[Q] Won't use data/Won't sync account - T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII

OK guys major issue here.
GS3 rooted running AOKP variant.
Yesterday suddenly the phone stopped using the data connection. No GPS, no sync, no twitter updates etc. When I ran speed test, I clearly had a connection and my account is good. I reflashed several times and couldn't get account to sync at all. Then I flashed a 4.1 ROM and it sucked, so came back to the 4.2 last night and it appeared to be work again. Just finished app restore through mybackup pro and after restart, here we are again, my account will not sync, even when connected to WiFi. What's going on here?!
When I say my account won't sync, I mean its saying its Friday January 2 and the time starts at 1:00! Every time I reboot!

Haven't seen this one before! Sounds like what happens on a computer when the CMOS battery dies. Definitely sounds like a hardware problem to me. Maybe a bad component like a capacitor or chip?
Are you still under warranty?
Because of the data issue, check if your imei is intact in Settings. I do think it'll be hw related though.
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Google Talk only works over WiFi?

Has anyone else had trouble accessing Google Talk over 3G? If I don't use WiFi, it constantly tells me "unable to access server." If I do turn on WiFi, and then shut it off, GTalk shows everything grayed out. If I don't sign in to GTalk, I can't use the market. What's going on here? I was able to use GTalk on 3G *once* today. Not anymore.
My googletalk hasn't been able to sign in for the past 2 days.
It will randomly not be able to connect but then later connect for a few minutes and sign out.
I'm connected to wifi and its working now however.
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Just had this problem on my girlfriend's Epic. It has to do with the Market, they're linked to your account and you can't have on without the other (from experience). I tried rebooting, clearing market and gtalk cache and the new update that came out a few days ago but nothing seemed to work. I finally did a factory reset and everything worked like it should.
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It's just plain stupid that this is necessary. Android is starting to really grate on my nerves lately.
Hmmm, my GTalk works when on wifi or 3G. Now when I change connections from one to the other it takes some time to reconnect sometimes. That I do notice.
Forgive My Brevity. To Be Or Not To Be...
I had to hard-reset the damn thing. Adding Google accounts was giving me the stupid "Could not establish a reliable connection to the server" bullcrap. Of course, everything works *wonderfully* now (minus GPS, of course), and the phone is nice and fast again. What is this, Windows Mobile?!
Edit: GAH! It's happening again! "Could not connect to server. Will retry shortly" when on 3G! WTF, Google. I just wasted 2 hours reinstalling apps after a hard reset just to get this crap all over again.
So is this for sure a problem on googles side?? Cuz only few people seem to confirm this issue. I'm still within my 30 days, so I can exchange my phone if its a specific phone related problem..
I don't know. Some rocket surgeon over at Google decided that it was best to allow multiple Google accounts on the phone and sync everything, but not let you change Gtalk accounts. Their response to the bug? They try to throw the Gtalk team under the bus and close the bug report.
Okay, and now it's working again. I moved around to another Sprint tower and everything worked again. This actually happened yesterday. Now I'm back to my original location where the bug showed itself the first time, and things still seem to be working. I'm going to avoid reboots for now...
I am having the same problem
APOLAUF said:
Has anyone else had trouble accessing Google Talk over 3G? If I don't use WiFi, it constantly tells me "unable to access server." If I do turn on WiFi, and then shut it off, GTalk shows everything grayed out. If I don't sign in to GTalk, I can't use the market. What's going on here? I was able to use GTalk on 3G *once* today. Not anymore.
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I am also having the same problem with my Galaxy S2. Has anyone resolve this without resetting it to factory setting?

