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[Nexus 7 General] kennethwendo:
Using the stock 4.2 after upgrade from 4.1.2 and seems fine except for one big problem; my STK just disappeared. Tried to have the problem to app info but the options are greyed out. Testing app preference does not work either. For a major release 4.2 has, on overall, not impressed me much thought it has some great stuff. My STK is really important though so I will most probably downgrade to 4.1.2. Until bugs are resolved....
[Nexus 7 General] gkarthik16:
+1

The poor update has forced me to unlock and root my N7 and install CM10.
[Nexus 7 General] marsyeti:
At first I liked it cause it looks good and feels better, but after several days, I'm experiencing a heavier battery drain than before. Anybody feel that too?

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
Yeah I am experiencing heavier battery drain. I'm wondering if adding some lockscreen widgets will increase battery usage, after all it does on the home screen. So i shut off my lockscreen to see if it helps, I'll report back later
[Nexus 7 General] kieso:
I have a weird problem. Sometimes the entire screen swipes to the left and there's a black screen then it swipes itself back in. Its annoying when I'm playing a game. Anyone else?
[Nexus 7 General] AngeleDei:
Seems to be draining the battery faster for me as well. I get a day out of it, but no more than that and that is not heavy use.
[Nexus 7 General] harise100:
Browsing through the thread, I'd say even the last hardcore ignorant must admit, that being root isn't optional, but necessary.

I know a couple of people whos N7 was ****ed up by the update and who always told me how bad and evil rooting is.

Since they have no Titanium/CWM Backup they now can either live with a broken tablet or lose all their settings and data and start over!

Muuuuuuahahahahahahaaa!!
[Nexus 7 General] :
That battery life doesn't seem too bad.. That's about what I got on both 4.1 and 4.2.
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
Nope unfortunately, turning off the lockscreen hasn't helped battery life. Something Google changed must be draining it. Hope 4.2.1 comes soon
[Nexus 7 General] clintonroche:
Widgets use more battery.....so anytime they update (turn on your screen) they use more battery. I have noticed a little more battery drain since going to the update, but nothing I can't handle.
[Nexus 7 General] Nospin:
I don't know what caused it, but my horrible 4.2 battery life took a complete 180 and now I'm getting some great performance.

I was gone for a few days so the tablet was powered off on my desk. But when I got back it was like an completely different device. I have had it on since 6:30 this morning and I just hit 89% at 11:50. Compare that to just after the update when I would watch battery drop every few minutes. Weird.
[Nexus 7 General] player911:
I don't see what the big deal is with 4.2? I'm getting great battery life and everything just works. Somethings are different but they aren't broken. I heard Bluetooth is pretty bad which is a major bug but my Bluetooth devices are working fine.

Camera is a change. I miss having a small image of the previous picture and a quick link to gallery.

Things are just different. Everything works though. No frequent resets or anything outlandish. A few tweaks and it'll be perfect.
[Nexus 7 General] voyager_s:
I think I've figured out what was causing me major problems with lags and force closes on my galaxy nexus.

I had been running different animation setups with the windows animation scale at 1x. Transition Scale at .5x. Animator duration scale at .5x also.

I never had this problem when I was on 4.1 with same settings but it appears to have been the cause of my slowdown problems here on 4.2.

Now I have changed all 3 animation to same settings of .5x and my GOD, the galaxy nexus is flying smoother than ever!!!

I think perhaps because 2 of the animation had different speed settings to the third one and it was choking up the launcher and UI systems on the GNEX somehow. That's my theory anyway. Its not as bad on the nexus 7 with same settings but I've also noticed little slowdowns sometimes. Will match the settings there also and see.

Phew! Love my GNEX again.
[Nexus 7 General] jt.one:
the transitional speeds shouldn't have that big of an impact on the system IMO. most likely a placebo effect.. I have transitions set to 0/0/0 on my gnex.. now that's flying... loll
[Nexus 7 General] voyager_s:
Like I said....this was never an issue on 4.1 with same settings. Somehow its an issue here with 4.2 on the GNEX in particular I THINK.

