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[Q] Installing ONLY Google Play (or replacing)

Hi there.
I recentely re-flashed a CM7.2 official.
I want to get the cleanest device. I don't want any crap on. NO CRAP policy!
So, I wanted to roll without Google apps. No Google Play, no Gmail, no nothing.
Using the email.apk for mails, Opera as a browser, and only games and performance tool.
It works cool and extremely fast.
Only one issue:
Opera can't download new apps from Google Play (play.google.com).
Does anybody knows how can I download ONLY google play? Or some way to download apps from the store without downloading the full google apps?

Egozy said:
Hi there.
I recentely re-flashed a CM7.2 official.
I want to get the cleanest device. I don't want any crap on. NO CRAP policy!
So, I wanted to roll without Google apps. No Google Play, no Gmail, no nothing.
Using the email.apk for mails, Opera as a browser, and only games and performance tool.
It works cool and extremely fast.
Only one issue:
Opera can't download new apps from Google Play (play.google.com).
Does anybody knows how can I download ONLY google play? Or some way to download apps from the store without downloading the full google apps?
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Download the gapps package (but don't even put it in sdcard), open with a archive manager (WinRAR, WinZIP, 7zip etc) and extract Market.apk or similar (only the market), put that .APK in sdcard and install it from the phone (or you can download lastest market searching in the forums, but Market included in gapps for GB works fine anyway).
If you want to update (remember, the version you have installed is Android Market, not Google Play), just search market-updater.apk (or similar) in the package and push it via adb (I don't think it will install directly) to /system/app directory in your phone, and then reboot. Then, open the market and it will prompt to replace the Android Market (or after closing and opening again) for the Google Play store. The Market will not update itself without the market-updater.

Thanks a lot for the quick and informative relpy!
I do have a question though - From past experience, if I disable proccess like google-framework and such that contains the login information, the google play will not function at all. The login is bound to a different application, and I do not want to install these.
Is it possible by any means to download directly through a browser?

Egozy said:
Thanks a lot for the quick and informative relpy!
I do have a question though - From past experience, if I disable proccess like google-framework and such that contains the login information, the google play will not function at all. The login is bound to a different application, and I do not want to install these.
Is it possible by any means to download directly through a browser?
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I think there is a add-on from Google Chrome that let download APKs directly to your computer, but if you meant to install via other ways in your phone, I really don't know because Opera (and others APK) require Google Play Store installed, and Play Store needs a Google Account to link all apps (free and paid) to your account.

Well obviously I understand I need a google account. What I mean is, I want to be able to log in to Google from my Opera and download apps from play.google.com. Right now it works up to the point of the popping-up download screen to verify my device, than I click download and nothing happens.

Newsflash:
I decided to give up and partially install market like you said. Got a new vendor.apk and installed it, obviously when I ran it just closed saying that I need a to sign in on my google account but since I had no google framework it didn't even offer to let me log in.
Installed google framwork too, now it gives me the sign-in screen and after I enter username/password it simply can't establish connection to the server.
Yes, I have checked and I have both a valid wifi and a 3g connection.
Any suggestions?
Edit:
Got it to work eventually, I hope it will serve my uses right.
Edit2:
I was optimictic too early
Now whenever I try to download anything with the Google Play Store it shuts down unexpectedly and does this until I manually enter the Google App info page and delete additional user data,

Edit:
Got it to work eventually, I hope it will serve my uses right.

Egozy, the way I get rid of the crap is - flash the full gapps and then delete the apps I don't need (Email, browser, gallery3D and what not). BUT, there are apps that you can't delete and are related to the functioning of other apps.
What you can delete from CyanogenMod is covered in CyanogenMod Wiki - Barebones

Download GAPPS and install via CWM

Xposed + Snapchat + microG apps = problem. Need help!

Hello!
Hope I am writing this thread in correct section.
I have Xperia SP with android 4.4.4, compilation number pa_huashan-userdebug 4.4.4 KTU84P eng.nexusprime.20140928.205215 test-keys.
I have microG apps installed. They needs Xposed framework to work.
Now I want to login into Snapchat. I can't, because I have Xposed installed. If I uninstall all Xposed, Snapchat says that I need Google Play Services. I don't want to have Google Play Services, because I couldn't uninstall it last time (Last time I flashed gapps via recovery).
Does somebody have any idea?
VaZZoN

Install Google Play Services, login to SnapChat, backup with Titanium Backup, uninstall Google Play Services, then see what happens. Idk if it'll tell you that after.
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

Oh, yeah, I didn't mention what I done.
When I uninstalled all microG apps, cleared cache via recovery, rebooted and installed Google Play Services, the Services started to crashing.
Is there any rescue or just flash new rom, flash gapps, login to snapchat, backup via Titanium backup and again flash new rom, install microG apps and then restore Snapchat?

