The Pixel 4a is the first phone in 10 years I didn't root because of the hardware check, but nevertheless Google Pay doesn't work for me on this phone. I had no single problem on my OnePlus 6 with Magisk. Is there a known bug? Does anybody know if usb debugging enabled is a problem for Google Pay? It's very frustrating to go back to the plastic card to pay.
Did you unlock bootloader? That'd cause it to fail the check even if not rooted.
fleischbanane said:
The Pixel 4a is the first phone in 10 years I didn't root because of the hardware check, but nevertheless Google Pay doesn't work for me on this phone. I had no single problem on my OnePlus 6 with Magisk. Is there a known bug? Does anybody know if usb debugging enabled is a problem for Google Pay? It's very frustrating to go back to the plastic card to pay.
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USB debugging enabled kills some streaming services; wouldn't be surprised if Google Pay is sensitive to this
No, I didn't unlock the bootloader. I think this triggers the Google checks.
The only thing I did was enabling the developer options in order to give Tasker and some other apps special permissions.
I have a 4a on Android 10 with developer options enabled. I've used GPay once, and it worked ok for me.
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I have a 4a on Android 10 with developer options enabled. I've used GPay once, and it worked ok for me.
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Thanks a lot, so I have to check my card. As mentioned before it worked last week on my OnePlus 6, so it's really strange.
Will try another card next time.
Not sure if it helps but sometimes I have run into an issue with using magnet mounts on the back of my phone case with pay terminals.
It's very frustrating. I tried three different cards and looked up the NFC location which is very different to my OnePlus 6. Under the fingerprint scanner instead of in the camera module. I really don't want to factory reset because I already set up all banking apps.
Thank you all for your help.
Edit: I found on Reddit, that there seems to be s a problem with Tasker, so I uninstalled it and also disabled the developer options. Will see if this works for me.
To be clear, is Google Pay telling you your device is ineligible / incompatible etc and refusing to let you set up a card? Or is the issue that it simply doesn't work at a payment terminal?
If doesn't work at the terminal. The app tells me everything is fine. I also tested the NFC chip with a German ID card. The phone can read all information stored in the ID.
Ok. That clarifies things a bit. If Google Pay isn't complaining about device eligibility then that's not what your issue is.
It's still not impossible that it's a hardware problem. Maybe it still works correctly for reading other unpowered devices like an ID card, but doesn't work for being read by payment terminals.
I'm not alone. :highfive:
The process in the video is the exact same I see every time I try it: https://9to5google.com/2020/10/26/some-pixel-5-owners-cant-make-nfc-payments-with-google-pay/
Luckily I didn't try a factory reset. :fingers-crossed:
Google Pay Not working
I have the exact same problem but this also happens on Oneplus Nord and Pixle 4a i have both devices and i get the same error on both devices .
Google pay works on
S10 Android 10
realmme 6 pro
Realme x50 5g
Fossil gen 5 Wear os Watch
pixel 3axl Android 11 beta
Will not work on
Pixel 4a Android 11
Oneplus Nord Android 10
have uninstalled the app and reinstalled
Cleared cache
Cleared storage
Cleared play services
removed account
removed card
re added card
re added account
reset device one plus nord only
none of the above methods worked for me
also i can connect my watch to the phone not working and the app on watch will work for making a contactless payment
the Nfc is working on my phone i have tested it with other NFC device and it works as intended
Called the bank No blocks on my card and it is setup correctly
Called google asked a million times the same question over and over and talking with support at the moment
so sorry i cant solve the issue but just thought id let you know what i have been doing
Also tried on different card machine get the same error all the time
Version 2.119.338332786 solved all my issues!
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-pay/google-pay-2-119-338332786-release/
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Is the 24/7 customer support on the phone active worldwide? Or is it one of those USA only features?
I was wondering the same, once I managed to get to a screen where I could request support via phone or chat (between 9am-9pm) but now I can't even find that anymore.
It says here to go to Settings -> support :
"""https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7109524?hl=en&ref_topic=7084203"""
Edit:If I do that I can request support and it works.
I bought the phone in Germany.
Good to know.. My doubt looks to be in its place then. Hope I'm wrong though.
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Good to know.. My doubt looks to be in its place then. Hope I'm wrong though.
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Sorry about that I checked again and I found the support tab.
Ill try it and see if it works.
update: I tried chat and that worked on the 2nd try, so apparently the feature is available afterall.