I've noticed big improvements since I matched up all 3 transition settings. Perhaps it could be placebo. Only time will tell. Its only been couple of hours and all good so far. :thumbup:
[Nexus 7 General] Capa1970:
The only issue that I have noticed on my daughter's Nexus is its inability to connect to Wifi. Does anyone know whether there is a fix to this issue?
[Nexus 7 General] tcat007:
That seems odd, I've connected at home, work, McDonalds... Are the networks showing up in settings/wifi? Tried connecting to a public one? Entering the right password? Keep wifi on during sleep "always"?
[Nexus 7 General] khaytsus:
Swipe from the right side of the screen to the left.
[Nexus 7 General] grouch3k:
Bad News

Called Google support about Nexus 7, Miracast, PFT3000 problem. Level 1 didn't know about the feature. Level 2 couldn't figure out why the feature was not on my tablet. Level 3 said the feature is on the Nexus 4 - not quite ready for the Nexus 10 - and NEVER going to be on the Nexus 7. The main reason I bought this tab was for this feature ( I have poor eyesight ). Thanks for nothing Google! How about reimbursing me for the Tablet and Netgear adapter I bought because of your false advertising! :mad::mad::mad:
[Nexus 7 General] rmm200:
How about giving us some examples of the false advertising you have seen?
[Nexus 7 General] Ponsonby_Britt:
My experience with 4.2 was probably typical in the sense that there were random restarts and some apps didn't perform as well as they did under 4.1.2. Just unlocked/rooted/reverted to 4.1.2 and things are good:)
[Nexus 7 General] khaytsus:
The Internets said so, you can sue over that, right?
[Nexus 7 General] voyager_s:
Well...it was an interesting theory but it was WRONG! :mad:

Oh well back to the drawing board. I just can't understand it. 4.2 is a joke in terms of stability on the galaxy nexus.

I'm gonna flash back to 4.1 at some point when I get time I think.

At least I can still enjoy 4.2 on the nexus 7.
[Nexus 7 General] techlifeweb:
I'm actually pretty happy with my Nexus 7 after the 4.2 update.

I read this morning that turning off syncing of Google Currents helps with lag. Seems crazy to me but if it helps who cares?

http://www.talkandroid.com/141899-does-your-nexus-7-lag-after-the-4-2-update-theres-a-fix-for-that/

Easy thing to try if you have the lag issue.
[Nexus 7 General] snarlytaz:
4.2 is OK once you get used to the idea of partitions for multiple users. I don't think its lost anything from 4.1 and like the continuing advancement of the OS. Of course I like custom Roms and PA has been awesome and seeing what devs do with 4.2 will be fun. Anymore I think that is why I am such an Android fan.
[Nexus 7 General] spiralpen:
Had 4.2 several days now without a single issue, I love it and there is many good new features, have 32gb nexus 7 never rooted
[Nexus 7 General] dinesh690:
It's fairly similar to 4.1.2 for me with a few extra goodies e.g multiple user and lock screen widgets but I find it laggier than 4.1.2. Not by much tho
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
Yeah I love 4.2 honestly. Fix the battery life issues and its perfect imo
[Nexus 7 General] zarych:
I really like new notification bars, notifications and quick settings, other things is good too.

Only 1 thing is useless for me - multiple user accounts, i give my tablet to other people and it's normal. But i'm sure this option is useful for other people.
[Nexus 7 General] Ken_P:
I'm a big fan of the new notification and quick settings. As others have said, if they can get the battery life back to where it was on 4.1 it would be just about perfect for me.
[Nexus 7 General] Mad Bastard:
Nexus 7 4.2 wi-fi problems

Yes since i updated to 4.2 from 4.1.2 my battery life has been cut in half and the inability to stay connected to wi-fi has made my nexus 7 useless..

wish there was a way to roll back to 4.1.2 without modding..
[Nexus 7 General] Hicksy994:
Yeah my battery is simply terrible after the update, 10 mins on dead trigger and the battery drops 20%
[Nexus 7 General] WibblyW:
Been much better for me since I bit the bullet and did a factory reset. Been adding apps back slowly to understand what affects battery life most...
[Nexus 7 General] mrnovanova:
I hate it. I'm just too lazy to go back to 4.1.2. The multitasking is awful. If I have updates running in the background it gets stupid sluggish and on a quad core device that shouldn't happen.
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
I think it will be awesome we just gotta be patient. It took 7 patches to gingerbread to get rid of the issues 4 for ics, and 2 for jelly bean so they'll get it sorted out.
[Nexus 7 General] hayabusa1300cc:
I don't use my nexus anymore since the updates, very slow, unresponsive. So yes, I hate! The new updates, they ruined my device. Just root and TWRP.

