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Stop Google Play Updates

I have 2 phones and 2 tablets all of them set to not auto update. Yet once again this AM I'm on the train and my damn phone updates about 10 different apps. I'm in the middle of playing a game which slows to a crawl while Google takes over my device. Finally get home and start my tablet and guess what the sob starts updating. I'm beyond frustrated with this so if anyone has a 100% guaranteed way of stopping this behavior it would be greatly appreciated

meanoc said:
I have 2 phones and 2 tablets all of them set to not auto update. Yet once again this AM I'm on the train and my damn phone updates about 10 different apps. I'm in the middle of playing a game which slows to a crawl while Google takes over my device. Finally get home and start my tablet and guess what the sob starts updating. I'm beyond frustrated with this so if anyone has a 100% guaranteed way of stopping this behavior it would be greatly appreciated
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Actually,I don't know but It's me also facing this.After reboot when I connect to wifi ,the apps start to update .While auto-update is turned off also.
There is some bug I think.Hope I helped you.

nightwalker said:
Actually,I don't know but It's me also facing this.After reboot when I connect to wifi ,the apps start to update .While auto-update is turned off also.
There is some bug I think.Hope I helped you.
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Man this is a real pita as my other tablet just auto updated. I'm hoping someone can chime in and offer some advise. Thank you for the reply and sorry your having the same problem

meanoc said:
Man this is a real pita as my other tablet just auto updated. I'm hoping someone can chime in and offer some advise. Thank you for the reply and sorry your having the same problem
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No need of sorry bro,I am really irritated with this prob.The main prob is that is consumes data and cause data charges.Hope that someone will help us out.

Bros,the same thing happens to me....but on a low end device like mine you get bootloops like hellthis kills all my apps and i have to wait 10 minutes...I HATE OOM's!!!!
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each app has an auto update option in its settings, you may want to check there and see if its still set to auto update, even with the main settings turned off.
if thats the case, you would have to manually turn them all off.

bweN diorD said:
each app has an auto update option in its settings, you may want to check there and see if its still set to auto update, even with the main settings turned off.
if thats the case, you would have to manually turn them all off.
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Thanks for the tip but I still cannot for the life of me stop auto update. My second phone hasn't been used for about 5 days so I turned it on today. I have both data and wifi off on it. I go in and double check everything is set to not update. Turn wifi on and within 1 minute its updating 9 apps
If it was only happening on one device I would suspect that its an isolated case but all 4 can't have the same issue. I tried freezing the play store function and my tablet started doing some very strange things. I'm relatively new to android (8 months) and the only problems I've ever had were all related to the damn play store. In case you haven't figured it out I REALLY hate the play store with a passion.
Anyone know how to contact google direct via phone?

meanoc said:
Thanks for the tip but I still cannot for the life of me stop auto update. My second phone hasn't been used for about 5 days so I turned it on today. I have both data and wifi off on it. I go in and double check everything is set to not update. Turn wifi on and within 1 minute its updating 9 apps
If it was only happening on one device I would suspect that its an isolated case but all 4 can't have the same issue. I tried freezing the play store function and my tablet started doing some very strange things. I'm relatively new to android (8 months) and the only problems I've ever had were all related to the damn play store. In case you haven't figured it out I REALLY hate the play store with a passion.
Anyone know how to contact google direct via phone?
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I was going to suggest freezing the play app, but didn't because I thought it would cause issues.
Alternatively, you could see if the amazon store has all your apps. If so, delete the play store and see if amazon can be controlled to do what you want.
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Some issue with GPS

Hello,
I am an old waze members and I use it everyday. I have noticed that the Android version not exactly the same as the iOS version
First, I don't know why but it look like a 1FPS, the position refresh only once per seconde instead of following the way naturally...
And then, sometime when I put an andress I just see the Loading... And I wait for more than 120sec and nothing happen... (My 3G is OK and my GPS is OK, I know because when this happen, I use Google Map Navigation and ti works)...

Works OK on mine I use it daily .
Might be better to all ask @Waze on twitter or post on www.waze.com/forum
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already posted on Waze forum but no answer... :/

Gps sucks on this device. Had to reboot to make it find my location and work. Old samsung issue though. Remember it since note 3 times.
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So why with google map it's very smoothie..?

Maybe it is the Waze software? My GPS works great.

No one is using waze here ?

