Oh yesssss, Android feels right now. The defective screen really was the culprit.
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Congrats and enjoy!
Also, try not to notice the absurdly grotesque bezels, the inexcusable lag and jitteriness of Chrome, the inability to back up anything without treating your device like a pile of floppy disks, and the ugly UI.
If you can possibly figure out how to get a movie on it, it might be not terrible at playing it, but otherwise try somehow to use the browser on it to order an iPad mini. Supposedly the keyboard is maybe not terrible to use, so, if you can manage to type in the URL (store.apple.com), you might, with a lot of pain, be able to press the buttons to get to where you can enter your info and complete the order - hopefully before the battery dies.
I just updated my 1st gen. N7 and it still is very hard to correct something in the address bar.
I do not see any difference yet in the OS update.
What am I missing?
I do not see any difference yet in the OS update.
What am I missing?
Other than the app restrictions, which no one without kids and few people with them will likely use, about the only change is the under-the-covers bit to free up space and speed things up, but you need to have the N7 asleep and charging for a fairly long time before that will happen (like, overnight).
Besides that, I really don't see a lot of change. Most of the changes I see are in the Play apps and such, which are not part of the OS update.
Get yourself a nice live wallpaper, like Ocean HD, WeatherBug, or the like, and you'll be happier.
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Google should just revert back to the stock android browser. Its still updated with every new android version. You can install it without root too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2385928
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Install nova launcher or apex launcher. Both are based on the stock android launcher.
I have no idea why Google hasn't allowed this one simple option with the stock browser? Makes no sense. Thankfully we have a plethora of 3rd party launchers.
Thanks for the browser link. Is there a way to install flash so i can see videos in the browser?
I'd use Apex or Nova because of this very issue (Nova is my choice).
Stock launcher with the three screens I need, not two further wasted ones.
Funny thing is, I remember when people got excited over stock Android getting 5 home screens, up from three.
Now we have high DPI displays, I find that there is little need for so much desktop space.
I'd use Apex or Nova because of this very issue (Nova is my choice).
Stock launcher with the three screens I need, not two further wasted ones.
Funny thing is, I remember when people got excited over stock Android getting 5 home screens, up from three.
Now we have high DPI displays, I find that there is little need for so much desktop space.
I think it is weird that you cannot delete screens in stock. That and that icons are gigantic. I use nova with 70% icon size.
The icons not being the same shape are also very bothersome on a larger screen.
I will have to use Nova.
I will have to use Nova.
I would read through the 22 pages, but I'm lazy so I appologize if this has already been addressed....
I just got my new Nexus 7 yesterday and right out of the box I noticed the speakers got distorted and "buzzy", especially when using Google Voice search (when I click the button, the noise it makes is loud and crackles, then when I finish speaking that noise is also bad quality). If I lower the volume way below 50% it sounds fine, and music actually sounds fine as well (but slightly suffer from the same effect if you listen closely).
Just curious if this was normal for the speakers to act up with the notification noises and not music, or if my device is faulty?
I just got my new Nexus 7 yesterday and right out of the box I noticed the speakers got distorted and "buzzy", especially when using Google Voice search (when I click the button, the noise it makes is loud and crackles, then when I finish speaking that noise is also bad quality). If I lower the volume way below 50% it sounds fine, and music actually sounds fine as well (but slightly suffer from the same effect if you listen closely).
Just curious if this was normal for the speakers to act up with the notification noises and not music, or if my device is faulty?
I bought the Nexus 7 today and I think I have the same problem as you. The screen is so sensitive that just scrolling a web page results in links being clicked while scrolling. Also, sometimes web pages zoom while scrolling as if I had double tapped it to zoom. When I'm scrolling through the Play Store it select apps while I'm scrolling as if I had selected one.
So, how are y'all carrying your Nexus 7's around? I recently bought this in light gray:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/1305954...type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=all
http://www.etsy.com/listing/1305954...type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=all
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The battery life on the first gen N7 was decent (until 4.2, at least), what happened?
Great question. As you can tell from screen on time and in the graph, I didn't have it on all that much. Random processes were taking up all my battery when they shouldn't have.
This is in contrast to the below thread where most people have reported very good battery life. Battery experience for android users is so varied , it really is hard to pinpoint what should be the ideal battery life for a device. Ipads are much better in this regard as most people experience stellar battery life.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2381370
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Something's definitely wrong there, Straus.
I'm not sure why your chart is dropping so steeply during times of having the screen off. You sure you don't got something running amok there?
When my N7 is in idle, the bar is nearly flat across the chart.
I've been experiencing amazing battery life so far. Since my last fully charge, I'm at 87% with 10H 20M on battery with 1H 9M of screen on usage.
And previous to that, I forgot what it was exactly, but it was something really amazing too, like 3+ hours of screen on time, 2 days off charge, and it was still something in the range of 50%. Again, this is just from memory, but so far the battery life is great.
Don't forget, folks, in your WiFi settings menu, you can hit "Advanced" setting you can toggle whether to keep WiFi on or not during sleep.
I'm not sure why your chart is dropping so steeply during times of having the screen off. You sure you don't got something running amok there?
When my N7 is in idle, the bar is nearly flat across the chart.
I've been experiencing amazing battery life so far. Since my last fully charge, I'm at 87% with 10H 20M on battery with 1H 9M of screen on usage.
And previous to that, I forgot what it was exactly, but it was something really amazing too, like 3+ hours of screen on time, 2 days off charge, and it was still something in the range of 50%. Again, this is just from memory, but so far the battery life is great.
Don't forget, folks, in your WiFi settings menu, you can hit "Advanced" setting you can toggle whether to keep WiFi on or not during sleep.
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Ya I have no idea what was happening. As you can see in the charts, when it was red idle power drain was much better. But I didn't change anything, it just started sipping less power. And I didn't reboot the device so that doesn't explain it. My Nexus 7 just randomly decided to use less power mid way through.
I didn't have any weird apps going either. Most of the time I get pretty decent battery life, but this is the second time something like this has happened. And I never got anything quite like in that XDA thread. Sometimes when watching movies on Plex I can get about 7 hours, but that is just watching movies and the guy on XDA seemed to push his device a little further. I am definitely not seeing anyone get the 9-10 hours that is marketed on Google Play.
Also, battery life is much more consistent on my iPad.