[SOLVED] Google Cloud Messaging not recognized by Apps

[psalmista]

Hello everyone!

I purchased a Samsung Galaxy S7 from e.foundation and am pretty happy about it so far.

But unfortunately, I can’t get Google Cloud Messaging to work.

This post didn’t help (I’ve got no ad blocker app - unless there’s one hidden in /e/ which I haven’t recognized), and neither did other searches on the internet.

So, what have I tried?

• I managed to register my device for GCM in microG. The trick with *#*#2432546#*#* didn’t work, so I registered with a Google Account which I afterwards removed again from the device. Now it says “connected” in the microG settings.
• I deleted all the data of an app (I tried this with several ones: Telegram, Signal, Threema), uninstalled it, checked nothing was left in the data folder, de-activated GCM, activated it again, waited until it said it was connected, and installed the app again - with no success.
• I also tried rebooting the device after more or less each step, just to be sure.

Nothing helped; the list of registered Apps for GCM is still empty, and GCM obviously not working.

Any ideas about what else I could try?

(Btw. I’m having two entries named microG in the settings menu of the phone, one each under Device and System which lead to the same place - microG doesn’t appear to be installed twice. But still it makes me feel a bit insecure about it.)

[Anonyme]

@psalmista

Nothing helped; the list of registered Apps for GCM is still empty, and GCM obviously not working.

I guess you have already done that but just to be sure : you need to open and setup the app (so for instance open and enter in your Signal account) in order to register an app with MicroG.

@psalmista

I’m having two entries named microG in the settings

Yes it’s normal, and an update will soon come to remove the second “MicroG” useless entry.
(You have a phone with the “stable” branch because it’s a phone from e Foundation so you get updates later than those with a “dev” branch)

[smu44]

Please try this : [HOWTO] Installing Banking Apps

[psalmista]

@Anonyme

Yes it’s normal, and an update will soon come to remove the second “MicroG” useless entry.
(You have a phone with the “stable” branch because it’s a phone from e Foundation so you get updates later than those with a “dev” branch)

Good to know, thanks!

@Anonyme

I guess you have already done that but just to be sure : you need to open and setup the app (so for instance open and enter in your Signal account) in order to register an app with MicroG.

Ah, yes, I did, but with no luck.

[Anonyme]

If in MicroG > “Google device registration” is enabled and in MicroG > Google Cloud Messaging you have “Connected since 2 minutes” (for instance), then I really don’t know why it doesn’t work.

[psalmista]

Thanks for the link!

Well, the thing is that in the microG settings, it says the service is connected:

But for some reason, apps can’t register with it (screenshot from the Push Notification Tester app):

I’m a bit confused about that.

[Anonyme]

If nothing works, try to reset data & cache of MicroG. It will reset everything but that’s what I would do.

[psalmista]

Ok, I’ll try and report back if it worked.

[psalmista]

Success! Thank you very much.

[Anonyme]

With new technologies the solution is often : reboot/reset

[ewm]

Could you give a bit more detail on this? Having the same problem, and after adding and deleting a Google account GCM says it’s connected, but not sure how to do what you’re suggesting.

[Anonyme]

What I was talking about is to go in Settings > Apps > See all apps > MicroG Service Core > Clear data.

But it will reset MicroG, and you might need to reinstall the apps listed under Settings > MicroG > Google Cloud Messaging to get notifications properly for those apps.