[Galaxy Tab 2 7" Android Development] Metallice:
RC1 Changelog

ROM

Increased Stability Value to Maximum

Fixed Camera thanks to ChanceofChange

Re-added BluetoothTest.apk to hopefully fix bluetooth problems

Re-added Youtube 720p mod

Added Deep Sea Live Wallpaper from GSIII (laggy but pretty)

Added Gummy Beam Live Wallpaper (Kanged from Gummy Rom for GNex) (Personal Favorite)

Added No-Frills CPU Control for easy overclocking

Added Pop-Up floating video player (Super Video)

Minfree tweaks and stuff

Other stuff that I'll probably never remember.

KERNEL

Force Fed Caffeine Pills.

About 40-50 patches for stability speed etc. Don't want to bore you. Lets just say its faster.

Tiler hack to 32mb from Linaro

Reenabled Fsync for file system stability (quadrant will artificially go down)

Reworked frequency table

Bumping up freqs by multiples of 384

Get a little more speed per smartreflex calibrated voltages

Added 1.1Ghz slot

Max possible frequency now at 1.38Ghz. Stable for me. (1.0 still default)

Switched SGX DVFS mode to Linear.

In between the default none and the highest at Optimized (Figure it's a better compromise)

Other stuff that I'll probably never remember.

Theme

Sorry. No time. Beta 2 Preview will still work.

Beta 3 Changelog

Warning! New update may result in the user developing inappropriate feelings towards the device. Do not attempt to have a romantic relationship with the device. Doing so may result in an electric shock or a broken heart when the device cheats on the user with younger, softer fingers.

ROM

Added Nexus Boot Animation

Re-added Exchange.apk

Reverted to old Trebuchet to have trebuchet settings in app drawer menu

HIGHLY Recommended to disable wallpaper scrolling and turn off "fade side pages" for performance

Still I recommend Apex, but include trebuchet because you can't get it on the market

If you use another launcher make sure to increase the minimum scrolling time / decrease scrolling speed all the way in launcher and drawer. Helps with lag.

Switched to AOKP ICS keyboard

volume keys to move cursor (samsung keyboard still there as always)

Optimized some Apks

Optimized Framework-res.apk to make it about 25% smaller

Optimized TWFramework-res.apk to make it about 8% smaller

Optimized Trebuchet.apk launcher to make it about 10% smaller

Optimized secSettings.apk to make it about 50% smaller

Eventually I'll do more...

Misc. Build.prop tweaks, for most of which I am clueless whether they work in ICS or not. Can't hurt.

KERNEL

Fixed Overclocking so it isn't reset back down to stock by by samsung's DVFS.

Now OC will actually make things faster! :)

Oh man... Took me hours and hours trying to figure this out...

Disabled default Nitro OPP cycling so people who can't overclock can still use included kernel.

No more bootloops! (hopefully)

Overclocked RAM frequency slots (Test)

Raised 200Mhz slot to 266mhz

Raised 400Mhz slot to 533mhz

Enabled/Patched/Tweaked PegasusQ governor from GS3 (Test)

additional tweaks courtesy of siyahkernel

Re-enabled Memory Compaction

let's see how it compares to "without"

Turned on KSM page merging as well to compliment Memory Compaction.

Let's get the most out of the available RAM and see how much it impacts performance

Disabled Gentle Fair Sleepers

small improvements to UI responsiveness

VM tweaks to ramdisk

Typical tweaks to improve UI performance

LZO kernel compression

Faster Boot

Switch congestion protocol to Westwood+ for faster wifi when managing heavy traffic

Or was that added in beta? shrug

Other tweaks to governors, overclocking, etc.

THEME

Nada. Beta 2 preview will still work fine for now.

As always there's probably plenty of stuff I forgot about...

Beta 2 Changelog

Warning! - Update makes the ROM so fast and smooth that the human eye can't keep up. Might cause headaches for some.

ROM

- Custom Boot Animation support! First Tab 2 ROM to have this as far as I know. Just drop bootanimation.zip into /System/Media/

- Youtube added

- gTalk added

- Stock ICS keyboard added (Samsung Keboard with clipboard still default)

- Other apps added to /Data/ partition that I find useful. Feel free to uninstall them.

- Scheduler tweaks to improve touch responsiveness.

- So fast you'll probably need to underclock it.

- **Other stuff that I can't think of at the moment that I'll add to this changelog when I get the time

KERNEL

- Cleancache added

- SGX GPU DVFS mode set to Optimized instead of None

- ACTUALLY removed Samsung's Touch Boost this time for improved battery life.

