I bought Cherry Mobile's Fusion Bolt tablet last May. I wasn't
expecting it to be a great slate and I was right. After a few months of
using it, the device seemed really slow and sometimes non-responsive.
After a lot of reading on the web, I found out a couple of information
that shed some light on why this tablet is not performing very well. It
has a Quad processor but it performs like a dual core or maybe even a
single core.
CM Fusion Bolt is actually a rebranded Novo 7 Venus from Ainol,
a chinese brand. So FuBo owners got to thinking that maybe the firmware
that came with FuBo is not optimized and replacing it with the firmware
from Ainol would make it better. And they were half right. I said half
right because, from further reading, Venus users say that Ainol
firmwares have a reputation of being unstable and unoptimized too. The
tablet's performance is still better compared to the stock firmware that
came with my tablet.
I don't play games on the tablet that much but I ran into some problems with the few games that I do play. Temple Run 2 hangs after a long period of play. Zenonia 5 force closes when you're already far out in the game. Epic Defense II lags when there are too many monsters on the screen and to many towers spitting HD particles. The SD card gets removed unexpectedly almost too many times. If it continues like this, the card will be corrupted. These problems don't bother me that much but after some time that these keep happening, you get fed up and you begin to wish you had a better tablet.
Alas! After a couple of months of searching, Ainol released a few more firmwares for the Venus, and as before, FuBo users jumped in and flashed the new firmware to there tablets. (...And they lived happily ever after. :) Kidding aside, the feedback for the new firmwares was mostly positive. Some even say they feel like there tablet was reborn. So I read some more and got more and more interested in flashing my tablet as well. And I did, and it went very well. :D
Here are of the sites I've read from:
If you want to flash your FuBo as well, I'll be posting a guide/tutorial so stay tuned. :)