\nMy mobile phone is from 2013 – a Nexus 4. I’ve no plans to change that; I’m comfortable with it.<\/p>\n
\nA few days back I got the pop-up message: ‘Unfortunately, Google Play Services has stopped.’<\/p>\n
“That’s not necessarily unfortunate,” I answered inwardly: “I don’t use Google Play (so far as I know).”<\/p>\n
I think ‘OK’ was the only way to get rid of the message, so I tapped it: “Problem solved,” I thought.\n<\/p>\n
\nMaybe not: over the next few hours, then days, the message returned, in increasing numbers. A few days in, I couldn’t even check my texts without closing many of those pop-ups. They were effectively disabling the phone.<\/p>\n
I closed all the pop-ups of that message, then closed all the apps that were running, having to close new pop-up messages of ‘Unfortunately, Google Play Services has stopped’ as I did so. Finally I got all the background apps closed. Yet, when I went to check my texts a few hours later, I once again had to close numerous of those pop-ups first.<\/p>\n
I looked online: someone mentioned clearing the Google Play cache would perhaps help, because there might be problematic data there. Closing about five pop-up messages per minute, I was able to open the Settings menu, then Apps, then Google Play: from there I cleared the cache. All the while I was closing those ‘Unfortunately, Google Play Services has stopped’ pop-ups. Once I cleared the cache, those pop-up messages stopped.<\/p>\n
I think there were three apps that were Google Play Services, just Google Play, or some other connection to it. I cleared the cache of any app whose name included “Google Play.”<\/p>\n
So far’s I know, the phone is fine again. Thanks so much to those bulletin board saviours on StackExchange and other such sites who save me at least every other day:)<\/p>\n
Source:<\/p>\n
android.stackexchange.com<\/a><\/p>\n android.stackexchange.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Self-tutoring about Android mobile phones: the tutor mentions a recovery. My mobile phone is from 2013 – a Nexus 4. I’ve no plans to change that; I’m comfortable with it. A few days back I got the pop-up message: ‘Unfortunately, …<\/p>\n