Help "No connection" issue in certain apps Galaxy S3 & S5

[Fear1234]

Hi y'all,

Across two phones I've been having this the following particular issue across two phones and it remains unsolved:

In apps like YouTube, Gmail, Playstore I often get the message "No connection" after the loading icon has been infinitely spinning without seeming to do anything. This issue persists on 3G, 4G, WiFi and all of the former in my house, someone else's, and abroad. Have tried the following thus far:

- Re-install
- New SIM card
- Different Gmail accounts
- e.g. YouTube without logging into any account
- Reboot (solves the issue for an hour or two - if I'm lucky)
- Tried to contact Google (lol at that; they're so smart as to not leave any contact options)
- Contacted Samsung (no advice, no help)

The phone is not rooted and I will not root it under any circumstance.

Please, only advice from people that have had and solved (!) the same issue. No offense to remaining users; it's just that I have spoken to too many people about this as it is, and tried so much I'm tried of trying.

I'm two minutes away from opening the window and dropping this thing down ha ha!

 

[jvook]

I have had this issue, but not nearly as consistently as you have. Most times it was a network problem. Sometimes when I'm visiting a shitty website on browser, it's like working too hard on the website scripts, so it crashes or I force close. Then no connection or Network failed all over the place, and won't work again until I restart. It acts like the pipes are clogged up by the shitty website and the only way to clear them is to reset.

Anyway I know I'm forbidden to post, but I insist on commiserating. hope you find and post the solution