VaZZoN said:
Hello!
Hope I am writing this thread in correct section.
I have Xperia SP with android 4.4.4, compilation number pa_huashan-userdebug 4.4.4 KTU84P eng.nexusprime.20140928.205215 test-keys.
I have microG apps installed. They needs Xposed framework to work.
Now I want to login into Snapchat. I can't, because I have Xposed installed. If I uninstall all Xposed, Snapchat says that I need Google Play Services. I don't want to have Google Play Services, because I couldn't uninstall it last time (Last time I flashed gapps via recovery).
Does somebody have any idea?
VaZZoN
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Some apps require Google play services to operate, end of story. Why don't you want Google play services installed?
Sent from my SCH-R220

mattzeller said:
Some apps require Google play services to operate, end of story. Why don't you want Google play services installed?
Sent from my SCH-R220
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When I had Google Play Services installed on this rom, always after reboot I had to go to "Disable service" app, disable and re-enable location service and hope it would work. Often it wouldn't work, so I had to reboot again and do same thing. Of course, I could disable all location services, but I need GPS. And, when I enabled GPS, did what I wanted, I too had to disable and re-enable location service. For example, when I was doing something with GPS on evening, then I forgot to disable services or it hasn't worked, I always woke up with battery drained for about 30-40%. 90%-40% = 50%. Battery has 3 years, so it will be dead untill noon.

To close.
I did what Curiousn00b said. (To uninstall Google Play Services I had to reinstall rom, but it worked).
Thanks!

opengaggs and cyanogenmod 12

hi,
i installed cyanogenmod with opengaggs (nano) so after that I had to download the rest google apps so like youtube, maps etc from the google store and nothing problem installing them, but when try to download google play made an error and not install it.
maybe I might try to reinstall opengaggs variant 'stock' or what can I do? I am needing google play...

deivitbcn said:
hi,
i installed cyanogenmod with opengaggs (nano) so after that I had to download the rest google apps so like youtube, maps etc from the google store and nothing problem installing them, but when try to download google play made an error and not install it.
maybe I might try to reinstall opengaggs variant 'stock' or what can I do? I am needing google play...
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- Open GAaps (not opengaggs)
- error installing Google Play Google from official Play Store is a known issue
- simply download/install Google Play from APKMirror
- no need to change Open GAaps build (bad idea...)
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-games/

thanks a lot

Google Phone can't be installed

Hi. I have this device since last Saturday. I was trying today to see if I can install Google apps, because I like stock feeling of android. Now I won't keep them, because without root I can't freeze system apps, and so I would have 2 galleries, 2 message apps etc running in background.
I tried many of them, but when I tried Google phone play store says my device is not compatible.
So I tried to download the APK (arm64) but I can't install it.
Is there a way to bypass this limitation and, why the hell I can't install such an important Google app?!

You must root your smartphone with magisk then you must download Google framework install It and then download Google dialer apk not from Google play store. I have not problem and use It by default phone app

Add google app to Lineage on G7 Plus

So I flashed my G7 Plus with the latest Lineage, 17.1 I think with no GAPPS. Great ! The only thing I don't have is speech to text so to get this I have to install the Google App. Tried a few of the latest version which I downloaded from apkpure.com becaue not a fan of the playstore. I keep getting an error saying "Google keeps stopping". and it does ! I've cleared caches and all that, but it just seems I'm probably missing some other required package or that it wants some permissions I haven't granted but I have granted all the network perms temporarily as well as mic and storage access. Still get the error. Has anyone else come acrsoss this and know how to solve it ? Or maybe you have to log in to a google account at least once before it will work ?

I'm no expert but could it be that you need google play services to run an app like that?

If that's the case, I guess I'll do without voice to txt. The whole idea here is to keep google spying off my phone.

Use a rom that has google installed and do a back up of the google apps u want to bring to los17 with an app called migrate.... After u install the los17 flash the migrate back up...it will delete the GSF file from the google apps so they can run without google play services

escondidohiker said:
If that's the case, I guess I'll do without voice to txt. The whole idea here is to keep google spying off my phone.
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You need the Google play services. And if you want it to work, flash gapps