GPS not working well

Anybody seem to be having problems with their XZ Premium GPS not working as they should be? Mine is intermittent, sometimes when it works, it works well. But the moment I took a wrong turn and quickly fired up my Google Map navigator, it have problems detecting where I'm at. The Map will show the route, but my location is all over the place. It would pause and stay in that spot for a while, then move me on a lake or off road. I tried "GPS status" app to pin point where I'm at. It doesn't always want to work.
It's getting really annoying, I want it to be reliable when I need it. Lucky I still have my Z3 as backup. So far, seems like the Z3 is the best Sony ever made.

Same problem here...It is hard to start GPS....it shows current position, it lose it. I have to fight for 10 minutes until its stable.

the same issue here. OK after reboot, but problem is back again a after

I had that problem once while downtown... the buildings in that area are all old and packed pretty closely together. It just did not want to update for the life of me. Rebooting it did not seem to help it at all. Especially using the walking directions... forget it. I didn't have time to fuss with a gps app to see if I just wasn't getting any sat connections, but if it happens again I will.

Wow, so it's a known common problem. I hope it's software related so it can be fix by updates. Now I have to open two programs to make sure it always working all the time. Run "GPS Status" app and then open Google Map. Cumbersome.

Dial *#*#7378423#*#*, service test, GPS, Purge Assistance Data
This worked for me!

My use of Purge Assistance Data seemed to help, but I've had a couple of episodes of the problem since then where it didn't help. However, in the past three days the problem has not appeared. I cannot determine what has changed; many apps have updated as usual, and in order to try to determine if this is a hardware problem I ran phone in Safe mode during which problem did not appear. Interestingly (or not) the problem has not occurred during subsequently use of the phone in normal mode. BTW, I'm running the July 1st security update (45.0.A.7.90); the August 1st version has not been offered to me yet by the Software Update).

CyNoob said:
Dial *#*#7378423#*#*, service test, GPS, Purge Assistance Data
This worked for me!
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Very nice. Seem to be working very well. Although I have not put it to full use yet since I'm working at home today. Let's see how it run when I go to work in the office tomorrow.

This won't help? - - https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=73337848

My XZ premium is 4 weeks old and had problems with the GPS since day one. The GPS was very unreliable taking me in the wrong direction and sometimes delays in giving instructions until after passing my turns. Using google Maps and high accuracy settings. Contacted Sony today and they have asked me to contact google first to make sure there is no software issues from their side before they can look at it. Meanwhile I will download a different navigation app and see if the same problem happens.
I did GPS location test but it seems everytime I attempt it the phone seems to take forever in finding anything so I give up normally after 10 mins.
If any one has found a solution to this problem please let me know (other than changing the phone of course)

My GPS problems went away with 45.0.A.7.120

You're not alone!! I always end up going wrong directions. Compass is very way off.
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+1 here. it's really frustrating as i use my GPS a lot.

I have the same issue. Second time I sent my phone to Sony. I will update the forum.

Was having this issue as well. Purned GPS Assistance data seemed to help. also did the battery trick. maybe sony should give us an update that will not allow gps to "turn off" when using apps that require it.
i searched on my phone some where on the hidden settings. The Destination was 30mins and about 20miles or so. Said the gps was only on for around 10. Cellular data was used too. This has to be a software issue. why it shuts off gps at times.

Is Galileo enabled as Sony's promise?

Stefanos1999 said:
Is Galileo enabled as Sony's promise?
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What is Galileo? never heard of this. Is it a GPS feature or improvement? Such a fancy name.

CKkio23 said:
What is Galileo? never heard of this. Is it a GPS feature or improvement? Such a fancy name.
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Galileo is a new GPS system developed by the EU, like GLONASS is the russian GPS and Beidou the chinese GPS.
And to answer the question, yes, our phone supports Galileo.

Artyomska said:
Galileo is a new GPS system developed by the EU, like GLONASS is the russian GPS and Beidou the chinese GPS.
And to answer the question, yes, our phone supports Galileo.
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Yes, XZP supports Galileo. But it has not been enabled yet. :/

Had the same problem, gps not locking until I purged assistance data and rebooted the device, then it worked fine for about 48 hours until I had to repeat the process.
I completely solved this problem by uninstalling Google play services updates. This was a known issue for other phones some years ago.
Can anyone else confirm this solution?

