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[Q] Unable to install apps from Play Store

Hello,
Post rooting (repenting it already) my Samsung Galaxy S Plus (GTI9001), I am unable to install any apps via Play Store. I am able to install apk's from the SD Card though. I un-rooted the phone but problem persist.
When I try to install any app, I can see the app being downloaded on the notification but the moment the download completes nothing happens. When i go to Play Store > My Apps I could see that it still says downloading though the app is fully downloaded. I guess some permission issues here. Please help.
I have already cleared Play Store cache and tried.

reyolin said:
Hello,
Post rooting (repenting it already) my Samsung Galaxy S Plus (GTI9001), I am unable to install any apps via Play Store. I am able to install apk's from the SD Card though. I un-rooted the phone but problem persist.
When I try to install any app, I can see the app being downloaded on the notification but the moment the download completes nothing happens. When i go to Play Store > My Apps I could see that it still says downloading though the app is fully downloaded. I guess some permission issues here. Please help.
I have already cleared Play Store cache and tried.
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Hello,
Which Rom do you use? Maybe you have to root it again. Usually you can fix permissions in CWM. Have you tried to restart after "Download is finished". For Me it was working on my Asus EeePad.

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Chris089 said:
Hello,
Which Rom do you use? Maybe you have to root it again. Usually you can fix permissions in CWM. Have you tried to restart after "Download is finished". For Me it was working on my Asus EeePad.
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Chris, I am still on stock ROM and I am not likely to go for a custom ROM since there are not much good ROM's available for Samsung Galaxy S Plus and Yes I tried multiple reboots. After reboot, on the notification it says that app download failed due to some error with a number.
Thanks for your reply.

Same issue
Reyolin,
I have had the same problem on my Samsung Galaxy S Plus but it has only started today. Mine has been rooted for about 5 months now, since I first got it.
I did a search using EStrong File explorer and it found a file called "downloadfile.apk" in /cache (I assume this is the file as it is the same file size as stated in the Play store. However, when I tried to run or copy it it had disappeared.
It's almost like the APK is being downloaded and then being deleted before installation actually occurs.
I think rooting your phone and the inability to install apps is just coincidental.
I will do some more playing about and see what I can find (I also already tried removing the Google Play updates (to go back to the old style Market). This still did not solve the problem.

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Exactly same proble
Hi,
I have exaclty the same problem (galaxy s plus), rooted 5 month ago and problem started 2 days ago...
I updated superuser at that time and tried to update the su binarie but it fails on validation of new su and stopped (not replacing old su), this is the only thing I can remember of. root is still working with old su. Maybe the cleaning needs to be done ?
Has someone found a way to fix this?
edit:
after some investigation, this is what happens:
if I try to install one app from play store, it is downloaded correctly and then nothing happens.
the file downloaded is in /cache/downloadfile.apk
If I copy this file to /sdcard/external_sd/downloadfile.apk and run it manually it installs correctly.
Stef

galaxy s plus specific issue
i am having the same problem since morning and i also use Samsung galaxy s plus, so certainly the issue is phone specific.

Good news! Problem solved for me
Hi,
I contacted google play support and her was there answer:
Thanks for contacting us and I am sorry for the delay in responding.
We've gotten some reports that users with Samsung Galaxy S Plus devices running Android OS version 2.3 (Gingerbread) are having trouble using Google Play. We're aware of this issue and to solve it we recommend you to uninstall updates to the Google Play app by following these steps:
1. Tap Menu > Settings > Applications > Manage applications
2. Find the "All" tab
3. Scroll down to Play Store and tap to select
4. Tap "Uninstall updates"
Thank you in advance for your patience and understanding.
So I followed this and it works again!
Here are the steps after doing google recommendations:
- click google play icon, it will open old google market
- install an application, for me it worked again!
- exit google market
- click again the google play icon, it will ask to accept google play license
- click yes and then try to install another app, it worked again!
Hope this will solve also your issues,
Stef

I Just had the same problem. Here is how I fixed it,
- Uninstalled updates for Google Play
- I added a New Google Account.
- I Then signed into the new Google Account, Then Sign Into Your Main Account
And "BOOM" problem solved.

