[Q] I messed up my Google Play Services - need help - Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi there, I messed up a bit
Im on CM11 M11 Snapshot, Unlocked bootloader on my SP and I caused a problem with Google Play Services, I tried to integrate the updated APK into the system partition using Titanium Backup, it froze and couldn't finish the operation and now I cant seem to get onto the Play Store to update services. Ive tried clearing data/cache for Play Store, Services, and account manager, Ive tried removing my Google account and re-adding it (Didn't work at first, but now I'm signed in) and Ive tried removing those 3 apps and then re flashing the Gapps package but there is always an error with Google Play Services and it requires an update from Play Store but it cant connect to it because of the problem Ive created with Services.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? I don't want to wipe my Data partition / do a factory reset as Ive spent the past week setting up the phone and getting all the apps back that I needed.

I have been in the same way, messed my gapps so bad that one day. The fix is easy. All you need to do is wipe the system, and then flash the gapps again. No need to wipe data.

TechnoSparks said:
I have been in the same way, messed my gapps so bad that one day. The fix is easy. All you need to do is wipe the system, and then flash the gapps again. No need to wipe data.
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Thanks for this, I didnt think to wipe system, seems so obvious now

donk165 said:
Thanks for this, I didnt think to wipe system, seems so obvious now
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Great it worked out for you!

TechnoSparks said:
I have been in the same way, messed my gapps so bad that one day. The fix is easy. All you need to do is wipe the system, and then flash the gapps again. No need to wipe data.
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Wait? What? Won't kill boot/bootloader/rom doing that?
However I've the same problem: play services (all google apps, drive, maps, youtube) stopped to work. They start but can't connect to google account.
So I tried clearing its data and cache, but nothing. I removed the account and now I can't create it anymore: it says there's a problem communicating with google servers.
Install apps from playstore site, gives a 906 error.

Raffhell said:
Wait? What? Won't kill boot/bootloader/rom doing that?
However I've the same problem: play services (all google apps, drive, maps, youtube) stopped to work. They start but can't connect to google account.
So I tried clearing its data and cache, but nothing. I removed the account and now I can't create it anymore: it says there's a problem communicating with google servers.
Install apps from playstore site, gives a 906 error.
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No, it wont kill the ROM. But beware, you will need to reflash the ROM zip and gapps.
I didn't mention it in the quoted post, but that guy understood me lel

Well, I was pretty sure. XD
I'll backup, install rom, gapps, reboot, rom update, reboot
I'm really start to hate the play services ahahah

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erase google account?

Sorry if this question has been answered before, I searched the forums but didn't find anything.
I'm selling my phone and want to remove all my info, I've tried a factory reset, but the phone still boots up into my Google account. How do I "logout"?
I haven't used the phone in quite a while: running Cyan 4.0.1 - thanks in advance
You have tried wiping from the recovery? When you do a true wipe, there is no reason it would still load your google information.
Or you can go to settings -> applications and bring it all up. Click on i think it's market or w/e, I dunno play around. Do that and clear data, it should work but a full wipe shold've wiped your google account. I don't thinky ou're doing it correctly
Just do a complete wipe and re-install the rom for good measure.

