do IT and sometimes you just have to walk through every step if all else has already failed. Its obviously a software issue since you can do other things with the table. I hope this helps.

[Q] Problem with gaapz on 4.3

I had my Android 4.3 upgrade an hour back.
And bang Play Store stops working.
Cleared Cache on the Playstore
Checked that Download Manager is running
No use at all.
It just says "Unfortunately Google Play Store Stopped Working" .. PFA
HELP !

7thAkash said:
I had my Android 4.3 upgrade an hour back.
And bang Play Store stops working.
Cleared Cache on the Playstore
Checked that Download Manager is running
No use at all.
It just says "Unfortunately Google Play Store Stopped Working" .. PFA
HELP !
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Remove your google account, then open play store, and continue by entering your credentials again.

Not able to add google account either now
abaaaabbbb63 said:
Remove your google account, then open play store, and continue by entering your credentials again.
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This did not work out. None of my google apps were working. Nor is it allowing me add a new/existing google account. Its like someone is cutting me off from reaching google account !!!
I have uninstalled Freedom.
I am not rooted as today I got the OTA update from google.
And my wifi is working perfectly fine I am able to browse etc very well

It keeps saying
"Could not establist reliable connection"

I had hoped someone at XDA would be able to helpout

7thAkash said:
I had hoped someone at XDA would be able to helpout
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re flash a Gapps package
I used Banks Gapps 4.3 worked fine for me

7thAkash said:
I had hoped someone at XDA would be able to helpout
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7thAkash said:
I had my Android 4.3 upgrade an hour back.
And bang Play Store stops working.
Cleared Cache on the Playstore
Checked that Download Manager is running
No use at all.
It just says "Unfortunately Google Play Store Stopped Working" .. PFA
HELP !
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if possible go back to 4.2.2 and start over again or just install a custom rom and flash gapps

sujith1994 said:
if possible go back to 4.2.2 and start over again or just install a custom rom and flash gapps
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Yes that is always my last option.
I have faced this issue on 4.2.2 as well, I had solved this by stopping Freedom
This time post the OTA upgrade I lost root access, post which I could not stop freedom post which I deleted freedom and needless to say restarted the phone several times but no resolution. I am trying all kind of things on my phone before flashing it.
So let me know if you want me to try something else as well

7thAkash said:
Yes that is always my last option.
I have faced this issue on 4.2.2 as well, I had solved this by stopping Freedom
This time post the OTA upgrade I lost root access, post which I could not stop freedom post which I deleted freedom and needless to say restarted the phone several times but no resolution. I am trying all kind of things on my phone before flashing it.
So let me know if you want me to try something else as well
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Well go for the last option flash a custom ROM I would recommend pa ROM and for rooting and stuff go to this page
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2384824 my own page