Telus - Limited internet connection

Ok, I'm not sure what's going on or how to fix this. Yesterday, I couldn't connect to the market, it kept telling me it was a network error. I could still browse the internet no problem. Then I notice that Facebook wasn't updating, so it is a connection issue. It's weird that I could still browse the internet and Google+ would load my streams as well as upload photos that were taken. I decided to do a full wipe (data/cache/dalvik) and re-install Oxygen2.1.6.
The re-install went fine, but now I still cannot connect to the Market so my apps aren't re-installing. Any ideas what might fix this since a full wipe didn't help?
Nothing had changed between the connection working and it not working. The phone wasn't rebooted, nothing changed in my APN settings either. Connection bars are all green.
Everything works fine when I'm connected to wifi.
*Restoring a previous backup doesn't work either and whenever I try to re-flash 2.1.6 I get a bootloop. So confused.
Nobody knows?
Really don't want to flash the RUU and re-root/s-off again if I don't have to. Just seems weird to me that this was working one evening then suddenly not working the next day with no re-boot or anything different installed in between.
I'm not using a desire but rather a nexus s.. but I'm having the exact same issue. I've tried just about everything except unrooting to fix it.
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I'm going to try flashing a different radio when I get home but I can't really see that fixing it as it's been working with no issues since I first rooted it a while back.
I tried several radios with no success. Its so strange. Gmail, xda, browser work.. but no market, Facebook, or twitter widget updates from launcher pro. I'm so confused.
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Yea, all the same here. My YouTube app doesn't work either.
I've been experiencing the same problems. I've been researching and tinkering and I've found some interesting things out.
First off I am going to assume that you two are on the TELUS network, you never said but that is what I am on and I have heard no information about it occuring on other networks
I noticed it yesterday and initiated several re-flashes and radio updates, none of which helped. Today I went into TELUS and they told me that they have been having alot of people with the telus bravo encountering similar issues. So instead of frowning and walking out I decided to ask if I could speak to the technician.
According to him the issue is not a connection to the network, rather that either the phones radio or the network is dropping the connection partway through data transfer. Therefore you can get through the connection, DNS and handshake processes, but it will fail during the transfer of data, but at no specified time. So I could use Grasscities Tapatalk app because it was just transferring text and other light data, but downloading large amounts of data winds up failing, which is why you can’t get market to work. TELUS does not know if the issue is only affecting desires (looks like it’s wider than just that) or if it is happening on any other network. They are in the information gathering phase and still waiting on a reply from HTC’s technical team to see if it is a problem affecting the radios.
I’ve spent most of the last 48 hours trying to solve this problem with no luck. TELUS has assigned me top level case advisement so I will update this thread as I know more about the problem. In the meantime, and I know how much it sucks, you will have to stick with wifi (as will I T_T)
Yeah, I'm on Telus. That would explain why a friend with a Nexus S on Rogers had no problems at all. I sure hope Telus figures this out soon. For now, I'm subscribing to this thread and hoping you hear something back. I'll update if I notice my data connection has returned to normal. Thanks for the info!
Also on Telus. Thanks so much for the update. I was thinking it was something on their part and have been meaning to call them but I'm at work. Just kinda assumed it wasn't their fault since some data did work, but it's good to have an answer.
Now I just need to figure out why my phone keeps bootlooping on a fresh 2.1.6 Oxygen install.
No problem guys, I know how frazzled you feel; I’ve been the exact same way for the last 48 hours.
Though I must say I am surprised that the forums are not all aflutter with discussion about this. The way the technician at TELUS was talking it sounded like they were getting a lot of calls about this. But dear freaking god I hope they get this solved soon… and if not then they had better let me out of my contract.
glad to hear it's not just me.. this has been happening since I went and saw U2 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto Monday night.. Every time I tried to upload pics I was taking at the concert it would just pause on the upload, or fail out completely.. my signal was dropping to nothing there as well.. I thought, being at the "Rogers" centre, that perhaps they'd set up a Telus signal blocking station
But then the problems have continued through to today. Some stuff kinda works.. I can get FB and Twitter updates from my Colorize Widgets, but can't actually use the FB app. twitter.com works, but facebook.com doesn't. google works sometimes.. but most pages time out in the manner mentioned above.
Quite annoying.
That's weird. This has been happening since yesterday for me, but last night it had no problems Instant Uploading pictures to Google+.
Some functionality has returned for me. Market still won't load.. but Facebook half-loads and the twitter widget in launcherpro is loading again. They must be working on it. I hope they fix it all soon.
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Still all down on my end. Hope it gets resolved by tomorrow.
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All function has been restored for me. Hope you guys are good too.
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Everything is working here too now.
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Yeah, I just downloaded from the market and accessed facebook
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All instant messenger notifications delayed

