Prevent Phonesky.apk (Google Play store) from updating? - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot

I keep flashing a custom themed version of Google Play but it keeps updating itself shortly after I install. I cannot find googleupdater.apk. I usually delete phonesky before I flash. Lucky patcher app doesn't work for it either. I am on 4.4.2. Anyone run into this before?

skrapmetal said:
I keep flashing a custom themed version of Google Play but it keeps updating itself shortly after I install. I cannot find googleupdater.apk. I usually delete phonesky before I flash. Lucky patcher app doesn't work for it either. I am on 4.4.2. Anyone run into this before?
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Did you check Google play app settings and uncheck auto update
Edit....
Just noticed lucky patcher custom patch for self update
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My problem is not with apps updating. Its with the play store itself updating. I want to stop it... don't know how. Anyone successful in this? Again, I'm on 4.4.2.

skrapmetal said:
My problem is not with apps updating. Its with the play store itself updating. I want to stop it... don't know how. Anyone successful in this? Again, I'm on 4.4.2.
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Did you read my edit about lucky patcher
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Yes... I did that. Lucky Patcher makes a phonesky.odex file that's supposedly meant to prevent an autoupdate but it still eventually auto updates phonesky.apk anyways, giving me the ugly normal play store.

skrapmetal said:
Yes... I did that. Lucky Patcher makes a phonesky.odex file that's supposedly meant to prevent an autoupdate but it still eventually auto updates phonesky.apk anyways, giving me the ugly normal play store.
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Blah. .. stupid auto update
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After some digging around, apparently Google Services Framework seems to be the culprit. They have updated it in such a way that replacing it (and vending/phonesky.apk) with an older version causes it to stop working.
If you dare clear the data from GSF, You'll be unable to sign into Google nor the play store, and the only way to fix it is to factory reset or to restore a backup if you have one. This seems to be the case only if you're on 4.4.x. JB and ICS don't have this problem for some reason because I had no issues using a modded color themed version of Google Play.
Hopefully someone will take notice and create a fix.

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Market problem

Hello guys I'm trying to install apps but it says download unsuccessful. I tried with all apps gives me a same message. Anyone experiencing this?
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it happened to me like 3 times or sorta, i just restarted the phone if it doesn't work try again to dl them
Same thing is happening to me right now. Restarting the phone does not help.
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wow this is not good i wonder whats wrong
just restarted my phone still didnt work. when i download app u know how u click download it shows the status ? is not on my phone
the_ahmadzais said:
Hello guys I'm trying to install apps but it says download unsuccessful. I tried with all apps gives me a same message. Anyone experiencing this?
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where are you located? I just tried it.. Google sky map no problem
Near Toronto Canada ok
just tried again and it worked again..
im at vancouver canada
Is it working for anybody??
the_ahmadzais said:
Is it working for anybody??
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just tested it again its working here
Are you trying with the new updated market?
If so go into settings>applications>manage applications>market
Then click uninstall updates. Then try. Your market will update itself again and should be fine.. this worked for me anyway!
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Worked like charm thanks alot
sspicer said:
Are you trying with the new updated market?
If so go into settings>applications>manage applications>market
Then click uninstall updates. Then try. Your market will update itself again and should be fine.. this worked for me anyway!
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I have the old version running. Did not see the need to get the new one.
sspicer said:
Are you trying with the new updated market?
If so go into settings>applications>manage applications>market
Then click uninstall updates. Then try. Your market will update itself again and should be fine.. this worked for me anyway!
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Thanks, Man! Worked like a charm.
This was driving me nuts and I did not want to factory reset the phone.
Just to share, I encounter my download list blank when I enter the market this morning.
So I uninstall the update and enter the market again, I stay there for a while to browse through the different apps then later, it log out by itself and the market icons on my home page update to the new icon by itself.
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the new market looks really screwy, at first i was stuck at the "starting download" screen and it won't download, so i did as you advise w/ the uninstall update trick
now i downloaded and installed the app, but now in the market it's stuck at the installing screen
sspicer said:
Are you trying with the new updated market?
If so go into settings>applications>manage applications>market
Then click uninstall updates. Then try. Your market will update itself again and should be fine.. this worked for me anyway!
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thanks this worked for me
but do you know what causes the issue?? I couldn't figure it out.
I did encounter download problem as most of the apps I tried to install were not successful so I uninstall the market updates by accessing the application menu and uninstall the updates.
After that, I have no problem downloading the updates or installing it but the market seems not updating it to the new version even though I left it for a while but I guess Google might be sorting out the new market issues.
hmm... I just tried to update something and it was unsuccessful. It worked fine until today.
Tried to download a different app then the updating one, same thing.
Tried your way, but there's no "uninstall updates" when I tick on Market. I can only clear the cache, and that doesn't help. So, what gives?
Its annoying because its done it three times for me!!
Ive uninstalled the updates and its turned back to stock 1.6 market, then it works, then the market updates itself to the 2.1 icons and it still works ok, but after a few days it stops workinga gain!
Really hacking me off!
I'm still trying it out... Started to download the Weather channel app (first app I found). It DL-ed 2% (around 10KB), then stopped saying Download paused, now it resumed to 51KB and it's paused again!
I mean, seriously?
What is going on?
EDIT: It's reachead 95KB. Since I don't have a network issue, I'll assume that the Market is lagging (at least here).
EDIT2: It reached 1,07 MB.
EDIT3: Installing.
So, in conclusion, the Market is lagging, bigtime
EDIT4: Still doesn't want to update the 2 apps that require updating

