You don't need a write up. The Cyanogen guys have done it already for almost every device imaginable. That's one of the things that makes it great - they have already blazed the trail, and made it super easy to root stuff.
Dan Sent from my iPad > On May 12, 2015, at 9:26 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > You should write up a detailed process with all the steps and files and > whatnot. > > Are those things available cheap? I was thinking to get some cheap tablet > for the kitchen to use for recipes and such and to act as a remote viewer for > a door cam using an old Android phone. My cousin had some app running on an > old phone that streamed video you could then watch off some web site, or > maybe directly, I can't remember, but he used it for a security camera and > could watch it on his ifone. I see the crap 7" units for $50 or less but > sounds like this thing would be bigger and better when rooted. > > --R > > > >> On 5/11/15 8:07 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: >> A couple years ago I got a Nook Color HD+ tablet from Barnes and Noble. I'd >> had a first generation Kindle Fire which was okay but kind of small, didn't >> have external volume controls and didn't have much storage or an SD card >> slot. >> The Nook has always been a disappointment to me. It wasn't much faster than >> the Kindle Fire even though on paper it ought to be. Finally it got to the >> point that it was barely usable and I had enough. Unfortunately 9" tablets >> are kind of expensive, the low end market is only really in the 7" units. >> In the past I'd looked at rooting the tablet, that is establishing root user >> so I could put whatever OS I wanted on it. I was hoping that the problem was >> the horrible implementation of Android that B&N had used. Turns out I was >> right. Right now its running Cyanomod 10.2.1 which equates to Android 4.3.1 >> which isn't the newest version but isn't terribly old. Its also the base >> version with no extra crap loaded in. Its SUPER fast and reports that I have >> around twice the available RAM that before which has to be why. >> Its not for the faint of heart, it took me probably 6 hours today, messing >> around downloading files and reading how-tos. If I were to do it again I'd >> spend a day or two figuring out HOW exactly to do it before I gave it a try. >> Still a lot better than $400 for a new tablet. >> -Curt >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
