CyanogenMod 10 on nexus 7

General

My home-baked CyanogenMod 10 ROM is working fine.  Titanium Backup replaced all my old files with no problems and this time Firefox is working normally.  I must have installed the wrong google apps package last time.  Here is the right google apps.

Minor issues:

  1. When I was typing I had two keyboards showing to select the input method.  I think one was android and one swiftkey.  I disabled the android one in settings (Settings > Language & Input > Selector notification: OFF)
  2. I still cannot get Ubuntu to see all the files on the tablet.  Plug in to Windows and I see everything, but in Ubuntu I have done the required fiddling but still can only see a small subset of the folders.
  3. superuser was continually force closing.  It was good enough to give me access to root privileges, but could not remember them.  I found this page with an updated superuser, and it seems to work.  I tried to find superuser.apk in the backup, but it wasn’t obvious.  One for another day.

SSD, Ubuntu 12.04, nexus 7, cyanogenmod 10

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I moved the old Ubuntu installation over to a new SSD.  Performance was as I’d hoped, with the PC booting in 15 seconds, half the time of a normal HDD.  It may not seem like much time, but the laptop is flying now.  A second here, a second there and it FEELS like a new machine.

Rendering CyanogenMod 10 time is unchanged though – the disk has no effect on the processor of course.  But I am now “rocking” CM10 on my tablet that I “cooked” myself.  It is working better this time, I think I got the wrong version of google market or something last time.

For the record, I used clonezilla, installed on an old 512MB USB stick on a partition to partition copy (most of the old 500GB disk was Windows 7).  I then used this excellent post to install grub 2 after floundering through some others that were similar but didn’t do the job.