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From: tpt <Rajoduo@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Old tablet repurpose
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2022 10:49:38 +0100
Message-ID: <tk7vvl$p3g$2@gioia.aioe.org>
On 02-Nov-22 21:46, Andrew wrote:
Unsure if this will work for you (my kindle fire has, I think, android
7? it's the 2020 amazon fire I ran toolbox on to have a proper home
screen on,) but f-droid has a build of lagrange I have on there. Far
FAAAR snappier to use than the web.
https://www.reddit.com/r/geminiprotocol/comments/sbtvbf/lagrange_now_for_android_and_ios/
Lemme know if that does anything?
On 6/1/22 10:14 AM, tpt wrote:
> 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
Hey, thanks for the suggestion.
I got really stuck here, because none of the solutions I found (and were
posted here) are not working, or at least I'm doing something wrong, so
I put the project on hiatus for now. :-D But, I'm gathering info and the
willpower to try it again.
Cheers
Parent:
Re: Old tablet repurpose (by Andrew <singletona082@gmail.com> on Wed, 2 Nov 2022 15:46:00 -0500)
Start of thread:
Old tablet repurpose (by tpt <Rajoduo@yahoo.com> on Wed, 1 Jun 2022 17:14:48 +0200)
Children:
Re: Old tablet repurpose (by Andrew <singletona082@gmail.com> on Mon, 7 Nov 2022 06:32:58 -0600)