lol hey I share your flabbergastiness - [I’m gonna go with _Flabbergastitude_™ ;-)] - about this. I got it in a lot of used devices and I just want the challenge of hacking it.

Most likely it’s made by HTC or maybe one of the Chinese brands…? I dunno. I know that some carrier-branded phones I used to have were just HTC models slightly modified.

So yeah, it’s just the challenge I want.

On another note, I’m also trying to do a LineageOS install onto a Galaxy J7 Sky Pro. All the literature I can find online is somewhat confusing insofar as getting the files onto the thing. I put everything onto a microSD and it’s in there, but I can’t figure out how to flash it. There is an article about first doing a file system mod etc. I followed directions but I am not seeing what they indicate I would see. It’s that way so often :-( anyway I’m going to next try something to free it because it has the message of an unauthorized factory wipe, so I am going to use droidkit to remedy that. After that I think it’s necessary to go into debug mode. I tried using the built-in Odin mode but it only says it can do update from sd card but that’s not what the file is.

Anyway sorry to ramble… I haven’t done any kind of rooting since I worked on my Zenpad to turn it into an e-reader. It’s so slow that it’s absolutely unconscionable that they would sell such a thing. These days it seems perfectly ok to sell a device that literally all it can manage is to load the Android OS. Once it succeeds then they presumably are able to release to market and not get their pants sued off. But beyond actual bootup everything is terminally slow, I have even seen to the point of a device just freezing up and shutting down lol. So they sell this thing that can just bootup and then it’s a brick draining a battery. Despicable.

But I am rambling again lol.

Anyway, back to the adventures.