4.2 Impressions

[hichris123]

Panorama and Photo Sphere don't work.

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[slosh74]

6. Quick Settings, Cont'd.... there are 8 icons with room for 9. Bad layout IMO. Again, it should be customizable.

that 9th spot you mentioned in quick settings is were your alarms show, so its not a bad layout

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[sjd2246]

What does everyone think about the black vertical bar when you scroll to the last home screen on either side? Not crazy about them myself, not a big deal, just not sure why they went with that. Lock screen doesn't seem very easy to use.

 

[hichris123]

It's for some reason caused by the update. Just reset your wallpaper, and it will go away.

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[slosh74]

quick question how do you access the daydream feature?

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[hichris123]

Go to settings, press display, then press Daydream.

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[cinoromyxo]

Panorama and Photo Sphere don't work.

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I noticed that too.

 

[sjd2246]

It's for some reason caused by the update. Just reset your wallpaper, and it will go away.

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Did what you said. Thanks for the help!

 

[hichris123]

Welcome. I guess they changed something, I wonder what.

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[hichris123]

Sad part is that I wanted to try out Photo Sphere.

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[cinoromyxo]

The keyboard is nice, as is the quick settings. Nothing really eye-catching. Incremental updates aren't really meant to catch the eye, just they are more focused on bug fixes and little bits of features included.

Glad I manually updated it nevertheless.
Alongside rooting, it works quite nicely.

Edit: Changed my mind. 4.2 is a bigger upgrade than I thought. ;-)

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Quick settings? Where is that?

 

[natehoy]

Sad part is that I wanted to try out Photo Sphere.

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Me, too. But I am loving this keyboard, even better than swype so far.

And I can turn off autocorrect completely (squee!!!)

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[slosh74]

Quick settings? Where is that?

swipe down on the right side on your nexus 7 i think for gnexus (gsm) you swipe down with 2 fingers or touch the icon in the top right corner in the notifications area

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[Eduardo06sp]

I can't even update my applications anymore. What's up with that?

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[Retiredfinally]

Testing the android keyboard with 4.2. Damn nice !!

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[DirkBelig]

Google Voice is crashing with 4.2. It's the app, not the OS. There's an article on the front page today about it.

 

[Eduardo06sp]

The keyboard is just nice. I really like it. I can finally type one-handed.

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[icwhatudidthere]

Well there's no pinch to zoom in gmail but we finally get an auto fit option in settings. Better than nothing. I guess when this is the version that Phil saw in his Nexus 4 review.

ETA: there is pinch to zoom! once you turn on auto fit you also get pinch to zoom.

 

[slosh74]

I just noticed the difference when turn the screen on the nexus 7, before on 4.1.2 it just shut off with no animation, now with 4.2 they added a kinda fade out thingy when turning the screen off

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[F0REVERY0UNG-]

I really like the keyboard, I think it's the best added feature.
I like that they added the quick settings, that should have been there form the beginning.
I'm not a fan of the new lock screen, I don't like the fact that anyone can look at my personal emails from the lock screen widget.
I'm also a little annoyed that they made the dock icons smaller, I don't see why this was necessary.
I liked my dock icons the way they were, but I guess it's nothing to get upset about.
The homescreen and widgets seem to be moving even faster and more smooth than before. Is anyone else experiencing this?