My dad has a vizio tablet and is very disappointed with the performance of it. I've told him if there was a custom ROM I could install to it, it would delete the unnecessary bloatware and speed it up but I haven't found anyway to root or a custom recovery or ROM for it. Am I not looking in the right places?
Thanks!
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Your in luck, vtab with Honeycomb was just finally rooted (link below). No ROMs yet (no custom kernels), but you can get App Quarantine, Root Uninstall, etc and have at it. I extended my battery life a ton by deleting the phone.apk that was unnecessarily eating up battery power searching for a cell signal.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1280349
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Awesome...now I've heard u can compile cm or another ROM for different devices by implementing the device source or whatever its called into it. I may be wrong since I'm not a dev but at least rooting will allow us to take the unneeded software off. Too bad it won't get rid if vizios ugly and cumbersome ui
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I'm posting on behalf of my brother who isnt used to forums, he has had his galaxy ace since release and as far as i know it is fully stock not even rooted. Unfortunately its incredibly slow and has been for quite a while, before he goes and buys a new phone i wanted to check here for a possible solution.
Thanks in advance
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This is what happens if you don't use a custom ROM .
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I'm posting on behalf of my brother who isnt used to forums, he has had his galaxy ace since release and as far as i know it is fully stock not even rooted. Unfortunately its incredibly slow and has been for quite a while, before he goes and buys a new phone i wanted to check here for a possible solution.
Thanks in advance
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Slow with opening apps? Or slow user interface? It shouldn't be slow unless he has tonnes of apps.
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Do not make him buy a new phone, this phone can be hella snappy actually!
Start by rooting your phone, you can easily find a tutorial just by searching the forum or via google.
My personal preference:
ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1263292
Tweak: V6 SuperCharger Update 9 Beta 6.2.2 (tutorial here)
When installing the tweak, chose option 7 (agressive for 512HP)
APPS: Autostart (find it in market)), preventing useless apps to start, but you must have chose the apps manually.
Auto Memory Manager(find it in market), chose agressive and save the changes.
If he is new at these sort of stuff it could take some time to get it right but it's totally worth spending a day fixing it, he'll get a fast a snappy phone in long term.
Has he tried using the task manager to clear memory? It sounds like he downloaded an application that doesn't behave the way it should (memory/cpu hog). If clearing memory helps he has to find and uninstall the misbehaving app(s), i think there's an app called watchdog or something which monitors memory and cpu usage of all installed apps.
If that doesn't help, go i'd go for a reset. And before buying a new phone, give the custom roms a go because they do tend to increase performance quite a bit!
Thankyou for the quick replies everyone very helpful, he gets force closes on twitter and facebook all the time and also it just randomly shuts down aswell.
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Factory reset needed. And you could help him get a custom kernel.
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Factory reset needed. And you could help him get a custom kernel.
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Yeah i think i will and i.was thinking a reset may be required
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you can try wiping cache/david cache first
QNBT said:
Do not make him buy a new phone, this phone can be hella snappy actually!
Start by rooting your phone, you can easily find a tutorial just by searching the forum or via google.
My personal preference:
ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1263292
Tweak: V6 SuperCharger Update 9 Beta 6.2.2 (tutorial here)
When installing the tweak, chose option 7 (agressive for 512HP)
APPS: Autostart (find it in market)), preventing useless apps to start, but you must have chose the apps manually.
Auto Memory Manager(find it in market), chose agressive and save the changes.
If he is new at these sort of stuff it could take some time to get it right but it's totally worth spending a day fixing it, he'll get a fast a snappy phone in long term.
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hi! regarding the suggested tweak? is there a detailed summary on how to use and instal this type of tweak? ive been reading the post and it seems it only has the overview.. thanks!
my advice is just forget all those mumbo jumbo tweak script. its already incorporated in cfroot kernel. its also doesnt make sense. all it does is doing the same thing. tweak vm dirty, tweak minfree, tweak stagefright and so on with the only difference is the fancy mancy name to make it looks yummy. people just install 2-3 script with different name when all it does is the same, and u actually already done it when using cfroot.
You might also want to avoid CM because it's unstable, just flash a stable custom rom that's still in active development. Make sure to get the latest cfroot kernel version.
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hi! regarding the suggested tweak? is there a detailed summary on how to use and instal this type of tweak? ive been reading the post and it seems it only has the overview.. thanks!
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I even attached a tutorial link - next to it. It's very detailed.
Have samsung not released gb for this phone yet then?
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Have samsung not released gb for this phone yet then?
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They have, but UK operators are notoriously slow with pushing their own, branded versions. Especially on a midrange phone like the Ace. Avoid CM, especially Grif's as that has quite a few bugs. Some bugs in Cyanoace but not as many from my experience.
For starters, root your phone (or get a custom rom with integrated custom root), than download Titanium Backup from Market, and then uninstall all the unnecessary apps, also, delete app and internet cache. That all should make your phone better than new
I would agree about using cfroot.
Root phone with cfroot, titaniumbackup pro backup to sdcard, factory reset, download mode and flash latest stock rom from sammobile.com, root again and then restore apps only, only restore app+data for games.
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hi there i bought a tomtec game 7 with android 2.3 is it nessesary to root it? and my battery life is short what can i do about that?
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Well, it's never necessary to root your device. Rooting is required in order for some advanced applications to work, such as traffic dumpers, market enabler, root explorer, some backup utilities & call recorders, etc. For the normal use of the phone, it may not be required to root it.
