Greetings, few days ago I was in China and bought GN 2014. As most of you know in China they block access to play store and install their own firmware. I already rooted my device, and was wondering how I can enable all languages, because currently, there are 3 languages. And also, How to install play market on it. I tried downloading apk. file, but its not working (Installed but won't open)
Help please. (Sorry if this question is too noobish)
I think that the device then has no Google license, making it impossible. There are only the various other stores.
This is definitely the case with exotics, like car stereos(Parrot Asteroid). In this case theres probably a solution, which of course requires root.
Why don't you try to flash with ODIN some of the official ROMs ? Then you will have no need of ROOT and will have all the languages. What is the model name exactly ?
simichoil said:
Why don't you try to flash with ODIN some of the official ROMs ? Then you will have no need of ROOT and will have all the languages. What is the model name exactly ?
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Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 SM-P601
Where can I get those official Roms?
Simple_noob said:
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 SM-P601
Where can I get those official Roms?
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Here
http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SM-P601
Flashing an other stock firmware works fine I did it on mine.
But expect some little lag there wasn't on the chinese firmware.
I'm in China too and am considering buying the Note 10.1 so I'll be facing the same problem.
With a Chinese friend's Asus Transformer Prime, I flashed an official Taiwanese ROM so that she could access Google Play, but with this method you no longer get OTA updates. Also, as mickmad noted above, you can sometimes get unpredictable performance issues if you use ROMs intended for another region. Only later did I find that you could just install the necessary Google apps while keeping the original ROM. Here's a method devilfun here on XDA used for the Prime, perhaps it will work with the Note:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21094128&postcount=11
The .rar referenced was a package of Google apps, I think. I haven't checked the package myself, but note that you probably need GoogleServicesFramework.apk and Googleloginservice.apk in addition to the obvious ones. Simple_noob may have been unsuccessful for any one of several reasons:
1. The apks were copied to the wrong location before installation.
2. Not all the necessary apks were copied.
3. The necessary file permissions were not set.
If you can work it out, let us potential Note buyers in China know how you did it!
Well when i said more lag I meant that other region firmwares have all the samsung apps which tends to produce some little lag (where chinese firware has only a limited part of these samsung apps.)
Really no big deal as it will be corrected in future versions I am sure (see the example of mk1 firmware for p600)
Not sure for OTAs thought, but i never waited for them anyway on my other devices.
And just to got the samsung keyboard (and not the one for chinese which is different) it already worst the change .... plus getting rid of chinese useless apps, some settings which weren't in english even the language was set to english ... choice between almost any language ... and so on
Thanks a lot to everyone who replied and helped.
I installed needed firmware and everything works perfectly
Hello,
Im living in china and I plan to buy a 10.1 2014 for my gf. But no way i keep the original chinese without the google apps (google play most of all).
I just need the root and to install the google apps. (and after i can freez the chinese bloatware).
Anybody successed to root with Auto-root ?
Which procedure shall i follow to install those google apps ??
Thanks a lot !
digitalH said:
Hello,
Im living in china and I plan to buy a 10.1 2014 for my gf. But no way i keep the original chinese without the google apps (google play most of all).
I just need the root and to install the google apps. (and after i can freez the chinese bloatware).
Anybody successed to root with Auto-root ?
Which procedure shall i follow to install those google apps ??
Thanks a lot !
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CF Auto root works. I did it and there were no problems
Note 10.1 bought in China without Play Store
Simple_noob said:
Thanks a lot to everyone who replied and helped.
I installed needed firmware and everything works perfectly
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I have the same case as yours. I am planning to do the same as you did. Can you help provide the steps on how to flash another stock firmware for Note 10.1 P-601 model? Which region/country firmware did you use?
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I have the same case as yours. I am planning to do the same as you did. Can you help provide the steps on how to flash another stock firmware for Note 10.1 P-601 model? Which region/country firmware did you use?
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Just follow these steps :
1, Download any region / country rom from this link , preferable MJB being the latest. http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SM-P601.
2. Extract the downloaded zip file.
3. Extract the attached odin 3.09.
4. Enter download mode by pressing power+volume down , then volume up.
5. Connect your PC/Laptop to your Note , wait till the com port turns blue.
6. Flash the .tar file of the rom through "AP" & hit start.
7. Wait till flash is complete, & note restarts.
8. You now will have a working PLAY STORE.
other download links or torrents for official firmware
Great info supplied in the above posts ! I also currently have a P601 bought in China and would like to change the firmware but the rapidgator and terafile links aren't working so well for me.
Terafile now has a limit of one Gig for free users and rapidgator downloads keep failing mid way.
Does anyone have any torrent links or other download links for the official firmware?
Thanks in advance.
Hello,
I'm interested as I'm in the same case. Where can I download a good English version (wifi +3G)?
Buy a Samsung tablet from the US (or Europe) next time!
Simple_noob said:
Greetings, few days ago I was in China and bought GN 2014. As most of you know in China they block access to play store and install their own firmware. I already rooted my device, and was wondering how I can enable all languages, because currently, there are 3 languages. And also, How to install play market on it. I tried downloading apk. file, but its not working (Installed but won't open)
Help please. (Sorry if this question is too noobish)
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I have the US model (SM-P6000ZKVXAR) and have all 52 languages. Here is the list.
The language list is the same as the UK Galaxy Note 3.
Full List of All 52 Languages
- Azerbaijani
- Catalan
- Czech
- Danish
- German (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
- Estonian
- English (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, UK, US)
- Spanish (Spain, US)
- Basque
- French (France, Switzerland)
- Irish
- Galician
- Croatian
- Icelandic
- Italian
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Hungarian
- Dutch (Belgium, Netherlands)
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Uzbek (Latin)
- Polish
- Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal)
- Romanian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Serbian (Latin)
- Finnish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Greek
- Bulgarian
- Kazakh
- Macedonian
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Georgian
- Armenian
- Arabic (United Arab Emirates)
- Korean
- Chinese (Simplified)
Browser, a system installed app, advised me an update was available. I went to the appgallery and made my country China. ( It would not update when my country was listed as United Kingdom. ) It did not change my Huawei ID country. It then updated the Browser as well as one other app. It also advise me a manual update was available for Google Playstore and advised me to not update. I then updated Google Playstore. Did I do the right thing?
Guys
I have Chinese s20. there is no play store obviously.
how can I add this?
I don't want to root etc
google installer 2.0 which I found doesn't work crashes.
collller said:
Guys
I have Chinese s20. there is no play store obviously.
how can I add this?
I don't want to root etc
google installer 2.0 which I found doesn't work crashes.
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Mate all you need to do is install Samkey on a laptop etc then go to ebay and buy 3 samkey credit the details to login to samkey will be sent to your eBay and email address. Start samkey up click on help and it will tell you what you have to do on your mobile. On samkey once you have logged in type one of these CSC into the change CSC "BRI for Taiwan will include Google play by default" "TGY for Hong Kong will also include Google play by default" My best suggestion is use csc TGY. Once yiu changed the csc your phone will reboot and all that chinese stuff will disappear and you will have all Google services.
Samkey.org
What if you just install this: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-store/google-play-store-20-0-15-release/
there are gservices on chc csc you can just install google play store apk link on post above and nothing else
Hi Dears,,,
I have problem in my MI 11 lite,, the i cant found theme app in my device its say theme not support in your region, i am use global version
how can i solve it to work in region
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i solve it by change the country region
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Themes app is not supported in your selected/default region...
To use themes app you have to change region in settings.
See attached screenshots..
Regards