Can I update an old Android tablet with the brand new Android Go?

[Android Central Question]

Hi everyone! I have a chinese (but great! The display is amazing) tablet that are stuck on Android 6.0. I'd like to know if the Oreo Go is a good thing for older devices. Did anybody tried to do it?

The device is the FNF Ifive Mini 4S. It runs with a RK3288 processor quad core 1.8 GHz, with 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage.

 

[djrakowski]

Not likely, unless some enterprising soul has undertaken to make an image for your specific hardware. It's not as simple as just loading an Android Go image - your device has to be rootable, then someone (or a group of someones) has to create an image for it.

 

[hallux]

The thing with Android is that each build is for a specific device - even for Android One, especially if that device was not part of the Android One project. Unless you want to put in the work, if there is no build for your device for a particular version that version can't be installed on that device.

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