My watch suddenly stopped being able to send an SMS using 'ok google', 'send a text to <contact name>' . it now tells me "Something went wrong. That's not available on this device". I have un-installed 'google' and reinstalled it on my watch. I have factory reset the watch, and installed a new messenger app on my phone/watch (google message) etc. Nothing is working unfortunately. Unsure what else to do.
Any ideas?
I have the same problem! Happened since friday, before it always worked fine. Also other messages like whatsapp same problem...i guess it has something to do with an update of play services or google assistant....
Replying fortunately still works. But initiating new messages not...
glenner05 said:
I have the same problem! Happened since friday, before it always worked fine. Also other messages like whatsapp same problem...i guess it has something to do with an update of play services or google assistant....
Replying fortunately still works. But initiating new messages not...
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Exactly same. I also went over all of the security settings etc for each app on wear and phone. I use my watch a lot to initiate sms conversations so hopefully this will be fixed soon.
I have an older model of the Huawei Smartwatch and just recently I'm experiencing the same thing-- however my husband's newer version (but not Smartwatch 2) can still send text messages and make voice calls. I'm hoping this Google update has not my Smartwatch obsolete.
Same issue, but with phone not watch (SOLUTION)
I had this same exact problem... started about a week ago. I finally sat down the other morning and spent a few hours trying ever solution I could find until BOOM... I found the issue, the "Google Web and App Activity" was turned off!! I hadn't been in my Google Account setting for years, so my guess is that this was a recent Privacy Policy update rolled out by Google recently. Anyway, here are my notes on how to turn it back on for yourself (provided you have permissions to manage your own Google account):
Go into Google Home App
Hamburger Menu
Settings
Google Assistant Settings
Prompted about "Web and App Activity" settings that needed to be turned on, I had never turned them off, but they were off, I had previously logged into Google Admin for the account and turned it "on for everyone" earlier, so maybe do this first.
Then was prompted with a "I'm In" pop-up. I clicked on that button I was taken to the standard Google Account Setting Page.
I exited and tried "ok google" again, it worked
the google app updated on my watch today and now the issue seems to have been resolved.
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I may have stopped "google framwork services" last week, but I do not think this is related.
Basically, my gmail app no longer gets push notifications or syncs automatically.
I have android 5.0.1. nexus 5 and the latest gmail app versions. I have checked all settings in the app, and made sure that all my sync settings are enabled. I can see that the last sync of gmail was over 30 minutes ago, yet I've sent emails to my gmail account since then and they appear on the web version.
The app won;t show new emails until I manually refresh within the app.
Please help. I googled a bit and saw that some people with a similar issue dod a "factory reset" to solve. that seems a bit extreme. Is there any other way around this.
I've done all the usual things, cleared data in gmail app and forced stop and restarted phone.
I even removed my google account and readded it. nothing worked.
mcgon1979 said:
I may have stopped "google framwork services" last week, but I do not think this is related.
Basically, my gmail app no longer gets push notifications or syncs automatically.
I have android 5.0.1. nexus 5 and the latest gmail app versions. I have checked all settings in the app, and made sure that all my sync settings are enabled. I can see that the last sync of gmail was over 30 minutes ago, yet I've sent emails to my gmail account since then and they appear on the web version.
The app won;t show new emails until I manually refresh within the app.
Please help. I googled a bit and saw that some people with a similar issue dod a "factory reset" to solve. that seems a bit extreme. Is there any other way around this.
I've done all the usual things, cleared data in gmail app and forced stop and restarted phone.
I even removed my google account and readded it. nothing worked.
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If you cleared data of Google Services Framework, it resets your GCM push id. Apps usually request this id the first time they are opened, and will usually re-request it every few weeks/months. Clear data of gmail and Play Services, then remove and re-add your Google Account.
thank you Elluel.
I'll try that now. (I've also just tried a wipe of the system cache form the recovery menu, this didn't help.
That seems to have MUCH improved things. Mails are coming in within a minute now, whereas before it would not sync for hours even with all settings set to ON.
Thanks... I'll see how it goes.
Elluel said:
If you cleared data of Google Services Framework, it resets your GCM push id. Apps usually request this id the first time they are opened, and will usually re-request it every few weeks/months. Clear data of gmail and Play Services, then remove and re-add your Google Account.
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I did this same thing and couldn't get it figured out this worked right away!
I'm not sure if this is the fault of Oreo or Wear OS but I updated to both last night and now my Google Assistant isn't working. It asks me what I want to do but says "Oops I can't do that" whatever the request. I can manually send messages, make calls and access the internet so it isn't a connection problem as such. Google Assistant just plain isn't working and I have wasted hours on this. I've even done a factory reset! Just what IS the problem, does anyone have any ideas?
Hey All, my google assistant on my pixel 2 stock rooted June patch on verizon is having odd behavior. It seems that localized commands will work such as, "hey google, what is the weather" or "okay google, turn off mobile data".
When i ask something that requires assistant to go out to thew web for results, it will recognize the command but then it will show the three dots as if it's searching but never return results. Another strange thing is that when i ask it to call my voicemail, it will do the same thing but if i turn off mobile data, it will make the call .
i've tried clearing google app data and cache. i've also taken the SIM out and put it back in but the issue persists.
anyone else ever experience this? any suggestions?
i re-downloaded and re-flashed the system image. issue persists.
Fixed it. Needed to uninstall the Google app updates. I updated again via the n play store and it continued to work
If you are having these issues (see title), what worked for me was to disable, uninstall or freeze (if rooted) the google app. This means you'll lose "ok google", google lens, etc. everything related with the assistant, but, for me is worth it because sending sms messages to have them show "sending..." eternally while knowing they were received drove me nuts.
Try uninstalling or disabling the google app if you are having issues like this.
Good Day.
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If you are having these issues (see title), what worked for me was to disable, uninstall or freeze (if rooted) the google app. This means you'll lose "ok google", google lens, etc. everything related with the assistant, but, for me is worth it because sending sms messages to have them show "sending..." eternally while knowing they were received drove me nuts.
Try uninstalling or disabling the google app if you are having issues like this.
Good Day.
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This worked exactly once for me. Has it solved your problem indefinitely? If so, do you know why?
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This worked exactly once for me. Has it solved your problem indefinitely? If so, do you know why?
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As long as I had the Google app disabled everything worked flawlessly (I tested for months)
Recently I had to restore my phone to factory (locked bootloader, wipe, etc)
Now Google and my phone can work together again.
Not sure what changed, but so far so good.
This oddly worked for me
have been having this problem since June 2019with a Honor V10. I too found disabling the Google app was a work around. Strangely yesterday I managed to enable Google update all apps and the sms sent fine for about 10 hours now I'm back to the same problem again. I have also restored the phone and reinstalled all apps from scratch rather than use a back up. With the same issue occuring I presume there must be a software conflict somewhere with the apps I download.
Did anyone find a long term solution that enable the Google app to run?
Cheers n Gone Nick
Whoever stumbles here from google, I had same problem today and instead of disabling Google app, just killing it worked for me.
Since Google announced the availability of RCS Messaging in Google Messages in France, I tried to activate the feature. Until today, no luck.
I updated the app to the last version and I tried to enable RCS in Settings of the Messages App. But the app kept telling me that it still trying to configurate the connection.
But I tried something. I uninstalled Google Messages (Uninstalled the updates since the app can't be uninstalled completly on my Nokia 8), cleared all the app data and reinstalled it. When I opened the app, it asked me to activate chat functionality. I clicked Yes and Hurray ! It worked ! In the settings, it says that I'm connected.
That's how I got it to work.
I hope it helps others
Bye