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Force update of stock apps

I recently rooted my phone so it wiped everything and I'm back to a clean phone but I am missing updates to stock apps. I thought they would get pushed on their own but its been three days now and they haven't updated. Anyway I can force an update? I already tried clearing market cache but it didn't work.
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NubKnacker said:
I recently rooted my phone so it wiped everything and I'm back to a clean phone but I am missing updates to stock apps. I thought they would get pushed on their own but its been three days now and they haven't updated. Anyway I can force an update? I already tried clearing market cache but it didn't work.
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You mean updates like maps 5.9.0 and gmail 2.3.5? Then you'll have to wait until it's your device's turn for an autoupdate again. Basically it's rolled out in badges and it's not your turn now, maybe it'll take a few days.
Haven't heared of a way to force updates. Try signing in to Google servers, *#*#checkin#*#*, but I think that's for OS OTAs only.
Or you'll have someone send you the apks. If you have cwm recovery you can use gapp.zip from CM. Another option (root req) is to get market enabler, delete teh stock app via TB and then redownload it.

NubKnacker said:
I recently rooted my phone so it wiped everything and I'm back to a clean phone but I am missing updates to stock apps. I thought they would get pushed on their own but its been three days now and they haven't updated. Anyway I can force an update? I already tried clearing market cache but it didn't work.
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Try going to Market. It might not show Gmail under Updates, but I just opened the Gmail market page and it let me manually update to the latest version 2.3.5.

matt2053 said:
Try going to Market. It might not show Gmail under Updates, but I just opened the Gmail market page and it let me manually update to the latest version 2.3.5.
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Looking at his name I think he's German as well, we don't have access to GMail app via the market here, we have to wait for OTA updates (or use market enabler).

I'm from India.
I managed to force an update by changing my carrier using market enabler to Verizon in the USA. The market and music app updated within a minute.
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GPlay doesn't download.

Hey guys, I have this problem for a while now, Google Play says "Download Started" but it doesn't. I tried to follow every possible fix Bit still same problem. Please I need help!
The games were FIFA 14 and other EA and Gameloft's games.
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Try clearing the cache in Google play in setting, apps, Google play

jd1639 said:
Try clearing the cache in Google play in setting, apps, Google play
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I've already tried that and it doesn't work.
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TH35KULL said:
I've already tried that and it doesn't work.
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samething happened to me try to reinstall manually a new apk of google paystore..also you need google play services
for me once was the playstore and i looked for one apk file- i had old version on rom.. after installing it says updated and it work second time the google play service was missing by using playstore it installed it self

raptorddd said:
samething happened to me try to reinstall manually a new apk of google paystore..also you need google play services
for me once was the playstore and i looked for one apk file- i had old version on rom.. after installing it says updated and it work second time the google play service was missing by using playstore it installed it self
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I can download any app or game I want unless it has over 500mb... I saw that FIFA 14 was released for android and when I tried to download it was stuck...
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I've had a similar problem with stock 4.1.2 on my skyrocket (via t-mobile) and the solution I found was to shut the phone down (power down completely, not just "restart"), and then turn the phone back on. It would then connect to my wifi network and download an update from google play then lapse into the same problem...but at least this way it actually downloads and installs (even if only one program per power cycle).
Any better solutions?
Edit: Just installed CM 10.2 nightly, and I have not yet ran into this problem, I am able to install multiple apps without re-starting so far.

mrmistermr said:
I've had a similar problem with stock 4.1.2 on my skyrocket (via t-mobile) and the solution I found was to shut the phone down (power down completely, not just "restart"), and then turn the phone back on. It would then connect to my wifi network and download an update from google play then lapse into the same problem...but at least this way it actually downloads and installs (even if only one program per power cycle).
Any better solutions?
Edit: Just installed CM 10.2 nightly, and I have not yet ran into this problem, I am able to install multiple apps without re-starting so far.
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I'm now on CM 10.1 and still same problem... What do you mean with "download an update from google play then lapse into the same problem"?
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TH35KULL said:
I'm now on CM 10.1 and still same problem... What do you mean with "download an update from google play then lapse into the same problem"?
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When I power-cycled, after it booted up, without touching my phone, it would connect to my wifi and try to resume/complete any downloads from g-play. It would only successfully complete the first one, and it would still have the status/icon "downloading", but it also would complete it and install correctly too.
See if you start something in google play to download, let it try for a minute or so, then turn off your phone (shut down). Once it's shut down completely, wait 5-10 seconds, then power it back on again, leave it be for a few minutes, and see if it finished the download. I have mobile data almost always shut off, so that might be part of it as well.

