I am willing to buy new tablet pc HCL ME U1. I know this tablet pc is running on Android 4.0 ice cream sandwich operating system. But somebody told me that this tablet lacks google play or android market. So I want to know that can we install android market after purchasing. Please help me.
Actually this tablet pc is new in market. I don’t have much information that you can install google play or not. But I think you install google play in HCL me. Because there is google apps are available which includes google play, youtube and gmail etc. So there might be a chance to install google play or android market after purchasing this tablet pc. Thank you.....
I just got this tablet and can confirm that you cannot install Google Play on HCL Me U1. There is a HCL App Store which you can use to download apps. This (Disabling Google Play) is a very serious gap and I am hoping HCL fixes this.
I nearly did everything offered in all google searches. nothing works successfully for google play to work in HCL ME U1.Originally Posted by prashant_tayal
Installing Android SDK and running ADB shell etc. also sometime does not allow file to be copied to system/app file and it's very tedious thing if you are not familiar with java and linux commands.
There seems to be some restriction by HCL in startup for disabling google play.
following is the option which worked for me and very easy and using which so fart I have installed about 100 applications form google play and using my HCL ME U1 without any problem
1) Install JDK in PC. You may also require HCL ME connect for drivers of HCL U1.
2) Install Android commander (PC program. download and install from net)
3) using android commander Copy android apk file in system/app folder. also copy the same apk to SD card folder.
4)Now when you restart tab it read as 'android upgrading' , but soon yo will get message "Unfortunately google play stopped working".then try open google play it will show an error "unfortunately google stopped working" again
6) Now go to you SD card where you have google play apk
7) Double tap on that and install google play. will give message that you are replacing main application etc. say ok.
8) Now google play will work/download/install any application from marketplace. now google play will work like anything.
9)the moment you shutdown or reboot tab you will start getting "Unfortunately google play stopped working" message again
10) So whenever you want to use google play double tap and install google play from sd card. for that time being it will work until you reboot or shutdown and start.
so use that way it hardly takes 5-6 seconds to install google play apk from sdcard whenever you start tab.
PLEASE NOTE it is very important that to have android.apk in root of system/app folder. without that it will not work.
--- What I feel is that HCL has made some restriction by disabling something in startup. Anyway it takes only 5 seconds to install google play apk from sdcard. and for that time it works just pefect. i tried all other way but this is the only way it works.
where to get drivers of HCL U1.??
Hi. My god from the procedure listed above it seems really scary to install google play on your HCL ME U1 tablet pc. But even I am looking forward to download it. I tried whatever is mentioned above. Tried alot, so many times that my tablet started heating up. Google play it shows is not compatible for my device. I don't know what is going wrong? May be there are some more settings that I need to look into it. Please can some one provide an easier way to install Google Play on HCL ME U1 tablet pc, it would be really helpful. Thanks in advance.
Here are the steps that you have to follow in order to install it on your hcl me u1 tablet. I hope you will find it easier.
- First of all, download the Google Play 3.5.16 APK file.
- Make sure that you are having file manager installed on your device. This is required to browse from your SD card.
- Go to Settings > Applications and from there enable the “Unknown sources”. If you are using Ice Cream Sandwich, Android 4.0 then you will get the same option in Settings > Security.
- Now go to the file manager app and go to the location where you have saved the apk file in Step 2.
- Look for that download file and tap on that. When you do that then it will start with the installation process.
- It will hardly take a minute to install and after that you can use it.
Hello. I did whatever is mentioned in the above procedure and finally I got my Google Play app on my HCL ME U1 tablet pc. I am so happy. Well it was not easy though to get things right at the first time . It took me almost 1 hour. to get everything installed and get my work going. Finally , It was worth my time, patience and energy. I got the Google play on my device. Really happy , now all the games are just a click away. Thank you so much for enlightening me and guiding me. I could have not done all of this on my own. Thank you so much.
Hi. Thanks alot for the detail procedure, I followed it step by step and was able to install Google Play on my HCL ME U1 tablet pc. I agree it was a herculean task , but I was able to do all of this and now I am enjoying with Google Play on My tablet pc. After seeing the net result I was really happy. Thanks for your correct and detailed guidance.
First of all, download the Google Play 3.5.16 APK file.
Make sure that you are having file manager installed on your device. This is required to browse from your SD card.
Go to Settings > Applications and from there enable the “Unknown sources”. If you are using Ice Cream Sandwich, Android 4.0 then you will get the same option in Settings > Security.
Now go to the file manager app and go to the location where you have saved the apk file in Step 2.
Look for that download file and tap on that. When you do that then it will start with the installation process.
It will hardly take a minute to install and after that you can use it.
I followed these above steps and I was able to install Google Play on my HCL ME U 1 tablet pc. You should really try this. It works. All the best.
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