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[Nexus 7 General] CJHolderUK:
Well, I flashed 4.1.2 then the update because the 4.2 factory image wasn't available. Also, is this new;
[Nexus 7 General] sinple:
What's the 4th widget? I only have 3 widget
[Nexus 7 General] nolook:
Really loving the built in swype... Seems better than the latest swype beta!

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 General] Metallice:
I have to agree that the new notification bounceback behavior is really annoying.
[Nexus 7 General] Omar04:
Google now quick access is there look below there's a little circle swipe it up.
[Nexus 7 General] 416inversed:
Calendar, clock, gmail, and sound search.
[Nexus 7 General] drvon:
I like how gmail is zoomed out all the way and then you can zoom in. Why not add this feature to the stock email app as well?
[Nexus 7 General] coversnail:
Pretty sure you're missing the Sound Search widget, it was previously only available for users in America, more people may be able to access it now but some won't be able to based on where they live.

I'm not liking the new clock, the huge bold hour makes it look lopsided, guess I have some kind of symmetrical ocd!
[Nexus 7 General] NoirSnow:
one day of usage, it's running smooth like butter like everyone who used non-customed 4.1.2 to 4.2.

only complaint is stick mount doesn't recognize the folder mounted to and the slow to update apps. but it's only been a day so I'll wait for the app dev. to do update for 4.2 by the end of weekend. :good:
[Nexus 7 General] SteveC485:
I've used an app called no lock for a long time, through several android versions. It turns the lock screen off, except for when you reboot. After a boot you swipe away the lock screen, when you pop the power button to wake the screen, there is no lock screen. Works on 4.1.2 downward through 2.0. For those who don't like the new lock screen, this may be worth a try.

Personally, I'm staying on Sgt 7 with Franco kernel. Frankly, 4.2 does not appear to be worth the effort until w see a 4.2 CM based ROM or two.
[Nexus 7 General] mingolianbeef:
I really wish Google wud be wiser about updates. We have a fragmentation that is beyond appalling. Y don't they release a package update that has specific modifications, and do one major update per year. We shudnt go from 4.0 to 4.1 to 4.2 in 6-8 months. It widens the gap, and it forces ppl who dont know the wonderful xda community to shell $200 on a new phone or tablet.!
[Nexus 7 General] cubarican84:
You all sound like a bunch of whiney *****es, what were you expecting from 4.2? Key in on the ".2". This isn't android 5.0 and if you don't like it , tweak it or run whatever other ROMs nuts your riding'. Geez.lol
[Nexus 7 General] NicotineCanada:
I did a full fresh stock install of 4.1.2 again.

screw 4.2. Horrible.

Apps like words with friends and hanging with friends crashed more than i'd like on 4.1.2...it got worse on 4.2.

THEN, ontop of that, the one major reason I bought a nexus 7 - my first android device ever, was that there was good sixaxis support (yes, it needs to be rooted) and emulators.

Well, the sixaxis app can't use bluetooth properly at all on 4.2, it fails, BUT then also takes out wifi at the same time. turning it off then on doesn't resolve it. a full reboot of the tab is needed.

So, back to 4.1.2 I went. For a major release, 4.2 is pretty pointless and sloppy. Being a quad core tablet with a gb of ram, i expected smoother/better. I'm pretty disapointed at this point. I have a few days to return it, which I will probably be doing.

for being a "major" release, it's horribly buggy on big stuff (i'd consider broken bluetooth pretty big), it lags, and apps (like i posted above) crash more than 4.1.2.

Releases are suppost to fix bugs, not bring instability and break piles of apps. The average user shouldn't have to tweak or run custom roms just to get a stable and smooth experience.
[Nexus 7 General] Toast95135:
So far everything is great, it feels faster and another then before. A few things take a little getting used to but overall I'm very impressed. The battery life sends to have improved nicely (I have a second user set up as well), and my pdf magazines load much quicker now btw. Before it would take 3-5 seconds to make the image crisp after zooming in (it's really high resolution) and now it only takes about a second.

