hey guys wanted to note a couple things! 1st, this is not an attempt to make Brazil look bad? I went to several shops and they were all selling J series phones so I bought one. I know people here use flagships and other phones than this.. it’s cool J2 can still be used in 2023! 2g and 3g are a thing here for now, and I was celebrating that. 2nd, sorry for the audio. I recorded the voiceover in a closet of our hotel at 2am.. but I didn’t want to miss an upload! -Johnzoid

@darkcraft8792

6 ай бұрын

The video was good. I bought an iPhone 7 for 15 dollars, the only problem is that the ear speaker crackles a little

The only reason Brazilians use these old phones is because the cost of a smartphone is very expensive. An S23Ultra basically costs around 5 minimum wages in Brazil.

@johnzoid74

6 ай бұрын

yes, inflation doesn’t leave much left to spend on electronics. my wife was born and raised there- moved to USA about 8 years ago. she’s explained and expressed this to me- and her family who is still there tell us the cost of cellular and electronics makes it harder.

@vinysilver7806

6 ай бұрын

@@johnzoid74 Everything in Brazil actually, but mainly phones and cars. Today in Brazil, anyone who buys a new car is paying just over 53% in tax included in the total price of the car.

@dyrenpaguyo7553

6 ай бұрын

5 minimum wages is cheaper than here

@Pedrojerico

6 ай бұрын

@@johnzoid74 Not that much due to inflation as the aburdly high taxation. Up to 77% after new taxes introduced this year.

@david_gamer262

6 ай бұрын

Faz o L kkk

Yes, we still have 2G here in Brazil. It's great because folks (like my stepdad) who aren't into smartphones can still use their old Nokias.

@johnzoid74

6 ай бұрын

that’s awesome.. dang.. I need to find a Nokia before I leave and play with it!

@sargera1

6 ай бұрын

U gonna need it.brazil is so big it wont be good for 4g/5g on SA setup

@otistically

6 ай бұрын

Num acredito...

@Jeaum

6 ай бұрын

​@@sargera1here in Brazil there is good 4g and 5g, especially in the capitals.

@sali-ali

6 ай бұрын

Same here in Europe, my 3310 from my childhood still works. i use it once or twice a year to remember the old days.

5:50 In the past, cell phones came with an app to watch live television here in Brazil, only open channels worked, as the radio came too

Brazil is gone more nuts with the taxation, I sent some phones to my Brazilian wife a while ago and she paid pretty penny in import taxes for those. Now the taxes are even steeper and the shipping is massively slowed down as customs are practically inspecting everything that enters the country.

The j2 prime had included a small antenna. It was basically a headphone jack to headphone port adaptor. Plugging in the headphone port on the phone would make the TV app work

@johnzoid74

6 ай бұрын

ahhhhh this is good to know thank you. No I’m on the hunt for something similar!

@ongedierte3606

6 ай бұрын

Only South American Models have antenna

@joroc

6 ай бұрын

Not after TV sinal upgrade

@albertomedeiros6547

6 ай бұрын

@@johnzoid74 , any headphone connect to p2 port will work as antenna. Some models of Motorola and Lg (not only Samsung) sold for the Brazilian market have the capability of watch digital tv. And yes, still works until today.

I'm still using this as my main phone, and I would have to say that this phone was amazing for it's time. I have the 8GB version and it's really hard for me to install applications on it even after I debloated it cause the Android itself takes about 4.54GB of storage and I somehow have all of my apps installed on the remaining 3.2GB storage. The battery is also not that reliable even after changing it many times and instantly dies after reaching about 50%. But still, the software is surprisingly fast and optimized and can run smoothly. Even as of right now, it can still perform daily tasks and browse social media almost without any problem! Loved the vid tho!

@medal14365

6 ай бұрын

Ah the old randomly shutting off its memorable

@user-oc6yn9li1g

6 ай бұрын

I had a j3 prime with 1.5gb of ram and 16gb of storage. It's faster and better than an a01 or a03 core.

