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[Guide] How to install Google Play Store without root

You can install Google Play Store without root. There is no need to install TWRP or CWM either. We also receive the huge benefit of keeping Play Store and Services and Framework when we OTA. Why? Because they are installed as part of user data instead of injected into system.
In all phones we've tested, Play and all associated data and apps remain after OTA with no reinstall of gapps required.
Just follow this simple guide. Credit to the original thread: Credit link removed by XDA moderators
http://www.chinaphonearena.com/forum/Thread-Guide-how-to-install-Google-Play-on-Xiaomi-Meizu-LeTV
This should work with most major brand China phones, eg: Meizu M2, Meizu M2 Note, Xiaomi Mi4C, Xiaomi Redmi 3, Xiaomi Redmi Note 3, Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Pro, LeTV 1s X500, and phones such as these which typically have only official CN ROMs, or which have more up to date CN ROMs than the India or Global ROMs.
How to install Google Play, Google Framework, Google Services, Google Play Store without root or twrp or cwm
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?pka2i87kignp99j
This guide will show you how to install Google Play Services on most any legitimate brand China mobile. Tested so far are the ones in the beginning of this thread, but it should work for many.
The great thing about this is that there's no need to root or install a custom recovery or flash anything.
1. download the .zip from the link above and extract the .apk to your phone
2. Install and run the apk
3. Press the big button in installer apk
4. Click install as each app finishes auto-downloading
5. Make sure to allow permissions for the various components if requested.
6. Google Play will update itself automatically in the background within first few minutes after using it
Doesn't get any easier than this. Enjoy and comment if it's helped you. Regards.
Yes, we're very aware there are other reasons users may wish to root or install custom recovery, but if you just want Play Store, Play Services, Play Framework without the hassle, this guide is for you.

Please let me know,
Amazon kindle fire hd 2012 is also OK?
Thanks.

Xiaomi Mi5 is also OK?

PetaX8 said:
Xiaomi Mi5 is also OK?
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Yes, man. All Xiaomi and should work on all LeTV and all Meizu. No need for root and no need for TWRM CWM custom recovery.

Tried this on Mi4c, so far so good. Chrome, Keep, Contacts running well and syncing.

Thank you for this, but it didn't work 4 me.
it did install all the apks successfully, however the Google Play Services keep crushing
without the Google Play services functioning, Google Play store can't connect to Google servers ans thus can't update the versions...
how can i know what version i need to install for Google Play Services?
I read somewhere that it depends of my Android version, the processor and dpi.
my Android version is 4.4.2 (it is a car multimedia device - the one that comes with Hyundai 2016 models)
I have no idea what is the processor...
I have no idea what's the dpi....

Will this method work on a Chinese Huawei Mate 9 6GB ram+128GB rom?

Wont work on Nokia 6
Hi,
I go the Nokia 6 TA-1000 which has no play services, is there a way i could get it to work on my phone.
The issue is it all installs but play services keeps crashing.

Will this work on Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium?
I've manually downloaded and tried various Google Service apk verions on my Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium (from China), but after installing the services, the Google Services Framework is constantly crashing and doesn't work.
Will this work? is there a way to get it working??
Note that I made a post about it, but it has no replies yet.. It might be nested somewhere that isn't very noticeable.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/xz...lling-google-play-store-t3862495#post78055115
Also.. I'm very sure Google Play Services and all the dependent packages/services are not OS-system level apps.. I mean, lots of phones (released in NA) have Google services installed at root level, so its not possible to modify/remove.. but there's many devices who dont come with it and can be installed separately/manually (without root and custom ROMs, etc) and that makes sense.. right? All the google apps are just, regular apps...?

Unistall feature not showing in the Play store after root.

Just curious, I rooted my Note 10.1 a month ago, have not installed any Roms as of yet, When I go to the the Play store, I don't get the uninstall option on any of my install apps, I only get the open feature. I can still uninstall using a 3rd party app, or the OS system, but just curious why this is

Its not normal and never happened to me .

No one has had this issue, would installing an updated version of the Play store help, even though I don't have a new Rom installed, what is the latest Play APK ??

I did install the latest version APK 6.4.13 and still have the same issue, is it something with the process of which how I rooted my device ?? Please advise, I surely can't be the only that has had this issue before ??

Skype cause System UI crash

Hi.
I really don't know why, when i install Skype (and very few other app), if i reboot my phone, i got a System UI crash on startup.
I tried to freeze the app, but same thing. When that happen, i had to go on my recovery, go to /data/app and remove the skype app directory.
Lolipop, root & xposed. I try to remove every xposed module in case of, but no change.
Any idea how to fix it ?
Edit : I found a way to have skype, but i'm still curious why the official skype is crashing my UI.
The china apk version of skype (com.skype.rover instead of com.skype.rider) seems working but i hope it's not a malware
http://skype.gmw.cn/down/skype-for-mobiles.html give me this download page : http://apk.91.com/Soft/Android/com.skype.rover-84008855-5.1.99.57239.html
I tested the apk with https://www.metadefender.com/#!/results/file/08c366c3216745b3b54c50f0666114c0/regular but i guess it's not fullproof

Bootloop after updating apps like Telegram?

