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Anyone else experiencing slownes issues after downloading the update and battery pulling? I am having a solid delay coming back to the homescreen where the screen is completely unresponsive for a few moments (1 to 5 seconds, yes 5 seconds). It also occurs when browsing with the stock browser. I woul say the browser delay isn't as bad as the homescren issue but they both occur constantly and after waiting so long to get Froyo only for this result I'm tempted to go back to 2.1 if only because I'm comfortable with it.
Most importantly, anyone know a fix or have any tips to speed up my phone? I dnt have it modded or rooted because I don't care to tamper with my device but i'd be willing to try if I can gain significant performance increases
Try odining back to di18 and reapplying the update
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Anyone else experiencing slownes issues after downloading the update and battery pulling? I am having a solid delay coming back to the homescreen where the screen is completely unresponsive for a few moments (1 to 5 seconds, yes 5 seconds). It also occurs when browsing with the stock browser. I woul say the browser delay isn't as bad as the homescren issue but they both occur constantly and after waiting so long to get Froyo only for this result I'm tempted to go back to 2.1 if only because I'm comfortable with it.
Most importantly, anyone know a fix or have any tips to speed up my phone? I dnt have it modded or rooted because I don't care to tamper with my device but i'd be willing to try if I can gain significant performance increases
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That's not right, the latest Froyo is pretty snappy. Perhaps something you installed is causing this. Sometimes an app that works fine on Eclair needs to be reinstalled to work in Froyo. You could try a factory reset, but you will lose all your data and will have to reinstall apps. Or you could selectively delete your apps until you find the one that's causing the problem.
Here is a thought if we Odin to DI18 will we get the Updat to EC05.
Try clearing the data to all of the launchers on the phone. The last time I experienced a similar problem it wound up being launcher pro was having difficulties with some bad data.
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Alright ill try these, thanks
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Had the same issue. Did a "hard reset" and reinstalled all my apps manually. This improved things greatly.
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Here is a thought if we Odin to DI18 will we get the Updat to EC05.
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Sounds right. I just manually updated after ODIN though.
I'm new to the whole Android thing but I used to install lots of roms on my trusty old Windows Mobile devices over the years. I remember then that trying out different roms sometimes meant things would stop working.
Here's my problem. I have a Nexus 7 and it works fine on stock unrooted 4.1.2. I think. I've used the Nexus Root Toolkit to (very easily) unlock and root it. When rooted on stock rom (4.1.1 or 4.1.2), it takes a couple of seconds to turn on from sleep, sometimes needs to reboot, sometimes the gyroscope/acceslerometer locks and doesn't work as it should...
Is a rooted Nexus 7 less stable/reliable than an unrooted one?
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I'm new to the whole Android thing but I used to install lots of roms on my trusty old Windows Mobile devices over the years. I remember then that trying out different roms sometimes meant things would stop working.
Here's my problem. I have a Nexus 7 and it works fine on stock unrooted 4.1.2. I think. I've used the Nexus Root Toolkit to (very easily) unlock and root it. When rooted on stock rom (4.1.1 or 4.1.2), it takes a couple of seconds to turn on from sleep, sometimes needs to reboot, sometimes the gyroscope/acceslerometer locks and doesn't work as it should...
Is a rooted Nexus 7 less stable/reliable than an unrooted one?
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Rooting doesn't make a difference on stability (or shouldn't)
All rooting does is give you admin rights to parts of the phone not accesible without rooted. Basically...
Customer ROM's for the Nexus at the moment (and sorry about this devs but its true) are not yet up to par with the Stock ROM.
Its stable pretty fast and not bad with battery.
Hope this helps.
Right so after lots of erratic behaviour with rooted stock 4.1.2, I unrooted and relocked the boot loader. It was better already but I've also run the Forever Gone thing and it's now working perfectly.
I would like to root again but not at the expense of stability. I had previously use the Toolkit if it makes any difference.
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Right so after lots of erratic behaviour with rooted stock 4.1.2, I unrooted and relocked the boot loader. It was better already but I've also run the Forever Gone thing and it's now working perfectly.
I would like to root again but not at the expense of stability. I had previously use the Toolkit if it makes any difference.
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Rooting and/or unlocking the bootloader will have no direct effect on stability. What you do with your device after rooting is entirely a different issue.
