[ROM][Kernel][Official][6.0.1/7.x][Grouper N7 2012][F2FS/EXT4][OTG] Beanstalk ROM

[krassermensch]

Krassermensch (that's me)
is pleased to present you official Beanstalk builds for our beloved
Nexus 7 2012 WiFi​

I'm not that kind of big thread writer. So I'll try to keep it short. Also keep in mind that I'm not responsible for any damage that will occur to your device although it's almost impossible to break your device. If there are any problems appearing to you feel free to ask for help. Although I'd really like you to read the whole post ​

Features:

compiled using UberTC for best user experience

LineageOS based

PIE

Built in Task Manager switcher

OnTheGo Mode

App Circle bar

System UI Tuner

Quicker system animations

Trimmed down fat and excess bloat

Option to enable all widgets

Numerous extra lockscreen options

LCD Density

Custom original BeanStalk Wallpapers by skyliner33v

Custom BeanStalk bootanimation by skyliner33v

3-minit battery support

Clock and date options

Contextual Header - Original and Polygraphic

Battery styles - Includes specific colors and styles. Also includes battery bar

Do not disturb option

Show notification count

Recent screen options

Customizable navigation bar

Use Omniswitch as default recents

Built-in screen record

Toast animations

App Circle bar

Gesture Anywhere

Disable FC warnings

Disable Immersive message

Force expanded Notifications

Configure scrolling cache

Build.prop MOD options to enable/disable tweaks as preferred

Less frequent Notification sounds options

CRT screen off/on options to specify how the animation shows

Enable/disable wake up on charge option

Superuser fully embedded into the build and accessed from settings menu

LOS Performance options and features

Hide superuser icon

Developer options and advanced reboot enabled by default

Wakelock Blocker

Custom Snap Camera which works much better than AOSP

New Kernel Control

Gello browser

My own custom kernel including CPU OC and UV, GPU OC, DT2W, F2FS support, OTG support and such things

many many more



Bugs:

None I could find but you tell me



Flash instructions

1. make sure you have a current TWRP installed (3.1.0.0)
---> feel free to ask how to flash it if you don't know how
2. Download current Beanstalk ROM package to your device:
Download Marshmallow
Download Nougat
3. Download my Gapps (recommended as they work the best and are clean):
Download Marshmallow
Download Nougat
--> I really don't recommend any other GApps package as I configured the package to work with our grouper perfectly, any other package would probably cause issues due to the small system partition
4. Reboot to recovery (Turn off your device, press Power & Vol- and choose Recovery)
5. Wipe system, data, dalvik/art cache and cache partitions (optionally use f2fs)
6. Install ROM, then GApps (don't install any additional system mod if u use GApps as there's no space for it)



Screenshots:

Credits:
scott.hart.bti -- the main beanstalk developer
daniel_hk -- I cherry-picked some commits from his Github
krassermensch -- me
Beanstalk team for supporting me
All the CustomROMs Beanstalk's code is based on (watch Beanstalk sources)
please consider donating to these people as well

Source:
My Github

XDA:DevDB Information
Beanstalk ROM for Nexus 7, ROM for the Nexus 7

Contributors
krassermensch, scott.hart.bti
Source Code: https://github.com/scotthartbti/android

ROM OS Version: 7.x Nougat
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.1.x
Based On: LineageOS

Version Information
Status: Stable

Created 2016-02-11
Last Updated 2017-04-26

 

[DutchMan_1990]

Awesome, downloading right away.

 

[krassermensch]

Awesome, downloading right away.

Great to hear about people who are interested in my work. Hope you're lucky with all the features in the ROM. Looking forward to your report. Hopefully there'll be some more comments when I'm back from driving school

Happy flashing to all of you

 

[SiK TL]

I'm going to for sure try this ROM. Thanks

 

[krassermensch]

Just rewrote GApps package. It includes swype keyboard support and face unlock now. I'll probably upload it tomorrow as it would take ?1h to upload this roughly 60MB file. I hope you'd like to see these features as well.

