Hi all,
Please can you guys tell me which is the best (stable and smooth) Android version (i.e. Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean, KitKat) for Xoom?
I have a WiFi only Xoom and I hardly use it because I always found it very laggy, whereas my HP Touchpad running same android version much smoother, although in paper Xoom has better specks.
I just want to be able to watch YouTube, movies using MX Player and use “Motion Detector Video Recorder” app without tablet freezing or being frustratingly laggy.
Thank you and any reply/suggestion will be highly appreciated.
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Well i got my G Tab Yesterday and am using VEGAn-TAB GingerEdition STABLE RC1 and i had a question i have flash 10.2 already and it works fine with sites but when i use the youtube app for some reason it plays the videos abit choppy so i was wondering.
Does anybody know what could be causing the youtube app to play videos like that? any information would be appreciated it and well first time posting here since i finally got my tab and nice to meet you all.
The issue is that gingerbread has no hardware video decoding so some higher quality content is going to play choppy on any 2.3 based rom until we get some drivers from nvidia (if we ever do). So unfortunately if you plan to do a lot of video on your tab you may have to stick to the 2.2 roms until something gets figured out.
Sent from my ACS frozen Epic 1.1 and counting.
What was the determination on running Honeycomb apps on the Kindle Fire? I had read somewhere that they would not work because they were only compatible with HC but has anyone actually tried to see if they will run? I would be very curious to know if they work because the phone apps are a little awkward at times on the larger screen of the kindle.
If someone has apks for any HC apps and would be willing to post them I'd be more than happy to try them out and report back with what works and what doesn't, maybe get a dedicated compatibility list going until someone releases an ICS rom for kindle.
The Fire is running Gingerbread so any HC apps would refuse to install. If HC had been open source Amazon probably would have used it since it is more suited for tablets.
They will probably issue an update with ICS so tablet apps can be used, but since the Kindle runs such a heavily modified version of Android, it will be a while before we see an Amazon issued ICS update.
This would be so awesome I've been doing a lot of searching on this for the past hour. It seems the consistent answer is that we have to wait for ics.. :-!
We may see CM9 on this long before Amazon releases an update. They already have ICS booting on the Fire and it looks pretty stable, but there isn't much hardware support yet. Looks promising though:
http://moooom.dyndns.info/?p=107
why?
what makes honeycomb apps special anyway ? i never used any tablet that runs honeycomb
buhind said:
what makes honeycomb apps special anyway ? i never used any tablet that runs honeycomb
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Many of the apps are more tablet optimized to take advantage of the extra screen space provided. If you look up Gmail for honeycomb you can see what I mean.
Honeycomb Gmail actually kind of sucks on a 7" tablet. It's really made for the 10"ers, on a 7" it's just crammed like you're back on a 2.5" phone screen.
Hi, I have the galaxy tab 10.1 and I have installed an early klang of cm9, whilst everything is smoother on ics than on honeycomb 3.2, it still has a lot to be desired in terms of smoothness (but of course its an alpha, so its expected). I just really wanted to ask about the smoothness on an official build of ics for the xoom compared to 3.2 please? Especially in portrait on the launcher, as on this early build of ics on the galaxy tab 10.1 in portrait is still horrendously laggy, how is it on your official ICS please?
I know I have a different tab, but as they have the exact same specs, I was just hoping for a little glimpse into what ICS will be like fully optimized please. (I've looked at loads of videos on you tube of the xoom running ICS, but it is really hard to judge smoothness on videos) I know these are properly stupid questions, but any help would be appreciated, thank you
On ics google movies/tv wont show on an hdtv when i connect my tf101 to my hdtv through the mini hdmi. Ive heard that people who installed jelly bean have gotten it to work on there tv. Cause supposedly the updqte fixed the issue. Can anyone with jelly bean confirm this please?
I would like to make sure it works before i go through all the trouble of getting jelly bean. Thanks!!
Answered my question. I said screw it and flashed jellybean (raymanfx aosp rom), and guess what? IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!! so its official(if in case it wasnt already), if you wanna watch google movies or tv streaming over mini hdmi to your hdtv, just flash jellybean. Works beautifully
Now my only question is HD... i bought season 4 of wipeout in hd, and it doesnt seem like its in hd. I dont know if its cause of the jelly bean or what but from what i remember on ics hd worked fine. Ill update you guys if anyone can help me though thatd be great thanks
Hi all
Just a quick question before i learn how to do it all.
I have a Xoom which is not been modded in any way, running 3.2 i think, the last update anyway that came from Moto.
I only use for internet browsing now and Mobdro for footy and would like to be able to cast/screen mirroring it to my new Roku 2.
So what i like to know is what is the highest version available that will enable casting/screen mirroring and will work on my Xoom.
Also is a stock version just a version from google and not a version that has been tinkered with by a developer?
many thanks in advance
Look in the XDA Xoom Android Development forum. 4.4.4 has been very good on mine and I see an alpha release for Omnirom 5.1.1.