How to activate the Google Play?
For Note Air2, Note5, Max Lumi2, below is the instruction to enable your Google Play on your device (for firmware 3.2 and above). Please go to Apps --- App management --- Enable Google Play --- GSF ID to activate the Google account first. After 1-48 hours, you will be able to log in to Google Play. Please watch the following video for more information.
In addition, below is the instruction to enable your Google Play on your device (for firmware 2.0.1 to 3.1). Please go to Settings --- Apps --- Enable Google Play --- GSF ID to activate the Google account first. After 6-24 hours, you can try to reboot your device and sign in to the Google Play account. You could learn more from this video.
If there is no option to enable google play on the App Management, please go to App Management > App Info > find "ContentBrowser", click it > Storage & cache > clear storage.
After that, it should be possible to use Google Play without manually activating it.