@Lendigo4

6 ай бұрын

@@medal14365 Yeah, and this phone somehow have the tendency to sense when sonething urgent and important is going on, so as a result it just crashes and powers off and won't turn back on until I plug the charger in. I've experienced so many things with this one DAMN phone 😂

@happyguyvibezbtw

6 ай бұрын

I’ve had a Samsung galaxy j2 one of the later models it had 15gigs of storage and 4g lite I’ve had it since 2020 and finally got something better and I’ll be damned I still have to rely upon it for texts

Brazil still has 2g and 3g networks (and it is possible that 3g will be shut down before 2g). There are still some 3g phones being sold new, like the Multilaser E Lite 2 and Positivo Twist 5.

@johnzoid74

6 ай бұрын

that is WILD. why would they shut down 3g before 2g? Super interesting thanks for the info there

@feliperodrigues2069

6 ай бұрын

@@johnzoid74 There are many equipment that connect to the 2g network and don't need the 3g bandwidth. Also, some dual-sim smartphones can only connect to 4g (or 3g) in one sim card, leaving the other only one with 2g.

@gteixeira

6 ай бұрын

​​@@johnzoid74As already mentioned, many IoT devices only work on 2G, particularly truck tracking devices, and since the country is huge and quite hilly, in a lot of places only 2G signal is able to reach, specially along remote highways.

I still use one of those as a secondary phone, my parents bought it in 2016/7 for my sister and since i don´t got a phone now I use it to study/youtube and Spotify (Mozambique/Africa)

@johnzoid74

6 ай бұрын

I love it! I’ll keep using this one as long as as I can. One of my favorites to the collection.

I think my grandma had thath phone, memories..

Samsung Galaxy J2 Prime user here, Thanks for making this video! Even though it's kind of laggy though, and the 'stand' is a phone stand for phones! (Or tablets).

Just as an addendum: There's probably no Custom Rom with recent Android versions in the market, I searched a lot to get one running on my dad's old J2 Prime that he gave me to sell (never sold it, using it as a small home server with UserLAnd lol). The only rom with a recent android is a LineageOS 14.1 (I think) that doesn't work great (probably it lacks a lot of Mediatek's drivers), so it's a no go. But fortunately there's a lot of other roms for it with Android 6 and some customizations.

@blueshoregaming1591

6 ай бұрын

If you have some time can you please tell me more about UserLand and what it's used for and how are you using it. (Sorry as a tech nerd I just wanted to learn about to 😅)

@yet_another_communist

6 ай бұрын

@@blueshoregaming1591 It's a very simple app that works in a chroot state inside a container. It works almost like a Docker container I would say, as it doesn't have systemd and such. I'm using it to run Ubuntu mostly, it works both on Armhf devices and Arm64 ones. I have used to run some APIs, u can use it to store files to, it's a very cool app tbh.

@yet_another_communist

6 ай бұрын

@@blueshoregaming1591 Just a correction, Userland runs in proot, Linux Deploy (another android app for deploying Linux. Linux Deploy requires a rooted device) that runs in chroot.

@SummonerArthur

6 ай бұрын

This. Sadly, that rom has too many "tiny" issues. Battery drains too quickly cuz its processor is always at 100% usage, cant record with the camera, etc. The developer used to update that rom every month, and then apply the same changes to a lineage os 15 rom he was also working on. I wonder what hes up to since he disappeared

what a memory that's my first phone I've ever received as a kid

I think you have to put headphones on the headphone jack for the MobileTV to work. And I think it only picks up analog television. Update: I searched the device specs for the J2 prime and the device has a tv tuner on it. And it's digital.

Originally the phone came with an antenna, idk where mine is, but I remember seeing it, it was an adapter you connected to the headphone jack, it had another headphone jack in the end to plug earphones, idk how it worked exactly, but I don't remember if common headphones/earphones works the same way as the antenna.

Buy more phones from Brazil!

@johnzoid74

6 ай бұрын

ok! here for another week and a half, on it!!

