Okay so I've done a little digging on the subject, and I've found that if I delete all data for Google play services, and then reupdate them, these maps that I'm seeing this error message displayed will work.
What's curious is that I've found if I alter these Google services in *any* way at all, for example, removing google play services permission for reading my sms messages, which has ZERO to do with maps, this error occurs once again, on those same maps within a couple of apps. On another device, I went in and only disabled services required to look for Google pay/NFC (I don't use any). This alteration also causes that same issue with maps !! The only fix is deleting all Google play services data, reinstalling the updates on the play services, and then not touching a freaking thing or permission. Perhaps the most bizarre aspect of all is that if I freeze play services entirely, those maps still work upon reenabling
What's all the more bizarre too is that Google Maps will display maps with zero issues with those same mentioned modifications made. It only effects maps within other apps, like my weather app for example.
What on earth is the meaning of this? All I'm trying to do is save battery but also stop some of the constant spying. Those services don't need access to my SMS messages. In fact I can have a perfectly normal operational conversation with Google play services frozen entirely.
Anyone have any advice on stopping some of the snooping without breaking completely unrelated aspects of other apps that don't even fully depend on these services to run in the first place? Only the map part does?
I know many might say just leave them running and who cares what it wants access to. But I do. If I can help it at all, I'd rather not be constantly freezing and unfreezing the services depending what I'm doing as that can get a little tedious.
I'd love to hear your takes on why these apps with maps function the way they do in this particular regard (especially when Google maps, the one that should be most closely dependent on play services, works no matter if services have been altered or not)
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Okay, I thought I had the issue pegged but turns out not so much. This time, literally all I had done was hibernate GPS... Turned on airplane mode and went to sleep. Woke up and maps not working despite GPS being woken normally, like I had done for years with no issues.
I'm really starting to regret starting from scratch to declutter. Who would have ever thought starting over and using in the same manner as before would *break* something..... How frustrating
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I admit that this is a little narrow - but I figured I'd share my experiences.
I use Replicant, so I really want a phone with few blobs, an unlockable bootloader, and a low price. I did not win on this phone... too many blobs.
However, I like this phone, and it was cheap (I have XT1304 / US GSM edition). I figured that if I could de-Google the device it'd tide me over until CM comes out and is stable. I don't care to use Google Play Services. At all. (I know it's rare, but hey, I like smartphones, just not so tied to the walled garden.)
When I disabled all of the Google & Motorola Services that I could on stock, I'd get crashes from anything that wanted to use my location. ADB revealed it was crashing looking for the "network" location provider.
This would kill everything; even the modem would be reset - I'd miss calls, the Launcher would restart...it was basically a soft reboot because of underlying system crashes. Switching the location mode off of "High Accuracy" or "Device" to "Battery Saving" would cause it not to crash, but that's not exactly a good location provider.
Now yes, I'm disabling "system" services. I'm on my own. But someone's gotta do it.
My solution:
Post-factory reset with no Google account:
Install any location consumer - I used SatStat in F-Droid. (I'm too new to post links; find it yourself. You're smart and people like you.) I installed it via adb after turning on USB Debugging. There aren't many other ways from GNU/Linux distros, but you should be able to MTP it on there too.
Turn location on. Dismiss annoying dialog: No Google you can't snarf my location. (This dialog doesn't save its answer if you don't have a Google Account. It. Asks. Every. Time. Therefore, it must die.)
At this point it gets fuzzy - I basically went on a disabling spree, and managed to disable everything except Google Play Services (No Notifications, Clear Data, Disable Service) checking to see if SatStat would crash between every disable. I was also checking the Location settings every once in a while as well - eventually Google Settings revealed that "Google Location reporting is not avaiable for this location" which means... it's dead, Jim. No more annoying dialog. At this point it was safe to disable Google Play Services.
When I was done I had about half a page of apps - if that. At which point... I installed F-Droid, and am busy repopulating the world.
