<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">After trying to fix several cheep/Chinese tablets/phones for my family and friends, i took an oath to never buy a cheap Tablet/Phone ever - just because there is no support. </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">What I can tell you from my experience with this kind of devices, is that you can't trust the name - use an application like <span class="" style="background-color:yellow">Elixer</span> to find all the information you can on the device hardware</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">most of the time, the CPU will be a <span class="" style="background-color:yellow">MediaTek</span> <span class="" style="background-color:yellow">cpu</span> (a cheep one not the 8 core the made it to the news), </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">(most of this Chinese devices are created the same way, and rebranded for who ever pay/distribute them)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Then you need to Google and find a forum (not <span class="" style="background-color:yellow">XDA</span>) which talk about this device, and if you lucky some one else compiled a vanilla Android for it. from my experience i never was so lucky, because there are some drivers compatibles issues, and some times you need a custom kernel to boot a newer version of android on this devices.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">As for USB OTG and other devices, you probably will need to compile the modules (or find them online) and push then to the device manually, and then use the terminal to modprobe them.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 8:20 AM, geoffrey mendelson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geoffreymendelson@gmail.com" target="_blank">geoffreymendelson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have a Chinese Android tablet. It is a Kaya 10.1 inch tablet purchased from Office Depot.<br>
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I can't find a website for Kaya, and Office Depot has closed, so tech support is as far as I can tell nonexistent.<br>
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It's running Android 4.1, which just upgraded itself (no details on what was upgraded were given), but has no search for upgrades option.<br>
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Is it possible to upgrade to a generic version of KitKat? One of the reasons I would like to update it is that the operating system is customized for the hardware. It has a regular type A USB port for OTG devices, but only has drivers for USB storage. I want to add bluetooth (keyboard, headset), USB headset and an SDR dongle. :-)<br>
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If so how? Is there an English step by step tutorial?<br>
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Jerusalem Israel.<br>
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