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some apps refuse to authenticate with CyanogenMod

This started happening after I went to CyanogenMod a couple of months back, but it's still happening with 4.2.13. Some of my Android apps refuse to authenticate even after I check login credentials and verify that they work fine on the desktop. Some examples of apps that always fail:
PayPal
Personal Assistant
GetItDone (a beta app)
Some examples of apps that have no problem ever:
Pandora
Last.fm
Facebook
Seesmic
Evernote
all Google apps
On #cyanogenmod, someone suggested there was an issue with APN settings, but I think he misunderstood me. My phone itself is fully authenticated with Google.

never mind
I use the HTC keyboard and I find that it almost systematically inserts a space every time I type a period. This screwed up my username wherever it was my e-mail address.

[Q] What prevents syncing? Anyone else on 10.1 having sync isues?

I'm on a Nook HD+ 32GB and CM 10.1.3. Sync is simply not working. I don't mean calendar or contacts, I mean everything that uses sync. Or, to put it another way, every app/service that registers themselves under the "Accounts" section of the settings. So for example, Firefox sync, Evernote, Vine and, of course, all Google services (including Gmail).
The only things that are syncing correctly are the apps that use their own sync like Aquamail, Plume and Wunderlist. Those are all working fine.
The symptoms: When I, for example, press "sync now" in any of the Google accounts, the little sync circle appears next to the first sync item. It doesn't spin (not sure if this rom the circle is supposed to spin) and it just stays there, forever, till I reboot the tablet. I am getting no error messages.
What I have done: Ok, the initial sync works. When I first set up the account, it syncs. I have since factory reset and re-flashed 4 times trying to fix this. The initial sync works but then it never syncs again. If I remove and re-add accounts, it syncs fine the first time but then it doesn't sync again.
I have tried deleting all data from every sync enabled app. When I do that, it doesn't sync at all, not even once. Only time it syncs, that I have seen, is on the initial account setup.
Help: I need troubleshooting ideas and, better, all the things that might stop syncing from working. The mechanism itself seems to be working as it does an initial sync. Something seems to be stopping it from doing any more syncs though and I have no clue what or how the sync system works. What apps are involved in syncing? Is it Google Framework? Other things?
Thanks!!

Be sure that you don't prevent google apps to see your personal data. Go to Settings -> Security -> Privacy guard to check that

tebra said:
Be sure that you don't prevent google apps to see your personal data. Go to Settings -> Security -> Privacy guard to check that
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Appreciate the help! I don't use Privacy guard and no apps are enabled, but I do use Open PDroid. I tried deleting all rules for every system app in in Pdroid and then syncing but it still does not work.
Any other ideas? Thanks!

After not getting any traction on fixing this, I started trying the 10.2 nightlies. However, I am running into issues with that and would really rather be back on my 10.1.3 build. So a quick "bump" to this thread.
I am wondering if AFwall is somehow to blame here? Before I flashed 10.2 I uninstalled afwall and Pdroid to see if that would fix anything and it didn't. I have also removed the following items from the rom:
email, news and weather, notepad, exchange services, Google+ and picasa uploader. I should note I have removed email, exchange services, google+ and picasa uploader on my 2 Samsung phones (G4 and Note 2) and my Asus tablet (TF300) as well and not had any issues, but I though I would mention it.
I think those are the only things that make my build different from everyone else.

All right, hope this info helps someone. Instead of reading the new Dan Brown, which has been on my want to to list, I sat in a nipa cabana on Saturday, restored my 10.1 nandroid, and tracked this one down.
The culprit is the Xposed module Gravity Box. Once that was disabled and uninstalled sync worked again.
A couple of weeks ago I gave up on CM 10.1 and put on 10.2 to get past this problem. I didn't have time to do a full rebuild of my environment and only things that Titanium could Hypershell restore was put back. Xposed was one of the many things that was not installed. So I am not sure if this problem persists on 10.2 but at this point I am not going back to 10.2 now that I got this worked out.
Someone can tag this one closed/resolved and I hope this helps someone.

