Google Play Support wants me to migrate 6 live apps & abandon trapped payouts over a Merchant Profile mismatch (Ticket # 3-6692000041443)

TL;DR: My Play Console is a Personal account, but the linked Merchant Payments Profile was set up as an "Organisation" under my brand name, which is not a legal entity). I have 6 live apps and earnings trapped in payout. Support stated that profile types cannot be changed once created, but also stated in the same email that it can be changed with documentation, before providing instructions on how to set up an Organisation profile when I explicitly requested an Individual profile. Support now requests that I open a new account and migrate all 6 apps.

# Official Google Support Thread:

[https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/thread/453880070/contradictory-support-forced-to-abandon-developer-account-over-org-individual-mismatch](https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/thread/453880070/contradictory-support-forced-to-abandon-developer-account-over-org-individual-mismatch)

# Overview of the Issue

* Account Setup: Personal Google Play Developer Account.
* The Mismatch: Associated Merchant Payments Profile was designated as Organisation under my developer brand.
* Verification Constraint: As an individual developer, I use a public brand name, not a registered legal business or corporate entity. As a result, the profile cannot pass Organisation identity verification, resulting in unpaid accrued earnings currently held.
* Portfolio: The account hosts 6 active, published applications.

# Support Communications & Contradictions

I contacted Google Payments Merchant Support to request an administrative update to align the merchant profile to Individual status. Support Agent Alvin John provided the following response:

1. Contradiction #1: Stated that "once the payments profile has been completely set up, some important settings cannot be changed and that includes the account profile type". In the same paragraph, he stated: "If you have all the documentation with you that indicates that you are an Organization then there will be no issue with changing the account type".
2. Contradiction #2: After I requested guidance on changing an Organisation profile to an Individual profile, the response provided a 6-step guide detailing how to "set it to Organization".

# Proposed Resolution from Google Support

To address this mismatch, Google Support has advised me to:

* Create a new Google Account and Play Developer Console.
* Pay a second $25 registration fee (with a refund request possible after setup).
* Re-complete identity and payment verification.
* Transfer all 6 live applications to the new account.
* Leave the existing account open indefinitely to receive outstanding payouts — despite the earnings balance being unreleased due to the Organisation verification restriction.

# Questions / Call for Advice

* Has anyone successfully requested an internal correction for a Merchant Profile type mismatch without transferring an active multi-app portfolio to a new Console account?
* Is there an established escalation path to reach a Payments Team representative who can review profile configurations for active developer accounts?

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Current Situation:
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Official forum thread: [https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/thread/453914381/account-terminated-for-high-risk-or-abuse-%E2%80%94-no-specific-violation-ever-cited-requesting-help?hl=en&sjid=16862522153865472926-EU](https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/thread/453914381/account-terminated-for-high-risk-or-abuse-%E2%80%94-no-specific-violation-ever-cited-requesting-help?hl=en&sjid=16862522153865472926-EU)

Timeline:

* **Aug 2025:** Developer account terminated citing "a pattern of high risk or abuse" (Section 8.3/10.3 DDA). My only published app: a simple currency-conversion widget. No data collection, no unusual SDKs, no monetization tricks. No specific violation was ever named.
* Appealed. Rejected with the standard template — "we can't share the reasons we've concluded that your account is at high risk."
* My mistake: with nothing actionable to fix, I resubmitted the app from my personal Gmail account. That account was then terminated for association. I understand why that looked like ban evasion — it wasn't intended that way, but I own it, and I've acknowledged it in my follow-up appeal.
* **July 2026:** Replied to the appeal asking for a human re-review and a statement of reasons under EU P2B Regulation Art. 4 / DSA Art. 17 (I'm based in the Netherlands). Also posted on the official developer forum (linked above).

Facts about my setup: no VPN ever used with Play Console, only my own devices, no one else ever had access. The only association I can identify is that my phone number is also linked to my personal Google account — the one I later used for the resubmission. To my knowledge my payment method, address, and number were never used on any other developer account.

What I'm trying to figure out:

* What typically triggers the original "high risk" flag when there's no prior banned account you know of? Recycled phone numbers? Payment card false positives?
* Has anyone successfully overturned an association-based termination, and what specifically worked?
* Has anyone used the DSA Art. 21 out-of-court dispute route (e.g., Appeals Centre Europe) against Google Play, and did it produce an actual statement of reasons?

Happy to answer any questions in the comments.

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Can someone tell me what may be gone wrong that's resulting it not detecting any installation?

Any tip would be appreciated!

