[Q] New TF700T owner, advice requested

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I just purchased a used TF700T from Cowboom for my wife to use for web browsing, Facebook, Netflix and Kindle. Possibly a few games, but nothing extreme. I've done a bit of reading to make sure I didn't come across as a total newb, so I plan on installing the highly recommended CROMi-X OS (thanks, sdbags!) and using the _that's (and thanks to _that, too!) kernel. I read about the I/O problems and so I purchased a 16GB UHS1 card to help alleviate the bottleneck. I intend to create a 2GB FAT32 partition and 14GB EXT4 partition on the 16GB card so I can enable Data2SD, and then use the internal storage for multimedia storage.

My questions are:

1) Does anyone have any suggestions or dvice based on what I'm planning?
2) Is it advised I do the Rom2SD for better speed or is that only for people dual-booting?
3) Should I enable or disable fsync during the Aroma installer if I'm going to use Data2SD?

Thank you very much for any help or suggestions you can provide!:confused:
 
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Cabrill said:
I just purchased a used TF700T from Cowboom for my wife to use for web browsing, Facebook, Netflix and Kindle. Possibly a few games, but nothing extreme. I've done a bit of reading to make sure I didn't come across as a total newb, so I plan on installing the highly recommended CROMi-X OS (thanks, sdbags!) and using the _that's (and thanks to _that, too!) kernel. I read about the I/O problems and so I purchased a 16GB UHS1 card to help alleviate the bottleneck. I intend to create a 2GB FAT32 partition and 14GB EXT4 partition on the 16GB card so I can enable Data2SD, and then use the internal storage for multimedia storage.

My questions are:

1) Does anyone have any suggestions or dvice based on what I'm planning?
2) Is it advised I do the Rom2SD for better speed or is that only for people dual-booting?
3) Should I enable or disable fsync during the Aroma installer if I'm going to use Data2SD?

Thank you very much for any help or suggestions you can provide!:confused:
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Do it ;)

Keep fsync enabled and for keeping it simple stick with data2sd although you may want a larger card as that 2GB partition is all she will see in most apps as her micro sd card storage.
 
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sbdags said:
Do it ;)

Keep fsync enabled and for keeping it simple stick with data2sd although you may want a larger card as that 2GB partition is all she will see in most apps as her micro sd card storage.
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Thank you! I must have misunderstood because I thought the 2GB was what Windows saw when you connect the tablet to a PC. I'm afraid I'm stuck with 16GB since I already placed the order, would it be better if I did 12GB/4GB, or 10GB/6GB or even 8GB/8GB? I was thinking the apps were going to use the larger of the two partitions since that's where Data is installed. Can they not also see the internal memory?
 
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Cabrill said:
Thank you! I must have misunderstood because I thought the 2GB was what Windows saw when you connect the tablet to a PC. I'm afraid I'm stuck with 16GB since I already placed the order, would it be better if I did 12GB/4GB, or 10GB/6GB or even 8GB/8GB? I was thinking the apps were going to use the larger of the two partitions since that's where Data is installed. Can they not also see the internal memory?
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Windows will see the first partition

With 16GB you don't actually get 16GB - you'll get more like 13GB

so I would do 6Gb and 7GB. But next time buy a bigger card or alternatively

stay with internal at first?
 
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    Cabrill said:
    I just purchased a used TF700T from Cowboom for my wife to use for web browsing, Facebook, Netflix and Kindle. Possibly a few games, but nothing extreme. I've done a bit of reading to make sure I didn't come across as a total newb, so I plan on installing the highly recommended CROMi-X OS (thanks, sdbags!) and using the _that's (and thanks to _that, too!) kernel. I read about the I/O problems and so I purchased a 16GB UHS1 card to help alleviate the bottleneck. I intend to create a 2GB FAT32 partition and 14GB EXT4 partition on the 16GB card so I can enable Data2SD, and then use the internal storage for multimedia storage.

    My questions are:

    1) Does anyone have any suggestions or dvice based on what I'm planning?
    2) Is it advised I do the Rom2SD for better speed or is that only for people dual-booting?
    3) Should I enable or disable fsync during the Aroma installer if I'm going to use Data2SD?

    Thank you very much for any help or suggestions you can provide!:confused:
    Click to expand...
    Click to collapse

    Do it ;)

    Keep fsync enabled and for keeping it simple stick with data2sd although you may want a larger card as that 2GB partition is all she will see in most apps as her micro sd card storage.
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