What is wrong with this (kind of old) Android, and https (only?) internet?
by dedec0 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4Z3RD)
I have a CCE tablet model "Motion TAB TR91" here.
It was apparently working a few months ago, since the owner installed and used a few apps. But a few days ago, its browser (where do i discover its version? It is an old chrome, i guess, since its icon is a blue Earth made with visible dots) apparently stopped working. Further, Gmail and a few other standard apps started having strange behaviours.
Gmail kept giving a small error window saying "Gmail stopped", with just an [OK] button in it. But it never worked again.
The email accounts in the "Email" app was still working, though.
I tried to install an alternative browser, but i could not open any page! In the end, i noted they were all https sites (even if i tried to use them as clean http, they redirect themselves to https, so...).
The app store was also strange, since it only showed paid things. I could not find the usual things there. I decided to reset the tablet.
I backed everything needed up, and did the reset. But now i am still having some good amount of trouble to get this tablet to do all it can do.
Android version is 4.0.4. Kernel version is 3.0.8+.
App store is working again. I created a new gmail account just to it, and the app for it is working. The Email app is still untouched.
HTTPS things are all inaccessible.
I tried to download Duckduckgo browser from app store, but it is (!) not there! I used a site i have, put its apk there, downloaded it with http, tried to install. Nope: "There is a problem in package analysis". After that, i checked: DDG 5.42.1 is for Android 5.0+. )':
There are some previous versions to download in the site i tried (apkpure.com/duckduckgo-privacy-browser/com.duckduckgo.mobile.android/versions), so i tried the lowest one: 5.20.0. No use, same error... ): But i could not find the written information of DDG 5.20.0 requirement. Can you??
Searching around the web for my problem, i found a page talking about *exactly* Android 4.0.4, and how it did not upgrade the CHORUME^1 browser on purpose. And it recommended the Dolphin browser. I thought "why not"? I could not download it from the tablet (secure connection again). But i did on my computer, after that, sent it to the http site, downloaded in the tablet, installed. Great. But i cannot use any https site! The error is:
"Web page not available
Please, check your internet connection
[reload]"
http pages are fine.
Since the backup was made (actually, all files and needed things were moved to somewhere else; the reset was done without a gtrash backup), i am free to do anything in the tablet.
Suggestions? What can i do?
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I did not write it wrong, it is intentional this way. You can call it a nickname for that bad browser.
It was apparently working a few months ago, since the owner installed and used a few apps. But a few days ago, its browser (where do i discover its version? It is an old chrome, i guess, since its icon is a blue Earth made with visible dots) apparently stopped working. Further, Gmail and a few other standard apps started having strange behaviours.
Gmail kept giving a small error window saying "Gmail stopped", with just an [OK] button in it. But it never worked again.
The email accounts in the "Email" app was still working, though.
I tried to install an alternative browser, but i could not open any page! In the end, i noted they were all https sites (even if i tried to use them as clean http, they redirect themselves to https, so...).
The app store was also strange, since it only showed paid things. I could not find the usual things there. I decided to reset the tablet.
I backed everything needed up, and did the reset. But now i am still having some good amount of trouble to get this tablet to do all it can do.
Android version is 4.0.4. Kernel version is 3.0.8+.
App store is working again. I created a new gmail account just to it, and the app for it is working. The Email app is still untouched.
HTTPS things are all inaccessible.
I tried to download Duckduckgo browser from app store, but it is (!) not there! I used a site i have, put its apk there, downloaded it with http, tried to install. Nope: "There is a problem in package analysis". After that, i checked: DDG 5.42.1 is for Android 5.0+. )':
There are some previous versions to download in the site i tried (apkpure.com/duckduckgo-privacy-browser/com.duckduckgo.mobile.android/versions), so i tried the lowest one: 5.20.0. No use, same error... ): But i could not find the written information of DDG 5.20.0 requirement. Can you??
Searching around the web for my problem, i found a page talking about *exactly* Android 4.0.4, and how it did not upgrade the CHORUME^1 browser on purpose. And it recommended the Dolphin browser. I thought "why not"? I could not download it from the tablet (secure connection again). But i did on my computer, after that, sent it to the http site, downloaded in the tablet, installed. Great. But i cannot use any https site! The error is:
"Web page not available
Please, check your internet connection
[reload]"
http pages are fine.
Since the backup was made (actually, all files and needed things were moved to somewhere else; the reset was done without a gtrash backup), i am free to do anything in the tablet.
Suggestions? What can i do?
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I did not write it wrong, it is intentional this way. You can call it a nickname for that bad browser.