So I've already been able to successfully install apps from the android market place. But for some reason I can no longer download any apps. Whenever I try to, it stays at "downloading" and makes no progress. I've already cleared the app data, cleared cache, and forced quit. Any suggestions?
no suggestions...
You could try reinstalling the market apk, try removing your Google account and adding it back in, or trying restoring to a backup if you have one available when it worked.
The last one is a little extreme IMO but its an option.
Didn't seem to work. Any other suggestions?
maybe this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20240542&postcount=8
XP Drivers
I have been trying for hours to get the drivers installed using the "install_drivers.bat" program. and ideas thanks
Did you put vending.apk in system files?
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Hey there guys, anyone able to download any apps from samsung apps? (I can browse the apps but not download)
or open link or hub?
Im getting nothing but just a spinning loading icon.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling samsung apps.
clearing all samsung app caches, system cache.
temp unroot
removing and re-adding samsung account,. (it fails to sync internet here too)
creating a NEW samsung id.
multiple reboots in between.
All vzw-samsung bloatware is installed and defrosted, no system files removed or altered.
uninstalled xposed-wanam-multiwindow manager,.. etc still no good.
any ideas ?
thanks!
deathshead said:
Hey there guys, anyone able to download any apps from samsung apps? (I can browse the apps but not download)
or open link or hub?
Im getting nothing but just a spinning loading icon.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling samsung apps.
clearing all samsung app caches, system cache.
temp unroot
removing and re-adding samsung account,. (it fails to sync internet here too)
creating a NEW samsung id.
multiple reboots in between.
All vzw-samsung bloatware is installed and defrosted, no system files removed or altered.
uninstalled xposed-wanam-multiwindow manager,.. etc still no good.
any ideas ?
thanks!
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SOLVED: Factory Default fixed it,
Factory default kept root, was not a big deal.
deathshead said:
SOLVED: Factory Default fixed it,
Factory default kept root, was not a big deal.
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how do you get to samsung apps? I saw it once, and then maybe I disabled it but I cant find it in turned off apps.
Hello all,
I just installed Titanium Backup because I wanted to get rid of a few bloat applications.
I removed all that I wanted which were listed on a few "safe to remove" threads, mainly some Google applications, and Samsung applications.
Now I'm getting a pop up saying "Unfortunately, Package Access Helper has stopped."
As far as I know, I didn't uninstall anything important, just some bloatware apps.
I have tried clearing the cache for it, rebooting to recovery and deleting cache there, along with dalvik cache, to no avail.
Does it matter what version of 4.4 I have, can I reinstall any version of it and should that fix it?
I can still install and uninstall apps, but the popup is just annoying.
If I can just reinstall, could anyone provide a "working" version?
Thanks,
Chris.
Ok I keep on getting the error unfortunately google play store has stopped. I have gone into the application manager and cleared cache and data then opened up again and press ok and same thing. Deleted the app and then reinstalled and again I still cannot log in. Tried going into Google Play services to uninstall updates but its greyed out and I cannot click on this.
Not sure if app Lucky Patcher is messing things up on phone? Running Versions’ 5.0.1
Any other options?
tl;dr: I uninstalled com.android.vending via adb, now re-installing it from APK isn't bringing the icon, or the functionality, back.
So today I tried to use my phone as you do, and "Application Google Play Services has stopped" was popping constantly, stacking the messages one after another, making it hard to even browse through GUI. Restart or clearing app data and app caches didn't helped. So I connected it to PC, and did:
```
adb shell
su
pm disable com.google.android.gms
```
(note: I should've tried "safe mode". But I didn't, so I don't know if it would help.)
The service disable command stopped the errors, but nothing else worked - Google Maps, GMail, even contacts stopped showing - looks like they had no proper local copy (which is concerning as well, but not really the issue I'm trying to solve).
So keeping GMS disabled is not really an option. I tried installing version 21.something and 19.something via adb, these both were constantly crashing as well. I finally went down to `com.google.android.gms_18.7.19` and that one seem to be working. But before that, I started removing services which use GMS - as I assumed the crash is probably caused not by GMS just existing, but by being used incorrectly by other things. One of the removed ones was Play Store - I did:
```
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.vending
```
Ok, so no play store. But no problem, it can be easily re-installed from apk, right? Well no. This is the issue.
I tried installing a lot of various versions, but the store just isn't popping in the menu, nor in the activities handlers:
```
# adb shell monkey -p com.android.vending 1
** No activities found to run, monkey aborted.
# adb shell am start -n com.android.vending/com.google.android.vending.activities.MainActivity
Starting: Intent { cmp=com.android.vending/com.google.android.vending.activities.MainActivity }
Error type 3
Error: Activity class {com.android.vending/com.google.android.vending.activities.MainActivity} does not exist.
