- Rock your Spring Cleaning with a Roborock S5 Max;
- Huawei strava fix?
- Huawei Health Heart Rate?
This story originally appeared on Ars Technica , a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. The internet, as it is wont to do, has been coming up with workarounds to fix this problem to get Google apps on the Mate 30 Pro. The gray market distribution of Google apps is something the Android modding scene has down to a science, and it's fairly easy to get Google apps on things that don't normally come with Google apps, like Amazon Kindle Fire devices, custom ROMs based on the open source Android code like LineageOS , and on imported devices meant for the Google-free Chinese market.
Unfortunately, none of these methods work on the Mate 30 Pro. They rely on either an unlocked bootloader, which allows users to flash Google apps to the normally read-only system partition, or on "stub apps" left in the system partition by the device manufacturer specifically for the Google apps, so sideloaded versions can get the system-level permissions they need to work. The Mate 30 doesn't allow for either method. With all the traditional techniques out the window, the internet's brand-new method for getting Google apps onto the Mate 30 is through a website called Lzplay.
You can see news articles promoting this site from just about all the major Android news sites. I Googled " mate 30 pro install play store ," and literally every result on the first page recommended Lzplay. It's easy to see why Lzplay is ubiquitous: Go to the website, install the app, mash "next" a few times, and boom, Google apps are on your Huawei device.
It seemingly installs six system apps in the blink of an eye with almost no user interaction. Even though the Google apps should not be able to get the system-level permissions they need to work, they somehow do, thanks to this app. It's like magic. Lzplay is fast, it's easy, and as far as getting Google apps onto your Huawei device, it works.
It's also the biggest Android modding security nightmare I have ever seen. And no, that's not hyperbole. This is a remote management API that is meant to give your IT department full control over a company-issued device.
The goal is to allow your IT department to have, basically, as much control over the device remotely as you have in front of it, allowing them to silently install and uninstall apps, change the lock screen password, remote-wipe the device, and do a million other things. Watch any of the video guides after the app is downloaded and you'll see the "Activate device administrator? At this point you should really stop and think if granting these permissions to an unknown entity is a good idea. It's totally not. This set of permissions, which used to be called "Device owner," should only ever be given to an entity you percent trust: apps like Google's Android for Work, an app from your company's MDM provider for your company-issued phone, or maybe you have an Android-powered kiosk or IoT device that you personally want to manage remotely.
Those options are fine. What's not fine is granting these permissions to a random website like Lzplay. Nobody knows who or what owns Lzplay. With no copyright notice or any kind of ownership claim on the website, there's not much digging that can be done. A whois lookup shows the site is hosted in mainland China and was created just three months ago, and neither of those facts inspires much confidence. A lot of the write-ups and videos out there gloss over how Lzplay works and just how many permissions it has access to.
You visit the website, install the Lzplay app, and then grant it the ultra-powerful device administrator permissions, at which point it does its thing and installs the Google apps. At this point most of the guides go on to talk about how you are pretty much done and how you might have to reset your device afterward. Almost none of them mention how you still have this Lzplay.
Uninstalling the device administrator app is not as easy as uninstalling a normal app, either—you can't remove the app unless you first dig through the settings and remove it as the administrator first.
Best Mobile Phone Deals
The Android modding scene has always had some issues with security. Modding often involves encouraging people to install apps with powerful root permissions that could do very nasty, malicious things to a phone if they wanted. The way the community usually works around this is by either installing apps that are open source, where anyone can audit the code and see what it is doing, or by using a handful of trusted root app developers that have been around for years and years and have proven themselves to the community. In the case of installing Google apps, the normal Google app distributors like Open Gapps have you flash a one-time package to your system partition and you're done.
The scripts to do this are open source , and you can verify the proprietary Google applications it installs haven't been tampered with, thanks to Android's APK signing. The Lzplay. As I mentioned before, the site is three months old, hosted in China, and no one knows who owns it. What is really egregious, though, is this whole remote backdoor situation, assuming you leave Lzplay on your phone, like most of the guides suggest. Lzplay might not do anything malicious today, but since it still has device administrator privileges, tomorrow it could easily fill your phone with bitcoin miners, remotely install ransomware, or brick your phone.
I don't recommend using this method at all, and leaving this grossly powerful app around on your phone, forever, is a huge security problem. Part of the rapid rise of Lzplay over the last week or two is because it just works so darn well for getting Google apps onto the Huawei Mate There really are no alternative methods. Google apps are designed to have access to system-only permissions that allow them to provide services to other apps.
One example is a unified Google Account APK that handles login duties for all the other apps, and you can't do that as a normal userspace app. Since the Google apps always ship as part of the phone on the system partition, depending on these extra permissions is fine. After the setup, you are able to choose Premium Edition or Ultimate Edition currently.
Both editions provide three options: 1-month subscription, quarter subscription and 1-year subscription. More subscription details you can check on this page.
Honor 9X Pro and View 30 Pro will come to Europe at low prices
Select a subscription you need then a remote control panel will load on your computer. With your PanSpy Account, you can log in anytime. PanSpy will send you a download link for installing the apk to the target phone. We are talking about Huawei P30 in this tutorial. Install it and Sign in with your created PanSpy account. You need to authorize PanSpy to access to the data on the target device. You should know that, it's your choice to remove or keep the app icon after the installation. The monitor will not be noticed if you choose to remove the app icon.
Note : for the first time you enter the dashboard or control panel, it takes some time to sync all data from monitored device.
[Update Temporary License Extended Again] Google has revoked Huawei's Android license
PanSpy will fail to sync newest data if the monitored device is powered off or disconnected to the internet. Every time a phone uses a particular network to make or receive a call, send or receive a message, its IMEI number is automatically emitted and tracked. Getting to know the number is easy. In most cases, the IMEI number exists on the reverse side of a phone, or underneath the removable battery.
If your phone is lost, but its packaging is kept, you are still able to find the IMEI number on the label. Step 4. Then, start installing the app to locate your phone using IMEI number. The IMEI number is used by a GSM network to identify valid devices and can therefore be used for stopping a stolen phone from accessing that network.
Try our network
For example, if a mobile phone is stolen, the owner can call his or her network provider and instruct them to "blacklist" the phone using its IMEI number. In addition, if you lost cell phone you can tell the police what the IMEI number is. When your phone gets lost, you want to try everything to get it back. But what if it gets lost forever even though you've tried your best?
At that time, you should make sure you could retrieve the lost data as soon as possible for your normal daily life. The risk of data loss would be seriously unaffordable for every mobile phone user since we stored almost everything important on our cellphone. You may have to wipe all data on your lost or stolen phone when it's necessary.
That means you'll lost everything important even if you find your lost phone. You really need a full backup of your phone in case of any loss. Syncios Data Transfer supports to transfer different kinds of data including contacts, text messages, call history, photos, songs, videos, apps, bookmarks etc with only one click. At first, Syncios Data Transfer needs to be installed on your computer. Syncios Data Transfer provide both Windows and Mac version.
Three modes are available on the main interface: ' Transfer ', ' Restore ', and ' Backup '. To backup Huawei to computer, select Backup mode on the primary interface. And click on Next to move on after the connection. All transferrable contents will be displayed on the content interface.