Edit: I've been running stock since launch btw.
[Nexus 7 General] ptesmoke:
each of those games and six axis along with my emulators work flawless on 4.2. maybe your fresh install wasn't so fresh?
[Nexus 7 General] NicotineCanada:
i'm not the only one with the issue. lots of others on here last night posted about the sixaxis issue locking up bluetooth AND wifi also.....

i did the upgrade from 4.1.2 and it had issues, i reinstalled 4.2 wiping the tablet out completely, same issue. i'm not the only one.
[Nexus 7 General] dakoookie:
There are some serious cases of placebo going on here I suppose... :banghead:
[Nexus 7 General] rmm200:
For an admittedly big release, I am extremely pleased with 4.2

Multiuser, and sharing with my daughter, makes it for me.

I do wish most of the unhappy users had waited a week before updating for the app folks to catch up.

All Google is responsible for is a solid release, which it looks like they did. If an App breaks - blame the App maker.
[Nexus 7 General] borrowedchief:
I am revising my earlier statement. I hate the new lock screen. It looks... Unfinished. And no options.

And the pull down notifications are a joke. I have to pull all the way down the screen, just do it can bounce back up. If I don't, then it just closes. Ugh
[Nexus 7 General] poondog:
I love it, new features are awesome and its ultra smooth.

But one thing pisses me off. The multi user thing makes new folders on your sdcard. Every time you wipe, it makes new folders and moves your stuff. So it wipes the wrong things and my stuff is gone lol

Just a warning, I have gone to CM10 now while I think about what I'm going to do

Sent from my Infected ViperVivo
[Nexus 7 General] jeslas:
Font rendering is much better in 4.2, sharp and clear.

The gesture keyboard doesnt work, maybe cause i have a danish keyboard?
[Nexus 7 General] hayabusa1300cc:
I don't have multiuser on yet, but I did UN root abs my performance is good, thank you

.:Sent from my Sprint Galaxy Note II:.
[Nexus 7 General] wynand32:
Yes, the much better font rendering was actually the first thing I noticed. Blacker, better contrast, and smoother. Very nice.
[Nexus 7 General] eager27:
Sounds a bit like overkill when all you need to do is settings >security >lock screen >/none. ?
[Nexus 7 General] Cmmts:
Yeah, this is really annoying, hopefully they will address this asap. other than that I'm fine with the update.
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
Bluetooth is always a problem imo. It sucks. I think it's almost an after thought. Every device I've had I've had some sort of bluetooth issues. Htc for instance uses their own bluetooth stack and stuff like the sixaxis controller won't work. And I always have difficulty streaming music over wifi to my stereo bluetooth headset. Works great on my phone using 3G or LTE but god forbid you try and save some data and use wifi because then it skip fest.

They need to stop ignoring it imo.
[Nexus 7 General] :
One good thing I noticed with 4.2 is that my Nexus 7 now recognizes as being charged when plugged in to the Innergie 3 amp USB charger, with the stock Nexus 7 cable.
[Nexus 7 General] coversnail:
One very minor annoyance I have is that when you install an app from a third party source which has a few permissions you can't press the install button straight away, you have to scroll through the list of permissions till you reach the bottom (and then the next button turns into install), or press the "next" button multiple times.

I can understand why they've done it so you make sure you look carefully when installing non-market apps, but I'd rather not have Google holding my hand!
[Nexus 7 General] veryjiggy:
It is surprising how sloppy and utterly useless this update is.

Lock screen? Royal mess.

Keyboard? Has never been good anyhow, so swipe or no swipe. Doesn't really matter. I just fail to understand why on earth do I have to make 2 keystrokes to add a word to the dictionary??!! And in the middle of it, things keep jumping all around on the screen. Atrocious!

Multi-user support? Might be great, but I couldn't be bothered.

Daydream and other random features? Pointless, to say the least.

Battery life? Probably slightly worse. (Though I haven't tested properly)

I really hope someone at Google is listening and they release an incremental update real soon. I almost wish I could go back to 4.1.2, but I have an OCD to remain at the latest possible version. Ugh.
[Nexus 7 General] xips:
Overall, 4.2 is good. Faster operations. Some of the changes will take some adjustment. Art is subjective. The lock screen does not suit my taste.
[Nexus 7 General] dakoookie:
Stating something without having tested just to have some more negative arguments it is kind of stupid, huh? :cyclops:
[Nexus 7 General] mrchiggles:
Multi user has saved me having to buy a new tablet for the wife so I'm very pleased! Shame they broke the bluetooth though!
[Nexus 7 General] veryjiggy:
You probably did not notice the word 'properly'. From my use yesterday, it *does* seem slightly worse.

