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[Android Apps and Games] Shobit Joura:
i installed microg everything goes well and i rebooted twice, then i goes into play store and added my google account and it successfully added but just fter completing , play store goes back to previois screen and asks again to add the account but this time it says account already exists on device , so i went to setting account and removed account tried the whole procedure again vut this time same play store is again and again asking for adding account!!!

I tried reflashing the whole rom and tried again but same reaults , plzzz help me i love microg !!! And i dont want that google play services again!!
[Android Apps and Games] kurtn:
I think, I've seen a workaround for that somewhere. But I prefer to live without the playstore app. I use f-droid and yalp.
[Android Apps and Games] Shobit Joura:
Ohkk sir
[Android Apps and Games] Setialpha:
Play Store need to be installed as priv-app and needs privapp-permission whitelisting to properly work.

That's why installers for microG became so popular.
[Android Apps and Games] kurtn:
That and the systemized location provider.
[Android Apps and Games] Oswald Boelcke:
Here in this thread, I've written down how I started with µG, in the very beginning without any installer till nowadays when I'm personally always using Setialpha's NanoDroid. Maybe you find in the thread some information useful to you?
[Android Apps and Games] hypern0va:
Hello, because of the reported problems with transportation apps (because of the Maps API) I've had to install GAPPS, since these services are imho fundamental in today's city life in and most of them do not provide a web interface.

However, I would like to limit Google's tracking for what is possible, starting by avoiding Google's NLP in favour of UnifiedNLP (GAPPS).

I'm on Android 9 Pie, and the fact that UnifiedNLP's latest version (1.6.8 - 20187) is almost 2 years old is worrying me a bit. Has anyone tried it on Android 9?

Also, once that it's installed and properly set up, should I re-enable the permission in Android's Settings -> Security and Position -> Geolocation -> Advanced -> Google geolocation precision -> Enhance geolocation precision? (which basically corresponds to using NLP in conjunction with GPS). If yes, how can I test that I'll be using UnifiedNLP and not Google's NLP?

Thank you a lot.
[Android Apps and Games] Oswald Boelcke:
Thanks for sharing your views on fundamentalities that certainly differ from mine. However, as these question aren't obviously related to µG you might want to consider if more replies might arrive at @MaR-V-iN's thread UnifiedNlp - FLOSS Wi-Fi- and cell-tower-based geolocation.
[Android Apps and Games] hypern0va:
With no accuse intended, I would say that not being able to use multiple services in order to go back home in the middle of the night should be everyone's fundamentality.

However, thank you for the thread suggestion, I thought that as a µG component I could discuss about UnifiedNLP here. I'll copy my question there :)
[Android Apps and Games] baxxter106:
no secret: using microg is BECAUSE you DON'T want to use Googles Bu##s##t. if you want to keep freedom and privacy you have to deal with the fact that "some" apps will not work anymore.

so you have a "simple" choice...
[Android Apps and Games] Oswald Boelcke:
Oh, I certainly don't feel accused or offended but Google (and others like Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter etc.) is doing everything to retrieve as much of your personal data as possible. Google's complette business model would collapse and no money and benefits were accumulated unless they continue to go this way. And I personally observe that Google tries very hard to prevent users from not using their services. However, thanks to the "nice" fine of the European Union Google had to at least adjust its policy in Europe. In my thread here, I try to post respective information as soon as I get a hold.

If I were using GApps I actually wouldn't care about UnifiedNlp because the information is most likely collected by several means. GApps in conjunction with XPrivacyLua and a decent firewall (and/or secure private VPN to the RaspberryPi with Pihole and PiVPN in your own home network) might be just acceptable but there isn't any XPosed for Pie (just for this reason, Pie is an absolute no-go for me).

