Journal stoolpigeon's Journal: Lollipop on 2012 Nexus 7 Wi-fi 4
I got a message that the OTA update to Lollipop was available for my Nexus 7 so I installed it.
It made the tablet unusable. Performance was atrocious, battery life could dropped to a couple hours. It couldn't play music. Doing anything took so long (if it worked at all) that it was really not worth it.
I googled around. One suggestion was to clear the cache. I tried to do that but when I tried to boot into recovery that always failed with an error about "No command found."
So finally I just flashed it back to Kit Kat.
I'm wrapping that up now. Google backup is reinstalling my apps and such. Hopefully things will improve. I know it's 3 years old but I really like it and I don't think it's too much to ask for it to still run well.
My son updated his too (he has the 2013 model) and he's been complaining. So this was a good run through if he wants me to do the same for his. I don't think the impact on his was as bad. He may just not like how lollipop looks. I'll talk to him about it this week-end and see what he wants to do.
Fun times.
Moo (Score:1)
One of these days i might just get me an android. One of these days...
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I like them a lot.
My wife has an ipad that she gets to use. (She's a teacher at a school, it belongs to the school.) I'm not a big fan of iOS. It feels too restrictive to me.
Google backup (Score:1)
Settings and everything? Let us know if that really works.. I have an old Galaxy Nexus I want to keep alive as long as possible, waiting for the storage to kick the bucket at any moment.
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No - not settings.
I move around between devices a lot - phones and so on. You can set what you want saved but for me it is photos, contacts, apps - not sure about what else.
Stuff that normally lives in the cloud anyway (keep, gmail, so on) of course all come back.
On this one it gave me the option to put my icons back on the home screens and I chose it but it didn't work.
But I'm pretty good at getting things back to the way I want pretty quickly on account of doing stuff like this so often.