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[Nexus 7 Android Development] EncusPitu:
Thanks for your work, AndDisa. I change to your rom after using lineageos. The differences are much smoother, much snappier. I tried the standard build + gapps. No issues so far. But,

After few days and many apps installed (around 40), using youtube vanced and getting another launcher (niagara), retroarch+dig.. it gets slower and takes few seconds to switch to another app.

So i decided to root it with magisk, adaway and trimmer with fstrim. But getting slower respon sometimes like freezes now and then.

Next, maybe i'll try microg version non-gapps with many app like before and report back the result

Oh, any recommendation for ads blocker? I think Adaway just make the tab slower.

And since youtube vanced not being developed anymore, can someone suggest another youtube adsfree? Beside newpipe? tried revanced manager youtube but always fail at install process.

Thanks again and keep up the good work
[Nexus 7 Android Development] DumF0rGaming:
Simply stop using gapps and launchers at all, install only essential stuff. With microg vanced and YT Vanced being the only 2 things installed this tablet is reasonably smooth and capable. You can play with zram amounts and proportions if you wish but that's pretty much it. You can host your own DNS with adblock capabilities like pihole to do adblocking offsite. take a look at modern ReVanced or LibreTube
[Nexus 7 Android Development] EncusPitu:
Yes. After clean flash microg from standard-build+gapps. I can say the differences almost night and day. Yes there are some delay sometimes but never halt or freezes the process. Pretty stable. Installing like 40 apps from aurora store, Non Root since trimmer and adaway aren't needed anymore. Mainly for watching YT, IPTV, Ebook. Unfortunately Stremio stops right after seeding/streaming. Notice battery drain if "keep wifi always on" selected. But can get 2 or more days standby if "wifi off on sleep".

Oh, i just found out that Revanced Manager have android 7 version. Havent tried yet. Intererstingly i just read about piHole too and still trying to learn how to setup. Had pizero w for a while but for retrogame console at the moment. Cheers
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Coblan 86:
No issues with running Nethunter?
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Ahkah:
Some malfunction: I could no longer unlock the screen, and I also could not restart the device via power-button-longpress (the shutdown/restart dialogue ignored my input). I finally succeeded with "reboot" via adb (USB connection). I also noticed that the device had gone to power save mode, indicated with an orange status bar. Maybe this is a side effect of this power save mode.

And I can only charge the device while it is switched off, takes some hours, but works reliably.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] TheXeno:
For the charge is a kind of conflict when the device is active and you plug in the charger. If the tablet goes to standby (when turns the screen off, some seconds may pass for that), you can plug the charger. IF you do it once when the tablet is active, the USB changes mode to OTG and looses capacity to receive current and any USB host connection and must be restarted (or turned off, as you figured).

If you can let me know if what I say apply in your case as well!
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Fladioman:
Welp. The Core is too big for my pity 16gig Nexus 7. Or am i doing something wrong
[Nexus 7 Android Development] nxda_gr:
Hi,

i have a problem with whatsapp that dont send audio to external speaker with bluetooth. Whatsapp support suggested that it may be due to the custom rom and whatsapp security model may not function as it should.

Can anyone confirm that same happen on your nexus tablet during whatsapo calls?

While in youtube or playing offline songs it works fine with external speaker, only in whatsapp calls i noticed it and is the only way i have bcs. internal speakers are having too much noise.

Thanks
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Ahkah:
Carefully follow the instructions in the first posts.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] wwt:
Все установлено, скачайте NikGapps и все получится.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] mik0870:
Hi guys,

I didn't have any problems downloading the correct version of Android System Webview from apkmirror on my PC, then copying it to the internal Download folder of Nexus7, and then installing using a very small file manager. Now HA app works nicely.

File: Android System WebView 119.0.6045.67 (arm-v7a) (Android 7.0+)
[Nexus 7 Android Development] AndDiSa:
New releases with 2023/12/05 security fixes are out!

Hi guys,

I am continuing to provide you with ROM updates from time to time ... ;-)

I just updated the ROM files for Grouper and Tilapia having all the security updates applied to them up to December 2023. In the OP you can find the links to the Gapps- and MicroG-versions.

The repositories on Github are updated, too.