@gockartzz8272

6 ай бұрын

​@@johnzoid74buy iphone 15 pro max in Brazil 💀

@Crapchannelbruh

6 ай бұрын

​@@johnzoid74buy a Samsung s23 in Brazil 💀

@Lsp4984

6 ай бұрын

@@gockartzz8272I’m from Brazil and it is $2000💀

@KinanXD_

6 ай бұрын

Buy Redmi Note 13 In Brazil 💀

Brazil + Let's Explore... *Should never be in the same sentence* 😂

@johnzoid74

6 ай бұрын

dude it’s such an amazing place! although yes has it’s dangerous sides for sure lol

Im from brazil and found out your channel recently im loving the videos, congratss

@johnzoid74

6 ай бұрын

that’s wild that my video was recommended to you- thanks for watching! ❤

A cellphone with built in tv tunner is a good idea to U.S phones. This is an excellent idea!

Your videos give me some kind of nostalgia to the old phones 😂❤

works better than my phone😭😭

@KevinClifford285

6 ай бұрын

What is your phone

@thewaffle3945

6 ай бұрын

hes phone is iphone thats why he cries@@KevinClifford285

@seboyzz9827

6 ай бұрын

@@KevinClifford285 samsung a 20 e.But trust me it is very bad😭

These kind of phones are really common in Argentina also. My mother is still using my old J7 2016 (rock and roll of a phone)

John- the Google account from the previous owner isn't completely blurred out. Just wanted to bring to your attention but excellent video and we want more!

@johnzoid74

6 ай бұрын

hey thanks Ryang! I blurred it the day after it went live after seeing comments similar, thank you!

I remember seeing this phone everywhere and it was priced at around 130USD back when it was launched.

@johnzoid74

6 ай бұрын

same!

It was one of greatest phone for people like me in that time!

"O John gravando com o celular que ele comprou no mercadão" 😂😂 that would be me too

My mom recently took her Samsung Galaxy Note 9 for repairs and the shop she took it to had a Samsung Galaxy J2 Prime for display to show how well they fix phones, what a coincidence that I see a video of one 😂😂

The first phone I ever owned ran Android 6. It was a ZTE phone from 2015. I was never that big into mobile gaming. It was a pretty good phone though. I did run emulators on it. I got a MAME emulator successfully running on it.

4:54 you don't need to have an adapter, just insert the SIM card correctly, I used my phone like this a lot of time

I am currently using an old Galaxy S2 as an MP3 player, the good old days of Android 4.1.2 jellybean😂

@johnzoid74

6 ай бұрын

Jellybean= 🐐 … strictly on nostalgia lol

I'm a Brazilian and I had a galaxy Gran prime back in 2016, that brings me a nostalgia shot, the swipe typing is probably available in android 6, since my old android 2 galaxy Y had that

@windowsvistafan443

6 ай бұрын

Minha mae tbm tinha um grand prime, nostalgia

The only issue with these phones is the lack or asbsense of Android security updates

@me234234

6 ай бұрын

That is what kinda forces you to upgrade even with a good working phone as you are nothing without good security and security updates are definitely a part of that

@BlackLotuses

6 ай бұрын

@@me234234 my Oppo phone runs out of updates from March next year, when should I stop using it?

@windowsxphype

6 ай бұрын

​​@@me234234there is antivirus

@FuckTheState

6 ай бұрын

LOL google already steals all of your data. I don’t see why people using standard versions of android are concerned about security while their privacy is severely violated by the spyware pre installed on their devices.

@jackwilson5542

4 ай бұрын

​@@me234234It doesn't, since there are (very good) anti-virus apps in the play store. I buy a new phone (like every 2 years) and only update it like twice to fix the bugs. If you update for too long your phone slows down. (Planned obsolescence, that's why Apple does it)

Jetpack Joyride and temple run are awesome!

I'm still using this phone and I like this phone because it brings my childhood memories

That device reminds me so much of my Samsung On 5 phone, which basically looks identical from the front, and came out approximately around the same time, maybe even in 2015, I think.

@PinkAgaricus

5 ай бұрын

I remember that model, I think I had one of those. I think that was my first of the 2010's budget/midrange Samsungs. On 5 Prime Grand Prime J(something) Prime (J5) J7 Star (unlocked Metro PCS phone - with that splash screen and bloatware)

Congratulations, your video reached Brazilians

As a brazilian, i confirm this is accurate.