I think not reading half of the things someone has written is stupid imo.
[Nexus 7 General] dakoookie:
Oh really, well maybe you should do it properly first and post afterwards.
[Nexus 7 General] veryjiggy:
Why? Now you are going to dictate how this thread works, who can post and what all? Let's not do cat-fight over here. This isn't 1984.
[Nexus 7 General] Stanerefor:
I really like the keyboard, I think it's the best added feature.
[Nexus 7 General] sinple:
My flash anime on Firefox can't work anymore and puffin and boat are struggling to even load. Future for anime looks bleak
[Nexus 7 General] johnchad14:
Posted earlier about crap battery after update...after a long recharge to full, seems to be back to normalish again. 2% lost in standby in 8 hours now as opposed to 50% earlier. Unsure as to what caused that, but I rescind the complaint~
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
Yeah I've always heard cycling the battery (letting it drain to 30% or lower than recharging it the whole way) several times will calibrate it for maximum battery life. Also keep in mind that you either updated or re flashed, both of which breaks the battery calibration. I gotta cycle it a few more times before I can properly judge battery life
[Nexus 7 General] DZonikg:
I am not updating becaue of no tablet UI..i dont need giant phone like.
[Nexus 7 General] ynrozturk:
It seems to have made things a bit more sluggish for me. I came from stock 4.1.2 ROM and was running Nova Launcher - everything was perfect. Now when I press the currently running apps icon to close out of them, then click to get out, there's a pretty big delay, and a few times Nova has even crashed. It gets better after around 30 seconds but it's still annoying.

Same thing when you unlock the tablet. At first it's sluggish, then it gets better. I think this may be a problem with Nova Launcher, though.
[Nexus 7 General] sgtpepper64:
I'm with you guys on the notifications pulldown bounce. The first time I saw it, I freaked out and I swiped down again thinking it was going to close.

Lock screen does seem a bit sketchy at times. The smaller lock pattern grid is a bit disappointing.

The other thing I don't understand about 4.2 is why in 4.1.2 my GPS seemed to work fine, but now I very often see "Searching for GPS" in the notifications. It's annoying and I don't understand why it's saying it so much. Maps seems to be showing where I am, even in my office, but it still has the icon in the notifications bar. :confused:

My tablet is unrooted, completely stock.
[Nexus 7 General] innov8ion:
Could you be more hyperbolic? Everything I've seen says the Nexus 7 can support Miracast. I think it will be supported soon (like within 3-6 months). Besides, Miracast certified tv's and set-top boxes are still quite rare in the market.

- "So... Miracast and the Nexus 7?" - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1987695

- "Does Miracast Require Dual Band Wifi?" - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=34162548

- "With Miracast, Nvidia's Tegra 3 enables wireless displays" - http://gigaom.com/mobile/with-miracast-nvidias-tegra-3-enables-wireless-displays/

As for the 4.2 update, I'm fine with it and don't have any issues. I don't get why people are so excited about the lockscreen. I mean, it's a stupid lockscreen and it works just fine.
[Nexus 7 General] Ramstein:
/me I have to say I'm a bit deluded about this JB 4.2 release :

The smaller icons in the dock bar

Slicker graphics / icons

The clock

The notification system, left-side = notifications: right-side = quick settings.

Gmail

Dreamday (Oh, My... only few widgets support it...)

are all minor improvements IMO.

New keyboard mode - got sick of using it just after a couple of minutes. Not so friendly, I'd say...

Besides that :

Miracast not working...

Photosphere not working...

Well, these two were something a release could have been worth of being installed! :(
[Nexus 7 General] jim1h:
For gods sake, photosphere is useless without a rear facing camera...
[Nexus 7 General] xips:
My main hit is I use Owner info for contact info in case an honest person finds my misplaced unit. In 4.2 it went to a one line crawl within a limited window. I had my name, email address and 3 contact phone numbers in there. As it is, it takes way tooo long to crawl the contact info. I had to revert to the Contact Owner app and even then the squeezed format spacing with bold font of 4.2 limits actionable info.
[Nexus 7 General] PMOttawa:
Sorry... but you're wrong. We have every right to be *****y about this update. And given the cage match they're in the middle of with iOS they should be thankful we're giving them this insight. Too bad they didn't test it out with XDA people before they released it.

