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If TWRP is not your cup of tea you will have to stick with the good old clock work mod recovery for getting new ROMs on your Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 SM-G7102.

Here is how you can download and install it on your phone. Download links are given at the bottom of this post.

1) Install whatever drivers make you happy and make your device connect (i would suggest Samsung ones).
2) Reboot your device in download mode you can use ADB reboot download or the hardware key combo for your device.
3) Load up Odin and uncheck auto-reboot. Uncheck the option RE-PARTITION(important) and select AP/PDA, select the downloaded recovery.
4) Click PDA and select the CWM tar you downloaded.
5) Connect your device in download mode.
6) Click start.
7) When its finished disconnect your device, pull the battery out.
8) Reinsert the battery and use the hardware keys for your device to power directly into recovery mode (this will bypass install-recovery.sh if you are stock).
9) Enjoy having a custom recovery.

CWM for NG4 (4.4)

http://www.mediafire.com/download/dx2mm590clsynzt/CWM-6.0.5.1-mukul.zip
Odin http://shabbypenguin.com/?developer=Tools

And here are the instructions on performing root on Galaxy Grand 2 SM-G7102

Get the file from here and copy it to your device. Then flash it in recovery. Reboot and load up the Super SU file. Then disable KNOX and reboot into recovery. Reflash Super Su and you will be rooted.

Custom kernel from Deds allow you to control the clock frequencies of CPU and GPU and thus overclock / underclock. Here are the features of the kernel:

* CPU Governors: Performance, Powersave, Conservative, Inter active, Ondemand, Hybrid
* CPU I/O Schedulers: Noop, Deadline, CFQ, Sio, FIOPS
* GPU Governors: Simple Ondemand, Performance, Powersave, Userspace, Adreno TZ
* Frandom.Read more about it here
* O3 Optimizations
* Many performance tweaks
* Kernel version 3.4.98

• You can download the required files from here.

This is a TWRP of Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 SM G7102 and it will allow you to flash custom firmwares onto the device. You will also be able to root the Galaxy Grand 2.

Here are the steps on how to do it.

1. Install Samsung USB drivers. Download Odin and my TWRP recovery.
2. Open Odin 3.07
3. Switch off and Go into download mode(Home+Vol down+ power).
4. Put the recovery.tar file in PDA.(leave other options as they are)
5. Start and let it flash. After pass you can boot into TWRP by Volume up + power + home.

That is it – you have successfully installed TWRP on your phone.

A few weeks ago Microsoft launched Windows 8.1 with Bing which is 100 percent identical to usual Windows 8 we have to know from the past two years.

The only difference is the fact it comes with Bing as the search engine by default. Microsoft is offering heavy discounts to the OEMs who are offering this OS on their laptops.

The Asus F200MA is one of the first to be launched with this new operating system and is already up for sale on a French online retailer for about €250.

Asus F200 MA specifications include 11.6 inch display, 1366 x 768 pixel resolution, 500 gigabyte hard disk drive, 2GB RAM, Intel Celeron N2830 bay trail processor, 1x USB 3.0 and 2x USB 2.0 ports.

MSI Primo 82 and Primo 83 are two upcoming tablets with eight inch displays. Both run Android operating system and come in variety of processors. 

MSI Primo 82 Specifications

This comes with a quad core Intel Atom Z3735G processor clocked at 1.33GHz with turbo boost of 1.83Ghz. The graphics are handled by built in Intel HD graphics clocked between 311 – 646 MHz.

A gigabyte of RAM accompanies the rest of the hardware. As mentioned earlier the MSI Primo 82 comes with a 8 inch IPS display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. For storage you get 8 GB storage which is expandable via micro SD card slot.

MSI Primo 83 Specifications

The Primo 83 is powered by MediaTek MT6592 which is clocked at 1.3 GHz and has four cores. The CPU is accompanied by 1 gigabyte of RAM and 16 GB of flash storage backed by micro SD card slot to expand internal storage.

Other specifications include 5 megapixel rear camera, a 2 MP front webcam and 3800 mAh battery. 

Right now there is no word on their price tags.

• Via notebookitalia