I just ordered a tf101 for my father. He is not very good with computers but was interested in a tablet, and I thought it might work for him. He will mainly be using it for email, Craigslist and the Internet.
I own a nexus 7 and an hp touchpad, so I'm familiar with rooting and roms. What is the best bet for a stable rom? Shouldn't need a lot of features, but I would prefer a jelly bean rom.
Secondly are there any good tutorials or hands on guides for someone completely new to android?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
If he is really only going to use it for browsing I would suggest leaving it on the stock rom. Or put it on the Megatron rom, but still I'd only suggest stock. He isn't going to want to call asus support to find out his beloved tablet is not going to have a warranty.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda premium
Well I'm pretty sure it's out of warranty, and he's not going to be calling tech support. (besides me)
Is the stock rom significantly more stable, or what are the advantages to say cm10?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
I'm not sure about cm10 but my experiences with JB are all on the Team EOS nightly builds. To be they are the best, everything works and it keeps getting faster and faster. Rayman does build some great stuff though but his updated are not as frequent. I would say give it a play for an hour or 2 and find out what one you like best. For ICS my favorite and best performing rom was Megatron, Team EOS builds have even better performance than that.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda premium
Related
Anyone know of a best tablet to root and that has speed and least expensive? Less than 300. Not a big fan of roms because its always updated and have bugs. And prederably a 2.3.x or up version. Thank you.
Sent from my SGH-T989 using Tapatalk
Nookcolor for $200 root it then it will run off adw or you can install
Cm7 VERY stable
Sent from my HTC_A510c using XDA App
I've got an Advent Vega and it works really well with customised Honeycomb on it (vegacomb). There's a forum on here for them and they're super cheap
After hearing about the Nexus S getting JB I've been wondering if any other older phones will be getting official JB or prospects are looking good for a stable thrid-party port. I can't afford a SGSII or even a Galaxy Nexus right now...
Samsung captivate has job port pretty stable I believe. Just look around there's a lot of good phones out with great devs
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2
Youre right I should look around, gonna go through the JB port announcements on the main XDA site. The Captivate will certainly be an option to consider along the Nexus S.
EDIT:Seems Motorola Defy has a rather advanced port.
you can get the moto defy also, has a pretty decent CM10 and it can be got for cheap also
HTC Desire HD seems to have a advanced JB port.
The HD2 has a fairly good port, with everything but YouTube working. I don't think HWA is working either but I haven't really checked much, I'm still using CM9 until something better is released.
Captivate is very inexpensive and the Remic port of JB is working great
Edit: Nevermind, wrong forum. Too many open tabs. I know, very noob...
RoadToNever said:
After hearing about the Nexus S getting JB I've been wondering if any other older phones will be getting official JB or prospects are looking good for a stable thrid-party port. I can't afford a SGSII or even a Galaxy Nexus right now...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
HTC Dinc2 has two promising threads of JB CM10 (N7 & Aeroevan's). Just flashed the latter last night and it's pretty good so far. There are some bugs, but they have a lot of active development on them.
rvguy said:
Captivate is very inexpensive and the Remic port of JB is working great
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Get the Captivate only if you don't need or care about gps. I had one, and gps never worked properly. But it was a decent phone otherwise.
My captivate had great gps but I did see a lot of crappy GPS cappys
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2
Google takes care of Nexus devices itself and that's what makes these devices great. No wonder Nexus S received JB update.
The vibrant has good ports.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using xda app-developers app
Do you think that JB can be used with "only" 512 MB of RAM ?
nothingman1976 said:
Do you think that JB can be used with "only" 512 MB of RAM ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sure...my nexus s runs JB like a dream!
And would be my first choice if i was looking for a cheap phone wich provides the full aosp experience.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
lol don't get phones with unofficial ports. Get ones that have a port made using official drivers.
Jelly Bean looks great
The galaxy s family has a good ICS and JB ports.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using xda app-developers app
Samsung vibrant almost instantly gets roms ported from the Nexus S, loved having that phone for that purpose. I still have it but retired it upon upgrading to hercules
i think the development of JB for DHD is quite good in progress...
and the galaxy note 10.1 appears to have a much better dev community. I can't help but think i should return my tf700 for a note 10.1
thoughts?
samsung devices have a bigger following. that's it.
ford12acing said:
and the galaxy note 10.1 appears to have a much better dev community. I can't help but think i should return my tf700 for a note 10.1
thoughts?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think some of this has to do with the fact that there are slight variations from the 300 to the 700, the 300 has a larger community but we can't just grab those devs since the differences in models are just enough to make it a pain, but the models are close enough that 300 owners probably won't upgrade. Compound this with the Nexus 7 and so many modders got that because its cheap and pure android and you see what we are in. Finally, the tablet just dropped (is about to drop?) in Europe so that shrinks the pool a bit.
ford12acing said:
and the galaxy note 10.1 appears to have a much better dev community. I can't help but think i should return my tf700 for a note 10.1
thoughts?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
How much is an unlocked rom really worth? On phones it's worth a lot because of all the bloatware and need to maximize battery life but on tablets ... most have so little bloatware. I would rather have a much quicker Jellybean than all the Rom support in the world at this current time.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using xda app-developers app
Have u checked that section... Most roms are for the n8000 and not the 8013 (wifi) version... And it doesnt look like its anything special anyways... Lol just sayin
Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2
It will get there once JB lands. Just a waiting game pretty much atm.
