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My Nexus 7

jajrussel

jajrussel

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Everything keeps changing, and I keep having to relearn everything even the way I use this forum. Starting a new topic didn't used to be a multiple choice. Of course it has been a while since I used the forum. I am hoping that I made the right choice, and that eventually I'll figure out what the choices are for.

Anyway, I paid a lot of money for my nexus 7 and with the lollipop upgrade it has gone the route of Atari except for the fact that if I still had the Atari it would probably still work. I solved the problem by buying a new tablet for fifty dollars made by RCA. I have yet to find anything about this new tablet that I don't like, and to tell the truth this puzzles me. It doesn't look like a nexus, it doesn't feel like a nexus, but it does everything that my nexus 7 used to do before the lollipop update. There is also the plus that I shouldn't have to worry about it updating to lollipop and going the route of my nexus, because it appears that it is running Android 5.0 and is doing just fine. Actually, this surprises me because it was advertised as running kit Kat 4.4 of course I could be wrong and Android 5.0 may not actually be lollipop in which case maybe I should be worried. If it should happen it isn't going to bother me nearly as much as what they did to my nexus does because, well I only paid fifty dollars for this one.

I am hoping that they eventually get around to making my nexus 7 usable again. My opinion is they messed it up, I shouldn't have to be the one who fixes it by digging my computer out of storage so I can download files while watching a YouTube video hoping all the while I don't screw it up. Because, if they do fix it I'll then have a very expensive backup tablet to use should something go wrong with this beautiful new RCA tablet I just bought for fifty dollars.
 
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I have followed the directions and wiped the flash drive a couple times. I have done a factory reset several times. I opt out of any previous settings and tell it to set it up as a new device. Chrome is like a grumpy old man that can't figure out which side of the bed to get up on. Sometimes it just opts to stay in bed. Other times it works but very slowly, then it crashes. The apps work at first. I can't speak for all if them, but when I put the device in sleep mode everything starts to act like chrome when I wake the device up. I tend to have more patience than others so when I push a button if nothing happens I will usually give it time, but I am not so patient as to wait and wait and wait, so I push the button again. Then some seconds later everything goes black. Then I am looking at my home screen. None of these problems occurred before the update. In the old days I had a computer that even though I would tell it to do a clean and full install of an update of Windows it was installing as a simple update. Windows has never liked sharing its control of a computer with any other operating system. Not even itself. It wasn't until I manually deleted the partition, built a new partition, then did a full install that wow suddenly I had a new machine. And that is what it is like. Like two operating systems are fighting for control. Hopefully one of these factory resets will will take full control. Right now I cannot really hurt it. It may not be practical but I can keep doing factory resets until one is us stops working completely, or until another update makes it work.
 
I have tried a different approach. Maybe for all the wrong reasons, but I wanted to see if it will work. This time I opted to use my RCA 7 settings. Perhaps thinking wrongly that those settings are already set for 5.0. Now I wait and see what happens.

In the meantime does anyone know why the keyboard on my phone keeps second guessing what I mean when I type RCA and throws in apparently what ever it wants when I tap the space bar? The sentence doesn't even make sense after one of its intuitive substitutes. Therefore the substitution seems chaotic rather than intuitive. Sometimes it also happens with words?
 
Hmmm.

So far it is working. And this is where the way they do things becomes very confusing. Is it my RCA settings that has changed things? Did they make a change without mentioning it? Was it the constant factory resetting?

Truthfully, I don't really care. It's that it happened in the first place that I care about.
 
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