Wilks3y said:
Rooting doesn't make a difference on stability (or shouldn't)
All rooting does is give you admin rights to parts of the phone not accesible without rooted. Basically...
Customer ROM's for the Nexus at the moment (and sorry about this devs but its true) are not yet up to par with the Stock ROM.
Its stable pretty fast and not bad with battery.
Hope this helps.
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This would be true if it weren't a Nexus device. We can more or less compile the same ROM that Google shipped. CyanogenMod 10 in my experience has been rock solid stable, though obviously there are still some bugs, I have encountered none. I also used EOS for a little, and that was equally great.
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Is a rooted Nexus 7 less stable/reliable than an unrooted one?
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Nope.
IF you flash a non stock rom and/or kernel, then it depends on what you use. Read notes and user replies.
Sometimes I do get random shut downs when not in use, both while charging and not charging. I am not sure if that is a 4.1.2 issue or if it's tied to the rom I'm using. Have had it happen on two different roms.
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IF you flash a non stock rom and/or kernel, then it depends on what you use. Read notes and user replies.
Sometimes I do get random shut downs when not in use, both while charging and not charging. I am not sure if that is a 4.1.2 issue or if it's tied to the rom I'm using. Have had it happen on two different roms.
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I lost the ability to control the music app with my headphone controls after rooting, it didnt happen when I opened the box and played with the nexus
Some apps are written to block rooted devices but there's no way the mere act of unlocking and rooting would affect overall stability.
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After a day on stock rom I thought it was settled but no...
The battery drained down and after that it kept getting stuck at the Google Cross animation. I spent a while re-flashing stock rom and eventually it starts up. Sometimes. The accelerator issue remains but it is less frequent.
I contacted Google who put me on to Asus. They are going to send me an RMA number and we'll take it from there.
how do you revert or reset to a factory state???
I´m new with the nexus 7 so really have no clue
To reset your device, go to "settings", then "backup & reset", and finally "factory data reset".
The difficult in waking is something I went through with my N7. I found there is a bug with the auto-brightness setting. If I use the manual option I don't experience any problems.
I rooted my N7 the day I got it (had experience with SGS and Gnex) and haven't looked back. I haven't had any other issues than the "sleep of death".
Hope this helps.
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how do you revert or reset to a factory state???
I´m new with the nexus 7 so really have no clue
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To reset your device, go to "settings", then "backup & reset", and finally "factory data reset".
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If you mean stock non rooted, then the above will set you back to factory.
If you are rooted, that will not remove the root. You will need to flash a stock image to completely return to stock and then re-lock the bootloader.
I seem to have had more problems if the power runs down. I have turned off the auto brightness and I agree it's better in terms of starting up. I still have the issue with rotation not always working. Also, I notice it takes several seconds for the screen to come on when I press the power button. Is that normal?
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I seem to have had more problems if the power runs down. I have turned off the auto brightness and I agree it's better in terms of starting up. I still have the issue with rotation not always working. Also, I notice it takes several seconds for the screen to come on when I press the power button. Is that normal?
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No, that is not normal, whether you're rooted or not.
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If you mean stock non rooted, then the above will set you back to factory.
If you are rooted, that will not remove the root. You will need to flash a stock image to completely return to stock and then re-lock the bootloader.
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will the toolkit help me do this???
if so will it delete the sd card??
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Okay now it's getting weird. I got an RMA number and they are due to collect it tomorrow and fix it. Since I got the RMA number it has behaved perfectly. I did make a video of the problems but since making the video I've not been able to reproduce them. The battery is down to 14% now, will see what happens when it is fully drained. One major difference is the power button instantly switches the device on whereas it used to wait a few seconds.
Can hardware just fix itself like that? I'm concerned they'll get it and say they can't detect any problems and charge me for the shipping...
I'll keep on testing until morning but if you guys have any ideas please let me know.
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will the toolkit help me do this???
if so will it delete the sd card??
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I've used Wug's toolkit to return to compete stock. It will wipe everything. It's a two step process, you will still need to lock the boot loader. Go read the thread in the Android development section.
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It's fine, even rooted so have cancelled the RMA. Hopefully it was just a short term fluke.
Several weeks on I have had no more repetition of these problems. I did have a line flicker occasionally before installing 4.2 but even that problem has gone away now. I just don't understand how the behaviour can be so unpredictable like it needed to settle into its new home or something.
