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Play Store stuck on "Download Pending"

OK, I"m baffled. I've looked everywhere for the solution, including all over this web site.
My SM-G960U running stock Android 9 periodically goes into a mode where it marks all app updates and other downloads as "Download Pending." After a while (measured in days) it downloads everything and goes back to normal for a while. This behavior occurs irregularly and appears to me to be unrelated to some change I made in settings. For a while, I was able to correct the problem by force-stopping the Play Store and clearing its cache, but lately, even that doesn't work. I've also tried force-stopping, clearing the cache and data; no luck. Somebody wrote on this web site "Just turn on battery saver and your apps will update." I don't see "battery saver" anywhere and "maximum power saving" mode won't even let me get to the play store. I've adjusted the apps permissions to everything on.
This time around it's been more than a week and I have 68 updates in "download pending."
Once again, I am running stock, have not attempted to root the device nor have I modified it with any ROMs. Auto-update is normally off. (I don't see the point in updating bloatware that I don't use.) However, this problem continues with it on. The problem also persists whether on cellular data or wifi and I've told the app to use either one.
Please help me solve a very frustrating problem. Thanks.

Moody Blue said:
OK, I"m baffled. I've looked everywhere for the solution, including all over this web site.
My SM-G960U running stock Android 9 periodically goes into a mode where it marks all app updates and other downloads as "Download Pending." After a while (measured in days) it downloads everything and goes back to normal for a while. This behavior occurs irregularly and appears to me to be unrelated to some change I made in settings. For a while, I was able to correct the problem by force-stopping the Play Store and clearing its cache, but lately, even that doesn't work. I've also tried force-stopping, clearing the cache and data; no luck. Somebody wrote on this web site "Just turn on battery saver and your apps will update." I don't see "battery saver" anywhere and "maximum power saving" mode won't even let me get to the play store. I've adjusted the apps permissions to everything on.
This time around it's been more than a week and I have 68 updates in "download pending."
Once again, I am running stock, have not attempted to root the device nor have I modified it with any ROMs. Auto-update is normally off. (I don't see the point in updating bloatware that I don't use.) However, this problem continues with it on. The problem also persists whether on cellular data or wifi and I've told the app to use either one.
Please help me solve a very frustrating problem. Thanks.
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I don't think battery saving will help, actually it will limit background processes. But that guy meant by "battery saver" an option called "Medium power saving", you can find it above the "maximum power saving" in power mode menu.
I had a similar problem, sometimes when I try to download an app, it says "download pending" so I go to "my apps & games", and I press "update all" then I press "stop", then I download the app again and everything works fine...

Moody Blue said:
OK, I"m baffled. I've looked everywhere for the solution, including all over this web site.
My SM-G960U running stock Android 9 periodically goes into a mode where it marks all app updates and other downloads as "Download Pending." After a while (measured in days) it downloads everything and goes back to normal for a while. This behavior occurs irregularly and appears to me to be unrelated to some change I made in settings. For a while, I was able to correct the problem by force-stopping the Play Store and clearing its cache, but lately, even that doesn't work. I've also tried force-stopping, clearing the cache and data; no luck. Somebody wrote on this web site "Just turn on battery saver and your apps will update." I don't see "battery saver" anywhere and "maximum power saving" mode won't even let me get to the play store. I've adjusted the apps permissions to everything on.
This time around it's been more than a week and I have 68 updates in "download pending."
Once again, I am running stock, have not attempted to root the device nor have I modified it with any ROMs. Auto-update is normally off. (I don't see the point in updating bloatware that I don't use.) However, this problem continues with it on. The problem also persists whether on cellular data or wifi and I've told the app to use either one.
Please help me solve a very frustrating problem. Thanks.
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Try clearing DATA for the play store and Google Play Services (Will probably have to log back in to Google Play)

Thanks, guys for helping. Turns out it appears to be my VPN, which was one of the first things I looked into.
Connections > More connection settings > VPN got me to a "Settings" icon which in turn allowed me to turn off "Block connections without VPN. I then turned off the VPN and the Play Store started DL-ing the updates.. Don't know why this is in device settings, rather than the app's settings, but it is.
I will work with the VPN provider to see if their app and the Play Store can play together nicely.
For the moment, at least, I'm calling this one "Solved."

