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Here is a quick and easy guide on how to fix the infamous, "no brand", made in China, F117 tablet. Most everyone that has one had bought it off ebay because it was the cheapest 7" tablet available online at one time. Price was around $35. It has no identifying brand, and no volume buttons. On the back it simply says, "made in China" and "model F117". They are notorious for soft-bricking for no apparent reason, and most people had trouble with wifi on it among other issues. A family member gave one to me as it was useless to them, and I spent many days and countless hours trying to figure out how to get it working properly, or working better than before. It would power up and say "irulu" and then be stuck at "android" screen. I scanned the internet hard and saw at least 100 people had the same problem with no solution. I even contacted irulu and worked my way up to speaking with a top representative of the company. In the end he claimed it was not an irulu tablet! I could not believe it! I have come to believe that this tablet has a lot of mysteries surrounding its true origin. I eventually figured out a solution through a lot of trial and error, and translating websites from other countries. If you are reading this now, then you probably have not found any answer online like myself. Especially if you are from the USA. With that being said I cannot guarantee it will work for you, but at this point you probably have nothing to lose. There are slightly different ways to do this, but this is how I did it...

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*The only way I found to shut it off once it is stuck at the "android" screen, was to stick a thumbtack in the tiny hole on the back that says "reset", or to let it run out of battery. Obviously the first option is better!

*Using a computer, I downloaded the "F117 en.ius" file next (I was scared to download to my phone, just in case it auto-booted!). You don't have to sign up or pay anything. Just choose the low speed, free download from this site...

http://файлообменник.рф/download/folder/1229260

*I grabbed a 2gb micro sd card that I didn't care about, (it was the smallest one I had) and made sure I saved anything important on it to my computer.

*I inserted micro sd card into regular sd card, and inserted into mmc slot in my laptop (running windows xp).

*I opened up the "my computer" option on my laptop and located the drive letter that was related to my mmc slot.

*WARNING! Make sure you know which drive is related to your mmc slot before going any furthur! Pop out the sd card and pop it back in again to watch it disappear and reappear! If you make a mistake and select the wrong drive in the next step, you could erase your hard drive!

*I right-clicked on the drive letter that was related to my mmc slot and formatted it as fat32 (This will erase everything on micro sd card!)

*I copied the f117 file I downloaded earlier to the drive related to my mmc slot (nothing else is required in this case to make the sd card bootable).

*I unmounted the sd card by choosing the safely remove hardware option.

*I inserted the micro sd card into the tablet and had to use a paperclip to push it all the way in until it clicked.

*I held down the power button and the menu button at the same time until message popped up asking if I wanted to boot from sd card.

*I hit the menu button to select yes, and it booted right up like brand new (but better because it upgraded android version!) and has been working great for a year now without any bugs!​

Please let me know if this worked for you, or if you have any questions. Thanks!​