[General Questions and Answers] Timboi:
Trekstor SurfTab Breeze 7.0 Tweaks and Firmware

Hi Guys,

i just wanted to post my efforts tweaking my Trekstor SurfTab Breeze 7.0 (in my opinion it's definately worth the money). Instead of just loading up a custom system image, i decided to post all the steps it took to get a quite snappy device (allthough it's not like a nexus 7 or iPad mini of course - but they don't cost around 70 euro):

1.) Get root rights. I used the solution from "unlockroot"-website in combination with a windows 8 System to unlock the device with one click (no coding needed!). This does not directly improve speed in general usage but enables some further tweaks.

2.) Deactivate apps. Navigate to settings->apps and then click on the app symbol. When able, click the "uninstall"-Button. Otherwise use the "deactivate"-Button to shut down the system apps. The more apps you disable / uninstall, the more recources are left for usage.

3.) Install the App "Android Assistant(18 features)" from market. In my case, this one ended some background processes in the system which did use up much of the cpu-power before. Unfortunately i was not able to identify those processes but the app solved the problem anyway.

4.) Use a static IP when the wifi connection seems to be slower than it should be. This is a known issue with DHCP in some Android 4.0.4 systems. Maybe in some cases it is the other way around (use DHCP instead of static IP), so just play with those two options to find the best soultion for yourself. Change the values by settings->wifi->"your wifi"

5.) Enable USB-Debugging. settings->developer options->USB-Debugging

The following steps require root privileges:

6.) Install the app "Seeder" from market. This one reduces some lags, including the wake-up-time in Standby (some msec).

7.) Install the app "AdAway" or any other ad-blocker (e.g. use opensource-market "f-droid") as it can block in-app-ads as well as some browser ads.

8.) Get a fast browser. I first took "easybrowser" from playstore-market, which did a good job but seems not to be very serious as the comments in playstore suggest. Therefore i changed to "lightning"-browser, which is serious opensource-software and very fast, too. I have to mention that i tested android stock browser, firefox, chrome, opera mobile, opera mini and opera beta before. Unfortunately they are not designed for a device with such poor hardware. The "lightning"-browser does a very good job when it comes to quickly look things up in the web. Watching Streams is not quite fun (but it works!), i suggest to use another solution for this kind of tasks (youtube, crunchyroll, zattoo, ...).

9.) Use an App like "Clean Master" to clean up data that has been left after deinstallation of apps. As the internal storage ist very small, every bit of free space can be useful.

After all those Tweaks i currently have a really snappy device compared to when i first unpacked the SurfTab.

If anyone kills his ROM by tweaking too much (e.g. black bootscreen) he will find an unofficial firmware offered from TrekStor at h t t p : //into-trekstor.de/fw/surftab (username/password: guest) which can easily be flashed by following the pdf-instructions.

I hope this post can help those who are basically "end-users" without coding ambitions (like me ;D)

Greetz,

T.K.