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[Q] Current recommendations for powerful low-budget phone / tablet supported by CM?

I'd like to buy a new phone and/or tablet, I don't mind if no-name Chinese, but it has to be
powerful with up-to-date hardware
low-budget (I mean a real bargain)
suitable for running CyanogenMod
No idea about a tablet yet, it should be around 10" (min. 1280x720px) with built-in 3G, thought about a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 GT-P5100, but compared to some Chinese devices I found on Alibaba it's quite expensive, with the freshly announced Tab 3 even at a higher price.
Concerning the phone I found the amazing Lenovo A820 at an unreal low price with top specs, but it's Dual SIM and not supported by CM (in fact CM currently has no Dual SIM support at all).
The major issue with no-name Chinese devices is the uncertain CM support (don't mind if officially or unofficially supported), but not being able to install CM would be a showstopper for me, as I have no intentions at all to run any Android device with GAPPS installed!
And advice?

Master One said:
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Most Chinese devices (HTC and huawei and Oppo excluded) will not get CM support. If they do, it will be very limited. As in, they'll stop after maybe a couple months of nightlies.
Lenovo makes android tablets? Hmmm.
And stuff that is made specifically for China is usually much cheaper, but much harder to get your hands on.
My 0.02.

After some more research and searching through the list of supported devices at CM I came to the conclusion, that unfortunately none of such interesting Chinese / no-name hardware is suitable for me. I just have to have CM without GAPPS on my device, there is no way around it.
It seems there are quite some devices coming now with reasonable (and similar) specs at very low prices, like the freshly announced Huawei Ascend G525, which are all Dual SIM. If it wasn't about the missing CM support, I'd go for something like the Lenovo A820 or similar.
I still don't know what to do. The tablet is not a must-have, but a new phone would be nice right now. The list on CM does not show which devices are new, it should be a recent 2013 model.
So any hint, which of the un-/officially CM supported recent devices would be worth looking at?

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Need advice of picking a tablet

Hello so i am stuck on choosing a tablet
I would like to know what's better for gaming
android or windows 8.1
I am stuck mainly because one of the tabs i am looking at support desktops OS
but on the other hand i hear intel chips have issues with droid apps
anyway the tabs
polaroid tab 8 android 4.4
zoostorm sl8 i75 tablet pc-with windows8
what should i go for ?
and whats better android or windows. for gaming and general use

so
what tablet did u choose?

Lol, right?

I would consider the Teclast X98 Pro, here's a video review on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bHmtvtsM2M
Other options, a little smaller at 8", include the Chuwi Hi8.
Yes I know, they're Chinese makes but they're dual boot Android & Windows 8.1/10 which you won't find in American and large foreign tablet manufacturing due to licensing issues.

The Samsung Galaxy tab s is a great tablet.
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[Completed] windows desktop on phone

I'm looking for a phone I can buy that I can either dual boot or convert to run windows desktop - It can be xp, win 8.1 or 10. I have one desktop app I want to run on it. Prefer the screen not to exceed 5 inches. Can you direct me to the product and threads on how to do this?

777dan777 said:
I'm looking for a phone I can buy that I can either dual boot or convert to run windows desktop - It can be xp, win 8.1 or 10. I have one desktop app I want to run on it. Prefer the screen not to exceed 5 inches. Can you direct me to the product and threads on how to do this?
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Hello, and welcome to XDA!
In theory, many devices have the capability for this, through the QEMU emulator - a prerequisite is having a device that can meet the specs (particularly enough RAM - 3GB or more - and storage - 16GB device or better). Ultimately, this will be slow, and often (if not everytime), you can forget about sound or graphics acceleration like done through DirectX. So if your desktop app is a game, well, you will be out of luck.
I am aware of a phone for sure, but the screen may be too big for you (mind you, due to the bezels, it's a small 5.5" device). I came across the thread after I bought one myself. It's the ASUS ZenFone 2 (Z00A/551ML):
> Asus ZenFone 2 > ZenFone 2 General > ZF2 Running Windows 7, 8 & 10 using KVM
The ZF2 is an Intel device, so things run a little more natively than say, a Qcom device (performance should be improved as a result).
Any questions you may have about this device against the Windows VM can be asked in that thread.
Edit: There's this too, which would be a generic solution to other high-end devices (although the guide caps out at 32-bit Windows OS'es)
Finally, I should mention, that these are all band-aid solutions. The best solution is to find an Android-equivalent app to that desktop app you want on the phone. These days, depending on the purpose, it shouldn't be that hard.
Hope this helps, and good luck!