. I'd like some help to try and find a solution to this problem. It seems all instant messenger apps have very delayed messages most of the time.
Gtalk & Google+ messenger- are extremely unreliable for me. Up until about 3 months ago they worked flawless, I'd get notified of a message as soon as it was sent, be it on 4G or Wi-Fi. Now, 90% of the time I'll only get the message if I go into the app. And yes all settings and notification settings are turned on to sync. Sending is never an issue. And if I stay in the application messages are pretty reliable although not 100% reliable. I will get instances where it won't receive messages even when I'm in the app. My cell reception and router is always near perfect reception.
Whatsapp messenger more reliable in that messages will come through within a half hour if they aren't coming through. Although if I'm in the app its quite flawless. This app is much more unreliable when on Wi-Fi. With 4G its actually reliable. What I do notice though when going into the app with Wi-Fi and its not syncing up is that the up arrow on Wi-Fi will be flashing but no down arrow. Once the down arrow begins turning on everything works.
To note is that I have tried switching to a stock rom to no help, same things happen. Tried uninstalling all these apps, and done a clean install, still no help. I have other phones in the house, a galaxy S, and these apps all work the way they should on both 4G and Wi-Fi. So I know it should and can work. All my emails from Gmail come through just fine as do my Google+ notifications from people replying on posts. So any help will be greatly appreciated as I want to get to the bottom of this. Currently running on CM9 stock kernel, with uglc1 modem and newest boot loader.
Anyone? I can't be the only one with this issue...
I am having this problem on the stock radio, UGLC1, and XXKK6 too
I think its something updated within the Google Talk apps?
I started having the same issue after the OTA 4.0.4 came out.
Has anyone resolved this?
from what i have seen, its the google push service (used from gtalk, gmail, whatsapp, and every push app) that sometimes do some sleep..had this on my previous device also sometimes
when people say "before was working" "now is not working well anymore" it depends from how much attention u give to it...
the push service require a constant connection to the google services, sometime this connection hang or stops, usually after 10 minutes i can see this connection is restored and chat messages, mails, etc, come all together (or if u dont want to wait, disable and enable the conenction again, or disable/enable synch)
edit: SOLUTION here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2142503
I've had this problem for almost a year now.. Ever since I went from iOS to Andriod.. On my HTC.. What I noticed is when my phone goes into sleep it's all over, I guess it falls into a deep sleep.. When I awake it all message from all messengers comes flooding through. I thought maybe it was a software problem and all problems would disappear after upgrading to android 4.0 from 2.3.. But still the same.. Same as you everything works fine when the phone is alive, wifi or 3G.. So I was thinking its HTC and about to upgrade to Samsung S111 so touch wood that works ok..
online4yourmind said:
I've had this problem for almost a year now.. Ever since I went from iOS to Andriod.. On my HTC.. What I noticed is when my phone goes into sleep it's all over, I guess it falls into a deep sleep.. When I awake it all message from all messengers comes flooding through. I thought maybe it was a software problem and all problems would disappear after upgrading to android 4.0 from 2.3.. But still the same.. Same as you everything works fine when the phone is alive, wifi or 3G.. So I was thinking its HTC and about to upgrade to Samsung S111 so touch wood that works ok..
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My nexus 4, does the same thing.. ANNOYING!

[Q] GPS Not Connecting...

