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Just thought I'd make my first post on my new N7, finally gone and bought one, got the 16gb version.
So far so good, quite like the tablet and think it's a pretty good nose for a tab not as brick like and heavy as others.
No screen flex or light bleeds I don't think, any other issues to watch out for?
Cheers peeps.
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The only issue i've seen was some minor screen lift but aside from that its been a phenominal tablet. I also recently picked up the 16GB and have been very happy with it! Very smooth/fast.
My tab has been terrific. Haven't had any issues with it. I do get a horizontal line flash every once in a while. It hasn't increased in frequency and doesn't seem to have any lasting effects. Left hand side, the screen is squishy but only if I consciously press down on it near the edge.
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Check the speakers for crackling/distortion at louder volumes. Then check your headphone jack.
If you're still concerned about screen lift, here are my instructions for a simple visual test.
Linked for brevity.
Just love mine! I had a transformer tab but it was just to bulky and slow. Once I played with my wife's nexus I had to have one!
Mine is all good so far
I am in love with a 7 incher called nexus 7.I own a transformer and literally have not touched it since my nexus 7.It is just a little power house,and let me just say,rooting it is a must.The otg cable is awesome.I hated 7 inch tabs before this tablet,I'm now selling the transformer and hate 10 inch tablets,best money I have ever spent.I sleep with it every night,lol.
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I don't think I want to root it, heard ya lose all your data so doing it when you first get it is best idea. Can't find any faults with it as of yet, pleased with it all round
Why do you feel the need to root it?
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I got home from work to find that my N7 had been delivered.
It would not turn on!!
After some googling and trying to reset from bootloader, and nothing, then came across a topic about battery connection being loose!
Ant it turns out that mine was loose!
Come on Asus, surely it coiuldnt have come loose in transit as when I popped it back on the click was quite hard, so it can't have been in properly from the factory, I hope this is not a sign of things to come?
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Seems a common issue.
Had similar issue. And now case creaks after I opened it to connect battery properly.
I noticed that battery was all the way to the one side of the case and that cable to board was not long enough, so when I plugged battery in properly it moved battery slightly. Maybe this movement caused the creaking, as maybe battery is supposed to be flush against one side of case.
Never had this on previous nexus 7 tablets. This one is a 32gb model when all my previous were 16gb.
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Have not had any creaking on mine, just a bit crap really, it should have been right to start with, can't get over how good battery life is though
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Hello guys,
I just wanted to let you know that I've updated my phone, bought a brand new Nexus 4 and kept my Galaxy S2 in the closet
What do you thinks of this update? Worthy?
Here's some stuff I'll probably miss:
Removable battery
Expandable storage (I had 48gb in my S2, so my sd card has no use for now...)
Let me know what do you guys think.
Thank you very much, have a good day ahead.
That's funny, I'm doing the same thing and mine arrives today. I don't think I'll miss that stuff; I am not one to swap batteries, plus I only ever had a 4GB microSD. Perhaps you will get used to being more conservative with space.
Overall though, I think it's a huge update from the Galaxy s2, performance and looks-wise.
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I'm sure you will miss some of those things in your s2 but it is actually pretty easy to adapt to not having them. Storage is not an issue if you have WiFi at home. The battery does last for a while on this phone anyway.
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I had also S2. Only camera bothers me compared to S2.
@ korockinout13 I guess you are right, funny coincidence though.
@ eqjunkie829 I am quite a conservative person referring to "Storage is not an issue if you have WiFi at home." but I guess I will give it a shot!
Regarding the removable battery I will just miss it because whenever my S2 went buggy/crazy/laggy I just removed it and placed back again (especially when I had bootloops, if you know what I mean haha)
@ grisoxxl Isn't the quality better? Or the videos are just bigger in terms of size (GB)?
Thanks guys!
Years worthy
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PATRiOT96 said:
Hello guys,
I just wanted to let you know that I've updated my phone, bought a brand new Nexus 4 and kept my Galaxy S2 in the closet
What do you thinks of this update? Worthy?
Here's some stuff I'll probably miss:
Removable battery
Expandable storage (I had 48gb in my S2, so my sd card has no use for now...)
