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Question(s) About my Alcatel Flip 2

JamesJoey

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Although I couldn't find my phone, I figure I'll take a shot anyway.
Model A406DL.
I've been trying to install a launcher, but I have issues when in Play Store.
Issue is, I find it very difficult to navigating and using search. It's extreeeemely slow.

Is there a way to speed up Google Play??

James
 
Are you using the Play store app or are you using a browser?
Are you using Wi-Fi or cellular connection?
Are you using a VPN?
Who's your carrier?
I just looked up your phone, this is a $30 phone that is extremely bare bones and I doubt it will run anything, not even a launcher
 
if this is your phone:https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=5508, you only have 512gigs of ram.....no wonder things are slow.

how is the play store slow for you? downloading apps? just in general?

This isn't even an Android device, is it. Apparently it's using KaiOS, which I believe is similar to Qualcomm Brew.
Basically it's a feature phone. So don't expect to be able to do much with it, other than calls, texts, and maybe a few simple games.
 
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The, phone having Google and Play Store made me think it's android.
Trouble is I'm not finding any way to uninstall apps either.
 
The, phone having Google and Play Store made me think it's android.
Trouble is I'm not finding any way to uninstall apps either.
https://medium.com/decodein/google-bows-down-to-kaios-12178a2b9749

kaios is a linux based os similar to android os. looks like google is going to be supporting this over android go. both os are a version of android that is not quite android. so doing things might be slightly different.....which is why getting a custom launcher probably will not work.

can you explain what is going on in the play store? what is slow?
 
KaiOS is just the new moniker for Firefox OS. It has NOTHING to do with Android aside from sharing a sort of Material-design aesthetic. More recent versions offer a few Google apps (Assistant, Maps, and YouTube) but I don't think it's possible to run Play Store or standard APKs.

I had a KaiOS flip (the Go Flip) for a couple of months before the experience made me pull my hair out. The OS is very unstable, full of ads, and randomly freaks out. I had to restart my Flip a few times a day because the keypad just stopped working (like the driver that it used crashed). It was slow, T9 was useless, and sometimes SMS messages got weird timestamps making newer messages show behind old messages and forget group texts if that's your thing. The phone was so cheap as to seem to be a crippled on purpose device meant to make folks run to a smartphone so the OEM could use that to say 'see? SEE? flip phones are sooo 2005!'.

Now, today, I use a much better flip phone, running a pretty bare bones Android 5.1.1 build (AOSP). It is a total breath of fresh air. No background data usage, no Google, and full on privacy, and even a week of battery life. This phone feels far more premium than any KaiOS device. It's another example of 'you get what you pay for'
 
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