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Posted by jaslar
Feb 8, 2015 at 02:00 AM
Well, it did take maybe 15 minutes of fiddling around to make sense of all that. But by the end, my tablet (which I use a lot, and like a lot) was once again pretty peppy. I have to believe that this is relatively simpler than a total reset and rebuilding of the environment. (But I am indeed looking at backing everything up.)
Mostly, I use the Nexus 7 as an ebook reader, email checker, Simplenote note-taker, and browser. It fits very well in my hand - much better than an iPad.
Generally, I don’t really create a lot of content here, although that was my original intent. I do capture notes, though. Somehow, thumb typing and Swype don’t quite add up to the notebook I’d hoped for. But the Nexus 7 is a wonderfully portable device for all of that. And this is the first update that was troublesome.
Favorite apps (of interest for this forum): SimpleNote, Grapevine, Outline, SimpleMind. A notetaker, two outliners, a mind mapper. Used in about that order. On the whole, the Nexus has been a solid piece of hardware for me, both cheaper and more reliable than a lot of Android tablet alternatives. This was the first upgrade that really caused problems.
Posted by jaslar
Feb 13, 2015 at 07:29 PM
Update: although the tweaks I posted did help some, I finally bit the bullet and did a factory reset. (First I went through and made sure I had copies of any local files I wanted to keep. It took just 10 minutes to watch the system do the erasures and reboot. Then it took me about an hour to add back and configure all my apps.)
Was it worth it? Yes. I don’t know as Lollipop is really all that much better. But the reset and rebuild cleaned a lot of cruft out of my tablet, too, and now it seems back to its pre-upgrade stability and speed.
Some people reported happily taking this route: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_tilapia. It’s a more purely open source OS version of Android. But that was just a little more trouble than I wanted to take.
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Feb 15, 2015 at 02:24 AM
Jaslar, after many days of my tweeting in the wilderness I got a helpful response from @GoogleNexus, who suggested doing a save and reinstall. Luckily my tablet has been set to back up automatically to Google Drive, so just a couple of simple steps to launch the reinstall.
I’m glad to say that overall the tablet is working much closer to normal except, ironically, for Google Chrome, which continues to slow down to a crawl, of just stop for a while and, all too often, eventually crash. Sometimes it takes the user interface or processing system down with it. I have had to reboot twice since the reinstall - and that’s a sign that there’s still a problem.
After further tweeting to @GoogleNexus I was directed to a help page which lead to process for getting real time voice support. I haven’t had a chance to do that yet, but will do so tomorrow or next day.
I also plan to raise the issue that the failed sound output jacket, the second ASUS product on which that has occurred, has made my tablet significantly less useful than it was intended to be by both Google and myself.
Daly
jaslar wrote:
Update: although the tweaks I posted did help some, I finally bit the
>bullet and did a factory reset. (First I went through and made sure I
>had copies of any local files I wanted to keep. It took just 10 minutes
>to watch the system do the erasures and reboot. Then it took me about an
>hour to add back and configure all my apps.)
>
>Was it worth it? Yes. I don’t know as Lollipop is really all that much
>better. But the reset and rebuild cleaned a lot of cruft out of my
>tablet, too, and now it seems back to its pre-upgrade stability and
>speed.
>
>Some people reported happily taking this route:
>http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_tilapia. It’s a more purely
>open source OS version of Android. But that was just a little more
>trouble than I wanted to take.
Posted by jaslar
Feb 15, 2015 at 06:05 AM
Glad to hear you got through it. You know, I also have some oddities with sound with my 2012 Nexus 7 - can’t always get solid two-speaker sound from my ear buds. But beyond that, it’s been a solid performer as a piece of kit.
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Feb 15, 2015 at 04:40 PM
I think it’s probable that Asus has some issues with its sound output jacks - in both laptops and Google Nexus. Perhaps that’s why, to the best of my knowledge, Asus hasn’t been used to manufacture the larger Nexus tablets.
I also wonder how many of the Google Nexus 7’s were like my first one, and just died completely.
Asus has a good reputation, especially for such things as its mother boards, which I am told the company makes itself. But the bloom has gone off the Asus rose for me.
I’m glad your Nexus 7 is working well, and I am hopeful that I can get mine working that way also.
Cheers,
Daly