Conflict between Google account and CM 10.1.3

I bought an HD+ and am having a strange problem/conflict with my Google account. When I first setup my Google account it was working fine but I noticed that the recent apps button did nothing. I screwed up something with the Google account and kept getting a message saying there was a problem connecting to the Google servers. At this point, none of the Google apps worked and I got sync errors trying to sync Gmail. However now the recent apps button was working! Today, I removed 2-step verification and setup an application specific password. I am now logged in on this device, all the Google apps are working but the recent apps button no longer works. I am stumped at this point as to what to do. Suggestions:?
update: the recent apps button is working. It seems to require a different hold time than other tablets. I have now discovered the "magic touch."
No help is required.

Google Home Integration With Google Calendars Is An Embaressment

After recently purchasing a couple of Google Home Minis I have realised that Google seem incapable of bringing their departments together to make the gadget work properly with Google Calendars. Its so embaressing as the Amazon Echo actually works better with Google Calendars .. go figure!! If anyone can offer third party integration suggestions I would be really grateful.
First thing I noticed was that if I asked for my appointments for today, tomorrow, January etc it completely ignores my all day events .... I'm in the UK and I found a workaround for this by setting the language in the Google Home app to English (United States), apparently the U.S.A get new software versions earlier, indeed after this tweak in settings the Google Assistant recognises and reads out all day events.
The above regional fix however does not offer a solution for adding an all day event. The Google assistant does not recognise ' hey google add a new all day event' it still insists on asking for a time and if you say 'all day' for the time, it does not accept - anyone have a workaround or solution for this?
One other very annoying ommission is lack of integration with Google Keep. If I access my calendar via web browser, Googe Keep is tightly integrated for lists and nots, yet the Google Home team who seem to lacking a single iota of common sense have completley ommitted the option to use Google Keep for notes, lists and shopping list. - can anyone offer a solution or workaround?
The last and equally as annoying is if I say for example 'hey google what are my appointments for January' the reply is something like 'you have 8 appointments in January, here are your first 3' - who at Google in their infinite wisdom decided that everyone on the planet will only need to hear their next 3 appointments? Actually beginning to think that the people driving Google Home do NOT have an single grain of common sense between them. - Anyone have a solution or work around?
There are some other gripes like when adding an apointment using voice I don't have the option of adding a location, which is very important quite often I find....
Apologies for long-winded post wanted to put it all out there in case anyone would like to share solutions, altertive solutions to Google Calendar or thoughts....

I second all you've said. No integration with G Suite calendars either. Had to return mine.

Google Home Application issue with main Gmail account

(Quick note- apologies in advance for any confusion- I am looking for help with the "Home" application. Not the speaker)
I have been experiencing an issue for almost 2 years now with the Home application. I have two Nest Thermostats (2020 models) that would not connect at all to the Home app using my main Gmail account.
I raised tickets with Google support and received many calls and communications in an attempt to correct the issue. If I had to provide an estimate, probably over 7 hrs of total call time with support is a fair estimate. Attempts to correct my issue include various reboots, resets, factory resets, Wi-fi setting tweaks/changes and attempts connecting with different devices include Pixel 3XL, Samsung S7, iPad 7 Gen and 8th Gen. None of which worked.
In one of my experiments to connect my thermostats I created a "Test" home profile associated with my main gmail account, my experiment did not work and created a new issue because I cannot delete that Test account now.
During one call to delete Test home profile. Google support suggested I create a Home profile using a secondary Gmail account, miraculously I was able to connect and control my two nest thermostats via the Home app. However my issue now is my entire smart home profile (lights, speakers, routines, etc) are associated with my main account.
I'm looking for a way to correct this and have my smart home profile associated with my main Gmail account. Is there any way to accomplish this? Im thinking this is a Google server side issue that I would need to raise a support ticket for because I can't do this on my end.
I recently upgraded to a P7Pro – and would like clean up/Reset Main account to control all smart functions including thermostats in my main profile.
TLDR - looking for a way to reset my Home app profile from Google server side to correct long existing issues with Home app. Currently have my thermostats associated with secondary account because they wouldn't connect to main account. As well as delete a test profile on main account I cannot remove at all.
Thanks in advance for your feedback