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Android without google services. Using Android without Google. Where to get Google Play

It so happened that you get used to good things quickly. Ecosystems from Microsoft, Apple and Google are firmly established on mobile devices, enveloping them with its non-removable and deeply integrated services. Can you imagine an iPhone without iTunes music, iCloud clouds, office suite iWork or some lumia without Xbox Music, OneDrive, MS Office? Agree - this is a pitiful sight. But how interesting is an Android smartphone without signs of interference Google? Now I'll tell you.

Why delete Google services?

As it usually turns out, it was in the evening, there was nothing to do and I got confused by the firmware of my dearly beloved Sony Xperia Z1 Compact on CyanogenMod latest version - 12.1 (based on Android 5.1 Lollipop). The developers of the cyanogen asshole decently messed up firewood during my absence in the world of custom firmware, and in addition to the installation archive, which is lethal in its structure and internal scripts, they also decided to give users their proprietary recovery menu - Cyanogen Recovery. Why these half-witted enthusiasts did not like the classic and much more functional CWM is incomprehensible to me, but there's nothing to be done.

As we know, almost all CM/AOSP-based firmwares are supplied without Google services - they need to be installed separately from a zip archive. Since I'm used to minimalism, I downloaded a third-party application package, but the proprietary recovery refused to sew it, citing the lack of a signature. I didn’t want to sew a half-gig package signed by the cyan and decided to abandon this idea altogether and live for a week freed from the fetters of the corporation of good.

There are three key reasons that may prompt you to repeat my experiment:

1) Become the master of your smartphone

As we know, a little less than all smartphones that are officially sold in Europe and the CIS come with pre-installed Google services that cannot be removed (the Chinese allow themselves to refuse them, replacing them with analogues for local markets). Alas, these are the conditions for licensing the OS. But why the hell does a smartphone decide for us what can and cannot be deleted?

Following my path while ordinary users wondering what it is this " google assistant”, subscription music, market, “you need to pay for programs” - you become the full owner and sovereign ruler of your device. Only you decide what will be preinstalled on your smartphone and how it will work. To do this, it is not necessary to sew SM, you can simply get root rights on the stock firmware and cut out all the excess bit by bit through root explorer or Titanium Backup.

2) +50% autonomy

I don’t think I’ll reveal America to anyone if I say that Google services eat up battery in about the same way as desktop Chrome RAM. The main energy costs fall on actions that are associated with accessing the network - synchronizing contacts, documents, receiving mail, sending location, usage statistics, marks game achievements in Google Play games. Even if you deliberately disable a lot of unnecessary synchronization fads, vile Google services manage to hang forever in the background, eating up RAM and sending data and statistics on the use of your gadget.

Getting rid of this burden, you get about a hundred megabytes of additional free RAM and about 50% increase in battery life.

3) Paranoid consolation

Quite logically, by getting rid of the constant transmitter of your location data and annoying applications that require too many access privileges, paranoids can breathe easy and relax a bit. Now no one secretly scans nearby WiFi hotspots, ostensibly to improve the accuracy of geolocation, no one records the exact history of your movements on the world map, no one collects statistics about you, does not even know what language you communicate with the outside world.

Back to Symbian

In the era of Symbian smartphones (weep, huh?), applications on a smartphone were installed (unexpectedly) using installation files, similar to how you do it on a PC under Windows control. So life without Google services is a great chance to get nostalgic and return to that very era. At your service are a scattering of .apk files on developer sites or forums like w3bsit3-dns.com and xda-developers.

For the most harmful, there are also alternative markets from Amazon and Yandex, as well as a free software repository called F-droid. All three have a good base of offers, of course, inferior in volume to the Google Play “file dump”. Alternative markets are often also available latest versions relevant applications and can update them automatically.

Major problems and hardships

First of all, I needed my contacts in the amount of 170 pieces. Naturally, one could forget about synchronization, so I exported contacts from Gmail to a vCard file, which I successfully fed to the phone. After restoring contacts, it was necessary to connect the mail. The standard mailer from the CyanogenMod package completely suited me - it can accept push, it looks very similar to Gmail, it supports gestures. True, I had to sweat with the corporate box, manually prescribing the server settings.

