Re:CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet
by penkia on Thursday August 15, 2019 @11:39AM
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Because the boot loader is locked, so does its launcher, unless LauncherHijack installed and abuses Accessibility feature to draw Overlays on top of your screen....
Speaking of modifying existing hardwares, Nexus 7 is my personal favorite: http://i.imgur.com/8H9LH9U.jpg
Re:CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet
by charlesju on Thursday August 15, 2019 @01:37PM
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What projects do you need a tablet and you need it unlocked?
Re:CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet
by penkia on Thursday August 15, 2019 @09:31PM
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Anything related to flashing eMMC, anything kernel related, especially KMS/DRM, bionic libc... etc.
If you don't find it limited with locked device, you're simply not playing hard enough. :-))
Re:CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet
by freedomben on Thursday August 15, 2019 @12:03PM
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I'm guessing you've never tried to modify a Fire tablet. It's an exercise in extreme frustration. I will never "buy" a Fire tablet again. I say "buy" in quotes because the way Amazon locks down the tablet means I clearly don't own it. It's just a long term pre-paid lease.
Re:CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet
by charlesju on Thursday August 15, 2019 @01:37PM
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Can't you just install a regular android app? Why do you need to unlock it to do anything?
Re:CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet
by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday August 15, 2019 @06:19PM
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You'll always have just a layer on top of FireOS. Which means you can't rely on security updates for terribly long, and have to fight the system every step of the way. It could be made to work for a lot of uses, but it's way more friction than just running GNU/Linux to start with.
A Fire Tablet is probably on par for power and is fully integrated with a touch screen and battery, and with discounts it costs almost or cheaper than a bare Pi.
I feel like we bend over backwards to try to use the Raspberry Pi to do cool things, but a lot of these projects can be developed more easily and powered by a more consistent framework using a Fire Tablet.