So I found an old bitcoin wallet key I saved in the cloud (read: gmail draft folder), and I knew I had some amount of bitcoin in it, so I downloaded the wallet from the play store and attempted to restore the backup.
I kept getting an "unreadable wallet" error when I entered the password, so I started googling to see if I could recover it. I came across this post and tried to follow the instructions. I'm not that good with linux, so I kinda gave up.
But in my attempt to follow the instructions, I went on GitHub and remembered that the original wallet app was on there. So I went to the GitHub page for the app and scrolled through the releases until I got to a version around the time of the backup (2013) and I installed it on my phone.
After doing that, I restored the wallet key successfully, then went to the play store and updated the app and made an updated backup. It took a pretty long time for the wallet to synchronize with the network, but after everything was said and done, I got my old wallet back and the $0.06 worth of bitcoin that was in it.
I hope this info helps someone who finds themselves in a similar situation. Loaded
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