I'm NOT a developer (just your average it-guy), but i wanted to share how it worked for me!
Just posting my experience in getting google to work again, it might help others. (share the experience)
I started from a fresh system,
enabled developer options by tapping build number in system (under about phone),
enabled usb-debugging
enabled adb-debugging in charge only mode
installed the newest Google Services installer, the one with the blue/purple G and the chinese signs under it (installed 3,05 Mb)
Then i tried to run it. but it got stuck at the first install with a red exclamation mark.
Bought another phone. (Redmi Note 8t - also full of crap, but EU version)
With no network (no sim and no Wifi) and NO connection to the pc, i started the apps from the Chinese Google services installer manually finding them using the files app on the phone (they are numberred from 1 to 6)
Everything installed, so i checked if i could start play store and sign in and it finally worked!!! (normally it got stuck when you wanted to sign in, so it seemed like they blocked it by protocol or something)
I'm posting this experience because it IS possible to get Google apps working after the latest Emui update from Hua#%& (can you tell this is my last device from them? yes i loved the 8x max)
Now i'm on a new mission, by using Google search. Removing as much Huacrap as i can.
If i may say this here, if you buy a phone, no matter where (china in my case), you should own it. And yes, if i decide to destroy it the next day thats my decision and my responsibility. With selling the device they wave ownership of it.
If you have any succes in getting things to work or getting huacrap removed post below please
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I used to have a huawei ascend p1 phone with gapps preinstalled (good phone). People first complain about its build quality but it that plastic they used on it can withstand many drops without even scratching the phone. I sort of found the gapps annoying because the first time I set it up, it asked me for my physical location and a google account and asked me to store home wifi passwords, contacts, etc in google servers and all that those data stuff google wants from people. I know I can back up my own things so I don't need google to do all these things for me, I tried to disable as much of these features as I could and it was okay for a while until my phone got stolen at a sports center and couldn't find it back despite having installed tracking apps on it.
So I got a new phone, the nexus 4 because it had a booloader that was easy to unlock. I decided to start fresh without all those data sucking features and remove the stock firmware to flash cyanogenmod on it. It was my first time using cyanogenmomd and I gotta say it's wayyy better than the stock firmware in terms of useful features. I really liked it because of all the customizations it offered. As a replacement for google play I installed 1mobile, and fdroid/slideme they worked wonderfully without a google account (I never had one). When I started to install apps from these markets, some apps would work and some would not and some wouldn't even install. I used adb logcat to figure out what was wrong with them and it showed that they required some permissions from the gapps package mainly "com.google.android.maps.xml" and few others. I decided to just copy this file over to the permissions folder on my device and the apps that wouldn't install before installed but most of them would crash easily. Subway sufer was one of my favourite games but it wouldn't work without gapps along with other apps. I figured I had to install gapps and all the data sucking questions and features poped up after I rebooted my phone prior to the installation so I set it up just like previously did on the huawei ascend p1. I noticed that 1modile wouldn't work as smoothly as it did anymore because the searches don't return the official apps. It's like something's been changed in its search algorithm because it when I search for subway surfers it used to return the official game as #1 result but after gapps it dosn't show at all, it just shows tricks, cheats and other apps for the game. The same things goes with other apps I tried to find from it.
To sum everything up, my question would be something like "Is there a way to have all those dependencies apps rely inside cyanogenmod without gapps?".
Hi everyone, I'm new to Android, not very knowledgeable, have got into a pickle and wonder if anyone can help me.
The Phone - I bought my first Android phone just over a year ago, a Storex DC50G. It's a dual SIM phone running Android 4.2.2, made (or at least marketed) by a French office equipment company. Not very popular, sold mostly in southern Europe (I'm in Britain). Most of the discussion online is in French or Spanish. I understand a bit of both languages but can't find any discussion of rooting, hacks or ROMs. Some software reports the manufacturer as Alps (but they deny it). Until recently it did what I needed and I was happy with it.
The Problem - Unfortunately, I got complacent because of what I'd read about Android's good security and Google's vetting of apps on Play Store. I only installed respectable apps from Play Store, but at some point I must have installed something bad which installed more bad things. I suppose it's possible that this was one of the Chinese phones that had a trojan as it left the factory. At one stage as soon as I connected to WiFi or cellular data I'd get a blizzard of animated advertisements and new installations that made the phone unusable.