.:Sent from my Sprint Galaxy Note II:.
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
How our people having issues with it being slow and unresponsive? Mine was laggy until I couple reboots now it's faster than 4.1
[Nexus 7 General] innov8ion:
4.2.1 is faster than Usain Bolt on my GalNex.
[Nexus 7 General] Lodovik:
Terrible

4.2 in one of the worse update I've seen for a mobile device. It breaks a lot of things. Many apps won't work anymore, others are now buggy. I wish I never updated. 4.2.1 adresses some of the concerns but most of the problems are still there.

Just after the 4.2 update, none of my media player apps worked. My battery life was miserable (even with Currents disabled). There was lag like in versions of Android before 4.1. The Bluetooth stack has been modified and this prevents my Sixaxis and Wiimote controllers to work. I loved being able to use my Sixaxis in Android games and emulators. Now, I'm no better than with iOS.

The 4.2.1 brought the calendar fix (Google, how can you let a bug of this magnitude slip through?) and a little speed but battery life is still miserable. I'm losing about 1% per hour in sleep mode while another tablet with an i prefix loses only 1% per day. I'm under the impression that the 4.2 update was optimized for the Nexus 4 and not tested properly on the Nexus 7 due to the imminent launch of the phone.

Luckily, developers were quick to patch their apps around everything that was broken. I'm still waiting for the Bluetooth controllers apps to be updated but I know that this is something not trivial; it will take some time.
[Nexus 7 General] slybunda:
4.2.1 is fast and smooth but battery life has taken a serious hit compared to 4.1.2.
[Nexus 7 General] bstosnbata:
Are you guys getting random reboots? Sometimes i get stuck somewhere. And then it automatically shutsdown and i have to turn it on again.. :(
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
I was but I found out it was hd widgets causing the problem. If you got that installed kill it now
[Nexus 7 General] adil17:
I just updated my nexus 7 to the newest jelly bean 4.2.1 and I could not be any happier. I really love the new keyboard and quick settings pulldown bar and it is much smoother and faster. As of now, I haven't experienced any bugs with the update.
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
So I was getting random bouts of lag so I just put francos kernel on and honestly its faster than its ever been, so if your bootloader is unlocked do it!
[Nexus 7 General] kwabby:
I like it, has anyone tried the daydream, it's cool.

Thanks

Robert
[Nexus 7 General] Omar04:
Yeah got enabled while charging. :beer::D
[Nexus 7 General] Matt1408:
The gesture typing doesn't seem that good. No dirty words work, and even typing something like "sexual intercourse" corrects to "asexual interview"
[Nexus 7 General] Carbon_Rink:
So far I like it. Google is really on they game.
[Nexus 7 General] MerkurMan:
So far I'm unimpressed. Everything seems very sluggish and choppy. Pulling down the notification shade has even lagged for one or two seconds on occasion. WidgetLocker is very unresponsive, and I'll probably have to disable it until the devs update it. Swiping through homescreens is laggy, swiping through widgets in the app drawer is very laggy.

I am updating a 1.3GB game in the background, but that shouldn't affect usability this much. Also, I have it on the charger and battery percentage is actually decreasing!

My N7 was stock, unrooted, locked bootloader, and I updated via OTA.
[Nexus 7 General] altimax98:
I am 50/50 so far. I do love the quick notification pull down and I really live the user support. The keyboard and gallery and nice updates. My favorite part is the clock... I love that thing... Excellent design.

I have seen some choppiness and s swapping users, but essentially we are running first release software, expect a great speed boost on 4.2.1 or so. Also does anyone see a weird graphic tearing on the grayish popups? Its annoying as hell
[Nexus 7 General] irishrally:
It probably scanned your gmail and google + account and determined that was the appropriate correction :p:silly:
[Nexus 7 General] mingolianbeef:
So judging by the comments its a "don't believe the hype" kinda thing.??
[Nexus 7 General] borrowedchief:
Do not like

The new way the notification menu scrolls

Unlocking is laggy at times

All my widgets are refreshing when I unlock. Didn't notice this previously.