Furthermore I'm planning to add some features to the kernel. Just tell me if you'd like to see something like that, too

 

[DutchMan_1990]

Here is a short review... So far very good, but the Gapps has some issues. I had to revart back open gapps pico pack to resolve the issue. I have been using Beanstalk with my phone from last couple of months so, it was like walking in park for me. Everything is there as well some unnecessary things like vibration module settings, but I guess that is due to the same tree that has been using with other beanstalk ROM. and by the way @krassermensch thanks for the bulid.

 

[krassermensch]

Here is a short review... So far very good, but the Gapps has some issues. I had to revart back open gapps pico pack to resolve the issue. I have been using Beanstalk with my phone from last couple of months so, it was like walking in park for me. Everything is there as well some unnecessary things like vibration module settings, but I guess that is due to the same tree that has been using with other beanstalk ROM. and by the way @krassermensch thanks for the bulid.

Thanks a lot for the first review what exactly were the bugs you experienced using my GApps package? It'd be awesome if you could tell me so I could try to fix it

 

[DutchMan_1990]

I got error that some apps are not compatible with Grouper, like G+.

 

[krassermensch]

I got error that some apps are not compatible with Grouper, like G+.

Do these apps not start or does the PlayStore say that these apps are incompatible? Furthermore keep in mind that the Nexus 7's system partition is limited. That means that in case you install a gapps package which is too big it doesn't fit in your system partition. If it's the PlayStore issue that occurs to me as well the solution is quite simple. As the play store reads your build.prop for your device informations and as a tablet of this size with this pixel density running marshmallow isn't verified yet, the play store tells you some apps are incompatible. Solutions:
- download and install an incompatible app from websites like apkmirror
- use market helper https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwb2OJUvDO5razR0YzZFQVhISVU/view?pref=2&pli=1
- dirty: change build.prop entrys:
Open the file /system/build.prop using a text editor
change the entrys ro.product.model to Nexus 4 and ro.product.manufacturer to LGE

Good luck. I hope these apps will be compatible in the near future but that's something a developer can hardly fix. It's Google's task to make it work. Let's see...

 

[DutchMan_1990]

Do these apps not start or does the PlayStore say that these apps are incompatible? Furthermore keep in mind that the Nexus 7's system partition is limited. That means that in case you install a gapps package which is too big it doesn't fit in your system partition. If it's the PlayStore issue that occurs to me as well the solution is quite simple. As the play store reads your build.prop for your device informations and as a tablet of this size with this pixel density running marshmallow isn't verified yet, the play store tells you some apps are incompatible. Solutions:
- download and install an incompatible app from websites like apkmirror
- use market helper https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwb2OJUvDO5razR0YzZFQVhISVU/view?pref=2&pli=1
- dirty: change build.prop entrys:
Open the file /system/build.prop using a text editor
change the entrys ro.product.model to Nexus 4 and ro.product.manufacturer to LGE

Good luck. I hope these apps will be compatible in the near future but that's something a developer can hardly fix. It's Google's task to make it work. Let's see...

Nah!! It said "this version of this application is not compatible with your device". pico gapps solved the issue, now everything is fine.

 

[krassermensch]

Nah!! It said "this version of this application is not compatible with your device". pico gapps solved the issue, now everything is fine.

OK? Strange. I guess it's because my gapps package creates an own line in the build.prop and that's something the Play Store is confused about but I'm not sure. Although good to know that pico open gapps work. I'll work on my gapps package again before I upload it. Moreover I added some really usefull and powersaving features to the kernel as well as some governors that might be usefull. Furthermore OC options are included now, too. Hope everything will work stable. If everything works well you'll see these features in Beanstalk 6.08. Until then I'm gonna work on a totally new GApps package. I hope it's done before school time starts again as I'm too busy then. Let's see...

 

[apb91781]

Hate to say it but your gapps package complained about space restrictions on mine saying it was unable to install. I had to download the pico gapps just to get at least something installed. This seems to be a recent phenomena with marshmallow or something as these issues with gapps were nearly nonexistent with kitkat and lollipop because I never got these messages.

