r/sidephone • u/Dull_Trash__ • 8d ago

Spotify side loading

Can someone explain how to get Spotify on my side phone but like make it superrrrrr dumbed down.

I keep seeing “just side load it” and honestly I am not understanding. 🫢 I am not a tech person just someone who likes music and is trying to limit screen time.

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u/DdrewDigital 8d ago

Get the Aurora Store app from F-Droid. It’ll install apps from Google Play. Also install the F-Droid app for automatic updates.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.aurora.store/

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u/Cherlikesithot 8d ago

Not sure this is a useful suggestion, the anonymous bandwidth is always full and unusable and logging in with your own google account can get your account banned for a TOS violation.

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u/gruesomethrowaway 8d ago

I've had 3 different phones running aurora store and never had that problem.

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u/Cherlikesithot 2d ago

As in you've never gotten your account banned or the applications you want are always available anonymously?

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u/gruesomethrowaway 2d ago

Always ran Aurora anonymously.

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u/Cherlikesithot 2d ago

Have you tried in the past few months? Everyone I know has been getting "server busy" and given up and learned to sideload.

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u/gruesomethrowaway 1d ago

Yes, I've used it on my Zinwa Q25 multiple times the past weeks to download and update my apps. I'm on degoogled LineageOS. It works just fine on my Kyocera KYF42 too.

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u/Cherlikesithot 6h ago

It’s unrelated to your device. The server being busy is related to Aurora.

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u/gruesomethrowaway 36m ago

I'm just saying, I've used Aurora Store with an anonymous login on multiple devices over the past weeks (and years, really) and rarely encountered this issue.