Was hoping to see just how many seed potatoes you could have grown in said supplied dirt, and browsing the web on a slow device should really be called "ambling".
From 1700s? Dude, if you saw this phone with touchscreen, gps, apps etc in early 2000s, you will be blown away...trust me, i got my first Nokia 3410 back in 2003. and it was awesome...
Man, how nostalgic. I keep all my old smartphones along with any others I can get a hold of as collectors items. Watching this made me go pull them out and dust them off. Amazing how far we have come in 10 scant years.
Was the seller located in Leeds? My missus had one of these with a yellow back which she lost on a muddy patch of grass in Leeds back in 2014, would be interesting if this is that phone. 🤔
I don't believe the seller was located up north. As it was sent from a generic eBay postage account. Will do some digging. But these phones are extremely common.
Loved, loved, LOVED this video. I spent a good few hours in my day doing this kind of stuff as I couldn't afford better phones, so this brought back tons of memories.
My first phone was very similar to this one, maybe a few years younger. I vividly recall having to restart it every time I connected to wi-fi at home, because the 2000+ Whatsapp notifications from my high school classroom group always froze it. Great video! A real trip down memory lane.
I had this same phone in 2013. For a budget phone it actually wasn't that bad for the time period. It had almost no storage space on it and was a little slow. For $30 though it worked great for making calls, texting, and social media apps.
It's interesting to hear that apparently old Samsung phone memory degrades from storing too much of itself on it, which would explain why I swear my first phone (a Galaxy Fit) started "going senile" as I had no idea how else to describe it (randomly playing mp3s, one time I tried deleting a video and it deleted ALL of the media I had downloaded for no apparent reason) and nowadays won't actually boot.
S2 mini was one of my favorite phones back then. Everybody had it. It was small, rugged, worked fine and was reasonably cheap. We used to pass it around in school playing pou and paper airplane gyroscope on it. Good times...
The good thing about such listings is you can get a pretty good product for low price OR you can get a piece a shit! (Which happens when you don't take the time to actually figure out what's in that listing)
I guess what the seller was going to get out of this made it not worth even writing down a more descriptive title. In fact, I wonder how this could be a free postage listing (you have to factor eBay comision in as well) without seller actually losing money!
I really thought this was just a basic clickbait video about buying broken phones, then found it was an in depth restoration, tutorial, and review of a phone no one wants. Mad props
It's really interesting seeing how far we've come with technology in less than 10 years. This phone came out 2012 and even high-end phones like Galaxy S3 which was released in 2012 as well, had 1GB of RAM. Now my phone has 12GB of RAM and a SoC which has a GPU that is around 56 times faster in floating-point calculations than Galaxy S3. PC consumer technology evolution has been much slower. For example GTX 580 that came out in 2012 is only around 8 times slower than RTX 2080 Ti.
To be fair, mobile chipsets are fairly recent, compared to desktop CPUs/GPUs. It stands to reason it took a while to reach the point where advancements were incremental rather than exponential.
95p and around 72 hours or so cleaning, formatting and forcing down the ever increasing rage quit building up inside. Bargain! My wife had one of these back in the day and even then, they were painful to use. My secondhand Note 3 is still with me though and used daily for everything (I am on it right now writing this comment), now THAT'S a ripper of a model. Would love to see your take on it some day.
I remember i had it as my first "smartphone" back when i was 13 from my mom (she previously used it). Despite all flaws, it actually brings some memories for a year.
Randomly clicked on this video and pleasantly surprised to hear "The Fast Route" from the OpenTTD soundtrack! Always a surprise to hear projects I've worked on end up being used in other ways. :)
This exact model was my first smartphone! It came with both a yellow and black back. Never thought I'd see it presented or discussed anywhere; as you said, it's one of many like it, and that makes it quite obscure. I think I may still have the remains, but last time I checked it was smashed, without a battery and the chrome paint around the rim got somewhat chipped. But yeah, fun times.
Still a common smartphone here in Brazil. I had friends that used this thing as a main phone less than 1 year ago, it was hard.. And i'm not kidding, its normal to find someone still using this today here.
