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Googles Nexus 7 tablet discussion, reviews

If Apple thought they could get away not updating the iPad mini this year, then they've missed the bus. :facepalm:


They'd be idiots if they did. I'm betting we'll see a retina mini, maybe a slightly cheaper price and an all new slimmed down iPad5 in mini design.
 
Just had to contact asus about returning one of my girl's nexuses. Was not powering on and all the work arounds didn't work

Have to say good customer service so far :)
 
I'm impatiently waiting for my update!


Wiped mine the other day as it was feeling a little sluggish - a clean install of 4.3 and it's flying again - no need for me to upgrade to the latest model.

Same with my N4 - a clean install of 4.3 and everything is feeling very snappy!
 
Wiped mine the other day as it was feeling a little sluggish - a clean install of 4.3 and it's flying again - no need for me to upgrade to the latest model.

Same with my N4 - a clean install of 4.3 and everything is feeling very snappy!


Apparently there is something in Android 4.3 that has the potential to stop devices slowing down so much over time from now on. I've not researched it properly but off the top of my head its to do with the file system and TRIM.
 
Just had 4.3 update..... Its a biggie too

got mine a few days ago, not sure i'd call it a big upgrade though, I thought it was more a bug fix. it's not made a huge difference to mine, i never suffered from the lag problems others reported and the camera/bluetooth tweeks are largely irrelevant to me, the new memory management stuff should be useful, but i read it takes a few days to bed in (edit: the TRIM thing elbows mentioned)
 
My battery life has started to drop off though, quite recently too , maybe getting 5 hours , and some things stopping sleep mode , not sussed it yet
 
Do all the N7's have 3G now or only some? Seeing prices vary from about £170-£250 for 32gb, but can't see where you find out if they have 3G :hmm:
 
Do all the N7's have 3G now or only some? Seeing prices vary from about £170-£250 for 32gb, but can't see where you find out if they have 3G :hmm:

Hopefully someone will clarify but I was looking at these the other day. Far as I can tell, the cheaper ones are last year's model, with no 3G and came with Jelly Bean 4.1. The newer ones are out next month, have 3G, better screen, different processor and Jelly Bean 4.3 installed.
 
I guess not. You could always tether the tablet to your 3G phone. I haven't actually used and android tablet from Google or anyone else. But as far as I know if you had last years model yes, you should be able to update it to jellybean 4.3.
 
just done a factory restore to clear out all the gunk I've accumulated in the last 10 months ....and gone back to basic apps maps and bookmarks .....

Just got to love the cloud and chromesync

One plain background home screen , no more wigets other than the clock and that's it ........

Its ripping along
 
Wiped mine the other day as it was feeling a little sluggish - a clean install of 4.3 and it's flying again - no need for me to upgrade to the latest model.

Same with my N4 - a clean install of 4.3 and everything is feeling very snappy!

Quite surprised what a difference its made to mine too....including battery performance.
 
Just for the record - bought lovely folding full-size bluetooth keyboard. Android 4.3 maps it to the wrong type of keyboard so it doesn't work.
Backed up the 21GB of data.
adb fastboot, applied http://download.chainfire.eu/295/CF-Root/CF-Auto-Root/CF-Auto-Root-grouper-nakasi-nexus7.zip, now own root on tablet.
Removed broken keyboard map file.
Now restoring 21GB of data, but the keyboard works perfectly.

Moral of the story: root it when you get it, don't wait till it's full...
 
Going to have to buy a phone just so that my daughter's nexus can connect to 3g (can't use my phone). I really really do hate that you can't use 3g dongles on this thing.
 
Anyone had problems with the sound distorting? Mine has done it a few times now, a reboot fixes it, but I'm not prepared to keep doing that so I'm sending it back.

Before it goes back I need to work out how to backup my Real Racing 3 progress. I became slightly addicted to it for a while and managed to notch up about a hundred hours, I'm buggered if I'm going to do all that again.
 
I've got one now and I love it. Mainly been enjoying getting books and reading with it

Nice to browse here and other internet media with too. Got a couple of games but really its the books I love it for so far... Read 2 in less than a week where I hadn't read a paper book for weeks.

Would like to know of any suggestions for what else I can use it for

And eventually I hope to stop pressing n instead of space!
 
Bought the 2013 model this afternoon. The screen is blowaway. Taking me hours to fix it up to how I want the apps etc but this is going to be so much better than dragging my laptop around town for work
 
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