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Google Now screwed after update?

Yesterday I got a Google Now update to show the Sport Teams and Public Alerts. Somehow the update screwed my Weather reporting. When I open Now, I get the ususal Weather card with proper weather in Montreal:
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When I tap on it, instead of showing me the current location, it displays Washington DC? WTF
I remember that previously, it used to redirect me to a google.ca URL and now it goes stright to a google.com URL:
Also, when I search for something on Google Now, the search results are stuck at the bottom, instead of scrolling all the way up like they used to:
Reverting back to old version solves all problems:
Not happy at all. I did a factory reset of the tablet, hoping it will solve the issues, nada, nicht, niet. I also reset the Chrome and Search apps by removing their cache and other stored data. Anyone knows how to fix this? Apparently, to properly report the weather location, the URL needs to go to google.ca instead of google.com one. I would appreciate some help with this issue, thank you guys.

OK, more updates on this issue. The ONLY way I was able to disable the Chrome setting that pushes the verification to google.com (instead of google.ca) was by disabling my US VPN connection, then resetting both Chrome and Google Search apps. Now I have an option in Google Search > Privacy & accounts > Search on google.com:
Still, I'm not more advanced... Now the weather is reported from Quebec city, instead of Washington, heh. No Montreal love... and is such great city:
Apparently, this is ongoing for a while and no developers reported a fix to the Google Now bug.
Does anyone knows where Google Chrome user profile is stored on the tablet?

Idk what's wrong with yours but I use mine everyday and haven't had a single issue with it. Just go into apps and clear there data for chrome and see if that helps
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mixalot2008 said:
Idk what's wrong with yours but I use mine everyday and haven't had a single issue with it. Just go into apps and clear there data for chrome and see if that helps
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I guess you missed the part where I cleared the cache several times and also formatted the tablet entirely, ehh?
Are you using precise location?

Yeah I'm using the where I am option. I don't know why yours isn't working. Are you in or outside of the us?
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I'm in Montreal Canada. There are other people in States who have the same problem:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35465
I noticed that on my Galaxy Nexus phone I did not have the Precise Location dot marked as blue... and it asked me to "Use Precise Location". As soon I did that, my phone started to report wrong locations also. The card is correct, but Google Chrome is not... now both on my phone and tablet.

Yeah I have no idea I just did one by asking how's the weather and I works fine. Is your GPS enabled?
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Mine is fine too. Looks like you got to reflash the stock rom or whatever rom you were using
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Guys, did you actually read my post? I'm on stock ROM and I did a factory reset, as well many app resets.
I have no idea how else you want me to put it... obviously everything is stock with all default options enabled.

[Q] New S4 19500 Dose not allow to install ANYTHING

Hello friends,
I've just brought a brand NEW S4, and I was using it for 2 weeks now, but because of work, I did not had the time to use it for anything besides phone calls. Now when I have some free time, I've decided to install some apps and games from Play Store on it.
And here lies the problem; I can not download anything from Play Store, or from Chrome or regular browser on my phone, I always get an error. That's a big problem, but it's not the only problem. For last 3 or 4 days I'm getting the unusually amount of lag, fallowed by "process system is closed".
What can I do? I've wiped the data from play store and from Chrome, but with no effect.
Note, that my phone is not rooted, and I've did not installed anything from "unknown sources" I've just used the phone as it was, right out of the box.
So what are my options? Can this somehow be fixed, or is the "trip" to the repair shop, my only option?
Thanks.

Bucika said:
Hello friends,
I've just brought a brand NEW S4, and I was using it for 2 weeks now, but because of work, I did not had the time to use it for anything besides phone calls. Now when I have some free time, I've decided to install some apps and games from Play Store on it.
And here lies the problem; I can not download anything from Play Store, or from Chrome or regular browser on my phone, I always get an error. That's a big problem, but it's not the only problem. For last 3 or 4 days I'm getting the unusually amount of lag, fallowed by "process system is closed".
What can I do? I've wiped the data from play store and from Chrome, but with no effect.
Note, that my phone is not rooted, and I've did not installed anything from "unknown sources" I've just used the phone as it was, right out of the box.
So what are my options? Can this somehow be fixed, or is the "trip" to the repair shop, my only option?
Thanks.
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You might want to let us know what the error message is?

Bucika said:
Hello friends,
I've just brought a brand NEW S4, and I was using it for 2 weeks now, but because of work, I did not had the time to use it for anything besides phone calls. Now when I have some free time, I've decided to install some apps and games from Play Store on it.
And here lies the problem; I can not download anything from Play Store, or from Chrome or regular browser on my phone, I always get an error. That's a big problem, but it's not the only problem. For last 3 or 4 days I'm getting the unusually amount of lag, fallowed by "process system is closed".
What can I do? I've wiped the data from play store and from Chrome, but with no effect.
Note, that my phone is not rooted, and I've did not installed anything from "unknown sources" I've just used the phone as it was, right out of the box.
So what are my options? Can this somehow be fixed, or is the "trip" to the repair shop, my only option?
Thanks.
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U can RESET the device and mostly all this errors will be cleared
If not post here with the will try to give u more options
Note Reset will delete all data from ur internal memory

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I always get this error.