And vision occasionally depends on experiences. Please believe me, I'm in an age that I survived major cities like London, Berlin, Rome, Paris, Athens, Amsterdm, Vienna, San Francisco and others in the middle of many nights without any smartphone ('cause they didn't exist at that time) and always made it back home safely and in time.
[Android Apps and Games] hypern0va:
Man, I know the things you just said as well as you do, I use an iptables-based firewall, a VPN, I tweak my ROM, install and use as less Google services as I can, but there are things I cannot renounce or I could either have a feature phone instead of a high end smartphone. Let's face the reality that in order to really escape ("reduce" would be more correct) Google's tracking there are a lot of renounces, and I'm not talking about things that get more complicated and need a bit of knowledge to achieve but about services which ends up not to work at all, in any way. And on top of that Google, Facebook &co will still collect information about you through your friends, given that 99% of people don't care about this at all and give to these companies everything they ask.

You surely do have a more "integralist" view on this, but given that different services I actually need do not work with microG (yet, I hope), I'd rather install GApps, take as much precautions I can and be able to access everything I need. Sadly it's not like if I absolutely need a GApps-based service and I'm using microG and I'm not at home I can set everything up in 2 minutes while walking in the street, it's a long process and it's better to have everything working when the need comes.

That's for sure, I did survive with no smartphone as well, but if it's night, I'm outside with no car or anything else, I'm not willing to go home early with the last bus before the service gets suspended till the morning just because I can't use a bike/car rental app. Taxis are expensive to use frequently, and always relying on your friends because you don't want to install an app and rent something as anyone else is and not polite nor appropriate imho. And moreover my local public transportation app, the only way to know if a bus is early/late/diverted/suspended in real time, also relies on the Maps API, and third-party apps which don't are inaccurate to say the least.

One can surely survive to that, but it's a massive burden that I'm currently not willing to take just to reduce (reducing, not zeroing) the amount of information Google gets about me, like it would be not to use Facebook-owned WhatsApp in a society, at least here in my place, where it's become the main textual communication tool (at least up to when e2e encryption will be supported and on by default). One can make renounces for the purpose, I do and admire others who do, but making major ones is a bit exaggerated to me.

And by the way, in conclusion, that's exactly microG's purpose: making users be able to use Google Services-based tools without Google's tracking. Love the developers for the purpose, effort and for making this available to anyone, I really hope that the project will improve and there'll be less and less problems with time. :)

End of the inappropriate (in this thread) philosophical discussion from my side.
[Android Apps and Games] hamedhd:
I love microG but i had to uninstall it because of some problems, at the top of problems it was Twitter and Instagram notifications that has gone away and there was no way to bring it back
[Android Apps and Games] SGH-i200:
If you download the map via WIFI, there shouldn't be much traffic!? I downloaded the whome German map and can do offline navigation, without problems with HERE Maps.
[Android Apps and Games] Shobit Joura:
Unified nlp is enableb location backends are setuped like mozilla , and nomatim ,

But self check is showing last location unknown.

Plzz help if possible explain in detail too.
[Android Apps and Games] hypern0va:
Here's the solution.
[Android Apps and Games] Shobit Joura:
This worked bro , thanks!!!
[Android Apps and Games] Oswald Boelcke:
This post might be of interest to you as e.g. HERE is mentioned. Personally, I'm using OsmAnd+ with great satisfaction and no issues; and if required I enable Google Traffic, for which I've setup OsmAnd in exactly the way that @chris42too suggested here.
[Android Apps and Games] baxxter106:
thanks for that. i am using osmand also in this way (with g traffic layer) but this is only to see red/yellow/green color marks not for realtime traffic. now i'm testing magic earth and i don't know if it's using the already downloaded maps Form osmand but in two weeks using i had 2mb traffic of it and it tells me if a faster route is available.

more testing in procress ;)

i use osmand on vacations when i have no data plan, though.
[Android Apps and Games] Shobit Joura:
Brother it worked like a charmin oreo 8.1 , but its now not working in android 9 , i am using those comands in terminal emulator!! Plzz help!