- Removed Memory Compaction (test)

- Tweaked OnDemand for performance (Highly Recommended over Interactive)

- Butter level increased to over 9000

- **Other stuff that I can't think of at the moment that I'll add to this changelog when I get the time

THEME

- First upload

- Themed SystemUI

- Statusbar, clock, notifications themed.

Beta 1

ROM

- Over 145 mb of apps removed.

- That's a lot of apps.

- Please let me know if there are any I should add or any I should remove.

- Uses samsung apps at the moment. Don't want to break mini apps.

- Trebuchet Launcher - CM team, xoomdev, others

- thanks to DSB for the base.

- No included camera. Download one from the market. I recommend CameraICS or CameraICS+. Can't get aosp or samsung's to work right now... will work on it.

KERNEL

- So much stuffs.

- Overclockable to 1.35ghz.

- Underclockable to 180mhz

- GPU at 384mhz

- Samsung Touch Boost removed for battery life

- Direct injection of Butter

- Lazy, Wheatley governors.

- A ridonkulous amount of minor fixes and tweaks courtesy of franco, ch33kybutt, me, others...

- Other stuffs

- Full list of Changes/Features and source: https://github.com/Metallice/GTab2-Kernel-TW/commits/master?page=1

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Downloads

- WARNING! DO NOT DOWNLOAD IF PRONE TO SEIZURES. THE PURE SPEED AND AWESOMENESS MAY INDUCE EPILEPTIC SYMPTOMS. CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR BEFORE FLASHING

ROM WITH KERNEL

Beta 1 - http://goo.im/devs/Metallice/Tab2/Tab2LiteBeta1.zip

Beta 2 - http://goo.im/devs/Metallice/Tab2/Tab2LiteBeta2.zip

Beta 3 - http://goo.im/devs/Metallice/Tab2/Tab2LiteBeta3.zip

RC1 - http://goo.im/devs/Metallice/Tab2/Tab2LiteRC1.zip

THEME

Beta 2 Preview - http://goo.im/devs/Metallice/Tab2/MetallicICS_beta2preview.zip (fixed and reuploaded 6:12pm eastern)

NOTE: You must boot the ROM at least one before flashing the theme!

REMOVED APPS

http://goo.im/devs/Metallice/Tab2/RemovedApps.zip

Current Issues

- Camera missing - download CameraICS or other from market - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moblynx.cameraics&hl=en

- YouTube missing from market. Download above.

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I'm not super comfortable putting this up, as I don't want to seem like I'm asking for charity or demanding payment. Please don't feel obligated. I do this work for free because I like improving our devices. :)

Anyway, I'm a broke college student without a job this summer - instead taking extra classes and studying like crazy for the MCAT. If you like my work and want to thank me, feel free to buy a coffee or an energy drink so I can continue to stay up late studying and working on Android stuff. I don't want to have to choose! :D Thanks and I appreciate your support!

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List of Removed Apps

Installable:

ChatON_tablet_7.apk

ChocoEUKor.apk

GameHub_2.0_ICS.apk

HelvNeueLT.apk

PeelTab.apk

PhotoRetouching_espresso.apk

PressReader_Tablet.apk

SamsungAppsUNA3.apk

SamsungApps_Tablet.apk

talkback.apk

TrimApp_tablet.apk

VideoEditor_espresso.apk

DttSupport.apk

ESPRESSO_ScreenCapture.apk

GoogleFeedback.apk

Keystring_DFT.apk

Keystring_factory.apk

Keystring_misc.apk

MediaHub.apk

MH_10_ICS_Tablet.apk

PCWClientS.apk

Samsungservice.apk

serviceModeApp.apk

SNS.apk

SPPPushClient_Prod.apk

SysScope.apk

WSBoxNet.apk

WSDropbox.apk

WSGoogle.apk

Not Installable:

DualClockAnalog.apk

Kies.apk

MobilePrint.apk

ReadersHub_Tablet.apk

SecTabletMyFiles.apk

CSC.apk

Dlna.apk

DSMForwarding.apk

DSMLawmo.apk

EdmSysScopeService.apk

EdmVpnServices.apk

Exchange.apk

FTM.apk

FTS.apk

kieswifi.apk

LogsProvider.apk

MM_Accuweather_Tablet.apk

MM_YahooNews_Tablet.apk

MM_YahooStock_Tablet.apk

OmaCP.apk

PhoneErrService.apk

PickUpTutorial.apk

PopupuiReceiver.apk

PreloadInstaller.apk

PRUI.apk

SecPhone.apk

SecTelephonyProvider.apk

SurfSetProp.apk

VpnDialogs.apk

WAPPushManager.apk