I recently purchased a used Pixel 4a, and I now understand why the seller was offering such good price for it and why he refused to respond to me now I have it. This phone has ArcanseOS 10 installed, which has only 3 apps installed... Setting, Clock and Calculator. There is no Play Store app, no Phone app, nothing.
I have already started this conversation in the Pixel 4a Q&A forum, so I do not want to duplicate it here. However, I am hoping this post will draw some additional attention to it... I hope new eyes will bring new ideas of how to restore this phone. Please read here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...ash-stock-android-to-remove-arcaneos.4285827/
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Hi guys
I'm asking you for HELP because I lost hope how to fix my problem with my new Asus Zenfone 5 on my own. I bought phone from China - Spemall.com (good and safe website). Phone is brilliant and very well made all is perfect except one thing - it was no play store installed. All other phones and tablets from them had play store installed this is first time when I had device without it.
I have this phone for two days now I was trying almost everything (in my opinion everything) to install both first Google Play Services and after that Play Store.
I downloaded both latest versions apk and first installed services and after play store but when trying to tap in play store icon all what I getting is
---Unfortunately Google play services has stopped.
I was cleaning data, cache, reinstalling both apps and even I did few times factory reset but nothing. I was still getting famous massage --- Unfortunately Google play services has stopped. Whatever I press Google settings or play store it will always end up in this same way.
Phone is not rooted!!!
I was using guides from you tube because that was easy start and you must start somewhere and sometimes when problem is little you are able to fix it but this time is different and my knowledge and you tube is not enough that's why I asking you guys to help me in this difficult moment.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Best regards
Kabak
I can completely understand your frustration. Since we don't have a forum for your device, may I suggest posting your query in
Android Development and Hacking > Android General ? One of the Experts there will love to help you. Make sure to include your android version when you do so.
You can most certainly get Amazon Appstore installed on the tablet to get you going.
Thank you very much
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I can completely understand your frustration. Since we don't have a forum for your device, may I suggest posting your query in
Android Development and Hacking > Android General ? One of the Experts there will love to help you. Make sure to include your android version when you do so.
You can most certainly get Amazon Appstore installed on the tablet to get you going.
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Hello
I will try to do that now once again Thank you so much at least I will go somewhere
Regards
kabak
So I wasted a good 5 hours trying to get my phone to connect to the Google Play store. It worked perfectly fine up until I decided to update to Lollipop. Thinking that was the problem I tried a bunch of suggestions online like clearing cache of the app and whatnot. Ended up doing a factory reset to see if it fixed the issue and it did not. No matter what account I tried to log into it would always say it could not connect even though I could use the internet fine on the phone. Ended up trying to log into my main email address on my old phone and found it was doing the same thing. I wake up this morning and my brother tells me he hacked in-app purchases on his phone and can get any in-game item that requires real world money purchases for free. After telling him he's an idiot and could possibly get in trouble with the law and his accounts banned I then realized when he took over my Droid RAZR he has always been using my Google Play account because he is too create his own Google account.
Thus leading me to the conclusion that my Google account has been banned from the play store. I've look all around in my e-mail and can't find any signs of it being banned.
Does anyone here know how I can figure out of this is truly the case? Sorry for the wall of text... and thanks in advance!
Hi
Check this thread for list of known Google Play errors and their solutions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2733038
If possible ,try rolling back to older firmware version or reflash newer version to fix any possible firmware errors.
ALso ,you can sign up on forums and post in Q/A section and see if it's a issue related to OTA
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2/help
Have a good day !
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I'm new here so I'm sorry if there is a thread about this or if I'm doing it wrong. But I haven't been able to find anyone on any internet forums with my issue. Google now doesn't display any cards except for weather and parking location, but only on my phone. On my nexus 7 I get weather plus all of my cards from websites and about certain topics. The only time my phone gives me anything else in Google now is telling me an update about a football game I don't really care about every 5 minutes. I don't understand why it doesn't give me stories on my phone but it does on my tablet. Both have the same version of Android and Google. Both are signed in to the same Google account. And up until they updated Google both of !y devices gave identical cards. I don't really know what to do.
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I'm new here so I'm sorry if there is a thread about this or if I'm doing it wrong. But I haven't been able to find anyone on any internet forums with my issue. Google now doesn't display any cards except for weather and parking location, but only on my phone. On my nexus 7 I get weather plus all of my cards from websites and about certain topics. The only time my phone gives me anything else in Google now is telling me an update about a football game I don't really care about every 5 minutes. I don't understand why it doesn't give me stories on my phone but it does on my tablet. Both have the same version of Android and Google. Both are signed in to the same Google account. And up until they updated Google both of !y devices gave identical cards. I don't really know what to do.
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Hello there! Welcome to XDA!
First register an XDA account (so you can ask in the proper forum)
then, you may ask for help here: (see below)
If your Device is a Nexus 7 with Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core chip go here -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-7
if it is the Google Nexus 7 (2013) -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-7-2013
Good Luck!
Hello, I got two Amazon Fire Tablets from Amazon's Black Friday Sale, 30 bucks a piece. I looked online, my main goal is to get Clash of Clans on there, and link my account from my phone. I saw you could sideload apps, and got Clash, Google Play, and a bunch of other features on it. Not that big of a deal, took me about 2 hours and some work.
However, I cannot link to Google Play Services. It either loads until black screen or doesn't load at all. Upon further investigation, I noticed I got shipped one with the new OS, 5.1.1
I read a lot of people cannot sideload or they blocked rooting for this device. How long until a root is available? Is there a root available?
I cannot seem to find any information and quickly browsed the general forum for help - in which I found ROM's, but dont have any idea how that works.
Please help me crack 5.1.1 so I can connect to Google Play. I will owe you my life. <3
Thanks,
SuperRooterModDestroyer
Hi.
I have two questions about the Amazon App Store that I have not been able to find answers to anywhere so far.
1. When the Underground App Store came out, it seemed to slowly replace the old original Amazon App Store, but I didn't see it mentioned anywhere that the old store needed to be uninstalled, and I am concerned that the Underground App Store may not be able to manage all my previously installed apps, especially Free App Of The Day apps. Does anyone know if it is safe to delete the original Amazon App Store while still able to manage any older Amazon-downloaded apps?
2. One of the Amazon App Stores (not sure which one) has recently (early 2016) started the nasty habit of automatically updating all my Amazon-downloaded apps whenever a new update is available, and I am not OK with this. Most important of all, it doesn't seem to ask me about changed permissions anymore! I have not found any way of disabling this behavior so far. I even emailed Amazon customer service about this and was told they'd have to talk to me on the phone about this as it is a more complex issue - yea, right...
FYI, I know enough about Android to root my phone and browse the file structure, and I have some Linux experience, so either there is no easily found option for question 2 or I am suffering from temporary blindness which tends to happen occasionally...
I'm on a Samsung Galaxy S5 on Verizon, rooted, Android 4.4.4 Kernel 3.4.0, in case it helps. I disabled Android Software Updates so towelroot doesn't get disabled.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!