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It keeps on saying plzz check ur location backend

As unified nlp dont have a location to test geocoder!

Plz help!
[Android Apps and Games] hypern0va:
I'm sorry, for me it worked on Android Pie too, I don't know what could be causing your problem.
[Android Apps and Games] WANTES:
does not work DISCORD APP https://discordapp.com as the MicroG, I can't understand why push is enabled. VPN does not help

help to understand. with Google as the works put microg, to give access permissions to contacts, added to the push, I go to the program and as a connection error with the server

help solve the problem with the shell, the problem is not unique.

In Push added.

Vpn does not help.

Infuriating!

Xiaomi Red Note 4 X, 7.0, MIUI 9.6.3.0. Deodex.

Discord does not to connect to server!

My post in 4PDA!

http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=724118&view=findpost&p=78752050
[Android Apps and Games] TheMadKing:
Sorry, I know that this is probably not good etiquette, but could I ask for some information regarding the YouTube brand account history bug? I've been asking around and everyone at YouTube Vanced are pointing their fingers at a bug in MicroG which leads to a situation where if you are using Vanced with a brand account, your history does not get saved. I've been looking around for any information on the MicroG side and I haven't been able to find anything.

I don't want to seem condescending or anything - I know that developing something is a difficult job, especially when you're doing it for free, and I honestly appreciate the effort of the devs, but is there anything there can be done about this mysterious bug?

Thank you very much in advance.
[Android Apps and Games] Oswald Boelcke:
I'm not using YouTube i.e. actually no information in regard to your question; I apologise. However, did you ever try NewPipe? More information via this post.
[Android Apps and Games] guest4711:
Do you use any adblocker like AdAway, DNS666 or magisk adblock module? You probbly need to whitelist some hosts to make YouTube save the history...

Search for "youtube" in tbe AdAway thread... See also https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2190753&p=66669190
[Android Apps and Games] TheMadKing:
I don't use any sort of adblockers, and my phone is not rooted, which is why I am using the non-rooted version of Vanced.

The only possible fix that I've tried was suggested by someone on reddit, who said that I had to do something along the lines of setting my brand account as my standard account, which I did, and still nothing.

Everyone I've talked to on Reddit, including one of the Vanced devs (I think, I'm not sure), pointed their fingers at Micro G for this behavior of not saving the history.

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I did try NewPipe, and it's a good app, but YouTube Vanced is better suited to my needs. As far as I know, NewPipe doesn't allow you to login with your YouTube account.

Vanced is just a better version of the official YouTube app, and the main reason behind me wanting to use it is the storm of ads that YouTube has been sending recently, without giving us any official options (YouTube Premium is not available in my country, I couldn't pay to remove the apps even if I would want to).

Vanced is perfect for my usage, but this inability of the app to save my history is what's keeping me away from it, because it's something that I consider essential - I often start watching a video on my phone and continue to watch it on my laptop or other stuff like that.

And while my technical knowledge is pretty limited, like I said, everyone on the Vanced side seems to be saying that a MicroG bug has to be blamed for it, and that we should talk with the MicroG devs about that.
[Android Apps and Games] Oswald Boelcke:
Just had a look at the YouTube Vanced thread and their official website. As far as I understood a modified µG package is required that can be downloaded from the YTV site.
[Android Apps and Games] Shobit Joura:
Help, no location !!

I installed microg on oreo 8.1 roms , it works like a charm, but when i install the same on android pie and after setting up location backends in self check , following bozlxes are unchecked and location services arent working fine!!

Box 1 - no known location

Box 2- geocoder cant test location no location is provided !!!

Plzz help !

I have tested it in 3 to 4 pie roms it didnt work !!!!

I am attaching a log cat , and I have also tried rebooting after giving the following commands , pls help.......

