GrandPrix Closer Look: Trinity Kernel And Trinity Kernel Toolbox For The Nexus 7
Now when I first rooted my Nexus 7, I had no idea what kernel I should run on my daily setup. I kept flashing several of them but none of them truly made me happy. Battery life is always my top priority when dealing with any device I own and none of the kernels I was running gave me the battery life I wanted. Like any crack flasher would, I was flashing every update for the kernel nightly, modifying the voltages and underclocking the... Read The Rest →
Nexus 7: I love Faux Kernel, And You Will Too Rooted User
Awhile back my buddy and AndroREV contributor Grand Prix put me on to developer faux123′s Faux Kernel and at the time it wasn’t specifically opti mized for the Nexus 7. Now faux123 has brought a Nexus 7 kernel to the party which I have been checking out and I highly recommend it to you rooted Nexus 7 users out there. Smoothness is off the hook and my experience with it has been one of stability and top notch performance. There are two varieties of the kernel to choose from:... Read The Rest →
Nexus 7 Paranoid Android Update Brings CM Patch, Expanded Desktop And More
Paranoid Android is a version of CyanogenMod 10 that allows users to switch to various modes between phone and tablet. It allows the rooted user the flexibility to change the the dpi on a per app basis. Customization is brought to a whole new level on the 7 inch Nexus 7 and of course all the features you know and love from CM 10 are baked in too. This update has been awhile coming while the latest Cyanogen fixes could be made bugless and now they have been... Read The Rest →
Paranoid Much?…. Paranoid Android Now Available For Nexus 7, True Tablet UI In Tow
When we first got our hands on Nexus 7, and with each new device, I am always asked what ROM are you anticipating the most? (no really people ask me these sorts of questions all day). This time, immediately and emphatically, I said Paranoid Android. Well Paranoid Android is here and let’s chat briefly about the reasons this ROM will remain on my Nexus 7 for the immediate future. This ROM allows you to scale every app and widget to your liking and offers several settings for viewing modes... Read The Rest →
AOKP Preview Builds Now Available For Nexus 7.
The AOKP team has quickly become one of the top custom ROM developers in the android world. I haven’t been able to play much with their work because I still own my Thunderbolt but that has now changed. Zaphod-Beeblebrox of the team has recently released preview builds for the nexus 7. I will give a full review of the build once it reaches its first milestone, but for now if you’re a crack flasher like me head over to Rootzwiki and download the latest preview. The build is... Read The Rest →
Grand Prix Guide: How To Get Flash Player Working On Nexus 7.
If you’re like me you were quite upset when Google and Adobe announced they would no longer support flash. Jellybean doesn’t allow you to download flash from the market and Adobe is no longer updating flash. Luckily, with android being as open as it is, we can still get flash player on our Nexus 7 devices. This tutorial may still work for other jellybean devices but I have only tested it on the Nexus. You do not have to be rooted for this to work. Also, you will... Read The Rest →
Official BAMF Paradigm 2.0 Available For Nexus 7
Yesterday you may have seen an article about theme chooser being added to BAMF Paradigm and today that very ROM has officially been brought to the Nexus 7. BAMF brings a lot of new features to the AOSP and is a culminaiton of the work of many developers over a period of months. Just take a look at the features list below and you will see one of the better supported and more customizeable AOSP efforts around. Just take a look at the features list below. Theme... Read The Rest →
Unofficial AOKP Build Is Live For Nexus 7
We will continue to point folks in the direction of awesome ROMS for Nexus 7 as they are dropped and I’m very excited to report that there is now a fairly functional build of Android Open Kang Project for it. It comes courtesy of developer nize2beme and has the Motley Kernel and GAPPS pre-baked. Not only that Team Kang has confirmed that an official build of the Unicorn will be hitting the Nexus 7 soon as well. Exciting stuff if you love AOKP. I’m placing a link to the... Read The Rest →
Cookie & Cream: Linaro Optimized CyanogenMod 10 Now Available For Nexus 7
COOKIES AND CREAM….YUM Thanks to developer aaronpoweruser (who I can tell you from experience is one of the best at porting builds period!) has brought what he calls Cookie & Cream, a Linaro Optimized build of CyanogenMOD 10 to the Nexus 7. I have given it a spin and right now I can tell you this is the smoothest build of CM 10 available for the Nexus 7. I’ve tried them all and the other builds but this one when paired with Motley’s cm 10 linaro optimized kernel pawns... Read The Rest →
Google releases first Nexus 7 commercial
So here is the first ad for Google’s Nexus 7 tablet. I don’t have to tell you how well Google is doing with these right now (they don’t need an ad) and it’s great to see them hit the airwaves with the little promotion. With or without it phenomenal sales are very likely to continue. Anyway its very nice enjoy. Tweet This Post Kidromulous Long time technology writer and editor. Marvin Ferrell El aka Kidromulous is the founder of Androidian REVolution. Being big on community he guides the site as... Read The Rest →
Surprisingly Functional And Unofficial CM 10 Hits Nexus 7
So this is what I have been doing with my afternoon. Playing with Cyanogen Mod 10. This is an unofficial build but I have yet to find anything that does not work and that has me pleasantly surprised. It also has the following features present in the build: Interface Status Bar Lockscreen with Customizable Shortcuts Framework (add power widgets) WIP safe headset volume and audo dock support WIP Make sure you get the gapps package from the OP linked to as well as the ROM. It was nice to be... Read The Rest →
Flash-aholics Guide To Nexus 7: You’ve Got The Nexus 7 In Hand…Now What
So you’ve got your Nexus 7 now. To be different than the next guy writing about Android has always been a goal of mine, and what I see on most sites is guides to actually rooting the Nexus 7 and etc. Well there are already a ton of guides to that on the web. I for one used Wug’s tool which you can find right here. What we want to do it instead is take you from the next step where you take a look at some ROM’s kernels... Read The Rest →