[Q] Waze can not be installed in Android 5.0 final

Hi
I have recently updated to Android 5.0 and cannot install Waze. I tried factory reset few minutes ago. Didn't help at all.
Please advise?
screenshot attached

ser1a said:
Hi
I have recently updated to Android 5.0 and cannot install Waze. I tried factory reset few minutes ago. Didn't help at all.
Please advise?
screenshot attached
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weird i didn't have that problem, you can try searching for the apk file online and install it manually

Installed without issues here. Maybe try again?

I ran waze yesterday on stock lollipop

C3C076 said:
Installed without issues here. Maybe try again?
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I tried 6 times. During the process, about 7seconds after"installing" it always get back this error No idea what to do

Try clearing data for play store app

I made another factory reset and left all settings by default(location, positioning, bug sharing etc... ) and didn't restore apps from backup. I have manually then started Waze installation in play store and all went okay...
problem is somewhere between backup restore or some settings on initial startup I have unticked on first and second time... If my memory is good, I have disabled google now and anonymous sharing of something...

ser1a said:
I made another factory reset and left all settings by default(location, positioning, bug sharing etc... ) and didn't restore apps from backup. I have manually then started Waze installation in play store and all went okay...
problem is somewhere between backup restore or some settings on initial startup I have unticked on first and second time... If my memory is good, I have disabled google now and anonymous sharing of something...
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tested again. It was definitely conflict with some app. I have restored factory again and untick Google Location service and anonymouse data reporting and installed Waze then. All good.
Definitely problem with some of my 64 installed apps.. let's see how it behaves now. Interesting thing is that I tried installation in Safe Mode and it didnt work. So conflict is not causing any running app but something installed before

ser1a said:
tested again. It was definitely conflict with some app. I have restored factory again and untick Google Location service and anonymouse data reporting and installed Waze then. All good.
Definitely problem with some of my 64 installed apps.. let's see how it behaves now. Interesting thing is that I tried installation in Safe Mode and it didnt work. So conflict is not causing any running app but something installed before
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story continues !!
I cant install Sygic after Waze installation. Seems it is this already reported bug https://code.google.com/p/android-developer-preview/issues/detail?id=1668
when will it be fixed? Any way to use both apps meanwhile??

Waze not launching properly/completely (no errs) on fresh factory flash. Worked fine on Preview.

Sygic/Waze permission
I'm facing the same problem. I have installed Sygic first and then Waze installation from Play Store failed with 505 error.
(Had a complete wipe of my Nexus 5 before A5.0 installation so nothing to uninstall left).
I have tried to force the install with adb install -r com.waze.apk but received the error, again:
pkg: /data/local/tmp/com.waze.apk
Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_DUPLICATE_PERMISSION perm=pioneer.permission.appradio.ADVANCED_APPMODE pkg=com.sygic.aura_voucher]

Culex42 said:
I'm facing the same problem. I have installed Sygic first and then Waze installation from Play Store failed with 505 error.
(Had a complete wipe of my Nexus 5 before A5.0 installation so nothing to uninstall left).
I have tried to force the install with adb install -r com.waze.apk but received the error, again:
pkg: /data/local/tmp/com.waze.apk
Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_DUPLICATE_PERMISSION perm=pioneer.permission.appradio.ADVANCED_APPMODE pkg=com.sygic.aura_voucher]
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Hi!
I'm also having problem installing Waze.
Did a factory reset and restored all the apps but Waze didn't install.
Now I can't install Waze from Plays Store, getting the "-505" error.
Hope Waze can fix this on their end, really don't want to reset the phone ones again....

Rillekille said:
Hi!
I'm also having problem installing Waze.
Did a factory reset and restored all the apps but Waze didn't install.
Now I can't install Waze from Plays Store, getting the "-505" error.
Hope Waze can fix this on their end, really don't want to reset the phone ones again....
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I tried installing a previous version of waze (3.78), and I got the same error. I remember hearing something about the signature on the file being used by another app and thus causing a conflict. Has anyone found a reasonable workaround? Really would like to get waze up and running.

