[Galaxy Tab General] s2h2golf:
Since Best Buy lowered the price of the Galaxy Tab p1010 (wi-fi only) for a short time following the HP Fire Sale fiasco, a lot of people have purchased this tablet. I did, but not because of the HP Touchpad, but because I wanted a 7" tablet that was fully functional (i.e., GPS, camera, Android Market, etc.) at a decent price. All of my area Best Buys sold out within a week, and most had at least 10 units in stock. Anyway, I knew the limitations of this tablet when I purchased it and I knew it would never be as fast as my old Captivate since it did not have the Hummingbird processor and the SGX540 GPU and no support from Samsung. I did however want to make it as fast and functional as I could, and with the wonderful screen and clean lines, it was one of my favorite picks. It took some time and some testing (and without a firmware backup, a little stressful at times). Here is what I have tried, and luckily with some success. I have compiled this information from other threads. I know this is an older tablet and a lot of this has already been discussed, I just wanted to have one place with all of the tweaks available for the wi-fi only version for others to review and try.

EVERYTHING HERE IS VERY RISKY AND NOT RECOMMENDED FOR AVERAGE USERS. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY BRICKS THAT MAY OCCUR FROM TRYING ANY OF THESE TWEAKS. I HAVE PERSONALLY TESTED ALL OF THESE TWEAKS ON MY P1010 AND THEY HAVE WORKED WITHOUT FAILURE, BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN THEY WILL WORK ON YOUR P1010. PLEASE FOLLOW ALL THE DIRECTIONS THAT ARE INCLUDED IN THESE LINKED THREADS AND READ, READ, READ.

Z4 Root: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=833953

I used Z4 Root to successfully root my tablet. It took two tries, with the first one just hanging up and doing nothing. I held the power button down until it shut off and then restarted it. Tried a second time and had success.

OCLF 2.3: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=784691

Coming from the Captivate, I remembered that One-Click Lag Fix (OCLF) did wonders for my phone early in the 2.1 days. I installed this app and followed the directions. The first time it failed and I had to do the same thing - hold power button down until it powered off and then restart. On the second try it worked well and I successfully installed the EXT2 files and applied the lag fix. OCLF will let you change the scheduler to NOOP or CFQ (the default). The other schedulers do not appear to be supported. I am currently trying out NOOP, but it seems to have some issues when you have a lot going on in the background. I'll update this post after I try it out for a little bit. One note with OCLF, if you have any apps installed on your external SD Card, you will need to move them back to the phone so OCLF can apply the lagfix.

OK, so getting haptic feedback to work using OCLF - well, it's not without its own problems. You can undo Lagfix 2.0+, reboot and apply Lagfix 1.1, which is the last option under OCLF I think. Now, running 1.1 doesn't really affect anything except it is nearly impossible to undo it. 1.1 somehow deletes your playlogos1 file and when you use OCLF to restore the file, it renames it to playlogosnow. Using Root Explorer, you can rename playlogosnow to playlogos1, but make sure you are renaming the right file (the smaller one). It was a big hassle to get back to the point where I could undo 1.1 and go back to 2.0. 1.1 also deletes your boot-up screen (assume that is the original playlogos1 file), but I returned it to Best Buy the other day after completely returning it back to stock and they didn't give me any problems.

Set CPU (from XDA for registered users): http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=505419

Using SetCPU, I upped the low end to 600mhz and kept the upper end at 1000mhz. I did set a profile for when the screen was off to keep the low end at 300mhz and the upper end at 600mhz to save on battery. I also changed the scaling to ondemand, which seems to make everything a little smoother.

Fugu Tweaks: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=981125

OK, the Fugu Tweaks are the one mod that I made that I didn't really see any performance improvements. When these became available, most of the devs in the Captivate section applied these tweaks to their 2.2 ROMs and there was some noticeable improvements with several launchers. On the P1010, screen transitions seemed a little smoother with Launcher Pro, but I didn't really see anything different with Go Launcher. I extracted the files from the CWM download and used Root Explorer to replace them under the /system/bin folder (read the OP in the link to make sure you place in the right location). Before replacing them, I made a copy of the original files (renamed to xxxx.copy) so I would have a backup. This is critical since there is no firmware backup for the P1010. When you reboot your tablet, the boot animation will be blank, so don't panic. Also, some apps will not work right with these tweaks - Quadrant is one of them. I don't know why, but it will just go blank and restart. I removed the tweaks and Quadrant worked fine.

Chainfire 3D: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1087427

Chainfire 3D is supposed to improve your graphics. I never saw any real improvement when running Quadrant - the spinning earth/moon still looked horrible and choppy. Since most videos play smoothly on the tab without this tweak, I cannot say definitively whether or not this tweak improves performance or not. I did not see any changes in Quadrant or SmartBench 2011. It is a very finicky app and breaks several apps, including several games. I think it has to do with the resolution of the tab being at 1024x600 (or whatever it is) versus being 800x480.

V6 Supercharger scripts - I didn't have a chance to really test these out. I managed to get them installed and running, but altering memory free settings kept breaking some of my news widgets.

Other - you can use SGS Tools from the Market to alter your build.prop settings (you can use any number of programs to do this too, but SGS Tools is easy to use). If you turn on Stagefright (media player only), you can bump up your Quadrant scores to 2100. This doesn't really mean anything as it is an inflated score, but still interesting to see it.

I currently have z4root, OCLF and SetCPU running on my P1010, since those are the ones that seem to have some performance improvements. I get 1600-1700 on Quadrant and about the same scores on SmartBench as the original Droid X (800 something and 1500 something). Nenamark 1 gets me about 21fps. This tab is definitely useable and I only wanted something to surf the web and play some games on the side. NOVA from Gameloft does work on the P1010 and works well (picked it up during the Labor Day sale). Angry Birds plays well, but Angry Birds Rio has some hangups when it first starts (but then again, my Atrix does too sometimes).

Credits:

These are the guys you need to thank, or if you feel like donating to them, do so from their thread. Without these guys, none of this would be possible.

Z4Root:

RyanZA

z4ziggy

Sebastian Krahmer's rageagainstthecage

OCLF:

RyanZA

SetCPU:

coolbho3000

Fugu Tweaks:

nikademus

Chainfire 3D:

chainfire

If you feel like I have helped you and want to click "Thanks" go ahead and do so. But it doesn't really matter to me. I just wanted to get this information out to others.