After successfully rooting my GT-i8190 via vroot, I changed the Chinese version of Superuser to Supersu with no problems. However, I noticed another Chinese app on my phone that I cannot get rid off. It appears to be a Chinese version of Google Play... I keep getting notifications on my phone telling me to update my apps and when I click on them, it takes me to the familiar 'installed apps' section of the Play Store - all in Chinese.
I've tried deleting the app itself from my apps menu by dragging it to the 'remove' trash bin but nothing happens... It stays in my apps. I also tried going into the normal Google Play Store and finding it under 'My Apps' there, but it doesn't appear.
Does anyone know anything about this app? I haven't found any info on it while searching the forums, just the Chinese Superuser app. Should I freeze the app?
Here are a couple screenshots of what I'm encountering:
Update: I should have tried this before, but it slipped my mind. I believe I have solved the issue. I went into application manager and forced the app to stop and waited to see if there were any issues. There were none. I uninstalled it from there and all seems to be well.
After I installed towel root my Play Store wont work. It seems to work fine for a second and then I get an error message saying the program has stopped unexpectedly. Even worse once I hit ok on the error message it reapers every 2 seconds. This makes it impossible to operate the phone until I freeze the Play Store using Titanium. I've tried to reinstall the Play Store and the same thing happens all over again every time. Also, I've cleared the Google services as suggested in other blogs but still does the same thing. It sucks not having the Play Store on the S5. PLEASE HELP!!
Adam
nedfolks said:
After I installed towel root my Play Store wont work. It seems to work fine for a second and then I get an error message saying the program has stopped unexpectedly. Even worse once I hit ok on the error message it reapers every 2 seconds. This makes it impossible to operate the phone until I freeze the Play Store using Titanium. I've tried to reinstall the Play Store and the same thing happens all over again every time. Also, I've cleared the Google services as suggested in other blogs but still does the same thing. It sucks not having the Play Store on the S5. PLEASE HELP!!
Adam
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Did you do any modifications or installed xposed?
Try deleting your google account, under settings/accounts, then adding it again.
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Yes I did install xposed. Also I did delete my accounts and all the simple stuff like deleting app info on the play store, google apps, etc.
I have a NEXUS 6 non rooted stock phone
I updated the Shazam app this morning and then after the phone was acting weird. I went ahead and rebooted it.
Usually, it connects to all my bluetooth and network automatically, but I had to do it manually. Weird I thought.
When I go to the play store and check my apps for updates
It gives me an error that google app has stopped, but I look into detail of the crash report, it has a crash with com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox:search
When I try to access YT, it doesn't open.
I have gone ahead and wipe the cache partition,
disable and renabled google related apps.
To no avail...
Anyone experiencing the same issues?
I am trying to reinstall the Google (Search) app to see if that helps or not.
Not sure which version to install?
Google App 4.1.29.1706998.arm64
Google App 4.1.29.1706998.x86
Google App 4.1.29.1706998.arm
Last night I got an update to the Google app.
Right after it installed, Google would not open. Assistant will not open and the Google feed but pressing the home button will not open.
I've cleared cache in the Google app and rebooted, no joy.
I cleared data on the Google app, Google Play Services app and Google Play Store app and rebooted, no joy.
I uninstalled updates from the Google app and rebooted, No joy.
I updated Google app, rebooted, No joy.
I've sent into phone recovery and cleared cache partition a couple times along the way.
No joy.
I realize that I'm on my way to the dreaded factory reset, but what caused this?
I'm hoping for another update to the Google app for a fix, before I resort to the dreaded FR.
I was able to download and use the Google Go "light" app.
Any ideas?
My Android Central thread, with a bit of back and forth and screenshots is here :
https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=980023
pizza_pablo said:
Last night I got an update to the Google app.
Right after it installed, Google would not open. Assistant will not open and the Google feed but pressing the home button will not open.
I've cleared cache in the Google app and rebooted, no joy.
I cleared data on the Google app, Google Play Services app and Google Play Store app and rebooted, no joy.
I uninstalled updates from the Google app and rebooted, No joy.
I updated Google app, rebooted, No joy.
I've sent into phone recovery and cleared cache partition a couple times along the way.
No joy.
I realize that I'm on my way to the dreaded factory reset, but what caused this?
I'm hoping for another update to the Google app for a fix, before I resort to the dreaded FR.
I was able to download and use the Google Go "light" app.
Any ideas?
My Android Central thread, with a bit of back and forth and screenshots is here :
https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=980023
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You can try using ADB and a PC to uninst5 the Google apk.
Download package Info , by police developers, to get the name of the package name for Google. Prob something like com.google.search or something
Then run this command
ADB shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.app.name.here
After it's uninstalled, try reinstalling from the app store and see where that takes you
pm uninstall is not reversible unless you do a factory reset. pm disable is.
gruuvin said:
pm uninstall is not reversible unless you do a factory reset. pm disable is.
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I don't understand why I see so many people who say this. It's NOT true. Do you see that part of the code that says --user 0? That means that the app is only removed from the current user.
To go a step further, this would only even apply to apps not available from the play store. You could delete the Google app off your phone completely and still get it back from the play store, whitch is exactly what should happen if they run the line I provided.
So, tl;Dr using "pm uninstall --user 0" doesn't remove an app from the phone entirely, only from the current user of the device.
I always forget to try the SAFE Mode. Google app worked on SAFE MODE, but kept working when I came out of SAFE MODE.
Anyways, the Google app works but voice is grayed out.
ETA, it turns out that Google Assistant could not be turned on, because through all of my uninstalling SMS reinstalling of the Google app, Bixby became the default assistant app.
So exactly how did going into and coming out of SAFE MODE fix this?
I think I have it figured out.
It's a Swift Installer conflict.
If the Google app updates, before there is a Swift Installer overlay update for the Google app, the Google app asks Assistant will crash.
Once they're is a overlay update for the Google app in Swift Installer, entering works without doing any 'gymnastics'.
The Swift Installer developer has been pretty good about keeping up with Google app updates. I imagine that's a tough job!
Today, I had a Google app update that I had been putting off for several days, waiting for Swift Installer update for the Google app overlay. There was no update available inside the Swift Installer app.
I updated the Google app in the Play Store.
The Google app crashed.
I opened the Swift Installer app and the overlay update for the Google app was then available.
Without the required reboot, after a Swift Installer change, the Google app and the Google Assistant worked.
Totally awesome!
My Google Play Store stopped workin, i already deleted, reinstalled, updated, and now im using apkpure store cause google play wont load... seems like the app is not getting the data it needs. Cause the menu loads normally.
Any ideas to solve this? Im running out of them lol
BW