My I9500 running latest firmware and having this problem, whenever I open camera (either stock app or 3rd party app) it either start up normally about 2 seconds or much slower than normal (5 seconds or more) or completely reboot the device.
Anyone experiencing the same? I don't know whether this is software or hardware issue?
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same to me. after reboot i can open camera app. but next day reboot again.
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Do I9505 users have this same issue? Any expert can have a look and help us know whether this is software or hardware issue? Or is there any fix to this?
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I'm having the same camera issue too and now when i open gallery it will freeze for 3sec then reboot.
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I'm having the same camera issue too and now when i open gallery it will freeze for 3sec then reboot.
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What is your version and firmware? Did you notice this problem with the old firmware?
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Bump to see if anyone can help.
I'm currently reverting back to MDE firmware to see if this problem persists.
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My I9500 running latest firmware and having this problem, whenever I open camera (either stock app or 3rd party app) it either start up normally about 2 seconds or much slower than normal (5 seconds or more) or completely reboot the device.
Anyone experiencing the same? I don't know whether this is software or hardware issue?
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I have same problem , my s4 get freeze for few sec and reboot......
I have restored back to MDE firmware using odin and camera still get hanged/rebooted. I'm clueless now as this problem cannot always be reproduced hence I'm really afraid if they would agree to replace my phone... And this issue seems to be on many other people S4, it's just that they haven't encountered it yet.
Has happened to me in a couple of occasions as well!!
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Same here! It tends to happen when I use one of the animated gif modes or the Drama shot. But its irritating. Cuz I was kinda showing off my phone to an iPhoner friend when it happened for the first time. And I was like, WTF! It had to happen just now??
Mine just happen without reasons, several times a day and it tend to happen when I want to use it most lol, and when I want to replicate it in order to make a video about the issue the damn phone just keep working fine!!! Really hope any expert can have an insight about this
Trying to find a solution here using ideas. Is your sd card full of photos?
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Trying to find a solution here using ideas. Is your sd card full of photos?
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My sd card is a class 10 32gb with barely 300 photos, but I even tried saving to internal storage, same issue. I try turn off location when taking picture, same. Try revert back to factory firmware which is MDE, same.
This issue won't happen very often but the fact that it has appeared many times when I going out and want to take a picture piss me off greatly, what is the point of a phone camera if it cannot capture the moment that I want?
My old phone (not a samsung but it does not really matter) had this reaction when reaching a bad sector on memory. Before getting sad ideas try a reset. Then if it persists head over to the customer care.
hope samsung will look seriously about this issue!!!i didnt pay premium price for this problem!
Same here tried 3 difrend firmwares
No issue on I9505 here.
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The camera firmware should be independent form the ROM firmware.
Therefore reverting to previous ROM firmware doesn't restore also previous camera firmware.
AFAIK this was the common experience with Galaxy S2 (that I had too), so it's should be the same with S4: it's not possible for the final user to separately flash a specific camera firmware.
Maybe a future ROM upgrade (which could include a new camera firmware) will solve the problems.
No problems here. Can you reproduce the problem?
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I cannot reproduce the issue every time I open the camera, but I would say if I let the phone idle for a while then open the camera then very highly it can hang and reboot, but of course this is not the only case.
But almost everyone can see that S4 camera take too long to start up, and then 1 to 2 seconds to take first focus which is very annoying and you can miss the moment, other phones are not this slow. I really hope this is firmware issue and Samsung can fix it soon, because if it is hardware related then well...
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Hi all, my old nexus 7 tablet is totally unresponsive after updating to android 4.3. The problem can be recreated in every single browser you run. After several minutes of browsing the device begins to lag heavy to a point where performance is do degraded that even the return to home or multitask buttons are taking ages to respond. I am totally confused, a update with a trim function supposed to speed tings up is dousing massive problems. I have searched trough the forums in the web and many are reporting same problems.
Does any one here experience the same ?
Try reset to factory settings.
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Try reset to factory settings.
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I have tried even different roms. Now i am at a stock rooted 4.3 (latest update) , same thing...
Will make a reset and see how long will the tablet stay fast.
Unfortunately for me after root the tablet started lags. Reinstall it completely and now use it without root.
