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Android 4.2, tablets, and related thoughts

Android 4.2, tablets, and related thoughts

Posted Nov 20, 2012 17:38 UTC (Tue) by juliank (guest, #45896)
Parent article: Android 4.2, tablets, and related thoughts

It's a bit slower on the Nexus 7 though. Turning the display off now has a slower animation; and getting to the list of recently used applications is also slower, now that the current app is minimised first.

It's unfortunate that they replaced bluez with a new stack (that does not even have the licensing sorted out) as that drives Android even further away from Desktop Linux, and probably makes it harder to add new Bluetooth profiles on a rooted phone (My plan was to root Android and write an app to emulate a Bluetooth keyboard/mouse, but that seems less possible now).

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Android 4.2, tablets, and related thoughts

Posted Nov 20, 2012 20:56 UTC (Tue) by xkahn (guest, #1575) [Link]

It's a bit slower on the Nexus 7 though. Turning the display off now has a slower animation; and getting to the list of recently used applications is also slower, now that the current app is minimised first.

I had this problem around the time I updated my Nexus 7 tablet as well. A quick web search showed that the trouble may be lack of free storage space. Apparently the 16GB model needs to have 3GB free in order to operate correctly.

Freeing the required space by uninstalling productivity apps ... err... games. Made the tablet responsive again.

Android 4.2, tablets, and related thoughts

Posted Nov 22, 2012 8:47 UTC (Thu) by justincormack (subscriber, #70439) [Link]

The licensing is sorted out, it is Apache. It is the licensing of the git history that is the problem, as that is not. Just delete the proprietary history and you are good to go.


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