Is there a reason why the Wyze app is no longer in the play store for the LG Rebel?
No app no cameras!
Well, sometimes Play store reports Wyze app, that’s the wyZe app will not install on Android too old. You might check the message again.
And try using WyZE not Wyse.
Yeah - mis-typed the header but my is text is correct . So there’s no message to check.
Either way wySe or wyZe they give you the closest match. Only the wifi and car app shows up.
In case you are unaware, the manufacturer of your phone (LG) no longer supports your phone. LG withdrew from the mobile phone industry in 2021. Your phone no longer meets the security standards required by app developers and imposed by Google.
An additional part of the issue is that your phone is likely running a 32-bit version of Android, and the Wyze app no longer installs to those devices as of the v3x version released last year. You could confirm your Android’s instruction set (32-bit vs. 64-bit) with a third-party system profiler tool (I’ve used AIDA64 for this, but there are others), but probably your best bet for trying to run the Wyze app on this phone is going to be grabbing a v2.50x app from a site like APKPure or APKMirror. That’s not without its own problems, though, as the older app doesn’t support newer devices (so you’re out of luck with any Cams released in about the past year), and we still don’t know when Wyze is going to completely discontinue access for the older app since they introduced VerifiedView.
I imagine that you’re still seeing the Wyze Car app because it’s older (hasn’t been update for well over a year), and the Wyze Wi-Fi Analyzer app will also install on 32-bit Android (I just installed it on a tablet running Android Go).
You can go to Settings in your Rebel and then scroll to “About Phone”. This should tell you info about your phone. Your Android version may also be too old to to run the Wyze App.
A quick search looks like the newest Rebel can only use Android version 8.1.
Thanks - was not aware of that!
Thank you all for you time and help!
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I have the same problem with a Samsung J3 Orbit, running Android 9. The Wyze page says the app supports Android 9+ and says that older versions of Android need to use version 2.5. But, there is no app listed in the app store now. I have version 2.5 currently installed, but, earlier today it displayed a message about a vulnerability and that it needs to be upgraded.
Android 9 stopped receiving security updates in 2022. I still use Wyze App 2.50 on my Pixel 6 Pro phone but am on Android 16. I get the pop up warning about App needs to update but I like the 2.50 interface better.
Just be mindful that your Android 9 phone is no longer receiving security updates.
Did you actually see a message about a specific vulnerability, or did you just receive the same pop-up notification that everyone has recently (along with an e-mail message that has confused a lot of people) urging users to update to app version 3.8.5 or later? They’re trying to push users to update to the newest app versions because some current and future firmware releases require that in order to work (it’s already happened with some Cam Pan v3 firmware that’s been released in recent weeks), and I keep wondering if they’ll turn off the spigot for v2.50x app use at some point because of VerifiedView, but I haven’t seen any clarification or a firm end date on this.
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Samsung J3 Orbit has 64-bit hardware forced to 32-bit mode and only runs 32-bit Android. It cannot run 3.8.5+ and will soon be left in the dust. I have 2 J3 phones. One has been repurposed as a viewing device for an endoscope. The other is still running Wyze app 2.50.9.512. It can’t access any of the latest cam models and never will. Same story for all Samsung J-series phones. Samsung ended support for the entire line over 5 years ago.
Yeah, that doesn’t surprise me. When I’ve looked into this issue on other devices, it seems like the phone’s or tablet’s processor is 64-bit capable but the manufacturer has chosen to install limited (often 2-3 GB) RAM and thus load it with a 32-bit OS because of the lower specs. I imagine that applies to a lot of users who are going to be left out in the cold unless/until they update to newer phones (which has advantages completely aside from being able to run the Wyze app).
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What’s sad is that major retailers like Walmart and Amazon and lower-tier cellular providers bought up all of the old 32-bit phones and tablets and are cleverly marketing them as awesome deals. Unsuspecting consumers will be driven to those “bargains” on Black Friday through Cyber Monday. Those 32-bit phones still work on cellular networks, but the support for the apps is quickly dwindling to nothing. And the resulting anger will be calculatedly misdirected to the 3rd-parties that develop apps and associated devices… like Wyze.
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That’s a really good point, I think. I also direct some of my own disappointment at Google and the Android OS developers for not making it easy and obvious for a user to determine whether it’s 32- or 64-bit within the OS itself. As easy as it is to diss Microsoft, as least with Windows determining the “bittedness” of the OS is relatively trivial. It’s pretty straightforward on Linux, too.
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