This might be a very dirty cheap low class trashy phone. But I'm very happy for this RUclipsr who still gave it life and a second chance to be made usable again. You see, all things starts with simple. Those who learn to endure even with little things are the rarest to find. Good Job Sir! Keep up the humble work... :)
I know this is a very late question, @ Budget-Builds Official, but how well is the FW, OS and System/Custom Application booting on it on a scale of 1 - 10?
Back in 2014, I found one of those in a ditch of a road, completely shattered and no battery. I went to get a battery, flashed cyanogenmod onto it and was able to play GTA III on it, some day, the flash gave out tho (like in that video, but I did not know better) So I threw it into the phone donation box so at least that was good. I was 13 at that time and even had a phone at that point, but the galaxy mini II was just so customizeable (My previous phone was provider-locked, so no unlocking of the Bootloader. The only one I ever got.) Nowadays, I am still in the Custom Rom Scene, I currently run CalyxOS on my Pixel, but maybe thats changing;) If I hadnt found that phone, I probably would not be into Custom OSs
Nao Tomori the galaxy s plus (gt-i9001) have the tv out with av cable (3,5 mm headphone jack to the av rca connectors, i used my raspberry pi av cable) and activate the video out in option>display> tv out (Android ver. 2.3.6)
I'm tying some other subject in here. I usually hate watching people shredding/grinding/smashing (take your pick) phones and other devices that may be in perfect working order, but in this case you really receive my stamp of approval to destroy it. :)
I still use my Galaxy Note 2, which released in September 2012. I have had to replace the battery once, but it still works fine for phone stuff and pictures. I use Open Camera, instead of the stock camera app.
This phone reminds me of my Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 that I got back in 2014. It only has 1.5 Gig of RAM and just the updates killed its usability a couple of years later. I replaced it with another cheap phone a BLU Life One X2 in 2017 and am still using it now. I tried reflashing the Galaxy Ace with another ROM from the web and it is usable again but still slow. I use it to listen to a radio scanner app.
Wait a second. A low end phone from the same era as the legendary S3. See someone found a bug in the flash chip firmware. The wear levelling data ends up being corrupted. The actual underlying flash cells are fine! You can reflash those flash chips to fix the bug. Actually several phone brands from the era which used Samsung eMMCs are affected, but not for all a procedure for fixing the bug exists.
Good for you to flash your phone. I cant even root mine, I have all the prerequisites needed (huawei phone) and all that is left is the bootloader. WHICH IS LOCKED. I cant even unlock it and I have to pay thirdparty shit to unlock it, which can cost me more than the phone itself
Please make a video on how to re-partition these things, you will help a lot of people because a lot of the earsle S-es and Notes are starting to show the same problems now and a guide would be very much appreciated.
Is it weird I’m kinda nostalgic to the whole archaic slow smart phones of early 2010’s. Things were so simple back then. Watch as taking photos with these phones becomes a trend in 10 years.
i brought iPhone X and Galaxy S9 and other newer model phones on Ebay really cheap. I did some video on unboxing and review of them if you want to check them out.
Old Samsungs are slow and have small storage, but they are trusty and keep working. I have a J1 and it is a tank. Still nothing like Nokia 'Blockia' phones though.
In the past been dreaming to have a smartphone even the lowest cheapest one just to try a capacitive touch phone, how far weve been for 8 years is amazing.
I suffered with phones like this one all the way from 2013 to 2017. All were released in 2012. The first one was Galaxy Pocket. It was worse than the Mini 2 in every aspect: smaller screen (2.8") and resolution (320x240) (but I believe better viewing angles and color), less powerful components, and I couldn’t find a custom ROM of anything other than Android 2.3, so I had to stick with stock. In the later days, I couldn’t even use the Play Store because it would install Google Play Services, which took too much RAM with the new updates and crashed all the time. Many older apps were getting removed from the Play Store too. Then I got the Mini 2, which thankfully allowed me to install Cyanogen 4.2 - probably the same as you used. It was a definite improvement over the 2.3 suffering, I could finally install the apps I wanted. My final awful Samsung phone was Galaxy Trend. It had the exact same specs as the Mini, other than a bit more RAM (768MB?) and a better screen (4" 480p - enough to read manga on!). It also allowed me yet another upgrade to 4.4. The back camera on mine was scratched to all hell and it didn’t work on the custom ROM anyway, but thankfully it had the front camera if I was in a dire need of taking a picture. It was still painful, but usable with some apps. Now I got a Xiaomi Redmi 4X, since 2017. Even today it’s a much better experience than all those trash cheap phones. They have one advantage over more modern phones though: they are very sturdy. I dropped all of them countless times and even though the back covers would sometimes fall off, the screens are still intact - even though the Trend was glass, not sure about the Mini. They also had a protruding frame that protected the screen from direct impact. I broke my Redmi’s screen with a single fall. I placed it screen down on a not entirely flat, glossy surface (toilet :E) and it slid down and fell on the tiles. The screen was incredibly smooth in the beginning, and it reached all the way to the sides of the phone, so it hit the ground with the whole force. I miss these old phones that you could just drop with no case all the time and nothing big will happen. It would be nice if I could find a new budget phone with more focus on being solid than on being pretty. Something sort of slapped together, but still of acceptable quality. I want to say that I was really happy to recognize the phone from the thumbnail as the one I had.