S health and xposed

running galaxy s5 here on rogers G900W8 all info in my signature.
rooted with twrp recovery installed ,
when I install Xposed framework and reboot my S Health app crashes " unfortunately S health has stopped"
I don't have any moduals installed , I think another post back in this thread said it had to do with the multi window but mine is off and nothing enabled on it. I attached my logs not much there but I have also uninstalled s health app cleared data and reinstalled it and xposed a few times to no avail
someone reported it had to do with the multi window but I don't use that feature and never turned it on.
just trying to make it so I am able to use an xposed or wanam and still be able to use s health without it crashing.
ex-28 said:
running galaxy s5 here on rogers G900W8 all info in my signature.
rooted with twrp recovery installed ,
when I install Xposed framework and reboot my S Health app crashes " unfortunately S health has stopped"
I don't have any moduals installed , I think another post back in this thread said it had to do with the multi window but mine is off and nothing enabled on it. I attached my logs not much there but I have also uninstalled s health app cleared data and reinstalled it and xposed a few times to no avail
someone reported it had to do with the multi window but I don't use that feature and never turned it on.
just trying to make it so I am able to use an xposed or wanam and still be able to use s health without it crashing.
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Mine does the same. S Health crashes and does not work at all. No heart beat monitor for me. The only way to get S health back is to uninstall xposed then restore a backup and reinstall S Health
jawmail said:
Mine does the same. S Health crashes and does not work at all. No heart beat monitor for me. The only way to get S health back is to uninstall xposed then restore a backup and reinstall S Health
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ok so its not just me , I need to figure out how to correct this I really need xposed.
I asked the same q on another thread , response was the following . but I don't understand it , as I don't use multi window at all hoping and preying someone else comes along to shed some light on this matter.
@rovo89
It seems that this module still tries to activate itself by manipulating the modules.list with root permissions. I just installed it myself and indeed that happened. I wasn't asked, not even informed, and it wasn't reflected in the Xposed UI. So it's basically operating like a root kit. That's especially bad when users suspect a bug in the framework because they seemingly didn't have any active modules.
Please solve this bug (or feature) as soon as possible. You can open the Xposed Installer directly in the modules section, but manipulating its files is not acceptable.
FYI, on my stock AT&T S5 I had S Health "go bad" a little bit, finishing building a Samsung ID and updating it from their store fixed it.
Don't know if that helps or not, just a data point.
ex-28 said:
ok so its not just me , I need to figure out how to correct this I really need xposed.
I asked the same q on another thread , response was the following . but I don't understand it , as I don't use multi window at all hoping and preying someone else comes along to shed some light on this matter.
rovo89
It seems that this module still tries to activate itself by manipulating the modules.list with root permissions. I just installed it myself and indeed that happened. I wasn't asked, not even informed, and it wasn't reflected in the Xposed UI. So it's basically operating like a root kit. That's especially bad when users suspect a bug in the framework because they seemingly didn't have any active modules.
Please solve this bug (or feature) as soon as possible. You can open the Xposed Installer directly in the modules section, but manipulating its files is not acceptable.
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You forgot to use the @ to mention @rovo89.
Good to hear I'm not the only one either. S Health stopped opening from the exact same steps as OP.
I tried disabling and enabling the app, re-downloading the updates from Samsung but that didn't fix it.
Any information on why S Health crashes would be helpful.
Have you tried uninstalling the updates for s health? I'm stuck with the g900a for now so i don't have xposed yet, but when s health updated it would constantly error out until i got rid of the update.
