Can you game on a Galaxy Y in 2023?

Lets take a look at the 2011 Samsung Galaxy Y! This older device can still handle Android 4 games with some custom rooting, so lets take little journey back into time and have some fun and a little shot of nostalgia!
If you'd like to get the phone yourself for some fun, it can be found for cheap on eBay!
Here is a dump phone you can game on, the Cat S22 Flip:
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Here is my favorite mini smart phone, the Jelly 2:
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Here is another mini smartphone I love, but a durable version, the Atom Mini:
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[@RetroDaddyPH]

The Galaxy Y is my introduction to Android and Android Development as a whole. My uncle was about to throw one away back in 2012 when I was 15, so I asked him for it. Lots of great memories with this phone. In the Philippines and India, the rom development for this device was really active to as far as 2015-2016. I still have mine somewhere. Probably still works with the battery replaced.

[@chivalrynik3064]

Yeah but I'm not sure the rom developers are from india, mostly I found custom roms on this mobile which is really amazing, I had this phone and I used to experiment with lots of rom.. This mobile is really helpful for developers.. I used to have this at the same year like 2015 to '17

[@blackhorseteck8381]

Shoot, just posted a very similar comment before reading yours, had mine back in the year of its launch and replaced it with the 1st gen Galaxy, great little Android bigger, and easy to flash too 😂

[@FedericoCamaligan]

Still works pare, my Samsung Galaxy Ace is still working and Y is a much later version of that. Hahaha. But we need to install custom ROMs. Pero text text nalang talaga. Hahahaha. Yan lang dahilan kaya preferred ko Samsung andaming active sa custom roms dati.

[@dassoumyabrata123]

@@chivalrynik3064 yea they were from india. i had the galaxy pocket duos, my first phone. Miss it.... its dead now.

[@chivalrynik3064]

@@FedericoCamaligan hyperion rom is good you must try it

[@manveensingh3494]

My first phone !!! Full on blast to the past. You have unlocked some of the core memories that were hidden deep beneath.

[@johnzoid74]

mission accomplished! ✅ thanks for watching 🤙

[@urheretochill]

Omg it was also my first phone😭😭

[@SoosRamirez1]

Jit is talking like it’s inside out

[@johnzoid74]

in the first 30 seconds I mentioned the Galaxy Y was released in 2015, it was actually released in 2011 my bad! What is the next throwback phone I should take a look at?? Thanks for watching guys! If you’re interested in the rom from Gingerbread to 4.1.1 this is the guide I followed: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5fOl6hnhrl5btksi=pAXSSNaWHO_TJ_MP

[@Ottoucan]

It actually looked like it was released in 2015, pretty good design!

[@Ottoucan]

Also play genshin on a htc one!

[@RegularGuy1998]

I got it in 2015

[@johnzoid74]

@@Ottoucanoh geez ok nice callout thanks man 😂 ok I’ll see if Genshin is possible lol

[@leostechstuff]

it was released in 2011 with android 2.3.6( i mean imagine putting android 2.3.6 on a new 2015 phone). another thing, this phone has a arm v6 processor which was common on budget phones in 2010(?)-2012

[@jackkraken3888]

I actually had a Galaxy Y2 and it also had such limited storage as well. But the camera was actually quite decent and even the panorama feature was far better than it deserved to be. In fact I go the feeling the panorama app is better than some modern phones.

[@XXxerom]

I also had the Young 2, that was my first android phone, and it still works with the original battery still this time.

[@jackkraken3888]

@@XXxerom I would have stayed with it longer but the tiny internal storage is what killed it for me.. I think I still have mine somewhere.

[@hanakomisa]

I had a Galaxy Mini S5570B (basically the Y's predecessor/bigger brother) and this brought back a lot of memories of 2011-2012. Used to play a ton of Where's My Water and Drag Racing on it. Simpler times for sure back then.

[@muhammadrizqanilmi1301]

Back when Angry Birds was still used to be super fun and blockbuster

[@NBOceanliners-ships]

I used to have this phone and used it up until 2017, I enjoyed it! I still have it somewhere but this video brings back so many memories so thank you ❤❤

[@royalan6826]

I used it till 2022 lmao. Then went straight to a 12 pro max. I miss android though.

