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[Android Apps and Games] AHMD92:
Hi. My play store cannot access network. Everything is OK except the unifiednlp. Any fix?

Updated : after disabling xprivacy, play store start working.

Weird as I never mess up with system app with xprivacy
[Android Apps and Games] Primokorn:
The easiest solution is to flash a custom rom without Gapps package.
[Android Apps and Games] GasLoop:
Try force closing and reopening. Google Play needs some help sometimes.
[Android Apps and Games] n76:
microG uses the same setup (and I think the same code) to do network location as the UnifiedNLP app. For these you need to install one or more plug-in backends. There is a list of backends at https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_UnifiedNlp and most, perhaps all, are available from F-Droid.
[Android Apps and Games] 1plus:
well, those backends I have already. In fact I put MicroG on the same system as the one I had network location on before. Thing is after that location services apparently disappeared. So now I resolved by installing UnifiedNLP (i.e. the package for gapps systems) again :)))

So currently I have to options to configure location services, one normal link and one thru MicroG interface.

Also, I'm very much happy to report that one of the few apps which I really need actually works now! :good:

It was not working whatsoever in gapps-free setup. That is a very useful to me, at least, app called CityMapper.

Well, that app still uses google maps which now does not work *in the app* but apart from that, all seems to function well :D

In regards to the google maps, an interesting observation. That app uses only their native google location, right? Because funny enough maps works alright in the gapps-free setup (I was surprised to discover that myself :)) but cannot get a location.

now with microG installed and unifiednlp added i'm happy to report that google maps apparently work as normal :)))
[Android Apps and Games] budbay:
Has anyone had this working with marshmallow yet? I tried on a fesh install of omni on the oneplus with no luck. I tried with and without exposed module for microg. If there's anything more I can do let me know.

Gotta say I love this project. I've been on and off with trying to get rid of Google but so many apps need play services it can be really rough. This has been working really well on cm12.1.
[Android Apps and Games] pvdeejay:
I do have similar setup with similar experience.

At first I've installed Unified NLP into my freshly installed slimLP for I9100. I was impressed as I was getting network location instantaneously with GPS fix slightly afterwards.

Now I have removed Unified NLP and installed MicroG GMS core. Network location is still instantaneous however I have to wait a lot in order to get true GPS fix or I can force it by running SatStat in map view.

I have installed both as user apps by doing adb instal...

By saying I have to wait a lot for the GPS fix I mean it's more than 5 or more than 10 minutes in some cases.

MicroG GMS core v 0.1 contains identical build as Unified MLP 1.4.0 when it comes to feature parity, I've looked at the commit logs. So this must have something to do with the fact Google play services or its replacement is there. Unfortunately I don't know more.
[Android Apps and Games] famewolf:
The xinstaller xposed module allows the user to disable signature checking from f-droid and all apps...would this method also work as opposed to the specific xposed module mentioned in post 1?

I ask only to limit the necessary amount of xposed modules installed.
[Android Apps and Games] robert1337:
hey guys, this is sooo interesting.. :D

the original play services alarms/wakeups are killing me

anyone used this long enough? how is the battery life (drain) compared to the original play services?

if its good i might install this :D
[Android Apps and Games] masmoe:
Battery life is good for me.
[Android Apps and Games] Udderdude:
Getting a force close on the latest version of Outlook on launch. Happens in Genymotion 4.4.4 and on my Galaxy S4 Mini running Cyanogenmod 11.

Unfortunately, because there's no "Blacklist" option to hide the framework from apps that crash in it's presence, I can't really use it in it's current state. I will be looking forward to continued progress, however. I understand it's just an alpha.

Outlook=Boom ..

Skype=Boom ..

Maps = Boom ..

Books = Claims "No internet connection" with "OK" and "Cancel".

Hangouts=Boom ..

Hangouts Really Old Version=Works!

News and Weather = Works!