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I always get this error.
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I'd tend to agree, try a factory reset buddy

Thanks for all your help, factory reset, did the trick!

[Q] Suspicious Activity - Microphone activated and background MMS activity. Help!

I am running a recent CM11 nightly on my Nexus 4. I have recently noticed some suspicious behavior. First, I installed a guitar tuner that I use a lot (gStrings) which would not start because it said the Microphone was being used by another app. This persisted through several reboots. I chalked it up to a bug with CM or and incompatibility with the latest Android and forgot about it.
Then, last night my prepaid balance lapsed and immediately I started receiving messages saying "Your MMS message could not be delivered. Insufficient prepaid balance." The problem is that I very rarely send MMS and I certainly haven't sent any in recent memory.
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It could be a fluke, and the two above things may not be related, but it was enough to make me want to investigate further. I am planning on flashing back to stock just to be safe, but first I'd like some help tracking down whether or not there is an issue here or enough to believe my phone has been compromised somehow.
First I checked my logcat and noticed a few suspicious things:
I see several cancelNotification messages from MMS:App and several composemessageactivity calls from PackageManager. Here are a few from a time I wasn't sending any messages at all:
Code:
12-22 13:47:28.333 I/PackageManager(685): Adding preferred activity ComponentInfo{com.android.mms/com.android.mms.ui.ComposeMessageActivity} for user 0 :
12-22 13:47:28.373 I/PackageManager(685): Scheme: "mms"
12-22 13:47:28.373 I/PackageManager(685): Adding preferred activity ComponentInfo{com.android.mms/com.android.mms.ui.ComposeMessageActivity} for user 0 :
12-22 13:47:28.454 I/PackageManager(685): Scheme: "mmsto"
12-22 13:47:28.454 I/PackageManager(685): Adding preferred activity ComponentInfo
I also see calls to an MMS notification sound that I've never heard before. I also don't know what AwesomePlayer is (something built in to Android?):
Code:
12-22 15:39:34.304 D/AwesomePlayer(208): printFileName fd(44) -> /system/media/audio/notifications/F1_New_MMS.ogg
I pulled my mmssms.db from the phone and looked through it and didn't see anything that jumped out at me, but I admit I don't really know what I'm looking at.
Next I checked what apps have permissions for sending messages and didn't notice anything unusual. Google Voice and Twitter are the only user apps listed with access when I checked with xPrivacy (xPosed plugin). F-Secure App Permissions also show Twist, Google Search, Hangouts, and Google Play. But it looks like from the logcat the stock mms app is being called, so maybe something malicious wouldn't show up here?
I have not installed any apps I would consider "shady" and have never touched any pirated apps, but I do have a few installed from outside the play market. These are:
AdAway
dSploit
xPosed Installer
xPrivacy (xposed plugin)
Here is a complete list of apps installed on my device: http://snippi.com/s/uh08y66
I downloaded Webroot and AVG antivirus and ran scans. AVG flagged dSploit as a "potentially unwanted program" and warned that my device is rooted and I have 3rd party app installs allowed.
Is the above evidence enough to believe my phone is compromised or is there another possible explanation for the MMS activity? Like does T-Mobile maybe use some component of MMS to keep in communication with towers, etc?
Any ideas what else I can look at to try to get to the bottom of this before I flash back to stock?

You that reddit guy form /r/android ?
My adivce. FULL CLEAN WIPE.
flash a stock 4.4.2 image.

Qwerty123 \m/ said:
You that reddit guy form /r/android ?
My adivce. FULL CLEAN WIPE.
flash a stock 4.4.2 image.
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Yea same guy. I'm definitely going to wipe it. The reason I installed CM11 in the first place is because I was getting interested and trying to learn more about security - so I was hoping that I could gather a little more data on this and see if I could figure where I went wrong. I guess the lesson is the same one at the beginning of every spy movie: don't trust anyone. Especially the guy who says that to you.

get droidwall, firewall to block apps that don't or shouldn't access the net, I did this to block dolphin browser using my data when I wasn't aware, some apps send yourself txts, you notice this when receiving them in flight mode.
perhaps restore to an earlier backup.
I thought xposed framework had security flaws unless they fixed that, one reason why I never tried

Don't you agree to c.m statistics when you flash C.M roms now if so it collects data and has to be sent some how.
Never looked into it myself and haven't run a c.m rom for a while but it's worth looking at.
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Very Slow PX3 Android Head Unit

Hello
Couple of years ago I bought and Android HU for my Kia Rio UB.
It is a PX3 RK3188 with Android 7.1.2, Quad Core and 2 Gb of RAM.
At the very first time the HU was extremely fast. Apps installed within 1-2 secs, updates were instant and everything was very smooth. But as time passed it became slower and slower. At this time a regular app update (ex Google Maps - file size in PlayStore should be about 30Mb) could last up to 20 min to complete....
HU is not overloaded, i have only factory apps (radio, video player etc) and a few others like spotify and sygic navi...
I have also done all rom updates i found on the internet and all MCU updates as well.
I did a lot of factory resets trying to fix this issue with no success, at the very first boot it is still a very slow HU.
Is there any reason this happens? Can I do something to fix it?
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I have same problem. I dont know. I tried Clear ram .. but nothing change. Play store very slow. Programs very slow open

Somebody told me to do a clean install of the Android.
But i thought that when I do factory reset it is the same thing.
I guess he means to flash the rom from the beginning.... Not sure if it is going to work, but I have to try.