Let me know what do you guys think.
Thank you very much, have a good day ahead.
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I have both devices,currently using sgs2. Wifi is so bad on my N4 making it almost unusable.
korockinout13 said:
That's funny, I'm doing the same thing and mine arrives today. I don't think I'll miss that stuff; I am not one to swap batteries, plus I only ever had a 4GB microSD. Perhaps you will get used to being more conservative with space.
Overall though, I think it's a huge update from the Galaxy s2, performance and looks-wise.
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OT - Rise Against are an amazing band
Anyway, @ OP the N4 is a great device, you'll soon get used to not having those things or will find workarounds. You can simulate a battery pull by holding power down for around 10 seconds. You'll definitely need to manage your storage use quite carefully coming from a 48GB phone but it's not too bad once you do that. The video quality isn't better, it's one of the biggest downsides if you care about camera quality. The N4's camera isn't awful but it's far from being the best either. Regarding the most recent post I have no clue what you mean by WiFi being unstable seeing as mine is fine and it doesn't seem to be a commonly reported issue, but there is a patch to make it faster.
Great choice for an upgrade! and hope your going to love the nexus 4
i exchanged my galaxy s3 for the nexus 4
yes there will be a few things you are going to miss ( for me it was battery, sd slot, camera, )
buttttttt i grew to love this nexus
runs so much better and doesn't give me lag issues out of no where and the battery is amazing for the size of it also with this beast processor running inside this thing.
if you lasted with the s2 for a while im assuming, your going to hold onto this nexus for a while as well
congrats.
Is that an upgrade? I moved from Galaxy S3 i9300 and I say it was totally worth it. I miss USB otg though.
@ Nigeldg I already manage to sort out the store issue I will purchase a wireless sata compatible with android!
@ bodom_hc I want to keep it until Nexus 5 or Galaxy S5 comes out
@ Wololo7 Didn't get you with "Is that an upgrade?"..
Anyway, seems like I will be happy with it.
I went from an S2 to a N4 and I've never looked back. The camera isn't bad only time I've had a drop in quality is in really low light. No SD card doesn't bother me as I only have have basic games on my N4 and use my N7 for my mobile gaming needs.
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I'm still in two minds I have a unlocked s3 and just want rid now
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I've upgraded from S3.
The cons everyone knows... SD card, camera, FM radio, etc. But I'm happy with it.
I also have problems with wifi speeds. When I try SpeedTest I get full speed (50mbps), but when I download something from browser or tapatalk I get a few kb/s. That's weird. Same behavior in nexus 4 and nexus 7. Cyanogen (n4) and Stock (n7).
maybe it is the server of the download service remember not everything is going to give everyone fastest speed
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Hello I was wondering if this Nook (either HD or HD +) is worth the money. Especially since the special price is on. How is the battery life? Lag? Is it better than the Nexus 7 once CM 10.1 is installed? (Emmc) The lack of Corning Gorilla Glass and NFC. Is very sad.
It "supposedly has better battery life" than the Nexus 7.
I want to be able to root my tablet install a ROM, overclock it, and consume books and music w/light gaming on the side
Edit: What the? The [Q] is in the wrong place. Haha
Edit 4:07 CST -Took the plunge and bought a HD, it is a lot faster than I expected from video reviews and such. My software version is 2.0.5 what is the most recent?
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I don't have a Nexus 7 but did have the Hisense pro for a couple of weeks (which is supposed to be the same) which I returned for this tablet. You can root and as of right now there are a two Roms. People complain about lag but I must have gotten lucky or I am not as picky as others I don't see it. I would buy one based on price (actually bought two) a good little tablet. There is no custom kernel yet they are working on it but that does mean you won't be overclocking yet. Gaming is pretty decent for the games I have tried. Buy one and try it the return policy at B&N (best buy and walmart too) is two weeks so if you don't like it you can return it.
CubeCloudOS said:
My software version is 2.0.5 what is the most recent?
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Latest ver is 2.1.0, but I guess you know that by now.
Smooth as butter and lightening fast?
