Next Update for Nexus 7...your thoughts?

[dotism]

I forgot to offer my opinion regarding the topic... Methinks Google has hit paydirt with Jellybean. They have been in rapid dev to get to this point, making serious mistakes along the way (Honeycomb). With the Nexus 7 and the Nexus line in general, pure Android has been launched into the mobile OS market in a serious manner. The brand is now deemed not only reliable, but also functional by way of third-party apps; beautiful and consistent via UI; and honestly innovative by leaping beyond iOS in several areas. Development should slow down and focus on serious improvements taking however long it takes to make.

The OEMs and carriers have been a hindrance, but Jellybean and the Nexus brand are becoming something to be contended with by way of respect, innovation, and true fun by way of experience.

 

[mkiker2089]

My chrome is very responsive, but I reboot my tablet every day or so (Windows users get in the habit of that). I have found that my tablet can bog down if I run it for a week or so but I assume it's some of the crapware games I'm trying out.

I would like chrome to change however and be more like Firefox on Windows (I find Firefox on Android to be even worse than Chrome). I want a home screen that always launches, forget my last page viewed. If I want to see that page again I'll bookmark it. It's not safe anyway, imagine if I hand it to someone else to and my last page was dailykitten.com.

 

[mkiker2089]

Development should slow down and focus on serious improvements taking however long it takes to make.

Agreed. Stick to Jellybean and perfect it. A new OS just splinters the already horribly splintered market. Windows XP is king for a reason.

 

[Androhead27]

I'd like a restart option. Right now the choices are just Power off, Airplane Mode and Silent Mode. Basically I'm really happy with it and it's working fine after 2 weeks.

For a simple restart just hold the power button down until the unit restarts. I actually like that better than having a choice at the long press dialog....I understand your point though, its a simple thing to add and most phones have it already.

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[gpdaddy95]

Option for Home Screen Rotation! Sick of forced Portrait mode and we shouldn't be forced to pay for 3rd party apps or flash ROMs to get the device to do something it should do natively out of the box! This isn't a phone, Google. Its a tablet! And often held in landscape mode for numerous things. We shouldn't be forced to hand games every time we view our home screen. Give us the option and let the USER choose which suits our needs best! :banghead:

Oh, speed up Chrome and add Ad-blocking please?!?

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Dead on the money! Couldn't agree more. I'm using the Nova launcher and Simple Text now for a really beautiful and simple launcher/home screen.

 

[anfroid]

aside from the actual tablet firmware update, the play store needs to push app developers to update their apps to be compatible with tablets (nexus in general) like many of the most used apps are still not compatible, like amazon, target, bestbuy, etc. just a thought of mine.

 

[Tervz]

I know it sounds silly but in Settings there are options for font size. They are ?small?, "normal?, "large? and "huge?. I had to set mine at huge. Huge is not that big. For some of us whose eyes are older (and my insurance won't let me get upgraded contacts until next year) we got a tablet to see easier and get things done efficiently. For example the font for this forum won't resize so your system font is what you get. Give us a break and just say medium, large, extra large but not huge. But you give that option then make it REALLY big.
I definitely agree with the comments on built-in rotation for the home screen without outside aps.
Had my Nexus almost 3 weeks now and am more and more amazed by what it can do and how much fun it is. Still perfect.


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[Eduardo06sp]

I honestly want to see an official camera and video launcher. Like the one from Facebook, only on my home screen.

I want them to fix the unresponsive app issue. It happens to me all the time.

Last thing, is to make it smoother. I've had it for not too long and it is noticeably slower.

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[Andy JM]

I love the Nexus 7,mine works perfectly without any glitches. My only complaint, and it is a huge pain in the neck for the me, is the Lake of Flash. Just because Flash is ending support for Android, it still works on 4.0, so Google dropped the ball on making sure it can run on 4.1.At least half the sites I visit require Flash, and until the Web switches over to HTML5 browsers should continue to support flash.

 

[dparrothead1]

I love the Nexus 7,mine works perfectly without any glitches. My only complaint, and it is a huge pain in the neck for the me, is the Lake of Flash. Just because Flash is ending support for Android, it still works on 4.0, so Google dropped the ball on making sure it can run on 4.1.At least half the sites I visit require Flash, and until the Web switches over to HTML5 browsers should continue to support flash.

http://forums.androidcentral.com/go...ad-before-posting-new-thread-about-flash.html

 

[machevans]

When you get a issue with screen touch. Turn off screen and make sure when you turn it back on that you dont have your fingers touching the screen at all. This is the fix for this until a patch comes out. You can even test touching the black screen and then turning it on and notice the touch issue returns.

 

[djnshores]

When you get a issue with screen touch. Turn off screen and make sure when you turn it back on that you dont have your fingers touching the screen at all. This is the fix for this until a patch comes out. You can even test touching the black screen and then turning it on and notice the touch issue returns.

I have been just opening and closing the case cover - works every time. I sure hope they patch this problem soon as it is getting annoying.

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I know it sounds silly but in Settings there are options for font size. They are ?small?, "normal?, "large? and "huge?. I had to set mine at huge. Huge is not that big. For some of us whose eyes are older (and my insurance won't let me get upgraded contacts until next year) we got a tablet to see easier and get things done efficiently. For example the font for this forum won't resize so your system font is what you get. Give us a break and just say medium, large, extra large but not huge. But you give that option then make it REALLY big.
I definitely agree with the comments on built-in rotation for the home screen without outside aps.
Had my Nexus almost 3 weeks now and am more and more amazed by what it can do and how much fun it is. Still perfect.


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I totally agree with you about the icon sizes. Even with the huge setting they are still too small for me. I switched to the Chameleon Launcher which has a Windows 8 Metro look. It is a nice alternative but at $10 it is a little pricey for most people.

http://www.chameleonlauncher.com/

 

[paul-c]

I agree with the people who want to see an update for Chrome. I like the tabbed browsing, but that's about it. Needs to run better for me to actually want to use it.

Sent from my Sony Xperia ion

 

[Eduardo06sp]

I agree with the people who want to see an update for Chrome. I like the tabbed browsing, but that's about it. Needs to run better for me to actually want to use it.

Sent from my Sony Xperia ion

I honestly prefer speed over looks. I'm sure most of you do.

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[whip it good]

I honestly prefer speed over looks. I'm sure most of you do.

For a tablet or a motorbike, definitely. For a girlfriend, not so much.

 

[rickiedoo]

My nexus 7 is extremely slow responsive too. Tried kill running apps, cleared caches, unchecked swype keyboard...
I should say it improved, but still very slow. It freezes, cannot turn on in case an app is installing. Far from what I perceived about this device. Maybe I will return and wait for iPad mini 2.

 

[Edward Bailey]

Personally I think the Nexus 7 I got my wife is garbage. I can't stand the constant lock ups and unresponsiveness. Compared to the iPad - this is junk. The OS is not as refined as promoted, won't come out of sleep without holding the power button to completely reboot. Sorry - between the ICS on my phone (Galaxy SII) and now this - I am leaving the Android world behind. Windows tablets are smoother and we all know that IOS works. I don't quite understand why the issues with this. It appears more than one person is having them as well. To me this feels like a beta product that I paid money for.

 

[Dude1134]

Well I haven't had mine very long but I have zero problems so far. I haven't updated to 4.2 yet because of the problems I've heard about.

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