Shabinder Singh:

./adb shell

su

pm grant com.google.android.gms android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION

pm grant com.google.android.gms android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION
[Android Apps and Games] Oswald Boelcke:
Quotation from OP below (highlights by me):
[Android Apps and Games] TheMadKing:
It's their modified MicroG package that I have been using, and yet like I said, people over on the YouTube Vanced side seem to have been pointing at the MicroG devs for a bug.
[Android Apps and Games] Oswald Boelcke:
If you're using a modification how can you approach the developer of the original if issues occur? Most likely I'm too blond...
[Android Apps and Games] garylawwd:
the reason being is that the vanced devs have said to come here and report the bugs as it was a microG issue but this was for an older version of microG for vanced so I don't know if it is fixed now as I don't use that version of the app.

Maybe some logs could help him out though
[Android Apps and Games] TheMadKing:
It's because I had no idea that the app was modified or by whom it was modified. It's easy to look at it in hindsight and to think about it, but like I said, on all the other forums where this issue of the brand account history was mentioned, people were saying that it was a MicroG bug and that it's because of the MicroG devs. So I naturally assumed that the MicroG Vanced apk that you have to download for YouTube Vanced were also made by the MicroG devs, and I apologize for my mistake.

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Yes, pretty much, everything that I found said that we should talk with the MicroG devs, so that's why I came here.

It wasn't fixed for the last version that I have tried at least.
[Android Apps and Games] Daniel Hjelvik:
I downloaded the apk but when i try to install it says 'app not installed', why?
[Android Apps and Games] kurtn:
Allow insecure sources?
[Android Apps and Games] Daniel Hjelvik:
It is allowed.
[Android Apps and Games] Oswald Boelcke:
Is you ROM completely GApps-free as stated in the OP as a prerequisite?

If interested (and not too much to read), in this thread I explained my very first "GApps-free" steps from the very beginning by use of µG and the instructions of this thread up to my current status where I use µG "powered by" NanoDroid.
[Android Apps and Games] guest4711:
Mostly a conflicting apk (using the same id but signed using another key) is already installed. Look in /system/app and /system/priv-app to find the culprit.
[Android Apps and Games] patrickdrd:
I finally did it! in two devices!

using aosp as rom and the xposed module,

I flashed aosp + supersu,

then booted normally, installed xposed apk,

rebooted in recovery, flashed xposed framework and contacts + calendar sync,

booted normally, installed xposed module and the rest microg apks and it worked,

on the second phone, nougat, I've had some problems though,

first chrome wouldn't connect to sync, then google calendar,

in the end I unistalled google calendar and kept the original one,

also, with titanium backup,

which couldn't connect to google to check the license after a while,

pushover's latest version didn't work, so I had to install an older one,

fantasy football manager pro also didn't work

(it checks for license in google servers each time it starts)

edit: I solved above issues after installing playstore and installing the above "problematic" apps from there
[Android Apps and Games] z4ck1n:
Having an issue... Playstore not starting, LOS 16, magisk 17.3, nanodroid 19-90 , microg - 0.2.6.14792-dirty-105

Matlog >> https://www.pastiebin.com/5bf5814b2e4e0

Edit: Removed it from Magisk hide , its working.
[Android Apps and Games] Nex23:
Hello,

my GMS-Installation failes but why ?

I have signature spoofing on omniRom.

It doesn't work vai f-droid, adb ... i don't know why. I deinstalled all google apps.

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Hello,

my GMS-Installation failes but why ?

I have signature spoofing on omniRom.

It doesn't work vai f-droid, adb ... i don't know why. I deinstalled all google apps.
[Android Apps and Games] kurtn:
Save method is to do a clean install without GApps and then flash an installer like nanomod.
[Android Apps and Games] Nex23:
Thanks.

