I have an iPad 1. I barely used it when it was given to me and then it more or less sat unused apart from the occasional booting to see if it still works every few years.
I’m fairly sure it would still work today though I haven’t tried for about 3 years. Trouble is, it never got much use because when I got it from my Mum in 2012 it was already becoming obsolete and after about a year I couldn’t do basic web browsing because almost every site just crashed whatever browser I ran, none of the apps in the app store would work anymore and the bookshelf app (think that’s what it was called. Came with the tablet) I tried to use to make it basically an e-reader device stopped working. There were many similar issue I forget the specifics about but basically amounted to the hardware working fine but being mostly unusable even for old software.
I wondered if there were any good ways to make use of or generally rehabilitate this device. I had hoped there’d be a lot Linux options for something like this but it looks like the earliest model anyone made.any progress with was iPad 2.
Any suggestions besides picture frame?
Play the demo for Tap Tap Revenge and Temple Run that’s what I did back when it was in style…
I have an old iPad (not as old as yours but still at least 8-9 years old) that I use pretty much exclusively as a pdf reader. There are also some library apps that work with it but I don’t trust it too much on network so it’s mostly pdfs.
I use mine for a kitchen tablet. Basically it opens a web page where I have all my recipes and a unit converter.
When I Google “how to jailbreak iPad 1” there’s lots of results. Is it a problem with the operating system being too old?
That’s the root of most of the problems yes. Of course there’s the very limited hardware to contend with. I can’t do much about webpages being simply too big for the amount of RAM, but then again I like to think if I could run something more lightweight it could maybe squeeze a little more performance out of her. I know I could maybe jailbreak, but what to do then I’m not sure.
Like for example, would being able to run a later iOS help things or is it capped around v5.0 out of necessity more than just planned obsolescence?
I don’t think jailbreaking would allow you to upgrade your operating system, but you could download/install apps yourself instead of using the app store. That would allow you to use older apps that meet your system specs.
Oh. That sounds good. How do you get those apps? Are they like an alternate app store kind of thing like f-droid on android, is it just that permission isn’t needed to install just anything and apps can just be scavenged from the web and sideloaded?
i use my ipad1 with soma.fm . I installed it like 2 years ago, so maybe you still could get the app from the store. When you asked to enter the verify code on the app-store you have to type in your password an then the verification code. See this old thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7392317
