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[Nexus 9 General] madsquabbles:
how can you post in xda and say you have no reason to root;) i always root asap because you never know when they'll lock a device down - verizon galaxy s4 for example and it think some people are SOL on the verizon m8.

getting a modded kernel will get you some dang good battery life. i've been using USBhost's kernel and now getting 8hrs of OST web browsing. movies and book reading have always been good, it's just been browsing that was killing the battery.
[Nexus 9 General] GibsonSGJ:
Just ordered my white 32 gig at the local best buy today. I was playing with floor model, an early Oct build, and it was flawless. Nearly flush buttons but they clicked nicely. Reminds me of my HTC One X with nice low profile buttons. I still have that phone rocking the latest CM12 nighty. Needless to say I'm pretty excited for the N9!​
[Nexus 9 General] y2whisper:
I know for shame. But at the same time its nexus, locking them down so far has been unheard of. For me I just found it working like a beast so far. I may start to dabble in that when 5.0.2. Drops.
[Nexus 9 General] JebyDroid:
just got my LTE!! I love it! It has some lightbleed on the top side but it's barely visible during normal operation. Love the WiFi speed and general smoothness of the system. The display it's simply amazing!
[Nexus 9 General] wifesabitch:
Bought it day one and I'm still loving it. No issues.

If I could choose I make it a touch smaller (8") and lighter, and obviously a microSD in there. But as of right now I think this is the best tablet out there.
[Nexus 9 General] USBhost:
66k on antutu

You bet its the best!!
[Nexus 9 General] borchgrevink:
Now, if only 5.0.2 fixes memory management...
[Nexus 9 General] idelgado782:
I've had my LTE version for a week now and I must say im happy. As other posters have said, I wouldn't have minded an 8" but that's about it so far. In don't seem to have lightbleed and the volume and volume rocker are a bit recessed but I can definitely tell them apart and use them without any issues.
[Nexus 9 General] johnbrighton:
Nexus 9 goodness.....

Had my 32GB LTE for 5 days.....loving it!

Had ZERO problems with it - and it is a premium tablet. Will lpay around with ROMs when they have matured a bit more.

My ONLY negative thing is that I REALLY want HTC Sense on it:good:
[Nexus 9 General] ChristianJay:
Great tablet. While the screen on the Ipad retina looked better and the battery life could be better, I like this tablet very much. I can't wait to start installing ROM's to really see what it can do.
[Nexus 9 General] veej:
I got mine about 3 weeks ago and is very pleased with it. Was going to wait for the LTE version but the Play Store was showing "Coming soon" forever in my country (still showing that BTW) so I figured that I can always use phone to get data so I went ahead and bought a WiFi version.

I have no flex issue and light bleed is very minor. The buttons are recessed but I have no problem pressing it. I have also really grown to like all the latest improvements bought by Lollipop and 64 bits. The size is also just right.

Now if I can find a decent cover....
[Nexus 9 General] tu3218:
Absolutely loving my nexus 9. Its so fast and such a joy to use. Of course battery life could be better, but I don't sit there and browse on chrome for 5 hours at a time. I do spurts of an 1-1.5 hours throughout the week and it always lasts me so I'm happy.
[Nexus 9 General] Jsunn:
I have my 32GB Black N9 and I love it. The screen is great. This is my second one as my first had light bleed. Overall silky smooth. The buttons are a little recessed but not bad at all.

-Jason
[Nexus 9 General] GibsonSGJ:
I received my white 32gb Nexus 9 from Bestbuy.ca in Atlantic Canada last week. I don't have the serial number because the device is at home but it is a very early October build. I'm happy to say it feels very premium coming from an N7 2012. There is no light bleed that I can see and if the back flexes, I can't see it. The buttons are very low profile but they all "click" nicely when pressed and don't require much force or effort. They remind me of the buttons on my old HTC One X which is still kicking around after two years. All and all I love my N9. No stutters and performance is amazing. Battery life has been pretty good depending on what you do with it. If you like you're tablet naked like me and are looking for a nice sleeve, check out Begoos on Etsy (Sorry can't post links yet). I received mine in Canada from Latvia in 7 days flat. Fits really nice and is extremely well made!
[Nexus 9 General] majordallas:
I have only one complaint, and that is you have to side load the Amazon Instant Video app. Otherwise I love the tablet and having T-Mobile's service ius a plus!
[Nexus 9 General] AllanJacques:
Well, I love mine! Almost no lightbleed and absolutely no hiccups whatsoever!
[Nexus 9 General] malafifty90:
Nexus 9 WiFi sand color.... I love it :cool:
[Nexus 9 General] del1701:
Had mine a week now, there's no light bleed and the battery is great ?
[Nexus 9 General] TenderloinShadow:
I love this thread

Seriously, I don't get all the hate towards this tablet. Nearly every criticism of it is barely noticeable.