[@lunatic1911]

This phone is bringing me back my memories of old times. I had to cope with this phone when GTA 3 for mobile came out, had to do a lot of modifications to the phone. Great video !

[@arturstomsons3985]

Galaxy S2 was my introduction to Android, it felt like a spaceship coming from a Sybian at the time, if I remember correctly, it was like a Nokia C7 or something. Loved Android ever since, been using an Iphone as well. I think that these games still look solid for what they are. But the jump in technology that happened when REAL smartphones appeared was insane!

[@kantai3309]

Yet they still can’t make basic smartphones run menus smoothly. Like wtf

[@akin.kilic.]

Damn, this was my first every touch screen phone. It felt like the most luxurious thing to have at the time. I used to play "Fragger" on it every day, and I couldn't download the levels as I progressed due to running out of storage... good times.

[@artbybee]

Ohhhh, I’ve been there, using this phone when it was launched. Looking at someone using it today’s is just insane! I never thought that it still usable bow tho! But hey, I adore how this guy reviewing this cute phone, always enjoyable to watch!

[@sayanadhikari3728]

This video brings back so many memories! Galaxy Y was my first ever Android phone bought back in 2012.

[@lonindu1067]

This was my first ever smart phone bought for me by my dad. So nostalgic Miss that changable colorful back covers

[@d.j.manjares9830]

Loving these old smartphone videos!

[@j0nsku335]

Brings so much nostalgia! This was my and my brothers first smartphone.

[@nooneelse1837]

I miss that phone I used to have it in mid 2015 ❤that phones well tough and some of us that had it after a while of playing games the screen itself would start to smell of tea I’m not too sure of the reason but that’s nostalgia right there thank you sir keep going 😁

[@blackhorseteck8381]

Man! A nostalgia train did hit me so hard right now, I had this bad boy just after it's launch and I flashed so many ROMs on it it's not even legal 😂. Still in a box or a drawer somewhere in my house, and will probably boot with a fresh battery.

[@romsnsama23]

😍the games in the thumbnail 😍so nostalgic 😇and the phone itself obviously..i still remember how i used to enjoy that jetpack joyride more than PUBG during those days 😅 gave u a sub ...👍

[@oktxv8186]

I loved the Galaxy Y so much it was the teen phone in my school back in the day love to see it being used in this time and age

[@yugidavin]

Damn, this is my first samsung android phone. My dad bought secondhand for me and I really love it. I also like the way this video show up first when I opened youtube. Thanks for uploading.

[@itshichabk]

Interesting, this ROM looks like it's still Android Gingerbread but with appearence tweaks to make it look like Holo! The actual lockscreen can be seen at 12:00, the old network and SIM icons are still in the status bar, and the uninstall dialog at 4:17 is the one from Gingerbread So many other "themed" ROMs like that one were made for phones that just couldn't run newer Android versions lol

[@johnzoid74]

hey that’s true, thanks for being so thorough in watching!! Here is the guide I followed, and although I followed this I believe I had a to make a few tweaks but it was what got me through.. took me way way too long: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5fOl6hnhrl5btksi=pAXSSNaWHO_TJ_MP

[@itshichabk]

​@@johnzoid74 Ah, I remember those tutorials back when flashing ROMs was easy... Apparently people managed to port ROMs up to Android 4.4 KitKat on XDA Developers!

[@bitelaserkhalif]

​@@itshichabk Step 1, open bootloader Step 2, enter recovery mode Step 3, put zip for cwm recovery (back before TWRP rules) and flash it Step 4, reboot to recovery again Step 5, wipe data+cache Step 6, flash custom rom Step 7, profit

[@itshichabk]

@@bitelaserkhalif Don't forget the Google Apps zip!

[@stroopwaf3l]

I do remember this phone being able to run actual Android 4, with many issues though. Most roms where just Android 2.3 roms with a theme and a different launcher.

[@dangumalo6857]

I didn't have a decent phone growing up, and seeing my best friend have that made me marvel at it. It's so jarring how much things have changed

[@FarhanHafizh]

I remember downloaded a custom launcher and went crazy with the themes 😂

[@decade1528]

I have Galaxy Y Neo when i was 15y'o... It's running android kitkat. I love how compact and small they are..

