[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] the_clam:
G'day --- I'm here too many years too late really, and these alcatel T10 7" tablets are old & nearly useless devices, considering how far the technology has come since 2012/13. Still, that's no reason not to add more info to a thread such as this, because it appears to me there more than one version of this tablet. You can get a lot of preliminary info from the device's FCC ID, so searching there is sometimes a worthwhile adventure....

.....myself being in Australia, the T10 had a specific .AU market release model -- 'T10-A8JCAU1' ; I've also heard of these tablets being designated '007' but such ID on mine reads 0700. Afaict, the FCC ID remains the same for all variants, that is 'RAD 289' and so you'll find info, schematics etc there... ; I am unsure if the hardware used for each variant is identical...ie; different chips used etc....

...the first problem I had, is the reported SoC version doesn't tally -- in apps like CPU-Z it's identified as an RK2928, however Rockchip tables are saying this specific SoC version should have the mali400 GPU, whereas what I have here is the Vivande GC800. Moreover, using the RKAndroid factory toolset (v1.35), the CPU is identified as RK2929, which again doesn't seem to exist in any official tables. Once you get the RF shield off and use your eyeballs, 'RK2918' is printed on the SoC . Go figure....

...after this device, Alcatel released the 'Evo7' tablet (*not* the Evo7HD) ~ this model is largely the same except for gpu core and resolution (but I think they dropped the HDMI transmitter?..not sure..)....

...the rest of the hardware -- wifi/bt is provided by the rtl8188cus .... as in a cheap wifi module board ex ebay..., soldered onto the T10 PCB ....this is a USB->WIFI bridge arrangment, so the MCU interface is hoisted over USB. You'll find this module easy enough onboard -- note that adjacent to that, are 'rx/tx' pads which (I'm hoping) present the a uart to the u-boot shell.....because yes, it's sort of bricked now....sort of...

The rest of the hardware.....

3-Axis Accelerometer == MMA7660fc ..... (non genuine)

RTC == Hynix 8563

LiPo charge/management IC == LP28300

Audio Codec/Amp == Alc5631

Touchscreen controller == Ft5306

HDMI bridge/transmitter == ANX7150

DRAM == SK hynix H5TQ2G83CFR

NAND == Mircron 29F32G08CBACA

full device BOM -> ( have the link. but need 10 post here to include it)

Android device interfaces;

'device' == USB_ID -- 1bbb:016e T & A Mobile Phones [may display in other OS's as 'TCT Mobile'] -- [USB ID pertains to 'Alcatel One Touch L100V' ...which is a USB stick, not a tablet]

'recovery' == USB_ID -- 18d1:d001 Google Inc. [Nexus 4 tablet] (presents after 'adb reboot recovery')

'bootloader' == USB_ID -- 2207:290A RK flash interface [custom, no fastboot] (presents after 'adb reboot bootloader')

notes:

OEM kernel loads 2 tainting modules

wlan 848 0 - Live 0xbf062000

rk29xxnand_ko 347100 0 - Live 0xbf000000 (P)

'pascal2' kernel crashes & ooops around rk29xxnand rendering all mtdblock devices inaccessible there after

...things went south here-after trying to remedy the nand problem above, and device now appears rather bricked (although the terminal uart may still be active and/or sdcard loading via Update.zip may still be functional ... things I have to check)....

..I did dump the mtd partitions beforehand, so I have the OEM stuffs on disk, however I'm unsure if they are of use to other devices claiming to be based on the same HW (at least 6 different device constructs I've come across so far)....

Mostly I'm recording this here for reference, and may return should I recover the device.

Salute!

ps: I use linux exclusively, I cannot help anyone using another host OS

edit: if you corrupt the active bootloader, you will see via dmesg ;

usb 4-5: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci

...and that is all - device will enumerate, but no interface is presented -- to fix ;

*disassemble device, removing RF shield top covering SoC/NAND & friends

*check that NAND chip matches detail above [29F32G08CBACA]

*plug in USB cable, short pins 8 & 9 on NAND chip

*power on device, maskrom should be active & load bootloader driver

usb 4-5: New USB device found, idVendor=2207, idProduct=290a

usb 4-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0

...and now the fun can continue -- Rockchip flash interface working again.... =)