About to make the jump to custom rom

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apvikes28

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So far I love my gpad. After dealing with my g2 I knew I wasn't gonna stick with stock. My friend also has one and I flashed PA on his. He liked it. I flashed cm11 for comparison. They are both pretty close. I am enjoying mine so far. No major issues at all. Knock on and tap to sleep are both working on cm, but not on PA quite yet. Battery life good. Custom rom is definitely the way to go.

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Pa doesn't recognize my external SD card on exfat, that's a big flaw, mahdi and cm did. Also when I tried pa, there weren't any pa features that we know and love, it was just stock android. If you want something very pa get mahdi, it has halo, it has a lot of customizability, it even has pie, its updated more often than pa for the glad too.
 
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Funny thing - I'm usually all about AOSP (either PA or Beanstalk) but so far I've been happy with the stock LG rom, I'm very impressed by this tablet and look forward to getting a G2 for my phone
 

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    I've flashed Mahdi, CM11, Paranoid Android, and Carbon so far. Of those only Mahdi and CM11 are what I would call fully functional. PA is just about there but it doesn't see the external SD card. All of them make the G Pad feel much faster and smoother than stock. You give up the LG Weather widget and the QSlide apps among other things, but almost everything you give up you can find replacements for in the app store.

    I initially used dailingrin's script to root, and then a little later I installed TWRP according to the guide here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2551499 . After that I used TWRP to flash PhilZ Touch (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2588671) and started messing around with ROMs. As long as you use whichever recovery you install to make a Nandroid backup of the stock ROM before you start flashing new ROMs, you can always go back if you don't like your new ROM.

    Its my impression after messing with it for several weeks now that the custom ROMs really unlock the potential of the G Pad's hardware and make using it a much better experience. And since you can always get back to stock with LG's recovery program, you really don't have anything to lose except maybe some time. Its worth the trouble, IMO.

    Reference threads:
    http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2554121
    http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2607333
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    So got the gpad and have the urge to flash a custom rom, namely PA rom.

    1. Will I be missing any good features from the stock rom? Only thing I can think of now is the remote but no much of a deal breaker.

    2. And what is the best way to root?

    3. When rooting, does it wipe the device?

    Thanks

    1 you ll be missing the lg apps, lg launcher and some widgets like accuweather's. There is a custom rom that is lg stock based named malladus but it is not updated often i think. Also there is a thread about the lg apps here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2594416, they re being taken from g2's forums and they say that they can be used in gpad but i havent tried them to see if they re working indeed.

    2 there are 2 ways for root, kingo root app and dailingrin's method ( http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2553192 ), i strongly recommend you to use dailingrin's as kingoroot is suspected for stealing data from your tablet. Dailingrin's method is clean and uses adb commands.

    3 no it doesnt wipe your device, neither installing a custom recovery does, unless you perform a factory reset
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    Thanks for the prompt reply. Are you using a custom rom?

    i have cm 11, dont know if it's the best but it's the most popular rom. Gpad became faster in speed with more free ram available and less battery consumption than in stock. Although it is in nightly release state it is quite stable. Only issue that bothers me is that sometimes when i open my tablet it gets like frozen and i cant unlock it. The only way is to hard reset it by holding the power button down and then it boots normally after the reset.
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    I think I will be returning mine because of the blue line problem and order from another retailer.

    Whats the best way to go stock?

    I have exactly the same question as i m thinking of returning to stock because of a bug in cm11 (everytime i power on the tab it freezes and i have to hard reset it to operate normally again, i ve tried flashing various nighlies and clearing cache and dalvic cache but it keeps doing that). Searchign at forums i found 4 posts of how to return to stock:

    1 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2622777
    2 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2543350
    3 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2590185
    4 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2471370

    Basically 1 and 2 are similar tutorials like 3 and 4, the originals are for g2 but it looks like the procedure works for gpad as well. In 2 and 3 people have reported that it worked for them.
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    Pa doesn't recognize my external SD card on exfat, that's a big flaw, mahdi and cm did. Also when I tried pa, there weren't any pa features that we know and love, it was just stock android. If you want something very pa get mahdi, it has halo, it has a lot of customizability, it even has pie, its updated more often than pa for the glad too.