Third-party apps, customisation, mods, development, custom kernels & ROMs
WARNING - Here be dragons!
If you don't entirely understand what you're doing, even following someone else's guide could end up with you bricking your Karoo, or leaving it in an unsupported state with no way to go back. By all means enter, read and learn, but undertake actions on your Karoo at your own risk!
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Undertake any procedures at your own risk and make sure you know how to reverse any changes. You could brick your Karoo or at the very least put it into an unsupported configuration.
Steve
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by Steve » Sat Apr 21, 2018 10:43 am
Some of these details might be useful if you start doing development-type work on Karoo, rooting, looking for drivers, etc:
Karoo (original):
Mediatek 6735 SoC
64-bit
Quad core 28nm, 1.3 GHz according to HH
Cortex-A53
2 GB RAM
ARM Mali-720 GPU
CAT 4 LTE, DC-HSPA+, TD-SCDMA, CDMA2000 (note that the OS doesn't suppport LTE at this time)
Bluetooth 4.0
802.11n 2.4GHz wifi
Karoo 2:
TBA
Quad core, 1.1 GHz
Snapdragon 210, ARM7
2GB RAM
4G (bands 2, 3, 5, 7), 3G (bands 2, 5), 2G (EGSM900, DCS1800)
Bluetooth 4.0
802.11n wifi
planet_coke
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by planet_coke » Sat Jan 02, 2021 10:27 pm
so the hardware is LTE-capable, or not?
Jan O.K.
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by Jan O.K. » Mon Feb 15, 2021 1:13 pm
Dear Steve,
I cannot find those specs for the karoo 2. Could you provide them?
Thanks a lot, Jan.
Steve
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by Steve » Mon Feb 15, 2021 2:41 pm
Jan O.K. wrote: ↑ Mon Feb 15, 2021 1:13 pm
I cannot find those specs for the karoo 2. Could you provide them?
Unfortunately I don't have them either. I've added a few basics, but I'd love to know the detailed technical spec if anyone comes across it.
Jan O.K.
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by Jan O.K. » Thu Feb 18, 2021 4:11 pm
Thanks Steve!
Psyclist
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by Psyclist » Fri Feb 19, 2021 6:25 am
Steve, can you add the Snapdragon 210 CPU that Christophe found out above?
christophe wrote: ↑ Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:42 am
The karoo2 use a snapdragon 210 (arm7)