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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Apex:
Are you stock or running a custom rom?

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Uzi578:
I just soft bricked my phone. Had to order a usb jig because I couldnt get it to work by myself. Now no phone for the weekend and part of next week... If the jig even works at all...

Be warned, messing around with your phone is very frustrating...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Death&co:
I'm in the same boat personally. I changed to Nova Launcher and so far I'm really happy with everything.

This is my first android phone however so I'm really curious about rooting and trying different roms etc. I just don't want to **** this phone up because I do a lot of important stuff with it for work etc.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Apex:
It's only frustrating if you do something stupid or don't understand what it is you're doing. To understand rooting and flashing and modding, you have to read, re- read, and read agsin. Taking your time and practicing some patience, and rooting/flashing makes the Android experience infinitely more enjoyable. Just sayin'...

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] SysAdmNj:
What method did you use to root? What did you do to cause the soft brick?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] davidstech11:
I waited a couple weeks before rooting my LTE GS3. Its not bad using Touch Wiz. I use TW and switch over to Nova (paid version) at times.

I am tempted to flash a ROM but I don't want to make sure that I flash a stable ROM. I don't want to flash a ROM and not have the Bluetooth or MMS not work properly.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crash822:
Task's aokp ics with ktoonsez's kernal. I am waiting on HBO go and Netflix to work with jb before I make it my daily driver
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sabre31:
Battery life sucks on all the roms. Some roms make it even worse. I think the stock rom gives better battery life so far it's not stellar but ok.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Apex:
Anyone run CM9 yet and see improvement?

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] SysAdmNj:
So far looks that way, juice defender for me for now.

Im running it now. Ehh, barely a difference. Depends how much you use it I guess. As I just mentioned JD for me should help get me through the day. Nice device otherwise, dont really miss the gsm nexus. Cant wait to take pics this weekend with it.

Let me add, barely a difference battery wise for me so far, but performance wise? Smooth :)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dbjunction:
I got my Nexus 7 in the first batch from Gamestop on the day of release. Initially, the performance was very fast, even faster than my Galaxy S2. However, after a couple of weeks now, it has become extremely slow. It is still stock, havent even rooted it. It is a 16gb model, and has close to 10gb free. I have tried clearing cache, closing all running applications, restarting but nothing really has worked.

The problem is almost every app is very slow. I get a notification of an email, i click on it and then stare at the white email screen for almost 10 sec before it opens up (the regular email app). It almost feels like a different device now than what i bought few weeks back. Other applications that run equally slow - Google Reader, Chrome, WSJ (this is perhaps the worst), Fluent News Reader. I am not much into games so havent tried a lot of them.Oh, and it is no match now to my Galaxy S2 Skyrocket or even HP Touchpad Cm9 that i got rid of last week.

I don't want to exchange it as it does not suffer from all the other problems being reported here (and am afraid that the new one might exhibit those). Please help.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krelvinaz:
Just a guess, but you most likely loaded something on it that is doing that. Check what you have installed on it, perhaps uninstalling some of the larger things to see if you can figure out what is holding it up.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] V3RT3X:
Stock Nexus 7 Image

If cleaning the device does not work, you can always flash back to the stock image, which can be found on developers.google.com

Be sure to backup your apps and data! :)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] urfate:
or for the most simple of us...

Setting>Privicy>Factory reset.

That will remove any app that might be causing it.

Be warned tho, i think on this device it wipes the internal storage...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dilldoe:
how is your WiFi signal?

seeing how almost every app require internet access, the delay could be it trying to connect.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dbjunction:
Actually I thought that too... but my wireless signal is very strong in my small apartment and i have 30mbps line. I checked with speednet app and i am getting 13mpbs down, 4 mpbs up on nexus 7.

I am happy that this seems like my issue only - i will try to remove apps one by one to see if it helps or worst case, i will do a factory reset.

I was wondering if there are any known culprit apps responsible for memory leaks or something.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r_3:
I have noticed how mine has been very sluggish when there are apps upgrading in the background or installing, etc. Maybe turn off auto update for play store?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CharliesTheMan:
If you send me a PM, I'll give you my email address and I can help you narrow it down by using screenshots of your app drawer.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dilldoe:
install watchdog task manager lite, it monitors app in the background and tells you which one is causing problems.

have you tried turning off gps (location service) and see if hats the issue?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buddhatown:
same thing

