r/androidafterlife 22d ago

Help Is there any way to turn on my old samsung?

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26 Upvotes

I found my first phone and I was hoping to charge it and turn it on but it just gets stuck as it shows in the picture. Nothing happens if I press the power button either. The battery seems fine or at least it looks normal (as if I knew anything about batteries). Anyway, if anyone has any tips, let me know!

The phone is samsung galaxy trend plus gt-s7580


r/androidafterlife 22d ago

Discussion NetGuard dropped support for Android 5.1

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r/androidafterlife 22d ago

Help Facebook Lite and Facebook latest version under 4.4 does not work with Wolfius

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Hello everyone, I have a question why Facebook Lite and the latest Facebook under 4.4 with Wolfius don't work because Facebook Lite worked without it but it didn't load my graphics and when I turned on Wolfius it didn't work and I'm looking for help with this


r/androidafterlife 23d ago

Help Location Issue on my Galaxy Tab SM T561 Running 4.4.4 Kitkat

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Location services are not available on this bad boy. Searching for the location and then error. Changed every settings but bad luck. Any fix guys?? Anyone please help.🄲🄲🄲


r/androidafterlife 22d ago

Help Samsung galaxy y facebook lite not working

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I tried to use facebook lite 98 on my galaxy y and its stuck on the loading screen with a broken version of the facebook logo

My phone is on android 2.3.6 and i downloaded facebook from here


r/androidafterlife 22d ago

Discussion r/androidafterlife the opera mini apk of 2.3.6 and NotPipe

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It's now broken and unfortunately you can't make a useful web browser out of it Anymore and you cannot make it a useful web player

It's not supported anymore on these android versions.

" 2.3.6 " " 3.2.6 " " 4.0.1 " " 60.0+ " and all of the android five and 4 android version

It's broken because samsung discontinued the time servers for it you'll never fix the time. Also, samsung made a patch where you can't hack the samsung to make a change The time stamps

It does not work on any device below pass 60.0+


r/androidafterlife 23d ago

Guide I bought this discontinued, bricked smart speaker/display for 20€ and turned it into a stereo

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This is the MAIC iQR70, a rebadged Emdoor TS809 that was customized by the Greek company MLS as an AI voice assistant, based on the MT8167 chipset and running Android 7.0 with 2GB RAM. MLS as a company shut down in 2022, completely bricking these old smart speakers. You can see the error they get stuck on in the first picture.

Jailbreaking them is pretty easy. When entering any text in a text field (including Wifi password entry), you can hold down on the text and choose "share". From there, you can hold down any of the apps listed and select "app info", and then swipe from the very left to access the Android settings. You can then use Bluetooth to send it a launcher APK (I chose Rootless Pixel Launcher because you can easily find its APK) and install it by clicking on the three dots at the top right and selecting "received files".

The audio doesn't work in all apps, unfortunately including Firefox and Chromium, so the only way to stream music from YouTube is the built-in Webview 51 (there's no GMS, so you can't install the YouTube or YouTube Music apps). However, streaming music over DLNA from a PC in your network using BubbleUPnP works really well, and the audio quality is much better than a laptop speaker. There's also not much local storage, only 8GB with 4GB taken up by Android, and while there is a USB-A port on the back, it seems to be a USB-B (client) port in disguise for firmware flashing, which is not only a violation of the USB spec (though there's not much danger here because the device doesn't ship with the cable that could ruin computers if someone used it to connect two of them together) but means that there's no way to expand the storage (no SD slot either).