The 'reviewers' who actually got to try it out just fawned all over these features without being particularly critical. Seriously, I never saw one critical remark in all the online reviews about the lock screen widgets or the keyboard. Not useful.
[Nexus 7 General] innov8ion:
I just have name and email address. Additionally, you added three contact phone numbers? Why not your SSN as well? ;)

I think the one line scroll makes the lock screen look cleaner but to each their own.
[Nexus 7 General] coversnail:
Lock screen widgets weren't present in any of the handsets given out for people to review, they became available via an OTA update the day before 4.2 was released to the public.
[Nexus 7 General] taffypride:
...IF you use TWRP...

I use ClockworkMod Touch and I DID lose everything on my memory card when I updated - I know this because when I rebooted back to recovery and tried restoring my backup, I was told there are no backups available and Clockwork doesn't let you choose where to look elsewhere for a backup.

Not saying it is an issue with 4.2, but more User Error for failing to backup the memory card to the pc first before upgrading....
[Nexus 7 General] veryjiggy:
Completely agree. I think on XDA, a major chunk of us love Android. And when so many people are so critical of the update, there must be something wrong. Fawning over anything that Google ships out is fanboyism at its worst. I really hope Google realizes this update is more bad than good.
[Nexus 7 General] coversnail:
You haven't lost your backups though, they are still on your memory card, you just need to wait for Cwm to update, flash TWRP or move the files manually
[Nexus 7 General] scott_doyland:
If you upgraded via OTA or via downloaded file then the sdcard is not wiped. if you installed a factory image it is wiped.

So if you just upgraded rather than wiped/installed then the cwm backups will be somewhere.

I guess you will need to move them to where cwm thinks they should now be (but currently are not) if you want to restore from them.
[Nexus 7 General] xips:
:laugh: I know Murphy's law well.

With all that screen it still looks clean. If less is more, why the bold font? I just miss the function that served my needs.
[Nexus 7 General] DrEzkimo:
I wish it could delete home screens, google, why do you hate me so :(
[Nexus 7 General] coversnail:
Out of interest does anyone find that their speaker seems much louder since updating? Mine was always on the quiet side even at full volume, now it's much louder.
[Nexus 7 General] ynrozturk:
I'll have to check that out.

Earlier today, my system was pretty sluggish as I explained earlier. Now it's flawless. I don't know what happened but... *knocks on wood*
[Nexus 7 General] Bogdan-xd:
I have not been that impressed with this update.

I'll start with what I like:

App switching seems faster and the new animation is pretty nice.

The clock font is pretty nice too.

There are some small improvements to framerates in some games, but not very substantial.

Unfortunately, 4.2 takes some steps back in other areas:

Most annoyingly, the battery drains faster and takes noticeably longer to charge. This is both on the Nexus 7 and the Galaxy Nexus.

Quick settings are incosistent. Most are links to settings pages (useless since you could get to them with two taps before as well) but airplane mode is a toggle and brightness opens up a slider, which is different than the slider you get on the settings page.

The clock app is terrible on tablets. It's obvious it was designed for phones only. How does Google hope to lure developers into making good looking tablet apps when they're not bothering to make their own new apps look good.

It's nice being able to add widgets to the lockscreen, but it would probably make more sense to choose these widgets from the lockscreen settings after the tablet has been unlocked than straight from the lockscreen. The flashing square inviting you to add widgets whenever you unlock is pretty annoying.

Finally, it's pretty disappointing that there's no Miracast on the Nexus 7. For me at least, this was one of the most important improvements in 4.2, but feels more like a Nexus 4 feature than an Android 4.2 feature.
[Nexus 7 General] JohnnyL53:
What do you expect?

They are engineers mostly. Visual design gets short shrift. I'm actually surprised that the N7 and N4 look as nice as they do. They obviously have their best guys working on the next big version update and left this .2 update to possibly summer interns or worse.
[Nexus 7 General] aestil:
I don't like the left side/right side notifications for the N7 in portrait mode, it's too close together and i frequently get the wrong one if i just do a casual swipe.

The quick notifications are very dissapointing. Those should have been toggles on/off. i have no interest in going to settings to turn bluetooth on, I just wanted to turn bluetooth on etc.

Lockscreen widgets are a good idea, but I don't like the implementation.

I don't care for the new clock really, but I'm not really upset about it.