Google Play Sore Error (-505) -- Lollipop

After updating to Lollipop on my Nexus 5, it restored all of my apps except for about 10. One of them is a widget that I use everyday called Simple Calendar Widget by MYCOLORSCREEN. When trying to download the app, it gives me the message "Unknown error code during application install: -505". It seems to download fine, but the message pops up during the install process. Anybody know about this issue or experiencing the same thing if you try to download this application? I also tried downloading the apk file online but that also fails to install. I can't find any info regarding this issue. Thanks.

I had this issue on certain apps as well. The dev of those apps needed to change something for it to work on Lollipop.

RoomTenONine said:
I had this issue on certain apps as well. The dev of those apps needed to change something for it to work on Lollipop.
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I've had this problem. Did a search with Google and it seems others are having this issue. Hopefully Google will have an update to fix.

Do a search in this forum. I replied with the cause and solutions. Was posted last week.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

nikon120 said:
Do a search in this forum. I replied with the cause and solutions. Was posted last week.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
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Code 505 is a permissions code. This typically means that the APK file already exists in your /data/app folder. You'll need to locate the APK files in question in the /data/app folder and remove them. You will need root to perform this action.
You came across this problem because you didn't do a wipe of your userdata partition when you jumped from Kitkat to Lollipop. I encountered the same issue because of that reason. I just ended up wiping and starting fresh as my phone hadn't been wiped since I got the device last November.
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Are you sure? I flashed the factory image of Lollipop on my phone and it wiped everything. Afterwards, I had to also do a factory reset of my phone from the settings due to a storage issue. Why would that get left behind?
Edit: I checked (phone is rooted) and the app isn't in the /data/app folder

PMamba said:
Are you sure? I flashed the factory image of Lollipop on my phone and it wiped everything. Afterwards, I had to also do a factory reset of my phone from the settings due to a storage issue. Why would that get left behind?
Edit: I checked (phone is rooted) and the app isn't in the /data/app folder
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I spent an hour combing through Google group threads trying to get a real answer to this outstanding question. I was perplexed that only two applications of mine refused to install due to this error. The consensus was that the APK file was still there, or some remnants of data related to the application remained on the device that the Play Store service didn't like.
I ended up wiping my device twice:
Once by flashing both the userdata.img and cache.img files, which ended up giving me the storage issue bug on Lollipop. (Showing 16GB instead of 32GB)
Second by performing a factory reset from within the booted OS, which resolved the storage issue.
After that, everything was good to go. Have yet to encounter this error code again.

PMamba said:
After updating to Lollipop on my Nexus 5, it restored all of my apps except for about 10. One of them is a widget that I use everyday called Simple Calendar Widget by MYCOLORSCREEN. When trying to download the app, it gives me the message "Unknown error code during application install: -505". It seems to download fine, but the message pops up during the install process. Anybody know about this issue or experiencing the same thing if you try to download this application? I also tried downloading the apk file online but that also fails to install. I can't find any info regarding this issue. Thanks.
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I just had to click install again after the error and it worked for me. It was a PITA.

sigh, I've had this issue with terminal emulator
C:\>adb install Term.apk
3966 KB/s (515876 bytes in 0.127s)
pkg: /data/local/tmp/Term.apk
Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_DUPLICATE_PERMISSION perm=jackpal.androidterm.permission
.PREPEND_TO_PATH pkg=com.jrummy.liberty.toolbox]
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So yeah...duplicate permissions, in this case i had ROM Toolbox Lite installed which had the same permission sooooo it's one or the other at the moment

bleets said:
sigh, I've had this issue with terminal emulator
So yeah...duplicate permissions, in this case i had ROM Toolbox Lite installed which had the same permission sooooo it's one or the other at the moment
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Hm alright. Where does the apk file need to be in order to use the adb install command? I want to see which app is conflicting with.

