Mikep

Thank you maxmp. That's a good idea I was not aware of. There is no "Install via ADB option" in Android 2.3.4. However I'll still enable Developer mode and install ADB and give it a try. Thanks for the idea.

Thanks for your quick reply. I appreciate that. I checked, and Google Play Store no longer works with any version of Android prior to version 3. When you try to sign in with an older version, it tells you that your password is wrong, even though it is the correct password. Wish I had known this prior to purchasing 5 of these HTC Droid Incredibles, which are running the 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) version of Android and can't be updated beyond that. Still these were cheaper and much better than buying a dedicated MP3 player like a SanDisk Sansa ClipZip for my purposes. They do have a rudimentary music player app installed on them, but I would much prefer to use Poweramp. I also now realize these phones don't even have a File Manager app on them, so I can't even run an APK on them because I have no way to access that APK file. A File Manager app is not an included stock app with these. The only thing I can think of now is to root them and install a newer version custom ROM, but my attempts to do this have all failed because most of the links I find online to do this process are no longer active. What is this "website license" you refer to? Is it a license that can be validated through email? So are you saying if I can get the email app working on these phones, that I can validate a Poweramp license through email? Even so, I'm still stuck with not having a File Manager app on the phones, so don't know how I can even run the Poweramp APK. Is there a way to do this by hooking up the cell phone to my desktop Windows computer and kicking off the process from the Windows File Explorer after copying the APK to the phone from the computer? I doubt it, but maybe some other tricky thing like that? I tried to run an APK by trying to download one using the included Internet browser, hoping it would give the option to run after downloading. However the download did not even work. I get multiple security errors trying to access most web pages using this old phone and browser. Thanks for your help.

I want to use Poweramp on several old HTC Droid Incredible phones running Android version 2. These devices are being used as dedicated music players attached to several portable boom boxes I built, playing local .MP3 files contained on the device. They are not connected to any phone service, as they will never be used as a phone, just used to serve local music to the boombox amp as a music player. They will never be connected to the Internet. In fact they won't even allow me to sign into a Google account temporarily if I connect to wi-fi and try. I'm guessing this is because they do not support the current level of encryption/security required by Google, since these are 13-year-old cell phones. I suspect this because most websites I try to visit with these phones do not work and get security errors. I can't install any apps from the Google store because it won't let me sign into a Google account. There will be no email accounts or Google accounts on these devices, as I plan to give these boom boxes and music players away to friends as gifts. Reading your registration FAQs, I don't see HOW I can purchase and register Poweramp licenses for these devices. It seems like even if I were able to register/license Poweramp on these devices initially, the license checking is so rigorous and numerous, that I would have future problems with the software telling me I am not a licensed user since they will never be connected to the Internet and not have a Google account or email account on these devices. All of your license checking requirements are confusing to me. I'd like to use Poweramp on these devices, but I'm confused as to how I would need to go about purchasing version 2 and licensing it on these devices so that it works forever without any licensing hassles. The friends I will be giving these boom boxes to will not be able to deal with any technical issues with licensing of this software. I want to pay once for each license and then give these complete music systems to my friends. Please help me figure this out, if it's even possible. Thanks!