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[Q] P5110 bought in wrong country!!! How can make it my own?

Hello Forum Members...
I am Ex-pat living in Shanghai China & just 2 days back bought GT-P5110. Unfortunately, i did not investigate properly before buying & just within few minutes of usage i came to know that this Tablet is lacking Google Play, Google Map,, Google Talk, Photo Share to Picasa from Gallery & even S-Memo missing...!!! Its been shocking to me...as i am fan of Android devices because of these stock features only.
Without all these things, seems this tablet is nothing more than a Digital Photo Frame to me. I called Samsung Customer support in China, they simply says the Chinese Models are like this only.....they have some of their own Chinese replacements to cater all these features...so no Google niceness in this. My frustration turned more severe when i came to know that it does not support even Flash. I am unable to play any flash contents in stock browser also.
I tried following:
I transferred FileExpert apk file from my HTC Desire to Tab, installed it & luckily found there 1Mobile Apps. Now i at least start downloading some apps.
I downloaded Flash Player from 1Mobile Apps, installed it - but no use,
I downloaded then Google Chrome browser, Mobile Opera - None is able to run flash contents.
Even have Google Maps widget in stock widgets, but when i am moving it to home screen, its just not opening, no response at all...when tap, the screen black-out & then return to home screen.
I even downloaded Google Play apk file & installed it, this also can not open.
Reader Hub, Music Hub...all taking to Chinese contents....OMG...pls. save me.
All online ebooks need Flash player plug-in...so i am helpless on that front also.
I tried to select country Singapore, India, US etc. while opening Samsung Apps first time, but then while downloading any Apps from Samsung Apps, it just says your Samsung ID is not workable in this Country!! If i select country China, the all apps available there are in Chinese only & Samsung Apps interface also in Chinese!!!
Can some expert here advice me if there is some way out of this...? Rooting & clockworkmod will help? I actually dont want to do so at so early stage & me not to expert to do all these.
I really need Google Play Store, Google Maps, GTalk & is there any way to change the Inbuilt Reader & Music Hub contents to English, by changing the Location to some other country or some other trick?
How to link the Flash Player app with Stock or downloaded browsers?
Pls. help.....

either your tablet being modded by others or its duplicate coz i have same p5110 from china and its working great .....try doing factory reset it might solve the problem ...or if u know how to root and flash this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1722099 its performing well for my tab .....all the best !!!

I experienced the same thing with the P3100 I purchased earlier this week (I live in Beijing). The issue is that the Chinese government and Google don't like each other very much so Chinese models take this into account. What I did was install ClockworkMod Recovery, and then installed a stock version from Singapore or anywhere non-China of ICS 4.0.4. Worked like a charm more or less, though I still have issues accessing some free and all paid apps in Google Play.
There's a How-To at the top of the Galaxy Tab 2 7" Android Developmement forum that's helpful. Also search sammobile or elsewhere in this forum for the stock ICS 4.0.4.
YMMV.

Need help: not able download paid apps from play store!

As I am using android gingerbred2.3.6 (not Rooted) on my samsung galaxy y pro duos & my problem is that I am not able to purchase any kind of paid apps; b'coz whenever I am trying add my debit card to a/c there is error shows as follows ["error while receving information from server REC:AEC 0"]. I have tryed every tricks like clearing cache of play store, uninstalling update of playstore apps, or even I have used to add another a/c to downlaod these apps but unfortunatelly nothing works.
So if anybdy can solve these issue I shall be much obliged to him. If it is possible to solve this problem without formating device, its better for me b'coz I am very frustrated to loose or download all apps/contact/ important sms repeatadally.

Google play tablet problems!!!!!

Till yesterday everything was fine but today when I woke up and opened up google play,no longer can I see the 'designed for phones' tag below apps which are not optimized for tablets,cannot see the 'tablet highlights' section in the homepage of google play on my Galaxy tab 2 7 inch GT-P3100 stock ROM 4.2.2 not rooted.Is anyone else also facing the same issue?
I know that MX player is one of those apps which has the 'designed for phones' tag,but now it's gone(and it was not updated with a tablet inteface)
Also I tried to visit 'featured apps for tablets' section on google play with the help of google search through my browser and got an error of saying
'Error retrieving information from server. [DF-LA-01]'
Is this a bug or is google intentionally not recognizing my device as a tablet from now on?

