This made me look back into why I didn't go and swap out android on my
Nexus 7. It looks like some models of this particular tablet have some
strange partitioning stuff going on so you essentially need to blow it
away and repartition from scratch. Not a big deal as long as you don't
want to go back to the stock firmware I guess.
There's also some variety among the nexus 7 devices since it went
through several hardware iterations in a few short years. LineageOS only
lists the one model. Gotta go dig mine out of a box and see which
codename it is.
-Ben
On 1/19/21 9:15 PM, elcaseti wrote:
Not postmarketOS, but a different way to make grouper usable: "
https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/9ppczt/lineageos_made_my_nexus_7_2012_usable/";.
Some folks are using unofficial LineageOS 14 (Android 7) , others are using
unofficial LineageOS 15 (Android 8). And it sounds like it works quite
well, surprisingly. I might try it myself.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 7:56 PM Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote:
I have a nexus 7 but i dont remember exactly why I never put linux on it.
One thing I vaguely remember is that some devices require you to cut
drivers out of the official android and build postmarketos from source.
Building android is a hefty project so that might be why i abandoned it.
-Ben
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 5:51 PM TomasK <[email protected]> wrote:
Good luck with that - it looks quite challenging project this long
after the device's release.
While trying to educate myself - I came across this N7 use:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=960YQle-f2w&feature=youtu.be
That is if you need screen for Pi.
On Tue, 2021-01-19 at 17:20 -0800, Russell Senior wrote:
I think I have looked at that. There are several nexus 7's (2012 vs
2013 and with/without LTE). I have the 2012 no LTE model. Apparently
it used an SoC that was abandoned and so pre-built support for it is
more tenuous.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/633788/installing-ubuntu-touch-on-nex
us-7-2012-now-that-it-is-no-longer-supported
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 4:30 PM Tomas Kuchta
<[email protected]> wrote:
Not related to you question and fresh dose of finest
"whataboutism"!
To make my manners even worse, of course, I have no clue what is
postmarkedos!
With that out of the way ....
Isn't Nexus 7 suppose to be able to run the Ubuntu phone/tablet OS?
I
occasionally stumble on recent update release notes on the
interwebs.
Just a question, not a suggestion, I swear. I assume that you know
:-)
Tomas
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 19:11 Russell Senior <[email protected]
et>
wrote:
Hi folks,
I just spent about 3 days trying to get postmarketos running on
old
abandoned nexus 7 (grouper) devices, including by consulting with
supposed experts on their IRC channel. Part of the problem seems
to be
that the constructed firmware is bigger than will fit in the
system
partition. There are suggested workarounds, but none of them seem
to
work. Furthermore, the various intermediate steps seem to lack
tools
that might be helpful for figuring out what's going on, like, oh,
something to tell me how the emmc is partitioned.
Has anyone successfully installed postmarketos on anything? And
if so,
do you have any insights into the mechanics of what is going on
under
all the scriptings.
Thanks!
--
Russell Senior
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