Just wanted you to know you aren't alone here...I have been seeing the same exact behavior on mine. I have started to uninstall apps one by one. I must be a bad app or something. If not I'm gonna wipe it and start over. It does feel disconcerting to go from easily the best tablet experience I have ever had to it becoming so sluggish.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] immajew69:
i have the same problem, mine did the same thing on stock, ran great for a week or two, then became unbearably slow. so i rooted it and it wiped all data and the problem seemed to be fixed. then another week or two passed and its back to slow. i found out after testing with quadrant it has something to do with the i/o on the device, because the i/o score was abnormally lower than all the devices. putting a custom kernel will help, but still the i/o score is still quite low. i dont want to wipe all data again and if anybody knows a fix it would be greatly appreciated
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qwertylesh:
nexus 7 has Kingston eMMC, it is better then the crummy Prime Hynix eMMC, but is eMMC none the less, not proper NAND flash/SSD
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dennelly:
Well you could've had a bad app that is bogging your system down. A factory reset may be the only option so you can start fresh
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lanwarrior:
Check the cache size of your Google Playbook or Magazine apps. It keeps downloading large files (400 mb) and may fill up your storage...causing it to slow down?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] my_username:
Having the same issue after owning it for two days. I really wanted to like this tablet,but between the sluggishness, and other various shortcomings, I'm going to be returning mine.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dbjunction:
I deleted WSJ app and it seems to have helped a lot - not as fast as new, but a lot better. One thing which still irritates me is email app which just seems to be too slow...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] budde2:
Sorry to say but mine so fast I can't keep it down it trys to fly away lol
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikeydangerous:
Same

has anyone been able to figure this out? I'm having the same problems and I've been running watchdog but there been no out of control process is on my device. I have wiped the device and the same thing just keeps happening after a little while it'll get very slow. it happens more often than not when there something in the background downloading are using the internet, but it's definitely not my connection because I've had no problems with any other devices.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebobp:
Been getting similar behavior recently. cm10 euroskank, trinity 7.

Edit: in logcat, getting stuff like

I/Choreographer(10656): Skipped 30 frames! The application may be doing too much work on its main thread.

W/InputEventReceiver(10656): Attempted to finish an input event but the input event receiver has already been disposed.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikeydangerous:
I think I may have come across a solution. For me, the slowdowns were always connected to when something was downloading in the background, or when a process was using data, so I went through and turned off syncing on any non-essential Google services and other apps, and it seems to be working much better right now.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebobp:
Removed beejive aim, haven't had a serious lag problem since. To be fair, this is hardly conclusive.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mi7chy:
Always seem like some lame app installs some background process will affect performance or battery life. I'm having this issue on my phone where some game I installed is causing the battery to die within a day whereas before it used to last two days or so.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ahmazin:
You might need to delete files manually

I started having trouble with the Nexus. Apps would take a REALLY long time to load. I was getting timeouts while trying to load most of the apps that required internet access.Scrolling was lagging big time. Trying to download an app was horrific, with 2kb speeds.

So I did a factory reset, and it didn't change a thing. So I remembered that I had made a nandroid backup, so I restored it (I even did the wipe Cashe/Delvik). still I was getting the same horrible laggy mess. I had a feeling it was a emulator game that had some how completely screwed something up, but I wasn't sure.

Then I noticed that the factory reset, hadn't erased anything. Every single file, folder, was still present. So I deleted everything post the day I got the tablet.

I did another factory reset, just to be sure. Afterwards, the Nexus 7 I know and love, was back!

Hope this helps someone.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stretched:
What can we use to effectively monitor processes? I always use sysinternals stuff for windows machines but I am not too familiar with Android yet. The delete one by one or reformat isn't my favorite way of debugging..
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Harry GT-S5830:
Terminal emulator, Google play it.

Put this in: logcat > /sdcard/logfile.txt

Lolcat works too for taking logcats.

Sent from a Nexus 7 using my fingers
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Toast95135:
Do you have the market set up to automatically update apps? Someone mentioned it earlier but every Android device I've ever used gets bogged down when something is installing.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qwertylesh:
regarding the deletion of files, I found on my prime that installing Caustic left files with permissions I couldnt delete from the root of my storage (emmc mounded as /sdcard) so for non rooted users, be careful of this.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] no6969el:
Yes I keep getting "ANR dispatch timeout errors" right after it lags really bad ...its really frustrating!