PMamba said:
Hm alright. Where does the apk file need to be in order to use the adb install command? I want to see which app is conflicting with.
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as long as you have adb working it can be anywhere as long as you know the path
so adb install c:\path\to\file.apk
as it happens with terminal emulator i could download the apk seperately, with other apps i'd probably download on my tablet and pull it off that

bleets said:
as long as you have adb working it can be anywhere as long as you know the path
so adb install c:\path\to\file.apk
as it happens with terminal emulator i could download the apk seperately, with other apps i'd probably download on my tablet and pull it off that
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Wow it looks like GTasks is conflicting. Without GTasks this app is useless. :crying:
Thanks though.

PMamba said:
Wow it looks like GTasks is conflicting. Without GTasks this app is useless. :crying:
Thanks though.
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https://code.google.com/p/android-developer-preview/issues/detail?id=1668
hopefully it'll get sorted...
You'd have thought people testing would have installed enough apps to come across it and if google knew about it in october why not fix it

I had this issue trying to install Rom Toolbox. I uninstalled Terminal Emulator and the issue went away, probably because Terminal Emulator is included in Rom Toolbox.

How I solved it
In bootloader mode I flash from the factory image userdata and cache, then I wipe Dalvik, data and cache in TWRP after the first boot I skip the setup just too full factory data reset, in the second boot, I set up everything normal, but instead of restoring from previous devices I set it up as a new device, then I manually download the app that was giving the error, it installed without a problem.
I know is a little too much for an app, but it works for me.

onetraakmind said:
I had this issue trying to install Rom Toolbox. I uninstalled Terminal Emulator and the issue went away, probably because Terminal Emulator is included in Rom Toolbox.
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Exactly.
Thank you very much for the tip.

onetraakmind said:
I had this issue trying to install Rom Toolbox. I uninstalled Terminal Emulator and the issue went away, probably because Terminal Emulator is included in Rom Toolbox.
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I'm currently having the issue everyone mentions, except I already have ROM Toolbox Pro and was trying to install Terminal Emulator. Terminal Emulator in ROM Toolbox currently FC's on Stock (rooted) 5.0.1. But I use other features, like the Rebooter that I don't wanna sacrifice for just Terminal Emulator haha. Wish they'd fix this issue permanently

Jleeblanch said:
I'm currently having the issue everyone mentions, except I already have ROM Toolbox Pro and was trying to install Terminal Emulator. Terminal Emulator in ROM Toolbox currently FC's on Stock (rooted) 5.0.1. But I use other features, like the Rebooter that I don't wanna sacrifice for just Terminal Emulator haha. Wish they'd fix this issue permanently
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Uninstall ROM toolbox, install terminal emulator, install ROM toolbox... Someone said that worked.

rootSU said:
Uninstall ROM toolbox, install terminal emulator, install ROM toolbox... Someone said that worked.
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You really should look in the rom toolbox pro app a little better. There is an emulator built in
Sent from my One M8 using Tapatalk

mattie_49 said:
You really should look in the rom toolbox pro app a little better. There is an emulator built in
Sent from my One M8 using Tapatalk
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I know, that's why you can't install jackpal terminal emulator if you have ROM toolbox installed as it uses the same permissions.
Although you should read up yourself because if you did, you'd know the terminal emulator in rom toolbox force closes on lollipop on the nexus 5.

I understand this is a old thread but I fixed it a way that wasn't mentioned in this thread. Just thought I'd share for anyone googling this issue and finding this. What I did was go into the guest account and uninstall the app that was causing the issue such as snapchat. The way I caused it in the first place was installing snapchat on aptoide which installed it on both my account and the guest account and I decided I didn't want snapchat anymore so I uninstalled it but it was still there on the guest account which caused the error 505 whenever I tried to reinstall snapchat.

