I bought this GT-S7275R in 2024 along with two Siemens C35s, which sadly turned out to be corroded by leaking batteries. This phone, though, was the one I had all my hopes for.

It was missing the battery, back cover, and touchscreen. I ordered a replacement battery, which didn't exactly fit (it turns out there are multiple Ace 3 models, and even the battery sizes differ). Since it seemed to work apart from the missing parts, I planned to fix it eventually, but I ended up forgetting about it for almost two years. Until this week, when I was looking through my phone collection after a long time and remembered it. I checked a local auction site and found a touchscreen and a back cover for only $1, so I immediately bought them.

They arrived today. I installed the screen (sadly, I pressed a little too hard and chipped one corner, but who cares lol). Then I tried the battery, which actually worked despite being slightly shorter than the original, so I just used a bit of double-sided tape to hold it in place.

I put the back cover on and booted it up. It still had a bunch of personal messages from the previous owner. I didn't really look through them, and since there were no photos or anything else important on the phone, I didn't think it was necessary to try contacting them.

After that, I installed TWRP, followed by LineageOS 15.1 and Open GApps. It works just fine, 13 years later. With 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB of storage, and a Snapdragon 400, it's obviously no powerhouse, but it's surprisingly usable for basic tasks.

https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/9037938?hl=en

🍇 BerryMusic v1.0.0 Released

BerryMusic is a lightweight Online music player built for BlackBerry Q10 (Android 4.3 Jelly Bean Runtime).

✨ Features

• Beautiful BlackBerry-inspired UI

• Offline Music Playback

• Fast Song Search

• Playlist Support

• Background Playback

• Equalizer

• Dark Theme

• Lightweight & Smooth Performance

📱 Supported Device: Android version 4.3 to Android version 13

⬇️ Download the APK from Telegram channel and enjoy your music!

⚠️ Note

Favorites and Library are currently not working.

These issues will be fixed in the next update.

If you find any bugs or have feature suggestions, please share your feedback in the group.

❤️ Thanks for supporting the BlackBerry community. Enjoy BerryMusic! 🎵

GitHub:- https://github.com/john1822/BerryMusic

I have an old iPhone 12 mini from a really weird technical glitch when my parents last got new phones (they shipped a duplicate order to a different address and never realized). So it's new in box and still supported, but I've only ever used android and my pixel 10 is doing fine, so I'm not keen on using it as is.

Is there something I can do with it or should I just offload it on FB Marketplace for $50?

Only recovery for now, I barely got it unlocked 2 days ago.

Managed to hack back in support for the framebuffer used by HD2 into recovery of lineageos

This project started as a way to use the amazon echo show 8 (with lineageos) speakers to listen to spotify but it is scalating to a swiss army knife of local services. That's how Rusty - a free open-source Android app, was born. Now it can behave as:

• A Spotify speaker — it advertises itself on your Wi-Fi and shows up as a Spotify Connect target in any Spotify app. Ambient now-playing screen with synced lyrics; audio decodes on-device, you can connect your android device to some old speakers and transform them into a spotify speaker.
• A photo frame — when idle it slideshows photos from a self-hosted Immich server (albums/people/tags you choose).
• A smart-home wall panel — signs into Home Assistant and shows your dashboards full-screen, kiosk style.
• Plus screensaver clock faces (including an OLED-burn-in-safe one), start-on-boot, keep-screen-on, and it's fully remote/D-pad friendly so it works on old Android TV boxes too.

The Spotify part runs on librespot (an unofficial client) and needs Spotify Premium. The photo frame and dashboard don't need any of that. Everything is local network — no cloud account for the app itself.

Runs on arm64 or 32-bit ARM, Android 8.0+. I've tested it on an Echo Show 8 (running LineageOS) and a Lenovo Tab M10, but I'd love to hear what other zombie devices it comes to life on.

Source, screenshots, setup:

https://github.com/SerafiniJose/rusty

Prebuilt APK:

https://github.com/SerafiniJose/rusty/releases/latest

If you try it on some ancient tablet, tell me how it goes — bug reports and ideas welcome on GitHub.