Among the application sources proposed above, I left w3bsit3-dns.com and F-droid. From the last one I installed Firefox browser and the Telegram messenger, the AdAway ad blocker, as well as some specific programs, which I will discuss later. The rest of the mass of goodness - clients of social networks, a book reader and a Fleksy keyboard, I conscientiously tore out from the forum. It was here that the first serious problem for me came out.

My favorite Fleksy keyboard turned out to be tied to a Google account, so I couldn't upgrade my dictionaries and personalize my typing. I killed a good half a year in my time to teach the keyboard all my swear words and abbreviations, eventually getting an ultra-accurate and monstrously fast test typing speed on a smartphone, but without Google services all this turned out to be inaccessible to me.

The calendar became another stumbling block in my experiment. You cannot create an event in it without connecting an account from Google. The solution was found in the face Apps Offline Calendar available in the F-droid repositories, which created a local calendar on the device.

So is the game worth the candle?

As usual, it's up to you, and only you! In general, living without Google services is, with some reservations, more than comfortable, and the lion's share of problems can be solved. You gradually find a replacement for popular applications, wondering how you used to be strongly attached to one thing, you begin to enjoy an extra day of work from one battery charge, you amuse yourself with the realization that you have become a full-fledged ruler over your device and its system. But, I'll be honest - existence without Google services - interesting game for geeks and enthusiasts and not everyone will come out of it as winners. The losers will lose all data in the event of a serious breakdown of the smartphone or its loss. Serious software failures in the operation of the device after inept intervention in system files are not excluded.

If you feel ready for exploits, it seems to me that giving up Google services will give you a lot of impressions and interesting discoveries. Start with a couple of days or a week, and then, you see, you will like it and do not want to come back. Or would you like? Let us know in the comments what you think about this idea!

Owner operating system Android is the IT giant Google. This explains the fact that most Google services, including Play market built into mobile devices running on the Android platform and integrated into the main menu of the operating system.

True, in fairness it should be noted that not all users of Android devices are happy with this. After all, it is quite possible that someone uses other proven and familiar sources to meet their needs, and someone simply unnecessarily uses the Google Play application store.

Speaking of software from Google, it is necessary to highlight the Google Play Services application, which is pre-installed software on almost all Android devices. What is it for, and is it possible to get rid of such a “gift” imposed by the digital giant? To unambiguously answer this question, let's take a look at everything in order.

The main task of GP services is to provide stable operation the following key features:

Authentication in Google services
Contact sync
Access to last settings privacy and energy saving
Updates Google Apps and GP
Accelerated application search (including offline mode)
Other.

Removing "Google Play Services" can lead to failures in the operation of applications up to the complete cessation of their work.

However, there is another side of the coin. You suddenly began to notice that the battery charge of your device began to shamelessly fall, preventing the device from lasting even a day. In this case, it is worth checking which software has become so actively “eating up” the energy of your Android. The fact is that there are more and more complaints from users about Google Play Services. The situation sometimes develops in such a way that they manage to use up to fifty percent of the charge. Why is this happening?

The fact is that Google Play services are activated automatically (respectively, all applications from Google), and then continue to constantly “hang” in the device’s RAM, receiving and transmitting data to the corporation’s servers.

Based on the foregoing, each user must decide for himself - how much he needs this or that program and its normal functioning, and only after that to draw conclusions, you can delete Google Play services, or it's still not worth it. If you decide that you do not need this software, then the continuation of the article is just for you.

Google Play Services - can it be deleted?

Yes, you can, but you just need to understand that uninstalling any program must be approached responsibly, with an understanding of what you are doing to the gadget.

In general, we wrote a lot on this topic, so if you are not quite ready for the procedure, then it is worth looking through, or whatever. In addition, it will certainly be useful to know.

If, after our 1000th Chinese warnings, you definitely decide to delete Google Play services, then follow the special instructions.

If your device is not yet rooted, then you first need to . Next, you can use the MyPhoneExplorer program, which you need to download from the developer's website and install on your PC and.

The application allows the user to simply connect their smartphone (or tablet) to a computer via USB or Wi Fi and organize comfortable work with contacts, parse SMS correspondence and deal with calendar tasks.

