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[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] IM0001:
AND Announced they have dropped their Server ARM project a while ago. They are focused on bringing out a good x86 cpu again as well as kicking some butt in the GPU realm again.

There isn't any ARM AMD cpu's coming out anytime soon. Right now it is all Qualcomm/Intel/Nvidia.

Also I have rolled back to 4.4.2 as 5.1 seems like it could use at least one more good OTA patch before it is ready for full use. Messed with it quite a bit with clean flashing/wipes and installing apps to Internal as well as SD, but after a bit of use for some reason the CPU would get pegged to never downclock from full 1.81Ghz (even if only on 1 core) but it would remain hot, burn battery, and overall make the tablet feel sluggish which is unfortunate as when everything is working normally, the 5.1 update is actually quite nice. (Though I do dislike the stuff they pulled out like the CPU Throttle, Miracast, etc.)

I'm sure it will get fixed in an OTA update but for now, I was used to the few glitches 4.4.2 had and can continue using that for the time being.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] moses_dx:
Intel is x86, that's why only Chinese brands use it. Even in kit kat this tablet is very laggy, even moto g is faster

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[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] madmatt2024:
If its a problem with the update then why isn't mine doing it? I upgraded to 5.1 and mine works fine, just a bit of lag in system setting. I didn't even factory reset. I was originally on 4.3 (had 4.4.2, didn't like it, reverted back) rooted with supertool and CWM recovery flashed. The upgrade didn't work with CWM so I flashed back to the stock recovery using supertool. Still on stock recovery and rooted with Kingroot.

Usage did fluctuate with CPU Monitor being the largest, still never went much above 50% at worst.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] mortuus82:
THE HELL DO I KNOW ???????????????????? Im not a developer that releases ****ty updates thats for damn sure ,all i know i had this cursed tablet over a year on kitkat never any problem thats why i never sold it and bought shield but now im tempted to do so but nvidia recalled them all so icant do that lol... all i know is that this update for me and many is a big piece of **** i regret i ever updated to this u feel ripped off as i did nothing wrong i was promised increased performance and stability, ive yet to see that..
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] madmatt2024:
Have you tried clearing the cache for NIVIDA Tegra Services?
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Bux1982:
Just updated mine to 5.1 and so far everything looks good.

Did a factory restore once the update finished since I always do to avoid problems.

UI is snappy, just tried out "Galaxy on Fire" for a few minutes, ran without a problem.

And of course it finally works as promised cause of the updated sound library in 5.x

Due to the mentioned problems i just installed CPU Monitor.

For me, everything is fine, no wierd Tegra Service eating up CPU performance.

For now, I´m pretty pleased with the update but curious if it will hold up.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] osmeroid:
Had Lollipop for my Tegra Note but......

Received 5.1 a couple of weeks ago and now it takes around 8 minutes to load from off while it optimises 120 or so apps! The first start after installation I expected but not every time!

After 4 days of one a day messages to Nvidia customer care they asked me to take out the sd card, yes, it worked and I got a quick start. At what cost? The last message said,

I quote "Thanks for the update. If you only have Android 5.1, please perform a system update. This bug was fixed in the Android 5.1.1 OTA update."

There you go, they fixed it! BUT..... Where is the damned update? I have checked the settings/update but nothing.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] GodOfPsychos:
well, it could be that they added this bug to the "fix list" for an upcoming ota 5.1.1 update. maybe in the next few weeks we will get that update once it's rolling out.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] IM0001:
With 5.x being a bit buggy for all devices that got it on the first run, I expected there to be some glitches on the first 5.X update. Hopefully we will get a pretty quick OTA that fixes the last few glitches that are there for those of us that do use an SD card to maximize app space and whatnot.

Overall until that OTA drops I am remaining on 4.4.2 as it still runs pretty darn slick and I still have no complaints about the abilities of this tab. For the price it still impresses me.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] osmeroid:
It may be improving?

Now on week two with Nvidia help, lots of questions but no solutions yet. They are still telling me I need 5.1.1 but my tablet with 5.1 tells me I am up to date! Nvidia have suggested a cache clean out which of course didn't work and seem to think there is a 5.1.1 update out there for the Tegra Note.

