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Subject: Re: Nexus 7 - 3rd-party ROMs [was: Stiii Ticking]
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Bob Martin wrote:

> Used to flash CM almost weekly in early days of N7.
> Likewise TWRP.

Same here for my N1 (still working) and N7 (long gone) it was necessary 
to resize your own partitions, or move them from internal flash to SDcard.

> Android is a lot less fun these days!

OTOH, it largely just works, so the need to tinker has gone away, the 
last device I used a 3rd party ROM on was either my N4 or N5x, can't 
remember which.

It was a good way to learn about Android, back when .apk sizes were 
measured in kB not hundreds of of MB.