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Galaxy S5 Play Store problems

Hello everyone. I recently bought an Samsung Galaxy S5 (SM-G900F). After I made the "first run set-up" , I went to Google Play to download all the apps I needed.And then Google Play suddenly stopped and an error poped out : "Google Play stopped working"..ok I tried again,after aproximatively 3 minutes the error shows up again and again..I know that Samsung has some problems with Google Play,so I tried some fixes found on the internet. I tried deleting all data,cache,and updates.. It worked.Looks like my phone has some "problems" with the new update (6.0.5) for Google Play Store. With the old one (5.x - sorry I can't remember the version),I have no problems. But,the other problem is that after a few minutes,the app updates itself to the last version. I even tried to make a factory reset,but the error still shows up (I tried to reset the phone from the settings and from the recovery boot). I don't have a problem using the old version of PLay store,but I also can't use an outdated version for too long. Is there any way to fix it? I'm trying all kind of fixes found on the internet for hours and I'm getting angry. Is there any way to fix it,or I can send it to warrany? (I'm afraid to send it to warranty because I know that all they do there is to reset my phone and I lose a lot of time waiting to make a freaking reset that I can make even myself).
I would have posted an image with the error,but this forum doesn't allow me to put links into my threads for "security reasons".
So please,if you can help me It would be awesome. Thank you again and sorry for my bad english.
I forgot to mention,phone model is SM-G900F with Android 5.0 (I can`t make update to 5.1,I dont know why.)

Try reflashing 5.0 stock firmware using Odin
Note: G900F does not have 5.1.1 yet
Daniel Iuga said:
Hello everyone. I recently bought an Samsung Galaxy S5 (SM-G900F). After I made the "first run set-up" , I went to Google Play to download all the apps I needed.And then Google Play suddenly stopped and an error poped out : "Google Play stopped working"..ok I tried again,after aproximatively 3 minutes the error shows up again and again..I know that Samsung has some problems with Google Play,so I tried some fixes found on the internet. I tried deleting all data,cache,and updates.. It worked.Looks like my phone has some "problems" with the new update (6.0.5) for Google Play Store. With the old one (5.x - sorry I can't remember the version),I have no problems. But,the other problem is that after a few minutes,the app updates itself to the last version. I even tried to make a factory reset,but the error still shows up (I tried to reset the phone from the settings and from the recovery boot). I don't have a problem using the old version of PLay store,but I also can't use an outdated version for too long. Is there any way to fix it? I'm trying all kind of fixes found on the internet for hours and I'm getting angry. Is there any way to fix it,or I can send it to warrany? (I'm afraid to send it to warranty because I know that all they do there is to reset my phone and I lose a lot of time waiting to make a freaking reset that I can make even myself).
I would have posted an image with the error,but this forum doesn't allow me to put links into my threads for "security reasons".
So please,if you can help me It would be awesome. Thank you again and sorry for my bad english.
I forgot to mention,phone model is SM-G900F with Android 5.0 (I can`t make update to 5.1,I dont know why.)
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Well,I'm very dissapointed because I got my phone to some GSM Services,and most of they told me that this is a common issue for Samsung devices and you must be pretty lucky to not get into such errors with an Samsung phone. So yes,I will "maybe" try to flash the original firmware with Odin,but I don't think it will help. So anyway thank you for helping me,I will try to use this phone with this bulls*it error and maybe,maybe (which is quite impossible) Samsung will release an update that would solve this problem.

