Hello all
I have been having this issue for I don't know how long. I thought to bring it up because I;m not sure if I'm the only one facing it or it's a google services issue and it should be fixed by google.
Here is the situation. I have a Samsung android tablet with an unlimited data plan. I WiFi tether it to my laptop and everything works fine. But,when I use the same tethered connection on my android phone (Tablet>>WIFI/tether>>Phone) google services refuse to connect. I can browse and use the internet just like any other wireless network. Just no google play or anything related to google.
This issue has been the same with all tethers that originate from an android device to another android device, it just happens that all the tethers originated from Samsung devices, so I'm not sure if Samsung is to blame.
Wondering if someone tried this and if it works just fine then can help me figure it out.
Thanks.
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Thanks for writing to us at XDA Assist. I can't find anything relating to your question on XDA, exactly what tablet are we talking about?
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hello, everyone!
my bad if this post is misplaced but couldn't really find a good answer to my specific problem.
basically, i lost my sgs3 today. it had no security apps like android lost, lookout etc. installed and neither wifi nor mobile data were on. have installed from my desktop android lost, but since the phone has no internet connection i don't see how this app can ever be pushed onto the phone.
so basically, my question is if there is anything to be done here? perhaps any code or instruction sent by sms that would trigger the mobile data on!!! i don't suppose so!
anyway, whatever you might think of, i'd appreciate any help!
i'll call the gsm provider at some point to deactivate the sim, unless i can find a way first to locate the phone using their network signal.
many thanks!
I got a Note 3 from vzw, rooted it and it works great. I gave my S3 to my wife and she is having problems getting a data connection. She is not logged into google yet (lost password) and I wonder if that's the issue? If not what should I start looking at? It may seem absurd that someone wouldn't simply get a password reset from gmail but she doesn't like to play with it at home where she has wifi anyway and at work the availability is limited by the building she's in. I haven't run into this in discussion and vzw is unanxious to work with rooted devices.
The Problem:
"My device" encounters this problem while it's connected to "my home WiFi". Some apps fail to make internet connection, and this problem wasn't there before I upgraded from lollipop to marshmallow (officially). The strange thing is that other devices do not experience the same problem when they're connected to the same WiFi. Also, If I switch to another network, all apps work fine! So it only happens with one device relating to one network.
Things I tried:
I tried resetting the router (HUAWEI EchoLife 626 CPE), factory reset to my phone (Galaxy J5), reconfigure time and date, messing with dns... no luck ...
Other details:
Google Play Store and Google Drive are not connecting. Facebook hardly connects and Gmail doesn't send attachments, Messenger doesn't send photos and links! Youtube works great.
Please, if someone has any idea about that, I cant find help any elsewhere!
mjoberg said:
The Problem:
"My device" encounters this problem while it's connected to "my home WiFi". Some apps fail to make internet connection, and this problem wasn't there before I upgraded from lollipop to marshmallow (officially). The strange thing is that other devices do not experience the same problem when they're connecting to the same WiFi. Also, If I switch to another network, all apps work fine! So it only happens with one device relating to one network.
Things I tried:
I tried resetting the router (HUAWEI EchoLife 626 CPE), factory reset to my phone (Galaxy J5), reconfigure time and date, messing with dns... no luck ...
Other details:
Google Play Store and Google Drive are not connecting. Facebook hardly connects and Gmail doesn't send attachments, Messenger doesn't send photos and links! Youtube works great.
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Judging by what you've posted, the device works fine on other networks, this suggests to me that the issue is in your network and not your device.
This forum isn't the kind of place to help you with network issues. This forum deals with the devices themselves.
Your problem does not seem to be the device.
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Droidriven said:
Judging by what you've posted, the device works fine on other networks, this suggests to me that the issue is in your network and not your device.
This forum isn't the kind of place to help you with network issues. This forum deals with the devices themselves.
Your problem does not seem to be the device.
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But also as I mentioned that other devices do not face this problem when they're connected to the same wifi. That's why I thought it's related to my device.
Also, some network community directed me to here after reading my problem!
I know it's not appropriate to ask for help in PM and I don't do that.
mjoberg said:
But also as I mentioned that other devices do not face this problem when they're connected to the same wifi. That's why I thought it's related to my device.