Twitch = Works!
[Android Apps and Games] alterechtschreibung:
Is it possible to provide a binary patch for cyanogenmod (omniRom doesn't impress me)? We just need a modified PackageParser, right? Moreover, if cyanogenmod denied to include the original patch, they might be willing to accept a patch where faking is only allowed for this particular app.

If they aren't willing to accept this, maybe they are at least willing to accept a patch to fake the signature of this app, if the package is signed with your key (and the F-Droid key for this app as soon as this appears in F-Droid).
[Android Apps and Games] bigsupersquid:
cm's picky. and they labeled the signature faking a security risk so it's doubtful they'd back down on it.

they seem not to discourage anything in particular as long as it's labeled as an unofficial build though, so why not just roll your own or convince your favorite dev active with cm on your device to patch it up? either way has to be easier than fighting through gerrit code review.
[Android Apps and Games] alterechtschreibung:
Yes, I know. That's why they maybe would accept a modified patch with a significant lower security problem.

Besides of that it isn't meaningful, if everyone tries to haggle with the maintainers of a specific device on it's own.

We just need a modified PackageParser, right? In this case an universal binary patch for all (cyanogenmod) devices would be awesome.

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And such a patch should only allow faked signatures for GSMCore. Otherwise it is an unnecessary security issue.
[Android Apps and Games] mrrocketdog:
i'm goin with the "roll ur own".:cool:

"all i can really do is stay out of my own way and let the will of heaven be done"
[Android Apps and Games] robert1337:
anyone tried this on touchwiz? do i have to remove anything else besides gmscore.apk? it says application not installed. then i tried the xposed module in the first post, activate it, reboot.

after reboot, i tried to install microg but it still says application not installed. then i just put microg gmscore into priv-app then i got a bootloop lol
[Android Apps and Games] robert1337:
ok i finally able to install this, but everytime i want to login i just get "there was a problem communicating with google servers"
[Android Apps and Games] JERW28:
I tried it using an unofficial CM13 (Marshmallow) for my device and it worked! I tested the signature faking module, device check-in, and cloud messaging. All three worked. I did not test network location

Try using a CM build. You'll need to use the signature faking mod with xposed for Marshmellow.

Just follow the instructions in the OP like you did for 12.1. Good luck!

I have rolled back to 12.1 until 13 is ready to be a daily driver.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Dude I love you so much. Having a google free phone is only made possible by you. Thank you so much.
[Android Apps and Games] dank101:
Is there any specific reason this doesn't work on 4.2?
[Android Apps and Games] haffenloher:
It works fine (except for the network location part, but you can install a UnifiedNlp legacy build to get it working). There's just no official testing or support.
[Android Apps and Games] derbestimmer:
strange... i'm not able to get ma-v-in's masterpiece working under any marshmallow rom on my nexus 5. everything works great on 5.1.1 stock (latest cataclysm) but as soon as i turn to 6.0 (either cataclysm or cm13) i'm not able to get network location working (gcm push does work). here is what i did (analogue to 5.1.1):

1. install rom (remove google stuff in case of cataclysm)

2. install latest xposed 78

3. install fake gapps module (external or from repo)

4. install lates mg gms core

5. install lates mg gcm proxy thingy

6. install latest nlp location providers (gsm and wifi, the same as in 5.1.1, cell db is already existent)

7. install latest blankstore

8. no success regarding network location

[emoji24]

how did you do it?

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 5 mit Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] n76:
There was a permissions issue with at least the local GSM provider which should now be fixed, do you have the latest version of that?

Might also be a similar issue with my local WiFi provider but it has not been reported to me and I am not running Marshmallow yet to see for myself.
[Android Apps and Games] AHMD92:
Is this microG more power saving than default play store?