Anyway, I have removed all my apps from the sd card and reinstalled the ones I need onto the tablet. Then removed the card, gave it a full format on my pc and put it back............All seems to be ok!

Startup is now quicker than ever and shutdown almost instant. I have decided that I will only use my sd for storage and not allow any apps on there, perhaps will keep it running?
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] GodOfPsychos:
If there really is an update to 5.1.1 and nvidia says it should be out, then you have to contact the support of the manufacturer (EVGA, XOLO, Gigabyte, Advent etc) because they are the ones which get the updates from nvidia and are responsible for publishing it to us
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Bux1982:
I can only say it again.

I strongly recommend a factory reset right after the update.

Then restore from backup.

If u encounter any wierd stuff, factory reset again and restory manually, which is kind of a pain.

I did a backup restore and for me its workin fine.

I still dont have any battery problems. Just grabbed the tab which was layin around idle for roughly 48 hours and it only lost 11% in 2 days.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Shaky156:
Or someone can pm me a couple of logs, logcat and dmesg :D
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] slybunda:
5.1.1 is now seeding.

wonder if we will get android 6 ???
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] GodOfPsychos:
well. now i know what some of you guys meant by micro stuttering. sadly happens to me while playing the game "Deemo" :(
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Papa D.:
The first fix for 5.1? Where you're living?
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] osmeroid:
Bedford, UK
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Papa D.:
And do you have the 1640 device? Hope the next update will come to all, actually 5.1 has a lot of bugs and for lot of users seems the tablet unuseable.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] IM0001:
Quick Question. For those of you who install 5.1, do a clean full wipe, everything appears good then things start getting wonky after a time, are you using an SD card or not?

I feel that after doing all the wipes and install, its only after I move a bunch of apps to the SD card that things start to act up again. But I haven't spent much more time on it to confirm or not on my own.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] osmeroid:
Yes, 1640

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Took out my SD card, did a clean reinstall, put back just a few of my apps and all seemed well, quick start and almost instant shut down.

I reckoned problem solved so I formatted my SD and put it back (but not put any apps on it) Still seemed to be ok. But now after a couple of weeks it has started to play up and I took out the card which has improved it (for the moment).

Nvidia tell me there is a 5.1.1 update to fix it and are looking into it. Advent tell me there is NO authorised 5.1 and certainly NO 5.1.1 !
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] gbsa850:
I did a backup and factory reset after I installed 5.1. Reinstalled my sd card without wiping it and everything is running great. I got the update 3 weeks ago.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] atagent:
Sorry took forever to reply those who quoted me. In-laws came to town and life turned upside down for a while! :eek:

Anyway, yes, I went back from 4.4.2 to 4.3 but it was laggy then too. I did TWO times factory reset after updating to 5.1 WITHOUT auto restoring of apps at first. Everything was good for a day and then the slow down begins. YES, I do use an SD card, basically just video files -- movies for my daughter to watch. No programs on it. It did do the optimizing thing each time I restarted the tablet which was driving me nuts.

I don't game at all, and basically I just use this tablet for the web and media. Rarely ever use bluetooth with it, an don't ever use GPS with it (it was wonky while I was on 4.4.2/4.3).

If there's a 5.1.1, I certainly hope it gets pushed soon. I'm here in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Just checked and it indicates my tablet is up to date....

EDIT: I'm using Samsung 32gb EVO microSD... So not like it's a slow card or anything.... I'll remove the card and run it for a day or two to see....
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] mortuus82:
The update we have so far has made my tablet useless, i rarely use it now.. and cant buy a shield eithe rcause nvidia pulled them back.. and all issues with lag, heat etc is not solved if u wipe everything and install fresh again.. done that twice already no help.. the problem is the nvidia tegra services that keeps running nonstop in the background pushing cpu to 100% thats what causing the lag...
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Unjustified Dev:
Is there a link for the L factory image? I'm needing to pull some blobs from this device for development of another tegra4. The aosp builds do not included drm blobs or nv optimized powerhal ( includes a stub version) . If anyone can pull these I would be grateful

lib/libdrmdecrypt.so

lib/liboemcrypto.so

vendor/lib/drm/libdrmwvmplugin.so

vendor/lib/libwvdrm_L1.so

vendor/lib/libwvm.so

vendor/lib/libWVStreamControlAPI_L1.so

vendor/lib/mediadrm/libwvdrmengine.so

vendor/lib/hw/power.tegranote7c
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] shubhayan:
Can anyone plz explain me whats happening

My Note 7 is rooted and i use 4.4.2.