Full disclosure, I have one of the first models manufactured, serial number HT4A-.

The back panel squishiness? It's only noticeable if you're actually testing it for weaknesses. In normal use, it's barely noticeable.

The light bleed? I only see it during the boot animation. Movies, games, web browsing, etc, never notice it.

I even got the keyboard folio (found a really great deal on amazon, wasn't spending $130 on that thing), and now I basically use it as a laptop replacement. My regular laptop is a heavy gaming rig that I'd rather just leave on my desk.

Short summary: I LOVE this tablet. I have used it nearly every single day since I got it, it's amazing, and I don't intend to stop.
[Nexus 9 General] kendrick8997:
I agree. This thing leaves nothing to be desired. It's quite the perfect device!!
[Nexus 9 General] borchgrevink:
Nice tablet, but the lag possibly caused by memory management is killing me. Hope it's fixed in. 5.1.
[Nexus 9 General] liquidsuspension:
The light bleed thread and all the RMA's had me scared, but I took the risk and ordered mine (an Amazon warehouse special, probably a return). The buttons were flush with the side, and light bleed is noticeable if your in a dark environment on a dark background, but never noticeable in real world usage. So I fixed the buttons and I love it. I'm not having lag issues or anything. I have nothing to complain about. Super smooth, crisp screen, lovely audio. My nexus 7 is over there getting jealous ;)
[Nexus 9 General] RayLovesick:
Brand new LTE owner here. Absolutely great build quality, no defects that I can find.
[Nexus 9 General] borchgrevink:
EVERYBODY gets lag, even Google acknowledge this. It's a bug in Lollipop.
[Nexus 9 General] sjrixon:
Had mine for 4 days.. Have to say I'm loving it!

I've come from a Transformer 201, which was always a little slow. It was a real shame, I tried everything to get more life out of it, I ran it for 3 years so it can't be bad, but it just wasn't hacking it anymore.

The Nexus is quick.. The screen is amazing to read on, everything looks so vibrant and clear. I'm not seeing any light bleed or bad buttons, I'm also really pleased I went white, the back just doesn't show fingerprints. I figured I'd miss my keyboard from the prime, but so far in portrait mode the screen is suck a great size that typing is a pleasure.

Onto the screen size. I was worried about the smaller size, but I think it really works. I use this to read, review and create documents, it's a work tool not a media player. For this kind of thing it just works.
[Nexus 9 General] Dark Jedi:
Just picked up the N9 and must say I am impressed. Seems my light bleed is very minimal and all the buttons seems to be fine. Guess I lucked out on mine. Never realized how big it was but with my old age my N7 was getting hard to read. Now my son will get my N7 and must say as old as it is it still preforms great. He's been eyeing my N7 for awhile. I think I will be happy with the N9. Love the feel of the back cover. I hope the dev community picks up but heck stock it runs just fine.
[Nexus 9 General] rolling_thunder:
Ok, so i just registered on here to post this because i just recieved my new 32gb white nexus 9 from amazon yesterday. So this is my first post and i want to say first off that this seems like a great support commumity for everything tech related, i appreciate everyone sharing information on all the new devices and software out there.

On to my nexus 9. Its serial number HT4B7JT. Its definatly got light bleed, the buttons arent flush, they stick out and are tactile, but have a tiny bit of play in them. The back dosent flex but has an ever so slight ripple, i guess, right below the volume button.

These issues arent enough for me to return it, they are all very slight, but if youre inspecting it with a microscope youll notice. Otherwise, if it wasnt for these minor things this would be an epic tablet. Lollipop is awesome, screen is great, fast as balls, and just looks beautiful in general. Got 6 hours of heavy use screen on time yesterday. I do love this tablet.

