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CM7 Market problems since last week

Hey people,
I'm currently located in China and I've got serious problems with the Market lately.
I'm using and been using CM7 on my Moto Defy for months (almost since CM7-Jordan beginning) and I've never had such Market problems before.
So I'm wondering if
1) other users from China can tell me if things are the same (or fine) for them?;
2) anyone have hint/suggestion on how to fix this after reading what I did/observed here?:
First, I'll say again that I've never had problems with Market before; none getting it installed (through gapps zip) on CM7 when updating/reflashing ROM or Nand backups/ none with downloading or upgrading apps with the Market app.
But all in a sudden last week, I noticed that the Market was not reacting quickly. I was testing 111004-1128 nightly (which has a newer Superuser file included) then after SU updated itself automatically [coincidence???], all things broke loose, Market would not connect and give me errors. SU would also alway stay in the "Not Installed" List of my Market apps (even after reboots and logins).
I've then tried to install the Superuser Market update fixer app (big mistake I think now) but that just made things worst. In an effort to get the Market going again, I did clean it's cache and eventually it's data which basically resetted all my listed apps in the Market.
Following all that, I did numerous fresh installs [maybe 10 at this point]: RSDL Froyo flashing and CM7 and gapps installs [with and without restoring old working CWM backups] and with countless install combinations of older CM7 builds and gapps versions.
On August's gapps, Market always gives me the "No connection Retry" even if I can get connected to Google services since my wifi indicator turns blue or green (depending on theme/CM7 build used) and Talk and Gmail logs in fine.
On June's gapps,login seems fine: I can browse apps but as soon as I try downloading something, I get stuck at Downloading 0%... and it seems to put the servicee in some sort of bootloop since and other apps icons do not display until I get "Download failed to install - Try again" and click OK. Market will also FC as soon as I select anything from the "Just in" sections.
I've tried clearing Market's cache many times, started Talk, signed out and back in, let my wifi on all night to leave Market to update. I've even created a new gmail account and tried it on yet another fresh install with June gapps; nothing works and this drive me nutts!!
I can go on my desktop, use a VPN service to log in to my Market account and install something from there; it will be pushed on my phone alsmost right away. But again I can't install anything from the phone no matter what.
That would be fine with me, but that means that for any special apps that otherwise would require me to use Market Enabler, I will not be able to do it from the desktop either.
It's not a question of having DroidWall or anything else I've installed blocking something out; like I wrote; I've tried many clean installs without restoring or installing anything...: same.
So, has The Great Firewall" finally caught up to Android Market and stopping use of any Vending.apk from withtin China? Are they recent changes from Google? Or am I having other Market setup/install problems here? What's your take on this?
Thanks for reading and thanks for any help in advance.
Cheers.
And PLEASE do not "full quote" this long post (sorry for that btw) .

Market has been blocked by GFW. I can't access it either unless using VPN.

[] AL [] said:
So, has The Great Firewall" finally caught up to Android Market and stopping use of any Vending.apk from withtin China? .
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This sounds not so far fetched..
I live in the US, and I see the same type of behavior at my college.
I can get to the app, but when downloading it sits there for a century.
the idea of censorship isn't something I would blame, nor shrug.
Her are a few things I should try...
Use a spare gmail account to test with, and see if you can reproduce the same results...
Try and use that same vpn, configured through your phone this time, and disable any apn/data settings other than wifi... Now try.
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P.s. What ROM are you using? The cm team has a stable out now.. Guide that a shot...

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My OP was a long one, but I think that i did mention somewhere that I've tried a new gmail account with same result.
My vpn use encryption and will not work on defy ;(
Strangely, from all my recent tries at getting gapps to work properly, it seems that I can only use 2G data to do the first account setup. And that seems to 'work' only with June gapps package.
Recent update (on RC1.5):
I've also managed to get my installed apps listed again by playing around with 2G data and installing and uninstalling a standalone 3.1.3 Vending apk as update and undo it.
I was able to download 2 or 3 apps (out of 50 trials) also by fiddling w data enable/disable.
But again, never before, in 4-5 months using CM7, I had to turn on data past the initial Google setup and I've never had any download issues either....
So i don't think that it's related to TGFW and will keep digging...
On 7.1 now but no change..as
I did flash june gapps w 7.1 but never got any setup to do since no factory reset. Will try a clean install tomorrow or the day after...
Thanks for your reply.

