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Nexus 7 For The Elderly

An elderly relative of mine shall be getting herself a Nexus 7 tomorrow, which she plans to use mainly for e-Reading plus a bit of media usage in the form of BBC iPlayer. I was looking for an easy-to-use interface for her. Any launcher recommendations or simple customisations to make it just a little bit easier? I am sure she could use it as is, but making it easier so I don't have to teach her so much will be good.

How elderly? Talk back might be nifty. I tried it once, it was annoying as hell though
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wiithepeng said:
How elderly? Talk back might be nifty. I tried it once, it was annoying as hell though
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Instructions are poor. You get a quick startup guide on paper and then have to open the book section to read the user manual. I find it harder to learn about a system when I an constantly flipping from the manual to a page to try out what I was reading.

wiithepeng said:
How elderly? Talk back might be nifty. I tried it once, it was annoying as hell though
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I was more just on about launchers which would allow her to have a nice, clean UI that isn't too cluttered.

Anyone know of such a launcher?

Catch22! said:
Instructions are poor. You get a quick startup guide on paper and then have to open the book section to read the user manual. I find it harder to learn about a system when I an constantly flipping from the manual to a page to try out what I was reading.
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Sorry, it was just merely a suggestion as I did not know what he needed.
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wiithepeng said:
Sorry, it was just merely a suggestion as I did not know what he needed.
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Well, thanks anyway.

Brad387 said:
Well, thanks anyway.
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No problem. The only launcher that might suit your needs would be a heavily customized apex launcher.
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wiithepeng said:
No problem. The only launcher that might suit your needs would be a heavily customized apex launcher.
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Thanks. I can install Apex on my Galaxy Note, so I'll fiddle around and see what I can do on it.

Just empty the desktop from every single icon . Than..
1.on home screen Add icons that this person will use the most e.g BBC iPlayer (not sure bits going to work without flash), chrome, play store and a nice looking clock widget or something
2. Set each other screen with categories e.g one for books where you place the appropriate widgets and icons . One for videos and one for whatever else like notes calendar and other productivity ....
3. Do that person a favour and download some games .. yes games . You'd be surprised how often older people like to play ... ideal games would be mahjong, card games , also things like Bejeweled ,Zuma, scrabble type games
Stock android launcher is good enough trust me you just have to know how to organise it. Also wait for chameleon that might change things
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[TUTORIAL] Simple fix to remove stock scrolling lag Nexus 7

I just found a really great simple way to remove 90% scrolling lag on JB 4.x.x ROM's. All you have to do is:
- Open Google Currents
- Go to Settings
- Disable background sync
- Et voila, pretty much complete lag free scrolling!
I noticed a HUGE difference and made my device nice and snappy again...
Hope that helps. If it does, hit the thanks button
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Worked!!!!!
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Another thing that removes lag and makes everything run smoother:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kovit.p.forevergone
Fill it, release it, reboot it, omg!
If you read the first review for the app it will explain how and why it works.

3dwarehouse said:
Worked!!!!!
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Pretty sweet huh?! Gotta be the best difficulty vs payoff tweak ever...
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r00t4rd3d said:
Another thing that removes lag and makes everything run smoother:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kovit.p.forevergone
Fill it, release it, reboot it, omg!
If you read the first review for the app it will explain how and why it works.
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Hmm interesting thanks.. Quick nandroid and will give it a whirl....
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r00t4rd3d said:
Another thing that removes lag and makes everything run smoother:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kovit.p.forevergone
Fill it, release it, reboot it, omg!
If you read the first review for the app it will explain how and why it works.
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Just ran that program and have to admit it does seem a little smoother, and not placebo... Thanks for recommending it
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If I had a nickle every time someone posted to disable Currents, I'd have at least $3.45.

r00t4rd3d said:
Another thing that removes lag and makes everything run smoother:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kovit.p.forevergone
Fill it, release it, reboot it, omg!
If you read the first review for the app it will explain how and why it works.
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Gave it a try as well and noticed a difference, thank you!
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Sorry, but as noted, there are probably dozens of other threads on this. Lets try to keep the discussion in one place..