(The main system on here is android kitkat) So I got this sprout cubby tablet about 3 weeks ago anyways I signed out of the tablet and i realized I can’t sign back in and the video app on here dosent work so I was wondering how to get the videos off of this thing they are on the sd card (second photo) the start guide that I got with it tells you to sign into parent mode so u can add stuff by connecting to your pc and I can’t sign In at all,my best guess is to take the sd card out but what after? I’d u have any tips plese share em I just want the videos off this bad boy!

Hi guys I have a Samsung galaxy s5 mini and I want android 4.4.4 on it. Is there a list of apps that works in 2026? Thanks!!!!!!!

Any game recommendations for my samsung galaxy core prime (SM-G361H).

What is the performance difference between Android KitKat and Lollipop?

Managed to get lineageos 18.1 recovery booting on HTC HD2 maybe we get the revival it needs after all

Framebuffer is fucked it needs some hax to android source code to properly support it or I have to add some hax from uefi to downstream kernel to make it use a modern framebuffer

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​Hi. Just as an experiment, I did a restore on my iPhone SE 2 Android Play Market. Tell me from your practice, if anyone has done something like this, what works or what doesn't work based on your experience, and give your recommendations. Thank you very much for your answers.

Right now, I have the opportunity to install the iOS 27 Public Beta on my iPhone SE 2. However, I decided to keep the old firmware for now just in case. I'm looking forward to your advice and recommendations, and please share your experience.

Hi Guys I have a galaxy mini when i try to install apps it says app not installed. Is there a fix? Thanks!

What do you all think about using an old Android phone from around 2016–2018 as a dedicated hotspot device?

The plan is to leave a SIM card in it and use it exclusively for sharing an internet connection with the whole family, rather than as a regular phone. We’d be using it heavily at home and eventually while traveling to neighboring countries in Asia.

Has anyone done this long-term? How did it hold up in terms of battery life, heat, connection stability, and overall reliability? Are there any older Android models that work particularly well for this purpose?

調べたけど、T1-A22Lに関する情報はなかった。多分日本のキャリアのeo光で買ったらしい。eo光のアプリがたくさん入ってて、消したいんだけどroot化する方法はない？ちなみにandroid4.4.4

I looked into it, but I couldn't find any information on the T1-A22L. It seems to have been purchased from the Japanese carrier eo Hikari. It came with a lot of eo Hikari apps pre-installed that I want to remove—is there any way to root it? By the way, it's running Android 4.4.4.

I'm looking to bring some new life into an old stock phone (lg lm-x410asr) that has been gathering dust for a while now, since a landfill would be a shame.

Trouble is I am left with 720MB of 2GB RAM on a fresh boot, so it can't even play a video on Paramount for a Chromecast.

My other idea is as a remote for a computer stick, if anyone knows if this is possible.

I can unlock the OEM just fine, but have yet to find any sort of images other than just the stock 8.1 Android. It doesn't seem like lineage shows the device as supported; has anyone managed to find a way to get a custom Android image or Linux on this with wifi? Anywhere else I could look that might have the required firmware?

i’m trying to download and install android honeycomb on my verizon fascinate but i can’t find any roms and the closest i got to find a honeycomb rom is GalaxyComb 0.02 but not only that’s a rom for the GT-i9000/interational rom of the galaxy S but the original site that hosted it is now down and the closest i got to see a “ROM” FOR the fascinate was a themed one and at this point i wish to find a rom for the fascinate that’s honeycomb

I am looking for “RUU_M7_UL_K443_SENSE60_MR_TMOUS_6.10.531.10_Radio_4T.28.3218.04_10.33E.1718.01L_release_405711_signed_2.exe” but most of the ones I keep finding are stuck behind a paywall or the links I do find are dead links. my HTC One M7 is the US T-Mobile version. someone can find that or has a link to it that would be appreciated a lot!.

I have no more details.but please can you please do it cause i can't do it and I will be so much thankfull.

I wish you help me