```
In the "Settings" -> "Applications", the Play Store is on the list, but it is marked as "not installed". Trying to "DISABLE" it or "ENABLE" again does not do anything useful (it uninstalls the version I installed, but original is still missing).
So installing the store succeeds, it just doesn't seem to do anything. Example cmd I use for installation:
```
# adb install -r -d "com.android.vending_19.9.23-all_0_PR_309342545-81992300_minAPI16(armeabi,armeabi-v7a,mips,mips64,x86,x86_64)(nodpi).apk"
Performing Push Install
com.android.vending_19.9.23-all_0_PR_309342545-81992300_minAPI16(armeabi,armeabi-v7a,mips,mips64,x86,x86_64)(nodpi).apk: 1 file pushed, 0 skipped. 2.7 MB/s (21821561 bytes in 7.817s)
pkg: /data/local/tmp/com.android.vending_19.9.23-all_0_PR_309342545-81992300_minAPI16(armeabi,armeabi-v7a,mips,mips64,x86,x86_64)(nodpi).apk
Success
```
I tied extracting all the factory APKs from N910 stock images, but I can't easily figure out which APK stores the shop (yeah, I might try extracting them all, it's one line script after all).
Any idea what's going on, or what I should check?
Ooh..
```
adb install -r --user 0 "com.android.vending_19.9.23-all_0_PR_309342545-81992300_minAPI16(armeabi,armeabi-v7a,mips,mips64,x86,x86_64)(nodpi).apk"
```
That worked. It took me far too long to figure out.
So I uninstalled the app from "--user 0" - so from system apps, but tried to re-install it for local user instead. Turns out the Play services won't work if installed this way.
Issue solved.
I started to have exactly the same f***ing issue yesterday! I have wiped all data tried reinstalling ROM and still same errror... Why did this happen?
Does your fix corrects it forever?
I will need to try your solution. Thinking of moving to another custom ROM from almost original one.
Sadly I am getting INSTALL_FAILED_VERSION_DOWNGRADE.
What ROM do you have? Does this work only with stock ROM?
Condensing the story down for people who just want to solve constant "Application Google Play Services has stopped":
If you have this error, try downloading and installing "com.google.android.gms" APK in version "18.7.19".
You don't need to uninstall anything, you can just replace the existing package with:
```
adb install -r -d --user 0 "com.google.android.gms_18.7.19_(040300-262610125)-18719015_minAPI23(armeabi-v7a)(nodpi).apk"
```
options:
* -r will allow re-installing the package on existing installation
* -d will allow to downgrade the package if current version is newer
* --user 0 will install the package as system package, as the original package is installed this way (on Note4 stock images)
You need to find and download the proper APK file first, ofc.
I also have this problem with Google Play services constantly crashing and making phone almost unusable.
I tried clearing app cache, safe mode. Did not help. Only uninstalling updates for Google Play Services stopped constant crashes, but left about half of my apps unusable state because they relay to recent version of GMS.
I will try manually install recent working google play services .apk and see if it helps.
But how to stop automatic update of Google Play Services to the crashing one again? Automatic updates disabled everywhere, including Auto Update Google apps.
dib3ns said:
I also have this problem with Google Play services constantly crashing and making phone almost unusable.
I tried clearing app cache, safe mode. Did not help. Only uninstalling updates for Google Play Services stopped constant crashes, but left about half of my apps unusable state because they relay to recent version of GMS.
I will try manually install recent working google play services .apk and see if it helps.
But how to stop automatic update of Google Play Services to the crashing one again? Automatic updates disabled everywhere, including Auto Update Google apps.
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Seems that clearing internal storage helped, so I think update + someold settings/data files causes this issue.
Could You please specify? By clearing internal storage You mean wipe all data?
Because Nothing helps, uninstalling Play Services updates, clearing app cache and even clearing the data. Also I cannot manually install google pay services .apk file, after installing it gives me installation failed. Play store installs Play Services, but they start crashing right after that.
Galaxy Note4 910F with stock 6.0.1 Android and Magisk rooted.
The issue returned for me, and I was able to make it go away again by clearing cache & data only for few specific apps. Details here:
[Solved] Error: "Unfortunately, Google Play Services has stopped" On different Note 4 Variants!!
Getting an error on multiple Note 4 variants N910V running Modest Rom & N916K (converted to N910C) running eRobot all within the last couple of days "Unfortunately, Google Play Services has stopped" , seems like a global issue anyone knows why &...
forum.xda-developers.com
I then allowed Google Store to update everything, and the issue didn't come back. So looks like the solution from the above thread really fixed it.
Solved for me. I updated Google Play services from Play Store and appears that Google fixed the botched update by releasing new version. Hope they never botch it again and not trash my phone, but more permanent fix needed, like completely preventing unnecessary auto updates to critical Android parts.