Google stops supporting login and apps on Android devices lower than 3.0

Given the nature of its services-based business, Google offers Android support on various levels. One of those ways is to control Google account access, and recently, Google announced that they will officially stop supporting account login on some older versions of Android.

In an email sent to people using Android devices version 2.3.7 and below, Google announced: “login to your account in Google apps will no longer be supported” . Affected versions include Android 1.0, 1.1, 1.5 Cupcake, 1.6 Donut, 2.0 Eclair, 2.2 Froyo, and 2.3 Gingerbread. The highest version of these, version 2.3.7 has been released since September 2011.

This will prevent users from logging in at the system and application level, so accessing Google Search, Gmail, Drive or other services through the Android Browser (then not Chrome), still will work normally.

Google says this is done to “protect the security of your account”, and as a result, the following actions will result in a “wrong username or password” error on the affected phone models. from September 27 to.

– Sign in to Google products and services like Gmail, YouTube or Maps

– Add or create a new Google account

– Do wipe all content and settings (factory reset) then try to login

– Change your Google account password, which gets you signed out of all devices, and try to log in again

– Remove the account from the device and try to log in again

In the notice to users, Google recommends using Android 3.0 Honeycomb devices or higher to “continue using Google apps”. Only a very small number of users may be affected by this new Google regulation, and most of them are probably… phone collectors. A Reddit user who received this email shared that he still uses his Xperia Play continuously.

Anyway, these devices haven’t received patches or OS updates for a long time, and Google also stopped supporting Google Play services for them many years ago, making them difficult to access. use as a modern smartphone at this time.