Hello,
I am wondering if anyone has got the Nook Tablet to run Honeycomb off the Micro SD card. I have found many places that show how to do it with the Nook color, but I have tried a few different ways. No luck. I don't know if the Nook tablet doesn't boot from the SD card by default, or what I am doing wrong. I have just enough knowledge to follow directions to try and honeycomb. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I have a nook tablet that I rooted using the directions found on this website.
Thanks!
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barningham1 said:
Hello,
I am wondering if anyone has got the Nook Tablet to run Honeycomb off the Micro SD card. I have found many places that show how to do it with the Nook color, but I have tried a few different ways. No luck. I don't know if the Nook tablet doesn't boot from the SD card by default, or what I am doing wrong. I have just enough knowledge to follow directions to try and honeycomb. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I have a nook tablet that I rooted using the directions found on this website.
Thanks!
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The Tablet has a signed bootloader that has not been successfully conquered yet. You really should do a little more research before you blindly follow internet instructions.
patruns said:
The Tablet has a signed bootloader that has not been successfully conquered yet. You really should do a little more research before you blindly follow internet instructions.
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Thanks for the response! I did research the Nook Tablet quite a bit before I tried doing any changes. I have rooted a couple other devices, and the first thing I look for is how to undo anything I try. In my research for running Honeycomb on the Nook Tablet everything I found, was one way or another, a link back to the Nook Color. Thanks again for for the response!
While I do love my Nook Tablet, I loathe the app market it has. I look forward to the day when someone breaks this beast so we can install a clean android base on it. I think the NT with a clean unmolested base will freakin rock.
garretthylltun said:
While I do love my Nook Tablet, I loathe the app market it has. I look forward to the day when someone breaks this beast so we can install a clean android base on it. I think the NT with a clean unmolested base will freakin rock.
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Fingers crossed as well...
Also Love my NT!
I also don't think that the devs will ever release honeycomb for your nook touch, since the ice cream sandwich source is already out
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patruns said:
The Tablet has a signed bootloader that has not been successfully conquered yet. You really should do a little more research before you blindly follow internet instructions.
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I think some people who are newer here get confused. While I do agree that research should be done before posting, the fact that if you google Nook Tablet, you get results for "Nook Color Tablet" included in the results, which confuses some people. It would have been nice of B&N to call it something a little more distinctive, such as Nook *____* where *____* is anything other than the word "Tablet".
Also, the fact that Nook (Simple) Touch also exists, people get confused by NT as seen in another post in this thread. However, being as this is the Nook Tablet forum, that shouldn't generally be the case for most.
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I know I'm going to get flamed because I'm sure someone has asked and answered this... but I can't find it.
Is there a way tor set my gtab to recognize the emmc as an SD card so I can install apps that require an sd card? The amazon app store and the B&N nook app are the 2 I want right now, but I'm sure there are more. I really don't need more than the existing 14Gb of space on the tab, so I definitely don't want to buy a microsd when I have all the space on it already.
I'm running CM7 with stock kernel, new to the gtab but not to android, XDA, or rooting/modding. But I can't code and ADB baffles me.
austontatious said:
I know I'm going to get flamed because I'm sure someone has asked and answered this... but I can't find it.
Is there a way tor set my gtab to recognize the emmc as an SD card so I can install apps that require an sd card? The amazon app store and the B&N nook app are the 2 I want right now, but I'm sure there are more. I really don't need more than the existing 14Gb of space on the tab, so I definitely don't want to buy a microsd when I have all the space on it already.
I'm running CM7 with stock kernel, new to the gtab but not to android, XDA, or rooting/modding. But I can't code and ADB baffles me.
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You are right, it's out there. I'll save you the lecture and give you the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1028305&highlight=vold
Zaphod-Beeblebrox said:
You are right, it's out there. I'll save you the lecture and give you the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1028305&highlight=vold
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And I was so looking forward to another lecture... damn...
K J Rad said:
And I was so looking forward to another lecture... damn...
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The problem with the lectures is that eventually I have to ask a question too ...
If my answer turns about to be in some arcane thread from 2002 and I don't find it, then I'm gonna get hit with the lecture too
It's a fine line between using the search features of this site, and realizing that search sucks and asking for help.
