Used in combinaton with µg GmsCore to enable Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) and much more.
This tutorial describes only the installation process to get GCM working. The also avaiable Google Play Store replacement Blankstore is not discussed here.
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Install Xposed
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For Lollipop (5.1 and 5.1.1) from https://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/super-alpha-posted-permission-xposed-t3072979
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For Lollipop (5.0) from https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3034811
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For version below Lollipop using Xposed installer from https://repo.xposed.info/module/de.robv.android.xposed.installer
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Install this FakeGApps module (see 'releases') and enable it in Xposed Installer under 'Modules'
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Install FakeStore from https://own.darkcloud.ca:90/Android-Builds/ instead you can use Blankstore (see below)
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Install latest GmsCore build 'play-services-core-debug.apk' from https://files.brnmod.rocks/apps/GmsCore/Latest/
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Reboot and dial in your phone app *#*#CHECKIN#*#* to register GCM
Note: to enable GCM e.g for messaging apps like Threema or Textsecure, you have to update / install the same apk once again to allow them to obtain the GCM related permissions.
GCM can be tested using e.g. Google Play Store which is also downloadble from evozi.
The procedure described here for removing Gapps from CM11 should also work for other ROMs where Gapps has been installed using a flashable zip.
Its assumed that Gapps has already been removed completely including previous folders such as /data/app/com.android.vending/
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- create the folder
/system/priv-app/Phonesky
and change permissions to 755 - Download latest
Blankstore.apk
from BlankStore Repo, copy it to folder/system/priv-app/Phonesky
and change the APK's permissions to 644 - Reboot
- Download this JAR file and run
java -jar android-checkin-1.0.jar <email> <password>
from the console/terminal of your PC running Linux/OSX - Start the new Market app and login using your credentials and the Android ID from output of previous command
- Instead of the first two steps for Android 5.0, download the Blankstore.apk, rename it to
com.android.vending.apk
and copy it to/system/app
, apply same permissions as above and proceed the same way as for Android 5.0
- Instead of the first two steps for Android 5.0, download the Blankstore.apk, rename it to
com.android.vending.apk
and copy it to/system/priv-app
, apply same permissions as above and proceed the same way as for Android 5.0