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[Q] Samsung Security Policy Updates

I got a popup asking to autoupdate the Samsung security policies. Does anybody know what the Samsung Security Policy updates update? I obviously declined the automatic updates, but was wondering if anybody knows if there are consequences either way.

I'm pretty sure this is Knox related. I've declined it myself only to be asked about a dozen more times since. Seems like it finally gave up though. If anyone else has input, I'd be interesting hearing what they know.
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My thought is to decline but i would be interested in hearing what a developer thinks.

I want to bump this question. I just had a notice to allow security policy updates. The terms and conditions that must be accepted state that the "updates may add new security policies and delete any existing policies, if necessary. The service may detect and delete any downloaded software which contains malware." Since I have a Developer Edition, am rooted and have many apps that have been granted Super User permissions, I'm wondering if these security updates could delete or alter those permissions or otherwise affect root.

I updated it on my rooted dev edition and I've had no ill effects (so far) I know it required a lot of permissions but it's a security update from the manufacturer for god sake. The last thing I wanted was some security policy to go without being updated. Maybe that's my IT mindset. I was less hesitant to install because I already have root, unlocked bootloader, and a backup, so worse case scenario I could have just restored my nand.

commissionerg said:
I updated it on my rooted dev edition and I've had no ill effects (so far) I know it required a lot of permissions but it's a security update from the manufacturer for god sake. The last thing I wanted was some security policy to go without being updated. Maybe that's my IT mindset. I was less hesitant to install because I already have root, unlocked bootloader, and a backup, so worse case scenario I could have just restored my nand.
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Agree with this on all points, but, like @GirLuvsDroid said, it sure would be nice to know exactly what these updates are doing.
I have also been declining them, but since you took the plunge for us (and I thank you!) and to your point, that we have backups, I will take it next time.

I have a rooted dev version, and I used Titanium (I bought the premium), and I froze the Knox services, as well as the security policy updates. It stopped the popup and my phone still works fine.

How to prevent updates on your G4

Root developers are saying don't take the updates. Few people are reporting that the updates made anything better. Don't take the updates if you can help it.
Follow the instructions below, and report back with your phone info (carrier, variant, software version, etc.). Also report if updates were successfully blocked, or if they installed anyway, or if you just get a nag screen. Thanks!
If your phone has already downloaded the update and is trying to install it, follow the advice here. This won't work for AT&T phones because they removed recovery mode.
Start here:
Get debloater (works without root!) and set up your computer so you can run ADB and connect with your phone. You may need to install the LG United Mobile Driver.
Please donate to the Debloater developer, gatesjunior! Debloater has made this so much easier!
There are many packages you can block that will improve the performance and battery life of your phone (see my blocked.txt below), but the packages you want to block that will hopefully prevent updates are:
LGDMSClient.apk (Blocking breaks WiFi calling setup on Sprint only.)
LGUpdateCenter.apk
LGFOTA.apk Two users reported calls going straight to voicemail with this blocked.
LGLDB.apk I don't know if it's related to updates but it seems to be MLT spyware.
Not all carriers will have all these files, but block what you do have and report any problems so I can update this post with what works and what doesn't
Carrier specific files:
Sprint users may want to block:
Sprint_Installer.apk
ItsOnService.apk
ItsOnUID.apk
Tierez reported that blocking the ItsOn files breaks WiFi. They also reported that blocking LGDMSClient.apk broke the WiFi calling setup screen.
Verizon users should block:
VerizonIgnite.apk, It's a post-sale bloatware installer. Thanks alan242!
@JeffXT inadvertently blocked a Verizon file that enabled tethering.
AT&T users should block:
WildTangent.apk
T-Mobile users should block:
AdaptClient.apk
This will break the software update screen in about phone and so far has prevented my phone from trying to update. My AT&T H810 hasn't tried to update and I can't force it to update since I blocked LGDMSClient.apk, but it seems we can't be too safe in preventing forced updates so leave no questionable package unblocked!
Something I also did during setup was to not agree to the optional LG EULA that would have allowed app updating. I've also blocked:
LGStartupEula.apk
LicenseProvider.apk
UnifiedEULA.apk
Don't block LGSystemServer.apk, it breaks notifications and other stuff (LED, sound, and vibration).
Autoprime is listing which software versions are updating the firmware to V1 here.
Good luck!
Don't block LGSystemSetup.apk or LGSetupWizard.apk! You'll need it to run if there phone gets reset. Ignore the blocked.txt file below.