new to N7

yay, my dad got my a 32gb for xmas! anywho I'm really liking it and the responsiveness of AOKP so far! i have to say, i had the most frustrating time rooting it though (i'm no noob to rooting anything btw), never had so much trouble. the rootkits weren't able to adb to my tablet and were giving me problems for about 3 hours. i finally said "**** it" i'll just unlock with fastboot and put twrp on it the manual way (which only took about 3 minutes).
anywho! i've been on jelly bean for a few months now on my sprint sgs3 (4.1.2), so i'm not new to jellybean at all. but, i am new to 4.2.1. is that quick settings pulldown thingy new to 4.2.1 or is that nexus 7 feature that most roms have? i find it quite annoying since i usually use my right thumb to pull down the notification bar, but often find myself not reaching far enough left to avoid pulling down the settings bar. are there ROMs that give us the option of moving those settings widgets back to the notification menu or disabling the quick settings menu? im on AOKP and haven't seen it yet.
im really looking forward to trying out all the different roms that are available!

It's new to 4.2.1. Hope you like it.
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Yea, setting up the drivers for it were a *****, had a hard time on two computers at work then used Wug's toolkit and installed the drivers manually. I did have to manually reboot into fastboot to install the drivers and reboot after all the drivers were all installed, but in the end that was the best way I found to do it; had no errors and it did warn that I may have to reboot for all to work correctly.
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redmonke255 said:
It's new to 4.2.1. Hope you like it.
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lol, i wish there was a way to get rid of it! oh well, i'll just have to wait til a dev gets tired of it too lol.

cnstarz said:
lol, i wish there was a way to get rid of it! oh well, i'll just have to wait til a dev gets tired of it too lol.
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Go to the dev section and get the true tablet ui, and flash in custom recovery. The single notification/settimgs bar will be combined again, but at the bottom.
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Welcome to the N7. I personally love the double pull down. Give it some time, it'll grow in you. In FD AFR I have the CM10.1 settings on my Galaxy Nexus to behave the same way. It takes a day or two to get used to it though
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Go to the dev section and get the true tablet ui, and flash in custom recovery. The single notification/settimgs bar will be combined again, but at the bottom.
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cool cool, i'll check it out, thanks!

Welcome to the club
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Fedora F19 on Nexus 4!

Yep thats right try it here
Mako only for now
NOTE: have a network connection, preferably WiFi.. on first boot, it will try to install X11, gnome-desktop (!),

sound s really interesting thanks a lot for the info

What is this if you don't mind me asking?
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blankit said:
What is this if you don't mind me asking?
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Basically this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Project_Wiki.

Can you post some screenshots.?
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hubba
uh... well (from softpedia)
"Owners of unlocked Google Nexus 4 smartphones out there can now get a taste of a new Linux OS for their devices, as a Fedora 19 installer is now available for download for them.
The software enables them to easily install Fedora 19 for ARM on this Google phone, though it should be noted that this is not an official Fedora Linux project.
As phoronix notes, the installer comes from Rob Clark, who has been working on enriching the Freedreno Gallium3D graphics driver, and who used the Qualcomm A320 graphics in Nexus 4 for that.
The Fedora 19 installer that he wrote in the process is now available for download on GitHub as freedreno/nexus4-fedora, but might not receive support moving forth.
For enthusiasts, however, it might prove an interesting software to take for a spin on a Nexus 4, that’s for sure."
So, if you know Ubuntu touch preview - you know what this is
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Sounds quite interesting
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Screenshots?
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Anybody run it? install-rootfs not work for me

I'd love to hear some feedback on this before installing
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brwetz said:
I'd love to hear some feedback on this before installing
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can't get read-write on device, have root and can mount rootfs as rw in explorer but can' get it in adb shell

This is really interesting. I'm a long term Fedora user, and I've just bought a Nexus 4 with the intent of installing cyanmod on it. But for various reasons I would like to run a full Linux distro.
So my first question is this: Is there a phone app and a sms app available for any Linux distro? The closest thing I could find is gnokii, but it isn't for on the phone its self (at least that is my understanding). Would I have to write the phone app myself?
My second question is: Does it run well? (I mean Fedora on the Nexus 4) Or do need to find that out myself?
Thank you,
Christopher
PS. I've been searching the internet all day to try and answer these questions.