I think some of the criticism is overblown, but google really needs to clamp down on production to not give people something to gripe about. Holding it next to my wifes ipad air, that thing is clearly more "perfect". If google could fine tune production a tiny bit, this thing would blow ipad out of the water. Just my take.
[Nexus 9 General] Dark Jedi:
Must say the camera on the N9 is a lot better than my wife's N7 2013.
[Nexus 9 General] polish_pat:
I wanted to follow up on my previous post.

I've now had this tablet for a few days and I can say I am quite happy with it. In September 2014, i bought a Dell Venue 8 Pro because I always though Windows was far superior on a tablet than Android or iOS. At the time of purchase of the Windows tablet, i was hoping something would happen to the Microsoft store, that apps would start coming, thats devs would start coding, especially that Microsoft announced mid last year that they would crack down on garbage app that you have to pay for, but no, I was wrong. 2.5 years later and the Microsoft store is still crap, still empty of good apps but full of crap apps. So I bought the Nexus 9 to replace it.

Anyways, I was a bit worried about my Nexus 9 because the first thing that happened when I took it out of the box was the back separating from the screen...bad first impression. Today I can say that my bad impression is slowly dissipating away. The tablet is super fast, the battery can last me 2-3 days on heavy use, with LTE most of the time when i'm not home. I can still see a slight discoloration on every screen on a 2mm band because of the screen bleed but the rest of the screen bleed doesnt show on other parts of the screen, only on black backgrounds.

I bought a Orzly tempered glass screen protector and it's very thin so it arrives flush with the screen edge. Also it has much better oleophobic coating than the stock screen, my fingerprints dont show as much. As for the fingerprints on the back, well i'll just have to get used to that, no biggie.

Of course I would love a nexus device to have a great camera, but I guess Google will work on implementing that on a phone before they do it on a tablet. I did a few benchmark tests, and I have to admit this thing rips through the leaderboards. It beats every single other device on the market, including the Shield. There are a few things that annoy me about stock Android, i'm so used to a Samsung phone that has things like a "reboot" option in power menu, or being able to modify toggles in pull down menu, but right now i'm working on Rooting this and installing a few apps that could give me what I want...until xposed is fully compatible with Lollipop, I'll just be patient.
[Nexus 9 General] bits3rpent:
Love it

Got mine about a month ago.

Some lightbleed, and is a fingerprint magnet, but I do not regret my purchase at all.

Screen and speakers are amazing, it is blazing fast.

Highly recommended.
[Nexus 9 General] RockySuarez:
I got one but I am planning to root it soon
[Nexus 9 General] Migamix:
someone attempted to tear me a new one for calling it a finger print magnet . I still stand by that statement and the bucket of ribs I'm eating with the same hand... anyway, in that regard , I got a matte screen protector, and while reducing the glare, I have no issues with fingerprints now. may want to look into that you oily person you :P
[Nexus 9 General] Dark Jedi:
The back is a fingerprint magnet. I am looking at them right now on the back. That being said I can life with the fingerprints on the back because the material they use feels so gooooooood when I touch it lol. Face facts our fingers has natural oils and some materials shows the oils better then others. I see fingerprints on the front also. Think that person was just being an anal fan boy lol
[Nexus 9 General] djpaik:
I had this for past 3 days and I like it so far but I'm not too sure if I want to keep it. It gets bit heavy when I hold it with one hand, and mine gets pretty warm on the top right corner. However I love the speakers.... and the os. But I might switch over to iPad mini or air 2 but well see.
[Nexus 9 General] GibsonSGJ:
I've had my white 32gb wifi for almost two months now, and i have to say I love this tablet. Sure, the volume up button is almost flush, but all the buttons are nice and clicky. The back is solid with only one small area that makes a slight click if you accidentally push it the wrong(right) way. The white back looks amazing with the aluminum edge and doesn't seem to be a finger print magnet at all. The size is perfect for web browsing and social media. I frequently watch Netflix, Youtube and downloaded Mp4's with MX player and I really can't understand what all the fuss is about the screen's aspect ratio. It looks and sounds amazing and the letterboxing does not detract from the experience at all. Battery life for watching video is frigging fantastic! Sure you can kill it in 4.5 hours with unoptimized Chrome browser or a game, but I'm happy with it.

