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by Maakuth 1907 days ago
Wow, Nexus 7 2013 is still supported. For reference, it was a budget tablet with $269 MSRP, introduced eight years ago! I've been running some older LineageOS build on mine, but I think I'm going to do the repartitioning and install the latest and greatest. It is admittedly becoming a bit sluggish with modern apps.
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Nexus 7 2013 was dropped by LineageOS in Feb 2019. It was recently picked back up again as a newer version but it requires manually re-partitioning the storage using a lot of command line entry while connected via ADB. It is not for the faint of heart.
I have one and I'm using Lineage OS 17.1, and it's absolutely smooth, working great. Thanks a lot for people behind that, this tablet is perfect for our usage (music, radio, web, and some apps + test device for app development), and no need to buy a new one and produce more electronic waste.

I did the move after the stock rom went to an infinite loop that I could not recover.

I've been holding on to whichever build was based on Android 8

Mostly because it was the last one that allowed a custom kernel with overclocking support. At 2Ghz the Nexus 7 is still absolutely buttery smooth for most uses

Looks like it needs to be repartitioned, which would be rather non-trivial.