OK I finally got it to work after all.
I just tried to fix the fix the problems caused by the new Superuser update after trying a recent nightly in just the worst possible way over and over.
So what you have to remember is:
1- to NOT signin to your Google account using data and do it over wifi. So select "Skip" on the screen showing "Create an account", "Sign in" or "Skip" and go ahead with other settings: your baseband, wifi and especially turning off "Data enabled".
2- always use the latest gapps version, not the June one like I tried many times
3- Install gapps along with a fresh CM7 zip install; not a nand restoration.
4- after reboot (if needed by Defy Baseband Switcher) just press the Market icon and set up your account then
So wipe data, cache and Dalvik and install CM7 zip (RC1.5 is a good one to start with) and and latest gapps zip and follow the above.
Sorry for this useless thread and for me trying to get this working like a chicken without a head
So @ TimelesslyPrecise: if your downloads do not start, it might as well be because you did setup your account over data the first time.
So just start from scratch again:
- backup your apps [with TB, the newest (and free) Astro file manager or other];
- do a fresh CM7 install (no need to reflash Froyo) but do as above;
- restore your apps;
- then just click on the Market icon and sign in.
Don't worry if at first your apps are not listed under "My apps"; they will eventually come back with usage.
@xcjiang: yeah I knew that, but that doesn't mean that the Market app on the phone doesn't work.
Sorry again about that.
Cheers.

Didn't worked for me...
Instead I found cause and solution elsewhere http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1295222
To cut the story short, problem is in way that Market don't get DNS right.
Solution is to install app that will change DNS for every wifi connection DNS to OpenDNS (my choice) or GoogleDNS. I'm using DNS Changer.
Now enjoy superfast Market

UI crashes on CM11 M6

Hi there,
I got a refurbished otter at the beginning of the week. I followed the guides here to install FFF, TWRP and CM11 on it.
First, a big thanks to everyone involved.
I'm getting what look like UI crashes, which I've been able to reproduce with Firefox but it seems they are not limited to it.
To reproduce:
flash FFF, TWRP and CM11 M6
install FF from the Play Store
configure Firefox sync
browse to any page
I should note that I configured my Google account at boot, and that I use a Hebrew locale.
On my device, I get a blank screen, followed by a return to the launcher or previously opened app, followed by more crashes until the CM boot animation shows on top of the launcher. When it completes, a dialogue appears noting the system UI has stopped working. It returns after confirming the message.
Should I report this to Mozilla and/or CM? I'd like to collect more information, where can I find any relevant logs? If so, is it possible to increase the logs' verbosity?
Thanks in advance.

Idontwantausername said:
Hi there,
I got a refurbished otter at the beginning of the week. I followed the guides here to install FFF, TWRP and CM11 on it.
First, a big thanks to everyone involved.
I'm getting what look like UI crashes, which I've been able to reproduce with Firefox but it seems they are not limited to it.
To reproduce:
flash FFF, TWRP and CM11 M6
install FF from the Play Store
configure Firefox sync
browse to any page
I should note that I configured my Google account at boot, and that I use a Hebrew locale.
On my device, I get a blank screen, followed by a return to the launcher or previously opened app, followed by more crashes until the CM boot animation shows on top of the launched. When it completes, a dialogue appears noting the system UI has stopped working. It returns after confirming the message.
Should I report this to Mozilla and/or CM? I'd like to collect more information, where can I find any relevant logs? If so, is it possible to increase the logs' verbosity?
Thanks in advance.
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I'm getting those same notification/notification bar/UI crashes on Nook HD+ using CM11 (nightlies and M6). I don't use firefox, so that is not your problem
I was actually getting them more in the previous nightly builds. CM11 M6 seems to have helped a little.
Mine happen seemingly randomly when I get notifications for a new email or hangout and I try to swipe down the notification bar to see what they are.
I've tried wiping the davlik, the entire cache, and even doing a factory reset. Nothing seems to work.
Anyone else have some advice?

_Boondock_ said:
I'm getting those same notification/notification bar/UI crashes on Nook HD+ using CM11 (nightlies and M6). I don't use firefox, so that is not your problem
I was actually getting them more in the previous nightly builds. CM11 M6 seems to have helped a little.
Mine happen seemingly randomly when I get notifications for a new email or hangout and I try to swipe down the notification bar to see what they are.
I've tried wiping the davlik, the entire cache, and even doing a factory reset. Nothing seems to work.
Anyone else have some advice?
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I have the exact same issue for about 2 months i believe.
This happens usually when pulling the notification panel down. It think it happens when you chain a lot of actions one after other. Like unlocking phone and pulling down the notification than tapping another thing etc...etc...
Hope this will be fixed soon, it usually disturbs the usage a lot. I was hoping M6 would solve that.

