When it comes to new devices I am a reasonably early adopter. And I do prefer one ecosystem for all my devices just to keep the management and costs down. I bought one of the first Android tablet on the market (Samsung Galaxy Tab GT-P1000) with Android 2.2 (Froyo). What attracted me to the tablet form factor is simply the large screen and that it could also work as a phone (sometimes I dial a number on my search) which an iPAD won't do at all (even now maybe). That's so unMAC apple !!!
Anyways barring the first few days with this tablet device, the overall experience was negative.The main crib was stability. Gingerbread update came but didn't help. The tablet will crash 2~3 times in a day with regular usage when that usage is just browsing pages and watching Youtube videos. Besides Android has moved on (we are running 4.3 these days on my Nexus 4 with 4.4 kitkat round the corner) and this galaxy tab has become obsolete. I had also tried to give the tablet to my 2.5 year daughter to play games, but once in a while she would come with a hung phone back to me ;-(
And so with no new upgrades from Samsung, I took the Cyanogenmod ROM route to try out the latest ROM (Android 4.3). I had heard resource hogging stories of android versions and feared that 512 MB RAM and 1 Ghz processor would be insufficient to run Android 4.3. I selected the latest MR2 ROM for Cyanogenmod 10.2. Slow it is but only slightly. But it seems to have solved the instability problem. I have gone a few days without hand and hard reset. Plus i get latest applications. The steps were three
(1) Rooting the phone
(2) Installing ClockworkMod recovery manager
(3) Installing the ROM and Google apps package.
Their are tons of sites which describe the procedure. So I won't repeat that here. But I want to warn you that "Clockworkmod Recovery manager cannot be installed using ROM manager application as described in many guides". It simply lists GT-P1000 as unsupported device. The other method which I used and worked is to install using ODIN. I do n;t know why people have not edited those articles or issued a correction note.
Anyways, I am through with the above hiccup. And even though the Samsung skin looked better for tablet, it seems it is heavy. Because I could use a 4.3 version on a device that is not upgraded post Gingerbread. Just is a little slow but stable. That's expected because it is dated hardware. I also do have high expectations from Android 4.4 kitkat as google is promising low resource demands. And I am looking out for a kitkat ROM for this device. Cyanogenmod definitely bought my tablet back from the dead and I am hoping that Kitkat ROM might just extend its life ...
Anyways barring the first few days with this tablet device, the overall experience was negative.The main crib was stability. Gingerbread update came but didn't help. The tablet will crash 2~3 times in a day with regular usage when that usage is just browsing pages and watching Youtube videos. Besides Android has moved on (we are running 4.3 these days on my Nexus 4 with 4.4 kitkat round the corner) and this galaxy tab has become obsolete. I had also tried to give the tablet to my 2.5 year daughter to play games, but once in a while she would come with a hung phone back to me ;-(
And so with no new upgrades from Samsung, I took the Cyanogenmod ROM route to try out the latest ROM (Android 4.3). I had heard resource hogging stories of android versions and feared that 512 MB RAM and 1 Ghz processor would be insufficient to run Android 4.3. I selected the latest MR2 ROM for Cyanogenmod 10.2. Slow it is but only slightly. But it seems to have solved the instability problem. I have gone a few days without hand and hard reset. Plus i get latest applications. The steps were three
(1) Rooting the phone
(2) Installing ClockworkMod recovery manager
(3) Installing the ROM and Google apps package.
Their are tons of sites which describe the procedure. So I won't repeat that here. But I want to warn you that "Clockworkmod Recovery manager cannot be installed using ROM manager application as described in many guides". It simply lists GT-P1000 as unsupported device. The other method which I used and worked is to install using ODIN. I do n;t know why people have not edited those articles or issued a correction note.
Anyways, I am through with the above hiccup. And even though the Samsung skin looked better for tablet, it seems it is heavy. Because I could use a 4.3 version on a device that is not upgraded post Gingerbread. Just is a little slow but stable. That's expected because it is dated hardware. I also do have high expectations from Android 4.4 kitkat as google is promising low resource demands. And I am looking out for a kitkat ROM for this device. Cyanogenmod definitely bought my tablet back from the dead and I am hoping that Kitkat ROM might just extend its life ...
