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YouTube on old Android (self.techsupport)

submitted 4 months ago by Onomatopoetikum to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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Hello everyone,

my neighbor got an old Samsung Tablet with Android 4.1.X, he primarily wants to use it for watching YouTube. Now, the problem is, the YouTube-App needs to be upgraded, but the Play Store says the device is not compatible. I have tried to just load YouTube in the browser, but the page just doesn't seem to load. Any ideas on how to get that running? Thanks in advance!

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[–] viking@infosec.pub 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is the browser somewhat up to date? In case Chrome doesn't work, try Firefox or Kiwi.

But it's quite possible that 4.x is so far outdated, some necessary system routines are simply missing and can't be replaced.

Even tubular (alternative youtube app) is only backwards compatible to minimum 5.0 -> https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular

Make sure that all system dependencies such as Google play services are running the latest compatible version -> https://m.apkpure.com/google-play-services/com.google.android.gms (most likely you'll have to go to "old versions -> show all" and then try one version per year until you can narrow it down to something that works).

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Current NewPipe and forks are also minimum Lollipop.
Of course Revanced (as in the manager) is minimum Oreo as is the YouTube app that I vanced with it.