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From: Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
Subject: Re: Old tablet repurpose
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:57:08 +0100
Message-ID: <jgq16kFj3spU1@mid.individual.net>
On 13/06/2022 22:11, tpt wrote:
On 02-Jun-22 02:12, Sebastian wrote:
> Am 01.06.22 um 17:14 schrieb tpt:
>> Hello fellow Geminauts,
>>
>> This is not directly related to Gemini protocol, I've seen this topic pop-up
>> here and there.
>>
>> I have an old tablet which I'm looking to repurpose. It now runs (a really
>> old) Android and it can barely boot-up. Almost all useful application are no
>> longer supported, others are slow...
>>
>> I want to repurpose it somehow (root it, install new OS, whatever) so
>> that I would be able to browse Gemini, Gopher, unbloated Web and read documents.
>>
>> Here are the specs if anyone is interested:
>> Lenovo TAB 2 A7-10F
>> Android 4.4.2
>> CPU 4 Core 1.3GHz
>> RAM 1GB
>> Storage 8GB
>>
>> Anyone has any interesting ideas, suggestions or knows a similar project?
>>
>> Thanks a bunch!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> ~tpt
> Look if you can flash it with a Custom ROM and install F-Droid app store
> afterwards, IIRC there are some apps in that store which support Gemini. I
> also recommend NoScript and uBlock Origin in Firefox, ads, tracking scripts
> and similar junk suck computing power.
Thanks for replying!
I was not familiar with F-Droid so I will definitely go for that.
However, I'm having trouble finding any suitable custom ROM. Any idea where to
look?
XDA would be my first place to look, but for a relatively old, weak device
you're not going to find much very modern, looks like Android 5.1 is about the
limit for it
<https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rom-5-1-1-cyanogenmod-12-1-for-lenovo-tab2-a7-10f-mt8127.3478841>
With the instructions on XDA don't necessarily expect much hand-holding, read
everything, check if it's applicable to your EXACT model, what's the worst you
can do, brick a barely useful tablet?
Parent:
Re: Old tablet repurpose (by tpt <Rajoduo@yahoo.com> on Mon, 13 Jun 2022 23:11:26 +0200)
Start of thread:
Old tablet repurpose (by tpt <Rajoduo@yahoo.com> on Wed, 1 Jun 2022 17:14:48 +0200)
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Re: Old tablet repurpose (by tpt <Rajoduo@yahoo.com> on Tue, 14 Jun 2022 22:52:33 +0200)