Recent content by cliffyk

Yes, as I said it does not have the "horsepower" to run 5.x--thing is Google should know that and not push it out to the 2012 units. Unless of course their deliberate goal was to hobble them and push owners into buying a new tablet. I did actually consider that but "downgrading" to 4.4.4 has...

Re: I am at a loss of what to do to solve the problem Open it up again and make sure all three display ribbon cables are properly seated--one (coming from the "center" of the device) has a plug, the other two (at the side of the case) use ZIF sockets. The one with the plug needs to click into...

Well my tablet continues to behave as it did when new! It has been a week, which is 14 to 20 times longer than I could get 5.1.1 to be usable after resetting the cache and/or doing a soft reset. If I were a conspiracy theorist sort I would put forth that Google doesn't give a rat's back-end...

You will not regret it--mine is back to it's old self. My wife's "goes under the knife" next...

I reached the limit of my patience with Android 5.0.2 on my 32GB 2012 model. <edit> It was 5.1.1 that I got rid of, just had it for a couple weeks... </edit> With constant hang-ups and crashes (I will live out the rest of my life quite nicely if I never again have to see that insipid "Aw Snap"...