Wow. I've come across some really dirty phones, but never one that was caked with actual clumps of "earth dirt" straight out of the ground. I really would have enjoyed seeing the "boxing" (the reverse of unboxing) of this phone. Where could a phone get to much dirt, unless it was buried in the ground, or the previous owner lived in a hut with a mud floor? Good times
Hadn't had a moment to watch this, but man this video took off :D Good thing it did though, considering the work you put into this sorry excuse of a phone :p
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Was hoping to see just how many seed potatoes you could have grown in said supplied dirt, and browsing the web on a slow device should really be called "ambling".
One, that mouldy tech spud that he sprouted from the packaging
@@justmechanicthings 3, 3 internets.
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Amazing how far technology has come from those very sad devices.
Want try Samsung j7 star it's good phone uk vamp
"slightly used"
>as a trench digging tool apparently
I mean, if it was new it would be a good phone for emulators
Spiky i was just watching a WWI video before this
_bruuuuuuuuuuuuuh_
HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE
looks like hitlers phone that was used in ww1
Missed a perfect opportunity to title this: A Dirt cheap phone
I was surprised to see I was probably the first to make that joke, too.
10p fire the phone, 85p for the dirt
@@randominternetguy and I'm really taking a chance here.
This was a Dirty Deed Done Dirt Cheap
"lightly used" in the excavation and rockworking fields obviously..
When the word " lightly " means continuous use for the past 5 years in unimaginable environments....
it looks like it got digged up from the ground and mailed
Ay the pipe clip in 1-2 uwu
@@Yoshomay No I clipped into the pipe in the 1-1 underground
If u don't believe me the video is in my channel's misc. playlist....
@@nogoat oh. Yeah that is ground not blocks. But that's still a hella hard clip to do
@@Yoshomay It was an accident
Petition to retitle this video to just "Phone"
yes, we need this
One signed! Lets get to 100!
ThomasIncorporated signed A.B.H.L
Yes
Yesss
Should have tested *dirt* rally in it.
i had one of these, it survived being run over by a ford transit.
Dare I ask what happened to the poor Ford?
Same I had one of these back in the day
@@Hornbowman I'd ask that question had it been a Nokia
Me too 😁😁😁
This was my first smartphone, i can confirm, these things are pretty much indestructable
A man from 1700s would be appreciated to pay over than 1000$ for this thing
STONKS
They would prob pay millions and make billions with the technology
He would have nobody to call and no way to charge it.
something seems familiar... *i can feel it*
From 1700s? Dude, if you saw this phone with touchscreen, gps, apps etc in early 2000s, you will be blown away...trust me, i got my first Nokia 3410 back in 2003. and it was awesome...
"dirt cheap" taken too literally
Lmao
how the hell did they send you a "lightly used" phone that was covered in actual dirt?
It’s lightly used as a shovel
Well they had to hide as much evidence sd possible
I think that it was joke
@@LunarEclypse in ww1
@@aussieaudir8lms871 and then again in WW2
iPhone 11: You cannot defeat me!
Samsung, Google and Huawei: I know, but he can....
1 dollar phone
😹
@@rei3445 gay away
@@rei3445 no i mean it punk, be gay somewhere else
Except its samsung
fish
Just because cheap is in the title I got an ad for primark, classic
Lol
Lol lmao
primark is fire, if i didnt have adblock i wouldnt even be mad.
