First of all Thanks to everyone for all the help. and sorry to throw all this out at once.
Got my Evo 4G all rooted and set up. Running Decks. Was wondering what would be the best kernel/setting for this ROM to optimize battery life. As it seems to be dropping quicker then when i had it at OTA (might just me be watching more closely), but just wondering. Also from what i have found there are not any custom ROMs that support 720p recording, I would have to go back to OTA for that correct?
A quick question about emulators. Is there one that does all (NES, SNES, GB/GBC/GBA)? or do i need a separate app for each one?
There are custom ROMS that support 720P, just none of the newer ROMS.
Most of the older Froyo based did and you may want to read the OP's on the newer GB ROMS.
I'm no expert on the art of ROMing, but since all the new ROMs are based on the source of other phones (ones with different cameras and ways of interfacing with them) it is very unlikely all the "hot" new ROM's out there will support 720p recording for a while at least.
Although I've flashed most of these before, I never actually checked if they recorded 720p, but ROMs like these probably have most of the features of the EVO fully functional:
Swagged Out Stock (SOS):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1258932
EVO Classic:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1312414
Smooth 'n' Sexy:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1131217
Stock Team Nocturnal Edition:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1249615
Sense Updated:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1321340
IF perhaps even these somehow lose their HD recording abilities, I would recommend reverting back to good old MikFroyo. Easily my favorite pre-2.3 ROM ever.
check it out
stamason said:
First of all Thanks to everyone for all the help. and sorry to throw all this out at once.
Got my Evo 4G all rooted and set up. Running Decks. Was wondering what would be the best kernel/setting for this ROM to optimize battery life. As it seems to be dropping quicker then when i had it at OTA (might just me be watching more closely), but just wondering. Also from what i have found there are not any custom ROMs that support 720p recording, I would have to go back to OTA for that correct?
A quick question about emulators. Is there one that does all (NES, SNES, GB/GBC/GBA)? or do i need a separate app for each one?
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click on the link in my sig, it should help you a lot!
Now that everything is almost fixed, I'm thinking of flashing the ics on my kindle. But the question is that do you need root access to get the ics working? Because I got the 6.2.2 update and i lost my root access. And is the ics rom working properly? Such as hardware accel. And any bugs that needs to be fixed? Because I want it to be perfectly stable maybe I should wait more.
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Video is only partially fixed. Youtube works, but needs to be in SD mode. Netflix is reported as not working.
HW acceleration is not ready yet. If video is your priority, stick with CM7 for now.
Custom ROMs need root as far as I am aware.
as posted above video is half fixed let's say more of patched but not 100% no Netflix yet but it is more responsive touch wise sound works great I moved my backups to my PC , I'm comfortable enough to make this my daily drive now cm7 is nice on my phone not a tablet, ICS and move on with your life
the ICS build is still way on the Beta side for me... Until the ICS rom has video and sound working as good as the Stock rom, I really don't see the point.
I got the Fire to use primarily as a media device and it currently using the stock rom works quite well at doing that. I don't need a pretty looking tablet if media abilities don't match.
ok
thanks for the information, until the video, bugs and hardware accel gets fixed,
i will just stay on stock rom.
Yes, the video stuff that needs fixed is making me stick with CM7 for now.
Stuff I tested
Netflix - does not work
Qloud - does not work
MX Media Player - works but performance is better in CM7
YouTube - SD works. HD does not.
Tired of trying to use cutting edge roms where everything is unstable or just plain does not work. If it's not a problem with my bluetooth audio, my Tic watch stops working, or the whoe lthing just up and freezes and reboots. All types of wild stuff.
What ROM would be recommended where everything works that is stable and is not the stock ROM? Resurrection?? Or Anything else??
fbarcenas said:
Tired of trying to use cutting edge roms where everything is unstable or just plain does not work. If it's not a problem with my bluetooth audio, my Tic watch stops working, or the whoe lthing just up and freezes and reboots. All types of wild stuff.
What ROM would be recommended where everything works that is stable and is not the stock ROM? Resurrection?? Or Anything else??
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I'm assuming by "not stock rom" you mean not a modified stock rom either, correct? If that's the case, I've been recently using both LOS 16 and RR v7 (pie). Both of those work really well with minimal issues depending what you use most. I also think star53's Norma v26 worked well for the 910v.
There are issues that come up from time to time with all of the non stock roms, but I think those three are as close to 100% as it might get.
If you're okay with a modified stock rom then I've only used one where all the features work...
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I'm assuming by "not stock rom" you mean not a modified stock rom either, correct?
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YEs correct.
kevintm78 said:
If that's the case, I've been recently using both LOS 16 and RR v7 (pie). .
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Ive been using LOS up to now. Nothing against that ROM or those guys. And they are doing a wonderful job. I just can't use it as a daily driver.. too many bugs and things that either don't work or stop working after a awhile.
