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Samsung Galaxy A3 SM-A3000 lack Google Apps

I have bought a Samsung Galaxy A3 SM-A3000 upgraded with Android 5.0.2. in China but everything related to Google has been removed. No Play Store, no calender and trouble with GMAIL. How do I get the Google apps/services installed?

Go the same problem with my SM-A7000. I Wish someone will port the rom with gapps. That would really work. Did you ever manage to get it working?

Android wear for kitkat 4.4.4

I bought moto 360 v2
I have galaxy grand neo which support kitkat 4.4.4.
I cant download android wear from appStore , it says not compatible.
so to check notification on moto 360 v2?

Perhaps you should install a custom ROM on your galaxy grand neo that is based on 5.1.1 or 6.0.1. that is probably the only thing you can do. Or buy a new phone.
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According to Google's FAQ page, https://support.google.com/androidwear/answer/6056390?hl=en Android 4.3 or higher and Bluetooth are required. It sounds like your problem is that the Play Store won't let you download it. Maybe you can find somewhere else to download it from.

yousufshah said:
I bought moto 360 v2
I have galaxy grand neo which support kitkat 4.4.4.
I cant download android wear from appStore , it says not compatible.
so to check notification on moto 360 v2?
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Download it from here.
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/android-wear/
Good luck.

Google swrvices and purevpn

Dear all,
I just bought a Huawei Nova in Shanghai (chinese version). It has 5.1 emui. But no google services. Ive tried to download and install them and gave all permissions but still not able to start. Also i did install purevpn apk but it is frozen again at the beginning. It is about android 7? How can i solve this problem? Best,

Probably it's the same story as with Xiaomi phones with Chinese ROMs. Google is banned in China that's what you cannot use it. Try to find official international ROM for your device and flash it.

Hiapp has a modified google play and google play services. It worked on my device in China on EMUI 4. Not sure why the apk is force closing. Do they have options to set up the vpn manually?

hank you but i do not want to flash a rom. i found out that purevpn app is freezing when i was trying to start hiapp's google play. after removing it, it works but slow (nothing to do here). but still sad about google play and other google services part.
Hubik82 said:
Probably it's the same story as with Xiaomi phones with Chinese ROMs. Google is banned in China that's what you cannot use it. Try to find official international ROM for your device and flash it.
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I now run LineageOS on my phone, so I have flashed GApps. Before that I was on EMUI 4 and it seemed fine with HIapps google. There is a free VPN called zerovpn and I got that to work in most places (again I am also in China).

[Google Assistant][Mido] No-Root

Hi guys today I wanted to share you guys how can you get google Assistant on your Modo without Root. This method is safe and advantages are
As I said no root hence you are not breaking your ota, no need unlocked bootloader,no need to root your device,no need to edit your build prop.
All you need to do is to sing up for beta tester of google play service and beta for google app.
Google play service (beta)
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.google.android.gms
Google app(beta)
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.google.android.gms
It worked with miui 8 and miui 9 and o even tested it with other handset like Lenovo k5 and it worked successful.
And yes a reboot is compulsory. After that and here you go . And now I tested it on 5 device running with different skin and it worked. It worked on miui 8 miui 9 Android 6.0+ on funtouch os of vivo and emui and also on le eco so yes it's good I haven't tried it on Android lollipop if anyone is there they may try it and inform me. I guess a little build prop editing may help

meheboobalam1 said:
Hi guys today I wanted to share you guys how can you get google Assistant on your Modo without Root. This method is safe and advantages are
As I said no root hence you are not breaking your ota, no need unlocked bootloader,no need to root your device,no need to edit your build prop.
All you need to do is to sing up for beta tester of google play service and beta for google app.
Google play service (beta)
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.google.android.gms
Google app(beta)
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.google.android.gms
It worked with miui 8 and miui 9 and o even tested it with other handset like Lenovo k5 and it worked successful.
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Nice to see you here . Don't you think this tread belongs to " guide section "

meheboobalam1 said:
Hi guys today I wanted to share you guys how can you get google Assistant on your Modo without Root. This method is safe and advantages are
As I said no root hence you are not breaking your ota, no need unlocked bootloader,no need to root your device,no need to edit your build prop.
All you need to do is to sing up for beta tester of google play service and beta for google app.
Google play service (beta)
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.google.android.gms
Google app(beta)
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.google.android.gms
It worked with miui 8 and miui 9 and o even tested it with other handset like Lenovo k5 and it worked successful.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
And yes a reboot is compulsory. After that and here you go . And now I tested it on 5 device running with different skin and it worked. It worked on miui 8 miui 9 Android 6.0+ on funtouch os of vivo and emui and also on le eco so yes it's good I haven't tried it on Android lollipop if anyone is there they may try it and inform me. I guess a little build prop editing may help

Google Camera problem

Hi,
I was using a Google Camera app without any problems since I remembered on my Moto X Style.
Event after Nougat update it wasn't any problem.
Yesterday I made a full factory reset and I was suprised by the play store. There is no anymore possibility to install Google Camera from store!
It's not compatible with our device any more. It looks like before it was compatible. I was looked a app on apkmirror but all of them required android 7.1+ (since 4.2 version).
Version 4.1 doesn't looks like that I was using before (there is no hdr option there).
Is there anyone who still have a Google Camera app from play store on Moto X Style and can extract apk from device?

It's been very long since Google has made Google Camera exclusive to their nexus and pixel phones only. It would show phone not supported for any other phone trying to access Google Camera via play store.

AsquareX said:
It's been very long since Google has made Google Camera exclusive to their nexus and pixel phones only. It would show phone not supported for any other phone trying to access Google Camera via play store.
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Not so long... In a middle of 2017 I made a full factory reset and that app was still available in store for me.
Yesterday I checked friend Note 4 and it wasn't available too bu my friend had already installed that.
Unfortunately there is no possibility to export apk from adroid 6.0 to 7.0...
So maybe there is someone on xda who still have a last version from store with android 7.0?

You can download stock/aroma, 7.0 64bit gapps.zip from opengapps.org and extract googlecamera.apk.

treyhard said:
Not so long... In a middle of 2017 I made a full factory reset and that app was still available in store for me.
Yesterday I checked friend Note 4 and it wasn't available too bu my friend had already installed that.
Unfortunately there is no possibility to export apk from adroid 6.0 to 7.0...
So maybe there is someone on xda who still have a last version from store with android 7.0?
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i remmber the last version in store was 2.5.052,but not suitable for 7.0
4.1 on apkmirror is suitable for 7.0

I will try that, thanks guys!