Old 2013 Wifi Nexus 7
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 10:10 pm
So I loaned my wife my ipad mini and of course, it's never made it's way back to me. I needed something to play videos while on the stationary bike and found my old Nexus 7 in a drawer. Went looking and found Lineage OS has unoficial builds for Pie for this device that just disable NFC (Dont care) and so I figured why the hell not. Last OS from google was a semi busted 6.0 anyways.
Works surprisingly well! I did have to re partition the storage but there is a sideloadable package to handle all that. Then flashed the OS and a nano gapps package, and it's up and running and so far has been a great little plex device. I mean, don't expect miracles out of a 6 year old budget tablet, but it's smooth, videos play back well off the server, speakers are still pretty decent, etc.
Hell, I am surprised the battery still holds a charge after sitting in my drawer for 2-3 years.
Works surprisingly well! I did have to re partition the storage but there is a sideloadable package to handle all that. Then flashed the OS and a nano gapps package, and it's up and running and so far has been a great little plex device. I mean, don't expect miracles out of a 6 year old budget tablet, but it's smooth, videos play back well off the server, speakers are still pretty decent, etc.
Hell, I am surprised the battery still holds a charge after sitting in my drawer for 2-3 years.