{"id":3383,"date":"2015-10-13T11:23:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T03:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2019-08-03T11:39:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T03:39:08","slug":"keeping-an-old-android-phone-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2015\/10\/keeping-an-old-android-phone-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping an old Android phone alive"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am trying to bring back my old Android phone, Samsung Galaxy S2 9100. \u00a0The replacement of replacement of the original battery died. \u00a0After a bit of scouting around, found one in a neighbourhood shop.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The phone, after 3 years of hard use was full of photos and apps. \u00a0I decided to start from a clean slate with a factory reset and media wipe. \u00a0On reboot, I discovered I could not add my Google account. \u00a0This is even after I have upgraded to 31 Jan 15 build with GApps dated 12 Apr 15. \u00a0Every time I add the Google account, after the T&C page and the SMS pin, I ended up in the security settings of the Google account.<\/p>\n

\"Stuck<\/a><\/p>\n

After some searching, the root cause is the 2FA.<\/p>\n

The solution: Disable the SMS authentication.<\/p>\n

The account addition completes. \u00a0The root cause is there is in the build of the nightly. \u00a0After I have upgraded to \u00a01 May’s version, this problem went away.<\/p>\n

Problem number two. \u00a0I can sync the Contacts, Browser can access Gmail, but the Play Store simply refuse to connect. \u00a0Turns out that I have Automatic Date and Time enabled. This takes the time from the LAN network and the older version of Play store did not like that.<\/p>\n

The solution: Set date and time, clear Google Play Store and Play Services.<\/p>\n

Thereafter, Play Store can be accessed. \u00a0Again this is caused by the older build version of the nightly or GApps. \u00a0After I have upgraded, the problem went away.<\/p>\n

There you have it, that is how you revive an old Android phone. The problems are mostly caused by the implementation of old CyanogenMod based build and GApps.<\/p>\n

Access Play store<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am trying to bring back my old Android phone, Samsung Galaxy S2 9100. \u00a0The replacement of replacement of the original battery died. \u00a0After a bit of scouting around, found one in a neighbourhood shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[241,387,232,319],"class_list":["post-3383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-android","tag-gapps","tag-google","tag-kitkat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4877,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions\/4877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}