This year, Huawei skipped the Huawei P60 series launch event, which used to happen in the first quarter. However, the issues were related to a scrambled supply chain. After the events of the 2019 U.S. blacklisting, Huawei was under tight scrutiny and facing severe challenges in the supply chain.

Hence, components such as smartphone chipsets became hard to organize for new Huawei devices. In 2022, Huawei readjusted around the current business with Qualcomm and used 4G chips in the latest smartphones.

Since Huawei can no longer print HiSilicon chipsets via chipmakers such as TSMC, the company is relying more on Qualcomm and less on Kirin. The beginning was difficult but Huawei later assured sufficient Snapdragon supplies.

GMS:

Google Mobile Services and Play Store have been a big matter of concern for new smartphone buyers. This year, most consumers knew that Huawei phones no longer support Google apps. On the other hand, customers could now easily determine whether to buy a Huawei phone without any confusion.

EMUI and HarmonyOS:

2022 has proven to be a major year in EMUI and HarmonyOS software rollout history and it brings you the latest features. However, the latest version is yet to rollout for old phones.

Smartwatch and wearables:

Other than smartphones, Huawei is focusing on all of the smart consumer platforms such as tablets, smartwatches, and earbuds. The company continues to innovate for a better user experience and launch new products.

Signs of return:

Progress leads toward a positive state and the progress made over the past year is crucial from all angles. To understand, Huawei is gradually returning shipment records in the Chinese market. A place, where Huawei ruled supreme before the U.S. ban.

2022 was a tough year, the move in market share is gradual but the positive numbers for Huawei are encouraging and it laid out a good foundation for 2023.

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In 2019, Huawei was banned by the U.S. and the company had to give up on Google Mobile Services and apps for its new phones. Since then, Huawei has released a variety of new phones all of them running without Google apps.

This year is no different and Huawei launched a variety of new phones including the Mate 50 Pro, Nova 10 series, and more. These phones pack solely the HMS ecosystem. Also powered by the latest EMUI 12 and EMUI 13.

Despite of lacking Google, Huawei has focused on smartphone technologies and fed EMUI with new features. For example, EMUI is better than ever, the EMUI 12 and EMUI 13 come with a brand new user interface.

There are new additions including smart folders, service widgets, better screen content management, optimized performance, and a variety of new security features for a safer user experience.

The app ecosystem matters, that’s why Huawei is expanding collaborations with popular app developers. The company is offering incentives and developer programs to support AppGallery to compete against the Play Store.

Aside from software, Huawei is one of the top smartphone makers. Despite facing many issues in the supply chain, Huawei kept on using the latest hardware in smartphones.

The new Huawei Mate 50 Pro is a prime example, as it packs a brand XMAGE new camera system and a powerful lens to take high-quality pictures.

On the other hand, Huawei is providing better design and high build quality, which is recognizable as the top trend in the smartphone industry. These traits add a different level of expertise to Huawei’s portfolio and the tech maker has maintained them throughout 2022.

So, which non Google Huawei phone you purchased in 2022? Let us know in the tweet below.

Which non Google Huawei phone you purchased in 2022?

— HC Newsroom (@HCNewsroom) December 31, 2022

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Note – The installation procedure is at the bottom.

Before we begin to install Google apps on your Huawei phone via GBox. You need to understand important things about how this article will navigate:

1. What is Gbox
2. Requirements
3. How it works
4. Supported Apps
5. Precautions
6. Tips
7. Tested on
8. Installation instructions
9. Our take

What is GBox:

According to the official website, Gbox was founded in 2018 in Singapore. Born from VIRTUAL CUBE PTE. LTD. It’s described as a multi-platform instrumented application focused on Android.

This app comes with a pre-built, out-of-the-box suite of Google app services. In that case, you won’t need to install GMS services plugins or any other kind of APK files on your phone separately. To be mentioned, there’s no version rollback required as well.

Requirements:

1. HMS powered phone
2. Gbox app
3. Internet

How:

According to the app, Gbox has virtualized into a random Android device. It creates a virtual Google apps space in your Huawei phone parallel to the EMUI apps.

Also, the app installed remains within Gbox and once you uninstall Gbox, all of these Google apps vanish as well.

Furthermore, every time you launch an app, it’s solely powered by the Gbox in virtual mode. Interestingly, the app retains your last usage and could be resumed from the taskbar.

Supported Apps:

Gbox support all of the Google apps and you can install them on your Huawei smartphone but only a few (including the third party) will work well. These are

1. Google app
2. Gmail
3. Google maps
4. Youtube
5. Facebook
6. Instagram
7. WhatsApp
8. Twitter
9. Line
10. Uber

Still, there are a bunch of other apps that are supported with Gbox but we’ve not tested them.

