I obtained a cheap unbranded tablet from a friend, without a box or anything and I need to figure out what kind of tablet it is, through software.
What I've established so far is that the tablet is an Alwinner A13, but unfortunately there are a lot of A13s and this one seems to require some non-standard touchscreen drivers.
There are a few more threads about identifying devices, but this case is slightly different, in that I can't trust anything Android tells me about the tablet.
The tablet is currently running the official Novo 7 Legend firmware, which "works" but unfortunately is not the right firmware for the device. I still have full access to the system over adb and with a mouse over OTG, however the device's build.prop is wrong.
Unfortunately build.prop is also what defines the tablet's type/name in the Android "About device" section and all Android log output I've found.
I've checked dmesg as well as the output of adb bugreport
, neither gave me what I'm looking for.
tl;dr:
I do not have the original firmware nor do I have the box and the hardware is very generic, so my question is, is there any (software-wise) way of identifying the tablet, that does not rely on build.prop?
I have full (root) adb access and full access to Android.
Update: I have opened up the tablet and checked the board (and lost the power button in the process), on it was a more specific name, but still very generic. I did manage to get some rom working on it thanks to it (albeit with an inverted touchscreen), but I still haven't been able to identify it. I've given up on it for now (I got it for tinkering purposes anyway), if I get new suggestions here I'm still more than happy to try them out however.