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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @01:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the needing-just-the-basics dept.

https://www.thanassis.space/android.html

In August of 2015, 175 Euros got me a tablet with a 10 inch screen, 1GB of RAM, a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon, and 16GB of storage - with more space available if one needed it via an SD card slot.

In my preliminary use, the tablet was quite fast in web browsing (with ad blocking of course - otherwise the ads bring down even desktop browsers to their knees). That's what I mostly expect from my tablet - adequate browsing, and reading PDFs while listening to music.

Oh, and running Debian in a chroot of course. Many benefits there; I am a Linux/Unix/BSD/embedded guy, living my life in the command line - and I need to be able to do everything that I do with my main computers, on my tablet as well (like running Privoxy, dictd, my local Flask servers that are accessible only from the tablet, tunneling via local SSH's SOCKS tunnels to tether beyond the idiocy of providers... you get the idea).

And I trust Debian. Far more than I trust the Android ecosystem.

That was when it hit me; I searched, and searched, and searched... there was no open rooting process for this tablet.

The article is quite an interesting read and describes the author's long and painful oddysey through the bowels of an Android tablet to root his device. Do any Soylentils have suggestions on models for those interested in easily rootable tablets? I'm seriously considering buying all the necessary hardware and machining a body just to get a fully capable tablet.

[If someone has successfully done this, please provide as many details as possible in the comments to allow others to replicate your experience — brand, model, OS, OS version, etc. -Ed.]


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  • (Score: 2) by KritonK on Wednesday November 09 2016, @09:43AM

    by KritonK (465) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @09:43AM (#424469)

    For a decent full-key on-screen Android keyboard, check out the hacker's keyboard, available both on the play store [google.com] and F-droid [f-droid.org].

    As for the play store requiring a credit card, it most certainly does not, as long as you limit yourself to free apps.

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