Why would using a VPN prevent updating apps from the play store?

EpicSaga said:
Why would using a VPN prevent updating apps from the play store?
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the same thing happens to me when im at work. i cant download stuff from certain places including the play store. My employers wifi is locked down and dosnt allow for google services when using a vpn. and i have tried this with PIA and the built in one

What is PIA and what is the one that is built in?

EpicSaga said:
What is PIA and what is the one that is built in?
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PIA is Private Internet Access, ( a VPN) I had exactly the same problem with the Playstore too, could only get it to get the downloads started by turning PIA off

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What is PIA and what is the one that is built in?
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private internet access. not built in, i pay $6.95 a month for it. rather happy with it. use it on all my devices

dave2103 said:
PIA is Private Internet Access, ( a VPN) I had exactly the same problem with the Playstore too, could only get it to get the downloads started by turning PIA off
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My phone didn't do that running Android 8, it was after the update in Android 9. Is there any way around this? What if the Wi-Fi router used the VPN setting and the phone was just receiving that WIFI VPN signal. So the phone would not have VPN on it, would you still need to disable the VPN in the router settings to download and update apps?

Samsung Wearable App Crashing?

Hi!.
I've been having this annoying problem with Galaxy Wearable app for the last three days where the app crashes on launch every time. I've been trying to fix it all this time and i have tried different remedies that didn't help at all. I haven't the slightest clue what's wrong and i don't know where to ask for help so i figured i ask for it here first. I'll post a logcat if anyone is willing to help.
Here's what i've tried so far:
1. Cleared cache - Didn't fix the issue
2. Cleared storage - Didn't fix the issue
3. Complete reinstall of the Wearable app and services - Didn't fix the issue
4. Removed the Samsung account - Didn't fix the issue
5. Resetting the watch and setting it back up again - Didn't fix the issue
6. Tried 3 and 5 together - Didn't fix the issue
7. Did a clean install of ROM (Havoc 2.8) - Fixed the issue but it came back in about an hour
9. Rolled back to the previous build of Havoc (2.7) - Same as above, problem came back after some time
10. Dirty flashed 2.8 - Same
11. Restored to 2.8 and uninstalled a bunch of apps that i thought might be clashing with the Wearable app - Didn't fix the issue
ANY help would be much appreciated. I'm starting to think something is wrong with the watch itself.
EDIT: Never mind, i found what's going on. It's Samsung Pay that's making the app crash. I uninstalled it on a whim and now it works!!! Mods, kindly delete this thread.

How much memory your phone got? Try to close all other apps and then try. I have the same behave with other apps on my Moto phone.