Maybe this is a very stupid question but I really have no idea why this problem occurs
My phone (HTC One S Ville mit Resurrection Remix (Android 5.1)) worked perfectly fine until last Friday.
At this date a new update of Telegram Messenger was released. I installed it and while installation of this app my phone did a restart and got stuck in a bootloop.
I restored using TWRP and retried - same problem. I also deleted the app and its data to do a fresh install - bootloop after installation.
Furthermore I noticed the exactly same behavior for the last update of WiGLE. All other apps could be updated to their latest versions without problems.
I used Google Play to update these apps.
What could be a problem for that? Is android just too old to these apps or could there be a collision with something installed on my phone/the ROM? How can I debug this?
I am not an android expert and I am very thankful for any kind of help :')
Thank you! =)

Same Problem with LG G2 mini / Android 6
Hello,
I'm facing the similar problems since a few days. Running Resurrection 6.0.1 on LG G2 Mini.
It started with installing maxdome-app at thursday, last week. Phone went into bootloop.
Wiping and or deinstalling the app in safe-mode did not work. So I restored to an older backup. This worked some time but ran into bootloop after a while ( I do not know what I've done exactly to get into this, this time).
I tried around a little. One part was a fresh install of cyanogenmod 13. This worked some time and I could find out that installing telegramm messenger had the bootloop-effect repeatable.
Sorry for not giving any help to the thread-creator but I hope we can give any more information to each other or anyone else can help?
Right now I am installing apps and backing up all the time to get some half-working system, but better ideas would be appreciated

Good to know that I am not alone
I figured out that there are a few more apps causing the bootloop. Here is a list:
WiGLE Wardriving
Telegram Messenger
pr0gramm.com app
Playstore Changelog (XPosed Module)
Statusbar Download Progress (XPosed Module)
Maxdome
I already updated Xposed Framework, Google Play Services and Google WebView to prevent incompatibilities. Problem still exists.
I updated everything as far as possible and made a backup using TWRP so I can restore my OS at any point. Further you could backup your apps using Titanium Backup. I it worth its price!

I started facing a similar problem of app updates causing bootloops on my device which was running CandySix ROM / 6.0.1. Apps causing bootlooping included Greenify and Nova Launcher. I had another device which has a factory 6.0.1 ROM rooted with Xposed and that device didn't have bootloop issues with these same versions of apps. Fortunately I was able to update the first device to a LineageOS 14.1 7.1.2 ROM and once again continue using the latest version of apps without bootlooping issues - but I never did understand exactly what was causing the bootlooping problem. That was a rather frustrating experience.
When the first bootloop happened, I was updating one single app, so I knew it was probably the one I should roll back to the previous version to fix the problem - so I didn't have to resort to a full TWRP restore.

How did you do a rollback of an app while you are in a bootloop? I would be glad to know that
Unfortunately my Device One S Ville does not get any updates anymore

In my case I can boot to custom recovery/TWRP to delete the app apk from the its /data/app folder - which basically prevents it from running when I reboot the phone. I also use an apk extractor app to save the apk of all apps I install and I also use Titanium Backup - so between those two I have copies of the older apk versions to install. You can also find older apk versions on apkmirror.com.
Depending on the severity of the bootloop, you can also connect your phone to a PC and use adb to disable/uninstall the app causing the problem if you know which one it is.
-kw said:
How did you do a rollback of an app while you are in a bootloop? I would be glad to know that
Unfortunately my Device One S Ville does not get any updates anymore
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Thank you for your explanation! This sounds a bit more stressful to me than rather restore via TWRP but could me more time efficient for larger ROMs. I will keep this in mind

Thanks and can confirm that deleting the app folder/apk via twrp can help. I got back into my android 6 again. For me seems more that DavDroid caused it (but Telegram was suspicious, too).
DavDroid mentioned in the last update on 4th November, that they released a workaround against crash and bootloops on some custom roms

Depending on how old your TWRP backup is, restoring from TWRP is an option. But often I have not made a backup in a while or made many recent changes that I didn't want to lose, so the other ways I suggested are more time efficient in some cases.
-kw said:
Thank you for your explanation! This sounds a bit more stressful to me than rather restore via TWRP but could me more time efficient for larger ROMs. I will keep this in mind
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Upgrade to Android 7
I can add EDS app to the non-working programs.
As far as I could install Telegram (same Version) by downloading .apk I suspect the problem is something depending with playstore. This would explain the many affected apps. But of course I don't know it for sure.
Inspired from divineBliss I upgraded to Android 7 (LineageOS 14.1) and could install everything as I wanted without problems so far. Thanks for that. Looks good, but I will wait some days after I'm convinced.
@-kw: did you try the following link for upgrading to higher android-version?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-s/development/7-1-lineage14-1-htc-one-s-ville-t3540981