There are no functional changes only the security patches were added.

@rahimali I started to integrate an updated prebuild WebView version into the ROM, too, but no success yet. Probably with the next version ...

Have a great Christmas time and a happy new year!
[Nexus 7 Android Development] :
You too. Thank you for all your amazing work, it really is appreciated :)
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Hali_:
Hi, could you please point me the right direction? When i install zip aosp_grouper-7.1.2.-mg-ota-20231212.eng.ds.zip, it boots fine. Problem is with GApps, it end with:

INSTALLATION FAILURE: This GApps package can only be installed on a 7.1.x ROM.

it reports my ROM as 5.1.1, how do I update correctly? I don't remember what ROM i used before ,so I performed the steps for clean install from your first post.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] AndDiSa:
@Hali_ If you are using the mg-version (microg) you cannot install Gapps you need to use thr F-Droid store, otherwise you need to flash the non-mg version.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Ahkah:
Update seemed to work, thanks!

However, I tried to take the chance to get rid of the gapps, just by not reinstalling them, but that led to an inconsistent system. Does anybody know if this is possible? Finally installed the OS update again and then the gapps, as recommended.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] AndDiSa:
@Ahkah The issue here is that the Gapps are generally optimized and regularly also updated to newer versions which then "override" the original Gapps keeping the same id and permissions. If you do not re-install the old Gapps after an update, you have installed applications without having them correctly listed in the list of installed applications. This leads to the situation that the permissions for those applications are messed up ...

You would need to find a solution to remove the "updated" Gapps from the device then it should work but I do not know any tool which is providing that functionality.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] technoloko:
Hi there @AndDiSa,

AndroidFileHost seems to be down for a few days:

Is there any other place you can upload the files? Thanks!
[Nexus 7 Android Development] rahimali:
Mirrors:

MicroG

Tilapia

Download

Download File

devuploads.com

aosp_tilapia-7.1.2-mg-ota-20231212.eng.ds.zip - Mirrored.to - Mirrorcreator - Upload files to multiple hosts

Securely upload your files, media and documents to more than 30 cloud storage providers simultaneosuly. Remote Upload files to Google Drive and many other hosts.

www.mirrored.to

Grouper

Download

Download File

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Securely upload your files, media and documents to more than 30 cloud storage providers simultaneosuly. Remote Upload files to Google Drive and many other hosts.

www.mirrored.to

GAPPS

Tilapia

Download

Download File

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aosp_tilapia-7.1.2-ota-20231212.eng.ds.zip - Mirrored.to - Mirrorcreator - Upload files to multiple hosts

Securely upload your files, media and documents to more than 30 cloud storage providers simultaneosuly. Remote Upload files to Google Drive and many other hosts.

www.mirrored.to

Grouper

Download

Download File

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aosp_grouper-7.1.2-ota-20231212.eng.ds.zip - Mirrored.to - Mirrorcreator - Upload files to multiple hosts

Securely upload your files, media and documents to more than 30 cloud storage providers simultaneosuly. Remote Upload files to Google Drive and many other hosts.

www.mirrored.to
[Nexus 7 Android Development] shibadoo:
After years of using your regular tilapia image, I changed today to the microg version. But now: what to do with it? I am not even able to install the f-droid.apk. How can I can some apps to this naked, but fast version?

UPDATE: adb install f-droid.apk does the trick.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] technoloko:
Thanks so much!

I was able yesterday to flash the gApps version, giving some extra life to my Nexus 7.

Appreciated everyone's help.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] colt2x:
Hi,

@AndDiSa , may i ask how you get the security patches for 7.1.2 ? Jut for my curiosity.

Otherwise the ROM is great, and the only recent Android for the grouper :)

The only problem i had that the GApps install is broking the OS, so i installed the Google-free one, that is working fine.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] AndDiSa:
@rahimali thank you so much. I didn't knew that host. I'll investigate and probably I'll upload the files directly there.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] AndDiSa:
@colt2x I am getting the patches normally directly from the LineageOS-Repository. Great thanks to "L R", and "Michael Bestas" who are still backporting the security patches to cm-14.1

Additionally I am trying to see whether there are kernel patches available which can be backported to linux 3.1.10.

