Last week Google Play was crashing on my phone over and over again (making the device an expensive paperweight over time since banking apps have mandatory updates)... I reinstalled and that fixed it for a short while and then after it started perma-crashing again I received the mail about mandatory 2FA, did that and since then no problems.
We need to move away from these big companies NOW!
Get your own HTTP, DNS and SMTP server (in that order), your own domains, host at home with fiber and lead-acid backup!
Make your ISPs enable static IP and open DNS + SMTP ports.
Next time that ever happens have something like `adb logcat | tee log.txt` running in the background so you can actually figure out what's crashing.
My old Android phone has gotten into a very sorry state, I badly need to factory reset it to fix it (eh, and maybe root it while I'm at it) once I get some data off of it - but the other day my bank app happened to be crashing, and I was able to determine it was because Chrome's WebView hadn't updated correctly. So (the Play Store has completely wedged itself and the app has disappeared, seemingly a catastrophically failed update) I grabbed an updated WebView APK from Ze Internetz, and yay, fixed.
Although yeah, I can't really recommend that particular strategy as a particularly secure first-class solution...
But watching logcat can be very useful. And you can at least wave the log info above your head like an annoying "I did my due dilligence" flag :P
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Last week Google Play was crashing on my phone over and over again (making the device an expensive paperweight over time since banking apps have mandatory updates)... I reinstalled and that fixed it for a short while and then after it started perma-crashing again I received the mail about mandatory 2FA, did that and since then no problems.
We need to move away from these big companies NOW!
Get your own HTTP, DNS and SMTP server (in that order), your own domains, host at home with fiber and lead-acid backup!
Make your ISPs enable static IP and open DNS + SMTP ports.
Next time that ever happens have something like `adb logcat | tee log.txt` running in the background so you can actually figure out what's crashing.
My old Android phone has gotten into a very sorry state, I badly need to factory reset it to fix it (eh, and maybe root it while I'm at it) once I get some data off of it - but the other day my bank app happened to be crashing, and I was able to determine it was because Chrome's WebView hadn't updated correctly. So (the Play Store has completely wedged itself and the app has disappeared, seemingly a catastrophically failed update) I grabbed an updated WebView APK from Ze Internetz, and yay, fixed.
Although yeah, I can't really recommend that particular strategy as a particularly secure first-class solution...
But watching logcat can be very useful. And you can at least wave the log info above your head like an annoying "I did my due dilligence" flag :P
Imagine if the expensive paperweight stops working as the mandatory 2FA.