Glad you were able to update ROMs and escape the bootlooping problem
I have been running LineageOS 14.1 for about a month now without any bootlooping issues due to app updates - so I expect you won't have any issues. I did cause some dread time consuming to resolve bootlooping due to some bad substratum themes, but that's a different issue altogether .
michibr said:
I can add EDS app to the non-working programs.
As far as I could install Telegram (same Version) by downloading .apk I suspect the problem is something depending with playstore. This would explain the many affected apps. But of course I don't know it for sure.
Inspired from divineBliss I upgraded to Android 7 (LineageOS 14.1) and could install everything as I wanted without problems so far. Thanks for that. Looks good, but I will wait some days after I'm convinced.
@-kw: did you try the following link for upgrading to higher android-version?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-s/development/7-1-lineage14-1-htc-one-s-ville-t3540981
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@michibr:
I am very pleased with my Resurrection ROM; but this is stuck on Android 5.1. I will give a new ROM a try when I have the time for that
At this time it seems like this is the only solution of escaping the bootloop-problem

FYI
I updated to Android 7.1 RR and now I can update all my Apps without problems
I am sorry that this is the only solution I can provide, but still better than nothing

Hi all,
I'm having exactly the same problem, it all started with FB, then some other apps.
I had to reboot into Safe Mode to uninstall those apps.
I'm running on cm12.1 and I have my own reason not to upgrade to higher Android.
Am hoping someone can come out with a solution.
For now, here's my list of apps:
- Facebook (Facebook Lite is fine)
- Telegram
- Bluemail
- Local telco app

I am sorry to inform you that I did a lot of research and was not able to find any other solution than upgrading to a higher android.

The problem is with appt2 someone reported it in google's issue tracker and someone from goole descriped it in detail here's it :-
CyanogenMod has this function getPkgName (https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_frameworks_base/blob/cm-13.0/libs/androidfw/AssetManager.cpp). It creates a ResXMLTree on the stack and points it at a buffer from an asset without making a copy. Then it closes the asset before the ResXMLTree is destroyed.
For apps built by aapt, this is benign. However, aapt2 produces UTF-8 string pools, which cause the ResXMLTree's ResStringPool(mStrings)'s mCache to become non-null in ResStringPool::stringAt (https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_frameworks_base/blob/cm-13.0/libs/androidfw/ResourceTypes.cpp). Then ResStringPool::uninit dereferences mHeader (which is now dangling), and a crash ensues.
This crash shows up in different ways. On one Cyanogen OS device, the launcher crashes when an app built with aapt2 has been installed, but only if the manifest is large (probably due to how deallocation happens for small vs large blobs). On another device, system_server crashes at boot if an aapt2-built app is installed.
We're attempting to work around this with a custom build of aapt2 that always produces a UTF-16 string pool for the manifest. Results so far are promising.

Can this be patched somehow at the OS via xposed for all of the roms that won't get updated?

The fix for this issue is available here (CM13):
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=74636021&postcount=216
CM12.1:
The fix for this issue is available here (12.1):
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=74842530&postcount=464

Is this .zip patch for any device with any Lollipop 5.1.1 ROM?
Because I just installed it and my HTC one X with Resurrection Remix ROM (Lollipop 5.1.1) goes black after the HTC logo.

lescht said:
The fix for this issue is available here (CM13):
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=74636021&postcount=216
CM12.1:
The fix for this issue is available here (12.1):
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=74842530&postcount=464
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Hello what is about cm11 kitkat 4.4.4 sameissue but no fix-
could anyone make a fix? Please help.

How do I get gapps on my Mi Box

So I currently have a Mi Box (MiBox1S) and it's running Android 4.4.2. I'd like to install gapps onto it, to make it less like a brick and more like a streaming box. (Hulu won't work without it, plus the launcher it came with is ugly and in Chinese so I'd like Leanback) I've found there's no TWRP for the device as far as I can tell. However, I do have root that I achieved with KingoRoot. Since I couldn't get a recovery, I tried Flashify, FlashFire, & Flash Gordon apps to install w/o TWRP. Flashify needed a mouse or touchscreen, Flashfire doesn't support KingoRoot I guess, and Flash Gordon just flat out did nothing despite saying it was flashing and had root. I tried three different gapps installers, two said unsupported and the last needs a mouse to work. I did also try just sideloading the apps with ES. Opening any of them would just tell me Google Play services has stopped, so that's a no go. So, how does anybody propose I get gapps onto this thing? And maybe Lollipop too? I guess my fallback would be just trying to use Android x86 on an older pc but I'm having other issues with that as well. Mostly with the sound not working at all.

