On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 11:33:07AM +0200, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: > 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),
MediaTek is not the only one of those. /proc/cpuinfo can give some initial hints. > (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. I wonder if propr Linux support is easier to find. At least for some of those. Some of them (AllInWonder, though not MediaTek) have been hitting mainline recently. > > 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. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