Greycloak42 said:
Have you tried uninstalling the updates for s health? I'm stuck with the g900a for now so i don't have xposed yet, but when s health updated it would constantly error out until i got rid of the update.
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I used TitaniumBackup to merge the update into the system. It didn't like that, caused my wifi to go haywire.
Moving the health app out to a user app fixed it though.
jawmail said:
Mine does the same. S Health crashes and does not work at all. No heart beat monitor for me. The only way to get S health back is to uninstall xposed then restore a backup and reinstall S Health
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Xeio said:
I used TitaniumBackup to merge the update into the system. It didn't like that, caused my wifi to go haywire.
Moving the health app out to a user app fixed it though.
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so you have s health running with xposed or wanam installed ?
i did not install Xposed framework but root the phone, after that the S health stopped running and popped up a failure notice, it might be due to root, I guess.
siyue78 said:
i did not install Xposed framework but root the phone, after that the S health stopped running and popped up a failure notice, it might be due to root, I guess.
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I don't think root is the problem , as my phone and many others arerooted with twrp installed and shealth was working 100 % something to do with the xposed and / or wanam
divineiniquity said:
Good to hear I'm not the only one either. S Health stopped opening from the exact same steps as OP.
I tried disabling and enabling the app, re-downloading the updates from Samsung but that didn't fix it.
Any information on why S Health crashes would be helpful.
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I had the same issue after installing xposed. I had to uninstall it and then convert s health to a user app and completely uninstall it (clearing data and/or removing updates didn't work for me). Also I removed updates from HealthService. After that I install S health again from Samsung store and is working again.
S Health is bugged as hell right now though.
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mindol81 said:
I had the same issue after installing xposed. I had to uninstall it and then convert s health to a user app and completely uninstall it (clearing data and/or removing updates didn't work for me). Also I removed updates from HealthService. After that I install S health again from Samsung store and is working again.
S Health is bugged as hell right now though.
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after you reinstalled s health is it running ok now with xposed installed ? if so could you please give more details on the steps you took and it is just xposed or wanam you have
I haven't reinstall xposed yet... Getting SHealth to work again has been a pain. Better to wait for a fix.
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mindol81 said:
I haven't reinstall xposed yet... Getting SHealth to work again has been a pain. Better to wait for a fix.
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yah it took me a while to get s health working again as well , hoping for a fix soon.
Can confirm this on a Sprint S5. Rooted with chainfire autoroot and installed xposed and TWRP 2.7 and had S Health and Healthservices crashing like a drunk teenager. Uninstalled xposed and rebooted, S health now works. Guess I have to sit through Youtube ads for a while.
Ahh... Thought the problem was only for me. Hope @rovo89 could fix it soon.
may be can help to find the problem
hi everybody, i am a noob in android ect, BUT maybe it can help you : i am on i9500 omegaV20 perseus18, i modded my phones with root explorer, i add libs, perms, framework ect, modify my build prop /SM-G900F/kltexx/jfltexx , i did a lot of upgrade in samsung app store, AND I GOT S5 APPs WORK perfect, health widget work ect all works, and i got xposed ...
so to resume : i got S5 healths WORKING perfectly with xposed. hope it can help you.
Yup I also installed a different rom all working great now
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I had the same concern, and after installing a new firmware on the SM-G900f .
I took the opportunity to not do the update shealth and securestorage..I can enjoy and wanam, Xposed
no problems with health