Whats your firmware build number?
Daniel Iuga said:
Well,I'm very dissapointed because I got my phone to some GSM Services,and most of they told me that this is a common issue for Samsung devices and you must be pretty lucky to not get into such errors with an Samsung phone. So yes,I will "maybe" try to flash the original firmware with Odin,but I don't think it will help. So anyway thank you for helping me,I will try to use this phone with this bulls*it error and maybe,maybe (which is quite impossible) Samsung will release an update that would solve this problem.
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Just to lighten you up, this problem is not "common" in Samsung devices. My family and relatives uses mostly Samsung phones and tablets and never did we have this problem, even on two Galaxy S5s (G900F and G900FD).
Flashing the stock firmware should help.
Sent from my SM-G900F using XDA Forums

Well,I reflashed the stock rom with Odin3.9 but this problem still occurs. If you are talking about Baseband version than this is it: G900FXXU1BOJ1
EDIT: After 2 months of trying to fix the problem,it still occurs.

Is there any 'Great' way to fix Google Now Country Issue

Hi,
So recently I just upgraded my Galaxy Grand Prime from Android 4.4 to 5.1 lollipop. And as of I know the firmware that I downloaded from SamMobile was not from the region that I am leaving. So for that now when I try to setup Google Now. It says 'Your Account Is not illegible for Google Now'. I asked on Android Forum and they said me It maybe the regions problem. Even it was totally fine on 4.4. I even tried the Fake GPS Thing. But no solution it won't work.
If there any way to fix it please let me know.
*(and btw I am completely noob on xda and I have auto capitalization enabled on my keyboard )

Will stock-based rooted ROM get Google Assistant as Update

I have the No Limits Marshmallow ROM on a G900W8 in Canada. It's closely based on stock. I keep reading about Google Assistant replacing the current search coming to Marshmallow and Nougat. So how do we get that? I hear it's a pretty cool feature. Will it simply be a Play Store update to Google Search?
Thanks all

harry_fine said:
I have the No Limits Marshmallow ROM on a G900W8 in Canada. It's closely based on stock. I keep reading about Google Assistant replacing the current search coming to Marshmallow and Nougat. So how do we get that? I hear it's a pretty cool feature. Will it simply be a Play Store update to Google Search?
Thanks all
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It'll probably get it, the feature is being rolled out to Marshmallow and Nougat devices through a Google Play Services update and will replace Now on Tap

Any problems with OTA pie upgrade on Chinese AL–00 Mate9 ?

I am using the Chinese variant of the MATE 9. It's happily running Oreo & Google APPS for quite some time now. I travel a lot and change my "HiCare region" to whatever region I'm working in. I was NOT offered android nine until I changed my region to China even though I've been physically in 6 Countries in Asia with this phone.
Has anyone done the OTA update with a situation similar to mine. While I want to try Android Pie (9) I don't want to mess up my smooth running machine & Google apps that I have now.
Thank you in advance for any input.

yes, the problem will be
onepiece said:
I am using the Chinese variant of the MATE 9. It's happily running Oreo & Google APPS for quite some time now. I travel a lot and change my "HiCare region" to whatever region I'm working in. I was NOT offered android nine until I changed my region to China even though I've been physically in 6 Countries in Asia with this phone.
Has anyone done the OTA update with a situation similar to mine. While I want to try Android Pie (9) I don't want to mess up my smooth running machine & Google apps that I have now.
Thank you in advance for any input.
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after updating mha-al00 to version 9.0.1.150, google play disappeared from applications, and I haven't figured out how to restore it. GMSinstaller, at least the version I have, stopped working.

Problem solved
To restore google play u need to switching the region to China in appgalery, searching the google play store and updating it. All other google services work fine.

Thanks
Thank you. This is helpful info...and something I was worried about. Per HiCare, I'm being offered version
9.0.1.160
Haven't pulled the trigger...not sure I want to mess with the Google runaround.

