In short- sister gives me a little android pad to do what I wanted. I did, so much as to get a real one. Found and bought Nexus 7 2013 at area Walmart new in box on closeout for 129.00 16gb wifi last night. Now is the tricky part. I let it update to 4.4.4 and update base apps. Earlier lurking has me hesitate on 5.0+ updates. Primary use for me is in my semi truck as a gps for getting to customers, audio and text books, streaming movies and music from my Sandisk wifi stick and some games like hearthstone. Secondary is the helping my wife, kids, sister and retired parents with internet searches to fix whatever and getting that information to them along with just seeing what more I can do with this thing on the road.
I know I want and need to unlock/root this and setup a backup of the thing before I do anything fancy and regret it. In my semi when on road I have a iphone 6 with hotspot enable (20gb data month) and been using a ipad mini 2. Along with this several dc usb power jacks, bluetooth headset, audio cord to patch to radio, laptop and dc/ac 120/1000 watt power inverter. (all the luxury of over the road travel)
Now, do not think I'm tech dumb. Actually a bit dangerous, I know enough to get in trouble and have done so more than I care to admit. Former programmer back in 80's and electronic tech till my eyes said quit and move on thus driving semi truck. But my skills are somewhat behind the times and while I can do old dos commands without a second thought and work cmd terminal and some linux without much trouble this new device says ask first then do.
Sorry, trying to be detailed thus ending up long winded. With the little pad my sister gave me I had issues with my laptop (hp probook 450G1 windows 7 64 pro) communicating properly with adb and fastboot. Many a headache later I did manage to root and update that device but resulted in the touch pad failing. (suspect secondary rom for digitizer corrupted or damaged but made a usb otg cable for mouse to get buy on and no, reflashing the base rom would not fix it, error not in kernel, nor it seems was I the only one with that issue on that device per these forums)
So I bought this Nexus 7 2013 16gb wifi. From this point, what is next? Do I update to 5.0+ first then root and such. Better to stay 4.4.4? Is a good guide to walk thru this with tips to account for issues like I had with the little pad my sister gave me on it? (referring to pc not communicating properly) Guessing I will have to sorta start from scratch and wipe my pc android based drivers and go from there, new apk and all. They say advice is free and the worst question is not asking in the first place. Will I be able to tweak this thing to make better use of the sandisk wifi stick for storage seeing no sd card slot? Maybe optimize text to speech so as to listen to full ebooks? My ipad was rather limited so this is the goal with my new android device.
I know I want and need to unlock/root this and setup a backup of the thing before I do anything fancy and regret it. In my semi when on road I have a iphone 6 with hotspot enable (20gb data month) and been using a ipad mini 2. Along with this several dc usb power jacks, bluetooth headset, audio cord to patch to radio, laptop and dc/ac 120/1000 watt power inverter. (all the luxury of over the road travel)
Now, do not think I'm tech dumb. Actually a bit dangerous, I know enough to get in trouble and have done so more than I care to admit. Former programmer back in 80's and electronic tech till my eyes said quit and move on thus driving semi truck. But my skills are somewhat behind the times and while I can do old dos commands without a second thought and work cmd terminal and some linux without much trouble this new device says ask first then do.
Sorry, trying to be detailed thus ending up long winded. With the little pad my sister gave me I had issues with my laptop (hp probook 450G1 windows 7 64 pro) communicating properly with adb and fastboot. Many a headache later I did manage to root and update that device but resulted in the touch pad failing. (suspect secondary rom for digitizer corrupted or damaged but made a usb otg cable for mouse to get buy on and no, reflashing the base rom would not fix it, error not in kernel, nor it seems was I the only one with that issue on that device per these forums)
So I bought this Nexus 7 2013 16gb wifi. From this point, what is next? Do I update to 5.0+ first then root and such. Better to stay 4.4.4? Is a good guide to walk thru this with tips to account for issues like I had with the little pad my sister gave me on it? (referring to pc not communicating properly) Guessing I will have to sorta start from scratch and wipe my pc android based drivers and go from there, new apk and all. They say advice is free and the worst question is not asking in the first place. Will I be able to tweak this thing to make better use of the sandisk wifi stick for storage seeing no sd card slot? Maybe optimize text to speech so as to listen to full ebooks? My ipad was rather limited so this is the goal with my new android device.