Google Unveils The New Nexus 7 Android Tablet

Re:Google Unveils The New Nexus 7 Android Tablet by mrbrowning on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @02:43PM (#6098196)

I don't want to over-generalize based on one data point, but on my Galaxy Nexus I noticed that 4.2 pretty handily undid all of the improvements that 4.1 managed in this arena. It was indeed a paradise of smoothness for that one point release, though.

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Re:Google Unveils The New Nexus 7 Android Tablet by yareally on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @06:29PM (#6099531)

I'll be building 4.3 for the gnexus after it syncs, so we'll see how it is.

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Re:Google Unveils The New Nexus 7 Android Tablet by yareally on Thursday July 25, 2013 @12:20PM (#6103196)

Anyone wondering, it's performing faster than 4.2 on the gnexus imho. Battery life is the same though. Superuser is problematic unless you undo a change in one of the /davlik files[1]. That makes the system partition mount without nosuid as it did before Android 4.3. The other solution is uglier, using SuperSU (which is closed source) and runs as a hacky service that most apps are not compatible with yet.

[1] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/dalvik/+/9907ca3cb...

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Re:Google Unveils The New Nexus 7 Android Tablet by thrownaway2424 on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @03:18PM (#6098430)

IMHO 4.2 should never have been shipped for the Galaxy Nexus. Just too slow. I upgraded to a Nexus 4 and 4.2 is fine there, but will 4.4 be fine? Nobody knows.

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Re:Google Unveils The New Nexus 7 Android Tablet by igravious on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @02:50PM (#6098240)

I did not notice that. You could very well be right. It'd be nice if Google could release some cold hard performance figures. Maybe I could, er, Google it.

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