I have a Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 with what is called "Pixel Xperience" witch is a custom rom with the pixel launcher and google apps, etc. I have magisk, magiskhide and everything to make my phone appear as a secure phone on playstore. The thing is i accidentally installed Viper4Android on Magisk, when i did that, phone wont boot, i tried doing a metod i know witch is going to /data/adb in the TWRP file manager, but when i tried, everything, everything appeared as random letters and numers, same for my phone storage, if anyone can help me please do it, my brother gived this phone to me with everything and i dont want him to know about this.
i purchased this phone lgl164vl from a person i cannot get a hold of anymore and did factory reset now i cannot use it because i donot know old google account. how can i make this phone useable for me?
Factory reset without Google account
I will attempt to give ya advice on this. I have just recently purchased this device too lgl164vl, ie fiesta 2 lte, and from it's quick start guide I will be quoting from it says...
Under anti-theft guide
add your google account on your device
"After your device is protected, you'll need to either unlock or enter your Google account password if you need to do a factory reset. This ensures that you or someone you trust is doing the reset."
(Note) "DO NOT forget your Google account and password you had added to your device prior to performing a factory reset. If you can't provide the account information during the setup.process, you won't be able to use the device AT ALL after performing the factory reset."
Really sorry to give you such troubling news, and let's hope the screen lock and account wasn't set up for anti theft by previous owner, for if the anti theft was activated and you can't get ahold of the original owner I'm afraid you have been screwed. For everything is saved to Google's cloud on that one account it was setup with, and as far as I'm aware, at least until a custom recovery is made for this device, it's more or less bricked (as you can't use it.)
Hopefully this isn't the case and perhaps it's a network issue on which I have no advice.
thanks for the reply
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I will attempt to give ya advice on this. I have just recently purchased this device too lgl164vl, ie fiesta 2 lte, and from it's quick start guide I will be quoting from it says...
Under anti-theft guide
add your google account on your device
"After your device is protected, you'll need to either unlock or enter your Google account password if you need to do a factory reset. This ensures that you or someone you trust is doing the reset."
(Note) "DO NOT forget your Google account and password you had added to your device prior to performing a factory reset. If you can't provide the account information during the setup.process, you won't be able to use the device AT ALL after performing the factory reset."
Really sorry to give you such troubling news, and let's hope the screen lock and account wasn't set up for anti theft by previous owner, for if the anti theft was activated and you can't get ahold of the original owner I'm afraid you have been screwed. For everything is saved to Google's cloud on that one account it was setup with, and as far as I'm aware, at least until a custom recovery is made for this device, it's more or less bricked (as you can't use it.)
Hopefully this isn't the case and perhaps it's a network issue on which I have no advice.
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maybe some one might come up with something i hope. is there anything that could be put on sd card then put sd card in phone and when phone is turned on sd card takes control? by putting some type of application on phone to take care of this
lol, good one
these tracfone things are really tight; they don't want you to keep using it without the tracfone service, like if you root it to switch to some other service
pretty much a throwaway or you might be able to use it without phone, just wifi
sorry no info; i was hoping for more info myself.
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I'm trying to discover if the sd card can be configured as internal storage or not. Some providers disable this feature. The system says 'the card SHOULD be used as portable storage' and does not give the option to use it as internal storage (so I can expand my download capacity for pandora).
So, hopefully I can get an answer here: can I buy a faster card that the phone will be able to use as internal storage or is it really locked out regardless? I don't want to waste money on a card I don't need.
How fast should the card be? What rating? I believe it is at least class 10. (it is UHS-I/U3 Class 10)
Is it possible to 'force' the phone to use it as internal storage using ADB? (i read about this somewhere)
if so, please howto, thanks
{figured no need for new thread, don't expect it to work out, stupid tracfones, lol} ... i can do a new thread if you think i should, if there is positive info, thanks
update:
i managed to get the 'auto-install sdcard internal' program to work.. aftiss (https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/auto-formatting-sdcard-to-internal-t3583875)
seems to be doing ok so far; i migrated the data over to the sd card, it says it will start using the sd card as default app data and storage/downloads etc. But it did not say it uses the sdcard for app binaries.
The goal for me here is to get Pandora to use the sdcard to download the music with the Prime subscription for offline play, as I have tracfone and not an unlimited data plan.
It seems like it should work just fine, as music is not nearly as demanding as video, less bandwidth, about 192kBps, i think. (or maybe small b? yes, small b, like Kbps). So, really even an older sdcard should be able to do it.
With the premium (not prime) service from pandora you get your 4 most listened to channels downloaded automatically. The difference is $5/month vs $10/month.
