[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] gooberdude:
T280 - Ultra Stock [ARK3] Samsung Experiance

Based on the latest stock firmware, with limited Google and Samsung bloat. What was removed can be installed through Play Store, or Galaxy Apps Store.

Added apps and features are a compilation, that were hand picked from various OEM firmwares, both phones and tablets built between 2015 and 2016.

This is a system backup from TWRP so, please backup before restoring this copy of my backup.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

FULL FEATURED ACCESSIBILITY w/ SOUND DETECTION

FULL FEATURED SECURED LOCKSCREEN

PASSIVE KERNEL

100% OPEN GAPPS COMPATIBLE (Nano installed)

MIRRORLINK

NEARBY

SCREEN MIRRORING

MAGISK ROOT

BUSYBOX

DRIVE LINK

SIDE PANEL (Mini softkeys - portrait only)

CAR MODE

TABLET SVOICE (Customizable wake up command, Mic always on & minimized)

SPEN (Finger input)

SNOTE4

SCRAPBOOK

EHANCED VOICE RECORDER (3 Modes)

DUAL SAMSUNG VIDEO PLAYERS (STOCK TABLET & PHONE POP OUT STYLE W/ DLNA CLIENT)

INTEGRATED ENHANCED PHOTO, VIDEO & AUDIO CLIP EDITING

THEMES & FULL THEME STORE

FEATURES

MULTIWINDOW RESIZE AND POP OUT WINDOW

NATIVE HVEC DECODING (buggy... needs recompiled driver)

PIN TO SCREEN

MEMORY BUG oFIX/WORK AROUND

WRITE TO EXTERNAL MEDIA FIX

KNOX & UNUSED INTERNATIONAL INPUTS REMOVED

DISABLED SAMSUNG MEMORY MANAGEMENT

REMOVED SMART MANAGER AND ITS SYSTEM COMPONENTS

CLEANED UP NOISE & BOOSTED MIC RECORDING GAINS

UNLOCKED ACCESSIBILITY FEAUTURES & OPTIONS

INSTALL TO EXTERNAL SD CARD ENABLED w/ ALWAYS ON/OFF OPTIONS

UNLOCKED QUICK SETTING TOGGLES

J5 & TAB4 SETTINGS UI MENUS (TOGGLED REBOOT TO SWITCH)

J5 PHONE SPOOF (For more additional enhanced apps on the store)

WIFI & GOVERNOR BOOST ENABLE/DISABLE

MODDED HOST FILE w/ ON/OFF

MODDED CSC FEAUTURES

ADDED MISSING FRAMEWORKS AND PERMISSIONS

ADDED REQUIRED MISSING LIBRARYS AND ENHANCEMENTS

LOGGING IS CLEANER THAN FACTORY - (Because of framework was looking for missing components, and my minimal debloating of required system components, which most custom firmwares have hidden by turning off logging, which is a no no.)

OUTSTANDING ISSUES

NONE! Well, as far as I have seen in with my testing, smooth and stable, without any random app issues.

Well, there are known issues that dont effect function, and some of which have work arounds.

The minor issues are... with Enhanced Voice Recorder, not being able to create voice to text memo. This tablet has a different audio muxer schema than what the Enhanced Voice Recorder application expects, for voice to text function. It only effects creation of words from recorded voice. No errors, just a lack of text output.

Car Mode only has half of its functions, since the tablet is not a phone. Outside of not being able to answer calls and messages... voice commands to play music and route with maps are fully functional. Maybe there is a way to hook blue tooth phone through tablet to control messages and calls as a head unit would. Then if that is the case, the car mode function is 100% functionable.

Signature and face lock are functional, but the settings ui have different call routine than tablets frameworks. The issues also includes a few other minor areas within the settings menu, depending on which settings ui you use. So the reason to toggle between one settings ui and the other. Once you play around with each settings ui, you will find the disadvantages of the few broken settings areas cancel out, by their availability being on the other ui.

If wanting face lock, secure lock screen is a work around. It allows proper call routines to enable face unlock, location unlock, voice unlock, and the rest or googles secure lock features that samsung does nof implement on this tablet.

There are about four (2 to 3 wee issues on each of the two settings ui that are available) hardly used areas that have issues. One is motion, within motion settings, the hook is not proper for the tablet, since the ui is hooked for phone. Plus even if motion settings had a proper hook, the lack of light sensor and other required sensors would make the setting as useless as bonding or connection boost, which is within the phone settings ui. Sounds is broken in phone settings uil but is fully functional in Tab 4 ui. Most of the sounds settings can be done within the volume control, and the apps that have settings for alarms, such as calander.

The fix can be done by a dev, to compare stock settings ui and framework.apk, and the other two variants of settings ui and framework.apk from the firmwares i used.

Because the tablet framework.apk is 90% complete over a full featured phone, the last issue is video player. The res folder within the framework.apk is missing the images for media players and other things. Adding the proper res files should clear up the black boxes for missing buttons. The buttons work, just no lables or images to inform function. Anyway you will need to get familiar with the functions to enjoy the benifits of the phone video player with pop out display and.... drum roll... DLNA client.

I have a thread on what I have done to make this rom happen. For refreference and some details as to whats been done, can be read there.

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-tab-a/how-to/converting-tab-st-280-to-samsung-j500f-t3911418

DOWNLOADS

Final release... no updates will be made, so don't ask.

https://mega.nz/#!onRRxaqD!4xetR27vQhrcjGXyxoOhysyq8uU2kYGdFRJQlKCH-z0

Unzip in your twrp backup folder, and restore in twrp. Be sure to wipe caches.

Here are some screen shot images of some of what is available on this firmware.