I solved the problem. I deleted the cache and all other data of the Google app and playstore app. I removed updates for the Google app. the device got pretty fast. do not google update.

I will give it a try too...
Thx

Did what you did but no significant speed change.
Maybe I will try to flash the rom again while wiping data.

Hello, i read this post and i agree with slow. Someone solved? Any tips ? Thanks in advance

I had the same issues with similar device. The workaround (working for me) was not to use google at all. So factory reset, no sign in to google account, no play store. Installed APKs manually from mirrors (I have only Waze, Here We Go and Deezer). Device is responsive again.
Device was useless with the same apps + Google Play Services.

origami_ns said:
I had the same issues with similar device. The workaround (working for me) was not to use google at all. So factory reset, no sign in to google account, no play store. Installed APKs manually from mirrors (I have only Waze, Here We Go and Deezer). Device is responsive again.
Device was useless with the same apps + Google Play Services.
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Hello, great tip and thanks for share !
I use waze and Spotify lite really well for moments but I will try disable all related to google services. I disable google maps and lots of stock apps

Hello again, i have done full factory reset, disable all gservices, store and lots of trash of not usefull apps. Then download Spotify Lite and Waze apk in a usb pendrive and installed.... works like a charm.
sometimes using DVR in record mode get reboot the unit ... i use a SD kingston special model for DVR... may i write on flash memory and not in usb.. but im happy about speed working now of radio

How can I remove the Covid-19 notifications that mysteriously appeared on my phone!?!

Running XXXNoLimits, OOS 10.3, Elemental X kernal
Did not update anything this week. Now, under settings-google there is "covid-19 notifications". Had to have been either carrier pushed or a google back door. I don't even have a google account on my phone!
Shows "on/1app" but when I push it the screen just goes dark until I hit back.
Titanium and App ops can't find it.
I keep bluetooth off and only turn location on when I need Magic Earth Maps, then turn it back off, however, the pisses me the f**k off that it has been loaded on my phone.
I have a Samsug Tab running Lineage and it is not there, but the tab is wifi only. Tried Lineage 3 times on my phone and can not get Signal messenger to work and that is a deal breaker for me.
Anyway, how do we get rid it this??

Is this the screen you are referring to, but with different info populating it?
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I don't have any Covid apps installed so for me there are no settings to turn on or off; this form of contact tracing is not yet available where I live.
The big question is what app on your phone is being detected as a contact tracing app.
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How do the notifications look like? Regular notifications? Perhaps take a screenshot when you see another one. You should be able to trace which app (or system element) is spewing out these nuisances by long pressing the notification and take more actions by tapping the gear icon top right...

@franken..... I actually don't get to that screen, but that is the right place. Checked a another Android and that is the screen it goes to, mine just goes black.
@timmmmm...haven't gotten any notifications as I don't have any covd apps.
Settings does, however show "on/1 app". I am guessing a glitch since I have leashed google w xxx, Titanium, and App Opps.
I have not done the last system update. Don't have a google account, but do have a google Fi sim card since I live overseas and it works here.
I read google pushed this out as a new setting, for those that download covid apps, blah, blah, blah.......but HOW?
And how do we get rid of it. Article I read on a UK new site said "usage and diagnostics" is where you can turn it off and on, my phone was and is set to off, but I still wanna get rid of it.

That's part of a Google Play Services update, you can't remove it.
If you don't opt-in explicitly, it should not have any effect.

Do you really want to trust that? I personally wouldnt trust anything said or done at this point. For sometime my phone's been acting weird. Note 9 completely stock. But my g7 power rooted since day one with a global variant still runs like a charm. I'd rather just remove it or better yet permanently disabled it through some exploit.

Kelynaw said:
Do you really want to trust that? I personally wouldnt trust anything said or done at this point. For sometime my phone's been acting weird. Note 9 completely stock. But my g7 power rooted since day one with a global variant still runs like a charm. I'd rather just remove it or better yet permanently disabled it through some exploit.
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What exactly do you think the phone is doing with that Covid-19 notification setting without an app to drive it? Contact tracer apps need to plug into the local health authority, and only a few places in the US are doing it because people are so suspicious of big tech. I would gladly participate but it's not available in my area.
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The only way to get rid of it is to delete Google Play Services. That's how they snuck it in. On Android Pie it's simple. Just debloat via ADB using pm list packages prompt and voila! it's gone. On Android 10 it works the same EXCEPT none of the google apps, firefox, instacart, or anything like that will WORK. So you can de-google all you want - they've baked it into everything. It's something I'm struggling with now since I was forced to upgrade.