Shield Portable 2 Prototypes

Shieldboy

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Mar 5, 2020
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Hey, question to anyone who can answer - I just got my hands on a couple of Shield Portable 2 prototypes. They seem a bit less complete than the famous one that showed up at a pawn shop a couple of years ago, but one of them turns on and can connect to the internet. The other turns on, but only has a black screen and heats up quite a bit until I hold the power button to shut it off. I want to see if I can make them usable - the one that turns on is still quite buggy, crashes whenever it tries to play a video, and obviously doesn't have any google apps installed. I can't seem to access any data about the specs, since settings and other developer applications crash when I try to view them - but based on my research these are probably both K1 prototypes, with the smaller screens and capacitive buttons. I'm very new to working with android, and it's understandably difficult to find any information on these things - I'm just a guy who was a big fan of the original portable and would love to get these working to play some emulators on. Would it be possible to root this device or flash a custom ROM on this? I'd imagine it's difficult since there is 0 support for this device anywhere

If anyone can help me out with these, or point me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated. Thank you!
 
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