I had done Factory reset of my previous Android Phones Coolpad Mega 2.5D and Samsung Galaxy on7 pro without any difficulty. Installation of apps used to take some time (may be an hour or two) but my current phone POCO C3 took several hours even updating preinstalled Google Apps and I could not install essential apps like Paytm, Phonepe, Bigbasket etc.
The main hurdle was updating Google Play Store version 23.10 which I could not do manually. This Play Store version prevented updating preinstalled Google Apps as well as installing other apps.
Actually I should have allowed the phone to update but became restless and tried some tricks like deleting cache and data in Google Play Store and restarting the phone but no result.
Finally all apps updated and I could install other apps and found that Google Play Store was updated to version 27.8.14-21.
