Google Play not responding after CM13 install Today I installed Cyanogenmod CM13 and Gapps on my Asus Zenfone 2. The install went fine, but when I booted my phone, I selected the language, then when it went to look for updates, a system message appeared "Google Play services has stopped". This has caused the phone to hang at the update page, and to top it off I forgot to install TWRP, so I think I'm going to have an issue installing a fresh install.

What can I do now?
What happened
You don't have TWRP, so your phone is bricked.1

How can I unbrick it?
Look at this website.

The website tells you


How to install ADB (which you can also find here on Android.SE: Is there a minimal installation of ADB?, takes less space)
And unbrick the phone from there. It also gives u the full ROM.


The latter in short requires you to:


Download and install the drivers for your Zenphone on your Windows PC2
Get the latest ROM for it (e.g. Zenfone ZE551ML Stock ROM (4GB version) or Zenfone ZE550ML Stock ROM (2GB version))
use recovery-mode to install that ROM (via "Apply update from ADB", so you can use adb sideload file.zip to apply it)




1: for installing TWRP, see e.g. How to Install TWRP Recovery on Zenfone 2 and Root at Androiding.how. Before that, install the stock ROM and wipe cache+data (from recovery; a factory-reset should do the wipe as well).
2: not needed on Linux/Mac; for those OSes, see e.g. Configuring ADB on Ubuntu