What I've Done - Booted to safe mode, with no data connection. I tried 'Factory Data Reset' via settings and via the recovery menu. That wiped all my data but the malware survived. I uninstalled all downloaded apps and removed the SD card. I found several apps that looked obviously suspicious but were installed as 'Factory Apps' so could not be uninstalled. I've disabled them. Malwarebytes detects 16 pieces of malware but can't delete them ('Do you want to delete the selected items?' -> 'Name of application Do you want to uninstall this app?' -> 'Name of application Uninstall unsuccessful'. The listed malware is:
PUP.Riskpay.Xinyin.wch
Android/Trojan.Ztorg.b
Android/Trojan.Agent.OT
Android/Trojan.Downloader.Agent.ex
Android/Trojan.lop.rp
Android/Trojan.lop.rp
Android/Trojan.lop.j
Android/Trojan.Dropper.Agent.gg
Android/PUP.Adware.Sprovider.E
Android/Trojan.Ztorg.tw
Android/Trojan.Spy.Qcarec
Android/Trojan.Ztorg.b
Android/Trojan.downloader.Guerilla.m
Android/Trojan.Ztorg.a
Android/Trojan.Dropper.Agent.FH
Android/Trojan.Ztorg.b
I've tried deleting them one by one, getting the name of the app from the error message and disabling them individually. The phone is much better now - usable for making calls, but I'm not happy to trust it with passwords, banking applications etc. and every time I unlock it I'm greeted by a naked Chinese lady who I didn't invite.
Lessons Learned - next time I'll buy a popular big name phone so I have a chance of getting support, from the community if not from the manufacturer. Android's security turned out to be just enough to prevent me from making a proper back-up and now to stop me uninstalling the malware, but not enough to keep out the nasties. I'd be tempted to root a new phone straight away so I can back up the operating system - even at the risk of invalidating the warranty.
What next? - I'm being cautious, but haven't got much to loose. I'm thinking of trying some of the general purpose rooting tools like Kingoroot, then if I get root successfully trying again to uninstall the malware (but don't know how to be sure I've spotted it all). Ideally, I'd flash a fresh, clean ROM, but since it's not a popular phone there's no such ROM and no-one seems able to give me a clean manufacturer's ROM.
Is this a sensible way forward? Is there a better way forward? Should I chuck it in the bin and go shopping for a new phone?
Install update of ROM with SP flash tool
Install ROM of storex.
xda does not let me put link ROM
Disclaimer: I have already posted this in the S2 specific forum, unfortunately a lack of response is why I am also posting this here.
Hello Everyone
Start off by saying I have little to no Android knowledge (rooting, custom ROMs, modding or programs for such things), however I have basic knowledge of linux and the command line.
My S2 GT-i9100 rapidly heats up and its battery is *unimaginably* and randomly depleted by Google Play Services and quickly renders it useless as a device. I want to fix it and not turn it into a brick.
I got the phone from a family member from Europe (I live in Australia), who had used it for about 6 months. When I got it, it was already unlocked and rooted by some phone place over there. I didn't have any problems.
Recently however Google Play Services (size 127 MB) (version 9.2.56) has randomly started doing *something*, this despite no mobile broadband and almost no internet usage from wifi either to invoke it. Considering it is on ICS (no idea how to upgrade, or whether i should upgrade, or what to upgrade to) it has to be either a bug or a virus considering all those Android exploits in the news recently.
To fix it whenever it occurs, I clear the RAM twice then go into the list of Applications and Force Stop Google Play Services (more than once if the button isn't greyed out).
I tried to disable the components of Google Play Services(listed below) but the problem continued AND it erased the names of my contacts meaning I was left with a bunch of numbers with no name.
