Found an old Tablet

[Donut417]

Found my Motorola Xoom Tablet. Its running ICS from what I have seen. I cant sign in to anything. Is there anything I can do with it, or is this one of those situations where I take it to an electronics recycler? 

[ProjectBox153]

Do you need it for anything? It's approaching 10 years old, so I'm not sure how well any modern software would work or if any development has been done to support it. 

[Donut417]

1 minute ago, ProjectBox153 said:

Do you need it for anything? It's approaching 10 years old, so I'm not sure how well any modern software would work or if any development has been done to support it. 

No. I just found it in a box. 

[Zodiark1593]

Unlikely that modern software has any shot of working on it, especially if we’re talking the Tegra 2 model. Though Cortex A9s aren’t too far removed from the common Cortex A53s we see today in 32-bit integer and FPU performance, Nvidia hamstrung them pretty severely in omitting NEON support (a bit like if you killed off SSE for x86 CPUs). Modern ARM software for the past few years has required NEON support, including custom ROMs.
 

Further, the video decode block could only decode a modest bitrate, Baseline Profile for H.264. Most streaming media uses High Profile H.264. Video playback apps often required custom software codecs to support the Tegra 2 due to lack of hardware decode capability, and lack of NEON. And a hefty overclock was still necessary to pull it off for 720P. 
 

As an aside, I had a Tegra 2 device for awhile (LG Optimus 2X). Some other oddities included lack of unified shaders, relying upon the old split Pixel and Vertex shaders, and lack of a Z-buffer, which prevented the use of shadow maps. Performance on the T-Rex benchmark (800 x 480 resolution) was about 1-2 fps, keeping in mind shadows weren’t even being rendered. In comparison, the Apple A13 is good for >300 FPS at 1920 x 1080.