phineous said:
After seeing the mysterious "security enhancements" mentioned in the AT&T release notes on the July 1st update I think it's important to prevent further updates incase they break future rooting methods. Also, why take their update if it's not shown to improve performance? Come on! There's an update to Uber, but no mention of touch screen fixes?!
FIrst, get debloater (works without root!)and set up your computer so you can run ADB and connect with your phone. You may need to install the LG United Mobile Driver.
There's a ton of packages you can block that will improve the performance and battery life of the phone, but the package you want to block to prevent updates is LGDMSClient.apk. This will break the software update screen in about phone and so far has prevented my phone from trying to update.
Good luck!
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Just a quick heads up (might just be me, might be US Cellular in general....I am not sure) I went through and did this after hearing about different companies basically force feeding their clientel these OTA Updates and even though I did it all right down to the letter and did not skip anything my US991 still went ahead and did a forced update to 10c (not sure why or even when it did this, just know that it did at some point).
Hopefully they are not blocking any exploits with this stupid 10c update (which I assume they did as my device was running buttery smooth and had no issues that would have needed an update in order to correct).

Z3ldaFan88 said:
Just a quick heads up (might just be me, might be US Cellular in general....I am not sure) I went through and did this after hearing about different companies basically force feeding their clientel these OTA Updates and even though I did it all right down to the letter and did not skip anything my US991 still went ahead and did a forced update to 10c (not sure why or even when it did this, just know that it did at some point).
Hopefully they are not blocking any exploits with this stupid 10c update (which I assume they did as my device was running buttery smooth and had no issues that would have needed an update in order to correct).
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Sorry to hear it didn't prevent your update.
I've added more files to block, and one to unblock in the OP.

phineous said:
Sorry to hear it didn't prevent your update.
Try blocking LGUpdateCenter.apk also. My AT&T H810 hasn't tried to update and I can't force it to update since I blocked LGDMSClient.apk. Seems we can't be too safe in preventing forced updates so leave no questionable package unblocked!
Something I also did during setup was to not agree to the optional LG EULA that would have allowed app updating. I've also blocked:
LGStartupEula.apk
LicenseProvider.apk
UnifiedEULA.apk
I've attached a Debloater blocked.txt that shows all the packages I've blocked.
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No worries, it just is what it is (yeah I was angry about it, but not like I can do anything about it). I will certainly go through and block the rest of the applications that you mentioned though so hopefully I can prevent any future aggravations caused by these damn self-updates. Thanks for posting how you went about it and letting us know that (so far at least) it is going according to plan.

Holy Cow! I thought T-Mobile was bad with the bloat but jeez....AT&T makes our bloat look like....well, I dunno it's still bloat, but we've got a LOT less of it lol. I use the debloater tool, but UX 4.0 isn't that bad by its self. I removed all the T-Mo stuff and that's about it.

Thanks!

painedglass said:
Holy Cow! I thought T-Mobile was bad with the bloat but jeez....AT&T makes our bloat look like....well, I dunno it's still bloat, but we've got a LOT less of it lol. I use the debloater tool, but UX 4.0 isn't that bad by its self. I removed all the T-Mo stuff and that's about it.
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Did removing the TMobile bloat affect wifi calling?
G4'ed it!

Not at all, less lag and a bit smoother. Battery lasts longer since apps that drain the battery are disabled. Just be smart about what you disable. It has a search feature, so I'll search for say "tmo" any apk or service with that search term in it will show up in the list, disable it and move on to the next apk/service. You dont even need to reboot, you can watch them get disabled in real time.

I just bought my second G4, trying the phone again. It is another Verizon model.
People raised interesting points about holding off on updates, in case it makes root more difficult, so I got the Debloater tool (that is awesome!) and tried to block the items listed in the original post.
With Verizon, I don't see an entry for "LGUpdateCenter.apk", so I could not block that one. I hope the remaining 5 will be enough to keep the update at-bay for now.
phineous, that's an interesting point about the optional LG EULA. I agreed to something from LG during initial setup today, I guess I didn't give any real thought to not agreeing.
I have not yet applied anyone's complete Debloater list, I guess I'm not quite brave enough for that just yet. I only went through and disabled things I could identify and knew I wouldn't need at the moment.

How many apks does the AT&T G4 have? My Tmobile has 273.

Replacing my earlier post, to avoid confusion: Verizon messed up something on my line. After a day, they got it fixed, and now I can use Advanced Calling on my G4, still with the original software (having not gotten the recent update). Everything seems to be working now.