The Prime lets you do playlists and individual songs. You have a 'my music' button to add to your offline cache. I suppose there is an automatic download as well. They say they will leave 500mb free at all times.
I suppose it may be inappropriate to talk about a pay service here, idk.
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update:
i managed to get the 'auto-install sdcard internal' program to work.. aftiss (https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/auto-formatting-sdcard-to-internal-t3583875)
seems to be doing ok so far; i migrated the data over to the sd card, it says it will start using the sd card as default app data and storage/downloads etc. But it did not say it uses the sdcard for app binaries.
The goal for me here is to get Pandora to use the sdcard to download the music with the Prime subscription for offline play, as I have tracfone and not an unlimited data plan.
It seems like it should work just fine, as music is not nearly as demanding as video, less bandwidth, about 192kBps, i think. (or maybe small b? yes, small b, like Kbps). So, really even an older sdcard should be able to do it.
With the premium (not prime) service from pandora you get your 4 most listened to channels downloaded automatically. The difference is $5/month vs $10/month.
The Prime lets you do playlists and individual songs. You have a 'my music' button to add to your offline cache. I suppose there is an automatic download as well. They say they will leave 500mb free at all times.
I suppose it may be inappropriate to talk about a pay service here, idk.
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Hey were you still running that LG phone really well?
I have a friend with one and I am trying to help him keep it up to date without rooting until later this year.
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Hey were you still running that LG phone really well?
I have a friend with one and I am trying to help him keep it up to date without rooting until later this year.
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i wound up ditching Pandora, sometimes a song will play with choppy sound, like cylon music, unacceptable
i reset the phone to factory specs and it works fine. It had a problem charging with the modifications. I tried a few different launchers and always had problems. It seems like it may have some protection against modifications, even as simple as using an alternative launcher. Even with the phone turned off it wouldn't charge.
However, I did discover the charger I was using has connection problems, or maybe the phone does. It is doing ok right now using a cable direct to computer.
The information I found regarding using the memory card as extended internal storage for apps is that Android no longer enables that option because it is unreliable. Perhaps it uses too much energy, i do not know. So, I'm going with stock for now. I disable all the google stuff I can and use f-droid, mainly.
It is a 'good' phone, but I'm still probably going to get a new one when the activation time runs out, rather than paying for another year of service. Possibly one could go month to month till a new phone is issued that is good enough to justify an upgrade. But even a new one of these is cheaper than another year of service and minutes.
How do you root the lgl164vl 7.0 ? Can it be done with no pc? I tried kingo root but stops at 90%
nope, it is trash; don't bother
Hi Everyone,
I'm having a big problem with my Note 6 Pro. So, I came here to hopefully find a solution. Several days ago, when I attempted to enter my password, it was no longer accepted. Just receive a message on the screen that it's not correct. Except that it is correct - it's the Xiaomi garbage that is not correct. I changed nothing and nobody else ever has access to my phone so, it's quite impossible that anyone else ever changed it. I really am in a bad situation. Could someone advise any potential method that I could be able to access the phone?
I'm currently living in Hong Kong. Are there any top, local phone repair shops that might be able to help? Xiaomi service told me that the only way to use my phone again would be a complete reset. I can't believe this is the only method that would ever work. At this point, I don't even care what happens to the phone in the end as I will never use it, nor will I ever use any Xiaomi product again. I just want to be able to retrieve the last few months of irreplaceable photos and my various contacts.
Cheers!
Amy
Well...i can tell you one thing.
My office colleague have Redmi Note 5 amd last week she had exactly the same issue...
Phone locked itself and she couldn't unlock it...and she also didn't do anything...
Nothing was working, nor fingerprint, nor PIN code...
With your post, I'm wondering if it's some kind of a bug???
She eventually take it to service in order to somehow make backup of all the files of internal storage.
I saw that she has the phone now but didn't ask her what she did, was she able.to save the data etc.
I will check it tomorrow if i see her.
Sent from my Redmi Note 6 Pro using Tapatalk
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Hi Everyone,
I'm having a big problem with my Note 6 Pro. Could someone advise any potential method that I could be able to access the phone
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At first do you have any custom recovery installed on your phone? If so open it and select Advanced tab , File Manager and go to data then scroll down and open system folder and delete this files one by one > locksettings.db , locksettings.db-shm , locksettings.db-wal , gatekeeper.pattern.key (If found) , gatekeeper.password.key (If found) , password.key .. Now reboot phone
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At first do you have any custom recovery installed on your phone? If so open it and select Advanced tab , File Manager and go to data then scroll down and open system folder and delete this files one by one > locksettings.db , locksettings.db-shm , locksettings.db-wal , gatekeeper.pattern.key (If found) , gatekeeper.password.key (If found) , password.key .. Now reboot phone
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Thank you for the information. However, I don't have any custom recovery installed. I'm using the phone as purchased - everything is stock. What you described would not work on stock phones?