[Q] Help - Market hanging in 'starting download' status

Before we start... yes, I have searched the forums and thats why I've started this thread.
Setup: CWM, VEGAn 5.1, Titanium Backup and Root Explorer
EVERYTHING is working except for this...
I have run the market fix step by step (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=845175) and have access to the full market. I can even get all the way to initiating the download of the app. However, when the download starts, it just hangs in 'starting download...' and does nothing. It doesnt download or install, just hangs.
This seems to be a known issue with phones with no answer...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790611
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782316
I have run multiple reboots in combination with data/cache wipes using app manager and CWM. I'm sure that I'm missing something but I have no clue what it is. Help is greatly appreciated?
suavebrotha said:
Before we start... yes, I have searched the forums and thats why I've started this thread.
Setup: CWM, VEGAn 5.1, Titanium Backup and Root Explorer
EVERYTHING is working except for this...
I have run the market fix step by step (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=845175) and have access to the full market. I can even get all the way to initiating the download of the app. However, when the download starts, it just hangs in 'starting download...' and does nothing. It doesnt download or install, just hangs.
This seems to be a known issue with phones with no answer...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790611
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782316
I have run multiple reboots in combination with data/cache wipes using app manager and CWM. I'm sure that I'm missing something but I have no clue what it is. Help is greatly appreciated?
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Just had it happen on my phone. I fixed it by going into applications and clearing the data from google services framework. Then reboot...
Mine does this if I try to use it from work. The firewall allows normal web, and transparently proxies FTP so I'd think it would work, but it doesn't.
sign into google talk and all should be well... google's market depends on gtalk service - signing into gtalk should do it for you.
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On to something...
TheTruth said:
sign into google talk and all should be well... google's market depends on gtalk service - signing into gtalk should do it for you.
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Thanks for the heads up. You are right that it is dependent on GTalk, but I think I've stumbled across the main issue. When I connect to someone's else's wifi (couple of people in my apt complex have left their routers unprotected), I don't have any issues connecting to gtalk or market. So obviously, my gtab is having an issue with the connection through my network/firewall/<insert idea>, I'm assuming.
Are there any known network/firewall issues with connecting to gtalk or the market?
I'm running TnT Lite 3.1 and finally got all the apps to load up on market using the "market fix" that you tried as well, but am stuck on "starting download" as you are. Although it's possible that it has something to do with the router, I turned the firewall on my router completely off and still hangs. I wish we could figure this one out.
Just know you are not alone.
drtbar said:
I'm running TnT Lite 3.1 and finally got all the apps to load up on market using the "market fix" that you tried as well, but am stuck on "starting download" as you are. Although it's possible that it has something to do with the router, I turned the firewall on my router completely off and still hangs. I wish we could figure this one out.
Just know you are not alone.
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I don't know if this will help but I have seen that a couple times and have found that if I tap on the app that is stuck it will go back to the menu asking if you want to install like you would see when you first tried it. Say ok, it will start to download again. Seems most times it will then download.
I have in the past had apps just stay stuck. Only thing that I could ever do to fix that was to clear the data from the Google services framework, and reboot. Kind of like doing the market fix again.
Try clearing cache for the downloader. It could be there is a bad file "stuck" there that it is trying to resume...
It's even possible that there is a zero byte file there with perms wrong...happened to me once after switching ROMs
How do you sign into gtalk? Is it already installed in TnT by default? I don't see an icon for it.
Are you running a custom rom or stock. Stock has no Google Apps
TheTruth said:
sign into google talk and all should be well... google's market depends on gtalk service - signing into gtalk should do it for you.
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market, like any other google app (including talk), depends on GoogleServicesFramework
thebadfrog said:
Are you running a custom rom or stock. Stock has no Google Apps
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I'm running TnT Lite, version 3.1 I believe.
I can obviously navigate to the main page google.com/talk, but don't see a link there to install for android/gtab. If my market worked I could probably install from there, but that's the whole reason I'm messing around with talk. Still can't get my market to install anything, despite market fix, clear this, clear that, etc.
You can reinstall TnT rom without wiping data/cache. I would wipe cache. The gTalk app (Talk) should have installed with TnT lite. This will reinstall everything in the rom wothout wiping your data. You may still have to wipe data/cache but you can try it in steps
thebadfrog said:
You can reinstall TnT rom without wiping data/cache. I would wipe cache. The gTalk app (Talk) should have installed with TnT lite. This will reinstall everything in the rom wothout wiping your data. You may still have to wipe data/cache but you can try it in steps
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Ok I found talk and cannot login. Says "could not connect to server. Will retry shortly." I confirmed my internet is working as I can connect with the browser. I can also still connect to Market, find apps, but cannot get them to download. I've cleared the data in Google services framework and rebooted several times with no solution. ARGHH!!
drtbar said:
Ok I found talk and cannot login. Says "could not connect to server. Will retry shortly." I confirmed my internet is working as I can connect with the browser. I can also still connect to Market, find apps, but cannot get them to download. I've cleared the data in Google services framework and rebooted several times with no solution. ARGHH!!
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Sorry if you have already done this but....I would backup my apps and THEIR data with titanium backup and do a complete reinstall. Wipe data/ factory reset and then install the rom again. Restore your apps and their date with Titanium. Don't restore system data with Titanium.
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Sorry if you have already done this but....I would backup my apps and THEIR data with titanium backup and do a complete reinstall. Wipe data/ factory reset and then install the rom again. Restore your apps and their date with Titanium. Don't restore system data with Titanium.
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Ok will try that and get back to you. I don't really have to backup anything, will just do a wipe and reinstall. Thanks for your help.
Well chit. I downloaded the new TnT 4.1 and figured I'd give that a try.
Restarted w/ clockworkmod .08, cleared cache, cleared data, then installed TnT.
After booting back up some of the buttons weren't working, couldn't type in my wireless password, it would keep jumping to the home screen, then I couldn't shut down, power button would not turn the damn thing off.
Copied the TnT 3.1 update.zip back to the sdcard. Went into settings and did a data reset/wipe and finally it shut down.
So I restarted with clockwork mod again and wiped cache and data reset, loaded TnT 3.1 and let it boot up.
Was able to enter wireless password and get that going and confirmed the internet was working. Then went to market and or course it was not working. So did market fix, after installing titanium backup. Had to reboot a few times after force stopping google services and market, and wiping cache/data (from within settings) each time and finally all the apps showed up in market.
However, still unable to get anything to install.
Tried to login to google talk with same result.
I'm now thinking it must be something with my firewall as the first user mentioned. Going to try it on another connection and let you guys know.
I can confirm that it is something to do with my firewall. Finally tried market on another connection and it downloaded right away. Now I have to get verizon to give me a new router. DOH!
EDIT Now I can download from market just fine from my original location. It seems that once I downloaded the first time from a different location, now it is all working.
Anyone have apps that download and not install? I've been having this problem, before my memory even got low for apps so I wiped everything and reinstalled my apps and had less then half a gb of apps.
Things seemed good but today it started happening again, apps will hang in downloading or will download and not install.

