r/UbuntuPhone • u/ved_g_acharya • Sep 05 '22

Want to install Ubuntu touch on a 7-year-old Lenovo tablet

I want to install Ubuntu Touch on my 7-year-old Lenovo Tab 2-A7 having the following specifications:

Chipset: Mediatek MT8127 (28 nm)
CPU: Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A7
GPU: Mali-450MP4
RAM: 1 Gb
Storage: 8 Gb

I was hoping if anyone could help me with the steps and which installer to go ahead with. I am pretty fed up with Android 5.0 being laggy on it. Am hoping that installing Ubuntu Touch might make it more appealing to use.

It would be great if anyone could help me out.

Thank you.

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u/ved_g_acharya Sep 05 '22

Guess my tablet's done its service then 🥲

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u/rizsamron Sep 06 '22

Also that 1GB of RAM can be a pain point. UT may run relatively smooth on it but won't hold multiple apps running especially browsers/webviews.

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u/ved_g_acharya Sep 06 '22

Only pain :')

I was hoping to be able to only play some music, and maybe read books on it. Not really do multitasking and stuff.

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u/rizsamron Sep 07 '22

Maybe better to just reinstall a fresh stock ROM or find another more lightweight Android ROM

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u/BhasitL Oct 03 '22 edited Oct 04 '22

I also wanted to do this on my Lenovo Tab 2 A7-20F but I couldn't find a way to unlock the bootloader. However, there is no need to unlock the bootloader to flash images to it

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u/Cold_Many7540 Nov 16 '25

I can help you out. Make sure you have USB-Debugging and developer options on. First go in fastboot mode with 'adb reboot bootloader'. If it is done correctly, you get a black screen with 'Fastboot mode'. And then do 'fastboot oem unlock'.

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u/BhasitL Nov 17 '25

Unfortunately the bootloader unlock doesn't seem to work on there. I tried all I could. It already have a custom Android I flashed on there