I am glad that MyPhone supports the Russian language, so it will be quite easy to work with this software. When you start working, you will be prompted to synchronize everything, and after that your communicator will be under complete control.

In addition to all sorts of useful things, we will be able to work with file system and even call any of installed programs. When working with applications, you will immediately see:

Version
The size
Installation date.

In addition, with regard to Google Play Services, like other applications, it can be saved to a computer in the form apk file, completely remove from your device or install new programs.

Another powerful tool for working with applications. After installing and running the program, we will see the system request for the rights of the "Superuser", we allow it.

Then we will see a list installed applications. I would like to immediately draw attention to this important point. If you do not have complete confidence in the need to remove any program, then it is better to “freeze” it, rather than completely uninstall it. In this case, unnecessary this moment the operating system application will be completely hidden. At the very least, if something goes wrong, you can restore the application.

So, after launching and granting root rights, go to the "Backups" tab:

Then, we find the program to be "frozen" (in our case, "Google Play Services"). By the way, for convenience, you can use filters, for example, “Only system applications”:

Click on the name of the program and press the "Freeze" button:

If you have come to the conclusion that you need to return this or that application to work, then we do all the points described, and the last step is to click on “Defrost”.

In the case of deciding to completely remove the program, we again go the same way, but after “tap” on the name, click on “Delete”.

In conclusion of the material, to help our readers, the video material:

The first version of the Android platform has undergone several updates since its release. Google, paying great attention to the further development of the system, is constantly working not only to correct the errors found, but also to expand the functionality of the popular OS.

One of the innovations of the developers of the Android operating system was the latest protection system that appeared on devices starting with version 5.1. This function ( factory reset Protection or FRP lock) is as follows: in case of loss of a smartphone or its theft, the owner will be able to block his gadget, after which, without a login / password pair from a Google account, the phone will not be subject to further use. The same protection will work when you try full reset settings (hard reset).

But how to bypass a Google account if we reset the settings ourselves, for example, when flashing a device or deleting graphic key? In addition, there are cases when the system does not accept the correct password / login.

In any case, when you first start the device and try to access wifi networks, the smartphone screen will prompt you to verify your Google account on Android:

This is where the need arises to find a way to cope with the problem.

bypass google account

It should be noted the following: the situation is complicated by the fact that in the conditions of a large number of smartphone manufacturers on Android based, and even more models, there is simply no single universal solution for all devices. Therefore, we will now consider several proven options.

How to avoid the reset problem

In order not to get into an unpleasant situation, do not forget to take advantage of the opportunity provided by the developers. To do this, before performing a reset, go to " Settings", select the section" Accounts" (may be " Accounts”), we find “ Google", open.

Next, call up the menu by clicking on the three dots in the upper right corner, select " Delete account” (on some models, the choice of action is called up by a long press on the account field). Now we need (USB debugging) and activate the item " OEM Unlock»:

Five Ways to Bypass Google Account Protection

Method number 1

The first step is to remove the SIM card and then turn on the smartphone. Next, select the desired language, ignore the SIM window (button " skip"). In the next window, where you need to enter a phone number or email. mail, press and hold the symbol @ until the settings button appears, press it first, and then " Android keyboard settings". After that we press touch button « back” at the very bottom of the display, then in the same place the button for calling the submenu by long pressing (you may have to press the button “ home”, on all devices in different ways) until the Google search bar appears:

In the search box that opens, write the word " settings". Once in the settings section, select " Recovery and reset", and then turn off " Auto recovery" and " Preservation backups "(Moreover, in this sequence), after which we reset the settings:

Method number 2

Another universal method, which can help in a difficult situation, when there is no way to enter the Internet or settings or other actions are also not possible to perform.

What should be done:

We insert a SIM card into a locked phone, from which we will delete the hum account. Then, we call this number from another device. We receive a call and select the action " Add new challenge”, then enter any numbers in the dialer:

Now we need to enter our Google account, from which we know the password (or create a new one). After that, we save the contact to this particular account:

After the done manipulations, restart the smartphone.

