Workaround to use Square Point of Sale Blockada on an Android device

dlabadie — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 14:39:15 GMT

The title of this thread has been edited from the original: Failed to Load Square - SOLVED

I have a Samsung Galaxy S8 that recently updated to Android Pie (9.0). When I try to load Square I get a Triangle with an Exclamation Point in the middle and the words "Failed to Load Square". After trying to re-enable permissions, force stop the app, clear the cache & data, uninstall & reinstall the app, reboot phone, etc, I realized the problem was an ad-blocking app that I have on my phone - Blokada. Blokada was seeing Square as one bid ad. Once I disabled Blokada, Square started working again. I've now whitelisted Square so I can continue to run Blokada and all is good.

Re: Workaround to use Square Point of Sale Blockada on an Android device

Helen — Wed, 01 May 2019 17:28:11 GMT

Thank you @dlabadie! I've updated the title to make it clear you found a way around this and that the issue was specific to this ad-blocking app.

Do you find Blockada useful? Were you seeing a lot of ads on your device before you installed it?

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Workaround to use Square Point of Sale Blockada on an Android device

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