So i first get the OTA for Lollipop of 446 MB and then i download it.

The weird stuff starts after i download the update.

This is how it goes.

1. After the downloading the update i get the option of "RESTART TO INSTALL".

2. After 10 seconds it begins the flashing process.

3. Then the Note 7 successfully restarts.

4. The installation begins and then suddenly i get this

"INSTALL UNTRUSTED PACKAGE ?"

THIS CAN NOT BE UNDONE.

- NO

- YES - Install Untrsuted Zip

so i go with the YES option.

5. Then again another message appears

" INSTALLATION ABORTED,

REBOOTING"

So, what is going on exactly, this is the official update released by nvidia, so why is it not being installed ?? :\
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Unjustified Dev:
As far as I know, ota updates cannot be installed over a modified system. Your system was modified since you are rooted the new ota updates use patches and when you root you cause the patches to fail.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] shubhayan:
But I did a FULL UNROOT before the OTA !!
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Unjustified Dev:
System is still modified after unrooting. Flash factory image and then take the ota. I'm sure inside of factory image you can flash just the system partition via fastboot and keep your data.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] shubhayan:
Where can I find the factory image ? :D
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Unjustified Dev:
https://developer.nvidia.com/gameworksdownload#?search=NVIDIA Tegra NOTE7
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] shubhayan:
THANKS a lot mate !! :D

one last help...since i'm new to this could you tell me how to flash the Stock version step by step ??
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Unjustified Dev:
It includes a readme inside of the zip.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] shubhayan:
But which one should I download , the GMS or the NON GMS. ??
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Unjustified Dev:
GMS contains Google services other one does not.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] shubhayan:
Alright mate, I got it ... Thank you :)
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Nandroid7736:
:victory:"Greetings to all TN7 users"

Sad about the bugs but glad that 'NVIDIA still supports us.Yes,bugs are quite natural in any initial release, so lets wait for the fix updates.Meanwhile, those who have already switched to 5.1,could you please comment on any changes,especially-Gaming,Battery backup, Temperature, Display or whatever you find significant.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] gbsa850:
Well I don't game so can't help you there. Was a little buggy when I first installed the update. Did a back up then factor reset. Runs a lot faster now never gets hot. Really haven't noticed any difference in battery life probably because I don't use it for that long at a time.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Nandroid7736:
Oh yes,thanks 'gbsa850'.Well,would you recommend it over JB or KK?
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] shubhayan:
Alright folks, I finally updated my tab to Lollipop .

Things which I noticed are :

1. Vibrant colors....much better than kitkat, looks lovely !!

2. No overheating or lag ....I heard many users complaining about this issue .

3. Gaming performance has increased considerably .

4. Overall increase in performance.

5. Sound quality is just fabulous.

6. Now we can assign cores and performance for each apps separately with the "Activity Launcher" App.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Unjustified Dev:
Awesome! , do you think you could pull those files I needed earlier? I have noticed performance increase after merging in tegranote 7 updated proprietary files and kernel, but it seems opera browser now shows a black screen when trying to load a page. Could you confirm this after the L upgrade. Previously I used the adt-1 graphics blobs and didn't have this issue.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] shubhayan:
Ya sure man, give me some time :)
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Nandroid7736:
Could you post some screenshots of the new UI
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] shubhayan:
Here you go.. !!
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] shubhayan:
Hey mate, opera browser works fine ....I didn't notice any black screen while loading pages.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Unjustified Dev:
Thanks, any luck with those files for DRM and power?
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] shubhayan:
Nope mate !!
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Unjustified Dev:
Could you not grab them? It would help me out a lot.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] shubhayan:
I wish I could help you mate :(

You see I'm not that familiar with development and stuff,that's why I literally asked you help me STEP BY STEP, if you remember :D

