Amazon echo dot 2/locked hardware

Hello everyone,

I recently bought an amazon echo dot 2nd generation ( smart home, voice control device from amazon which runs with their voice recognition service Alexa ) after struggling with open-source voice recognition projects (jasper, raspberry pi).

Long story short, this device is running on android 5.1, with a mediatek cpu (MT8163) and i'm trying to gain access to it via usb.

When plugged via usb to a computer, a MT65XX preloader is first briefly detected, then it boots normally...

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