[Q] HELP! Galaxy S4 on MF3 | Play Store Crash

Hey, everytime I open my Google Play Store (which I had to get from the internet) it opens for a while, until I try to download something and then is crashes. After it crashes by trying to download something and I try to re-open it, it just crashes on startup and I get a message saying "Unfortunately, Google Play Store has stopped." So this has been happening since yesterday when I used Clean Master to clear up some space on my device, I also link some apps to play using Titanium Backup (don't know if that has anything to do with it) and I attempted to uninstall Google+, and was successful also I applied a custom patch to the Play Store when it worked using lucky patcher. I searched everywhere on the internet and the only solutions i could find are:
1) Clear Play Store and Google Play Services Caches.
2) Enable Download Manager (Which I can't seem to find but I'm not entirely sure on that one so I'll post screenies)
The download manager shown in the screen cap below has no enable or disable option with it)
3) Wipe Android Device completely (Which I did and problem still persisted)
4) Re-Flash ROM. (Which I also did and the problem still continues
So, Im on a completely stock firmware and as soon as I finish going through the setup process feeling relieved I see a notification in my notification shade from the calendar app stating that Google Play Services isn't enabled or something and when I click on the notification the phone fumbles for a second and then the calendar app crashes. After a few minutes, while I was searching for answers, I got my email notifications and everything seemed to be fine. UNTIL I installed the Google Play Store once again, only to have it open and my first attempt to download an app made it crash. And now I'm back to square one. I cannot find "Download Manager" at the bottom of my application list. But I do have two applications under "D" in the App Manager, both called "Downloads".
I'm able to install APKs off the browser just by downloading and installing as normal, and my accounts seem to be working fine. Except the error in the google account "sync error" followed by a message at the bottom of the screen saying sync services are currently unavailable. I'm able to use Youtube and other apps easily without a problem. The only problem is my Play Store. And yes I've already re-cleared the cache and even just cleared the data from both play services and play store in application manager. Problem still persists.
Previous Errors:
1) Device is not provisioned data services error (Which I assume I've fixed because I don't get that error anymore)
2) Google Play Services not supported by your device. (Whenever I opened Youtube, but that doesn't appear anymore)
I'm really out of options this time, I was stumped after I factory restored with ODIN successfully and still was unable to fix my problem. Could this be a Google problem or am I screwed? Really need answers, so THANK YOU VERY MUCH in advance.
DEVICE INFORMATION:
SAMSUNG SGH-I337
ANDROID 4.2.2
BASEBAND I337UCUAMF3
OFFICIAL DEVICE STATUS
Screenies:
tinypic.com/view.php?pic=ajxl09&s=8#.U7JUJpRdWSo

UPDATE: I was also able to find my "secdownloadprovider.apk" in my system/app but when I click install is says application not installed...
P.S: If there are any files you would like me to search my device for please say so, I'm becoming really desperate.

New problem
Okay so I decided to wipe the phone once more and re-install the ROM (Which is a stock MF3 ROM that I got from XDA) and the problem still continues, I've been up all night trying to figure this out. Now apps like Google+ (Which I hade to install from the internet on my device) say that the Google Play Services on my device is not supported by my device? What does this mean? It used to happen with the newest version of youtube, now im currently using the old version of youtube which has no problem, and im pretty sure if i were to update it id get the same error. Someone pelase give me some insight. What can possibly be done?

kvdence said:
Okay so I decided to wipe the phone once more and re-install the ROM (Which is a stock MF3 ROM that I got from XDA) and the problem still continues, I've been up all night trying to figure this out. Now apps like Google+ (Which I hade to install from the internet on my device) say that the Google Play Services on my device is not supported by my device? What does this mean? It used to happen with the newest version of youtube, now im currently using the old version of youtube which has no problem, and im pretty sure if i were to update it id get the same error. Someone pelase give me some insight. What can possibly be done?
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You used all files in the full MF3 Odin? I don't know why it wouldn't work, but your only option may be updating to MK2. It's a very peculiar issue. You could also wipe data in stock recovery and then flash the Odin file to make sure it's as clear as possible.
Sent from my SGH-I337 running GPE

DeadlySin9 said:
You used all files in the full MF3 Odin? I don't know why it wouldn't work, but your only option may be updating to MK2. It's a very peculiar issue. You could also wipe data in stock recovery and then flash the Odin file to make sure it's as clear as possible.
Sent from my SGH-I337 running GPE
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FIXED IT
After much searching for the problem I gave up and decided to try reloading the stock OS once more and it worked that time... I still have no idea what caused the problem...

Similar issue
Did you ever figure out what the problem was? I'm haing a similar issue with NI1. I'm using titanium backup to restore many of my apps and don't know if it's something I'm doing there that's causing the problem to keep coming back.
I've reloaded stock rom via Safestrap at least twice. But the problem is still there. I can't be certain but i think it may have to do with the syncing of contacts or data with google.

You could always try to reflash the gapps package... If you freeze a part of the gapps package like google services framework, other apps seem to not want to work.
Links to gapps
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Google_Apps

autonomousperson said:
You could always try to reflash the gapps package... If you freeze a part of the gapps package like google services framework, other apps seem to not want to work.
Links to gapps
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Google_Apps
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Gapps package? This is the i337. There is no gapps package for the i337 on mf3 or nl1
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