I joined XDA to learn and help :)
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Unjustified Dev:
If you have adb setup you can pull them to a folder and zip them.

adb pull /system/lib/libdrmdecrypt.so

adb pull /system/lib/liboemcrypto.so

adb pull /vendor/lib/drm/libdrmwvmplugin.so

adb pull /vendor/lib/libwvdrm_L1.so

adb pull /vendor/lib/libwvm.so

adb pull /vendor/lib/libWVStreamControlAPI_L1.so

adb pull /vendor/lib/mediadrm/libwvdrmengine.so

adb pull /vendor/lib/hw/power.tegranote7c

Alternatively if rooted you can use a root browser and copy the files from the path to a folder and zip it.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] gbsa850:
I think it runs faster in lollipop over kk but remember I don't really put my tablet through anything stressful. No games I just watch YouTube, read books, check fb and email. The main reason I bought this tablet was it's compatibility with the new square up chip readers. My tablet isn't rooted, if you are rooted and install the update I believe you'll lose root. Some ppl have been experiencing a lot of problems with LP, overheating, fast battery drain I've even read about some that get stuck in a boot loop. The only problem I had was the apps optimizing at every reboot which is why I did the reset. If you're a heavy gamer try to get some opinions from users that game.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Nandroid7736:
'Square up chip reader'???
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] gbsa850:
I take credit cards for my business on my phone and tablet. Come Oct 1st the US is moving over to the European standard of chip embedded credit cards. Now instead of swiping a card we need a special reader that will read the chip in the cards. It's supposed to be a lot more secure. Because the tegra is a gaming tablet the headphone jack supports microphone input. Which apparently it needs to read the chip cards.

But that being said my tablet with LP runs a lot smoother than it did with kk. Facebook and kindle use a lot of resources, with kk there was significant lag, sometimes there's still lag with LP but not nearly as much.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] shubhayan:
See, the thing is that a little bit lag is expected due to limitation of 1Gb of RAM. If it were to have an extra GB , we wouldn't have been complaining. That being said that the 1GB of RAM works quite well !!

Cheers !!
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] gbsa850:
Yes I expected lag when I bought this tablet. But this one and the note 10 were the only ones with a built in stylus that were compatible with the chip readers. A 10 inch tablet is just too big to carry around. But since LP the lag has reduced quite a bit.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Nandroid7736:
You are right, the display has got a lot better.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] atagent:
Just noticed the minimum freq is 51 Mhz for the TN7. Is this too low and perhaps the reason why the tablet is so laggy so times? Would setting this higher improve performance though sacrificing battery life?
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] oppodi:
Installing xposed framework

How to install xposed framework for tetra note lollipop 5.1 thanks in advance
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] mortuus82:
well mine according to cpu stats keeps the cpu almost at 100% all the time so thats what causing lag and heat for me not that its on low cpu frequency...
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] mortuus82:
I wonder if nvidia plan to release a fix for this ? clearly its a software issue why the cpu is always at 90% activity even if no aps run so it heats up very quick and any game u play it lags like hell because cpu is always 100% :(

I WANT UPDATE FIX NOW FOR THIS NONSENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Nandroid7736:
Earlier Nvidia argued the delay in lollipop release stating that they had been refining it for the TN7 .So we stood by,expecting a reward for our Patience.In the end,we got rewarded with one of the worst OTA releases ever.How could we thank Nvidia for all this! Right?

The fact is that we can't even give a feedback as they are nowhere in the scene.They are after their GPUs.(Morale:Never buy a tablet from a gpu vendor)
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] IM0001:
Just give it time. When ever has an Android update gone correct on any device on a major version Change?

Android Lollipop has been a cluster for every device to get the update from KK to LP. My guess is the reason they aren't flooding any of the Nvidia devices with updates is since LP was even crap on the first try with the Shield Tablet, they are waiting for M to drop instead of trying to fix this Good yet Buggy version.