[Q] Xperia Neo V (Root): Google Play not working

Hi All, From few day my xperia Neo-V’s Google Play not working.
My phone is rooted. Stock rom and kernel. Boot loader never unlocked. No custom recovery installed.
Initially Google Play started to show an error with 495 number. I searched the web and taken the following actions:
1) Clean cache of Google play and Google services framework, then rebooted.
Result: Nothing resolved.
2) Removed Google account. Rebooted. Google account re-created.
Result: Nothing resolved.
3) Removed Google play updates and tried different versions.
Result: Nothing resolved. But now it shows following different messages according to different versions:
1) “Check your connection and try again” (V 5.3.6, But Connection is working in other apps)
2) “No Connection” (V-4.8, But Connection is working in other apps)
3) “Unfortunately Goggle play store has stopped”
(V:3.5, Crashes when try to start and sometimes shows "Server error")
4) Phone settings reset, Reboot, above steps repeated.
Result: Nothing resolved.
Here I want to clarify when I first faced the problem, I found that date was not correct, it was one month advance. I corrected the date 'but nothing resolved.
Now I don’t know what happened with my phone. Can anybody Help me? Please…
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Thanks

Download Es file manager or root explorer.
Go to system/etc and find hosts file.
Edit it.
Delete all and copy that 127.0.0.1 localhost.
Save. Thats all.
Sorry for bad English

xperiaLc2105 said:
Download Es file manager or root explorer.
Go to system/etc and find hosts file.
Edit it.
Delete all and copy that 127.0.0.1 localhost.
Save. Thats all.
Sorry for bad English
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Flash GAPPS, much easier way to do.
You probably want to install a custom recovery.

Thanks for the reply. I did a huge mistake...
Thanks for the valuable reply sir. But i did not wait for you reply (a huge mistake) and i factory reset my phone. Because it was rooted and so many system apps were removed from it. After resetting, its Home key not working, Power off button show only 'Power off' (Not 'Flight Mode', Silent mode etc), Camera not working. It hangs-up if camera app is opened and then i have to reboot it to access again. 'Slide to Unlock' not working. There may be other problems which currently i don't know.
I have a backup of all system '.APK' which was removed (But not 'App Data' only APKs). Now i am trying to install these all files and Converting them to system apps, After that i will Reset it to Factory settings again, With a hope 'every thing will be Ok. Will you suggest me anything else...

Problem Solved... Thanks to all...
xperiaLc2105 said:
Download Es file manager or root explorer.
Go to system/etc and find hosts file.
Edit it.
Delete all and copy that 127.0.0.1 localhost.
Save. Thats all.
Sorry for bad English
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Hi, ultimately i have done it...
I installed all backed up system apks, converted them to system apps (also Super user), Reset to Factory settings again.
Wow!:victory: it is working, no issue, it is like new one...
Thanks to all on XDA who listen the problem of noobs, such as me and give us helpful solutions...
Thanks...

Downgrade back to EMUI 9 possible?

Hi All,
I was wondering whether its currently possible to downgrade back to EMUI 9? I received my Mate 30 Pro today (Model LIO-AL00), and it came with Android 10 out of the box. It has also applied a bunch of updates and I am now on 10.0.0.135.
I have tried the various guides to side-load Gapps via the backup method. Whilst the Gapps install, I can't open them. LZplay also doesn't want to start. I've tried all sorts of guides (including: https://www.gearbest.com/blog/how-t...ll-google-apps-gms-on-huawei-mate-30-pro-8639) but they all fail.
I also stumbled across the thread that talks about using Virtual Exposed (https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-30-pro/how-to/microg-t3977821). I can get Virtual Exposed installed, and the play store installed, but it doesn't open either.
So, I was wondering whether its possible (somehow?) to downgrade back to EMUI 9, so that I can use the LZPLAY method?
Thanks!!

Don't need to go back to 9. You can still get playstore on emui 10. I did it yesterday. Guide section install Google Play guide works. Rithina is op

Thanks for the quick response! Could you tell me which method you used, and what version of EMUI you did it on? Feel free to send me a private message if you don't want to share it publicly. Thanks!

