*** The Official Google Nexus 7 Thread ***

:o:rolleyes:

Sooo, double checking my N7 before packing it up for return. Turns out my supposed screen fault was me putting my fat thumb a fraction or so into the task bar in landscape mode, which in some programs, disables the touch-pad. D'oh! No wonder it didn't show up pressing the same spot in portrait mode!

And my supposed speaker problem was me being over enthusiastic with Equalizer and Poweramp. Double d'oh!

So back to having a perfect N7! :D

EDIT:

And I've just checked my Euro-lottery numbers and I've won!!!

£6

Well it's a win ain't it!
 
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I am very happy with my Nexus 7 but I would love to know how sites like Anandtech measure battery life. I get between 5-6 hours of battery life, nearly all browsing, but they claim to get 9. I also know people with the ipad and they get nowhere near the 10 hours- closer to 5.
The screen uses some 70% of the battery life and that is with auto brightness which nearly always has it set at one of the lowest levels. Still 5-6 hours of screen time is much more than I need between charges.
 
Owenb said:
I am very happy with my Nexus 7 but I would love to know how sites like Anandtech measure battery life. I get between 5-6 hours of battery life, nearly all browsing, but they claim to get 9. I also know people with the ipad and they get nowhere near the 10 hours- closer to 5.
The screen uses some 70% of the battery life and that is with auto brightness which nearly always has it set at one of the lowest levels. Still 5-6 hours of screen time is much more than I need between charges.
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Battery life is entirely subjective. When I got mine I didn't really have the chance to play with it at all due to work, the battery lasted over three days. However, using it to play games and watch films, battery life is less than a day.

Similarly I've just been abroad for work, my HTC One X that would be lucky to last a day lasted most of the week due to 3G and wi-fi being switched off.
 
Replacement has arrived and it seems to be much better, almost flush with the frame. Doesn't creak or move, obviously time and heat will maybe change that. Screen is perfect though no dead pixels or bleed. Speakers seem to sound OK, tend to use headphones anyway.
 
Owenb said:
I am very happy with my Nexus 7 but I would love to know how sites like Anandtech measure battery life. I get between 5-6 hours of battery life, nearly all browsing, but they claim to get 9. I also know people with the ipad and they get nowhere near the 10 hours- closer to 5.
The screen uses some 70% of the battery life and that is with auto brightness which nearly always has it set at one of the lowest levels. Still 5-6 hours of screen time is much more than I need between charges.
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The movie watching tests which claim 9 hours are with the unit in flight mode, and watching movies isn't all that taxing.
 
Cyrus said:
what rom are you using folks, any must do mods?
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I'm using Cyanogenmod CM10 on mine, seems absolutely rock solid for a prerelease. A few nice little tweaks like having the settings in the notification bar/portrait menu etc.

Nice ROM. Although to be honest the stock is pretty good as you'd expect.

Rooting I'd say is essential for adfree and stick mount plus then you can mess about and get inlayer working I think, I never use that so I've not tested.
 
Is the nexus supposed to have recovery from the get go?
Mine turned on and booted into some sort of recovery, had options like "restart bootloader", "Start".
Went onto start, my Nexus looks like it's frozen on "google"

EDIT : Fixed it by holding down and power for 10 seconds, restarted and booted correctly.
 
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SolvoReputo said:
Mine is now rooted and unlocked and it's had no effect on any of my purchased content at all. It's just a win-win.
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Got a link to the method of rooting you did? I think it's the unlocking I'm not sure of. Don't want to lose any data if possible.
 
matt100 said:
I'm using Cyanogenmod CM10 on mine, seems absolutely rock solid for a prerelease. A few nice little tweaks like having the settings in the notification bar/portrait menu etc.

Nice ROM. Although to be honest the stock is pretty good as you'd expect.

Rooting I'd say is essential for adfree and stick mount plus then you can mess about and get inlayer working I think, I never use that so I've not tested.
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great

any drawbacks to cm10?
 
actually, just make sure you flash it from recovery mode, I tried flashing from the clockwork app and it hung at the startup screen and needed to be reflashed.

I'd back up your existing ROM first and then go into the recovery and flash it from there after I knew I had a backup, plus as a previous poster said for some reason it won't go to the recovery console unless its plugged into USB which freaked me out a bit, thought I'd properly bricked it.
 
matt100 said:
I'm using Cyanogenmod CM10 on mine, seems absolutely rock solid for a prerelease. A few nice little tweaks like having the settings in the notification bar/portrait menu etc.

Nice ROM. Although to be honest the stock is pretty good as you'd expect.

Rooting I'd say is essential for adfree and stick mount plus then you can mess about and get inlayer working I think, I never use that so I've not tested.
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can you install & run games from say a 32gb usb stick with Cyanogenmod CM10 mod ?
 
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