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I've seen a few of the home screens that people have posted of their KFs with CM7. How is it?
It looks really nice with the Honeycomb/ICS (?) theme.
I just wanted to know how it is for the people that use it. Is it buggy at all?
Thanks!
Smooth as babys bottom....
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I had a question regarding CM7 on Kindle Fire:
I have it all set up and good to go; however, when I select the double down arrow button, the CM7 bar goes away. How do I get it back without exiting the video I'm watching?
I've got two Kindle Fires...
One was on 6.2 which I rooted and started playing around with. It picked up the 6.2.1 update and I'm kinda bummed with it. Need to re-root it and tidy up a few things.
The other one I've been holding on to for using in the car. Was kinda waiting till BT was figured out. But I had time yesterday and moved it from 6.2 to CM7. I can not stand my 6.2.1 Fire any more. I like a really simple experience and CM7 does that for me. Post Xmas I'll move the 6.2.1 Fire to CM7 or ICS if it's ready by then.
Was playing around with TetherGPS on the CM7 Fire today in the car, very cool. Just need to figure out a mounting system for it. Once BT is figured out I'll be able to use Torque for ODBII data and get more geeky.
I had problems with the home button not working and didn't like the notification bar and tools bar at the bottom. Frankly it was a bit buggy for my tastes.
agFinder said:
I had problems with the home button not working and didn't like the notification bar and tools bar at the bottom. Frankly it was a bit buggy for my tastes.
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sounds like u didnt wipe.
cm7 has mods available for everything. themee make it look like ics. tablet weaks cover everything, its my daily. battery life is 10 times longer now. couldnt imagine my fire any other way. (until cm9 is out of course)
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rogue0wn said:
I had a question regarding CM7 on Kindle Fire:
I have it all set up and good to go; however, when I select the double down arrow button, the CM7 bar goes away. How do I get it back without exiting the video I'm watching?
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Open the power button menu and hit back (I think that's there by default...)
I am loving it! The status bar buttons can be reconfigured to your liking. I set mine to be the same as my Droid X to keep things simple. Check out tablet tweaks in the settings menu.
So when u install Cm7, do u lose Amazon carousel? I like being able to switch back and forth
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Yes. You're replacing the stock rom.
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Smooth as babys bottom....
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Everybody is saying that. But for me the scrolling in 6.2.1 was way smoother than in cm7. Also adw launcher ex run flawlessly in 6.2.1 in cm7 it's a bit choppy.
But other than that, I won't go back to stock. I really love cm7, have it on my phone, too.
Cm7 is really cool and highly modifiable. Its a crime to use kindle with stock. Only i had to restart cm7 once, If it doesnt keep doing it, its perfect.
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CM7+ GO Launcher LAST BETA (optimized for 7" HD) is the key if you have one Kindle fire, now i have one great tablet for 199$.
Can someone help when I flashed cm7 I still have folders from the other partition how do i erase data from the amazon days. I notice them while using root explorer
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defyiant said:
Can someone help when I flashed cm7 I still have folders from the other partition how do i erase data from the amazon days. I notice them while using root explorer
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Delete the folders with ES File Explorer or Root Explorer.
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lman00 said:
Everybody is saying that. But for me the scrolling in 6.2.1 was way smoother than in cm7. Also adw launcher ex run flawlessly in 6.2.1 in cm7 it's a bit choppy.
But other than that, I won't go back to stock. I really love cm7, have it on my phone, too.
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I've noticed that too. I use GO Launcher EX from the market and it's much more smooth.
Can anyone confirm the battery life on CM7 ? better or worse than stock ?
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Can anyone confirm the battery life on CM7 ? better or worse than stock ?
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It seems a bit better to me.
I'm greatly enjoying CM7, hoping some of the last wrinkles will be ironed out soon. (Not able to play some apps like Asphalt 6, which work on stock rom, the MAC address issue, nothing major but still troublesome.)
Yeah, some apps don't work. But the ones that do are much faster (Including Tapatalk)
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Hey guys,
I am having trouble with playing N64 roms on my kindle fire (running ICS through nind's 2/24 rom) and was wondering if there was something I could do to help the games run smoother? Are there certain settings that are optimal or perhaps another download that would help make the process smoother? I was trying to play Mario Kart earlier and the actual karts and characters were just black x's and the bananas looked like yellow triangles. Thanks for any help!
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Hey guys,
I am having trouble with playing N64 roms on my kindle fire (running ICS through nind's 2/24 rom) and was wondering if there was something I could do to help the games run smoother? Are there certain settings that are optimal or perhaps another download that would help make the process smoother? I was trying to play Mario Kart earlier and the actual karts and characters were just black x's and the bananas looked like yellow triangles. Thanks for any help!