Also, some network community directed me to here after reading my problem!
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Ok, I'll see what I can find for you then.
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Even though I tried to use some other VPN app before with no positive result. But now with Turbo VPN everything seems to run smoothly, at least for now!
Could anyone please explain what's happening?
Hi all,
I've been trying to get family link working as my daughter uses this tablet. When trying to add her account the setup gets stuck in an endless loop never competing. Having read various threads from other devices, I think it's probably something to do with play services not having certain permissions. I would consider unlocking, installing twrp, magisk etc if required to fix, but I don't want to loose widevine.
The long and short is I can't use her account on the device at all as she's part of the family group - her account won't work at all without family link.
I wondered if anyone here had either tried this, or come across other odd behaviours relating to play services?
I'm running the Chinese ROM ziu 13.
Appreciate any thoughts.
Cheers Matt
Few things I have tried (and eventually got it to work) across 2x Lenovo P11 Plus (J616F)'s:
1st one was a factory reset and then instead of using my home WiFi, setup the device using a 4G hotspot from my phone. (Not a clue why, but my Home Wifi (Unifi Access Points) takes upwards of 2 minutes to get internet with the Lenovo's, even though all other devices are fine).
Second method:
factory reset and setup the device as "Offline" (i.e. dont input any WiFi details, button down bottom right saying "Setup as Offline")
Once gone through initial steps, connect to your WiFi, give it 10 minutes to update a few bits.
Open Play Store (DO NOT SIGN IN!), and press the three dots at the top right and goto updates
Let the device update all apps
When complete, try adding the childs Google Account (again, if this fails, try using a 4G hotspot from another device (disabling Wifi on that device first))
Hope that helps
Ok, that sounds pretty strange but I might give it a go. I just set her up a new Google account as nothing I could do could get the old one logged in. Thanks for your advice.
I suspect your unifi is running a shared ssid and your 5ghz is on an inaccessible band, are you always connecting at 2.4ghz? I had to change the 5g band on mine to even see it!
mdurkin said:
Ok, that sounds pretty strange but I might give it a go. I just set her up a new Google account as nothing I could do could get the old one logged in. Thanks for your advice.
I suspect your unifi is running a shared ssid and your 5ghz is on an inaccessible band, are you always connecting at 2.4ghz? I had to change the 5g band on mine to even see it!
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Only have my 5Ghz on normal bands (i.e. non DFS), even tried a separate 2.4Ghz Guest network, disabled WPA3, all to no avail. Not got a clue what caused it, my ISP doesn't block anything either (Zen UK)
Any other device was fine over WiFi (have setup much older Samsung tablets, newer kids phones) all with Family Link, it was just the Lenovo's that was stuck in a loop saying I needed to remove and re-add the account.
Just couldn't figure it out, and had already spent a few hours trying. Hoped the newest firmware would fix, but that didn't help either.
Hope it helps and good luck
Just playing around on the tablet and it appears that it struggles with IPv6 - could be that my hotspot is IPv4 only. Could be related to the loop it gets stuck in?
Not sure why it doesn't like IPv6 though as all other devices are fine with it...
I've just gone through full reset, then tried using 4g hotspot as you suggested. I have to use Lenovo app centre to get play store, then use play store with no login to update. That all works fine. Then add my daughters account. Then I get stuck in the same loop of not being able to register the device with family link.
In my case, I don't think this relates to internet access, I think there's something going wrong with the software / permissions on the device. It's genuinely very frustrating as I imagine it's probably not terribly difficult for the Lenovo Devs to fix.
I have a new Pixel tablet as of yesterday. So far it seems kind of buggy. The biggest problem seems to be with connecting to only some websites. It is definitely connected to the network and can get to some websites. I had this problem yesterday and solved it by dropping the cache for some of the Google apps. It is not working today. Today I find that links from Google search results all return "This site can't be reached". I can get to the sites outside the Gooele search. Only a problem on the pixel tablet. Works fine on other devices in the house.
Did you try a factory reset? Sounds like a software issue. Did you try connecting to a hotspot instead of house wifi?
Not sure on this one. I think you can specify in the Google app to use the Chrome browser for web searches