Helhound0 said:
Hi!.
I've been having this annoying problem with Galaxy Wearable app for the last three days where the app crashes on launch every time. I've been trying to fix it all this time and i have tried different remedies that didn't help at all. I haven't the slightest clue what's wrong and i don't know where to ask for help so i figured i ask for it here first. I'll post a logcat if anyone is willing to help.
Here's what i've tried so far:
1. Cleared cache - Didn't fix the issue
2. Cleared storage - Didn't fix the issue
3. Complete reinstall of the Wearable app and services - Didn't fix the issue
4. Removed the Samsung account - Didn't fix the issue
5. Resetting the watch and setting it back up again - Didn't fix the issue
6. Tried 3 and 5 together - Didn't fix the issue
7. Did a clean install of ROM (Havoc 2.8) - Fixed the issue but it came back in about an hour
9. Rolled back to the previous build of Havoc (2.7) - Same as above, problem came back after some time
10. Dirty flashed 2.8 - Same
11. Restored to 2.8 and uninstalled a bunch of apps that i thought might be clashing with the Wearable app - Didn't fix the issue
ANY help would be much appreciated. I'm starting to think something is wrong with the watch itself.
EDIT: Never mind, i found what's going on. It's Samsung Pay that's making the app crash. I uninstalled it on a whim and now it works!!! Mods, kindly delete this thread.
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Yep had the same exact problem the other day after upgrading to Android 10. There's another thread in here where I found the same issue (it's throwing a java ClassNotFound exception on mine). It's especially nefarious because they sideload the pay plugin so you won't see it if you're uninstalling via the play store, and it's not sorted alphabetically with the other Samsung apps so you might not even see it if you're searching manually.
I say nefarious because depending on how bad the crash is (background task vs UI), they may not be able to even push an automatic fix since they're not using the play store. Seems like a pretty terrible approach to me.
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oxygenes said:
How much memory your phone got? Try to close all other apps and then try. I have the same behave with other apps on my Moto phone.
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I got 3 gigs and not even half of it being used at idle. And i don't really do memory intensive stuff on my phone anyway. The issue was definitely Samsung Pay. if anyone has this issue where you're running Pie and are rooted with any version of magisk, uninstall Pay. It's been a few days and i haven't had this issue repeat even once.
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Yep had the same exact problem the other day after upgrading to Android 10. There's another thread in here where I found the same issue (it's throwing a java ClassNotFound exception on mine). It's especially nefarious because they sideload the pay plugin so you won't see it if you're uninstalling via the play store, and it's not sorted alphabetically with the other Samsung apps so you might not even see it if you're searching manually.
I say nefarious because depending on how bad the crash is (background task vs UI), they may not be able to even push an automatic fix since they're not using the play store. Seems like a pretty terrible approach to me.
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I just uninstalled Pay from the app list in settings and rebooted. If there is a sneaky sideloaded plugin somewhere, it doesn't seem to be interfering with the Wearables app anymore.
And I guess you're right about this being a terrible approach. But Pay isn't even supported where i currently live so my question is WHY even sideload it on a device being used in an unsupported region... Such a waste of resources.

Play Store completely broken while using mobile data only

The android play store is completely broken for me. It's been doing this for the last two weeks. Never had an issue before. I rarely post on XDA anymore because I never have problems with my phone and I'm tech savvy enough to troubleshoot my own stuff but I need help with this. The play store will only download apps and updates via wifi. After troubleshooting the app sometimes I can get it to work but most of the time it will be stuck at 99%, 49%, 36% downloaded or will just say "waiting for download" . I want to be able to use it without having to use wifi. I'm pretty sure it's a bug.
My play store settings:
App download preference: Over any network
Auto update apps: Dont auto update
Troubleshooting steps I took
1. Force close, clear cache
2. Force close, clear data
3. The above + restarting
4. Clear cache of play services and restart
5. Clear cache of download manager and restart
6. Full factory reset of my phone
7. Restarting mobile data, turning off/on wifi/Bluetooth
After the full restart I started to believe that an update somewhere broke the play store. I'm fully stock non rooted on Verizon. Every other app works just fine if it needs to use mobile data. I'm really frustrated and would like some assistance with this.

What email account is your playstore showing it is using? Is it a fully legitimate Gmail account? Or is it an email account that is a student account? Maybe business related?
And have you disabled any apps?

Possible fix...
I've been having the same issue on my rooted S8 since about a week after I bought it two years ago. I could never download new apps or do updates over the air. Now, I just in the last week bought a Note 10+ 5G and set it up with the second of the two Gmail accounts I have. I'm still using the same SIM card I've had for over a year. The Gmail account having issues with OTA updates is over 25 years old now, the newer one's about five years old. Now, as much as I'd like it to be the Note's not rooted, and if I'm logged into the newer Google account it's quite happily grabbing Play Store app. updates over the air.
You beauty!, you say. "Fixed it you have", would say Master Yoda.
Um, no.
If I switch back to the older Google account I instantly lose the ability to download anything over the air. Grabbing stuff while the device is connected to the internet via a wi-fi hotspot works like a charm, but I've tried every solution offered to me by Google technicians and Android experts alike and STILL can't get it download and install an app. when I'm anywhere other than hooked up to my home router. Go figure!
So yeh, just letting you know you're not the only one.
EDIT: Just had a play around (pardon the pun) with -> Settings -> Google Settings -> Google Account
Try this out and see how you go.
1. After you land in Google Settings, make sure the Google account you're having OTA dramas with is showing.
2. Tap on 'Data and Messaging'.
3. Tap on 'Data Management'.
4. Tap on 'Update Drive-enabled app. files'.
5. Tap on 'Over Wi-Fi or mobile data'
Back-arrow your way out, check that your handset is NOT connected to the internet via wi-fi, then go to Play Store, check for updates and they should download without issues over your mobile service provider's network connection. Please note that your mobile data allowance will be used, but you should also be able to wander the streets and grab new apps without needing to connect to a wi-fi hotspot.
Yippee! Oh, and don't applaud...
just throw money.

