How to make it snappy again?

[Cant Miss]

Stock, unrooted, 16GB, original Nexus 7 (with plenty of free space 6GB), but over the past few updates it has slowed to a crawl. I have wiped the App's caches and cache partition (which help for a short while), but it is still painful to use.

It is running 4.4.4 at the moment, and am wondering if a full reset will actually help for the long term. I thought the whole idea of KK was to improve performance on less capable hardware. If that is really the case, something is horribly wrong on mine.

Note that I have no interest in rooting or flashing unless it is absolutely necessary.

 

[Cool Dolan]

Just hard reset it.
If you have any pictures on SD card,backup them and do the SD card format too.
Hope this will help !

 

[UncleMike]

If you think it's slow now, I would definitely recommend avoiding the OTA update to 5.0

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[Cant Miss]

Just hard reset it.
If you have any pictures on SD card,backup them and do the SD card format too.
Hope this will help !

I hope so too, but I was kind of looking for someone who has recently done it to confirm that it addresses the issue.

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[athomas917]

I have the 32gb model with about 23gb free and mine still crawls. Go figure.

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[Cant Miss]

I ended up resetting mine, and its back to its old self again. I have been cautious in loading all of the old apps I had on it, staying with only those that I really use.

We'll see if the new snappiness continues.

 

[Seronac]

I have a 32GB N7 2012. It has been slow for the last few updates. A factory reset helps for a time, and then it slows down again. I fear that the only real solution is to buy a new 2013 version N7.

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[sushiguy732]

I have the tried and true solu4. I did it on mine and am not complaining one bit. Flash back to 4.4.4 and presto it works again!

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[rong21]

Stock, unrooted, 16GB, original Nexus 7 (with plenty of free space 6GB), but over the past few updates it has slowed to a crawl. I have wiped the App's caches and cache partition (which help for a short while), but it is still painful to use.

It is running 4.4.4 at the moment, and am wondering if a full reset will actually help for the long term. I thought the whole idea of KK was to improve performance on less capable hardware. If that is really the case, something is horribly wrong on mine.

Note that I have no interest in rooting or flashing unless it is absolutely necessary.

I was having the same issue. Did a hard reset and all is back the way it should be. Will skip Lollipop