Official Google Nexus 7 Thread

SoftDux-Rudi said:
Yeah! I finally got it working, after about the 4th time of completely resetting the tablet to factory defaults, and following the steps above. I also re-downloaded Google Nexus 7 Toolkit and wifi thether ZIP files, in case they were corrupted.
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Awesome, now you can enjoy your new toy even more.... Let me know how your battery life is while using the hotspot.
 
Have the play store on your Nexus 7's updated yet? My phone received the update a few weeks ago, but my Nexus 7, as well as my dad's Nexus 7 have not. Does it usually take this long for an update to roll out?
 
Viva said:
Have the play store on your Nexus 7's updated yet? My phone received the update a few weeks ago, but my Nexus 7, as well as my dad's Nexus 7 have not. Does it usually take this long for an update to roll out?
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The playstore updates always come through in waves, if you desperate for the latest version android police usually have the apk available.
 
Viva said:
Have the play store on your Nexus 7's updated yet? My phone received the update a few weeks ago, but my Nexus 7, as well as my dad's Nexus 7 have not. Does it usually take this long for an update to roll out?
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My Nexus 4 has it, my Nexus 7 does not. I prefer the old one tbh so not too fussed when it comes.
 
Thanks for confirming this is normal. I was afraid there might be something wrong.
 
Spizz said:
My Nexus 4 has it, my Nexus 7 does not. I prefer the old one tbh so not too fussed when it comes.
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+1
I've received it on my Nexus 7 and Note, but the grey font on a white background is awful - the contrast is too low...
 
The original Nexus 7 tablet released by Google and Asus in mid-2012 was a ground-breaking device at its extremely low $199 starting price, but as time passed it started to show its age. Users complained that it was slowing down, so much that it became a pain to use. After a few months with the device, there were no traces left of the snappy tablet you bought first.

The problem - turns out - was not merely a hardware one, but also had to do a lot with support for a feature called TRIM. TRIM was introduced shortly after SSDs (the type of fast internal storage used in mobile devices, as opposed to slower rotary hard disk drives) started becoming popular. It solves one huge problem - garbage collection. With support for TRIM you could easily avoid the slow down in write operations to the storage blocks.

The problem with the original Nexus 7 was the lack of it.

Luckily, Android 4.3 introduces support for fstrim and as soon as you update your old Nexus 7 to the new Android version the problem should be gone. TRIM support had allegedly been a part of Android 4.2 all the way, but it had to be enabled and that has happened in 4.3.

Basically, this means that devices that slow down with age, will have their problems fixed as soon as they get Android 4.3. Once again we are seeing Google do a lot of work under the hood, and that type of improvements have been a huge part of the Android 4.3 new features.
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http://www.phonearena.com/news/Your-...-a-fix_id45816
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7176/n...-mini-review/4
 
*conspicuously joins thread*
should get my prize on friday and looking forward to getting to grips with it
 
Maverick Jester said:
Speaking of Anandtech, Brian Klug did a very thorough preview of the Nexus 7 2.
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I must say, it sounds like a legitimate upgrade on the original but I hardly use mine so I can't justify it...

Engadget also seemed impressed with it, gave it a 9/10
 
JimboBob said:
I must say, it sounds like a legitimate upgrade on the original but I hardly use mine so I can't justify it...

Engadget also seemed impressed with it, gave it a 9/10
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Kind of glad that I don't have the original- the 2013 version is a massive upgrade. I see that a few local retailers are already stocking them.
 
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