You can see the contents of configuration files to know more about what elevated privileges Google apps have over normal apps. apk files placed under /system/app and /system/priv-app, here is a minimal set of files under /system which are added or replaced. That's why we flash GApps through custom recovery which modifies some files in /system partition. Google Play Services (GMS) and Services Framework (GSF) need some extra privileges which normal apps don't have. You can't simply get Play Services work by installing. Also, it output Error 70: insufficient memory in system partition.Īlso, is there any risk of crashing my OS because OpenGapps would overwrite some of the current stock Google apps?Īfter installing the latest version from apkmirror, and checking I had the Google Framework installed, apps still crashed When I tried to flash GApps, it displayed that I already had Google Apps installed. Would I be able to flash GApps on a stock ROM? Also, for some reason, the last time I tried to remove the Play Store I couldn't find its package in the /system folder. Is this issue caused by not having the Google Play Store installed? If so, is there any way to circumvent it using another app? This seems odd as I have Android 9 installed on a OnePlus 6. However, after seeing multiple apps didn't work correctly because of a dependency on the Google API, I decided I had to install Google Play Services again.Īfter installing the latest version from apkmirror, and checking I had the Google Framework installed, apps still crashed and displayed won't run without Google Play services which are not supported by your device. Recently, I rooted my phone for the first time, and wanted to get rid of most Google apps including the Play Store.

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