It's possible to buy cheap Chinese mobile phones based on the MediaTek MT6739. I believe there are custom Android ROMs that will work on these phones if rooted. Would it be possible to bypass Android and just run a stripped Linux kernel with only basic functionality on such a rooted phone? Why even need Android at all if the chipset is supported by the kernel and all I want is say, display and networking? Custom bootloaders are certainly capable of taking input and displaying stuff on the screen, and I'm not sure those are full Android installs. Is this possible?
Rick_B said:
It's possible to buy cheap Chinese mobile phones based on the MediaTek MT6739. I believe there are custom Android ROMs that will work on these phones if rooted. Would it be possible to bypass Android and just run a stripped Linux kernel with only basic functionality on such a rooted phone? Why even need Android at all if the chipset is supported by the kernel and all I want is say, display and networking? Custom bootloaders are certainly capable of taking input and displaying stuff on the screen, and I'm not sure those are full Android installs. Is this possible?
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Hello all,
I have few old android phones which I would like to transform to something useful. I have a side project where I can use an old phone to register user action on the "field". I need a simplest android version which can run my application (5-8 buttons with actions) and nothing else. My application need to be automatically started after reboot/turn on and user can't have access to anything else. I don't need phone, I just need WiFi and NFC (phones have NFC). And maybe Bluetooth.
So, I need to build that ROM and upload to my phone(s).
Any ideas, suggestions, experiences would be appreciated.
Thank You all in advance.
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Alex
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Hello all,
I have few old android phones which I would like to transform to something useful. I have a side project where I can use an old phone to register user action on the "field". I need a simplest android version which can run my application (5-8 buttons with actions) and nothing else. My application need to be automatically started after reboot/turn on and user can't have access to anything else. I don't need phone, I just need WiFi and NFC (phones have NFC). And maybe Bluetooth.
So, I need to build that ROM and upload to my phone(s).
Any ideas, suggestions, experiences would be appreciated.
Thank You all in advance.
Best regards
Alex
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I have a Unihertz Jelly Pro (https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-pro). I'd like to get some sort of custom ROM on here because I want max battery life and I don't trust sketchy Chinese companies. Anyone on here ever used any custom ROM on this particular phone? Any advice how to proceed here?
kimple22 said:
I have a Unihertz Jelly Pro (https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-pro). I'd like to get some sort of custom ROM on here because I want max battery life and I don't trust sketchy Chinese companies. Anyone on here ever used any custom ROM on this particular phone? Any advice how to proceed here?
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Im looking for someone to upgrade the android version on a old phone. It is a Ecom Smartex 01. This phone is very similar to the Sonim XP7 aka 7700. Currently it is running 4.4.4. I know it had 5.1.1 files available but they were taken down. I have the Sonim usb driver available. any devs? This phone is a spare so i can send it off.
Rom4hire said:
Im looking for someone to upgrade the android version on a old phone. It is a Ecom Smartex 01. This phone is very similar to the Sonim XP7 aka 7700. Currently it is running 4.4.4. I know it had 5.1.1 files available but they were taken down. I have the Sonim usb driver available. any devs? This phone is a spare so i can send it off.
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I was given a cheapie Chinese tablet and it’s absolutely dumbfounding. The serial number is 0123456789ABCD (not joking), it claims it’s Android 7 and 116GB. The model number claims just “T101”. Half the OS is in Chinese. So my question is, is there any way to root this thing and put an English rom on it?
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I was given a cheapie Chinese tablet and it’s absolutely dumbfounding. The serial number is 0123456789ABCD (not joking), it claims it’s Android 7 and 116GB. The model number claims just “T101”. Half the OS is in Chinese. So my question is, is there any way to root this thing and put an English rom on it?
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Dear friends, I have a chuwi Hi8, it still works. I would like to know if there is a possibility to unlock this equipment to put custom rom and change android. Because mine is still working, but with windows 8 and a very old android that is useless
DrLeandro said:
Dear friends, I have a chuwi Hi8, it still works. I would like to know if there is a possibility to unlock this equipment to put custom rom and change android. Because mine is still working, but with windows 8 and a very old android that is useless
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