Anyone ever try to compare battery use between with and without Google services
[Android Apps and Games] Primokorn:
You will notice a (positive) difference yourself. I only suggest you to increase the hearbeat interval (600 for example).
[Android Apps and Games] barturblits:
Consequence of heartbeat interval set to 600 is a max delay of 10 min for instant messaging, right? Higher precision is more battery.
[Android Apps and Games] raptorddd:
how would i do that i have G4 and use stock based rom.. i can unzip rom and remove apps.. will removing them from the zip work?

i tried on stock firmware to uninstall gservices it bootloops ... and on other 2 roms same...
[Android Apps and Games] MaR-V-iN:
theoretically yes. current versions however do some additional work to detect broken connections (e.g. network condition switches can result in heartbeat being sent independently from interval). Thus you can safely increase heartbeat time with low chance of receiving messages delayed and at the same time reducing battery consumption. Google runs at a heartbeat interval of 20 minutes (1200) on most carriers (they decide based on carrier and network details).
[Android Apps and Games] barturblits:
OK then it works differently as I expected. I thought when in highest sleep mode, one dedicated service would poll at a specific interval, by connecting and disconnecting. So mean arrival delay is 5 min for 10 min poll. But if I understand correctly the function of the poll is checking if the single continues low energy connection is still active and not broken.
[Android Apps and Games] Primokorn:
Check your device specific forum. AFAIR you can flash Dirty Unicorns.

Basically Google Apps are not allowed in custom roms.
[Android Apps and Games] Tech 4 9:
Hello all. So I have a curiosity about all this but it seems quite daunting to say this least. I don't know that I NEED playstore but I do have apps that need licenses confirmed and I pretty much f rely on google maps. Info seems flung and ambiguous. The whole "Create a new account in case Google flips out" and creating a spoof android I.D. kinda freaks me out a little (what else BESIDES gcore will be spoofed) and seems like a avenue of untold issues. Is this a set-it-forget-it thing (for the most part)or is it like juggling cats and require a complete re-evaluation of life itself? Thanks all.

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[Android Apps and Games] raptorddd:
thanks those are either CM or AOSP roms. am on stock based.. stock firmware.. i did it on LP but on marshmallow it bootloops.. i just flashed marshmallow a few weeks so i dont know much about it,.
[Android Apps and Games] AnonVendetta:
MicroG still works great ever since I upgraded my phone to Marshmallow. However, on a friend's HTC 626 (upgraded from to MM from LP), it failed. We cleaned the stock ROM of all GApps-related files from the system partition (after rooting and installing Xposed), then installed Play Store alongside MicroG. It wouldn't let him log in, but works fine for me. So I suggested he install FakeStore and GSF Proxy, and showed him how to obtain standalone APK installers for his apps, as well as how to use the Raccoon Play Store client on PC to obtain apps. He seems happy now, battery life is an extra several hours.

I'd also like to note that FakeGapps v1.1 works on MM, MicroG says signature spoofing is enabled. On Lollipop I had to use 1.0. I tried patching the files in /system/framework with the Needle patch, but it failed. I currently have BlissPop ROM on LG v10 (based on CM13 with heavy mods). Before installing the ROM I had to upgrade my phone with latest stock LG firmware (so that MM bootloader would be installed).

Another thing I discovered is that on MM, if you are cleaning the system partitions of GApps, in addition to leaving Google WebView alone, you may also have a Google Package Installer, as opposed to the standard package installer. Leave this alone or you won't be able to install any apps! Nearly everything else except these can be ripped.

[MENTION=3999488]MaR-V-iN[/MENTION]: Thanks for the thorough explanation, I may have a few more questions about this later.

Whoever said that Google apps aren't allowed in custom ROMs, not true, you can always flash OpenGapps or similar. Google doesn't exactly like this, they prefer that you use a stock ROM with their apps already bundled, but they allow it anyway because the bottom line is that people are still using their apps, no matter how they are obtained. Bill Gates once said that he doesn't care about Windows piracy, because he is still making bank like crazy, and even pirates are still using Windows (as opposed to Linux or Mac, etc). Any/all publicity is good publicity.
[Android Apps and Games] oF2pks:
Maybe this : http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=40534912&postcount=19
[Android Apps and Games] bigsupersquid:
My htc desire 816 runs great with microg on cm13.

