Monday, March 24, 2014

FIXED [WORKING]: Incompatible Shared User ID(s) and Google Play Services Installation Error

Before you make up your mind just to read the steps, I would like to warn you that reading the full post will only takes some minutes and will assure you of no loss of data/software. Ignoring the full post will risk you to dangers of data/software loss permanently.

I am tech loving person, i keep experimenting with technology. I use and Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) on my Spice Mi-495. Spice is an Indian manufacturer of mobiles. I was trying to install android device manager on my phone. It got installed but when i opened it, it said " Google Play Services, which some of your applications rely on, is not supported by your device. Please contact your manufacturer." Whoosh! The device manager closed. 

I then researched about Google play services and found that it is an internal app which Google and many other app developers of android use to run app on android. This was not installed on my phone. I tried to install it through play store and even manually. It showed an error "This app is incompatible with other apps using the same shared user id(s)." I wasn't able to get that, i researched, and i found that this type of error happens when the manufacturer of phones have not done a clean job. And this was also the reason why I Google apps don't get updated.

This was something which only the manufacturer can fix, but i knew they are not going to replace or repair this. And i am not the one to keep mum. I researched for months and months over the internet. I found and tried many solutions but none of them worked. Lastly, On a very helpful site called xda-developers, I found a working solution. I tried it....Whoooo, it worked, Google Play services got installed. I tried updating Google apps and yes, they got updated.

I was extremely happy and thought to help all those who are still stuck either with the error saying Google Play Services cannot be installed or the error saying incompatible shared user id(s). This solution will work for both the errors.

Here is what you should do:-
Steps :-
1.Backup all the data and apps u already have on your phone as we are going for a factory reset. ( To backup current version apks of the
app use root explorer and copy all apks from /data/app and some apks from /mnt/asec/ ).
2.Downloaded latest signed gapps for your Android version (like Jellybean, Ice Cream Sandwich,KitKat etc) from here .
3. Turn off your phone.
4. Boot phone in recovery mode and Wipe data/factory reset. (This is why you need to back up everything.)
5. Flash the latest signed Gapps downloaded earlier.
6. Wipe Dalvik cache and cache partition then reboot.
7. Download the latest version of Google Play Store and install it. (You can download version 4.5.10 of
play store from here [3.69 MB] ){Play Store 4.5.10 was the latest version of play store when i was experimenting on my phone. You may download other latest version from the web and use them)
8. Update all the Gapps via Play Store. (Meanwhile if there are updates for other than Google apps you may update them too.)
9. Then install Google Play Services and done!
Note:- Alternatively in place of step 7 you can open the Market (Play Store) and tap agree. Then press home and leave it for awhile. After the Play Store is updated, open it and tap agree again. The new Play Store should download Google Play Services and install it for you.
So don't bang your head on the table for the mistakes of 
your manufacturer. Android is a platform where you 
yourself can be a developer.
BUT AT YOUR OWN RISK.... ;-)