Question No updates in playstore

Anyone else having issues with apps not updating in the play store? If so, any fixes? I'm on P6P and latest update.

I have not had the issue. I happened to manually check yesterday and the Play Store was already in the process of updating three apps that needed it. Have you tried rebooting?

I have the same issue. I usually force close and clear cache for the Play Store and then updates appear.

I feel like having less updates than usual but I'm thinking it can be related with the holidays. Probably developer teams are reduced due holidays and the remaining ones don't want to be working extra hours on hotfixes hahaha

antoniovj1 said:
I feel like having less updates than usual but I'm thinking it can be related with the holidays. Probably developer teams are reduced due holidays and the remaining ones don't want to be working extra hours on hotfixes hahaha
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Correct. Like everyone else, holidays = vacation & time off !

Yeah noticed this too, hardly any app updates over the past couple of weeks, assuming developers have slowed down.

It does seem like fewer updates... Android 12?

Yeah nothing much

therock3181 said:
Correct. Like everyone else, holidays = vacation & time off !
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I speak from experience, during these days I am the only one of my team that has been left to defend the fort hahaha. My only goal right now is to keep everything up and running, no new features

A.Priori said:
Anyone else having issues with apps not updating in the play store? If so, any fixes? I'm on P6P and latest update.
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Its been Christmas and the new year, people are having time off.

A.Priori said:
Anyone else having issues with apps not updating in the play store? If so, any fixes? I'm on P6P and latest update.
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Do you refer to
a) you get no updates in general (right now)?
b) you get updates shown as available, but the system does not successfully automatically update them without your input?
A. That's because we just came out of christmas holidays. Most firms have closed/are running on low staff. There are no updates, because there are no updates.
B. That's a "common" problem and in 96% of the cases it's caused by singular apps being marked as "no auto update" - to check this, you have to go into
-> Open Play Store
-> Click on your profile (upper right corner, your GProfile icon)
-> Manage Apps & device
-> Manage
-> Click on any app
-> Click on three dots (upper right corner)
-> Check if "Enable auto update" is checked
For some stupid reason, backups can mess this up - and sometimes if even only 1 (!) app has been flagged as "no auto update", it will halt the entire update process.
And no, there is no easy way to streamline all apps as "auto update" - you will have to MANUALLY go through every app in that menu to find the culprit.
One of the things Google made worse over the years...

Morgrain said:
Do you refer to
a) you get no updates in general (right now)?
b) you get updates shown as available, but the system does not successfully automatically update them without your input?
A. That's because we just came out of christmas holidays. Most firms have closed/are running on low staff. There are no updates, because there are no updates.
B. That's a "common" problem and in 96% of the cases it's caused by singular apps being marked as "no auto update" - to check this, you have to go into
-> Open Play Store
-> Click on your profile (upper right corner, your GProfile icon)
-> Manage Apps & device
-> Manage
-> Click on any app
-> Click on three dots (upper right corner)
-> Check if "Enable auto update" is checked
For some stupid reason, backups can mess this up - and sometimes if even only 1 (!) app has been flagged as "no auto update", it will halt the entire update process.
And no, there is no easy way to streamline all apps as "auto update" - you will have to MANUALLY go through every app in that menu to find the culprit.
One of the things Google made worse over the years...
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From Android 4 i have not been able to auto update from play store(can't remember what it was called back then) and today still not able to.

there were so many updates in December (on the play store). I know because I check daily, and there was a ton. let the devs rest for a few weeks.

