[XDA Assist] scottiefox:
Lucky Patcher "Patch to Android" failed and now Google Play Store won't download/work

G'day everyone,

New member here posting for the first time and desperately seeking your help (as I really am a complete noob unless you consider using Turbo Pascal in the 90s as programming).

I recently rooted my Galaxy S5 SM-G900I (Australian model) using Unified Android Toolkit with a CF-Auto-Root-klte-kltedd-smg900i.tar MD5 file through Odin.

Everything went great and after installing Titanium Backup Pro and Busybox Pro I promptly got to removing most of the Samsung and Telstra bloatware which has taunted me for years.

I was using Lucky Patcher before rooting so I decided to install the cracked Google Play Store by using the "Patch to Android" feature.. It failed but somehow (I have no idea how) the cracked Google Play Store worked anyway.

Just to clarify what I mean by it failing I saw a screen appear for only half a second before rebooting and managed to see some text in red and the word "failed".

I have seen an image in tutorials which shows this screen as having text in green saying success and then the next time you go into the Patch to Android section the top two options say patched.

A couple of days later I must have deleted something I shouldn't have using Titanium Backup because the next time I rebooted my phone it wouldn't go past the Samsung loading screen.

I spent nearly 16 hours trying different things I found on Google (recovery through TWRP, CWM, factory resetting, sideloading through Odin, installing custom ROMs) but nothing worked so I finally resorted to Samsung Kies (please bear in mind I had zero experience at this so I probably made a lot of mistakes).

After the phone was restored back to factory settings (running 6.0.1 Marshmallow) I rooted it again and tried to reinstall the cracked Google Play Store.. Again patching to Android through Lucky Patcher didn't work and being a complete idiot I deleted the original Google Play Store apk and tried to simply replace it with the cracked version.

Needless to say this didn't work and now my Google Play Store wouldn't download anything (it just sat at the "Downloading" screen but didn't actually do anything).. My phone also refused to remember any WIFI passwords for some reason.

I factory reset through the internal recovery option but neither problem was fixed so I used Kies (AGAIN)!

I repeated the process of reinstalling everything and tried patching to Android yet again but of course it didn't work. I was using the latest version of Lucky Patcher (6.3.1) but I thought I may have been using an earlier version previously (6.2.8) as I downloaded it a month or so ago and was never able to update through Lucky Patcher itself so I uninstalled the current version and installed the previous version.

Patch to Android failed again and when the phone rebooted I discovered Google Play Store and Google Play Services had both been deleted!

I restored both through Titanium Backup but then had the same problem with the Google Play Store refusing to actually download anything so I cleared the caches and rebooted my phone.

Google Play Store had been deleted yet again but Google Play Services was still there this time so I restored Google Play Store and that basically brings me to this point in time right now as I don't know what to do and I REALLY don't want to reset everything through Kies for a third time.

Can anyone please help?

Regards,

Scottie.