You can see what caused an error by hitting report and then view. There is a section called "caused by" that's where you can read it.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stretched:
Thanks. I assume this works on phones as well.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zZDave_Stud:
Since you guys are still getting this issue why dont you just factory reset and then wipe everything in recovery. If that doesn't help, just return your device for a new one. The issues that you are talking about (screen separation, dead pixels, etc.) imo were blown way out of proportion. If worse comes to worse and nothing seems to be working and you're still in your 14 day window, just exchange it. That's my two cents.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hisawa:
reply to first post

Opening post - I noticed the sluggish performance on my Nexus 7 (16gb version) and started to trace my steps back to individual installs of apps. From what I found from my previous evening of testing out app killers and app manager apps, having more than 2 running cut the performance of my tablet down considerably and turned the joy of the nexus into a seriously slowed down POS. So make sure you check out if you have (silly, I know) more than 1 - 2 app killer/managers running. Once I got rid of all but one of them? BAM! Performance went back to silky-smooth sailing.

Good luck!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scott_doyland:
You should not use any app killers/managers, its well known these are not needed in later versions of android.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JakeRoux:
Experiencing same issue here. Have had my Nexus 7 for about three weeks now and it has slowed substantially in the last few days. Realized I had installed Amazon App store (along with all of the Free Apps of the Days I had in my account from using it on my Android phone) within the last week, so just deleted both the Store and the Apps. Immediately noticed an improvment in loading Facebook. Have not yet tried other apps that had recently been slow loading, or web browsing.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CharliesTheMan:
Task killers and memory managers are absolutely awful, there should definitely be no more than 0 installed at any given time.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExploreMN:
I sure hope its not Amazon's app store! I got a lot of really good apps through there which I like (Quick Office HD for example). I've noticed some slow downs too, but can't pin it to any one app. Since it flies with a factory reset, I can only assume some app or apps are causing it and its probably an app not updated to jelly bean or something. I'm just going to live with it unless it gets intolerable.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mrglass86:
i know this isnt much help, but my 16 gb went to a crawl as well after 18 hours, granted i downloaded my 140 apps i wanted, but I am a little upset that the n7 doesnt seem to handle a lot going on, i finally rooted and flashed, and it was ok, 4 days later (today) back to a crawl..... i dunno
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thevuman:
I noticed a huge slowdown after I installed real Racing 2. Facebook wouldn't load at all, constantly crash, and everything was sluggish. Like waiting several seconds to do the simplistic things.

I uninstalled it, but still problem exists
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mungulz:
I've got a Tegra 2 phone with only 512mb ram and have noticed no *significant* changes. I'm sure if I went to a clean cm7 install it would be faster but it seems to handle it.

Anyway said phone cannot handle torrenting at all really, while my nexus 7 (tegra 3) can torrent at 1MB/s and browse the net with only minor lag.

Will be interesting to see if I have issues, I've only had mine about 5 hours. So far I can say its less impressive than I thought it would be. It's great and all but text doesn't seem to focus until about half a second after zooming,
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JakeRoux:
Concurrent with slow app loads and slow browsing, I've noticed battery life starting to tank - dead by evening after only moderate use. Under Settings > Battery, I'm finding that Android OS is responsible for 35 - 45% of the usage. Not sure how that compares to when I was not having issues, since there was no reason for me to check it then, but certianly seems that *something* has started affecting performance significantly. Factory Reset will be my last option, simply becasue I don't want to have to bother with re-installing all apps, including corporate Exchange email, wihch has to go through my corporate IT.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mtnotaku:
Amazon App Store!

I've got this same *$%^%$ slow Nexus 7 (16GB version with a lower DPI for the Tablet interface) problem too. Of course, I probably have way too many apps installed, so it was time to do some detective work. I first turned off the Media Storage background process. This is the process that scans your SD card to index music/video/photos for apps like Gallery. I've had trouble with this process on Honeycomb with a Samsung tablet, so I thought I'd start there. (You can use an app like System Tuner Pro on a rooted Nexus 7 to disable this process.) Unfortunately, didn't make much difference.

Then I took @JakeRoux advice, and uninstalled my Amazon App Store, along with 15+ apps that only worked with the App Store signed in. Now my Nexus is *almost* back to its perky self. So I can't say if it is related to the total number of apps I have installed, or the amount of free space on the internal SD card, or if there was a particular offender among the 15+ apps I had from Amazon, or if it was the Amazon App store itself being evil..., but I'm now back to where I want to be.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JakeRoux:
Still not entirely sure that is resolving my issue, but functionality does seem better on mine today since deleteing those apps yesterday.

Anyone know if the Amazon App Store or the apps dowloaded from it (especially the daily freebies) contian any type of "phone home" code?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stretched:
I have noticed better performance on battery life just by disabling the radios while I am not using them.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] no6969el:
Funny thing is that one thing I see in common with a few of us is the amazon app store. I'm going to delete it today and see. I plan on just removing the amazon market.