Games: You can access all of the apps on Play Store but other than those mentioned above won’t work or crash Gbox itself. So, we suggest you get them via APKMirror, AppGallery, or any other third-party website.

Privacy and Precautions:

Gbox promises to protect your privacy and not to collect data. But there are a few things that we suggest you do if you want to use Gbox or any similar application on your Huawei phone.

1. Use a Gmail account to log in that you don’t use to share any personal, private, or official email use cases. Create a new one if you want to.
2. Gbox for permission to access sensitive data such as storage and files. These are required to install a new app.
3. Gbox will take a part of your phone’s battery life but we have not found it draining or consuming too much of cells.
4. The instructions to install Gbox are easy but we suggest you read them carefully.

Tips:

Here are the tips that need to apply for the best use cases:

1. Install apps one by one
2. Wait until an app installation finishes
3. Create an app shortcut, once it is installed from the Play Store
4. Do not open apps from Gbox
5. Launch an app from the home screen icon
6. Open an app, and let it sync the data
7. Repeat the 6th step at least four to five times
8. We won’t suggest you keep your expectation high on all GMS apps.

You can force stop Gbox from running in the background via the “Force stop” option from Apps settings.

Tested on:

We testing Gbox running on EMUI 10, EMUI 11, EMUI 12, EMUI 13. The solution is running on all of the devices including Mate 50 Pro.

Instructions:

Let’s see how to install Google apps using Gbox on your Huawei phone.

Download Gbox:

Visit the Gboxlab website and download the latest version on your device.

Note: Download only the stable version.

Install Google Apps:

These are divided into two parts, the first will show you to set up Gbox, and the second half will show to install Google apps.

1st – Navigate to Gbox app on your phone and install it.

2nd – Open the Gbox app

3rd – Agree app’s terms and disable battery optimizations (will be prompted automatically).

4th – Tap on the “Check” button in the top right corner.

5th – Enable – “Require permission” and “Battery optimization whitelist”. Once enabled, press back.

Install Google Apps

6th – Tap on any “Recommended Apps” and allow required permissions.

7th – Sign in to your Google account

8th – Tap Install to install that app.

9th – Once installed, “Add” app icon to the home screen.

10th – You can download other apps in the same way.

How to update, create icons and delete the app:

You can tap and hold any app and tap on Upgrade to update the app or create an app icon.

Change region:

You can also take on Settings and change app suggestions according to region.

Our take:

Using Gbox is simple but we suggest you follow our precaution notes. It surely works in limits but it surely installs some apps. Yet we surely want to hear from you tag us on Twitter and carefully follow the instructions to use it.

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We are well aware of the services and benefits that Google provides to its Android users. So far, Huawei has also remained in this beneficial group in the initial days. Unfortunately, these benefits come to a shutdown in May 2019.

The Google absence story begins with the U.S. emperors who prohibited Huawei and some other Chinese manufacturers to enter the U.S. borders. Ultimately, this step has become a huge obstacle for the tech maker and has affected various fields including the chipset market.

Alongside the tech segments, the event also made Google pull its hands from Huawei sectors. As a result, after 2019, none of the Huawei devices exhibited any Google apps or services.

Although, some users were having vast technical knowledge and tried installing the Google apps and mobile services to their Huawei phones. Yet, Google has blocked such inappropriate pathways with the subsequent updates.

New leaps – HarmonyOS and AppGallery

The absence of Google Mobile Services means losing some prominent apps from your smartphone. For instance, Gmail, Maps, YouTube, and most importantly – the Play Store. Hence, the absence of Google gave a loud blow to Huawei.

Consequently, the company started drowning in the smartphone market. The sales dropped extremely and users’ interest in Huawei phones started fading. But the company didn’t give up and made a leap on the surface with the HarmonyOS system.

After several efforts, Huawei launched the self-developed HarmonyOS operating system in August 2019. Originally, it was only covering IoT (Internet of Things) devices. Later on, it started making its way to Huawei smartphones.

More on this, the company introduced AppGallery, which became a safer alternative to Google Play Store. Although it has fewer apps than Play Store, some other AppGallery facilities excel from other app distribution platforms.

Thereafter, Huawei also introduced the EMUI operating system for its global users. Notably, EMUI is an Android-derived mobile operating system that is available in Huawei smartphones for the global market.

Huawei still trying to cope with the world

Even though numerous things were against Huawei, it managed and still trying to survive without Google. The latest and high-end technologies show how the company has taken Google’s absence as a challenge and come up with good enough outcomes.

However, difficulties continue to emerge in Huawei’s path. Though the decline has been slowed down, it has not halted, and the loss continues.

