Google Nexus 7 Tablet (2013) Kit Kat causes a lot of lag

[kal1209]

Since upgrading to 4.4 YouTube has been slow. It's so bad it's unusable. Same goes for loading the Play Store. I don't know if others have experienced this. I know my internet is fast enough.

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[B. Diddy]

Re: Kit Kat causes a lot of lag

Nope, no lag here. Try wiping the system cache partition--this can sometimes help with performance issues after a system update: http://forums.androidcentral.com/go...e-nexus-7-2012-2013-cache-partition-wipe.html

 

[joeynumbers]

Re: Kit Kat causes a lot of lag

No lag here

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[Nicky_Rizzles]

Re: Kit Kat causes a lot of lag

I definitely have some not much but a small amount

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[Rule9]

Re: Kit Kat causes a lot of lag

My dashclock widget on my homescreen takes 5-6 seconds longer to load now, and bootup time appears a bit longer. Not too happy about that. Hopefully nothing else occurs

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[ezas]

Re: Kit Kat causes a lot of lag

I definitely have some not much but a small amount

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This matches my experience. Just kind of random lag, but doesn't last long and no real Patten. Stock was a bit more responsive.

YouTube seems ok for me. maybe a bit slow to start and load videos but playback in a window and full screen seems fine. But I'm on Clean Rom and Elemental kernel.(default settings on the kernel. That might matter.

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[Adam Gali]

Re: Kit Kat causes a lot of lag

I have experienced the same, like youtube videos lagg in every second, not so heavy, but i can see that. Hope it is going to be fixed, because youtube in this form is useless.Videos with youtubes mobile page ( chrome) working good, but i want to use the app...

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[Haalcyon]

Re: Kit Kat causes a lot of lag

This is why I'm never as excited and impatient as some about updates. My devices, historically, tend to perform better with the release they came with. I also didn't experience anything in KitKat that made me say, "Wow, now THIS is what I'm talk'n about! This is the Android I've been longing for!" Perhaps my experiences are unique.

G Pad 8.3

 

[Rule9]

Re: Kit Kat causes a lot of lag

This is why I'm never as excited and impatient as some about updates. My devices, historically, tend to perform better with the release they came with. I also didn't experience anything in KitKat that made me say, "Wow, now THIS is what I'm talk'n about! This is the Android I've been longing for!" Perhaps my experiences are unique.

G Pad 8.3

Totally agree. The more things I find in 4.4 on my n7 that I dislike, the more I like jellybean on my Xperia. My wife's getting my n4, but I haven't bothered updating it.

Found another unpleasant surprise on my n7 by the way. Google Keyboard isn't popping up the letter of each key I press anymore. I liked that feature a lot.

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[jerrykur]

Re: Kit Kat causes a lot of lag

I am experiencing no lag with YouTube and Play Store. Both seem to run the same as before the update, which is very smoothly.

 

[thatguy97]

Re: Kit Kat causes a lot of lag

None here but sometimes when scrolling through the app drawer the launcher can crash but I'm sure there will be a 4.4.1 update very soon

 

[jaimeastin]

Re: Kit Kat causes a lot of lag

My brand new Nexus 7 with almost no apps (Skype, SkyDrive, infinite Flight, OneNote, RD, Netflix, Chase/BoA Banking Apps, and maybe one or two more)... These apps were even running in the background. I was trying to browse the play store and it was so sluggish and lagging with every attempted input. I don't have mail or an other services set up yet. I thought it was maybe my screen protector, but I had no issues before kitkat.

I wish I would have not let it install KitKat as I did not have any issue before hand. It is my fault... I should have read up on the update and waited. I had no expectations for it, other than I would be fine. I see many people were waiting on it... I guess I will just factory reset my device. I have nothing to lose at this point as nothing is set up... It just bugs me that it would have these issues. I could see if I had hacked it or had many apps and services modified. Shoot, it is almost stock...

I know in time it will be good, but man I want to go back to jellybean...

 

[kal1209]

Re: Kit Kat causes a lot of lag

My brand new Nexus 7 with almost no apps (Skype, SkyDrive, infinite Flight, OneNote, RD, Netflix, Chase/BoA Banking Apps, and maybe one or two more)... These apps were even running in the background. I was trying to browse the play store and it was so sluggish and lagging with every attempted input. I don't have mail or an other services set up yet. I thought it was maybe my screen protector, but I had no issues before kitkat.

I wish I would have not let it install KitKat as I did not have any issue before hand. It is my fault... I should have read up on the update and waited. I had no expectations for it, other than I would be fine. I see many people were waiting on it... I guess I will just factory reset my device. I have nothing to lose at this point as nothing is set up... It just bugs me that it would have these issues. I could see if I had hacked it or had many apps and services modified. Shoot, it is almost stock...

I know in time it will be good, but man I want to go back to jellybean...

Will doing a factory reset restore the android version that came with the nexus? I have done two factory tests since getting Kit Kat and it didn't roll back the android build.

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[B. Diddy]

Re: Kit Kat causes a lot of lag

Factory data reset shouldn't roll back the version.

 

[Citizen Coyote]

Re: Kit Kat causes a lot of lag

Will doing a factory reset restore the android version that came with the nexus? I have done two factory tests since getting Kit Kat and it didn't roll back the android build.

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No, a factory reset will simply refresh the tablet using the recovery image available to the version of Android on the tablet. So, if you've already upgraded to 4.4, it will reset to that. If you want to restore an earlier version of Android, you'll need to flash the image for whatever version you want manually. If you want to try it, this guide tells you how to do it. It was written for the Nexus 4 but the process should be the same, although you'll need the Nexus 7 image rather than the Nexus 4 image.

 

[heggood]

Totally agree. The more things I find in 4.4 on my n7 that I dislike, the more I like jellybean on my Xperia. My wife's getting my n4, but I haven't bothered updating it.

Found another unpleasant surprise on my n7 by the way. Google Keyboard isn't popping up the letter of each key I press anymore. I liked that feature a lot.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4

The letters popping up is a option in the settings for the keyboard, go into google keyboard settings and make sure the feature is on, good luck.

 

[B. Diddy]

The letters popping up is a option in the settings for the keyboard, go into google keyboard settings and make sure the feature is on, good luck.

Unfortunately, they took that option away. I looked. I wonder if this was some patent issue due to You-Know-Who (aka the Company That Shall Not Be Named).

 

[ultravisitor]

No lag here. It actually sped up my Nexus 7, which had started to get laggy on 4.3.

 

[Rule9]

Unfortunately, they took that option away. I looked. I wonder if this was some patent issue due to You-Know-Who (aka the Company That Shall Not Be Named).

I don't think it is a patent thing, BB10 keyboards have it, and I think WP8 does as well.

 

[thatguy97]

Lol what do mean the new nexus 7 shipped with 4.3 upon release

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This matches my experience. Just kind of random lag, but doesn't last long and no real Patten. Stock was a bit more responsive.

YouTube seems ok for me. maybe a bit slow to start and load videos but playback in a window and full screen seems fine. But I'm on Clean Rom and Elemental kernel.(default settings on the kernel. That might matter.

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