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This wiki contains all tigerbox related information we gathered.

Master plan for unlocking

So let's say we have a Tigerbox, and we want to use it for something more than the german audiobooks for kids.

What are the general steps we have to take? You probably already have that in your mind:

• As the box is an Android device, we need to enable a way of sideloading and installing Android applications.

• When we're able to install applications, we should make some kind of menu-based launcher to be started in place of the fullscreen Tigerbox app.

• After the menu starts instead of Tigerbox app, we can install further applications and use them to play any music or watch any videos.

Unlocking in more detail

Now we can think about detais of each point in the plan. Knowing as much as possible about the hardware we're working on becomes important at this point.

Enable a way of sideloading and installing apps

Android devices can be controlled using Android Debug Bridge. The ADB can use USB or Wi-fi network to talk to the target device from any PC. But both these ways of communication are normally disabled on Tigerbox - we need to enable at least one of them.

You can use the method without opening the box, then you need to Go directly to adb UART adb root, or you use the method in which you need to open the box.

• Open the tigerbox

• Make UART connection to enable ADB

After this is done, you shouldn't have to access the internal connections anymore - you can close it.

Install launcher, store and other apps

Now it is just a matter of utilizing the ADB connection to Install Launcher and Store. It might be worth to also install some shared services, so that apps can use them.

Use the apps through the menu

No tutorial needed for that.