Mine was j7 beautiful display and smooth game play at that time

i used to have a phone like that from 2017-2020. it was a j2 prime indeed but an 8gb variant, which is actually kinda frustrating. though here in the Philippines, the tv app doesn't exist. but it has to be an antenna that can transmits radio frequencies. i can't download games (or ANY documents exceed with 5mb) and it's sometimes stucked on bootloop, it is such a nostalgia. probably the most durable phone i've ever had.

4:55 this is high speed card. these old phones usually support older low speed ones which are black in colour

Loved paper toss

@johnzoid74

6 ай бұрын

same still on of my faves!

5:47 I remember that the J2 Prime came with a antenna thingy, probably needed to use the MobileTV

Subbed because you came to Brazil!

@johnzoid74

6 ай бұрын

Love this place ❤️

I've opened my KZread home and your video show up as Recommended. I'm from Brazil and i can confirm, most of the population uses their phones until the last day of his working life. Most of the people just uses a phone to send WhatsApp messages and voice messages (yes, we do it a LOT) and to post dumb things on Facebook or Instagram. Younger people usually has more "recent" phones as they knows more about the technology itself. Well, about the used smartphone market we consume it almost every time, we usually can find some good deals and trade those old phones for a (not so) new one, we just need to keep and eye because we suffer a lot from cellphone robbery, so robbers usually sells it on the Internet or on Facebook Marketplace. sometimes they sell it for some illegal stores or for technicians who wants to use some parts of the robbed phone

Still using this as my primary phone for calling messaging and hotspot.

@johnzoid74

6 ай бұрын

so freaking cool

I had a j5 2015 a long while ago, it stopped updating in android 6 but I managed to get it to android 7, good times! (currently on iphone 13)

i love android 6.0 and 4.0 phones its so nostalgic

I have a J2 Prime! Silver though it lags from time to time and the battery is quite bloated but other than that it still works!

2:20 hey me too! Mine was the j3 orbit currently I'm using a galaxy a13 5g

Not sure, but I think you have to plug in a pair of auxiliary wired headphones for the radio app to work.

bro, for Digital TV to work, you need to connect a headphone or a wire that came with the device box to serve as an "antenna"

For the TV to work I guess you have to plug a wired earphones

This is the strongest phone that ever lived in Indonesia

Ngl The J2 Prime gives me some nostalgia it was my second ever phone i got

I wonder if the TV app needed WiFi/mobile data to scan for channels, so it's no surprise that it didn't find any channels on that initial scan. (I noticed it wasn't connected to anything when scanning for channels.)

When I saw the thumbnail i knew it was my first smartphone! It's not the exact model, but it's close enough. I still have it too

I actually LIVE next to Florianopolis. It's called Ribeirao Preto, the coffee city of Brazil.

YO HE MENTIONED JACOB R, i am subbed

I do not miss old smartphones. The new ones are a lot better. They are bigger and they have better battery life.

I remember having a J series, was a great phone

my friends back in 2015 had the nicest samsungs like the gakaxy s5 and 6 and heck the j2. but i remmeber getting the on5 and i personally loved it becaused it closely resembled the s5 to me

fr samsungs entry-level phones are still used even today by elderly and some students, we are talking about phones that priced less htan 200$ on release, i still have a galaxy pocket (2012 i think) that i use as music player when working out, and wireless earbuds works flawlessy, bcs running with a big phone on my pocket is annoying as hell

That's the thing with Android. It doesn't get outdated that quickly. App support is really long!

