Tablet raspberry pi

[Kidplayer_666]

I have an old tablet that is no longer used because it has android 4.0 and no way to upgrade. So I thought since it has similar specs to a raspberry pi 0 if it isn’t possible to install raspbian in there

[goto10]

some tablets do let you install custom firmwares with different a droid versions

 

but i dont know of any tablet that can get raspbian via microsd, what tablet do you have?

[Kidplayer_666]

It’s a really old tablet you may not find lots of references to it, the bq maxwell lite

[Kidplayer_666]

With a “powerful” quad core CPU and 512 MB of ram it seems similar to the zero

[goto10]

512 of ram? time to do a visit to a recycle center

 

minimum to do something really these days is 2 gbs

[Kidplayer_666]

That’s why it’s being unused for years and why I thought to install raspbian (an older version) to give it some life

[Kidplayer_666]

And remember that for older versions of raspbian 512MB of ram is enough 

[goto10]

4 hours ago, Kidplayer_666 said:

And remember that for older versions of raspbian 512MB of ram is enough 

no, it is not enough, raspbian eats like 200mbs just by booting os and desktop, then you have any app or program having 300mbs to play around, is not enough to browse the web, barely enough to open libreoffice

 

time to let go, raspberry did that with raspberry 4b, you can get it with 4gbs of ram

 

as i said early, some popular devices get custom roms with newer android versions, but with limited resources all you are doing is wasting your time, if you manage to do it, something i doubt is doable because i bet no one did a custom rom for it, you will end disapointed with the results

[Kidplayer_666]

There is always the possibility to create a swap partition with 1 extra gig

[goto10]

18 minutes ago, Kidplayer_666 said:

There is always the possibility to create a swap partition with 1 extra gig

you really sound determined to do it, and i am here wasting your time

 

remember that swap is ram on disk, terribly slow, in this case is not ram on disk, might be ram on microsd, even worse

 

i wish you luck on this attempt to push this tablet to the absolute limit

[steelo]

On 7/13/2019 at 3:45 PM, Kidplayer_666 said:

With a “powerful” quad core CPU and 512 MB of ram it seems similar to the zero

A pi zero is a single core CPU running @ 1ghz and has 512mb RAM, I believe.