Follow-up question
Vitek777 said:
To restore google play u need to switching the region to China in appgalery, searching the google play store and updating it. All other google services work fine.
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Vitek777 or others...
Could you please list the specific steps you took To get google apps functional on a Chinese MATE 9 that was recently upgraded to EMUI 9?
-Did you have to delete your existing google store or other Google apps?
– Did you have to work with GMS installer?
Making this switch to EMUI 9 and trying to install Google apps on the China version is very temperamental. Please provide more very specific details on the steps involved. Thank you for your understanding.
I am not in mainland China now… So VPN service should not be necessary.

google apps and mha-al00c00 (chinese version)
onepiece said:
Vitek777 or others...
Could you please list the specific steps you took To get google apps functional on a Chinese MATE 9 that was recently upgraded to EMUI 9?
-Did you have to delete your existing google store or other Google apps?
– Did you have to work with GMS installer?
Making this switch to EMUI 9 and trying to install Google apps on the China version is very temperamental. Please provide more very specific details on the steps involved. Thank you for your understanding.
I am not in mainland China now… So VPN service should not be necessary.
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After upgrade from my mha-al00 to emui 9 outside of China, only one application was lost - Google Play Market. All other Google apps continued to function normally.
Running the GMS Installer did not solve the problem - he asked to uninstall all Google applications, but could not uninstall Google Play Services and stopped at this point with an error.
Manual stopping Google Play Services did not solve the problem - GMS installer still refused to work, indicating the same error.
I had to restore Google Play Services to reset the settings of the applications, because after a manual stop it was not possible to start it manually.
Next, in order to install the Google Play Market, I went to AppManager, switched the country to China in it (in my country, the Play Market is not visible in the AppManager application list), then did a Google Play Market search and installed it. The rest of the necessary Google applications, I reinstalled already from the Google Play Market.

YIKES !!
Thank you for your step by step directions to restore Google Apps after EMUI 9 upgrade.
After all the trouble getting Google to work again.....was the upgrade to EMUI 9 worth it? Wow...seems like quite a lot of work if the upgrade from EMUI 8 to 9 was not worth it...
Do you recommend the upgrade to 9?

Google Play Store partially in wrong language after update - PLEASE help!

Hello Everyone!
I'm hoping I can get some good advice on how to fix the issue that has come up.
I will try to be as detailed as I can in describing what has happened.
I started out with my Samsung S5 DUOS rooted on Android 4.4.2 but I had to update due to apps dropping support for 4.4.2.
Using Odin I installed Official Samsung 6.0.1 update for Android 6.0.1, after which I rooted the phone using the correct Chainfire Rooting package,
and after this I also installed the latest correct TWRP Recovery.
When starting up the phone everything was working fine except Google Services Framework and Play Store kept crashing constantly which I then solved by grabbing the APK's from another Samsung S5 running Android 6.0.1 and installed those on my phone. This fixed the crashing issue entirely and everything is now 100% stable and working just fine.
Which brings me to my problem: In the Play Store app it seems now that it is partially in English. I am running the phone set entirely to Swedish language otherwise. So most of the Play Store displays in Swedish, but certain things such as "Downloading" or "Install" or certain menu options of the app itself displays in English rather than Swedish. Also the app name is Play Store rather than "Play Butik" in Swedish. I thought that these APKs had all languages integrated in them and displayed the correct language depending on the language setting of the phone itself.
Any and all help to fix this so that I can have Play Store app run in Swedish would be appreciated very very much.
Kindest regards,
XDAFan.
P.S If I have posted this in the wrong place please move it to where it's supposed to go.

Might be a bug and ruled out with the next version of Playstore. I assume there are quite frequent updates, but performed in the background, like the Play Services updates.

lecorbusier said:
Might be a bug and ruled out with the next version of Playstore. I assume there are quite frequent updates, but performed in the background, like the Play Services updates.
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That is an interesting theory! I went to APK Mirror and checked the versions of the APK's that I had pulled from the other (identical) phone and the Play Services APK was a match but the Playstore was outdated(!) so I pulled the latest compatible (Android 6.0+) version of that that I could find on APK Mirror and installed it and that fixed the problem!!
So BIG THANKS for thinking of this as a possible cause of my problem and the solution to it!
Kindest regards,
XDAFan.
Updating my previous reply here
Kindest regards,
xdafan.