Back to m5 guys, my Galaxy Nexus has the same problem here, so I revert back to m5 and everything works fine, except the stock browser has startup crash sometime

Does anyone know if the devs are aware of this issue?

I just reproduced this on today's OtterX CM build.

I'm having the same problem. Had been running one of the earlier nightlies without any notification bar problems at all. Updated to the M6 release and now this problem occurs every few minutes. System is now totally unstable with M6. Firefox crashes more frequently now too.

CYAN-4047, if anyone's interested.

Idontwantausername said:
CYAN-4047, if anyone's interested.
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ARG! Sure wish I had seen this before spending the whole day restoring my Kindle to the older nightly after having to wipe it.

Idontwantausername said:
Hi there,
I got a refurbished otter at the beginning of the week. I followed the guides here to install FFF, TWRP and CM11 on it.
First, a big thanks to everyone involved.
I'm getting what look like UI crashes, which I've been able to reproduce with Firefox but it seems they are not limited to it.
To reproduce:
flash FFF, TWRP and CM11 M6
install FF from the Play Store
configure Firefox sync
browse to any page
I should note that I configured my Google account at boot, and that I use a Hebrew locale.
On my device, I get a blank screen, followed by a return to the launcher or previously opened app, followed by more crashes until the CM boot animation shows on top of the launcher. When it completes, a dialogue appears noting the system UI has stopped working. It returns after confirming the message.
Should I report this to Mozilla and/or CM? I'd like to collect more information, where can I find any relevant logs? If so, is it possible to increase the logs' verbosity?
Thanks in advance.
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I followed your steps exactly and I am not able to get this problem to occur. Are there any other steps you you may have omitted? Any other apps you installed or any other actions you performed in addition to what you listed here? Also, are you sure it's "any page"? Is there a specific site you were trying to go to when this happened? I'm trying to work on a fix for this issue and was hoping I could reproduce the problem based on your information but my device is still functioning fine. The more information you can provide the better and ideally I'd like something that can be reproduced consistently.

0xD34D said:
I followed your steps exactly and I am not able to get this problem to occur. Are there any other steps you you may have omitted? Any other apps you installed or any other actions you performed in addition to what you listed here? Also, are you sure it's "any page"? Is there a specific site you were trying to go to when this happened? I'm trying to work on a fix for this issue and was hoping I could reproduce the problem based on your information but my device is still functioning fine. The more information you can provide the better and ideally I'd like something that can be reproduced consistently.
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Since I have now reflashed back to my older nightly I can't give you exact steps but here is what I experienced. I also got a stock KF a while ago and since I didn't want the stock release, followed the instructions to reflash it. At that point I did the full device wipe and flashed the 20140407 nightly build. No problems at all, the system ran beautifully. This week, I got the notification that M6 was available for installation so I went to Settings->About tablet->CM Updates->Available Updates and clicked the download. It downloaded and installed without any problem. Rebooted and problems began immediately. Firefox was immediately unstable and began crashing frequently. The "UI" would hang and go black then crash and come back up in lock screen. Pulling the notification bar open would hang and then the system would crash. Things really became completely unuseable.
So today I tried rolling back to the previous nightly that had worked well. This time, I didn't wipe the device, just reinstalled the nightly and wiped the cache after installation. See my previous thread about how that turned out. The status bar was totally hosed, the quick settings panel didn't work, the home button didn't work, the extended power menu was gone. Just a complete mess. So... I wiped the device and reinstalled the nightly and brought everything back to life again.
Now I don't know if the issues were caused by a flakey M6 release, or the installation process which left some droppings behind as I didn't try installing the M6 release after a full wipe. But I do know that after a full wipe the 20140407 nightly is working without a problem. I can't say for sure but my expectation is that it had something to do with the installation process not doing a clean install rather than a bad M6 release.

I made a test build which reverts a change I suspect may be the culprit. If anyone cares to try it out, here is the link. Please do not go around sharing this will a lot of people since it is currently hosted on Dropbox and they will throttle it if too much traffic is received.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2151597/cm-11-20140511-UNOFFICIAL-otter.zip
md5sum: f9747d68e833bae9db12f548116f9551
Dropbox is still syncing so if you get an error 404 just try again in a couple minutes.