I am on my 3rd GS3. The issue I am having is that my Navigation programs (default and telenav) will search and search for satellites, but won't connect. But when I restart my phone, it will work fine for a day or two then back to no connection.
I have spoken to Sprint and this is an unreported problem... until me. So, Sprint will replace my device. I am unrooted and completely stock. I know that Sprint is in Nashville, TN working on installing the 4gLTE towers. It isn't live yet, but they will turn on and off periodically.
I have searched these threads and I have not heard of any others with this issue. My first GS3 was rooted, but I have not done the two replacements. This has only occurred on an unrooted device.
Has anyone heard of this issue and know a resolution? I am considering rooting again to see if that is a fix. This is not a horrible issue, it is much better than a device that won't boot, but any help is greatly appreciated.
Bdozier said:
I am on my 3rd GS3. The issue I am having is that my Navigation programs (default and telenav) will search and search for satellites, but won't connect. But when I restart my phone, it will work fine for a day or two then back to no connection.
I have spoken to Sprint and this is an unreported problem... until me. So, Sprint will replace my device. I am unrooted and completely stock. I know that Sprint is in Nashville, TN working on installing the 4gLTE towers. It isn't live yet, but they will turn on and off periodically.
I have searched these threads and I have not heard of any others with this issue. My first GS3 was rooted, but I have not done the two replacements. This has only occurred on an unrooted device.
Has anyone heard of this issue and know a resolution? I am considering rooting again to see if that is a fix. This is not a horrible issue, it is much better than a device that won't boot, but any help is greatly appreciated.
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Currently Rooted running the people's rom (3.06) GPS works flawlessly. I have tested and used Scout (By Telenav) Telenav, and Google Maps with no issues at all (tested in FL, MS, And parts of AL during my drive there and back) Haven't had any issues tho.
Mine worked fine while unrooted but started not initializing for startup apps that needed it after i rooted it. I would have to go to the app directly for it to start the GPS. Otherwise the app would continuously look for location. Unfortunately I haven't been able to narrow it down to any one Rom or kernel. Any one else with this issue?
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I have the same issue but haven't been able to figure out the cause either. Notice it mostly when I set my destination from my house, and wifi connected, then change location after leaving, and phone has kicked over to 3G.
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Before I returned my phone for another replacement, I decided to delete all of the apps that I had downloaded. I then rebooted my phone. After 2 days, it worked fine. I then began installing apps one by one. I figured the problem had to be app specific and only apps that use gps. There was one of two apps I decided was the culprit: Facebook or JuiceDefender. I installed Facebook and it worked fine for 2 days. Ample time for the issue to appear. I have figured out that all along JuiceDefender is the problem. It is shutting off GPS like it is supposed to, but not turning it on when it is supposed to. The problem started when I reverted to stock and took the OTA Android update. I am just embarrassed that it took until now to look at the apps as the problem and not the phone. I am going to contact JD and let them know what I have found. I hope there can be a fix, JD really works well... except for my gps!
Anyways, look at apps first as the problem child before running to a repair shop (like I did!) .
Hope this helps others...
Bdozier said:
Before I returned my phone for another replacement, I decided to delete all of the apps that I had downloaded. I then rebooted my phone. After 2 days, it worked fine. I then began installing apps one by one. I figured the problem had to be app specific and only apps that use gps. There was one of two apps I decided was the culprit: Facebook or JuiceDefender. I installed Facebook and it worked fine for 2 days. Ample time for the issue to appear. I have figured out that all along JuiceDefender is the problem. It is shutting off GPS like it is supposed to, but not turning it on when it is supposed to. The problem started when I reverted to stock and took the OTA Android update. I am just embarrassed that it took until now to look at the apps as the problem and not the phone. I am going to contact JD and let them know what I have found. I hope there can be a fix, JD really works well... except for my gps!
Anyways, look at apps first as the problem child before running to a repair shop (like I did!) .
Hope this helps others...
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JD is designed to disable data connection to conserve battery, You can set it for a threshold where it will keep the connection alive if it's transmitting information back and forth.. (Must have Ultimate for that i believe) So if your disabling the data connection, then it'll kill GPS.
It is set on balanced. That is why I didn't think of juice defender first. Never had this issue until android updated.
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I am having the same problem. My GPS will work, but for me, it's only for about 15 mins or so (while in an App that starts it). Then, if I stay in the app, it will just lose connection. If I exit the App, and the GPS turns off, then when I go back it, it will not turn on again. It isn't like it is searching and it doesn't get a signal...it never turns on. The only thing to bring it back is to reboot. I noticed it while on a custom ROM (TPR) and thought it must be that, so I flashed back to stock. Still the same thing. I then tried doing a factory reset. Still not working properly. Anyone have any other ideas?
Thanks in advance.
same here
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I am having the same problem. My GPS will work, but for me, it's only for about 15 mins or so (while in an App that starts it). Then, if I stay in the app, it will just lose connection. If I exit the App, and the GPS turns off, then when I go back it, it will not turn on again. It isn't like it is searching and it doesn't get a signal...it never turns on. The only thing to bring it back is to reboot. I noticed it while on a custom ROM (TPR) and thought it must be that, so I flashed back to stock. Still the same thing. I then tried doing a factory reset. Still not working properly. Anyone have any other ideas?
Thanks in advance.
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I took it in to Sprint they said it was the bad antenna and will give me a refurbish phone. This phone is less than a month old and why I will take a refurbish phone. Like I bought a brand new car and come in for a fix and they took me to the use car lot for a factory certificated car.
So I sent to Samsung and they claimed replacing a part and got the phone back, same problem is still happening.
Anyone can help us on this. It seems a common issue to a few of us.
Here is a simple GPS fix that works well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2201668