But the appreciating fact is Huawei well-managed and appeared as a strong contender in front of the robust challenges. If there was any other company in place of Huawei, it would have been turned into ashes. But this tech giant is quite headstrong to get defeated.

So yes, Huawei has survived a world without Google. The company has proven that it is capable of building up new and advanced solutions. But, it still has to work to gain back its fandom in the smartphone and chipset market.

Moreover, it would be worth seeing whether Google Mobile Services will take a U-turn for Huawei. Or will the company have to make new initiations for taking its place back in the market?

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Huawei has been in the middle of the U.S. –  China trade war for a long time but in the middle of these scenarios comes a company named – Huawei. It has been sanctioned by the U.S. Commerce Department under the Entity List.

This prohibits the company from accessing tech made in the U.S. or made by U.S. companies. This includes both software and hardware services as well as devices.

GMS:

The lack of GMS had a big impact on Huawei’s smartphone sales in the global market, as it’s not required in the home ground (China). Instead, HarmonyOS is doing pretty great on both new and old devices in the Chinese market.

However, the global Huawei users have shifted to other smartphones such as iPhone or Samsung, or any other Chinese phone makers.

Still, the big question is whether Huawei needs Google Mobile Services and do you want it to bring back Google apps on smartphones.

In the current context, Huawei should get it back because its consumer base is still not ‘fully’ ready to consume Huawei Mobile Services (HMS). And the company could enrich the consumer base by using both sides by side because Android allows it to do so.

Still, the road to getting back to the GMS is not easy and with the recent changes in U.S. trade policy, there’s still some hope that Huawei could once again access this software suite on new devices.

But, nothing is certain and we will have to keep on waiting for any inputs that come into this matter.

Until then, you can participate in the poll below and give your opinion on whether should Huawei bring back Google Mobile apps or not.

Do you want Huawei to return to Google apps?

— HC Newsroom (@HCNewsroom) October 1, 2022

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The report says that Huawei could access American-made technologies if it agrees to follow U.S. commerce-made guidelines. The commerce department has come up with these new guidelines in the name of “Standards”.

However, we need to understand that commerce has not revealed any details about the allowed technologies. Yet, it does mention that these include both hardware and software stuff.

GMS?

It has various sections, for example, the chipset precision and other related software but it may also consist of Google Mobile Services (GMS). Once again, there are no specifics revealed on the key technologies shared under these new standards.

Google Mobile Services or GMS is a proprietary suite of services for Android smartphones. Different OEMs certify their models via GMS and install Google apps as bloatware or out-of-the-box Google apps.

What really happened?

In 2019, Huawei has been placed under the U.S. Entity List, which bars the firm from accessing U.S.-based or made products. These impact the product manufacturing mostly, the smartphones

The lack of the required chipset and ousting of GMS caused big in Huawei’s smartphone market growth. Instead, the company has to face a big dip in the industry.

Meanwhile, Huawei developed a new GMS rival – AppGallery for its global smartphones as Huawei Mobile Services (HMS). It has AppGallery, Huawei’s app distribution platform, and a bunch of other mobile apps that accompany with AppGallery. These are Petal Seach, Assitant, Celia AI voice, Petal Clip, Petal Keyboard, and more.

Still, the return of GMS could do the trick for your Huawei smartphone and it could run alongside HMS without any issues. That way, Huawei consumers could get a 2X user experience for sure.

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According to the Twitter handle of Android expert Jason Bayton, Google has updated its minimum hardware requirements policy for the GMS (Google Mobile Services) with Android 13. Ultimately, devices must have more than 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage to carry on the benefits of the Google Mobile Services.

From #Android13, new devices with less than 2GB RAM cannot preload GMS. Any new Go devices must have at least 16GB storage.

Devices not meeting these requirements today on 12 must not upgrade to 13.

— Jason Bayton (@JasonBayton) September 7, 2022

This also means that those devices running on 2GB of RAM and having only 16GB of internal storage won’t be able to enjoy the features of GMS. Alternatively, this statement opens the probability of such devices becoming a past thing, soon.

Jason also mentions that fulfilling these requirements is quite important for the devices. Or else, they won’t be able to greet the Android 13 on their doorsteps. Thus, if you want to upgrade your device to the latest Android 13 interface, make sure that your handset meets all the conditions for preloading GMS.

Even if your Android device is eligible for Android 13, it won’t receive the new update until it covers all the eligibility criteria regarding the GMS policy.

Not for the first time!

Yes, it’s not the first time when Google has kept a barrier in front of the tech makers for preloading Google Mobile Services on low RAM models. The US company keeps on rejuvenating its policies so that the devices and applications could become compatible with the newest operating system.

The company has taken the same step for the Android 11 devices as well. As a result, devices with less than 512MB of RAM would not be able to step into the preloading of GMS anymore.

