I've been slightly frustrated with my tablet for a while now, but haven't been doing anything about it because:
Lately I've had some more time to tinker with it a bit, so I did.
The main problem with the tablet is that it's just too damn underpowered in multiple respects.
The CPU was already low end when it was released, and it has not aged like fine wine.
It could be fine, I can wait for things to load and I don't need anything too powerful. But then we got to problem #2.
It only has 1 GB of RAM. This is truly the thing that kills that tablet, along with problem #3.
The internal storage it has is some of the slowest storage I've ever seen on an Android device. I haven't really delved deeper into what it is, or really benchmarked it (maybe I should, hmm..) but judging by how long it takes to transfer files, install apks and do a check on disk space usage via the DiskUsage program, it's way slower in all respects to even the Samsung Galaxy Core Prime which I bought in like 2015, and it was basically the cheapest Android phone I could get my hands on. But this tablet is even more underpowered than that! And it was released over a year later!! Wow... They really cheaped out, didn't they xD
As I was saying, a slow internal storage would not be a problem that's unworkable on its own right, as long as you have patience. But with 1 GB of ram, 75-85% of which is used up already when booting up into the OS itself, means that the device will be swapping to the internal storage left and right. Time to enter slugmode!
Anyway, I can't really complain much since I did get this tablet for absolutely free. It's just fun to marvel at it.
Getting to the main point on what I did. First I enabled developer options and turned off all animations, and forced the GPU to render everything that's even just 2D graphics. This should theoretically free the CPU a bit.
Second thing is I replaced the laggy, bloated launcher it had by stock. I think it's funny that it's supposed to be all this "ooh, flashy, look how cool this is" interface but then it's laggy as fuck! Hilarious. I've never even replaced Android launchers cause it's something I've never even thought of to do, because it hasn't been a problem at all on any device aside from this one.
I got a two part solution. The main launcher is Zero Launcher (outside link: Google Play, current website - Click Here) which has all the apps that are for my kids to use (it filters and shows you only the apps you choose)
On the list of apps to launch, I also put Text Launcher (outside link: F-Droid.org, current website - Click Here) which just lists all available software in alphabetical order.
They are very fast, very minimal and very light, and they work just fine. Sure, I won't see the shiny overly-color-saturated dopamine drippling icons for apps, but who cares? I come from the days of MS-DOS, do I really care as long as it works? No :D
With that, it's at least a bit better. I'm not gonna bother flashing another OS on it or anything at the moment, because hey - if it works (good enough), don't fix it.
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