0xD34D said:
I followed your steps exactly and I am not able to get this problem to occur. Are there any other steps you you may have omitted? Any other apps you installed or any other actions you performed in addition to what you listed here? Also, are you sure it's "any page"? Is there a specific site you were trying to go to when this happened? I'm trying to work on a fix for this issue and was hoping I could reproduce the problem based on your information but my device is still functioning fine. The more information you can provide the better and ideally I'd like something that can be reproduced consistently.
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I saw in the bug report you've already found a way to reproduce, but just in case, as I wrote there I've found it reproduces by installing Adblock Plus - I close the app completely in the app drawer to make sure FF restarts with the add-on installed. After it restarts it should show a quick configuration page where you can enable blocking of secondary things like tracking and malware. In the first paragraph is a link to another settings page. In this other page all I have to do is zoom in or scroll around and most of the time I'll get a crash within a minute.

0xD34D said:
I made a test build which reverts a change I suspect may be the culprit. If anyone cares to try it out, here is the link. Please do not go around sharing this will a lot of people since it is currently hosted on Dropbox and they will throttle it if too much traffic is received.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2151597/cm-11-20140511-UNOFFICIAL-otter.zip
md5sum: f9747d68e833bae9db12f548116f9551
Dropbox is still syncing so if you get an error 404 just try again in a couple minutes.
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Downloaded, will be tested later today (in about 12 hours).
Edit: been testing this for about an hour now. The system seems very stable, even more than M5.

M6
I have this snapshot M6 build a week ago..I didn't notice any problem ...like firefox crashing.
I do a full wipe(clean) install...Data,system, cache, dalvik cache

0xD34D said:
Please do not go around sharing this will a lot of people since it is currently hosted on Dropbox and they will throttle it if too much traffic is received.
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I hope you don't mind I took the liberty of submitting this to a public bt tracker:
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Idontwantausername said:
I hope you don't mind I took the liberty of submitting this to a public bt tracker:
http://burnbit.com/torrent/289563/cm_11_20140511_UNOFFICIAL_otter_zip
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Actually I'd prefer you not do that.

0xD34D said:
Actually I'd prefer you not do that.
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It looks like there has been a fix for this problem. Has the fix been incorporated into one of the nightly builds or is it still only available as a patch?

mpuckett54 said:
It looks like there has been a fix for this problem. Has the fix been incorporated into one of the nightly builds or is it still only available as a patch?
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Does anyone know if this has been fixed in one of the nightly builds? Has anyone tried any of the post M6 nightly builds yet?

cm-11-20140602-NIGHTLY- i9300
mpuckett54 said:
Does anyone know if this has been fixed in one of the nightly builds? Has anyone tried any of the post M6 nightly builds yet?
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Had the same issue with M6 but now I thing they have fixed the issue, not sure which nightly build but build dated 20140602 fixed the issue for me.
I did a clean install.
Followed following steps.
1. Boot into recovery(CWM).
2. Factory Reset.
3. Cleared Dalvik cache.
4. Installed zip and run "defy_fullwipe_ext3.zip"
5. Installed "cm-11-20140602-NIGHTLY- i9300"
6. Installed Gapps for kitkat.
7. Reboot.
I have not faced the same UI crash issue so far will update if I face in future .
For "defy_fullwipe_ext3.zip" refer following link(I used the first one):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1818520

[Q] [Redmi 1s] Can't download anything from playstore

Hi, i got the redmi1s few days ago. Today, i decided to root it and right after that i couldn't download anything from the playstore. It just keeps on buffering. Once in a while after rebooting it starts downloading but, it is freakishly slow. things that took 5 mins before takes more than half hour and/or it says couldn't download in the process.
i.imgur.com/eb6FPyI.png
I've tried clearing data, cache on the apps, factory reset, removing and adding back google account and other things that were suggested in the forum.
Edit: now i can't seem to install anything. While trying to install it says the file could not be parsed or something. Happens after rebooting the device.
i.imgur.com/yUGvp5p.png
Edit: Somehow, was able to download supersu from the playstore and it said no storage available while i haven't even installed anything happens when i'm installing externally.
i.imgur.com/4I7YVeH.png
So yeah, are there any solution/s for the following problems. I'm planning to flash a new rom, PAC. But, i've never fiddled around much before.