Installing GApps on 7.1 became a bit tricky as the latest GApps packages are too big to fit into the system partition even when using the gapps-config files. The only solution I currently know is: flashing an older version (e.g. open_gapps-arm-7.1-pico-20220215.zip)

This is not such a big problem as it seems as Google is updating the Gapps automatically to the latest version and the installed versions will be overwritten.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] rahimali:
@AndDiSa, you're very welcome but if I may suggest, could you please continue uploading to AFH and I'll continue to mirror them to DevUploads, the reason being AHF has stuck out over the years and these other sharing sites keep popping up and fading away so if DevUploads goes the way of the dodo, all your work will be lost if there are no backups. This way, at least we'll have backups on AHF. Also, I suspect the AFH non-availability issues might be location related in that while files/mirrors may not be available to users from one region, somebody else from a different region might be able to access them without issue. What do you say?
[Nexus 7 Android Development] colt2x:
Thanks! I never thought that someone is still keeping 7.x alive, so big respect :) (And i haven't seen any LOS 7.1 updated... 8-O )

There was a 8.x based ROM for Nexus7 2012, but it was nearly useless :D Since then i saw only yours :)

About GApps, i have flashed the 20220215 (which is the current on OpenGapps) but it didn't worked. I could log in, but it did not download and install anything, and thena lot of system processes kept crashing, even after a complete re-flash. So i decided to go Google-less (it is good for speed also). I can see that the storage is full, and GApps is hard to fit (in addition, GApps became a very large package... :D )
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Vrpghm:
Instalé desde 0 la rom, fue imposible configurar la cuenta Gmail ni pop o imap, traté de configurar smtp... SSL y TLS, no funciona, cómo configuró la cuenta Gmail? Si no hay forma de configurar el servidor Gmail

I installed the rom from 0, it was impossible to configure the Gmail account or pop or imap, I tried to configure SMTP... SSL and TLS, it does not work, how did you configure the Gmail account? If there is no way to configure the Gmail server
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Vrpghm:
This happened because a gapps tvstock was installed that does not have the Gmail, Google app...
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Vrpghm:
Hello, does the rom have developer options, change the screen to dark mode? In the adjustment option I did not locate it, thanks for the information, greetings
[Nexus 7 Android Development] dark0shark:
Updating to today's stable release of Magisk 27.0 worked flawlessly on both of my grouper Nexus 7.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Vrpghm:
Hi, Where can find gapp pico more small size? Always error 70 when i try to install on lineage rom, with rom aosp all fine. Thanks
[Nexus 7 Android Development] AndDiSa:
unfortunately GApps are quite too big nowadays .. the smallest I have available are : open_gapps-arm-7.1-pico-20180924.zip (~84MB) and open_gapps-arm-7.1-pico-20180327.zip (~135MB)

Together with the configuration file found In the second post of this thread it should give you a base GApps installation. I suppose those files are too big to be provided directly here ... I'll try to find a place to provide them.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Vrpghm:
Thanks
[Nexus 7 Android Development] AlehP:
Hi folks,

is it possible to update to this rom from Android 4.4.4 or better to upgrade to 5.x first?
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Vrpghm:
It is better to install the new rom from 0, to backup WhatsApp and the apps that allow it, copy photos and data to a PC or pendrive, the aosp 7.1.2 rom works stable, you must locate an old pico opengapps, less than 100mb , to avoid error 70 that indicates that it is too big to install apps, but use the configure gapps file that has each instruction of the new rom as tools, to eliminate non-essential apps, the lineage rom is also widely used for Nexus 7, no I have used it, you must download all the software and files to root and unlock from the bootloader, so you can install the new rom and opengapps, clean installation, to avoid junk files from the old rom that will make the new rom slow.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] AlehP:
Thank you! But I actually meant if this ROM has a pre-requisite to have either clean 4.4.4 or 5.x? Or the previous version doesn't matter?
[Nexus 7 Android Development] AndDiSa:
@AlehP the previous version doesn't matter .. *but* you should have 4.23 bootloader image installed on your device otherwise there is a chance that the kernel will not boot up correctly. This bootlader version came with the official 5.x Android version to the grouper/tilapia device. So you need to flash either the official Android 5.x version for grouper/tilapia or the correct 4.23 bootloader once before installing the ROM.

