[ZTE Nubia X Guides, News, & Discussion] Teeemoo:
Guys, please check your phone version before downloading the toolkit - dont use 2.19 toolkit on 2.21 phone-version! I don't know why everyone is killing their phone right now! This is not an easy-to-do tutorial! It requires time and at least a bit knowledge. Please read this carefully - use google for the most important words and start after understanding everything! I won't help via PM when you 'bricked' your phone!

Welcome to the WIP Tutorial "How to use GApps on the Nubia X"!

Keep in mind this is a workaround and should not be the official way in how to do it! Im not taking any responsibility if anything goes horribly wrong :eek:

Understood? Let's go then!

We need to prepare the phone now.

Note: This is mandatory for the rest to work

Unlock the Developer options by going to Settings ►About phone ►Rapidly tapping on the "Build number" field until the phone returns "You are an developer".

Go to Settings ► Other system settings ►Developer options - and change the state of "OEM Unlocking" to ON.

Again in Settings ► Other system settings ►Developer options enable "USB Debugging"

Now, you need to prepare your PC (in short: install adb). Please Google this on your own ("How to install adb on {your OS}").

Alright, we are done with the phone for now.

Let's go to the downloads!

nubia-root-toolkit V211 (Actually the magic behind everything). Source: 百度云, pw: 7m9s - by 绯色玻璃

nubia-root-toolkit V219 (Actually the magic behind everything). Source: 百度云, pw: 7m9s - by 绯色玻璃

Link2SD (in order to convert to system later)

GoogleFrameworkInstaller

Great job so far.

Now, we can start doing dev-things ;)!

Note: this is the part where we change system files. Please continue at your own risk! If you don't know what a root is you should better not do that.

Note: I don't own this toolkit. The source is linked above. I would recommend translating the original page source and reading throgh it. Source

Alrighty then? Damn, ur edgy.

Plug in your phone and wait until it gets recognized by your OS.

Extract the "nubia-root.zip", go into nubia-Root ► nubia-X, and run the "nubia-X_Root-V211.exe" with admin priv.

We don't understand nothing, because it is a chinese source... But according to the original thread, close (X) the first window that appears.

You will now see a window with "(Random text) ROOT"-Button on the right. After you click it, you'll get a log output of what your phone is doing via ADB.

Finished? You will see "Success" at the bottom including some weird characters. Lmao #chineseprograms.

What happened right now?

Well your phone is rooted. The program archived this by flashing a partition on your phone with adb.

First, it unlocked it (see my dev thread for more infos) and after that it flashed the bootimage. In short.

Now boot back into your phone and continue your journey!

Remember all these apk's you have downloaded before?

We are going to use them now.

Make sure your phone is still plugged in. We are using 'adb' now so open up a command-prompt / powershell / bash.

The syntax is the following: "adb install NameOfTheFile.apk" - do this with every downloaded apk. Example: "adb install /home/user/link2sd.apk".

Now the fun part.

We are going to install the required Google Apps as a normal user.

IMPORTANT: Don't run any of the Google Apps after you see them on your phone. I know you are hyped but its not time to do this right now.

Run the App called "谷歌安装器" (or the app with a playstore-like symbol). You will see a screen with chinese text and a blue button.

Click the blue button - the app will now download every GApp you need. After every download you will be prompted to install the app - confirm this and deny any Nubia tips for "hey you can download a newer app". Just install it like a normal app.

If you encounter the "unknown source"-error, follow the instructions on the device (or google "how to enable install apps from unknown sources").

Thats it! Wohoo.

Well no.

Please restart your phone, before continue!

Well I didn't found a better way as making the GApps System right now.

Because we don't have access to TWRP (right now ;D), this is the way to go.

I assume you have Link2SD installed (if not, go to Step 4 and install Link2SD!).

Open up Link2SD and click on the three dots located in the upper right hand corner.

Click "Search" and type in "Google". You will see a bunch of applications there but we only care about some of them.

We will use the following procedure: Click on the searchresult ► Click on the three dots ► "Convert to system app" ► Confirm. (It might be called somewhat with "system" in it, if you dont find it).

Do this procedure with the following apps: "Google Service Framework", "Google Play Store", "Google Play Service", "Google Contacts Sync", "Google Calendar Sync" and "Google Account Manager".

Done? Restart your device again. (You can do that by clicking on the side-menu of Link2SD ► Reboot ► Reboot.

Well, you are an official hacker now... Well not really.

But you did something which is not that easy.

If you want to learn more or if you have any questions left contact me on discord (My ID: Captain Teemo#9394).

And if you are happy with the result, consider my time writing this for you and drop me a coffee: https://paypal.me/THeckel - your awesome!

Thanks for reading and enjoy your nubia - as you want!