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This is for the 1st Scroll Tablet ONLY & is over 1 year out of date.

What is build.prop
build.prop is a file that contains settings that are loaded when android boots.

Why Update build.prop
You can improve your Tablets performance! Along with fixing a couple of "bugs" and improving battery life.

Do not perform this if you want to be able to flash any original storage options updates with no further modifications - this does not effect comunity updates

Required Files
A rooted scroll
build.prop v3-160 Density
build.prop v3-140 Density
-further increases dalvik.vm.heapsize to 46M
-further increases wifi scan refresh interval to 120 seconds
-changed screen density to 140 from 160 (looks nicer see poll)

Old versions
build.prop v2
-Changes fingerprint to that of Nexus one (Part of trying to enable full marketplace but not functional yet)
-Disabled JNI Checks to improve performance
-should hopefully now show up in the about phone screen that I have been there

build.prop v1
-Enabled hardware acceleration to the UI
-Increases dalvik.vm.heapsize from 24m to 32m
-Sets wifi scan refresh interval to 90 seconds
-Sets the LCD to 160 from 161 (random huh? I assume they did this for SOME reason...)
-Sets the Region to en-GB from en-US
-Sets Device name to "Scroll Tablet" from "Android for Telechips TCC8900 Evaluation Board (US)" This will fix peoples Tapatalk signatures.
-Sets the build creation date to Sat 8 Jan 2011 00:00:00 CST < because im hardcore and did this to replace the scrambled Japanese un-supported characters.
-Disabled Data Roaming being on by default

Remember to back up your original build.prop somewhere
Download the build.prop above and copy it to your sd card
Rename the file to build.prop (if different)

Method 1 - Using a File Explorer
Open a file explorer with root permissions Root Explorer is what I use but Super Manager is freely available on the market.
Navigate to your sd card and copy/cut the file.
Navigate to the /system/ folder on your tablet and rename the current version of build.prop to build.prop.old
Paste the new build.prop into the /system/ folder
Reboot your Tablet
And you are done!

Method 2 - Using Terminal Emulator
Open terminal emulator
Type in the following commands:
"su"
"mv /system/build.prop /system/build.prop.old"
"cp /sdcard/build.prop /system/build.prop"
Reboot your Tablet
And you are done!

Method 3 - Using ADB
Make sure your Tablet has USB Debugging enabled (if you rooted with z4root then you have already done this)
copy the build.prop file into the same directory as you adb executable.
Open a cmd window (Hold shift and right click to open a command prompt targeted at the current window)
Type in the following commands:
"adb push build.prop /system/build.prop"
"adb reboot"
And you are done!

This is for the 1st Scroll Tablet ONLY & is over 1 year out of date.

Finding live wallpapers a lot more responsive and smoother with this too...

Sent from my Scroll Tablet using Tapatalk

As its a small battery, I don't use Live wallpaper.

I don't normally either Veng, was testing thoroughly and loaded 3D Asteroids on, which used to run like steamed poop... much smoother now and less glitchy

Nice post Warpedflash, i'm sure that this will please everyone who wants to improve there scroll and make it more intuitive.

Now the Scroll does seem a lot more responsive and quicker.
Good work many thanks.


Sent from my Scroll Android Tablet Using Tapatalk Pro....

Thanks for the new build.prop. It certainly appears more responsive than before!

-Sets wifi scan refresh interval to 90 seconds

what was this set at before? thanks

charlie wrote:

-Sets wifi scan refresh interval to 90 seconds

what was this set at before? thanks

I think the default is 60? might b wrong on this though... the wifi scan only actually does anything when you have wifi on and are not connected to anything...
If someone finds the default value to be something other than 60 I will increase/decrease this as needed

Where do you see the device name and region?