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molabee said:
Hi, i got the redmi1s few days ago. Today, i decided to root it and right after that i couldn't download anything from the playstore. It just keeps on buffering. Once in a while after rebooting it starts downloading but, it is freakishly slow. things that took 5 mins before takes more than half hour and/or it says couldn't download in the process.
i.imgur.com/eb6FPyI.png
I've tried clearing data, cache on the apps, factory reset, removing and adding back google account and other things that were suggested in the forum.
Edit: now i can't seem to install anything. While trying to install it says the file could not be parsed or something. Happens after rebooting the device.
i.imgur.com/yUGvp5p.png
Edit: Somehow, was able to download supersu from the playstore and it said no storage available while i haven't even installed anything happens when i'm installing externally.
i.imgur.com/4I7YVeH.png
So yeah, are there any solution/s for the following problems. I'm planning to flash a new rom, PAC. But, i've never fiddled around much before.
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have you tried APK file .Is apk file installing normally if yes then your play store is corrupted . simply flash stock rom back or check permission of play store ,seems binary has dome some messy work in your device during root permission . :fingers-crossed:

kumarsujitroy said:
have you tried APK file .Is apk file installing normally if yes then your play store is corrupted . simply flash stock rom back or check permission of play store ,seems binary has dome some messy work in your device during root permission . :fingers-crossed:
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The apk file shows not enough space and after reboot the apk file is says file couldn't be parsed as in the pictures in the op.

I had the same problem.. Just wipe data,cache,dalvik, from recovery. Then reboot n try installing . it should work....
Good luck !
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I had the same thing sometimes, try connecting to another wi-fi network.

[SOLVED] Can't download large apps from Play Store

Good morning everyone,
I flashed Nougat OxygenOS (Open Beta 8) some days ago and made a full factory reset to obtain f2fs filesystem.
Since then, I can't install any big app from Play Store; with "big" I mean "games bigger than ~100MB", for example Monster Dash, Need for Speed, Implosion or Badlands.
I read about other people having the same issue, but no solution. Is anyone having this?
EDIT: issue solved in OpenBeta9!
Thanks.

Yup, same here. Downloads disappearing during downloading process has been a common issue on most of my android phones. But it's happening more regularly with OP3 now and wasn't an issue on stock build 3.2.7.

no problem.. are you waiting for wifi to download or what?..

Never had this issue before.
Tried in wifi, but when I click "install" it seems stuck with the "Downoading..." status with no progress.

Issue solved with OpenBeta9.
Thanks anyway!

[Q] Google Playstore Broke?

Good morning! Alright. So. All I've done to my phone was Root it and get Xposed on it. Everything was completely fine until last night. Now, whenever I try to download anything from the Playstore, it just gets stuck on "Downloading". I've tried wiping its cache, its data, force closing it, reinstalling the update. Nothing seems to solve this issue. I was wondering if anyone else has run into this issue on this phone, and how they resolved it? I can't even update my applications, and I didn't even get a chance to Update my Phone, but now when I try to Scan for Updates, it just gets stuck searching :/

This happened to me at first. What worked for me for a couple days was to toggle airplane mode. Then, it started getting stuck again. So, I downloaded Beans GAPPS, and extracted Google Play services and Play Store.apk, and that seems to be working. Keep in mind, that not everything is going to work smoothly. If none of this works, look for the .apk and move it to your device and install it that way. Hope that helps, bud.

I tried Googling Beans GApps, but it seems like they haven't been updated in about a year. Or am I looking in the wrong places?

This has also been my problem since getting a pixel 2 xl almost a month ago. In fact, I wanted to make a thread about my issue earlier but I'm just too lazy! The only thing I did at first was to unlock the bootloader.
Now, I am completely stock without even root but my playstore downloads are stuck in "downloading" and usually the download starts after being stuck in this phase with about 15-30 minutes delay (which could even be hours before my download is finally started, so it's random). The funny thing is playstore lists my device certification status as "uncertified" in the settings. I have tried clearing cache+data of play services+play store+removing/adding my Google account. I also did a fresh and clean install of the May security update rom but all to no avail. I remember reading in another thread that Google may impose a 7 day lock or something for your Google account in these instances so at this point I am just waiting it out (only 3-4 more days remaining) to see if my problem goes away by itself, otherwise, I am pretty clueless as to what I should do next.