It's not about vacations etc. I just did a force close and clear cache one minute ago and boom....3 updates appeared.
"Notify when updates are available for apps " is the issue for me. I don't use auto update for apps, never have on any phone.

wolfeyes30 said:
It's not about vacations etc. I just did a force close and clear cache one minute ago and boom....3 updates appeared.
"Notification for app updates are available" is the issue for me. I don't use auto update and never did.
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and yet after days of no updates today they started to show up again for me.

MrBelter said:
and yet after days of no updates today they started to show up again for me.
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Congratulations

A.Priori said:
Anyone else having issues with apps not updating in the play store? If so, any fixes? I'm on P6P and latest update.
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Of the three profiles on my up-to-date Pixel 4 XL, the third one stopped getting updates to the installed apps in that profile, i.e. any update notifications or manual check for updates in the Play Store failed to pick up updates to most or or all of the apps unique to that profile.
I can't tell when this behaviour started, but it must have been some weeks ago. Going each app in the Play Store showed updates and noted that I was running a beta version (which was correct), but to update required updating to a non-beta then (re)joining the beta. Subsequently these apps have received updates via notification and check for updates in the Play Store.

General Automatic Play Store app updates delay - individual apps were set to not receive automatic updates

Back a couple of weeks ago or so at least two people mentioned they weren't receiving automatic updates to their apps. I can't find the thread now when I search for it - was probably posts buried in one of the existing threads.
I was having a problem with one particular app yesterday, and I was wondering if it needed an update. It didn't, the problem was probably the particular company's, but I noticed there were over 40 apps that needed updates, and just now I received a notification that 24 apps had updates available.
I chose to update them all, and then after they updated I started checking each of them one by one on the Play Store, and they were all set to not Auto update. I've had this before but only work select apps, not a bunch.
I don't know if it's related to me using Swift Backup to restore only some apps' data or what could do this. Even Swift Backup was set not to auto-update.
It's frustrating that after all this time there's no way to just get a list of those set but to auto-update and not, and be able to toggle a bunch all from one screen instead of each individually.
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I keep getting 'unable to update' or whatever. Some apps only update by manual update

Hmm, that's an oddity. I'll start with some simple guesses for what could potentially be causing such an issue.
This hasn't happened to me yet, however, I don't use any backup apps after a full wipe or a phone swap; so that could potentially be affecting your device's apps. But also - and this probably isn't related to the problem - but do you disable verity and verification each time that you flash an update? So many people have been saying that it is no longer necessary, however, I have been doing it every single time just in case. Lastly, you are definitely using the correct factory image from Google's site, right? If you purchased the phone directly from Google, you're not supposed to use the image labeled as "For US Carriers" (although I'm not sure that using that image anyway would cause this issue)... These are all things that I've learned/started doing just to play it safe.
*Edit* - Oh, and which Google Play system update are you rocking?