Overall performance on the device seems quite a bit worse. Lots of dropped frames, lag when turning on and off, rotation lag and bad animation when rotating.

I installed 4.2 from my locked, never been rooted N7 and did adb sideload method. I was very disappointed with the results.
[Nexus 7 General] JohnnyL53:
Summer intern majoring in design from Pratt or Parsons.

---------- Post added at 01:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:39 PM ----------

Well, don't you think a little more communication with the development community ahead of time would have prevented a lot of the app compatibility issues? Apparently there are only a very few people at Google that know anything about how important it is to smooth out the rough edges. I think most of them were working on making the N4's glass screen curve off the edge and no one else was left to look this update over.

---------- Post added at 01:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:45 PM ----------

Really? What if all I want to do is photosphere my head? would the front facing camera handle that?
[Nexus 7 General] brendonwardmusic:
Only got my n7 today, updated to 4.2. So far loving it, one thing I'm missing is battery percentage on the notification bar, am I missing it somewhere on the settings or isn't it part of vanilla android?
[Nexus 7 General] nlaplante:
So far I'm liking the new updates. I noticed some bumps here and there:

- I experience more lag than on 4.1.2 (in app & widget drawer particulary)

- more launcher redraws

- tried to move an app from a folder to another; there was a brief freeze and the app's icon was left floating on the screen; staying at the same place while I swiped desktops. I could not tap the app to open it. Like a ghost icon

But overall I love 4.2, especially

- multi user

- better fonts

4.2 is a keeper here. Just need to get used to it
[Nexus 7 General] coversnail:
It's never been a part of vanilla android for some reason. Though you can see the percentage now by pulling down the quick settings
[Nexus 7 General] jonny68:
in all the time ive been on XDA and using Android this 4.2 update appears to be getting the most complaints, i certainly won't be updating anyway until all these issues are resolved.

---------- Post added at 09:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:52 PM ----------

As i said previously i haven't updated to 4.2 nor will i be either until these issues are resolved by the devs.

For those complaining about the lockscreen, i can recommend this one

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobint.locker&hl=en
[Nexus 7 General] nlaplante:
I just noticed that if you had checked "Stay awake" in the developer options prior to updating to 4.2, you'll have to disable it in order for Daydream to kick in. Just my 2c
[Nexus 7 General] BBOOZE:
Apex Launcher not working. Really displeased because I spent a lot of time getting things just the way I wanted and now have to revert back to Go Launcher, which I cannot stand.
[Nexus 7 General] joveezy:
The new update seems like a nice improvement to me. The tablet seems generally smoother overall, and multitasking is definitely a bit quicker. I use my tablet to view PDFs for my school books and the built in PDF viewer seems faster as well. Plus, my battery seems to last longer.

I am running completely stock
[Nexus 7 General] Cmmts:
I seem to be one of the very few that are happy with the update. I don't experience any lag or slowdowns either on my N7 or GN. I like the new clock. Yeah, the widget animation when turning on the device at lock-screen is unnecessary, but I can live with it. My N7 seems to be a bit uncertain about the brightness it should set... Otherwise everything seems as good as before or better. Wouldn't return to 4.1.2 I was given the choice.
[Nexus 7 General] threi_:
People like to post impressions on battery life and responsiveness hours after they update, without giving the system time to rebuild the dalvik cache.
[Nexus 7 General] Skillfulshoe:
I wish we could set the "Colors" part of daydream to our background. That would be so sweet. Maybe in the future some ROMs will have it.
[Nexus 7 General] bkmaracas:
Hmm Just had the slowest Google now experience ever, was a spoken word search, tried to correct it with keyboard but it just hung and result was really slow to appear, never seen it so bad. Even Google now menu took age to come up. Only one user at the mo but noticing number of slowly laggy things. YouTube was crap earlier never had that problem before.

4.2 coincidence or .... Conspiracy!!! Am sure the Google guys will Get onto it. Feel 4.2 is optimised as nexus 10 OS and has been squeezed onto n7 hoping it'd be ok. They'll fix.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 General] sark666:
For me it's slower, bluetooth audio is borked, and for whatever reason I can't log into gmail.com via chrome. And it does seem laggier in general.

Even though it's minor, that bolding of the hour is the ugliest thing I've ever seen. It has to be breaking some typography rule or something. Just unprofessional looking.

Also, I noticed gps isn't currently working for me, keep getting 'searching for location'