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[Nexus 7 (2013) General] littleromeo:
I won't say it's awful but I'm disappointed though. It's one of the most awaited android updates, and google didn't deliver anything substantial for normal users(except for the revamped dialer). I'm not really a fan of the new white icons and removing data transfer indicators for wifi hit me hard. If they thought it would slow down the device, they should have given it as an optional feature disabled by default.

A quick look at changes from wikipedia and how it affects me

Refreshed interface with white status bar icons/text, ability for apps to trigger a translucent navigation and status appearance.

Limited to nexus 5 but with some tricks you can have the treat too,but I don't like GEL

Optimizations for performance on devices with lower specifications, Low RAM device API

Nexus 7 flo is not a low end device

Wireless printing capability

How many use their tablets to print? I don't even have a printer

NFC Host Card Emulation for emulating smart cards

Used rarely may be mostly in US. In India for me, most don't even use cards, let alone smart card emulation.

WebViews based on Chromium (feature parity with Chrome for Android 30)

Okay it improved some things

Expanded functionality for Notification listener services

No Idea about that.

Public API for developing and managing text messaging clients, ability to specify a default SMS app

This thing has become more of a hindrance

New framework for UI transitions

I don't believe it helps end users much.

Storage access framework for retrieving content and documents from other sources

Though a good feature, many apps didn't still didn't start using this.

Sensor batching, Step Detector and Counter APIs

No Idea

"Immersive" full screen mode, software buttons and status bar accessed with an edge swipe gesture

It's useful(for me)

Audio tunneling, audio monitoring, loudness enhancer

No Idea

Built-in screen recording

There were tools to do that before but it's native now

Native infrared blaster API

Who uses infrared these days?

Expanded accessibility APIs, system-level closed captioning settings

No Idea

New experimental runtime virtual machine, ART.

Experimental but everyone says it's revolutionary material. Wait and see.

Bluetooth Message Access Profile (MAP) support

Never used bluetooth on my device

Disabled access to battery statistics by third-party applications

Is that an improvement? Apparently not.

Settings application no longer uses a multi-pane layout

Multi pane layout? I dunno anything. Setting app seems just normal for me.

Just like everyone I thought we'll get a major 5.0 release with a revamped UI especially after seeing ios 7
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] petrochemicals:
This is the worst in games. I am constantly pulling up the notification bar when I touch the top of the screen in a game, such as Delver where you have to touch the top to access and switch your items. I am going back to 4.3 just so this feature will be gone as it is ruining my gaming experience. Sure it's nice in an eBook or comicbook app, but in games it is a complete hindrance. Obviously the designers did not think this feature out at all as the device UI popping up over a game anytime the top of the screen is touched ruins just about every touch based game (which is all of them) out there.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] SurferLTU:
No flash support... and browsing became kind of lagy on some heavy sites.... :(

I want 4.3 back
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] sparksd:
Use this with Dolphin for Flash:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=47958533#post47958533
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Matrix_19:
Flash is working

Thanks :)
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] SurferLTU:
Thanks mate!

In any case I miss old good AOSP browser...
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Kubaz:
Since updating , every time I waqke up my nexus 7 from sleep mode, my wireless connection gets stuck in off mode. I need to reboot the tablet each time to get my wireless connection back. Any thoughts on why this is?
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] evoer:
Mine too,don't know why but you can toggle airplane mode on and off instead of reboot to fix
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] hagensieker:
A lot of people are saying they wish they hadn't updated or lost something in the update. My response to that is "roll back".

I agree that upgrades aren't always upgrades for everyone. I personally like 4.4.

I have a Garmin Swim watch that I recently upgraded the firmware on and it went from great to goat. I had to contact the company to get the previous version firmware and roll back. Now I'm happy.

Every upgrade isn't for everyone. Roll back. Give it some time to mature then try again. With Android it's so easy to roll back.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] prstorero:
It's only easy to roll back if you have a nexus :P so it isn't necessarily android as a whole.

prshosting.org
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] lomonic:
Personally I've never looked back. KitKat resolved touch problems, improves performance a with Art, love the GEL, speed improvements, battery life improvements and smooth interface. Its new and it made my nexus 7 so much more useful. Unlike fruit, everyrthings stays the same but slower on older devices.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] foxmeister:
Everyone?

I certainly didn't think so. Especially once we knew that this was going to be a point update, rather than Android 5.0.

The iOS interface was effectively unchanged for 6 major version numbers. Android had its iOS 7 "moment" with Holo on Android 4.0.

No pressing need to change in my opinion.

Regards,

Dave
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] littleromeo:
I was talking about the initial rumors even before 4.3 was released.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] juliatan:
On KitKat since last week. Because of failing OTA I clean flashed factory image with no wipe. After off course did a cache partition wipe.

