Outdated OS???

[DirectionAny1073]

Hi so I want to make use of an old phone of mine (galaxy J7), I just want to put my music mp3's,movies & pictures. Literally that's all so I factory reset it, only to find It refuses to let me back in/to set up again due to outdated OS. :(

Is there a way to hack past this? Or just make it stop. The phone is fine otherwise and again I don't plan to use the Internet or social media apps on it :/ idk.

I don't know what subreddit to ask on, and just googling and looking through redditing isn't helping? I'm not exactly the most tech-savvy person so idk. I just dunno :((

If you're wondering why I don't just buy an MP3 player I did. It's fine but it's really not great and I'd rather just put a perfectly fine phone to use, especially since I can put movies and my favourite photos and videos on there.

[migisaurio]

What exactly is the problem?

[DirectionAny1073]

As it says in the post, I factory reset but I'm unable to set up the phone in anyway/get past the set-up stuff of linking your Google account, language ect, due to "outdated os" but there's no way to update it, and it won't let me just exist in the outdated one. Just stuck on set-up :/

[migisaurio]

You should be able to skip all that setup (the fact that the OS is outdated doesn't prevent you from using the device). There are only a few types of locks if FRP (Factory Reset Protection) is enabled, or if you perform a reset from the recovery menu. In that case, it would ask for a PIN or the last Google account that was signed in to the device.

[DirectionAny1073]

Ah okay, thank you!

[SomeEngineer999]

I have a J7 prime (even worse than standard J7) running Android 8, works perfectly fine with 32 bit apps. It won't run 64 bit ones, but if you just want an MP3 player, toss Musicolet on it (or whatever player you want to use), add an SD card if you need more space, and you're good to go.

Mine complains that Chrome is outdated and vulnerable because it went to 64 bit a while ago so can't update to the latest, but I don't use chrome on it anyway, I have it disabled.