[Nexus 7 General] bftb0:
Nobody has denied anybody's experience. If you say that stuff happens, I believe you.

off topic = irrelevant. But nice segue.

If that happens on a stock device with no apps that's been rebooted within the past few days, and there are no other pathologies involved (e.g. nearly-full or corrupted file systems), then *probably* there is a hardware problem involved.

Look, I get it. Plenty of folks just want to use their device, not worry about details, and have it work as if it were mint. And they want it to behave that way even after customization (adding random apps). But practical experience with a wide variety of computing devices reveals that performance problems always hinge on details - sometimes incredibly tiny and obscure details. Those "details" can be any number of things - "soft" (correctable) hardware defects, bugs in the OS software, user software that is installed, all sorts of stuff. And even for technically sophisticated users isolating the root cause can be difficult. Until some detective work has occurred, there is no justification to place the blame on any specific component.

BTW, I know how frustrating it can be. My old Android phone (rooted, OC'ed & CM 7 ROM) currently can not be operated with both the messaging app and launcher app locked in memory (It only has 190 MB of RAM!). So I get to choose between losing text messages or waiting 15 seconds !!! for the launcher app to repaint the first home screen after leaving a resource-hungry foreground app such as Maps or the Browser. If I try and set up the Android LMK to do aggressive memory reclaim, the device will occasionally enter a "thrash of death" where the LMK is killing off threads as fast as they are generated - and the whole device will go frozen for minutes at a time. So, yeah, I get the frustration.

That of course is indeed "my fault". I could go back to a factory stock ROM (Eclair w/ HTC Sense - ugh). But I don't want to. I want certain features, and I want certain apps, too. You might claim that's not comparable to a user having a stock ROM device with a whole bunch of market apps installed; but until those apps can be cleared of suspicion, blame cannot conclusively be laid anywhere.

It is what it is. Computers that do not exhibit load dependent performance problems do not exist. That doesn't make things anybody's "fault" - but it is highly unlikely that Google (or Apple, whomever) is going to send someone over to your house to figure out what goes on with your tablet.

So, moaning about a problem on the internet might make someone feel better for a few minutes, but at the end of those few minutes, the problem(s) will still be there.

And BTW I completely get it that if I were to be having a performance issue on my tablet, and I wanted to clear my 72 market apps from suspicion, it would take me as many as log2(72) ~= 7 binary bisection trials (remove half of apps each trial) to finger a suspect or clear them all from suspicion). Pain in the rear to be sure; but it wouldn't be any less work on a different device - Apple, Asus, HTC, Moto, Samsung, whatever. And if it were an intermittent problem? It might take a huge effort to isolate the cause. Way longer amounts of time than simply ignoring a second or two of hesitation in the UI.

But the OP created this thread in the General section, not the Help / Q & A section; was he even interested in getting help?

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