RedOCtobyr said:
Replacing my earlier post, to avoid confusion: Verizon messed up something on my line. After a day, they got it fixed, and now I can use Advanced Calling on my G4, still with the original software (having not gotten the recent update). Everything seems to be working now.
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What's your Baseband Version and Build number? I'm buying the Verizon G4 this Saturday and would like to know if I have the OTA out of the box.

GUGUITOMTG4 said:
How many apks does the AT&T G4 have? My Tmobile has 273.
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I don't remember how many it came with originally, but I've blocked 85 out of a total of 297. I've probably installed about 57. I would guess around 240 originally.

flamadiddle said:
What's your Baseband Version and Build number? I'm buying the Verizon G4 this Saturday and would like to know if I have the OTA out of the box.
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Don't let the salesperson set up the phone! They seem to delight in downloading updates. I'd keep the phone off or at least disable WiFi till I could connect it to a computer and Debloat it.
Good luck!

phineous said:
Don't let the salesperson set up the phone! They seem to delight in downloading updates. I'd keep the phone off or at least disable WiFi till I could connect it to a computer and Debloat it.
Good luck!
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Yeah, that's the plan. I'd just like a frame of reference so I know if all my efforts to prevent the OTA work or if I was defeated before I even got the phone.

phineous said:
I don't remember how many it came with originally, but I've blocked 85 out of a total of 297. I've probably installed about 57. I would guess around 240 originally.
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Wow 85 is such a relief I blocked just 34. At least it does not get high temps now.T-mobile seems to add much lesser bloat indeed. My 273 include around 40 downloaded apps.

flamadiddle said:
What's your Baseband Version and Build number? I'm buying the Verizon G4 this Saturday and would like to know if I have the OTA out of the box.
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See attached. I believe the item of interest, relative to the OTA, is the Software Version. The new one (updated) ends in 611A, I think.
They did a brief setup at Best Buy for me. I Factory Reset when I got home, then Debloated the items that would start the update:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/help/how-to-prevent-updates-g4-t3148650
But it wasn't until the next day, after another Factory Reset, that I forgot to Debloat those immediately, and had turned on the WiFi. I noticed when the update was halfway downloaded. Turned off WiFi, and turned on Airplane Mode, until I was able to Debloat the offending items.
No updates stuff since then, several days ago, even with WiFi on.

RedOCtobyr said:
But it wasn't until the next day, after another Factory Reset, that I forgot to Debloat those immediately, and had turned on the WiFi. I noticed when the update was halfway downloaded. Turned off WiFi, and turned on Airplane Mode, until I was able to Debloat the offending items.
No updates stuff since then, several days ago, even with WiFi on.
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Look at how sneaky the carriers are now! It's a good thing the devs are being quiet about their root method.

RedOCtobyr said:
See attached. I believe the item of interest, relative to the OTA, is the Software Version. The new one (updated) ends in 611A, I think.
They did a brief setup at Best Buy for me. I Factory Reset when I got home, then Debloated the items that would start the update:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/help/how-to-prevent-updates-g4-t3148650
But it wasn't until the next day, after another Factory Reset, that I forgot to Debloat those immediately, and had turned on the WiFi. I noticed when the update was halfway downloaded. Turned off WiFi, and turned on Airplane Mode, until I was able to Debloat the offending items.
No updates stuff since then, several days ago, even with WiFi on.
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Exactly what I needed. Thank you! :good:

flamadiddle said:
Exactly what I needed. Thank you! :good:
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You are welcome! Please report back if discover any problems or other files to block.

How to disable CNEService or its high usage of data?

Recently it is using a ridiculous amount of data (started a few days ago). I checked the data usage and found the name: com.quicinc.cne.CNEService.CNEServiceApp. How do I disable it?

I don't think it's a service you can actually disable. It's part of the chipset and is used to determine whether a WiFi or data connection is stronger in real time and keep you on the stronger connection. My understanding is that all of your data goes through that service regardless of which app is actually using the data so thinking it's that service itself that's using all your data is backwards. That number is basically a catch all for the data used on your phone by other various apps and services.

jhs39 said:
I don't think it's a service you can actually disable. It's part of the chipset and is used to determine whether a WiFi or data connection is stronger in real time and keep you on the stronger connection. My understanding is that all of your data goes through that service regardless of which app is actually using the data so thinking it's that service itself that's using all your data is backwards. That number is basically a catch all for the data used on your phone by other various apps and services.
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Is there any way to figure out what app or service is it?