@BOplaid

6 ай бұрын

iOS: umm... its the same thing with me. plus i have longer updates. Samsung: im getting close y'know. Apple: whatever. i will re-invent something and everybody will still be attached to me. Samsung: **sues apple for a monopoly** Apple: **dies somehow** every single android fan(including me): lets throw a party that lasts for AT LEAST 2 years straight! Apple: **comes back bc yes** every single android fan: srsly? i wanna die. **dies** (also, you may be questioning that if im an android fan, why im giving positives to apple. well, the reason is bc i just want this battle to be fair.)

its crazy bc i just upgraded from this exact phone to a A04e

This also has a front led flash

NICE!!!

these phones are still sold here because new flagships are really expensive, and can vary from 3 to 10 minimum wages, so most people look for cheap and functional phones as a necessity for talking with family and friends and using services that are more available digitally, and most keep using these phones until they have to replace it (mainly because of apps like whatsapp and facebook not working with older software and hardware) and yes, mobile tv apps were a common thing back in this era of smartphones, where the phone came with a little antenna which you plugged into the headphone jack and tv channels would pick up

Nice!!

still got one of these phones

brazil mentioned!!

@johnzoid74

6 ай бұрын

Brazil is a big W 🇧🇷 love this place

You forgot to show that it has a front led flash

U should have tried buying the j5 2016 in my market in Indonesia its cheaper than j2 prime and has a super amoled screen 500mb more ram 16gb storage

Meanwhile i am literally watching this video on a galaxy S5

So the cost for the J2 Prime is 299 Reals, right? Honestly, it seems reasonable enough for me to buy it just for the nostalgia (60 bucks).

You are going to Brazil 🇧🇷

@johnzoid74

6 ай бұрын

I am here now!

in our country you can get the same phone in great condition for 30 bucks

@johnzoid74

6 ай бұрын

same in USA, although this one has much more character 🖖😎

@AndreLuiz-zf6wq

6 ай бұрын

Idk what country you're talking about, but this guy in this video totally got it way more expensive than usual, as a brazillian i would not have paid this for a j2 prime, you can get a j4 core for that price here. Anyway thanks for the comment it makes me feel great ❤

nice!

Santa Catarina!! you can buy much nicer phones for not much more even here, but yeah, plenty of people still on their old Samsungs lol

A couple of things, newer higher capacity SD cards don't work with older technology unless it's refomated to something like fat32, as for the tv app, in certain countries in Asia like Korea and Japan they broadcast using a different technology for ota tv. We had something similar in u.s. that didn't take off, called atsc, 1.0 m/h (Mobile/handheld). Tv handhelds are niche, but they might become a thing with atsc.3.0

@yet_another_communist

6 ай бұрын

Brazil uses the same tech as in Japan for TV Broadcasting, so probably a Japanese phone with TV will probably work in Brazil's TV networks.

@natlegal

6 ай бұрын

It requires a headphone inserted for Mobile TV, it's used as an antenna.😊

@jayswift3349

6 ай бұрын

Good to know.

I know someone with a J3 Eclipse (made 2018) and I have a Galaxy s9 (also 2018, being replaced with s23 FE) and the difference is crazy.

you said the sd card reader wasnt functional right? did u try another sd card to see if it was functional or just the sd card not working

5:40 you need the earphones for scanning

I don't know what you mean by "android 6 games", most of the current games still support android 6

While you are here in Brazil it's really a good oportunity to get old tech. A lot of people like me still like and use things like the PS2. And you got scammed on this phone, It should be a lot cheaper on used markets like Facebook marketplace or Shopee. These guys from street stores scam people a lot here. Buying from a normal person instead of a store It would cost 100 R$

That is literally my Grandpa's old phone, Those are cheap J2 prime knockoffs I'm pretty sure (most of the time), they may have 8gb of internal storage but in reality they only have 4gb, and what's worse is it cuts down your storage even more because there is some pre-installed microsoft apps crap and other stuff

As a Galaxy J2 Prime user, a can definetly confirm that it is one of the Samsung phones of all time. I really want to get another phone (just waiting for the S21 FE 256GB to go down in price), but i'm happy a have something lol.

You need to use the earbuds in order to watch TV Channels on this phone

@FuckTheState

6 ай бұрын

That’s what I was going to say

Make sure sure you're on the latest version of Android , or wipe the cahe partion and see if you're SD Card works.