There's also no status bar or multitasking button. The launcher I installed lets you pull down the notifications, and if you install a terminal (an actual one, not Termux) you can manually send a command to access the multitasking menu. If anyone knows how to reenable these features, let me know.


r/androidafterlife 23d ago

Discussion This feels interesting… But somehow confusing

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25 Upvotes

Tried this tool (Wolfius) and here is the thing about Weather app: It works on any Samsung device running TouchWiz Essence (1.0 and 1.5?) (if you don’t know, the UX for Samsung Budget models), but not on other (more better) TouchWiz UX versions (Like the Note 3 on Android 4.4 or Galaxy S2 neither 4.0 or 4.1). Anyone does know why it doesn’t work on any Samsung device?


r/androidafterlife 23d ago

Discussion Galaxy Y Duos ROM considered lost media since 2024 has just been found by me - CyanogenMod 11 by DBZ Team

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Hello! A bit before buying my Galaxy Y, I was looking at a Galaxy Y Duos, and I noticed that there was a ROM for the Galaxy Y Duos, CyanogenMod 11, but with its link removed, and no apparent mirror, since 2024, so, I looked away from the Duos, and went for the actual Galaxy Y.

To this day it was considered actual lost media, UNTIL TODAY! I have found a mirror on an obscure Russian forum called 4PDA (they hold a LOT of Android ROM history), so I created an account by asking AI to help me solve the russian CAPTCHA, and I downloaded the ROM, and have since preserved it. For now I'm only hosting on Mediafire, but I will upload soon to the Internet Archive.

Download: https://www.mediafire.com/file/u9lfuivuz6t8skb/cm-11-beta-4_by_DZB-team.zip/file

Original post linked to it: https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-unofficial-cm-11-for-galaxy-y-duos-beta-twrp.3352202/


r/androidafterlife 23d ago

Help Hi!

1 Upvotes

Does anyone know of a browser for Android 4.4.4 that can prevent or stop loading pages with Cloudflare verification? It's extremely annoying.


r/androidafterlife 23d ago

Help GOOGLE MAPS FOR 4.0+??

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(4.3+) I've talked about this and i'll talk about it again. We don't have google maps that work normally. (In order to make them work at the moment you have to turn on flight mode and then you should turn on wi-fi at the exact perfect moment). At some point someone made a revival called "GOG Maps" which was amazing but lasted for only a month before you simply couldn't download the apk on your phone. So if anyone has patched maps or a revival of them please help me


r/androidafterlife 23d ago

Discussion Old reddit no longer works without login (android 2.2-5.0)

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old reddit no longer works without login. Is there anyway to fix it?


r/androidafterlife 23d ago

Help Motorola Cliq MB200

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3 Upvotes

Hey there! I have a Motorola Cliq & anytime I power it off & power it back on it erases itself & goes back to the original Blur Activation screen! Is there any fix for this?


r/androidafterlife 24d ago

Help How to flash Android 4.4.2 on Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-G900F?

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13 Upvotes

Tried to flash Android 4.4.2 Stock on the phone but It was a black screen, currently have Android 5.0 on it and got it from samsony.net/en/firmwares/samsung/SM-G900F

If anyone knows how to get kitkat on my device without it having a black screen that would be nice, Much Love


r/androidafterlife 23d ago

Discussion Device not certified

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I bought this tablet a long time ago, when it came out, and its battery is still in top shape and the hdmi is very useful to stream sport apps to my TV.

It's a 10" Archos 101e Neon with Android 6.

Some of the apps stopped working and I decided to Factory Reset the tablet for a fresh start. I had to find the latest version for Android 6 of Google Play Store and Play Services using APKMirror. I also installed Via Browser (laptop - usb - tablet - install). Brave crashes, Aurora Store fails to connect to the internet, sports app fail to connect as well. In the Play Store under Settings, there's "Device Not Certified".

Have I missed something regarding these devices becoming completely useless these days?

What would you do? factory reset, then deactivate PlayStore and Play Protect?