It was really hard to get rid of play-services-app, then the microg installation-order got confused, but now i have it working ! :)
[Android Apps and Games] Nex23:
Ok, so nice but ... i can't get for example "Threema" to access Google Cloud Messaging. Do i need to login into a google-account in android-setting ?
[Android Apps and Games] kurtn:
No. You only need Goole device registration and gcm enabled. And a fresh threema installation afterwards.
[Android Apps and Games] Nex23:
Ok, doesn't help so far. Also the notification-tester-app crashes when it searched for the notification...
[Android Apps and Games] kurtn:
Are you sure you've got latest version of microG app? Maybe you should change to nanodroid repo.
[Android Apps and Games] patrickdrd:
how do I get notified to update components?

I know you'll tell me f-droid, but I didn't find many there,

e.g. the most important core (gms) is missing and the play store (I flashed it via the shadow53's zip),

so how do I get notified there's a new version of components?
[Android Apps and Games] koniii:
You need to Add the microG F-Droid repo on F-Droid
[Android Apps and Games] patrickdrd:
thanks, can you send me instructions on how to do that?

and what other repos I need/can add?

edit: I guess you mean those two:

https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Known_Repositories
[Android Apps and Games] kurtn:
I think nanodroid repo is missing in this list. He has the most up-to-date GMs core and play store.
[Android Apps and Games] patrickdrd:
thanks, shadow53 posted the repo for this in his thread

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ok, I updated play store, but I cannot update services core because signatures don't match,

I installed from microg repo, and update is from nanolx repo,

how do I solve this?

(I don't want to uninstall installed version because I'll lose all gcm registrations)

or should I stick to the one I have?
[Android Apps and Games] Oswald Boelcke:
I also recognised your post in shadow53's thread here. Setialpha (i.e. NanoDroid) uses a GMS core version that is modified by him, signed by him and available in his fdroid repo. If you intend to use that one instead of the original µG one you must first uninstall the original. If interested what the modifications by Setialpha are please refer to the OP of the NanoDroid thread and the there linked full documentation.
[Android Apps and Games] Nex23:
I didn't use NANO-mircoG and did all myself. But now Threema is registrated. I went to threema-settings and then "reset Push-token (GSM)". So in microG-setting i see it enabled. But when i open Threema it still askes to enable Polling, i don't know why.

But now whatsapp it still missing in microg-gcm-setting.
[Android Apps and Games] patrickdrd:
I did my own research and the last viber version with gcm is 9.3.0.6, after that they removed it completely!
[Android Apps and Games] koniii:
How to fix the UnifuedNlp status

Stock KitKat
[Android Apps and Games] kurtn:
There is a xposed module for that.
[Android Apps and Games] patrickdrd:
can anyone help with my three issues?

https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/issues/668

https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/issues/669

https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/issues/671

edit: I've got problem with viber too,

no matter which version I tried,

notifications don't work unless I open the app
[Android Apps and Games] Vixa:
Guys is it possible to install microG on a huawei devices since locked bootloaders can't install anything.
[Android Apps and Games] onliner:
Not possible without root.
[Android Apps and Games] kurtn:
No. But you can setup your phone without Google account, disable all Google apps and install alternative app stores.
[Android Apps and Games] patrickdrd:
after many days of research (and a ton of versions installing/uninstalling),

I found in my logcat that activitymanager is killing viber in aosp :eek:

(I'm new in aosp, I had to start from scratch in order to install microg,

lineageos I was running before wasn't killing it,

overall I think it's more stable in my phone, that's the first "bug" I've found)
[Android Apps and Games] Cirra92:
I gave up on MicroG since it was unreliable for me (because of Firebase migration and apps not registering). Not that it is not useful and not working, but for my current usage, I'm okay with GApps. Back in the beginning it was more efficient to use MicroG and there were no Firebase issues.

Anyway, while testing recently, even though my Viber wasn't being killed, my push notifications failed. But to be honest, that was before Marvin made an update, so it may be that Viber couldn't register at all.
[Android Apps and Games] Rarian:
Some people report about a paid service, which is able to unlock the bootloader of Huawei devices, e.g. of kiwi (less than 10 €); see twrp-5X forum. I have no experience with that.