Like

New clock

Daydream

Lock screen widgets
[Nexus 7 General] milkk:
I completely wiped installed stop 4.1.2 then used adb to install 4.2 and it's like butter so far really smooth just getting used to the new stuff since I have always used a Custom ROM even the day I turned it on lol so the regular stuff is kind of weird to em. But then again I also have a Transformer Inifinity so this 32GB N7 is like a F1 car computer to my Infinity and it just got smoother. Home-screen seems kind of retarded and what's with some regular apps not working. Having the bottom dock thingie (forget the name lol) in the middle is weird lol can I have it back on one side or the other lol.
[Nexus 7 General] matrix0886:
...............I is confused. I see no quick settings icon on the regular notifications drop down (flipping down on the right hand side does bring in quick notifications, though...so is the icon supposed to be on the regular notifications drop down?), gmail only archives when swyping (already checked settings, and it is set to both archive and delete, but when doing it in either direction, it archives, no deleting) and there is no pinch to zoom.

About shows i'm running 4.2, and I seem to have most of the features (new lock screen which honestly, hate the set-up), widgets on lockscreen, their version of swype (seems fine so far), daydream (haven't looked at this yet), multiuser accounts. If it helps, I had to flash 4.1.2 via CWM, and did the same with 4.2 after doing a data wipe.

Overall...other than quick settings (which I honestly won't use very much, lol), not very impressed. Don't like the look of the clock on the lock screen, don't care for the battery and owner info display on the lock screen (before, everything was there, now it cuts it off and scrolls), but I do like the updated clock settings. That is actually nice. I guess if if actually used quick settings more often and had a need for multiple user accounts, then I would like it more, lol.
[Nexus 7 General] Idan73:
The best and only thing I like about this version of android is stock browser performance and flash and both of those don't even come stock lol. But sure run great though.

Best part, don't even have to rename 'browser provider proxy' anymore, so everything including bookmarks and tabs work great. I could swear stock browser seems speedier than rest of the rom. Not talking about actual heavy page rendering, but rather reaction time where everything gets in motion instantly.

Got 2.2 browser from gn deodexed rom and latest flash sideloaded.

Testing JKay alpha on GT-I9300
[Nexus 7 General] wjr002:
It's a failure for me. No Miracast. Still no Australian Locale and Local still gives search results in miles while Maps gives directions in km. An update and they couldn't even fix this. #fail
[Nexus 7 General] primetimelive:
Is there a way to add GPS to the quick settings pulldown? I can't seem to find it.

I wish they gave us the option of using two finger swipe to access the quick settings menu.

I'm liking the swipe on the keyboard so far. Have to use or for awhile to compare with Swype
[Nexus 7 General] coversnail:
There is no option to access quick settings from the notification pull down, this is only for phones, tablet users have to get used to swiping on the left for notifications and the right for quick settings. Not a big fan hopefully will get used to it.

Pinch to zoom isn't on by default in the new gmail. Have to go Settings > General Settings > Auto fit messages
[Nexus 7 General] oldblue910:
I haven't used Swype since February 2011 when I bought a Nexus S... mainly because I've only owned Nexus devices since then and installing Swype via that beta program is a pain in the ass.

Anyway, I am loving the gesture typing in 4.2. The big thing I like about it over my memories of Swype is not having to loop over letters if you wanted to signify a double letter. I'm still trying to figure out how our even if you can add expletives to its dictionary though.
[Nexus 7 General] mythamp:
Love to swipe! lol, google just stole one from apple (taking an existing app from the market and include it in as a "feature" oh and also the 360 imaging app)

Offtopic @all you root/custom rom users, I honestly gave up those after ICS launched and never looked back. Seriously just imagine the time you would save by not hoping and tweaking your device with just minimal improvements, Stock Jellybeans just works - my advice, stick to it and use that time to develop an app/learn C++/explore other more valuable things in life and let google send you the latest update automatically which works out of the box without any performance issues :)
[Nexus 7 General] Omar04:
This
[Nexus 7 General] volarchico:
I added a second user. That took a surprisingly long time for each step. And now my lockscreen takes forever to allow me to input my pattern or to switch users. Everything seems to have majorly slowed down. :(
[Nexus 7 General] Jordiharrison:
Adding a second user made my N7 super sluggish, hardly usable. Luckily, removing the second user fixed it.
[Nexus 7 General] NicotineCanada:
sixaxis app, when you go to pair a controller - it tries to configure/use bluetooth.

it fails, and then kills wifi totally at the same time.

disabling and then enabling wifi again doesn't help. full reboot of the tablet is needed to get wifi going again.
[Nexus 7 General] _dan:
I'm not sure if anyone has noticed but the horrible screen flicker is now eliminated. Unless I'm just really late... Lmao.
[Nexus 7 General] NoirSnow:
makes me wonder if these problems we found will show up in the 'stock 4.2' units push out in the nexus series. if the mass marketing campaign is to make consumers as early adopter, it'll be a tough sell down the road.:p
[Nexus 7 General] Omar04:
Most problems are because: Custom recovery, root and or tweaks. Compare a full pure stock N7 4.2 clean install vs a not pure dirty install, huge difference its like black and white.