And KK works great still on the Tegra Note so why not just flash back, get all the features working, and deal with the minute issues like touchscreen not working after flipping up the cover with a quick power off and on and be fine for the moment. I still love the hell out of this little Overachieving tab.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] moses_dx:
Not good enough, we need cyanogenmod

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[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] GodOfPsychos:
well, actually i don't think so that they wait for android M to drop. yes the first lollipop build for the shield tab was very buggy. but that was most probably due to lollipop itself at that time (lollipop 5.0 i think). so almost every device with just android 5.0 had or is still having issues related to the update. but the 5.1.1 version that google released was a pretty decent and a good working update.

and btw. in the last two weeks nvidia updated their shield tablet and android tv console. after that they pushed out a little update to the shield portable as well (with some bugs being fixed etc). so in my opinion i think we might get an update soon to 5.1.1 where (hopefully) all or most bugs are being fixed. i recocnized that nvidia updated their devices by a kind of a priority order list in the past.

the top devices will get served first and after that they take on steps to the next devices and so on...

so what i think of is a list like this:

1. Shield Tablet, Android TV console

2. Shield Portable

3. Tegra Note 7

this is how they work on supporting their devices, at least this is what i think of. except this one time where our TN7 and the shield portable received the 5.1 update almost at the exact same time.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] moses_dx:
5.0 is buggy on every device, 5.1.1 has fixed many issues but is still buggy

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[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] mortuus82:
still no mini fix wtf nvidia ????????? im stuck with a useless tablet that i cant even sell so worthless... thanks for that nvidia....
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] swaaye:
So am I right that the the power management options aren't available with 5.1? I don't see the PRISM or CPU performance settings anywhere.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] mortuus82:
well u can access the shield power but it seems its not working anyways and its for shield only i think... we need a new update to fix the lag and heat problems and hopefully get the power management back like we had on kitkat :(
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] nitzero:
I'm not having ANY of the reported issues in this thread, the rom works just fine, only got improvements so far.

Please keep in mind that:

This is a 1GB Ram device, most smartphones nowadays sports at least 2GB ram

The Google Play Services & related GApps has grown significantly , think bloatware

Always do a factory reset before OTA updating (highly recommended)

Haven't done a wipe or a reset on mine but I'm keeping most of the gapps out, had to unlink them from my account previously on my smartphone so they wouldn't update or reinstall. Lolipop forces gapps into your throat.

I can remember when my Xperia Arc S had it's Google Play Services eating up to 16mb Ram and it bothered me at the time (ICS, 512MB Ram 1.4Ghz single core processor) Now it easily eats up over 100mb on my Xperia Z3.

My Antutu score is a little over 40k from a cold boot. There is absolutely nothing but factory apps in background.

I mostly use this tablet on my car's dash and to play games.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] swaaye:
The various Google apps have gotten a lot bigger over time without a doubt. With 1GB devices it is a good idea to try to disable what you don't use. Just look at the "running apps" in Settings and see what's resident in memory.

I prefer 4.4 on the TN7 because the Nvidia services are full featured there. Power management is not configurable on 5.1, for example. It's all a bit half assed. I'm not sure there's actually a benefit to using 5.1.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] GodOfPsychos:
Btw i would recommend to not disable/freeze the nvidia shield audio services if you use the hdmi output since this service is needed for the tablet to output the audio while connected to hdmi.

Short said:

-shield audio services on: hdmi ouput with sound through hdmi port

-shield audio services off: sound will only play on the tablet while screen is mirrored to your tv.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] nitzero:
Honestly I had the same Nvidia Power Plans on my TF201(Asus Transformer Prime, Tegra 3) and I'm not sure how useful they are. It would be nice to compare them with messing around with the CPU governors.

Supposedly Lolipop manages ram better than Kitkat but I haven't seen any real world tests to prove this. They always say that every Android release.

On a side note a did feel smoother graphics while playing some games but I'd need two identical tablets running different android versions to see if it's not physiological.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] nitzero:
Just some heads up, the tablet got about 7:12 hours of playing Fallout Shelter before I plugged the charger was at 18%. Quite decent for it's size.

Brightness low/auto, no WiFi/Bluetooth.

I'd love an extended battery case for this! Like the mugen ones.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Petitsurfeur:
Hi

When you reboot your tablet, you don't have the "Optimizing applications" problem ?

Main problem (same with Kitkat) is that sometimes I lost GPS positionning (very annoying when flying)