<div dir="ltr"><div>I'm fond of my Rooted and re-imaged Amazon Fire. Rooting these devices is tricky, as Amazon actively works against you. Best advice I can give is to research software versions and rooting methods, then buy the right one from Swappa.com or someplace. Whatever you do, don't install OTA updates. <br></div><div><br></div><div>-- CHS</div><div>]<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 11:19 PM Ben Coleman via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">When my last Samsung Tab A 7 died on me, Walmart had just come out with<br>
their Onn-branded Android tablets. I picked up one of the 8" tablets on<br>
sale (they are normally $64, but were on sale for $5-10 off). For what<br>
i use it for (primarily reading on the Kindle App, Google Play books,<br>
Packt's app, OverDrive for library books, and Olive Tree's Bible Reader.<br>
Occasionally I'll watch something on Hulu or Netflix), it's fine.<br>
Android 9, 2G RAM, 16GB Flash 2.4Ghz and 5 Ghz Wifi, Bluetooth. It's<br>
not a speed demon, but it's about the same speed as the Tab A 7 tablets<br>
I had been using previously, maybe a tad bit faster.<br>
<br>
With the Tab A's, I had gotten to the point where I had to carefully<br>
prune what apps I had installed on the tablet to keep it running<br>
acceptably. So far, I haven't had to do that with this tablet. I've<br>
definitely got more apps running on it than I had on the Tab A's, and it<br>
hasn't really slowed down.<br>
<br>
>From what I can google, it's hackable/rootable, though I haven't tried yet.<br>
<br>
One very odd quirk - though the Android 9 on it is almost stock, it does<br>
include Walmart apps factory-installed. When an update to the Walmart<br>
app became available, running the Walmart App would detect this and<br>
insist that it be updated. However, the update would always fail. This<br>
lasted until the next system update for the tablet. Recently, when the<br>
Walmart App and the Walmart Grocery app were combined, it started doing<br>
the same thing if you tried to go into the Grocery app. I guess I'll<br>
have to wait until the next system update to use that app. You'd think<br>
that Walmart would at least make sure that their own app would run on<br>
their tablet, or would at least make sure this problem didn't come up<br>
again, but Nooooo.<br>
<br>
On 6/27/2020 6:28 PM, Beddingfield, Allen via Ale wrote:<br>
> For a couple of years now, I have been seeing these really cheap ($40 to $50)Android tablets in Wal-Mart, dollar stores, and places that normally don't even sell electronics. Most of them are some brand no one has heard of, or a shameless re-licensing of old school brands like RCA or Polaroid. I know they are going to be the cheapest of Chinese made junk, but how bad are they? Would they be usable at all for basic web browsing? I notice that most of them are running Android 5.0 or 6 .0. Have any of you played with any of these, or investigated upgrading the OS on them?<br>
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