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From: tpt <Rajoduo@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Old tablet repurpose
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 22:52:33 +0200
Message-ID: <t8aseg$r7i$1@gioia.aioe.org>
On 14-Jun-22 01:57, Andy Burns wrote:
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?
Thanks again! I've also never heard of XDA before. It will be fun to
experiment. I'm looking forward to breaking a barely useful tablet. :-D
Cheers
Parent:
Re: Old tablet repurpose (by Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> on Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:57:08 +0100)
Start of thread:
Old tablet repurpose (by tpt <Rajoduo@yahoo.com> on Wed, 1 Jun 2022 17:14:48 +0200)