Just intalled 5.0 on my 2012 Nexus 7. Holy crap. I think I am going back to jellybean.
64bit was always going to be a transition. That is why I was so desperate to upgrade this year, I will let everyone else be 64bit Guinea pigs next year.
I read so many mixed opinions/results, some say it brings is back to life, some say it's worse then ever.
^^^ 2012 Nexus 7?
I would rather be a 64-bit guinea pig with Arm v8 architecture improvements for 32-bit mode than being a complete fool stuck with bleeding edge 32-bit only SoCs now.
I read so many mixed opinions/results, some say it brings is back to life, some say it's worse then ever.
OK, I have to say this 5.0 update is simply the best update I have EVER had for a mobile device. I can see changes ALL over the os- copy paste handles, the growing clock on the notification shade, the white background for apps. I love it.
More than that, this update seemed to fix my Nexus. I have borderline hated my Nexus 7 2013 for a year because of poor multi touch and random rebooting. The multi touch was just frustrating and made it so typing sucked. But the random rebooting was like a freaking overclocked 486, it drove me nuts to not have a stable machine. And it would do it at the worst fraking times too, like when I just banged out a big reply in Tapatalk or sat down to eat a warm dinner and read the news.
The multi touch isn't perfect now, but I downloaded an app to test and ghost touches seem gone. It might be just the keyboard has better correction. Whatever it is I will take it, I hated having to find my phone to bang out a reply of this length on the forum.
But I know for sure the big issue of reboots is fixed, because otherwise this mofo would reboot right before I hit submit on this post. Yay!
I'd imagine, it's smooth as can be in my 2013.
Wonder if it's a upgrade issue or if it was a fresh install.
anyone running it on a nexus 4? impression?
I don't plan on upgrading my Nexus 7 unless I can get Flash to work on it. Too many sites still use it and I have no desire to lose that functionality.
I am, any more specific questions?
It runs fine, the performance is good, battery seems about the same (mostly use it on wifi).
My gripes about the OS:
Quick Settings: done the Google way... QS done algorithmically is just wrong, you can't even develop "muscle memory" things move around and there are things there that I will never use.... They should just let the 3x3 matrix be customizable.
Ambient Display: I would like if they included it (off by default) also add a more granular selection of "display on at pick up" and "display on with new notification" (which could be nicely integrated with the new priority notification system).
Zero volume: that is most likely a bug (hopefully), how hard it is to make it go: Volume 2, 1, 0, vibrate?
Navigation buttons: why aren't they transparent in other apps as they are in the Google Now launcher? Is that up to developers to enable? Even Google does only do it in the launcher, creating inconsistencies. But also inside the launcher itself you have redraws of the gradient on the nav buttons when accessing the recents.
Still needs a bit of polish.
Me either. So Flash won't work with Dolphin browser anymore ?
Nope, at least from what I can find out from XDA. I hear how Flash isn't important but if it were blocked on a PC people would be complaining since it's still very common.