Ahoy!

I got a new phone yesterday. I also use a wheelchair. The wheels have an app called "e-motion M25" which I used on my old phone. I patched it using lucky patcher since most functions (turn wheels on, cruise control, remote to drive the wheelchair to my current chair) are behind an incredible expensive paywall.

Since I don't own the wheels (they're technically still insurance property) and the software isn't super reliable, I won't pay over €300 just to use my wheels.

But I can't seem to patch it on my new phone, even when sharing the patched app directly from my old one. The store simply won't open. I've not been rooted since forever and prefer not to root at all, since it was possible to do so on my old phone.

Would anybody care to help me out or give me some tips on where to look? Thanks in advance!

UPDATE after spending my entire morning on the floor, I installed older versions of the app until I found one that worked with luckypatcher. I know it's a small chance but if someone using the same wheels finds this post, you have to figure out how to download luckypatcher and use this version of the app. In lucky patcher create a multi patch APK and make sure to turn off "billing" in the second screen. When opening the store, be careful not to scroll to the complete bottom or else the app wil crash. Buy each pack individually and lucky patcher will handle things from there.

To every commenter: thank you. Lemmings are the best and capitalism is the devil.

  • Kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    I'm sorry I don't have any answer, but I just wanted to say I'm sorry you have to go through this to make your life easier. Also I fucking hate unrestrained capitalism.

    • win95@lemmy.zip
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      Capitalism thrives off mobility aids. Anything decent, even a decent backpack, cost an arm and a leg just because it's made for the cripples. I hate it here lol.

      • Kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 months ago

        I understand. I use a cane due to severe inflammatory arthritis and a long list of other crap including a deteriorating spine that's likely to land me in a chair myself in a few years. Trying to build my own ramp into my house a little at a time on good days because it's several thousand dollars to have one built and eventually I won't be able to do it at all. Solidarity in hating it here. I'm in Texas in the US which, well it's run by regressive masochistic asshats.

        • win95@lemmy.zip
          hexagon
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          8 months ago

          And here I am in the Netherlands, taking trips to the Midwest sometimes and crying everytime because it's so accessible and the ADA and what not. All from a tourist perspective, which is just.... I can get into a restaurant and use the sidewalks.

          I am blessed to have a ramp. And now I'm realizing I say blessed when we're just human beings living our regular human being lives trying to get out of our house. I hope the regression will be a slow one for you and remember: a wheelchair isn't something to be ashamed about. Ambulatory wheelchair users exist so if you feel like you can profit off of one, so you may take a longer hike in the mountains or whatever, don't feel ashamed.

          • Kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            8 months ago

            It's funny you mention that. I barely make it 30 minutes at my art receptions of I manage to submit work in a slow. I've been thinking about it and remembering how much of a fight I put up before getting a cane and how much I wished I hadn't waited so long. Probably time to talk to my doc. Thank you friend and I hope you get that chair hacked and at your command.

            • win95@lemmy.zip
              hexagon
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              8 months ago

              I got a lot of my freedom back by getting a chair. Good luck, friend!

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    literal predatory behavior against society's most vulnerable members. God, disgusting.

    Calling out this company that produces the e-motion, Alber GmbH. FUCK them.

  • Oth@lemmy.zip
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    8 months ago

    Hey Op, since you appear to be somewhere in the EU based on your mention of Euro pricing, would you be willing to name and shame the wheelchair manufacturer and/or model?

    Without giving too much of my own personal information away, I might be in a position to cause a bit of ruckus for this particular company in terms of bad PR, possibly legislatively. I work for a company that profiles itself on doing this stuff "the right way" (secure practises, not screwing users this way, etc) and we are working on building a list of practises we are hoping to root out EU-Wide with some examples that are clearly exploitative.

    I need nothing personally identifiable, just the brand and model, and I can pass it along to the team that can investigate further.

    • win95@lemmy.zip
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      Sure thing: invacare is the company, the wheels are Alber e-motion M25. Their argument is the wheelchair is usable without the add ons, which I not only disagree with but why are these wheels 8k if they have an app only usable by upgrading? The older model is cheaper and doesn't have an app which works in the same way then.

      I am curious if something will get out of this! It's difficult to explain but there's so many hoops I have to go through, I literally can't contact invacare myself. I have city council to grant me an indication of what I need, a company that delivers the stuff to me and does maintainance (but theyre extremely lacking), then there's a company that imports the invacare stuff and deals with the company that deals with me.

      We truly need to get some hard rules down in the Netherlands. I'm tired of it all.

      • Oth@lemmy.zip
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        8 months ago

        Thanks! I will pass it along and hopefully we can push for a change. I can't guarantee that anything will happen in the short term, but at the very least we can create some bad publicity for them.

  • someonesmall@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Lucky Patcher patches the odex files, not the apk. I could not figure out if it's possible to tranfer odex files to a different phone.

    Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/luckypatcher/comments/yzao3u/sharing_apps_with_lucky_patcher_mod/

  • Lad@reddthat.com
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    8 months ago

    Very pleased to see other users were able to help you out. Also disgusted at how you were in such a situation in the first place.

    • win95@lemmy.zip
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      I am very grateful for the Lemmy community and specifically the pirates. Wonderful community!

  • The wild card@lemmy.today
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    8 months ago

    I don't know shit about it and should probably keep my mouth shut but i am gonna say this maybe one of the few instances you should pay up ? And thats coming from someone who pirates everything . I could be wrong tho

    EDIT : As i said i could be wrong i just don't want OP's bootleg software to have a breakdown in the middle of the road.

    • win95@lemmy.zip
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      And if I pay I still dont own it, that's the messed up part. I get what you're saying though and I appreciate your concern, however I've been using the bootleg software for years on my other phone without any problems so it should be possible.

      • The wild card@lemmy.today
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        8 months ago

        Yeah if you are sure go for it . I just didn't wanna get you into shit or doing what internet strangers told you to do but if you are SURE go for it i say.