Recently MIUI team released the new MIUI 8 ROM for the Xiaomi phone and most of the which installed the MIUI 8 ROM can’t find the Google Play Store or Google Play services on the phone. Or if you bought the phone from the China then you will not find all these Google services on your MIUI 8. So now the question is how to install Google Play store on MIUI 8 Xiaomi Phones. Don’t worry here in this tutorial we’ll show you two sure way into install Google Play Store On MIUI 8 Xiaomi phones. This guide will work on any Xiaomi device which is running on the MIUI 8 ROM. Once the Google services are installed on your phone you can enjoy all the Google applications on your phone like, Play Store, Gmail, Youtube, Hangout, Play music, etc.
The below mention guide will work only MIUI 8 devices if you are running on MIUI 7 or MIUI 6 then check out this guide to install the Google Apps on your phone. So without wasting the time lets get started and install all the Google Play services on Xiaomi MIUI 8 Phones.
How to Install Google Play Store on MIUI 8
Method 1 to install Google Play Store
Step 1. Enable the USB debugging mode on your phone. Go to Settings > About Phone and Tap MIUI version seven times.
Step 2. Now go to the Additional Settings on your phone > Developer Options > And Enable USB debugging.
Step 3. Go back to the Phone Additional settings > Privacy and Enable Unknow Sources.
Step 4. After that connect your phone to the PC with USB cable.
Step 5. Now visit this link and download the GApps_Mi5_MiMax.zip file on your desktop and extract or unzip the folder on your desktop.
Step 6. And then you’ll see in folder (package folder and Google Apps.exe)
Step 7. Open “Developer Options” on your mobile devices. Open Security Apps > Permissions > Setting Icon (from top right bar) > Off Install via USB.
Step 8. Run “Google Apps.exe” to start using. Press any key to install Google Apps.
Step 9. Now one by one all the Google applications will install on your phone.
Enjoy !
Method 2 to install Google Play Store on MIUI 8
Step 1. Follow Step 1 to Step 3 from above mention method on your phone.
Step 2. Download and save this New Google Installer apk file on your phone.
Step 3. Now open the Apk file on your phone and install it.
Step 4. Once the installation process is done. Open the app and Hit the blue button to start the installation process.
Step 5. Now this will install all the Google services on your Xiaomi MIUI 8 phone.
That’s it, Now the Google Play Store and Google Play services are installed on your MIUI 8 Xiaomi phone.
Google play services and play store should doing their work but the Google play music and maps drive etc cannot work. Please give me a suggestion for start these services
Thanks.
Would i be able to get Google services apk file on Pc, transfer it to my phone and then simply install on my phone?
Yes
Second one is much easier than the 1st method.
My MIUI 8 phone was brought to me right from china though we tried to change some of the language to English but most apps still use chinese language and includding the brouser and messages what should i do?
Thanks mate it did work for me
god post
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