Perhaps I should have put the "tongue in cheek" smiley up there... ;-)
I agree completely. In fact, if you ever see me giving a lecture... link me back here ;-)
K J Rad said:
Perhaps I should have put the "tongue in cheek" smiley up there... ;-)
I agree completely. In fact, if you ever see me giving a lecture... link me back here ;-)
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I know this thread has gone way OT, but oh well.
I was certain you were being funny...
However, I've been known to be a bit terse with my 'find with search' answers myself. Just acknowledging it will eventually bite me in the arse.
I followed the link followed the instructions and I am still having the same issue where the /mnt/emmc is not being listed as /mnt/sdcard
Now, I am not sure if this is because I am on CM7.0 and the thread was for CM7.1 but here is a link to what I posted there
I'm at a loss as to why development hasn't begun on rooting the Vizio tablet.
There have been a few hints thrown out by Vizio techs that rooting involves an sdcard.
Thoughts?
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
Moving to Q&A
Anyone in the dev community have one of these yet? I'm considering trying to root it myself but I'm still learning.
What has been required of rooting past devices?
Its been suggested that Gingerbreak and other conventional root methods have failed due to the odd internal memory/SD card directories..
Thoughts?
How do we get a dev or two interested in this device?
I also do not understand why the Vizio hasn't received more 'root' attention. Perhaps it is too recently released, perhaps the experts are busy working elsewhere, or maybe Honeycomb has enthralled the hackers leaving us wee Gingerbread users to fend for ourselves. Like your message suggests, it may be up to us neophytes.
I know Unix/Linux reasonably well enough, though I have no immediate knowledge of how to hack for root. So, I am also trying to learn what is needed. The crux of rooting is to find a method to get a process 'suid', a.k.a. root privilege. Once that is achieved the OS is rooted and sustained rooting can be done. At least that's my take on the process at the moment.
I have adb (Android Debug Bridge) working on my Win7/64 system. I've tried Gingerbreak-v1.20 and SuperOneClick-v2.1.1 with no success. So now it's a race between me and Vizio. Do I/we crack the OS or does Vizio bring out the Honeycomb version of Android for the VTAB1008?
Nelson
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I am guessing that vizio is probably throwing in the towel today as Amazon just ate their lunch. A $200 tablet that smokes our Vizios in every way imaginable.
The dev community will probably jump on the Amazon tablet as fast as possible, and pretty much everything else is toast.
R2N2 said:
I also do not understand why the Vizio hasn't received more 'root' attention. Perhaps it is too recently released, perhaps the experts are busy working elsewhere, or maybe Honeycomb has enthralled the hackers leaving us wee Gingerbread users to fend for ourselves. Like your message suggests, it may be up to us neophytes.
I know Unix/Linux reasonably well enough, though I have no immediate knowledge of how to hack for root. So, I am also trying to learn what is needed. The crux of rooting is to find a method to get a process 'suid', a.k.a. root privilege. Once that is achieved the OS is rooted and sustained rooting can be done. At least that's my take on the process at the moment.
I have adb (Android Debug Bridge) working on my Win7/64 system. I've tried Gingerbreak-v1.20 and SuperOneClick-v2.1.1 with no success. So now it's a race between me and Vizio. Do I/we crack the OS or does Vizio bring out the Honeycomb version of Android for the VTAB1008?
Nelson
R2N2
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I'm interested in following your progress! Thank you for the reply.
walkingagh said:
I am guessing that vizio is probably throwing in the towel today as Amazon just ate their lunch. A $200 tablet that smokes our Vizios in every way imaginable.
The dev community will probably jump on the Amazon tablet as fast as possible, and pretty much everything else is toast.
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Holy crap. Its dual core. I just looked it up.
Gonna preorder tonight. I'm still within my Vizio return period!
I just preordered a Kindle Fire.
I'm on the fence about returning my VTab. If it gets rooted, I'll be inclined to keep it.
walkingagh said:
I am guessing that vizio is probably throwing in the towel today as Amazon just ate their lunch. A $200 tablet that smokes our Vizios in every way imaginable.
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"Every way imaginable?" Hardly. No camera. No SD card slot. No GPS. No Bluetooth? No access to the 'droid app store. Skinned and constrained to keep you on AOL... er, Amazon.
walkingagh said:
The dev community will probably jump on the Amazon tablet as fast as possible, and pretty much everything else is toast.
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*snort* Yeah, right.
Even were that true: The "dev community" is not the whole of the Android, much less the tablet, world. This may come as a shock: But some people actually just use their devices as-delivered, other than to install apps and add some hardware accessories.