downloaderfan said:
Till yesterday everything was fine but today when I woke up and opened up google play,no longer can I see the 'designed for phones' tag below apps which are not optimized for tablets,cannot see the 'tablet highlights' section in the homepage of google play on my Galaxy tab 2 7 inch GT-P3100 stock ROM 4.2.2 not rooted.Is anyone else also facing the same issue?
I know that MX player is one of those apps which has the 'designed for phones' tag,but now it's gone(and it was not updated with a tablet inteface)
Also I tried to visit 'featured apps for tablets' section on google play with the help of google search through my browser and got an error of saying
'Error retrieving information from server. [DF-LA-01]'
Is this a bug or is google intentionally not recognizing my device as a tablet from now on?
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i think it is just a small problem from google which will be ok
also just wipe cache in recovery and clear data of google play also before clearing cache in recovery and i think every thing will be okk

sharingan said:
i think it is just a small problem from google which will be ok
also just wipe cache in recovery and clear data of google play also before clearing cache in recovery and i think every thing will be okk
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Thanks for replying, what I did was I uninstalled all updates to google play which auto updated to the latest version within 5 minutes, that solved the problem and I could again see the 'Designed for phones' tag under non tablet optimized apps.

downloaderfan said:
Thanks for replying, what I did was I uninstalled all updates to google play which auto updated to the latest version within 5 minutes, that solved the problem and I could again see the 'Designed for phones' tag under non tablet optimized apps.
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great then
have funn:good::good:

[Completed] Can't sign into any Google Play game... At All.

Recently, I've rooted my Samsung Galaxy S5 (SM-G900F) and also installed Modded Google Play Store from the same Developers who made Lucky Patcher. I installed the latest one last week and only realized a problem today.
When going into an Game that requires Google Play Games/Google Play Services, the option to log in does NOT appear. When I try to log in myself (That is pressing the Log In button within the apl of the game) the option also does not appear. Modded Google Play Store works perfectly, but when I open Google Play Games, nothing but a white screen appears. Note I also have Freedom installed in my phone.
Can anyone please give me an insight or a solution to this problem? Unrooting my phone would be, of course, a last resort for me, along with uninstalling lucky patcher. I have seen posts saying to delete the Hosts file, but that didn't do anything. Any help would really make my day. Thanks.

DesKyo said:
Recently, I've rooted my Samsung Galaxy S5 (SM-G900F) and also installed Modded Google Play Store from the same Developers who made Lucky Patcher. I installed the latest one last week and only realized a problem today.
When going into an Game that requires Google Play Games/Google Play Services, the option to log in does NOT appear. When I try to log in myself (That is pressing the Log In button within the apl of the game) the option also does not appear. Modded Google Play Store works perfectly, but when I open Google Play Games, nothing but a white screen appears. Note I also have Freedom installed in my phone.
Can anyone please give me an insight or a solution to this problem? Unrooting my phone would be, of course, a last resort for me, along with uninstalling lucky patcher. I have seen posts saying to delete the Hosts file, but that didn't do anything. Any help would really make my day. Thanks.
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Hi and thank you for using XDA Assist
Unfortunally this is a problem regarding the modded GApps but i suggest you to flash the original ones from here in order to see if it's not even a phone/ROM problem and for futher questions you can also ask here to the general forum: Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Good luck!

[Completed] Huawei Honor V8 Etotalk rom play store not working.

Hello,
I hope someone can help me with this, an Android device is not what it is supposed to be without the play store.
I received the phone and after starting up the first app I tried to start was the play store, no error message it just closes down emediately. I found out play store can start up as long as there is no internet connection, as soon as I switch on wifi or mobile data play store will shut down without a message, sometimes it gets a split second to load some front page apps but then emediately it shuts down, no message.
I tried all remedies available on internet, including: wiping app data and cache for play store, play services and download manager. I uninstalled and reinstalled the latest versions of play store and play services. I even switched the screen resolution to HD thinking 2k resolution is not supported. Nothing works.
I have now the following versions of play store and services on my phone:
- play store is 6.9.15.G-all {0} 3104571
- play services is 9.6.78 (440-131446183)
The problem is on the Huawei Honor V8 KNT-AL20, which has Android 6.0 (with EMUI 4.1) and a Hisilicon Kirin 955 processor (which I believe is Arm 64 bit). Screen is 2k but can be set to 1080p (which did not solve the problem). Let me know if you need to know more.
I also wonder if there is already any custom roms made for this device. This might also solve the problem, but I can't find any rom anywhere, I found in the process that the Kirin processor somehow makes it difficult to cook custom roms.
I hope somebody can help me, Thank you in advance.
Kind Regards,
Niels

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