Google nexus 7
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MarkRSi said:
Piglet said:
MarkRSi said:
Only downside is it probably won't get updated to Lollipop.
Piglet said:
I mean Lolipop trashed my 2012 N7 so I'm not overly bothered about an upgrade at the moment Sorry, didn't mean to be narky, it just amused me, I loved my N7 until Lolipop
My N7 was trashed by Kitkat, lett alone lollipop Oddly though, my old man's 2012 N7 seems to have survived the lollipop upgrade, sure it's not super responsive but not as bad as mine was.My Dads early 8GB N7 was so slow that there was a few seconds lag after every keypress or screen touch. Totally unusable. This was with kitkat installed I allowed it to update to lolipop and still the same dreadful user experience. After a couple of hardware resets however it's transformed and runs perfectly well.
My 2013 N7 is running great on 5.0.2 although annoyingly the auto-rotate seems to stop working every once in a while. I've had the back off to do the 'fix' but it's not that, nor is it the magnetic case with 'auto-off', it seems to do it even out of the case.. A restart usually solves it but it's getting to be a bit annoying, I must say. It's not a Lollipop issue either, as it was doing it on KitKat too.
One thing I have noticed is how little I actually use it though; I don't think I'd buy another one as my M8 does everything the tablet does. It's only a couple of inches smaller and isn't in any way a 'lesser experience' for it.
One thing I have noticed is how little I actually use it though; I don't think I'd buy another one as my M8 does everything the tablet does. It's only a couple of inches smaller and isn't in any way a 'lesser experience' for it.
MarkRSi said:
Piglet said:
I mean Lolipop trashed my 2012 N7 so I'm not overly bothered about an upgrade at the moment Sorry, didn't mean to be narky, it just amused me, I loved my N7 until Lolipop
My N7 was trashed by Kitkat, lett alone lollipop Oddly though, my old man's 2012 N7 seems to have survived the lollipop upgrade, sure it's not super responsive but not as bad as mine was.jbudgie said:
Never heard of one being 'trashed' by Kitkat before.
Mine was. It was great with Jellybean - never more so than with the original 4.1 mind you - but never recovered under KitKat, being laggy to the point of uselessness, even after a full reset. With Lollipop though it's finally back to being usable.Trouble is, with a 4.7" phone nowadays it rarely gets any use.
loudlashadjuster said:
jbudgie said:
Never heard of one being 'trashed' by Kitkat before.
Mine was. It was great with Jellybean - never more so than with the original 4.1 mind you - but never recovered under KitKat, being laggy to the point of uselessness, even after a full reset. With Lollipop though it's finally back to being usable.Trouble is, with a 4.7" phone nowadays it rarely gets any use.
One thing that has made it worse is enabling a second profile. Switching to the second profile loses 200mb ram (circa 600mb before, 400mb when on second profile). Switching back, you've still lost the memory.
Latest update has made it slightly less bad, but it is still ridiculously slow in most UI operations. Individual applications seem to be generally fine.
My 2013 has good days and bad days since Lolliflop, even with the cache cleared out very regularly.
It never missed a beat with KitKat, now it does my head in when you touch something on the screen and it sits there like it's using the slowest processor in the world with 500MB of f*cking ram.
Surely there must be some bug fixes for the OS out soon.
It never missed a beat with KitKat, now it does my head in when you touch something on the screen and it sits there like it's using the slowest processor in the world with 500MB of f*cking ram.
Surely there must be some bug fixes for the OS out soon.
Tis wierd this review of the Nexus 6 seems like an improvement and a half!
http://www.itproportal.com/2015/03/25/nexus-6-revi...
My orig 7 has also good and bad days! I think the apps are cause of some the problems in the programming quality. I cant get BBCIplayer working atm!
http://www.itproportal.com/2015/03/25/nexus-6-revi...
My orig 7 has also good and bad days! I think the apps are cause of some the problems in the programming quality. I cant get BBCIplayer working atm!
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