Sorry if I'm coming across kinda harsh on my first post here, but breathless hyperbole seems to me better-suited to an American Idol or Big Brother web site, or perhaps a marketing or stock-trading forum, than to a development venue.
Jim
jseymour said:
"Every way imaginable?" Hardly. No camera. No SD card slot. No GPS. No Bluetooth? No access to the 'droid app store. Skinned and constrained to keep you on AOL... er, Amazon.
*snort* Yeah, right.
Even were that true: The "dev community" is not the whole of the Android, much less the tablet, world. This may come as a shock: But some people actually just use their devices as-delivered, other than to install apps and add some hardware accessories.
Sorry if I'm coming across kinda harsh on my first post here, but breathless hyperbole seems to me better-suited to an American Idol or Big Brother web site, or perhaps a marketing or stock-trading forum, than to a development venue.
Jim
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Wow, I ASSumed the Fire would have simple stuff like that.
Well, that explains the price. Why bother with a dual core proc and no supplemental features, like Bluetooth!!!
They really are trying to make it an IPad.
Interesting.
DetCochese said:
They really are trying to make it an IPad.
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Not even in the same class. It's designed to be a Nook-killer.
I like Amazon well enough. Other than their free shipping has turned very lame, I've always been satisfied with them in every respect. But their overwhelming market dominance I think is bad juju, so my VTAB has only Nook installed, and I'll henceforth go first to B&N for my reading purchases.
Jim
jseymour said:
Not even in the same class. It's designed to be a Nook-killer.
I like Amazon well enough. Other than their free shipping has turned very lame, I've always been satisfied with them in every respect. But their overwhelming market dominance I think is bad juju, so my VTAB has only Nook installed, and I'll henceforth go first to B&N for my reading purchases.
Jim
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Every review I've seen is comparing it to the ipad, but I digress.
I have 50 books on Kindle and none on Nook. I don't think I could make the switch.
Back to rooting the VTab...
Any devs out there interested? I will buy you a case of your favorite beverage, within reason.
Bump for the night crew. The lack of intrest in development of this device is a mystery to me.
I wish I knew how to root stuff. This thing wants CM7 and setcpu soooo bad.
DetCochese,
I don't think you've been looking very hard: My quest to root my Vizio VTAB108 Tablet and how I enabled ADB access
That thread was on the first page of the Android Q&A forum for a goodly portion of yesterday.
Jim
jseymour said:
DetCochese,
I don't think you've been looking very hard: My quest to root my Vizio VTAB108 Tablet and how I enabled ADB access
That thread was on the first page of the Android Q&A forum for a goodly portion of yesterday.
Jim
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I am aware of both that thread and the one regarding booting into recovery.
Both of which are grassroots attempts by folks such as myself to obtain root. I applaud their efforts and wish them success.
That said Jim, my desire is to see interest in this device from well established platform developers, such as the Cyanogen Mod team.
DetCochese said:
I am aware of both that thread and the one regarding booting into recovery.
Both of which are grassroots attempts by folks such as myself to obtain root. I applaud their efforts and wish them success.
That said Jim, my desire is to see interest in this device from well established platform developers, such as the Cyanogen Mod team.
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Ah, ok. Sorry for the mis-impression.
Jim
jseymour said:
Ah, ok. Sorry for the mis-impression.
Jim
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No apology needed.
As soon as someone comes up with a way to reconfig the file structure of the SD card to /sd from /sd external or whatever abomination Vizio came up with, conventional root methods will succeed. At least that's my prediction.
I'm too much of a newb to know how to alter the /sd card file structure.
I just installed and PATH'd ADB 5 minutes ago.
Lunch time!
Iconia A100 uses "externalsd" too. Internal storage is /sdcard.
swaaye said:
Iconia A100 uses "externalsd" too. Internal storage is /sdcard.
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Has someone found a work around with that device yet that could help here???
This is from the Iconia A100 subforum on acertablet
Would this work with the VTab??
http://www.acertabletforum.com/foru...ssion/1167-rooting-iconia-a100-made-easy.html
Rooting Iconia A100 Made Easy
This is a method to root the Acer Iconia A100, as presently neither Gingerbreak, nor IconiaRoot 1.3 (or earlier versions) work. I used terminal (app from market, any will do), and performed the procedure below.
