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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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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The poll has received near 3000 votes on Twitter (still increasing), of which, 86 percent of people have voted Yes to use Google apps again and over 13 percent have chosen No. This is a huge count and shows us a massive shift in consumer choice and their attention towards Google services.

However, the rest of the participants chose no, and the comments also reflect to praise Huawei’s efforts to grow Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) platform and increase apps on AppGallery. Some suggested that it would be better if Huawei brings back the Google apps on new devices as it will remove some barriers for the users.

Do you want to see Google apps back on Huawei phones?

— HC Newsroom (@HCNewsroom) January 28, 2022

Heart of the matter:

In May 2019, the US government barred Huawei from accessing American-made technologies this including Google Mobile Services or GMS. The GMS suite allows you to access apps such as Gmail, YouTube, and other Google-based cloud services.

Although, Huawei can still use open-source Android projects to base EMUI but it cannot pre-load the Google apps on new smartphones launched after the Huawei P30 series. Therefore, some consumers have left the Huawei smartphone ecosystem due to the absence of GMS apps and fled over other brands such as Samsung.

This had led to a massive drop in Huawei’s smartphone business, as it cannot build new units and the services which were used by the consumers.

However, the Chinese tech maker has decided to push itself to new limits and boasting support for HMS and AppGallery platforms by increasing investments and initiatives to allure developers and app makers to join the Huawei app ecosystem.

In the past year, Huawei has improved the AppGallery platform to deliver better apps for Huawei smartphone users but still, Google Play Stores is way ahead in terms of apps numbers and useful services.

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“HONOR has succeeded in confirming cooperation with a number of supplier partners in the early stage. #HONOR50 series will be equipped with Google Mobile Services, which will provide a more comprehensive application environment and extraordinary mobile experience to our customers.”

HONOR has succeeded in confirming cooperation with a number of supplier partners in the early stage. #HONOR50 series will be equipped with Google Mobile Services, which will provide a more comprehensive application environment and extraordinary mobile experience to our customers. pic.twitter.com/rAhByQVAlx

— HONOR (@Honorglobal) October 11, 2021

Huawei and Honor Ban:

Following the event of May 2019, Huawei has been banned from using technologies made by U.S. companies including Google. In the aftermath, Huawei cannot certify new phones that are powered with Google apps as well as Play Store on fresh models.

As a matter of subsidiary, Honor also fall under the same circumstances and had to give up on GMS too. Last November, Huawei, and Honor went separate ways and sold to Shenzhen Zhixin New Information Technology Co. Ltd., a consortium of over 30 agents and dealers in China.

Since then, Honor has become an independent smartphone brand and can now its own flagship smartphones and also compete against top smartphone makers including Apple, Samsung, and Xiaomi.

Honor 50:

Honor 50 features a 6.57-inch OLED panel with FHD+ (2340 x 1080 pixel) resolution, 1.07 billion colors, DCI-P3 wide color gamut. It has a quad rear camera system including 108MP + 8MP + 2MP + 2MP macro camera. On the front side, Honor 50 provides high-quality selfies with a 32Mp selfie camera.

The Honor 50 packs a 4300mAb battery with 66W superfast sharing, the overall time of a full recharge is measured about 45 minutes via USB Type-C port. For your information, Honor 50 tags with Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G Octa-core processor (4 × Cortex-A78 2.4GHz + 4 × Cortex-A55 1.8GHz) and Adreno 642L GPU. From the software side, this phone runs Android 11 based Magic UI 4.2

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A smartphone such as Huawei P30 and P30 pro always remains a special gadget and a daily driver for the consumer as it’s the last Huawei flagship that was launched with Google Mobile Services (GMS).

The Huawei P30 series is not only Huawei’s lucky charm in terms of shipment but also a device that has raised the bar of photography and made the company a champion of smartphone cameras.

If we look at their specs, Huawei P30 devices come with powerful offerings including a curved edge display with a notch design and a full-screen viewing experience that stands in its own league.

Next comes its unique camera system that has a powerful camera sensors and the world’s first RYYB color mapping that absorbs more lighting to capture a brighter image even in low light conditions.