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not positive but I think its related to the lack of he acceleration because it worked fine on cm7...having the same issue here too
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cdub1014 said:
Hey guys,
I am having trouble with playing N64 roms on my kindle fire (running ICS through nind's 2/24 rom) and was wondering if there was something I could do to help the games run smoother? Are there certain settings that are optimal or perhaps another download that would help make the process smoother? I was trying to play Mario Kart earlier and the actual karts and characters were just black x's and the bananas looked like yellow triangles. Thanks for any help!
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Its HWA issue.. wait for kernel 3.0
Alright, I am currently on my third Nexus 7 and getting a little frustrated. I really love this device and would love to customize it the way I want but I hold back just in case I have to return another one. My question is, is anyone else experiencing problems with their tablet randomly freezing? I havent seen any forums discussing this particular problem. I have a hunch it could be the Facebook app that is causing this but that is just a theory. Below is a video of said freezing problems. Sorry for the quality; it was late, i was drinking and enjoying Netflix.
Not that I've heard of, but a quick forum search would easily confirm or deny this.
Edit reason: added detail.
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I have searched the forums as I mentioned above yet I could not locate a topic with my particular problem
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If your anything like me I'm constantly force stopping apps because why should they still be running of I'm not using it, right? Well I was having the same issue as you. Freezing and studdering on a quad core CPU. Mainly it was freezing in the settings menu. So I stopped force closing all these apps I usually do and the freezing stopped. I'm on about a week in with my 3rd nexus 7 and not one freeze. So if you do do as I do try just letting the apps be and "kill" them instead.
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If your anything like me I'm constantly force stopping apps because why should they still be running of I'm not using it, right? Well I was having the same issue as you. Freezing and studdering on a quad core CPU. Mainly it was freezing in the settings menu. So I stopped force closing all these apps I usually do and the freezing stopped. I'm on about a week in with my 3rd nexus 7 and not one freeze. So if you do do as I do try just letting the apps be and "kill" them instead.
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The way android is designed, apps are supposed to run in the background. Your not supposed to have a lot of free ram. 100 mb of free ram is the same as 5 mb... If it's free ram it isn't doing anything but being wasted just sitting there. Task killers are useless since eclair 2.1.the reason apps run the in the background is so you can open an app where you last left off. Among lots of other reasons. Let android manage the tasks it's really good at it.
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I've had a few freezing issues on my nexus 7. I've only had it a couple of days. It becomes completely unresponsive for minutes and never recovers. I have to hold down the power button until it shuts off (20 seconds maybe).
I've had a number of other quirks that really show (to me) that you get what you pay for. Its a cheap tablet with a top end CPU/GPU, but that's about it.
Not sure what my next step is, but I doubt I would be happy with the shortcomings of the Nexus 7 even if I had a perfect device. I think I just like higher end devices is all, and I don't mind paying more for something that just works with no compromise.
Again just my opinion.
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No such problems here, but if I were you I would use the Linux command line commands : top, ps, free, df. With those you should be able to find out if an app or process is misbehaving. You need to install the terminalIDE app and read about those commands.
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Freezing issues
I just purchsed one... Used it for 2 days. After using for a while I consistantly had freezing, particularly when typing. I called it in for a RMA refund. Don't know what the issue is, but moving on to something more tried and true.
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Alright, I am currently on my third Nexus 7 and getting a little frustrated. I really love this device and would love to customize it the way I want but I hold back just in case I ha ve to return another one. My question is, is anyone else experiencing problems with their tablet randomly freezing? I havent seen any forums discussing this particular problem. I have a hunch it could be the Facebook app that is causing this but that is just a theory. Below is a video of said freezing problems. Sorry for the quality; it was late, i was drinking and enjoying Netflix.
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Freezing - yes now and then...
My Nexus 7 freezes occasionally. I have noticed that when it restarts there's a bunch of updates. Me thinks that maybe the CPU was busy doing updates while I was keying in / touching the screen etc and couldn't cope...but maybe not. These apps seem to update a lot, same goes for my notso :silly: smartphone.
Anybody else come back to your Nexus 7 that is actually completely off and requires a power button and volume down hold in order to restart? Also I find the Android OS is consuming much of the battery in some instances.
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Mine is shutting down randomly.