Problems with Google Play Store

Hey guys,
The other day I flashed an experimental CM10.1 nightly along with the most recent stable gapps for 10.1. Everything seems to be working OK, but the Play Store doesn't load at all. I've tried various things, including different WiFi networks, but nothing works. I can load web pages in both Chrome and the stock browser, so I think it's a gapps problem.
Any ideas? Does anyone know which gapps I should flash?
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What exactly happens? Does Google Play open at all?
You can try flashing: http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-jb-20130301-signed.zip. Make sure to wipe cache and dalvik cache beforehand in recovery.
If that doesn't work, try heading to Settings>Apps>Google Play Services>Uninstall Updates, and Settings>Apps>Google Play Store>Uninstall Updates.
Good luck.
BuffMcBigHuge said:
What exactly happens? Does Google Play open at all?
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Yes, it opens, but immediately says "No Connection."
BuffMcBigHuge said:
You can try flashing: http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-jb-20130301-signed.zip. Make sure to wipe cache and dalvik cache beforehand in recovery.
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That's the zip I used originally. I didn't wipe the caches the first time, so I guess I'll try reflashing it.
BuffMcBigHuge said:
If that doesn't work, try heading to Settings>Apps>Google Play Services>Uninstall Updates, and Settings>Apps>Google Play Store>Uninstall Updates.
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I'll do that and post back with the results. Thanks for the help.
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I was able to alleviate the no connection bug by flashing the gapps package posted above after clearing cache and dalvik cache.
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I just cleared the caches and reflashed and it works perfectly.
Thanks again!
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im getting problems connecting to servers on updates. clean wipe and rollbacks did nothing. working off the newest nightly released through goo. thinking i might have to do full wipe in order to restore, and not sure if that will even fix the problem. any tips?
braggolach said:
im getting problems connecting to servers on updates. clean wipe and rollbacks did nothing. working off the newest nightly released through goo. thinking i might have to do full wipe in order to restore, and not sure if that will even fix the problem. any tips?
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first of all check your hosts file
At first I wasn't able to open the Play store at all. Reflashed with Gapps, cleared caches. Now I can open the store, but any time I try to update apps I get the error:
"Update for __________ could not be downloaded due to an error. (Error retrieving information from server. [RPC:S-5:AEC-0])"
Any ideas?
EDIT: removing my gmail account and then setting it up again along with clearing the data for google play and services seems to have done the trick.

please help can´t install apps from google play

well thats it i can´t install apps or games from play store even can´t download music from google play, I get root trough rock my moto then some problems appear (bootloop) so i dont know how to solve it and i did a factory reset then everything was ok, but i never can download any apps or get some update for the apps that i already have any ideas? I have cleared the cache partition, cache of play store, cache of google services, uninstalled those apps,force detention etc but notingh works so I hope some one can help, I have the version of Mexico xt 1058 and the firmware is 139.12.35 android 4.2.2, thanks in advance
Did it throw any error? Are you on a wifi network?
Clear all data from the play store, not just cache. If that doesn't work, restore to stock. You can back up your apps with helium or titanium backup.
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bongostl said:
Clear all data from the play store, not just cache. If that doesn't work, restore to stock. You can back up your apps with helium or titanium backup.
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Already have erased the full data of any apps from google but nothing,I cant go back to stock because the last firmware for my bootloader is an older version so i cant go to do downgrade (i think) i tried that but that only stopped the bootloop, i have downloaded an external apk of root cheker and its says i have root access
dicarli said:
Did it throw any error? Are you on a wifi network?
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Yes i am on WiFi network I can only download apps from my data plan but isn't unlimited so I really need download apps from WiFi
well I´ve faound something here... I can´t only download apps on my wifi network but on another networks I easily download apps so that indicates it´s a problem with my wifi right? x)

Accidentally uninstalled Google Services, now phone is a brick

Hello,
I wanted to uninstall Google Play, but it deleted Google Services in the process, now there's no internet connection and no signal.
How do i reinstall it? Can i flash a Gapps package on top of the system?
NewtonPL said:
Hello,
I wanted to uninstall Google Play, but it deleted Google Services in the process, now there's no internet connection and no signal.
How do i reinstall it? Can i flash a Gapps package on top of the system?
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yeap,same gapps or Do a clean flash.
NOSS8 said:
yeap,same gapps or Do a clean flash.
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tried flashing gapps, i dont know what package it was because gapps were included, so i flashed nikgapps, it fixed some errors but phone was still unusable, i decided to do a clean flash.
Sadly i can't bypass signature check without bricking my phone.

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