fil3s said:
I keep getting 'unable to update' or whatever. Some apps only update by manual update
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Interesting! Have you looked at any of those apps' individual checkboxes to see if they're set to auto-update?
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Hmm, that's an oddity. I'll start with some simple guesses for what could potentially be causing such an issue.
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Hi, thanks for your suggestions on the subject.
Update of sorts: I scrolled through all 256 apps (not all of them user apps, and now uninstalled two) and didn't detect any particular pattern to the ones which had the checkbox set and which didn't. I believe among stock (in the firmware) installed apps that they were usually checked but I didn't pay close attention if any of those were not. I believe there were a few that were not.
At least 75% of the apps, but definitely not all - even not all of the user-installed apps, had auto-updates disabled.
As a side note, besides the usual pain of having to check that setting for each individual app, it's especially a pain to try to hit the 3-dot menu button right beside the curved edge of the screen, 250+ times. There was more than one app that it took several trials and errors to click the menu button.
NippleSauce said:
This hasn't happened to me yet, however, I don't use any backup apps after a full wipe or a phone swap; so that could potentially be affecting your device's apps.
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The most recent time I factory reset, I only restored backups through Swift backup for particular apps that don't implement Google's cloud backup for the app data. I didn't restore the actual apps, just the data. Previous to that, I had actually had Google's cloud backup restore everything. I always do and have never had any obvious problems for several years now.
NippleSauce said:
But also - and this probably isn't related to the problem - but do you disable verity and verification each time that you flash an update? So many people have been saying that it is no longer necessary, however, I have been doing it every single time just in case.
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I did disable them the last time that I flashed because I knew I was going to be flashing the updated CleanSlate kernel and I wasn't sure if it was still going to be necessary. At this point, I don't remember if I later flashed verity and verification without disabling them (to enable them).
When the January update arrives, I plan on not disabling verity and verification. I know that the CleanSlate kernel has been updated to not require those being disabled.
NippleSauce said:
Lastly, you are definitely using the correct factory image from Google's site, right? If you purchased the phone directly from Google, you're not supposed to use the image labeled as "For US Carriers" (although I'm not sure that using that image anyway would cause this issue)... These are all things that I've learned/started doing just to play it safe.
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I am on raven-sq1d.211205.017-factory-bf3da4b2 - for all U.S. Carriers.
You are the second or third person who has said in this section that the US Carrier image isn't the correct one if using the factory unlocked variant. I'd like to know what the source is of this information, as no one has pointed to an article or official Google source saying one way or the other.
At this point, over two months since my wife and I received our P6Ps, I don't remember the exact firmware that was on it, nor the exact OTA version that was available immediately - either one of the following two:
SD1A.210817.019.B1, Oct 2021, AT&T
or
SD1A.210817.019.C2, Oct 2021, T-Mobile (US), USCC, Google Fi, CA, & TW carriers.
I tend to keep things simple when possible and my interpretation and advice to everyone who has asked what update they should flash is simply, whichever one matches your carrier. After all, they contain radio optimizations geared towards the carrier(s) available in those areas. Certainly, all of the firmware versions work on any bootloader unlocked Pixel, but without evidence to the contrary, I have no reason to think I shouldn't be flashing the one for U.S. Carriers, and the December one that didn't specify a particular place would be for "everywhere else" other than the three others which did specify.
If you can lead me to the solid information that says I shouldn't, I'd greatly appreciate it. I'm not trying to be contrary or argumentative - I'm just genuinely curious what the source is for this information. It would have to be a very solid source for me to change my thought on the matter.
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*Edit* - Oh, and which Google Play system update are you rocking?
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I am on the November Play System update, with no update available.
Before I accidentally factory reset my phone three weeks ago, I had gotten the December Play System update. I remember reporting at the time in a thread here which someone made about the Play System update that the phone reported the update to December was ~650 MB, which was tons larger than what most were reporting as ~50 MB or so. As others have speculated, there are probably multiple updates available in the same month sometimes, so perhaps I was on an older October update before that, and most others were already on November - just speculation, though.
I didn't root right away because I was waiting on all the positive reports on success and methods, and then I had to wait for a time I felt comfortable taking the time necessary to set everything up on the freshly factory reset phone. I believe I had unlocked the bootloader immediately, as I knew that would factory reset and would be necessary for rooting, but of course then there was the disabling verity and verification which I didn't know about when I unlocked the bootloader, anyway, so I did that later, and then I had to factory reset yet again.
For the record, I haven't had any other problems, like others have.