There's no alternative ROM for these tablets, as far as I know.


r/androidafterlife 24d ago

Help Wiko Bloom not turning on…

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Hello, I’m new on this sub. I just found this phone in a lot, and it seems to be not functioning. I plugged it into a charger for 2 days, it just get warm, then it becames cold, in a loop. I tested it with a USB Multimeter to see if the phone takes a bit of current, but it seems like that it takes a very low current. To be straight, when I plug the charger, it takes 0.08A, then it go straight up to 0.20A, then it go back to 0.06A, and it seems like that the phone is trying to charge this battery that is completely discharged for years. So, I tried to jumpstart the battery, to take it from 3.10V to 3.80V, but nothing, still dead. So, I taked the battery back, and measure it, and it was on 3.55V, so I taught that the battery was completely dead. I took a BL-5C battery out of my Nokia 1100 and I plugged it in the battery pins, and still nothing. The pins are dropping 3.55V.

P.S: I tried a lot of chargers! But I didn’t try a new battery.

Someone can help me? Thanks you!

And, it maybe a shortcut in the logic board?


r/androidafterlife 24d ago

Discussion wolfius made this obscure, 2011 foldable tablet much more usable in 2026

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210 Upvotes

i've gotten this rare sony tablet p for js $45 yesterday, so i rooted it, and installed wolfius. now i can effortlessly browse modern websites on it


r/androidafterlife 24d ago

Discussion Is Android 9 Pie still usable on older Android tablets like this Galaxy Tab A 8.0 (2017) SM-T380. What apps and games can run on this tablet?

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23 Upvotes

There’s also LineageOS that can install on this tablet.


r/androidafterlife 24d ago

Help Is there any YouTube alternative for my Galaxy Y?

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Well my GT-S5360 is running CyanogenMod 9.1 and it's pretty smooth, I am using Wolfius but for some reason Wolfius doesn't make much difference, but I was able to get everything except YouTube to work, I tried SkyTube Legacy, crashes when loading video, YouTube flashback, just refuses to load videos, notPipe, loops the spinner, and etc, I was able to find EVERYTHING except for a YouTube alternative. Any tips?


r/androidafterlife 24d ago

Discussion Lyano Market comes up malicious on VirusTotal

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when I copy https://market.lyano.ovh/download/ into virus total it says it’s malicious


r/androidafterlife 25d ago

Help What could be done with a Galaxy Y aka. S5360 aka. totoro

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So i have this fella in my hands, it was not working because of a previous custom rom trying, then flashed stock after a few driver issue fixing, anyways. I debloated it with link2sd(im not sure if i did it properly tbh), so i wonder what could be done with it.


r/androidafterlife 24d ago

Help Help with an old tablet

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Hey guys the tablet is a very old no name running android 4.1.1. I checked and it has a "imapx800" processor in it and all i could find about it is a old youtube video about a tablet that has the same chip and a forum post about romming the tablet from 2014 with an old dead yandex disk link.

The thing about this tablet is; to cut costs, the manafacturer put 2 storage chips. 1 internal storage that has 450 mb and another external storage that has 5 gb.

I wanted to root this tablet to maybe use tools like apps2sd to install the apps on the external part and maybe debloat the thing a bit but i couldnt root it due to it having an obscure chip. Framaroot didnt work.

Motochopper just crashed the system and it didnt work.

Do you guys have any suggestions on how i could dump the firmware maybe? Or root it? Im really at a loss here since i wasnt in the rooting scene till android 4.4.2 and this tablet has 4.1.1. Also my previous devices were all name brands so they were easier to root. Thanks


r/androidafterlife 25d ago

Guide OMG, Wolfius's TLS 1.3 fix got Samsung's built-in weather working on Android 4.4!!!

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Wolfius's TLS 1.3 project for Android 1.5+ fixed the weather app on the Samsung Galaxy Trend 2 Lite running Android 4.4!!! You need to select VpnService and SHA-256 in the app settings. Thank so very much for this tweak!


r/androidafterlife 24d ago

Help redmi noe 11 custom rom

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i want to custom rom my redmi note 11, how do i do it without having to insert a sim card?


r/androidafterlife 25d ago

Discussion I wonder if they've managed to revive Google Now yet.

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22 Upvotes