[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frenchie90:
Hey Guys,

So I just bought a brand new ZTE V5 Max and upon receiving found out that it didn't have GAPPS installed which I heaily use those apps so I went down the route of figuring out what was needed to install GAPPS. Please keep in mind I'm writing this to help fellow users of this phone so they don't have to go through the teadious research and chinese translations, I will not be held accountable for anything that goes wrong with your device when doing the below process, I just know it worked perfectly fine for me:

Step 1: Enable Debugging Mode

Head to Settings > About Phone > tap Build Number 8 times or something > Now go Back to settings and tap More > Developer Options > Enable USB Debugging.

Step 2: Install Drivers

Plug in your phone and install the AutoRun.exe that appears in the virtual CD drive (shows up when youplug the phone in)

Once you have installed the drivers verify in Device manager that all devices relating to the phone are installed and there's no unknow devices.

Step 3: Root the Phone and install CWM (Chinese Version sorry but the bits that are needed have english written :P )

Download the Rooting and Custom Recovery tool here -- drive.google.com/file/d/0B8qJPucQA8GkQy1uTk93dUNuMkE/view?usp=sharing

Unzip and double click on the ZTE-V5-MAX-TOOL.exe

It should come up and ask for a password enter the following (no spaces in the password had too due to XDA posting rules) - www . ydss . cn

Now select Option 2 which is the Root option

Now the tool will detect the phone and press any key and it'll reboot (my computer installed more drivers at this point and I had to close the rooting tool window, reboot the phone and start again, once again selecting option 2)

Now it should proceed through the rooting process.

At the end it'll try and install a chinese verison of the Root Checker tool mine failed which is ok.

It then display Sucess.

Now at this point I rebooted the phone and installed a Root Checker to validate that I did have Root acess and I did, you can proberly skip this step.

I then fired up the Rooting tool again but this time selected option 3 which will install the Custom Recover CWM

Once again press any key and it will begin installing the custom recovery

Once complete you should see sucess.

Reboot the Phone and go to Settings > About Phone > System Updates > Recovery and it should boot to Recovery CWM if it does yay.

Step 4: Installing Gapps

Reboot the phone

Install ES File Explore and give it Superuser Access

Now go to the uper directoy and tap and hold on the System folder then view the details.

You'll need around 150mb free space in there to be able to install GAPPS, I had to install an app called "Uninstall" (red coloured trash can). I then uninstalled the following : Easy Mode, Handbook (as it's chinese), neoshare, nubia Niudun, Nubia PlatLogo, Nubia Poster and Video Sample.

I then had enough room.

Now download Micro Gapps (Go to drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B1T7tp6tJ_3kQkZSWjNsazJZbGc&usp=sharing

Then click on "1.10 update_gapps" then "pa_gapps-modular-m" and download it. Then put it in the root directory of you Phone Storage.

Now reboot into recovery (Settings > About Phone > System Updates > Recovery)

Go to the second Option in Recovery called "***** Zip**) and browse to the phones storae and install the Zip.

If sucessfull go back to the main menu of Recovery and go down to the (****Cache**) option and select, then select it again to confirm.

Once complete go back to the Main menu again and choose the top option to reboot.

Walla your done.

Website I for info: shuajizhijia.com/jiaocheng/9170.html&prev=search then use translate in Google.

Have fun guys.

Have fun guys, and keep in mind I probaly wont reply if you ask for help as I have a day job :)