Man, how nostalgic. I keep all my old smartphones along with any others I can get a hold of as collectors items. Watching this made me go pull them out and dust them off. Amazing how far we have come in 10 scant years.
And they look beautiful
I love this channel, it's like LTT but for people who can actually buy the stuff featured in the videos
Me too.
Me three
LTT but satisfying & you can chill plus i think its more knowledgeable
God, i had that phone for years as a 15yr old. Thought it was high end back in 2012!
Why did you send it to him in dirt?
@@tomvarga5515 you joking or..
@@makern5304 Joking
@@tomvarga5515 thanks
Now your a 23 year old who use a anime hentai as profile picture
Was the seller located in Leeds? My missus had one of these with a yellow back which she lost on a muddy patch of grass in Leeds back in 2014, would be interesting if this is that phone. 🤔
i want to hear this story
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Would be crazy if it was hers. Be nice if he sent it to you as well if it was.
I don't believe the seller was located up north. As it was sent from a generic eBay postage account. Will do some digging. But these phones are extremely common.
Razor's Retro Game Shelf The imei is on the sticker shown in video
Loved, loved, LOVED this video. I spent a good few hours in my day doing this kind of stuff as I couldn't afford better phones, so this brought back tons of memories.
The phone is thanking you a lot for saving it :P
*Puts phone in envelope* "Here, you recycle this."
CeX pay about £5 for these, you could make a tidy 400% profit...
a tidy 400% profit on p h o n e
That's a CeXy prospect...
In Australia that’s like 10-20$
CosmicPlayz wtf you guys get payed for them ? 😦
Putting "DEAD PHONE" on your case is an aesthetic tbh
dead fone
It's not a case
My first phone was very similar to this one, maybe a few years younger. I vividly recall having to restart it every time I connected to wi-fi at home, because the 2000+ Whatsapp notifications from my high school classroom group always froze it.
Great video! A real trip down memory lane.
"Phone" more like a 90's PC in your hand :D
nah
You can send messages all call :v
@@daninis3 There was calling...
@@whatsaaappthesequel yea
Pc in the 90's running a playstation emulator fine?
and with bochs PC emulator it could probably emulate a intel pentium and run windows 95 or 98
I had this same phone in 2013. For a budget phone it actually wasn't that bad for the time period. It had almost no storage space on it and was a little slow. For $30 though it worked great for making calls, texting, and social media apps.
Had this phone in 2012, my first real android. I was angered because samsung didn't release an official 4.0.1 in 2013.
It's interesting to hear that apparently old Samsung phone memory degrades from storing too much of itself on it, which would explain why I swear my first phone (a Galaxy Fit) started "going senile" as I had no idea how else to describe it (randomly playing mp3s, one time I tried deleting a video and it deleted ALL of the media I had downloaded for no apparent reason) and nowadays won't actually boot.
All memory will degrade over time, but the modules used in these old phones are even more susceptible
S2 mini was one of my favorite phones back then. Everybody had it. It was small, rugged, worked fine and was reasonably cheap.
We used to pass it around in school playing pou and paper airplane gyroscope on it. Good times...
I actually owned one of these back in the day! Still works, broke and fixed its screen like six times. Ridiculously sturdy little thing.
I really don't get those one-word eBay listings like "Phone" or "Speakers". My Soundstream XTA480.2 was even listed as "Car amplifier"
The good thing about such listings is you can get a pretty good product for low price OR you can get a piece a shit! (Which happens when you don't take the time to actually figure out what's in that listing)
Usually when it says simply just what kind of device is it, usually the seller is not tech sawy obviosly
thanks guys haha
I guess what the seller was going to get out of this made it not worth even writing down a more descriptive title. In fact, I wonder how this could be a free postage listing (you have to factor eBay comision in as well) without seller actually losing money!
I really thought this was just a basic clickbait video about buying broken phones, then found it was an in depth restoration, tutorial, and review of a phone no one wants. Mad props
I'd like to think that the guy who sold this will see this an see that's it's better and worth a lot more now lol
Yeah, and he would be dead wrong because the added value comes from all the troubleshooting, while he wasn't even capable to clean it.
So now he must be selling muddy phones for 10 times more
That phone sold for like $30-$40 in the US back in the day. They weren't worth much to begin with.
