Tuesday, February 10, 2015

How to enable Google Now in Nepal

Google Now was first introduced with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, since it has been an integral part of android device to get various information based on your search queries as well as your customization. If you don't know what Google Now is then, it is an application that comes pre- installed with many of the Android phone(with 4.1+ versions). You can search anything from Google Now like weathers,apps,news,etc. All of your needs comes in form of card stack.

Since it come pre-installed with many Android devices(with 4.1+ versions) we Nepalese people didn't know about it( Although it came on rise after the release of Android 4.4 Kitkat)because it's not available in Nepal. So today we are going to learn to activate Google Now in Nepal.

Follow the given steps properly to activate Google Now on your device.
Just make sure you have an active internet connection and follow all the steps below carefully.


Step 1:
Turn on Airplane mode in your device. Now turn on Wifi and connect it to your Wifi network.

Step 2:
Go to Settings>Location  & switch to "Device only" mode

Step 3:
Install this app from Playstore (Fake gps - fake location)

Step 4:
Open the app and set the location to "New York" (I chose New York but you can select any other places in the USA which would get guaranteed Google Now support). It might ask you to enable mock location first, do that from the developer options in the settings. Now go back to the Fake gps app and set the location to Miami by searching Miami and hitting Play icon on the bottom.

Step 5:
Go to Settings and tap in "Google" under Accounts. Then select "Search". Go to Accounts & privacy> Google Account and sign out.

Step 6:
Go to Settings>Apps>All and look for Google Play Services. Tap on it and Disable it. It may ask you to uninstall updates and restore to factory version, do it. You might have to deactivate Google Play Services form the Device Administrator first.

Step 7:
Go to Settings and tap in "Google" under Accounts. Then select "Search". Go to Accounts & privacy> Google Account and sign in to your Google account.

Step 8:
Google Now setup screen should come up. Select I'm in. (It's obvious).

Step 9:
Now it may prompt you to Re-enable Google Play Services, do it and an update might be available for Google Play Services, update it from Playstore. Then Turn off Airplane Mode. Uninstall Fake gps app and choose the location service mode of your choice under Settings>Location.
Congo! you have now Google Now activated in your mobile device.
Note: If you have latest Android version (Android 5.0 aka Lollipop) then this method does not work. We'll soon update about how to activate the Google Now in Android  5.0 .

If you have any question do let me know in the comment box! Peace!

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