Need reco's for a ROM to regain usefulness of my XOOM tablet

[doobes]

All,

Some time back, with the ongoing update of Google components, my Xoom tablet became virtually unusable due to the glacial response time. I lamented this fact as I did and still do think this is an awesome tablet and losing the usage was upsetting. I bought a Nexus 7 to replace it, which I use almost constantly, but there was always this thought in my mind of getting the Xoom going again.

Initially I tried the both the Lollipop and Marshmallow ROMs available in this forum, but frankly neither are "ready for prime time". There were and are serious functionality which makes both non-starters.

So, I installed OMNI ROM v4.4.4... on my Xoom tablet. Things seemed better for a while, but again the rot has set in and the response time of the tablet is glacial. Everything takes 30-60 seconds to respond and doing updates takes many minutes, not just a few.

I'm looking for options/suggestions/whatever on the possibility of bringing the tablet back to life.

If you have a Xoom tablet and it's still performing well for you, I would love to know details of the setup.

Thanks in advance

 

[doobes]

nt

 

[doobes]

Anyone?

 

[slow1234]

I have also felt my daughter's Xoom getting slower in recent months. HOwever, the bigger issue has been all the Google Play Services error since early February. There may be good news for the google play services erros - someone named Just_Golem posted in the Google support forums that today's beta version of Google Play Services (version 10.5.42) may have resolved the Google Play Services issues. I'm hoping this is the case because I haven't bothered turning on my daughter's Xoom since early-Feb.

If the Google Play services error is indeed resolved, then I'm hoping some of the previous sluggishness may also be resolved (I'm running the Omni 4.4.4 rom). If not, it's mostly bearable.

 

[Bfef]

I was using my Xoom with Omni 4.4.4 until very recently. Not only did Play stop working but Youtube got really really laggy so it went in the drawer never to come out again :'(
Not bad for a six year old device though, bought it back in 2011 and have used it almost daily since then. A proper high end quality tablet when it came out.

 

[doobes]

Holy crap. Latest update completely hosed my Xoom. Google Play Services repeatedly crashes.

WTF Google?

 

[slow1234]

Now fixed. Latest beta version of Google Play Services fixes the crashing issue - look in other threads to find the link - https://forum.xda-developers.com/mo...-xoom-10-1-wifi-mz604-crashing-t3554786/page4