The entire point of this post: if you're going to de-Google your phone, use CM and don't flash GApps. Disabling everything on stock is risky, but doable. Just expect to factory reset. Disabling in Settings is so much better than the old days of Root & Remove.
Hi guys,
I've searched for this problem all over, but can't find anything about it.
I have had this problem for some time now, and occurs again and again.
Gmail, Drive and sometimes calendar get stuck while syncing on my device. Doesn't matter if I'm on data or WiFi. With Google Drive it often happens after I've updated a Google Sheet. Even though I don't exit the document before it says that it is saved, it somehow keeps on syncing in the background. I just found out when I got home from work after a 20 min drive, and when I went into settings and Google, the wheel next to Drive was spinning. The phone had been awake all the way home. The only way to stop it temporarily is by disabling and enabling sync for that specific app or generally.
I have absolutely no clue, what could cause these situations. I have tried clearing data and cache for those apps, but it hasn't helped.
Anyone had this happen as well?
Cheers
cawith said:
Hi guys,
I've searched for this problem all over, but can't find anything about it.
I have had this problem for some time now, and occurs again and again.
Gmail, Drive and sometimes calendar get stuck while syncing on my device. Doesn't matter if I'm on data or WiFi. With Google Drive it often happens after I've updated a Google Sheet. Even though I don't exit the document before it says that it is saved, it somehow keeps on syncing in the background. I just found out when I got home from work after a 20 min drive, and when I went into settings and Google, the wheel next to Drive was spinning. The phone had been awake all the way home. The only way to stop it temporarily is by disabling and enabling sync for that specific app or generally.
I have absolutely no clue, what could cause these situations. I have tried clearing data and cache for those apps, but it hasn't helped.
Anyone had this happen as well?
Cheers
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Have you tried removing your google accounts? Followed by clearing data for all the troubling apps, clearing data for google play services, and google system frameworks? I would suggest you do all those things, restart your phone, and add your google accounts back. You are not by any chance dropping data connections are you?
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Have you tried removing your google accounts? Followed by clearing data for all the troubling apps, clearing data for google play services, and google system frameworks? I would suggest you do all those things, restart your phone, and add your google accounts back. You are not by any chance dropping data connections are you?
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Haven't tried removing the google account, but tried the other things you suggested.
Yesterday I also cleared dalvik cache. Will see if that makes any difference before removing the google account.
I don't think that my phone has dropped the data connection at any time, at least it doesn't look like it. Why would that have an impact? Wouldn't it just continue syncing when the connection was reestablished?
cawith said:
Haven't tried removing the google account, but tried the other things you suggested.
Yesterday I also cleared dalvik cache. Will see if that makes any difference before removing the google account.
I don't think that my phone has dropped the data connection at any time, at least it doesn't look like it. Why would that have an impact? Wouldn't it just continue syncing when the connection was reestablished?
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If you do drop data connection I BELIEVE the offending apps will keep trying to reconnect and resync thus holding wakelocks. You can check and see if you dropped data by looking at the battery stats built into the os. Where it says mobile network data, if you see red, it means you lost signal. I doubt this is your problem, but it is something that can sometimes cause a problem. I'm willing to bet clearing data for the offending apps AND removing your google account, restarting and adding back will fix the problem. Quite sometime ago, back in the gingerbread days, I used to have a similar problem. With gmail, sometimes I would try and send a message, and it would just get "stuck" and never send and drain the battery, where in hours it would go from full charge to 0. This is why I believe you may have some bad files and they just won't sync on the phone and or they are creating a conflict somehow with what's on google's servers
bestmvno.com said:
If you do drop data connection I BELIEVE the offending apps will keep trying to reconnect and resync thus holding wakelocks. You can check and see if you dropped data by looking at the battery stats built into the os. Where it says mobile network data, if you see red, it means you lost signal. I doubt this is your problem, but it is something that can sometimes cause a problem. I'm willing to bet clearing data for the offending apps AND removing your google account, restarting and adding back will fix the problem. Quite sometime ago, back in the gingerbread days, I used to have a similar problem. With gmail, sometimes I would try and send a message, and it would just get "stuck" and never send and drain the battery, where in hours it would go from full charge to 0. This is why I believe you may have some bad files and they just won't sync on the phone and or they are creating a conflict somehow with what's on google's servers
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In that case, I'm sure that my connection wasn't dropped. Well at least not for more than a second, because the last time the wake lock occurred, I was actively using my phone to browse the web after the wake lock started but before I realized it was there...
