Hi dragorn, Thanks for your detailed realistic comments.
Our first "Older Android Hardware" is a Boost Mobile Kyocera Hydro that has never been activated. Did a quick check and Boost Mobile buyback https://buyback.boostmobile.com/bst/select and found "This device does not have any credit value. Please recycle it through Project Connect." Guess it only has value for parts. It still has educational value so have no interest in trying to unlock it. Did some searching and found " How to Root the Kyocera Hydro" http://theunlockr.com/2013/04/07/how-to-root-the-kyocera-hydro/ but noticed a few had problems. To date I have not found a working recovery if there is a problem. Seems that it is best to do your homework 1st. Thanks for the CyanogenMod tip! Checked the forum http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/ and was surprised that there is no support for any Kyocera phone? Especially since they use QUALCOMM Snapdragon processors. Did some searches using old android hardware forums and found http://www.androidpit.com/forum/android-hardware-and-technology-forum/recent http://www.howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php/643-Android-Hardware http://forums.androidcentral.com/ http://www.talkandroid.com/android-forums/android-hardware/ Any preferences? Thanks again for your help! Gene Since posting this have been searching and have found On Fri, Apr 18, 2014, at 07:36 AM, dragorn wrote: > 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 > > -- > _______________________________________________ > 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 > Email had 1 attachment: > + signature.asc > 1k (application/pgp-signature) -- WestHurley ComputerReCycling [email protected] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web _______________________________________________ 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