Issues:

1-less battery (active+screen-on time), is now 8 to 9 hours. With 4.3 it was 11 to (often over) 12 hours. Now in idle state 1 to 2 percent an hour, before a whole day or night (8 hours) 0 to 1 percent. With GSAm (root companion) all apps behave the same as with 4.3 so I blame KK for now.

2. Once every while a bit lag using very light on resources Nova Launcher and opening or closing apps is often a bit slower, even lag occurs now and then.Had to reboot twice when touchscreen and keyboard were hardly responding anymore. After reboot solved, but still annoying. That all never occured in superfast 4.3.

3.Widgets now take 20-25 seconds to load on boot. In 4.3 that was 5 seconds max.

4. Chrome is slow, battery draining (hot device), unstable (crashing and stopping loading websites after a bit of browsing). Has no text reflow when zooming. No night (or better inverted) view for reading at night or reading for longer times. The for me ideal browser AOSP killed by Google. Chrome is an inferieur browser in Android. Forced using the best of further only second tear browsers (Dolphin and Next) on Android market in comparance to AOSP imo.

5. Flash is now working again with thanks to other xda-tread. A lot of websites I visit especially from US still use flash

Well there were some more tiny bugs which I now can't remember.

All the press-buzz about the so called better optimalisation and better battery life makes the above very dissapointing. A lot of people expressing to have better battery life and also a lot like me experience the contrary. The last thing I can do is to flash the factory image again, but than with full wipe. Too much trouble. Back to older 4.3 not an option. I'll stick with the bit worse Android for now.

Sometimes an fresh new OS has to grow and become accu-friendlier after a few days. That was also often the case with my current and former Android-phones, so I hope that happens also with my Flo on KK.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] adit9989:
Android 4.4 KitKat degrades video playback performance

Did you see this ? (read the source PDF file).

http://blog.gsmarena.com/android-4-4-kitkat-video-playbacks-a-step-back-over-android-4-3-jelly-bean/
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] thevuman:
Wait, no flash support at all? Or does the sideloading flash plugin still work?
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] humanbean:
KitKat has been awesome. Smoother, faster, better battery, great new look and OK Google. KitKat is amazing.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] oldblue910:
The plugin itself force closes on KitKat but someone came up with a workaround. I don't know anything about it though.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] purple lady:
It's for Dolphin browser only - see this thread - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2548001
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Matrix_19:
It's working only with Dolphin and with the workaround posted in the link above
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] HammerStrength:
Transparent

Well you can get the transparent notification and acess bar here!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THnJ8exsxCM

ps. my parents purchased this tab but i have to wait 'till Christmas to open it!
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] stanglifemike:
I personally feel that KitKat is one of the best updates Android has had in years! Sure, it isn't a drastic theme or layout change, so many people will complain about it for that reason alone. This update is actually HUGE for the entire Android OS though! KitKat will help to alleviate one of the biggest problems that Android has faced for years, FRAGMENTATION! The fact that older devices with lower specs can now run the same version of Android as brand new devices with top of the line specs, is simply awesome!! In the past, while every updated version of Android was an improvement, it was actually causing the problem of fragmentation to get worse. Google has now finally put an end to that, or at least a step in the right direction! They are now moving forward with Android, instead of sideways!

I'm not one to keep my primary phone for more than 1 year and I always have a tablet that's less than a year old, so I don't have the need/desire to run the latest version of Android on an older device. I know that many other members of XDA are the same way as I am too. For Android users who are constantly buying new devices like myself, this update may not seem that beneficial at first glance. Those people just need to take a look at the big picture though, because alleviating fragmentation is a major benefit to everyone!!

This will bring more app/game developers to Android. It's no secret that developing an app for IOS is easier much easier than Android! With the majority of Android phones now running the same version of Android will be a huge help. There are already games in the Play Store that, once opened for the first time, will download the appropriate content for that particular device based on its hardware. So with that already being done, and the majority of devices running the same software before long, Android will see a vast quality improvement in apps and games. We will also see many more companies start to develop for Android before long!

For anyone who was/is unaware of of how fragmentation has kept a lot of companies away from developing for Android, spend a little bit of time searching the web for info on his topic. There is a LOT of interesting information about this issue, as it has been an issue that has plagued Android since shortly after Android's debut in to the world! Every Android user should view KitKat as a HUGE step in the right direction for Android! As long as Google continues to alleviate the issue of fragmentation then Android will do nothing but grow in popularity for the end users, the companies developing applications, and manufacturers of the devices!

I, for one, am extremely excited about the future of Android!!

SwiftKey'ed from my '13 Nexus 7 FHD using XDA Premium HD
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Ponsonby_Britt:
Awful, eh?

Well, two weeks into the update, and virtually no touchscreen issues, no random reboots, a little longer battery life, and some native apps (the default e-mail program, for instance) are given nice new makeovers.