An additional hint: there were some malfunctioning 4.23 bootloader versions around (try to search for the appropriate thread here in the forum). So please be careful to flash the correct one ;-)
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Vrpghm:
It does not have prerequisites for Android 5 or 4, I just downloaded the most recent twrp.img, with the moviluncle app, install the new recovery on the tablet, to install the new rom of your choice. It is a clean installation, without the old version, it is good that you wipe each partition, system, cache... NEVER delete the data partition, the data partition contains all the software and opengapps for the installation, backup of everything prior to installation.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Vrpghm:
correction to the previous post, you MUST delete the DATA partition, what you should NOT delete is the internal storage partition, or check if twrp recognizes a pendrive as an emergency plan if the internal storage directory is deleted by mistake, where is the download directory, there You must locate the new rom and its opengapps, trwp, magisk... to install the new rom.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Vrpghm:
If I remember correctly, you must locate twrp.img in the root directory of the tablet, of the Android 4 or 5 rom, not only in the download directory, mobiluncle.app looks for the recovery file in the root directory of the tablet, so that can flash, then enter recovery mode to delete the directories, except internal storage, then install the rom and gapps, start the new rom, configure it, then enter recovery and install the magisk.zip or .app to unlock the bootloader , the new rom is now 100% installed.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] dark0shark:
A bit off topic, but who wants back a working XDA app, may look at download in this post: https://xdaforums.com/t/18-01-24-ne...h-domain-fix-unofficial.4199599/post-89268791
[Nexus 7 Android Development] AndDiSa:
@Vrpghm I found another (never) open gapps version from March 2019 which I had already uploaded to my blog. Unfortunately open gapps cannot be distributed from other sites than opengapps.org ...
[Nexus 7 Android Development] rahimali:
I've found (but not tried yet) a gapps package that's about 80MB in size here if anybody would care to give it a shot.

I prefer going with microg because (IMHO) this device doesn't have the horsepower to handle the google play services anymore...

if anyone is feeling curious, you can find out more about the gapps package listed above here
[Nexus 7 Android Development] irek100:
HI,

I have a Nexus 7 2012 3G/WIFI. With TWRP I played osp7.1.2ota 20230816blet is great. It works fast without google. I only uploaded the chrome apk. I'm having trouble downloading other apps as apk. I don't have permission to change the storage location on the disk. How do I fix this? The tablet does not give you access to free memory resources.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Vrpghm:
Hi, I have never deleted the basic Google apps, Google play? ...? you install them from twrp. APK? change unit? Nexus 7 grouper does not use SD, only RAM.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] irek100:
Yes, I installed via TWRP. I installed the APK on the tablet from the command line via the computer. When I start the Nexus, my applications, e.g. Chrome and Firefox, cannot download and save files to the tablet.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Vrpghm:
sideload? I have never done that type of installation, if you eliminate all the Google apps, which manage the operation of the operating system at the internal operations level, what app replaces them for the execution of internal operations? Do you have to install everything by sideload? to not use Google store...
[Nexus 7 Android Development] ronytw:
Try BiTGApps for 7.1.2.

BiTGApps-arm-7.1.2-v2.7-CORE.zip (~59MB)
[Nexus 7 Android Development] irek100:
exactly, I don't use the Google Store. I only download and install apk. I'm installing from CMD via adb
[Nexus 7 Android Development] AndDiSa:
New releases with 2024/03/05 security fixes are out!

Hi guys,

here an quarterly update of the ROMs.

I just updated the ROM files for Grouper and Tilapia having all the security updates applied to them up to March 2024. Even the kernel got some security fixes which I magpied from the DivestOS project ... ;-)

In the OP you can find the links to the Gapps- and MicroG-versions.

Please note: I didn't upload to AndroidFilehost as the servers had/still have issues. You can download directly from my webspace though ... but probably the download speed will not be as good as you are expecting.

The repositories on Github are updated, too.

@rahimali I integrated an updated prebuild WebView version into the ROM, too. Unfortunately 119.x is the latest version compatible with Android 7.1.x even though 121.0 is alrady out :-(
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Hugi123:
Leider kommt bei der Installation der Open GApps immer der error 70. Ich hab schon alle angegebenen Möglichkeiten ausprobiert. Vorhergehende updates haben funktioniert.

