Help Google play services on Honor 7 severe problems

[Android20120]

I was very keen on the Honor 7 due to 64gb memory, sd card, octacore processor, battery and price.

I ordered one from China, and have had it for 2 days. However, am having severe problems.

When adding an account, there is no option for 'Google'.

I have installed Google Play from the Huawei app store and added an account via Play's startup, and for a while, I could download

from Play store and synch gmail and contacts.

I then started to get error "Error while retrieving information from the server RPC:S-7:AEC-0 ..." when trying to download from

the Playstore.

I have tried *many* recommendations including :

*Deleting data and cache from Play app, Play services, and framework services.

*Deleting the account and re-adding.

*Full factory reset and adding Play again from the app store.

*Uninstalling Play service updates so it rolls back to factory version and running Play again to force it to update Play services

to the latest version.

Some of the attempts temporarily resurrect Play, and synching, but now I get "Google play services which some of your

applications rely on is not supported by your device"

Each time I try a fix, the time it runs successfully seems less.

Is it worth me perservering with this : for example is it the need for international firmware on the phone? Could flashing a new

ROM get round this?

Is it because I can't add a Google account. It's weird I managed to download loads of apps, but now can't download any!

Or is it likely to be a phone hardware / firmware / memory unfixable problem?

In every other respect, it's a superb phone and I am reluctant to start the whole returns process if possible, however, if I have

to , I must! (Trouble is, I can't see another phone I want as much : my requirements are maximum processor and memory plus must

support sd card).

Any help much appreciated.

 

[mikedt]

As you've just discovered, no Google in China.

The Honor 7 has only just come out, and so far it's only available in China AFAIK. Unfortunately the Play Store you're installing from Huawei's own app store won't work, it's completely unofficial, you can't install Google Mobile Service like that. To install GMS correctly the phone would have to be rooted, and an appropriate Gapps package flashed. As this phone is only been out a couple of weeks, there's no reliable information about this at all so far, no custom ROMs either so far.

That's the situation at the moment with it. For the time being it's basically unfixable if you require Google, maybe if there is enough international developer interest in it, something might happen eventually....OK

The Honor 7 may see international release with GMS officially on it. However Huawei doesn't release all its phones internationally, there's many that are China only.

 

[Android20120]

But oddly, it does work for short periods. Baffled by that.

 

[mikedt]

It's not working most of the time by the sounds of things though, and no definite fix for the moment either.

BTW there's some Huawei Honor series phones that you don't want to be using stateside or anywhere outside of China. "TD-SCDMA" is OK as long as your carrier is China Mobile. And the lack of Google is the least of the problems.