Not perfect, as there are still third-party apps that close now and again, but Google did their homework on this update. YMMV

---------- Post added at 10:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:41 PM ----------

Well said! The "absolute thrill" of thematic updates and new layouts always fades over time and it is then that performance begins to count.

KitKat is a winner.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] sparksd:
Still trying to find what's eating the battery. Wiped system cache, disabled all synching, and turned off WiFi but still randomly/inconsistently burning 3% per hour while supposedly asleep. Using App Ops I have now disabled wakelock for every app and Google service so I'll see if that helps. This is new with KitKat - before KitKat I would have been singing the battery time praise but now it is completely undependable.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] hughlle:
I don't know if it's kitkat or a chrome update, but well, my tablet is near useless now in some regards.

I picked it up when i woke up today and quickly opened up some tabs and started reading the news, and everything just went pear shaped. There were no other apps open or such, yet it would repeatedly require 4 or 5 touches per action. It was almost impossible to close a tab. Trying to scroll down a page or zoom in often just led to the tablet opening a link on that page. I have never experienced something so laggy and unusable. Going to look at it a bit more later, and if the issue persists, flashy flash time.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] cowisland:
After updating to 4.4 I also noticed a higher battery drain on idle, and it does look like the tablet basically does not go to sleep at all about 2/3 of the time (1/3 of the time it goes to sleep and has great stand by battery life). This is clearly a change from JB, as before the update it went to sleep property say 95% of the time. Now I can easily lose 20% of battery overnight, and I would not be surprised to find it shut down when I get back from work. That's a problem.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] The S3 Kid:
Yes but part of the reason people upgrade to a new phone is to get the latest and best operating system. Where's the incentive to upgrade if everyone is on the same OS? This is a bad move from Google and they'll sell a lot less phones in future because of this.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] stanglifemike:
I totally disagree!! Those who want the latest version of Android quicker than others will continue to buy Nexus devices, just like they do now. Nexus devices will continue to get updated before other devices, no one is saying that will change. Most people do NOT buy a device simply based on the version of Android that it comes with. If they did, then Nexus phones would outsell other phones by a large amount! Most people buy a new device for a better display, bigger display, better processor, better camera, bigger battery, etc. Everyone knows that flagship devices will eventually get upgraded to the latest version of Android, more devices will get upgraded too now thanks to Google's latest endeavor. Nexus devices will still take priority though, as they should since they are Google devices.

SwiftKey'ed from my White Sprint Note 3 via XDA Premium
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] The S3 Kid:
HTC phones had KitKat ota before my N7 2!
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] roy5000x2:
I wouldn't call the update aweful quite yet, but this has been irking me.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/29/googles-android-4-4-update-seems-to-hurt-video-playback-performance-on-nexus-7/
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] nash211:
A couple of apps don't work now, will try another reboot see if it clears up
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] oldblue910:
It's probably a problem with the apps. They may have some compatibility issues with KitKat. That's the price you pay so sometimes when you have the latest version of Android before 95% of the rest of the world! haha
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] nash211:
Thanks I thought it might be
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] ccrows:
It's too early to tell how KitKat will work on older devices. I doubt that my Motorola Atrix sitting dormant on my dresser will ever see KK. Heck it never even received ICS. Gotta love how much Motorola supported their "Flagship Phone". I'm so done with Motorola.

Personally I look at KitKat as nothing more than a marketing gimmick. With that said if my Atrix gets KitKat, then OK I would be beyond impressed.

As for your comment about "Fragmentation", I'm fine with a little Fragmentation. If I want to live in a locked down IOS World, then I'll buy Apple.

^ However I doubt that will ever happen since I like Apple just as much as I like Motorola...
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] laur3n.newm4n:
I'm not sure why you replied to me? I wasn't bemoaning lack of transparent nav and status bars.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] prstorero:
I believe that was the Google edition version, though.

prshosting.org
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Darakian:
I've had quite a few problems as well. Facebook has been the big crasher for me.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] JASN_DE:
Sometimes i think a lot of users can't discern between the OS not working correctly and non-system apps crashing. My base 4.4 ROM works perfectly fine, the only things not working or creating trouble are additional apps.

Furthermore, yes, Google changes stuff, which breaks some apps. E.g. the 4.4 battery stats issue. And no, apps not working with ART isn't a reason to throw a hissy fit. It's still experimental and some apps don't work with it. It's in the now hidden developer settings for a reason.