Edit: I want to confirm that by disabling the auto check in Google "Currents" has fixed 90% of all my laggyness!!!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kennyfool:
The Amazon app store is the worst! I had it installed on my old android devices and it made them sluggish and unresponsive at times. It is always running in the background and as a result it uses up memory and battery. If you have it installed, try deleting it and see if your performance improves any

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[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thevuman:
wow, so I turned my nexus off last night and let it charge. Today, after turning it on, OMG... it was bad... like not usuable bad. LAG, FREEZE, CRASH. I couldn't even install a widget. I would constantly get the message "x is not responding.. wait, close, ok" on pretty much any app i opened and every launcher too! Nova AND stock launcher had problems.

It seems to have settled down a bit right now.. maybe because it was still starting up? but still noticeable amount of lag. I uninstalled a few apps (most recent installed apps to see if that was the problem), hoping it would go away. I also cleared my google chrome cache data and play magazine data.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] no6969el:
I would strongly recommended you to disable the play magazine app via its settings.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thevuman:
where in settings is that? i don't see it.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] no6969el:
I apologize I was reading "play magazine" and thinking "Google currents".

I would advise disabling the sync in "currents" as that is what gave my nexus that punch it had on day one.

Link to see it done in video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnJRYTKqnRc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExploreMN:
I'm convinced it is software related and here is why. I can run a dozen benchmarks on this thing and sometimes "disk" speed is slow as snot, and other times its nice and zippy. I've seen as much as a 500% difference sometimes in back to back runs. If it were hardware only, there would be more consistency. So I'm hoping for an update or patch that will fix this.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] backlund:
Just wanted to chime in that I noticed an immediate drop in the lag issues i've been having, after disabling background syncing in currents. THANK YOU!!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omnikai:
Can anyone with this issue try running Androbench and reporting their results (including SQLite performance)? I'm suspicious that this is actually a storage issue. This would explain the significant slowdown when doing anything storage-related. For instance while speedtests show excellent wifi speeds, all actual file downloads are excruciatingly slow on my N7.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrSchroeder:
I've been using my nexus 7, rooted, for5 days . And I have not experienced any speed issues, any slow down, sluggishness. I really believe that this is probably related to various programs does install, its always some background service or program that causes things like this
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omnikai:
Mind posting Androbench results so we can compare?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JakeRoux:
The improvements I had previously seen from un-installing the Amazon App Store and Amazon apps proved to be short-lived. Over the weekend the performance became unbearable enough that I did full factory re-set. When re-installing the apps, I did not install the following which had previously been on my device and I feared, based on nothing other than my SWAG, may be slowing performance due to periodic synching :

•	Corporate Exchange email and associated security administrator status

•	Amazon App Stores and related apps as noted above

•	Skype

•	Bobsled

•	Hotmail

•	Facebook

•	Swiftkey 3

•	All of the free games from Google Play that my kids had downloaded (app 10)

Now granted, that doesn’t leave much on my tablet compared to before, but the performance is back, both for apps and Chrome browsing. I have no idea if it’s related to anything I deleted, or if it will still degrade over the next three weeks or so as happened before.

One thing I don’t understand (one of many, I guess) is how my Samsung Infuse with a single core processor and 512mb of memory can run all of the apps that I previously had on my Nexus 7 (with the exception of the Chrome browser) with no problem at all, while the Nexus got to the point that it seemed to be choking on itself.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nemrel:
Just Rooted & did a factory reset. Everything was going smooth. I installed a bunch of apps, then I would power down & restart my Nexus 7. Well after the most recent restart my tablet started to run slow & it took forever to just start-up. I decided to change one thing on my device, then reboot the thing. The change I made was disabling Google Wallet & going into my app stuff under settings. I went in & found Wallet, then I cleared the any of the cache sections to 0.00. When I rebooted everything sprung back to life the way it should be. Boot-ups only take 30 seconds & I haven't gotten any ANR Errors since. It's worth trying.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JeepJay:
Had mine for just over a couple of weeks. There is definitely an I/O issue. Check out these abysmal write speeds.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidnext:
I think remove some feeds from current and flipboard magazine might help. My was running fine until I add alot of feeds and it became slow down.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZanshinG1:
All devices using flash memory for storage have similarly awful write speeds, even the ipad.

It's not usually a problem except during concurrent operations.

There are tools in Android 2.3+ to minimize the storage issues but unfortunately most Android devs don't bother.

I cannot stress enough how much of an impact a badly-written app can have on an Android device.

My personal n7 is lag-free. I typed this in chrome on it.