Google Bookmarks Sync
Google Play services
Google Services Framework
Google Account Manager
Network Location
Google Contacts Sync
Some details:
Wi-Fi use only (and nonexistent nowadays), no mobile broadband
GT-i9100 running Android 4.0.3 (ICS)
ROM, unknown if original / custom, has a T-Mobile animation screen on bootup and shutdown
It also has a yellow triangle at the bottom when I turn it on (don't care about cosmetics)
Rooted with CWW (no idea about how that works or what it means) and SuperSU (i do know how root user works in linux)
Root Browser + Terminal Emulator installed (my doing)
Google Authenticator + Microsoft Account Authenticator (i don't wanna screw up anything with these, got codes for google authenticator, need to research microsoft)
Call history and text messages (I would like to keep these and would like to know how to backup the phone first of all)
So I'm looking to figure out what would be the best course of action to fix this without screwing up anything. I know the standard solution would be a factory reset but I don't have any backups (also don't know how to), don't want to brick the phone and don't know what it would actually do, and even if it worked, how to root the phone again.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Firstly some details:
App in question: Subway Surfer's
Phone: Huawei P10 Lite (WAS-LX1) with Android 7.0 [NON-ROOTED]
Put simply - during the last few updates of the App (subway Surfers), I've noticed there's a problem with Facebook login & 'Top Run' and 'High Scores' tables
The Top Run/High Scores tables work fine before update, but when the game updates - the Tables do not show up, even though I'm still logged into Facebook.
If I log-off Facebook & try to log back in... I am unable to
I have contacted the developers Killo & despite their best efforts - it boiled down to 'Try uninstalling/reinstalling the game' - which incidentally DOES fix the problem (until next update) but this also means all progress is lost except for Highest Score & any purchases (FYI - Yes I've tried the usual 'clear cache'/'clear data' tricks)
I managed to figure out a workaround thanks to the phone having it's own 'backup' app (this video shows what I have to do) but it's a pain having to do this every 4 weeks. Incidentally this method also works with Helium Backup
The thing is though - I don't have any problems with my [cheap] Fusion5 tablet (on Android 5.1) or on my old Galaxy S4 (stuck on Android 4.2 due to 'KNOX trip') with the update / Facebook 'High scores' problem
At first I though it may be I accidentally turn off an access/accessibilty option on the P10 Lite (for security reasons) or because (on phone) I have it 'storing to SD card'..
I've checked these & can't see anything disabled but the tablet also stores everything to SD card & that doesn't have a problem.
I've googled this problem & it seems other people also have facebook login problems (just not quite the same as mine) & usually solutions are ' Uninstall all facebook apps/Subway surfer, then install them back in' but considering I don't have any facebook apps installed (on phone OR tablet) & yet the tablet/Galaxy phone works but P10 phone doesn't makes me think it's not the facebook apps that's the problem - more likely android OS or App
Has anyone else experienced this type of problem.. if so have they found out the real reason for the 'bug' & have they got a proper fix to it that doesn't require me to 'fix' it each update ??
Many thanks in advance
Hello!
I've recently purchased what I thought was a feature phone with long battery life, the Vodafone Smart A9 (VFD 120) for the purpose of putting my "home" SIM card in while I travel. Surprisingly, this phone actually runs Android! Albeit a very locked down version of Android without Google Play Services. In hindsight I probably should've purchased a different cheap phone and turned off data and location to get a similarly long battery life, at the time the price of $49NZD ($32USD) didn't seem like a bad idea. For the sake of interest I decided to try and sideload an application onto this phone, it seems like a decent companion to take hiking as I lost my last phone off the side of a mountain.
I've tried a few things to sideload an app or gain some sort of privileged access to the phone. I haven't really been up to date with the Android Hacking/Dev scene in a good while as my personal need to root has diminished greatly in the last few years.
Things I've tried:
Enable ADB in Developer Mode by pressing Build Version a bunch of times. Unfortunately pressing Build Version does nothing.
Look for settings to enable applications from other sources. This doesn't exist in the security settings.
Tried installing an app from the file manager. This doesn't work either.
Boot into recovery to do "anything". The phone shows up in ADB as "Unauthorised". There aren't any settings except a bunch of hardware tests and factory reset.
The device only has OTA updates but I imagine that even if I grab the file and spoof the download URL with a modified ROM, it wouldn't pass a hash/signature check.
Is there anything else I could realistically try? I'd just like to know if I've missed anything glaringly obvious.
Thanks for taking a look at my post!
phone is now 13nzd from harvy norman did you ever work out a way to load apps
If Android device is Wi-Fi enabled and has browser installed, you at any time can install an app from one of the several existing app markets: Google Play Store isn't the only one though it's highly recommended to use it due to security reasons.
Hi I was wondering if You could tell me how to boot into Recovery mode for this phone.