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If you are still holding onto the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 or 10.1 android tablet, you will be pleased to know that you can still install the latest android 6 marshmallow in it. This is all due to the developer behind Ressurection Remix who promises to resurrect your old android tablet by giving you the latest android build. Compatible with P3100, P5100, P3110, P3113, P5110, P5113 models, this ROM is based on cyanogenmod, slim and original remix builds.

Make sure you have the Galaxy Tab 2 TWRP (compatible with P3100 P3113 P3110)installed. If you need ROM for other models, you can check here or here. Here is how to install the Marshmallow Android 6 ROM on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 and 10.1 tablet.

* Download the latest build – P3100/P5100, p3110 | p3113 | p5110 | p5113
* Download Gapps from here http://opengapps.org/
* Take a nandroid backup. Full wipe and factory reset optional but recommended
* Flash ROM using latest TWRP recovery
* Flash Gapps
* Reboot.

Here are its list of features – compiled with latest tool chains , Navigation Bar , Enable/Disable Navbar , Navbar Ring Switch , Navbar Ring Targets , Navbar Button Customization , Navbar Dimensions(Potrait & Landscape) , Statusbar , Brightness Slider , Enable/Disable Show Notification Count , SuperUser Indicator Switch , Carrier Label , Carrier Label Switch , Carrier label Colour , Quick PullDown Switch , Smart Pulldown Switch , Clock Customizations , Time & date , Clock Colour , Day & date Toogle , Center Clock/Right Clock Choice , Battery , Battery Bar customization , Battery Icon Customization(circle/landscape/Potrait and more) , Battery % Text , Network Traffic Indicator , Theme Chooser , RR exclusive PITCH BLACK THEME , Animations , Toast Animations , ListView Animations , System Animations , Gestures , Gestures Anywhere Feature , App Circle Bar , Choose apps in App circle , Trigger Width , Trigger Hieght , Trigger Position , Recents Panel , Clear All button Switch , Clear All Tasks Switch , Clear All Button Location(Top right,Top Left,Top Center,Bottom Left,Bottom Right,Bottom Center) , cLock Widget , CLock And Alarm Customizations , Weather Panel Customizations , Calender Events , LockScreen , Lockscreen Shortcuts , Choose upto 5 Shortcuts , 100 Icons for Shortcuts , Quick Slider Shortcuts , Notification Drawer , Weather Display Switch , Quick Settings , Choice to Add 20 Tiles , Enable 2/3/4 Tiles per Row , Enable Disable Birghtness Slider in Notification Panel , Advanced Location Settings Switch(Choose Battery saving/Device Only/High Accuracy Directly in Notification Panel) , LongPress Toogles to Enter Settings , Buttons , Backlight Timer , Backlight Strength , Navigation Bar left/Right handed mode Switch , Power Menu , Power Menu End Calls Switch , Volume Buttons , Wake Up Device , Playback Control , Keyboard Cursor Control , Swap Buttons on Landscape mode , Perfomance Profiles , LCD Density , Expanded Desktop Mode , All New CM Audio FX App , Heads Up Customizations , Overall Smoothness Improvements , Quick Unlock , Optimizations to Improve Battery , ALL cm13 Features

Pixel UI was first launched with the Google Pixel series of phones. That has been ported to the old Samsung tablet, the Tab 2. It requires you to root Galaxy Tab 2 and have custom ROM installed. The developer who has ported the Pixel UI to the Galaxy Tab 2 says that you will need any Tab 2 ROM running Android 5 or higher. You will also need to have Xposed framework installed.

Also, you will need Galaxy Tab 2 custom recovery like TWRP or CWM installed as well. That is quite obvious since we would be tinkering with the system files. Before you proceed, make sure to create a backup of all the files. Here are the installation instructions for installing Pixel UI onto the Samsung galaxy tab 2 android tablet.

1. Install Android N-ify Xposed module from here.
2. Activate the module
3. Reboot your device
4. Install and apply Pixel theme using CM Theme Engine
5. (optional) Install XPOSED Pixel Navigation Bar

That is it – you have downloaded and installed Pixel user interface. This feel so much more stock than the slower Samsung’s touchwiz user interface that bogs down the entire system in a big way.

Samsung Galaxy Tab tablets were introduced immediately after the launch of the Apple iPad. It was Korean’s giant answer to the iPad which brought revolution to the world of tablets. The first Samsung android tablet to hit the market was the Galaxy Tab 10.1.

This was quite a revolutionary product at the time. It had beautiful and large 10.1 inch screen with 1280×800 pixel resolution. It had built in 3G to keep you connected on the move. Storage was 16GB which was enough in 2011. It was thinner than the first generation iPad and it sold in huge numbers. This was mainly due to the fact that people were waiting for an android tablet that could give iPad a run for its money.

A lot of people were buying it just because they could watch videos and sports on the move. People like to watch football, cricket, golf on their big screen tablets like Galaxy Tab. You can only enjoy so much on a tiny screen of iPhone and the experience on a Samsung Galaxy Tab is miles better. If you are into sports betting, your experience will be better as you have a bigger display and a bigger onscreen software keyboard to play with. The future of sports betting is definitely mobile, especially on galaxy tab tablets since they too run android operating system. This very OS is on the verge of becoming the most popular operating system.

Galaxy Tab comes with various live streaming betting apps which lets you increase or decrease your bets depending on your favorite team’s ongoing game play. Bettors are able to stream any match or game they wager on. There are some betting apps for galaxy tab that let you listen to audio-only commentary as well which is useful if you are in low data converge area. Pair that with a wearable and you could be best in your business.

After the first generation Samsung Galaxy Tab, the company released Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 along with few other smaller tablets with 8.9 and 7.7 inch screens. These did not get good response from users as Samsung did not increase the RAM which was expected. It was still 1GB which was just not enough to run multiple applications concurrently.

Samsung figured this out and released Galaxy Tab 3 with 2GB RAM. This very model came with three screen options – 7”, 8” and 10.1”. All enjoyed excellent response and sold in good numbers as well.

User experience with the Galaxy Tab tablets improved as the advancements in processors, memory management and operating system were done. For instance, the Android honeycomb had special focus on tablets and this made the tablets more useful. There were apps that were made for tablets’ big screen, resolution and screen real estate in mind and all these things made the end user experience much better.

Samsung got a lot of controversy when they released the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 android tablet with a gig of memory. While we cannot upgrade the RAM as it is on the chipset, it is possible to get create a virtual memory or a swap that will give you better performance while doing multitasking and memory hogging operations. This process requires you to root your Tab 3 10.1 as you will be making changes in system files.

Here are the steps on how to do it.

1. Create a swap file.
2. Create a script file to run at boot from your /system/etc/init.d directory.
3. Create a android system with 1GB of RAM and 1GB of swap file virtual memory.

And below we have explained the entire steps in detail.

Download terminal emulator from play store. Open it and type in these commands.

su
cd /system
mount -o rw,remount /system
dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1m count=600
mkswap swapfile
chmod 755 swapfile

Now, we will be creating a script that will execute at boot everytime you use the tablet. For this, I used an app called quickedit which is available for free from playstore. Make a new file by the name of ‘swap’ and save it in /sdcard.

mount -o rw,remount /system
swapon /system/swapfile

Go back to terminal and type these commands.

mv /sdcard/swap /system/etc/init.d
chmod 755 /system/etc/init.d/swap

Reboot and swap file will be created.