Sent from my PC36100 using xda app-developers app
Once I finish learning java, you can expect me to...
Wait nevermind, I'm too OCD not to upgrade in that time.
Getting JB a million years earlier should ease the pain.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 2
I am working on getting custom ROMs on this thing and I am starting with JB directly. No use making an ICS custom ROM when JB is coming soon. Its not been easy to get this done. I have a booting JB version but loads of stuff needs fixed. I'd wait for a JB version and use those libs to make a new build with.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app
Diogenes5 said:
How much is an unlocked rom really worth? On phones it's worth a lot because of all the bloatware and need to maximize battery life but on tablets ... most have so little bloatware. I would rather have a much quicker Jellybean than all the Rom support in the world at this current time.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have to agree. Tablets are relatively clean. I have zero desire to do anything beyond the freezing of unneeded apps that I've already done.
hiemanshu said:
I am working on getting custom ROMs on this thing and I am starting with JB directly. No use making an ICS custom ROM when JB is coming soon. Its not been easy to get this done. I have a booting JB version but loads of stuff needs fixed. I'd wait for a JB version and use those libs to make a new build with.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It makes sense, though we're all getting antsy over here, waiting for something new to flash.
I'm new to the table and I'm on CleanRom 2.7 (1.8ghz kernel) which is amazing fast! Anyone suggest anything better? Just curious!
Sent from my Incredible 2 using xda app-developers app
Nothing compares/comes close to how great CleanRom is. I've tried all of them, but CleanRom just always outperforms the rest. But this is only my experience. If you really wanna know which is best, you'd have try them all to compare for yourself. And, make decision based on your own experience.
Thanks bro! Your answer is what I wanted to hear!
Sent from my Incredible 2 using xda app-developers app
I've tried all the others but settled on CleanROM, the performance is out of this world
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using Tapatalk 2
burt_ie said:
I've tried all the others but settled on CleanROM, the performance is out of this world
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Clean rom Inheretence 2.7 is blazin fast !!
ParanoidAndroid with the Untermensch kernel is working great for me. I've been running it since the day I bought my tablet (2 weeks) and haven't had any issues. I've been getting some great benchmark scores too.
every available version of clean rom has failed to flash for me
and how does cleanrom battery life compare with the stock 4.1.1?
I'm still not fully convinced to root and flash my TF300.
Haven't came across a 100% for sure noob proof guide as to getting to that stage.
I'm not seeing an awful lot of updates for some of the roms, maybe I'm missing something...
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using xda premium
mloc33 said:
I'm still not fully convinced to root and flash my TF300.
Haven't came across a 100% for sure noob proof guide as to getting to that stage.
I'm not seeing an awful lot of updates for some of the roms, maybe I'm missing something...
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Same as you man, seems very complicated compared to my phone.
I mean the tf300 has a quad core lol, it can handle anything with 4.1.1 but I'm a perfectionist gah.
Closed...
The best ROM is the one that works best for YOU, and your personal app selection. What may work for most, may not have the features you need.. Only you can take the time and find what is best.
Well, want this phone but I see that it has root access and CWM and that's cool but, I don't see any ROM's made for it.
So weird, any developers got curious about Cyanogenmod or something?
It's worth to buy one for christmas?
The Moto G is being updated to 4.4.2 right now, so I don't see the need for custom ROMs right now. But regardless, the Moto G is an awesome phone.
Sent from my KFAPWI using xda premium
If at this point there is no Rom that doesn't mean it will never has...
Motorola is a standard company
Today so many cheap mediatek devices has got custom Rom so don't worry go for it...
Sent from my Spice Mi-525 using xda premium
Not many people have the device yet, so give it a little while. I'm sure by Jan we'll have some CM builds, AOKP, god knows what else.
Go for it, its a new device it will take some time once the complete source files are released. The more no of people owning this device, more chances are there for custom ROM!
We already got kitkat so there's no need i guess.
BTW there is a custom ROM based on stock JB, check in the development section it is in the beta stage!
The g isn't even a month old! Give development time. It will happen.
Sent from my XT1034 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
Right, I'll buy it.
No lags whatsoever?
Can't wait to see ROM's with governors and tweaks, even faster!
I have yet to experience any concerning lag. To be honest I expected less of a phone than what its proven to be. Battery life is pretty ridiculous actually. Impressed is an understatement. Only Thing I've noticed is display related. When looking from the top down it gets a little washed out. Not at all a reason to not get this phone. For $200? There is no reason to not buy this thing.
Sent from my XT1034 using xda app-developers app