Dead Nexus 7 (2012)? Replace the board?

[mvbighead]

So I bought this tablet used a while ago. It worked fine for a short while, but it didn't last long.

So far, I have performed updates and ran factory restores and unroots and who knows what else. Occasionally it boots, but generally it boots up and then locks up hard.

Question is, has anyone replaced a board in one of these and been happy with the result? I would hate to throw money at this and not get anything out it. Also, is there anything I can do to 'mark bad spots in the disk' to get it to run on whatever portion of the drive isn't bad? I don't know if something like that is possible on these devices, but at this point I have $50 in this thing that I probably won't get back out of it.

 

[Platypus]

I would not spend money on fixing that device, it shipped with awful emmc storage out of the factory and is very dated by now anyway. It sounds like flaky storage or potentially RAM that is going bad on you... but either way, don't spend money on it imo.

I would try the full factory image flash from google's nexus factory image page. If you flash the newest (5.1) full image (this will erase everything!) and you still get issues with it I would just write it off as a loss personally. Grouper was a bad device when it came out, Google immediately refreshed it for a reason.

 

[Radeon962]

Sell it for parts on eBay. You will get some of your money back.

Working 32gb versions are selling in the $75 range so even if you fixed it and then resold it there would be little to no value in doing so.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

You could always just buy a refurbed clone (ie. Hisense Sero 7 Pro) from newEgg for ~$45.
Extremely happy with mine running the LiquidSmooth ROM.