The nand flash is a ticking time bomb.
It's really interesting seeing how far we've come with technology in less than 10 years. This phone came out 2012 and even high-end phones like Galaxy S3 which was released in 2012 as well, had 1GB of RAM. Now my phone has 12GB of RAM and a SoC which has a GPU that is around 56 times faster in floating-point calculations than Galaxy S3.
PC consumer technology evolution has been much slower. For example GTX 580 that came out in 2012 is only around 8 times slower than RTX 2080 Ti.
To be fair, mobile chipsets are fairly recent, compared to desktop CPUs/GPUs. It stands to reason it took a while to reach the point where advancements were incremental rather than exponential.
Who needs 12GB RAM on a phone. Thats more than i have on my computer.
12gb ram lmao how
@@jenscraft_mc8797 Check out the RoG 2. It's ludicrously overkill, but awesome.
@@Cantripping well looks like its not in my country. Looks like ill stick to my 4gb samsung s9 lol
95p and around 72 hours or so cleaning, formatting and forcing down the ever increasing rage quit building up inside. Bargain!
My wife had one of these back in the day and even then, they were painful to use. My secondhand Note 3 is still with me though and used daily for everything (I am on it right now writing this comment), now THAT'S a ripper of a model. Would love to see your take on it some day.
Might take, with lots of programming, a postmarketOS install. Would probably be the fastest for this phone too.
2:56 DOG
I remember i had it as my first "smartphone" back when i was 13 from my mom (she previously used it).
Despite all flaws, it actually brings some memories for a year.
You got me with the fake outro card.
Randomly clicked on this video and pleasantly surprised to hear "The Fast Route" from the OpenTTD soundtrack! Always a surprise to hear projects I've worked on end up being used in other ways. :)
I remember having a phone like this for a while.
It was worse than death.
Thanks for reminding me how far I've come.
we
Well i had the Galaxy ace duos with 2g only. So that was even terrible
same
Yup. RIP froyo
What phone do you have now ?
7:17 Great song choice, wings finest. Couldn't help myself when I spotted it
This exact model was my first smartphone! It came with both a yellow and black back. Never thought I'd see it presented or discussed anywhere; as you said, it's one of many like it, and that makes it quite obscure. I think I may still have the remains, but last time I checked it was smashed, without a battery and the chrome paint around the rim got somewhat chipped. But yeah, fun times.
A couple years ago I flashed android 6 onto a Galaxy Ace. Painful!
i mean android 4.4.2 on my old s4 mini was painfull
Still a common smartphone here in Brazil. I had friends that used this thing as a main phone less than 1 year ago, it was hard.. And i'm not kidding, its normal to find someone still using this today here.
Had one of those back in 2013. Cannot believe someone can actually send or sell a phone with soil and dirt on it.
the dirt adds to the price
oh hi equalscubed
@@eepyeri oy sea
4:16 you really get me there, i was actually going to close the video😂
so what do i get?
P h o n e
(dirt included)
Yeah.
You get:
*P H O N E*
some dirt
This will make an ideal MP3 player for 95p this will be good for listening to songs and podcasts when downloaded on a decent micro SD card.
I actually owned this back in the day, I used this with a iPod touch but it was one of my favourite ones I owned.
they still sell these phones in Mexico lol
Can confirm, my friend has one
Like in actual phone stores?
@@Pinkaste yep
And?? What if they sell them? ..you can use them only for work only THE people who need to be "happy" buy cheapes phones like iPhone XR etc etc..
That's a nice TFT Screen and some scrap chips and metal for $1. Could modify the screen to work with a raspberry pi instead of buying a $50 one
This might be a very dirty cheap low class trashy phone. But I'm very happy for this RUclipsr who still gave it life and a second chance to be made usable again. You see, all things starts with simple. Those who learn to endure even with little things are the rarest to find. Good Job Sir! Keep up the humble work... :)
I have a soft spot for small smartphones. Modern smartphones have gotten too big IMHO and are no longer pocketable.
You have some small pockets and/or hands
@@quizarorobzaqu8558 nope. I have average hands and pockets by male standards.
@@911Salvage Dunno mate, I have a huge phone even by todays standards, and I can pocket it just fine.