Interesting! Have you looked at any of those apps' individual checkboxes to see if they're set to auto-update?
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Yeah it's setup to automatically update as I have unlimited wifi. I just get one or two apps fail to update about once a day.

fil3s said:
Yeah it's setup to automatically update as I have unlimited wifi. I just get one or two apps fail to update about once a day.
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You took a look at my screenshots in the OP? I just want to make sure you and I are talking about the same thing. My Play Store settings, in general, have always (or at least for many, many years) been set to auto-update over both Wi-Fi and mobile data connections (I used to do Wi-Fi only a long time ago as well), however, each app's page in the Play Store has its own individual checkbox for auto-update located in the upper right corner's 3-dot menu, which is independent of the overall Play Store settings for auto-update, and takes overrides it, at least when the general setting for the Play Store is to auto-update.
I haven't had the issue you're having with 'unable to update' or anything similar, for what it's worth.

roirraW edor ehT said:
You took a look at my screenshots in the OP? I just want to make sure you and I are talking about the same thing. My Play Store settings, in general, have always (or at least for many, many years) been set to auto-update over both Wi-Fi and mobile data connections (I used to do Wi-Fi only a long time ago as well), however, each app's page in the Play Store has its own individual checkbox for auto-update located in the upper right corner's 3-dot menu, which is independent of the overall Play Store settings for auto-update, and takes overrides it, at least when the general setting for the Play Store is to auto-update.
I haven't had the issue you're having with 'unable to update' or anything similar, for what it's worth.
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I use swift backup Pro also, but haven't used it on my p6pro yet.
Yeah sorry about that I didn't read your post properly. Blame the psyche meds I'm on, or my frontal lobe damage

fil3s said:
I use swift backup Pro also, but haven't used it on my p6pro yet.
Yeah sorry about that I didn't read your post properly. Blame the psyche meds I'm on, or my frontal lobe damage
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LOL!!! No sweat.

I've been noticing the same. However I also saw this issue on my OP8T running LOS18.1. I do manually disable auto-update on YouTube (since I use Vanced) all other apps are set to auto-update. I wonder if it has to do with having even one app not set to not auto-update or if it is Swift (since Google doesn't restore my 2FA Authenticator data and until recently you couldn't export).
As for the question about Verity, mine is off from when I rooted right after Dec update when it was required.

Based on your response, I'm going to guess that this could either be due to the incorrect factory image use or due to the use of SwiftBackup. We're both on the Play System update from November - so that seems like an unlikely cause.
I, personally, never backup anything before wiping my phone. Does that make it a real pain in the arse to setup again? It definitely does =(.
As for my information regarding the correct factory image to use, I don't have the links to where that information was discussed, however, it was stated by a Google employee on the Google forums and was also (I believe) discussed on Twitter from a Google rep. I may not be 100% correct on the other discussion happening on Twitter as I don't fully remember discovering everything related to the factory image confusion being that it was one of the first things that I had corrected after getting this phone. But, when I went to the correct factory image, a lot of the odd things that my phone would experience (such as an abnormally high usage temperature no matter what) were resolved. Perhaps the different P6 variants have a slightly different hardware design that isn't mentioned anywhere?
Also for the disable verity and verification stuff - I still don't think it could be causing the issue, however, I've been sure to disable it with every single factory image update. So perhaps this has more of an impact on stability than was previously thought .
Regardless, my apologies for my crummy formatting in this response and also for possibly missing some details. I'm on mobile right now and have had a severe traumatic brain injury about a year and a half ago. After reading the short message from @fil3s , it seems that XDA is the safe ground for us brain injury nerds, haha =)