[@q_2676]

Wow! I remember playing Doodle Jump in 2009! At that time there’s only two of us in our high school that has touch screen phone. I have the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic and the other guy has an iPhone 3G. Whenever I play this game during lunch breaks most of my classmates were behind me watching. Good times!

[@ShenEnYu]

back then when having a touch screen phone was a big flex 💀👍

[@q_2676]

@@ShenEnYu yup thats what made those early days of touch screen phones really special

[@MuhdZafri563]

I still had this phone but with a white version and it's model was Samsung Galaxy Y Young. It's still working great until these days😁😁

[@goopyhead]

i love how your channel is just you doing the stupidest stuff on these old phones this is exactly the kind of channel i’ve been looking for

[@johnzoid74]

hahah this made me laugh 😆 I’m happy you enjoy it thanks for being here 🤜🤛

[@red_ashcroft]

I really love this phone, I had one, but my younger brother lost it. Thebest thing about this phone is that it performs pretty well for it's specs.

[@richardanastacio1986]

Man thats so pure nostalgia, i miss my first android phone Galaxy Gio, i remember it realease 2011 along side with Galaxy Mini, Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Fit.

[@wesandeth]

This was my first smartphone! Well, I had 3 of them (they didn’t like water that much), had android 5 running on them, for a first phone I genuinely loved it :)

[@edaakdogn]

i was just thinking about this phone a few days ago :o it was my first phone and it is still sooo cute!

[@user-od3fs3yw8m]

This phone is the beast when i get it when i was like 12yrs old this phone almost could do anything until you get into rooting where you could have PVZ and other apple apps that have not released yet on android and having this makes me standout in class best memories

[@dougroe4042]

Dude I love your energy

[@johnzoid74]

Cut the roper YES 🐸🐸🐸 hey thanks man 😎

[@alessio54321]

back in 2013 i had the note 2 and i remember my cousin had the galaxy y and it was hilarious to see the size difference.

[@Leos74]

damn, that's my first Android phone! My dad got me the phone when I was like 7 years old.. I still have a video review of it from back in 2014 laying around somewhere on my channel lol and the phone, although with an aftermarket battery because the original hasn't survived the water abuse, still works just fine!

[@arrax5049]

Ahhh, very nostalgic, just remember my first smartphone, Galaxy Y Neo

[@silverruv6220]

Those days i think old days were more technologically advance then now😂

[@IrisFox97]

1:10 I agree my ZTE Majesty Z796C runs android 4 and I really like how the icons look

[@manfromrome7710]

Galaxy y was the first samsung phone I bought. It was with me for maybe two years. I loved that phone.

[@abeytoby1900]

This was my first smartphone, ah nostalgia hits hard

[@fungo6631]

FM radio is something many new Android phones have too. And some of them actually have pretty decent tuners too! I received radio stations over 1000 miles away with the Galaxy A40 using its earphones. I dunno about you, but I really like listening to radio without spending mobile data.

[@AndroidGuy1780]

@fungo6631 My tablet does that 💀💀

[@ramzirmz786]

I remember this device when I had not enough money to purchase this device I mean this was an amazing phone that time currently having S23 Ultra and yeah the dream come true for me finally.

[@stinkymoth]

god i miss android 4. spent my childhood playing on my verizon branded tablet (mightve been a zte) running kitkat. my first introduction to android and ive been in love ever since. really miss those old icons.

[@linokuma6559]

doing a samsung galaxy s4 custom rom on this tiny device is a wonderful experience for me... time sure flies eh.

[@FastR080T]

My first Android and the 1st ever phone, the memories trying to install custom ROMs like Nemesis from XDA.

[@slimeedude]

Did he... DID HE JUST INSERT A 256 GB SD CARD?!

[@johnzoid74]

yeah 😂

[@yukisakamoto4475]

This was my first ever android phone got me into custom roms played a ton of games on it like GTA SA, Avatar, NFS Shift and more.

[@fungo6631]

GTA SA? This is definitely a trust me bro moment.

[@kingsly1031]

@@fungo6631😂😂😂😂

[@kingsly1031]

gta sa is 2.41 gb game, No way.