mictho100 said:
Thanks for the quick response! Could you tell me which method you used, and what version of EMUI you did it on? Feel free to send me a private message if you don't want to share it publicly. Thanks!
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Did it on emui 10. Look for install play services and playstore. Rithina is the person that posted it

kev15059 said:
Did it on emui 10. Look for install play services and playstore. Rithina is the person that posted it
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I had seen that post, and I had tried it yesterday without any luck.
This morning I reset the phone and started again. Following the link from this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-30-pro/how-to/install-gms-google-play-store-t3992095
I managed to restore the HiSuite backup (only apps and settings)
Installed Google Apps fine
Started LZplay, but then get connection errors (see screenshots)
Do I need to VPN into China for this to work? Because the phone is trying to get to https://api.lzplay.net, which no longer exists.
It also tries to go to http://configdownload.dbankcdn.com/ which is also throwing an error.
Any ideas?

mictho100 said:
I had seen that post, and I had tried it yesterday without any luck.
This morning I reset the phone and started again. Following the link from this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-30-pro/how-to/install-gms-google-play-store-t3992095
I managed to restore the HiSuite backup (only apps and settings)
Installed Google Apps fine
Started LZplay, but then get connection errors (see screenshots)
Do I need to VPN into China for this to work? Because the phone is trying to get to https://api.lzplay.net, which no longer exists.
It also tries to go to http://configdownload.dbankcdn.com/ which is also throwing an error.
Any ideas?
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Lzplay is meant to not work. Now close it and install all the Google system apps and play store. Give them all permissions they ask for.

lawtq said:
Lzplay is meant to not work. Now close it and install all the Google system apps and play store. Give them all permissions they ask for.
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Hi Mate, I have done that, but none of them work. These instructions all follow the same pattern, and I have tried 4x different methods now. None work.
NOTE one thing: I cannot use HiSuite 9.0.3_300 to restore the LZplay backup. I am forced to use 9.1.0_309OVE because of the Android version on my phone. That is the ONLY thing that deviates from the instructions!
This one doesn't work: https://forum.xda-developers.com/ma...all-google-service-huawei-mate30-pro-t3992171
This one doesn't work: https://lmphotography641.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/installing-google-play-store-for-mate-30-pro/
I can get the backup restored and all apps installed, but they just don't work . I made this video show the situation; https://youtu.be/BkAxzTzwPuQ
Should this still work with a later version of HiSuite?

mictho100 said:
Hi Mate, I have done that, but none of them work. These instructions all follow the same pattern, and I have tried 4x different methods now. None work.
NOTE one thing: I cannot use HiSuite 9.0.3_300 to restore the LZplay backup. I am forced to use 9.1.0_309OVE because of the Android version on my phone. That is the ONLY thing that deviates from the instructions!
This one doesn't work: https://forum.xda-developers.com/ma...all-google-service-huawei-mate30-pro-t3992171
This one doesn't work: https://lmphotography641.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/installing-google-play-store-for-mate-30-pro/
I can get the backup restored and all apps installed, but they just don't work . I made this video show the situation; https://youtu.be/BkAxzTzwPuQ
Should this still work with a later version of HiSuite?
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So lzplay has admin rights? Have you tired istalling the Google apps again over themselves without uninstalling them first?

lawtq said:
So lzplay has admin rights? Have you tired istalling the Google apps again over themselves without uninstalling them first?
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OK, I FINALLY managed to get it working. I followed these instructions:
Download and unzip the lzplay package (this contains the most important application data to be restored, please do not confuse with the newly downloaded lzplay package)
2, connect Hisuite (pc Huawei mobile phone assistant) click data recovery
3, find lzplay decompression package, only restore applications and data (only restore assistant application and application data, application data is the most important! application data is the most important! application data is the most important!) does not restore system settings!
4, restart the phone after data recovery
5, then download the corresponding version of the Google package and install (corresponding to the Google package and lzplay link below) Note: Install these Google packages based on all permissions
6. After the installation is complete, open the Google Service Assistant and activate the device manager.
7, restart the phone after activation is complete
8, open the settings drop-down to see if there is a google icon, if there is, then the installation is successful, if not, repeat the installation steps
MOST IMPORTANTLY: Open GMAIL first, register your account, and Google Play should then also start working.
The first couple of times I tried to either add a Gmail account or go directly to the Playstore, which didn't work. Now I opened Gmail, added my address, signed in and it all started working!
Thanks for all your input guys. Much appreciated!!