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Bought my N7 three days ago and it worked brilliantly after installing all my apps from the play store then I got the message to update the OS from 4.2 to 4.2.1 which I duly obliged. Thereafter it was a totally different device with crazy stuttering just swiping home screens and and solid freezes on chrome which was especially bad. I had to do at least half dozen soft re sets when everything ground to a halt and a factory wipe none of which helped. I spent this afternoon using the nexus toolkit to unlock+root my N7 and installed nightly CyanogenMod 10.1 with jb20121212 Gapps and individually reinstalled+tested every app from play store including Chrome. Its (thankfully) now buttery smooth again and I've not had any problems whatsoever in the past 8 hours of using it. This surprised me as CM10.1 is based on 4.2.1 and maybe suggests its a problem with the stock Gapps included in the OTA?
I love android but Google are releasing these updates before they're ready and it makes the OS look unreliable in the eyes of the average consumer who has no interest in rooting and flashing roms.
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Mine is shutting down randomly.
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I bought my wife a first generation Nexus 7 about 2 years ago and everything was fine with the tablet and is now updated with stock 4.4.4. Recently she started noticing that it would freeze for no reason and finally it got to the point where it would freeze very soon after it was booted up. I cleaned the cache and factory reset but the problem persisted. Obviously the unit is out of warranty but I called Asus to see if they could offer any advice. The only answers I got was that they couldn't do anything and it sounded like there was a problem with the motherboard. They also told me I could sent the tablet in for repairs but it would probably cost around $200! After laughing out loud at this ridiculous amount I told them I'd just go buy a Samsung Tab 4 for my wife and forget the Nexus. I bought the 8 inch Tab 4 and my wife is happy with the functioning of the product. BUT, I decided to give the Nexus 7 another chance at life so I utilized the Nexus Root Toolkit and I kept the stock 4.4.4 ROM instead of going the custom ROM route. I am pleased to report that there was NO motherboard problem and this tablet is working great so I am now the proud owner of the Nexus 7.
3year later. Still the same on 5.0.2
I really want to break this tablet on someones head who made it.
After 5.02 ...
It slowed down substantially. I did the "clear cache" which helped a little. It's so slow web browsing that I may as well not even try ... often 15 seconds to a minute to respond to a link click.
SO ... use it mostly for the Kindle app. I don't think it is the app fault, but when it locks up now, I see nothing on the screen; finally determined that it was in the process of downloading an update to some app or another, and the downloading locks the system if the kindle app is on the screen ... and seems to be a major slowdown other times.
Maybe there will be a 5.03 getting the performance back to KitKat levels.
Hi all
Wondering if anyone else has this problem or if it's a known issue?
I was using Netflix today and after I was done, hit the home button and went in the other room. Came back about 10 mins later and the screen was still at full brightness. I use the smart stay option with the screen timeout quite low, so didn't expect this to happen.
I decided to see what apps were running in the background and they ranged from Facebook, gallery, Gmail etc. and started closing them down one at a time to see if the screen timeout or smart stay would kick in. It did finally work, but only after I closed Netflix down, so presume its that which is the problem.
I'm running ICS and haven't had this problem since today, but then I rarely use Netflix either, so it may have been a problem for some time
Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.
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Have you read the manual foe netflix or try looking pn there site?
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netflix is notorious for overriding system settings and killing batteries. I wouldn't use netflix on android unless I absolutely have to. And after I'm done using it, I make sure it's exited out completely and not just running in the back ground.
I use Netflix on 3 devices every day and it is flawless.
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TouchPad on JB
Imito MX2 on JB
You left a video app running in the background, no wonder it kept the screen on. Next time, makr sure you exit out or just kill it.
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Hi everyone, this is my first thread on XDA. Now that we have the pleasantries out of the way ... straight to the point. I just bought a Nexus 7 2nd edition/2013. Being the power user that I am (still haven't rooted it xD ) started trying out some emulators as a test, namely ppsspp and dolphin for android. Both of those are in development and highly unstable.
It's worth to mention that my first day of use was flawless. Here it comes ... BUT ... after messing around with dolphin I managed to well simply crash the OS. The tablet completely shut down, probably to prevent damage (e.g. bluescreen style). When I switched it back on everything seemed fine, until I played a video and I noticed that blacks/browns were pixelated (like artifacts). I installed the video game Magic 2014 and I'm unsure if I noticed it before or if it happened just now but during the intro I get the same issue with blacks - highly pixelated, and one of the images has 3 or 4 lines. In game performance is smooth and absolutely no issues.
The ppsspp and dolphin emulators both have options which push the CPU/GPU and memorry quite a lot. The tablet however hasn't been heating up at all.
What do you think ? Have I damaged my 3 day old nexus baby's GPU ? Or is it a software - driver issue ? Maybe something else
Help me oh great xda crowd
Have you tried to a factory reset to see if there is a difference?
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Have you tried to a factory reset to see if there is a difference?
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That was the first thing I did sadly same artifacts in Magic 2014. I'm considering sending it back for a replacement.