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Nexus 7 2013 |OT| No SD card edition
- Thread starter fluffydelusions
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As a long time Android user...for people new to Android and looking for a great browser, grab Boat Browser. Great Flash support as well.
Dolphin is overrated.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.boatbrowser.free&hl=en
Unfortunately Chrome for Android still, quite frankly, sucks....bookmarks and syncing be damned.
No, because rooting is actually part of the OS and not 'hacking'. In layman's terms, it is basically like switching your profile to administrative mode in Windows. Nexus devices are meant to be rooted for all intents and purposes.
Dolphin is overrated.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.boatbrowser.free&hl=en
Unfortunately Chrome for Android still, quite frankly, sucks....bookmarks and syncing be damned.
No, because rooting is actually part of the OS and not 'hacking'. In layman's terms, it is basically like switching your profile to administrative mode in Windows. Nexus devices are meant to be rooted for all intents and purposes.
This is what I'm hoping for. Gonna check it out again this week.
Just got mine in the mail today. It's really a great piece of hardware (dat screen) and I love android. My issue so far is not with the tablet itself, but tablets in general... I have a MacBook Air and a high end smartphone (HTC One). I just can't figure out what to use the tablet for. Sure, I can browse reddit, watch netflix, tweet, etc, but I can already do all of those things on my laptop and phone. I just dont know if I can justify the price to get something that does what I can already do. Im gonna give it a fair chance for a week or two, but at the moment, Im thinking of returning it. This is my first tablet, if that wasn't evident.
What's the best way to do it?
This guy did an amazing job that anyone can follow easily...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1cD-JXRGX8&feature=share
Be aware though that unlocking your bootloader will wipe your device.
fluffydelusions
Member
Also be aware that you make sure you allow the system to do an initial boot AFTER unlocking the bootloader before proceeding to root
Prime is only for stuff sold or fulfilled by Amazon, not 3rd party stuff listed on Amazon
FallingEdge
Member
Yeah found out the hard way when you don't do that. Semi-bricked Nexus 7 within 30 minutes of getting it is not fun lol.
I did this too. For anyone who also did this, I had at least flashed TWRP recovery at that point, so I was able to go in there and wipe the relevant partitions (I think what happens is that when the device is unlocked, all the partitions are now unreadable as they were encrypted, and the next boot hangs when it can't read them correctly).
Whatever you do at this point, don't wipe /system! (Have the factory images been posted yet?) You want to wipe /data, /cache, and the Dalvik cache. You'll probably have to go into Advanced Wipe to do the job properly.
Well I wonder if I just have too much going on at the same time. I tend to do that with tablets but I have been spoiled with the Surface which has god like battery life. I in no way expect that sort of life with the footprint of this tablet it just seems to drain far faster than what you are getting.
Either way I am really loving it overall.
boutrosinit
Street Fighter IV World Champion
We have one of the studio's games running on the device and it looks fookin' sexy.
We can appreciate texture details we never saw on other devices before. Very impressive.
We can appreciate texture details we never saw on other devices before. Very impressive.
FallingEdge
Member
I don't think I was able to do any sort of wipe on /data or /cache. I think I went into Advanced Wipe and did a full blown reformat. Worked fine from there.
Dead Prince
Banned
Never noticed the notification light at the bottom bezel
Yeah.
I swear, if I wasn't so tied down with Verizon, I'd consider using a N4 as my daily driver as well.
This thing is just so quick and responsive. I hope it stays that way.
If you root you can plug an OTG cable into the charge slot and plug a thumb drive or other external memory option in through that for the 7 to access.
Those OTG cables can be had for a $1.50
And take your 7 back for an exchange already, it is a lemon. Mine has been running like a champ since getting it Friday.
threetri333
Banned
Is it me, or this tablet is most comfortable in vertical position. I can type with both of my thumbs, but typing horizontally is difficult.
I honestly can't decide which orientation I prefer yet. On n10, it was definitely landscape. with n7 I keep going back and forth. I Swype so I don't use two thumbs...
threetri333
Banned
I would've guessed lack of tablet support.
Robobandit
Member
to be fair, that is basically another way of saying what the author said. Perhaps a little less inflammatory and click-generating, though.
What the fuck am I reading.
smh, such poorly written article
This is why I have forbes on my ignore list. They literally made me do my best to erase them from my google news feed because of their terrible articles and lead in headlines.
When Forbes writes about technology, I find it's usually click bait shit.
The problem with the Nexus 7 is that it doesn't have IOS.
Now that may sound fanboyish but let me explain: It doesn't have IOS
Like I said it sounds fanboyish but just follow me here: Some people prefer IOS, and this tablet doesn't have it.
In conclusion it is a great device, but it doesn't have IOS.
Similar, but not exactly the same. The SoC is improved - despite being called an Snapdragon S4 Pro, it's different in that it has Krait 300 cores instead of the Krait 200 cores that the N4's S4 Pro has, making it more like a lower-clocked Snapdragon 600.
And that Forbes article is just all kinds of god awful, even coming from someone who would still prefer iOS for an entertainment-centric tablet with all else being equal (I bought an N7 because it's a very good device at a great price that's available now, and there's no guarantee of an iPad Mini resolution bump this year - so I figured I'd just get one now and reconsider down the road if necessary).
Randy Lanzarote
Member
Why did he feel the need to explain what 'Achilles Heel' is? Are Forbes readers that stupid, or did he have a word count to meet?
Mineshaft_Gap
4077th
It will make your phone or device infinitely more awesome.
Flashing roms on the other hand.... Unless you're using an enhanced stock rom there is bound to be issues.
CM10.1 was still broken as shit on my E LTE. On my Galaxy S4 it didn't have some of the stock features I like, or MHL support.
Yeah, that was really weird.
Opus Angelorum
Member
The' Achilles Heel' of my iPad 2 is that is doesn't run Android.
Kabuki Quantum Lover
Member
I agree with the weakness in theory, but this has to be one of the worst mainstream articles ever written. Explaining the story of Achilles was just over the top.
"Some people prefer iOS." No shit.
WooHooAlex
Member
Has anyone else had this problem?
My Nexus 7 has crashed 4 times so far, and this last time, after it automatically rebooted, I get this message.
"Unfortunately, the process com.google.process.gapps has stopped."
I guess this is a common problem with Android devices?
I looked up fixes, but none of the ones I could find seem to work for me.
Looks like this one is going back to Best Buy.
My Nexus 7 has crashed 4 times so far, and this last time, after it automatically rebooted, I get this message.
"Unfortunately, the process com.google.process.gapps has stopped."
I guess this is a common problem with Android devices?
I looked up fixes, but none of the ones I could find seem to work for me.
Looks like this one is going back to Best Buy.
fluffydelusions
Member
It's not a hardware issue so I don't think there is a need to return it. Have you tried removing your account/rebooting then creating a new one? Or if anything factory reset. Not sure what else you have tried.
WooHooAlex
Member
Factory reset was the first thing I tried but with the error message popping up it wouldn't allow me to reset. I tried a few different things, but anyways I got it to reset after trying again, so hopefully I won't have any more problems.
Now I just have to re-download all the apps I had and enter all my passwords again, ugh.
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