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Hi all!

Wanted to chime as this may be helpful to someone else. Took me a while to get mine working but I can report that I finally have Google Play working on my Matepad Pro 5G (MRX-AN19).

Device Info:

Matepad Pro MRX-AN19

Factory Firmware: EMUI 10.1.0.182

Firmware before I started this process: EMUI 11.0.0.211

I tried a few months ago and gave up. Since then my tablet has auto-updated to EMUI 11.0.0.211 and I wasn't able to downgrade it back to EMUI 10.1.0.182 using stock HiSuite.

Downgrading to an older version of EMUI 10 using HiSuite.Proxy

After some internet sleuthing, I saw tutorials on how to downgrade using HiSuite.Proxy. This program basically patches specific versions of HiSuite to unlock the option to 'downgrade' to a specific firmware of your choice. You can find more info for this on ictfix.net.

You have to specifically download either HiSuite_10.0.1.100_OVE.Zip or HiSuite_11.0.0.510_OVE.Zip. The version number of the software corresponds to what version of EMUI your tablet's currently running. In my case, I used HiSuite_11.0.0.510_OVE.Zip. Make sure to follow tutorials on youtube on how to get your phone to connect with HiSuite on your PC. (Developer Options, ADB debugging, HDB).

After you get it to successfully connect, you can now open HiSuite.Proxy. Search on youtube and you'll find a few tutorials on how to get this done. You can find firmware on firmfinder.ml.

In my case, I searched up my model number (MRX-AN19), entered my region (C636) and found these three files

- MRX-LGRP6-OVS 10.1.0.138

- MRX-AN19-CUST 10.1.0.3(C636)

- MRX-AN19-PRELOAD 10.1.0.3(C636R1)

While HiSuite proxy is open, I pressed Add Rom on these 3 items which automatically copied the path for 3 files on HiSuite. Make sure to tick downgrade on HiSuite.Proxy. After that I just pressed setup. HiSuite.Proxy created a patched HiSuite which allowed me to downgrade to my chosen firmware after I connected my tablet, clicked Update > Switch to Other Version.

After letting it do it's thing, it initialized and successfully booted EMUI 10.1.0.138.

Getting lzplay.apk to work by changing the device date to sometime before June 2020.

This was another thing I had major trouble getting to work. After reading some Chinese forum, I saw that they changed the date of their device to get lzplay to work.

A lot of guides out there will provide the file for Backup and Restore. I had trouble following the tutorials since EMUI 10.1.0.132 had trouble connecting to external devices.

I found that if I

extract the 'Backup' folder to the Huawei folder on the tablet,

when I boot Backup and Restore, the 3 dot bottom on the top right corner gave me the option to Restore from internal storage.

Once you restore that, LZPlay should show up on your tablet. DO NOT OPEN THE APP YET. At this point, go to

System & updates > Date & time and disable Set automatically. I set date to Feb 15, 2020.

After this, I clicked LZPlay and got it to finally work.

Googlefier was the best method for me. I had to Install/Uninstall 3 times.

I tried a lot of tutorials to get google to install but I found that Googlefier worked best. The biggest issue with the other methods is that you'll run into Play Protect issues and you'll be unable to get your google accounts registered on the tablet. I thought that MicroG would circumvent this and remembered the Googlefier uses MicroG to register google accounts onto the device. Using Googlefier is pretty straight forward, just find a tutorial online or on youtube.

NOTE: Make sure to add all the google accounts you will be using during the first step of googlefier as it's a nightmare to add them later.

There was still some Play Protect issues on my first install of Googlefier. I had to install and clear the installation with googlefier about 3 times before Google finally started working flawlessly. During my first install of googlefier, I installed all the Google software I needed before restarting the googlefier installation. So on the 2nd and 3rd installation loop, I already had the other apps (Gmail, Drive, Maps, Home, Youtube, etc) installed. I'm not sure if this helped but this might've contributed to it.

At this rate, I've successfully upgraded back to 10.1.0.182 and everything seems to still be working fine. I'll give it a few more days before I upgrade to EMUI 11.

Sorry if it's a bit unclear but I just wanted to document my experience incase it's able to help someone else.

You can guys can DM me if you have any questions.