I will let you know, if this keeps it from happening :fingers-crossed:
bestmvno.com said:
Have you tried removing your google accounts? Followed by clearing data for all the troubling apps, clearing data for google play services, and google system frameworks? I would suggest you do all those things, restart your phone, and add your google accounts back. You are not by any chance dropping data connections are you?
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Clearing dalvik cache didn't help. Gmail just tried syncing for almost 2 hours with no success.
How will removing the Google account and clearing data for Google Play Services and Google System Frameworks influence my phone? Will it reset my home screen or do anything else?
cawith said:
Clearing dalvik cache didn't help. Gmail just tried syncing for almost 2 hours with no success.
How will removing the Google account and clearing data for Google Play Services and Google System Frameworks influence my phone? Will it reset my home screen or do anything else?
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Also clear data for gmail and all the google apps you are having issue with.
Google play services and Google system frameworks also contain some information about your account, and you want to completely wipe any remnants of your account from your system, so that's why I say remove your google account and also delete data for these apps. Your homescreen, widgets etc will not be touched. Your apps will all still be there.
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Also clear data for gmail and all the google apps you are having issue with.
Google play services and Google system frameworks also contain some information about your account, and you want to completely wipe any remnants of your account from your system, so that's why I say remove your google account and also delete data for these apps. Your homescreen, widgets etc will not be touched. Your apps will all still be there.
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Okay, thanks. I hope it works :good:
Since upgrading to lollipop I'd noticed a couple of small niggles with me Galaxy S5. As I've not had to rebuild my phone since purchasing it, I decided a factory reset wouldn't do any harm. Since resetting, Google play services keeps waking my GPS and searching for my location, this happens every few minutes unless I turn the GPS off. I've got all the usual Google stalking features turned off (Google now, location history, location reporting) but I've still got the same issue. I've even reset again and unticked the box to restore my user data... But still Google want to know where I am.
Any ideas how to resolve this one? It's a pain if I have to keep turning my GPS off when I'm not using it, especially when I had no issue prior to factory resetting.
clattewell said:
Since upgrading to lollipop I'd noticed a couple of small niggles with me Galaxy S5. As I've not had to rebuild my phone since purchasing it, I decided a factory reset wouldn't do any harm. Since resetting, Google play services keeps waking my GPS and searching for my location, this happens every few minutes unless I turn the GPS off. I've got all the usual Google stalking features turned off (Google now, location history, location reporting) but I've still got the same issue. I've even reset again and unticked the box to restore my user data... But still Google want to know where I am.
Any ideas how to resolve this one? It's a pain if I have to keep turning my GPS off when I'm not using it, especially when I had no issue prior to factory resetting.
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It's more likely one or several of the myriad of apps/services on your phone. Do you have a weather app on your phone? Well, how's it going to know how the weather is, if it doesn't know where you are? Facebook by default wants to know where you are so when you post or send a message, it tells everybody where you are. Even apps like music streamers want to know where you are so they can tell you where you were when you heard something. Lots of apps that you wouldn't expect to use GPS in fact do. The vast majority of this data collection is completely innocuous and harmless, but you always have the option to disallow it. Or not use the app(s) as well; remember, it was you that granted the app GPS permissions when you installed it.