Mouldy CPU phones fit into standard pockets easily. You're probably wearing tight pants.
@@AnonymousUser77254 nope.
Love the Open TTD music in the background.
I know this is a very late question, @
Budget-Builds Official, but how well is the FW, OS and System/Custom Application booting on it on a scale of 1 - 10?
Well by listening the music you've put, i guess you're playing OpenTTD :3
Do not flash gapps on armv6 devices, so you can use your precious ram for games. There are some ports too. Social apps are mostly unsupported.
"Lightly used." 😂
Love the Transport Tycoon music in the background :)
"I hate myself for how much effort I put to fix this phone"... The story of my life fixing my old phones XD
Back in 2014, I found one of those in a ditch of a road, completely shattered and no battery.
I went to get a battery, flashed cyanogenmod onto it and was able to play GTA III on it, some day, the flash gave out tho (like in that video, but I did not know better) So I threw it into the phone donation box so at least that was good.
I was 13 at that time and even had a phone at that point, but the galaxy mini II was just so customizeable (My previous phone was provider-locked, so no unlocking of the Bootloader. The only one I ever got.)
Nowadays, I am still in the Custom Rom Scene, I currently run CalyxOS on my Pixel, but maybe thats changing;)
If I hadnt found that phone, I probably would not be into Custom OSs
4:16 they got us at the first half not gonna lie
I recycled my old Galaxy s plus into a cheap nes/snes console with a emulator app, a cheap Bluetooth controller and av cable and runs perfectly
AV cable? You mean you can connect it to a TV? I've heard the Galaxy S Plus doesn't have AV out
Nao Tomori yes, the galaxy s plus have the tv out from headphone connector
@@MetallaroDOC89 I'm pretty sure the Galaxy S Plus doesn't have it. But the original Galaxy S does.
Nao Tomori the galaxy s plus (gt-i9001) have the tv out with av cable (3,5 mm headphone jack to the av rca connectors, i used my raspberry pi av cable) and activate the video out in option>display> tv out (Android ver. 2.3.6)
@@MetallaroDOC89 Looks like you are right. I found the TV out option on mine. Sadly I don't have a right type of AV cable
I'm tying some other subject in here. I usually hate watching people shredding/grinding/smashing (take your pick) phones and other devices that may be in perfect working order, but in this case you really receive my stamp of approval to destroy it. :)
Looks like this phone went through a landmine
Best thing about this video is the use of Transport Tycoon music 😁👌
My first smartphone was the Galaxy Mini 1. Back in the day this would've been a luxury!
I still use my Galaxy Note 2, which released in September 2012. I have had to replace the battery once, but it still works fine for phone stuff and pictures. I use Open Camera, instead of the stock camera app.
Wow, I actually used to have this exact model of phone!
ahh my favourite phone:
samsung "phone"
The fact that this was my first ever smartphone brings so much nostalgia
I was curious to see how much the fixed phone would make on ebay.
Thank you for showing the phone some respect and giving it a chance.
This guy
and then there is TechRax 🙄
gotta love the bubble design of that year
Someperfectlynormalguy returned and you release a vid on the same day? My sub box was extra happy today. 😊
I like this because it prevented the phone going into landfill 🤷🏻♀️❤️
This phone reminds me of my Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 that I got back in 2014. It only has 1.5 Gig of RAM and just the updates killed its usability a couple of years later. I replaced it with another cheap phone a BLU Life One X2 in 2017 and am still using it now. I tried reflashing the Galaxy Ace with another ROM from the web and it is usable again but still slow. I use it to listen to a radio scanner app.
Wait a second. A low end phone from the same era as the legendary S3. See someone found a bug in the flash chip firmware. The wear levelling data ends up being corrupted. The actual underlying flash cells are fine! You can reflash those flash chips to fix the bug. Actually several phone brands from the era which used Samsung eMMCs are affected, but not for all a procedure for fixing the bug exists.
Good for you to flash your phone. I cant even root mine, I have all the prerequisites needed (huawei phone) and all that is left is the bootloader. WHICH IS LOCKED. I cant even unlock it and I have to pay thirdparty shit to unlock it, which can cost me more than the phone itself
I find these videos strangely addicting and therapeutic
Damn 327 likes and 0 dislikes. Not bad!