 

[krassermensch]

Hate to say it but your gapps package complained about space restrictions on mine saying it was unable to install. I had to download the pico gapps just to get at least something installed. This seems to be a recent phenomena with marshmallow or something as these issues with gapps were nearly nonexistent with kitkat and lollipop because I never got these messages.

Thanks a lot for reporting this bug. I think it happend as you flashed some more packages and finally your system partition wasn't big enough. I'd always recommend OpenGApps to AOSP ROMs but on CM based ROMs there's the cyanogenmod setup wizard which makes the aosp setup wizard flashed with open gapps unneccesary. As I want to keep everything as clean as possible I'll post a new GApps package as soon as I'll have tested it. Although thank you really much. I appreciate every report and until I'll have updated the GApps package I recommend the Pico and Nano Open GApps.

 

[krassermensch]

Update to Beanstalk 6.08

I updated Beanstalk to version 6.08
I updated the GApps some days ago (cleanest GApps for CM-ROMs, kept minimal)
I customized the ROM's stock kernel (voltage control, CPU OC...)

Have fun trying it out, looking forward to your reviews

 

[txistulari]

Update to Beanstalk 6.08

I updated Beanstalk to version 6.08
I updated the GApps some days ago (cleanest GApps for CM-ROMs, kept minimal)
I customized the ROM's stock kernel (voltage control, CPU OC...)

Have fun trying it out, looking forward to your reviews

Thanks for your work. The ROM work good with my Nexus 7 Tilapia ! (I have replaced "grouper" with
"tilapia"). I don't need G3.

 

[Vidfreek]

Thanks for the hard work, been a while since I've modded anything, it used to be my phone all the time but I got an iPhone last year and havent modded anything since

but my wife's old Nexus was borked with that 5.1.1 update a while back and I just forgot about the tablet, got it all fixed up and running your rom now.....so far so good but I'm having issues saving things to the device from certain apps? Apps from the play store install fine but I tried getting some wallpaper from Zedge and it wont save any of the downloads. I've been out of the game for a while so its probably something stupid, like Google messing around with sdcard storage or something again....

Any ideas?

 

[krassermensch]

Thanks for the hard work, been a while since I've modded anything, it used to be my phone all the time but I got an iPhone last year and havent modded anything since

but my wife's old Nexus was borked with that 5.1.1 update a while back and I just forgot about the tablet, got it all fixed up and running your rom now.....so far so good but I'm having issues saving things to the device from certain apps? Apps from the play store install fine but I tried getting some wallpaper from Zedge and it wont save any of the downloads. I've been out of the game for a while so its probably something stupid, like Google messing around with sdcard storage or something again....

Any ideas?

I don't know exactly what causes your issue but I think it's due to the Android 6.0 Permission System. There are requests by Apps asking for permission to write data to the storage for example. I recommend going to Settings->Apps->Zedge->Permissions-> here you need to grant the App all of the permissions that might be necessary to work properly.
I have to go to school now but I'm goona try to reproduce your issue when I'm back. Just tell me if the upper suggestion fixed your problem or if it's really a kind of deep bug of Beanstalk OS.

 

[shoeprano27]

its so amazing that this device still gets love to this day. even my international note 4 dont have this much decs! thank you. beanstalk was always my go to wgen i had an s4.

 

[krassermensch]

its so amazing that this device still gets love to this day. even my international note 4 dont have this much decs! thank you. beanstalk was always my go to wgen i had an s4.

It's always great to hear such feedback, especially because it's my first ROM. Thanks a lot. Feedback, may it be positive or negative, motivates me proceeding my work. After all the inconvenience I had with my own computer which has some hardware issues I can't specify I had to switch to my mother's Intel Pentium computer. Everything's so slow on this device but it worked in the end although every build takes even a bit longer than the repo syncs (~8hours). My budget as a pupil makes it impossible to fix the issues on my computer so there will always be small delays on ROM updates. All in all builds work and I'm looking forward to make updates for this ROM for some time.

There's something else I'm interested in: What do you think about the new Kernel features? Do they work for you?
Waiting for your feedback

 

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