A day later: Everything still works on my Hydro VIBE, and after I rebooted it a few times. It's running Google Play Services 8.3.00, and the latest versions of Drive, Gmail, Hangouts, YouTube, etc. all work as they should. I set up and got Android Pay working with my store benefit cards and credit cards.



I rooted the phone, put libpredtm.so into /system/lib, switched off root, and uninstalled KingRoot. Then installed Android Pay. (Other than for being able to uninstall the awful Lumen Toolbar under root, I personally have no need to keep my phone rooted.)



In the aftermath, libpredtm.so is missing from the Hydro VIBE. Was it part of Android 4.3, which the phone originally comes with, and VIBE's that still run 4.3 have not had this problem? Or is libpredtm.so also missing from Android 4.3 on the VIBE? Everybody in this forum who was affected by this "bug": are any of you on Android 4.3?



Basically, if phones still on 4.3 are not affected, then that means Kyocera botched the Android update to 4.4 a long time ago, and nobody noticed until Google Play Services hit 8.x. If 4.3 phones are also affected, then Kyocera botched it all from the beginning with the VIBE.

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