@AndDiSa vielen Dank für die jahrelange Pflege von Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Vrpghm:
Post in thread '[ROM][NZH54D][2024/03/c05][Asus Nexus 7 2012 WiFi/3G][F2FS/EXT4]Android 7.x AOSP' https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-nzh54d-...s-ext4-android-7-x-aosp.3467514/post-89373048

Try BiTGApps for 7.1.2.

BiTGApps-arm-7.1.2-v2.7-CORE.zip (~59MB)
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Hugi123:
It works. Thank you
[Nexus 7 Android Development] :
Dirty flashed the mg update. First boot took longer than I remember it taking but all is good and working just fine. (y)

Thank you.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] misternoobPT:
Got one of these tablets in my hands recently and gave this ROM a go.

Installed the image with LiteGapps, working fine.

Issues I've found: WiFi connection fails on WPA 2/3 networks or networks with multiple frequencies under the same SSID (2.4GHz and 5GHz using the same name).

I happen to have a NVIDIA Shield Tablet (shieldtablet) which also has an arm32 Tegra SoC running LineageOS and the WiFi there works well. Is it worth to give a shot at putting the wireless driver from that tablet on this one?
[Nexus 7 Android Development] GrouperTrooperMan:
First off, thank you so much for keeping the Grouper alive!

No matter what I try, I get the ROM to boot and all seems fine until I get to the homescreen. Launcher constantly crashes and it is near impossible to do anything. Managed to get into settings and forced killed Launcher, but that did not help.

Ever see this before? Any suggestions?
[Nexus 7 Android Development] rahimali:
I've had this occasionally. My solution is to have an apk of my favorite launcher copied to the device at the time of flashing ROM and as soon as that's done, while still in recovery, replace the stock launcher with my preferred one. You could try this one, for example.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] dark0shark:
Have exactly the same problem with WiFi, in my case both frequencies with identical SSID.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] netdemon666:
After installing 7.1.2 Grouper OTA-Package there is a problem: the USB connection setting is not saved, after a reboot it charges, not mtp. The choice is also not saved in the developer settings. Is there a solution to this problem?
[Nexus 7 Android Development] ridley1000:
Thank you, this works wonderfully so far. Had a bit of trouble installing gapps but I tried using a link to a version from 2019 and that flashed fine as I kept getting error 70 when following the original instructions. Thank you again, I've never used f2fs before and it's very refreshing
[Nexus 7 Android Development] ridley1000:
Can I have some advice please? I noticed the system partition is still formatted as ext4 despite formatting it as f2fs before flashing. Things like storage are still formatted as f2fs. Is this normal?
[Nexus 7 Android Development] AndDiSa:
@ridley1000 yes, it's normal as f2fs doesn't provide any advantages for read only partitions. f2fs helps to leverage the usage of the flash memory when changing / overwriting data but as the system partition is read only there is no advantage.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] ridley1000:
Ah that makes sense, thank you. Sorry for what is now a silly question, it's been years since flashing and this is all new to me again. Thank you again for all your work on this rom.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] terho:
Should there be a phone application? Could this device even make calls (3G version?)

I mean I won't ever have a sim card in there but I'm just curious.
[Nexus 7 Android Development] majorfigjam:
My recollection from long ago (more than 10 years now) is that even the 3G version Nakasig / Tilapia doesn't have the necessary hardware for network voice calls.

With a SIM in the stock rom, I was able to use SMS messages and also use data, but no network voice calls. I recall skype and similar apps worked too.

I don't recall ever trying voice calls with this Anddisa rom.

Voice calls on 3g Nexus 7

What do you think is the possibility of us getting this function guys, even if its not officially supported. I've seen it built in on the 7" samsung galaxy tab 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ9RNhJAgjE&feature=bf_next&list=HL1351349133 Its...

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[Nexus 7 Android Development] Rudare:
Please, can you post link here with new updates. Looks like i can't find March update🤔

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[Nexus 7 Android Development] rahimali:
You can download from here
[Nexus 7 Android Development] Rudare:
Of course. Thanks friend.