[Android General] Coyo_Te:
a couple of questions

hey folks,

I own this tablet for about 2 months now. I am totally new to android, but tinkered with a bit of Linux/BSD in the far past so somethings sound familiar some are still new. I read alot these last days and today i fastread through this whole thread. Some questions I had were already answered some were not,...yet

As I understand this, you cant just install whatever OS you want onto your device, in this case the Lenovo Tab2 A10. Why is that? Is the firmware blocking it and allowing only "signed" installations?

My prior android missunderstanding was, that I could just download an android build img/iso and install it to my device. Apparently thats not the case.

But one can trick the device in allowing a customized recovery to be "installed" ("installed" cause overwritting or recover is not really the same as installation righ?!) Need to get the vocabulary right otherwise there will be confusion in the future.

Custom Recovery /= Custom Rom which would equal more a customized standalone OS ??

You can only custom recover kernels that lenovo has enabled ? Like if Lenovo would push marshmallow to the tab2, we could custom recover a marshmallow system, but since they havent yet, we cant, since we need to compile the kernel for the specific tablet hardware which is tedious and requires alot of knowledge of the hardware ?

Questions more specific:

I tried to get my xbox360 wireless controller to work, followed sleeplessninjas guide, didnt work, read somewhere that the drivers for the xbox controller are not installed on the tablet. Could you add those missing drivers to a custom recovery and thus make it work or are the drivers deeper implemented in the system than just that? is it maybe part of the kernel? Could one edit/customize the kernel?

I read about twrp on this thread and that [MENTION=5919159]Tzul[/MENTION] is putting all sorts of great stuff in there, thanks for that btw, it looks to me that twrp is a sort of custom recovery + tool to do exactly that - "install" a customized recovery onto your device. So far I read that there is ntfs and ext4 support added into that recovery meaning that now the tablet can handle these filesystems on sdcards, is exfat also included? I read somewhere that [MENTION=5919159]Tzul[/MENTION] was trying to get the drivers working on the Lenovo but not sure if it actually happened, or if it actually happened and thus he added it to the twrp for the Tab2A10.

I read about AndroidKitchen and the like to cook up your own Android Build or something like that. As I understand this, its basically the custom rom that you compile with these tools. Correct me if I am wrong pls.

Looking at this whole thing, the final question would be: Is there an open system/device out there on which I can just install my own Android KitKat/Lollipop/Marshmallow Build vanilla style without a vendor intercepting or is this basically impossible due to the nature of how devices are manufactured. Is there no system that is more PC like where I can basically take whatever OS I want and just install it on whatever hardware I got? Wouldnt it be great to have a toolkit for Android and a list from the manufacturers with the hardware parts so one could package an install build that would fit what ever device it would be needed for? It works for PCs why not for Tablets which are basically little PCs anyway.

Thx for your time.