With all I have read on different forums about people saying their nexus has slowed down, crashes etc. I have to say mine is still as fast as it was from the day I took it out of the box.
Its not rooted, just pure!
Anyone else still having day one speed?
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chrisnewton said:
Smooth as butter and lightening fast?
With all I have read on different forums about people saying their nexus has slowed down, crashes etc. I have to say mine is still as fast as it was from the day I took it out of the box.
Its not rooted, just pure!
Anyone else still having day one speed?
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Personally, no, but I got the launch day 8GB model, so while keeping fstrim running from time to time keeps my experience pretty good, I do notice a degradation. I think this issue was largely limited to one production ROM, and mine isn't terrible on a bad day either.
Yes, mine is 16gig and still running great pure stock...
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Mine is one of the first batch 8gb and is still as smooth and fast as on the first day. It is rooted and I use custom roms. Currently on Codefire.
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My nexus runs like it did on day one as long as I stay away from ports, ports slow me down and destroy battery life but its not my tablet because official Roms are smooth.
Got the 32GB version when it was launched. I remember it being smoother, it tends to hang for 0.5-1 seconds sometimes
Maybe it's because I got a more powerful device and I started seeing lag differently...
Mine got really slow after the update to 4.2.
I recently did a factory reset, after that it was running smooth again, I also disabled Current (background sync)...
Now I am running 4.3 and used the fastboot ADB method, so I installed the factory image, basically a reset again... it is running fast like I got it the first day!
Pretty fast, I flash my nexus 7 once in awhile.
Beamed from my Grouper
4.3 is running great and it charges faster than the previous os versions.
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My n7 is about 6 months old. Has been out for repair twice. Never rooted or romed. Got it back about a week ago and is smooth sailing so far.
my screen isn't big. yours is just to small. note 2
My N7 16GB is running great. Its a year old now and I've loved every minute with it. After installing 4.3 I'm reconsidering whether or not I should get the new one. I already have someone lined up at work to sell it to, but not so sure I should now....
Hmmm..... decisions, decisions...
After 9 mounths of medium to heavy use, my nexus 7 is still quite fast, sometimes it lags, but overall very satisfying
Mine is several months old and I love it. Every time I reach for a tablet I never know if I should grab my N7 or iPad 3.
Only thing right now is that I don't know anything about 4.3. Not sure how well it runs on the N7 and not sure if I should flash it manually or wait for an OTA.
Nice thing is if you are rooted you can flash 4.3 and if you don't like it you can flash 4.2.2 back
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Maybe it's the placebo effect but 4.3 feels faster, smoother and more responsive. On 4.2.2 I was definitely seeing performance issues, and I also definitely saw a vast improvement after using .nomedia files in basically every folder that Android had no business scanning. I did this because the Android media server was consistently on the top 3 of the most battery-intensive tasks on my tablet, and the .nomedia files sorted this out for me. The difference was like night and day. So yeah, my tablet is still in top condition.
i've never had any serious lag issues outside of the normal android go-to-go stuff... but i've always had like 20gb of free space haha
either way, my 1st gen is more than satisfactory and the experience will not change in a noticeable fashion by upgrading to th\e latest devide, so imma keep rocking it till it dies probably
I'm perfectly happy with my 32G...only problem I've had was after installing "PureCrapNonEnhancer" or whatever it was called... Because of that, I had to completely go back to stock (which was 4.3 in today's learning experience) and now it's better than ever! I won't be "upgrading" unless I win one from somewhere...
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My 16GB I bought in August is fairly laggy. Always ran stock. Must have factory reset it 6 times and still not as smooth as the first month I had it.
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My 16Gb N7 Wifi is just fine. Sometimes it is a bit slow but rarely. Considering how much widgets I have and that I use TSF Shell which takes a lot of RAM, I am very satisfied with it's performance (and battery!). It was a bit faster with 4.1.1 whici is IMHO the fastest Android for N7, but things got a bit better with 4.2.2 and now 4.3 (although still not as good as 4.1)
Been to repairs once, it was rebooting constantly, since then good.
Mines always been really smooth except when it was full tho the brim with content.
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