Remove your gmail account from the phone, reboot and add it back.
To do this:
Go to settings, accounts, click on (your [email protected]) right where it says sync on/off click on your email and hit the menu tab on the phone and hit remove account.
This has worked for me in the past.
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Latest Google Search/Now crashes v3.1.8

Hello
I'm having a problem, I just updates Google Search via the Play Store to the new version 3.1.8. But to my disappointment, it crashes, it crashes immediately I try to open it or when I try to open Voice Search. I tried Clearing all data and reinstalling the app, but it still crashes. Please help.
Thank you

Skhulile said:
Hello
I'm having a problem, I just updates Google Search via the Play Store to the new version 3.1.8. But to my disappointment, it crashes, it crashes immediately I try to open it or when I try to open Voice Search. I tried Clearing all data and reinstalling the app, but it still crashes. Please help.
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Same here! Running XXCMC3 BY BaDaB!ng v6. I uninstalled the update and then GNow world's fine. But as soon as I reinstall the update and try to launch GNow, it force closes.
-Michael

Michael833 said:
Same here! Running XXCMC3 BY BaDaB!ng v6. I uninstalled the update and then GNow world's fine. But as soon as I reinstall the update and try to launch GNow, it force closes.
-Michael
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It's annoying. I thought I was the only one. I sent the crash report to Google. I hope they will respond with an update that fixes the problem, because I really wanna try the new features of Google Now.

Same here stock rooted.

Skhulile said:
Hello
I'm having a problem, I just updates Google Search via the Play Store to the new version 3.1.8. But to my disappointment, it crashes, it crashes immediately I try to open it or when I try to open Voice Search. I tried Clearing all data and reinstalling the app, but it still crashes. Please help.
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Just did the update and it has not messed up, tried voice also. Stock no root

Same here. Stock not rooted. Anyone had any luck yet?

shaun298 said:
Just did the update and it has not messed up, tried voice also. Stock no root
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Let me uninstall updates and try updating again.
*Edit: Still no luck, I guess I'll have to wait for a fix from Google.

Skhulile said:
Let me uninstall updates and try updating again.
*Edit: Still no luck, I guess I'll have to wait for a fix from Google.
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Just a update, it is still working fine.

shaun298 said:
Just a update, it is still working fine.
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You lucky then, I updated, and it doesn't work

Having same problem on stock device with no root.
Also noticed that Google+ doesn't work and crashes with the Google Search update. Removing the Google Search update fixes everything. Have submitted crash reports to Google for both defects.
Is there a way to only select the last update prior to Search v3.18 in the Play Store? Going back to the stock Google Search on the GN10.1 is a big step backwards.
Thanks.

apk is the only way
bunk3m said:
Having same problem on stock device with no root.
Also noticed that Google+ doesn't work and crashes with the Google Search update. Removing the Google Search update fixes everything. Have submitted crash reports to Google for both defects.
Is there a way to only select the last update prior to Search v3.18 in the Play Store? Going back to the stock Google Search on the GN10.1 is a big step backwards.
Thanks.
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I think there's no option to rollback to prior updates. The only option is to go back to the stock version or Sideload the prior apk....

deeoc said:
I think there's no option to rollback to prior updates. The only option is to go back to the stock version or Sideload the prior apk....
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Understood.
As I've never done this for a Google app, could you tell me where I should search for the apk to sideload?
Thanks in advance.
B.

Yes, having this same problem here... Google Now force closes / crashes on Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (Android 4.1.2).
For this, I hope Samsung gives my good old tablet a KIT KAT.

New update today, keep crashing at startup

Magazines - > Newsstand
hugo_prado said:
New update today, keep crashing at startup
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I'm also getting force closes from the new Google Newsstand app too. I went back and side loaded an old version of the Magazines apk, but all this is making me wonder if something changed in the Play Services API and we didn't get updated. Someone above mentioned that G+ wasn't working. Mine is.
NOT WORKING & VERSION
Search 3.18
Newsstand 3.0

G+ and translate are working. The error on search is related to number conversion (its what the error report says).

