Amen. As an otherwise satisfied nexus 7 owner (first generation) a lighter and thinner model would be nice considering it is already a go-anywhere device for me.
But the inexplicable slowness as the device ages and memory use grows is a crappy reason to have to upgrade.
It's funny how quickly a market evolves and competition ratchets up. I can buy for $200 a device that gives me capabilities that cost an order of magnitude more 10 years ago, but I also still expect the cheaper device to have robust and long term performance capabilities.
I'll upgrade for "more, better features" but upgrading cause the old one kicked the bucket after a year is asking too much.
And given the market dynamics, even for $200, I'm not being unreasonable! Gotta love capitalism.
It's because the memory needed to have fstrim run on it regularly. In Android 4.3, this now happens daily. If you're running a device with an earlier version of Android, you can use LagFix (requires root): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grilledmon...
Now without utterly broken flash memory drivers that cripple performance after a few months of use and took a year to fix!
I do not own any Nexus 7 devices but I do recall reading about issues related to degraded flash performance over time for the first generation devices.
I am wondering though how do you know for certain that the newer model device have this resolved ?
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Now without utterly broken flash memory drivers that cripple performance after a few months of use and took a year to fix!
Amen. As an otherwise satisfied nexus 7 owner (first generation) a lighter and thinner model would be nice considering it is already a go-anywhere device for me.
But the inexplicable slowness as the device ages and memory use grows is a crappy reason to have to upgrade.
It's funny how quickly a market evolves and competition ratchets up. I can buy for $200 a device that gives me capabilities that cost an order of magnitude more 10 years ago, but I also still expect the cheaper device to have robust and long term performance capabilities.
I'll upgrade for "more, better features" but upgrading cause the old one kicked the bucket after a year is asking too much.
And given the market dynamics, even for $200, I'm not being unreasonable! Gotta love capitalism.
It's because the memory needed to have fstrim run on it regularly. In Android 4.3, this now happens daily. If you're running a device with an earlier version of Android, you can use LagFix (requires root): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grilledmon...
I do not own any Nexus 7 devices but I do recall reading about issues related to degraded flash performance over time for the first generation devices.
I am wondering though how do you know for certain that the newer model device have this resolved ?
You can fix it yourself by running fstrim regularly in the form of LagFix: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grilledmon...
Android 4.3 now runs fstrim daily to alleviate this issue.