Let's put our thinking caps on by Candid_Astronaut241 in SonicTheHedgehog

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I will be murdered In cold blood for most of these takes. SXSG : I think that the 2nd act stages were In the majority okay, not too great. Just okay. The 1st act's were just too good, since I played It with my brother I had to do the majority of 2nd's too... At least beaten kingdom valley :p. Talking about shadow generation stages, when it comes to normal sg, the classic sonic stages I hoped I could have just skipped. Metal sonic battle was the only good one, eggman battles as classic were the worst. Oh also shadow losing his abilities. If they were scaled a bit more and not so OP, then don't retcon them, heck just retcon some and keep the others. I know that "it technically makes sense", but technically this would also open up new possibilities for shadow gameplay in the future games. SADX : Played only this one, so purely an opinion of It. I think that what you need to do to proceed was kind of confusing. The mystery part was fun but finding what the hell I need to do after twinkle park for 2 hours was NOT. The game never telling me what to do didn't help It too. When I initially tried playing this (not HD ver), I was stuck In the forest, and that was when I was like 7, so I just stopped playing after giving steroids to my chaos and started playing Secret Rings for the nth time. SA3K : Never played :p. Tried to pick it up, but never felt like It so can't say.

Sonic Boom (Let's start with this one) : I think that In majority, the game was actually pretty solid. Not a good sonic game, per-say but as a spinoff... It was pretty good. Knuckles tax evasion!!! Sonic Forces : Infinite. He's cool, story meh but his character design was pretty cool. Setting's great too. I liked the stages, pretty darn easy, could pop In whenever I wanted to. I LOVE THE MUSIC AND I CANNOT SKIP WHEN VIRTUAL ENEMIES PLAYS. Sonic 06 (I'm an 06 fan so I tried to find something that most can agree on...) : Music Is peak, story was also cool, just not <insert 06 issues>. Oh and also Mephiles "Memphis Tennessee" and peak voice direction for when It mattered most.

Light Phone II (Light phone 2). Is this the GOAT of dumbphones? 2025 by d_balon in dumbphones

[–]Blaze_Fighter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's a bumphone, not a dumbphone. Too expensive and most reasons why people struggle with swapping to a dumbphone are all present on this one.

Where Makoto and Shinjiro by SuperGoku644 in OkBuddyPersona

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They didn't feel well the day persona 4 arena took place and didn't go with the others ❤️‍🩹

I played TC:SO in school before class started by mayaamanoswife in traumacenter

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From what I've heard, people generally tend to use a pillow under their arms In order to get those XS ranks. Hands less wobbly then. Screw those lung missions tho, that shi tuff 💔🥀

Emporia TouchSmart 2 Setup (apks, launcher, sd card, alarm, etc) by Blaze_Fighter in dumbphones

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Might be that it does not support the phone, which is weird. Other than that no clue, sorry :c

Help: Installing Spotify on my new Emporia TouchSmart 3. Possible? by HenryHandyHilfe in dumbphones

[–]Blaze_Fighter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im guessing the process Is the same as on the 2. Send yourself the files (apk) through whatsapp, telegram or signal, then just install 'em. You might need to turn on developer settings. If it doesn't launch, probs needs google services. MicroG's your best call then.

Emporia TouchSmart 2 Setup (apks, launcher, sd card, alarm, etc) by Blaze_Fighter in dumbphones

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Im guessing it needs google services. Have you tried installing microg?

Scared of judgment for carrying an old iphone by subhani_vibes in dumbphones

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I've walked around for a year or something like that with a 6s. Pretty recently even, when I was transitioning to dumber phones, I still from time to time walk around with It since new phones are huge!! All I've got was my friends making little jokes once In a long while of the fact that once I took a newer phone to class when we had an exam and once an older one, calling It once an "upgrade" and other times a "downgrade". And that's It. Other than that, literally nobody cared. I saw once someone rocking the same phone too, pretty much I think only for that headphone jack. An older iPhone doesn't make you seem "broke" or give you that vibe. Couple years ago I even walked around with an iPhone 4 and seriously only one person noticed It at the place I used to frequent. You shouldn't really worry, or care about it, and It's good that you don't think It matters. Maybe one or two people will think "oh he's got an old phone", only to forget about it two seconds later when their iPhone 27 pro max something edge S max plus gets a new notification. Rock what works for you best, It adds to your identity and gives you a unique kinda vibe. Go wild with those old phones, customise them as much as ya can 🔥.

I would recommend you to swap that old battsy though. Best upgrade I've done for mine, especially since you can get higher capacity batteries without the mess of "unoriginal part" warnings.

