# Android phones home to mtalk.google.com
**URL:** https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/android-phones-home-to-mtalk-google-com/16217
**Category:** General
**Created:** [January 18, 2019, 3:00pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/android-phones-home-to-mtalk-google-com/16217 "2019-01-18T15:00:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@fegget](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/fegget)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2019, 3:00pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/android-phones-home-to-mtalk-google-com/16217/1 "2019-01-18T15:00:22Z")
Hello,
my Android Phone (BQ Aquaris C) makes connections to mtalk.google.com about every 30 minutes. When I block the domain it tries to connect to several alternative mtalk servers. I use the phone without a Google account and I deactivated all Google apps in the settings menu.
Can anybody tell me more about this domain and why these connections are made?
Greetings
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### Author:  [@RamSet](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/RamSet)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/android-phones-home-to-mtalk-google-com/16217/2 "2019-01-18T17:41:56Z")
> [@fegget](#):
>
> Can anybody tell me more about this domain and why these connections are made?
It's a (obviously 🙂 ) google domain. To be more exact, it's a domain that's used by google talk and other apps that use the same platform.
It "calls" home every 30 minutes, for status updates and basically a refresher.
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### Author:  [@fegget](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/fegget)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/android-phones-home-to-mtalk-google-com/16217/3 "2019-01-23T16:16:10Z")
I don't use any Google messenger product and I disabled all Google apps on my phone. Still it **really** wants to connect to this mtalk server. After I blacklisted the domain it tried to connect to **8 different alternative servers** (which I also blocked by now). I even used mitmproxy to look at the transmitted data but precisely these connections don't show up. I guess Android doesn't respect my proxy settings for this domain and I really wonder why.
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### Author:  [@PromoFaux](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/PromoFaux)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/android-phones-home-to-mtalk-google-com/16217/5 "2020-07-15T14:35:27Z")
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### Author:  [@jpgpi250](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/jpgpi250)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2020, 12:52pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/android-phones-home-to-mtalk-google-com/16217/6 "2020-07-14T12:52:07Z")
> [@fegget](#):
>
> Can anybody tell me more about this domain and why these connections are made?
domain is used for android notifications, ref [here](https://github.com/Th3M3/blocklists/issues/2).
I use this regex to whitelist the domains (I want notifications), but you can also use it to blacklist the domain, however the queries will not stop (all blocked).
```auto
^((alt)[0-9](-))?mtalk\.google\.com$
```