Doesn't chroot/ loop device not work on 4.3?
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cjb_ said:
This is really interesting. I'm a long term Fedora user, and I've just bought a Nexus 4 with the intent of installing cyanmod on it. But for various reasons I would like to run a full Linux distro.
So my first question is this: Is there a phone app and a sms app available for any Linux distro? The closest thing I could find is gnokii, but it isn't for on the phone its self (at least that is my understanding). Would I have to write the phone app myself?
My second question is: Does it run well? (I mean Fedora on the Nexus 4) Or do need to find that out myself?
Thank you,
Christopher
PS. I've been searching the internet all day to try and answer these questions.
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From what I gather from reading the README on github. This is NOT a ROM (not even close). This is absolutely not something to use instead of cyanogenmod, stock android, etc. And although I don't know positively (have not googled), I would guess no, there is not a phone or sms app for a desktop that is going to work. Not to mention how many other key components needed to make this a working android substitute.
What it is, is a kernel (a Fedora based kernel instead of an Android kernel). And you don't even flash the kernel... you load it and run it temporarily through adb. And then the installer will download and run an x11 display server (instead of the android surface_flinger server), and a Gnome desktop and other parts of Fedora.
It's not something that's ready for use as a phone OS. Far from it. It is just the beginnings of a start (though mad props are in order).
If you've tried the latest Ubuntu touch preview... and seen all of what's NOT ready in that project... then understand that this Fedora project is not even close to that stage of development yet.

Hi,
has anyone tried it recently?
It did not boot for me and got stuck at the "Google" logo.
ADB was working, but without wifi it is useless.
Regards
user

G Flex WIFI Tether

This is not my app I had nothing to do with the development of this app. I simply found this a couple years ago and it used to work on my first RAZR and RAZR HD. So I figured what the hell let's try it. I'm on T-Mobile and have 2.5 gigs of wifi tether included in my account. I installed this and turned it on. And it works. I was and still am at 2.2 gigs used since I installed it and my son has been playing Forza Horizons thru XBox live on his 360. And the T-Mobile account app does not register any extra data used on the WiFi tether section. The Xbox even updated and the game did an update also.
Drop box link :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/by7pl1cwosjdkqg/wifi_tether_v3_3-beta2.apk
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Screenshots notice the time. My son has been on Xbox live playing For a Horizons this whole time.
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Requires root though huh? Dang
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Can you give us an account update using this app in a few days? Want to see if there is a T-Mobile system lag...if it works as unrestricted...,that would be awesome!
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Yes requires root. And sure thing I'll keep you posted. One thing I have noticed is my sons tablet doesn't even see the hot spot in WiFi setup. Its a Google nextbook 7. I've got a Hi sense Sero pro 7 on 4.4.2 official KitKat GE. And it sees it and connects to it. Odd have no clue why.
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brittoking said:
Requires root though huh? Dang
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rooting this device is the easiest of any android phone, so dont let that stop you!

Funny you should.....
wase4711 said:
rooting this device is the easiest of any android phone, so dont let that stop you!
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Funny you should say that wase I just finished up rooting it finally (I have owned it for 8 days now jeez). Got my xposed going and the Dolby eq mod. Just triend an lg cam hack that worked beautifully but it must be outdated cuz it doesn't have uhd recording but man the pictures and videos it was taking make me wonder if it's not worth losing the fancy 4k shooting right now??

brittoking said:
Funny you should say that wase I just finished up rooting it finally (I have owned it for 8 days now jeez). Got my xposed going and the Dolby eq mod. Just triend an lg cam hack that worked beautifully but it must be outdated cuz it doesn't have uhd recording but man the pictures and videos it was taking make me wonder if it's not worth losing the fancy 4k shooting right now??
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which camera hack is that?
yep, with rooting/xposed/dolby, its almost perfect, at least until we get a recovery...