Method number 3

We insert a SIM card into the smartphone that we will unlock and call this number from another phone. Further, as it was described in the second method, click on + (i.e. add a new call), and reset the call. After that, the keyboard will open, with its help we enter the following combination: *#*#4636#*#* (see screenshot):

Immediately after entering the last character, there will be an automatic transition to a new window with information and advanced settings. Now click on the arrow on the left upper corner screen and go to standard settings devices, select the section " Recovery and reset", turn off" Copying data" and " Auto recovery" (may be " Archiving" and " Data recovery”), after which we reset the settings (or hard reset):

It remains to wait for the completion of the procedure, and after that we go to our account Google entry via WiFi.

Method number 4

You can try to enter the standard settings in another way: on the main screen, press and hold the " Home”, and when the Google icon appears, “tap” on it and go to the search bar, press, the keyboard appears, type the word “ Settings»:

Method number 5

Please watch the video, which tells how to bypass the Google account using the application after resetting the settings QuickShortcut Maker which will help ensure fast access to the settings of a locked smartphone, as well as to the menu of applications installed on it:

We talked about the simplest and most popular ways that can help resolve the issue without harming the device. You can find a lot of other ways on the Internet, but do not forget that if you are not sure of your actions, then there is a danger of causing even more harm to your gadget. Therefore, if you have kept receipts, and the warranty period has not expired, then in service center experts will help you for free.

* Note: if the described actions did not bring the desired result, do not rush to test everything at once. It makes sense to wait from one to three days, and then proceed to the next attempts, because this is the period provided by the developers to unlock the device.

Was the information provided helpful to you? Have you encountered such a problem? If yes, then tell us how you managed to bypass Google account on Android. And that's all for me, good luck!

It will not be possible to completely remove Google Play Services without root rights, however, if you really want to, you can configure your phone so that Google services and services are minimally present in it. Let's see how to disable Google services in the settings, and what to do to completely remove them.

Shutdown

Usually, the need to remove or disable Google Play Services arises due to the significant power consumption of this application. Calendar, Maps, Hangouts, Drive, Location Services and other plugins may not be used, but they still take up a lot of space and eat up battery power. To reduce the impact of Google Play Services on your phone, just turn them off in Android settings.

Go to settings, find the section with accounts. You need a Google account, which is tied to everything on Android. You can delete it, and then the data of the calendar and other built-in programs and services will no longer be synchronized. But let's go the other way and try to just stop Google Services and the Google Services Framework.

Open sync settings account. Here you need to uncheck all the checkboxes so that each plugin stops functioning. If you are concerned about Android's high power consumption, do the following:

Go to the "Language and input" section in the settings.
Open the Voice Search submenu.
Go to the "Ok Google" section.
Move the toggle switches to the inactive position.

This will disable the Android feature voice search, which constantly accesses the microphone and drains the battery. The phone will work even longer if you erase the cache of built-in applications - Play Store, Google Services.

Open the "Applications" section in the settings.
Click the "All" tab.
Open the Services page, click "Clear Cache".
Stop the program by clicking the appropriate button.

Similarly, you can delete the cache and leave the rest of the plugins to work. You can easily return them to a working state if necessary, but for now they will not interfere and consume a charge.

Removal

To produce complete removal Services, need root-rights. You can get them different ways, some custom firmwares have them by default. Thanks to root access, even built-in programs can be taken out of the system by removing them directly from the directories in which they are installed. Let's see how to remove the built-in Google Play Services on Android, and what applications can be removed altogether:

Launch Root Explorer or another manager that is suitable for working with the Android file system.
Open the /system/app directory. Inside you will see built-in programs.
A similar list of applications with some additions will be in the / system / priv-app directory.

If you delete these files, as well as frameworks in the /system/framework directory and libraries in /system/lib, then there will be no built-in software on Android, and the question “Google services, can they be deleted?” finally get a positive response. How to recover remote programs? There is only 1 way - you need to download Google Services.

You get used to good things quickly. Ecosystems from Microsoft, Apple, and Google have settled firmly on mobile devices, wrapping them in their indelible and deeply integrated services. Can you imagine an iPhone without iTunes music, iCloud cloud, iWork office suite or any lumia without Xbox Music, OneDrive, MS Office? Agree - this is a pitiful sight. But how interesting is an Android smartphone without signs of interference from Google? Read more about this.

Why delete Google services?

