How to ROM or FLASH an Old Android Tab?

Saturday, October 7, 2017

By the way, Linux Phone Lineage OS is very expensive.

I saw lot of torrent images for various phones at Linux torrents.

I have over 10 Nokia phones all working fine nd never tried to ROM or FLASH them

By the way, my son in law bought me a Samsung Tablet and another Android phone (its sim is blocked by the manufacturer).

 
I do not understand how manufacturers and vendors steal money from gullible customers.

How to ROM or FLASH an Old Android Tab?
 

This is a mail I posted to a friend.

How to ROM or FLASH an Old Android Tab?

I did a survey on how to erase the current operating system and install a new version of android and was bewildered by its complexity.

They are bound by rigid protocols of Android and Google Giants.

Unlike computers, the hardware parts are brittle and finding a “patch” for a broken piece is not easy.

Besides, the terminology is funny, and only term I liked was BRICK for a stalled hardware.

Only open source ROM (Kernel should be the correct term) was CyanogenMod but developers had given up developing it and a firm has taken over it.

There is a Romanian guy who wants to make open source hardware!

But the problem is that there is no seamless integration since OEM guys are reluctant to give up their monopoly.

If one fiddles with the system it may end up as a Brick.

If you find any article that simplify this (Linux Magazine may not do it) minor process, please let me have it.

By the way, having gone for Zeroing I have stop reading big articles, especially political ones.

I have lot of time at hand after "Zeroing In" and sleep well after dropping Caffeine to almost Zero.

Unfortunately, Ubuntu’s Canonical and Firefox have stopped developing an Open Source Phone.

CyanogenMod is arguably one of the (if not the) most installed Android ROM in the world, and for good reason.

It offers a ton of great features, is available for more devices than most other ROMs of its type, and has the type of polish and support that makes it easy to fall in love with.

We have Kit Kat (version four in this country) in this country and the Android is on version seven or higher.

Even the Kindle Tab, a total failure, I believe.

Luckily, I bought a Lenova Tablet in Singapore and it is miles ahead of my Kit Kat Tablet which I want to erase and upgrade but the only problem is its RAM which is limited and it breaks up before a full film is viewed.

Lenova Tab froze and I could not replace it battery.

That is why I discourage people buying Tablest with a Frozen Battery (one cannot replace it and that is their business plan to lure the next generation of tablets.

I have of course migrated to bare bone NUC which is damn cheap!

I am glad that I got a good laptop for my son and if you have a laptop do not throw it away, in spite of its weight.

It is pleasing to see a film on a laptop.

One who buys an Apple iPOD is probably stupid or has lot of money to spare.

They have stopped making (with a DVD driver) them (laptops).

Apple is very expensive, I saw my daughter spending over 100 dollars for a Apple Screen saver with a insurance plan.

A good product should not go for issuance plan.

This why encourage people to use Linux and Linux protects old and new hardware.

 

Open Letter to Yahoo, Mail, Gmail and Amazon KDP Publishing

 Open Letter to Yahoo Mail,

Gmail and Amazon's KDP Publishing.

 

All three of them have gone Paranoid?

 

I am currently in Australia.

When I travel I usually carry a USB stick installed with Puppy Linux.

This is my private Internet connection at airports.

I did not do that this time round.

I am not paranoid and do not use TAILS or KALI. 

 

I downloaded Puppy Easy OS based on Void (Independent Linux OS) and wanted to access my blog post to post something good about Easy OS.

It configured our wireless.

Yes it had my favourite browser FireFox and I accessed Google search engine to sign in with my gmail account.

Google treated me inhumanely, like a Robot.

I am finishing three books and I wanted to access my author page but I had to go through the Amazon Books, a big Rigmarole and I HAD to waste my money giving a call to Amazon.

They are promoting (now their money ) my books liberally and my cellphone is inundated with promotions of my own books, often three times the price, I intended for the reader to pay.

Except my scientific and special books I want my books even in digital form to be cheap.

Worse scenario is, I am being stopped by a telephonist at Amazon Head Quarters with bogus paranoia.

I use several phones in fact about 10 (15 SIMS) cellphones and left all of them except one in CEYLON and Amazon is asking for a particular number I have not used for nearly (for security reasons) 20 years.

Without that cellphone number, I cannot change, to another SIM number, I have in my hand (Nokia Phone) for direct communication.

My wife who is in Ceylon cannot trace it. 

She is planning to visit us and I won't write any more books for few months and equally I won't be able to publish the one's I have already finished.

I did not foresee this scenario!

Now I have to go back to Ceylon to formalize my dealing with Amazon, paying a BIG SUM to Singapore Air Lines.

Unfortunately my Royalties  are not enough to cover  the air ticket. 

I do not expect to earn millions writing dirty and vulgar stuff in my twilight years and I have enough to live on my own without royalties.

I think, I may consider building my own Publishing House with a bit of my knowledge in Linux using a FreeNAS Server.

The Internet intended to be FREE to access and Educational at its inception.

It is no more.

I have never been paranoid, in spite of some Guys in Ceylon stealing my cheques (from Amazon) in post. 

They could not cash them with my timely intervention.

Yes, cyber-crimes are there.

There were robber barons throughout our modern history including in politics.

But there are lot of good guys in this world, too, especially in Russia.

Yes one of my intentions is to travel to Russia and see the real life in Russia (not Americas).

I have already started learning Russians but their alphabet is difficult.

For heavens sake, DO NOT be PARANOID and DO NOT let the AI System takes hold of humanity.

This is already happening in China and I have no intention of visiting China.

This piece I am writing with disgust.

Money is their ONLY GOAL.

That leads to decadence!

That is normal throughout human history.