Pretty much the only alternate android that's consistently focusing on older hardware is cyanogenmod.
You'll have several barriers: - If the hardware is locked, you can't put new firmware on it, period. You can maybe hack a new system image in w/out changing the kernel, but there's a moderate chance of bricking it in the process if you're not extremely careful. - Old devices use unsupported chipsets. The reason, for example, the galnex is never going to see android 4.4 is that TI stopped making the processor/gpu, won't release the details, and it's effectively dead. There's some super hacky backports, but it's not going to be great. - Old android devices tend to be... well, pretty crappy. They just don't have the ram to run modern apps - which is ridiculous, but the ram curve on android has been very steep (256 meg of ram in 2010, 3 or even 4 gig now) So in general: Look at cyanogenmod, expect issues, and you probably won't reasonably be able to run a modern android build regardless, but you might be able to get what you need. On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 08:50:50AM -0700, WestHurley ComputerReCycling wrote: > Am looking for small alternative distros to use with hardware challenged > older android devices. > > Would be only using basic apps like audio recorder, camera and video, no > CellPhone, Internet or WiFi. > > Hope someone has already done this and can offer suggestions. > > Thanks > > Gene > -- > WestHurley ComputerReCycling > [email protected] > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > May 7 - Personal 3D Printing > Jun 4 - Samba: Can We All Just Get Along? > Jul 2 - Mad Science Fair IV --
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