[Q] Won't sync while screen is off

Is anyone else's phone not syncing while the screen is off? When I unlock my phone I'll suddenly get a bunch of emails. Not sure what settings could be affecting this, I looked in accounts and gmail and it's all set up to just sync with no option about doing so while idle.
Nobody?
This is still happening, it really doesn't seem right. My previous phone never did this. I don't have any power savings enabled so I know it's not turning off sync in the background...
Did you check to see if sync was actually turned on? Also are you running any antivirus apps, Tasker or greenify?
Also, Go to WIFI settings>menu> Advanced Check to see wifi is on during sleep.
scarygood536 said:
Did you check to see if sync was actually turned on? Also are you running any antivirus apps, Tasker or greenify?
Also, Go to WIFI settings>menu> Advanced Check to see wifi is on during sleep.
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Sync is definitely on.
No antivirus, greenify, tasker, any sort of battery saving anything (not even the stock ones are on) nothing.
Keep wifi on during sleep is set to always.
In the mean time I'm gonna keep wifi off just to see if it happens over the data network too.
Hobox10 said:
Sync is definitely on.
No antivirus, greenify, tasker, any sort of battery saving anything (not even the stock ones are on) nothing.
Keep wifi on during sleep is set to always.
In the mean time I'm gonna keep wifi off just to see if it happens over the data network too.
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It just seems like it could be a setting... maybe get a battery stats app and see what 4G and WiFi are doing during sleep. It almost sounds like a setting. Maybe a factory reset would fix. Even though that would be last option.
Hobox10 said:
Is anyone else's phone not syncing while the screen is off? When I unlock my phone I'll suddenly get a bunch of emails. Not sure what settings could be affecting this, I looked in accounts and gmail and it's all set up to just sync with no option about doing so while idle.
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Weird.. it sounds like the data is being turned off when the screen is off. You said you were sure that that no power saving apps are running?
Is it just doing this with gmail?
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Weird.. it sounds like the data is being turned off when the screen is off. You said you were sure that that no power saving apps are running?
Is it just doing this with gmail?
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It's most easily recognizable with gmail, it's hard to gauge it happening to anything else.
And yes absolutely sure.
I am having the same problem. My wifi is shutting off while the screen is off. I have it set to stay awake while in sleep. I called Verizon about it and we are in the process of replacing the phone.
I think there isn't an issue on LTE so yeah I think my wifi is turning off during sleep despite the setting.
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I think there isn't an issue on LTE so yeah I think my wifi is turning off during sleep despite the setting.
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Try a factory reset... I know its a pain but it might fix things
I did a factory reset, it still happens. Look at my phone after a few hours and was like, huh, nothing. Unlocked and boom. It doesn't happen while wifi is off and only LTE is on.
I just turned off smart network switch to see if that has anything to do with it.
I'm having the same issue with my Note 4 sporadically not syncing the data until I turn on the screen. So far I've noticed it happening with Whatsapp & Gmail. Running no Antivirus, Greenify, etc either and sync is definitely on so I'm wondering if this is some kind of device defect? Has anyone else come across an issue like this and if so how did you resolve it. The next step I'm thinking to do is return the phone to VZW for a replacement which I hate to do but I don't want a defective device if this is the case.