As it usually turns out, it was in the evening, there was nothing to do, and I got confused by the firmware of my dearly beloved Sony Xperia Z1 Compact on CyanogenMod of the latest version - 12.1 (based on Android 5.1 Lollipop). The developers of cyanogen decently messed up firewood during my absence in the world of custom firmware, and in addition to the installation archive, which is lethal in its structure and internal scripts, they also decided to give users their proprietary recovery menu - Cyanogen Recovery. Why these "enthusiasts" did not like the classic and much more functional CWM is incomprehensible to me, but there's nothing to be done.

There are three key reasons that may prompt you to repeat my experiment:

1) Become the master of your smartphone

Following my path, while ordinary users are perplexed about what it is this “Google Assistant”, subscription music, market, “you need to pay for programs” - you become the full owner and sovereign ruler of your device. Only you decide what will be preinstalled on your smartphone and how it will work. To do this, it is not necessary to sew CM, you can simply get root rights on the stock firmware and cut out all the excess bit by bit through Root Explorer or Titanium Backup.

2) +50% autonomy

I don’t think I’ll open America to anyone if I say that Google services eat up the battery in much the same way as desktop Chrome RAM. The main energy costs fall on actions that are associated with accessing the network - synchronizing contacts, documents, receiving mail, sending location, usage statistics, marking game achievements in Google Play Games. Even if you deliberately disable a lot of unnecessary synchronization fads, vile Google services manage to hang forever in the background, eating up RAM and sending data and statistics on the use of your gadget.

Getting rid of this burden, you get about a hundred megabytes of additional free RAM and about 50% increase in battery life.

3) Paranoid consolation

Quite logically, by getting rid of the constant transmitter of your location data and annoying applications that require too many access privileges, paranoids can breathe easy and relax a bit. Now no one secretly scans nearby WiFi points, supposedly to improve the accuracy of geolocation, no one records the exact history of your movements on the world map, no one collects statistics about you, and no one even knows what language you communicate with the outside world.

Back to Symbian

In the era of Symbian smartphones (weep, huh?), applications on a smartphone were installed (unexpectedly) using installation files, similar to how you do it on a Windows PC. So life without Google services is a great chance to get nostalgic and return to that very era. At your service are a scattering of .apk files on developer sites or forums like w3bsit3-dns.com and xda-developers.

For the most harmful, alternative markets are also available - Amazon, Yandex, SlideMe, Aptoide, 1Mobile, as well as a free software repository called F-droid. These and other markets have a good offer base, which, of course, is inferior in volume to the Google Play “file dump”. Alternative markets often also have the latest versions of relevant applications available and can automatically update them.

Major problems and hardships

Among the application sources proposed above, I left w3bsit3-dns.com and F-droid. From the latter, I installed the Firefox browser and the Telegram messenger, the AdAway ad blocker, as well as some specific programs, which I will discuss later. The rest of the mass of goodness - clients of social networks, a book reader and a Fleksy keyboard, I conscientiously tore out from the forum. It was here that the first serious problem for me came out.

My favorite Fleksy keyboard turned out to be tied to a Google account, so I couldn't upgrade my dictionaries and personalize my typing. I killed a good half a year in my time to teach the keyboard all my swear words and abbreviations, eventually getting an ultra-accurate and monstrously fast typing speed on a smartphone, but without Google services, all this turned out to be inaccessible to me.

The calendar became another stumbling block in my experiment. You cannot create an event in it without connecting an account from Google. The solution was found in the Offline Calendar app available in the F-droid repositories, which created a local calendar on the device.

So is the game worth the candle?

As usual, it's up to you, and only you! In general, living without Google services is, with some reservations, more than comfortable, and the lion's share of problems can be solved. You gradually find a replacement for popular applications, wondering how you used to be strongly attached to one thing, you begin to enjoy an extra day of work from one battery charge, you amuse yourself with the realization that you have become a full-fledged ruler over your device and its system. But, I'll be honest - existence without Google services is an interesting game for geeks and enthusiasts, and not everyone will come out of it as winners. The losers will lose all data in the event of a serious breakdown of the smartphone or its loss. Serious software failures in the operation of the device after inept intervention in system files are not excluded.

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