But there were some holes in my own education that caused me problems. I have always found that the communities available to those with enough patience ALWAYS seem to provide a solution. A lot of people seem to think its fairly easy to “brick” a device. Check out the Cyanogenmod forums for help if you are stuck. It worked and it was nice for a while but in the end I just wanted to read books. In the end I still went back to the Barnes and Noble rom as Cyanogenmod wasn’t stable enough for me to put up with. It took me about three days to FINALLY get it stable and working correctly. Anyone who has run that gambit knows the headaches I mean. I cut my teeth on the NOOK Color with Cyanogenmod. So know what you are getting yourself into.
You can learn just enough to really hurt your device and build yourself such a headache you won’t want to spend the effort to fix it. If you have no experience with technology modifications, YES. I also wanted to root the device for some other apps I was wanting to run anyway.
I decided to just install Cyanogenmod to try and correct it all in one swoop.
If you follow the rabbit hole of links from above and read all the forum posts you’ll find a whole host of tweaks and mods to try and squeeze out performance. It doesn’t make the problem go away, but it’s a little more manageable until a more permanent fix can be found. However, ASUS seems to actually want to fix this problem, as the latest OTA actually has a slightly faster I/O scheduler than SIO. For those who aren’t on the latest from ASUS, the answer so far has been using the SIO I/O scheduler to try to squeeze a little more performance out of the tablet. Sadly, the Infinity has inherited the Transformer Prime I/O bottleneck problem. One big issue it deals with, though, is yet another I/O speed throttling issue. However any Infinity owner will tell you there is a problem with their devices and that is, SPEED! The community as a whole from the novice to the expert scratches their heads and says, “How come this expensive top of the line tablet is slowing down for the mundane tasks but totally kicks butt when it comes to graphical performance in apps? The have been pushing out regular updates for the Transformer Pad Infinity since I got it a couple months ago. We all have our reasons for wanting to stray away from the guidance of the manufacturers of our devices. THIS IS NOT AN INSTALL GUIDE! JUST MY OWN ACCOUNT OF INSTALLING CYANOGENMOD! Why install a custom rom at all?
Asus Transformer Pad Infinity, Cyanogenmod, Nook Color