[TouchPad General] middle_road:
3C Battery Monitor Widget and the like are not going to do well in regards to this new setup that we have available to us now.

Across the (5) HPTP tablets & a Nexus7 that I have it never behaved well and was a large drain on the battery life and caused crashes.

That's one of the reason I purchased the toolbox. The developer was very helpful.

I wanted it just for the system utilities and not for the system 'tweaking'. I enjoy poking and prodding the system until it breaks. I enjoy digging into the innards of OSes.

The toolbox provides me an easy way to do some tasks that I want to accomplished without having to go to a great deal of effort.

I've never had any luck with using CWM or TWRP for backing up. Always augered on me. (user error no doubt...)

I have several apps that I like to backup individually and not globally and 3C Toolbox provides me that.

The Linux style Swap that we have available to us now is the cats meow, it's made all the difference for performance - IMO.

I have not had a single random reboot on the two PIE setups that I have running currently.

I was extremely surprised by the difference last night and today. I always thought that there was something else that could be done

to up the performance, however I did not have the skillz level to figure it out.

We need to stay away from the various 'utilities' and just let the current setup function as intended.

Need to be careful of installing any utility that tries to 'hook' in to the system, it will just conflict and cause us problems.

I had tried before tweaking the CPU with the help of Roland and Nevertell and did not ever achieve a reliable configuration.

I must have kept doing something incorrectly.

We need to keep this simple and basic and see how this setup performs for doing the basics that we want.

For me that is Browsing, e-mail, and especially video. YouTube, Netflix, VLC, Roku control, and the like.

The other thing I need in the long run is to be able to run simple video games. Angry birds, and the like.

It says a lot that (8) years after this device was released it's still usable and functional. I have a drawer full of devices that are doorstops.

I was very happy last night when I signed in and saw that HP-Touchpad had come up with something.

I was ready to toss these into the drawer with the other doorstops that I have.

I knew that the ToolBox re-partitioning might cause a problem and that's why I didn't use it.

The reason I want a larger Ext-SD is that I'm a disorganized SOB and dump everything into it when I'm trying to setup a device.

I prefer using nano or micro GApps and there just isn't enough space for that with 500MB.

But then all my devices are 32GB versions, with 16GB it might get a bit tight if it's larger.

Back when 7.x hit I made my System 2GB because in (30) years of jacking with computers whenever it is stated that

'X' amount of space is all you'll ever need, I've discovered that is NEVER the case. You always need more. Always.

The main reason for me clinging on to the HPTP is that they are easy on my eyes. Almost (40) years on computers and my eyes

ain't what they use to be. The high resolution of current devices makes it difficult for me to use them.

I also help out Seniors trying to use new devices and it is a challenge with the high resolution and tiny UI elements.

It is something that the developers of the new devices don't even think about.

I recently had an acquaintance who purchased a current device for a lot of $$$$ and he couldn't focus on it to be able to use it.

He needs a smartphone for what he still does and some jackass told him to just get a Jitterbug. That is not a proper answer to the problem.

I'm very jazzed that this evening I've got (3) of mine performing very well.

Would not have been possible without the efforts of the members in this forum.

We need to take it in small steps and test it out.