Google Pixel No Sound issue

Guys, this issue has been pestering for a month now and I seem to have not found a fix for this yet. I first started to notice the problem with my phone when I was unable to attend the calls, the screen will usually get stuck or i will not be able to swipe up the green button during the call. Even if sometimes I manage to i will be able to hear the other person speak but I wont be able to speak to them. So sometimes once I restart the phone it will seem to work fine for an indefinite period of time and again it starts.
Then things started getting very bad, sometimes during normal device usage, the screen just turns to a monochrome black and white screen ( just as you see when there was no signal on older television sets). And when I switch to the bootloader screen, when I power the device on, I get a very thin green line for an instant on the screen and then the booting sequence starts.
I have made a lot of factory resets and stock image flashing, and by far I noticed one considerably situation, the times when the sound functions fine, the booting sequence where the 4 google dots animation appears and when there is no sound, the booting sequence gets stuck on Google and made by Google screen.
Other observations are during abnormal device behavior, no function related to sound will properly. To elaborate it, Google assistant wont work, videos cannot be played and even the system sounds wont be heard. I am open to suggestions here. Please let me know what can be done to test the phone out. FYI I know there is a problem with the Pixel microphone, but I am not convinced that its the exact problem. Please correct me if I am wrong. Thank you.

Sounds like a hardware defect. RMA if possible.
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It is a hardware issue indeed, I am facing the same issue, I contacted google , they told that replacement is possible tho I'm out of Canada at the moment so I'm just dealing with it through my Bluetooth earphones, everybody works fine with Bluetooth.

That's the only way I suppose!...did you get the phone directly from the Google store?...are they accepting phones bought from a retailer?...since I am in Singapore now...Google support is next to nothing here...try contacting them but it's of no use...only when I get to India I will be able to go forward with the replacement!.....but the thing is .... yesterday...I updated the phone to Oreo and the audio stopped working completely....and after repeated switching between safe and normal mode....the speakers are working now...but the microphone is still busted.

This happened to me, I was given a replacement phone from EE UK

Current update guys...as per the pixel support centre person's suggestion ...I rebooted the device to safe mode to check if the phone is operating normally ...which it did not....but surprisingly ...after restarting to normal mode ...it started working normally again...my query is how is this zeroed down to an hardware issue if in case it's perfectly working for a while and at some point goes bonkers...can you guys please enlighten me on this...coz I don't have much knowledge on the hardware field.

MK1207 said:
Current update guys...as per the pixel support centre person's suggestion ...I rebooted the device to safe mode to check if the phone is operating normally ...which it did not....but surprisingly ...after restarting to normal mode ...it started working normally again...my query is how is this zeroed down to an hardware issue if in case it's perfectly working for a while and at some point goes bonkers...can you guys please enlighten me on this...coz I don't have much knowledge on the hardware field.
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hello, i am facing the same things as you do since updating to oreo, my question is how do i test everything in safe mode, to see if everything is alright as you did

ndiri said:
hello, i am facing the same things as you do since updating to oreo, my question is how do i test everything in safe mode, to see if everything is alright as you did
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Tough luck mate! Sorry to hear that....you can check it out by pressing down the power button until you get the power off and restart menu. Keeping pressing down on the power off menu...it will reboot to safe mode without your prompt. In safe mode for me it was the same....maybe you will have a better luck...try it out!

MK1207 said:
Tough luck mate! Sorry to hear that....you can check it out by pressing down the power button until you get the power off and restart menu. Keeping pressing down on the power off menu...it will reboot to safe mode without your prompt. In safe mode for me it was the same....maybe you will have a better luck...try it out!
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well, its been almost an hour the phone wont turn sound back on.

Keep switching it to and out of safe mode...at some point ideally at least the speakers must start lest the microphone. Tried contacting Google about it and no response at all...mine started acting weird only for the past month...I suppose from the Aug months patch update....tried reverting it back to previous stock versions...but I suppose the damage is permanently done

When I contacted google, they told me to send it back to Canada and let someone there give it to google.. which won't happen in my case , my phone also started acting like this after Oreo beta . Now I will restart the phone whenever it happens to get it back working :/

The only reason I am still sticking to this phone is coz of it's camera. Planning to get back to India around December to get this fixed. Support for pixel in Singapore now is next to nothing since it wasn't launched here. I had no problem at all with the Nexus line up but this is kind of a disappointment.

Alaadragonfire said:
It is a hardware issue indeed, I am facing the same issue, I contacted google , they told that replacement is possible tho I'm out of Canada at the moment so I'm just dealing with it through my Bluetooth earphones, everybody works fine with Bluetooth.
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You've mentioned it as through Bluetooth it works fine....care to elaborate on this?...are you able to input voice commands to Google assistant and speak over calls using it ?...since I am planning to buy one in case its a perfect workaround

MK1207 said:
You've mentioned it as through Bluetooth it works fine....care to elaborate on this?...are you able to input voice commands to Google assistant and speak over calls using it ?...since I am planning to buy one in case its a perfect workaround
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Yea, Bluetooth works fine for calls, as for google assistant voice command you can enable that from google app settings. Of course other media will be working with Bluetooth as music, YouTube, etc..