Regarding light bleed, I can honestly say that I would never have noticed any bleed what so ever during regular use of this tablet. I would never have even looked for it if it weren't for these forums talking about it. The only time I can see light bleed is right after powering on the N9 before the screen dims.

Overall I think this is a wonderful piece of hardware that has been over criticized by a lot of people expecting some "holy grail" of tablets because of the price and spec bump with this generation of Nexus devices.
[Nexus 9 General] djpaik:
You guys should get some slickwrap on the back. I'm still debating if I want to keep the tablet but if I do I'll probably buy one for the back.
[Nexus 9 General] fabbe50:
This tablet is wonderful for work, games and streaming Netflix, YouTube etc.

Light bleed is only noticeable darkgrayish colors and doesn't bother at all during movies and gaming. Lollipop has a bit more than i expected and im quiite happy with how it is, though I'm a bit bothered that you can't remove unused toggles from the quick settings menu and of course I love the addition of having so much better control over notifications. Can't wait for more updates on lollipop with fixes and such, it has big potential, well as long as Google doesn't go the Apple route of course. Also I'm really happy that I waited the extra time to get the LTE version of the tablet, makes it easier to do internet related work on the go and that's well worth the extra money. I can truthfully say that this is one of the better purchases I've done in a long time.

But so far I'm overall happy with what I bought! [emoji2]
[Nexus 9 General] Zwambo:
Hi :)!

Nice to read your post! Made me actually thinking of buying it!

2-3 Days on heavy usage is superb! Thats what i was hoping for :p!
[Nexus 9 General] borchgrevink:
How much SOT and how much browser usage?
[Nexus 9 General] fabbe50:
I can't say a specific number, but usually it can go a whole day (12h) with almost constant usage, this also depends on what activity and screen brightness you have. I run with screen brightness at 30% and do some gaming and a lot of work. Internet usage varies, but since I got my Nexus 9 I'm up to like 70-100 GB of internet data. A lot on mobile data but mostly on Wi-Fi.
[Nexus 9 General] Scott:
Likes it!

Has room for improvement from the UI perspective. A little but lag / hesitation here or there but I know how to fix that pretty easy.
[Nexus 9 General] borchgrevink:
And how would you fix something that's caused by mem management bug?
[Nexus 9 General] Scott:
Your making an assumption what I saw was caused by memory management.
[Nexus 9 General] BigJPNut:
Please tell me there is a Clean Rom in the works????

Edit: I see there is! Exciting news....
[Nexus 9 General] Scott:
Oh yes, for sure!

I am experimenting now... Hoping 5.1 drops soon! :highfive:

Wont get started until 5.1 is out. No point in putting working into an obsolete Android version, ya know?
[Nexus 9 General] USBhost:
Can't wait to test it out!
[Nexus 9 General] Scott:
OMG, thought it was just me! I was worried I was gonna break it! Why did they package it so tight???

Still love it though! Even with moderate light bleed this tab is the BOMB!
[Nexus 9 General] 3's&7's:
I received my Lte variant last week; digging it. I don't see the performance impact of encryption at all with the Denver chip, built for this duty. Build date was Feb 2015 and no defects; swapping between a unicorn beetle case (play) and the nexus BT keyboard folio case (work).

Running cm 12 / twrp perfectly. 2015 Nexus line (all) = dysfunctional led lights ...wtfbbq. ?
[Nexus 9 General] polish_pat:
I donno man!! I got scared and almost told the lady i didnt want that unit! But so far so good. No problems except a little light bleed under the camera
[Nexus 9 General] Zwambo:
Hi can i ask what serial u have?

Thinking of buying one :p! But I want to be sure its a non defect one.
[Nexus 9 General] GibsonSGJ:
Trust me, I've seen just as many new ones as old ones with the same "defects". I have an old one that's nearly perfect and there have been sand ones with the same old recessed buttons. You just have to order one and see what you get :)
[Nexus 9 General] Zwambo:
aight thx :)!
[Nexus 9 General] NJ_RAMS_FAN:
anybody come from a Tab S? My 8.4 just broke. :( the battery exploded. I would get another Tab S, but maybe I tried the Nexus 9. but I was watching reviews the screen isn't as bright of course tab s is amoled..
[Nexus 9 General] USBhost:
Not bright!!

