Android Engineer Explains Why Mashing ?Check for Updates? on Nexus Devices Isn?t Helping You
As for clearing the Google Service Framework data, Morrill cries foul. He explains that when doing this, Google?s servers essentially recognize this as a factory reset, which in turn, will leave many of your apps (including Google Play) unusable.
There are many downstream effects of this, but a big one is that this invalidates the tokens used by any app that uses GCM (which is nearly all the Google apps, and a ton of third-party apps.)
How apps react to GCM IDs changing varies by app. With Play Store you have to log out and log back in, I think Gmail usually handles it transparently eventually but won?t get new mail notifications for a while, etc. Some apps you may have to clear data on to recover. All apps will simply stop getting GCM push-messages, until they get a new GCM ID.
As for clearing the Google Service Framework data, Morrill cries foul. He explains that when doing this, Google?s servers essentially recognize this as a factory reset, which in turn, will leave many of your apps (including Google Play) unusable.
There are many downstream effects of this, but a big one is that this invalidates the tokens used by any app that uses GCM (which is nearly all the Google apps, and a ton of third-party apps.)
How apps react to GCM IDs changing varies by app. With Play Store you have to log out and log back in, I think Gmail usually handles it transparently eventually but won?t get new mail notifications for a while, etc. Some apps you may have to clear data on to recover. All apps will simply stop getting GCM push-messages, until they get a new GCM ID.