It was fine with fakegapps and Xposed, and even better with signature spoofing built in.

As far as I remember, Google issued a cease and desist to cyanogen way back when (cm7 I think) for baking Google apps into cm.

They stopped caring about it once the Gapps started being packaged separately as flashable zips.
[Android Apps and Games] Tech 4 9:
Giving this a wurl...right out of the gates ESFile Pro not passing license check. How procede?

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Titanium not passing license check either. Isnt this the spoofing thing (xposed)? I figured this would be the easy part of this.
[Android Apps and Games] bigsupersquid:
Signature spoofing is so microg can use the same package name as gmscore (and blankstore, the name of market/play)

License checks fall under different Xposed tools that mods on XDA consider warez, even when they're used legitimately on apps you paid for. Within a few pages back on this thread, if the name hasn't been removed, is a description of what you need.
[Android Apps and Games] ale5000:
My microG installer remove just a minimal part of gapps to avoid conflicts with microG, so it has a lower potential of break things compared to other gapps removal scripts, although I cannot guarantee that it doesn't break anything.

But currently there is a limit that it run only on KitKat and lower because I currently can't test on newer Android.

[MENTION=6219221]Tech 4 9[/MENTION]: Probably you need the official Play Store apk for license check but I'm not sure (it is possible that it use some features that are in the Play Store, not just the signature)
[Android Apps and Games] Shadow53:
License checks seem to work fine for me using the Play Store. It may need to be installed to priv-app to work as it is supposed to.
[Android Apps and Games] Tech 4 9:
....been looking for where the play store apk is for 30min now...the search continues..system? No. Usr? No. App? No. Any clues appreciated. Oddly enough..WHERE to put it once found is fairly obvious.
[Android Apps and Games] AHMD92:
How to get network location working as well as pokemon go.

I already installed unifiednlp but microG ' self check' did not tick the ' system support location provider'
[Android Apps and Games] ale5000:
[MENTION=6556904]AHMD92[/MENTION]: If you have installed microG you must NOT install UnifiedNlp since it is already included in microG.

Also you must enable locating through Wifi, cell inside the phone geolocation settings.
[Android Apps and Games] Primokorn:
The Play Store is installed into /system/priv-app/<here> and its name is Phonesky.apk. (permissions 0644)

I also have the official Play Store to enable the pro features I paid for.
[Android Apps and Games] AHMD92:
Tq, I already uninstall it . But my how to configure the network location.

The self check did not tick the " system support location provider" , " location backend set up" , and " unified has no known location" .

Very confusing ?
[Android Apps and Games] ale5000:
The first unticked thing make me think that your ROM doesn't support location at all (beside GPS), what is the ROM name an version?
[Android Apps and Games] mrrocketdog:
[MENTION=3999488]MaR-V-iN[/MENTION] , this might not be right thread to ask in , but am pretty sure your the right person to ask.

while digging around in my files ; in /system/data/data/ i click on a folder for a "root checker" app i've had for years from when i used gapps. inside this folder is one called "databases" , iside it is two files called "google_analytics_v4.db-journal".

1) is this how google gets information from the app ?

and if so and i delete them ;

2) will google no longer be able to gather information from that app ?

or is it much deeper than that ?

just trying to learn.