[@yukisakamoto4475]

@@fungo6631 there was a forum about it you can even look it up here too galaxy y gta sa

[@yukisakamoto4475]

@@kingsly1031 there was a lot of mods and ways back then when we had less powerful phones

[@medbouziri5333]

So nostalgic 😢 The first phone/the best memories I ever had 😢

[@manfromrome7710]

lots of memories with this phone.

[@neko-chan1882]

BRUH the nostalgia ❤

[@johnzoid74]

hopefully it was sufficient 👍🔥

[@neko-chan1882]

@@johnzoid74 we want more!

[@I.no.ah.guy57]

Ohhh man Where's My Water was awesomeeeeee i havent thought about that game in so long!!!

[@ThirdRock777]

Love the nostalgia run! ANDROID 4 (Jellybean/KitKat) was indeed one of the best and most stable versions. Miss when Android maximized versions before upgrading, unlike now, every year, a new version arises. Pocket Tanks, favourite childhood game! Can you do Blackberry phones too?

[@JailerGamer]

The AUX antenna works like how radios have those wires. Back in 2011 I had a phone with FM and a broken pair of heaphones. So I cut off the wire completely and the FM radio still worked

[@gamagama69]

reminder: there are many modern android phones with micro sd still. i have a moto g stylus 2022 and it has a lot of great features for me at least. took me a while to find something with both a 120hz display and a headphone jack that also worked with verizon but its so nice. also a lot of motorola phones have the fm radio still. too bad most fm sucks if you arent genx+ also a lot of old and basic phones have only have fat32 support you have use guiformat to get larger sized cards working

[@AMITIMANSU]

Really nostalgic memories 😄❤️❣️🔥😍😘

[@fun_corner9206]

my first android smartphone that too with my first salary...i used to love playing games on this thing...Angry birds,raging thunder,fruit ninja and a robot war game which i cant recall its name but it was fun tho..

[@juampyyyyy140]

I remember this phone, it was so cool

[@leonbabic7185]

Oh shit! I had a Galaxy Y (still do), I used it back in 2013 while my iPhone 4s was being repaired. I remember rooting it and somehow getting N64 emulation running.

[@Mariajulia013]

Cut the rope music theme is so nostalgic

[@ww_4776]

My first android device. Used with Hyperion custom rom for a long time.

[@Joshtheweatherman]

Those old iHome speakers bumped hard! It’s the only speaker I’ve seen that actually bounces on the table 😂

[@johnzoid74]

yeah they did 😂

[@Mohanad4Real_]

Lol I still have one of these, and I'm using it as a second SIM cardholder, now I'm going to install custom ROM because it looks really cool.

[@SB95-sussy]

Dude that my old phone in lost it year ago now i just bought again from old tech store So Much Nostalgia

[@everydayblind]

First phone for me was an iPhone 3gs then androids since, s advance was my first and I would love to see you game on it, still have mine, gti9070. Also the galaxy gio was my iPod after the Samsung champ died, older ones had great speakers.

[@Soundmakervibekit]

The galaxy Y icons are kinda very nostalgic for me lol

[@johnzoid74]

haha same here friend same here

[@Yippeee5959]

I have the same

[@FlintG]

Man I miss all these classic games I had a old iPhone 4 and I played the crap out of them! I do miss my old gs4 though sadly I don't have it anymore.

[@johnzoid74]

I’m gonna snag an iPhone 4 soon

[@sheikhsparrow777]

Bro thats very nostalgic I remember playing angry bird ,cut the rope ,where is my water and hill climb race

[@johnzoid74]

dude I actually had Hill Climb on the SD card ready to go but I didn’t include in the video. Wanted to keep it under 13 minutes. Glad I could bring back some memories for ya 😎

[@SagoFanHD]

I played GTA 3 with this after I overclocked it when I was a kid. Good times.