In terms of performance, the Huawei P30 model equips a 7nm Kirin 980 chipset that ensures you don’t meet a leg inside this device as this flagship processor smoothly handles all of the multi-tasking as well as intense graphic games.

From the software side, this 2-year-old flagship features Android-based EMUI 9.1 out of the box. Over the course of past years, this line has been upgraded with two major versions including EMUI 10 and EMUI 11.

But users are excited to see and test the new operating system – HarmonyOS on their Huawei P30 device, while the beta testing availability remains limited to the Chinese models.

Currently, we cannot deny that Huawei has kept the HarmonyOS secured for the Chinese users and in reality, our mailbox is full of questions related to HarmonyOS rollout in the global market.

Aside from this, Huawei has currently adopted two models under the HarmonyOS 2 beta rollout including:

• Huawei P30 – ELE-AL00/ELE-TL00
• Huawei Pro Pro – VOG-AL00/VOG-AL10/VOG-TL00

So what changes it bring for the users? Well, the HarmonyOS installs a completely new user interface on the Huawei P30 devices, some of the screenshot of the home screen linked below.

According to the changelog, HarmonyOS 2 closed beta for Huawei P30 devices brings a brand new home screen UI, animations, better icons, control panel, Super Device feature, new task manager, HarmonyOS fonts, and much more.

Installing these new changes not only makes this flagship more stable but also makes it look a bit smarter than the EMUI 11.

Following the first beta rollout, Huawei will continue to send new beta software update that will install new changes in the system and make the overall HarmonyOS software system ready for the stable rollout for Huawei P30 and P30 Pro. This process will also open the gates of HarmonyOS release in the global market ASAP.

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On the other hand, the Chinese tech giant also released the surprise HarmonyOS 2.0 upgrade plan for 100 old devices that will upgrade throughout 2021-22. Additionally, Huawei began the rollout of the public HarmonyOS 2.0 version for Mate 40, P40, Mate 30, and MatePad Pro series devices.

Huawei is adding more and more new devices under its beta adaptation process and sending new features to the eligible smartphone owners through the beta testing program.

Editor’s Pick – HarmonyOS Feature

Furthermore, Huawei has confirmed that HarmonyOS still support Android application package installation, which means it supports all of the Android app (full story here)

However, Huawei smartphone users have their own concerns and some of them are very true related to the cause of their origin.

Before upgrading to the new operating system, some questions started arriving in the consumer’s minds like:

• Will our game date be lost from the system, after upgrading?
• Will HarmonyOS 2 support Google Android apps or they work normally?

Recently, Huawei’s official consumer service has answered the question and clarify the doubts of the consumers has regarding the HarmonyOS upgrade. Let’s check below, what Huawei answered.

Will our game data be lost from the system, after upgrading?

Huawei consumer services mentioned that only the software system will upgrade the HarmonyOS from EMUI. The consumer’s Huawei ID, phone number as well as social media accounts including WeChat ID, QQ to log in in-game remain the same.

It means you can keep all of your data credentials with previous IDs and passcodes and get back all your data and game progress.

Will HarmonyOS 2 support Android apps or they work normally?

Huawei service says in this case, there is no need to download the applications after upgrading over HarmonyOS. This means the existing application will work normally.

Previously, multiple users have confirmed to use that their Google apps (loaded from third-party source on EMUI) are working fine even after upgrading with HarmonyOS.

Aside from phones that launched solely with Huawei Mobile Services (HMS), the same concern also worries people with GMS-certified phones and the ones that launched before May 2019. Yet this confirmation is a good gesture from the company to these consumers.

Still, Huawei is working on its own app ecosystem, and the company will definitely close the door of Android app support as soon as a full HarmonyOS ecosystem takes shape.

Currently, 2 in 1:

For more understanding, HarmonyOS 2.0 will be able to run Android apps and HarmonyOS apps in the same system to provide a 2 in 1 operating system.

Previously, Eric Yu, the rotating chairman of Huawei confirmed that in order to protect the digital assets (Applications and services) of Huawei’s users, Harmony 2.0 supports the existing Android applications on some devices equipped with this operating system.

Also, check:

Here’s why Huawei HarmonyOS still supports Android applications

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