Still broken with the Dec 3 update. Sigh.
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I had the same problem - not rooted, stock Note 10.1. Run KIES and there is a new Note 10.1 firmware update that fixes this problem. After the update from Samsung, Google Search and Google Plus run normally - no more blank black screens.
Also - before I updated the firmware, I tried uninstalling all updates to Search without reinstalling updates and it worked. The Samsung firmware update fixes the problem and allows all Google updates to work.

1776 said:
I had the same problem - not rooted, stock Note 10.1. Run KIES and there is a new Note 10.1 firmware update that fixes this problem. After the update from Samsung, Google Search and Google Plus run normally - no more blank black screens.
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Thanks for the workaround. I've never used KIES as I didn't want more software on my laptop. Is there another way to update this firmware without using KIES?
As of this week I've noticed that the recent update to Google+ & Google News also crashes.

bunk3m said:
Thanks for the workaround. I've never used KIES as I didn't want more software on my laptop. Is there another way to update this firmware without using KIES?
As of this week I've noticed that the recent update to Google+ & Google News also crashes.
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On web site Sammobile site there is an update for Germany (today update from Romania and some more counties) It is still 4.1.2 but Google problems solved. I have updated via Odin and now now problems
J

[Q] Play Store crashes when updating multiple apps

Hi, I have a Nexus 5, completely stock 4.4.2, never tampered
Whenever there are multiple updates in the Play Store and I press "Update", the first app updates, then the second one starts downloading,
but the download hangs at some point, then after a few seconds the entire Play Store app closes without any message.
After that I can open the Play Store again and try to update the apps, but they only update one at a time, because on the second update it always crashes.
All the Google apps are at the latest versions, Play Store has version 4.6.17. This is happening for a while now, but I can't pinpoint it to a certain version of the Play Store app, but in the past I did not have this problem.
I've tried restarting the device, clearing data and cache for the Play Store app, clearing the cached data for the entire system, even switching the runtime (btw the problem is happening on both Dalvik and ART), but nothing helped. I also have enough Available space: 4 GB as reported in Settings/Storage.
On my wife's Nexus 4, also completely stock and with updated Google apps, the problem it's not happening, so it's not something in my environment.
Did anyone else have this problem? I searched the forums but found nothing relevant.
Any advice?
Thank you.

Hello,
Clear Playstore's app data and cache and reconnect your google account as see whether the problem persists?

Already did that, I said in my post, did not help.
Can anyone provide any advice? Thanks.

andreipaval said:
Already did that, I said in my post, did not help.
Can anyone provide any advice? Thanks.
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andreipaval said:
Hi, I have a Nexus 5, completely stock 4.4.2, never tampered
Whenever there are multiple updates in the Play Store and I press "Update", the first app updates, then the second one starts downloading,
but the download hangs at some point, then after a few seconds the entire Play Store app closes without any message.
After that I can open the Play Store again and try to update the apps, but they only update one at a time, because on the second update it always crashes.
All the Google apps are at the latest versions, Play Store has version 4.6.17. This is happening for a while now, but I can't pinpoint it to a certain version of the Play Store app, but in the past I did not have this problem.
I've tried restarting the device, clearing data and cache for the Play Store app, clearing the cached data for the entire system, even switching the runtime (btw the problem is happening on both Dalvik and ART), but nothing helped. I also have enough Available space: 4 GB as reported in Settings/Storage.
On my wife's Nexus 4, also completely stock and with updated Google apps, the problem it's not happening, so it's not something in my environment.
Did anyone else have this problem? I searched the forums but found nothing relevant.
Any advice?
Thank you.
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Hi
I have the exact same problem on my galaxy note 3 so nothing to add except that I tried a little trick that allows it to finish the updates without having to restart the store. I close it immediately after the batch download starts and then it continues updating in the background. it works most of the times but not always. I really wish someone had a solution to this problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2760607

Did you by any chance ever went into the recovery and tried clearing the cache from there?

andreipaval said:
Did you by any chance ever went into the recovery and tried clearing the cache from there?
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Yes, I cleared cache and Dalvik from custom recovery. I did a lot of searching on google and XDA and I followed all the guides, including uninstalling play store updates, clear data and cache from apps manager for play store and also Google services framework and download manager but no improvement

Im in the same boat as you on this one.