SuperSU binary unable to update

Im running the stock rooted ROM on my Vz note 3, no desire to use the ROM slot overlay.
I can no longer get SuperSU to update, even with installing the beta versions.
Does anyone have a fix?
Thanks
mmarcz
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Did you try flashing the latest SuperSU with Safestrap?
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Nope, I'm not using safestrap. Just running the native rooted ROM.
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Rerun towelroot, reboot then try
Just tried that man, no go. Frustrating.
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mmarcz said:
Just tried that man, no go. Frustrating.
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Use root explorer or the equivalent, go into /data/app and locate eu.chainfire.supersu.apk and if you have the pro version, locate eu.chainfire.supersu.pro.apk (there may be a "-<number>" before the ".apk) and tap on them and you should get asked if you want to install or view. Install each.
That should fix the problem.
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I did that, and it reinstalled/updated the current install, but I still cannot update. Is there a step I'm missing? I'm worried I'll need to factory reset at this point.
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I'm having the same issues. I have even tried to install different SU apps to see if I could make it happen that way. Still no luck and I've done all of the above aside from factory reset...something I DON'T want to do...
mmarcz said:
Just tried that man, no go. Frustrating.
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Your best bet is to install safestrap and flash a supersu package. Then uninstall ss if u want. Towel root is a temporary fix imo.
Check your /data/data folder and /data/app (/system/app if you've converted) and check for duplicates or what number beside package name (e.g. com.xxx.xxxx-1 or -2 and sometimes even 3 and 4. Rename it to have a -1 and then go to /data/dalvik-cache and find the same package(s), delete them and reboot. If still unsuccessful, reflash from safestrap but manually mount system b4 flashing just for the hell of it and after second boot-up (if required), you should be good. Erase any .txt or the like from sdcard and extsdcard volumes from chainfire or supersu too I almost forgot to add
Got it to finally update binaries....upgrade your SU to Beta version 2.13. Works like a charm and snappier!
Just want to say thank you to everyone who replied with great suggestions, unfortunately none of them worked. I did however stumble on a fix. I downloaded mobogenie , and when it went out to look for app updates, it had an update for superSU that the play store did not show me. I ran the updates and now we're good.
Hope this fix might help others who are stuck in the same boat.
mmarcz
mmarcz said:
Just want to say thank you to everyone who replied with great suggestions, unfortunately none of them worked. I did however stumble on a fix. I downloaded mobogenie , and when it went out to look for app updates, it had an update for superSU that the play store did not show me. I ran the updates and now we're good.
Hope this fix might help others who are stuck in the same boat.
mmarcz
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Thanks for the tip. Technology is complicated, it is weird how a random app like that will fix something.
My superSU actually works now, one day it just asked to update and it actually worked! I think that was after another fresh factory restore and towelroot.
Anyway, good luck!
Play store has a version that works fine now. Version 2.16

Titanium backup restored applications are force closing on tw lollipop

As the title says, any fix for this?
lvnatic said:
As the title says, any fix for this?
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i dont have issue regarding this. after root i restored all my apps using TB. no force close so far. accept game hacker and all xposed apps.
I have same problem!
Any fix!
Seem no one care this topic . I have the same problem
There was an issue of fc last time on kitkat. There is an app called tb restore fixer in playstore to resolve that issue. Maybe you're using an older version of tb?
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Could be, or maybe the restoration procedure is wrong. After a fresh ROM installation you can't/ shouldn't use the TB's Restore everything feature, you will have to use the restore missing apks only feature.
Just a Q , you upgraded your device from Kitkat to LP ? If so , that seems to be the issue.
Hi Y'all.
I just did the exact same thing. Restoring a KK backup on LP that is.
I've had maybe a handful of apps force close on me.
Removing and reinstalling fixes the issue.
I know - it isn't exactly what was intended, but a handful out of maybe 250 apps is still a huge time saver.
Regards
Elo.
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Newbie Update Question

Got my new phone today.
It had the most recent update ready and I installed.
I know there has been several updates recently. Would all the prior updates have already be installed on the phone or do I need to get them from somewhere.
If I recall I have to load the essential camera app from the play store
THanks for your help
If your phone says no more updates are available then everything is current.
You ca't get the Google camera app from the Play Store, you'll need to download it from the camera thread in this same section and install it yourself.
OK thanks.
balane said:
If your phone says no more updates are available then everything is current.
You ca't get the Google camera app from the Play Store, you'll need to download it from the camera thread in this same section and install it yourself.
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the stock essential camera app version is 0.1.078. If you dont have this version then you should get an update notification soon from the app store, as well as de the essential resourses app and another essential app.

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