Also, rooting your device may void your warranty.
ok thanks. but its not a phone but a game tablet only got android 2.3 and i want to upgrade it to 3.1 and with rooting i can do that like cynacanmod
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I don't see official CM support for your device. Anyway, to flash CM you'll most probably need to unlock bootloader first. Doesn't the manufacturer provides a 3.1 Update?
there are no updates for this device and the manufacturer dont make updates.
but should it be possible?
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Because of the open nature of android, it's theorically possible to install Android on any device(There's even a port of Android to x86). But there's some work before making android work on any device. I'm not myself a ROM developer, so I don't know exactly what is required to port android to a specific device, or how much effort it takes, but it certainly takes a while
If you've got your device rooted, on one hand you get advanced features such as CPU freq scaling (may help battery life ), on the other hand the phone becomes less secured, you can even destroy the device with a few clicks.
Battery problem: slow down the cpu, dimmer the display, that't all (because mobile signal tricks don't work for tablets
ok thanks all
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If you've got your device rooted, on one hand you get advanced features such as CPU freq scaling (may help battery life ), on the other hand the phone becomes less secured, you can even destroy the device with a few clicks.
Battery problem: slow down the cpu, dimmer the display, that't all (because mobile signal tricks don't work for tablets
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He is right. With a rooted device you can save your battery life by scalings and installing pro applications to control the drain.
Battery Life
Hi, me and friends who have rooted and flashed custom roms all found that the battery life was better with these, personally it was the best thing i did - more options for having it how you want etc
Mike.
Root it. You just might learn something in the process.
thanks all it will work great when i am done with it
Rooting is the way to go!
SetCPU is a great app for setting profiles the for the CPU to follow.
When charging, I have mine run at 100%.
When the screen is off, I have the CPU scale way back to save battery life.
Works great and is very easy to configure!
You will have more options if you root it.
I tryed to root it with superoneclick and the program was going stuck when he tried to make contact with device and i have used z4root and other root apps but it still dont work do someone no how to root it?
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Ganoess said:
I tryed to root it with superoneclick and the program was going stuck when he tried to make contact with device and i have used z4root and other root apps but it still dont work do someone no how to root it?
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You could try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1321582.
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You could try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1321582.
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thanks that works great
Ok now i get the following stuff i rooted the device and i was installing some apps like rom manager setcpu and chainfire3D and it says its not rooted could some one help me with?
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Ok now i get the following stuff i rooted the device and i was installing some apps like rom manager setcpu and chainfire3D and it says its not rooted could some one help me with?
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Did you reboot your device? Do you have Superuser installed? Do you have a custom recovery installed?
Hey guys,
I am soon going to enter the rooted world of android and flashing roms on my note. Is there still a reason to remove bloatware from the phone when running a custom rom? Will the bloatware apps still be running or will they merely just be taking up memory in the storage?
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Hey guys,
I am soon going to enter the rooted world of android and flashing roms on my note. Is there still a reason to remove bloatware from the phone when running a custom rom? Will the bloatware apps still be running or will they merely just be taking up memory in the storage?
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The answer largely depends on which rom you choose..
Most custom roms are relatively bloat free, unless you are wanting to use a rooted stock variant build ...
And with regard to running bloat, the answer is yes ...
Apps like Google maps, navigation apps etc. Will often run in the background as available services, even when closed.
But you can use titanium backup and other similar apps, to "freeze " these applications....g
Edit : I always remove my bloat .....even from stock builds ....by freezing a suspected app for testing....
Then if all is well and stable ....I dump it ....g
Takes up space
possibly running in the background
things you may never use anyway
can add as you want after the custom rom
They fixed the battery drain issue with Google maps...don't worry about any Google services.
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Hello all I recently with though a "lost device scare" thank god I was able to get it back but it got me thinking into securing my device more I was curious about the Native Encryption option on our settings will I still be able to copy pictures off my SD afterwards? And is it root Friendly meaning can I still use titanium to back up my apps afterwards... I am on stock rom with stock recovery just rooted with busy box any information would be much appreciated ^_^
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Domonopants said:
Hello all I recently with though a "lost device scare" thank god I was able to get it back but it got me thinking into securing my device more I was curious about the Native Encryption option on our settings will I still be able to copy pictures off my SD afterwards? And is it root Friendly meaning can I still use titanium to back up my apps afterwards... I am on stock rom with stock recovery just rooted with busy box any information would be much appreciated ^_^
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In the case of losing your phone, some apps on Google Play supports "remote wipe" feature that helps you to clear your phone remotely.
Yeah currently a big fan of lookout premium now was just wondering about the encryption because I'm sort of paranoid and I have a lot of sensitive data and I work in a high risk environment just worried if my phone isn't lost but someone gets a hold of it for a short time enough to plug in through USB or something of that nature
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I'm new to rooting, what new,root-only apps and features can I get for my tablet?
Thanks.
Must have, root explorer. Used it and removed a lot of bloatware apps. Tablet is quicker as well
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tivo444 said:
I'm new to rooting, what new,root-only apps and features can I get for my tablet?
Thanks.
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I usually attempt to not post my stuff here as it's shameless view whoring when I do it, but here is a link to a piece I'm updating regularly about various root-using apps.
http://www.pocketables.com/2013/04/the-big-list-of-android-root-applications-and-tools.html
Gets updated on average once every week. Should give you a pretty decent idea of what you can do with rooted devices.
Root Explorer, Performance Booster (root) and Titanium Backup are the vital tools you need.
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