02-16-2021, 08:13 AM
Thanks all for your replies and sorry for being away this long. Good to know about the switch, I wasn't aware of that. I will look into it. I currently don't feel such an urgency for trying Android anymore but I might try some debian/ubuntu flavor someday just for when I need to use a commercial package as these linux packages are typically released as .deb. But yeah now I know, when I want to boot from SD I need to disable the eMMC.
As for Android, I just needed it as my sports watch manufacturer (Suunto) switched from synchronizing over a computer (so I was using a Windows machine for that) to synchronizing over a cellphone app (so now I need Android). But I recently got a cheap used Android phone for just that and sideloaded the .apk file to run the app. So far I have not felt the desire to install an app unavailable outside the Google services so yeah, I should probably be good if I manage to run Android from that SD card and install the app there. There is less of an urgency now though I'll give it a shot at some point. But at this stage I'll first use your advice on use it to run Ubuntu from SD and see how that goes. So thanks a lot either way!
As for Android, I just needed it as my sports watch manufacturer (Suunto) switched from synchronizing over a computer (so I was using a Windows machine for that) to synchronizing over a cellphone app (so now I need Android). But I recently got a cheap used Android phone for just that and sideloaded the .apk file to run the app. So far I have not felt the desire to install an app unavailable outside the Google services so yeah, I should probably be good if I manage to run Android from that SD card and install the app there. There is less of an urgency now though I'll give it a shot at some point. But at this stage I'll first use your advice on use it to run Ubuntu from SD and see how that goes. So thanks a lot either way!