Okay so having smart network switch seemed to help with gmail, but for example snapchat won't notify me until I unlock the device still. It works perfectly with wifi off.
I'm having the exact same problem you're having. When on WIFI, my Google Sync doesn't work, tested for both Hangouts and Gmail.
I've messed with both the Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep, trying all three settings (Always, Only when plugged in, Never (increases data usage), AND the Smart network switch on/off, and nothing really seems to help here.
Looking for anyone else that has this issue. Super important for me to get notifications for both Gmail and Hangouts while the screen is off and on Wifi, I mostly use the phone for work and communicating.
I was having problems with my wifi not working while the screen was off. I had it set to keep wifi on during sleep. All I can say is that are having this problem exchange your phone out. I did it and everything is great with the new phone. Go into your setting under battery check what your wifi usage is if you do not have a solid blue line you are having the same problem I was.
I have a solid blue line on wifi and still have the issue.
Also I got my phone from costco and have their warranty service which is squaretrade and not with Verizon. Anyone have experience with either place? It's only been like 11 days since I got the phone and I need to go to costco tomorrow so I'm gonna see if they will just exchange the device right there. Though honestly I was hoping just a software update would fix this, but that's unlikely for Verizon right.
Hobox10 said:
I have a solid blue line on wifi and still have the issue.
Also I got my phone from costco and have their warranty service which is squaretrade and not with Verizon. Anyone have experience with either place? It's only been like 11 days since I got the phone and I need to go to costco tomorrow so I'm gonna see if they will just exchange the device right there. Though honestly I was hoping just a software update would fix this, but that's unlikely for Verizon right.
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Do you have your phone encrypted? I just formatted, tried hangouts, and it was able to sync on wifi w/ screen off. Then I encrypted my phone, tried the same test, and it wouldn't sync on wifi w/ screen off.
(I need to have my phone encrypted for work, so if this is the more specific problem, I'm screwed.)
As for Costco, if its under 14 days, (mine is 11 days), you can bring it back for a full refund. Within 90 days they'll swap it out for the exact phone. No cost to you either time.
Guildan said:
Do you have your phone encrypted? I just formatted, tried hangouts, and it was able to sync on wifi w/ screen off. Then I encrypted my phone, tried the same test, and it wouldn't sync on wifi w/ screen off.
(I need to have my phone encrypted for work, so if this is the more specific problem, I'm screwed.)
As for Costco, if its under 14 days, (mine is 11 days), you can bring it back for a full refund. Within 90 days they'll swap it out for the exact phone. No cost to you either time.
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No encryption. Also I called them and heard the same thing. 90 days is crazy awesome of Costco, what a cool place lol. And they said a brand new phone no refurbs like a warranty would do even that early.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2775395
I might have figured out the solution. I went into my Sync settings, and it was trying to sync Inbox for my work email (which isn't activated on Google Apps), so it was getting hung up on different syncs. I disabled over half of the syncs for my work email since I don't require Inbox, or Picasa images, and made such the bottom setting 'Sync Push subscriptions' was ON.
See if this works for you. On my initial testing of messaging myself in Hangouts and sending email, it appears to be syncing while on Wifi while the screen is off.

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