I have checked with my colleague, she needed to do factory reset of the phone, and thus lost all the data that she had on the phone [emoji53]
She said that there was some glitch/bug during charging - phone was on charger, and at one point there was voltage dropdown in the electricity network (usual stuff in Serbia), like power got cut down for 1 second and up and running again...after this, her phone was locked...
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Thank you for the information. However, I don't have any custom recovery installed. I'm using the phone as purchased - everything is stock. What you described would not work on stock phones?
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Unfortunately it won't work without flashing a custom recovery
Bro I encountered the same problem and I knew that this is some sort of a bug, (by the way I'm an tech expert, so any problem in Android or windows i can probably solve it) so before dealing with any kind of bug in Android just reboot your device and guess what, 99% bugs get fixed after rebooting your device. And it perfectly solved mine too
Hi! I have made an account specifically to reply and inform you that I had encountered the same issue on my Xiaomi Note 9s and my brother, twice on his Vivo y19. I was the victim first and I was certain that I hadn't forgot nor did anyone mess with my phone. Afterwards I'd just keep my phone without any security. When my brother told me that he had the same issue, I was shocked to know that it wasn't only Xiaomi but Vivo as well, so my decision to keep my phone free of locks was solidified. My brother however, decided to use security again and it happened for the second time.
I'm not sure if Google or Xiaomi, Vivo, individually or collectively, have a part in this. All I know is that it's really painful to loss your data this way, for no apparent reason at all.
This sucks and there's very little information on internet regarding why this happens.
So my advice is that if you've been locked out of your device this way once, don't ever use the security features again. Because most of these phones require a primary password (pattern, pin, code etc) for other features like facelock and fingerprints to work. What sucks even more is that they only ask for the primary passwords on restarts. Had it been the fingerprint, I probably could have unlocked my phone (not sure if my fingerprint would have also been reset).
P. S. I used a lot of words to convey a simple message but it's because English isn't my first language and I don't want anyone to deal with the same headache as mine.
Hi, since updating to the new Android 11 update for OP6 I am having issues with Gpay - tap to pay.
I open up the goat app and hold my phone to the payment terminal and it does not work. However, if I reboot my phone it will work for a short time before once again not working.
OnePlus have not been that helpful, so I was wondering if anyone on the forum has the same issues and knows if it is a big or whether a fix existst?
Thanks
I, too, recognized that GPay didn't work since I updated to 11.
However, I have another app to pay by NFC from another bank, and that one works.
I haven't been able to test, yet, whether a reboot would fix that. Only appeard to me twice while I was standing at the cash-register in the supermarket.
I have this problem too.
After update to 11 version, in random time i cant pay in google pay.
Need OFF/ON NFC on phone and then works perfect.
Need wait some fix for NFC...
I have this problem also. After updating to A11 the Google Pay behavior becomes a little rare. When I try to add a new card the process start as it must be but after introducing the card data and press the button to go on, the next screen is completely white and nothing is seen and nothing happens, so I can`t continue with the process. I open a bug to OnePlus, I sent some screenshots and bug logs by no luck for the moment. So I am afraid I will roll back to A10.
After 10 years I really should know the answer, but I don't, and the XDA search function still doesn't work for me.
My N5 has a broken SIM tray. I bought an eBay broken-screen N5 and put this motherboard into mine. It asks for a PIN, which I obviously don't have (understandable that the seller couldn't remove the account, since the screen was totalled).
I've asked the seller for the PIN, but personally I'd be reluctant in his shoes.
Is there a workaround? I've seen the YouTube video (factory reset, settings, enable bootloader unlock, etc.) but that looked as if it was on an Android 5 device and I'd be surprised if Google haven't closed the loophole.
In the absence of a PIN, any suggestions? I've seen a suggestion that the seller could remove the device from Google via his PC - would that work?
(Edit: No, the seller says that the device doesn't appear on his Google device list.)
Thank you...
Update to prevent anyone spending time trying to think of a way to help...
In fact for reasons which appear to go against everything I've read about FRP I was able to use Fastboot to boot TWRP and factory reset the device, after which I was able to install CrDroid. Maybe it's because the device was on Android 6, too old for FRP to be a problem.
Anyway, bottom line, all ok now.