The sense of entitlement on xda is horrific. No wonder some devs lose their motivation.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Darakian:
Right... I get that facebook it not a google app, but from the user perspective; I buy a tablet, I download a pretty major app, I update because google says "Yo, this update be good n' stuff" and then my apps start crashing. I don't think I'm entitled to a perfect world of computing, but I'm simply given feedback into what seems to be a large blunder on google's part.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] godutch:
And how do you know it's Google's fault, it might be that fb uses some non standard things that might work in jb but break stuff in kitkat? Or it could be totally unrelated entirety and just some fb data became corrupted. Fb doesn't crash for me, though I hardly use it anyway.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] LoVeRice:
Just wait for 4.4.2 lots of bug fixes & stability improvements
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] godutch:
There are unstable hidden apis in Android, Google tells devs not to rely on them because the may change without notice, when apps that use these apis anyway break it's not Google's fault. Major devs get previews of upcoming new android versions, it's their job to see if their apps continu working, not Google 's
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] gc84245:
Kit Kat has been great so far. I don't need a new look for the sake if it or features that I can get through apps. What I want is a smooth and stable OS, and in that regard 4.4 is a nice if subtle improvement over 4.3.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Shipmate:
I have installed a custom Unofficial cyanogen KitKat 4.4 operating system on my old Galaxy S i9000 and the phone works far better and faster than it did before.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] egzoti4en:
Lost the root option and took me about 2 hours to get it back so i also think that kitkat sux it was much easier before. Last time it took me just 5 minutes.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] AlderCass:
How is that KitKat's fault? Rooting is a third party process, not a stock OS feature. (And for the record rooting was just as quick for me as it ever was, just flash the latest SuperSU)
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] gc84245:
Yep, took me about 2 min to root kit kat, and most of that time was waiting for it to reboot a couple times.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] sabre31:
Companies are out of ideas and just do minor updates. KitKat to me is just a paint job from 4.3 just like iOS 7 is for apple. They release minor changes.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Aizukaori:
I'm liking 4.4 so far. I've had the occasional FC (usually on boot, i.e. "Gmail has stopped." or some random other application) and precisely one unexpected reboot. Otherwise, it's been smooth sailing and the OS operates very, very quickly, especially when any memory-hoarding apps in the background either prevented from launching with Xposed Bootmanager or hibernated with Greenify.

Still might switch to CM11 when a stable build becomes available though.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] HammerStrength:
Sorry I misunderstood.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] ccrows:
I'm betting the FP reader is gonna be an issue for the Atrix. I'm sure it wouldn't be the only one either...
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] player911:
IR Blaster is used because lots of phones are bringing back IR blasters to use as Remote Controls. The S4, One, and G2 (probably others) all have IR blasters... and I use mine daily. I have both of my HDTV's programmed in home and awesome for when I travel... and bars. So having that ability on AOSP is great.

KitKat also ditched the AOSP Messaging app in favor of HangOuts. So if you want to text, download Hangouts. I use it on my G2 and it's nice. I group chat, SMS, MMS, video chat, etc.

Kitkat is ok. I'm not 100% excited for it. I have it on my Nexus 7 but I'm not in a huge rush to get it on my G2. The coolest thing was the transparent status/nav bars but we've had those forever using custom roms.

Plus Android doesn't need a total refresh like it did back in the day. Android, I think, has evolved into a semi-permanent state. It's been-there-done-that with Tablet Mode, Phone Mode, Phablet Mode. I think Google is pretty comfortable with the design where we probably won't see many more dramatic GUI changes but rather just tweaks here and there.

One thing I would like to see is video out > chromebook mode
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] ratatouille:
I think I soft bricked my i337M. I would need i337 MK6 kernel from Telus to see if phone revives. Anybody who has it to flash with ODIN?

The phone starts in download mode, stays in TWRP blue logo, and when I try to boot, the screen stays at Galaxy S4 and In yellow in the upper left part " warranty bit : kernel "

Thank you
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
You can get the stock firmware from sammobile.com
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] ratatouille:
I have tried to download for the last 16 hours and at 7%
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
Have you tried here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=41172390
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] ratatouille:
I hesitate to try as the file is called i747????
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
I see what you mean. I wouldn't either
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morgan150:
Hello,

I've upgraded my contract with Vodafone early this year to a HTC One in black. For months now I've been stressing because I really want to Root my handset. I'm scared if it will void my warranty?

All I want to know is that If I root my handset CAN! i unroot to default rom so the mobile looks like it has never been tampered with before?

Many Thanks

Adam
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] anshubham:
Hello fellas!

This is the new 4.4 Kitkat font for our xperia 2011 series.

Contains 2 fonts:

Roboto Condensed

Roboto Condensed Light

Recommended - Roboto Condensed.

Screenshots - See attachment------------First two are RobotoLight-----------Next are RobotoCondensed.

Flash via CWM or TWRP, no wiping needed.

- Anshubham :cowboy:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] toyzitox:
This worked the emoji font color?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] anshubham:
I think it doesn't...try and see....make backup of your default fonts.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ILPsycho:
Hello ,

I bought the LG G2 1 month ago .

the lg felt and i cracked the screen q_q..

i fixed it but now i cant wake my phone up with the tap twice option .... only turn off but not wake up ...

what can the problem be ?