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So I have an offbrand (Hannspree) 10" Android tablet that I bought probably around 12-15 months ago. It came with a bunch of things I wanted, front and rear cameras, 1gig of RAM, 16G of internal SD, HDMI out, and a microSD slot that I have a 32G unit in. At $100Cdn, I was happy with what I got for my money. I use it primarily for checking forums, looking at schematics, and playing Mah Jongg, and don't have much interest in using it for more than that (I think I watched one Netflix documentary, maybe 2).
About a month or two back, it started behaving erratically. I would suddenly find that all my browser bookmarks had vanished, and that it would tell me it could not read the external SD card when I was looking at a file, read from the card. A month ago, it began resetting spontaneously, and I would lose all my apps, and had to reinstall them.
This past weekend, things came to a head and it now tells me that I have no internal SD storage. 16G gone poof. It still runs fine, however. I've reinstalled all my usual preferred apps, and they still run. It saves my Mah Jongg high scores, and all the built-in apps run fine.
BUT
Anything that would have been stored on the internal SD by default, now has nowhere to go. I have functioning cameras, but the camera pics, and screenshots have nowhere to go. Neither do any downloadable documents. I can read all the stored PDFs I have on my lug-in microSD flashdrive, but should I find another on-line, it can't go anywhere. I've called up every conceivable system function, in an effort to simply redirect files to the microSD, but to no avail. Maybe Android can be tinkered with to do that, but I don't know how.
I know that flash memory has a limited lifespan, in terms of read/write cycles, but I can't believe that it would have exhausted that lifespan in the space of a year. Is this normal or aberrant?
About a month or two back, it started behaving erratically. I would suddenly find that all my browser bookmarks had vanished, and that it would tell me it could not read the external SD card when I was looking at a file, read from the card. A month ago, it began resetting spontaneously, and I would lose all my apps, and had to reinstall them.
This past weekend, things came to a head and it now tells me that I have no internal SD storage. 16G gone poof. It still runs fine, however. I've reinstalled all my usual preferred apps, and they still run. It saves my Mah Jongg high scores, and all the built-in apps run fine.
BUT
Anything that would have been stored on the internal SD by default, now has nowhere to go. I have functioning cameras, but the camera pics, and screenshots have nowhere to go. Neither do any downloadable documents. I can read all the stored PDFs I have on my lug-in microSD flashdrive, but should I find another on-line, it can't go anywhere. I've called up every conceivable system function, in an effort to simply redirect files to the microSD, but to no avail. Maybe Android can be tinkered with to do that, but I don't know how.
I know that flash memory has a limited lifespan, in terms of read/write cycles, but I can't believe that it would have exhausted that lifespan in the space of a year. Is this normal or aberrant?
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