RE: StackSmith: I got a new tablet

Original post: StackSmith: I got a new tablet

I currently own a Pine64 RockPro64 and a Quartz64. I recently bought the 7 inch LCD display with the Playbox enclosure and Wifi/Bluetooth module. This would enable me to turn either the RockPro64 or Quartz64 into a tablet. The current OS options available for RockPro64 are a stock Android 9 rom, postmarketOS with various UI options, or I could run Manjaro ARM and install Plasma Mobile. For the Quartz64, the only OS options currently available are a development version of an Android 11 ROM or Manjaro ARM.

It would be really nice if LineageOS supported these devices but that does not appear to be in their future plans. I ran LineageOS on my previous tablet, which was a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 (Wifi version), but it died abou a year ago.

The LineageOS version I used on my old tablet had Open GApps installed, which provided replacments for the standard Google Apps typically installed by default on Android. Instead of the Play Store, there was the Aurora Store, which had some hack that allowed you to login anonymously with your Google credentials, and this circumvented Google tracking the apps you install. So it might be worth looking into a custom ROM that offers Open GApps.

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Last updated: 2023-02-01

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