I m not experiencing nothing from lags. But somehow mediaserver drains my battery and I can t get more then 4 hours screen. Before had 6 or 7 hours youtube and browsing.
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I'm having the very same problem. I've tried all sorts of things to fix this with no lasting results. Factory resets make no difference. Also having a load of problems with the Play store, but that's happening on all my devices at the moment so it's likely not related.
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This happened to me a while ago. No matter how many times I factory restored it was still slow and choppy. SO I was really desperate I downloaded the OEM factory image and flashed it. Low and behold that fixed all the ridiculous lagginess I had and it has been good ever since.
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This happened to me a while ago. No matter how many times I factory restored it was still slow and choppy. SO I was really desperate I downloaded the OEM factory image and flashed it. Low and behold that fixed all the ridiculous lagginess I had and it has been good ever since.
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I'm in the process of trying this and it seems to be working for the time being. That said, I have had good, early results before and within a day or so the lag is back. This is the first attempt at flashing 4.3 ( I updated to 4.3 through OTA before) so I'm hoping it has a better result. I even performed a factory reset after flashing just so I know all bases are covered. If the lag does return then I'm at a loss as to why. Just as well I'm away to get the new Nexus7.
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I'm in the process of trying this and it seems to be working for the time being. That said, I have had good, early results before and within a day or so the lag is back. This is the first attempt at flashing 4.3 ( I updated to 4.3 through OTA before) so I'm hoping it has a better result. I even performed a factory reset after flashing just so I know all bases are covered. If the lag does return then I'm at a loss as to why. Just as well I'm away to get the new Nexus7.
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To me is not the lag that concernes me. Its the battery drain. No matter wich rom. The drain is allways present. In 4.2.2 its 40 % more battery time. I did a full image install from google.
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testadeferro said:
To me is not the lag that concernes me. Its the battery drain. No matter wich rom. The drain is allways present. In 4.2.2 its 40 % more battery time. I did a full image install from google.
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Can't say I've noticed any detrimental effects on battery time for being on 4.3. If anything its better, if not just the same. Maybe it's still a bit early to tell one way or another, but all my woes seem to be gone. I'm not holding my breath though.
One thing I will say is that it doesn't half spoil a device if you have to spend more time troubleshooting, than actually using the thing.
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Can't say I've noticed any detrimental effects on battery time for being on 4.3. If anything its better, if not just the same. Maybe it's still a bit early to tell one way or another, but all my woes seem to be gone. I'm not holding my breath though.
One thing I will say is that it doesn't half spoil a device if you have to spend more time troubleshooting, than actually using the thing.
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Look at the thread. Only troubleshoting... lol. And I just gave my opinion... I m not a begginer and I know every piece of hardware behaves different. Thats what people are doing here. If you don t have nothing to complain you re lucky. Many of us are not the same opinion. Some for one reason others many... but one is sure. 4.3 its definitively not a major update and don t brings much over 4.2.2. They re slowing things with updates waiting for ios 7 is out to bring out klp. This will be a real and great update. For now they are throwing sand to your eyes...
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Look at the thread. Only troubleshoting... lol. And I just gave my opinion... I m not a begginer and I know every piece of hardware behaves different. Thats what people are doing here. If you don t have nothing to complain you re lucky. Many of us are not the same opinion. Some for one reason others many... but one is sure. 4.3 its definitively not a major update and don t brings much over 4.2.2. They re slowing things with updates waiting for ios 7 is out to bring out klp. This will be a real and great update. For now they are throwing sand to your eyes...
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Are you taking the piss? At no point did I respond negatively to your post. If you read, and understood, any of my posts, you'll know full well I'm having issues and I'm currently troubleshooting them.
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I am on stock 4.3 now , stock as it can be. The lag is still present. I literally cannot brows, the browser is sooooo laggy and bugged, don't depend of the browser i am using. I don't know where the problem is , but this is strange behavior for sure. How come it be that only some are affected ? can it be something related with the TRIM option ?
My tablet was sent back to asus for a screen problem, after replacing they returned me the device flashed back to 4.2.2 and not the last 4.3 i had before ? Why is that , maybe the 4.3 does really have some problems here and there....