What you need:
A copy of superuser, bin file, NOT .apk...
http://downloads.androidsu.com/super...bin-signed.zip
Place this file in the root of INTERNAL SD (mnt/sdcard, not external SD), and unzip it into this same directory. Still at root, /mnt/sdcard, locate and click 'system' folder, then 'bin' folder, and copy the su file. Nav back to sdcard root (mnt/sdcard), and paste su file.
Busybox Installer (.apk from market)
Superuser (.apk from market) This will update the su file and install the Superuser app after rooting.
Titanium Backup (.apk from market) or ANY application for root, to check and ensure you are indeed rooted.
With the su file loaded to internal sd's root, open terminal.
Copy/Paste the following commands at the $ prompt:
/system/bin/cmdclient ec_micswitch '`mount -o remount,rw /system`'
/system/bin/cmdclient ec_micswitch '`cat /mnt/sdcard/su >/system/xbin/su`'
/system/bin/cmdclient ec_micswitch '`chmod 6755 /system/xbin/su`'
Once completed, install and open Busybox Installer.apk, and run the app to install Busybox. If it completes, you have root, if it fails, repeat the steps above.
Once busybox is installed, go ahead and install the other remaining apps, and 'Allow' when prompted for superuser access. Congrats! You've rooted your A100!!
Credit goes to several folks @ XDA, particularly: abliss, brendan802 and guags99
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I am very Noob in this, but I have questions that I am sure that are gonna help a lot of people.
I am going to buy a cheap e-reader/tablet, and I have seen that the two best options are Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire.
The difference between the prices is 50USD, and I accept them. But I want to permanent root my device, so, the question is:
If I permanent root the Nook Tablet, will I be able to access all the device memory? Because without rooting it is limited to 1GB.. Will I be able to put for example 4gb of video without MicroSD?
Because if I cant access all the storage, I will have to buy a 16gb microSD.. So the difference between the two devices will be about 80USD, which is quite a lot.
The other questions are: Can you really access the Android Market and download apps if you root the Nook Tablet?
What does that means that the bootloader in the Nook tablet is locked? Is the rooting going to be unstable for that?
Thank you very much.
All these questions have been answered to other threads. Please read or search for them.
xdahgary said:
All these questions have been answered to other threads. Please read or search for them.
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I have been in a lot of forums, and I know perfectly that before you ask, you have to search for your questions. I have been about half hours looking for them, and I have found different answers, so I need the real one.
Some answers say that you can only access all the memory for the installed apps, but not for all the medias.. others say that you always need a MicroSD card.. so, tell me please, which of those threads is the truth?
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Some answers say that you can only access all the memory for the installed apps, but not for all the medias.. others say that you always need a MicroSD card.. so, tell me please, which of those threads is the truth?
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The first one. You install to the internal, and can make folders (I suggest putting them in data or media, and not anywhere in the main directory) anywhere. Downloads from other app stores and ebook stores save all over the place, but usually by default to an SD card. Just learn to use a file manager and expect to root it.
It's easier to get every other application/store/video to run on a rooted Nook Tablet (compared to a KF), but it'll be much easier to make custom roms for a Kindle Fire due to the bootloader. What this means is that: if you have a kindle, you will sit around fiddling with rooting and unrooting if you want their Instant Video to work, until a whole new rom (entire OS overhaul) is available. In comparison you can root a Nook Tablet, and put whatever you want on it and run it and most things will work (if they're tablet apps, and depending on what stores you use), but it will be much harder to load a new OS on it, if ever. For someone who wants to hack and mod a tablet, they will want to do it on a device that is supports it (KF). For someone that wants to read books, play games, watch videos, read comics, very easily right off the bat (with 10 min of work), the Nook Tablet is better (and has a few important higher specs).
And the suggestion to find the many threads that answer your question wasn't "go out there and find other forums with lots of conflicting answers" but *SCROLL DOWN.*
skipped said:
I am very Noob in this, but I have questions that I am sure that are gonna help a lot of people.
I am going to buy a cheap e-reader/tablet, and I have seen that the two best options are Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire.
The difference between the prices is 50USD, and I accept them. But I want to permanent root my device, so, the question is:
If I permanent root the Nook Tablet, will I be able to access all the device memory? Because without rooting it is limited to 1GB.. Will I be able to put for example 4gb of video without MicroSD?
Because if I cant access all the storage, I will have to buy a 16gb microSD.. So the difference between the two devices will be about 80USD, which is quite a lot.
