Re: [LUG] Freeing up my Nexus 7

Hmmm… ok Tom, I’ll have a look at that too.

At the moment I’m open to all the options – Matt made CyanogenMod seem almost too easy

The bit that scares me is the Ubuntu one liner: “It is an experimental development snapshot that can potentially brick your device”… the other sofa surfers would kill me…

Cheers,

Steve

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Subject: Re: [LUG] Freeing up my Nexus 7

On 28/02/14 14:50, Tremayne, Steve wrote:

OK, LPIC question aside…

I’ve just given in to family pressure and bought a “tablet” for sofa surfing (even though I’m building another MythTV box which can do it anyway…) … but the ambient temperature of hell would have to reach absolute zero before I gave money to Apple :o)

So, I got a Nexus… and the first thing it wants to do is lock me in to the googlesphere… right then (I think), time to break free

So, I’ve heard of CyanogenMod and F-Droid, but before I get too heavily involved (or brick it!), I thought I’d ask if anyone has any recommendations about freeing up “my” (not google’s) device?

TIA

Steve

If I had a Nexus 7 I'd head over to ubuntu and try out the ubuntu touch they have for it https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install
and see where that goes...
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