[Galaxy Tab 2 7" Android Development] Prizzel:
My review for "PAC-MAN" rom​

after 2 days using on

GT-P3100​

Tops:

Availability

Installation

Setting up

Usability

Issues

Availability:

The rom is hosted on goo server which is really good accessible. Together with the size of roundabout 140 MB for the rom plus 90 MB for gapps availability is quite good and downloading via mobile connection is possible.

Installation:

The rom will be flashed via cwm/twrp. In my opinion it's best to perform a full wipe before and a wipe of dalvik cache after the installation. Same but full wipe for the gapps.

Optional the kernel could be replaced by custom ones. I've tried with AGNi Auto oc for CM10.1 and kk blackhawk kernel. Subjective the blackhawk kernel with max oc of 1420MHz brings the best result.

Setting up:

After the installation and the basic setup of region, Google account, ect. I startet to bring the tab to my favorite look'n'feel. Therefore the rom brings a huge collection of features. At first the hybrid modes from pa which allows to select different ui's like phone, tablet and phablet together with the possibility to manually approach dpi and color settings for each installed app as well as for global changes.

Furthermore there is the theme changing engine from CM which allows to use themes from appstore or other CM supporting resources.

And last but not least nav - and shortcut bar were fully adjustable. E. g. it's possible to change position, order and number of nav buttons and shortcuticons. There are a lot of things more for totaly personalise the rom but can't list them all here.

Important for me is that mostly all of the above shown features are made really intuitive and noobfriendly in use.

Usability:

This is in my point of view the most important thing for evaluating a rom. Here you don't have to pre- or reflash anything, you don't have to use a root browser to reinstall apps avoiding fc's, you don't have to run scripts for getting basics to run, etc. You just have to flash the rom plus gapps and are ready to use.

I couldn't recognise any fc since installing this rom.

Issues:

In spite of the above written there are some things within the rom that won't work. This affects basically the hybrid features für the UI.

Changing number and/or position of nav buttons won't work.

Icons in shortcutbar "falling down" and scrumble all together.

Sometimes after installing the patched version search- and shortcutbar changed position from left'n'right to top'n'bottom and all icons and widgets on homescreen glided to the left. This happens after closing the AnTuTu Benchmark app. The display flickered a bit and than the bars switches position.

Theme changing engine won't work. By choosing another theme except the build in one the following error will shown: "The composit of the choosen theme won't fit. Please inform the developer of the theme." This issue is also known in the CM Roms.

Resume:

This rom is really good, everything for daily use works fine and is from installation to using absolute noobfriendly but on the other hand it includes a huge bunch of features for advance users. If it would be possible to fix the issues in the hybrid settings of this awesome rom, then I would figure it out as the very best rom for the tab 2 for the general public and for advanced users.

And at the end some screenshots:

My homescreen:

My device information:

Performance tested with AnTuTu benchmark:

Stability tested with AnTuTu benchmark:

RAM Stats by Android Assistent:

I hope this little review is a little bit interesting to read for the user's and a little bit helpful for the developer. However this is my way showing gratefullness to the def for his great work and also showing that we users are not only grabbers and grumblers but also helpfully parts of the community.

Greetz Prizzel.