I recently restored this device in to service for use as a Living-Room Controller (Music-to-Receiver via BlueTooth or from Sony Remote app (DLNA/Pandora/Slacker/FM), EcoBee Thermostat Control, HUE and Insteon Lighting Control, etc.). If you have no use for this tablet as a tablet, but wish it was stable enough to be a single-purpose (limited multi-purpose) controller of some kind, then here is what I recommend:
I tried all ROMs again and ended up going all the way back to VegaCream RC2. It has no speaker pop-noise and is completely stable even without an SDCard. You should install "Advanced WiFi Lock Free" from play store to keep wifi always on, and I would also set the display to never sleep (just turn it off manually with either the power-button or any free "screen off" app). You should probably also install a very lightweight launcher (like a "Car Dock" app or something) and set it up for easy huge-icon access to the 6 or so apps you will ever use this device for.
Here is a (currently) working DL link:
I tried all ROMs again and ended up going all the way back to VegaCream RC2. It has no speaker pop-noise and is completely stable even without an SDCard. You should install "Advanced WiFi Lock Free" from play store to keep wifi always on, and I would also set the display to never sleep (just turn it off manually with either the power-button or any free "screen off" app). You should probably also install a very lightweight launcher (like a "Car Dock" app or something) and set it up for easy huge-icon access to the 6 or so apps you will ever use this device for.
Here is a (currently) working DL link:
Here is an alternate opinion, as VegaBean is needed by some (but for my purposes it was more important to I'll avoid the speaker pop on startup and to avoid BlueTooth issues)...AlexisFelix said:
tab said:CM10.1 has been a fine ROM. I love the launcher and built in overclock and tweakers settings - very interesting to play with and nice to use. But I've gone back to VegaBean with no SD card ext4 partition.
Using an ext4 partition with CM10.1 or VegaBean made me too frustrated with often long hangs and stutters as the tablet tried to read and write to the SD card. Running VB with only a FAT32 partition on the SD card I need to be careful to choose just the apps I need, but I have plenty of space for YouTube, Google Play, Bubblesoft UPNP, MXPlayer and BBC iPlayer. These apps all let me move them to the SD Card, but without noticeable performance impact when I switch or start apps.
VegaBean is Android 4.1, so Bubblesoft UPNP supports gapless music playback. (It doesn't on the older Android versions). The WiFi is pretty robust, and normally standby is pretty stable. It's good knowing that Bluetooth is there if I want to use it.
Apex Launcher in VegaBean is nice. I've tried the version 2.X from the Play store (and paid for it), but have gone back to using the version that you bundled in the ROM, Scanno.
Despite the goodness in VB, there are minor issues; these are the ones I noticed:
Sometimes loosing the WiFi, requiring turning WiFi off and on again (installing Advanced WiFi Lock to avoid loosing WiFi seems to work well)
Sometimes finding the tablet locked with a black screen after it has been sleeping (installing Advanced WiFi Lock seems to stop this too)
HDMI output has black borders, and using HDMI out and BBC iPlayer at the same time causes a reboot (HoneyIce Chimera had perfect HDMI)
Sometimes I get carried away and install too many apps and run out of space - any remaining trimming of default install size would be welcome
So for me, the best future for Advent Vega ROMs would be a VegaBean refresh
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