The other questions are: Can you really access the Android Market and download apps if you root the Nook Tablet?
What does that means that the bootloader in the Nook tablet is locked? Is the rooting going to be unstable for that?
Thank you very much.
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There are definitive answers, so I don't know that you've searched all that much. However, to answer some of your questions:
Yes, you can install the market once rooted, and the bootloader being locked means that the simplest solutions for installing new ROMs will not work. People are trying workarounds at the moment, but there is no ETA. This has no bearing on having the device rooted.
I think it is also important to mention that until a verified means of preventing OTA updates to the system is created, it is possible your device to become un-rooted after it updates itself.
So far, I have seen no sure-fire ways to prevent the NT from updating itself - only guesses. So your "permanent root" may not be so permanent for the time being.
1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Means custom roms can't be created as of yet. Give it time.
Why do so many people keep repeating "over the air updates may remove root..." Maybe it will, maybe it won't. You must accept an OTA update. If you are worried about root, don't accept the update until you know what it will do. Seems simple to me.
Is there even a patch for the zergrush expolit?
dkb218 said:
1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Means custom roms can't be created as of yet. Give it time.
Why do so many people keep repeating "over the air updates may remove root..." Maybe it will, maybe it won't. You must accept an OTA update. If you are worried about root, don't accept the update until you know what it will do. Seems simple to me.
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For the KF at least, its coming in the form of silent updates. Once you're on wifi, the update is pushed down.
Honestly its a hazard of the game until we have different roms. If they plug the hole, they plug it. I'm holding out for the ROM solution, regardless of elegant/inelegant the solution proves to be.
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JoeM01 said:
For the KF at least, its coming in the form of silent updates. Once you're on wifi, the update is pushed down.
Honestly its a hazard of the game until we have different roms. If they plug the hole, they plug it. I'm holding out for the ROM solution, regardless of elegant/inelegant the solution proves to be.
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True enough. Often inelegant=most effective. Same when I first rooted my TF101. Used the ADB root. Which meant I had to self-teach ADB. Best thing that happened as not only I achieved root but learned something new that has helped with other devices.
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1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Means custom roms can't be created as of yet. Give it time.
Why do so many people keep repeating "over the air updates may remove root..." Maybe it will, maybe it won't. You must accept an OTA update. If you are worried about root, don't accept the update until you know what it will do. Seems simple to me.
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If the NT does OTA updates like the NC there is no prompt to accept the update, just a message that the update occurred. It is not the same as a phone.
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The title says it all. I have a NC and have made several bootable uSD cards with Miui, MiRaGe and ICS. If I get a NT, can I make my own uSD cards? If so, where are the directions? It seems there might have been directions here at XDA that have been taken down, since the n2a people used them to sell their cards. That sucks.
I did search and google outside of XDA as well.
I should say I want to be able to run something other than just a rooted B&N ROM. Like CM7, Miui, etc.
You could.
Directions to do so, however, have not been brought forward yet.
Not possible yet.
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Thanks to both of you. I was only wondering if I had missed something. It surprised me that n2a already has one out, but nothing on burning your own here at XDA. In the NC forum, there are so many choices, most of which I've tried. Just trying to figure out if I want to return my NC for a tablet, while I still can.
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Thanks to both of you. I was only wondering if I had missed something. It surprised me that n2a already has one out, but nothing on burning your own here at XDA. In the NC forum, there are so many choices, most of which I've tried. Just trying to figure out if I want to return my NC for a tablet, while I still can.
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If you read around, you'll see that the developers here can do it, they just haven't released that info yet.
The developers here did all the hard work I believe. The N2A guys built on top of that so they could sell their blood diamonds.
Bought the HP printer that came with the Zeen because it seemed like a good idea.
its a not so bad setup that would be much better with a more capable tablet. the Zeen is a flaming turd.
I'd like to port the specific apps first to my old Nook Color making it a dedicated device.
I'm not a total n00b to Linux, command line, and hacking some Android but this is much more .
ideas and help on accomplishing this is appreciated.
did you find anything about the zeen i want to flash a new rom but i dont see nothing about it anywhere
money2392 said:
did you find anything about the zeen i want to flash a new rom but i dont see nothing about it anywhere
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Nope nothing, The tablet itself isn't worth much at all.
You can root the thing. Had one of them a while back, was OK, HERE is where i left it at that time. The kids loved it, it was sturdy. Google is your friend
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