I loaded up RR last night. With exception of some sluggishness and a SystemUI crash this morning, it's been running fairly decent with my Tic WATCH, Cars ODB2 adapter and Bluetooth audio working fairly well.
However once I begin using Google Music to stream and Maps to navigate at the same time, it becomes deathly slow. I think I'm coming to the realization that I have squeezed as much life as I can out of this old gal. Maybe it's time to hand it down to my son who like playing video games on his phones and get myself an S8+. The prices are starting to plummet since the announcement and distribution of the S10 and Plus.
I need a snappy phone and Pixel 2XLs are still up in the clouds somewhere at $450-500 USD. ANy advise on the most snappy yet underrated(read inexpensive) phones out there?
There doesn't appear to be much activity on this forum or in any of the custom ROMs for this device. I'm sad that it's stuck on Marshmallow (I know Nougat ROMs exist, but in my experience they were too unstable to use) when Android 11 is about to drop, and that GNU/Linux is not available for it. With the newest builds I can find being from mid 2019 and the Linux kernel stuck on an unsupported version, I just don't trust it to be secure any more, so I'm now using it mostly airgapped, and only on a trusted firewalled network when I absolutely must use the wi-fi.
In order to get some idea of how much hope there is, I'd like to know if anyone has a guess for how many of these are still in service.
I have one that I play with from time to time but mostly just email. I still have one brand new in a box that we never used as we got it as part of a promotion. I've thought about it using it with my OBD2 connector to troubleshoot the cars.
I got 3 of it, grandparents using 2 of them and Im using the last one for reading and surfing web.
Me! My father bought it back like in 2013 and haven't used it much until last year. Then he gave it to me and I was pumped cause never really had a tabled. I discovered how comfortable are they to read/surf/watch YouTube.
I flashed it with Lineage and later Unlegacy, both at android 7.1. I must say when it functions correctly, it FLIES!! I can watch YT videos at 720 no problems and the pictures look great, very nice colors!
Unfortunately it hangs often, like there's a hidden process of the OS causing problems. It heats the hell out of the CPU and resetting doesn't seem to solve it, but eventually goes away and comes back to normal. It expends like 60% of the time functioning right and the other 40% overheating and hanging up. It also drops wifi intermittently.
Even with all those problems I refuse to let it go. Mine is almost new, and as I said I love how the screen looks despite it's resolution. I wish I could get an stable release in 7.1 so I can squeeze the rest of it's life out of it.
Lineage is not being ported anymore by AndroidAndi and Unlegacy project seems dead as well. Im lost here, if somebody can point me to a stable release I could use for the things I do with it, that would be AWESOME! (EDIT: Will try out AICP)
You mentioned AICP, which I haven't heard of before. Is that still maintained for it?
I still have a working one and use it accasionally for movies. Now I am looking for a "newer" stable ROM, at the moment it has cyanogen mod 13.0-201618 nightly
I don't think there ever was anything stable other than KitKat. I'm using an unofficial nightly Omnirom marshmallow build from early 2019. There are Nougat nightly roms, but I've found them to be too slow to use.
I still have a tab 2. i dont ever use it but its a good backup device. i messed around with it the first time i started running custom roms on androids. i put a couple different roms like cyanogen mod. but went back to stock and havent touched it since that was like 2014. now im trying to run the latest version of lineage os to make it faster and more stable as the stock/custom rom was very unstable.
I just turned mine on and see I'm running slim-4.44 build. Sucks cause lots of stuff doesn't work on it. Netflix isn't even supported.
Is there another rom that can be loaded that's better to get better functionality? I know this is super old hardware. Email pretty much is fine but seems silly to just use this for email. Hate to throw it out because it's in immaculate condition...lol
-Nigel
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I just turned mine on and see I'm running slim-4.44 build. Sucks cause lots of stuff doesn't work on it. Netflix isn't even supported.
Is there another rom that can be loaded that's better to get better functionality? I know this is super old hardware. Email pretty much is fine but seems silly to just use this for email. Hate to throw it out because it's in immaculate condition...lol
-Nigel
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Yes, folks, this is old hardware but its not acceptable to ditch is just because its hard. We'll never move to a more sustainable economy is we can recycle old hardware. They work that you guys do with custom ROMs is awesome as you are doing your bit to not fill landfills. It would be good to know if there is still a relatively recent ROM for the Galaxy Tab 2 that is still maintained.
