I reached the limit of my patience with Android 5.0.2 on my 32GB 2012 model.
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It was 5.1.1 that I got rid of, just had it for a couple weeks...
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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" message) it had made the tablet literally useless. I had tried all the tricks, disabled just about everything, done two or three soft factory resets and was clearing the cache twice a day--which sort of made things better for an hour or so--but it just had to go.
So I wiped it and loaded 4.4.4 Saturday afternoon and spent the rest of the day and evening reloading everything--now I am once again a happy camper with it working as it did before the "upgrade"--it's at least 10 times faster at doing anything, 20x faster web access.
I do not know if 5.x just sucks, or the 2012 model does not have the horsepower for the bells & whistles, or whatever; I don't really care as I had not found that it did anything I could not do with Kitkat. The whole thing looked to me like the product of a group of prepubescent geeks playing around in a technological sandbox; all bling and no substance.
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It was 5.1.1 that I got rid of, just had it for a couple weeks...
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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" message) it had made the tablet literally useless. I had tried all the tricks, disabled just about everything, done two or three soft factory resets and was clearing the cache twice a day--which sort of made things better for an hour or so--but it just had to go.
So I wiped it and loaded 4.4.4 Saturday afternoon and spent the rest of the day and evening reloading everything--now I am once again a happy camper with it working as it did before the "upgrade"--it's at least 10 times faster at doing anything, 20x faster web access.
I do not know if 5.x just sucks, or the 2012 model does not have the horsepower for the bells & whistles, or whatever; I don't really care as I had not found that it did anything I could not do with Kitkat. The whole thing looked to me like the product of a group of prepubescent geeks playing around in a technological sandbox; all bling and no substance.
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