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The state of Alcatel Pop 4 Tablet

This tablet had kind of died few months back. I tried to revive it using the Raspberry Pi 5V 2.5A power adapter but it did not work. Today after few more months I decided to use AI to see if it can be resuscitated. I used the power station this time and saw it's taking 2W charge for some time and later it went to 6W. And then voilla!! It powered on and showed battery image on the screen with battery in red. I was completely floored. Anyway I queried chatgpt and it said the tablet is recovering. And it asked me to let it charge for about 45 minutes and then start it. I did that and after 45 minutest the tablet did start up. But then I ran into next roadblock. The first problem is old google account. So added a new account and removed the old - probably dead - account. Next hurdle - no updates for apps. Did even more research and found out it's version 6 of android is outdated and apps need at least version 8 or 10. By this logic my realme 3 will also go dodo in next couple of ye...