Friday, December 11, 2015
Install Blisspop custom rom on samsung galaxy tab 4 SM-T530
Install android lollipop based blisspop custom rom on your samsung galaxy tab 4 SM-T530.There are lot of vaiants of galaxy tab 4.It is available in different screen sizes.The one which are about to mess is 10.1 inch wifi variant which has a model number SM-T530.
Since this rom is specific to a variant which has a model number as mentioned above don't flash it on other variants as it would brick it for sure.Check your tablet model number before proceeding further.
Go to settings and then to about device.You will find your tablet model number there confirm that it as SM-T530.Device specific code for this variant of tablet is "matissewifi".
Prerequisites:
Since this rom is specific to a variant which has a model number as mentioned above don't flash it on other variants as it would brick it for sure.Check your tablet model number before proceeding further.
Go to settings and then to about device.You will find your tablet model number there confirm that it as SM-T530.Device specific code for this variant of tablet is "matissewifi".
Prerequisites:
- Backup:Backup all your data which includes apps,contacts,photos videos etc everything to computer or any cloud storage as flashing Blisspop ROM on samsung galaxy tab 4 smt530 will erase all your data.
- Battery: Charge your galaxy tab 4 SM-T530 to at least 90% so that you wont encounter any battery related issues while flashing this.
- Backup Efs partitions: Backup all your efs partition of your samsung galaxy tab 4 on current ROM.If you loose signal you can just restore it back.
- Lock Gps:Lock your gps position on your current rom.If you use this a lot then you have to lock it so that it could work even after flashing other roms. It's easy to lock gps .Turn on gps in settings and find your current location in google maps and now now have locked on to gps.
- Custom recovery: You need a custom recovery like twrp installed on your tablet .Without it you can not flash roms at all.
- Downloads: Blisspop rom and google apps. Transfer them to internal storage of your device.
Blisspop rom for samsung galaxy tab 4 SM-T530:
About Blisspop custom rom:
Blisspop custom rom is based on cyanogenmod 12.1 rom with lot of added features with improved performance and customization.This rom offers all the features that cyanogenmod 12 has to offer and also there are lot of added features from other popular roms too.This rom offer wide range of features from status bar to lock screen.IT is compiled a xda senior member "sub77" , a big thanks to this person.
Features:
Blisspop custom rom is based on cyanogenmod 12.1 rom with lot of added features with improved performance and customization.This rom offers all the features that cyanogenmod 12 has to offer and also there are lot of added features from other popular roms too.This rom offer wide range of features from status bar to lock screen.IT is compiled a xda senior member "sub77" , a big thanks to this person.
Features:
- Statusbar tweaks: Status bar tweaks include notification count,network speed indicator,double tap to sleep ,brightness control and weather in status bar header.
- Theme engine: You can change look of your user interface with themes.
- Recents panel tweaks:The recent panel has a button to clear all the tasks and omni switch is present is present as an alternative to traditional recent menu.
- Gesture anywhere:Gesture any where is also available which makes it easy for you to launch apps with gestures instead of returning to home screen and app drawer to launch apps.
- App circle:In addition to this app circle bar is also present which makes it too easy to launch apps with just a swipe from the edge of the screen but floating mode for apps doesn't work at all.
- Soft Navigation controls:You can enable soft keys too if you like them and also set the dimension of the navigation keys and also you can define custom actions.
- Capacitive buttons: hardware keys have an option to adjust back light duration of the button and now you you can do various things with the just home key like accessing a call with just a tap on home key , wake the device and also you can set custom action for double tapping on home key.
- Navigation bar: You can completely disable navigation bar if you dont like or even adjust size of navigation bar.Double tapping on it will put the device to sleep.
- Recents options: You can add memory bar in recents menu and also clear all button too.
- Omni switch: This feature is drawn from omni rom and is an alternative to default recent menu.Once you enable it a floating bubble pops up and when you open it your recent accessed apps with be displayed.You can either access them or clear them.Omni switch is customizable too.
- Power button: Press and hold power button you will have various options including soft boot ,reboot recovery ,screen reorder,air plane mode,screen shot,user switch and lot more,
- Animation control: You can set custom animation for app opening and closing,scrolling up and down.There are lot of animations available to choose from.
- Display and light:This includes live display,adaptive display,rotation mods,wake device on plugging in charger or usb cable,Custom DPI and change font size according to your needs.
- Cyanogenmod Camera app is built in.
- Other mods include audio Fx equilizer,security options,bliss pop ota updates and all standard android features
These are some of the features of Blisspop custom rom for Samsung galaxy tab 4 SM-T530 wifi and you can explore rest of the features by flashing this custom rom on your tablet.
Flash Blisspop rom using Twrp recovery:
- Download Blisspop rom galaxy tab 4 and Gapps transfer it to sdcard or internal storage of device.
- Power of the device completely.
- Press volume up,power button and home key simultaneously and once you see boot loader screen release buttons.
- Using volume down as a navigation button move to recovery and click on power button to confirm action.
- Once you are in twrp backup existing ROM first.It might about 5 minutes for backup to complete.
- Wipe data,cache and dalvik cache.You may not need to wipe system.
- Flash ROM and then gapps.
- Reboot to system.Wait at least 15 minutes for initial boot to complete and once done you can explore ROM features.
- If rom fails to boot Remove battery and put it back.Reboot it to recovery and this wipe system too and flash rom again.
Since this is only meant for SM-T530 (10.1 inch Wifi variant) don't flash this on other variants as you might end up bricking it.By following above procedure you will be able to install android lollipop based blisspop custom rom on your samsung galaxy tab 4 SM-T530 10.1 inch wifi variant.