Its too bright!

I had to mod the kernel to allow

You to go lower!!
[Nexus 9 General] 3's&7's:
ht51pwv00280 / Build date: 01.27.2015

I have another one coming this week; my kids took it over and sold the ipad air, lol. Hopefully another success story with this second unit.

My only complaint is that custom rom's are really still in their infancy for the LTE varaint. Dirty Unicorns has been super solid; extremely fast.
[Nexus 9 General] bjacks12:
I just bought mine on Sunday(Black, 32GB, Wifi) and I love it so far.

It's a December build and it does have some light bleed, but I'm ok.
[Nexus 9 General] Turbo Brian:
Picked up my 32gb black nexus 9 couple days ago. Figured at 50 bux off it was worth a shot even though I dont really need it; I like to play with tech. For reference, I have a shield tablet and surface Pro 3 for comparison. I was a little hesitant due to a lot of negative comments about quality. My December build seems to be pretty good. No Squishy Back©, minimal light bleed, and buttons that are serviceable. Actually the buttons are better than my shield tablet. Stick out about the same (could stick out a tad more) but the nexus buttons have a tactile clicky response to presses unlike the mushy buttons on my shield.

I don't have small hands so I find this size awesome. It feels better in hand than my shield and certainly more so that my surface. I believe it weighs more than the shield but it sure doesn't feel like it. Better weight distribution I suppose.

Usability so far is great. Very fast and responsive. Only had it a couple days and still loading some stuff on it but I'm not seeing any lag. Runs as well as my shield and certainly way less lag than my note 4 (kitkat and touchwiz).

So far not regretting the purchase. I can see this being my daily consumption device and the shield more for just gaming. The SP3 is more of a laptop to me and I pull it out when I need to do some work I don't want to turn my gaming pc on for; and for drawing; and testing windows 10. Maybe if I got one of the bad ones, I'd be singing a different tune, but I like my nexus 9.
[Nexus 9 General] Zwambo:
Thx for your comment on this :)

You have the comparison between all those tablets and still you say the nexus 9 is good, that satisfies me :)!

Makes me more confident on buying one :p!
[Nexus 9 General] Chyeo1979:
Love my Nexus 9, but has given up hope that Android will ever be as polished as iOS in terms of smoothness, stutter-less in operation.
[Nexus 9 General] USBhost:
Have Hope man!!
[Nexus 9 General] bjacks12:
It's already there
[Nexus 9 General] Scott:
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Once again, agreeing with [MENTION=5501864]USBhost[/MENTION]...

Android 5.1 is there. Its magnificent on my Nexus 6.

I hope they update Nexus 9 soon. Android 5.1 is so smooth its like night and day between 5.0.x

Edit: And I thought 5.0.x was smooth! :)
[Nexus 9 General] NJ_RAMS_FAN:
Haha. Yes. I got a nexus 9 and it is nice and bright. I don't missed my Tab S. Im also liking the 4:3 ratio. I was against it.
[Nexus 9 General] Scott:
I cant quite get used to the 4:3 aspect ratio yet... Im close... But not quite there...
[Nexus 9 General] bjacks12:
I have no problem with the ratio
[General Topics] silrosriv:
I've been experimenting with a lot of conductive materials for a while, but what I found works best for a fine tip stylus is a 2.5 mm headphone male connector. Or 3.5 mm will work also. The best part is that the connector is already conductive enough. You don't have to attach it to anything conductive, or wrap wire around it. Here's a picture of the one I made for myself. I used a 2.5 mm jack and made the body from an old radio antenna that I cut up. It's extremely light. I'm using it on my s5 so I don't know how great it will work on other screens.
[General Topics] D5S:
That is so cool!

I have been a Galaxy Note user for quite sometime but have been stuck on an old model because they did away with removable batteries... I use the S Pen work work all day pretty much every day and I work in a low signal area so I change out batteries at least once if not twice or three times a day. Yeah, I'm a heavy user.

Anyway, I have been looking for a fine point stylus to replace my S Pen so that I can get LG's new G5 (removable battery) and just use Google Keep with Google Handwriting to keep my notes... So far my search hasn't turned out well.

This stylus you have made looks like something that may be just the thing.

I will definitely be testing this.