NippleSauce said:
Based on your response, I'm going to guess that this could either be due to the incorrect factory image use or due to the use of SwiftBackup. We're both on the Play System update from November - so that seems like an unlikely cause.
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Of those two choices, I would lean towards Swift Backup, however, I doubt if it's that either since I definitely didn't restore anything using Swift for so many of my apps - I only restored very select apps' data after I had restored from Google Backup. Hell, it could be a Google Backup/Restore bug for all I know. I've had nothing (else) but good experience with restores from Google over the last five years or so.
NippleSauce said:
I, personally, never backup anything before wiping my phone. Does that make it a real pain in the arse to setup again? It definitely does =(.
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I prefer to manually over-backup and restore only what I need to as I need it - any app data that Google's Cloud Backup didn't restore for apps that are slightly more painful to remember how I had them set up. It's better for me to not need the data but have it backed up, then need it and not have it backed up.
NippleSauce said:
As for my information regarding the correct factory image to use, I don't have the links to where that information was discussed, however, it was stated by a Google employee on the Google forums and was also (I believe) discussed on Twitter from a Google rep. I may not be 100% correct on the other discussion happening on Twitter as I don't fully remember discovering everything related to the factory image confusion being that it was one of the first things that I had corrected after getting this phone. But, when I went to the correct factory image, a lot of the odd things that my phone would experience (such as an abnormally high usage temperature no matter what) were resolved. Perhaps the different P6 variants have a slightly different hardware design that isn't mentioned anywhere?
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I'll definitely need more than that before I switch my thinking on that subject, but thank you for sharing what you do know or remember. The easy way to find out, of course, is for someone who's completely on stock unrooted, preferably even bootloader still locked, running on AT&T like me to share with us which December OTA they received - for those relatively few who actually received it.
I may go ahead and make a question thread/XDA poll on the subject: Poll only for non-rooted factory unlocked P6P owners running on any US carrier who received the December over the air update, not manually flashed
NippleSauce said:
Also for the disable verity and verification stuff - I still don't think it could be causing the issue, however, I've been sure to disable it with every single factory image update. So perhaps this has more of an impact on stability than was previously thought .
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I doubt if it is a factor for stability, or at least only indirectly through the increased security they provide. See the section on that subject with information that other more knowledgeable folks in the first four posts in my P6P thread that I have in my signature below if it's information you're not already aware of.
NippleSauce said:
Regardless, my apologies for my crummy formatting in this response and also for possibly missing some details. I'm on mobile right now and have had a severe traumatic brain injury about a year and a half ago. After reading the short message from @fil3s , it seems that XDA is the safe ground for us brain injury nerds, haha =)
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I'm very sorry to hear about your brain injury. I hope you cope as well as possible. Don't worry about formatting - even if it's not easy to read/digest XDA's newer software makes it easier to break up into chunks and respond to individual portions, from what I remember over the old software. My brain issues are more psychological (so far), however, the Army did feed us beef that was potentially from mad cows in Britain in the mid-1980s, but the only way anyone will ever know if I was exposed to it is if I die from it - at least that was the information that was given to me when I found out about that almost 20 years ago when I went to give blood.

roirraW edor ehT said:
Back a couple of weeks ago or so at least two people mentioned they weren't receiving automatic updates to their apps. I can't find the thread now when I search for it - was probably posts buried in one of the existing threads.
I was having a problem with one particular app yesterday, and I was wondering if it needed an update. It didn't, the problem was probably the particular company's, but I noticed there were over 40 apps that needed updates, and just now I received a notification that 24 apps had updates available.
I chose to update them all, and then after they updated I started checking each of them one by one on the Play Store, and they were all set to not Auto update. I've had this before but only work select apps, not a bunch.
I don't know if it's related to me using Swift Backup to restore only some apps' data or what could do this. Even Swift Backup was set not to auto-update.
It's frustrating that after all this time there's no way to just get a list of those set but to auto-update and not, and be able to toggle a bunch all from one screen instead of each individually.
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I've been noticing the same with my Pixel 3 and 6 Pro. When I upgraded my 3 to Android 12, I had trouble updating apps and checked the setting. It was turned off, for almost every app (I never did turn any of these boxes off manually). I guess it's an Android 12 thing-y / bug. Since my P6 Pro also had several of these settings turned off, it has probably nothing to do with upgrading to Android 12, but Android 12 in general just being a buggy mess.

Morgrain said:
I've been noticing the same with my Pixel 3 and 6 Pro. When I upgraded my 3 to Android 12, I had trouble updating apps and checked the setting. It was turned off, for almost every app (I never did turn any of these boxes off manually). I guess it's an Android 12 thing-y / bug. Since my P6 Pro also had several of these settings turned off, it has probably nothing to do with upgrading to Android 12, but Android 12 in general just being a buggy mess.
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Thanks! That does sound more likely. I guess I can officially list myself as having one problem.