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I see rumors already of the Nexus 6 phone. So, if google makes another phone after the Nexus 6, I wonder what they'll call it? Nexus 7 is already kinda taken :-).

For what it is worth, I have some comparison pictures taken with the new and old Nexus 7 cameras if anyone is interested: Nexus 7 Cameras I tossed in screen shots as well.

It would be nice to be able to mount network filesystems on my new Nexus 7. Anyone know if the kernel has cifs or nfs support built in, or if the modules are available to add to the stock kernel? Or better yet, if there is a fuse implementation of cifs with android support?

So, now that I have an old and a new Nexus 7, I was thinking I should be able to do cool stuff with NFC, like uh, uh, what exactly? :-). It would have been nice to copy all the custom settings for various apps from the old one to the new one. Is that possible? I wanted to transfer some...

Another weird item: The new Nexus 7 (mine, anyway) won't notice a charger being plugged into the USB port. This is a strictly charge only cable, having only power and ground connections plugged into the dedicated charger gadget the cable came with. When I plug in any other device I have, they...

Is there some new mysterious security BS in android 4.3? I've been setting up my new 2013 Nexus 7, and I'm trying to get rsync to work to backup the files Titanium Backup stashed on the sdcard, but it says "permission denied" when I try to copy them. I can't find any problems with any...

When I turn off my new Nexus 7, the screen image collapses to a line in the middle then fades out. Since I'm pretty sure there aren't electron beams and magnets back there, I'm guessing this is just a deliberate effect someone with too much time on their hands came up with. Is it an effect...

Used my old notes from my old Nexus 7 and the same procedure (modulo picking the right recovery image for new model) worked: Nexus 7 Hacking

On the new nexus 7, my habit of just hitting the "back" button (the curly arrow on the left) to get all the way out of an app no longer seems to work. Is this a 4.3 change? Will I have to train myself to use Home instead now? Update: I've decided this really only happened after getting a batch...

I read in the google specs that the new nexus 7 has Qi wireless charging built in. Then I read random notes on the internet about how flaky and incompatible some Qi charging pads are with some devices. So, has anyone tried any particular charger with the new Nexus 7 and had success? It would...

I got the new Play Store on my Galaxy Camera, but not on my Nexus 7 :-). I like it: There is finally an "Update 1" button available when there is only one app that needs an update, so you can one click update a single app just like the old store let you do when there was more than one app...

Here is a silly web page I build from a script to tell me what episodes of Doctor Who I've downloaded off my TiVo: Downloaded Doctor Who Episodes Does the entry for Journey's End show up in a larger font for anyone else (when looking at the page on your Nexus 7)? Is this a chrome bug...

I've just switched my Nexus 7 back to using automatic brightness now that I'm on 4.2.2 to see if it is working any better. Has anyone else tested auto brightness on 4.2.2?

I got the OTA 4.2.2 update earlier today, and I was just plugging in the USB cable to flash the latest TWRP recovery and reinstall Super SU and I noticed that "adb devices" always says the nexus 7 status is "offline". Yes, I have USB debugging enabled (if I disable it, adb doesn't see the...

The storage organization of 4.2 is confusing the heck out of me: I see that /sdcard is no longer a mountpoint, but a symlink to /storage/emulated/legacy. I've been backing up /sdcard, if I start backing up /storage/emulated/legacy instead will that get all the same stuff backed up...

People who are familiar with android hacking toss off phrases like "boot into recovery", or "flash a zip file", or talk about fastboot and custom recovery and locked and unlocked (I could go on... :-). Is there a web page somewhere that describes all this stuff in "for dummies" detail? With...

So what the heck is google trying to say in the mail I just got about the prepaid card going away? It sure sounds a lot like I have to spend exactly the 96 cents I have left or they will start charging me 2 dollars a month. At that rate it won't take long for them to get back the $10 they gave...

Is there a triumph custom ROM that makes the Camera work better? I keep reading descriptions that say "the camera doesn't work with this ROM". I'm trying to write a custom camera app, and have found that EV doesn't seem to be reported by my Triumph: android - getExposureCompensation called...

I had an "interesting" experience yesterday and I couldn't have gotten through it without all the stuff I've learned in this forum (Thanks!). My comcast cable broke (literally - I can see the end dangling loose at the top of the pole out back). So I had no internet at home. I remembered all...

I started google books to read a bit while waiting for something at work, and shortly after it started some mysterious bug mailer thing appeared and wanted to mail me a bunch of stuff about a bug. When I let it send the mail and looked at it, it said: exec(/system/bin/stagefright): No such...

The help files for Google Play Music say I can copy music files via USB to the tablet and play them. But if I copy an mp3 file to /sdcard/Music, I can't seem to convince the google play app it is there. I can tell a file browser to play the file, and it will start google music to play it...

Teardown: EEVblog #321 - Google Nexus 7 Tablet Teardown | EEVblog - The Electronics Engineering Video Blog And review: EEVblog #322 - Google Nexus 7 Tablet Review | EEVblog - The Electronics Engineering Video Blog

Anyone know if any bluetooth stereo headsets work with the Nexus 7? I wonder about the bluetooth profiles that expect to be able to answer calls when there is no phone in this thing and it probably doesn't support that profile.

When, exactly, do you get the chance to say how to pay for something? I don't want to buy something I'd like to pay for with the credit, only to get through the entire process without ever noticing any option to select credit card versus credit :-).

So, for those of us who are skittish when it comes to rooting via the unlock bootloader technique, can anyone clarify what it means when the various guides on the subject talk about the factory reset wiping out "all user data"? I feel sure in assuming it means any account info you previously...