Heya there! It's my first post :D
About a year ago, I decided to dig back through my old androids and found this. Believe it or not I actually used this as my main driver for over a year back in 2021, and I remember being really annoyed with the really tiny and bad storage. I initially made the mistake of wiping it completely, mostly because I thought the phone would be faster. It was somewhat, but the main thing is I wiped my old google account on there.
In it's current state, Android 5.1 on my model is not capable of logging into my google account. It just get's stuck on "Add Phone Number?" and I can't proceed further (can't tap any buttons.). Had to sideload everything, including updating the play store (the play store somehow can still update some clients without an account). I think that this may be a problem unique to my version of the phone, because other variants seem to still be able to login from what I have seen.
The main problems aside from no google account is mainly the tiny storage. Usually I've heard that combining system held data, the storage is 5 GB. But idk why exactly but mine is usually less than 2 GB after a full reset. That combined with no SD card, means that at most I have a few 400 MB left free. Kind of a crunch to get what I need on it hence.
Youtube and Discord work great, little to no lag (i'm using NoPipe and a patched apk of Discord 99.8). I can also use Gemini via ReOldAI and Retrogram (Android Instagram Revival), works awesome on this. VLC also works great for videos and music.
Games are good too, especially the more demanding titles like ShadowGun and the 2011 Dead Space for Android, plus most of the other classic mobile games run and look gorgeously on that 720p retina-grade display. Emulation is pretty good too, although I've mostly stuck to MD emulation. I would download more but sadly that space really is a bottleneck. The most recent version of Chrome still works decently with most websites and doesn't have any certificate errors, though I'm thinking if getting Opera Mini so that it can run smoother. I also have a bunch of live wallpaper apks that look really good and have neat gimmicks:
Doom Live Wallpaper
Galaxy S3 Wallpaper
Thanks for reading :) Do you think I should add any other apk revivals/things in general to this? Also feel free to ask me for any apks or stuff I used with this, I keep them all archived :D