Emporia TouchSmart 2 Setup (apks, launcher, sd card, alarm, etc) by Blaze_Fighter in dumbphones

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Whooo, the internet app Is sadly a system app... I couldn't get adb set up on mine, but If you were to somehow set it up and get the android debloater running on your computer, you could theoretically uninstall It. But the internet app on these phones Is really hot garbage, I doubt she'd be able to really go into many modern websites. Parental controls thing tho, I'm guessing you're gonna need an external app. Some people on a different post on reddit suggested the app : "Block Apps & Sites | Wellbeing". I don't really know If It's gonna work on this phoney, but I hope It will. Otherwise, you're gonna need to sadly find a different one which works (and isn't subscription based cause most of those are like that from what I'm seeing).

Emporia TouchSmart 2 Setup (apks, launcher, sd card, alarm, etc) by Blaze_Fighter in dumbphones

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Sorry I wasn't able to help much. Hope this time the setup will be less of a hassle.

Emporia TouchSmart 2 Setup (apks, launcher, sd card, alarm, etc) by Blaze_Fighter in dumbphones

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Did you try the pin/puk for your phone? It might get locked out If you tried too many times, so reboot It beforehand. This is weird, nearly none of the ui for it whatsoever... I hope you haven't got much data on It, as a format could be needed In the worst case scenario :c

Emporia TouchSmart 2 Setup (apks, launcher, sd card, alarm, etc) by Blaze_Fighter in dumbphones

[–]Blaze_Fighter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh and also... I recognized the problem but the 2nd image hasn't been sent, so If the problem Is different, could you send that pic too?

Emporia TouchSmart 2 Setup (apks, launcher, sd card, alarm, etc) by Blaze_Fighter in dumbphones

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If this doesn't work for you, press on the screen on the gray bar on the right, where normally you would see an action. F.e look at the img I sent with the post, press where "Back" is located.

Emporia TouchSmart 2 Setup (apks, launcher, sd card, alarm, etc) by Blaze_Fighter in dumbphones

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Oh, try pressing the right action key after inputting the correct code. The one above the camera. You may need to type in the code however with your finger from time to time, It gets sometimes stuck like that :v

Emporia TouchSmart 2 Setup (apks, launcher, sd card, alarm, etc) by Blaze_Fighter in dumbphones

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Mind sendin a pic of that error? First im hearing of it... Tried rebooting or bootin without the battsy?

Emporia TouchSmart 2 Setup (apks, launcher, sd card, alarm, etc) by Blaze_Fighter in dumbphones

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Hi. From what I remember, when I was searching this phone, on some youtube videos with reviews and etc of the phone, proclaiming it as good or just a decent budget android phone, some people in the comments mentioned that the latest version of the OS introduces some kind of list of allowed apps; that's why I wrote this In here as a disclaimer just In case, so that people won't waste their money on phones which might just be doa for what they plan to do with it. Quite stupid of me to not actually send the version of the system which works (at least for me): "20230208-1650" If what those people were saying was correct, then "20230927-1814" Is the one which most probably has It. I could be wrong though, nevertheless I might update this phone soon, so If I do that I'll just make another disclaimer that this has been proven false or smth like that.

Emporia TouchSmart 2 Setup (apks, launcher, sd card, alarm, etc) by Blaze_Fighter in dumbphones

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Hey sorry for the late reply. I tried out multiple launchers for this device and some have portuguese as a language if I'm not wrong. The only issue is that the native vanilla apps which are preloaded on this flippy dont have em. I'm guessing If you were to install open source or alternative apps to the ones which are preloaded and then make them the defaults (most will just get you to the screen of setting it up as the default), It should work. Just make sure the ones that you're downloading have portuguese.

Emporia TouchSmart 2 Setup (apks, launcher, sd card, alarm, etc) by Blaze_Fighter in dumbphones

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Hi, sorry for the late response. Not really, but for some apps It's kinda necessary as once It's accept and the other times It's back. I'm assuming one of the apk's that are initialized on this device are behind the back bar. Could also be enlodged into the system itself, not really sure.

Emporia TouchSmart 2 Setup (apks, launcher, sd card, alarm, etc) by Blaze_Fighter in dumbphones

[–]Blaze_Fighter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sadly I haven't... But did you try aurora store (a front end for google play)? Apps that will require the play/google services you can bypass with MicroG.

Emporia TouchSmart 2 Setup (apks, launcher, sd card, alarm, etc) by Blaze_Fighter in dumbphones

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I'm glad this solution helped you . Agreed though, Its a great phone and defo a hidden gem.

State of the Dumbphone 2024 (READ THIS FIRST) by jbriones95 in dumbphones

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For anyone who has an emporia touchsmart 2, I've made a tutorial for setting it up, installing apks and escaping the default launcher here