"err on the side of kindness"
[Android Apps and Games] MaR-V-iN:
This database file is just storing analytics information that is not sent to the google analytics server yet. If you delete it, it will simple be recreated on next start of the app. If you want to ensure the app is not sending any information to Google, you need to strip the Analytics code from the app. This is what freecyngn did for CyanogenMod when it had Google Analytics integrated in the settings app.
[Android Apps and Games] mrrocketdog:
thank you for explaining.:thumbup:

"err on the side of kindness"
[Android Apps and Games] Regina Rainbow:
You should be able to do that with DummyDroid: http://www.onyxbits.de/dummydroid
[Android Apps and Games] Tech 4 9:
I have everything but the location backends working ok (as far as I know). Pretty cool. I have noticed what seems to be lag(?) in Chrome browser especially. I figure this is because it isn't communicating with Google the way it used to? Also, some apps that I've used forever are "no longer compatible with my device" in playstore. Another app wants to be granted usage access but then it isn't listed where it should be to be changed. I'm not sure Messenger is working...replys are a longtime coming but that may not be app. Is this related to the google cloud thing and requiring blankstore? Just goofy little stuff...is this fixable or just part of the deal? Thanks all. As stated...pretty cool. Took at least 10% off ram.

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[Android Apps and Games] raptorddd:
i used the zip but nothing happened...:confused: all apps were still on my phone...my question is.. is this a MM issue its that how it works.? or are ther users that have MM and have deleted gapps.?
[Android Apps and Games] Primokorn:
We are OT but here are a few clues:

- you need a custom recovery

- you have to clean flash a custom rom so that user data and the system partition are erased

- not related to MM

- with a custom rom, you don't need to remove gapps since you don't flash them

I do suggest you to learn how to flash your device in the proper forum section. I have a Nexus device and the way it works is different.
[Android Apps and Games] raptorddd:
yes a little off topic... but i know how to flash... and i need to mention that i do not want CM or AOSP..

am using stock based custom rom. i have twrp.. yes i flashed clean installation of rom..

on roms based on stock rom not CM gapps are included.. i do not want to use CM or AOSP..

but well thanks anyways..
[Android Apps and Games] Primokorn:
Well I was talking about CM/AOSP... Good luck with OEM issues :)
[Android Apps and Games] AnonVendetta:
[MENTION=5308112]raptorddd[/MENTION]: I upgraded my LG v10 to stock rooted MM awhile back, but then flashed a custom ROM that uses CM13 as a base. My camera doesnt work, or the v10's "2nd screen", but this is a small price to play. I find that LG firmware is just way too bloated and battery intensive, even on MM. But at least on stock everything just works for the most part. On the other hand, this is the 3rd v10 I've had in a few months' time due to various issues, I'm seriously considering never buying LG again when this dies. Things are okay but could be better.

I was able to delete all Google apps except WebView and Google Package Installer, both on my phone and a friend's HTC, the phones continued booting. What you're experiencing isnt an MM issue per se, it makes more sense to conclude that your phone isnt booting because you removed something your firmware depends on. Use an OpenGapps zip as a reference for what to delete, be careful what you remove, only delete one thing at a time, and make copies of anything deleted so that you can easily put it back in recovery or ADB/fastboot. I also recommend only removing one thing at a time because it will help when determining exaxtly what is causing nonbooting. Deleting multiple items at once will only confuse you more.

If you were trying to flash a zip with FlashFire, be aware that it wont always work, I prefer TWRP for this. FlashFire works well/best if you have a locked bootloader and no custom recovery, and it may be the only option for some people.

I remember you previously had an issue on Lollipop with Play Store crashing, and I recommended that you remove all nonessential GApps and try again. Did you ever get around to trying this? I know you said that you just needed your apps/phone to work, understandable.

If you want we can arrange a meeting on Skype, TeamViewer, whatever, I'll try to help you out, and for free. I'm no expert but I dont mind trying to help. I like to try helping people with computers and phones,just for the hell of it, and it gives me an opportunity to learn from someone and help at the same time. Pairing minds together to tackle problems tends to benefit everyone involved. Just send a PM.

Can you explain in more detail exactly what issues you're getting now?
[Android Apps and Games] oF2pks:
Just wondering: G4 still encrypted or not ?