Lenovo Tab M11 TB330FU Tablet (Android 14)
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Hi, I bought an Lenovo Tab M11 TB330FU Tablet and hoped to install Ubuntu Touch on the device. It's not an officual supported device, so I'm looking into the porting process.
The porting docs only state support up to Android 13, and it seems the tablet is running Android 14.
https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/introduction/Intro.html
Is Android 14 supported already? Does anyone know whether the drivers would be compatible?
Any feedback appreciated!
Tim
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Hi @m.man, I do not know much about porting, but you will maybe get faster porting related answers at t.me/ubports_porting . If you want to ask in the forum, you maybe want to ask at https://forums.ubports.com/category/33/porting . It is a maybe a good idea to directly ask about porting and Android 14 and not to start your question with your specific device, because people usually do not like questions like "Will you port to [device X]?".
If you recently bought the device, you are maybe still be able to return the device to the seller without much complications, because porting is a lot of work and you will maybe brick your device in the process. So it is more convenient to get a device that is already ported to UbuntuTouch instead (Volla Tablet or Lenovo Tab M10 HD 2nd Gen 4GB/64GB).
Please be aware, that Ubuntu Touch is not a "normal" Linux distro (more restricted, some desktop apps do not work) and depending on your use case, it is maybe better to buy a tablet with Intel or AMD CPU and use standard Ubuntu or Debian (I think it is fairly easy to install Linux on some Surface Tablets).
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Hi Tim,
How much experience do you have? If this is your first time porting to a device, then I would suggest to begin using halium-13 first. I work on my first port (another Lenovo tablet), too, and it took me a long time to just get the kernel booting. The Andorid version begins to matter when the device boots so far that you can ssh into it. At that point you can worry about integrating halium 14.
On the other hand, if you are experienced with porting then follow the advice to ask on the telegram channel how to base your port on halium 14 from the beginning.
Kai