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I still have my previous phone... S5 that I used for seven years until it couldn't get updates and I "needed" some apps that wouldn't run on the old android version (I don't remember what they were at this point or if there was a way around it).
It's been sitting on my desk for the past 5 years waiting for a purpose. The battery is shot but it still "works". Maybe this is that purpose because I was specifically looking for something like this a few months back ...because I thought it would be funny to have that phone as a server.
Just an FYI, changing a battery in a phone with a glued back cover is fairly trivial. A hair dryer Is usually enough, tons of youtube tutorials, and you can get plastic back covers to replace the shitty glass ones from aliexpress for peanuts
This one is old enough that the back is easily removable and battery easily replaceable. I went through three in it's life of daily usage. It was the lack of updates that made it unusable day to day. It was crazy "slow" too but a factory reset helped a lot.
I popped fdroid on it yesterday but there was no version of termux there that will run on Android 5.0.1.
I found another terminal emulator that seems to work. Don't recall the name offhand but I'd never heard of it.
...fdroid wasn't trivial because the phone has certs so old that it couldn't communicate with the repos until I manually downloaded and installed a newer cert.