paolo200 said:
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I have the exact same problem on my galaxy note 3 so nothing to add except that I tried a little trick that allows it to finish the updates without having to restart the store. I close it immediately after the batch download starts and then it continues updating in the background. it works most of the times but not always. I really wish someone had a solution to this problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2760607
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paolo200 said:
Yes, I cleared cache and Dalvik from custom recovery. I did a lot of searching on google and XDA and I followed all the guides, including uninstalling play store updates, clear data and cache from apps manager for play store and also Google services framework and download manager but no improvement
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Are you rooted? What custom recovery are you using? I myself am all stock, never rooted or anything.
And how long does it take to clear the cache from recovery? On my Nexus 5 with stock recovery it takes very long, around 5 or 10 minutes the first time I do it in succession, but it finishes succesfully. If I repeat the clearing of cache without rebooting then it takes a few seconds, like normal.
I read somewhere that it might be an issue with errors on the cache partition and that reformatting this partition might solve it, but I cannot do it from the stock recovery. Maybe if you have the option of reformatting the /cache partition in your custom recovery you should try it.
Another thing that you can do is try to catch the errors with logcat, if you have root you can use an app, I used adb to save a logcat and found some error messages related to the installing of apps but could not find how to solve them. I will post the logcat later.
If you can get a logcat maybe you can post it and we will compare the errors.

y2whisper said:
Im in the same boat as you on this one.
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Rooted? Custom recovery?
Did you try to clear cache from recovery? How long does it take?

andreipaval said:
Are you rooted? What custom recovery are you using? I myself am all stock, never rooted or anything.
And how long does it take to clear the cache from recovery? On my Nexus 5 with stock recovery it takes very long, around 5 or 10 minutes the first time I do it in succession, but it finishes succesfully. If I repeat the clearing of cache without rebooting then it takes a few seconds, like normal.
I read somewhere that it might be an issue with errors on the cache partition and that reformatting this partition might solve it, but I cannot do it from the stock recovery. Maybe if you have the option of reformatting the /cache partition in your custom recovery you should try it.
Another thing that you can do is try to catch the errors with logcat, if you have root you can use an app, I used adb to save a logcat and found some error messages related to the installing of apps but could not find how to solve them. I will post the logcat later.
If you can get a logcat maybe you can post it and we will compare the errors.
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Yes I am rooted using CWM Based Recovery 6.0.4.7 with SuperSU 1.94 and BusyBox 1.22.1-Stericson on stock Samsung firmware Android 4.4.2 NB4 unbranded
clearing the cache from CWM recovery only takes a few seconds in my case. I did not try reformatting or anything else because I don't want to risk bricking it.
I will post a logcat as soon as I know how to do it.

Yup to both. Wipe was very fast... Almost too fast in my opinion
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Might try TWRP to see if it helps
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Has anyone found the solution yet? no way to update all apps at once. this is driving me crazy especially when there are many apps to update

I'm also experiencing this behavior as well.
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I have the same issue. Stock rooted...

I don't have a nexus but I was using a google edition ported ROM for my HTC One and was having the same issue drive me nuts. I flashed the stock sense ROM back and the store works fine now. It seems like this problem is google edition devices/OS. I never found a fix though, except to enable automatic updating so it happens in the background. That worked for me

indeed the updates work fine in the background but I would really like to know what causes this issue

Those having this problem can you guys make sure you have the latest Google Play build? Latest is 4.8.20. Go to your play store, go to play store settings and at the bottom it should say 4.8.20. If your version is earlier than that, tap the build version and it should say there's a newer version and that it's installing. At that point, exit from the play store app, and give it a minute or two. Enter back into the play store app, and you repeat the steps to see that you have upgraded your play store build.
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Yes, the Play Store app is updated to the latest version. Now I already got the 4.4.3 update, but the issue is still appearing, but not everytime. I think it depends on the sizes of the updating apps, it might be something related to the cache partition. Can you guys try and clear the cache from the recovery and see how much it lasts? For me it lasts more than 5 minutes and it doesn't seem normal.
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I had the same issue on my S4. After the play store closed about 5 times today when updating apps I decided to Google it. I found someone with a similar issue, and their fix was to enable the Download Manager app, that had somehow been disabled. Mine was already enabled, but I cleared the cache from that app, and then I was able to update my remaining 5 or so apps with no crashes.
I'm not sure how permanent of a fix it is, but it's working so far. Don't know if I'll have to clear it again later or not.