Hence to keep supplying the benefits of Google services to the consumers, smartphone companies have to offer a minimum of 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage to their handy gadgets.

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Time to dive into why you cannot access Google apps pre-built into new Huawei phones.

In May 2019, Huawei was included in the U.S. entity list, a special order from the U.S. commerce department. This order bans top Chinese entities including Huawei from purchasing or selling goods inside the U.S. territory. This results in the lack of access to required components to build new products such as new chipset as well as other important parts of the phone.

The follow-up event has brought in the entrance of Google, which announced to pull Google Mobile Services (GMS) certification eligibility from Huawei phones. Thereafter, new models and including Huawei Mate 30 series haven’t featured Google apps pre-installed coming out of the box.

Old Phones retained GMS:

The entire scenario has created big havoc among consumers, and many concerns generated among the consumers since then. One of them came from existing smartphone users such as P30 and Mate 20 series that were launched with GMS. However, Huawei and Google later clarified the situation that phones launched before May 2019 and packs with Google services will continue to work as usual and receive software updates on time.

Google Mobile Services (GMS):

Google Mobile Services or GMS consist of proprietary applications and application programming interface services from Google that comes pre-installed on Android devices including smartphones, tablets, and other eligible smart devices.

HMS:

To fill the shoes left empty in the absence of GMS, Huawei introduced Huawei Mobile Services AKA HMS. This suite includes various new applications and empowered its own application distribution platform – AppGallery to increase the number of developers.

Since Google’s app ecosystem is so vast and powerful, Huawei is continuously improving the developer’s support so that they can develop robust apps and bring them to the AppGallery application store.

Conclusion:

So, here we are and now you could have a better understanding of why new Huawei phones don’t come with pre-installed Google applications in them.

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News coming from Sputnik shows that the Russian phone maker – BQ’s general manager – Vladimir Buznov has recently received a letter from Google that U.S. law prohibits the provision of services to Russia. This letter also presents the latest halt in services including both software and hardware.

That’s not the only part of this story that has hit hard in visions, as the report allegedly mentioned that BQ is already testing Huawei HarmonyOS and new BQ smartphones with HarmonyOS are likely to launch in the second of this year without Google services.

This is quite a statement published in the report, however, we don’t have any confirmation in this regard from Huawei.

Old device:

Buzanov said that the company’s GMS-certified phones will continue to work as usual and there’s could be no issues in new devices launching in the future using the Android operating system.

Google’s Suspension:

Google has issued a notice to developers in Russia to suspend Play Store and its services in Russia for app and games. The in-app purchases and subscriptions will also be suspended, and Android phone users in Russia will no longer be able to make software purchases or subscriptions through the Play Store.

Huawei:

Related to BQ, Huawei has also been sanctioned by the U.S., which prohibits the company from doing business with American firms. Due to these actions, Huawei also cannot use Google Mobile Services (GMS) and had to introduce the HarmonyOS operating system.

At HDC 2019, the first version of this operating system came into its presence and the company initially installed it in smart TVs. HDC 2020 brought us the mobile version of this software that was launched specifically for Chinese consumers.

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A Twitter user asked about Google Mobile Services (GMS) on the Huawei P50 Pro smartphone that was recently launched in the global market. The user wanted to know whether the Huawei P50 Pro has Google apps pre-installed but since it comes with Huawei Mobile Services (HMS).

Unfortunately, the post is deleted by the official Huawei account but we’ve taken a screenshot of the corresponding information.

Huawei wrote:

“The Huawei P50 Pro has no Google services. The Huawei P50 Pro has no Google services. The Huawei P50 Pro comes with Huawei’s own HarmonyOS.

This means the Chinese tech maker has confirmed that HarmonyOS is the base software of EMUI 12. Since the P50 Pro is packed with EMUI 12, the statement clearly tags in Google apps in the discussion.

EMUI 12 will remove Google Apps?

Huawei is currently rolling out EMUI 12 for old devices and also included devices that has been launched pre-installed Google apps on board including:

1. Huawei P30
2. Huawei P30 Pro
3. Huawei Mate 20
4. Huawei Mate 20 Pro
5. Huawei Mate 20 RS

These phones users have not reported any such issues related to Google apps after upgrading to EMUI 12. Therefore, if you have any GMS-powered EMUI 11 device or previous EMUI version, you can upgrade to EMUI 12 without any worries.

EMUI 12 comes with various new features including a brand new control panel, notification panel, new animations for a better user experience as well as a bunch of other customizations that will enhance the app processing.

Other than the overall look and features, the EMUI 12 looks similar to the HarmonyOS operating system, which summaries it’s matchmaking as a base software but EMUI 12 also supports Android apps from its relationship with Android Open Source Project (AOSP) library.

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