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It's more likely one or several of the myriad of apps/services on your phone. Do you have a weather app on your phone? Well, how's it going to know how the weather is, if it doesn't know where you are? Facebook by default wants to know where you are so when you post or send a message, it tells everybody where you are. Even apps like music streamers want to know where you are so they can tell you where you were when you heard something. Lots of apps that you wouldn't expect to use GPS in fact do. The vast majority of this data collection is completely innocuous and harmless, but you always have the option to disallow it. Or not use the app(s) as well; remember, it was you that granted the app GPS permissions when you installed it.
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Thanks for your suggestion, I don't think it is another app though. Prior to resetting my phone the 2nd and 3rd time I uninstalled any suspect apps one by one to see which one was the culprit. In the end I just went through the entire apps list and uninstalled/disabled everything I could, it made the phone really unstable and practically unusable but still didn't stop Google Play Services using my GPS every few minutes.
Any other ideas?
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Thanks for your suggestion, I don't think it is another app though. Prior to resetting my phone the 2nd and 3rd time I uninstalled any suspect apps one by one to see which one was the culprit. In the end I just went through the entire apps list and uninstalled/disabled everything I could, it made the phone really unstable and practically unusable but still didn't stop Google Play Services using my GPS every few minutes.
Any other ideas?
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Try this:
http://androidforums.com/threads/is-there-an-app-to-track-which-app-uses-gps.732746/
how about "Android Device Manager " .. is that disabled?
There are a lot of guides about how to fix this. It isn't always the same service that is an issue...but you can try and disable some of the ones that are known to be problematic. For example see post #3 in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785128
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Hello.
For several months, on my Galaxy S8 +, I suffered slowdowns on several levels:
update badges indicating the number of unread messages is only long after having passed a message or other read / unread
check for system updates with a result return after several minutes, see tens of minutes
calls of certain applications on click of the notification (google Play, system update ...) does not display the application immediately
installing apps via Google Play is long after download, 100% OK download but install after several mintues
This only happens from my home, so may be related to geolocation.
I tried lots of actions but nothing works, among other things erase all the data and caches of several Google applications:
Google locks framework
Google play store
Goolge
Google Play services for instant apps
Google Play Services
Badge Provider
etc ...
I also tried other solutions like:
Reset the S8 +
Delete and re create my Google Account
Delete Samsung account
Disable Smart Lock function
Switch to airplane mode, correct the problem for updating badges but obviously, can not check Gogle Play updates or System because no network
Disable WiFi only, problem persists
Disable GPS only, problem persists
Disable mobile data only, problem persists
Disable the IP V6 of my Box (BBox)
Call Google and Samsung without success
The only 2 actions that have a positive result are:
To uninstall all Google updates. It worked fine initially but unfortunately recently, after the update is done, in beta mode or not, the problem appears again.
Disable Bluetooth only, and the magic, after a few minutes, it works again and it is in time. Concern, more access to connected objects
For information, I use a Samsung Gear S3 Frontier connected watch with apk Samsung Gear and Samsung Health.
I did not push the tests beyond due to lack of time. For example, uninstalling some applications.
This post is a bit long, but it is the result of several months of investigation.
While navigating, on various forums, I note that I am not an isolated case and that several people are concerned of loan or by far. I tried to do a synthesizer.
Would you already know of such a problem and if so, do you have a solution, tracks, suggestions?
In advance, thank you to all those who will take some of their time to help me solve this problem.
I sometimes write apps and install them to my devices.
Lately I've noticed that the apps seem to disappear.
I have turned off GOOGLE PLAY store scanning of external Apps - and it still seems to happen. It doesn't happen if I DISABLE GOOGLE PLAY and GOOGLE FRAMEWORK, but as I need them to have my apps connect to Google - I am forced to turn them on from time to time.... thus ending in apps being deleted.
Anyone come across this before?
Strange, my phone never uninstalls any apps. Although one of my cheap crappy phones kept deleting specific apps on reboot and deleting files, never figured out why.
Anyway, it shouldn't be happening, try resetting your phone and see if it still happens.