Resurrecting an Old Android Tablet From the Dead
In a house move, an ASUS Nexus 7 surfaced. I haven’t turned this device on since the 18th of July 2018.
The thing was my go-to device for watching pirated anime and reading pirated manga… as well as containing some of my secondary school notes.
It runs Android version 6.0.1 with kernel version 3.4.0, last built 2016-07-02. By technology standards, this thing is ancient – but to any other kind of electronic appliance, it’s still a baby.
It ran GTA: San Andreas comfortably, though. Plus it was just the right form factor and weight to never be cumbersome to use.
I was thinking about all of the possible things I could repurpose this device for, thinking I would be one of those cool tech bloggers who does something crazy with hardware for a niche purpose… and then I showed my mum and she wanted it, so, guess I’m patching and resetting the thing instead.