[@armansarvardin1635]

It was the first phone with a touch screen. I remeber how I made this phone NOVA 1 and Asphalt 5 using chainfire 3D. These memories give me chills

[@foualter102]

I remember that phone… its one of the phone that introduced me to android OS

[@angga4740]

that CWM app its bring nostalgic memory

[@oloptrish]

This was my fave phone that i've never had when i was a kid but now my current devices are S22+, A12 and Tab S8 5G 😊

[@zzenkaii]

SGY is the phone that introduced me to rooting and custom roms. I remember you have to decompile the framework.jar using the phone itself and it takes ages 😂 My favorite rom is Hyperion

[@TheLidlGuy]

I played all the games you played 🥹 good old days on my amazon fire hd 6

[@oloptrish]

This was my fav phone back then

[@DrGintOki]

These apps are legendary i miss those days.

[@lastwhisker]

holy, my first touch screen phone! I still have it but the battery are probably dead since I haven't used it since... 2015. geez I remember playing Hill Climb Racing using this phone after doing college papers.

[@MJSeo13]

This reminds me the Black market.. I was so enjoy about Angry Bird's tuna can or Gun Club cracked.. and even the old classic Minecraft PE.. and in Korea 'Bouncy Ball' was very popular

[@elow]

My first smartphone. I miss it!!

[@_GhostMiner]

*1:47** it's normal a radio app uses the headphones as an antenna. Radio is still analog so any piece of wire can work as an antenna.*

[@stickpal]

This screams dankpods vibes. Keep it up!

[@kingsly1031]

my dream phone

[@ltBanshiro]

I had a Galaxy Ace at the time, it was a bigger Galaxy Y basically. Awesome phone, it was my very first android device, used to spend hour at Facebook talking to people, playing games, taking photos, all on that crap internal storage. Had a 512 MB SD card and that wass hell of a storage hahahah

[@snappytom2447]

One of the earliest android phone that i used to owned. Truly nostalgic.

[@DarkLatexKing]

Oh wow after long time not watching you You have finally reached 200k:)

[@johnzoid74]

yes a glorious day my friend lol thank you

[@abdullahichsan9220]

Omg all of those games are the most nostalgic and top games of their times😂 blast from the past, and i remember got jealous of my friends that have android before me when it was first became a thing, im still using Java phones lol so i usually borrowed my friends phone to play android games 😂😂

[@wielsonf]

That's not a micro SIM; that's a mini SIM.

[@SpringKing-oi2ht]

Doodle jump brings back memories

[@mahirhossain-fz5vn]

this really hits hard

[@n646n]

hits as hard as he was smacking the phone on his hand

[@TheKenzo_47]

My first phone ❤

[@laust3998]

Pocket tanks is goated dude i have it on my Police toughbook. i always played multiplayer with my dad its so fun omg it should be downloaded on every library computer dude.

[@skipo6422]

My first smart phone!!!

[@HypeXesk]

Android 4 was my first android and i still use android due to its value you can get a flagship from 2019 for 130 usd or less and they still can do most things flawlessly (samsungs seem to be very subject to screen burn in...)

[@LOLI911]

Man the nostalgia

[@rahuljadhav1787]

My first phone puchased in 2012 😍😍

[@joeddiejoe77]

I still use my Samsung Galaxy J1 Mini about the same size of that. Since Android don't support Android 6 below, it can install limited apps. But most of the OG apps still playable. I mainly use it as a gameboy now. Filled it with GBA Roms and installed an Emulator

[@KyudoKun]

Look how tiny that phone is in your hands. I remember this crazy story about Steve Jobs. That he thought that the perfect size for smartphone is only 4 inch, which I think perfectly fits the specification of that phone even though it's not an iphone.

[@dzy396]

i own this as my first smartphone in 2012

[@jrcmrqz]

my first touchscreen phone, i used sgy for 5 yrs and modified that stock rom to hyperion 9 and did some lil programming 😂

[@turkeyleg72]

I used to have thath phone in 2014, when i would try to play those subway surfers knock off's the phone would always crash. Then i got an Lg L bello wich was good for it's time.

[@johnzoid74]

the LG Bello haha love it. It took me so many APK's of these apps to find that did not crash.. this video was a bit of an adventure in 2023 so I can imagine feeling the same you did back in 14' lol!!

[@TDGalea]

My god, the Galaxy Y was my second smartphone. Then from that to an S4 Mini. What a work of beauty they were. Did start throwing custom ROMs on it but still wasn't overly fantastic in the modern day. Loved early Samsungs, not a fan of them at all now. Oppo is my latest poison.