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Discussion AOSP telephony framework flaw on Android 14 (MediaTek): Missing hardware check causes infinite loop & thermal throttling.

PSA: I am posting this root cause analysis to document a severe flaw in the Android 14 / AOSP telephony framework implementation on MediaTek devices. I am not asking for tech support, but sharing the ADB logs and AOSP source code flaw for community awareness and developer visibility.

Device: Redmi Note 13 Pro 4G (MediaTek)

OS: HyperOS (Android 14) - Build 3.0.301.0.WNFEUXM

There is a severe logic bug in the telephony framework of the current HyperOS build. Using Mobile Data triggers an infinite event loop inside com.android.phone, locking the CPU at 140%+ usage and causing massive battery drain and thermal throttling. The device overheats, and the only temporary workaround is to toggle Airplane Mode (just turning off mobile data does nothing).

Using top -m 15, com.android.phone (PID 3173) consistently shows >140% CPU usage. The MediaTek RIL daemon (mtkfusionrild) is also constantly stressed.

By analyzing the radio buffer via logcat, I was able to pinpoint the exact root cause: the system is trying to register satellite modem listeners on a device that does not have satellite hardware.

The following block of code repeats in an infinite loop (around 30 times per second) as soon as mobile data connects:

07-24 00:15:24.708 3173 3173 D SatelliteController: Satellite for carrier is not supported.
07-24 00:15:24.709 3173 3173 D SatelliteController: registerForSatelliteModemStateChanged: add Listeners for ModemState
07-24 00:15:24.709 3173 3173 E SatelliteController: registerForSatelliteModemStateChanged: mSatelliteSessionController is not initialized yet
07-24 00:15:24.709 3173 3173 E SatelliteController: unregisterForModemStateChanged: mSatelliteSessionController is not initialized yet
07-24 00:15:24.709 3173 3173 D SatelliteController: unregisterForModemStateChanged: remove Listeners for ModemState

After digging deeper and cross-referencing with the AOSP source code and MediaTek vendor trees, it is clear this is an issue rooted in the telephony framework handling for Android 14 on MediaTek devices (this exact same INVALID_ARGUMENTS and mSatelliteSessionController loop has also been reproduced on Custom ROMs like crDroid for the Redmi Note 13 5G 'stone').

Looking at the AOSP source code (frameworks/opt/telephony/.../SatelliteController.java), the exception is correctly generated here:

@SatelliteErrorpublic int registerForSatelliteModemStateChanged(int subId,
@NonNull ISatelliteStateCallback callback) {
if (mSatelliteSessionController != null) {
mSatelliteSessionController.registerForSatelliteModemStateChanged(callback);
} else {
loge("registerForSatelliteModemStateChanged: mSatelliteSessionController is not initialized yet");
return SatelliteManager.SATELLITEINVALIDTELEPHONYSTATE;
}
return SatelliteManager.SATELLITEERRORNONE;
}

The SatelliteController correctly handles the lack of satellite hardware by returning SATELLITE\INVALID_TELEPHONY_STATE. The fatal flaw is in the higher-level network manager (likely the MediaTek RIL or the telephony framework's state machine). When it receives this error during a network transition (Wi-Fi to Mobile Data), it fails to handle the exception properly. Instead of aborting the satellite registration, it immediately retries the call in an unconditional infinite loop.

A simple conditional check (if (hasSatelliteHardware)) before attempting to register the listener in the network state change event within the calling process will completely resolve this battery drain issue for all MediaTek devices without satellite capabilities.

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Thanks all.

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I live in Russia, and my mobile provider sometimes enables an LTE whitelist mode: only a limited number of websites remain accessible, while most other websites are blocked.

My VPN used to work correctly in this situation. However, around two weeks ago it suddenly stopped working most of the time, even though neither the application code nor the Xray configuration had changed.

The VPN appears to connect successfully: VPN icon in the status bar, VPN service remains active.

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Everything worked fine before. iOS team also reports a similar problem, but I don't know the exact error the encounter

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I does not support all newer stuff like rented items and alternative billing, but it works pretty fine for in-app purchases and subscriptions.


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repo:

https://github.com/Mirkoddd/Charon


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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yh.vscb

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Features I'd love:

Universal video speed control on almost every website.

Speed range from 0.25× to 5×.

Quick preset buttons (1×, 1.5×, 2×, 2.5×, 2.75×, etc.) or a YouTube-style slider with 0.25× increments.

Press & hold anywhere on the video for temporary 2×, then release to instantly return to the selected speed.

Lightweight, fast, modern UI with minimal setup.

No app-opening/interstitial ads (a premium version or non-intrusive ads would be much better).

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