Alaadragonfire said:
Yea, Bluetooth works fine for calls, as for google assistant voice command you can enable that from google app settings. Of course other media will be working with Bluetooth as music, YouTube, etc..
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Excellent!...thanks for the input....let me check and get myself one and I will have to manage with it till December....and are you able to connect to a laptop thru Bluetooth...coz I am unable to do so...it just says paired...but the bt symbol in the phone doesn't change to connected..did you try that out ?

MK1207 said:
Excellent!...thanks for the input....let me check and get myself one and I will have to manage with it till December....and are you able to connect to a laptop thru Bluetooth...coz I am unable to do so...it just says paired...but the bt symbol in the phone doesn't change to connected..did you try that out ?
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Hmmm I don't remember connecting to a laptop via Bluetooth.. you mean for file transfer ? Anyway Bluetooth has nothing to do with the sound issue we are facing, it might be your laptop Bluetooth driver needs to be updated

Alaadragonfire said:
Hmmm I don't remember connecting to a laptop via Bluetooth.. you mean for file transfer ? Anyway Bluetooth has nothing to do with the sound issue we are facing, it might be your laptop Bluetooth driver needs to be updated
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Just bought a Bluetooth headset....works fine for the most part...but sometimes during calls...the phone just hangs and it automatically restarts....sigh! pixel just can't be trusted to be my daily driver?

MK1207 said:
Just bought a Bluetooth headset....works fine for the most part...but sometimes during calls...the phone just hangs and it automatically restarts....sigh! pixel just can't be trusted to be my daily driver?
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Sorry to hear so, I actually installed ElementalX kernel and it is less to happen. Try to flash the kernel.

Alaadragonfire said:
Sorry to hear so, I actually installed ElementalX kernel and it is less to happen. Try to flash the kernel.
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Planning to do just that....I may have better luck with a custom kernel...will post an update once I have flashed it.

I had been on the 8.0 beta for a while. Then got 8.0.
Though just 2 days ago, my mic was starting to have issues. Then yesterday, only my speaker phone would work.
Now I can't get any audio/mic except though Bluetooth (I've got a portable speaker with a mic, and Bluetooth on my car.
Contacted Google support. Will be getting a replacement on their warranty.
They didn't tell me this, but I did some searching, and apparently many of the pixels (mostly from the first 3 months of production) had an issue with the soldering of the audio codec. though usage, little bumps here and there, that soldering can get loose. Which explains why my audio and mic were spotty, and within an hour yesterday morning, all aspects of it stopped working.
So, it's a hardware issue.

Slow Assistant

I'm having a weird issue that I haven't been able to find in any searches: when using Assistant to text (or call) it takes a very long time to process, almost a full minute before it reads the message back and asks if I want to send it. Using Android Auto, it just times out and goes back to playing music. It works just fine if I swipe up from the corners, but Assistant in Maps and Android Auto barely works.

This happens to me when I have bad connection, or when I drive close enough to my gym where it tries to auto connect to the wifi.

klym.software said:
This happens to me when I have bad connection, or when I drive close enough to my gym where it tries to auto connect to the wifi.
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Unfortunately connection didn't seem to make a difference. Also, other functions work fine. I can ask questions and get immediate answers, broadcasting to home works fine (which you'd think would be a more intensive task). I've cleared cache/data for the Google app without any change. It's crazy weird and I haven't heard anything else like it.

JaylanPHNX said:
Unfortunately connection didn't seem to make a difference. Also, other functions work fine. I can ask questions and get immediate answers, broadcasting to home works fine (which you'd think would be a more intensive task). I've cleared cache/data for the Google app without any change. It's crazy weird and I haven't heard anything else like it.
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Are you using the OpenGapps beta or Android 10? I wonder if this is an issue on Android 9 too... Sorry I'm not really sure.

klym.software said:
Are you using the OpenGapps beta or Android 10? I wonder if this is an issue on Android 9 too... Sorry I'm not really sure.
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I'm bone stock. I'm on the beta for the Google app. I'll opt out of that and see if it makes a different. I also wonder if it's a server-side issue that's affecting so few people they don't really know it's happening. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