This link right here by Jishnu I believe?
wase4711 said:
which camera hack is that?
yep, with rooting/xposed/dolby, its almost perfect, at least until we get a recovery...
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http://www.droidviews.com/improve-lg-g2-camera-picture-quality-camera-mod/
Installed perfectly pushing apks to system but that one feature was gone, I took pics in a room lit only by a tv and the hacked cam was actually visible, smooth, no stutter or blur. While the uhd kept trying to focus and if you read the mods op statement he upped all the fps and etcetera so that makes since. Hell I'm thinking bout going back to it now haha

so all you did was extract the camera.apk and put it in system, and change perms?
have you rebooted since, to make sure it still works?

That camera mod has a working ISO setting for the flex??
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wase4711 said:
so all you did was extract the camera.apk and put it in system, and change perms?
have you rebooted since, to make sure it still works?
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Yup and it worked great didn't check the iso setting being asked about though?
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Vinsane said:
That camera mod has a working ISO setting for the flex??
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I didn't check that man sorry but it's a real easy mod to just try and then revert back if you don't like it
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This part confuses me a little:
If you do not have a custom recovery on your device,
Extract the downloaded ZIP and copy the APK to phone.
Open Root Browser and go to system/app.
Find CameraApp.apk and CameraApp.odex and add a .bak extension to both of them.
Now copy the new CameraApp.apk to system/app folder. -
Here do we remove the .bak from the files we just copied over or leave it as is?
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Press and hold CameraApp.apk and select Permissions from the list of options.
Now set the permission to rw-r–r– (0644). For more details, read this guide.
Then reboot the phone.
When your LG boots up, you would be able to use the modded camera app on your phone.

leave them as is, in case you need to restore them if the replacement files arent working properly for you
the new files will have the extensions .apk, and .odex when you copy them over

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leave them as is, in case you need to restore them if the replacement files arent working properly for you
the new files will have the extensions .apk, and .odex when you copy them over
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Thanks!
Has anyone tried the ISO setting yet? If it is like the G2 Pro like everyone says - that would be excellent!

Reverted back to the stock camera - i couldnt get the dual camera to work - it wouldn't take any pics in that mode

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Reverted back to the stock camera - i couldnt get the dual camera to work - it wouldn't take any pics in that mode
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I tried the kk version they updated today because it had the und recording and it installed, then I rebooted, didn't show up so I read some more comments in the thread stating you needed the media.xml file that came with the cam zip....installed that rebooted and umm Bricked my freshly rooted setup phone lol. Took awhile to get it back to stock with that Damn lgflashtools!
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Would you share your settings, Device Profile, etc. For thiis app as I cannot get it to be seen by my other devices.
Thanks

enmriley said:
Would you share your settings, Device Profile, etc. For thiis app as I cannot get it to be seen by my other devices.
Thanks
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I didn't have any issue just didn't stick with my laptop. carriers and manufactories have gotten smart. especially due to the amount of people that are modding their phones these days. just changing the "tether dun" or "tether provisioning". Now we have to deal with upsell URLs. That's when on their end they notice URLs coming thru our data that are not the same format/ signature that mobile devices use. and therefore our WiFi data usage may still increase. well there's a way around that too. It doesn't stick through boot either. But it will mask said URLs and prevent " up sell". From your phones dailpad dial 3845#*???# put in the 3 numbers of your variant. like mine is a d959 so I dial 3845#*959# once in the hidden service menu click settings then scroll down to "upsell URL" click it and select the option "TMUS hastetheringOPTIIN". AND DONT FORGET THE OTHER HACK CHANGing the 1 to a zero on the tethering in sqlite editor .
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Oh and use a 3rd party hotspot toggle to trigger hotspot.
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