LesterX said:
Is there any way to figure out what app or service is it?
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Using Stock ROM? I had this some time ago. It's because it's downloading an OTA update in the background, failing to install because of custom recovery/root/something else, and retrying forever.
Some have suggested disabling automatic updates in dev settings, but for me it didn't fix it.
Flash the latest images and you'll be fine.

josdehaes said:
Using Stock ROM? I had this some time ago. It's because it's downloading an OTA update in the background, failing to install because of custom recovery/root/something else, and retrying forever.
Some have suggested disabling automatic updates in dev settings, but for me it didn't fix it.
Flash the latest images and you'll be fine.
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Thanks. I did root the phone. I just turned off the automatic update, hope it'll work.

Like mentioned by josdehaes, having automatic updates turned off still allowed the usage on my rooted Verizon phone. I saw one person suggest the issue might be specific to rooted Verizon phones, but I have no idea if that's accurate or not. Since my phone is rooted with SuperSU, and because I don't have anything else like TWRP installed, I just started using FlashFire to update. Keeping the phone updated to the latest software has worked so far, and letting FlashFire install the OTA on the phone is a lot quicker than messing with factory images or sideloading the full OTA. If that wouldn't have worked, I thought about installing a ROM that doesn't use the OTA, since the only other procedure I've ran across for stopping stock updates kept my phone from going into deep sleep.

High CNEService can probably be caused by a hundred things other than a failed OTA update and if it actually was an OTA update you should see an Android notification mentioning the fact that there's an update. Having a rooted phone on stock does not stop OTA updates from downloading successfully and it certainly doesn't prevent the Android notification telling you that an update downloaded or is available for your phone. If you bother to do a Google search on your "problem' you will find that people complain about the same exact thing on an assortment of Android devices regardless of manufacturer and most of the people doing the complaining do not have rooted phones. It has nothing to do with Verizon and most probably nothing to do with what the earlier poster suggested.

jhs39 said:
Having a rooted phone on stock does not stop OTA updates from downloading successfully
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Having a Pixel rooted with SuperSU certainly can stop an OTA update. Although my phone had been updating fine using the OTA before installing SuperSU, either SuperSU or the changes I made with root would no longer allow the OTA, even after SuperSU was removed.
If you bother to do a Google search on your "problem' you will find that people complain about the same exact thing on an assortment of Android devices regardless of manufacturer and most of the people doing the complaining do not have rooted phones. It has nothing to do with Verizon and most probably nothing to do with what the earlier poster suggested.
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All the discussions I've read in the Pixel and Pixel XL forums that mention unexplainable and abnormally high cellular data usage, which the phone lists as being from a CNEService process, have been rooted phones that are not running the current update. As previously noted, it's the most likely guess, since that's the consensus from multiple threads. All I know for absolute certainty is that the Automatic system updates setting had been turned off, and my phone stopped the excessive data usage after updating to the current version. I had never seen any listings of which phones in the discussions were Verizon phones, so I'm not sure where the presumption came from that only Verizon phones might have been affected when automatic updates were turned off.

jhs39 said:
High CNEService can probably be caused by a hundred things other than a failed OTA update and if it actually was an OTA update you should see an Android notification mentioning the fact that there's an update. Having a rooted phone on stock does not stop OTA updates from downloading successfully and it certainly doesn't prevent the Android notification telling you that an update downloaded or is available for your phone. If you bother to do a Google search on your "problem' you will find that people complain about the same exact thing on an assortment of Android devices regardless of manufacturer and most of the people doing the complaining do not have rooted phones. It has nothing to do with Verizon and most probably nothing to do with what the earlier poster suggested.
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Pixels redownloading the OTA's over and over while failing silently has been reported many times here. No idea why, but they are always modded or rooted phones and usually​ a VZ phone or a Google phone with a VZ SIM