Hi all, I'm using unlegacy Android based on Android 7.1 and I suggest you to use it
I suggest you to not flash gapps (they're too much resources intensive). I'm currently using it with L speed set everything on performance (don't fuss with ram manager settings because it crashes) and with Firefox preview ( the fastest and most stable for this tablet IMO) downloaded from apkpure
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Hi all, I'm using unlegacy Android based on Android 7.1 and I suggest you to use it
I suggest you to not flash gapps (they're too much resources intensive). I'm currently using it with L speed set everything on performance (don't fuss with ram manager settings because it crashes) and with Firefox preview ( the fastest and most stable for this tablet IMO) downloaded from apkpure
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Hello,
Which unlegacy build are you using for your tablet? There was a build from July 2019, and it seemed to have security patch as of 7/5/2019. Unfortunately, I saw it too late on jenkins, and it isn't available for download anymore (probably because I don't know how to download older artifacts from jenkins).
I have a P5113 10.1 WiFi, and I'm using unlegacy asop 6.0.1 build as of February 2019 since I couldn't get 7.1 to get pass the setup wizard, probably because of gapps as you suggested.
ME! I still use P3100 model it is fine but it is lagging a lot these days . I'm using slim os 4.4. Anybody can suggest a smooth ROM for the Device.
Thanks
Just received one from my nephew to keep the kids busy... watching yt , uh quietly...
Kept my head busy thinking if any good ROM would be available.
Good to know there are possibilities.
I have one too.
Thanks to Android-Andi it's up and running again.
Thanks again Andi.
Yeah after so many attempts , I have now managed to make it usable.
Previously I was using crDroid rom (marshmallow) with gapps. But it was so laggy that I couldn't do anything ( literally anything). Now after doing some research I have chosen unified lineage OS 14 ( 7.0) from Android Andi's website. I am now using unified Twrp ( not the official one) also from Andi's website. And flashed a custom overclocked kernel. This time I am not using gapps ( very resource heavy). And using "NEW PIPE" for YouTube streaming. And rooted with magisk and flashed "Oxygen OS sounds" from magisk modules. Now I can watch YouTube videos 720p without any lag. This device flies now...??
I have 1
I bought one for a microbiology class because it was cheaper to buy a digital copy and the tablet than to buy the book. It was a new book with no previous editions, so I had to. I never really had to use it for classes again, I prefer a book over the tablet. It has been sitting around untouched for a bit, I think the last time I used it Hulu or Netflix no longer had a compatible app version for android 4. I can't remember how much I paid for it, but I feel like it got slow and they quit pushing out updates not long after I bought it. I decided to pull it out and play around with it. It is not doing much, so if I mess it up by rooting it, I won't be too upset. Trying to find the best way to do this. I have also seen some information about LineageOS.
Ka-B00M said:
There doesn't appear to be much activity on this forum or in any of the custom ROMs for this device. I'm sad that it's stuck on Marshmallow (I know Nougat ROMs exist, but in my experience they were too unstable to use) when Android 11 is about to drop, and that GNU/Linux is not available for it. With the newest builds I can find being from mid 2019 and the Linux kernel stuck on an unsupported version, I just don't trust it to be secure any more, so I'm now using it mostly airgapped, and only on a trusted firewalled network when I absolutely must use the wi-fi.
In order to get some idea of how much hope there is, I'd like to know if anyone has a guess for how many of these are still in service.
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still own one but its slow , not as slow as my old ipad 3 which is useless now
In the name of GOD?.....Hi do you know what's custom ROM is best?slim6 2017
Still using this tablet for surfing, videos with RR rom. Quite happy with that.
My kids have been using these tablets a couple years with stock FireOS stuff, but I've decided it's time to get more out of them.
The tldr is, which rom is the most usable as daily driver, and what are its known issues?
I first tried the newest ROM here, but it is indeed marked unstable. I've been using it a couple weeks and have had issues with video hardware acceleration not working at all in certain cases, and additionally some video apps will suddenly exit while in use.
So I started researching the older ones, trying to figure out which I should be using. Reading for hours. It seems like the 16.0 has wifi issues but is no longer supported, so maybe 14.1? And that 15 and 17 not good options at all. This will still be used by young kids so I dont want weird issues. Main uses are videos (kodi, youtube kids, newpipe) and games.
So which version should I install?
enigma9o7 said:
My kids have been using these tablets a couple years with stock FireOS stuff, but I've decided it's time to get more out of them.
The tldr is, which rom is the most usable as daily driver, and what are its known issues?
I first tried the newest ROM here, but it is indeed marked unstable. I've been using it a couple weeks and have had issues with video hardware acceleration not working at all in certain cases, and additionally some video apps will suddenly exit while in use.
So I started researching the older ones, trying to figure out which I should be using. Reading for hours. It seems like the 16.0 has wifi issues but is no longer supported, so maybe 14.1? And that 15 and 17 not good options at all. This will still be used by young kids so I dont want weird issues. Main uses are videos (kodi, youtube kids, newpipe) and games.
So which version should I install?
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What did you end up going with? I literally had the same question. I'm on Lineage 15.1 and it's basically unusable for video.