Chinese KitKat

[Rabin Yasharzadehe]

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.

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 Elixer to find all the
information you can on the device hardware
most of the time, the CPU will be a MediaTek cpu (a cheep one not the 8
core the made it to the news),
(most of this Chinese devices are created the same way, and rebranded for
who ever pay/distribute them)

Then you need to Google and find a forum (not XDA) 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.

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.


On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 8:20 AM, geoffrey mendelson <
geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a Chinese Android tablet. It is  a Kaya 10.1 inch tablet purchased
> from Office Depot.
>
> I can't find a website for Kaya, and Office Depot has closed, so tech
> support is as far as I can tell nonexistent.
>
> 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.
>
> 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. :-)
>
> If so how? Is there an English step by step tutorial?
>
> Geoff.
>
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> Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ
> Jerusalem Israel.
>
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