Search ROM for ASUS MeMO Pad FHD 10 ME302C ( Android 7 or 8 ;) )

Hi Guys,
im the new guy i search an rom for my ASUS MeMO Pad FHD 10 ME302C i found some roms for ASUS_MeMO_Pad_FHD_10_ME302KL but the hardware is diffrent.
does anyone know how i flash this tablet to android 7 ?
at the moment there is android 4.3 installed , everytime when i try to install something i get the message to old android .... but in my opinion the hardware is good enough to run android 7.
CPU : Intel® Atom™ Z2560 Dual-Core, 1.6 GHz
Graphic : PowerVR SGX 544MP

push .
does anyone know a rom for my device ?

I also want to know

Owners of ASUS MeMoPad FHD 10 (ME302C) should probably try to crowdfund a developer to get us a new ROM.
I know for me I am willing to donate to this crowdfunding drive. This tablet still has a pretty good hardware and with the new ROM will
definitely run any apps installed. So let's get a group of ME302C owners and start a crowdfund to a developer who can create a new ROM!

Absolutely agree. I'd be happy to chip in too. The only question is, how much it will cost, how many people are willing to chip in, how to spread the news and find interested parties; and, to be fair, once the new ROM is written and paid for, it should only be made available to the people who actually donated their money. gofundme.com may be a good place to start.

Maybe we can
eipdiordna said:
Absolutely agree. I'd be happy to chip in too. The only question is, how much it will cost, how many people are willing to chip in, how to spread the news and find interested parties; and, to be fair, once the new ROM is written and paid for, it should only be made available to the people who actually donated their money. gofundme.com may be a good place to start.
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Please, contact with me here if you planned to donate (or if you a rom developer), on insta:do_.b
I think it will be very usefull for everyone who has this tablet, but I think we need smth like a team, to coordination.

Hi guys. I'm an Italian user and I agree with you... Our tablet is still a great device. So I would like a new Rom for it because many application are becoming unsupported. Do you know if there are some differences between the different region production? Tell me how I can recognize my version Rom or kernel or something like that.
However I'm with you.

dimitri0 said:
Please, contact with me here if you planned to donate (or if you a rom developer), on insta:do_.b
I think it will be very usefull for everyone who has this tablet, but I think we need smth like a team, to coordination.
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Any news about ROM development? I'll be willing to donate

elpurris said:
Any news about ROM development? I'll be willing to donate
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Good day. I also write down to donate if you can get someone who can develop an updated rom. Thank you!

I'll also willing to donate.

mokku said:
Hi Guys,
im the new guy i search an rom for my ASUS MeMO Pad FHD 10 ME302C i found some roms for ASUS_MeMO_Pad_FHD_10_ME302KL but the hardware is diffrent.
does anyone know how i flash this tablet to android 7 ?
at the moment there is android 4.3 installed , everytime when i try to install something i get the message to old android .... but in my opinion the hardware is good enough to run android 7.
CPU : Intel® Atom™ Z2560 Dual-Core, 1.6 GHz
Graphic : PowerVR SGX 544MP
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mokku said:
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Hi to All
Any news guys ?
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I want to know too

Since we've had Linux boot on the Surface RT, will Android at some point?

Yeah most stuff doesn't work on Linux at the moment but maybe?