Hate to burst the proverbial bubble here but there were 3 idiots that watched this video and disliked it.
looks like that the seller tried to burry his phone LMAO XD
Please make a video on how to re-partition these things, you will help a lot of people because a lot of the earsle S-es and Notes are starting to show the same problems now and a guide would be very much appreciated.
Is it weird I’m kinda nostalgic to the whole archaic slow smart phones of early 2010’s. Things were so simple back then. Watch as taking photos with these phones becomes a trend in 10 years.
OpenTTD OST spotted! Great choice for background music mate ;D
Lmao that Transport Tycoon midi background music :D
i brought iPhone X and Galaxy S9 and other newer model phones on Ebay really cheap. I did some video on unboxing and review of them if you want to check them out.
Is this a comments section or an advertisment banner? Cause I was leaning more towards the first.
Can we don't. Cheers
Old Samsungs are slow and have small storage, but they are trusty and keep working. I have a J1 and it is a tank. Still nothing like Nokia 'Blockia' phones though.
In the past been dreaming to have a smartphone even the lowest cheapest one just to try a capacitive touch phone, how far weve been for 8 years is amazing.
I actually use my old Samsung Galaxy S4 mini as a music player. Guess the same can be done to this aswell
S4 mini has the perfect smartphone size! I'm still using S3 mini though as my daily driver.
I hear Transport Tycoon jukebox music! I just want to play that now.
that thanks for watching part got me
That was "DIRT CHEAP!"
I suffered with phones like this one all the way from 2013 to 2017. All were released in 2012.
The first one was Galaxy Pocket. It was worse than the Mini 2 in every aspect: smaller screen (2.8") and resolution (320x240) (but I believe better viewing angles and color), less powerful components, and I couldn’t find a custom ROM of anything other than Android 2.3, so I had to stick with stock. In the later days, I couldn’t even use the Play Store because it would install Google Play Services, which took too much RAM with the new updates and crashed all the time. Many older apps were getting removed from the Play Store too.
Then I got the Mini 2, which thankfully allowed me to install Cyanogen 4.2 - probably the same as you used. It was a definite improvement over the 2.3 suffering, I could finally install the apps I wanted.
My final awful Samsung phone was Galaxy Trend. It had the exact same specs as the Mini, other than a bit more RAM (768MB?) and a better screen (4" 480p - enough to read manga on!). It also allowed me yet another upgrade to 4.4. The back camera on mine was scratched to all hell and it didn’t work on the custom ROM anyway, but thankfully it had the front camera if I was in a dire need of taking a picture. It was still painful, but usable with some apps.
Now I got a Xiaomi Redmi 4X, since 2017. Even today it’s a much better experience than all those trash cheap phones. They have one advantage over more modern phones though: they are very sturdy. I dropped all of them countless times and even though the back covers would sometimes fall off, the screens are still intact - even though the Trend was glass, not sure about the Mini. They also had a protruding frame that protected the screen from direct impact. I broke my Redmi’s screen with a single fall. I placed it screen down on a not entirely flat, glossy surface (toilet :E) and it slid down and fell on the tiles. The screen was incredibly smooth in the beginning, and it reached all the way to the sides of the phone, so it hit the ground with the whole force. I miss these old phones that you could just drop with no case all the time and nothing big will happen. It would be nice if I could find a new budget phone with more focus on being solid than on being pretty. Something sort of slapped together, but still of acceptable quality.
I want to say that I was really happy to recognize the phone from the thumbnail as the one I had.
IDK if you have Google services there but I find that turning it off speeds up most old/archaic devices significantly
Wow. I've come across some really dirty phones, but never one that was caked with actual clumps of "earth dirt" straight out of the ground. I really would have enjoyed seeing the "boxing" (the reverse of unboxing) of this phone. Where could a phone get to much dirt, unless it was buried in the ground, or the previous owner lived in a hut with a mud floor?
Good times
This guy literally used music from transport tycoon deluxe. What a madlad.
Hadn't had a moment to watch this, but man this video took off :D Good thing it did though, considering the work you put into this sorry excuse of a phone :p
I loved my Galaxy S2 !! ( know, not exactly the same as the one shownn here)
The S2 still runs 24/7 today as a IP-webcam with the IP webcam app.. 😎
2:56 you can see doggos in top right corner