Google Play Services error?

I'm getting the error in several GAPS...however, they all still work. Mostly in Google Plus and Hangouts.
"Unknown issue with Google Play Services".
I've uninstalled Google Play Services using Titanium, but it comes right back.
Using 5.1.1.
Any other tips?
Thanks,

seanvree said:
I'm getting the error in several GAPS...however, they all still work. Mostly in Google Plus and Hangouts.
"Unknown issue with Google Play Services".
I've uninstalled Google Play Services using Titanium, but it comes right back.
Using 5.1.1.
Any other tips?
Thanks,
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Are you on stock or ROM?

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Are you on stock or ROM?
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Yeah, using XtreStoLite Deo-Mod Edition 2.2 ...However, I got this error before when I was on another custom ROM. So, I don't think it's the framework.
Do you think I can just download the same APK and reinstall it using Titanium?
I've seen horror stories with doing that.

seanvree said:
Yeah, using XtreStoLite Deo-Mod Edition 2.2 ...However, I got this error before when I was on another custom ROM. So, I don't think it's the framework.
Do you think I can just download the same APK and reinstall it using Titanium?
I've seen horror stories with doing that.
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I had the same issues on the same ROM you're on. So I did a 100% clean install. Wiping cache, dalvik, system, and data. This fixed it for me

drock212 said:
I had the same issues on the same ROM you're on. So I did a 100% clean install. Wiping cache, dalvik, system, and data. This fixed it for me
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damn, seems a bit extreme.

seanvree said:
damn, seems a bit extreme.
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It was my last resort. I had cleared app data. Uninstalled and reinstalled apps being affected, cleared cache through twrp. Nothing worked except a full clean install

drock212 said:
It was my last resort. I had cleared app data. Uninstalled and reinstalled apps being affected, cleared cache through twrp. Nothing worked except a full clean install
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Ahh, okay. I'm going to try and rip out Play Services. If I do that does all my Google data go away?

seanvree said:
Ahh, okay. I'm going to try and rip out Play Services. If I do that does all my Google data go away?
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If you do that you'll get endless force closes of Google play services. Idk if your Google data would go with it (everything Google is pretty much stored on their servers so I really don't know what you would lose) but I wouldn't suggest doing this. Trying to navigate through your phone while constantly tapping OK to the message that something has force closed is extremely frustrating and difficult if not impossible.

I had the same issue 2 days ago. I'm stock rooted, btw. The problem appeared when I dirty flashed my stock rom on top of a stock rom. I didn't want to update manually cause I've already downloaded the newest firmware version. So I flashed the newest at hand or what's already in my PC. Then, I had a "google play services error" when logging in my gmail app, had a trouble signing in google now and endless loading on youtube. Did the same, cleared cache play services, guess, I got impatient and I uninstalled it, installed the 448 and 440 newest app but the same thing "google play services error" persisted. I also did the extreme, I did the full wipe and odin'd the new firmware, the problem was gone. Bump into a problem when I installed something and had to dirty flash again. Then, it happened again "google play services error" all over again.
TL;DR, lol, Long story short.
I solved it by just clearing google play services cache and uninstalled updates and let itself update again. I didn't have to flash or odin'd again..
I don't know if it will work for you, but it did for me.

marsen2567 said:
I had the same issue 2 days ago. I'm stock rooted, btw. The problem appeared when I dirty flashed my stock rom on top of a stock rom. I didn't want to update manually cause I've already downloaded the newest firmware version. So I flashed the newest at hand or what's already in my PC. Then, I had a "google play services error" when logging in my gmail app, had a trouble signing in google now and endless loading on youtube. Did the same, cleared cache play services, guess, I got impatient and I uninstalled it, installed the 448 and 440 newest app but the same thing "google play services error" persisted. I also did the extreme, I did the full wipe and odin'd the new firmware, the problem was gone. Bump into a problem when I installed something and had to dirty flash again. Then, it happened again "google play services error" all over again.
TL;DR, lol, Long story short.
I solved it by just clearing google play services cache and uninstalled updates and let itself update again. I didn't have to flash or odin'd again..
I don't know if it will work for you, but it did for me.
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HOLY ****!!! That worked! at least for now! Thanks sir!