Today successfully booted up windows 10 arm on my surface rt.
I am so hasppy android ports are coming to this tablet

pedrofssf94 said:
Today successfully booted up windows 10 arm on my surface rt.
I am so hasppy android ports are coming to this tablet
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well dang

FoxyDrew said:
Who told you android ports are coming to this tablet? lol glad your optimistic though
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Actually yes, Android 5.1 is coming to this tablet.
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pguarache said:
Actually yes, Android 5.1 is coming to this tablet.
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You do know no one can see that because you would need to be in the discord server that we dont have an invite to lol

In theory It would work...
Older versions supported ARM32 pretty well and since Linux is already working It would not be harder to port Android to The surface RT and 2.
The problem is that these devices are almost 10 years old and few people care about them anymore.
Even with Android installed running apps with 2gb of very aged memory would prove to be a pretty bad experience...

Nicknackpaddywack101 said:
In theory It would work...
Older versions supported ARM32 pretty well and since Linux is already working It would not be harder to port Android to The surface RT and 2.
The problem is that these devices are almost 10 years old and few people care about them anymore.
Even with Android installed running apps with 2gb of very aged memory would prove to be a pretty bad experience...
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Eh, I've run worse. I have a moto E LTE running android 9 (RR Custom Rom based on a GO version of android) and it runs fine (1gb of ram and a worse cpu than the RT) sure it would be nice to have more ram but it works.

WinDVD said:
Eh, I've run worse. I have a moto E LTE running android 9 (RR Custom Rom based on a GO version of android) and it runs fine (1gb of ram and a worse cpu than the RT) sure it would be nice to have more ram but it works.
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Yes, I understand your point. But the fact is that it had Android to start with, with the surface RT you have to use loopholes and bugs to get Linux working in a inefficient way and even the currently working(sort of ) Raspbian based Linux system has a bunch of bugs and missing drivers etc. Power control lacks behind Windows RT (mentiond here:https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/porting-chromium-to-windows-rt.2095686/post-87719273. The sad fact that this device is already 10years old means that it is unlikely people would pay attention to it and use it to develop Android, and even with Android installed the experience would be very limited due to the ram. support would be almost non-existent similar to what happened to the windows phones that got unofficial CM versions. Developers are already moving away from ARM32 to newer ARM64 and a few years later most apps would have a minimum api equivalent to android 6.
There is still a silver lining though. RT devices are dirt cheap since they are almost or practically useless now and Android still has excellent backward compatibility. Anyone who really has interest and the time could pick up the pieces of the Linux project and move on with doing it, but it still would not be easy.
Maybe a crowdfunding project could give devs some incentive?

But for now you could try to run a vm in linux or simply run their linux equivalents. Chromium, firefox, WPS office etc. Raspbian is compatible wih the snap store too, so you could use it just like ubuntu.
I am not trying to pour cold water on your idea, and I really look forward to this project taking off. However, there ultimately is a reason why Windows RT and their RT devices failed to take off.

working with the progress made with opensurface-rt, we managed to get android 7.0 booting on the surface RT using the 3.4 kernel, got wifi working, but minor gpu bugs that make it an unstable setup. had a play about with 4.4 and 5.1 too. android 7.1.1 and above have critical gpu bugs which make it completely unusable. and probably unfixable. development into getting other devices such as sound, camera, bluetooth etc has yet to be done. so far we have, screen, touch screen, type/touch keyboard, 2d/3d gpu working. recorded a quick video of it running
maybe it would be possible to get all things sorted but it's quite the task.

jethro tarw said:
working with the progress made with opensurface-rt, we managed to get android 7.0 booting on the surface RT using the 3.4 kernel, got wifi working, but minor gpu bugs that make it an unstable setup. had a play about with 4.4 and 5.1 too. android 7.1.1 and above have critical gpu bugs which make it completely unusable. and probably unfixable. development into getting other devices such as sound, camera, bluetooth etc has yet to be done. so far we have, screen, touch screen, type/touch keyboard, 2d/3d gpu working. recorded a quick video of it running
maybe it would be possible to get all things sorted but it's quite the task.
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Wow! Nice work! Would be interested to know the team behind this marvelous project. (since you mentioned 'we')
Also probably should embed the boot screen with your team's name...