The only real problem are some incompatible apps and that will be resolved soon when devs update their apps to be compatible with 4.2. That happened first time 4.0 came out.
[Nexus 7 General] biggiestuff:
I noticed is now the nexus 7 will charge on my Philips fidelio audio dock. Adi they must have changed something up with the charging aspect of the n7.
[Nexus 7 General] jim1h:
Loving it, stock no root, everything running smooth, battery lasting longer too.
[Nexus 7 General] jtc42:
Only thing I don't like so far is the tiny tiny unlock ring. Mostly because now its inconsistent with the Google now ring. Same design, different sizes... Looks weird...

Other than that, I'm liking it :D would prefer to have quick settings as a 2 finger pull down rather than different sides but can't complain :)
[Nexus 7 General] aLPaSLaN07:
As far as i remember from Nexus 4 videos , quick settings were opening by two finger pull down, not by pulling down on right side.. I use my right hand and normally I pull down from right side of the notification bar. Now that it opens quick settings rather than notification center . Thats a pain in the ash..
[Nexus 7 General] Omar04:
Nexus 4 no because smaller screen, also pull down once for notifications pull down twice quick settings or two finger pull down for quick access of quick settings.

In Nexus 10 is same as Nexus 7 because of bigger screen.
[Nexus 7 General] HellcatDroid:
Totally love 4.2!

The splitted notification thing is very cool, the multiuser feature is very well implemented, the whole UI feels way, way much smoother and "solid" than 4.1.

I do miss tablet UI - but all the nice new changes ouweight that.
[Nexus 7 General] jaZzyjeff818:
What's daydream?
[Nexus 7 General] HellcatDroid:
Settings > Display > Daydream

Basically it's a sort of screensaverish thingy that kicks in while docked and/or charging.

It's neat :)
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
I hope the lockscreen gets better over time. But for now, 4 lockscreen widgets, no third party support, no google play music widget anymore, and I still don't see a way to access google now. It was my most anticipated feature, but as of now I'm underwhelmed with it. Not a big deal on my tablet but when I was looking forward to this feature on my future nexus 4.

Other things:

Is it just me or are the launcher icons smaller? Could be me, I've been using nova for quite some time but thought I'd give the stock launcher a try

Quick settings are nice, almost kills the need for a custom rom. I have quick battery life access now, that's awesome.

System seems faster, and recent tasks menu seems really nice with its animations.

YouTube is still broken, I was hoping they'd return tablet mode to it but it still acts like a gigantic phone.

I only played with 4.2 for a little bit before I had to go to bed, I'll give a better review later
[Nexus 7 General] jaZzyjeff818:
Cool
[Nexus 7 General] danielsf:
To access google now on the lock screen you just slide your finger up from that small dotted white ring where the navigation buttons would be. Just like the way you would access google now when the tablet was on and you were in an app in 4.1.2, just swipe up from the navigation buttons bar. Hope that helps you :)
[Nexus 7 General] dalanik:
How does one set these??

Disregard, found it. :) Only 3 widgets for me, calendar, clock and GMail

So far I like it, it's 99% the same as 4.1.2, no big changes. The split notification bar and settings is not bad, but I hate how it bounces back. TSF Shell doesn't work anymore, and couple more apps.
[Nexus 7 General] coversnail:
The quick settings are a little annoying, would much prefer if they were actual toggles, I want to turn Bluetooth on not go to the settings menu, same for Wi-Fi. There's a mysterious blank space at the bottom right surely this could have been a GPS toggle? Or a silent mode toggle.

Other than that most things are OK , no longer get a washed out screen after watching a video which is nice. Gesture typing is decent even if it is impossible to swipe the word "too"
[Nexus 7 General] Janni3000:
Can someone make a few Screenshots?
[Nexus 7 General] jamadio:
The bottom right space is reserved for quick access to the alarm. Set one and you'll see the space occupied.
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
The quick settings are pretty much changing your habits, that's what's annoying about them but we'll get used to it eventually
[Nexus 7 General] shenyi:
I'm not too pleased with this update. Smaller dock icons, ugly lock screen with a clock widget I cannot remove. I'm going to downgrade.