Cool

I used to play Plumber Crack & Streaker Run.

in Argentina you can buy a j2 prime for around $10 bucks, for $46 at least a 4gb ram phone

I still have an 8gb variant of this. Unusable unless you install a custom rom, and then there's the custom rom glitches themselves. Its my "mess around system" phone

@johnzoid74

6 ай бұрын

it’s definitely fun to mess around with.. I’ll drop a video Saturday of me gaming on mine 😂 N64 emualtion, psp emulation, and some cool apps I’m running Do you have a thread to the custom rom you used?

mine is j7 and my sisters is j7 max with android 8.1.0 and i already lived in that city

How this phone can still run KZread? My old Galaxy Tab 2 has Android 6 Custom ROM and KZread doesn’t work on it, forces to update.

epic video brazil

@johnzoid74

6 ай бұрын

Brigado! (Thank you in Portuguese)

@johnzoid74

6 ай бұрын

Obrigado!

3:38 same for romania in June 2024

Question do people still use such phones? I am a ewaste bin diver from the US that resells phones anything from low end older samsungs to newer iPhones. I am surprised that these older models sell and im glad that people would reuse them. Tho even here in the US some people use older Samsungs. And in the country my parents are from (Romania) it is not uncommon to see people still using the Samsung S7. Which is pretty cool imo the S7 is still very capable.

@AndreLuiz-zf6wq

6 ай бұрын

Yup, although yes they are considered cheap here too, and the average family will either get this used for a youngster, or just have one from back in the day in some drawer, i live in the poorest state of brazil called Alagoas, and in here this phone and phones as such are very common with elderly people and with kids, and theres a huge community of - and im totally making this name up, but not the community - "phone overhaulers" or "phone tuners" (i think it sounds cool), which is just a bunch of ppl that for one reason or another want to pull the most amount of performance and usability out of this phones, either out of necessity or just as a hobbie. You will see people turning MHL capable phones or Dex capable phones into straight up game consoles or desktops, overclocking their chips and putting big heatsinks on them with coolers and a bunch of other stuff. You will see people grabbing cheap/used/given/straight up trash picked parts for everything. I mentioned some big examples and stuff yes, BUT in between less crazy fellas, theres this unwritten rule: rooting your phone and stripping every piece of bloatware from your cheap slow phone to AOSP levels is a rite of passage to become one of us mad scientists LOL Making your device completely devoid of bloatware, sometimes using swap ram(which theres still a debate on and i will not get into), and sometimes even using root apps to, ans i'm nor kidding, lower the system's internal resolution to decrease load on the GPU and increase FPS are all practices that i have seen. That plus all the modded apps, cracks, ane "lite" versions of games who remove assets and do all trickery to make the games/apps lighter, they even mess with stuff such as PSP and PS2 ISOs. Not only Brazil has that of course but its also huge here, i'd say at least all the countries on BRICS have this, russian and chinese mods on stuff like these are also huge. For better or for worse, the average brazillian is slowly starting to catch up over the past years and brand new flagship phones are not a rare sight as they were in 2013, having a galaxy s3 when it was new, was like having a bugatti, it was status, nowadays having an S22 Ultra is like having any nice - but common - new car, idk, a Chevy Cobalt or smth, that means that this community is changing, but even now it still exists, and there is always a poorer class and its there, with a huge dose of young juvenile creativity and craftsmanship that you see things flourish, and then you have stuff like an old trash picked 512mb ram tablet from 2015 and a toy fisher price laptop become a dosbox and retroarch cyberdeck ! (i did this last one, i can even film it and show it to ya). Anyway sorry for the big text, i hope i gave you a very good insight onto how things are overall, i type this with the passion of a phone tuner since the symbian days.

@epic_paul27

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the insight! Sounds very fascinating what these people do. I've only tried out custom roms on a few of my phones to make them a bit better. I remember a few years back I used this Huawei u8650 with a custom rom to try to load a game like Minecraft cuz Minecraft didnt work and was shocked that it ran so good for such a phone.

Hello from brazil

@johnzoid74

6 ай бұрын

Oi, Tudo Bem?!

@TiagoIsraelcarxstreet09

6 ай бұрын

Sim. Prazer sr.

Tallest skyscraper in south america is in my home town of Santiago, Chile. :P Not that it matters that much

Only johnzoid's videos can fix me now