I also had the browser-produced lag. It was present no matter what ROM I used (Paranoid Android, SlimBean, CyanogenMod, Purity) and no matter what build (JWR66V, JSS15Q, even JWR66Y) I used. I made a strange decision, and downgraded to 4.1.2. Now I'm rather enjoying myself. I hope 4.3 will eventually work on my Nexus 7. Until then, back to the past.
I've heard the device will do things like restart randomly, and have some other misc issues - is that fixed with later releases of it or is it still an issue?
I never got any og those problems with my N10, maybe others do i dont know. Mine runs very well and the best tablet i have used
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I've heard the device will do things like restart randomly, and have some other misc issues - is that fixed with later releases of it or is it still an issue?
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My N10 suffers from random reboots and memory leaks every couple days. But after flashing a 4.3 rom those problems almost dissapear with the updated Mali drivers from Samsung
So right now its a no issue, at least for me
Had screen flicker, but went away with the kit kat update (fingers still crossed).
Only had one reboot and that was on 4.3.
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I've been using mine for almost over a week. It came with 4.2.x and asked for update to 4.3 right after unpacking. Never had a single problem for a week with 4.3 and now using 4.4 which i manually updated. Still had no problems.
No problems here too..
The reason that you maybe find much 'complains' is because people with a problem are searching for a fix. But hou never hear a word from people without problems.. Well until now
I really love this tablet. Fast and oh te screen.
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On 4.3 I got
- screen flickering
- random reboots after heavy apps (like reading big sized PDF in acrobat)
After 4.4 I haven't seen those issues yet.
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I've not had too many issues with my N10. I've mostly been running CM10.2 on it, but I've put KitKat on it now and it's purring like a happy cat.
Solid with 4.4 so far.
4.3 eliminated a number of the screen issues with the updated Mali drivers. Looks like they were updated further under 4.4 as the Google site shows new binaries for 4.4.
I'm running stock 4.4 and have 0 issues. Didn't with 4.3 either. Can't say for anything earlier, I'm newer to the device.
Still running 4.3 here, but mine reboots randomly a couple of times a week.
Waiting to see what 4.4 will do.
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I had massive problems before, but it works like a charm since 4.4!
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4.4 seems so far (over two days uptime with Chrome installed!) to have fixed the massive memory leaks on this device.. 4.3 never seemed to release memory correctly and SystemUI would bloat to 200MB and completely implode on itself. Now it seems memory is releasing fine, and SystemUI is fluctuating in memory usage like it should be now..
I was given an N10 for my bday back on Sept 30 and its gotten almost daily use. I can say with full confidence that I have experienced ZERO problems. No memory leaks (if its going on I cant tell...the performance is snappy as hell!) no light bleed and definitely no random reboots. I have thrown the most hardware intensive games at it and they all work better than I had hoped for. It does exactly what I want it to do when I want it to do it.
I've had it for about half a year and used daily and I've had one or two reboots during that time, quite long ago now, otherwise it's been perfectly smooth and had no issues.
The photo editor crashes while editing large images (probably runs out of memory), haven't tried it on 4.4. But that's really not a issue as I normally use Photoshop on my pc anyway.
So far I never had any other issues at all, no random reboots or anything else. 4.3 was running smoothly as is 4.4 which I have now. The only modifications I have made are rooting it so I can use certain apps, and I didn't even have to reroot after the 4.4 ota.
tldr: mine works like a charm.
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Mine suffers extremely bad with memory leaks and random reboots when I have Location Services on. If I turn Location off, it doesn't reboot but after 30 hours or so, it slows to a complete crawl and redraws the launcher every 2 seconds thus making me have to manually reboot it. It's usable and I still use it every day, but I'm definitely not ecstatic with it and I'll likely replace it as soon as another tablet running stock Android and with a beautiful screen comes along. Hopefully I'm not waiting too long.
I get a reboot on average every 3 days. Usually while in the browser.. Screen will just flash white and reboots.. Never slows down before had.. No sign of trouble either..
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I haven't had any reboots from the browser yet, but I did get a hard freeze while using the HBO app yesterday. That's actually new, never saw it before the update so hopefully it's just a one time thing.
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I'm having problems with any rom later than 4.2. The 4.3 roms cause random reboots, and 4.4 will not install.... Something about some E: error.
I've gotten into the habit of wiping for factory reset before every flash.....so I have no idea why the problem with flashing the 4.4 roms. :silly: