[Android Central Question]

Bought a cheap Samsung Galaxy Ace gt s5830i that's got the old Market Play Shop installed. Have updated it to Play Store but it won't open. Done all the usual; clearing cache on there and Play Services, inserted a new sim, re started etc, but no joy.

Is it even possible to run Play Store on such an old device?

Mel

[hallux]

Have updated it to Play Store

How did you do this? Did you root the device? Did you install a 3rd-party ROM to update the device to a newer OS? What I'm seeing is that device has a VERY OLD version of Android (2.2 FROYO) that is simply unsupported at this time. You won't get much of anything working on that 8 year old device.

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[Kizzy Catwoman]

Very old versions of Android are not compatible with modern apps. I think Android 4.4 is probably the oldest version still supported and that will be unsupported soon. I don't think you will find apps that work on it. Sorry.

[Mel1959]

Seem to remember updating it and it changed from Play Shop to Play Store

[Mel1959]

Thought that might be the case. Good phone and camera for the price, just would have liked a virus checker.

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! An antivirus app won't be helpful against various vulnerabilities that were never patched in 4.4, so it's probably best not to use that phone on a network.