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So I currently have a Mi Box (MiBox1S) and it's running Android 4.4.2. I'd like to install gapps onto it, to make it less like a brick and more like a streaming box. (Hulu won't work without it, plus the launcher it came with is ugly and in Chinese so I'd like Leanback) I've found there's no TWRP for the device as far as I can tell. However, I do have root that I achieved with KingoRoot. Since I couldn't get a recovery, I tried Flashify, FlashFire, & Flash Gordon apps to install w/o TWRP. Flashify needed a mouse or touchscreen, Flashfire doesn't support KingoRoot I guess, and Flash Gordon just flat out did nothing despite saying it was flashing and had root. I tried three different gapps installers, two said unsupported and the last needs a mouse to work. I did also try just sideloading the apps with ES. Opening any of them would just tell me Google Play services has stopped, so that's a no go. So, how does anybody propose I get gapps onto this thing? And maybe Lollipop too? I guess my fallback would be just trying to use Android x86 on an older pc but I'm having other issues with that as well. Mostly with the sound not working at all.
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Since you already managed to root the device, you just need to go to apkmirror and install FOUR google packages specifically for version 4.4.2:
Google Play Store
com.android.vending
Google Play Services
com.google.android.gms
Google Service Framework
com.google.android.gsf
Google Account Manager
com.google.android.gsf.login
However, in order to make it work, you need to install them as system-app.
And MiBox 1s doesn't have any extra spaces for you to install all four.
So, for your own good, you should get rid of xiaomi system files first.
(as for exactly what can be gotten rid of... that is details, ping me again if you haven't give up on this box yet)
In the process, you may want to get rid of something like mitv.desktop. That is one thing sit on TOP of launcher thus without getting rid of it, none of your launcher will work.
So, you need to install a launcher first.
I have never gotten leanback to work. I did install an open-source "simple TV launcher" and it served my purposes.
At this time frame, I can't get a lot of stuff to work simply this box is too old. But I did manage to use the box without any xiaomi software.

kngharv said:
Since you already managed to root the device, you just need to go to apkmirror and install FOUR google packages specifically for version 4.4.2:
Google Play Store
com.android.vending
Google Play Services
com.google.android.gms
Google Service Framework
com.google.android.gsf
Google Account Manager
com.google.android.gsf.login
However, in order to make it work, you need to install them as system-app.
And MiBox 1s doesn't have any extra spaces for you to install all four.
So, for your own good, you should get rid of xiaomi system files first.
(as for exactly what can be gotten rid of... that is details, ping me again if you haven't give up on this box yet)
In the process, you may want to get rid of something like mitv.desktop. That is one thing sit on TOP of launcher thus without getting rid of it, none of your launcher will work.
So, you need to install a launcher first.
I have never gotten leanback to work. I did install an open-source "simple TV launcher" and it served my purposes.
At this time frame, I can't get a lot of stuff to work simply this box is too old. But I did manage to use the box without any xiaomi software.
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I appreciate the reply, but this was over 2 years ago. I did get gapps on it but ended up bricking it by trying to install Leanback as a system app and resetting it never fixed it, so it has collected dust since then unfortunately.

If you are interested in revive the machine, I have a copy of an internal development image from Xiaomi.
It is the only image which I can repeatedly flash when I screwed up.
You can simply flash this development image first, then start over again.
By the way, I never managed to get leanback to work. I suspect the leanback launcher is based upon Android/5.
I end up using some open source launcher instead.
If you are interested in this image, let me know.
I also have a list of bloatware which you can safely remove (if you are willing to give up on any of xiaomi services
Also... as far as my experiences go, I don't really need gapps for some reason. I have a 3rd party Youtube, Kodi, and Netflix installed. None of them requires gapps.

kngharv said:
If you are interested in revive the machine, I have a copy of an internal development image from Xiaomi.
It is the only image which I can repeatedly flash when I screwed up.
You can simply flash this development image first, then start over again.
By the way, I never managed to get leanback to work. I suspect the leanback launcher is based upon Android/5.
I end up using some open source launcher instead.
If you are interested in this image, let me know.
I also have a list of bloatware which you can safely remove (if you are willing to give up on any of xiaomi services
Also... as far as my experiences go, I don't really need gapps for some reason. I have a 3rd party Youtube, Kodi, and Netflix installed. None of them requires gapps.
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Ah yeah, I'd like a link to it actually. I've never really expected to revive it. It's been so long though, I don't remember how to get this device into fastboot mode even.