alluringreality said:
Having a Pixel rooted with SuperSU certainly can stop an OTA update. Although my phone had been updating fine using the OTA before installing SuperSU, either SuperSU or the changes I made with root would no longer allow the OTA, even after SuperSU was removed.
All the discussions I've read in the Pixel and Pixel XL forums that mention unexplainable and abnormally high cellular data usage, which the phone lists as being from a CNEService process, have been rooted phones that are not running the current update. As previously noted, it's the most likely guess, since that's the consensus from multiple threads. All I know for absolute certainty is that the Automatic system updates setting had been turned off, and my phone stopped the excessive data usage after updating to the current version. I had never seen any listings of which phones in the discussions were Verizon phones, so I'm not sure where the presumption came from that only Verizon phones might have been affected when automatic updates were turned off.
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I'm not saying that having a rooted phone on stock wouldn't stop an OTA from updating successfully --on any other phone besides a Pixel that would pretty much guarantee that an OTA would fail to install. What I'm saying is that the OTA would still download and you would still see an Android notifications informing you that either an update was available for your phone or that one was downloaded and ready to install. Even if you are rooted on stock or are using a stock based Rom it wouldn't normally interfere with either the download or the notification --only the ultimate installation of the OTA. The fact that turning off Automatic Updates lowered your reported CNEService usage also doesn't prove that the problem was actually a failed OTA update --it could be that turning off Automatic Updates stopped a background process that was misbehaving or corrupted on your phone. Reporting of high CNEService usage isn't any more common on rooted phones than unrooted ones and if it is actually a sign of a problem and not simply a misinterpretation of what the number means then a factory reset pretty much always fixes it.
People have also frequently reported that turning off both WiFi assistant and the scan for open networks options fixed the same problem on their phones, even though logically you would think that would do the opposite and make the problem worse. But Android likes to simplify things for users by grouping the numbers for multiple processes under the same header, which is apparently the case for that number which is why it can actually indicate different problems on different phones, providing that there actually is a problem in the first place. People sometimes see that number and freak out assuming that it represents separate data used completely apart from their other apps and services but that isn't the case.

I should have mentioned that turning off both WiFi Helper and the automatically connect to open networks setting solution to high CNEService data usage actually came from the official Pixel Support thread on Google. People on XDA probably assume the issue is related to root because people on XDA like to root--to a hammer everything looks like a nail. But the same issue is also common on phones running full stock.

Far as I can tell, the original poster indicated that they had a rooted phone and allowed automatic updates. Prior discussions appear to suggest that could correlate with these high data usage events. I'd still take the position that turning off the automatic update setting on a rooted phone is probably a decent suggestion. Based on my own experience, I hesitate to suggest that turning off automatic updates eliminates the possibility of high data usage happening on future updates.
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The fact that turning off Automatic Updates lowered your reported CNEService usage also doesn't prove that the problem was actually a failed OTA update --it could be that turning off Automatic Updates stopped a background process that was misbehaving or corrupted on your phone.
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Actually, that is not a fact in relation to my comments. I personally had Automatic Updates turned off before the update notification.
Reporting of high CNEService usage isn't any more common on rooted phones than unrooted ones and if it is actually a sign of a problem and not simply a misinterpretation of what the number means then a factory reset pretty much always fixes it.
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Mainly I just take this sort of statement as merely a suggestion to consider other possible avenues in troubleshooting the situation, since I'm not sure what data someone might use that would be a necessarily superior choice. I probably did factory reset my phone after the high usage, so I suppose that might be an alternate explanation for it only happening one time.
People have also frequently reported that turning off both WiFi assistant and the scan for open networks options fixed the same problem on their phones, even though logically you would think that would do the opposite and make the problem worse.
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I thought Wi-Fi scanning was always turned off on my phone, but one time when I was out of town I noticed it was actually on, so it's possible Wi-Fi scanning could have been on when I had my own high data usage event while ignoring the software update message. I think the Wi-Fi Assistant setting was most likely turned off.
People sometimes see that number and freak out assuming that it represents separate data used completely apart from their other apps and services but that isn't the case.
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Again, I take this comment as merely a suggestion of alternate possibilities. The only thing out of the ordinary on my phone at the time was Google Earth, but it didn't seem to correlate with the usage, since the timeline didn't appear to match up and short-term use over Wi-Fi usually only reports as a few MB. I suppose with how Android automatically updates apps, maybe there was something on my phone at the time that was unusually using data that has since been corrected, yet I still don't see a clear reason to entirely discount the possibility that the event might have related with the software update being ignored.

Did anybody actually found a solution to this problem, or is it simply unsolvable?

dya said:
Did anybody actually found a solution to this problem, or is it simply unsolvable?
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it would be nice if msomeone did bc I'm having this issue and it's driving me insane. tasker controls my connections. I use android so I don't have to rely on closed source apps

Just turned off mobile data or wifi and CNE is turned off,
If you want to remove this service just goto /vendor/app/cne.apk
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CNE - Connectivity Engine is the brain of the modem driver or Qualcomm chipset driver.
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Removing this service makes your device save a lots of power best for you.
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Removing this service can soft brick your device or simply your device can't connect to the internet.
*From*
ROM Tester, ROM developer , Custom ROM Lover.

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?

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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.
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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
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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.
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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.

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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.
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Thanks! That does sound more likely. I guess I can officially list myself as having one problem.