So, my mom got a Galaxy Tab 2 a few days ago, but it seems... heavily Samsung influenced (Touchwiz and all that). I feel trying a custom ROM would help the performance of the tablet
There's a few apps on the tablet that are kind of cool, specifically Smart Remote. Could this app be installed on a custom ROM by some chance?
If you want to maintain IR functionality to run peel remote, etc you will need to stick with ROMs based on "stock" releases
IR is Samsung proprietary and they have not released the code for it. Custom ROM developers will not have access to it until Samsung decides to "allow" it
Custom ROMs that are based off of official releases that are P3113 or P3110 based should have working IR blaster
Check out some of the ROMs available in the development threads - the available options should be included in the first post of each released ROM
Regards,
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Root the device, install busybox, SuperSU and ESFileExplorer. Remove the Bloatware and you will have a snappy device.
Hello guys! My name is Aayush Mandavya, I live in a country called Nepal near India and I own a device called Colors K15 having 1GB ram/1GB rom, android 4.4.2, hardware-MT6582, processor-AEMv7 processor rev 3(v7|)
even though I have this many features my device looks and feels bad like really bad.
I can't flash a rom (I have a revovery mode in my phone),
I guess this problem is for everyone owning a MTK device, we want to know how CM looks and feel in our devices.
So I am begging you great developers to please develop a custom CM12 rom for support of every MTK devies.
Doing this many people can get a taste of CM in their cheap smart phones and about 1/5 people of the world will be happy.
This is my request to you please help me
First of all i understand you because i own a MediaTek device( Micromax Canvas Fire 2 A104)
At first i did not like its interface...so i thought of changing my ROM but unfortunately i couldnt find any decent ROMS....(i wasn't ready to use unofficial ROM s on my mobile.So to make my phone look great i did the following
1. rooted my phone using kingroot[easy]
2. changed the default launcher (there are various launchers such as Nova launcher,Go launcher, Hola Launcher etc.....in fact there are tons of them in google pay store)
3. installed xposed framework and modules such as gravitybox [easy and fun] ,monsterUI [gives lollipop styled interface]
and after all that my phone now look like its running Lollipop(but actually its running kitkat 4.4.2)
try these methods.....im sure it will not disappoint you
Hi everybody,
I am now using a Galaxy tab 2 P5110, running under Android 4.1.2, not rooted.
My problem is that my Tab is really slow when I use basic apps (chrome, office apps).
In order to get a bit more power from it (removing the Samsung layout, but I know it's a 2012 tablet...) I am looking for the most stable ROM I could use, and if possible running under a quite recent android version.
I am quite new to this kind of manipulations, so I am also looking for a tutorial to instal the ROM you could advice me.
I know I have to root my tab before doing anything. Does the tutorial available here (https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1657056 - by Weltwon) work with 4.1.2 android version?
Thank you all for your answers!
Matthieu
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Edit: I have an other question. Is the root enough to remove the Samsung touchwizz layer? If yes, how to do it?
Lineage OS 13.0
You could get a Lineage OS 13.0 nightly, and from my experience those are fairly stable.
Mattcam said:
Hi everybody,
I am now using a Galaxy tab 2 P5110, running under Android 4.1.2, not rooted.
My problem is that my Tab is really slow when I use basic apps (chrome, office apps).
In order to get a bit more power from it (removing the Samsung layout, but I know it's a 2012 tablet...) I am looking for the most stable ROM I could use, and if possible running under a quite recent android version.
I am quite new to this kind of manipulations, so I am also looking for a tutorial to instal the ROM you could advice me.
I know I have to root my tab before doing anything. Does the tutorial available here (https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1657056 - by Weltwon) work with 4.1.2 android version?
Thank you all for your answers!
Matthieu
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Edit: I have an other question. Is the root enough to remove the Samsung touchwizz layer? If yes, how to do it?
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For starters if you want to get rid of TouchWiz you can remove all of the bloatware and Samsung apps (like TouchWiz home, AccuWeather widget, Samsung Apps, Group play).
But I recommend just install custom ROM. Maybe cm11 or cm12.. I am using Dhollmen 4.4.4 on my tab for 1 years and it is working very well for me.
Thank you for your advices,
@tasnim_tamim: I dont know Dohllmen. Is it à cyanogenmod Android version? Which tab do you run under this ROM?
@orionboughton: are nightly versions if lineageOS stable? I have heard that these are update vert often, and some Android functionality can be disabled
Its a ROM based of SlimROM.. I am running it on my galaxy tab 2 7.0 p3100
Lineage OS 13.0
Lineage OS is basically an updated version of Cyanogenmod, so i guess that's what it's based off of.
I've been running a nightly of Lineage OS from their website at https://download.lineageos.org/espressowifi , and it's really smooth compared to touchwiz and the ram is managed much better. The camera works, the gyroscope works, and I've only had one or two problems (like root not being enabled out of the box, and needing to flash a supersu zip to get that running), and besides that it's all good. If you have a problem, rebooting usually fixes it and I've rarely had to do that in the past few weeks I've been running it.
Another plus is it runs android 6.0, which seems to be better in every way. Great standby time, 4h or more screen on time, etc.
However if you do decide to get it, make sure to flash with the latest version of twrp, and if not you might softbrick your device.
Hey, all so just for some context I have on me a Samsung Tab 4 - SM-T230NU
That I been trying to find a ROM for so that I can upgrade the Android OS on it.
Unfortunately, I am finding that is a no go, there are no ROMs at least that I can find for it that newer then Kitkat
So now I am asking
Is it possible on a rooted Android Device to run apps strictly made for newer versions of Android?
Thank you for your time
i wan t to root my phone its on one ui 2.5 android version 10 knox version 3.4.1 android secuirty pathch level aug 1 so please help i havent rooted any phone before the purpose of rooting is that i want to experince differnt roms and i have some questions in my mind will the camera,fingerprint,sim services work properly if i install another rom plz guide me
To install a Custom ROM phone's Android must NOT be rooted.