Sustaphones Tablets – Database of repairable Android devices with community ROMs

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Nice! When I bought my current phone I assumed a LineageOS would be out on it within the year, but little did I know how bad things had become. Will never by another device without doing oodles of research from now on.

Sustaphones was previously discussed on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25592066 - but the tablets page is new.

Love this idea. Seems like a gap of Tablet devices for 2021/2022 though?

Also open source:

https://gitlab.com/onli/sustaphones

Yeah, in the issue, onli lamented that there just aren't that many tablets with battery replacement guides on ifixit, which is one of the requirements for it to appear on the site (and just not as many tablets in general): https://gitlab.com/onli/sustaphones/-/issues/16

Ah I suppose that makes a little sense, but perhaps it would be better if they were listed as long as they had some ROM support.

The reason those guides don't exist is probably not because battery replacement is an insurmountable task, but that simply nobody has written the iFixit guide for the device yet (which also accepts contributions). It's a bit of a chicken/egg problem, but if saving e-waste is the goal then people should be willing to give more tablets a go, even if they are lacking in iFixit guides.

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